okay. maybe we can call the ballot. on items 31 and 32 quad. yes, ma am,. supervisor mandelman? [roll call] there are ten aye. thank you. these items passed unanimously. thank you. these resolutions are passing. would you like to talk about item 33 quad. may i read the item first class. this is the item that establishes the board of supervisors regular meeting schedule. i know i am interrupting your dinner, but i was curious, our people aware that we swapped out veteran s day or a meeting about veterans day for something else around thanksgiving, and i will go with whatever other board members want to, but i was a little uncomfortable with that i feel like that i am not honoring the veterans. okay. you severed this item to talk on this item. is there anything else you want to do or any action you want to propose? i m asking our people aware of this? i guess i was a little uncomfortable knowing that it was tied to veteran s day that we cut. did you
roll for attendance. [roll call] clerk: madam president, you have a quorum. president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, any communications? clerk: yes. i have one to report, dated this morning, december 4, from supervisor fewer, requesting to be excused as she s out of town. president cohen: thank you. may i have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer? seconded by supervisor tang. without objection, colleagues. without objection, supervisor fewer is excused from today s meeting. next we ll go on to the approval of minutes. colleagues, we re approving the minutes from october 30, 2018, for the full board. is there a motion to approve the minutes? motion made by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor ronen. can we take this without objection? without objection. thank you. without objection, the meeting will be approved after public comment. madam clerk
affordable housing. [cheers and applause] finally, after almost ten years, we are finally building building affordable housing in the mission for those whose income ranges anywhere between 30 and nifty% a.m.i. and i think i m more excited because 30 and 50% a.m.i. and i think i m more excited because even though we have had challenges making sure people who live in the communities can have access to the affordable housing built in their community , we will not have that problem with this project. because of the neighborhood preference legislation that i and others on the board of supervisors put through a few years back, i got so much support for that legislation from this community. to dedicate 40% of the 80 units to the people who live in this district first. [applause] there are so many people that have made this possible and i just want to thank each and every one of you for all of your hard work, including the mayor possess office of housing, bridge has an, of cour
president cohen: thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i want to welcome you to the december 4, 2018, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. thanks for joining us today. madam check, please call the roll for attendance. [roll call] clerk: madam president, you have a quorum. president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, any communications? clerk: yes. i have one to report, dated this morning, december 4, from supervisor fewer, requesting to be excused as she s out of town. president cohen: thank you. may i have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer? seconded by supervisor tang. without objection, colleagues. without objection, supervisor fewer is excused from today s meeting. next we ll go on to the approval of minutes. colleagues, we re approving the minutes from october 30, 2018, for the full board. is there a motion to approve
believes in the psychiatric examination of people. i believe they should be on the couch themselves rather than the people they are never met. on the other hand when i meet people, i don t judge them in terms of whether they have a firm handshake or whether they have eye contact. but what i try to do when they meet people is listen to what they say. you don t learn anything when you re talking. you learn a great deal when they re talking. many of the tragedies of richard nixon is he was not self aware. nixon did have a psychiatrist an internist, he wasn t technically a psychiatrist and the doctor later said he was careful not to have nixon think he was analyzing him. but nixon went to him because he had psychosemantic illnesses. and he gave him some mild therapy. but nixon, even though he went to one, he hated psychiatrists and was all denouncing them. and he was afraid in a way of looking at himself in a realistic way. one of the reasoning he used to say, i don t carry gru