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>> good afternoon. well good morning, everybody. and worriment special meeting of san francisco full board of supervisors july thirst your last meeting of legislative madam clerk please call the roll thank you madam president commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell not present supervisor kim kim not present supervisor mar supervisor tang not present supervisor wiener supervisor yee
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yee not present madam president we have quorum thank you ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all okay. colleagues can we have a motion to excuse supervisor farrell, supervisor yee supervisor tang a supervisor kim moved by supervisor christensen and seconded by supervisor cowen colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. the nerve mind i'll take that back hello supervisor kim colleagues can we have a motion to excuse supervisor mark farrell supervisor yee and supervisor tang seconded by commissioner avalos
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cultivation without objection those peripheries 0 are executed madam clerk can you please call first item. >> countered by the rules committee at a special meeting on friday july 31st at 9 in the morning and forwarded as a committee report to the orders on ordinance to define the terms clean energy and green house gas free emergency or energy to provide accurate information about an election to be held in 2013. >> okay commissioner avalos. >> we madam president. >> i want to check to see if you have anything to say and i did not at this point. >> i'm excited we're good to go on the ballot measure our right
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to know ballot measures specification is how san francisco follows state law in how it independence and reiterates the beach chalet to follow the state portfolio standards including unbundled renewal credits and insures outline solar energy in san francisco are top clean tier energy that is significant a single most environmental effort in san francisco and by helping to contribution hundred percent clean energy one of the most effective things to prevent climatic change i want to really thank you all for having this meeting but more specifically it took a long time to get to this point i want to thank jason fried and
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commissioner avalos and his aid jeremy and my aid conner johnson and roger kim in the mayor's office jed holtzman and i want to thank member of the sierra club and 1245 to move marred forward with that on measure to help us launch clean power at the beginning of next year this is a significant step in san francisco thank you you'll again for all your hard work and let's make clean power happen for san francisco with that, i'd like to entertain - madam clerk can you please call the roll on item number one. >> supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor kim
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supervisor mar supervisor wiener commissioner avalos supervisor breed there 8 i's that is this motion is approved unanimously madam clerk. >> at this point the public any comment up to 2 minutes within the jurisdiction of the board pursuant to the boards rules direct our remarks to the braid as a whole nen r number one is not eligible speakers using the translation services get up to twice the time and if you need to put up a document advise sfgovtv. >> first speakers. >> good morning supervisor christensen and supervisor kim supervisor campos and supervisor wiener and supervisor mar and
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others prisoners any giants prisoners must open they're open prier being a mit i didn't man once prisoners criteria will one step closer to all the principles of wisdom by that matter applied to our - that happening should go to the benefit for people of war. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisors on clean energy i want to make sure and thank two important activists bruce in clean sf and babe it that has been helpful well. >> thank you brooks.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning thank you housing step one out league of women voters the ellis act and step two banning no fault step 3, freezing market rate rents all through the city those are from 79 onwards if you've been there longer than than 8 years will reset our rent back to where it was 4 years earlier 10 or 5 years earlier there internal revenue few people that be long time residents that have gone through the market rate relent
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apartments we wanted to keep whatever we can including myself fourth point if you're a renter and your property is sold you get part of the sales prissy like the 5 years people that percent and some places that wouldn't work another building could work the percentage of - the number of years you're there you get represent every year of the sale price pro rated of our apartment that is a formula we can work with the renters need to get a piece of the action this helps some move the next part what are we doing with the land the hundred units example 10 percent market rate condos 10 percent condos sold to the
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people that are living in in this neighborhood whether chinatown or admission we'll limit it. >> testifying. >> thank you. any other members of the public who want to speak seeing none, public comment is closed madam clerk my memoriams colleagues that brings us to the end of the agenda madam clerk, any announcements? >> there's no further business. madam president. >> okay. we're adjourned >> ts
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a woman could run for president in new york. >> organizing this conference, basically it modeled itself on a declaration of independence for women. it marked the beginning of the women's equality movement in the united states. >> at that time, women were banned from holding property and voting in elections. >> susan b. anthony dedicated her life to reform. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically
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opposed to this idea. >> many feared it would be corrupted by politics. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything. that woman would still be devoted to the home, the family, that they would remain pure and innocent, that having the vote would not corrupt them. >> support gradually grew in state and local campaigns. >> leaders like ellen clark sgt come repeatedly stopping these meetings -- , repeatedly stopping these meetings as a politically active figure.
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doing everything they could to ground the campaign in domesticity. >> despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. a specialist in francisco. >> the problem with san francisco is that women's suffrage as an idea was associated. >> susan b. anthony joined the provision party. a deadly idea in san francisco. liquor was the foundation of the economy. and >> anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was greatly and popular.
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>> the first campaign was a great effort, but not a success. >> the war was not over. less than one decade later, a graphic protests brought new life to the movement. >> women's suffrage, the republican convention in oakland, this time it was the private sector response. 300 marched down the streets of the convention center. women were entitled to be here. >> joining together for another campaign. >> women opened a club in san
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francisco. it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign. what happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible, out word. >> there were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching every voter in the state. >> the eyes of the nation were on california in 1911, when we
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all voted. it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing
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candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their voice heard. >> the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is taking place throughout the state. bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the women's suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. >> how long does this mean going on? >> the week of the 20th. people do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920's. in the library collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. >> in commemoration of 100 years
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electroning devices are prohibited at this meeting. public comnlt is limited it 3 minutes per speaker unless otherwise established. speakers are requested but not required to state their names. submission of a speaker card [inaudible] please deliver speaker cards to me prior to approaching the lectern. there is a sign in sheet at the front table for those that would like to be assigned to the waiting list. commissioners stephen adams, here. commissioner kathleen dooley. commissioner mark dwight, here. commissioner william ortiz, here. commissioner
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