riordan is trying hard. i know he's restructuring his command staff and leadership, and supervisor ronen, we bumped into each other over the weekend, and we both said it's time for some big ideas, but as we're thinking those big ideas that may require charter reform, they come in many different flavors that have been talked about but never done over the years which range from merging with planning to putting it under the city administrator, i really wonder out loud, as somebody who used to work in receivership, and no disrespect to mr. riordan, whether we can actually invoke emergency provisions of our charter, [inaudible] when all of this with commissioner richards happened, i think many of us rolled our eyes and said he was in some kind of a political vendetta. well, not so much. and by the way, this implicates a number of people. this implicates a gentleman who was put on the board of appeals by a mayor and now was put on the board of appeals by the board of supervisors. this is pretty systemic, and i thi

riordan is trying hard. i know he's restructuring his command staff and leadership, and supervisor ronen, we bumped into each other over the weekend, and we both said it's time for some big ideas, but as we're thinking those big ideas that may require charter reform, they come in many different flavors that have been talked about but never done over the years which range from merging with planning to putting it under the city administrator, i really wonder out loud, as somebody who used to work in receivership, and no disrespect to mr. riordan, whether we can actually invoke emergency provisions of our charter, [inaudible] when all of this with commissioner richards happened, i think many of us rolled our eyes and said he was in some kind of a political vendetta. well, not so much. and by the way, this implicates a number of people. this implicates a gentleman who was put on the board of appeals by a mayor and now was put on the board of appeals by the board of supervisors. this is pretty systemic, and i thi

riordan is trying hard. i know he's restructuring his command staff and leadership, and supervisor ronen, we bumped into each other over the weekend, and we both said it's time for some big ideas, but as we're thinking those big ideas that may require charter reform, they come in many different flavors that have been talked about but never done over the years which range from merging with planning to putting it under the city administrator, i really wonder out loud, as somebody who used to work in receivership, and no disrespect to mr. riordan, whether we can actually invoke emergency provisions of our charter, [inaudible] when all of this with commissioner richards happened, i think many of us rolled our eyes and said he was in some kind of a political vendetta. well, not so much. and by the way, this implicates a number of people. this implicates a gentleman who was put on the board of appeals by a mayor and now was put on the board of appeals by the board of supervisors. this is pretty systemic, and i thi

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cecelia and riordan, and i would like to extend my deepest condolences to elizabeth's children, husband, family, and friends, and we are all deeply saddened by this loss. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, a year ago in october, october 26, the legendary kcbs reporter who worked in this building for over three decades, barbara taylor, passed away a year to the day after buck delventhal, our legendary city attorney, passed away. i adjourned the meeting in her honor 11 months ago, but today, with the cosponsorship of supervisors mandelman, chan, melgar, preston, stephanie, safai, and ronen, i am introducing a resolution naming the unnamed city hall press room for barbara ann taylor. there's much to say about her. she covered seven mayors and countless boards of supervisors. she was at once at empathetic and hard hitting beat reporter with stories ranging from the assassination of mayor moscone and supervisor milk to jonestown to the legislation that generations of supervisors passed. she w