[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on january 29 board of supervisors agenda. Call item 7 out of order. Item 7, Charter Amendment to amend the chart of the city and councily San Francisco to require an annual baseline appropriation for the park and recreation open space with an election to be held on june, 7, 2016. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, i will save my comments for a full board with this measure. At this point i counted this charter measure has been in committee five months and have gone over 15 amendments. And i want to say tha
And it was foggy when i came in. Its saturday, october 10th. Im claudine wong. Lets get right oefer to rosemary over to rosemary to talk about the fog. My drive in, could barely see in front of the headlights. Yes. The headline at this hour is definitely the fog. Very thick. Many of us experiencing it. Lets take a look outside. See whats going on outside of the doors. In and around san jose, you have the fog there with visibility down to about a mile in some areas. Over portions along the coastline, patchy dense fog, meaning visibility down to about a quarter mile and if we flip over to stormtracker2, take a look at some of this fog here that has moved in, it did while we slept. This morning were waking up along the coast, the peninsula into the east bay, north bay and south bay. Well take a look at some of the visibility in and around portions of the north bay, napa and santa rosa reporting visibility down to a quarter mile. This gray indicating where its at its thickest. You will fin
Around town that anthonys are those cookies. With rave reviews like this i have to experience these cookies for myself and see what the fuss was all about. So lets see. While attending San Francisco State University as an accountinging major, anthonys friend jokingly suggested he make cookies to make ends make. With no formal culinary training he opened his own bakery and is now the no. 1 producer of gourmet cookies in the biarea and thank you for joining us on quick bites. How do you feel . I feel great. So i want to get to the bottom of some very burning questions. Why cookies . It was a recommendation from a friend. Hard to believe thats how it all started. Why not pies and cakes . What do you have against pies and cakes, anthony. I have nothing against pies and cakes. However, that was the recommendation. You were on the road to be an account apblt. Actually, an engineer. Even better. And it led to making cookies. In delicious ways. Delicious ways. This is where the magic goes down
Cards. Does any member of the public wish to speak so a non agenda item . Seeing none Public Comment is now closed. Great. Commissioners that places us under department matters. Item 1 directors announcements. Good afternoon commissioners. Just one item i thought might be of interest to you. Last week the mayor introduced legislation called the Affordable Housing Bonus Program which is legislation that will allow density and if necessary height in return for additional Affordable Housing units. This is one piece of a much larger package of policies and legislative actions that we are putting together to try to address the issue of Affordable Housing. This is a two piece program. There is one piece that would allow us to comply with state legislation which requires us to provide additional densities for development that does provide Affordable Housing. There is a second piece of the program that is designed to Incentivize Development for middle income housing. This will apply to many pa
Own today embraces in entire week we always burglary pray and hope we never are visit by disaster and one way that helps us to have a Strong Military force to make sure our defense are laser clear we we celebrate our men and women that also serve in that capacity weve taken the tremendous opportunity were presented with fleet week and made that an additional to one of the most active fleet week we can image not with the events that louis identified as well as but in collaboration that the department of emergency our Fire Department and Police Department all of the agencies from muni to the public works to the volunteers that red cross and the tremendous communities collaboration over the years when we had navel landing contrast on ocean beach or in the replenishing we continued the very special practice of commissioner melara that we create the relationships that are necessary in case an event were to happen in San Francisco or the bay area no other part of country not only slbltd like