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joined shortly by supervisor mark farrell, who will be sitting in for supervisor malia cohen. is supervisor cohen going to need to be excused for an absence? let s have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. we will take that without objection. the clerk of the board is derrick evans and today s meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff, thank you for your work broadcasting our meetings. mr. clerk, could you please call do you have any announcements? yes, mr. chair. please make sure on silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted today will appear on the january 16 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. item no. 1 is a motion appointing supervisor aaron peskin to a term ending january 31, 2017, to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district. we don t have a representative from supervisor peskin s office. i do not see any issue with thes ....
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all that some say i am appreciative of these amendments that were made, i know we have to have another hearing but i would be supportive of it with these amendments. thank you and i do appreciate your comments about the budget process but if we have a report that s before us, that even has our approval, it gives us some guidance about how to make changes to the budgets the mayor presents to us. it gives us the added ability to practice our role of appropriations. supervisor farrell. thank you, supervisor avalos and supervisor tang for your comments and i failed to thank supervisor tang earlier for her existing co-sponsorship and i want to thank you for being a huge park advocate, as well as supervisor avalos, i fully acknowledge that as well. i do want to ask, with the amendments i introduced, there are a few typos that the city attorney will be able to use the record to do the corrections thereto. deputy city attorney john givner, just echoing supervisor farrell ....
this is san francisco s official holiday tree and the cypress are over one hundred and thirty years old and despite losing some of its limitations it s standing at all and supporting over 5 hundred and 50 lights let s give a big round of applause for uncle john s tree (clapping.) so this is the night that offers up the time to get together one of the most important aspects of parks it s sense of place; right? an opportunity to get together to create community and think about our tasks and to see our past, present, and future and people that are going to help us light the trees and brought kids this is something of san francisco s fabric and we remember it s pretty amazing this holiday season offers the opportunity to reflect american people things we are they ve for i m thankful to work with our amazing staff everyday and help to manage our 2 hundred and 20 parks around the city and most porcelain importantly on behalf of the rec and park department we are thankful for ....
comment on this item. commissioner mar and yee? there were a lot of take aways for myself, and i mean, that it was nice and comforting that we had really the largest con tining ent and i felt like we were in san francisco, even though we are in brooklyn and it is one of the boroughs that are larger than san francisco and it was interesting to hear some of the streets and the pedestrians itself and the message that they are trying to get across is that the human beings make the mistakes and pedestrian ans will make the mistakes and they can be distracted and we should pay attention to that. and one of the things that was interesting, was the opening sort of keynote address, in which the professor there talked about streets in a very different way, and just prior to i guess, in the maybe, in a 1920s or so, and the streets were, quickly changed because of the auto industry. and in which they made and they basically had a campaign, the tree belongs to the car rather tha ....