Good afternoon, and welcome to the january 14th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of the San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have known to report, mr. President. Great. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the november 21st, 2019 special Board Meeting and a november 21 st, 2019 regular Meeting Minutes to the budget and finance Committee Meeting which constitutes a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes for these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Motion made by supervisor mandelman and seconded
So moved. Second by supervisor walton and if theres a no objection. Then supervisor ronen is not in the chamber. Im suggesting a roll call. Supervisor yee can i have a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion not to disclose, supervisor preston. [roll call] there are 10 ayes. Supervisor yee ok. Motion passes. Could i have a motion to file this closed this agenda item. Made by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor safai. If theres no objection, can we take the same house same call. No objection, then motion passes. Madam clerk, please read the memoriams. Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor mandelman. For the late mr. Hampton smith on behalf of supervisor haney, for the late mr. Marco jostalano and on behalf of supervisor peskin and stefani, stephanie laziochincota. Supervisor yee that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business
President yee good afternoon. Welcome to the january 21, 2020 special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll. Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so, on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jessie and james. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report today, mr. President. President yee okay. So i want to thank all the Board Members for being here today. This is a special m
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Shutdown of hong kong airport as well its actually been 2 days now without any tear gas fired in hong kong that is something of a record in recent weeks but well see what happens later on saturday richelle so enter across the border and mentions and thats when theres been this this build up of. Chinese military what is the reaction been to that in the last few days and hong kong. Well weve seen new video of that troop build up in a stadium in shenzhen overnight into saturday hong kong time weve known about this troop build up in that stadium in shenzhen here in hong kong for about a week now and people here think its scare tactics by beijing they dont really expect that china is about to send in the military over the border into hong kong that would be a very very radical step hong kong has essentially a mini constitution the basic law now there are 2 relevant clauses in that one of which they explicitly say that the home clones government is responsible for public order and hong kongs