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
Yes. [speaker not understood]. Campos present. President chiu . Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen not present. Supervisor farrell . Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar . Here. Mar present. Supervisor tang. Present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Present. Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present. And supervisor cohen. Present. Cohen present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, are there any communicationses . I have no communications today, mr. President. And could you read our consent jedv . Items 1 through 11 comprise the consent calendar. Thea items are considered routine unless a member will object. The item may be removed and considered separately. Colleagues,
And studies show that big soda is largely to blame. As a father, i know our families need help when they live in environments saturated with sugary drinks that are aggressively marketed everywhere children and families turn, like billboards on top of peoples houses in the bayview or on our buses, or saturday morning tv. As a san franciscan, i also share our collective desire to make San Francisco more livable for families and to continue to be a city that sends stands strong in protecting the Publics Health and allows all of our neighborhoods to thrive. As a local legislator and a law maker like the left of us, i also believe that nothing we do is more important than protecting our Childrens Health and the Publics Health. Were lucky, as i mentioned, that we have strong coalitions for Health Equity and food access in our neighborhoods, especially in the bayview and the tenderloin. But its growing in many other neighborhoods, too. And theyve been building alliances with doctors, Health E
Folks that have helped to make this a reality. Id like to take a moment just to thank a few of the organizations that have helped us along the way. All of us or none, legal serve is he for prisoners with children, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights National power, coalition on homelessness, hospitality house, coleman advocates, chamber of commerce and Small Business commission, and also there are a litany of neighborhood folks that helped gather signatures for us to continue to move this forward. And i hope that you will join supervisor kim and i in voting favorably for this legislation. Mr. Chair, the rest i give back to supervisor kim. Supervisor kim. Thank you, supervisor cohen and president chiu. Its always important to put a face behind legislation. And todays legislation is for these very individuals. The fair chance act is for an individual named don he will who was fired from his janitorial job whos was fired for failing to tell about a 1974 arrest for transpesting. The fair ch