and corner store coalition and an organizer with t ndc and todd davis who has been a great leader in our neighborhood as well. they will be speaking at public comment. we also have a number of other folks from different communities that will speak a little bit later. before i introduce the first speaker, i want to know if my colleagues have any opening remarks. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you supervisor mar for your work and your partnership on this important issue. the coalition that has been forming in san francisco around the proposed sugary beverage tax is broad and deep. i will be honest that it is even broader and deeper than i thought it would be when we started this work. there are a lot of people in groups that i wasn't so sure if they would necessarily be supportive and i found that when you called them, there is not even a hesitation. there are people who in fact i thought might be opposed who when i called and talked to them they said of course, that's a no brainer. i think there is a reason for that. i think we are at a tipping point certain

my name is todd davis. i want to thank supervisor march for joining us in our committee meeting and san francisco action committee has fully endorsed the sugary benefit tax and confident that we'll have 1 piece of legislation moving forward. a couple of things i want to talk about that are some of the talk on the street that is out there with the november 2014 ballot that the sugar beverage tax can hurt the education fund or the children's fund. i provided supervisor march with research that was done boo i the u.s. mccarthy school and the polling that was done and the pipeline support was 86 percent and the top line for children's support was 85 percent. it was plus one what was needed to pass. anyone making claims that the sugary beverage tax could pull down the reauthorization is stretching. in 2014 presents an opportunity for san francisco to prove that we are a city that cares about it's children. if we pass the reauthorization, the children's fund and pass the sugary beverage tax we have the opportunit