franciscans. we would like to work everything out, hopefully with the continuations. i do not argue it should not be delayed. it is also important on this particular date reaching we want to make sure the communities will love the chance began coming up next week. thank you very much for the position. >> anyone else? end of public comment. this week we will more than likely continue this, and you can come back. supervisor, do you have closing

comments? >> thank you again for giving me the opportunity to be here, and i want to thank the members for being here. i know there is an alexian tomorrow, and that cuts across the board. we have a number of people who could have been campaigning, because it is such an important issue and something people feel needs to be addressed as quickly as possible. i understand the concerns, but at the end of today, this is about how do we serve the people at san francisco? this is something we need to act on as quickly as possible. with respect to some of the changes happening in the health- care industry, froit is part of that system that we need better

planning. you hit the nail in the head in terms of how good planning can address a lot of the concerns. it is because of those concerns we should move expeditiously. i also think good planning and the local level will enhance good planning at the regional level. i do not think we can engage in could regional planning unless we know what is needed at the local level. one final thing is that i welcome the employe of the industry. that is something we have been doing for the last six months. at some point we have to move, and i think what is happening is there are people who genuinely believe the city should not have our role in deciding health care to the extent this

legislation is trying to do. there are people who believe planning is ok, and at the end of today that as a fundamental difference. i believe with some individuals it does not matter how many changes you make. they will oppose it because they do not want change. we have an obligation to make sure the interests of san franciscans are addressed. that is underlying this legislation, which is why i request that we move as quickly as we can. the body that is responsible for having to make these decisions -- the planning committee voted 5-1 for a reason. they are ready to act. the longer we wait, the more difficult it becomes.

the one comment that resonated was the appointee of mayor newsom who said she could not understand why there was opposition because if not actually require anything. it said you need to take health care needs into consideration, and even if there is inconsistency, the planning committee still has the ability to approved a project. nothing changes in the authority, so we need to move forward as quickly as possible. >> i would like to know why we are going to continue this. i know there has been a number of amendments. i did kind of meet with someone from kaiser and understand some concerns, but i think supervisor compos has tried to integrate some of the language. my conversation -- i do sense

that you want your members to be involved, but i do not see how delaying its one more week is going to help. you could come to supervisor combos with specific recommendations as a way of having those concerns addressed. he also raised a number of concerns. i have not seen enough specifics about how this relatively modest health care reform will limit the quality of health care access. especially, they say they have extremely limited access to health care.

i do not feel comfortable continuing this. >> i support what supervisor combos and my colleagues are trying to do. this is a conversation we also had when we were discussing the shipyard project about the needs throughout the city of understanding health care distribution. i would like to ask for a brief continuous. we discussed where the

legislation was. we understood this item would need to be continued. i agree with the urgency to move this on as quickly as possible, so i would like to ask that those who do have substantive comments, and we need to get that immediately so we can move this forward and hopefully get this done posthaste. >> i think it is extremely important that we do this, and i also want to commend sioux heston for her work. also when we were talking about hospitals and people were

talking about how important time was and a lot of it has to do with the proximity of the person to the care. what is their expectancy? how far are they from care? this is an extremely important issue. since you have all these people working on planning, they must have time to come up with some helpful suggestions. not that we are going to take all of them, but we want to make sure we see them and we understand the point of view. people do not give serious until it is about to happen.

i am willing to give you two weeks. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: i would respectfully ask you not to do a continuance. i do not see how two weeks is going to make a difference, and two weeks is a long time. i think it is interesting to hear from the hospital council, because they say, you cannot act because the health commission has not acted. the reason is because the hospital council has been lobbying them for quite some time. they have responsibility and are using that as justification to do what we know they have been doing, which is to solve --

which is to stall the legislation. i had a conversation, and he reminded me if the industry had had their choice there would be no healthy san francisco today. i hope we learn our lesson and move this forward as quickly as we can. >> it is not that we are trying not to do this. for me this is extremely important. this is the next part of it. this should have been the first part of this is extremely important. it would go up the very next day. we have a holiday next week. >> there is a holiday on

november 11. >> the next meeting would be when? >> the 15th. >> then we could go to the board on the 16th. >> i think two weeks is way too long. i would be supportive of one week. i think we should vote today. >> supervisor chu endive are not prepared to vote today. supervisor chu is suggesting two weeks. i am suggesting we will go to weeks before the 16th. we will have a roll call vote on two weeks and go as a committee report. supervisor mar: no. supervisor chu: yes.

supervisor maxwell: yes. >> we have two ayes and one no. >> is there any further items? this meeting is adjourned.

>> welcome to the median of the san francisco will supervisor's which is home to the world champion san francisco giants.

-- welcome to the meeting of the san francisco , a board of supervisors. >> mr. president, all members are present. >> please and gentlemen, can you please join me in the pledge of allegiance?

>> we have copies of the september 28th meeting, do they have a motion to approve? moved and seconded. are there any communications? >> i have no communications. >> i want to recognize i understand there are some students from the -- school for juvenile offenders. i want to thank you for being here today. >> items 1-18 comprise the consent agenda. they will be acted upon by single will call vote. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items? >> 610.

-- 16. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> those past. item 16. >> item 16 it is appointing timothy benetti for the seat. >> will call vote. -- roll call vote.

>> aye. >> no. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> no. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> i 19 is an amending the health code to set international standards for lead strum food sold a company to buy toys or other youth focused items. >> --slashruntim for restaurantd

accompanied by touristandtoys. >> this has been an educational process for me. young people, corporate accountability activists. we have had conversations with michelle's obama's staff for the "let's move," campaign. we have been taking inspiration and strength from generations of our leaders, and food activists, neighborhood leaders, people who are demanding equitable food environments. also the generation of wisdom that comes out of our

communities has been inspiring. it is inspiring to work with food justice activists. if we pass this today and move this forward in san francisco, there are many other issues of addressing a more equitable food environment. this is something that is catching on in the environment. there are other cities that are making efforts. we are part of a movement that is moving forward, an agenda of food justice and interesting and equitable food in the garments. -- and addressing inequitable food environments.

activists like in the southeast of food access coalition and food guardians remind us that this is a survival issue. i want to repeat a couple of pieces of statistics. obesity in our nation is growing at a staggering rate. one in five people in the united states of america. about half of the population is overweight. for children in san francisco, african-american children, latino children, two or three times higher. it costs $900 million a year in health-care costs and lost productivity in our country and

in the $42 billion that we spent. i also want to recognize some organizations that have discussed this and have educated some of us. i would like to think supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, and president chui for cosponsoring this. also hard-working staff at the department of public health. the corporate accountability group. the food guardians from the southeast food access working group, the california center for health advocacy, the

american heart association, the richmond district neighborhood center, a the ethnic help network, and the president of the american public health association, one of the largest in the country. also ucsf researchers who have been working on this. also a group of pediatricians to have been amazing. they are truly community doctors. the doctors women collectives. also the san francisco unified

school district is a model of improving our improvements where -- held -- improving our health. the change would not have been without the parents and leaders in our school district. i would like to thank the santa clara county supervisor for courage in taking this on. we would not have done this without this brought coalition and an emerging movement of food and justice. i would like to grab up by saying that this is a modest ordinance that is really getting the restaurant industry to meet basic nutritional standards for our children and families. -- i would like to wrap up. there is a serious crisis of

childhood obesity which is an epidemic in our nation but this emerging movement within our communities here and within the nation are the first step forward. we intend to look at other issues of holding restaurants and corporations and government accountable. in our committee, we went through a number of amendments to make this better. the minor amendments are to clarify language. the first one is on page 6 which is simply added to clarify that this is not regulate speech or advertising. this is not ban the practice of tying toys to kids mill. -- kids' meals.

the third is that we have removed the whole grains requirement that we added in. also, the last amendment is that it gives a one-year phase-in for this ordinance if we pass this in san francisco so the last day would be december 1st, 2011. i would like to urge my colleagues to keep the activism of our grass roots organization and passed this today -- pass this today. >> can we take those amendments without objection? they are adopted. >> thank you, mr. president. i would like to take a couple of minutes and talk about this.

this will probably be the last time that i represent a swing vote. i want to take a moment and think supervisor mar. the comments recognize all of the stakeholders. i want to thank him as a colleague is a very gracious and thoughtful author. he is someone who endeavors to sit and listen to people and he gives you what i would like to say is called space in the room to change and come to a position. i would like to say to the advocates who have worked hard on this issue that utrillos a great leader in this at the board of supervisors. i would like to thank supervisor mar for visiting

hilltop high school with me. -- i would like to say to the advocates who have worked hard on this issue and the great leader in this on the board of supervisors. for me, i thought that this was an amazing population to sit and talk with. these are the teenage girls who are the focus of a lot of marketing from the food-service industry. these are women that have had to grow up quickly and take responsibility and to think deeply about the future that they and their children would have. when i walked in the room, i was not sure how open and interested they would be in the issue. the association between young people and fast food is so strong that thought it would be the most dismissive audience. there are people who are dismissive about this. there are issues that come at a time when you have the public

support. health access was one of those issues. for me, this reminds me of the suicide determined system on the golden gate bridge. -- deterrent system on the golden gate bridge. they have an opinion as to a myopic view of this issue whether this is a city or a parent that to choose what ac child east. the scales are not balanced in this equation. there is an enormous amount of money that is spent to market, advertise, and select the menu which will be appealing to customers, particularly young people. through working with my colleagues and meeting with advocates to see that $1.2 billion in meals is being sold to children under 12 with toys and this represents one in five children of that age that are

eating at the restaurant. the $360 million spent on toys, this is more than the issue of good parenting. i would be the first to confessed that even as we sat in there today, this was not just mcdonnell's that was the hot -- in the hot seat. -- this was not just a mcdonald's that was in the hot seat. i wanted to these young women to feel empowered in the process of talking about this legislation and thinking about it. the reality is that there is this instant dismissal of this legislation and this approach. when i sat in a room with the people supporting this legislation, these are people that are