Kickoff in the bayview on saturday as we continue to build passive equitable soda tax in San Francisco. Thank you. The rest ill submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor wiener. , madam clerk. ~ thank you, madam clerk. I had the pleasure over the last number of months to work with supervisor mar and cohen and avalos and a growing coalition in the community to move this measure forward. I think today is a very, very important day that we have, one, unified measure that i think is going to have ~ Significant Health benefits for this city. I think its important, colleagues, as we engage in this dialogue at the board over the coming months, to really keep the big picture in mind, and that is the explosion, particularly of diabetes in this city and around the country. We are moving to the point whereas many as one in three americans will have type 2 diabetes. Kids are getting diabetes. It used to be called adult onset type 2 diabetes. Now kids are getting it ~. Large numbers of kids and
Program, the shanti project, positive research center, applied aquatics institute, San Francisco publicity club, and we also appointed him as a board to the lgbt aging task force where he was a very productive member. Stu was extremely active in shanti and served four terms as board chair. He helped keep that organization strong. Shanti was a key, key part of his life. Recently he he chaired the executive council at the San Francisco para transit coordinating council. He was also serving as the executive director of tin pan alley productions and he wrote a column for the bay times. He hosted several shows including the drag show and the face to face on s. F. Common. He was also very active in the Recovery Community and served on the Advisory Board of the Castro Country Club ~ which was silver space in the castro. Stu had a lot of energy. I think probably more energy than a lot of us. It was just unbelievable how many Different Things he was involved with. I would never its just always
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