Good afternoon and welcome to july 16th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the. [roll call] please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum okay. , we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our okay, we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our city attorney. Sorry about that. I think we cold will call already. Okay. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government television, michael and maja, who record each of our meetings and make their transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, i have a communication from the office of supervisor gordon mar. He is expecting not to be of the Board Meeting today and requests to be excused. Okay. Could i have a motion from supervisor stefani and seconded by supervisor
Board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the. [roll call] please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum okay. , we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our okay, we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our city attorney. Sorry about that. I think we cold will call already. Okay. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government television, michael and maja, who record each of our meetings and make their transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, i have a communication from the office of supervisor gordon mar. He is expecting not to be of the Board Meeting today and requests to be excused. Okay. Could i have a motion from supervisor stefani and seconded by supervisor. Without objection, supervisor mar is excused. Colleagues, today we are approving
Often faces a being too positive and overly optimistic. I have to say, this is a brand of journalism that should be celebrated at a time when most headlines can sink readers into a perpetual state of depression. I also find that positivity quite impressive for someone who has been described as being perpetually on deadline. Leah joins the ranks of great San Francisco news folk such as a hurricane, stanton della plane , charles mccabe, and others, all of whom she knew and worked with. She has managed to capture the quintessential San Francisco moments in words, in vignettes that bring our daily lives and city identity into truly lovely focus. She has been she has a full list of favorite columns over the years, but a couple stand out for me based on their ties to the corner of the safety that city that i live in. There are many. I had my interns scrubbed them. One of them that i remember, and this is from, i dont know if you remember this, but this is from almost 15 years ago, she descri
Heard of that. We all remember typhoid mary of lore and she had the ability to infect people. Do your typhoid marys have the ability to infect people when theyre asymptomatic . We dont know. Thats the question. Typhoid mary, in the case of her, she was dealing with a bacterial infection. Right. What i do know for a fact, there have been a number of asymptomatic nonfebrill people whose blood has been drawn and they tested positive. I think there is something about the pcr test. In medicine, you never say 100 . The thing with ebola, if you dont bat 1 wh00 every day, it exposed. My point is we need go to africa and fight the disease over there and keep it contained. Two of your doctors were infected and werent sure why. We had two nurses in dallas and were infected and were not sure why. That underscores there is a lot more not known about this disease and is known and i would extend that to mr. Waxman, we all need humility on this. And what you did in dallas to have good discipline to wh