Good afternoon, and welcome to the january 14th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of the San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have known to report, mr. President. Great. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the november 21st, 2019 special Board Meeting and a november 21 st, 2019 regular Meeting Minutes to the budget and finance Committee Meeting which constitutes a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes for these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Motion made by supervisor mandelman and seconded
So moved. Second by supervisor walton and if theres a no objection. Then supervisor ronen is not in the chamber. Im suggesting a roll call. Supervisor yee can i have a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion not to disclose, supervisor preston. [roll call] there are 10 ayes. Supervisor yee ok. Motion passes. Could i have a motion to file this closed this agenda item. Made by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor safai. If theres no objection, can we take the same house same call. No objection, then motion passes. Madam clerk, please read the memoriams. Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor mandelman. For the late mr. Hampton smith on behalf of supervisor haney, for the late mr. Marco jostalano and on behalf of supervisor peskin and stefani, stephanie laziochincota. Supervisor yee that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business
President yee good afternoon. Welcome to the january 21, 2020 special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll. Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Will you please join me 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. President yee so, on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jessie and james. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report today, mr. President. President yee okay. So i want to thank all the Board Members for being here today. This is a special m
Thank you very much, director kosinski, and your staff. I think these mostly addressed the concerns. The question whether it should be an ordinance or in the charter, to be clear. All of the commissions are in the charter. If we would create this by charter, it wouldnt be a Charter Commission that has all the responsibilities and duties defined in the charter. So we think its important that we have something that has. I think this is in many ways recognizing that this department is here to stay. One of the reasons why this this department maybe the main reason why this department doesnt have a commission currently is because its a new department. Its only been around a couple years, and the advisory structure that we have is here from a time when we didnt have a Single Department with the authority that your department has, had a single director and all of that. So i want to be clear that one of the things that were doing here by having a Charter Commission is recognizing the critical
Denied help, 350 more extremely lowincome seniors are added to the 75,000. Theyll be excluded from new Affordable Housing. 4,000 by the year 2030. 4,000, in addition to the 75,000. Were in danger of homelessness and were in danger of being trapped in our homes, which are not a. D. A. Accessible. As a group, were left out of the calculations, as City Affordable Housing income requirements and opportunities have been moved to higher incomes. Seniors are not the only ones, of course, left out of these qualifications. When we need to accommodate everyone. But lets start with the seniors. [bell ringing] we have no options. We have serious disabilities and other situations. We cant go out and get three jobs. And even if we can work, one parttime job, were faced with widespread age discrimination. Its up to the board to set policy to cure this inequality. Its emerging. Its here. Its relentlessly growing. Please support s. O. S. Save our seniors from this crisis of inequality. [bell ringing] t