adult programs. they want to close it completely presumably to save money. this is something they have concealed from the public and even from the head of the board of trustees. the board of trustees of city colleges is meeting on thursday, the 23rd of march at 4:00 in the multi youth building on the ocean avenue campus. the library, the library [inaudible] ended last month, and recently they sent their statistics out. most of which which represented some good news, but also in the larger picture, it was what might be considered not a success, but a flop. more than 90% of some of their goals, if not all, failed. so for example, they boasted about 10,000 patrons having their fines forgiven. what they didn t say was 150,000 patrons, more than a third of the total current card holders owe 1 cent or more and has restricted use of the library. they boasted that 5,000 patrons had their borrowing privileges restored. they didn t boast that that s less than 10% of the 55,000 whose bo
environment. i ve felt unbounded and inspired to pursue a lot of things over time i recognize to be cricked in ways i didn t anticipate you know i ve followed the calling but now put me in a position to spend most of my time doing things i love this is the whole point; right? you ought to feel inspired in our work and found opportunities to have you re work put you in service for others and happy doing what you re spending so much time. my father was a journalist lift and my mom a teacher when we finally decided to give up their lives because of me and now i actually get to serve the city and county of san francisco it makes me feel really, really good not this didn t happen overnight i ve worked my entire life to get to this point and much more to learn and i have a lot of changes ahead. really think about what moves you what you re pat s about and trust that you are sufficient and enough where you are to begin and then is her that you are being tenacious about getting
this continuance has to do with the environment. we are here to discuss whether it s appropriate environmental-this project has environment all impacted it sounds like the developer and the group are trying to negotiate to come to an agreement but it doesn t sound like a really environmental concerns so much as there are concerns about gentrification and housing in the mission. i don t see what that has to do with this bill. i don t think we should turn everything into a referendum on gentrification. we should stick to the contents of the meeting. this then legislated before and at different times and things from us. please, deny the contents thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon my name is larry mazzola. business manager of local 30 plumbers and pipefitters union. i m also the present of the san francisco building trades council. i am here today speaking in favor of the continuance today on this project. to also clear up a little confusion that you all might be
good afternoon everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, march 21, 2017. mdm. clerk, please: roll call thank you. breed, here, cohen, cohen, here. farrell, present, fewer, present, kim, present, peskin, present, ronen, present, safai, present, sheehy, present, tang, present, yee, present. mdm. pres. on matters are present tida. ladies and gentlemen these, join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you everyone. mdm. clerk, do you have any communications? i ve known to report mdm. pres. colleagues any changes to the february 2017 board meeting minutes? see no changes, is her motion to approve those minutes? will by supervisor used second bite supervisor safai. can we take that without objection without objection those meeting minutes will be passed after public comment [gavel] mdm. clerk next item item at 2 pm is the mayor s appearance in this chamber. hon. mayor edwin lee, the be no questions om
thank you everyone. mdm. clerk, do you have any communications? i ve known to report mdm. pres. colleagues any changes to the february 2017 board meeting minutes? see no changes, is her motion to approve those minutes? will by supervisor used second bite supervisor safai. can we take that without objection without objection those meeting minutes will be passed after public comment [gavel] mdm. clerk next item item at 2 pm is the mayor s appearance in this chamber. hon. mayor edwin lee, the be no questions omitted from supervisors the mayor may address for up to 5 min. the thank you mr. mayer for being here today. since the were no questions were semitic would like to make any remarks? supervisors thank you for inviting me here and to the public, thank you for being here this afternoon. would like to follow-up on the state of the city speech by discussing how we work together in our city. on thursday, the president signed a blueprint for his proposed 2018 budget.