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the city of san francisco meeting of public safety and neighborhood services committee occurring on april 2, 2015 will begin shortly. [gavel] good afternoon everyone. the meeting will come to order. this is the thursday april 2, 2015 meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is eric mar. i m the chair of the committee. to my left is supervisor julie christensen and to my right is supervisor scott wiener and katy tang. our clerk is mr. derek evans. could you give us the announcements. thank you mr. chair. please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and files should be splitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you. we have three important hearings on the agenda today so it s going to be a substantive meeting. the third hearing on addressing bias in the san francisco justice system and the ra ....
safety and neighborhood services committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is eric mar. i m the chair of the committee. to my left is supervisor julie christensen and to my right is supervisor scott wiener and katy tang. our clerk is mr. derek evans. could you give us the announcements. thank you mr. chair. please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and files should be splitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you. we have three important hearings on the agenda today so it s going to be a substantive meeting. the third hearing on addressing bias in the san francisco justice system and the racist and homophobic texts within the san francisco police department will be last and i will start with the first one. number one for the health code and prohibit wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement. thank you. this is sponsored by supe ....
does not (inaudible). okay, thank you, mr. rose. to our city attorney making this change substantive, do we have to hold it over or can we do it today and pass it out. deputy city attorney john geberra it s not substantive. just to clarify, the board can t amend the agreement, only the puc can, but if the puc intends to include this in the agreement you can note it in the resolution or, as the budget analyst, you can urge the puc to include a not to exceed in the resolution. maybe we should just talk about that topic itself. do you have an issue? i have no issue, frankly i was mortified when i found out we had overextended and tried to find out where was the control that should have been in place. this is a very simple and effective resolution of that so we are in total agreement with it. supervisor. my question was actually just about that very same topic, making sure that moving forward that there are the internal controls that the budget analyst had recom ....
important hearings on the agenda today so it s going to be a substantive meeting. the third hearing on addressing bias in the san francisco justice system and the racist and homophobic texts within the san francisco police department will be last and i will start with the first one. number one for the health code and prohibit wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement. thank you. this is sponsored by supervisors tang, wiener and yee. supervisor tang. thank you very much and i would like to thank everyone for being here today and last month i introduced legislation that will prohibit the performance of wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement in san francisco and many of us attended a circus or live animal performance in the past. they are common place in many of our cities. san francisco last hosted a circus in the fall of 2013 and again slated for this year but circuses i believe do not provide educational value. i think that ....