[gavel] good morning. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting of july 6 26 and him katie tang chair of the committee. To my right is vice chair eric mar. To my right is melia cohen and we also have supervisor avalos caricatured our clerk is eric evans and from sfgov tv would like to thank jennifer bunch. Do we have any announcements mr. Clerk please sounds all cell phones. [reading code] thank you. Please call item 1 item number one is the first draft of the Charter Amendment [reading code] thank you very much. We have the author of this Charter Amendment here with us today supervisor campos. Is this working . Break. Thank you very much mdm. Chairman and thank you to my colleagues the members of the rules committee for listening hearing this item once again. As i noted at the last meeting of last week, we have a number of amendment that we would like to make but let me step back a little bit and talk about the point of this office. As i noted before, its an interesting time in t
Committee. To my right is vice chair eric mar. To my right is melia cohen and we also have supervisor avalos caricatured our clerk is eric evans and from sfgov tv would like to thank jennifer bunch. Do we have any announcements mr. Clerk please sounds all cell phones. [reading code] thank you. Please call item 1 item number one is the first draft of the Charter Amendment [reading code] thank you very much. We have the author of this Charter Amendment here with us today supervisor campos. Is this working . Break. Thank you very much mdm. Chairman and thank you to my colleagues the members of the rules committee for listening hearing this item once again. As i noted at the last meeting of last week, we have a number of amendment that we would like to make but let me step back a little bit and talk about the point of this office. As i noted before, its an interesting time in terms of how the people of the city and county of San Francisco see government. Those of us who are in government i
Thank you. Please call item 1 item number one is the first draft of the Charter Amendment [reading code] thank you very much. We have the author of this Charter Amendment here with us today supervisor campos. Is this working . Break. Thank you very much mdm. Chairman and thank you to my colleagues the members of the rules committee for listening hearing this item once again. As i noted at the last meeting of last week, we have a number of amendment that we would like to make but let me step back a little bit and talk about the point of this office. As i noted before, its an interesting time in terms of how the people of the city and county of San Francisco see government. Those of us who are in government i think oftentimes perhaps this the perception that out there because its a busy job and were doing a lot of Different Things. But the reality is, as you look at polling that has been done including polling done for this measure, there is a lot of lack of trust in government these day
Or 60 or 70 years ago. I mean, having running water, hot and cold running water, indoor plumbing, a television set, microwave and a computer, would have looked very, very good to my parents when they were young. Thats quite a long time ago. But relative poverty is a very deeply ingrained belief in american society, and i think in western society generally, and as long as there are people who are conspicuously more poor than most people, i think that the concern will continue to exist, even though an n absolute terms you could argue that it doesnt. The gentleman has had his hand up for a while there. Steven with basic income action, and i was pleased to hear you mention Charles Murray and the negative income income maintenance experiments from the 60s. Want to see if youre following the discourse about basic income in europe and canada and many other places where this idea of a guaranteed floor is gaining enormous support. There will be a referendum in switzerland in a couple of weeks.
In brooklyn, new york. Plus, a look at the lessons u. S. President s learn during their first year in office, how new york city was helpful and hurtful to the union during the civil war and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. Now, thats just a few of the programs youll see this weekend on booktv. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. Next, a look at the fight for 15 Wage Movement with Service Employees International Union Vice President david rolf. Hello, everybody, welcome. I am so, so happy to see you. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you, good evening. I know. Hopefully, everyone has enjoyed some wine and some food x this is a lovely, lovely room this evening. So its not every day that we get these kinds of moments to pause, to ten back and reflect to step back and reflect on our gains and actually celebrate, because we need to and we should celebrate t