Doctors say a british woman who was shot while on holiday to brazil is lucky to be alive. Eloise dixon is reported to have been attacked when her family drove into a slum area. Good morning. Tesco has announced its scrapping 5p Carrier Bags altogether in favour of the more expensive bags for life. Ill be asking if other retailers will do the same. Also this morning, the challenge of finding the right pair of shoes for the children. Well be getting the latest advice on a problem troubling many parents at this time of year. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Good morning from the roof of the Broadcasting House in london. Grey skies. Dry at the moment. Rain and showers. Heavy downpours in east anglia and the south east. For the rest of the uk, it is sunshine and showers. I will have more details in 15 minutes. Thank you, carol. We will start with our top story. More than 40 of Maternity Wards in england closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once in 2016, data obtained by
Approved. Thank you very much. The minutes are adopted. Since commissioner reed is here, we will move on to item four. Item four, recommend five members transit citizens Advisory Committee. We have Transportation Planner here on this item. Good morning commissioner. This item is for the appointments to the gearry corridor Advisory Committee. Initiative to improve travel time reliability and streetscape along the gearry corridor. Its currently in Environmental Review phase. The structure is shown in your memo which is on page 17 of the packet. Five of those 13 members are currently up for appointment because of approximately two years ago. There was board initiated two year terms for those members. Members currently in the structure are shown in the memo in attachment on page five. Five members represent several different seats as there are theres one appointment for seat for the richmond district. One that is a representative of the fillmore area, one a representative of the tenderloin
Good morning. The meeting will knh to order. This is the meeting of government and Oversight Committee of september 3, 2015. Im supervisor yee and to my right is supervisor christensen and to my left is supervisor breed. The Committee Clerk is alisa samara. We would like toacknowledge james smi i Joshua Alexander who record each 06 the meetings and make the transcript available on line please make sure to sulins all cell phones [inaudible] will appear on september 15 board of supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated okay. So lets call item 1 item one is a motion directing the budget and legislative analyst to conduct a odd otproinvestigations of services to senior including funded sources, corp jaigz duplication of sourfbs and monitor perforumance and out come since i have taken caufs aufs i center been working on improving Senior Services not just in my own district but a cross the city. This enables me to focus on the needs of the senior population today. As you know our city in gen
Think you all love this city or wouldnt work as hard i know your jobs are hard ill really, really urge you to please pass this so the board can vote and help safe the city we all love thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. And good evening Board Members im sarah with the Housing Rights Committee in San Francisco i want to take a moment to bring us back why were here with the tenants youve seen and worked so hard to get to this point to pass this legislation i hope youll do out of committee it is a very real that tenants, in fact, are being evicted left and right for socalled got you evictions those are trumped up charges the real reason is an n one around reversal the landlords want to empty their units to jackup the price to make more money thats the only reason to evict and yet couple of with false reaps are everything from a pet to an unauthorized tenant to etc. , ect we want to protect those tenants so they have a fair process if theyre real reasons why a tenant is causing a nuisance
Firearms continuing to be a contributing factor to senseless violence. Not only here in San Francisco but across our country. Even though we have some of the toughest gun laws, there still remains more we can do in terms of Public Safety. There are gaps in our federal and state legislation that San Francisco has yet to address, that a number of other counties in San Francisco have already taken advantage of. Thats why today im introducing legislation that would require the video taping of all gun and ammunition sales in San Francisco. And require all Stores Transfer to the San Francisco Police Department. I want to thank supervisor cohen whos been a strong leader in proposing gun control reforms. It is intended to fill the gaps that exist at the federal and state level and enhance Public Safety. I do believe we need to do everything within our power here inside of city hall. I hear about Public Safety concerns whether its quality of life crimes or violent crimes. Obviously, we cant go