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thank you chair, and all. my name is christopher and live commenting on more bad news. within the last two weeks climate scientists have presented more alarming reports. these are on our southern antarctic ice cap and the reports describe once again how the warming climate and oceans are accelerating the ever faster movement of ice mass the size of california, averaging over a kilometer in thickness. into the world s oceans resulting in multimeter sea-level rise by the end of the century. once again scientists are low-balling the numbers and once again their predictions will lag reality. my prediction is still 50 by 55, that is 2055. my prediction is that by that time climate change will disrupt food production, that climate change will bring famine, that climate change will provoke war among the nations over vanishing resources. my solution is still using freely available energy to desalinate freshwater to irrigate new trees. what can you do to help? and i would ....
samantha, lorne, juan torres. maria navarro. sam yu. jesus hernandez. keith gardner. and sman that, i wanted to highlight samantha s story. samantha started with good life when she was 17 years old. she started bagging groceries. more than a decade later, she is now the store manager and general operator of the store. good life is very proud of offering true career advancement opportunities for its employees, owners, like samantha. and in addition to presenting this honor to good life, i m very excited to announce that we ll be nominating them shortly to be a legacy business and as was noatd earlier, the legacy business registry ensures the protection of small businesses that are as part of critical part of san francisco as any. it would not be vernal heights without the good life and it wouldn t be san francisco without so many of these businesses. supporting historic businesses like good life is really what the business legacy business registry is about. the other ....
good afternoon, everybody an welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, may 24th, 2016. madam clerk, can you please call the roll. thank you ma dem president. supervisor avalos, present. president breed present. campos present. cohen present. supervisor farrell, farrell not president. supervisor kim present. supervisor mar present. supervisor peskin. present,. present. supervisor tang. tang present. supervisor weiner. present. supervisor yee. president. supervisor farrell, prept. automatic members are present. can you please join us for the pledge of a geedges. [recitation of the pledge of allegiance] thank you. are there any chaimgs to the april 19th or the april 20th special budget and finance meeting minutes? seen none. there is a motion? colleagues can we take that without objection? the meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. one through four comprise the agenda ....
commendations for small business week. we ll wait until everyone gets in and gets settled. if there are members of the public waiting on a item. we ll do small business commendations. it will take us anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour. your item will not be discussed nal time. again, if you could please make room for our small business award o honoraries. we ll appreciate that. colleagues, it s time for our 3:30 special commendation for small business week. small businesses are the backbone of our economy. many are owned by generations of san franciscans and many of those businesses bring our community together. this week is a time for the city and county of san francisco to honor the contribution and achievements of san francisco small business owners. i would like to welcome at this time the president of the small business commission mark dwight to provide opening remarks. mr. dwight, thank you for being here. thank you. good afternoon supervisors. as supervisor br ....
supervisor farrell, farrell not president. supervisor kim present. supervisor mar present. supervisor peskin. present,. present. supervisor tang. tang present. supervisor weiner. present. supervisor yee. president. supervisor farrell, prept. automatic members are present. can you please join us for the pledge of a geedges. [recitation of the pledge of allegiance] thank you. are there any chaimgs to the april 19th or the april 20th special budget and finance meeting minutes? seen none. there is a motion? colleagues can we take that without objection? the meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. one through four comprise the agenda. an eye tomorrow may be removed and considered separately. seeing no names on the roster. madam cleerk, please call the roll. one through four, supervisor weiner. aye company supervisor weiner aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor breed. aye. iewp visor breed aye. ....