at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >>> i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away wi

at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]

at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already?ive, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the transbay joint powers authority board of directors meeting for thursday, may 9th. call the role. >> i can call the role. i will note for the record that director chang is sitting in as director haney's alternate. [roll call] >> mr. chairman, -- mr. chairman , you have a quorum. shall i call your next item? >> yes, please. >> item three is clean occasions i am not aware of any. seeing none,

at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already?ive, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon and welcome to the april 30th, 2019 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call]

at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already?ive, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> good morning. the meeting will come to order. this is april 24th, 2019 a gu

at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't kno

mcauley. knew she could drive a truck through she's come down from the farmhouse you didn't studio good to see you kate let's talk about these days just a couple months ago germany's science education minister said and i'm quoting here far is not necessary at every milk here. but it turns out people that you talk to they see things a lot differently don't they really do and this report that we just saw is really just a snapshot of life out there and. the owner i have gone by she was telling me as well how he just to go and download a normal word document that he sent he has to go into the local town just to go and download that when he knows that there's an internet connection so when you're trying to run a business of course this has huge implications it makes everything run twice as slowly as it might have already done anyway out in in a rural area but this really is affecting as well not only rural parts of germany but this is something that's a common occurrence here in the german capital

at sergeant mcauley. >> everybody ready? let me just make sure. are you already? five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]. >>> i would like to welcome you. this is the small business week's 15th anniversary. san francisco hosts the largest small business in san francisco. 15 years ago we started with a small reception at city hall and a couple of classes at the chamber of commerce with the small business administration. now we have grown to a full week of activity with this wonderful evening and our business organization hosting mixers. make sure you attend those and workshops throughout the week. i would like to acknowledge our small business commissioners who are in the room tonight. we have our small business commission president stephen adams, vice president mark dwight and commissioners william ortiz an and and irene. they are your representatives in city hall. please stand. [applause.] thank you to our sponsors and hosts committee members. each year we partner to work hard to support and engage small businesses. this is 100% sponsor funded. please