Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will 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 San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, supervisor stefani is excused. So, madame clerk and colleagues, before we move on, i wo
Because the controversy of the day is the notion that the bureaucracy and the input is slowing down the building. I wanted to say for the record, what is slowing it down is not community input. Everybody saluted the fact that neighborhood input made to the project back better. It is the lack of actual funding that is why i am affixing my name to this measure today because 600 million, over half a billion dollars of the public s money that we will all pay for it, that we will all work to get past this november, that is where the rubber hits the road, that is where we actually build Affordable Housing. And given that it takes a long time to raise those funds, we have time to have Good Community process and Good Community input , so lets not wreck what makes projects better and lets fund what builds these projects. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I just want to add my excitement about the bond and i want to thank president yee for working so closely with the mayors office, but a
Okay, good afternoon. Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will 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 San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, supervisor stefani is excused. So, madame clerk and colleagues, b
Ago, has worked for the department of Public Health for 38 years. During this time, lisa worked as an Environmental Health inspector, senior Environmental Health inspector, and when she retired a couple of weeks ago, she retired as the manager of one of the citys food districts this is actually some of the toughest work. We honor first responders, we honor people who do incredible work like clean our sewers, but Health Inspectors have it really , really tough. Lisa was in charge of much of the district that we have represented on and off for the last 20 years. North beach and chinatown. She was absolutely instrumental in increasing the health and Safety Standards within chinatown, outside of chinatown and i have to say, despite the irrational fear of the government and Health Inspectors in particular, particularly in the Restaurant Industry, lisa is incredibly regarded by the community because she understands the local business culture, the local culture, the practices, she is fair, sh
In increasing the health and Safety Standards within chinatown, outside of chinatown and i have to say, despite the irrational fear of the government and Health Inspectors in particular, particularly in the Restaurant Industry, lisa is incredibly regarded by the community because she understands the local business culture, the local culture, the practices, she is fair, she is patient, accommodating and takes no shit. I rarely use words like that but that will summarize lisa. She was so thought of in the community that she was invited to be the grand marshal of the Chinese New Year parade which says a lot. She always had the sense to call me to say, im shutting down a restaurant in your district and your phone is about to ring, but i knew everyone would start screaming at me and rose would say she called and did the right thing. She is a legendary fixture at the department of public health, as patient as she is with ignorant owners, she is equally, and i mean it, no nonsense when dealin