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Good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the first meeting of the year, the january 13th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor ronan, and seated to my right is supervisor catherine stefani, and seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. And we are joined by supervisor shamon walton. I would like to thank our clerk and those from s. F. Gov. Tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 28thf supervisors agenda. Item number one is a hearing to considering appointing one member term ending 2023, to the Oversight Committee. One seat, one applicant. Chairwoman hi. Is atori laou here . A beautiful name, did i pronounce it correctly . Yes. Chairwoman is good. Come on up. Do you have any presentation or thoughts you want to share with us. I would like to introduce myself a
Staffing the meeting. Please ensure youve silenced cell phones. Files should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon will appear on the january 28, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. Before we go to the first item, ill make a motion we excuse supervisor walton. Mr. Clerk, please call our first item. Number 1 is an ordinance amending the health code by amending the sugar sweetened beverage to update the findings and purpose, revise the definition of advertiser, reduce the warning size, move modifiede warning text, remove exemptions for certain types of sugar advertisements. Natalie g. , welcome. Good morning. So a little bit of background information. The citys sugar sweet and beverage ordinance was introduced by supervisor scott weiner and unanimously passed by the board in 2015. But because of a subsequent lawsuit and a ruling against the city at the ninth Circuit Court it prevented the ordinance going into effect. We introduced the revised revision last september to incorporate
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