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Booktv, television for serious readers. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. Were going to get started. I just want to thank everyone for being here for our last event of the year. We are completely honored to have helen thorpe. Thank you all for coming so much. So this evening we all welcome come happy to welcome the bestselling author helen thorpe. If you havent read her works of art you in for a treat on the first book victory. Her other books are soldier girls just like us and the newcomers is what we are celebrating this evening. Helen is able to bring to get audiences overcook defense to make global citizens out of all of her readers. Tonight are story is one of the world issue that takes place in a backyard in denver. The newcomers follows 20 refugees to the United States speaking 14 languages, all in the same classroom in denver. It is a story, a gripping heartfelt and powerful story. Without further ado please join ....
Works in the Nonprofit Sector that has a contract, i assume, with the city to be able to give advice on how this would impact nonprofits that would fall under this category. I just want to reiterate, just because our office did spend quite a bit of time putting together a policy that impacted many of our employers, the fair chance act which i coauthored with supervisor malia cohen, that was a tenmonth process to put together the actual specifics of what the fair chance ordinance would look like, and this is how it actually impact our employees in not doing the background checks at first application. And because of the length of time it took to meet with all of our stakeholders and make sure that we were taking everyones input into our ordinance, for me i guess why i would push on why we should pass this now and get the process started is that in order for a tenmonth process to work out between now and september, we really need t ....
Little cleaner. Okay. And i believe that was seconded by supervisor tang. Thats correct. And, colleagues, can we take that motion to amend without objection . Without objection that should be the case. [gavel] and then now on the motion to continue this item to november the 25th, colleagues, can we do that without objection or do we need a roll call . Without objection as amended, mr. President. Im sorry . As amended. As amended. Without objection this item as amended will be continued to november the 25th. [gavel] and with that, why dont we go to item 28. Item 28 is an ordinance amending the police code to repeal the prohibition on entering or remaining within a 25foot buffer zone of a Reproductive Health care facility; to prohibit individuals from following or harassing others within 25 feet of the entrance to such a facility; to prohibit impeding access to the door of such a facility; and to prohibit excessive noise throug ....
History. Women in our communities who are courageous leaders since 1996 the San Francisco commission and department on the status of women has recognized the vital role and contributions of woman in our communities so at this time before we begin to recognize some of the amazing women that are here in the audience today, i want to acknowledge emily the executive director welcome to the board of supervisors chamber. Thank you president breed im very pleased to be here for womens History Month were here to celebrate and recognize women in our communities working to improve the lives of all San Francisco i san franciscans. It is the 11th consecutive year. The National Theme this year is weaving the stories of the womens lives. Before we begin i just wanted to share with t ....
Is un undeniable that we need to do more. Here in San Francisco our office has been working with senator gilabrand to brainstorm what we can do here locally and weve learned that San Francisco is at the forefront of survivor centered approach in which survivors take priority and campuses such as u. S. F are considered role models yet when we talk to students they still feel with even our model approaches we can do more to encourage more women to come out and report and im kicking off a series of actions by introducing a resolution today. Last year a Bipartisan Group of senators introduced this legislation aiming to turn the tied on how Sexual Assaults on College Campuses are handled and the legislation failed ....