vice and instead said look i want to use the immigration issue to get my supporters to the polls ok committee for the moment we'll leave it there thanks very much for joining us from washington d.c. well the outcome of tuesday's midterm elections could drastically change the political dynamics in a washing. reports. president trump isn't on the ballot in this midterm election but with polls predicting the democratic party was win control of at least one house of congress trump could find himself in the center of political fallout once the votes are counted if democrats take control of the house of representatives they would have the power to issue a flurry of subpoenas and launch a slew of investigations one level it's an embarrassment of riches because there are so many. scandals and. so many allegations of corruption swirling around the president including criminal investigations i think there's certainly going to be looking at his tax returns and frankly looking at any financial involvement that he has had in russia or financial talks financial deals with russia representative nancy pelosi

house of representatives a challenge having the president advocating on behalf of republicans ok committee for the moment thanks very much it was going to be quite a long couple of very nice couple of hours as we're getting all these results starting to come in and we should very soon get a clear picture isn't we about the state of the senate and indeed the house of representatives let's go now though to all social media produce and the haunting and this is clearly a top trend in the us isn't it. well the internet is the new campaign battleground we're seeing tens of millions of tweets with hashtags like i voted mid-term twenty eighteen and just simply hash tag vote people all over the world are talking about this alleged election especially young people people been posting on instagram twitter and facebook sharing pictures of themselves with their famed i voted stickers as usual celebrities are also using their influence to support candidates but no one has had an impact quite like singer taylor swift last month she declared her support for a democrat running for senate in tennessee it wa

ok. the u.s. olympic committee is taking the highly unusual step of moving to shut down the country's governing body for gymnastics now this fall's bostrom forms following a sex abuse scandal u.s. gymnasts have won a slew of medals at recent lympics and world championships bud usa gymnastics was plunged into crisis when team doctor larry nasser was sentenced to life in prison after being charged with molesting more than two hundred fifty journalists. let's get our business with gary hart now and around shot out of the worldwide banking system that was our brand the swift money transfer system. blocked access to key iranian by swift says the measure which was announced on the first day of u.s. imposed sanctions on iran is necessary to maintain stability of the global financial system during a first round of sanctions in twenty twelfth's with also disconnected iranian banks but later readmitted some of them still prohibiting the transfer of u.s. dollars belgium based swift as a co-operative used by eleven thousand financial institutions worldwide now let's bring in our financial correspondent susan ta

would have been discussed and as i said before they would have been approved by the ethics committee dharm university ok campbell why would few a be concerned when it comes to this sort of research i mean how sensitive is this. he said i mean it is the security of the country itself and i think that if anything hedges suffered from being too good he knows the emirates he had lived he had worked there his area of specialization this is an economic issue that he is doing here is actually are asking about the most sensitive part of a country's defense mechanism and i think that because he is obviously a very bright fellow the nature of his questions were far too penetrating the emirates themselves at the start of this year a decider to revamp what grade their intelligence and the nature of the conflict there on disputed currently were qatar together with the saudis makes anything about the nature of their operation very very concerning and obviously. they don't know whether the iranians have some influence over them you have to see it from their point of view or not quite frankly when people are asking the

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. my name is vlady. i use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually

ok. thank you, as a clerk stated the motion to enter into a committee of the whole was approved on october 30th. therefore, we will now convene as a committee of the whole. are there any opening statements from the members before i open to public comment? supervisor ronen. >> thank you so much, chair yee. i wanted to just start out by thanking my colleagues and thanking the clerk and the city attorney's office for being here. it's very unusual that we call a special meeting of the board of supervisors to hear an item on a friday afternoon, especially four days before an election. i think the willingness of my colleagues to come and hold this special meeting and for us to make these arrangements is testament to how important this issue is to the city and county of san francisco. so i just really wanted to thank all my colleagues for moving around your busy schedules to be here. i also want to note, my disappointment that the c.e.o. of marriott isn't here. i did send mr. sorenson a letter asking for him to be here. i did receive a letter in response declining to come here. but i just wanted

the international rescue committee from america ok us save the children on the agenda for the council say that fourteen million yemenis out risk of starving to death if the parties to the conflict don't change course immediately we're completely desperate the more we wait every single minute. day a week we wait means more civilian shipment lossless and we're seeing enough now is the time for the u. s. to use the power they have to end this brutal brutal manmade hell really that we're seeing in yemen today. the charities also accuse the warring parties of undermining human sequenom it with practices that of course rampant inflation millions are out of work and don't know where their next meal will come from the u.s. supports the so democratic coalition with intelligence and sales of billions of dollars of arms we cannot have small children die of hunger and it's mis aisles and bung brains every single day and allow for it to happen because our own interest and political agenda u.s. defense secretary giamatti is announced last month that the u.s. wanted the warring parties to hold talks

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. women's netwo sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >> hi everybody, we down here at the /ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. we we're going to

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >> this is a regular meeting of the small business commission held on monday, october 22, 2018. the meeting is being called to order at 2:01 p.m. the small business commission thanks media services and sfgov tv for televising the meeting. members of the public, please take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devices. public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes perspeaker unless eyes established by the p

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >> i have been living in san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've go

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >>> good afternoon everyone. i want to go ahead and call to order this meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation board of directors for tuesday, november 6th. would you please call the roll. (roll call). madam chair you have a quorum. item three announcement of sound producing devices. the ringing of electronic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off in the room may be asked to leave the room. also, note that

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >> when i open up the paper every day i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about the planet i want to leave for my children and other generation, i think of what contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. ♪ clean power sf is san francisco's key way of fighting climate change by renewable energy and offering it to san francisco customers. i'm from the san francisco public ut

they are not aware of what the truth is because of what the chinese taipei olympic committee have been telling all the ok so what do you expect the international committee to do if this referendum passes and this decision is made to change the name to taiwan. if the referendum passes we do hope that the international unpick committee and other sporting organizations can take in our requests requests as taiwan is the only place in the world that cannot use our own name our own flag or even play our own anthem at the olympic games we do hope that we can have our own name back all right mitzi tang there in taipei thank you very much for speaking to us that one of the faces right darby's in world football will be played on the biggest stages argentinian giants group play to take a genius for the couple about the trophy on saturday but could trained in front of fifty thousand of their fans this week they'll take the field on the other side of one a side as rivers l.-a monument tell stadium later for the second leg of their final it was two two in the first leg two weeks ago our team will be there live at fift

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed y

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we pas

ok. at this time, does the committee have any suggestions on how you want to move forward? >> i would like to make a motion to move this far with positive recommendation to the full board >> ok. can i recommend we do it without recommendation just for a couple of outstanding items? >> that is totally fine. i will change my motion to move this forward and got recommendation to the full board >> ok. do we need to do a roll call vote? we will do that without objection. ok. are there any other items before us today? >> for clarity that was item seven through 11? >> yes. >> there is no further business. >> ok. thank you. we are adjourned. >> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. buying your first home is a big deal. for many of us, it's the single largest asset that we'll own. that's why it's really important to plan ahead for property taxes so that there are no surprises. a typical question new homeowners ask is what is a supplemental tax. so understand supplemental tax, we need to start with proposition 13. under california's prop 13 law, the value we us

ok. colleagues, any other further questions or comments or discussion? >> i just want to thank the land use committee but i will thank you next monday. >> with that, we are going to continue items 11-15 to the next land use committee meeting of november fifth. we will do that without objection. are there any other items before us today? >> there is no further business. >> thank you. we are adjourned. women's netwo sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-w

would have been discussed and as i said before they would have been approved by the ethics committee dharm university ok campbell why would feel concerned when it comes to this sort of research i mean how sensitive is this. he said i mean it is the security of the country itself and i think that if anything hedges suffered from being too good he knows the emirates he had lived he had worked there his area of specialization this is an economic issue that he is doing here is actually are asking about the most sensitive part of a country's defense mechanism and i think that because he is obviously a very bright fellow the nature of his questions were far too penetrating the emirates themselves at the start of this year a decided to revamp what grade their intelligence and the nature of the conflict there on dispute currently were qatar together with the saudis makes anything about the nature of their operation very very concerning and obviously. they don't know whether the iranians have some influence over them you have to see it from their point of view or not quite frankly when people are asking the supr

a committee report? >> so moved. >> ok. we will do that without objection. >> thank you, very much. >> all right colleagues. items 11-15 together, please. >> or ordinance with the general plan by adding central south of market area plan making conforming amendments and appropriate findings. item number 12 the zoning map of the planning code to create the central south of market special use district and making appropriate findings. item number 13, is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations and planning codes to create the central south of market housing sustainability district to provide a streamline administerral approvalling projects within the district. and item 14 is an ordinance with the planning codes to give effect to the central south of market plan and making appropriate findings and item number 15 is an ordinance amending the add minute code special tax financing law of certain facilities and services related to the central soma plan. >> thank you, very much. i'll turn it over to supervisor kim now.

ok. so while i would love to pass this out at committee today, i will respect my colleagues in asking for more outreach to be done in their districts. i do wants the committee members to be as specific as possible about what the outreach that needs to be done would look like i would hate for us to come back on november 26th. we don't have a land use committee on the 19th. and then have done some outreach and then hear from community members that they still didn't feel comfortable with moving forward with the ordinance because this particular outreach had not been done or something else. so if the committee could provide a specific directive to our office and to the planning department on what we can do to make sure that there was an appropriate conversation that occurred in the neighborhood, than i would feel comfortable with the continuance. >> thank you. i would be happy to provide that information to planning and your office. >> ok. we will also? what some of the other offices to see what outreach or notification they would like to see happen within their neighborhood. again, i hope th

i look forward to the debate at land use committee and at the board of supervisors. >> ok. is there anyone else who would like to comment on this? supervisor kim, did you make amendments to this legislation? yes, no. can we take this same house same colloquy this ordinance passes on the first reading. >> item 21 is a resolution determining the transfer of a type 20 off stale beer and wine liquor license to 711 located at 195 pine street district three will serve the public convenience and necessity and require positions on the issuance of the license. >> madame clark. i want to call your attention to the time. >> it is 2:30 pm. >> we will revisit item 21. >> they 2:30 pm commendations, i believe we have four. >> i did not hear you. >> that 2:30 pm commendations. i believe there are four. you do have the first one. >> i do. is ms. miss helen owens in the chamber today? come on up. colleagues, i want to introduce you to a good friend of mine and a mentor. this is a talented, beautiful human being. an author, a mother, a small business owner. her name is helen ellen. she is a