Their kickoff last week for their bill board and bus campaign on sugary drinks, but also the department of Public Health staff, university of california San Francisco, ucsf, San Francisco Health Improvement partnership, especially arial vargas who has been a Great Community asset in building broader alliances, especially in lowincome communities. And i also just wanted to say on the National Level besides ucsf the center for science and the public interest, the California Center for Public Health advocacy, Harold Goldstein and others, and Roberta Friedman and kelly from the yale rec center for food policy and obesity have been really great advisors. I also wanted to say on supervisor avaloss introduction to hearing on the Childrens Fund i hope i can be added as a cosponsor as well. And i know that from your work with coleman and margarets efforts over now 23 years ago with the original prop j which i was strongly supported in the Richmond District from 1991 when norman yee led the camp
History month. A great many activities that are free and open to the public, and if youre interested you can contact my office or supervisor breeds office and were happy to share information with you. There are many things to discuss today. First, i also want to acknowledge supervisor mar and scott, supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and just collectively the amount of time and energy that we have put into bringing a critical ballot measure to you, to the people of San Francisco for consideration. And, you know, its going to be a lot of discussion around it for many months and i hope that you will listen with a open ear and more importantly an open heart and begin to ask yourselves some critical questions because from my perspective, the reason im supporting this initiative, it gets down its a life or death decision. When you look at the numbers as to who is being adversely affected by the target or affected by the targeted advertisement from the sugar beverage, it is largely the
Kim, supervisor john avalos, and supervisor eric mar for their cosponsorship of this legislation. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor campos. President chiu. Thank you, colleagues. First of all, i want to just take a moment and thank our colleagues who have been working on the big soda measure for all of your very productive work, and particularly in coming together. Supervisor mar, wiener, cohen and avalos. I think it is so important that we come together in our efforts to turn around Childhood Obesity and diabetes and im happy to be a cosponsor of that measure. I have one measure today im introducing in resolution to join to go to call opposing action, violence against women. Next friday val untines day 1 billion rising for justice in our city. As we have done in past years, next friday we will come together in civic center plaza. The organizers this year have teamed up with the Bar Association of San Francisco, rdas office and the department on the status of women to put togeth
You, colleague, and looking for your leadership in helping to make this happen. I think its a joint effort that i want to be involved in, but i want to make sure were working, bringing Community Together with our work here, our offices and with the administration and the Foundation Community as well to have a great stake in how we can improve the overall system for children, youth, and families in San Francisco. And in particular, i want to acknowledge the work that many of my colleagues have already done in the children youth and family arena. In particular, eric mar and of course supervisor yee who has been in the field for decades. And i want to acknowledge his expertise and work closely with him as we move forward to making sure we can do reauthorization in a way thats going to be unique and really expand a way to provide children and families as an experience here in San Francisco. And the rest ill submit. Thank you, supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam clerk. I
Francisco. And the rest ill submit. Thank you, supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to thank supervisor wiener for doing an in memoriam for stu smith. You know, i got a call yesterday the same way that supervisor wiener and his office got a call from stus friends. It was stus wish before he he died that he could marry his longtime partner david. And i woke up this morning, having talked to to to his friends about being on call to rush to where stu was this morning to marry him. And, of course, to wake up to the news that stu did not make it through the night. Anyway, i think its just a reminder that we cant take things for granted. I know that we were not able to officiate that wedding, but as far as im concerned stu and david have always been a unit and will always be spouses for life. I have a couple of items, and the first item is an item that we have been working on for quite sometime and i want to thank Hillary Ronan of my office for all the work th