History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Next on American History television, pulitzer prizewinning author eic foner on the challenges of establishing civil rights for friedman in the reconstruction period and beyond. Eric foner. With that, i would like to introduce eric foner. Eric when iuntered was a College Student thinking about becoming an historian and had visions of riding a good book. Then i read freemen, free soil, maybe ir and thought ought to stop now. I will not be able to write a book that good. Whatis is his first book, is he going to write . I ran away from antebellum history. You cant compete with people like him. I have come back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of erics more than 20 books. I would review the list, but we do not have that much time. I do want to say, and this is the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, i notice he has written a
Supervisor kim no present supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy not present supervisor tang supervisor yee madam chair we have quorum thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you madam clerk any communication. None to reporter madam president. Any changes to the approval of the minutes for february 28, 2017. Seeing none, a motion to approve those minutes by none oman move forward by supervisor kim colleagues, can we take that without objection . Without objection those approval of the minutes will be passed after Public Comment. Our special order 2 00 p. M. No questions the mayor may begin to address the board up to 5 minutes. Welcome mayor ed lee pr to the Board Chamber you have the floor. Thank you supervisor president london breed and good afternoon, supervisors and good afternoon members of the public
Watched the Northern California union theyve brought in ranges and file members of the public meshes theyre not here because of jobs or union principles and not the most ideal ethic but theyre here lowerincome in their contractors if this is not the saying case tell me why the last two years carpenters local 22 my local the most preservation local the unions that started it all had approximately 4000 members weve lost 11 hundred during the greatest construction boom in the city and county of San Francisco and thats because the emphasis is not on San Francisco if union bosses dont live here and not part of community dont care i watched that tactic as a Planning Commission and the on the commissions including that body here the problem is it frustrates the stakeholder we the Homeland Security we are the taxpayer have to suffer over development are the ones that deal with that they dont they dont live here they can care less about San Francisco we can do alert the vendors to the fact that
Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Sfgovtv. You can get on line so they can broadcast the Committee Meeting. Okay. It looks like were almost there, back on line. All right ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. Thank you to sf gott tv for assisting us with todays broadcast. Im malia cohen chair of the budget and finance committee. I want to acknowledge my colleague to the right is vice chair supervisor norman yee and to my left is katy tang. Today were clerked by john carol and lynda wong will provide Technical Expertise and backup. Any announcements . Yes, please silence all technical devices and cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the april 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Call first item. Clerk resolution designating those agencies qualified to participant in the 2017 joint tbund raising drive for officers and employees of the city and county. Im joan letter, mesky. Weve reviewed all seven applications and find them all to be in com
If the status changes will be glad to change. We are looking at ways to become as transparent as possible but still obey the law. Commissioner marshall we actually did before the law change,we actually did do discipline in open session before the law changed. So we only did that because were required to by law by the Supreme Court decision. But pres. Turman says take it up with those who make laws in california and the California Legislature and with the Supreme Court. Next Public Comment come up please. See seeing none, Public Comment is closed [gavel] im please, item vote on whether to hold items six and close session with San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10, action. So moved. Second. All commissioner turman we are back on the record in open session and you still have a quorum. Thank you. Item please, item seven vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 6 held in close section. Action. So moved. Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.