Okay. , good afternoon okay, good afternoon. Im sorry, what . 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, sup
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
Forward with the Public Safety power Shutoff Program where they made Power Transmission lines during certain climate conditions and weather conditions to decrease the ability of fires starting. As noted, the c. P. C. Approved this adoption of the guidelines for this as a preventive measure against imminent and significant fire risk. San francisco is consider add tier 1, which is the lowest risk for fire, but the transmission lines run through the east bay hills and up the peninsula. Those both are tier 2 and tier 3, which are higher risk areas. Turning off either side transmission lines, either south or east could lead to blackout conditions in San Francisco. This loss of power outage could be 24 hours and potentially longer. D. M. And other agencies have been taking steps to manage for the consequences of these potential power outages. Last week, we had over 120 participants from city departments that came together at bill graham, to really sit down and work through preparedness and c
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
Extraordinary. We are not simply dependent on the staff that work here, they are the engine that get it done. Why . It is more than the fact they get paid and get a pension. The culture they want be to work here, this is a productive and nice play to work. That is an environmental issue we hold the director responsible for. That is one of the objectives. It is more than just developing people. It is developing people in order to do what . It is beyond the issue of the mission statement. I am sorry i dont have words for it. This is a living document maybe in the next couple months we will come back and capture that. That would be the context to understand the different recommendations about who we hireds, plans, restructuring, provide Better Services to the members. Good okay. Motion made and seconded. I will call for public comment. I agree with you. The culture is very, very good. It would be better if our Pension Funds bought a San Francisco Office Building for them to work in. Not o