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legislative change is the last october -- last november, the board of supervisors with support of bevan dufty and the entire order passed an ordinance, and it's something that many city ace cross the country and acrs california have, but san francisco never did have. captured within the umbrella the definition of blight is graffiti, and one specific element that was a big driver of this ordinance came from the graffiti advisory board and it was a request that the time to abate on private property be shorter, and it's a recognition of the fact that everybody knows that the longer you leave graffiti up there the more likely it is to attract yet more
legislative change is the last october -- last november, the board of supervisors with support of bevan dufty and the entire order passed an ordinance, and it's something that many city ace cross the country and acrs california have, but san francisco never did have. captured within the umbrella the definition of blight is graffiti, and one specific element that was a big driver of this ordinance came from the graffiti advisory board and it was a request that the time to abate on private...
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when it came down to it, bevan dufty said, after talking to the mayor, newsom made an argument as to why edwin lee should have the job. >> supervisor daly, having witnessed several progressives vote for a moderate saw the progress of dreams away. >> we ostensibly had a majority on the board of supervisors. we had an opportunity and we made the biggest fumble in san francisco political history. >> once it became clear that ed lee had the votes to win, nobody wanted to pull the trigger. so they stopped the meeting -- at midnight -- and decided to have another meeting that friday. at the end of the day, so many people had been put up for consideration, and here is the one person that had not and he ends up being the person who the board ends up with. that is a huge shock. >> when the board finally made their appointment, i was joyful because i thought it would be much more difficult. >> supervisors avalos and, thus ask that the meeting be recessed until friday to allow for a meeting with ed lee. >> i have not had a chance to talk to ed lee, any more than him, to my office and telling me
when it came down to it, bevan dufty said, after talking to the mayor, newsom made an argument as to why edwin lee should have the job. >> supervisor daly, having witnessed several progressives vote for a moderate saw the progress of dreams away. >> we ostensibly had a majority on the board of supervisors. we had an opportunity and we made the biggest fumble in san francisco political history. >> once it became clear that ed lee had the votes to win, nobody wanted to pull the...
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legislative change is the last october -- last november, the board of supervisors with support of bevan dufty and the entire order passed an ordinance, and it's something that many city ace cross the country and acrs california have, but san francisco never did have. captured within the umbrella the definition of blight is graffiti, and one specific element that was a big driver of this ordinance came from the graffiti advisory board and it was a request that the time to abate on private property be shorter, and it's a recognition of the fact that everybody knows that the longer you leave graffiti up there the more likely it is to attract yet more graffiti or other undesirable activity like garbage and dumping. it's the broken windows theory. we see it all over the city every day. but also the quicker you get it off, the less likely it is to recur. in the blight ordinance passed by the board that we should be implementing starting next month, that 30 days is now 15 days. and that same ordinance also combives us the ability, a much stronger ability that we have now to go and abate it our
legislative change is the last october -- last november, the board of supervisors with support of bevan dufty and the entire order passed an ordinance, and it's something that many city ace cross the country and acrs california have, but san francisco never did have. captured within the umbrella the definition of blight is graffiti, and one specific element that was a big driver of this ordinance came from the graffiti advisory board and it was a request that the time to abate on private...
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you have people like bevan dufty, david chiu, even john avalon's common john campos, and ross mirkarimi, all had indicated an interest. so you have people on the board who want to run for mayor. do they go for the caretaker mayor, or do they put those interests aside and best themselves with a politician that has a good chance of being elected? with that dilemma in front of them, we saw what happened. they could not put their egos aside. they generally would with the caretaker mayor. that person would pose no threat of running against them. >> when the board met next week on november 23, the clerk of the board proposed a process for nomination for mayor, which the board debated, amended, and eventually passed. >> a board member read the nominated may not produce pig in the discussion or vote on the competitor nominees. if the nominee of a board member nominee has been withdrawn, the board member may no longer have a conflict and could return to the room and to dissipate. >> basically, a process that i am proposing is one in which, one, would maximize per dissipation. members of the boar
you have people like bevan dufty, david chiu, even john avalon's common john campos, and ross mirkarimi, all had indicated an interest. so you have people on the board who want to run for mayor. do they go for the caretaker mayor, or do they put those interests aside and best themselves with a politician that has a good chance of being elected? with that dilemma in front of them, we saw what happened. they could not put their egos aside. they generally would with the caretaker mayor. that...
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bevan dufty who is supervisor for district eight. [applause] and paul henderson who is the chief of administration for the san francisco district attorney's office. i want to thank both of them for joining. [applause] i do want to -- at the risk of redundancy, i want to echo a couple of things that the president said. one is, this is a phenomenal turnout. and i can't express how happy i am, how blown away i am that so many of you have taken time away from whatever you're supposed to be doing right now to come here, to help us figure out how to get ahead of this issue that you'll hear from others and you know better than anyone, it's so vexing to our chunety. so i'm so incredibly apreshtive that you're taking this time. we really need creativity. there are some things that we're doing that are working well and we need to do more of. but we need to start thinking outside the box. what are different ways to attack this problem. how can we kind of move further upstream to figure out, what's the source of this problem, how do we get it at
bevan dufty who is supervisor for district eight. [applause] and paul henderson who is the chief of administration for the san francisco district attorney's office. i want to thank both of them for joining. [applause] i do want to -- at the risk of redundancy, i want to echo a couple of things that the president said. one is, this is a phenomenal turnout. and i can't express how happy i am, how blown away i am that so many of you have taken time away from whatever you're supposed to be doing...