Good afternoon and welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 5, 2017. Madame clerk please call the roll. The clerk thank you madame president , supervisor breed, present. Supervisor farrell present. Supervisor kim. Fot present. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor sheehy, present. Supervisor tang, tang present. Supervisor yee, present. Madame clerk mad madame president you have a quorum. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you madame clerk. Are there any communication. The clerk none to report, madame president. Is there a motion to approve the Meeting Minutes of october 31, 2017. Moved by supervisor sheehy, seconded by supervisor ronen. Without objection theyll be approved after public comment. Madame clerk lets go to the consent agenda. The clerk items one through three are considered to be routine. A member may object by severing an item and having it considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk
Jesse larson at sfgov tv for streaming the meeting. Do you have anything else . Items, aed upon today will appear on the december 12 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Ok. Thank you. Item number one. An amendment to implement charter section 16. 129 providing that the city should maintain street trees and be liable for injuries and Property Damage resulting from the failure to maintain trees and making appropriate findings. Thank you. I will turn it over to supervisor sheehy. Thank you. Good morning, colleagues. Today were here to consider an ordinance amending the public works doed implement charter 16. 129. In november of 2016, the voterses paed proposition e which provides that the city shall maintain street trees and thus is liable for injuries and Property Damage resulting from the failure to maintain street trees. Prop e passed with almost 80 of the voters support and set aside 19 million a year to run this program, which went into effect july 1, 2017. Thus publ
For the contract or were they the only one . They were the only one. A they have pretty much an unequalled record when it comes to dealing with veterans, so it doesnt surprise me that they were the only ones to submit a request for proposal. How many years have they been working with veterans, do you know . Over 40. They are a really well established organization. They do fantastic work. That is absolutely accurate. They began as veterans from the vietnam war were coming back into society and having a great deal of difficulty readjusting. And that is what started them, and they have continued now through, sadly, too many wars. Commissioner, i have the highest regard for swords to plowshares, and my organization actually worked very closely with them to do some outreach in the Faith Community on how to welcome returning vets from iraq and afghanistan and their families administering to them. I am just wondering, would it be possible and if appropriate, if any commissioner wanted to make
Really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the Small Business community that are here today. Where are you, jason . Raise your hand. Hi, jason from shop small saturday. Thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. Collaboration. We have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. We have the Council District of merchants here as well. Juan of the things that were really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. The mayor came to us four years ago, the office of Economic Workforce Development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. Increase the amount of spending to support jobs and Small Businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. And we, through the incredible work of Mariane Thompson and gloria chan, Joaquin Torres in
Busses. The clerk madam chair the concludes the business before you on this day. Director we are adjourned thank you very much for spending your tuesday afternoon with us and well see you tuesday afternoon. Good afternoon, welcome to the land use and transportation committee. The last one for the calendar year of 2017. For today [applause] monday, december 11, i am the acting chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by Committee Member supervisor katie tang, our clerk is mr. Victor young. Mr. Young, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete your speaker cards and any documents to be included as par of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 9, 2018 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Mr. Chair, would you like to take any action regarding the absence we will indeed, make a motion to excuse chair farrell. Moved. Moved by supervisor tang and take that withou