Good afternoon and welcome to july 16th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the. [roll call] please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum okay. , we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our okay, we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our city attorney. Sorry about that. I think we cold will call already. Okay. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government television, michael and maja, who record each of our meetings and make their transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, i have a communication from the office of supervisor gordon mar. He is expecting not to be of the Board Meeting today and requests to be excused. Okay. Could i have a motion from supervisor stefani and seconded by supervisor
Board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the. [roll call] please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum okay. , we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our okay, we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our city attorney. Sorry about that. I think we cold will call already. Okay. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government television, michael and maja, who record each of our meetings and make their transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, i have a communication from the office of supervisor gordon mar. He is expecting not to be of the Board Meeting today and requests to be excused. Okay. Could i have a motion from supervisor stefani and seconded by supervisor. Without objection, supervisor mar is excused. Colleagues, today we are approving
Often faces a being too positive and overly optimistic. I have to say, this is a brand of journalism that should be celebrated at a time when most headlines can sink readers into a perpetual state of depression. I also find that positivity quite impressive for someone who has been described as being perpetually on deadline. Leah joins the ranks of great San Francisco news folk such as a hurricane, stanton della plane , charles mccabe, and others, all of whom she knew and worked with. She has managed to capture the quintessential San Francisco moments in words, in vignettes that bring our daily lives and city identity into truly lovely focus. She has been she has a full list of favorite columns over the years, but a couple stand out for me based on their ties to the corner of the safety that city that i live in. There are many. I had my interns scrubbed them. One of them that i remember, and this is from, i dont know if you remember this, but this is from almost 15 years ago, she descri
Conversation and we like to talk a lot so there is conversation in social media. I think this whole week has been about learning. I come from a small town where it is very politically homogenic. There is not much chance for people who dont think the same to get their opinion without being ridiculed. Being here has given me an opportunity to learn other viewpoints and also to get my other ideas out with people. High School Students across the country discuss the precipitation there cipitation sunday night at 8 00. Tom perkins wrote a letter to the enter of the wall street journal in january about income inequality. He later apologized for holocaust analogy. He says part of the reason he wrote the letter was because the attacks on his exwife who is in the audience at this Commonwealth Club of california event. He spoke with Fortune Magazine senior Senior Editor about what he calls the demonization of the one percent. It is about one hour. Thank you, caroline. This truly is my favorite pa
The demonization of the one percent. After that, discussion about the situation in somalia. On the next washington journal, is page talks politics and the Supreme Court ruling. Former fbi and cia Deputy Director philip mudd talks about the recent drone strikes that killed dozens of al qaeda. Embers we will be looking for your calls and you can join the conversation of facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. On cspan. I remember the first conversation i had wasnt about where youre from or what your school is like but it was about ukraine. It was about politics and our believes on education and religion. That, i was like, wow, this week will be intense. It was cool to see the evolution of all our friendships and our bonds just from talking about politics. Ribbon talking about our experiences and what we have learned in who we have met. This is an experience i will never forget. I can never really go that far in politics and politics is such a caustic environment. But