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is so clear and i have known about you since my under graduate days of stanford when we were fighting for your 10-year at stanford. i appreciate all you have done. given all your accomplishments and the demand for your service, i guess my next question is do you have time for this? i sure do. i ve been told by a couple of former members of the commission how much work it is and i ve been told the version where you can do the minimalist version but you can do the meaningful version and that s what i choose to do. i pledge to you that i will devote a massive amount of time on this because i want what i believe you want. i want there to be change so that the types of incidents that we ve seen are minimized or eliminated for heaven s sake if we can, and that s what i m pledge to go do and i know how much work it s going to take and i m ready to work at that time and roll up my sleeve and get under the hood and do the work. my final question. if there was a concrete or s ....
in the is that 5-gallon or less include does that 5-gallon or less is what we see in our offices, in a lot of the offices in the city. the dispensaries. when former mayor implemented his executive order reducing the use of single use plastic water bottles, i know our office eliminated the water, the big water container in our office. in our city, our best source tap water come from our hedge reservoir, not from imported plastic jugs. with the city, we spend somewhat some where around $98,000 a year on this type of water in our offices. what i do in my office is we have pitchers of water that s provided to folks so that we re not using more and more plastic and that we are being consistent in policies like this. this policy was strongly urged by our department of the environment and i would strongly urge support for it. and i guess the question this is considered a single use container then? that s why i m confused. i thought they keep on using it. so it ....
supervisor cohen. no. speaker: supervisor farrell. aye. supervisor kim. speaker: aye. supervisor mar. aye. supervisor peskin. aye. there are 8 aye and two nos with supervisor breed and cohen in the descent. the motion is approved. congratulations professor. with that mad am clerk, let s go to the next item. 65 is to appoint four members to the immigrant rights. this has a new title and the names being ryan and diamond and michelle wong. supervisor mar. i wanted to congratulate the two new members and the reappointment of two returning members. as adrian pond and the staff came to the rule s committee i wanted to say my conversation with former supervisor tang as the immigrants rights movement created this immigrant rights commission that at this point in history, these two new members plus two reappointed members are going to have tremendous challenges as the federal government and others attack immigrants and i hope the immigrant rights co ....
chris and [inaudible] and i think in the relationships over the years there would be conflicts that would happen. and i was thought there is more work that needs to be done and we have to make this place work and we have to work together and i really appreciate all of the ways that people would drop any anchor that happened with previous conflicts to be able to drop that moving forward for our districts in each and every one of you. there is one other thing that i want to say before i ended tonight and i can t believe i just lost my train of thought to be able to do that. overall colleagues, this is been the greatest job that i ve had my life so far. i want to make sure that i m going to enjoy whatever i do next. but i ve actually i have actually contemplated this being at the board of supervisors for about 20 years and i didn t think about when i got to the city in 1989 or1986 i had an internship at coleman advocates and i was asked to do [inaudible] and i always tho ....
aye. supervisor peskin. aye. there are 8 aye and two nos with supervisor breed and cohen in the descent. the motion is approved. congratulations professor. with that mad am clerk, let s go to the next item. 65 is to appoint four members to the immigrant rights. this has a new title and the names being ryan and diamond and michelle wong. supervisor mar. i wanted to congratulate the two new members and the reappointment of two returning members. as adrian pond and the staff came to the rule s committee i wanted to say my conversation with former supervisor tang as the immigrants rights movement created this immigrant rights commission that at this point in history, these two new members plus two reappointed members are going to have tremendous challenges as the federal government and others attack immigrants and i hope the immigrant rights commission live up to their vision as we created 20 years ago in 1996-97 and i m very pleased with the energy and ....