San Francisco Supervisor Yee ‘humbled and honored’ to be elected board president

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 on Jan. 8 to make Supervisor Norman Yee the board’s newest president.

“I am humbled and honored to have this opportunity to serve as president for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as I enter my seventh year of service and my 15th year of service as an elected public servant,” Yee said in a statement. “I’ve been doing this work for a long time and I feel an urgency to respond to the crises facing our city in a time of population growth and rising inequality and an urgency to make as much impact as I can in my last two years as supervisor.”