Why dont we now go to general Public Comment. At this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including the policy discussion between the mayor and the board, item on the adoption without reference to committee calendar, and the closed session the subject matter of item 30. Please note Public Comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to Public Comment at a board committee. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors nor to the audience. And if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when youd like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Lets hear from our first speaker. Good evening, supervisors. Im peter wolf, executive director of Library Users association. The loss of ted gul acson, as all of you who spoke about it mentioned is a very sad and very serious loss.
Awareness. Consumer, we dont need more awareness. We need to connect consumers personal use of energy to the larger problem of Greenhouse Gases he. So, thats the strategy and using the information at the point of sale is the key component. Thank you. Next speaker. Top of the third, 30, go giants. Thank you for being so patient, supervisors. Eddie [speaker not understood] with defense project. Ill be very brief. Here to speak in support of solar resolutions introduced by president chiu. It hits on three key points, that byline ha always believed in. First, the idea of fighting Climate Change, that is absolutely necessary especially as we put solar in lowincome communities for homes like dr. Espinola jackson. It also puts an aspirational goal of 50 megawatts which is very important to set as a citywide goal to encourage further Solar Development in the future. Second is the idea of jobs, making sure that we can continue to create local jobs for Solar Installation Companies like luminalt,
That we will have the private right of action included in the final legislation. Thank you. President chiu, were you on the roster . Okay. Supervisor breed. Thank you. Supervisor kim, through the chair, i just wanted to make it clear that in my comments i also mentioned that i spoke with both the treasurer cisneros and the City Attorneys Office so my comments included information from the memo as well as information in discussing this particular legislation or a possible amendment to collect tax back taxes with him. And thats why i mentioned that he clearly he made it clear to me that he does not need legislation to do his job. So, i just wanted to make sure that that was clear. Thank you. Thank you, colleague. Any further discussion on these amendments . Okay. Why dont we take them one at a time. The First Amendment was by supervisor avalos for a 90day cap on hosted rentals, seconded by supervisor campos. Madam clerk could you call the roll . Supervisor chiu . Chiu no. Supervisor cohe
Supervisor cohen . Cohen aye. Supervisor farrell . Farrell no. Supervisor kim . Kim aye. Supervisor mar . Mar aye. Supervisor tang . Tang no. Supervisor wiener . Wiener no. Supervisor yee . Yee aye. Supervisor avalos . Avalos aye. Supervisor breed . Breed no. Supervisor campos . Campos aye. There are 7 aye and 4 nos. [cheering and applauding] the ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] and with that, colleagues, we have a 3 30 special item. And recognition of restaurant Appreciation Month which we do every year during this month, to each acknowledge a restaurant in our district that are doing special things. Serving up special food. So, with that as my staff i believe has told some of your staff, what id like to do today is go in reverse numerical order starting with supervisor avalos at district 11 then going down to 10 all the way to district 1. So, with that id like to acknowledge supervisor avalos. Thank you, president chiu. I appreciate going in reverse numerical order.
Alameda county were sued by the pharmaceutical industry for similar ordinance, San Francisco decided to put our efforts on hold. In the meantime, San Franciscos department of the environment launched our citys voluntary drug take back program. And i worked with the department of the environment and the pharmaceutical industry to secure funding for the Pilot Program. But unfortunately over the last 21 2 years, over 40 of our small Pilot Program has been funded by the industry. This program has been remarkably successful literally taking 18 tons of unwanted drugs off the streets and out of the sewer of our city. We are here and im actually introducing this today because two weeks ago the 9th Circuit Court of appeals upheld alamedas ordinance affirming the ability of local governments to acquire medicine manufacturers to provide for the collection and disposal of medicine. This ruling gives our city the ability to take our Pilot Program, make it permanent and expand it to meet our real ne