Are routine and any of the consent calendar items may be removed ask considered separately. Would anyone like to sever any of these items . Okay. Seeing none. Is there a member of the public that would be interested in severing these items. Okay, seeing none. We call item number 5. Can we get a motion for the consent calendar. Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. This is an action item. Great, my favorite update, how are you . Fine, thank you very much. We need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to do right now. We do. A lot of the work has been done, so ill make it as easy as possible. February 27th was the final date for introduction of bills and there was something over 1,000 bills so we sifted through them but beyond that, we have six we want to recommend for your consideration to support. Support if amended and we have four that we want
What if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go . Everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. For quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. It was a bench at one point. It was a darkened room at another point. But the theme always was a theme of how do we call peoples attention to the issue of speci species extinction. Many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. But i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. Missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. It is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. Of course the Overall Mission of the academy
Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. This is an action item. Great, my favorite update, how are you . Fine, thank you very much. We need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to do right now. We do. A lot of the work has been done, so ill make it as easy as possible. February 27th was the final date for introduction of bills and there was something over 1,000 bills so we sifted through them but beyond that, we have six we want to recommend for your consideration to support. Support if amended and we have four that we want to oppose as they are written presently. So if you i can walk through the bills that were recommending. Sure. On page 6 of the matrix, ab 1532 by mr. Gato, continues his efforts to address safety of bicycle, pedestrian by making it a crime if you if a person if a vehicle strikes a pedestrian or bicyclist even if theres no harm,
Them stop smoking, evidently it seems like this legislation is not saying that you cant buy it to help you stop smoking regular cigarettes. So, for them, if thats what they need, then they could do exactly what it is, buy it and smoke it somewhere where you can smoke it. Smoke it in their homes, away from the curb or 15 feet away from doorways. But i should say that i just gave the definition of vaporizer if a person has a medical marijuana card and its use for legitimate medical use, not just any vaporizing of something with a big noncigarette looking vaporizer, but its legitimate medical marijuana use in a noncigarette simulating device. Thats my understanding. So, im glad to hear that l. A. Has passed a similar ordinance. And since my daughter lives in l. A. , im glad for her. Shes hopeful that she will be moving back here in San Francisco soon. Certainly i wouldnt want her to move from one place where they actually have a better erin ~ air indoors than San Francisco. I dont want th
The meeting will come to order good morning, everyone this is the San Francisco Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee this is the meeting of tuesday, march 18, 2014. Our clerk is erica chang could you please call the roll supervisor breed. Supervisor kim. Supervisor mar. Supervisor yee. laughter thank you id like to thank Jessie Larson and others for brooet us on sfgovtv. Item 12 the Citizens Advisory Council report. I know that supervisor kim was going to make comments about the unfortunate news of joseph passing. Actually, i was going to do any memoriam at the full Board Meeting i was hoping after the Committee Report we could have a moment of silence this is a time of vice chair flanagan used to do his report and bryan larkin from the cac. Im sorry supervisor campos. I know were going to do something at the board but i want to acknowledge mr. Flanagan i know he really cared about this agency and i have yet to find anyone that is more passionate about serving people and w