00:00:13 . >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:00:14 WELCOME TO THE MAY 19TH 2026 REGULAR MEETING OF THE SAN
00:00:17 FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. >> MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE
00:00:21 CALL THE ROLL? THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
00:00:24 SUPERVISOR CHAN CHEN PRESENT SUPERVISOR SIR CHEN CHEN
00:00:29 PRESENT SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY PRESENT SUPERVISOR
00:00:32 FIELDER FIELDER AND NOT PRESENT SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD
00:00:36 PRESENT SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN PRESENT MANDAL MEN PRESENT
00:00:40 SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR PRESENT SUPERVISOR SADR SADR
00:00:44 PRESENTS SUPERVISOR CHERYL SHERRELL PRESENT SUPERVISOR
00:00:49 WALTON WALTON PRESENT AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG
00:00:56 PRESENT MR. PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE A QUORUM.
00:00:57 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF
00:01:00 SUPERVISORS ACKNOWLEDGES THAT WE ARE ON THE UNCEDED ANCESTRAL
00:01:04 HOMELAND OF THE RAW MATERIAL ALONI WHO ARE THE
00:01:05 ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA?
00:01:08 AS THE INDIGENOUS STEWARDS OF THIS LAND AND IN ACCORDANCE
00:01:11 WITH THEIR TRADITIONS THE PROMISES ALONE HAVE NEVER CEDED
00:01:14 LOST NOR FORGOTTEN THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AS THE
00:01:15 CARETAKERS OF THIS PLACE AS WELL AS FOR ALL PEOPLES WHO
00:01:19 RESIDE IN THEIR TRADITIONAL TERRITORY.
00:01:22 AS GUESTS WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE BENEFIT FROM LIVING AND WORKING
00:01:23 ON THEIR TRADITIONAL HOMELAND. WE WISH TO PAY OUR RESPECTS BY
00:01:27 ACKNOWLEDGING THE ANCESTORS ELDERS AND RELATIVES OF THE RAW
00:01:30 MATERIAL OWNING COMMUNITY AND BY AFFIRMING THEIR
00:01:31 SOVEREIGN RIGHTS AS FIRST PEOPLES.
00:01:34 COLLEAGUES, WILL YOU JOIN ME IN RECITING THE PLEDGE OF
00:01:35 ALLEGIANCE? I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
00:01:42 OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION
00:01:46 UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
00:01:56 >> ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE STAFF
00:02:00 AT S.F. GOV. GOV TV TODAY THAT IS
00:02:04 PARTICULARLY SUZZY NOS. THEY RECORD EACH OF OUR
00:02:05 MEETINGS AND MAKE THE TRANSCRIPTS AVAILABLE TO THE
00:02:09 PUBLIC ONLINE. MADAM CLERK DO YOU HAVE ANY
00:02:12 COMMUNICATIONS? >> YES.
00:02:12 THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WELCOMES YOUR
00:02:16 ATTENDANCE IN PERSON HERE IN THE BOARD'S LEGISLATIVE
00:02:19 CHAMBER. AND WHEN YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO BE
00:02:20 HERE, THE PROCEEDINGS ARE AIRING LIVE ON S.F. GEOF TV'S
00:02:24 CHANNEL 26 WHERE YOU CAN VIEW THE LIVESTREAM AT S.F. GOV
00:02:31 TV.ORG. IF YOU'D LIKE TO SUBMIT PUBLIC
00:02:32 COMMENT AND WRITING YOU CAN SEND AN EMAIL TO B O S AT S.F.
00:02:36 GOV.SCOT ORG OR USE THE POSTAL SERVICE.
00:02:40 JUST ADDRESS THE ENVELOPE TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF
00:02:43 SUPERVISORS. THE NUMBER ONE DR. CARLTON B
00:02:47 GOODLATTE PLACE CITY HALL ROOM 244 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA
00:02:53 94102 IF YOU NEED TO MAKE A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION FOR A
00:02:58 FUTURE MEETING UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
00:03:00 OR TO REQUEST LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE, CONTACT THE CLERK'S
00:03:02 OFFICE AT LEAST TWO BUSINESS DAYS IN ADVANCE BY CALLING
00:03:10 (415) 554-5184. AND FINALLY IN LINE WITH
00:03:11 SUPERVISOR JACKIE FIELDER'S APRIL 7TH MEMO REQUESTING TO BE
00:03:15 EXCUSED FROM THIS MEETING UNTIL JUNE 30TH A MOTION WOULD BE
00:03:19 IN ORDER TO CONSIDER THE REQUEST FOR TODAY'S MEETING.
00:03:23 >> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:03:26 CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO EXCUSED SUPERVISOR FIELDER FROM TODAY'S
00:03:28 MEETING? MOVED BY CHANCE SECONDED BY
00:03:31 WALTON COLLEAGUES, I THINK WE CAN TAKE THAT WITHOUT
00:03:35 OBJECTION. WITHOUT OBJECTION.
00:03:36 SUPERVISOR FIELDER IS EXCUSED. MADAM CLERK, LET'S GO TO OUR
00:03:39 APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES. >> YES.
00:03:42 APPROVAL OF THE APRIL 14TH 2026 BOARD MEETING MINUTES.
00:03:48 MAY CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS
00:03:52 PRESENTED MOVED BY CHAN SECONDED BY DORSEY.
00:03:56 MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON THE MINUTES AS
00:04:00 PRESENTED? SUPERVISOR CHAN CHIN EYES
00:04:04 SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN EYES SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY EYES
00:04:12 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD EYES SUPERVISOR MENDELSON BY
00:04:16 RANDLEMAN EYES SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR EYES SUPERVISOR
00:04:20 SARDAR SADR EYE SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL EYES SUPERVISOR
00:04:24 WALTON WALTON EYE AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG EITHER
00:04:31 ATTORNEYS WITHOUT OBJECTION THE MINUTES WILL BE APPROVED AFTER
00:04:32 PUBLIC COMMENT AS PRESENTED MADAM CLERK LET'S GO TO
00:04:36 UNFINISHED BUSINESS PLEASE CALL ITEM ONE ITEM ONE THIS IS AN
00:04:40 ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE APPROXIMATELY 1.2 MILLION OF
00:04:43 AMBULANCE BILLINGS AND APPROXIMATELY 426,000 OF
00:04:49 FIRE OVERTIME SERVICE FEES REVENUES IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
00:04:54 TO APPROPRIATE PERMANENT SALARIES OF 500,000 IN THE
00:04:57 DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERMANENT SALARIES
00:05:01 OF APPROXIMATELY 6 MILLION AND DEPENDENT COVERAGE OF
00:05:02 APPROXIMATE 990,000 IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND PERMANENT
00:05:06 SALARIES OF 1.25 MILLION IN THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
00:05:13 AND TO APPROPRIATE 500,000 TO OVERTIME IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:05:14 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT APPROXIMATELY 8.7 MILLION TO
00:05:21 OVERTIME IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND 1.25 MILLION IN OVERTIME
00:05:23 IN THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION TO SUPPORT THE
00:05:27 DEPARTMENT'S PROJECTED INCREASES IN OVERTIME.
00:05:31 THIS ORDINANCE REQUIRES A TWO THIRDS VOTE OF ALL MEMBERS OF
00:05:32 THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S APPROPRIATION
00:05:36 OF APPROXIMATELY 8 MILLION. >> PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON ITEM
00:05:42 ONE SUPERVISOR CHAN CHAN EYES SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN EYES
00:05:46 SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY EYES SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I
00:05:53 SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN MANDEL MANDOLIN EYES SUPERVISOR MELGAR
00:05:56 MELGAR I SUPERVISOR SADR SADR I SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I
00:06:01 SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG I
00:06:08 THEIR ATTORNEYS WITHOUT OBJECTION THE ORDINANCE IS
00:06:10 FINALLY PASSED MADAM CLERK PLEASE CALL ITEM TWO ITEM TWO
00:06:15 THIS IS AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE 2.5 MILLION OF OPEN
00:06:19 SPACE ACQUISITION FUNDING AND APPROPRIATING 2.5 MILLION
00:06:23 IN THE RECREATION AND PARK DEPARTMENT FOR A LOAN TO THE
00:06:24 SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY IN FISCAL YEAR 2025
00:06:30 THROUGH 2026. >> LET'S TAKE THIS ITEM SAME
00:06:34 HOUSE, SAME CALL. >> WITHOUT OBJECTION THE
00:06:35 ORDINANCE IS FINALLY PASSED. >> MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL
00:06:40 ITEM NUMBER THREE. >> ITEM THREE THIS IS AN
00:06:44 ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS AND TAX
00:06:47 REGULATIONS CAMPAIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL CONDUCT
00:06:49 ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT.
00:06:51 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS PARK PLANNING POLICE PUBLIC WORKS
00:06:56 AND TRANSPORTS ATION CODES. THIS PERTAINS TO VARIOUS
00:07:03 BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND ADVISORY BODIES.
00:07:07 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON ITEM THREE SUPERVISOR CHAN CHIN NO
00:07:14 SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN NO SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY EYES
00:07:18 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN HI
00:07:23 MENDELSON I SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR NO SUPERVISOR SADR SADR
00:07:30 EYES SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON NO
00:07:38 AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG I THERE ARE SIX EYES AND FOUR NOS
00:07:41 WITH SUPERVISORS CHAN CHIN MELGAR AND WALTON VOTING NO THE
00:07:46 ORDINANCE IS FINALLY PASSED MADAM CLERK PLEASE CALL ITEM
00:07:50 NUMBER FOUR ITEM FOUR. THIS IS AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND
00:07:56 THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TO CREATE THE DOWNTOWN HOSPITALITY
00:08:00 LOAN AND TO MAKE THE APPROPRIATE FINDINGS PLEASE
00:08:01 CALL THE ROLL ON ITEM FOUR SUPERVISOR CHAN CHIN EYES
00:08:08 SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN I SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY I
00:08:13 SUPERVISE HER MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN HI MANDELL
00:08:19 MAN I SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR I SUPERVISOR SADR SADR I
00:08:24 SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I SUPERVISOR WALTON ALL RIGHT
00:08:31 WALTON I AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG I THERE ARE CHINESE
00:08:35 WITHOUT OBJECTION THE ORDINANCE IS FINALLY PASSED MADAM CLERK
00:08:39 PLEASE CALL ITEMS FIVE AND SIX TOGETHER.
00:08:42 YES, ITEMS FIVE AND SIX TOGETHER.
00:08:45 ITEM FIVE IS A RESOLUTION TO DESIGNATE THE OUTREACH
00:08:49 COMMUNITY BASED WEEKLY AND ADVERTISING AND OUTREACH
00:08:52 NEIGHBORHOOD BASED MONTHLY ADVERTISING FOR THE FOLLOWING
00:08:56 NEWSPAPERS FOR THE OUTREACH COMMUNITY BASED WEEKLY
00:09:00 NEWSPAPER THE BAY AREA REPORTER FOR THE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL
00:09:04 AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY THE WIND NEWSPAPER FOR THE CHINESE
00:09:07 COMMUNITY FOR THE OUTREACH NEIGHBORHOOD BASED MONTHLY
00:09:12 NEWSPAPERS THE CLINT REILLY COMMUNICATIONS DOING BUSINESS
00:09:13 AS THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER FOR THE EUREKA VALLEY EXCELSIOR
00:09:19 THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT. THE FOREST HILL HAIGHT ASHBURY
00:09:23 MARINA MISSION NORTH BEACH. PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
00:09:24 PRESIDIO HEIGHTS THE RICHMOND RUSSIAN HILL SOUTH OF MARKET
00:09:31 SUNSET AND THE TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOODS.
00:09:32 IT'LL TAKE A LOT FOR THE EXCELSIOR MISSION AND POTRERO
00:09:36 HILL NEIGHBORHOODS THE HENRYS SOCIETY JOURNAL FOR THE BAYVIEW
00:09:39 HUNTERS POINT VISITATION VALLEY AND WESTERN EDITION
00:09:43 NEIGHBORHOODS THE NOMI VALLEY BOYS FOR THE DIAMOND HEIGHTS
00:09:46 AND NOMI VALLEY NEIGHBORHOODS THE PICTURE OF YOU FOR THE
00:09:47 DOGPATCH EASTERN SOUTH OF MARKET MISSION BAY AND POTRERO
00:09:51 HILL NEIGHBORHOODS SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES FOR THE
00:09:54 CASTRO TO BOAST TRIANGLE MISSION AND THE SNOWY VALLEY
00:09:58 NEIGHBORHOODS THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE SERVING THE ENTIRE
00:10:02 CITY THE WORLD JOURNAL SERVING CHINATOWN INGLESIDE MISSION
00:10:06 RICHMOND AND SUNSET NEIGHBORHOODS THE SING DOW
00:10:10 DAILY FOR THE CHINATOWN RICHMOND SUNSET PORTOLA VALLEY
00:10:13 EXCELSIOR OUTER MISSION THE TENDERLOIN OCEAN VIEW INGLESIDE
00:10:18 AND THE MERCED HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE ELDER
00:10:22 BOTERO FOR THE MISSION BERNAL HEIGHTS BAYVIEW AND EXCELSIOR
00:10:25 NEIGHBORHOODS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026 THROUGH 27 AND FOR ITEM
00:10:30 SIX THIS RESOLUTION DESIGNATES THE CLINTON RILEY
00:10:34 COMMUNICATIONS DOING BUSINESS AS THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
00:10:35 TO BE THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:10:39 FRANCISCO FOR ALL OFFICIAL ADVERTISING FOR FISCAL YEAR
00:10:45 2026 THROUGH 2027. >> AND LET'S TAKE THESE ITEMS
00:10:49 SAME HOUSE, SAME CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE RESOLUTIONS ARE
00:10:50 ADOPTED. >> MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL
00:10:53 ITEM NUMBER SEVEN ITEM SEVEN THIS RESOLUTION AUTHORIZES THE
00:10:56 RECREATION AND PARK DEPARTMENT TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT TO
00:11:02 LOAN UP TO 8.5 MILLION TO THE SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL
00:11:03 SOCIETY TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION AND LONG TERM
00:11:07 FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ZOO EFFECTIVE
00:11:11 UPON APPROVAL OF THIS RESOLUTION TO BE REPAID OVER
00:11:15 TEN YEARS IN THE FORM OF DEDUCTIONS FROM THE SAN
00:11:19 FRANCISCO ZOO'S MANAGEMENT FEE TO ALLOW THE CITY TO TERMINATE
00:11:23 THE LEASE AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT IN THE EVENT THE LOAN
00:11:26 IS NOT TIMELY REPAID OR IF THE CONDITIONS IN THE LOAN
00:11:31 AGREEMENT ARE OTHERWISE NOT MET .
00:11:34 >> AND AGAIN SAME HOUSE, SAME CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE
00:11:35 RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED. >> MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL
00:11:38 ITEM NUMBER EIGHT ITEM EIGHT THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO
00:11:42 AUTHORIZE AND APPROVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE SUCCESSOR
00:11:45 AGENCY TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACTING IN ITS CAPACITY
00:11:49 AS THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT
00:11:53 NUMBER EIGHT THE HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD MAINTENANCE DISTRICT
00:11:56 FOR THE CITY TO RECEIVE FUNDING FOR ITS OPERATION
00:11:58 AND MAINTENANCE OF THE HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD PHASE ONE PARKS
00:12:01 AND OPEN SPACE SAME HOUSE, SAME CALL.
00:12:04 WITHOUT OBJECTION THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED MADAM CLERK
00:12:08 PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER NINE ITEM NINE THIS RESOLUTION
00:12:11 APPROVES THE 2023 LEASE AND USE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY
00:12:15 AND THE AIRPORT COMMISSION AND RZA CO LTD TO CONDUCT
00:12:20 FLIGHT OPERATIONS FOR A TERM COMMENCING ON THE FIRST DAY OF
00:12:24 THE CALENDAR MONTH IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE RECEIPT OF FULL
00:12:27 CITY APPROVALS OF THE LEASE THROUGH JUNE 30TH 2033 AND TO
00:12:31 MAKE THE APPROPRIATE FINDINGS SAME HOUSE, SAME CALL.
00:12:35 >> WITHOUT OBJECTION THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED.
00:12:38 MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER TEN.
00:12:39 >> ITEM TEN THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE A SIX
00:12:43 MONTH WAIVER OF THE CITY'S BEHEST AND PAYMENTS ORDINANCE
00:12:46 FOR THE MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:12:49 AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC
00:12:51 AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND EACH OF THEIR DIRECT
00:12:54 REPORTS TO SOLICIT DONATIONS FROM NONPROFITS, PRIVATE
00:12:58 ORGANIZATIONS, GRANT MAKERS, FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER PERSONS
00:13:01 AND ENTITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING THE CONTINUED
00:13:05 ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION OF SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISOR GENERAL
00:13:09 JUST REQUESTING FOR ROLL CALL OKAY MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL
00:13:13 THE ROLL ON ITEM TEN SUPERVISOR CHIN NO CHIN NO SUPERVISOR CHIN
00:13:20 CHIN I. SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY I
00:13:24 SUPERVISOR MAHMUD MAHMUD I SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN I MANDOLIN
00:13:32 I SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR I SUPERVISOR SADR SADR I
00:13:36 SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I
00:13:44 AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG I THERE ARE NINE EYES AND ONE NO
00:13:48 WITH SUPERVISOR CHAN VOTING NO THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED MADAM
00:13:55 CLERK PLEASE CALL ITEM 11. ITEM 11 THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO
00:13:58 APPROVE THE LIST OF PROJECTS TO BE FUNDED BY FISCAL YEAR 2026
00:14:04 THROUGH 2027. THE ROAD MAINTENANCE
00:14:05 AND REHABILITATION ACCOUNT FUNDS FOR THE LOCAL STREETS
00:14:08 AND ROADS PROGRAM AS ESTABLISHED BY CALIFORNIA
00:14:12 SENATE BILL ONE, THE ROAD REPAIR AND 2017 ACCOUNTABILITY
00:14:15 ACT PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON ITEM 11 SUPERVISOR YEAR CHAN I
00:14:23 CHIN I SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN I SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY I
00:14:30 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN I MANDOLIN
00:14:34 I SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR I SUPERVISOR SADR SADR I
00:14:41 SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I
00:14:45 AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG I THERE ARE TEN EYES WITHOUT
00:14:49 OBJECTION THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED MADAM CLERK PLEASE CALL
00:14:55 ITEM NUMBER 12 ITEM 12 THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO DECLARE THE
00:14:58 INTENTION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO RENEW AND EXPAND
00:15:02 THE PROPERTY BASED BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT KNOWN AS
00:15:04 THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT TO APPROVE THE
00:15:07 MANAGEMENT DISTRICT PLAN AND ENGINEER'S REPORT AND TO
00:15:11 AND PROPOSED BOUNDARIES MAP TO ORDER AND SET THE TIME IN PLACE
00:15:15 FOR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO CONVENE A COMMITTEE OF THE
00:15:19 WHOLE WHICH WILL BE JULY 21ST 2026 AT 3 P.M. TO APPROVE THE
00:15:25 FORM OF THE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND ASSESSMENT BALLOT
00:15:28 PROCEEDING AND ASSESSMENT BALLOTS TO DIRECT ENVIRONMENTAL
00:15:32 FINDINGS AND TO DIRECT THE CLERK OF THE BOARD TO PROVIDE
00:15:35 NOTICE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING AND BALLOTING.
00:15:36 >> SAME HOUSE, SAME CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE
00:15:39 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. >> MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL
00:15:43 ITEM NUMBER 13 ITEM 13 THIS IS AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE
00:15:46 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TO ESTABLISH THE SAN FRANCISCO
00:15:50 HATE CRIME REWARD FUNDS. >> SUPERVISOR DORSEY THANK YOU
00:15:55 PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN COLLEAGUES AS THIS LEGISLATION CREATING A
00:15:58 HATE CRIME REWARD FUND COMES BEFORE US TODAY ON FIRST
00:16:01 READING I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT WE REMEMBER
00:16:04 THREE VICTIMS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES YESTERDAY IN A SENSELESS
00:16:07 ATTACK AT A SAN DIEGO MOSQUE. AND TO EXPRESS OUR CONDOLENCES
00:16:11 TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND LOVED ONES AS WELL AS TO
00:16:13 THE COMMUNITIES UNDERSTANDABLY SHAKEN BY THIS TRAGEDY.
00:16:16 THIS HORRIFIC CRIME BY TWO PERPETRATORS WHO APPEAR TO HAVE
00:16:20 TAKEN THEIR OWN LIVES IS BEING INVESTIGATED BY AUTHORITIES AS
00:16:23 A HATE CRIME. AND AS THE NEW YORK TIMES
00:16:24 REPORTED THIS MORNING, THE ATTACK HAS CALLED FURTHER
00:16:28 ATTENTION TO CONCERNS ABOUT INCREASING ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE
00:16:31 UNITED STATES. HATE CRIMES ARE UNIQUELY
00:16:32 CORROSIVE TO A FREE SOCIETY IN AS MUCH AS THEY INTEND HARM
00:16:36 NOT SOLELY TO INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS BUT TO INSTILL
00:16:40 PERVASIVE FEAR IN VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES.
00:16:43 THAT IS WHY CITIES THAT CHERISH THE BLESSINGS OF DIVERSITY
00:16:44 AND PLURALISM LIKE SAN FRANCISCO AND LIKE SAN DIEGO
00:16:48 FOR THAT MATTER MUST DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP OUR
00:16:51 DIVERSE COMMUNITIES FEEL SAFE REGARDLESS OF RELIGION, RACE,
00:16:55 SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS, GENDER IDENTITIES OR THE BACKGROUNDS
00:16:58 THEY REFLECT. THIS LEGISLATION IS MODELED ON
00:16:59 THE UPDATED HOMICIDE REWARD FUND WE UNANIMOUSLY ENACTED A
00:17:03 YEAR AGO. IT'S ABOUT SUPPORTING VICTIMS,
00:17:06 PROTECTING TARGETED COMMUNITIES, STRENGTHENING
00:17:07 ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENCOURAGING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO COME
00:17:11 FORWARD WITH INFORMATION IF IT CAN HELP ENSURE THE JUSTICE IS
00:17:14 DONE. I WANT TO THANK MY CO-SPONSOR
00:17:15 SUPERVISORS HUANG SADR AND SHERYL.
00:17:18 >> AND I HOPE WE'LL HAVE YOUR SUPPORT.
00:17:19 THANKS PROVIDED DORSEY LET'S TAKE THIS ITEM SAME HOUSE, SAME
00:17:23 CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE ORDINANCE IS PASSED ON FIRST
00:17:27 READING MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER 14 ITEM 14
00:17:31 THIS IS A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MAYOR'S NOMINATION FOR
00:17:35 REAPPOINTMENT OF JANETTE HOWARD TO THE TREASURE ISLAND
00:17:38 DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR A TERM ENDING
00:17:41 FEBRUARY 26TH, 2029 AND WE'LL TAKE THAT SAME HOUSE SAME CALL
00:17:46 WITHOUT OBJECTION THE MOTION IS APPROVED.
00:17:51 >> MADAME CLERK LET'S GO TO ROLL CALL SUPERVISOR CHAN YOUR
00:17:55 FIRST UP TO INTRODUCE NEW BUSINESS.
00:17:58 >> >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK TODAY COLLEAGUES I HAVE TWO
00:18:08 IN MEMORY EMS. FIRST WITH GREAT SADNESS I
00:18:12 WOULD LIKE TO ADJOURN TODAY'S MEETING IN THE MEMORY OF MR.
00:18:16 KENNETH LEUNG. >> KENNETH KENNY OR MR. RAO
00:18:21 PASS AWAY ON MAY 1ST AT A WONDERFUL AGE OF 96 HE LIVED A
00:18:27 LONG FULL LIFE HAS ESPECIALLY IN HIS LATER YEARS WHERE HE
00:18:31 ENJOYED EVERY MOMENT CONNECTING WITH THE COMMUNITY THROUGH
00:18:35 MUSIC AND PLAYING HIS FAVORITE INSTRUMENTS AT HIS STORE ON
00:18:41 JACKSON STREET IN CHINATOWN, KENNY AND HIS WIFE LOUISE WERE
00:18:45 PROUD OWNERS OF ALLEY AND IVA COMPANY, A REPUTABLE
00:18:50 NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC STORE IN CHINATOWN FIRST FOUNDED
00:18:55 IN 1970, HE WAS EXTREMELY PROUD OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS WHEN ALLEY
00:19:00 AND YUVA BECAME HIS SAN FRANCISCO LEGACY BUSINESS
00:19:04 IN 2023. THEY RECOGNITION GAVE HIS STORE
00:19:08 A SECOND LIFE WHEN HIS SHOP WAS PROPELLED INTO THE
00:19:12 INTERNATIONAL MUSICIANS SCENE, HE FOUND HIMSELF IN HIS
00:19:16 RETIREMENT YEARS GIVING INTERVIEWS TO MEDIA OUTLETS
00:19:20 FROM HONG KONG, CHINA AND SINGAPORE AND GREETING
00:19:21 REPUTABLE MUSICIANS FROM ACROSS THE PACIFIC.
00:19:26 IN 2023 HIS SHOP WAS SELECTED TO BE A PART OF THE APAC
00:19:31 CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO WHERE EVERY ATTENDEE HAD A
00:19:35 CHANCE TO TAKE HOME SOMETHING FROM HIS SHOP AND SECOND
00:19:38 IN MEMORIAM. TODAY COLLEAGUES I WOULD LIKE
00:19:43 TO OFFER IS TO MR. GERALD WARREN JOHNSON BORN JANUARY 28,
00:19:51 1925. GERALD WAS A PROUD SON OF NEW
00:19:56 ORLEANS WHOSE LIFE EMBODIED COURAGE, RESILIENCE
00:19:59 AND STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITY RAISED
00:20:03 DURING SEGREGATION. HE MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO
00:20:07 IN 1946 AND BECAME AN EARLY ADVOCATE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
00:20:12 BRAVELY CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATION LONG BEFORE THE
00:20:15 MOVEMENT GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION IN 1984 ALONGSIDE
00:20:19 WITH HIS WIFE VALERIE GERALD CO-FOUNDED THE SMALL BUSINESS
00:20:23 EXCHANGE NEWSPAPERS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINORITY
00:20:28 AND WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
00:20:32 >> THROUGH HIS LEADERSHIP AND VISION, HE HELPED OPEN
00:20:36 DOORS FOR COUNTLESS UNDERSERVED ENTREPRENEURS AND BECAME A
00:20:39 CHAMPION FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT.
00:20:44 HE WAS A DEVOTED FATHER TO SARA DOMINGO AND KIMBERLY JOHNSON AS
00:20:52 WELL AS GRANDCHILDREN SARA AND DANIEL.
00:20:55 GERALD'S LEGACY WAS ROOTED NOT ONLY IN HIS PUBLIC
00:21:00 ACCOMPLISHMENTS BUT ALSO IN THE LOVE GUIDANCE AND STRENGTH HE
00:21:04 SHARE WITH HIS FAMILY IN THE BAY AREA AND NEW ORLEANS.
00:21:08 THROUGH HIS INFLUENCE REACH FAR BEYOND NEW ORLEANS, GERALD
00:21:12 CARRY THE SPIRIT AND VALUES OF HIS HOMETOWN.
00:21:16 THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE HE CHAMPIONED LEGENDARY
00:21:20 CONTRIBUTION TO THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY THROUGH
00:21:24 ORGANIZING AND ADVOCATING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL
00:21:28 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES. HE IS REMEMBERED FOR HIS
00:21:32 STRENGTH, UNWAVERING INTEGRITY AND DEDICATION TO UPLIFTING
00:21:36 OTHERS. HIS LEGACY CONTINUES TO INSPIRE
00:21:39 FUTURE GENERATION TO PURSUE FAIRNESS, EQUALITY
00:21:43 AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL. >> AND THE REST I SUBMIT.
00:21:47 THANK YOU. THANK YOU SUPERVISOR CHAN.
00:21:50 >> SUPERVISOR CHEN THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:21:51 I HAVE ONE CHARTER AMENDMENT INTRODUCTION, ONE RESOLUTION
00:21:57 AND ONE HEARING COLLEAGUES OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS MY OFFICE
00:22:01 HAS BEEN BUSY PREPARING A CHARTER AMENDMENT FOR A NEW
00:22:04 MUNICIPAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND PUBLIC BANK SAN FRANCISCO
00:22:09 HAS BEEN GRAPPLING TO EVENTS LARGE SCALE SOLUTION THAT CAN
00:22:13 ADDRESS OUR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CHALLENGES AS
00:22:14 THIS SMALL BUSINESS TO THRIVE AND TO SURVIVE AND FINANCE THE
00:22:20 INVESTMENT NEEDED TO ACHIEVE CLIMATE SUSTAINED
00:22:22 SUSTAINABILITY WE NEED AND DESERVE BOLD SOLUTION TO
00:22:25 ADDRESS OUR MOST PRESSING CHALLENGES AND WE MUST USE
00:22:28 EVERY TOOL WE CAN TO KEEP SAN FRANCISCO AFFORDABLE TO SUSTAIN
00:22:33 OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND LEAD TOWARD A MORE JUST ECONOMIC
00:22:40 RECOVERY FOR ALL A MUNICIPAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND PUBLIC
00:22:44 BANK AS TRIED AND TESTED SOLUTION THAT HAS PROVEN ITS
00:22:48 IMPACT ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES. THE BANK OF NEVADA CODA WHICH
00:22:51 HAS A POPULATION THE SIZE OF SAN FRANCISCO, HAS CONSISTENTLY
00:22:55 DELIVERED PROFIT SUPPORTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
00:22:59 AND KEEPING THE LOCAL ECONOMY STABLE EVEN DURING THE 22,008
00:23:04 FINANCIAL CRISIS AND COVID PANDEMIC, PUBLIC BANKS MAGNIFY
00:23:08 MAGNIFY THE POWER OF THEIR INVESTMENTS BY REINVESTING ALL
00:23:13 PROFITS BACK INTO LENDING FOR THE COMMUNITY AROUND THE WORLD
00:23:16 MORE THAN A QUARTER OF THE WORLD'S ASSETS ARE HELD
00:23:21 IN PUBLIC BANKS. >> THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BANK
00:23:24 ACT, WHICH WAS AUTHORIZED BY CITY ATTORNEY DAVID CHIU,
00:23:27 PROVIDES A PATHWAY FOR SAN FRANCISCO TO TAKE THIS STEP.
00:23:31 >> THIS CHARTER AMENDMENT CODIFIES THE MISSION PRINCIPLES
00:23:35 AND BUSINESS PLANS THAT WERE DEVELOPED AT BY LOCAL EXPERTS
00:23:39 IN COLLABORATION WITH NATIONAL CONSULTANTS AND ACCEPTED BY THE
00:23:42 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. IT ESTABLISHES GOOD GOVERNANCE
00:23:46 STRUCTURES APPOINTED BY AN OVERSIGHT BODY SELECTED BY THE
00:23:50 TREASURY COMPTROLLER, CITY ATTORNEY, MAYOR AND BOARD
00:23:54 SUPERVISORS WHICH SIGNIFICANTLY SAFEGUARDS OVERSIGHT AND CHECKS
00:24:01 AND BALANCES TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC INTERESTS.
00:24:05 >> IT ENSURES THAT MUNICIPAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND PUBLIC
00:24:09 BANK WILL BE RUN BY STUDENT BANKING PROFESSIONALS BANKERS
00:24:12 WHO WILL UPHOLD FINANCIAL INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES
00:24:17 AND RIGOROUS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT.
00:24:18 THE FINANCE OF THE MUNICIPAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND PUBLIC
00:24:21 BANK WILL NOT CO-MINGLE WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY AND HAVE NO
00:24:25 IMPACT ON THE GENERAL FUND. THE MUNICIPAL FINANCIAL
00:24:29 CORPORATION WILL PARTNER WITH LOCAL CREDIT UNIONS
00:24:32 AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO
00:24:37 DEVELOP SPECIALIZED LENDING PRODUCTS BASED ON THE GAPS
00:24:40 AND NEEDS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS IDENTIFIED IT IN THE BUSINESS
00:24:45 PLAN. THIS LENDING CAN SERVE A WIDE
00:24:48 RANGE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S NEEDS FROM ACQUISITIONS OF
00:24:49 MULTIFAMILY HOUSING UNDER THE CITY'S SMALL SITES PROGRAM
00:24:53 COMMUNITY LAND TRUST PROJECTS, BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION
00:24:57 PROJECTS, SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TO EXPAND
00:25:01 AND EVEN HELPING TO ENABLE THE TRANSITION OF LEGACY BUSINESS
00:25:05 TO WORKERS OWNERSHIP AND TO NAME A FEW.
00:25:08 I WANT TO REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE IN THE OFFICE
00:25:12 FOR HISTORIC PART OF THIS CHARTER AMENDMENT, CHARLIE
00:25:17 SIMMONS. >> AND I'M ALSO VERY GRATEFUL
00:25:19 FOR THE CRITICAL LEADERSHIP OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC
00:25:21 COALITIONS PUBLIC BANK COALITION AND THE SAN FRANCISCO
00:25:25 REINVESTMENT WORKING GROUP. >> I ALSO WANT TO APPRECIATE
00:25:31 CALI SUMMARY OF THE LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION.
00:25:35 WIKI WONG AND MO JAMAL WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AND AMANDA FREE
00:25:39 OF THE TREASURER'S OFFICE FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP.
00:25:43 I WANT TO THANK ALL MY EARLY CO-SPONSORS SUPERVISOR FIELDER
00:25:47 WALTON MALKA AND MOVE. >> TODAY I'M ALSO INTRODUCING A
00:25:51 RESOLUTION TO DECLARE AUGUST 28TH, 2026 AS JUNE JORDAN
00:25:58 SCHOOL FOR EQUITY DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO IN RECOGNITION OF ITS
00:26:02 OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATIONAL EQUITY.
00:26:03 YOU LEADERSHIP, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT JEN
00:26:09 JORDAN OPENED IN 2003 AND WAS INTENTIONALLY DESIGNED TO BE A
00:26:14 SMALL PUBLIC SCHOOL SPECIALIZING IN SOCIAL JUSTICE,
00:26:18 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES, YOUTH VOICE AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS.
00:26:22 >> THE SCHOOL CARRIES ON THE LEGACY OF ACCLAIMED BLACK
00:26:26 FEMINIST POET EDUCATOR AND ACTIVIST JUNE JORDAN IN ITS
00:26:30 STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LIBERATION.
00:26:34 >> SERVING PREDOMINANTLY STUDENTS FROM WORKING CLASS
00:26:38 AND LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR FROM THE SOUTHEAST SIDE
00:26:42 OF THE CITY JUNE JORDAN STRIVED TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO EDUCATION
00:26:46 AND NARROW ACHIEVEMENT IN GAP WITH PRIVATE SCHOOL QUALITY
00:26:50 EDUCATION ATTENTIVE SUPPORT AND STUDIES UNPACKING A
00:26:54 PERSON'S TEACHERS, EDUCATORS, COUNSELORS AND STAFF WORK
00:26:58 TIRELESSLY EVERY DAY TO NURTURE STUDENTS TO BECOME LEADERS
00:27:05 AND AGENTS OF POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE COMMUNITY.
00:27:07 STUDENTS BUILD KEY COMPETENCIES AND GRADUATE WITH STRONG
00:27:10 AND THOUGHTFUL POST-SECONDARY PLANS.
00:27:14 >> THEY LIVE, EMPOWER LEARNING ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY THE FORCE
00:27:18 OF MARGINALIZED ASIAN HUMANITY INTEGRITY, COURAGEOUS RESPECT
00:27:26 AND COMMUNITY IMPACT IN THE FACE OF TODAY'S CHALLENGING
00:27:29 LANDSCAPE. JORDAN REMAINS A VITAL
00:27:30 COMMUNITY ANCHORED DEEPLY ROOTED IN DIGNITY, BELONGING
00:27:34 CULTURAL INFORMATION, COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
00:27:38 AND EQUITY FOR YOUTH. THANK YOU COLLEAGUES AND FOR
00:27:41 YOUR SUPPORT IN UPLIFTING JEN JORDAN'S SCHOOL FOR EQUITY
00:27:45 AND FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION,
00:27:48 EQUITY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT.
00:27:49 LASTLY, COLLEAGUES TODAY I'M ALSO INTRODUCING A HEARING
00:27:53 REQUESTS ON THEIR $4.7 MILLION CONTRACT THAT WAS AWARDED TO A
00:28:00 SINGLE ORGANIZATION WITHOUT COMPETITIVE BID BY THE
00:28:01 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELESSNESS AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.
00:28:05 >> IN THE MONTHS AFTER THE AWARD THERE WERE QUESTIONS
00:28:10 ABOUT HOW THE ORGANIZATION RECEIVING THE AWARD WAS CHOSEN
00:28:13 AND WHAT THE GOAL WAS. >> CRITERIA EXPECTED OUTCOME OF
00:28:17 THE CONTRACT INCLUDING THOSE QUESTIONS ARE STILL LEFT
00:28:21 UNANSWERED. >> IT DOES CONTRACT DIRECTS NEW
00:28:25 RESOURCES TO OPENING NEW OFFICES IN COMMUNITIES WHERE
00:28:29 EXISTING SIMILAR SERVICES ARE BEING CUT.
00:28:30 GIVEN THE BUDGET FOCUS WE OWE OUR COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY THOSE
00:28:34 RELYING ON THOSE THOSE SERVICES A TRANSPARENCY FROM THE
00:28:38 DEPARTMENT ABOUT HOW THIS DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE.
00:28:42 >> I'M REQUESTING THAT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE MAYOR'S OFFICE
00:28:45 OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE DEPARTMENT
00:28:48 ON HOMELESSNESS AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING REPORT AND THEIR BEST
00:28:52 ASSESSMENT. >> THANK YOU.
00:28:53 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR CHEN WILL RETURN TO
00:28:56 ROLL CALL FOR INTRODUCTIONS. >> MR. PRESIDENT.
00:28:57 MADAM CLERK, LET'S GO TO OUR 2:30 P.M. SPECIAL ORDER.
00:29:01 >> IT'S NOW TIME FOR THE RECOGNITION AGAIN OF
00:29:04 COMMENDATIONS FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO THE CITY AND COUNTY
00:29:05 OF SAN FRANCISCO. >> WE WILL START WITH DISTRICT
00:29:09 THREE SUPERVISOR SAUTER THANK YOU, PRESIDENT MAILMAN.
00:29:12 >> COLLEAGUES TODAY I HAVE THE HONOR OF WELCOMING CHINATOWN
00:29:16 TRIP TO OUR CHAMBERS FOR A SPECIAL RECOGNITION TRIP.
00:29:20 WOULD YOU ALL PLEASE COME ON UP AND JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE
00:29:38 AAPI MONTH WE HAVE A BIG MILESTONE TO MARK CHINATOWN
00:29:43 TRIP IS 50 YEARS OLD. TRIP STANDS FOR TRANSPORTATION
00:29:49 RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AND FOR FIVE DECADES
00:29:53 THIS PROJECT HAS TURNED INTO A LEGACY OF FIGHTING FOR BETTER
00:29:56 PUBLIC TRANSIT AND IMPROVED PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IN CHINATOWN.
00:30:00 TRIP WAS BORN OUT OF THE STRIKE OF 1976 WHICH LEFT SAN
00:30:04 FRANCISCO WITHOUT BUS TROLLEY OR CABLE CAR SERVICE FOR A VERY
00:30:11 LONG SIX WEEKS. >> A GROUP OF CHINESE-AMERICAN
00:30:14 BUS DRIVERS INCLUDING PHIL CHEN LANDED ON MIKE YAP AND TERRY
00:30:18 CHAO SPRUNG INTO ACTION AFTER THEY REALIZED HOW THE STRIKE
00:30:22 WAS LEAVING THOUSANDS OF CHINATOWN SENIORS STRANDED.
00:30:26 >> THE DRIVERS TEAMED UP WITH NONE OTHER THAN ANY CHANG FROM
00:30:30 SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY TO START AN IMPROMPTU TRANSIT
00:30:31 SERVICE FOR SENIORS. THEY TOOK TURNS DRIVING THEIR
00:30:34 CARS MANNING DISPATCH RADIOS AND HELPING SENIORS GET TO
00:30:38 GROCERIES, MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS AND TO SEE FRIENDS.
00:30:42 THIS AD HOC SERVICE WAS ESTABLISHED THREE YEARS BEFORE
00:30:45 S.F. MTA HAD THEIR OWN PARATRANSIT SERVICE AND IT
00:30:49 WOULD HELP INSPIRE TODAY'S MUCH USE SENIOR ESCORT PROGRAM AT
00:30:53 SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY. >> AFTER THE STRIKE ENDED, THE
00:30:57 ORGANIZERS SHIFT THEIR FOCUS TO IMPROVING BUS SERVICE TO BETTER
00:31:01 SERVE CHINATOWN. THEIR EARLY FIGHTS STILL SHAPE
00:31:02 THE LINES WE KNOW AND LOVE TODAY.
00:31:05 >> FOR EXAMPLE, CHINATOWN TRIP WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ALLOWING
00:31:09 THE NUMBER 55 SACRAMENTO GO TO EVOLVE INTO THE NUMBER ONE
00:31:14 CALIFORNIA BRINGING SERVICE FROM THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT TO
00:31:16 CHINATOWN AND FURTHER INTO THE RICHMOND.
00:31:19 AND THIS VERY MORNING I WAITED TO GET ON THE ONE FOR 25
00:31:27 MINUTES FOR PACKED BUSSES. I GOT ON THE FIFTH ONE AT
00:31:32 PORTLAND CLAY. AND SO IT'S TIME THAT WE GET
00:31:35 BACK TOGETHER AND IMPROVE THE ONE ONCE AGAIN.
00:31:38 ANOTHER EARLY CAMPAIGN RESULTED IN A NEW BUS LINE THE NUMBER 83
00:31:42 PACIFIC WHICH WE NOW KNOW AS THE NUMBER ONE PACIFIC AFTER
00:31:46 HIGHER UPS AT MTA BALKED AT A BUS ROUTE RUNNING ALONG PACIFIC
00:31:51 AVENUE BECAUSE IT WAS DEEMED TOO NARROW.
00:31:53 MIKE AND LANDY MADE AN IMPROMPTU DECISION TO DIVERT
00:31:57 ANOTHER ROUTE AND DRIVE ALONG PACIFIC AVENUE TO PROVE THAT IT
00:32:00 WOULD WORK OUT. AND TODAY AND TO THIS DAY IT
00:32:01 DOES WORK OUT. CHINATOWN TRIP BUT SOON LINKED
00:32:04 UP LINK UP WITH OTHER GRASSROOTS GROUPS FOCUSED ON
00:32:09 THEIR OWN ISSUES FROM PARKS TO HOUSING AND COMBINE EFFORTS
00:32:10 INTO A NEW ORGANIZATION CHINATOWN RESOURCE CENTER.
00:32:13 THAT GROUP EVOLVED INTO WHAT WE NOW KNOW TODAY AS CHINATOWN
00:32:17 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER OR.
00:32:20 >> FIVE DECADES AGO PUBLIC TRANSIT WAS AT A BREAKING POINT
00:32:25 WITH OUR CITY GROUND TO A HALT FROM A STRIKE.
00:32:28 TODAY THE REASON MAY BE DIFFERENT BUT WE ARE YET AGAIN
00:32:31 AT A PIVOTAL POINT FOR THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC TRANSIT.
00:32:33 I WANT TO RECOGNIZE WHAT I SAW HERE EARLIER THE DIRECTOR OF
00:32:37 S.F. CTA TILLY CHANG IS IN THE CHAMBERS AS WELL.
00:32:40 HI TILLY. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
00:32:43 CHINATOWN TRIP I'M VERY, VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE LEGACY YOU
00:32:47 HAVE BUILT OVER THESE PAST FIVE DECADES.
00:32:49 I CANNOT IMAGINE DISTRICT THREE OR CHINATOWN WITHOUT YOUR
00:32:52 ADVOCACY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PAST 50
00:32:56 YEARS. THANK YOU FOR COMMITTING TO
00:32:59 ANOTHER 50 YEARS WHICH WE SO BADLY NEED TOGETHER.
00:33:03 >> AND THE FLOOR IS YOURS IF YOU WANT TO OFFER A FEW REMARKS
00:33:16 . >> YES.
00:33:16 MY NAME IS LADY DOG AND I'M HERE TO THANK GOD SUPERVISOR
00:33:27 DANNY SATO FOR THE RECOGNITION OF CHINATOWN TRIPS 50TH YEAR OF
00:33:31 EXISTENCE. AND LET ME TELL YOU BACK THEN I
00:33:37 NEVER REALIZED THAT I WOULD BE UP HERE STILL DOING THIS.
00:33:41 >> IT'S INCREDIBLE AND WE CAME TOGETHER AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS
00:33:48 TO CREATE A GRASSROOT. >> WE CAME TOGETHER AS A
00:33:53 COMMUNITY GRASSROOTS GROUP. >> WE WERE CONCERNED WITH POOR
00:33:59 QUALITY TRANSIT AND TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
00:34:00 AFFECTING OUR GROWING COMMUNITY OVER THE FIVE DECADES ALONG
00:34:04 WITH OUR PARTNERS DC WE'VE DEVELOPED COOPERATIVE
00:34:10 RELATIONSHIPS WITH VARIOUS CITIES AGENCIES MOST NOTABLY
00:34:15 WITH THE MTA IN ACCOMPLISHING OUR GOALS.
00:34:18 OUR INITIAL SUCCESS WAS THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SCHEDULING
00:34:22 OF THE NUMBER 30 STOCKTON BUS AND EVEN CAR NOTED THE THE
00:34:26 CHRONICLE SUN COLUMNISTS OCCASIONAL WRITES ABOUT 30
00:34:30 STOCKTON. >> IN OTHER WORDS FOR
00:34:31 ADVOCATING A TRAFFIC LIGHT PAUL AND PACIFIC TO DO A PEDESTRIAN
00:34:38 FATALITY. >> AND BACK THEN THEY SAID NO
00:34:40 WAY. WHY IT COST $10,000 PER CORNER
00:34:45 TO 40 THOUSAND. >> AND NOWADAYS HOW MUCH DOES
00:34:48 IT COST? ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF JUST
00:34:49 TO INSTALL A SIMPLE SIGNAL LIGHT.
00:34:55 SO OVER TIME WE HAVE TRULY BECOME ENDURING.
00:34:57 CIVIC PARTNERS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:35:05 THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE PROBABLY THE
00:35:09 COOLEST SWAG I'VE SEEN. WE HAVE SOME MUNI SWAG FOR YOU
00:35:10 ALL SO I'LL COME AROUND WITH YOU.
00:35:12 >> WE'LL GET YOU YOUR SWAG GOING TO THE PICTURE.
00:35:14 THANKS. THANK YOU.
00:35:27 WHERE ARE THEY GOING? DISTRICT FOR SUPERVISOR WONG.
00:35:45 GOOD AFTERNOON, COLLEAGUES. TODAY I'M PROUD TO RECOGNIZE
00:35:48 NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK.
00:35:51 WE'RE I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR GUESTS TO JOIN US UP ON THE
00:35:57 PODIUM. >> HEY, I'M PROUD TO RECOGNIZE
00:36:10 NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK AND COMMEND THEIR
00:36:14 EXTRAORDINARY PROFESSIONALS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO MAKE
00:36:24 WHO MAKE SAN FRANCISCO'S EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONSE
00:36:29 SYSTEM. I ALSO WANT TO THANK ASSISTANT
00:36:30 DEPUTY CHIEF MALLOY, CHIEF BRATTON, CHIEF RABBIT CAPTAIN
00:36:33 TOM NURSE PROGRAM COORDINATOR PREVENTION OFFICER, HOME
00:36:39 AND ALL THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE
00:36:41 DEPARTMENT AND OUR BROADER EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMUNITY.
00:36:44 AND TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE OUT THERE
00:36:48 DOING THE WORK RIGHT NOW SERVING SAN FRANCISCANS IN REAL
00:36:51 TIME. >> WE THANK YOU AS WELL.
00:36:52 NATIONAL EMS WEEK IS A MOMENT FOR COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE
00:36:56 COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE THE PEOPLE WHO STAND ON THE FRONT LINES OF
00:37:00 EMERGENCY CARE. THAT RECOGNITION FEELS
00:37:03 ESPECIALLY MEANINGFUL THIS WEEK AS JUST YESTERDAY OUR CITY
00:37:07 HONORED OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE FULL SPECTRUM OF SAN
00:37:10 FRANCISCO'S EMS SYSTEM FROM EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION LINES
00:37:15 AND FIRST RESPONDERS TO FIELD OPERATIONS, HOSPITAL BASED
00:37:18 EMERGENCY CARE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, COMMUNITY
00:37:19 PARTNERSHIP LEADERSHIP AND THE EXPANDING FIELD OF COMMUNITY
00:37:24 MEDICINE. I'M PROUD TO BE A NURSE TRAINED
00:37:27 VOLUNTEER MYSELF AND HAVE WORKED FOR THE AMERICAN RED
00:37:30 CROSS PUBLIC SAFETY AS THE PROMISE WE MAKE TO EVERY SAN
00:37:34 FRANCISCAN. AND THAT PROMISE DEPENDS ON THE
00:37:38 PROFESSIONALS WHO ANSWER THE CALL OFTEN ON SOMEONE'S MOST
00:37:39 DIFFICULT DAY BRINGING NOT ONLY TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
00:37:42 AND DECISIVE ACTION BUT CALM COMPASSION AND REASSURANCE WHEN
00:37:45 IT MATTERS MOST. WHAT MAKES A STRONG EMS SYSTEM
00:37:50 IS NOT JUST INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE BUT COORDINATION,
00:37:53 TRUST AND SHARED PURPOSE. IT IS THE DISPATCHER CALMLY
00:37:54 GUIDING A CALLER THROUGH A CRISIS.
00:37:57 THE EMTS AND PARAMEDICS MAKING SPLIT SECOND DECISIONS IN THE
00:38:01 FIELD. THE HOSPITAL TEAMS DELIVERING
00:38:02 LIFESAVING CARE. THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS HELPING
00:38:05 EXTEND THE SUPPORT BEYOND THE EMERGENCY ITSELF.
00:38:09 TOGETHER THESE PROFESSIONALS WORK AROUND THE CLOCK OFTEN
00:38:10 UNDER IMMENSE PRESSURE TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE THE LIVES
00:38:13 OF SAN FRANCISCANS. >> THEIR SERVICE REFLECTS THE
00:38:17 VERY BEST OF THE CITY. PROFESSIONALISM, RESILIENCE,
00:38:20 COMPASSION AND AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO OTHERS.
00:38:22 ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND ESPECIALLY
00:38:25 OUR DISTRICT FOR OUR COMMUNITIES, THANK YOU FOR YOUR
00:38:29 LEADERSHIP, DEDICATION AND EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE.
00:38:30 WITH THAT IT'S MY HONOR TO BE ABLE TO HONOR AND COMMEND THE
00:38:36 THESE EXTRAORDINARY EMS PROFESSIONALS AND EMERGENCY
00:38:40 RESPONSE PARTNERS WHOSE SERVICE HELPS KEEP SAN FRANCISCANS SAFE
00:38:44 EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE
00:38:45 ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF MALLOY TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
00:38:55 >> GOOD AFTERNOON AND THANK YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION DURING EMS
00:38:59 WEEK. I'M TRULY HONORED TO ACCEPT IT
00:39:02 ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
00:39:04 COMMUNITY. >> I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE
00:39:07 EXTRAORDINARY DEDICATION OF ALL OUR EMS PROVIDERS PARAMEDICS,
00:39:10 COMMUNITY PARAMEDICS, EMTS, FIREFIGHTERS ALONG WITH
00:39:14 DISPATCHERS, NURSES, LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS AND THE
00:39:16 MANY SUPPORT STAFF WHO KEEP THE SYSTEM RUNNING EVERY HOUR OF
00:39:20 EVERY DAY. >> THERE THERE THEIR COMMITMENT
00:39:29 ,SKILL AND COMPASSION ARE WHAT MAKE OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE
00:39:31 SYSTEM STRONG. >> THEY SHOW UP IN PEOPLE'S
00:39:33 HARDEST MOMENTS AND THEY DO IT WITH PROFESSIONALISM, EMPATHY
00:39:36 AND COURAGE. AGAIN, ONCE AGAIN I'D LIKE TO
00:39:41 HUMBLY THANK YOU AND ACCEPT ON THEIR BEHALF AND AND BE
00:39:44 AND BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR PHOTO I MISSED SUPERVISOR CHEN IN THE
00:39:52 QUEUE. >> SUPERVISOR CHEN, THANK YOU
00:39:53 BOTH PERSONALLY. AMENDMENT I WAS JUST WANT TO
00:39:56 ECHO AND EXPRESS MY DEEP GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR
00:40:00 THE ENTIRE TEAM AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR KEEPING OUR
00:40:04 COMMUNITY SAFE ESPECIALLY YOU KNOW WE JUST HAD OUR NURSE
00:40:08 TRAINING IN DISTRICT 11 KEEPING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS SAFE.
00:40:12 I REALLY APPRECIATE APPRECIATE THE DEDICATION, THE
00:40:15 PROFESSIONALISM THAT YOU ARE PROVIDING AND KEEPING EVERYONE
00:40:20 SAFE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THANK YOU.
00:40:34 YOU CAN
00:41:25 KNOW SUPERVISOR DORSEY. >> YOU'VE GOT TWO TODAY.
00:41:30 I DO. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT MALVERN
00:41:33 COLLEAGUES. I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF
00:41:37 RECOGNIZING A VALUED MEMBER OF SAN FRANCISCO'S IRISH COMMUNITY
00:41:41 AND AN OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVANT.
00:41:42 THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND'S CONSUL GENERAL TO THE WESTERN
00:41:46 UNITED STATES, MITCHEL SMITH. >> HE HELPED TO RECOVER THE
00:41:53 CAPACITY. AND WHAT MAKES THIS RECOGNITION
00:42:00 ESPECIALLY TIMELY IS THAT CONSUL GENERAL SMITH WILL BE
00:42:03 DEPARTING SAN FRANCISCO LATER THIS MONTH FOLLOWING A
00:42:06 DISTINGUISHED TEN YEAR REPRESENTING IRELAND HERE ON
00:42:08 THE WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
00:42:10 >> CONSUL GENERAL SMITH HAILS FROM THE VILLAGE OF CARMEL
00:42:14 IN COUNTY ARMAGH, NORTHERN IRELAND.
00:42:15 A BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY NESTLED NEAR THE RING OF GILLIAM
00:42:19 AND KNOWN FOR ITS DEEP HISTORY, STRONG SENSE OF IDENTITY
00:42:23 AND BREATHTAKING LANDSCAPE. FROM THOSE ROOTS HE'S BUILT AN
00:42:27 EXTRAORDINARY INTERNATIONAL CAREER DEDICATED TO
00:42:30 STRENGTHENING IRELAND'S GLOBAL GLOBAL PRESENCE AND DEEPENING
00:42:34 RELATIONSHIPS AROUND THE WORLD. BEFORE COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO,
00:42:38 CONSUL GENERAL SMITH SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL IRELAND
00:42:42 IN IRELAND'S DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS WHERE HE HELPED
00:42:45 LEAD MAJOR EFFORTS AND EXPAND IRELAND'S INTERNATIONAL
00:42:47 ENGAGEMENT PROMOTE IRELAND AS A PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, INVEST
00:42:50 AND STUDY AND STRENGTHEN CONNECTIONS BETWEEN IRELAND
00:42:53 AND COMMUNICATE COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE.
00:42:57 OVER THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER HE HAS SERVED IN LEADERSHIP
00:43:00 ROLES ACROSS ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE UNITED STATES,
00:43:04 INCLUDING HELPING ESTABLISH IDA IRELAND'S FIRST SOUTH EAST
00:43:07 ASIAN OFFICE IN SINGAPORE AND LEADING ECONOMIC
00:43:11 DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS THAT STRENGTHENED TIES BETWEEN
00:43:14 IRELAND AND MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES.
00:43:15 HIS WORK HAS HELPED EXPAND IRELAND'S ECONOMIC, CULTURAL
00:43:18 AND DIPLOMATIC INFLUENCE WORLDWIDE.
00:43:22 >> HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CONSUL GENERAL SMITH HAS
00:43:24 CONTINUED THAT TRADITION OF LEADERSHIP WHILE STRENGTHENING
00:43:27 THE DEEP AND HISTORIC TIES BETWEEN IRELAND AND THE BAY
00:43:30 AREA. AS SOMEONE WITH IRISH ROOTS ON
00:43:31 BOTH SIDES OF MY OWN FAMILY THE DORSEY'S OF GALWAY AND THE
00:43:35 COUNTIES OF ROSCOMMON I AM ESPECIALLY APPRECIATIVE FOR THE
00:43:39 IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS AND THE ROLE THAT IRELAND'S DIPLOMATIC
00:43:42 COMMUNITY PLAYS IN KEEPING THEM VIBRANT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
00:43:46 FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS I'VE ALSO HAD THE PLEASURE OF
00:43:49 HOSTING THE IRISH CONSULATE THE ST PATRICK'S DAY SOCIAL
00:43:51 GATHERING IN MY OFFICE HERE IN CITY HALL.
00:43:53 THAT HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE IRISH
00:43:56 HERITAGE, FRIENDSHIP AND COMMUNITY ALONGSIDE CONSUL
00:44:00 GENERAL SMITH AND MEMBERS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S IRISH COMMUNITY
00:44:03 . BEYOND THAT ALL OF US IN SAN
00:44:05 FRANCISCO'S LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY ARE ALSO GRATEFUL TO
00:44:09 CONSUL GENERAL SMITH FOR HIS LEADERSHIP TO HONOR ROGER
00:44:11 CASEMENT, WHOSE BRONZE PLAQUE WAS ADDED LAST YEAR TO THE
00:44:15 CASTRO'S RAINBOW HONOR WALK. ROGER CASEMENT WAS AN IRISH
00:44:20 PATRIOT AND DIPLOMAT WHO EXPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
00:44:23 IN AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA AND FOUGHT FOR IRELAND'S
00:44:24 INDEPENDENCE. CASEMENT'S IDENTITY AS A GAY
00:44:27 MAN WAS CRUELLY WEAPONISED AGAINST THOSE WHO PUSHED FOR
00:44:31 HIS CLEMENCY AND HE WAS EXECUTED FOR TREASON IN 1916.
00:44:34 THANKS TO MANY SUPPORTERS INCLUDING THE CONSUL GENERALS
00:44:37 OFFICE, THIS INTERSECTION OF IRISH AND LGBTQ PLUS HISTORY
00:44:41 WILL FOREVER ENDURE AT CASTRO'S 18TH AND CASTRO STREET BEYOND
00:44:47 ME HALL'S IMPRESSIVE PROFESSIONAL AND DIPLOMATIC
00:44:48 ACCOMPLISHMENTS HE IS ALSO SOMEONE DEEPLY GROUNDED
00:44:52 IN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY. TOGETHER WITH HIS WIFE CLARE
00:44:56 AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, HE HAS BROUGHT WARMTH, ENERGY AND A
00:44:57 STRONG SENSE OF IRISH CULTURE AND TRADITION TO OUR CITY.
00:45:00 ON BEHALF OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
00:45:04 CONSUL GENERAL SMITH, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP,
00:45:05 YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND YOUR SERVICE AND FOR STRENGTHENING
00:45:09 THE ENDURING BOND BETWEEN IRELAND AND SAN FRANCISCO.
00:45:12 AND BEFORE INVITING YOU TO SAY A FEW WORDS I BELIEVE I HAVE
00:45:16 SEVERAL OR A COUPLE OF COLLEAGUES WHO WANT TO EXPRESS
00:45:18 THEIR APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FOR YOUR
00:45:19 FRIENDSHIP AND SERVICE TO OUR CITY.
00:45:24 >> SO THANK YOU CONSUL GENERAL SMITH AND SUPERVISE YOUR
00:45:31 MELGAR. >> SO I AT MY BIRTHDAY'S ON
00:45:35 MARCH 17TH AS THE CONSUL KNOWS THAT MAKES ME ELIGIBLE FOR
00:45:36 IRISH CITIZENSHIP. I HAVE TO SAY I HAVE SO ENJOYED
00:45:44 GETTING TO KNOW YOU HANGING OUT WITH YOUR FAMILY.
00:45:49 YOU ARE ALSO WONDERFUL. YOU HAVE BEEN A STELLAR
00:45:52 REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR GOVERNMENT HERE IN OUR FAIR
00:45:54 CITY WITH THE IRISH COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY ON THE WEST SIDE.
00:46:00 BUT YOU ALSO HAVE BEEN SO THOUGHTFUL AND KIND
00:46:04 AND INCLUSIVE AND COLLABORATIVE AND I AM GOING TO MISS YOU
00:46:09 DEARLY. I KNOW YOU'RE GOING ON TO
00:46:10 BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS ON THE WORLD STAGE BUT WE HAVE BEEN
00:46:13 SO, SO LUCKY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO REPRESENT YOUR
00:46:17 COUNTRY HERE WITH US AND ALSO THAT YOU SHARED YOUR WONDERFUL
00:46:21 FAMILY WITH US AND YOUR KIDS WENT TO SCHOOL HERE AND I KNOW
00:46:25 THAT THEY WILL ALWAYS HAVE THAT IN THEIR HEARTS AS THEY GO ON
00:46:29 WITH THEIR LIVES. THANK YOU FOR HAVING SHARED
00:46:32 YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY WITH SAN FRANCISCO.
00:46:34 WE HAVE SO ENJOYED HAVING YOU SUPERVISE ALONG.
00:46:39 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. >> FIRST I WANT TO THANK
00:46:44 SUPERVISOR DORSEY FOR LEADING THIS RECOGNITION AND BRING US
00:46:47 TOGETHER TO HONOR CONSUL GENERAL SMITH AND HIS FAMILY
00:46:51 BEFORE THEIR DEPARTURE FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
00:46:53 CONSUL GENERAL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND FOR YOUR
00:46:58 PARTNERSHIP YOU'VE BUILT HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:46:59 THE TIES BETWEEN OUR CITY AND IRELAND ARE DEEPLY
00:47:02 MEANINGFUL SHAPED NOT ONLY BY HISTORY BUT BY THE IRISH
00:47:06 COMMUNITY THAT CONTINUES TO PLAY SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE
00:47:09 IN THE LIFE OF THIS CITY. AS A SUPERVISOR REPRESENTING
00:47:11 THE SUNSET AND AS SOMEONE WORKING TO ESTABLISH CERN
00:47:14 CISCO'S IRISH CULTURAL DISTRICT, I ESPECIALLY WANT TO
00:47:16 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENGAGEMENT OF THE IRISH COMMUNITY HERE
00:47:18 IN SAN FRANCISCO AND FOR HELPING BUILD THE CONNECTIONS
00:47:22 THAT WILL CONTINUE WELL BEYOND THIS MOMENT AND TO YOUR FAMILY.
00:47:25 THANK YOU AS WELL. PUBLIC SERVICE IS NEVER DONE
00:47:26 ALONE AND WE KNOW THESE CHAPTERS ARE SHARED BY THE
00:47:30 LOVED ONES WHO SUPPORT US EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
00:47:33 I'M GENUINELY EXCITED FOR THE WORK THAT WILL CONTINUE AHEAD
00:47:36 AND LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO COLLABORATE CLOSELY WITH THE
00:47:38 IRISH COMMUNITY AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH SUPPORTING THE
00:47:41 CULTURAL DISTRICT AND DEEPENING THOSE TIES EVEN FURTHER.
00:47:45 THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR SERVICE TO OUR CITY.
00:47:48 >> WE WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY NOTHING BUT THE VERY BEST
00:47:50 IN YOUR NEXT CHAPTER. THANK.
00:47:51 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MR. CONSUL GENERAL, MY
00:47:59 COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID ANYTHING THAT I WOULD THINK ABOUT SAYING
00:48:03 ALREADY AND SAID IT BETTER BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY FOR MYSELF
00:48:07 THAT IT HAS BEEN A TRUE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GET
00:48:11 TO KNOW YOU AND WORK WITH YOU ON SOME THINGS AND YOU'VE BEEN
00:48:14 GREAT. SAN FRANCISCO LOVES YOU.
00:48:18 WE'RE GOING TO MISS YOU A LOT AND THANK YOU SUPERVISOR DORSEY
00:48:20 FOR FOR BRINGING THE CONSUL GENERAL IN HERE TO GET A LITTLE
00:48:23 RECOGNITION. THANK YOU.
00:48:24 NOW THE FLOOR IS YOURS. GAMO GETS ITS THANK YOU
00:48:32 IN IRISH TO SEE THE THE IRISH FLAGS AROUND TODAY.
00:48:36 IT WAS MY HEART PROUD TO RECEIVE THIS.
00:48:37 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR DORSEY THANK YOU
00:48:41 PRESIDENT MANDELA AND THANK YOU ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
00:48:45 AND THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS TO RECEIVE THIS TODAY
00:48:48 AND IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, A CITY THAT HAS
00:48:52 MEANT SO MUCH AND MEAN SO MUCH TO MY FAMILY AND I IS DEEPLY
00:48:53 HUMBLING PLEASURE MY DAUGHTER SOPHIE SAN AND KOENEN AND I
00:49:00 HAVE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THIS PLACE WE'VE BUILT LIFELONG
00:49:04 FRIENDSHIPS. >> THIS WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR
00:49:07 HEARTS A CITY WITH ENORMOUS BEAUTY DIVERSITY.
00:49:11 IT HAS A CREATIVITY. IT HAS A RESILIENCE, IT HAS A
00:49:15 COMPASSION AND IT'S CONSTANTLY CHANGING.
00:49:19 I'VE SEEN HOW IT'S CHANGED OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS BUT CHANGE
00:49:23 AND REINVENTING ITSELF BUT ALSO STILL LOOKING AFTER ITS
00:49:24 COMMUNITY AND ITS PEOPLE. AND WE HAVE AS YOU'VE MENTIONED
00:49:28 SEVERAL TIMES A PROUD IRISH COMMUNITY HERE WITH AN
00:49:31 IMPACTFUL HISTORY. BUT WHAT MAKES SAN FRANCISCO SO
00:49:35 SPECIAL AND WHAT MAKES OUR COMMUNITY SO SPECIAL IS THAT
00:49:39 THE IRISH STORY HAS BEEN WOVEN INTO THE RICHNESS OF EVERY
00:49:42 OTHER COMMUNITY HERE AND THE AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS CITY
00:49:46 REMARKABLE. WE'RE PROUD I'M PROUD THE
00:49:50 COMMUNITY IS PROUD TO BE PART OF THAT INTERCONNECTEDNESS.
00:49:54 AND YOU SEE THAT INCREDIBLE INTERCONNECTEDNESS WITH THE
00:49:57 WORK OF THE UNITED IRISH CULTURAL CENTER AND ITS VISION
00:50:01 FOR THE SUNSET THE SUPPORT THAT THE IRISH IMMIGRATION
00:50:02 AND PASTORAL CENTER PROVIDES THE WORK OF THE UNITED IRISH
00:50:05 SOCIETIES AND THIS AND PATRICK'S DAY A PERIOD THAT
00:50:09 COMES FROM THAT THE VIBRANT SAN FRANCISCO CORK SISTER CITY
00:50:13 RELATIONSHIP ON TREASURE ISLAND WE HAVE THE HOME OF THE GAELIC
00:50:17 ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION GAELIC GAMES.
00:50:18 I THINK IT'S THE BEST STADIUM, OUR BEST LAND AND THE VISTA INN
00:50:24 IN THE UNITED STATES WITH THE GLENS SOCCER TEAM THERE WITH A
00:50:27 DIVERSITY OF COMMUNITIES 90 DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES PLAYING
00:50:29 FOOTBALL SOCCER SORRY. ACROSS ACROSS THE CITY SAN
00:50:35 FRANCISCO HAS BEEN SHAPED PROFOUNDLY BY THE IRISH.
00:50:39 IF YOU TURN ON YOUR WATER TAP IN THE KITCHEN TODAY, IT'S
00:50:43 BECAUSE OF A LIMERICK MAN MICHAEL O'SHAUGHNESSY WHO
00:50:46 ENGINEERED AND DESIGN US IF YOU I THINK SO IF YOU IF YOU LOOK
00:50:53 AT WOMEN'S RIGHTS WOMEN'S PIER KIT KENNEDY BACK IN THE MEDIA
00:51:00 1800S FOUGHT FOR THAT AT A TIME WHEN VERY FEW PEOPLE DID
00:51:01 AND WAS SUCCESSFUL. WE LOOK AT THE MEN AND WOMEN
00:51:05 IN UNIFORM THAT WE HAVE RIGHT ACROSS THE CITY SERVING AND THE
00:51:08 IRISH CONNECTIONS ARE THERE THAT ARE THERE DOES MY HEART
00:51:12 PRIDE AND DOES THAT IS PROUD OF WHY THE IRISH GOVERNMENT
00:51:16 AND TODAY WE BUILD ON THOSE CONNECTIONS WE SEE THAT THE A
00:51:20 MEMORIAL IS HAS BEEN AGREED AND HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR FOR
00:51:23 LINCOLN PARK SUPERVISOR DORSEY YOU TALKED ABOUT THE ROGER
00:51:27 CASEMENT PLAQUE WHICH WAS A HUGE HONOR AND A HUGE VERY
00:51:31 PROUD TO BE THERE THAT DAY WHEN IT WAS UNVEILED IN THE RAINBOW
00:51:32 HONOR WALK AND WE HAVE THE THE RAINBOW THE ORIGINAL RAINBOW
00:51:35 FLAG MAKING ITS WAY TO CORK OVER THE SUMMER FOR THE FIRST
00:51:38 TIME EVER WE HAVE THE LAUREL TIE COMMEMORATION BY THE IRISH
00:51:42 TO THE CHINESE RAILWAY WORKERS TO HONOR THEM AND THEIR
00:51:49 CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY
00:51:50 AND MANY OTHERS MANY IN CULTURE AND ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGY
00:51:56 THESE INITIATIVES WILL CONTINUE SO SUPERVISORS THIS CITY SAN
00:52:04 SAN FRANCISCO IS THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD AND IT IS
00:52:11 OUTSIDE IRELAND AND IT TRULY IS.
00:52:15 >> IT WILL IT WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS AND I
00:52:19 WANT TO THANK YOU. I WANT TO THANK THE MAYOR AND I
00:52:21 WANT TO THANK THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY FOR MAKING THIS SUCH
00:52:23 AN IMPACTFUL PART OF MY LIFE. >> GO TO MEET HIM, OLGA, THANK
00:52:26 YOU SO MUCH. SUPERVISOR DARCY SO WE SO BRING
00:52:33 THE CONSUL GENERAL INTO THE WELL YEAH.
00:53:04 MM HMM. OH YEAH.
00:53:08 VERY WELL TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR OKAY ROUND TWO NEXT COLLEAGUES
00:53:44 ,I BEG YOUR INDULGENCE FOR A RARE INSTANCE OF AMENDATORY
00:53:45 DOUBLE DIPPING BUT AS YOU'LL SOON HEAR, IT'S FOR A TRULY
00:53:49 EXTRAORDINARY COMMUNITY MEMBER .
00:53:52 >> SISTER MARGUERITE BARTLEY, MY SISTER AND YOU WOULD
00:53:59 APPROACH THE LECTERN SISTER BART LING'S COMPASSION, FAITH
00:54:04 AND LEADERSHIP HAVE TRANSFORMED COUNTLESS LIVES IN SAN
00:54:08 FRANCISCO THROUGH HER WORK AT GOOD SHEPHERD GRACE CENTER FOR
00:54:12 THE PAST 17 YEARS, SISTER MARGUERITE HAS DEDICATED
00:54:15 HERSELF TO HELPING WOMEN WITHOUT RESOURCES OVERCOME
00:54:19 ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION AND BUILD HOPEFUL HEALTHY
00:54:20 FUTURES. UNDER HER LEADERSHIP, GRACE
00:54:24 CENTER HAS PROVIDED NOT ONLY RECOVERY SERVICES BUT ALSO
00:54:27 DIGNITY, STABILITY, COMPASSION AND A TRUE SENSE OF COMMUNITY
00:54:31 FOR WOMEN WORKING TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES.
00:54:35 AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, RECOVERY IS AN ISSUE THAT IS DEEPLY
00:54:37 PERSONAL TO ME. I KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW
00:54:40 TRANSFORMATIVE RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION AND ALCOHOLISM CAN BE
00:54:44 AND I ALSO KNOW THAT NO ONE SUCCEEDS ALONE.
00:54:47 RECOVERY DEPENDS ON PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO SHOW COMPASSION,
00:54:51 PROVIDE SUPPORT AND BELIEVE IN SOMEONE EVEN WHEN THEY MAY
00:54:54 STRUGGLE TO BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES THAT IS EXACTLY
00:54:57 THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP SISTER MARGUERITE HAS PROVIDED FOR
00:55:00 NEARLY TWO DECADES AT GRACE CENTER.
00:55:01 THROUGH HER FAITH, KINDNESS AND TIRELESS COMMITMENT SHE HAS
00:55:05 HELPED COUNTLESS WOMEN OVERCOME ADDICTION AND MOVE TOWARD
00:55:08 HEALTHIER, STABLE, MORE STABLE FUTURES.
00:55:11 SHE HAS ALSO STRENGTHENED GRACE CENTER ITSELF BY EXPANDING
00:55:15 RESOURCES, BUILDING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND HELPING ENSURE
00:55:19 THE ORGANIZATION CAN CONTINUE ITS MISSION FOR YEARS TO COME.
00:55:22 THE WORK OF RECOVERY IS OFTEN QUIET DIFFICULT AND DEEPLY
00:55:26 HUMAN BUT IT CHANGES LIVES, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES EVERY
00:55:30 SINGLE DAY. SISTER MARGUERITE HAS TRULY LED
00:55:31 WITH WHAT HER COLLEAGUES DESCRIBE AS THE HEART OF A
00:55:35 SHEPHERD AND SAN FRANCISCO IS STRONGER BECAUSE OF YOUR
00:55:39 SERVICE SISTER. AS SHE PREPARES HER NEXT
00:55:42 ASSIGNMENT FOR THE SISTERS OF GOOD SHEPHERD, I WANT TO THANK
00:55:46 HER ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:55:47 FRANCISCO FOR HER EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP, COMPASSION AND LAST
00:55:51 LASTING IMPACT. SISTER MARGUERITE,
00:55:54 CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS WELL-DESERVED COMMENDATION
00:55:56 AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE FOR OUR CITY
00:55:59 AND FOR THE WOMEN YOU HAVE HELPED ALONG THE WAY AND TO
00:56:01 AND FOR TO AFFIRM THE ENDURING PROMISE OF RECOVERY.
00:56:04 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> I LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU VERY
00:56:16 MUCH FOR THIS COMBINATION FOR THE SUPERVISORS AND I ACCEPTED
00:56:19 ON BEHALF OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD SISTERS WHO HAVE SERVED HERE
00:56:23 IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR 94 YEARS HELPING YOUNG WOMEN IN TROUBLE.
00:56:26 >> YES, BUT WE DON'T DO IT ALONE.
00:56:33 >> WE HAVE OUR GOOD SHEPHERD GUILD.
00:56:36 WE HAVE OUR BOARD. WE HAVE OUR STAFF, OUR
00:56:38 VOLUNTEERS AND ESPECIALLY THE BRAVE WOMEN WHO TAKE THOSE
00:56:41 STEPS FOR RECOVERY AND FOR HELPING THEIR FAMILIES
00:56:45 AND STRENGTHENING THEIR COMMUNITIES.
00:56:47 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE
00:57:51 . >> NEXT UP DISTRICT FIVE
00:57:56 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD. >> COLLEAGUES, TODAY IS MY
00:58:01 HONOR IN CELEBRATION OF AAPI HERITAGE MONTH TO RECOGNIZE
00:58:04 STEPHEN THE NICOSIA STEVE, CAN YOU COME UPSTAIRS?
00:58:17 >> >> STEVE IS A DEDICATED COMMUNITY LEADER NONPROFIT
00:58:22 EXECUTIVE AND PUBLIC SERVANT WHOSE DECADES OF WORK HAVE
00:58:26 HELPED STRENGTHEN SAN FRANCISCO'S JAPANESE-AMERICAN
00:58:29 COMMUNITY. >> STEVE HAS SPENT MORE THAN 50
00:58:33 YEARS SERVING THIS CITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP ROOTED IN CARE AND A
00:58:37 DEEP COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY WELL-BEING.
00:58:41 STEVE I FIRST REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST MET YOU YEARS BEFORE I
00:58:45 EVEN RAN FOR OFFICE AND YOU WERE QUITE STERN AND MADE SURE
00:58:50 THAT I KNEW WHO YOU WERE WHO WAS BOSS.
00:58:56 AND STEVE, AS PEOPLE KNOW, IS WHOLEHEARTEDLY THE GODFATHER OF
00:59:03 JAPANTOWN. AND THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT.
00:59:07 >> HIS WORK HAS SPANNED DECADES IN THE COMMUNITY.
00:59:11 SINCE 1971 HE SERVED AS CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE
00:59:14 DIRECTOR OF KIMCHI CREATING A TIME WHEN THERE WAS VERY FEW
00:59:18 CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SERVICES FOR JAPANESE-AMERICAN SENIORS
00:59:22 IN SAN FRANCISCO. AND WHAT STARTED AS A
00:59:26 GRASSROOTS EFFORT GREW UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP INTO A
00:59:29 NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SENIOR SERVICES ORGANIZATION.
00:59:32 OVER MORE THAN FOUR DECADES, STEVE HAS HELPED BUILD KIMCHI
00:59:36 INTO A TRUSTED INSTITUTION PROVIDING HOUSING SUPPORT,
00:59:40 NUTRITION PROGRAMS, TRANSPORTATION AND SOCIAL
00:59:44 SERVICES FOR SENIORS ACROSS THE CITY.
00:59:47 HIS WORK HAS ENSURED THAT GENERATIONS OF SENIORS COULD
00:59:51 AGE WITH DIGNITY AND CULTURALLY GROUNDED CARE AND IN A
00:59:55 NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH OVER 20% OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS OVER THE
00:59:58 AGE OF 80. A SERVICE LIKE KIMCHI IS A
01:00:02 PUBLIC TREASURE. >> STEVE ALSO CO-FOUNDED THE
01:00:06 NEON MUNCHIE STREET FAIR DURING THE ASIAN-AMERICAN MOVEMENT
01:00:10 AND HELPING CREATE A SPACE WHERE JAPANESE-AMERICAN
01:00:14 AND BROADER ASIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES COULD GATHER
01:00:17 THROUGH ART, MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE.
01:00:18 >> THAT TRADITION CONTINUES TODAY AS ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S
01:00:22 MOST ENDURING CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS AS WELL AS ONE OF
01:00:26 MY FAVORITE PERSONAL FAVORITE EVENTS IN THE CITY NOT LEAST OF
01:00:29 WHICH IS BECAUSE SHE CHIEF CHRISTINE AND I COOK BURGERS
01:00:33 ALMOST EVERY YEAR. ALONGSIDE STEVE AT THE FAIR,
01:00:41 STEVE HAS SERVED SAN FRANCISCO IN PUBLIC SAFETY GOVERNANCE AS
01:00:44 WELL. FOR NEARLY THREE DECADES HE HAS
01:00:48 SERVED ON THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE COMMISSION.
01:00:52 AND WHILE I ACKNOWLEDGE ALL OF THOSE ARE HERE FROM OUR FIRE
01:00:53 DEPARTMENT AS WELL IN RECOGNITION STEVE WAS FIRST
01:01:04 APPOINTED IN 1996 AND HE HAS SERVED CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH
01:01:06 MULTIPLE MAYORAL ADMINISTRATIONS INCLUDING
01:01:09 REAPPOINTMENT BY MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM, MAYOR ED LEE AND MAYOR
01:01:13 LONDON BREED. HE'S NOT RETIRING.
01:01:15 >> IF ANYONE WAS WORRIED BUT HE HAS HELD THAT LEADERSHIP ROLES
01:01:20 AS BOTH PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION
01:01:23 ACROSS MULTIPLE TERMS INCLUDING SERVICE.
01:01:27 AS RECENTLY AS THE PRESENT REFLECTING A LONGSTANDING ROLE
01:01:31 IN OVERSEEING THE CITY'S KEY PUBLIC SAFETY INSTITUTIONS,
01:01:35 STEVE'S CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CONTINUES TODAY.
01:01:36 >> THROUGH ACTIVE ROLES FOCUSED ON JAPANTOWN, HE'S CURRENTLY A
01:01:39 MEMBER OF THE RE-IMAGINED JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY, A MEMBER
01:01:43 OF THE JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT, THE STEERING
01:01:46 COMMITTEE AND SERVES AS PRODUCER OF THE JAY TOWN
01:01:47 CONSULATE CONTINUES TO SUPPORT CULTURAL PROGRAMING
01:01:51 AND COMMUNITY EVENTS AS GRACE HERRICK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
01:01:55 THE JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY BENEFITS DISTRICT SHARED.
01:01:58 >> STEVE IS NOT ONLY A COMMUNITY LEADER BUT A BIG
01:01:59 BROTHER TO MANY OF US WHO GREW UP IN GEORGETOWN.
01:02:03 HE HAS CONTINUALLY HELPED US GEORGETOWN KIDS BECOME LEADERS
01:02:06 OF OUR COMMUNITY AND HIS EARLIER LEADERSHIP AS EXECUTIVE
01:02:10 DIRECTOR OF THE JAPANTOWN TASK FORCE AND JAPANTOWN CULTURAL
01:02:13 DISTRICT FROM 2017 TO 2021. STEVE HELPED GUIDE MAJOR
01:02:17 COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, STRENGTHEN ORGANIZATIONAL
01:02:20 STRUCTURE AND SUPPORT LONG TIME CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC PLANNING
01:02:24 FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. DURING THAT TIME HE ALSO HELPED
01:02:27 PRODUCE AND SUPPORT A RANGE OF JAPANTOWN CULTURAL PROGRAMING
01:02:31 INCLUDING PEACE PLAZA EVENTS AND FESTIVALS.
01:02:35 MORE RECENTLY HE HAS CONTINUED PRODUCING AND SUPPORTING
01:02:36 JAPANTOWN CULTURAL EVENTS INCLUDING THE NEON MONKEY
01:02:39 MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION PROGRAMING THE JAY TOWN JAZZ
01:02:42 AND TAIKO FESTIVAL PEACE PLAZA PROGRAMING AND JETSON TAIKO
01:02:46 AND JAZZ EVENTS. ACROSS ALL THESE EFFORTS HIS
01:02:50 FOCUS HAS REMAINED ON SUSTAINING COMMUNITY SPACE
01:02:53 AND INTERGENERATIONAL CONNECTION AND CELEBRATION.
01:02:54 HIS CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED WILDLY WIDELY
01:02:58 INCLUDING THE KGO PROFILE AND EXCELLENCE THE KQED
01:03:02 ASIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE AWARD, THE SPUR AWARD, THE FOREIGN
01:03:06 MINISTER'S COMMENDATION FROM JAPAN IN 2016 AND THE ORDER OF
01:03:09 THE RISING SUN, GOLD AND SILVER RAYS.
01:03:12 >> STEVE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DECADES OF SERVICE TO SAN
01:03:14 FRANCISCO. WE THINK YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF
01:03:17 MORE DECADES LEFT THAT WE'LL GET OUT OF YOU AS WELL AND YOUR
01:03:19 CONTINUED LEADERSHIP IN JAPANTOWN AND YOUR LIFELONG
01:03:21 COMMITMENT TO STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES FOR FUTURE
01:03:25 GENERATIONS. AND BEFORE YOU SPEAK, WE'D LIKE
01:03:28 TO HAVE SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SPEAK AS
01:03:29 WELL. >> MR. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF
01:03:35 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DEAN CHRISMAN FIRE CHIEF.
01:03:39 I WOULD JUST LIKE TO PAINT A PICTURE FOR YOU THAT I THINK IS
01:03:42 ONE OF THE MORE BEAUTIFUL SCENES THAT I'VE SEEN IN SAN
01:03:43 FRANCISCO AND SUPERVISOR MAHMUD ALLUDED TO.
01:03:46 IT COMES AT THE END OF THE CHERRY BLOSSOM PARADE AND IT'S
01:03:50 AT THE BOOTH WHERE THE ASIAN FIREFIGHTER ASSOCIATION
01:03:53 CONDUCTS A SALE AT TERIYAKI BURGERS.
01:03:54 AND IT REALLY IS THE BEAUTY OF IT IS THE BREADTH OF AGES THAT
01:03:58 PARTICIPATES IN THIS EVENT. YOU HAVE CHILDREN, YOU HAVE
01:04:01 ASPIRING FIREFIGHTERS, YOU HAVE FIREFIGHTERS, YOU HAVE EMT, YOU
01:04:06 HAVE PARAMEDICS, YOU HAVE RETIRED FIREFIGHTERS.
01:04:07 YOU HAVE RETIRED FIREFIGHTERS FRIENDS.
01:04:09 YOU HAVE THIS AMAZING GROUP OF PEOPLE ALL WORKING TO SERVE THE
01:04:11 COMMUNITY. AND REALLY I ATTRIBUTE THIS TO
01:04:14 COMMISSIONER STEVEN CHICAGO. AND WHEN YOU WATCH HIM WITNESS
01:04:18 AND PARTICIPATE, YOU CAN SEE THE PRIDE AND THE HAPPINESS
01:04:20 IN HIS EYES TO SEE THIS WHOLE GROUP OF PEOPLE COMMITTED TO
01:04:25 COMMUNITY SERVICE. NOW NONE OF US WILL EVER MEET
01:04:26 THE COMMITMENT THAT COMMISSIONER NICASTRO HAS AS
01:04:29 FULLY INVESTED IN SAN FRANCISCO .
01:04:32 BUT THIS GROUP EFFORT IS REALLY LED BY HIM AND HIS STABILITY
01:04:34 STEPS ABILITY STABILIZING FORCE ON THE COMMISSION HAS BEEN AN
01:04:37 AMAZING HELP TO US AS A NEW COMMAND STAFF STARTING LAST
01:04:41 YEAR. AND HIS WISDOM AND INTELLIGENCE
01:04:43 ON THE COMMISSION HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY HELPFUL TO US.
01:04:45 SO REALLY THANK YOU SUPERVISOR MAHMUD FOR HONORING HIM
01:04:48 AND THANK YOU TO THE REMAINDER OF THE BOARD FOR PARTICIPATING
01:04:51 AND SUPPORTING HIM. HE'S A REAL GIFT TO SAN
01:04:52 FRANCISCO. WE ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE HIM A
01:04:56 LIFETIME OF COMMUNITY SERVICE. WE ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE YOU.
01:04:58 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
01:05:06 SUPERVISORS. >> THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME
01:05:10 SPEAK. MY NAME IS SAMMY BRANNON.
01:05:11 I'M DEPUTY CHIEF OF ADMINISTRATION FOR THE SAN
01:05:13 FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY A
01:05:15 HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO COMMISSIONER KODJOE.
01:05:18 NOT ONLY HAS HE BEEN AN INSPIRING LEADER IN JUST NOT
01:05:21 JUST JAPANTOWN BUT THE ENTIRE CITY.
01:05:24 BUT HE ACTUALLY HAS BEEN A MENTOR AND AN ASPIRATION FOR ME
01:05:28 WHEN I FIRST AND WAS STILL NEW IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
01:05:31 HE DID FIND ME RECOGNIZE THAT I WAS JAPANESE-AMERICAN
01:05:36 AND POINTED IT OUT THAT I NEED TO REALLY TAKE THAT INTO HEART.
01:05:40 >> SOMETHING THAT NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE SAID TO ME GROWING UP.
01:05:44 AND FOR SOMEONE TO RECOGNIZE MY CULTURE AND MY HERITAGE.
01:05:49 AND HE WAS SHOCKED TO FIND THAT I DID SPEAK JAPANESE THAT THAT
01:05:55 RESONATED WITH ME AND I THINK I AND I HAVE HIM TO THANK FOR
01:05:59 WHERE I AM TODAY. SO COMMISSIONER NAKATA DOMO
01:06:02 ADEQUATE THOUGH BECAUSE I'M A AND COMMISSIONER NAKATA BEFORE
01:06:13 YOU SPEAK. >> SUPERVISOR SHERYL HAS SOME
01:06:14 REMARKS. COMMISSIONER CHICAGO THE FIRST
01:06:18 TIME WELL THE SECOND TIME WE MET BUT THE FIRST TIME WE
01:06:21 REALLY MET WAS AT JAPANTOWN. IT WAS MY FIRST SIGNIFICANT
01:06:24 VISIT TO JAPAN TOWN. AND YOU LAID AN X OUT AN
01:06:28 EXPANSIVE VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY AND YOUR
01:06:32 ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE WISDOM OF THE HISTORY OF SAN
01:06:36 FRANCISCO. SO MANY PARTS OF THAT COMBINED
01:06:39 WITH YOUR INCISIVE INSIGHT INTO WHAT OUR CITY NEEDS TODAY IS
01:06:43 INCREDIBLY UNIQUE. AND YOUR SERVICE TO JAPANTOWN
01:06:46 COMBINED WITH YOUR SERVICE TO THE ENTIRE CITY OF SAN
01:06:51 FRANCISCO IS UNIQUE. >> SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR
01:06:54 COMBINING THE MICRO AND THE MACRO LIKE SO FEW WERE ABLE TO
01:06:59 DO AND FOR YOUR CONTINUED LEADERSHIP.
01:07:00 >> THANK YOU. >> I I WILL ADD MY OWN
01:07:06 CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS COMMISSIONER NAKAJIMA.
01:07:10 I THINK SOON AFTER I JOINED THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS YOU
01:07:14 HELPED TO REINTRODUCE ME TO JAPANTOWN.
01:07:17 AND YOU HAVE BEEN A HAPPY PRESENCE TO SEE IN ALL OF OUR
01:07:25 CIVIC EVENTS AND YOUR STEWARDSHIP OF OUR FIRE
01:07:29 DEPARTMENT IS SOMETHING FOR WHICH WE ARE ALL INCREDIBLY
01:07:30 GRATEFUL. SO THANK YOU COMMISSIONER
01:07:32 NAKAJIMA AND THANK YOU SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD FOR FOR
01:07:35 HONORING OUR COMMISSIONER. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:07:46 AS A JAPANESE-AMERICAN IN TERMS OF ALL OF THE CULTURAL
01:07:50 TREASURES WE INHERITED FROM OUR GRANDPARENTS AND OUR COMMUNITY.
01:07:53 BEING HUMBLE IS PART OF THAT ATTRIBUTE AND SERVICES.
01:07:58 THE OTHER PART OF THAT ATTRIBUTE.
01:08:01 SUPERVISOR MUMMERY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS RECOGNITION
01:08:05 PARTICULARLY BECAUSE YOU ARE DISTRICT FIVE SUPERVISOR BUT
01:08:09 ALSO WITH THE DIVERSITY OF DISTRICT FIVE.
01:08:13 JAPANTOWN IS PART OF THAT AS WELL.
01:08:17 SO WE THANK YOU FOR THAT. BUT WE ALSO THANK YOU FOR THE
01:08:19 ADVOCACY AND THE WORK. >> I HAVE TO BE MARK HOW
01:08:24 IMPORTANT THIS EVENT IS NOT JUST FOR MYSELF AS AN
01:08:27 ASIAN-AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER BUT THE FACT THAT WE'RE IN SAN
01:08:31 FRANCISCO. WHEN I CHINATOWN FISCAL STATE
01:08:35 AND ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDIES I USED TO THINK ABOUT SAN
01:08:38 FRANCISCO BEING THE ASIAN AMERICAN CAPITAL OF THE UNITED
01:08:39 STATES. AND I KNOW MY FRIENDS IN NEW
01:08:42 YORK AND LOS ANGELES MAYBE WEREN'T PARTICULARLY KEEN ON
01:08:46 THAT. BUT IF YOU DO THE RESEARCH
01:08:49 YOU'RE FORGET IF YOU FIND OUT THAT HISTORICAL BASIS ALL CAME
01:08:54 FROM HERE. PART OF THAT IS JAPANTOWN.
01:08:57 I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT ONCE UPON A TIME BACK WHEN ASIAN
01:09:01 AMERICAN HERITAGE JUST WAS A COIN PHRASE AND WHEN IT WAS
01:09:05 FIRST IMPLEMENTED HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO I VAGUELY REMEMBER
01:09:08 BEING UNDER THAT DOME WITH ABOUT SIX OF US AND IT WAS A
01:09:13 PROCLAMATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.
01:09:15 AND THEN GOVERNOR MAYOR NEWSOM WAS PRESIDING AND I WAS HANGING
01:09:20 OUT WITH A COUPLE OF MY COLLEAGUES THE LATE SILVER
01:09:21 PLAGUE UP THERE WAS ALSO TED FANG AND MANY OF US.
01:09:24 AND AS THIS PROCLAMATION OCCURRED I LOOKED AT SULU
01:09:28 AND TED FANG AND I BASICALLY SAID WE GOT TO DO BETTER THAN
01:09:32 THIS. AND PART OF THAT WAS THAT WE
01:09:35 COME FROM SAN FRANCISCO WHICH AGAIN HAS SUCH RICH HISTORY ALL
01:09:40 OF THESE ACCOLADES AND DISCUSSIONS IN TERMS OF SAN
01:09:44 CISCO POINTS TO WHAT WE HAVE BEST OUR CULTURE FOR OUR
01:09:48 COMMUNITY AND ALL OF OUR PIONEERS WHO MADE SAN FRANCISCO
01:09:51 WHAT IT IS TODAY. >> BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE
01:09:59 SHOULD NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF. AND WITH THE CHANGING DYNAMICS
01:10:03 OF SAN FRANCISCO WITH THEIR BUILDINGS, WITH ALL OF THE
01:10:04 DISCUSSION DON'T DEVALUE THE BIGGEST COMMODITY, THE BIGGEST
01:10:08 TREASURE THAT WE HAVE WHICH IS OUR MEMBERS, OUR COMMUNITY
01:10:12 AND THIS ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE AWARD IS JUST NOT FOR
01:10:15 MYSELF. IT'S FOR EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE
01:10:18 ROOM ALL OF THEM IN THE PAST AND IN THE FUTURE AND THAT'S
01:10:22 WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE IF YOU
01:10:26 TALK ABOUT JAPANTOWN SUPERVISORS, YOU KNOW WE ALWAYS
01:10:27 LAMENT AND TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF JAPANTOWN
01:10:31 AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT SAN FRANCISCANS USED TO BE 44
01:10:35 BLOCKS BEFORE THE WAR DURING 46, 1946, 1947.
01:10:39 WE KNOW WHERE WE WERE. WE JAPANESE-AMERICAN HONOR
01:10:45 20,000 JAPANESE-AMERICANS IN TEN DIFFERENT CONCENTRATION
01:10:49 CAMPS. CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT NO DUE
01:10:50 PROCESS AND NO REIMBURSEMENT, NO REPARATION.
01:10:53 BUT WE OUR COMMUNITY, OUR PIONEERS ADAPTED TO THAT.
01:10:57 >> HOW DO YOU THINK FOLKS FELT IN CAMP TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A
01:11:00 FUTURE FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN
01:11:04 COMMUNITY AND THEN TO COME BACK AND REBUILD OUR ISSEI
01:11:05 GENERATION AND OUR NISEI GENERATION AND THEN TO HAVE THE
01:11:09 CITY AND COUNTY AND THIS CHAMBER EMBLEM MADE AND EXECUTE
01:11:13 EMINENT DOMAIN EMINENT DOMAIN FOR US IN THE FILLMORE
01:11:17 JAPANTOWN AREA MEANS THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING THAT
01:11:21 WE GREW UP WITH. AND PART OF THAT IS TO TRY TO
01:11:24 MAINTAIN THAT. AND TODAY'S STANDARDS THAT'S
01:11:28 REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT. WE TALK ABOUT FOUR BLOCKS OF
01:11:31 JAPANTOWN BUT WE KNOW IT GOES BEYOND THAT.
01:11:35 IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO DO THE WORK THAT I HAVE AND BROTHERS
01:11:38 AND SISTERS AND SUPERVISORS RESPECTFULLY.
01:11:39 THE VILLAGE IS HERE IN THIS CHAMBER REPRESENTING OUR
01:11:46 COMMUNITY AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET AS
01:11:50 WELL. >> THOSE SINS OF OUR
01:11:51 FOREFATHERS STILL AFFECT US TODAY.
01:11:54 WE'RE TRYING TO STILL MAINTAIN THAT COMMUNITY THAT HAS
01:11:57 RESONANCE THAT HAVE CHANGED WITH THE DYNAMICS.
01:12:01 WE'RE DEALING WITH ISSUES LIKE CERTIFICATE OF PRECEDENCE WHAT
01:12:02 THE HECK WAS THAT? THESE ARE CERTIFICATES GIVEN TO
01:12:06 MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY THE FILLMORE JAPANESE COMMUNITY
01:12:09 THAT GUARANTEES YOU A PLACE BACK IN OUR COMMUNITY.
01:12:13 AND AFTER 60 YEARS THAT STILL HASN'T BEEN QUITE IMPLEMENTED
01:12:17 BUT THE WORK IS BEING DONE NOW. >> SO TALK ABOUT THOSE EFFECTS
01:12:21 AND WHERE WE ARE NOW. I'M GLAD YOU TALKED ABOUT
01:12:22 HAVING THIS COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT.
01:12:25 THE VILLAGE IS PART OF ALL OF THE NONPROFITS THAT ARE HERE AS
01:12:28 WELL. AND PART OF THAT VILLAGE FOR
01:12:29 MYSELF AND THE LOVE OF SAN FRANCISCO AND JAPANTOWN IS THE
01:12:33 LOVE AND THE HONOR OF BEING A MEMBER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO
01:12:36 FIRE DEPARTMENT. THIS DEPARTMENT IN TERMS OF THE
01:12:40 LOVE OF OUR COMMUNITY HELP ME DEFINE FOR MYSELF THE LOVE OF
01:12:43 SAN FRANCISCO THAT A YOUNG MAN FROM GEORGETOWN CAN COME OUT OF
01:12:47 THE WEST INDIES AND FILLMORE PURCHASE A BAY WITHIN PUBLIC
01:12:52 SERVICES AND BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND FULLY THE BEAUTY OF
01:12:55 SAN FRANCISCO. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
01:12:59 SUPERVISOR MORROW THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU
01:13:00 HAVE DONE. >> I APPRECIATE IT.
01:13:02 THANK YOU
01:13:37 . >>
01:14:10 ALL RIGHT. >> NEXT UP DISTRICT TEN
01:14:14 SUPERVISOR WALTON. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH,
01:14:18 PRESIDENT, MADAM AND COLLEAGUES TODAY IT IS MY HONOR TO RISE
01:14:25 THIS AMERICAN ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH TO
01:14:29 RECOGNIZE A YOUNG LEADER WHOSE LIFE AND WORK EMBODIES SERVICE
01:14:33 CULTURE AND COMMUNITY. >> AUGUST TINO TINO FELICE WAS
01:14:51 BORN AND RAISED IN SAN FRANCISCO.
01:14:55 TINO'S ROOTS IN THIS CITY RUN DEEP AND HIS COMMITMENT TO
01:15:00 UPLIFTING OUR COMMUNITIES HAS ALREADY LEFT A LASTING IMPACT
01:15:04 ON COUNTLESS LIVES. FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES TINO HAS
01:15:07 DEDICATED HIMSELF TO SERVING THROUGH THE SAMOAN COMMUNITY
01:15:11 DEVELOPMENT CENTER WHERE HE HAS BECOME A TRUSTED MENTOR,
01:15:14 ADVOCATE AND BRIDGE BUILDER. FROM NEWS SERVICES AND FAMILY
01:15:19 PROGRAMING TO SUPPORTING TRANSITIONAL AGE YOUTH, TINO
01:15:22 HAS CONSISTENTLY CREATED PATHWAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
01:15:26 AND FAMILIES TO THRIVE. HIS WORK IS NOT SIMPLY ABOUT
01:15:30 PROGRAMS. IT IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS,
01:15:33 TRUST AND MAKING EVERY PERSON FEEL SEEN, VALUED AND EMPOWERED
01:15:40 . WHAT MAKES TINO ESPECIALLY
01:15:41 REMARKABLE IS THE PRIDE AND LOVE HE CARRIES FOR HIS
01:15:45 CULTURE AT A TIME WHEN SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR
01:15:49 IDENTITY AND BELONGING. TINO STANDS TALL AND WHO HE IS
01:15:55 AND ENCOURAGES THE NEXT GENERATION TO DO THE SAME.
01:15:59 THROUGH HIS WORK ACROSS PACIFICA COMMUNITY EVERY
01:16:04 CONNECTION HE BUILDS STRENGTHENS THE FABRIC OF OUR
01:16:05 CITY. AS HE CONTINUES HIS STUDIES
01:16:08 AND SOCIAL WORK AT SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
01:16:12 AND CARRIES FORWARD HIS SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO,
01:16:16 TINO REMINDS US ALL LEADERSHIP ROOTED IN HUMILITY, CULTURE
01:16:23 AND LOVE. WHAT IT TRULY LOOKS LIKE TODAY.
01:16:27 WE THANK TINO FELICE FOR HIS UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO THE
01:16:31 PACIFICA COMMUNITY, TO THE YOUTH AND FAMILIES OF SAN
01:16:34 FRANCISCO AND TO BUILDING A FUTURE GROUNDED IN CULTURE,
01:16:38 DIGNITY AND COLLECTIVE CARE. CONGRATULATIONS TINO AND THANK
01:16:42 YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO FOR ME. >> SORRY.
01:16:51 YOU KNOW WHEN YOU CALL ONE OF US YOU CALL IT A WHOLE VILLAGE.
01:16:55 SO THANK YOU AGAIN AGAINST ALL OF THE LEVEL TWO PRESIDENT
01:16:59 SUPERVISORS DEPARTMENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS GATHER
01:17:02 HERE TODAY. FIRST AND FOREMOST I GIVE ALL
01:17:05 THE HONOR AND GLORY TO GOD FOR GRANTING ME THE STRENGTH, THE
01:17:07 FAITH AND A PURPOSE TO CONTINUE TO SHOW UP FOR MY COMMUNITY.
01:17:10 I ALWAYS SAY YOU MAY BE SMARTER THAN ME.
01:17:13 YOU MAY BE STRONGER THAN ME OR YOU MIGHT SPEAK MORE ELOQUENTLY
01:17:16 TO ME BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SERVE ME FOR MY COMMUNITY
01:17:18 AND MY GOD. >> SORRY I DIDN'T HEAR.
01:17:23 >> AND THIS IS THE FIRE THAT KEEPS ME GOING AND THE
01:17:26 MOTIVATION I CARRY WITH ME EACH AND EVERY DAY.
01:17:30 YOU KNOW WE WAKING UP AND AGAIN THANK YOU SUPERVISOR WALDEN
01:17:34 AND DTN AND ALSO YOUR OFFICE AS YOU CONTINUE TO SUPPORT YOUR
01:17:36 PARTNERSHIP AND JUST THE LOVE THAT YOU SHOWED TO OUR PACIFICA
01:17:39 COMMUNITY WITHIN SAN FRANCISCO. I WANT TO GIVE HONORED TO OUR
01:17:43 ANCESTORS WHO PAVED THE WAY. MY GRANDPARENTS PARENTS NATE
01:17:46 WHO PAVED THE WAY TO SACRIFICE AND WHO CARRIED US THROUGH THIS
01:17:49 MOMENT TO OUR ELDERS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED GUIDANCE,
01:17:53 WISDOM AND LOVE. I WOULD NOT BE STANDING HERE
01:17:54 WITHOUT YOU AND ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT ARE WATCHING OVER US.
01:17:58 QUEEN AISHA AND A 1990 SIGN IN ANTIOCH.
01:18:04 SO EVEN TO MY AC DC FAMILY BACK THERE THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS
01:18:08 SHOWING UP FOR SUPPORTING ME AND FOR DOING THIS WORK
01:18:11 ALONGSIDE ME TO UPLIFT COMMUNITY.
01:18:12 I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY. I KNOW YOU KNOW WE BUT WE MAKE
01:18:16 YOU HAPPY AND WE MAKE IT FUN THOUGH SO AGAIN THANK YOU AC DC
01:18:19 FAMILY. SO AS WE ADD TEAMS EVERYBODY IS
01:18:23 HERE TODAY EVEN KNOW DC WAS DC WAVE DIRECTOR CHERISE AND ALL
01:18:26 HER TEAM AND YOU KNOW I AFA Y CD CIC AC DC UCSF WRAP AROUND
01:18:34 AND TAYLORMADE AND IF I MISS YOU I APOLOGIZE I COULD GIVE ME
01:18:37 AFTER I LEAVE HERE BUT JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU GUYS
01:18:41 FOR JUST A CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO CONTINUE TO SHOW UP EVERY
01:18:42 SINGLE DAY. THIS RECOGNITION BELONGS TO ALL
01:18:45 OF US. ALL OF YOU.
01:18:46 ASSEMBLY I'M JUST SIMPLY HONORED.
01:18:49 ACCEPT IT ON BEHALF OF THE COMMITTEE THAT IS BEING
01:18:50 RECOGNIZED TODAY THAT IS NOT JUST ABOUT THIS IS NOT JUST
01:18:53 ABOUT ME. THIS IS ABOUT ALL OF US AND AND
01:18:56 THE WORK WE CONTINUE TO BUILD TOGETHER FOR THE NEXT
01:18:57 GENERATIONS TO COME TO OUR FUTURE AND EMERGING LEADERS
01:19:00 IN OUR PACIFIC COMMUNITY KEEP PUSHING FORWARD, KEEP FUNDING
01:19:04 YOUR PURPOSE, KEEP BUILDING IN YOUR IN EVERY SPACE YOU
01:19:07 ENTER. AS I AS I STAND HERE TODAY, OUR
01:19:12 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DR. PATTI TITO IS SPEAKING AT 12 AND HPI
01:19:15 GRADUATES AT USF TODAY. SO YOU KNOW, AGAIN THIS IS WHO
01:19:19 WE ARE. WE SHOW UP WHEREVER OUR
01:19:22 PACIFICA PEOPLE ARE AND WE WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE NO
01:19:24 LIMITS. SOMEONE AROUND LIKE ME CAN DO
01:19:27 THIS. YOU CAN DO THIS TOO.
01:19:27 LET'S CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE THE NEXT GENERATION TO DREAM
01:19:30 WITHOUT BOUNDARIES AND TO ALWAYS KEEP GOD FIRST TO MY
01:19:33 FAMILY AS I ALWAYS HERE TO MY VILLAGE TO COMMUNITY VILLAGE AS
01:19:37 WELL. THANK YOU FOR BEING MY
01:19:38 BACKBONE. I KNOW THERE ARE MOMENTS I MISS
01:19:41 BUT KNOW THAT THE SPIRIT IS ALWAYS ONE BUT MY SPIRIT IS
01:19:43 ALWAYS WITH YOU SO MY JOY AND MY SINCERE MARLEE YOU ARE
01:19:46 MY PURPOSE EVERY EARLY MORNING WHO EVERY LONG NIGHT IS WHO
01:19:49 DRIVES ME TO GO OUT AND SERVE HAVING MY SON YOU KNOW BY MY
01:19:53 SIDE. DAWN PROGRAM MY WORK IS THE
01:19:56 GREATEST BLESSING TO ME OF MY LIFE.
01:19:57 THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE GRACE.
01:20:00 THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE TIME AND THANK YOU FOR
01:20:01 BELIEVING IN THIS WORK AS MUCH AS I DO.
01:20:04 AND I LIKE TO LEAVE YOU GUYS WITH A SAMOAN PROVERB ALL THE
01:20:09 ALILA BOLA EL IT'S OUR TOUR. THE PATHWAY TO LEADERSHIP IS
01:20:13 THROUGH SERVICE. THIS PROVERB IS SOMETHING THAT
01:20:15 WE LIVE BY CDC IT IS THE FOUNDATION WE STAND ON AND IS
01:20:19 THE HEARTBEAT BEHIND EVERYTHING WE DO.
01:20:20 WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO SERVE OUR PASIFIKA COMMUNITY
01:20:24 AND OUR BROADER COMMUNITY WITH THE SAME PASSION, DEDICATION
01:20:26 AND LOVE FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT HAS ALWAYS CARRIED US FORWARD.
01:20:30 THIS IS FOR OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IS FOR OUR FUTURE FOR
01:20:34 TITLE LOVER THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO
01:20:42 RACE THE AUGUST RECESS FOR A FEW MINUTES WHERE WE'RE GOING
01:20:46 TO RECESS FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES AND TRY TO DRUM UP SOME
01:20:50 SUPERVISORS SO WE'LL BE IN RECESS TILL 330
01:21:31 . >> ASAPH GOV TV SAN FRANCISCO
01:21:36 GOVERNMENT TELEVISION
01:27:18 AND ALL RIGHT WE ARE BACK IN SESSION.
01:27:22 IF YOU ARE STANDING FIND YOURSELF A SEAT OR LEAVE.
01:27:26 ALL RIGHT DISTRICT 11 SUPERVISOR CHEN THANK YOU BOARD
01:27:34 PRESIDENT MANDO MAN MAY I HAVE NO.
01:27:37 >> I'LL COME TO THE PODIUM. >> WHO HAPPY AAPI HERITAGE
01:27:44 MONTH. I'M SO PROUD TO HONOR KNOW HOW
01:27:48 AUROVILLE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE EXCELSIOR AWARDS FOR A
01:27:55 DECADE EXCELSIOR AWARDS HAS BEEN A VITAL DISTRICT 11
01:27:58 INSTITUTIONS. IT BEGAN AS A COMMUNITY DRIVEN
01:28:02 EFFORT TO PROVIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND EQUITABLE
01:28:03 EMPLOYMENT PATHWAYS FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD SUPERVISOR CHEN
01:28:09 CHAI NO, HOLD ON. OKAY.
01:28:13 OKAY AWAY SUPERVISOR CHEN FOR AAPI HERITAGE MAN I AM VERY
01:28:21 PROUD TO HONOR NOEL ORIEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EXCELSIOR
01:28:28 AWARDS FOR A DECADE EXCELSIOR AWARDS HAS BEEN A VITAL
01:28:32 DISTRICT 11 INSTITUTION. >> IT BEGAN AS A COMMUNITY
01:28:36 DRIVEN EFFORT TO PROVIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
01:28:39 AND EQUITABLE EMPLOYMENT PATHWAYS FOR THE NEIGHBORHOODS
01:28:40 HISTORICALLY IMMIGRANT AND WORKING CLASS POPULATION
01:28:44 DURING THE PANDEMIC THE CENTER PIVOT TO A SERVE AS THE CRUCIAL
01:28:51 HUB DISTRIBUTING GROCERIES, HELPING RESIDENTS NAVIGATING
01:28:52 UNEMPLOYMENT AND BENEFITS AND CO-FOUNDING THE EXCELSIOR
01:28:56 STRONG COLLABORATIVE TO COORDINATE PUBLIC HEALTH
01:28:59 OUTREACH AND VACCINATION SITES .
01:29:03 >> POST-PANDEMIC EXCELSIOR WAS RETURNED TO ITS WORKFORCE
01:29:06 DEVELOPMENT ROOTS OFFERING INTENSIVE EMPLOYMENT COACHING,
01:29:11 CASE MANAGEMENT AND WORKFORCE AND WORKSHOPS IN ENGLISH,
01:29:15 SPANISH, CANTONESE AND MANDARIN TRUE TO ITS ORIGIN, THE CENTER
01:29:19 ALSO SERVED AS A VIBRANT COMMUNITY HUB AND CO-WORKING
01:29:22 SPACE FOR KEY PARTNERS INCLUDING THE CHINESE
01:29:23 PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION POOR THERE THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY
01:29:27 CENTER AND UCSF CLINICA MY TEAM BARROW KNOWHOW HAS LET
01:29:34 EXCELSIOR WORK WITH A COMMITMENT TO LONG TERM
01:29:35 COMMUNITY RESILIENCE WITH OVER A DECADE OF NONPROFIT
01:29:39 MANAGEMENT'S SPENDING FROM PUBLIC BENEFITS ASSESSED FOR
01:29:43 SECURITY AND HEALTH AND HEALTH ADVOCACY AS AN EXECUTIVE
01:29:47 DIRECTOR NOW HAS STIRRED THE ORGANIZATION'S BACK TO ITS CORE
01:29:50 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT MISSIONS BUILDING A NETWORK OF COMMUNITY
01:29:54 PARTNERSHIPS AND COALITIONS AND HAS COMMITTED TO BUILDING A
01:29:58 SUSTAINABLE FOUNDATION TO ENSURE EXCELSIOR WORKS REMAINS
01:30:02 A PERMANENT RESOURCE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
01:30:05 THANK YOU NOEL FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING WORK OF SERVING OUR
01:30:10 IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY. >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR CHEN
01:30:24 AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. MY NAME IS NOEL HORARIO I'M THE
01:30:29 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EXCELSIOR WORKS AND ON BEHALF OF OUR
01:30:32 TEAM, OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND OUR ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS
01:30:36 AT OUR BELOVED FIVE K MISSION OFFICE, I WANT TO EXTEND OUR
01:30:40 DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO SUPERVISOR CHEN FOR THIS COMMENDATION
01:30:43 AND SINCE ITS FOUNDING EXCELSIOR WORKS HAS BEEN A
01:30:45 SANCTUARY AND A STEPPING STONE FOR THE IMMIGRANT AND WORKING
01:30:49 CLASS FAMILIES OF DISTRICT 11. >> MOST OF OUR CLIENTS THEY
01:30:52 COME TO US THROUGH WORD OF MOUTH SEEKING THE COMFORT OF
01:30:56 NAVIGATING COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AT
01:30:59 EXCELSIOR WORKS CULTURAL COMPETENCY IS THE VERY FABRIC
01:31:03 OF OUR SUCCESS. >> WE REDUCE ISOLATION BY BEING
01:31:07 THE TRUSTED FACES OUR COMMUNITY TURNS TO FIRST FOR ACCURATE
01:31:11 INFORMATION AT OUR OFFICE THOSE FRIENDLY FACES BELONG TO LINDA
01:31:17 ,SERGIO AND PEDRO. >> THEY'RE THE ESSENTIAL GUIDES
01:31:26 AND A FORMAL PART OF SUPPORTING OUR NEIGHBORS TO BUILD THEIR
01:31:29 LIVES HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO. >> BUT OUR OFFICE IS MORE THAN
01:31:33 JUST A SERVICE CENTER. >> IT IS A CENTER FOR
01:31:36 GATHERING. IT'S WHERE A NEIGHBORHOOD COMES
01:31:37 TOGETHER FOR KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WORKSHOPS, COMMUNITY ACTION
01:31:40 TEAMS HEALING CLINICS, LEGAL SUPPORT AND ART BUILDS.
01:31:44 >> IT'S A PLACE OF JOY WHERE OUR ANNUAL LUNAR NEW YEAR
01:31:48 GATHERINGS BRING TOGETHER A FULL HOUSE TO CELEBRATE OUR
01:31:51 ASIAN COMMUNITY AND IT IS A PLACE OF FRONTLINE SOLIDARITY
01:31:56 MOST RECENTLY DEMONSTRATED WHEN WE OPENED OUR DOORS TO HOST THE
01:32:00 HUMMINGBIRD FARM AND FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER COMMUNITY
01:32:03 SCHOOLS DURING THE EDUCATOR STRIKE EARLIER THIS YEAR
01:32:06 RECEIVING THIS HONOR DURING API HERITAGE MONTH IS INCREDIBLY
01:32:11 MEANINGFUL. >> IT SERVES AS A POWERFUL
01:32:12 REMINDER OF OUR DEEP INTERCULTURAL SOLIDARITY TRUE
01:32:18 COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ISN'T BUILT IN ISOLATION IT LIVES
01:32:22 IN THE PARTNERSHIP SHARED BETWEEN OUR ASIAN LATINO
01:32:26 AND DIVERSE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WHO SHOW UP FOR ONE
01:32:28 ANOTHER. >> AND WHILE WE CELEBRATE THIS
01:32:30 COLLECTIVE STRENGTH, WE KNOW THAT TRUE RESILIENCE THRIVES
01:32:34 WHEN IT IS BACKED BY PROACTIVE AND SYSTEMIC INVESTMENT.
01:32:40 SO THANK YOU AGAIN SUPERVISOR CHEN FOR MAKE FOR MEETING THIS
01:32:44 MOMENT FOR PARTNERING WITH US AND FOR CHAMPIONING THE VISION
01:32:48 TO BUILD A FOUNDATION WHERE ALL WORKING CLASS AND IMMIGRANT
01:32:49 FAMILIES IN DISTRICT 11 CAN THRIVE.
01:32:52 >> THANK YOU AGAIN AGAINST
01:34:25 ALL RIGHT DISTRICT TWO SUPERVISOR CHERYL COLLEAGUES
01:34:28 TODAY IT IS MY HONOR TO RECOGNIZE JACK GRILLO.
01:34:33 JACK, WOULD YOU PLEASE COME UP TO THE FRONT?
01:34:47 >> TODAY I GET TO RECOGNIZE JACK THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
01:34:51 AND A TEACHER AT THE LONE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR
01:34:54 HIS 49 YEARS OF DEDICATION TO THE FAMILIES OF SAN FRANCISCO.
01:34:59 >> OVER THE LAST FIVE DECADES, JACK HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS NOT
01:35:02 ONLY WITH LONE MOUNTAIN BUT WITH INDEPENDENT EARLY
01:35:03 CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. TODAY WE HONOR AN ICON A
01:35:07 STAUNCH ADVOCATE FOR EDUCATION AND A CHERISHED LEADER.
01:35:13 JACK'S ORIGINALLY FROM THE NORTH SHORE OF BOSTON.
01:35:14 HE HOLDS A BACHELOR'S IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT WITH A SPECIALTY
01:35:17 IN EARLY CHILDHOOD FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS.
01:35:19 A MASTER'S IN COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY FROM JOHN F KENNEDY
01:35:22 UNIVERSITY AND HIS VERY FIRST TEACHING JOB WAS IN A
01:35:26 LABORATORY PRESCHOOL AT HARVARD.
01:35:28 BUT JACK HAS CALLED SAN FRANCISCO HOME SINCE 1977 THE
01:35:31 SAME YEAR HE JOINED LONE MOUNTAIN AS A TEACHER.
01:35:33 FOUNDED IN 1974, LONE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER IS AN
01:35:36 INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT NONDENOMINATIONAL PRESCHOOL
01:35:39 LOCATED IN THE PRESIDIO IN DISTRICT TWO.
01:35:43 NOW JACK IS A UNICORN BECAUSE HE IS ALSO A LICENSED MARRIAGE
01:35:47 AND FAMILY THERAPIST. AND FOR OVER 25 YEARS HE
01:35:48 MAINTAINED A PRIVATE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE
01:35:51 ALONGSIDE HIS WORK AT LONE MOUNTAIN.
01:35:54 SO OF COURSE THE QUESTION REALLY IS WHETHER PARENTS
01:35:56 CHOOSE LONE MOUNTAIN FOR THE CHILDREN OR DO THEY REALLY
01:35:59 CHOOSE IT FOR THEMSELVES? >> NOW FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS AS
01:36:03 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LONE MOUNTAIN YOU HAVE SHAPED THE
01:36:06 SCHOOL INTO THE BELOVED INSTITUTION IT IS TODAY.
01:36:09 YOU HAVE HELPED REAR WELL OVER 2000 PRESCHOOLERS SHAPING NOT
01:36:13 JUST YOUNG CHILDREN BUT THE PERSONS THEY MAY BECOME.
01:36:17 YOU BUILT A CHERISHED COMMUNITY WHERE CHILDHOOD IS HONORED, JOY
01:36:20 IS PRIORITIZED AND LONG TENURED DEVOTED TEACHERS.
01:36:24 I SEE SOME OF YOU BACK HERE BUILD MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS
01:36:25 WITH EVERY CHILD THEY TEACH AND THOSE TEACHERS ARE A
01:36:28 TESTAMENT TO JACK'S LEADERSHIP THE EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATORS HE
01:36:32 RECRUITED AND TRAINED OVER THE YEARS DIDN'T END UP AT LONE
01:36:36 MOUNTAIN BY ACCIDENT. >> THEY WERE DRAWN BY HIS
01:36:39 VISION AND THEY STAYED BECAUSE OF THE CULTURE HE BUILT YOUR
01:36:40 RETIREMENT IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP NOW JACK IS
01:36:44 AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS YET HE CHOSE PROACTIVELY TO STEP
01:36:48 DOWN IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE SCHOOL'S FUTURE AND TO SUPPORT
01:36:52 HIS SUCCESSOR THROUGH THE TRANSITION THAT TAKES
01:36:55 FORESIGHT, THAT TAKES SACRIFICE NOW TODAY IS AN HONOR FOR ME
01:36:59 BECAUSE SARAH AND I LIKE ALL THE OTHER PARENTS KNOW THAT THE
01:37:04 STUDENTS WHO LEARN THE MOST FROM YOU ARE NOT THE CHILDREN.
01:37:07 THEY ARE US THE PARENTS. AND I'LL ADMIT AND I KNOW I'M
01:37:11 NOT ALONE IN THIS THAT WHEN I FIRST MET YOU MY REACTION WAS
01:37:13 ONE OF INTIMIDATION AND BUT IT WORKED.
01:37:17 BUT YOUR QUIET CONFIDENCE, YOUR INNATE LEADERSHIP GAVE US THE
01:37:22 CLEAREST MESSAGE. I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING.
01:37:25 I'M VERY GOOD AT THIS. AND BY THE WAY, DO YOU SEE HOW
01:37:29 MUCH FUN THE CHILDREN ARE HAVING NOW I'M GOING TO STEAL
01:37:33 FOR LAUREN GROSS HERE BECAUSE SHE SAID IT BEST WE TRUSTED YOU
01:37:36 WITH THE MOST SACRED SLICE OF OURSELVES OUR KIDS YEAR AFTER
01:37:40 YEAR YOU ENJOYED AND LOVED EACH OF THEM EVEN WHEN PERHAPS YOU
01:37:44 FELT LESS COMPELLED BY THEIR ADULT COUNTERPARTS.
01:37:47 WE CAME TO YOU SOME AS FIRST TIME PARENTS OR EXPERIENCED
01:37:48 PARENTS DEFINITELY WORRIED PARENTS AND SOMETIMES LESS THAN
01:37:52 GRACEFUL PARENTS. YOU ALWAYS MET US IN YOUR
01:37:56 DIRECT POIGNANT WAY YOU NEVER SHIED FROM THE TRUTH EVER BLUNT
01:37:59 OFTEN HUMOROUS, RARELY INCORRECT BECAUSE JACKIE BABY
01:38:03 AND YES THAT IS WHAT THE KIDS CALL HIM THE FACT THAT HE WEARS
01:38:07 THAT NICKNAME WITH PRIDE TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
01:38:10 ABOUT THE MAN JACKIE BABY KNOWS THAT KIDS WITH TYPE-A SENIOR
01:38:11 FRANCISCO PARENTS SOMETIMES NEED A DOSE OF HUMBLING.
01:38:16 TAKE ONE BOY'S DRAWING FOR INSTANCE.
01:38:17 DO YOU LIKE IT, JACK? I THINK IT NEEDS A LITTLE WORK
01:38:20 OR THE LOVELY YOUNG LADY WHO ASKED IF YOU LIKED YOUR DRESS.
01:38:22 IT'S NOT MY FAVORITE. >> YOU ARE A STRAIGHT SHOOTER
01:38:28 AND THE CHILDREN LOVE YOU. >> THEY LOVE YOU.
01:38:31 >> JACK YOU ALWAYS SAID THAT KIDS FIND THE FUN AND THEY
01:38:33 ALWAYS FIND YOU AND YOU WELL WITH TEACHING YOU FOUND YOUR
01:38:40 CALLING AND THANK GOD YOU DID. IN APRIL YOU SHARED A POEM BY
01:38:44 FATHER PEDRO ARUP WITH US WHAT YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU ARE
01:38:48 IN LOVE WITH WHAT SEIZES YOUR IMAGINATION WILL AFFECT
01:38:51 EVERYTHING. IT WILL DECIDE WHAT WILL GET
01:38:52 YOU OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING, WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR EVENINGS,
01:38:56 HOW YOU SPEND YOUR WEEKENDS, WHAT YOU READ, WHOM YOU KNOW,
01:38:59 WHAT BREAKS YOUR HEART AND WHAT AMAZES YOU WITH JOY
01:39:03 AND GRATITUDE. FALL IN LOVE STAY IN LOVE
01:39:07 AND IT WILL DECIDE EVERYTHING. JACK YOUR LAST WISH FOR US WAS
01:39:11 TO FALL IN LOVE. BUT JACK, WE ARE ALREADY
01:39:15 IN LOVE WITH YOU. YOU INSPIRE ME.
01:39:18 YOU SHOW THAT LOVE AND FIRMNESS GO HAND IN HAND THAT THERE IS
01:39:22 RIGHT AND THERE IS WRONG. THAT EXPECTATIONS ARE GOOD
01:39:25 BECAUSE WE ARE CAPABLE THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR WORK INCREDIBLY
01:39:29 SERIOUSLY WITHOUT TAKING YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY.
01:39:33 AND THAT HUMOR BELONGS IN EVERYTHING BECAUSE AT THE
01:39:34 END OF THE DAY IF WE'RE NOT HAVING FUN, WHAT'S THE POINT?
01:39:37 >> YOUR RETIREMENT IN JUST A FEW WEEKS WILL BRING YOU CLOSE
01:39:42 TO AN EXTRAORDINARY 49 YEAR TEACHING CAREER.
01:39:44 AND TO THOSE OF YOU IN THE AUDIENCE WHO JOINED US TO HONOR
01:39:48 JACK TODAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
01:39:49 JACK, NEARLY 100 PEOPLE RSVP TO COME HERE FOR YOU TODAY.
01:39:54 AND THAT'S A DROP IN THE BUCKET OF THE LIVES THAT YOU'VE
01:39:56 TOUCHED. SO PLEASE LOOK BEHIND YOU.
01:39:58 LOOK AT THE CHILDREN, THE PARENTS, THE ALUMS.
01:40:18 >> ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE CITY OF
01:40:22 COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR ME FROM
01:40:23 SARAH FROM ALL THE FAMILIES HERE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE,
01:40:27 FOR YOUR WARMTH, FOR YOUR WISDOM AND FOR BEING YOU.
01:40:31 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
01:40:41 >> HOLD ON. SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD JACK I DON'T
01:40:45 KNOW YOU BUT I KNOW YOU THROUGH SUPERVISOR CHERYL AND I HEARD
01:40:49 SO MANY GOOD THINGS BUT I WOULDN'T LET UP THIS
01:40:53 OPPORTUNITY TO ASK A QUESTION WHICH IS IN SERVICE OF ALL
01:40:57 THESE KIDS. IT IS AMAZING THE PROFOUND
01:41:01 IMPACT CLEARLY THAT YOU'VE HAD ON GENERATIONS OF SAN
01:41:02 FRANCISCANS AND THEY'RE GOING TO REMEMBER YOU FOR YEARS
01:41:05 AND DECADES TO COME. >> BUT I ALWAYS LIKE TO TEASE
01:41:08 MY COLLEAGUE. >> SO WHAT GRADE WOULD YOU GIVE
01:41:12 SUPERVISOR CHERYL AS AS ONE OF THE PARENTS THAT COME TO YOUR
01:41:17 FACILITY AS A PARENT? YEAH, B-PLUS BUT IMPROVING.
01:41:29 >> KEEP THEM ON THEIR TOES. >> THE FLOOR IS YOURS.
01:41:39 I WAS ONLY TOLD ABOUT TEN MINUTES AGO THAT I HAVE AN
01:41:44 OPPORTUNITY TO TALK HERE TODAY AND WAS TOLD THAT I HAD TWO
01:41:50 MINUTES. SO THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW ME SO
01:41:54 MANY HERE IN THIS ROOM KNOW THAT ONCE I GET IN FRONT OF A
01:41:55 MICROPHONE IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO LIMIT MYSELF TO TWO
01:42:00 MINUTES SO I'LL ASK YOUR INDULGENCE BEFORE I EVEN BEGIN.
01:42:03 THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ESPECIALLY TO
01:42:10 SUPERVISOR CHERYL AND HIS WIFE SARA FOR THIS HONOR.
01:42:13 I AM DEEPLY, DEEPLY TOUCHED BY THE PRESENCE OF ALL OF YOU WHO
01:42:18 ARE HERE TODAY. WHAT CAN I SAY?
01:42:25 IT'S I ARRIVED FROM BOSTON TO SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SUMMER OF
01:42:32 1977 AND VERY QUICKLY FELT THAT I WAS AT HOME AND I FELT
01:42:39 WELCOMED AND EMBRACED IN A DEEP SENSE OF BEING AT HOME IN THIS
01:42:44 BEAUTIFUL CITY. AND I WAS FORTUNATE THAT JUST A
01:42:48 FEW WEEKS AFTER ARRIVING TO COME TO LONE MOUNTAIN
01:42:52 CHILDREN'S CENTER AND VERY QUICKLY FELT THIS WAS HOME AS
01:42:56 WELL. SO HOME IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS.
01:43:03 HOME IS WHAT YOU INVEST IN. HOME IS WHERE YOU LOVE AND ARE
01:43:07 LOVED. AND ALL OF YOU REPRESENT HOME
01:43:14 TO ME. AND IT'S HARD TO LEAVE HOME.
01:43:21 I'M SO I'M NOT LEAVING. I CARRY ALL OF YOU WITH ME
01:43:28 IN MY HEART. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE
01:43:33 PRIVILEGE OF ASSOCIATING WITH YOU OVER THESE 49 YEARS.
01:43:39 THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT WHICH IS MOST BELOVED TO YOU
01:43:46 WITH ME. >> IT'S THOSE CHILDREN IN MY
01:43:53 EXPERIENCE OF BEING WITH THEM EACH DAY.
01:43:55 OVER THESE LAST 49 YEARS THEN I'M GOING TO MISS THE MOST
01:44:01 BECAUSE TRULY THAT'S WHERE I TOUCH INTO MY HEART.
01:44:05 SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL HONOR.
01:44:09 THANK YOU, STEPHEN. THANK YOU, SARAH.
01:44:12 THANK YOU TO THE ENTIRE BOARD. THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE
01:44:17 HERE TODAY AND LET'S STAY IN TOUCH.
01:44:23 >> THANK YOU
01:44:58 . >> SUPERVISOR SHERYL IS
01:45:00 ENCOURAGING FOLKS TO GO OUTSIDE FOR A PHOTOGRAPH.
01:45:08 I GREW
01:46:05 IF ANYONE WANTS TO SIT DOWN WE DO HAVE SEATS AND WE ARE
01:46:10 NOWHERE NEAR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
01:46:13 I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE DENISON ANNIE HUANG AND THEIR KIDS
01:46:18 BIANCA AND CANDICE TO COME UP SO THEY STARTED OFF WITH DOING
01:46:35 IT ALL RIGHT. >> WE GOT THE WANG FAMILY TODAY
01:46:39 FOR THIS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE FOR THIS.
01:46:44 2026 AAPI HERITAGE MONTH. IT IS MY GREAT PRIVILEGE TO
01:46:48 PRESENT A SPECIAL COMMENDATION TO LESLIE AND THE WONG FAMILY.
01:46:53 >> FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES SINCE DENNIS AND ANNIE OPENED
01:46:56 IT, LESLIE HAS BEEN A FIXTURE IN SAN FRANCISCO'S FOOD SCENE
01:47:00 SERVING SAN FRANCISCANS. THE FLAVORS DENNIS CARRIED WITH
01:47:04 HIM FROM VIETNAM. DENNIS WAS 19 WHEN THE
01:47:07 VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT SEIZED HIS FAMILY'S NOODLE BUSINESS
01:47:08 IN CHI MINH CITY. THEIR LIVELIHOOD DISAPPEARED
01:47:12 OVERNIGHT. HE AND HIS BROTHER BRIBED
01:47:16 OFFICIALS, BOARDED A BOAT AND FLED.
01:47:19 >> PIRATES AMBUSHED THEM IN OPEN WATER AND TOOK
01:47:20 EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE GOLD BARS THAT HIS MOTHER HAD
01:47:23 PRESSED INTO HIS HANDS AS HE ESCAPE.
01:47:27 >> HE SPENT TWO YEARS IN A REFUGEE CAMP IN MALAYSIA BEFORE
01:47:31 ARRIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1981.
01:47:34 >> HERE HE TOOK ENGLISH CLASSES BY DAY AND WASH DISHES AT NIGHT
01:47:38 SENDING WHAT MONEY HE COULD BACK TO VIETNAM FOR HIS PARENTS
01:47:42 WHOM HE WOULD NOT SEE AGAIN FOR MORE THAN A DECADE.
01:47:45 >> EVENTUALLY HE WAS PROMOTED TO LINE COOK AND DEVELOPED HIS
01:47:49 CULINARY SKILLS. IN 1993 HE AND ANNIE, A HONG
01:47:53 KONG NATIVE AND FORMER INTERIOR DESIGN STUDENTS, OPENED LA SOUL
01:47:57 AT 133 CLEMENT STREET. THERE DENNIS RAN THE KITCHEN
01:48:03 WHILE ANNIE DESIGNED THE SPACE AND MANAGED THE FRONT OF THE
01:48:05 HOUSE. >> THEIR DAUGHTERS BIANCA
01:48:08 AND CANDICE GREW UP AT THE RESTAURANT AND ALTHOUGH THEY
01:48:12 DID INITIALLY GO THEIR OWN WAYS BIANCA TO PROFESSIONAL KITCHENS
01:48:16 AND CANDIES TO ART AND DESIGN. THEY WOULD RETURN WHEN THE
01:48:20 FAMILY OPENED A SECOND LOCATION CONGRATULATE ASIANS SUPERVISOR
01:48:23 MELGAR AT STONE'S TOWNE GALLERIA LAST SUMMER TO A FULL
01:48:27 HOUSE WITH WITH MAYOR LURIE THERE AS WELL.
01:48:31 >> AT STONE'S SOUND ANNIE WAS ABLE TO REALIZE A MORE
01:48:35 EXPANSIVE CREATIVE VISION 88 SEATS WITH A SPACE FEATURING
01:48:38 LIVE TREES AND FLOWERS. BIANCA WORKED WITH DENNIS TO
01:48:40 CREATE NEW MENU ITEMS BLENDING CLASSICS WITH CONTEMPORARY
01:48:43 DISHES INCLUDING A FOR RISOTTO THAT BECAME ONE OF THE
01:48:48 RESTAURANT'S MOST POPULAR ITEMS .
01:48:50 CANDICE DRAWING ON THE CHINESE BRUSH PAINTINGS SHE PRACTICED
01:48:52 GROWING UP, DESIGNED THE MENUS AND UNIFORMS AND TOGETHER THE
01:48:56 STONE'S TOWN LOCATION REFLECTS THE WHOLE FAMILY.
01:48:59 >> BUT LISA LEE'S REACH EXTENDS BEYOND SAN FRANCISCO.
01:49:05 IN 2007, REPRESENTATIVES OF A HONG KONG REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER
01:49:09 DINED AT LA SILLA AND WERE SO IMPRESSED THEY ASKED DENNIS TO
01:49:13 LICENSE THE CONCEPT FOR A RESTAURANT IN HONG KONG.
01:49:14 DENNIS AGREED AND THE HONG KONG LOCATION IS NOW CELEBRATING 19
01:49:20 YEARS OF SUCCESS. AND THEN ON JUNE 25TH A SECOND
01:49:23 INTERNATIONAL LOCATION IS SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN CHINA'S
01:49:27 YUNNAN PROVINCE. IT WAS MY GREAT PRIVILEGE
01:49:31 TRAVELING WITH SUPERVISOR CHAN BACK IN NOVEMBER TO ACTUALLY
01:49:36 SEE THE SITE WHERE ALL THE RESORT THAT'S BEING BUILT THAT
01:49:39 THIS RESTAURANT IS GOING TO BE PART OF AND I'M SO EXCITED FOR
01:49:42 THAT TO HAPPEN FOR YOU ALL AND FOR ALL THE FUTURE
01:49:47 SUCCESSES SO AND OTHER SUPERVISORS ARE GOING TO WANT
01:49:51 TO SPEAK BUT DENNIS, ANNIE, BIANCA AND CANDICE AND TO THE
01:49:55 WHOLE THE SELECT TEAM. ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF
01:49:59 SUPERVISORS AND THE CITY OF COUNTY CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
01:50:01 FRANCISCO, I WANT TO EXTEND MANY, MANY CONGRATULATIONS ON
01:50:05 ALL YOUR SUCCESSES AND BEST WISHES FOR MANY, MANY MORE.
01:50:08 AND NOW SUPERVISOR CHEN, THANK YOU.
01:50:16 >> THANK YOU BOARD PRESIDENT MANDO MAN I THINK I JUST WANT
01:50:20 TO OBSERVE THAT DENNIS AND HIS JOURNEY IS TRULY AN AMERICAN
01:50:24 STORIES LEARNING FROM FROM DENNIS FROM LEARNING HOW TO
01:50:28 CODE TO WORKING TIRELESSLY DAY AND NIGHT TO EVENTUALLY
01:50:32 BUILDING A RESTAURANT OF THEIR OWN.
01:50:35 THEIR JOURNEY WAS FILLED WITH STRUGGLES, UNCERTAINTIES
01:50:36 AND COUNTLESS SACRIFICES THAT MANY MAY NEVER HAVE SEEN.
01:50:41 AT THE SAME TIME. THEY WERE RIGHT.
01:50:45 THEY WERE RAISING THREE BEAUTIFUL KIDS BUILDING NOT
01:50:47 JUST A BUSINESS IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT A FAMILY AND A
01:50:49 FUTURE THROUGH HOTWIRE PERSEVERANCE, PERSEVERANCE
01:50:52 AND A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE. LE SOLEIL GREW FROM BELOVED
01:50:56 IN SAN FRANCISCO RESTAURANT INTO INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE
01:50:59 EXPANDING FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO HONG KONG AND NOW IN MAINLAND
01:51:04 KUNMING YUNNAN, CHINA. >> THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OUR
01:51:07 ENTIRE COMMUNITY CAN BE VERY PROUD OF.
01:51:11 >> AND YOUR STORY REMINDS US THAT IMMIGRANT STORIES ARE NOT
01:51:15 SMALL STORIES AND THEY HELP SHAPE OUR CITIES, OUR CULTURE
01:51:19 AND OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS. AND CONGRATULATION LESLIE.
01:51:23 CONGRATULATION ANY AND DENNIS AND MAY YOUR STORY CONTINUE TO
01:51:26 INSPIRE GENERATIONS TO COME. >> CONGRATULATION CANDICE
01:51:31 AND BIANCA. THANK YOU, NATHAN.
01:51:38 >> AND NOW THE FLOOR IS YOURS. >> I'M NERVOUS AND I SPEAKING
01:51:45 TOPIC. >> OH, OKAY.
01:51:49 OKAY. >> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
01:51:56 THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH
01:52:00 TO BEST THAN BENJAMIN AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR THIS
01:52:07 INCREDIBLE HONOR RECEIVING THIS COMMENDATIONS.
01:52:11 IT MEANS A LOT TO US OUR RESTAURANTS LASTLY HAS BEEN
01:52:15 SERVICE COMMITTEE FOR 33 YEARS ME, CHRISTINE RESTAURANTS TWO
01:52:22 YEARS OF POVERTY MEANS ABOUT 100 YEARS.
01:52:25 SOMEHOW WE SURVIVE CHANTING LABORERS RISING PRICES LONG
01:52:32 HOURS AND CUSTOMERS WHO STILL ASK WHY DOES FOOD TAKES TIME TO
01:52:35 CALL? >> BUT HONESTLY WE WOULD NOT
01:52:40 STILL BE HERE. WE OUR AMAZING STAFF IS LOYAL
01:52:47 CUSTOMERS FRIENDS AND FAMILIES THEN VACCINATIONS THEN BELONGS
01:52:51 TO ALL OF THEM TOO. >> OVER THE PAST 33 YEARS WE
01:52:58 HAVE WATCHING FAMILIES GROW OUR KIDS BECOME ADULTS AND SOME
01:53:02 CUSTOMERS PRACTICALLY BECOME PART OF OUR OWN FAMILY THAT IS
01:53:06 THE MOST REWARDING PART OF WHAT WE DO.
01:53:10 >> ONE THING OF RESTAURANTS THAT IS HEARTWARMING BUT BEEN
01:53:14 ABLE TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY HAS ALWAYS AND MEGHAN WOLF,
01:53:20 WHILE WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE SUPPORT, KINDNESS
01:53:24 AND LOVE, WE WILL SEE TO ALL OF THIS OUT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
01:53:28 >> THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS RECOGNITION AND THANK YOU
01:53:33 EVERYONE FOR CONTINUE TO SUPPORT SMALL LOCAL BUSINESS
01:53:36 LIKE US LOCAL BUSINESS ALLOWS AND OF COURSE PEACE COMING KEEP
01:53:41 COMING BACK HUNGRY. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:53:45 WELL THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
01:53:48 THANK YOU. WE'LL THANK YOU EVERY TIME SHE
01:54:36 SAYS THIS. OKAY, MADAM CLERK, LET'S GO TO
01:55:03 OUR 3 P.M. SPECIAL ORDER PLEASE CALL ITEMS 15 AND 16 ITEMS 15
01:55:09 AND 16 ARE COME COMPRISE OF A PUBLIC HEARING AND RESOLUTION
01:55:13 TO CONSIDER OBJECTIONS TO A REPORT CONTAINED IN ITEM 16.
01:55:18 >> DELINQUENT CHARGES FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT CASES WITH
01:55:21 DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT OF COSTS AND FEES SUBMITTED BY THE
01:55:25 DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING INSPECTION FOR
01:55:29 SERVICES RENDERED. THIS SPECIAL ORDER WAS
01:55:32 SCHEDULED PURSUANT TO A MOTION APPROVED ON APRIL 7TH, 2026.
01:55:39 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. COLLEAGUES, WE'RE NOW SITTING
01:55:40 AS A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE TO HOLD A HEARING ON THE REPORT OF
01:55:44 ASSESSMENT COSTS FOR BUILDING CODE ENFORCEMENT VIOLATIONS.
01:55:47 AND THE HEARING IS NOW OPEN AND WE'RE GOING TO START WITH
01:55:50 THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING INSPECTION.
01:55:52 >> WELCOME. THANK YOU.
01:55:55 PRESIDENT AND THE MEN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
01:55:58 GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS MATT LUTON.
01:55:59 I'M A SENIOR HOUSING INSPECTOR .
01:56:02 THIS IS THE 29TH YEAR THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING
01:56:03 INSPECTION IS BEFORE THIS BOARD REQUESTING THE IMPOSITION OF
01:56:09 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT LIENS. >> SO THIS IS THE 29TH YEAR THE
01:56:20 DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING INSPECTION IS BEFORE THIS BOARD
01:56:24 REQUESTING THE IMPOSITION OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENT LANDS ON
01:56:25 PROPERTIES FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT CASES.
01:56:29 PREVIOUSLY TRANSMITTED TO YOU IS THE REPORT OF DELINQUENT
01:56:33 CHARGES DATED APRIL 20TH, 2026. PRIOR TO TODAY'S HEARING TVI
01:56:40 HAS NOTICE THE LISTED PROPERTY OWNERS ON TWO SEPARATE
01:56:44 OCCASIONS AND HELD TWO IN-HOUSE HEARINGS FOR OWNERS TO DISCUSS
01:56:47 THEIR OUTSTANDING FEES. THE DEPARTMENT APPRECIATE YOUR
01:56:50 SUPPORT IN APPROVING THE REPORT OF DELINQUENT CHARGES AS THIS
01:56:57 IS A VERY IMPORTANT AND EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR COST
01:56:58 RECOVERY FOR TIME SPENT. ADDITIONALLY, I'D LIKE TO THANK
01:57:02 THE CLERK OF THE BOARD'S OFFICE FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE.
01:57:05 >> THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.
01:57:09 >> THANK YOU. WE'RE NOW GOING TO OPEN THIS UP
01:57:10 TO PUBLIC COMMENT. IF YOU'RE A MEMBER OF THE
01:57:14 PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 15 AND 16 THE LEAN
01:57:17 MATTER YOU CAN COME UP TO THE PODIUM OR LINE UP OVER TO YOUR
01:57:21 RIGHT OR LEFT MY LEFT. >> IF YOU'RE HERE TODAY FOR
01:57:25 THESE ITEMS BUT YOU DO NOT WANT TO PROVIDE PUBLIC TESTIMONY YOU
01:57:29 WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH GBI STAFF OUTSIDE
01:57:32 THE CHAMBER TO RESOLVE YOUR ISSUE.
01:57:36 PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN. ALL SPEAKERS ARE GOING TO BE
01:57:38 ALLOTTED TWO MINUTES TO PROVIDE THEIR COMMENTS.
01:57:40 MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE FIRST SPEAKER?
01:57:42 >> LET'S WELCOME OUR FIRST SPEAKER.
01:57:43 PLEASE COME ON UP TO THE PODIUM .
01:57:48 >> I'M A HALL NUMBER TEN. I OWN 201 ASHTON AVENUE ON THE
01:57:59 LIST NOT ON THE LIST. >> IN 2017 WE REPAIRED OUR
01:58:11 DILAPIDATED FENCE. WE ADDED SAFETY LIGHTING TO
01:58:15 ENHANCE NIGHTTIME PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ALONG THE SIDEWALK.
01:58:16 THE STYLE OF THE FENCE WAS CHOSEN TO PREVENT NUISANCE
01:58:20 VEGETABLE MATTER GRASS, WEEDS AND VEGETATION OVERGROWTH FROM
01:58:24 IMPINGING THE SIDEWALK AND THE INCREASED VISIBILITY AND SAFETY
01:58:27 OF THE REPAIRED FENCE. ALSO PROTECTS THE INGLESIDE
01:58:31 TERRACES LANDMARK PILLARS DURING THE FINAL STAGES OF THE
01:58:35 FENCE REPAIR. >> WHILE WE WERE STAINING THE
01:58:38 FENCE A NEIGHBOR FILED A311 COMPLAINT QUOTE THE RESIDENT AT
01:58:42 THIS ADDRESS HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY DOING CONSTRUCTION
01:58:45 AND PLAYING LOUD MUSIC FROM 10 A.M. TO 6 TO 7 P.M. MOST DAYS
01:58:49 OF THE WEEK I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THE MUSIC VOLUME BE
01:58:52 LOWERED OR TURNED OFF. >> I CAN HEAR IT IN MY
01:58:53 APARTMENT ALL DAY. >> DV I USE THIS MUSIC
01:58:57 COMPLAINT TO CONDUCT AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL SEARCH OF OUR
01:59:01 PROPERTY AND FILED A NOTICE OF VIOLATION REQUIRING A PERMIT TO
01:59:05 REPAIR THE FENCE. WE SUBMITTED THE MANDATED FENCE
01:59:08 REPAIR PERMIT BUT A VARIANCE WAS THEN MANDATED TO ALLOW THE
01:59:12 FOUR FOOT HEIGHT OF THE HISTORICALLY FOUR FOOT FENCE
01:59:14 AFTER THE VARIANCE WAS APPROVED.
01:59:17 DB I AM PLANNING APPROVED THE PERMIT BUT DPW PLACED A HOLD ON
01:59:20 THE PERMIT CLAIMING OUR PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT WAS INSTEAD AN
01:59:24 UNPAVED CITY SIDEWALK. IN ORDER TO MANDATE ONE A MINOR
01:59:28 SIDEWALK ENCROACHMENT PERMIT TO A BUILDING PLUMBING AN
01:59:32 EXCAVATION PERMIT TO REMOVE THE PERMITTED FIRE TABLE.
01:59:35 >> AND THREE AN EXCAVATION PERMIT TO REMOVE OUR ARBOR.
01:59:38 >> WHILE BUILDING CODE REQUIRES UNSAFE PROPERTY TO JUSTIFY A
01:59:43 NOTICE OF VIOLATION. DB I FILED A NOTICE OF
01:59:47 VIOLATION FOR SAFE PROPERTY AND THEN ISSUED AN ORDER OF
01:59:48 ABATEMENT FOR DPW WHOSE ILLEGAL HOLD ON THE FENCE REPAIR PERMIT
01:59:54 BASED ON DPW CLAIM OF AN INCONSISTENT THREE TIMES
01:59:58 CONCLUDED AND TO THE MEMBERS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING
01:59:59 INSPECTION HAS REPORTED TO US THAT THAT ADDRESS HAS BEEN
02:00:02 REMOVED FROM THE LIST. WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER.
02:00:12 THANK YOU. MY NAME IS NOELLE CARRASCO.
02:00:13 I'M THEIR PROPERTY OWNER OF THREE TOURS.
02:00:17 >> CAN YOU LIFT THAT THE MICROPHONE AND JUST SPEAK INTO
02:00:20 IT CLEARLY? THANK YOU.
02:00:22 MY PROPERTY IS 336338 PARNASSUS AVENUE.
02:00:26 I'M HERE BECAUSE MY CASE I BELIEVE THERE IS A CLEAR
02:00:30 VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS. I HAVE BEEN ASSESSED FEES FOR A
02:00:34 FOR SOMETHING THAT IS NOT ON MY PROPERTY.
02:00:38 I HAVE PROVIDED SURVEYORS REPORT TO THE CITY.
02:00:42 I HAVE A SIGNED MOTION BY A JUDGE SAYING THAT IT'S NOT ON
02:00:46 MY PROPERTY AND STILL AFTER FOUR YEARS I'M STILL GETTING
02:00:50 ASSESSMENT FEES. I ALWAYS SAY I ALWAYS GET FROM
02:00:55 THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT THEY SAY IT'S IN THE PROPERTY LINE.
02:00:58 DESPITE ME SHOWING THEM MY SURVEYORS REPORT AND THIS PART
02:01:02 OF ME HAVING A JUDGE RULING THAT IS NOT ON MY PROPERTY HAS
02:01:06 BEEN FOR YEARS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF
02:01:10 THIS. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AND CAN
02:01:13 CONVINCE ANYBODY. AND I'M HERE TO KNOW WHY AM I
02:01:17 HERE? IF NOT, I SHOULDN'T BE HERE TO
02:01:20 DEFEND MY INNOCENCE. THE ASSESSMENT FEES SHOULD BE
02:01:24 GIVEN WHEN THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO ASSESS THEM.
02:01:28 OTHERWISE WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST I MEAN I DON'T WANT TO THINK OF
02:01:33 A SCENARIO WHERE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
02:01:36 IF I DIDN'T COMMIT A VIOLATION ON MY PROPERTY I CANNOT ABATE
02:01:40 IT. I CANNOT ASK FOR A PERMIT FOR A
02:01:43 VIOLATION THAT IS NOT ON MY PROPERTY BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON MY
02:01:47 PROPERTY. IT'S REALLY GETTING A LITTLE
02:01:48 BIT REPETITIVE. >> BUT THAT HAS BEEN MY
02:01:51 SITUATION FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS.
02:01:54 >> THANK YOU SIR. CAN YOU JUST PUT TELL US YOUR
02:01:57 ADDRESS IN ON THE RECORD ONE MORE TIME?
02:01:58 WAS THAT HIGH STREET THREE 36 AND 338 PARNASSUS AVENUE.
02:02:04 PARNASSUS. OKAY.
02:02:08 THANK YOU. AND SO, SIR, YOU'RE WELCOME TO
02:02:09 GO INTO THE HALLWAY AND SPEAK WITH THE BUILDING INSPECTOR AS
02:02:12 THEY WILL ADDRESS YOUR ISSUES THERE.
02:02:15 >> WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER .
02:02:23 >> WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DARREN WINKY.
02:02:24 I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF MY MOTHER, SHELLY WINKY, THE
02:02:28 PROPERTY OWNER OF 2920 24TH AVENUE.
02:02:30 SHE IS UNABLE TO ATTEND TODAY DUE TO A MEDICAL APPOINTMENT
02:02:34 OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY. I HAVE HER WRITTEN
02:02:37 AUTHORIZATION TO REPRESENT HER. >> MY MOTHER RESPECTFULLY
02:02:41 REQUEST WAIVER OR SUSPENSION OF THE ASSESSMENT COSTS.
02:02:45 THE CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO THE VIOLATIONS WERE OUTSIDE HER
02:02:47 CONTROL. SHE WAS MEDICALLY INCAPACITATED
02:02:49 DURING THE COMPLIANCE PERIOD UNDERGOING MULTIPLE EYE
02:02:53 SURGERIES. >> THE DOWNSTAIRS TENANT
02:02:54 OBSTRUCTED ACCESS, DEMANDED PAYMENT FOR ENTRY AND FILED
02:02:58 FALSE COMPLAINTS WHICH DEBBIE LATER CONFIRMED WERE UNFOUNDED.
02:03:04 THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY TERMINATED ITS CONTRACT AFTER A
02:03:06 FALSE POSITIVE ACCUSATION LEAVING HER WITHOUT
02:03:09 REPRESENTATION WHILE SHE WAS INCAPACITATED.
02:03:13 ALL TENANTS HAVE NOW VACATED AND SHE IS PURSUING LEGAL
02:03:14 POSSESSION OF THE PROPERTY TO COMPLETE CORRECTIVE WORK.
02:03:20 >> GIVEN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES WE ASK THAT THE BOARD WAIVE OR
02:03:24 SUSPEND THE ASSESSMENT AND CONFIRM THAT NO LEAN WILL
02:03:25 BE RECORDED UNTIL LAWFUL POSSESSION IS RESTORED
02:03:28 AND REPAIRS CAN BE COMPLETED. MY MOTHER IS COMMITTED TO
02:03:32 BRINGING THE PROPERTY IN THE FULL COMPLIANCE ONCE ACCESS IS
02:03:36 AVAILABLE. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
02:03:40 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. OKAY.
02:03:43 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> HI.
02:03:51 MY NAME IS JEAN CATANIA. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF GERARD
02:03:55 GOETZE. HE'S THE OWNER OF 83 SUTTER
02:03:58 STREET. I'M HERE TODAY TO KIND OF
02:04:05 PROTEST THE WAY THIS NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS IN THE HOME DEALING
02:04:10 WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT HAS TRANSPIRED.
02:04:13 I HAVE DOCUMENTATION AND WHERE THERE IS THERE WAS A NOTICE OF
02:04:18 VIOLATIONS FOR PLUMBING WORK WITHOUT A PERMIT WHICH WAS DONE
02:04:21 BY ANOTHER CONTRACTOR AND IT WAS DONE AND THE NOTICE OF
02:04:25 VIOLATIONS GO BACK TO DECEMBER OF PRIOR TO DECEMBER OF 2024.
02:04:32 SO IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECTIFY THIS PROBLEM THAT THE OWNER
02:04:36 HIRED ME WHICH I ATTEMPTED TO PULL PERMIT I HAVE
02:04:40 DOCUMENTATION THAT I TRIED SINCE DECEMBER OF 2024 TO PULL
02:04:43 PERMITS. HOWEVER, WHEN I WENT THROUGH
02:04:47 THE WHOLE PROCESS OF EVERY STATION AT THE BUILDING
02:04:51 DEPARTMENT AND I GET TO WHERE TO PAY FOR THE PERMIT I WAS
02:04:54 TOLD THAT THAT THE USAGE WAS NOT CORRECT.
02:04:58 IT WAS IT WAS IN THE COMPUTER FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AS
02:04:59 A RESIDENTIAL. BUT WHEN I GOT TO PAY THEY SAID
02:05:03 NO, IT'S THE USAGE IS FOR OFFICE RETAIL.
02:05:09 SO I HAD TO GO BACK AND HAVE THAT HAVE AN ARCHITECT CHANGE
02:05:13 THE PLANS COME BACK WHICH TAKES TIME AND THERE WAS A TOTAL OF
02:05:19 FIVE TIMES WHERE I HAD TO HAVE AN ARCHITECT CHANGE PLANS
02:05:21 BECAUSE OF ERRORS WITHIN THE COMPUTERS IN THE BUILDING
02:05:24 DEPARTMENT. >> THEY ASSESSED THESE
02:05:27 PENALTIES WHICH I FEEL THAT ARE NOT FAIR BECAUSE THERE WAS
02:05:31 PROACTIVE WE WERE PROACTIVE IN TRYING TO RECTIFY THIS
02:05:35 PROBLEM. HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF ERRORS
02:05:35 WITHIN THE COMPUTER OF THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IT JUST
02:05:39 PROLONGED EVERYTHING TO WHERE THE ASSESSMENTS ARE NOW WE HAVE
02:05:43 LIKE THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT
02:05:47 ASSESSMENTS OF VIOLATIONS ONCE FOR PLUMBING ONES FOR UP TO
02:05:51 $10,000 FOR ONE IS FOR PLUMBING WITHOUT A PERMIT FOR ELECTRICAL
02:05:56 WITHOUT A PERMIT AND THEN THANK YOU SIR.
02:05:57 >> THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR COMMENTS TODAY.
02:06:00 YOU'RE WELCOME TO GO OUT INTO THE HALLWAY AND SPEAK TO THE
02:06:04 BUILDING INSPECTOR MATT LUTON. >> OKAY.
02:06:07 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. YES, GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:06:14 >> MY NAME IS DMITRI DUPUIS AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF
02:06:17 SALVATORE LETTORI, OWNER OF 1700 LOMBARD STREET.
02:06:21 THERE WERE SOME PERMIT VIOLATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN
02:06:22 CORRECTED FOR THE MOST PART. WE GOT TO SIGN OFF ON ALL OF
02:06:26 THEM MINUS HEALTH WHICH HAS BEEN CORRECTED AND THEY'RE
02:06:29 COMING BACK ON THURSDAY TO SIGN OFF ON THAT AND WE'LL HAVE
02:06:33 COMPLETION. >> SO JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT
02:06:34 TO THE ATTENTION. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
02:06:38 . THANK YOU.
02:06:42 >> WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKERS .
02:06:48 >> HELLO. MY NAME'S LOUIS VAUGHN.
02:06:49 I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF SAM TANNOCK REGARDING FILE NUMBER
02:06:55 260231. MR. TANNER OWNS A PROPERTY
02:06:59 IN SAN FRANCISCO. THERE WAS AN ISSUE REGARDING
02:07:03 THE LEGALITY OF A ADU UNIT IN THIS PROPERTY.
02:07:07 THIS STARTED I BELIEVE A YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO YEARS AGO
02:07:11 REGARDING THE NEED EITHER TO DEMOLISH UNIT OR TO MAKE IT
02:07:18 LEGAL. AND THIS A CANDIDATE TO BE
02:07:19 WORKING WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
02:07:22 SINCE THAT TIME ORIGINALLY HE'S UNDERSTANDING THAT THE UNITS
02:07:26 WILL BE DEMOLISHED AND HE APPLIED FOR A PERMIT TO GET THE
02:07:30 PROPERTY DEMOLISHED AND HE HAS GOT THAT PERMIT.
02:07:33 NOW THEY'RE SAYING THAT IT SHOULD BE NOT DEMOLISHED
02:07:36 AND SAYING THEY SHOULD LEGALIZE THE UNITS AND AND ARE ASSESSING
02:07:40 PENALTY FEES AND COSTS BECAUSE HE'S ABLE TO COMPLY WITH THAT.
02:07:44 SO I BELIEVE HE RECEIVED THIS LATEST LETTER SAYING THAT THEY
02:07:51 CAN PUT A LIEN ON THIS PROPERTY.
02:07:53 BUT I BELIEVE THAT HE HIMSELF DID NOT RECEIVE OR PRIOR TO
02:07:56 NOTICE OF WHAT THIS THESE COSTS ARE WHY HOW THEY GENERATE THESE
02:08:03 COSTS. I WOULD LIKE A IF POSSIBLE
02:08:04 CONTINUOUS MAYBE 60 DAYS TO WORK WITH THE BUILD DEPARTMENT
02:08:08 AND SEE WHETHER WE CAN RESOLVE THIS OLINE ISSUE AND HOPEFULLY
02:08:14 WHETHER EITHER GET IT AMENDED OR VACATE IT OR OR PAID OFF.
02:08:22 >> HE NEEDS HELP. CAN YOU TELL US THE ADDRESS FOR
02:08:25 930 BRUSSELS. >> 930 INTO THE MICROPHONE
02:08:28 PLEASE. 930 BRUSSELS STREET, SAN
02:08:31 FRANCISCO 94134. >> ALL RIGHT.
02:08:33 THANK YOU. AND IF YOU CAN GO OUT INTO THE
02:08:37 HALLWAY AND SPEAK TO THE BUILDING INSPECTOR MATT LUTON.
02:08:40 >> THANK YOU. SHOULD WE COME BACK AFTER WE'RE
02:08:41 DONE? MATT WILL RETURN THE BUILDING
02:08:44 INSPECTOR WILL RETURN WITH A WITH A REPORT THAT THE BOARD
02:08:46 WILL CONSIDER. THANK YOU.
02:08:49 THANK YOU. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKERS.
02:08:56 >> HELLO. MY NAME IS ABDULWAHAB AND I'M
02:09:00 HERE BEHAVIOR 26 AND 28 SIXTH STREET.
02:09:03 I'M THE BUSINESS OWNER FOR THE PLACE AND I'M HERE FOR THE
02:09:10 INSPECTION. THEY WANT TO LEND THE BUILDING
02:09:15 AND I BELIEVE SO VERY FAST THAT OLD TUNNEL HE STARTED WORKING
02:09:25 AND THEN HE SHUT DOWN THE BUSINESS AND THEN I GET THE
02:09:26 BUSINESS. WHEN I START I DID EVERYTHING
02:09:30 PERFECT. EVERYTHING WITH I HAVE
02:09:31 EVERYTHING DONE BUT I JUST RECEIVED THE VIOLATION AND I
02:09:37 HOPE THEY JUST TAKE IT AWAY. >> APOLOGIES SIR.
02:09:41 CAN YOU GIVE US THAT ADDRESS AGAIN?
02:09:45 >> IT'S 26 AND 26TH STREET SO IT'S TWO OTHER SPOTS ONE
02:09:51 BUILDING. >> THANK YOU, SIR.
02:10:06 WE'RE GOING TO COME TO YOU AND TRY TO GET A LITTLE CLARITY
02:10:08 ON THAT ADDRESS SO WE'LL SPEAK TO YOU AT THE AT THE O.
02:10:15 >> OKAY. HERE SHE COMES RIGHT NOW.
02:10:19 HI THERE. WELCOME.
02:10:26 OH, I'M FREDRICK CARDENAS. I'M HERE REPRESENTING BEL
02:10:28 PROPERTIES. >> WE HAVE TO WE HAVE QUITE A
02:10:31 BIT OF FEES AND FINES ON SOME PROPERTIES THAT THERE WAS NO
02:10:35 PEATOS PROMISE TO OPERATE BUT WE DO HAVE THE PROMISE TO
02:10:39 OPERATE SO WE WILL SEE IF WE COULD GET THOSE FEES REDUCED.
02:10:41 ALSO THERE'S A SECOND PROPERTY SAYING THERE WAS NO DEMO PERMIT
02:10:45 ALSO FEES AND FINES BUT WE DO HAVE THE DEMO PERMITS.
02:10:49 THEY'RE ON FILE. CAN YOU GIVE US THE ADDRESS?
02:10:52 YEAH, ONE OF THEM IS 1949 SUNNYDALE AVENUE.
02:10:58 >> SECOND ONE IS 1250 BUCHANAN STREET.
02:11:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> OKAY.
02:11:04 >> HEY, WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
02:11:08 >> HELLO. GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:11:11 MY NAME IS WILLIE SANCHEZ AND REPRESENTING MARIA BELTRAN
02:11:13 FOR PROPERTY 426 EDINBURG STREET.
02:11:16 I'M HERE TO SEE IF WE CAN GO AHEAD AND WAIVE THE ASSESSMENT.
02:11:20 WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING WITH OUR
02:11:24 CONTRACTORS FOR FIRST TIME FOR EXPERIENCE OUR HOUSE BEING
02:11:28 BURNT DOWN. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
02:11:31 GET EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL. I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH A LOT
02:11:34 OF LOOPHOLES AND FAILURES AND FINALLY I GOT SOMEBODY WHO
02:11:38 AND CONTRACTOR TO HELP US OUT BASED ON OUR FAMILY
02:11:42 RECOMMENDATIONS. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF WE
02:11:43 CAN PROCEED WITH THAT AND GET OUR ASSESSMENT WAIVED AT THE
02:11:46 MOMENT I KNOW WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THIS FOR MONTHS BUT I
02:11:50 THINK AT THIS POINT WE'RE AT THE RIGHT POINT TO KEEP GOING
02:11:53 NOW AND LIKE I SAID, I WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND HOPEFULLY
02:11:58 WE CAN GET THAT WAIVED OUT. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:12:01 YOU WANT TO GO BACK? >> ALL RIGHT.
02:12:04 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. WELCOME.
02:12:15 >> MY NAME IS OWEN SMITH AND THIS IS REGARDS TO MY
02:12:19 MOTHER LORRAINE SMITH TO ADDRESS 966 KEY AVENUE SAN
02:12:23 FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94124. WE HAD A MEETING AT 49 SOUTH
02:12:30 VAN NESS. THERE WAS SOME WORK DONE BY A
02:12:34 PLUMBER BUT THAT DONE DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, GET A CHANCE TO LOOK
02:12:38 AT IT. I HAD THE CONCRETE OPENED UP.
02:12:41 THE INSPECTOR CAME OUT AND INSPECTED IT AT THE TIME I
02:12:45 HAD DIABETES I WASN'T THERE BUT THE INSPECTOR WAS THERE AND THE
02:12:47 PLUMBER THE WORK WAS ACTUALLY DONE BUT I STILL HAVE AN
02:12:50 ASSESSMENT FEE OF $4,900 AND YOU SAID 966 IT WAS EXCUSE
02:12:59 ME THIS WAS AT 970 QI AVENUE. I'M SORRY.
02:13:02 OKAY. 970 QI AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO,
02:13:08 CALIFORNIA 94124 AND THE WORK IS COMPLETED AND THE INSPECTOR
02:13:12 WAS THERE LAST WEEK. LAST TUESDAY.
02:13:15 >> OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU.
02:13:16 WE HAVE YOUR ADDRESS. AND SO IF YOU GO INTO THE
02:13:19 HALLWAY AND SPEAK TO THE INSPECTORS THERE THANK YOU VERY
02:13:21 MUCH. THANK YOU, SIR.
02:13:22 >> WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER .
02:13:26 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS KWONG LEE.
02:13:31 I'M THE OWNER OF 229 LEE AVENUE.
02:13:33 THE REASON I COME IS THE ACCESS ME WITH THE 6740 PROPERTY BUT I
02:13:40 WOULD TRY TO FIX IT. THEY WON'T LET ME IN AND THEN
02:13:44 THE LAST SIX MONTHS SIX YEARS I DIDN'T COLLECT ANY RENT THE
02:13:50 TENANT GIVES STAY IN THERE AND THEY DON'T PAY ANY RENT
02:13:53 AND I COULD NOT GET THEM OUT AND THEN THEY FINALLY LEFT
02:13:55 ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO AND I STILL LEAVE THE DOCK
02:13:59 AND ALL THE CAR IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE AND THEN FINALLY I GOT
02:14:02 THEM OUT ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AGO. SO I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU
02:14:05 CAN HELP ME TO REDO THE ASSESSMENT OF THE COSTS.
02:14:08 THANK YOU, SIR. >> YOU INDICATED 2390 NO.
02:14:14 229 LEE AVENUE 229 LEE AVENUE. >> YES.
02:14:21 THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE YOUR ADDRESS IF YOU
02:14:22 CAN. THANK YOU TO THE HALLWAY
02:14:25 AND SPEAK TO THE GENTLEMAN OUT THERE.
02:14:26 >> THANK YOU. OKAY.
02:14:28 WELCOME, SIR. GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:14:32 MY NAME IS ARMAND PANTALEON AND I'M HERE WITH REGARDS TO
02:14:39 525 O'FARRELL. AND THIS IS A REQUEST TO WAIVE
02:14:43 PENALTIES THAT WE INCURRED JUST TO EXPLAIN WAY BACK IN OCTOBER
02:14:46 WE WERE WORKING WITH THE STATE TO GET AN OPERATOR UPGRADE
02:14:53 PERMIT FOR OUR ELEVATOR. AND DURING THAT TIME THE STATE
02:14:57 SHUT DOWN OUR LOAN ELEVATOR AND BUT IT WAS WORKING BEFORE
02:15:05 IT JUST FOR SAFETY REASON THEY ASKED US TO STOP USING IT UNTIL
02:15:09 WE CONDUCTED NECESSARY TEST WE WHICH WE DID BY NOVEMBER BUT
02:15:17 THERE WASN'T AN INSPECTOR FROM THE FBI THAT SHOWED UP SOMETIME
02:15:22 IN DECEMBER THROUGH I THINK THROUGH OUR COMPLAINT SUBMITTED
02:15:28 BY ONE OF OUR TENANTS. BUT HE DIDN'T TEST THE
02:15:32 ELEVATOR. THE ELEVATOR WAS WORKING.
02:15:33 IT WAS ALREADY WORKING DURING THAT TIME AND I THINK IT'S JUST
02:15:36 THE COMMUNICATION THING THAT YEAH I UNTIL NOW LIKE I'M STILL
02:15:46 WAITING UP FOR A RESPONSE TO THE EMAIL REQUEST.
02:15:49 >> I'VE SAID LIKE MORE THAN FIVE WEEKS AGO.
02:15:53 >> OKAY WELL THANK YOU FOR COMING DOWN TODAY.
02:15:54 CAN YOU GO INTO THE HALLWAY AND WORK WITH THE BUILDING
02:15:57 INSPECTOR THERE? THANK YOU.
02:16:01 >> YOU'RE WELCOME. ARE THERE ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF
02:16:02 THE PUBLIC WHO'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE DEPARTMENT OF
02:16:05 BUILDING INSPECTION DELINQUENT CHARGES FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT
02:16:09 VIOLATIONS OR ANY ASSOCIATED FEES?
02:16:13 >> OKAY, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
02:16:14 PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED AND ITEM NUMBER 15 HAS BEEN
02:16:20 HEARD AND IS NOW FILED. >> SO IF THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
02:16:28 WISH TO SPEAK WITH DBA STAFF REGARDING THE THE ASSESSMENT ON
02:16:29 THEIR PROPERTY, I'D ASK YOU TO GO OUT INTO THE HALLWAY NOW
02:16:33 AND STAFF IS THERE TO SPEAK WITH YOU AND WE WILL COME BACK
02:16:36 TO ITEM NUMBER 16 LATER IN THE MEETING.
02:16:45 >> AND WITH THAT, MADAM CLERK, I THINK WE GO BACK TO ROLL CALL
02:16:50 AND SUPERVISOR DORSEY YES MR. PRESIDENT.
02:16:54 >> EXCUSE ME SUPERVISOR DORSEY .
02:16:57 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. COLLEAGUES I HAVE AN
02:17:00 IN MEMORIAM TODAY FOR JACK DAVIS.
02:17:04 JACK WAS MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY.
02:17:08 FEARED, ADMIRED, LOATHED. LOVED SOMETIMES ALL FOUR IN THE
02:17:12 SAME PERSON SOMETIMES ALL FOUR IN THE SAME WEEK.
02:17:14 HE ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1972 THE WAY MANY OF US DO
02:17:18 WITH NOT MUCH MONEY A COMPLICATED FAMILY STORY
02:17:21 AND THE SENSE THAT THIS WAS ONE CITY IN THE WORLD WHERE HE
02:17:25 COULD BECOME EXACTLY WHO HE WAS HIS CAR WAS STOLEN HIS FIRST
02:17:28 NIGHT HERE OUTSIDE OF THE STUD ON FOLSOM STREET.
02:17:32 HE STAYED ANYWAY AND THAT PERHAPS TELLS YOU SOMETHING.
02:17:33 HE CAME TO THE CITY AS A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND AN IDEALIST
02:17:37 AND HE NEVER FULLY SHARED EITHER OF THOSE THINGS EVEN AS
02:17:41 HE BECAME SOMETHING MUCH HARDER TO CATEGORIZE A LEGENDARY BARE
02:17:45 KNUCKLED POLITICAL BRAWLER HE WORKED FOR CONSERVATIVES
02:17:49 AND LIBERALS FOR LANDLORDS AND LABOR FOR FRANK JORDAN
02:17:52 AND WILLIE BROWN SOMETIMES SEQUENTIALLY ALWAYS
02:17:55 STRATEGICALLY. SOME PEOPLE CALLED THAT
02:17:56 OPPORTUNISM. JACK CALLED IT UNDERSTANDING
02:17:59 HOW THE CITY ACTUALLY WORKS AND HE DID UNDERSTAND IT BETTER
02:18:03 THAN ALMOST ANYONE. HE WAS ALSO BY ALL ACCOUNTS A
02:18:07 HANDFUL. HE KNEW IT, HE SAID SO HE NAMED
02:18:08 HIS BOAT ELECTION NIGHT. THAT'S NIGHT WITH THE K AND AS
02:18:11 HE SAID IN 2000 TO SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE REPORTER
02:18:15 SUSAN SWARD THOSE WERE THE WORDS HE'D PUT ON HIS TOMBSTONE
02:18:19 NOT BECAUSE HE WAS MODEST BUT BECAUSE HE WAS HONEST.
02:18:22 WINNING WAS THE THING AND HE WANTED CREDIT FOR IT.
02:18:26 I MET JACK DAVIS ONLY ON A FEW OCCASIONS DURING MY OWN EARLY
02:18:29 YEARS IN SAN FRANCISCO POLITICS AND I HAD A LOT MORE
02:18:31 FAMILIARITY WITH THIS REPUTATION THAN I DID WITH HIM
02:18:35 PERSONALLY. BUT WHAT CONSISTENTLY EMERGES
02:18:37 FROM THE REMEMBRANCES I HAVE HEARD OF HIM IS THAT JACK DAVIS
02:18:41 ALWAYS SHOWED UP. HE SHOWED UP FOR WILLIE BROWN
02:18:42 WHEN IT WAS A RISK HE SHOWED UP FOR GAVIN NEWSOM WHEN THE MATH
02:18:46 DIDN'T LOOK GOOD HE SHOWED UP FOR CAUSES HE BELIEVED IN IN
02:18:49 THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION FIGHT IN FLORIDA, IN THE STADIUM
02:18:53 CAMPAIGNS, IN THE EARLY COALITIONS THAT HELPED TO MAKE
02:18:57 SAN FRANCISCO A CITY WHERE A MAN LIKE JACK DAVIS COULD LIVE
02:18:58 OPENLY AND BUILD SOMETHING REMARKABLE.
02:19:01 HE WAS NOT A SAINT AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST TO TELL YOU
02:19:05 THAT PROBABLY WITH SOME RELISH. BUT HE WAS OURS A GENUINE SAN
02:19:08 FRANCISCO ORIGINAL A KIND OUR CITY DOESN'T SEEM TO PRODUCE
02:19:12 MANY OF THESE DAYS AND PERHAPS THAT'S NOT AN ENTIRELY BAD
02:19:13 THING WHEN HE PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK, JACK DAVIS HAD JUST
02:19:17 TURNED 79 YEARS OLD. HE SPENT THE MAJORITY OF THOSE
02:19:20 YEARS SHAPING OUR CITY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AND HOWEVER 1ST
02:19:23 MAY FEEL ABOUT HIS METHODS, THE RESULTS OF HIS POLITICAL
02:19:27 EFFORTS ARE WRITTEN INDELIBLY IN THE STREETS NEIGHBORHOOD
02:19:31 AND SKYLINE OF THE CITY WE LOVE.
02:19:32 REST IN PEACE ELECTION NIGHT AND MAY YOUR MEMORY BE A
02:19:36 BLESSING AND THE REST I SUBMIT .
02:19:39 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR DORSEY, PLEASE HOLD
02:19:43 YOUR APPLAUSE THERE. WE DO HAVE A BOARD RULE THAT
02:19:47 WHEN WE'RE CONDUCTING ROUTINE BUSINESS WE DO NOT APPLAUSE.
02:19:50 THAT ONLY HAPPENS DURING COMMENDATIONS.
02:19:54 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD.
02:19:57 COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE ARE WATCHING POLITICIANS
02:20:03 TURN HEALTH CARE IDENTITY AND SELF-EXPRESSION INTO
02:20:06 GROUNDS FOR PUNISHMENT. >> AND AT LEAST 13 STATES
02:20:10 ABORTION IS NOW BANNED ENTIRELY AND ENFORCED WITH CRIMINAL
02:20:14 PENALTIES. ACROSS THE COUNTRY PEOPLE ARE
02:20:18 BEING INVESTIGATED, PROSECUTED AND CRIMINALIZED FOR SEEKING
02:20:22 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, EXPERIENCING MISCARRIAGE OR
02:20:26 SIMPLY HELPING SOMEONE ACCESS CARE.
02:20:30 >> AT THE SAME TIME, MORE THAN 28 ANTI-TRANS BILLS HAVE
02:20:34 ALREADY BEEN PASSED IN 2026 ALONE TARGETING GENDER
02:20:37 AFFIRMING CARE. DRAG PERFORMANCE AND LGBTQ PLUS
02:20:41 EXPRESSION. >> AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE
02:20:42 CRIMINALIZED UNDER THESE DISCRIMINATORY LAWS THOSE
02:20:46 CONVICTIONS CAN FOLLOW THEM LONG AFTER THEY LEAVE THOSE
02:20:50 STATES. THEY CAN FOLLOW SOMEONE INTO A
02:20:51 JOB INTERVIEW, INTO AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPLICATION
02:20:54 INTO EVERY ATTEMPT TO REBUILD THEIR LIFE SAFELY AND WITH
02:20:58 DIGNITY. SAN FRANCISCO HAS LONG BEEN A
02:21:02 REFUGE FOR PEOPLE SEEKING FREEDOM, SAFETY AND OPPORTUNITY
02:21:06 . AND WE MUST ENSURE THAT
02:21:07 DISCRIMINATORY LAWS FROM OTHER STATES DO NOT CONTINUE HARMING
02:21:10 PEOPLE ONCE THEY ARRIVE HERE. THAT'S WHY TODAY I AM
02:21:14 INTRODUCING LEGISLATION TO STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND SAN
02:21:17 FRANCISCO'S FAIR CHANCE ORDINANCE.
02:21:18 THE CURRENT FAIR CHANCE ORDINANCE LIMITS HOW EMPLOYERS
02:21:21 EMPLOYERS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS CAN USE CRIMINAL
02:21:25 HISTORY IN EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING DECISIONS.
02:21:28 >> THIS LEGISLATION UPDATES THAT FRAMEWORK TO RESPOND TO
02:21:29 THE CHANGING LEGAL LANDSCAPE THAT WE SEE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
02:21:33 >> SPECIFICALLY THIS LEGISLATION MAKES CLEAR THAT
02:21:37 EMPLOYERS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS IN SAN
02:21:39 FRANCISCO CANNOT USE OUT OF STATE CONVICTIONS RELATED TO
02:21:41 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, GENDER AFFIRMING CARE, DRUG
02:21:44 PERFORMANCE OR GENDER EXPRESSION AS A BASIS TO DENY
02:21:48 SOMEONE EMPLOYMENT OR AFFORDABLE HOUSING WHEN THAT
02:21:52 CONDUCT IS LAWFUL IN CALIFORNIA .
02:21:55 >> THIS LEGISLATION STRENGTHENS DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS FOR
02:21:57 APPLICANTS OR CLARIFIES TIMELINES FOR RECONSIDERATION
02:22:00 WHEN BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE INACCURATE OR IMPROPERLY USED
02:22:04 AND STRENGTHENS PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.
02:22:08 >> AND IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT WE ARE ALREADY SEEING MORE
02:22:11 TRANSGENDER PEOPLE LGBTQ PLUS PEOPLE AND WOMEN RELOCATE TO
02:22:15 CITIES LIKE SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE OF ESCALATING ATTACKS
02:22:19 ON THEIR RIGHTS IN OTHER STATES.
02:22:20 A RECENT NATIONAL SURVEY ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN
02:22:23 400,000 TRANSGENDER AMERICANS HAVE RELOCATED SINCE THE 2024
02:22:27 ELECTION DUE TO ANTI-TRANS LAWS AND POLICIES IN THEIR HOME
02:22:30 STATES. THUS THAT DISCRIMINATION SHOULD
02:22:34 NOT FOLLOW PEOPLE HERE. AT ITS CORE THIS LEGISLATION IS
02:22:39 ABOUT DIGNITY. IT IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT
02:22:40 PEOPLE ARE NOT PERMANENTLY PUNISHED FOR WHO THEY ARE, HOW
02:22:43 THEY IDENTIFY OR THE HEALTH CARE THAT GAVE OR SOUGHT OR THE
02:22:47 WAY THEY EXPRESS THEMSELVES. >> THIS LEGISLATION WAS
02:22:51 DEVELOPED IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS
02:22:54 COMMISSION AND THE OFFICE OF TRANSGENDER INITIATIVES.
02:22:55 I WANT TO SPECIALLY THANK HONEY MAHOGANY FOR HER LEADERSHIP
02:22:58 AND ADVOCACY AND CONTINUED WORK FIGHTING FOR TRANSGENDER SAN
02:23:02 FRANCISCANS AND THE BROADER LGBTQ COMMUNITY DURING THIS
02:23:05 INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT MOMENT NATIONALLY.
02:23:07 ALSO WANT TO THINK MOLEY AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
02:23:10 FOR THEIR COLLABORATION IN SHAPING THIS LEGISLATION
02:23:13 AND FOR THEIR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO ADVANCING CIVIL
02:23:17 RIGHTS PROTECTIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO AS WELL AS OUR
02:23:18 DRAFTING ATTORNEY DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY BRIANNA VOSS.
02:23:21 A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO JUDE DIEBOLD FOR BEING THE
02:23:25 PRIMARY DRAFTER OF THIS LEGISLATION AND FOR THE
02:23:28 TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF LEGAL AND POLICY WORK THAT THEY
02:23:32 DEDICATED LEADING UP TO TODAY. >> FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
02:23:36 >> THANK YOU AS WELL TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
02:23:37 AND ADVOCATES WHO HELPED INFORM THIS EFFORT INCLUDING PLANNED
02:23:40 PARENTHOOD LEGAL SERVICES FOR PRISONERS WITH CHILDREN, THE
02:23:44 TRANS LAW CENTER AND THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT.
02:23:48 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEPARTMENT ON THE STATUS OF
02:23:49 WOMEN AND ALL OF THE ORGANIZERS ,ADVOCATES, LEGAL EXPERTS
02:23:52 AND IMPACTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE PUSHED THE CITY TO
02:23:56 MODERNIZE AND STRENGTHEN THE FAIR CHANCE ORDINANCE.
02:23:59 AND I WANT TO RECOGNIZE FORMER SUPERVISOR JANE KIM AND HER
02:24:01 OFFICE FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP IN HELPING ESTABLISH THE
02:24:04 ORIGINAL FAIR CHANCE ORDINANCE FRAMEWORK YEARS AGO.
02:24:07 THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUE SUPERVISOR DORSEY FOR YOUR
02:24:08 EARLY CO-SPONSORSHIP. AND I WANT TO THANK MY STAFF
02:24:12 WILL MACPHEE AND CASSANDRA MOTTER FROM MY OFFICE FOR THEIR
02:24:15 WORK ON THIS LEGISLATION. >> BECAUSE SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD
02:24:20 BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN REBUILD THEIR LIVES WITH
02:24:22 DIGNITY AND OPPORTUNITY, NOT CONTINUE TO FACE DISCRIMINATION
02:24:26 BECAUSE OF EXTREMIST LAWS SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY.
02:24:27 COLLEAGUES, I URGE YOUR SUPPORT NOT JUST FOR THIS LEGISLATION
02:24:31 BUT TO ENSURE THAT SAN FRANCISCO REMAINS A CITY WHERE
02:24:34 EVERYONE CAN LIVE OPENLY, SAFELY AND FREE FROM
02:24:37 DISCRIMINATION. >> SECOND, COLLEAGUES, I WANT
02:24:41 TO TURN TO HOUSING BECAUSE HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO UNFORTUNATELY
02:24:47 IT SEEMS WE OFTEN LIKE TO DO THINGS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
02:24:51 WE TOOK NORMAL BREAD AND MADE IT SOUR.
02:24:52 WE USED MILE LONG CABLES TO DRAG CARS OVER THE HILLS
02:24:58 AND OVER THE WEEKEND WE EVEN TURNED A NORMAL ROAD RACE
02:25:00 ACROSS THE CITY INTO A MOBILE COSTUME PARTY.
02:25:03 >> AND WE COULDN'T JUST IMPLEMENT UNFORTUNATELY THE
02:25:07 SEQUEL ACT AS IT WAS WRITTEN. >> NO, WE HAD TO PUT OUR OWN
02:25:10 SAN FRANCISCO FLOURISH ONTO IT. >> WHILE THE STATE SAYS
02:25:14 PROJECTS HAVE TO BE HAVE A HEARING FOR FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL
02:25:15 IMPACT REPORTS, SAN FRANCISCO SAID THAT DRAFT REPORT SHOULD
02:25:19 NEED A HEARING TO IN SAN FRANCISCO MAILINGS AND ONLINE
02:25:22 POSTINGS APPARENTLY ARE NOT ENOUGH NOTIFICATION.
02:25:25 THE CITY NEEDS TO RUN ADS IN THE NEWSPAPER EVERY TIME THE
02:25:30 PLANNING DEPARTMENT DETERMINES THAT A PROJECT NEEDS TO FILE AN
02:25:31 AIR. AND THE STATE SAYS THAT SHADOWS
02:25:34 AREN'T PART OF THE ENVIRONMENT .
02:25:36 BUT HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO, PROJECTS HAVE TO TREAT THE
02:25:38 SHADE A BUILDING CREATES JUST LIKE WE WOULD HAVE TO TREAT
02:25:41 TOXIC SOIL OR ANY OTHER SERIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD.
02:25:46 AND THOSE WHO WISH TO SLOW OR STOP A PROJECT HAVE LEGITIMATE
02:25:49 GROUNDS FOR APPEAL IF THEY'RE NOT SUFFICIENTLY ADDRESSED.
02:25:53 >> THESE SPECIAL RULES AND PROCEDURES MAKE SAN
02:25:54 FRANCISCO STAND OUT IN ALL THE WRONG WAYS AND CONTRIBUTE TO A
02:25:58 BUILDING ENVIRONMENT THAT IS ALLERGIC TO NEW HOUSING.
02:26:01 >> THE SLASHING HOUSING APPEALS AND DELAYS EVERYWHERE ACT OR
02:26:05 SHADE ACT FOR SHORT BRINGS APPEAL TIMELINES, HEARING
02:26:09 FREQUENCY AND NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS IN LINE WITH STATE
02:26:12 LAW. >> PROJECTS CAN TAKE A FEW
02:26:13 STEPS OUT OF THEIR APPROVAL TIMELINES WHILE NOT SACRIFICING
02:26:17 THE BEDROCK PRINCIPLES THAT UNDERLINE SEQUA.
02:26:20 PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT ALSO TAKES SHADE OUT OF THE
02:26:24 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS THUS REDUCING THE EFFICACY
02:26:28 AND THEREFORE LIKELIHOOD OF LENGTHY APPEALS.
02:26:29 >> SINCE 2017 SIX APPEALS INVOLVING SHADOW ANALYSIS HAVE
02:26:35 LED TO DELAYING OR STALLING 2195 USING ITS HOUSING CITYWIDE
02:26:39 OVER A DOZEN PROJECTS. WHEN PROJECTS HAVE TO NAVIGATE
02:26:43 THESE EXTRA LAYERS OF PROCESS AND ARE INVITED TO BE APPEALED
02:26:47 OVER HOW MUCH SHADE THEY CREATE, WE LOSE AS A CITY
02:26:51 HOUSING THAT CAN HELP TACKLE OUR AFFORDABILITY CRISIS GET
02:26:52 STOPPED OR FACES COSTLY DELAYS. >> WHAT'S MORE IS THAT WHEN WE
02:26:56 CONTRIBUTE TO MAKING SAN FRANCISCO A HARDER CITY TO
02:26:59 BUILD IN, WE'RE PUSHING DEVELOPMENT ONTO THE UNSPOILED
02:27:02 CALIFORNIA GREEN SPACE THAT CEQA WAS DESIGNED TO PROTECT
02:27:06 OUR OWN HOUSING ELEMENT AND GUIDANCE FROM THE
02:27:07 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
02:27:10 DEVELOPMENT AGREE IT'S TIME TO PEEL BACK THE LAYERS OF LOCAL
02:27:14 PROCESS IN OUR LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION OF SEQUA.
02:27:15 >> I WANT TO THANK LISA GIBSON AND THE REST OF THE
02:27:18 ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING TEAM AND LISA GLUCKSTEIN FROM THE
02:27:22 GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS AT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS
02:27:23 OUR DRAFTING ATTORNEY DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY ANDREA RUIZ
02:27:26 ESQUEDA. I ALSO WANT TO THANK RENO
02:27:30 COOPER FOR MY OFFICE FOR HIS WORK ON THIS AND SUPERVISORS
02:27:33 DORSEY AND SADR FOR THEIR EARLY CO-SPONSORSHIP.
02:27:36 COLLEAGUES I ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND HELPING SAN
02:27:37 FRANCISCO GET OVER THE FEAR OF ITS OWN SHADOW AND PROCESS.
02:27:41 >> THE REST I SUBMIT. THANK YOU.
02:27:42 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD SUPERVISOR OF RANDLEMAN.
02:27:47 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK AND COLLEAGUES TODAY ALONG WITH
02:27:51 CO-SPONSORS. >> WELL ACTUALLY BEFORE I DO
02:27:52 THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED IF SUPERVISOR DORSEY DOES NOT
02:27:55 MIND TO HIS IN MEMORIAM FOR JACK DAVIS BUT ALSO TODAY ALONG
02:28:02 WITH CO-SPONSORS BELAL MAHMOOD AND MYRNA MELGAR I AM
02:28:06 INTRODUCING A CHARTER AMENDMENT TO MAKE APPROXIMATELY 110
02:28:09 DISCRETE, TECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL REFORMS TO OUR
02:28:13 CITY CHARTER. SOME OF THESE CHANGES CAME
02:28:17 DIRECTLY FROM THE CITY DEPARTMENTS WHICH AFTER ALL ARE
02:28:21 MADE UP OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO THE WORK OF DELIVERING FOR OUR
02:28:23 PUBLIC EVERY DAY AND KNOW BETTER THAN ANYONE WHERE THE
02:28:26 CHARTER IS CREATING FRICTION AND WHERE IT CAN BE CHANGED FOR
02:28:29 BETTER OPERATIONS. SOME RECOMMENDATIONS CAME FROM
02:28:32 THE PROPOSITION E COMMISSION STREAMLINING TASK FORCE WHICH
02:28:36 AS YOU KNOW SPENT A LOT OF TIME AND CONCENTRATED EFFORT
02:28:37 EVALUATING THE CITY'S BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND MAKING
02:28:41 RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT WHICH OF THEM BELONG IN THE CHARTER,
02:28:44 WHICH BELONG IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND WHICH
02:28:45 SHOULD BE ELIMINATED ALTOGETHER .
02:28:48 >> WE DID NOT ACCEPT ALL OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS BUT WE
02:28:49 ARE GRATEFUL FOR THEIR WORK. >> I WANT TO THANK SUPERVISORS
02:28:53 MAHMOOD AND CHEN FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE CHARTER
02:28:57 REFORM WORKING GROUP WHICH BROUGHT TOGETHER STAKEHOLDERS
02:29:00 FROM ACROSS THE CITY TO CONSIDER A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES
02:29:03 IN OUR CHARTER AND POSSIBLE RESPONSES TO THOSE CHALLENGES.
02:29:07 AND THAT WORK HAS ALSO INFORMED THE MEASURE WE'RE INTRODUCING
02:29:08 TODAY. I WANT TO RECOGNIZE SUPERVISOR
02:29:11 MAHMUD IN PARTICULAR FOR HIS PARTNERSHIP AND THINKING
02:29:15 THROUGH SOME OF THE POSSIBILITIES FOR DEPARTMENTAL
02:29:16 REFORM. WE'VE EVALUATED THROUGH THIS
02:29:18 PROCESS AND I WANT TO THANK SUPERVISOR MELGAR IN PARTICULAR
02:29:22 FOR HER LEADERSHIP AROUND A SET OF CHANGES FOCUSED ON HOW
02:29:26 DEPARTMENTS AND COMMISSIONS SERVING CHILDREN AND YOUTH CAN
02:29:30 DO SO BETTER. >> THE MEASURE IS BETTER FOR
02:29:33 THEIR WORK AND THEIR TEAMS WORK ON IT.
02:29:37 >> THE CHANGES WE ARE PROPOSING FALL INTO THREE BROADER BROAD
02:29:40 CATEGORIES. THE FIRST I WOULD SAY IS
02:29:43 MODERNIZATION AND CLEANUP. THESE AMENDMENTS ARE TRULY
02:29:47 CLEAN UP UPDATING THE CHARTER TO REFLECT CURRENT CONDITIONS
02:29:48 INCORRECT REFERENCES AND MANY OUT-OF-DATE PROVISIONS.
02:29:51 HERE'S AN EXAMPLE. THE CHARTER CURRENTLY INCLUDES
02:29:55 A SECTION THAT MANDATES THAT THERE BE A BOOKBINDER POSITION
02:29:58 IN THE LAW LIBRARY. THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE
02:30:02 IN 2026 AND IT ALTHOUGH IT DOES MAKE SENSE PERHAPS TO HAVE
02:30:06 LANGUAGE FOR SOMETHING MORE EVERGREEN LIKE A TECHNICAL
02:30:07 SERVICES MANAGER. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE.
02:30:10 A SECOND CATEGORY OF CHANGES ADDRESSES DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC
02:30:14 PAIN POINTS. AND AS I SAID, THESE ARE BASED
02:30:17 ON FEEDBACK FROM DEPARTMENTS ON THEIR SPECIFIC SECTIONS IN THE
02:30:19 CHARTER. WE HAVE WORKED WITH THEM TO
02:30:22 DETERMINE WHERE WE COULD MAKE SOME OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS
02:30:26 REQUESTED THAT THEY'D REQUESTED TO BETTER ENABLE SERVICE
02:30:29 DELIVERY AND THAT COULD IN ONE EXAMPLE LOOKS LIKE UPDATING
02:30:33 MUNI'S CHARTER MANDATED SERVICE STANDARDS TO REFLECT HOW MODERN
02:30:37 TRANSIT AGENCIES MEASURE PERFORMANCE.
02:30:40 THE CURRENT ON TIME PERFORMANCE METRIC IN THE CHARTER HAS BEEN
02:30:44 INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZED AS AN INCOMPLETE MEASURE OF WRITER
02:30:45 EXPERIENCE. THE AMENDMENT INCLUDED IN THIS
02:30:48 CHARTER REFORM MEASURE ALLOWS MTA TO ADOPT OTHER STANDARDS
02:30:52 SUCH AS WEIGHT ASSESSMENTS WHICH MEASURE HOW LONG RIDERS
02:30:55 WAIT BETWEEN VEHICLES PROVIDING A MORE ACCURATE PICTURE OF
02:30:59 SERVICE QUALITY. >> THIRD AND FINALLY WE DID
02:31:03 DRAW FROM THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION'S STREAMLINING TASK
02:31:04 FORCE WHICH AS I SAID SPENT MONTHS CONDUCTING A
02:31:07 COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF THE STRUCTURE PERFORMANCE
02:31:10 AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CITY'S BOARD BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
02:31:12 AND IN THIS CATEGORY AS EXAMPLES ARE THE ELIMINATION OF
02:31:19 THE STREETS AND SANITATION COMMISSION, THE PUBLIC WORKS
02:31:20 COMMISSION. WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING MOVING
02:31:23 BODIES LIKE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION'S CITIZEN
02:31:26 ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND THE PARKS AND RECREATION OPEN SPACE
02:31:29 ADVISORY COMMITTEE OUT OF THE CHARTER AND INTO THE
02:31:30 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE WHERE THEY COULD BE UPDATED AND CHANGED BY
02:31:34 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THROUGH THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
02:31:37 IN THE FUTURE INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO BACK TO THE VOTERS EVERY
02:31:40 TIME YOU WANT TO MAKE A CHANGE EVEN A SMALL CHANGE TO ANY OF
02:31:42 THESE BODIES MANY OPERATIONAL RULES, PROCEDURES
02:31:45 AND COMMISSIONS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE CHARTER NOT BECAUSE THEY
02:31:49 HAVE TO BE THERE BUT BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THEY ENDED UP AS A
02:31:53 RELIC OF PREVIOUS VOTER APPROVED CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
02:31:56 AND I THINK IT IS WORTH REMEMBERING THAT THE
02:31:57 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE EXISTS FOR A REASON AND PROVISIONS THAT
02:32:01 LIVE THERE CAN BE UPDATED TO THE NORMAL LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
02:32:04 AS CONDITIONS CHANGE AND AS PRIORITIES EVOLVE THAT
02:32:08 FLEXIBILITY IS NOT POSSIBLE WHEN THESE PROCEDURES ARE
02:32:12 LOCKED INTO THE CHARTER. SO WHERE WE CAN WHERE THERE'S
02:32:15 CONSENSUS THAT IT MAY MAKE SENSE I DO STRONGLY SUPPORT
02:32:19 MOVING THEM OUT OF THE CHARTER AND BELIEVE THAT THAT DOES NOT
02:32:23 YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY DOES NOT ELIMINATE THEM BUT DOES ENABLE
02:32:26 ELECTED OFFICIALS TO ADAPT ADAPT THEM OVER TIME.
02:32:29 >> THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE TO THANK FOR THE CONTRIBUTIONS
02:32:34 THEY'VE MADE TO THE CHARTER MEASURE I'M INTRODUCING TODAY.
02:32:38 THAT INCLUDES THE MEMBERS OF THE CHARTER REFORM WORKING
02:32:39 GROUP. THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION,
02:32:42 THE STREAMLINING TASK FORCE CHAIR AT HARRINGTON AND MEMBER
02:32:44 SOPHIE HAYWARD ANDREA BRUCE NATASHA MITCHELL SOPHIA KETTLER
02:32:47 AND GENE FRAZIER OF THE EXCELLENT CITY STAFF WHO
02:32:51 SUPPORTED THESE EFFORTS AND OUR WORK OVER THE PAST YEAR
02:32:54 AND THAT INCLUDES OF COURSE OUR COMPTROLLER GREG WAGNER.
02:32:58 HENRY O'CONNELL, JOANNA BELL JANICE LEVY IN HIS OFFICE.
02:33:01 OUR CITY ADMINISTRATOR CARMEN CHIU AND SOPHIE HAYWARD
02:33:02 AND RACHEL ALONZO IN HER OFFICE .
02:33:08 >> I WANT TO THANK THE MAYOR'S TEAM THAT'S ESPECIALLY ALICIA
02:33:12 JEAN-BAPTISTE AND AMIR BHARDWAJ FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP AND THEN
02:33:16 WE HAVE GIVEN OUR ATTORNEYS A TON OF WORK.
02:33:19 NOT JUST BRAD RUSSI BUT IN PARTICULAR ANDREA BROSS,
02:33:24 SARAH CROWLEY, HEATHER GOODMAN AND JOHN GOVERNOR HAS BEEN
02:33:28 THERE THROUGHOUT OFFERING OUR WISE COUNSEL AND HELP.
02:33:32 THEY HAVE BEEN VERY PATIENT WITH US THROUGH A PROCESS THAT
02:33:36 I KNOW HAS AT TIMES BEEN FRUSTRATING.
02:33:39 AND I DO WANT TO THANK THE MANY STAKEHOLDERS WHO'VE CARED
02:33:43 ENOUGH OVER THIS LAST YEAR TO MAKE THEMSELVES HEARD OFTEN
02:33:46 LOUDLY BUT AND PERSISTENTLY WE'VE HEARD THEM AND I THINK
02:33:51 THIS MEASURE REFLECTS A LOT OF THAT FEEDBACK.
02:33:54 FINALLY, I WANT TO THANK MELANIE MATHESON, FORMERLY OF
02:33:56 MY OFFICE OF SCULLY, CURRENTLY OF MY OFFICE FOR ALL OF THEIR
02:33:59 WORK ON THIS AS WELL. >> SECONDLY, COLLEAGUES, I'M
02:34:03 ASKING THAT WE ADJOURN TODAY'S MEETING IN MEMORY OF RITA
02:34:07 SEMMEL LONG TIME CIVIC LEADER DESCRIBE THE SAN FRANCISCO
02:34:11 INTERFAITH COUNCIL AS THE MATRIARCH OF INTERFAITH
02:34:15 RELATIONSHIPS WHO DIED ON MAY 13TH, 2026 AT THE AGE OF 104.
02:34:19 >> RITA WAS BORN NOVEMBER 15TH, 1921 INTO A SECULAR JEWISH
02:34:23 FAMILY IN NEW YORK CITY. SHE ATTENDED BARNARD COLLEGE
02:34:27 MAJORING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE IN 1941 FOLLOWING THE OUTBREAK
02:34:30 OF WORLD WAR TWO. SHE AND HER HUSBAND MAXIMO
02:34:33 RELOCATED TO A MILITARY BASE IN MISSISSIPPI WHERE HER
02:34:35 HUSBAND WAS SERVING AS AN ARMY OFFICER.
02:34:38 WHILE LIVING IN MISSISSIPPI, RITA WITNESSED THE EVILS OF
02:34:42 SEGREGATION FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCES THAT HELPED INSPIRE
02:34:44 HER LIFELONG PURSUIT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.
02:34:45 BUT IT WAS ALSO DURING THIS TIME THAT RITA RECALLED
02:34:49 EXPERIENCING ONE OF HER EARLIEST MOMENTS OF INTERFAITH
02:34:50 CONNECTION WHILE SEARCHING FOR HOUSING IN MISSISSIPPI.
02:34:53 SHE MET WITH A METHODIST MINISTER WHO HAD A ROOM
02:34:54 AVAILABLE TO THEM TO RENT. WHEN SHE CAUTIOUSLY TOLD HIM
02:34:57 THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE JEWISH, HE REPLIED I'M SO GLAD
02:35:00 I SEE ENOUGH METHODISTS ON SUNDAY.
02:35:01 WHEN HER HUSBAND WENT OVERSEAS TO FIGHT IN THE WAR, RITA
02:35:05 LANDED A JOB AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AS WHAT WAS
02:35:08 THEN CALLED A COPY BOY. >> SHE LATER BECAME ASSOCIATE
02:35:12 EDITOR FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY BULLETIN AND BEGAN DOING PUBLIC
02:35:20 RELATIONS WORK FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO BASED JEWISH
02:35:21 COMMUNITY FEDERATION. AFTER TAKING TIME OFF TO CARE
02:35:27 FOR HER TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS JANE AND ELIZABETH, RITA DOVE
02:35:28 RIGHT BACK INTO HER WORK. IN 1964 SHE HELPED ORGANIZE THE
02:35:31 SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND RACE.
02:35:34 OUT OF THAT CONFERENCE CAME A NEW INTERFAITH TASK FORCE THE
02:35:36 SAN FRANCISCO COUNCIL ON RELIGION AND RACE AND RITA RITA
02:35:41 REPRESENTED THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ON THE COUNCIL.
02:35:42 THAT SAME YEAR SHE BECAME ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE
02:35:45 JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL, WHICH REPRESENTS
02:35:48 SYNAGOGUES, JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS AND JEWISH
02:35:49 INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES ACROSS THE BAY AREA COMBATING
02:35:52 ANTI-SEMITISM AND ADVOCATING ON ISSUES OF CONCERN TO THE JEWISH
02:35:54 COMMUNITY. IN 1987 SHE BECAME THE
02:35:57 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF JCR AND SHE SERVED IN THAT ROLE FOR
02:36:02 TWO YEARS. AFTER THE 1989 LOMA PRIETA
02:36:04 EARTHQUAKE, THE RELIEF AGENCY CHURCH WORLD SERVICE FORMED AN
02:36:08 INTERFAITH COMMITTEE TO AID THOSE AFFECTED.
02:36:09 SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THAT COMMITTEE AND SAW THE POTENTIAL
02:36:13 IN A PERMANENT INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION THAT COULD ADDRESS
02:36:15 ISSUES OF SHARED CONCERN AND EXPAND ITS SCOPE.
02:36:16 SO SHE HELPED FOUND THE SAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL
02:36:20 AND THE WORK OF THE INTERFAITH COUNCIL ESPECIALLY ITS
02:36:23 EXPANSIVE NETWORK OF HOMELESS SHELTERS WOULD BECOME ONE OF
02:36:26 HER PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS. AMONG HER MANY OTHER
02:36:29 ACCOMPLISHMENTS, RITA CHAIRED THE GLOBAL COUNCIL FOR THE
02:36:30 UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE AND SERVED ON THE BOARDS OF
02:36:33 CATHOLIC CHARITIES FAMILY SERVICES AMERICA FRIENDS OF THE
02:36:35 SAN FRANCISCO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
02:36:37 JEWISH FAMILY CHILDREN'S SERVICES.
02:36:38 SAN FRANCISCO CHILDREN'S RIGHTS COALITION, THE INTERFAITH
02:36:41 CENTER AT THE PRESIDIO AND THE SAN FRANCISCO HOMELESSNESS
02:36:43 BOARD. IN 1995 SHE SERVED AS A
02:36:45 DELEGATE TO THE FOURTH U.N. WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN
02:36:47 IN CHINA. RITA EARNED WELL-DESERVED
02:36:52 RECOGNITION FOR HER WORK, INCLUDING THE JUDITH CHAPMAN
02:36:55 AWARD FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO BASED JEWISH COMMUNITY
02:36:57 FEDERATION. THE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE WON A
02:36:59 WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY.
02:37:01 AND THE ROSA PARKS AWARD FOR WOMEN IN COMMUNITY SERVICE.
02:37:05 IN 2008 THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO AND UNITED
02:37:07 MUSLIMS OF AMERICA HONORED RITA AS AN INTERFAITH PIONEER.
02:37:11 RITA TOLD GAY WEEKLY THE SUCCESSOR TO THE JEWISH
02:37:14 BULLETIN SHE ONCE EDITED THAT SHE BELIEVED THERE'S NO SUCH
02:37:18 THING AS RETIREMENT. IN 2009 A MASS SHOOTING
02:37:20 IN TEXAS BY A MUSLIM BY A MUSLIM-AMERICAN SPARKED
02:37:24 WIDESPREAD BACKLASH. IT WIDESPREAD FEAR OF BACKLASH
02:37:28 AGAINST MUSLIM COMMUNITIES. THE NEXT DAY, RITA, NEARLY 90
02:37:31 YEARS OLD, DROVE OUT TO A BAY AREA UNITED MUSLIMS OF AMERICA
02:37:32 MEETING IN FREMONT AND READ ALOUD A STATEMENT OF SUPPORT
02:37:35 FOR THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY SIGNED BY THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
02:37:38 BOARD OF RABBIS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
02:37:40 RITA'S DEATH IS A LOSS FOR THE WORLD.
02:37:43 SHE WAS TRULY AN EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN REST IN PEACE AND POWER
02:37:46 RITA SAM AND THEIR MEMORY BE A BLESSING AND THE REST I SUBMIT
02:37:48 THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. NEXT TO SUPERVISOR MELGAR.
02:37:54 THANK YOU. AND I'D LIKE TO BE ADDED TO
02:37:55 RITA, SOME MUSLIM. >> I AM ALSO PLEASED.
02:37:59 THANK YOU. COLLEAGUES, WE ARE IN THE
02:38:02 MIDDLE OF MAY WHICH IS AFFORDABLE HOUSING MONTH SO I
02:38:06 AM EXCITED TO INTRODUCE TODAY A CHARTER AMENDMENT ALONG WITH
02:38:10 SUPERVISORS WALTON SAUDER, CHERYL DORSEY AND WONG TO
02:38:14 EXTEND AND TO RENEW THE HOUSING TRUST FUND.
02:38:18 >> THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND WAS ORIGINALLY PASSED
02:38:20 IN 2012 TO SUPPORT CREATING ACQUIRING PRESERVE
02:38:25 AND REHABILITATING HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING
02:38:26 AND PROMOTING AFFORDABLE HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAMS.
02:38:30 THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT FOR EVERYONE
02:38:34 FROM THE PANDEMIC TO THE AILING ECONOMY TO THE SLASHING OF
02:38:38 FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDS FOR HOUSING.
02:38:42 >> AND THE CONSEQUENCES ARE DIRE.
02:38:43 AT THE SAME TIME AS WE'RE SEEING FUNDS DRY OUT, RENTS ARE
02:38:47 ONLY RISING IN EVICTIONS RIGHT NOW AND ARE AT AN ALL TIME
02:38:50 HIGH. WE ARE IN AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING
02:38:53 CRISIS AND WE KNOW THAT WILL ONLY GET WORSE AS THERE IS A
02:38:57 KNOWN CLIFF. BY 2029 THERE WILL BE NO
02:39:01 FUNDING LEFT TO FULFILL ANY OF THE PRODUCTION OF UNITS IN THE
02:39:05 PIPELINE RIGHT NOW. WE ALL KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS
02:39:09 FOR SOMEONE TO HAVE A DRY PLACE TO PLAY THEIR HEAD DOWN AT
02:39:14 NIGHT. >> WE KNOW THAT NOTHING ELSE
02:39:17 WORKS IF PEOPLE HAVE NO HOUSING .
02:39:21 WE HAVE ALWAYS NEEDED A LIFELINE A DEDICATED AND STABLE
02:39:25 SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT IS NOT
02:39:28 DEPENDENT ON THE WHIMS OF THE MARKET THAT IS STABLE, THAT
02:39:30 DOESN'T FLUCTUATE. IT IS ALSO A STARK REALITY THAT
02:39:34 THE INCLUSIONARY HOUSING TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
02:39:38 UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTED A RECOMMENDATION TO UPDATE THE
02:39:41 INCLUSIONARY RATES BECAUSE MARKET RATE HOUSING IS ALSO AT
02:39:42 A STANDSTILL. >> NO HOUSING IS BEING PRODUCED
02:39:45 AND NO FEES ARE BEING PAID. THEY HAVE ALSO RECOMMENDED THE
02:39:49 NEED FOR A SEPARATE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
02:39:53 I'M CO-SPONSORING THE INTRODUCTION OF THE MAYOR'S
02:39:57 ORDINANCE TODAY TO SUPPORT THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.
02:39:59 TODAY WE ARE ENERGIZED MORE THAN EVER TO MEET THE MOMENT.
02:40:04 OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW MONTHS WE CONVERGED A DIVERSE
02:40:07 COALITION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT
02:40:09 ORGANIZATIONS, HOUSING FINANCE EXPERTS, LABOR ALONG WITH THE
02:40:13 MAYOR'S OFFICE TO CRAFT THIS CHARTER AMENDMENT THAT WILL
02:40:16 GRADUALLY EXPAND THE HOUSING TRUST FUND OVER THE COURSE OF
02:40:20 THE TIME TO REACH 125 MILLION ANNUALLY.
02:40:23 THERE WILL ALSO BE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ISSUE REVENUE
02:40:28 BONDS TO MAXIMIZE THESE FUNDS TO UNLOCK THOUSANDS OF NEW
02:40:31 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS, PRESERVE EXISTING SITES
02:40:35 AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR FIRST TIME
02:40:39 HOMEBUYERS. WE ALSO INCLUDED NEW POSSIBLE
02:40:43 USES OF THIS FUND FOR SUPPORTING LIMITED EQUITY
02:40:46 CO-OPS AND SOCIAL HOUSING. WE DESIGNED THIS CHARTER
02:40:50 AMENDMENT SO THAT THE HOUSING TRUST FUND GROWS BY ALLOCATING
02:40:54 A PORTION OF FUTURE PROPERTY TAX GROWTH EVERY YEAR.
02:40:56 LAST YEAR WE JUST RESOUND A LOT OF THE WEST SIDE AND NORTH OF
02:40:59 THE CITY. THIS IS A VALUE CAPTURED THAT
02:41:02 INVESTS BACK INTO MUCH NEEDED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
02:41:06 WE ALSO MADE SURE THAT WE ARE EXPANDING THE HOUSING TRUST
02:41:09 FUND INTO A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE WAY.
02:41:11 THE GRADUAL GROWTH OF THE FUND WILL NOT START UNTIL 2029
02:41:14 AND WE INCLUDED FISCAL SAFEGUARDS TO FREEZE THE GROWTH
02:41:18 OF THE FUND DURING A BUDGET DEFICIT AND TO DECREASE THE
02:41:22 BASELINE FUNDING DURING A RECESSION.
02:41:26 >> I WANT TO THANK ALONG WITH THE CO-SPONSORS MAYOR LURIE FOR
02:41:29 HIS SUPPORT AND HIS TEAM NED SEGAL, ALI BONDI, BEN WHITE,
02:41:34 LEILA PENSKE AND JACOB LIFF DIRECTOR DAN ADAMS, COMPTROLLER
02:41:38 GREG WAGNER AND HIS TEAM AT THE CONTROLLERS OFFICE FOR THE LATE
02:41:41 NIGHTS AND NUMBER CRUNCHING. ASSESSOR RECORDER JOAQUIN TOYS
02:41:45 AND HIS TEAM VICTORIA WONG AND THE CITY ATTORNEY'S TEAM.
02:41:49 AND OF COURSE ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
02:41:52 THE COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS QUENTIN
02:41:54 MACKEY, CAROLYN FANG, THE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST SAKAE
02:41:58 BAILEY KYLE SMILEY NONPROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION NORTHERN
02:42:01 CALIFORNIA ESPECIALLY THE INCOMPARABLE BILL BARNES
02:42:05 HOUSING ACCELERATOR FUND REBECCA FOSTER AND KATE
02:42:09 HARTLEY. THE MISSION ECONOMIC
02:42:13 DEVELOPMENT AGENCY CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
02:42:14 MALCOLM YOUNG ESPECIALLY AND SO MANY OTHERS.
02:42:17 I LOOK FORWARD TO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON GETTING YOUR
02:42:21 SUPPORT TO SEND THIS TO THE VOTERS FOR APPROVAL
02:42:24 IN NOVEMBER. >> TODAY I'M ALSO PROUD TO
02:42:28 INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE SAN FRANCISCO
02:42:29 YOUTH COMMISSION FOR ITS 30 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE YOUTH
02:42:33 OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
02:42:37 30 YEARS AGO THE VOTERS OF SAN FRANCISCO APPROVED A CHARTER
02:42:40 AMENDMENT THAT ESTABLISHED A COMMISSION TO REPORT TO ADVISE
02:42:44 THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON ISSUES THAT
02:42:45 PRIMARILY AFFECTED CHILDREN AND YOUTH.
02:42:49 AND SINCE THEN HUNDREDS OF YOUTH COMMISSIONERS HAVE
02:42:52 DEDICATED THEIR TIME PROVIDED IMPORTANT FEEDBACK ON CITY
02:42:56 ISSUES. THE YOUTH COMMISSION HAS
02:42:57 ADVOCATED FOR THE EXPANSION OF FUNDING AND PROGRAMING FOR
02:43:01 SUPPOSED WELLNESS CENTER ACROSS THE CITY LED ON THE CREATION OF
02:43:05 A YOUTH LIFELINE PAST AND CURRENT FREE MUNI FOR ALL
02:43:08 YOUTH PROGRAMS AND THEY HAVE COLLABORATED WITH COMMUNITY
02:43:12 ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO TO ENSURE COMMUNITY
02:43:15 REPRESENTATION IN CITY HALL AND TO ALIGN COLLECTIVE YOUTH
02:43:19 ADVOCACY EFFORTS. ALSO IT HAS PROVIDED A
02:43:20 WONDERFUL LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR GENERATIONS OF
02:43:24 YOUTH WHO HAVE GONE ON TO DO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS
02:43:27 AND BEEN LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
02:43:30 THEY TAKE THEIR ROLE AS ALLIES SERIOUSLY AND NEVER TURN AWAY
02:43:34 THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT YOUTH LEADERSHIP AND ALSO LEND
02:43:36 SUPPORT TO THE CREATION OF LOCAL DISTRICT YOUTH COUNCILS
02:43:39 LIKE OUR DISTRICT SEVEN YOUTH COUNCIL.
02:43:42 I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE CURRENT YOUTH COMMISSION INTERIM
02:43:46 DIRECTOR JOY ZINE AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SPECIALIST JOSHUA
02:43:50 OCHOA. >> I SEE THEM BACK THERE.
02:43:53 FOR THEIR TIRELESS DEDICATION IN MENTORING AND NURTURING THE
02:43:58 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF OUR YOUTH COMMISSIONERS.
02:43:59 AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK MY EARLY CO-SPONSOR AND THIS
02:44:02 RESOLUTION SUPERVISORS DORSEY CHEN, WALTON MAHMOOD AND SADR.
02:44:08 CONGRATULATIONS YOU COMMISSION. THE REST I SUBMIT.
02:44:12 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR MELGAR.
02:44:13 SUPERVISOR SAUTER SUBMIT. >> THANK YOU.
02:44:16 SUPERVISOR CHERYL COLLEAGUES. >> TODAY THERE HAS BEEN
02:44:23 SIGNIFICANT HOUSING LEGISLATION INTRODUCED THIS MEETING
02:44:26 ESPECIALLY FROM SUPERVISOR MELGAR AND THE MAYORAL
02:44:28 ADMINISTRATION. >> I'M VERY PROUD TO BE AN
02:44:31 EARLY CO-SPONSOR OF THESE SIGNIFICANT REFORMS TO ADDRESS
02:44:35 OUR HOUSING CRISIS BY LOWERING CONSTRUCTION COSTS AND TRULY
02:44:36 DELIVERING FUNDING FOR NEEDED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
02:44:40 >> SAN FRANCISCANS CONTINUE TO BE CLEAR THE COST OF LIVING IS
02:44:43 TOO HIGH FOR OUR WORKING CLASS OUR YOUNG FAMILIES, OUR SENIORS
02:44:47 AND OUR YOUTH TO THRIVE HERE TODAY.
02:44:50 THE COST OF A HOME IS 12.4 TIMES THE MEDIAN INCOME HERE
02:44:53 IN SAN FRANCISCO. THAT IS STUPIDLY AND INSANELY
02:44:58 AND RIDICULOUSLY OUT OF WHACK. AND WHILE AS A BOARD WE'VE
02:45:02 TAKEN BIG STRIDES TO EXPAND HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES CITYWIDE,
02:45:06 IT'S CLEAR THAT MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET SHOVELS IN THE
02:45:09 GROUND AND THAT WE NEED TO BE MORE AMBITIOUS IN ORDER TO
02:45:12 EFFECTIVELY BUILD MORE HOMES. >> THAT'S WHY I'M ALSO
02:45:15 INTRODUCING LEGISLATION THAT WILL FURTHER BRING DOWN CITY
02:45:16 RELATED COSTS ON HOUSING CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICALLY FOR
02:45:20 HOUSING PROJECTS ON CORNER LOTS THAT USE THE FAMILIES OWNING
02:45:24 PLAN PASSED BY THE BOARD LAST DECEMBER.
02:45:25 THIS BOARD PASSED THE FAMILY ZONING PLAN BECAUSE WE NEEDED A
02:45:29 ROADMAP FOR THE FUTURE A FUTURE OF HOUSING THAT IS BUILT THE
02:45:32 SAN FRANCISCO WAY. BUT ZONING ALONE IS NOT THE
02:45:35 SOLUTION. >> IF WE GOING TO BUILD ANY
02:45:36 TYPE OF HOUSING MARKET RATE OR BELOW MARKET RATE HOUSING, WE
02:45:39 NEED TO DO ALL THAT WE CAN TO BRING DOWN THE CONSTRUCTION
02:45:42 COST PER UNIT, MAKING HOUSING PRODUCTION FINANCIALLY FEASIBLE
02:45:44 TO GET DONE. IF WE DO NOT WE RISK ALL OF OUR
02:45:48 WORK BEING A MERE PAPER EXERCISE.
02:45:50 I'M COMMITTED TO ENSURING WE ARE BEING AMBITIOUS TO MEET OUR
02:45:51 HOUSING GOALS BECAUSE WHEN WE BUILD MORE HOUSING WE MAKE IT
02:45:55 EASIER FOR ALL SAN FRANCISCANS TO STAY HERE, GROW HERE, AGE
02:45:58 HERE AND THRIVE HERE. THIS LEGISLATION WILL TAKE US
02:46:02 ANOTHER STEP FORWARD TOWARD BUILDING THIS NEEDED HOUSING
02:46:03 AND I HOPE TO EARN YOUR SUPPORT AS THIS ORDINANCE WORKS AWAY
02:46:06 THROUGH THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS.
02:46:07 THANK YOU COLLEAGUES AND THE REST OF SUBMIT.
02:46:10 >> THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR SHERYL SUPERVISOR
02:46:11 WONG. SUPERVISOR WALTON.
02:46:13 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. COLLEAGUES TODAY I HAVE
02:46:17 IN MEMORIAM FOR MAGNUS MARK MATO A SAN FRANCISCO NATIVE,
02:46:22 DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT AND A MAN WHO GAVE MORE THAN THREE
02:46:26 DECADES OF HIS LIFE TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THIS CITY.
02:46:29 >> MARK WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 13TH, 1953 RIGHT HERE IN SAN
02:46:32 FRANCISCO. HE PASSED AWAY ON MAY 30TH,
02:46:36 2026 AT THE AGE OF 72. IN JANUARY 1977, MARK WALKED
02:46:43 THROUGH THE DOORS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO JUVENILE PROBATION
02:46:46 DEPARTMENT AS A COUNSELOR AND FROM THAT FIRST DAY HE WAS
02:46:49 EXACTLY WHERE HE WAS MEANT TO BE.
02:46:52 OVER THE YEARS HE GREW INTO EVERY ROLE HE TOOK ON.
02:46:54 HE SERVED AS A BOY'S RANCH COUNSELOR, THEN AS A DEPUTY
02:46:58 PROBATION OFFICER, A SENIOR DEPUTY PROBATION OFFICER
02:47:01 AND FINALLY BEGINNING IN MAY 1998 AS A SUPERVISING PROBATION
02:47:06 OFFICER. HE RETIRED ON DECEMBER 31ST,
02:47:11 2011 AFTER MORE THAN 34 YEARS OF SERVICE.
02:47:15 BUT THE TITLES DON'T TELL THE REAL STORY WITH SEVEN MARK
02:47:19 APART WAS HE DID BEYOND THE JOB DESCRIPTION.
02:47:22 HE INVESTED IN PEOPLE YOUTH FAMILIES, INTERNS, COLLEAGUES
02:47:26 NOT JUST DURING BUSINESS HOURS BUT ON HIS OWN TIME BECAUSE
02:47:30 THAT'S WHO HE WAS. HE BELIEVED IN HIS YOUTH BEFORE
02:47:34 THEY WOULD BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES AND FOR COUNTLESS
02:47:37 YOUNG SAN FRANCISCANS THAT BELIEVE CHANGED EVERYTHING.
02:47:41 MARTIN LEAVES BEHIND A LEGACY THAT WILL RIPPLE THROUGH
02:47:43 GENERATIONS IN THE LIVES HE TOUCHED, THE CAREERS HE SHAPED
02:47:46 AND THE COMMUNITY HE SERVED WITH SUCH QUIET, STEADY
02:47:50 DEDICATION. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS PARTNER
02:47:53 LETICIA, HIS BROTHER JOHN, HIS SISTERS MARY BARBARA AND LYNN
02:47:57 AND BY MANY BELOVED NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
02:48:00 >> THE REST I SUBMIT. THANK YOU SUPERVISOR WALTON.
02:48:04 >> SUPERVISOR WANG. COLLEAGUES, SAN FRANCISCO HAS
02:48:09 BANNED THE PRIVATE DISCHARGE OF FIREWORKS SINCE 1938.
02:48:12 FOR NEARLY 90 YEARS THAT BAN HAS CARRIED NO ENFORCEMENT
02:48:16 MECHANISM. SECTION 1290 OF THE POLICE CODE
02:48:19 TELLS PEOPLE THEY CANNOT DISCHARGE FIREWORKS.
02:48:20 THEN SAYS NOTHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DO.
02:48:24 AN ORDINANCE THAT I'M WORKING ON CHANGES THAT RIGHT NOW WHEN
02:48:27 AN OFFICER RESPONDS TO FIREWORKS CALL THERE'S NO
02:48:31 CITATION TO RIGHT. STATE LAW COVERS VERY DANGEROUS
02:48:34 FIREWORKS BUT DOES NOT TOUCH LESSER BUT STILL DANGEROUS
02:48:36 FIREWORKS WHICH ARE ILLEGAL IN SAN FRANCISCO.
02:48:39 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CAN ISSUE ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS BUT
02:48:42 THAT TOOL IS NOT AVAILABLE TO POLICE OFFICERS ON PATROL.
02:48:45 THAT'S THAT'S WHY I'VE WORKED WITH CPD TO DRAFT THIS
02:48:50 PROPOSAL. THE PENALTIES HERE ARE
02:48:51 PROPORTIONATE. THE FIRST OFFENSE CARRIES A
02:48:54 FINE COMPARABLE TO A PARKING TICKET.
02:48:55 THE SECOND OFFENSE ESCALATES TO MISDEMEANOR CAPS WELL BELOW
02:48:59 WHAT STATE LAW ALREADY IMPOSES FOR MORE DANGEROUS FIREWORKS.
02:49:02 TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SAN FRANCISCO HOUSEHOLDS HAVE A PET
02:49:06 AFFECTED BY FIREWORKS. THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS HAVE
02:49:09 AUTISM. >> DEMENTIA AND PTSD ARE
02:49:10 IMPACTED EVERY YEAR. THE 2023 2024 CIVIL GRAND JURY
02:49:14 INVESTIGATED THIS ISSUE AND SAID IT PLAINLY SAN
02:49:17 FRANCISCO IS NOT A PLACE WHERE ANYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO
02:49:21 DISCHARGE FIREWORKS WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE.
02:49:22 THEY RECOMMENDED ADDITIONAL LEGAL TOOLS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
02:49:25 AND BETTER TRACKING OF CITATIONS AND FINES.
02:49:28 >> THIS ORDINANCE DELIVERS BOTH.
02:49:29 I ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT. >> SECONDLY, I'M INTRODUCING
02:49:35 TWO ORDINANCES TO REPEAL THREE PROVISIONS FROM SAN FRANCISCO'S
02:49:37 MUNICIPAL CODE THAT HAVE OUTLIVED ANY PURPOSE THEY ONCE
02:49:41 SERVED. THE FIRST ORDINANCE AMENDS
02:49:44 HEALTH CODE TO REPEAL TWO PROVISIONS.
02:49:46 THE FIRST PROHIBITS TRANSPORTING BREAD CAKES OR
02:49:49 PASTRIES THROUGH CITY STREETS IN OPEN BASKETS OR EXPOSED
02:49:53 CONTAINERS. A PLAGUE ERA PUBLIC HEALTH
02:49:54 MEASURE THAT MODERN STATE AND FEDERAL FOOD SAFETY
02:49:58 STANDARDS HAVE LONG SINCE SUPERSEDED.
02:50:01 THE SECOND REQUIRES THAT RAGS FURNISHED TO INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
02:50:02 BE STERILIZED BY BOILING AND CAUSTIC SODA SOLUTION.
02:50:06 CAL OSHA AND FEDERAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH STANDARDS
02:50:09 NOW GOVERN THIS AREA COMPREHENSIVELY.
02:50:12 THE SECOND ORDINANCE AMENDS THE POLICE CODE TO REPEAL THE
02:50:14 CITY'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY LAW WHICH REQUIRES ANY FOR PROFIT
02:50:18 BOOK RENTAL BUSINESS TO OBTAIN WRITTEN PARENTAL CONSENT SIGNED
02:50:21 IN PERSON BEFORE A LIBRARIAN BEFORE LENDING A BOOK TO ANYONE
02:50:25 UNDER THE AGE OF 21. CIRCULATING LIBRARIES CEASE TO
02:50:28 EXIST IN 1950S. THE LAW HAS NO LIVING SUBJECTS
02:50:32 FOR 70 YEARS. NONE OF THESE REPEALS
02:50:36 NECESSARILY CREATE AN ENFORCEMENT GAP.
02:50:37 EACH WAS ENACTED IN RESPONSE TO A GENUINE PROBLEM.
02:50:41 EACH OUTLIVED THE PROBLEM IT WAS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS.
02:50:44 THEY REMAIN IN THE CODE SIMPLY BECAUSE REMOVING OBSOLETE LAWS
02:50:45 REQUIRED THAT WE SEEK TO ACT. THIS IS THE FIRST SERIES OUT OF
02:50:51 A LARGER SERIES OF OBSOLETE OUTDATED AND UNNECESSARY LAWS
02:50:54 THAT MY OFFICE IS SEEKING TO REPEAL.
02:50:59 >> THE REST I SUBMIT. THANK YOU.
02:51:00 SUPERVISOR WANG AND SUPERVISOR CHAN YOU ASKED TO BE REFERRED.
02:51:03 INDEED JUST WANTED TO BE ADDED TO THE IN MEMORIAM TO JACK
02:51:06 DAVIS. THANK YOU.
02:51:06 NOTED THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. SEEING NO NAMES ON THE ROSTER
02:51:10 THAT CONCLUDES THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS.
02:51:13 >> ALL RIGHT. THEN I THINK WE'LL GO TO PUBLIC
02:51:15 COMMENT. OKAY.
02:51:17 >> AT THIS TIME THE BOARD WELCOMES YOUR GENERAL PUBLIC
02:51:19 COMMENT. YOU CAN LINE UP ON YOUR RIGHT
02:51:21 HAND SIDE OF THE CHAMBER ALONG THE CURTAINS AND YOU MAY SPEAK
02:51:25 TO THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED ITEMS 19 THROUGH 25 ON THE
02:51:29 ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE REFERENCE CALENDAR AND OTHER
02:51:32 GENERAL MATTERS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA TODAY.
02:51:36 >> THIS IS NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE UM THE LINES OR
02:51:44 THAT HEARING WILL COME UP AFTER GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
02:51:47 WE'RE SETTING THE TIMER FOR TWO MINUTES.
02:51:49 >> WELCOME TO OUR FIRST SPEAKER .
02:51:51 >> MY NAME IS SALA HOWE CHANDLER ABOLITIONIST AND A
02:51:57 SOCIAL JUSTICE FIGHTER FOR MY PEOPLE FOR MY NATION.
02:52:00 FOR ALMOST OVER 38 YEARS I HAVE METAMORPHOSED INTO MY POSITION.
02:52:07 I AM KNOWN AS SALA HA WARRIOR QUEEN QUEEN CALIFORNIA NAMED
02:52:14 AFTER THE BLACK AMAZON HEBREW QUEEN THAT CALIFORNIA WAS NAMED
02:52:18 AFTER. I CONSTANTLY HEAR THAT WE AS A
02:52:22 BLACK NATION HAVE NO CULTURE. >> WELL I AM CARRYING THE STAFF
02:52:29 OF JUDAH TO SYMBOLIZE THE STAFF OF JUDAH WOULD NOT BE TAKEN
02:52:34 FROM MY FEET. >> THE ROYAL LINEAGE WE ARE
02:52:37 HERE ACCORDING TO THE TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.
02:52:41 >> AND AS MOSES SAID AND JA ELOHIM THE ANCIENT HEBREW
02:52:45 CREATOR TETRO GRANDMA AND SHOW THEM MY STAFF AND TELL THEM WHO
02:52:53 SENT YOU I AM THAT I AM YOUR. >> WELL OHEMAA HAS SENT A WOMAN
02:52:58 THIS TIME WHEN YOU WASN'T EXPECTING A MALE WOMAN IS THE
02:53:04 CARRIER OF LIFE. >> AND WE HAVE NOTICED ALL OF
02:53:07 THE DECADES AND GENERATION THAT OUR BLACK CHILDREN HEBREW BOYS
02:53:11 HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND NO ONE HAS CALLED IN FOR A STATE OF
02:53:15 EMERGENCY. I AM INTRODUCING THE STAFF TO
02:53:18 YOU TODAY FOR THE ENFORCER OF JUSTICE.
02:53:37 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS .
02:53:39 >> NEXT SPEAKER I'M DEBORAH MURPHY AND I'M THE PRESIDENT OF
02:53:44 THE COALITION FOR SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOODS AND I'M HERE TO
02:53:48 SPEAK ABOUT AUXILIARY WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR ALL SAN
02:53:51 FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOODS. SAN FRANCISCO HAS TO MAKE SOME
02:53:53 TOUGH FINANCIAL CHOICES ABOUT OUR FUTURE.
02:53:56 WE'RE IN THIS MESS BECAUSE PREVIOUS ELECTED OFFICIALS
02:53:59 AND POLICYMAKERS HAVE MADE POOR DECISIONS IN THE PAST.
02:54:01 OUR ONLY HOPE IS FOR OUR CURRENT AND FUTURE LEADERS TO
02:54:04 START MAKING SMART FISCAL CHOICES FOR OUR CITY.
02:54:07 WHEN HE WAS MAYOR, GAVIN NEWSOM REMOVED CONTROL OF THE FUNDS
02:54:12 FROM OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
02:54:15 AND 2010 2014 AND 2020 THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES
02:54:19 COMMISSION PROMISED SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS THAT THE PUC
02:54:22 WOULD EXPAND THE ACCESS TO HIGH PRESSURE EMERGENCY FIREFIGHTING
02:54:26 WATER SYSTEM THAT WAS PROTECTED THE EAST SIDE OF SAN FRANCISCO
02:54:30 SINCE 1913. VOTERS APPROVED THESE BONDS
02:54:33 AND WERE TOLD THAT THE 15 NEIGHBORHOODS ON THE WESTERN
02:54:36 AND SOUTHERN SIDES WHICH IS TWO THIRDS OF SAN FRANCISCO WOULD
02:54:37 GET THE SAME IWC PROTECTION. THE IWC SAYS HYDRANTS IN THE
02:54:41 EAST SIDE HAVE AN UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF SALTWATER FROM THE
02:54:45 PACIFIC OCEAN AND THE ENTIRE CITY NEEDS THE SAME PROTECTION.
02:54:49 OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS A PUC HIS A SAN FRANCISCANS FOR THREE
02:54:54 ETHER BONDS RECEIVED AND SPENT 1.44 BILLION AND PROMISED US
02:54:58 THEY WOULD SPEND 312 MILLION TO EXPAND THE RW SS EMERGENCY
02:55:00 FIREFIGHTING WATER SYSTEM. HOWEVER THE PUC HAS PLACED ZERO
02:55:06 HIGH PRESSURE W SS HYDRANTS AND ZERO MILES OF WATER PIPE
02:55:10 ANYWHERE IN THE CITY AND THEY CANNOT TELL US WHERE OUR 312
02:55:13 MILLION MET WENT. TO THIS DAY THE PUC STILL DOES
02:55:16 NOT HAVE AN EMERGENCY FIREFIGHTING WATER PLAN TO
02:55:18 PROTECT THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN SIDES OF THE CITY.
02:55:20 FORMER SUPERVISOR QUENTIN KOPP WROTE AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS
02:55:24 ISSUE STATING IN AUGUST 2021 FRANK BLACKBURN AND 61 OTHER
02:55:30 RETIRED CHIEFS SIGNED AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYOR AND BOARD
02:55:31 OF SUPERVISORS STATING THAT THE CITY'S UNLIMITED AND READILY
02:55:34 AVAILABLE SUPPLY OF SALT WATER WAS THE ONLY VIABLE SOLUTION TO
02:55:38 FIREFIGHTING FOR POST EARTHQUAKE AND FLAG OPERATIONS.
02:55:41 MAYOR LURIE HAS SAID THAT PUBLIC SAFETY IS HIS NUMBER ONE
02:55:45 PRIORITY. THIS MEANS EIGHT W SS FOR THE
02:55:46 ENTIRE THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:55:49 APOLOGIES IF WE'RE CUTTING ANYONE OFF WE'RE SETTING THE
02:55:52 TIMER FOR TWO MINUTES. IF YOU LOOK AT THE TALL PODIUM
02:55:53 THERE WE DO HAVE A CLOCK AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE
02:55:57 SOFTBALL WILL OCCUR WHEN THERE'S 30S LEFT.
02:56:00 HE'LL WRAP UP YOUR STATEMENT AND THEN THE FINAL BELL WILL
02:56:03 RING AFTER TWO MINUTES. >> WELCOME.
02:56:06 CHAIR AND SUPERVISORS, I'M HEATHER DAVIS SO I'M GOING TO
02:56:08 SPEAK ON THE SAME TOPIC. >> 60 SEVEN FORMER FIRE CHIEFS
02:56:14 AND CAPTAINS HAVE BRAVELY STAND TOGETHER OPPOSED TO THE
02:56:18 PROPOSED WEST SIDE PORTABLE EMERGENCY FIREFIGHTING SYSTEM.
02:56:22 >> IT'S NOT THE RESILIENT AND TIMING'S TIMELY SOLUTION.
02:56:26 >> WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE CRITICAL LACK OF FIREFIGHTING
02:56:27 RESPONSE CAPACITY IN THE SUNSET AND RICHMOND DISTRICTS.
02:56:30 >> THESE SEASONED LEADERS KNOW THAT THE AUXILIARY WATER SUPPLY
02:56:34 SYSTEM THE SYSTEM THAT SAVED THE MARINA IN 1989 IS THE ONLY
02:56:40 SOLUTION WE CAN AFFORD TO BUILD IN TIME TO ADDRESS THE OUTBREAK
02:56:44 OF FIRES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEVEN POINT EIGHT EARTHQUAKE
02:56:48 THAT THE USGS HAS FORECAST. THIS WILL HIT US IN THE NEXT 30
02:56:51 YEARS. >> THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS AN
02:56:55 UNHAPPY MARRIAGE BETWEEN TWO DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT UTILITY
02:56:59 PROJECTS. ONE IS A LARGE VOLUME LOW
02:57:00 PRESSURE DRINKING WATER PIPE UPGRADE THAT WOULD INCREASE THE
02:57:04 VOLUME OF LOW PRESSURE WATER DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE
02:57:10 NEIGHBORHOODS. THE SECOND IS A DECADES LONG
02:57:13 DELAYED CRITICAL FIRE RESPONSE SYSTEM THAT REQUIRES HIGH
02:57:18 PRESSURE CAPACITY IN COMBINING THESE TWO PURPOSES.
02:57:21 >> ONE PROJECT REQUIRES A COSTLY TECHNOLOGY TO FLIP
02:57:26 BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW PRESSURE IN THE EVENT OF A MAJOR FIRE.
02:57:29 ADDING COMPLEXITY, REDUCING RESILIENCE AND RELIABILITY
02:57:33 IN THE FIREFIGHTING FUNCTION. >> THIS DUAL PURPOSE PROJECT
02:57:37 WILL COST FIVE BILLION DOLLARS FIRST COST AND THE PUMP
02:57:43 STATIONS ARE NOT SCHEDULED TO BE BUILT UNTIL THE END.
02:57:47 IF WE CAN ONLY BOND $250 MILLION EVERY THREE YEARS AS
02:57:54 CAN THE COMBINED ANSWER AND SPOOKY MONEY WOULD ALLOW.
02:58:02 >> IT WILL TAKE US 20 MORE ESSER BONDS OR GEARS TO
02:58:07 COMPLETE THIS PROJECT AND ONLY THEN WE WILL HAVE FIRE.
02:58:11 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS .
02:58:14 WELCOME EILEEN BOWMAN AS CHIEF CUP TV I'LL BE USING THE
02:58:22 OVERHEAD. >> OKAY.
02:58:25 EILEEN BOGAN WAS SPEAKING SENSEI PARKSIDE EDUCATION
02:58:30 AND ACTION COMMITTEE. >> EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN MORE
02:58:34 THAN 100 YEARS SINCE THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE, WE STILL LIVE
02:58:37 IN ITS SHADOW. WHAT DID THE SURVIVORS OF THE
02:58:41 1906 EARTHQUAKE LEARN ABOUT SAVING LIVES, PROTECTING
02:58:45 PROPERTY AND PERSUADING THE INSURANCE COMPANIES NOT TO
02:58:49 ABANDON THE SAN FRANCISCO MARKET?
02:58:52 >> AND DO WE STILL REMEMBER THOSE LESSONS OR HAVE WE
02:58:56 ABANDONED THOSE LESSONS OF 1906 IN ORDER TO CHASE THE SHINY NEW
02:59:03 TOYS SO THAT A CITY DEPARTMENT CAN GRASP AT THE TITLE OF BEING
02:59:07 THE UTILITY OF THE FUTURE? >> AN OFFICIAL REPORT RECENTLY
02:59:14 STATED THAT THE CITY IS AT AN INFLECTION.
02:59:16 >> THIS BEGS THE QUESTION WILL THE CITY CONTINUE TO ABANDON
02:59:19 THE PAINFUL LESSONS OF 1906 FOR A MARKETING STRATEGY
02:59:25 AND BRAGGING RIGHTS INSTEAD OF SOUND SCIENCE AND TESTED
02:59:30 ENGINEERING? IF SO, WE'LL SAN FRANCISCO BE
02:59:33 THE NEXT PACIFIC PALISADES. WE'RE OVER OCEANFRONT HOMES
02:59:37 BURNED TO THE GROUND BECAUSE THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT
02:59:42 DIDN'T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO USE OCEAN WATER TO FIGHT
02:59:48 CATASTROPHIC FIRES ON THE OVERHEAD IS THE AFTERMATH.
02:59:52 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, EILEEN BOWMAN FOR
02:59:56 YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME.
02:59:57 THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD AFTERNOON FOLKS.
03:00:00 I'M APPRECIATED BY MY COMMENTS TO FIT WITHIN THE TWO MINUTES
03:00:04 BUT I SUBMITTED MY COMPLETE COMMENTS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE
03:00:08 MEETING MINUTES AS WELL AS A SPECIAL COPY FOR SUPERVISOR
03:00:11 CHEN IN A ROLE AS CHAIR OF THE OF THE BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS
03:00:15 COMMITTEE. MY NAME IS JOHN ALLEN AND I'M A
03:00:16 MEMBER OF THE HIV ADVOCACY NETWORK.
03:00:19 I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT DISEASE PREVENTION AND LET'S SAY THAT
03:00:22 I'M VERY ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED ABOUT HOW THE HIV PROGRAMS ARE
03:00:26 BEING CARRIED IN THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET.
03:00:27 AGAIN, PUBLIC COMMENTS AND SEVERAL HEALTH COMMISSION
03:00:30 MEETINGS ALONG WITH MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO ARE HERE TODAY
03:00:34 AND BUT MOST OF THE TIME I FELT LIKE I WAS SWIMMING INTO A VOID
03:00:37 . HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF WHY I'M SO
03:00:38 FRUSTRATED IN THE CURRENT PROPOSAL BUDGET HIV PREVENTION
03:00:42 PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY GUTTED WHICH MEANS THAT NO
03:00:43 FUNDING WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR SAN FRANCISCO'S AIDS
03:00:46 FOUNDATION'S PREP HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMS NOR THEY'RE
03:00:50 THE AUTOMATIC OPT OUT HIV TESTING AND EMERGENCY UNITS.
03:00:54 IF WE LET THESE PROGRAMS LAPSE FOR EVEN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
03:00:57 THEN THE COST TO THE CITY WILL BE MUCH, MUCH GREATER DOWN THE
03:01:00 ROAD. THESE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN PROVEN
03:01:01 VERY SUCCESSFUL AND SUCCEEDED IN PREVENTING, DETECTING
03:01:04 AND TREATING HIV CASES IN NEWLY INFECTED PEOPLE.
03:01:08 THIS IS A STAGE WITH THESE WHERE DO CASES CAN BE TREATED
03:01:12 WITH THE GREATEST SUCCESS? TO QUOTE CANDIDATE LAUNCHES
03:01:16 CAMPAIGN PROMISES ONE OF HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES QUOTE ACCESS
03:01:18 TO CULTURALLY COMPETENT HEALTH CARE IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT.
03:01:20 THIS INCLUDES ROBUST FUNDING FOR HIV, AIDS PREVENTION
03:01:24 AND TREATMENT AS. AS MAYOR I WILL CONTINUE TO
03:01:27 BACKFILL ANY FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS ANY FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS OR
03:01:34 TO REDUCE IT DOWN TO THE IMMEDIATE HELP ISSUE MEETING.
03:01:35 I'M SURE THE MAYOR LURIE GETS HIS REGULAR PROSTATE EXAMS
03:01:38 AND COLONOSCOPY TO AVOID GETTING CANCER AND NOT WAIT
03:01:41 TILL HE'S DIAGNOSED. IF WE'RE GOING THROUGH
03:01:42 TREATMENTS IN CONCLUSION I WISH PREP WAS AVAILABLE BEFORE I WAS
03:01:46 DIAGNOSED WITH HIV 25 YEARS AGO.
03:01:48 HAVING HIV AIDS CAUSED ME TO HAVE MANY HIV RELATED HEALTH
03:01:51 ISSUES AND IT'S CAUSED ME TO MAKE MAJOR AND UNDESIRED
03:01:55 CHANGES TO MY LIFESTYLE. WE MUST END THIS EPIDEMIC OF
03:01:56 RADIO CASES IN SAN FRANCISCO FROM EXPLODING IN THE COMING
03:02:00 YEARS ALL BECAUSE PREVENTION PROGRAMS ARE BEING LIMITED.
03:02:03 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:02:07 ALL RIGHT. WELCOME MR. GAMBRELL.
03:02:08 I'VE BEEN HERE LONG TIME AGO AND I CAN'T TO BY OUT.
03:02:12 I'M LIVE IN DISTRICT SIX IN DORSEY ON MY SUPERVISOR OVER
03:02:17 MY DISTRICT JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.
03:02:21 I CAME INTO DORSEY'S OFFICE TO DISCUSS SOMETHING WITH HIM WAS
03:02:25 VERY IMPORTANT. I LIVE IN BRING HIS CORNER THEY
03:02:29 CUT MY IN-PERSON VISITS ALL IN ONE THEY CUT MY VISITS ALL
03:02:33 CAME IN AT GIB HIM SOME PEOPLE WERE IN HIS CHAIR.
03:02:37 HE ACKNOWLEDGED WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY TO HIM ABOUT MY
03:02:44 INJURY ACTION HIM WHY CAN HE GO AND HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT
03:02:48 MY SERVICES AND THEY VIOLATED ME ON THREE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS
03:02:52 AND HE GOT IN HE'S SITTING INSIDE OF H S H THEY READY TO
03:02:57 PUT ME OUT OF THE PROGRAM. NOW I REMIND YOU NOW I HAVE A
03:03:01 HEAD INJURY WHERE THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO PUT A NEEDLE
03:03:04 IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD AND WHEN I WENT TO THE SUPERVISOR IS
03:03:07 IN MY DISTRICT INSTEAD OF HE'S TRIED TO HELP ME HE CALL THE
03:03:14 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT THEY COME TO THE AFTER I COME IN HERE THE
03:03:18 DAY TO FIND OUT IS YOU PLANNING TO END THE FEAR WITH THIS
03:03:21 INVESTIGATION? ARE YOU TRYING TO THE BOARD AS
03:03:25 A WHOLE PLEASE? ARE YOU TRYING TO DESTROY ME
03:03:26 BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I WAS IN HERE THIS IS WHAT YOU IGNORE
03:03:33 ON THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS IS WHAT HE
03:03:34 IGNORED FOR ME THE LAST TIME THIS WAS DONE BY A CITY
03:03:40 EMPLOYEE. I LET THAT GO.
03:03:41 BUT RIGHT NOW I'M GETTING READY TO GET NEEDLES ON MY HEAD AND I
03:03:45 WANT YOU TO KNOW MR. GOOD, YOU'RE GOING TO ADDRESS YOUR
03:03:48 COMMENTS TO THE BOARD AS A WHOLE.
03:03:49 >> OKAY? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
03:03:51 YOU WANT TO GET IT DOCUMENTED IN MORE FURTHERMORE, YOUR YOUR
03:03:55 EMPLOYEE WAS STANDING BEHIND ME WHEN I CAUGHT HER AS SHE WAS
03:03:59 DOING THAT. >> I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THAT
03:04:03 WAS. MR. GAMBRELL, ADDRESS YOUR
03:04:04 COMMENTS TO THE BOARD AS A WHOLE.
03:04:07 >> THE BOARD AND I WANT TO DID IT DIRECTLY TO HIM IN FRONT OF
03:04:09 THE BOARD THIS IS NOT A MEETING BETWEEN YOU AND ONE SUPERVISOR.
03:04:11 >> I'LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK. THANK YOU, MR. GAMBRELL.
03:04:14 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER GOOD EVENING.
03:04:17 BOARD. MY NAME IS MICHAEL WHITE AND I
03:04:22 AM HERE IN SUPPORT OF BOOKER T'S STABILIZATION OF ELDER HILL
03:04:29 HUTCH COMMUNITY CENTER. >> I WORKED AT ELIHU WHERE I
03:04:32 WAS A COHORT LEADER FOR THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH GRADE FOR
03:04:36 SEVEN YEARS. WE ARE ASKING THE BOARD OF
03:04:40 SUPERVISORS TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH US
03:04:43 IN SECURING THIS FACILITY AS A DEDICATED YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
03:04:45 CENTER A SAFE SPACE, A SAFE STRUCTURE ENVIRONMENT DESIGN TO
03:04:51 KEEP YOUNG PEOPLE ENGAGED, PROTECTED AND EMPOWERED.
03:04:55 >> THIS SPACE WILL PROVIDE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMING,
03:04:59 MENTORSHIP, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT, TUTORING, CAREER
03:05:03 READINESS, MUSIC AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING
03:05:10 ,CONFLICT RESOLUTION RESOURCES AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR
03:05:15 YOUTH WHO NEED POSITIVE OUTLETS AND GUIDANCE.
03:05:19 >> MY VERBAL OUTREACH IS IMPERATIVE IN A TIME WHERE MANY
03:05:23 YOUNG PEOPLE FACE INCREASED VIOLENCE, ISOLATION,
03:05:30 INSTABILITY AND LACK OF OPPORTUNITY.
03:05:35 >> PLEASE ALLOW ELLA HILL COMMUNITY CENTER TO REMAIN A
03:05:36 CORNERSTONE HOME FOR PREVENTION ,HEALING AND GROWTH RATHER
03:05:45 THAN ALLOWING ANOTHER COMMUNITY SPACE TO DISAPPEAR.
03:05:49 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:05:52 NEXT SPEAKER GOOD EVENING SUPERVISORS.
03:05:57 >> MY NAME IS JD KYRIE AND I AM HERE IN SUPPORT OF BOOKER T.
03:06:02 I WAS IN THIRD GRADE WHEN MY MOM SIGNED ME UP TO ATTEND
03:06:04 ELLIE HILL AND FOR YEARS THIS SPACE WAS ALL I KNEW.
03:06:07 SOME OF MY MOST IMPORTANT MEMORIES WERE MADE IN THAT
03:06:10 CENTER. IT GAVE ME AND MY PEERS A SAFE
03:06:11 EXCUSE ME PLACE TO LEARN, GROW AND BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN
03:06:14 OUR COMMUNITY. I DID NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND THE
03:06:18 IMPACT THIS SPACE HAD ON ME UNTIL I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO
03:06:21 WORK IN THE SAME SPACE IN THE SAME BUILDING THAT ONCE SERVED
03:06:25 ME AS AN ADOLESCENT. I'M 24 NOW BY THE WAY.
03:06:28 NOT EVERY YOUNG PERSON HAS ACCESS TO STABILITY, MENTORSHIP
03:06:29 OR A SAFE ENVIRONMENT OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL IN HOME COMMUNITIES
03:06:33 LIKE OURS NEED MORE INVESTMENT, MORE SUPPORT AND MORE SAFE
03:06:36 SPACES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, NOT FEWER.
03:06:39 AND I AM A LIVING TESTIMONY AS TO WHY ELLIE HILL WAS AND STILL
03:06:43 IS IMPORTANT. AS I CLOSE OUT I ASK THAT YOU
03:06:47 GUYS CONSIDER THIS NOTION WITH AN OPEN MIND BECAUSE IT'S NOT
03:06:50 ABOUT ANY OF US. IT'S SOLELY ABOUT FURTHERING
03:06:52 THIS ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN OF OUR
03:06:55 COMMUNITY. >> THANK YOU.
03:06:55 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> NEXT SPEAKER.
03:07:05 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
03:07:09 I'M ALSO HERE IN SUPPORT OF BOOKER T STABILIZING A LARGE
03:07:13 COMMUNITY CENTER. >> MY NAME IS KENNETH CARRIGAN.
03:07:16 I WORKED AT THE HILL HUTCH COMMUNITY CENTER AS A MIDDLE
03:07:18 SCHOOL LEAD FOR FOUR YEARS. IN THOSE FOUR YEARS I'VE SEEN
03:07:20 THE STUDENTS FLOURISH INTO AMAZING STUDENTS, ATHLETES
03:07:24 AND UPSTANDING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
03:07:27 THEY'VE EXPLORED COLLEGES AND DIFFERENT CAREER
03:07:28 OPPORTUNITIES AND LEARNED ABOUT THEMSELVES AND AND EACH OTHER
03:07:31 IN FUN AND ENGAGING WAYS. AND THIS ALL HAPPENED BECAUSE
03:07:35 THE DOORS WERE OPEN AND THE NEED TO STAY OPEN.
03:07:38 LAST SUMMER I TOLD MY STUDENTS I'LL SEE YOU NEXT SUMMER.
03:07:42 I DON'T WANT TO BREAK MY PROMISE AND LEAVE THEM.
03:07:43 IT'LL BREAK THEIR HEART WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT THEIR
03:07:46 SUMMER HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY. I WANT TO SEE MY STUDENTS
03:07:49 AGAIN. PROGRAMS LIKE BOOKER T CAN
03:07:50 CHANGE LIVES BY KEEPING THE DOORS OF L.A. HILL CAN CONTINUE
03:07:54 SUPPORTING YOUTH AND INSPIRE THEM TO BE THE BEST VERSIONS OF
03:07:58 THEMSELVES. ELMHURST COMMUNITY CENTER ISN'T
03:08:01 JUST A BUILDING. IT'S A BEACON OF HOPE
03:08:02 AND SAFETY TO THE COMMUNITY. WE NEED PROGRAMS THAT HELP TO
03:08:05 KEEP THE SPIRIT OF ELLIOT HILL HUT ALIVE.
03:08:08 PLEASE ALLOW BOOKER T WASHINGTON TO ACTIVATE THE
03:08:12 SPACE AND CONTINUE PROGRAMING LITTLE HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER.
03:08:16 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:08:18 WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER. JUST LIKE YOU.
03:08:24 >> HI, MY NAME IS JESSICA. LET'S START MY TIME OUT.
03:08:28 CAN WE PLEASE. OKAY.
03:08:29 HERE WE GO. LET ME START IT.
03:08:31 >> WHEN I UPLOAD THIS JESSICA OUR I.T. EMPLOYEE IS COMING
03:08:35 AROUND TO ASSIST YOU. >> OKAY, PERFECT.
03:08:38 THANK YOU. THANK YOU, BILLY.
03:08:42 THANK YOU, BILLY. SO YOU'VE GOT IT.
03:08:47 THIS IS THE ONE. YEAH.
03:08:49 YES, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT.
03:08:55 I'M STARTING YOUR TIME NOW, JESSICA.
03:08:59 >> OH, GREAT. HI.
03:09:00 MY NAME IS JESSICA PERSICO HERE ARE MY CREDENTIALS.
03:09:03 LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT FIXING OVERLAPPING BUS ROUTES
03:09:07 TO GUARANTEE DIRECT ONE SEAT RIDE TO ESSENTIAL PLACES
03:09:11 INCLUDING SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL CLINICS AND MAJOR
03:09:14 COMMUNITY EVENTS PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION BY IMPLEMENTING
03:09:22 MEASURES SUCH AS SECURING LIDS TO ALL PUBLIC GARBAGE CANS
03:09:26 WE'LL BE ABLE TO PREVENT LITTERING AND PESTS.
03:09:27 WE ALSO WANT TO EXPAND RESTROOM ACCESS FOR EXAMPLE ON LARKIN
03:09:34 AND GROVE. THE RESTROOM IS ONLY OPEN TILL
03:09:38 7 A.M. UNTIL 7 P.M.. THAT'S PRETTY LIMITED HOURS OF
03:09:42 OPERATION. >> WE ALSO WANT TO EXPAND
03:09:43 HEALTH CARE OFF SERVICES. >> WE KNOW THAT MENTAL HEALTH
03:09:47 CARE CRISIS IS CAN HAPPEN AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY PAST OUR
03:09:51 BUSINESS HOURS. >> WE WANT TO ENSURE
03:09:54 AND INSURANCE FLEXIBLY. WE KNOW THAT SILVER AVENUE
03:09:59 HEALTH CARE CLINIC AND S.F. GENERAL ONLY ACCEPTS MEDICAL
03:10:02 INSURANCE BY ACCEPTING MORE TYPES OF INSURANCE.
03:10:06 WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET MORE FUNDING.
03:10:09 WE ALSO WANT TO TALK NEXT ABOUT LOWERING THE COST OF HEALTH
03:10:14 CARE SERVICES AND IMPROVING OUR VISION CARE WHICH WE'LL GET
03:10:15 INTO NEXT TIME. >> HOUSING STABILITY.
03:10:19 ONE IMPORTANT WAYS TO ENSURE THIS IS BY HAVING OUR HOUSING
03:10:24 STABILITY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE STILL MEET.
03:10:25 RIGHT NOW IT'S CANCELED. WE ALSO WANT TO ADVERTISE
03:10:29 DIFFERENT EVENTS AND OPTIONS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING SUCH AS
03:10:32 THE ONE YOU SEE HERE TOO TO ENSURE COMPETITION.
03:10:36 NEXT WEEK WE'LL TALK ABOUT OR NEXT TIME WE'LL TALK ABOUT
03:10:38 OPPOSING THE S.F. DRUG FREE HOUSING MANDATE.
03:10:41 STRENGTHENING CONSUMER PROTECTIONS LOWERING THE COST
03:10:44 FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, REDUCING RED TAPE AND INVESTING
03:10:48 IN DISTRICT TEN INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE JACKSON PLAYGROUND PARK.
03:10:52 SECURING A $5 MILLION INVESTMENT FOR POOLS LIKE
03:10:55 MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR. AND CREATING A SOUND BARRIER
03:10:56 WALL ON 18TH AND VERMONT AND MORE.
03:11:00 >> THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU, JESSICA.
03:11:03 >> WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER .
03:11:06 HELLO. MY NAME IS LETICIA HOWARD.
03:11:08 I AM THE CEO OF QUICHE CARE'S NONPROFIT.
03:11:13 I AM BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO SO I GO TO ALL DISTRICTS.
03:11:17 I AM URGING YOU TO SUPPORT BOOKER T COMMUNITY SERVICE
03:11:18 CENTER CENTER'S 13 MONTH LEASE TO THE HISTORICAL ELLA HILL
03:11:25 HUTCH COMMUNITY CENTER OPEN MORE THAN 150 VULNERABLE
03:11:29 FAMILIES, YOUTH AND TEENS WHO ARE RELYING ON SERVICES TO
03:11:33 START ON TIME ON JUNE 15TH WITHOUT AN APPROVED LEASE OR IF
03:11:41 THE PROCESS IS EVEN MORE DELAYED.
03:11:42 ELLA HILL HUTCHINS SERVICES WILL END WITHOUT A CLEAR PATH
03:11:45 FOR CONTINUALLY THAT WILL LEAVE FAMILIES AND SENIORS WITHOUT
03:11:49 ESSENTIAL SUPPORT AND PUT OTHERS HISTORICALLY BLACK
03:11:52 COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS AT RISK. WE KNOW THAT WHEN THE DOORS OF
03:11:57 BLACK INSTITUTIONS, BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS IN THE
03:12:01 FILLMORE CLOSED THEY RARELY REOPEN.
03:12:04 WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN. BOOKER T HAS OUR FILLMORE
03:12:08 AND WESTERN EDITION FOR MORE THAN 107 YEARS.
03:12:09 I SUPPORT THIS TRANSITION BECAUSE I WORKED AT BOOKER T
03:12:15 FOR 1920 YEARS. I WAS A YOUTH AT BOOKER T AND I
03:12:19 DID EVERY JOB THAT YOU CAN NAME.
03:12:23 I GREW THERE AND I BECAME A GOOD CITIZEN AND A LEADER
03:12:27 AND MY MISSION IS TO GIVE A LITTLE HOPE AND HELP TO THOSE
03:12:29 THAT MAY NEED IT IN THE COMMUNITY.
03:12:31 SO I GO TO DIFFERENT EVENTS AND I TABLE AND I GIVE AWAY
03:12:34 ESSENTIAL THINGS AND ITEMS AND INFORMATION THAT IS
03:12:36 ESSENTIAL TO THE RESIDENTS. AND WITHOUT BOOKER T'S HELP
03:12:39 GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT I WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY.
03:12:42 PLEASE GIVE THEM THAT LEASE. THANK YOU.
03:12:46 THANK YOU LAKEISHA HOWARD FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:12:47 WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD EVENING SUPERVISORS.
03:12:51 MY NAME IS SASHA EARL AND I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF BOOKER T
03:12:54 STRENGTHENING EDGHILL HUTCH COMMUNITY CENTER.
03:12:57 I'M FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND I ALSO WORKED AT ALLEY HILL FOR
03:13:00 THREE YEARS AS A K THROUGH TWO TEACHER ELLA HILL WAS MORE THAN
03:13:03 A PROGRAM TO US. IT'S A VILLAGE FOR MYSELF
03:13:04 AND OUR CHILDREN GROWING UP AND BEING A PRODUCT OF EARLY
03:13:08 HILL EARLIER HAS BEEN THERE FOR MY FAMILY.
03:13:09 L.L. HAS PUT MYSELF AND MY SIBLINGS IN INTERNSHIPS.
03:13:12 THEY PLACE THIS IN HOUSINGS. THEY PROVIDED FOOD AND THEY
03:13:16 PROVIDED SUPPLIES. ELIOR HAS PARTNERED WITH MANY
03:13:19 PROGRAMS THROUGH OUR SAN FRANCISCO HELPING CONNECT
03:13:20 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES TO RESOURCES, INTERNSHIPS
03:13:23 AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE.
03:13:27 STARTING AT THE AGE OF 13 YEARS OLD.
03:13:28 MANY FAMILIES DEPEND ON THESE RESOURCES AND LOOKING FORWARD
03:13:32 TO THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES LRO GIVES CHILDREN A SENSE OF
03:13:35 BELONGING, CONFIDENCE, FRIENDSHIP AND A SAFE PLACE TO
03:13:36 EXPRESS THEMSELVES. ELLIE HILL IS A SAFETY NET FOR
03:13:40 A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DO NOT HAVE THAT ACCESS.
03:13:42 TAKE A LOOK AROUND. NOT EVERY CHILD GROWS UP WITH
03:13:43 STABILITY OR SAFETY AT HOME. >> EXCUSE ME AND PLACES LIKE
03:13:50 ELIHU HELPS FILL THAT GAP. LOSING THIS PROGRAM WOULD
03:13:54 DEEPLY IMPACT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WHO DEPEND ON IT
03:13:55 AND WHEN AND WITHOUT SPACES LIKE THIS, MANY YOUTH CAN
03:13:58 BECOME MISGUIDED OR DISCONNECTED FROM POSITIVE ROLE
03:13:59 MODELS, SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT HELP
03:14:02 THEM GROW. WE NEED PROGRAMS LIKE EARLY
03:14:05 HILL TO PROTECT OUR BLACK CHILDREN ON OUR BACK IN OUR
03:14:06 BLACK FAMILIES. THANK YOU.
03:14:09 >> THANK YOU SASHA EARLE FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:14:10 WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD EVENING.
03:14:19 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MY NAME IS MARVA
03:14:23 AUSTIN I'M SUPPORT HERE BOOKER T'S BACKING OF L.A. COMMUNITY
03:14:27 CENTER. I'M ASKING TO KEEP L.A. HEAL
03:14:31 OPEN. WE NEED PROGRAMS LIKE THIS
03:14:34 ESPECIALLY IN A FILLMORE DISTRICT.
03:14:37 MY CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ATTENDING BOOKER T FOR SEVERAL YEARS
03:14:41 AND THEY LOVE IT EVERY TIME THEY GO BETWEEN AFTERSCHOOL
03:14:45 PROGRAMS, SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS. I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO
03:14:46 DO WITHOUT BOOKER T OR L.A. HEAL COMMUNITY CENTER.
03:14:52 THESE PROGRAMS HELP MY CHILDREN FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN SCHOOLS
03:14:56 WITH THEIR READING AND MATH WHICH ENCOURAGE THEM TO SUCCEED
03:15:00 THROUGHOUT THEIR EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY.
03:15:01 BOOKER T AND L.A. HEAL HAVE BEEN A HUGE PART OF THE
03:15:05 COMMUNITY BUY HELPING FAMILIES, SENIORS, RESIDENTS AND MOST OF
03:15:11 OUR CHILDREN'S FAMILIES DEPEND ON THESE CENTERS FOR SUPPORT
03:15:15 FOOD RESOURCES, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
03:15:19 SERVICES, GUIDANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AND MOST OF ALL A
03:15:23 SAFE PLACE FOR CHILDREN. BOOKER T'S LEADER WITH BOOKER
03:15:27 T'S GREAT LEADERSHIP I BELIEVE L.A. HEAL CAN JUST BE
03:15:34 SUCCESSFUL AS BOOKER T AND CONTINUE TO MAKE AND MAKING
03:15:38 A POSITIVE IMPACT IN OUR BLACK COMMUNITIES.
03:15:43 >> PLEASE KEEP L.A. HEAL OPEN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
03:15:46 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER.
03:15:53 HELLO, I AM GLADYS WONG, A PROUD CHINESE WITH FAMILY
03:15:58 FRIENDS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL BACKGROUNDS.
03:16:02 IT IS A ASIAN AMERICAN NATIVE HAWAIIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER
03:16:08 MONTH. >> THE MONTH OF MAY WAS CHOSEN
03:16:12 TO COMMEMORATE THE IMMIGRATION OF THE FIRST JAPANESE TO THE
03:16:13 UNITED STATES ON MAY 7TH, 1843 AND TO MARKED THE ANNIVERSARY
03:16:20 OF THE COMPLETION OF THE TRANS CONTINENTAL RAILROAD ON MAY
03:16:24 10TH, 1869. >> THE MAJORITY OF THE WORKERS
03:16:30 WHO LAID THOSE TRACKS WERE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.
03:16:31 MY MOTHER'S GRANDFATHER WORKED ON THE RAILROAD I WALKED THE
03:16:38 LAST TEN MILES AT THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY.
03:16:42 >> MY MOTHER AT ANGEL ISLAND CALLED IT A PRISON.
03:16:45 >> AUNTIE MARY SYCAMORE WROTE WE THE PEOPLE A STORY OF THE
03:16:50 AMERICAN INTERNMENT AND STEPHEN RICARDO SAID CONCENTRATION
03:16:54 CAMPS THE JAPANESE WERE PATRIOTIC LOYAL CITIZENS
03:16:58 WRONGLY ACCUSED. >> THE US GOVERNMENT DID
03:17:02 APOLOGIZE GIVING REPARATIONS BUT RACISM STILL EXISTS.
03:17:09 >> I HAVE BEEN HERE 20 PLUS YEARS IN BEAUTIFUL SAN
03:17:12 FRANCISCO WHICH I LOVE. >> I AM ALSO A GOOD CITIZEN
03:17:16 HAVING DONE NOTHING WRONG BUT I AM TRACKED, INTIMIDATED,
03:17:20 HARASSED. MY MISSION HOME HAS BEEN BROKEN
03:17:24 INTO MANY TIMES INVASION OF PRIVACY KEYS, CARS, PAPERS,
03:17:29 PHONE GIVE INFORMATION ACCESS TO MY PRIVATE PROPERTY ACCOUNTS
03:17:33 WHEREABOUTS THE CITY HAS DAMAGED MY PROPERTY YET TO BE
03:17:38 REPAIRED. >> AMERICANS OF ALL AGES
03:17:42 CLASSES HAVE DIFFERENT VALUES PRIORITIES FUTURES SANFORD'S
03:17:49 FISCAL IS ALSO VERY TOUGH. I NEED HELP.
03:17:53 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:17:54 NEXT SPEAKER GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS.
03:18:04 I'M JONATHAN FRANKS WORK WITH SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION.
03:18:09 I'M TESTIFYING REGARDING ITEM 19 THE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING
03:18:12 HIV LONG TERM SURVIVORS AWARENESS DAY.
03:18:17 I'D LIKE TO THANK SUPERVISOR CHAN AND THE OTHER SPONSORS OF
03:18:21 THIS RESOLUTION FOR BRINGING MUCH APPRECIATE IT ATTENTION TO
03:18:24 THE NEEDS OF LONG TERM HIV SURVIVORS AND OTHER OLDER
03:18:28 ADULTS LIVING WITH HIV AT THE SAME TIME I WOULD BE REMISS IF
03:18:32 I DIDN'T HIGHLIGHT THAT THOSE NEEDS ARE NOT CURRENTLY BEING
03:18:35 MET BY SAN FRANCISCO'S AGING AGENCY.
03:18:40 AS THE RESOLUTION STATES, THE DEPARTMENT OF DISABILITY
03:18:44 AND AGING SERVICES HAS ACTUALLY NEVER DEDICATED FUNDING TOWARD
03:18:47 PROGRAMS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO PEOPLE AGING WITH
03:18:50 HIV. >> THE DEPARTMENT HAS DECLINED
03:18:51 REQUESTS FROM ADVOCATES TO ALLOCATE NEW FUNDING FOR HIV
03:18:55 AND AGING SERVICES TO SET ASIDE EXISTING FUNDING FOR THESE
03:19:00 SERVICES TO IDENTIFY LONG TERM HIV SURVIVORS AS A PRIORITY
03:19:04 POPULATION OR EVEN TO COLLECT DATA ON HOW MANY LONG TERM HIV
03:19:08 SURVIVORS THEY SERVE. AGAIN, WE ARE TRULY GRATEFUL
03:19:12 FOR YOUR RECOGNITION OF HIV LONG-TERM SURVIVORS AWARENESS
03:19:15 DAY AND WE ENCOURAGE THE BOARD TO FOLLOW UP ON THIS WONDERFUL
03:19:21 RECOGNITION BY SUPPORTING ADVOCATES REQUEST FOR DOS TO
03:19:25 FUND THE PROGRAMS CARING FOR SAN FRANCISCO'S HIV ELDERS.
03:19:29 THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:19:32 >> WE WELCOME THE NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD EVENING SUPERVISORS.
03:19:37 I DON'T WANT TO REPEAT EVERYTHING THE LAST SPEAKER
03:19:41 SAID SO I JUST MAKE THIS PERSONAL.
03:19:42 MY NAME IS VINCE CHRISTMAS TOMORROW.
03:19:45 I'VE BEEN LIVING WITH HIV SINCE 1986 AND PART OF THE REASON WHY
03:19:48 I AM ALIVE TODAY IS BECAUSE I GOT THE TREATMENT, I GOT THE
03:19:52 SERVICES, I GOT EVERYTHING THAT I NEEDED AND MOST OF THAT I GOT
03:19:55 IN SAN FRANCISCO WHEREVER I WENT IN THE WORLD IT SAN
03:19:59 FRANCISCO PROVIDED ME A HOME AND I WANT TO THANK SUPERVISOR
03:20:03 CHEN FOR THIS RESOLUTION AND WE ARE OVER 11 THOUSAND 500 PEOPLE
03:20:10 LIVING WITH HIV IN THIS CITY AND THERE ARE ABOUT 15,000.
03:20:14 WE HAVE MANY FRIENDS, LOVED ONES WE ARE A VOTING BLOCK
03:20:18 AND I WANT TO JUST THANK SUPERVISOR CHEN AND ALL THE
03:20:22 SUPERVISORS WHO ARE ENDORSING THIS WHO HAVE COME FORWARD TO
03:20:29 SUPPORT THIS INITIATIVE BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT.
03:20:30 >> LAST YEAR I LOST 25 FRIENDS TO HIV.
03:20:36 PEOPLE WILL SAY IT'S OLD AGE BUT YOU KNOW, I WAS TOLD I
03:20:37 WOULDN'T LIVE TO SEE 30. I TURNED 65 IN FEBRUARY AND NOW
03:20:42 I'M LOOKING TOWARD RETIREMENT AND SAN FRANCISCO MADE THAT
03:20:46 POSSIBLE. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN.
03:20:53 LONG TERM SURVIVOR HIV LONG TERM SURVIVOR AWARENESS STAYS
03:20:57 IMPORTANT TO US AS A COMMUNITY. I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT WHILE
03:21:00 IT'S GREAT THAT I GET ALL THESE SERVICES, THE MOST IMPORTANT
03:21:04 THING ABOUT HIV IS PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM GETTING IT.
03:21:05 SO AS YOU KNOW THERE IS A BUDGET COMING UP SO I HOPE YOU
03:21:08 WILL THINK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IT'S MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE TO
03:21:12 TREAT HIV THAN IT IS TO PREVENT IT.
03:21:13 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, VINCE.
03:21:15 CHRIS, ESTIMATE FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:21:16 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD AFTERNOON.
03:21:22 GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS MATT FORM AND I'M
03:21:23 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL.
03:21:26 WE PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES TO PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV
03:21:30 AND AIDS AND WE'VE HANDLED 100,000 CASES SINCE OUR
03:21:33 FOUNDING 43 YEARS AGO. I'M HERE TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF
03:21:37 THE RESOLUTION CONCERNING LONGTIME SURVIVORS.
03:21:40 I REALLY WANT TO APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT
03:21:43 AND DURING THESE MEETINGS AND FOR SUPPORTING THIS
03:21:48 RESOLUTION. >> THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEVER
03:21:49 THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN THAT WE WOULD SEE PEOPLE LIVING WITH
03:21:52 HIV LIVING INTO THEIR 60S, 70S AND BEYOND.
03:21:55 THAT WAS UNIMAGINABLE 30 YEARS AGO.
03:21:58 BACK THEN OF COURSE HIV WAS A DEATH SENTENCE.
03:22:02 THE PEOPLE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WITH THIS RECOGNITION
03:22:06 RESOLUTION ARE PEOPLE THAT LARGELY CONTRACTED THE VIRUS
03:22:10 BEFORE THEIR EFFECTIVE ANTIVIRALS THAT MEANT HIV ARE
03:22:17 WREAKING HAVOC ON THEIR BODIES. THEY WATCHED THEIR FRIENDS
03:22:21 AND ENTIRE SOCIAL NETWORKS DIE AROUND THEM.
03:22:25 MANY LOST THEIR ABILITY TO WORK.
03:22:28 MANY FELL INTO POVERTY. MANY FELL INTO LIFELONG
03:22:32 DEPRESSION. I DON'T WANT TO SAY, HOWEVER,
03:22:33 THESE PEOPLE ARE VICTIMS. >> THEY ARE INCREDIBLY
03:22:36 RESILIENT AND THAT'S WHAT THIS RESOLUTION WOULD LIFT UP.
03:22:40 >> AND I CONTRARY TO WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, THIS
03:22:44 POPULATION IS NOT GOING AWAY ANYTIME SOON.
03:22:47 IN FACT IT IS RAPIDLY INCREASING.
03:22:50 THIS CHART I HAVE HERE SHOWS THAT OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS
03:22:53 THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV OVER 70 IS GOING TO
03:22:57 DOUBLE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND THE CITY, AS I STATED EARLIER, IS
03:23:02 JUST NOT READY FOR IT. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR
03:23:05 ATTENTION. THANK YOU METFORMIN FOR YOUR
03:23:06 COMMENTS. >> WE WELCOME THE NEXT SPEAKER
03:23:15 . >> GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS.
03:23:19 MY NAME IS JEFF SYSTEM NOW WITH THE HIV ADVOCACY NETWORK.
03:23:22 A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO CALVIN AND SUPERVISOR CHAN'S OFFICE
03:23:26 FOR SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION. I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF IDA 19
03:23:30 THE LONG TO HONORING LONG TERM SURVIVORS IT IS IMPORTANT TO
03:23:33 HONORS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH HIV IN EVERY
03:23:38 CONCEIVABLE WAY. THE FIGHT FOR LIVING FOR THOSE
03:23:41 LIVING WITH HIV AND AT RISK FOR HIV AND AIDS IS NOT ONLY
03:23:45 EMBEDDED INTO THE FABRIC OF THIS CITY BUT IN THIS COUNTRY
03:23:46 AND THE WORLD. ADVOCATES IN THIS ROOM
03:23:49 AND BEYOND HAVE GREATLY IMPROVED NOT ONLY OUR OWN
03:23:53 SYSTEMS OF CARE BUT SYSTEMS OF CARE ACROSS THE WORLD.
03:23:57 I STAND BEFORE YOU AS SOMEBODY LIVING WITH HIV FOR EIGHT YEARS
03:24:01 AND I AM SO UNBELIEVABLY GRATEFUL FOR THE WORK FOR THOSE
03:24:05 THAT HAVE COME BEFORE ME SO THAT I CAN HEALTHILY LIVE
03:24:08 IN THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY. AND PART OF HONORING THIS WORK
03:24:12 IS ALSO CONTINUING TO SPEAK TRUTH TO THE UNMET NEEDS THAT
03:24:16 THIS COMMUNITY HAS. THE PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS AIM TO
03:24:19 TAKE AWAY MONEY FROM HIV PREVENTION AND HARM REDUCTION
03:24:22 AND IT IS AN AFFRONT TO THE LEGACY OF THESE LONG TERM
03:24:27 SURVIVORS. I HOPE THAT ALONG WITH YOUR
03:24:29 SUPPORT FOR THIS RESOLUTION WE CAN COUNT ON YOUR ADVOCACY
03:24:33 IN THE CITY BUDGET PROCESS TO ALSO HONOR THESE LONG TERM
03:24:35 SURVIVORS BY FULLY FUNDING HIV PREVENTION, HARM REDUCTION
03:24:38 AND LGBTQ SERVICES OR AT THE VERY LEAST PREVENT THESE CUTS
03:24:43 FROM HAPPENING BY THE END OF JUNE.
03:24:46 NOT ONLY ARE THESE SERVICES IMPORTANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY BUT
03:24:47 ALSO TO BE DEDICATED SPECIFICALLY TO PEOPLE OF COLOR
03:24:51 AND BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE OFTEN BEEN LEFT OUT OF
03:24:54 THIS CONVERSATION. ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL
03:24:58 SUPERVISORS FOR YOUR TIME AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH
03:24:59 YOU THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE CITY BUDGET PROCESS AND IN
03:25:01 SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION. >> THANK YOU.
03:25:02 THANK YOU JUSTICE FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:25:05 WELCOME. THE NEXT SPEAKER.
03:25:08 >> HELLO. GOOD EVENING BOARD OF
03:25:09 SUPERVISORS. MY NAME IS GEORGE GRAHAM.
03:25:13 I'M 69 YEARS OLD. I'M A RETIRED REGISTERED NURSE
03:25:16 FROM ST HURST HOSPITAL. I WORKED THERE FOR 40 YEARS.
03:25:21 I'M ALSO A PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE. >> IN 1985 WHEN I GRADUATED
03:25:27 FROM USF WITH MY BACHELOR'S OF NURSING SCIENCE, I FOUND OUT I
03:25:35 WAS HIV POSITIVE. I AM A LONG TERM SURVIVOR OF
03:25:39 HIV DISEASE. AS I URGE YOU TO CONSIDER THE
03:25:46 BUDGET CUTS TO HIV SERVICES. TO WHAT END WILL YOU BE MAKING
03:25:52 THOSE CUTS? SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF
03:25:56 YOUR RECOGNITION. FOR THE HIV PEOPLE OUT HERE
03:26:00 IN SAN FRANCISCO. >> THANK YOU.
03:26:03 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> WE WELCOME TO THE NEXT
03:26:07 SPEAKER. >> HELLO BOARD.
03:26:10 MY NAME IS TREY TURNER. I'M HERE BECAUSE I STAND ON THE
03:26:14 SHOULDERS OF THE BRAVE ELDERS WHO CAME BEFORE ME WHO FOUGHT,
03:26:18 BLED AND SUFFERED SO THAT I COULD HAVE THE ABILITY TO STAND
03:26:21 HERE TODAY AS A PROUD, HEALTHY BLACK GAY MAN IN THIS CITY.
03:26:25 I'M ABLE TO DO THE WORK THAT I DO AS A MANAGER CLINICAL
03:26:27 ASSISTANT AT SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION BECAUSE OF THE GAY,
03:26:29 LESBIAN, TRANS AND GENDER PEOPLE WHO PAVED THE WAY, WHO
03:26:33 CREATED THE HIV INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM SERVICES
03:26:36 AND INSTITUTIONS THAT SHAPE THE HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
03:26:38 LANDSCAPE IN SAN FRANCISCO AS IT EXISTS TODAY.
03:26:41 I'M CURRENTLY HIV NEGATIVE. I'VE NEVER LOST A FRIEND OR A
03:26:45 LOVED ONE TO HIV AND AIDS AND I ATTRIBUTE THAT DIRECTLY TO THE
03:26:46 SACRIFICE IN EFFORTS OF OUR LONG TERM SURVIVORS AND HIV
03:26:50 ADVOCATES. I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T
03:26:53 FIGHT FOR THE OLDER GENERATIONS THAT WERE KNOCKED DOWN AND GOT
03:26:56 BACK UP TIME AND TIME AGAIN SO THAT THOSE OF US IN THIS ROOM
03:27:00 COULD DREAM OF ANY KIND OF FUTURE AS LGBT PEOPLE.
03:27:01 I KNOW THAT I WOULD NOT BE WHERE I AM WITHOUT MY LGBT
03:27:05 ELDERS, MENTORS AND FRIENDS ALL OF WHOM WHO HAVE PERSEVERED.
03:27:08 MANY ARE NOW GONE AND MANY OF THEMSELVES HAVE LOST DEARLY.
03:27:11 TO EVERY PERSON IN THIS ROOM IT IS NO UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY
03:27:15 THAT WE OWE A GREAT DEBT TO THOSE LONG TERM SURVIVORS.
03:27:19 NOW IN THEIR LATTER YEARS TO SUGGEST THAT WE PULL VITAL HIV
03:27:23 RESOURCES AND PUBLIC HEALTH FUNDING AWAY FROM THEM AS
03:27:26 OUTLINED IN MAYOR LARRY'S PROPOSED BUDGET IS A DISGRACE.
03:27:29 MANY NEED THAT FUNDING NOW MORE THAN EVER.
03:27:31 THE CITY OWES A TREMENDOUS DEBT TO OUR LONG TERM SURVIVORS
03:27:34 AND I IMPLORE THE BOARD TO REVERSE CUTS TO HIV FUNDING
03:27:38 THAT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY IMPACTS OUR LGBT.
03:27:41 THERE'S A LONG TERM SURVIVORS OF HIV AND AIDS.
03:27:44 ALSO SHOUT OUT TO BOOKER T PLEASE SAVE THAT AS WELL.
03:27:48 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:27:52 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD AFTERNOON PRESIDENT
03:27:58 MERRIMAN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. MY NAME IS PAUL AGUILAR.
03:28:02 I AM A LONG TERM SURVIVOR OF AIDS HAVING BEEN DIAGNOSED
03:28:08 IN 1988. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR
03:28:09 RECOGNIZING LONG TERM SURVIVORS AWARENESS DAY HAPPENS TO FALL
03:28:13 ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THOSE FIRST REPORTS FROM THE CDC FROM
03:28:16 JUNE 5TH, 1981 WHICH ALSO HAPPENED TO BE TWO WEEKS BEFORE
03:28:20 MY 18TH BIRTHDAY. >> BUT COMMEMORATIVE
03:28:22 RESOLUTIONS RING HOLLOW WHEN OUR ACTUAL LIFELINES ARE BEING
03:28:26 SEVERED. ON MAY 17TH 2020 TO EVERY
03:28:30 SINGLE PERSON ON THIS BOARD MADE A UNANIMOUS PROMISE TO THE
03:28:33 PEOPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO. YOU VOTED TO HONOR THE SAN
03:28:38 FRANCISCO PRINCIPLES 2020 AND PROTECT OUR HIV SAFETY NET.
03:28:41 BUT NOW THE SFO AND THE MAYOR ARE PROPOSING A $37
03:28:47 MILLION IN CUTS IN CONTRACT REDUCTIONS CUTTING 2.2 MILLION
03:28:50 FROM HIV COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND SLASHING
03:28:53 FUNDING FOR BLACK, LATINO AND TRANS LED HEALTH ACCESS
03:28:55 POINTS. IT IS A DIRECT VIOLATION OF
03:28:58 THAT 2022 COMMITMENT. WE DIDN'T SURVIVE DECADES OF
03:29:01 THIS EPIDEMIC JUST TO BE ABANDONED TO BALANCE THE SHORT
03:29:05 TERM DEFICIT MOVING FORWARD WITH THESE CUTS WILLFULLY TO
03:29:08 DISMANTLE THE FRAMEWORK THAT YOU SWORE TO UPHOLD.
03:29:12 WE AREN'T ASKING FOR A NEW PRIORITY.
03:29:16 WE'RE ASKING FOR YOU TO KEEP THE EXACT PROMISES THAT YOU
03:29:17 MADE TO US. DO WHAT YOU CAN TO PREVENT
03:29:21 THESE CUTS. THANK YOU.
03:29:24 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
03:29:30 >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JERRY COFFEE
03:29:34 AND FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO THANK THE BOARD FOR THE
03:29:38 RESOLUTION 19. I'M A 74 YEAR OLD 38 YEAR LONG
03:29:44 TERM SURVIVOR. I'VE LIVED MORE THAN HALF MY
03:29:48 LIFE AS AN HIV SURVIVOR. >> I DON'T KNOW HOW I GOT HERE
03:29:58 . I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU.
03:30:01 BUT WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION
03:30:05 AND OTHER SERVICES IN SAN FRANCISCO, I'D BE DEAD.
03:30:11 >> FORTUNATELY I DIDN'T GO. I DIDN'T GO THAT ROUTE.
03:30:15 I WENT THROUGH STONEWALL. STONEWALL ARE A REHABILITATION
03:30:23 PROGRAM. I WENT THROUGH THE CLINICAL
03:30:27 ASSISTANCE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM WHICH TREY JUST SPOKE OF
03:30:34 AND BECAME A HEALTH EDUCATOR WITH SOUTH FLORIDA AIDS
03:30:38 FOUNDATION. AND THAT IS THAT IS MY PURPOSE.
03:30:42 PARDON ME. SORRY ABOUT THAT.
03:30:43 THAT IS MY PURPOSE TO HELP FOLKS LIKE ME WHO HAVE SURVIVED
03:30:46 THIS. THIS AMOUNT OF TIME THAT
03:30:49 CO-MORBIDITIES THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH HEART DISEASE,
03:30:53 DIABETES, OSTEOPOROSIS THAT OCCUR IN US MUCH WORSE THAN IT
03:31:01 OCCURS IN SOMEONE WHO IS HIV POSITIVE.
03:31:07 I URGE THE BOARD AND THE MAYOR TO UPHOLD THE SAN
03:31:12 FRANCISCO PRINCIPLES THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2020.
03:31:19 YOU TOLD US YOU WOULD HAVE OUR BACK.
03:31:20 YOU TOLD US THAT YOU WOULD HELP KEEP US ALIVE.
03:31:24 HONOR THAT PROMISE. IT'S A MORAL CONTRA ACT.
03:31:32 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:31:36 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> I GOOD AFTERNOON PRESIDENT
03:31:40 MERRIMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
03:31:44 MY NAME IS MICHAEL RUE PAIN. I'M A COAUTHOR OF THE SAN
03:31:47 FRANCISCO PRINCIPLES A LONG TERM SURVIVOR AND DISTRICT NINE
03:31:51 PRESIDENT. I WANT TO THANK SUPERVISOR CHAN
03:31:55 AND THE SPONSORS OF THE BOARD FOR INTRODUCING ITEM 19
03:31:58 AND RECOGNIZING JUNE 5TH AS HIV LONG-TERM SURVIVORS AWARENESS
03:32:02 DAY. BUT LET'S BE ENTIRELY CLEAR
03:32:06 HERE A RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION MEANS NOTHING IF
03:32:10 THE CITY GUTS THE ACTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE KEEPING THOSE
03:32:13 SAME SURVIVORS ALIVE THEN BY THE NUMBERS ALONE THIS
03:32:17 EXECUTIVE BUDGET DIRECTLY THREATENS OUR AGING POPULATIONS
03:32:21 WITH DEEP ROLLBACKS $850,000 CUT TO SLASHES COMMUNITY HEALTH
03:32:25 ACCESS POINTS BY 6.6% AND STRIPS CLINICAL RESOURCES
03:32:33 FROM STRAIGHT HITTING THE EXACT GENERATION THAT BUILT OUR
03:32:37 SAFETY NET 1.5 MILLION CUT TO HARM REDUCTION TO DEFUND
03:32:41 SUBSTANCE ABUSE SUBSTANCE USE NAVIGATORS AND VITAL NARCAN
03:32:45 DISTRIBUTION WHEN LIVES ARE ON THE LINE MILLIONS MORE
03:32:49 THREATENS THE LIFELINES LIKE LION MARTIN LYRIC AND CARE FOR
03:32:53 HOMELESS YOUTH. YOUTH IT MAY 2020 THIS BOARD
03:32:57 OFFICIALLY ADOPTED OUR PRINCIPLES BINDING THE CITY TO
03:33:01 A COMMITMENT OF MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
03:33:05 AND STAKEHOLDER LED PUBLIC HEALTH SAFETY POLICY.
03:33:09 NEARLY 75% OF SAN FRANCISCANS LIVING WITH HIV ARE OVER 50.
03:33:15 WE SURVIVED THE WORST OF THE EPIDEMIC.
03:33:16 OUR COMMUNITY EXPLICITLY DEMANDS THAT YOU PROTECT THE
03:33:19 VULNERABLE, NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET ON OUR BACKS.
03:33:23 THANK YOU FOR THE AWARENESS DAY.
03:33:26 AND PLEASE VOTE YES ON ITEM 19 BUT HOLD THE LINE ON YOUR OWN
03:33:30 COMMITMENTS REJECT THESE BUDGET CUTS AND FULLY RESTORE THE
03:33:31 FUNDING. >> THANK YOU.
03:33:34 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME.
03:33:35 NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS
03:33:42 AND THANK YOU SUPERVISOR CHAN FOR INTRODUCING THIS RESOLUTION
03:33:43 AND TO ALL THE OTHER CO-SPONSORS WHO ARE
03:33:46 CO-SPONSORING THIS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING OUR LONG TERM
03:33:50 SURVIVOR COMMUNITY AND THE NEEDS OF THOSE AGING WITH HIV
03:33:53 AS AN EPICENTER. WHEN THE HIV CRISIS FIRST
03:33:56 STARTED EMERGING, SAN FRANCISCO HAS ALWAYS LED ON SERVING OUR
03:33:58 COMMUNITY. MANY LONG TERM SURVIVORS FACE
03:34:01 COMPLEX PTSD INCREASED ISOLATION, COMPLEX
03:34:05 CO-MORBIDITIES THAT REQUIRE SPECIALIZED CARE.
03:34:08 AS THE COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO AGE, IT'S MORE CRITICAL THAN
03:34:12 EVER THAT WE ENSURE THAT THESE SPECIALIZED SERVICES ARE
03:34:13 PROTECTED. WE MUST CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO
03:34:16 LONG TERM SURVIVORS, ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE THE SUPPORT THAT
03:34:19 THEY NEED. WE ARE DEEPLY INDEBTED TO THE
03:34:20 WORK THIS GENERATION HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN TRANSFORMING
03:34:23 PUBLIC HEALTH AND HOW IT'S DELIVERED.
03:34:26 >> WE ARE WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF ENDING HIV
03:34:28 TRANSMISSIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
03:34:31 INCREDIBLE LEGACIES OF OUR LONG TERM SURVIVOR COMMUNITY AND THE
03:34:34 PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM THAT THEY HELPED BRING INTO BEING HERE
03:34:37 IN SAN FRANCISCO WE HAVE LEARNED SEXUAL HEALTH AS A
03:34:41 HUMAN RIGHT NOT A LINE ITEM TO BE CUT.
03:34:45 THE MAYOR'S BUDGET CUTS TO HIV PREVENTION RISK CRITICAL
03:34:48 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT PROP UP A CROWN JEWEL IN OUR PUBLIC
03:34:52 HEALTH SYSTEM. WE ARE LOOKING TO THIS BOARD
03:34:53 FOR LEADERSHIP IN PUSHING BACK AGAINST THESE CUTS WE MUST
03:34:56 HONOR THE LEGACY OF PUBLIC HEALTH OUR LONG TERM SURVIVORS
03:35:00 HAVE FOUGHT FOR AND CONTINUE THAT FIGHT BY ENSURING THAT THE
03:35:03 PREVENTION SYSTEMS THEY'VE BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE CONTINUE
03:35:05 THAT HIV TRANSMISSION RATES DROP AND THAT WE ENSURE THAT
03:35:11 THEY AS OUR LONG TERM SURVIVOR COMMUNITY GET THE SERVICES
03:35:15 AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO AGE WITH DIGNITY HERE IN THE CITY
03:35:16 THEY LOVE AND CALL HOME. >> THANK YOU.
03:35:19 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
03:35:23 >> GOOD EVENING SUPERVISORS. THANKS FOR HEARING ALL OF US
03:35:27 OUT. I'M ROBERT HILL BURGESS.
03:35:28 I'M A PHYSICIAN AT SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL
03:35:31 AND I'M HERE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT AN ITEM NUMBER 23 I'M
03:35:35 NOT SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF UCSF BUT RATHER AS AN INDIVIDUAL
03:35:39 AND ALSO ON BEHALF OF THE HEALTH FOR ALL COALITION.
03:35:42 >> I'M HERE TO ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT FOR ITEM 23 WHICH IS
03:35:47 THE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE BILL
03:35:50 1422 ON MEDI-CAL ELIGIBILITY. THANK YOU SUPERVISOR MEHMOOD
03:35:55 FOR SPONSORING THIS BILL OR THIS RESOLUTION AND SUPERVISOR
03:35:58 SAUTER CHAN AND WALTON FOR BEING CO-SPONSORS.
03:36:02 >> SORRY IF I'M MISSING ANYONE ELSE.
03:36:04 WE REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT.
03:36:06 CURRENTLY BECAUSE OF THE H.R. ONE AND STATE MEDI-CAL CUTS,
03:36:10 SAN FRANCISCO COULD POTENTIALLY SEE THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS LOSE
03:36:11 ACCESS TO FULL SCOPE MEDI-CAL IN JANUARY 2025 A MEDICAL
03:36:15 ENROLLMENT FREEZE WAS IMPOSED SUCH THAT ADULTS OVER 19 WITH
03:36:20 UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION STATUS COULD NO LONGER ENROLL
03:36:24 IN MEDI-CAL. >> WE ARE ALREADY SEEING
03:36:25 PATIENTS FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS.
03:36:29 >> RECENTLY I TRIED TO FOLLOW UP WITH A PATIENT WITH LIVER
03:36:33 DISEASE AFTER HIS HOSPITAL DISCHARGE.
03:36:34 HE COULDN'T COME TO CLINIC BECAUSE HIS COVERAGE HAD LAPSED
03:36:37 AND AS AN UNDOCUMENTED ADULT HE COULD NOT REENROLL.
03:36:40 MY TEAM HELPED HIM APPLY FOR HEALTHY SAN FRANCISCO BUT HIS
03:36:44 CARE WAS DELAYED AND DELAYS LIKE THIS INCREASE THE RISK THE
03:36:45 PATIENTS END UP BACK IN THE HOSPITAL SICKER.
03:36:49 >> UNFORTUNATELY GOVERNOR NEWSOM'S MAY BUDGET REVISION
03:36:52 CONTINUES TO ADVANCE CUTS TO HEALTH CARE FOR OUR STATE'S
03:36:55 MOST VULNERABLE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.
03:36:56 IN CONTRAST, SB 14 22 WITH SUNSET ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS
03:37:03 AND IT HAS PASSED THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE BUT
03:37:04 WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT COUNTY LEVEL SUPPORT COULD REALLY HELP
03:37:08 PUSH THIS THROUGH. >> SO IN ORDER TO PRESERVE
03:37:11 PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL SAN FRANCISCANS AND IN
03:37:15 ORDER TO NOT OVERBURDEN OUR HEALTHY SAN FRANCISCO PLAN, I
03:37:19 HOPE THAT YOU WILL SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION.
03:37:20 >> THANKS SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:37:23 >> NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD EVENING SUPERVISORS.
03:37:34 MY NAME IS BRETT MARTINEZ. I AM BOTH A DISTRICT FIVE
03:37:36 RESIDENT OF 20 YEARS AND THE SENIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM MANAGER
03:37:38 AT BOOKER T WASHINGTON ENSURING OUR OLDER ADULTS HAVE A PLACE
03:37:41 TO COME THAT IS CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE KEEPS THEM OUT OF
03:37:45 SOCIAL ISOLATION AND MOST IMPORTANTLY OFFERS AN
03:37:46 INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WITHOUT
03:37:49 FAMILY IN SAN FRANCISCO. WE NEED THE BOARD OF
03:37:53 SUPERVISORS TO SCHEDULE THE LEASE AGREEMENT FOR LITTLE HUTS
03:37:55 ON TIME AND STOP THE DELAY. OUR COMMUNITY WANTS AND DEPENDS
03:37:59 ON THESE IMPORTANT SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH TO START ON
03:38:01 TIME. YOUR DELAY IN DECISION WILL
03:38:03 COST VULNERABLE WORKING FAMILIES TO LOSE THEIR CHILD
03:38:07 CARE AND FORCED MORE THAN 60 TEENS TO LOSE THEIR SUMMER JOBS
03:38:10 AS WELL AS THE EDUCATORS WHO SUPPORT THEM ALL.
03:38:12 HISTORY HAS SHOWN THAT WHEN THE DOORS OF POPULAR INSTITUTIONS
03:38:16 AND LOCAL BUSINESSES IN THE FILLMORE CLOSE THEY DO NOT
03:38:20 RETURN. WE SIMPLY CANNOT ALLOW THAT
03:38:23 PATTERN TO REPEAT ITSELF. PLEASE PLEASE SUPPORT THIS
03:38:24 AGREEMENT. NOT ONLY DOES THE COMMUNITY
03:38:27 NEED IT, OUR CITY DOES TOO. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD THAT I
03:38:31 AM SUPPORTIVE OF ALL THE PROGRAMS HERE ADVOCATING
03:38:32 AGAINST FACING, AGAINST AND FACING THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED
03:38:36 BUDGET CUTS INCLUDING OUR OWN SENIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM.
03:38:39 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION.
03:38:40 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> NEXT SPEAKER.
03:38:45 >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JEANIE HAGLER AND I
03:38:51 AM HERE IN SUPPORT OF BOOKER T. STABILIZATION OF L.A. HEAL
03:38:55 HURTS COMMUNITY CENTER. >> I'M ASKING YOU TO KEEP L.A.
03:39:01 HEAL OPEN. WE NEED OUR SERVICES TO
03:39:05 CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY FOR THE FAMILIES.
03:39:09 A PLACE WHERE THE KIDS CAN CAN GET SUMMER JOBS AS WELL AS
03:39:13 LEARNING CENTER NEEDS PROVIDE STRUCTURE IN THEIR LIVES
03:39:20 AND LEARNING IMPORTANT SKILLS TO HELP FURTHER THEIR
03:39:24 EDUCATION. AGAIN, I SAY THAT WE KEEP L.A.
03:39:27 HEAL COMMUNITY CENTER OPEN. THANK YOU.
03:39:31 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER.
03:39:34 >> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ELAINE SAMUELS FROM
03:39:39 DISTRICT FIVE, A RETIRED PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE.
03:39:43 BUT THE COUNTY AND CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO AND I'M HERE
03:39:47 IN REPRESENTING BOOKER T WASHINGTON BUDDY WASHINGTON
03:39:50 PROVIDE US WITH A HUMAN CONNECTION.
03:39:54 IT BONDS COMMUNITY TOGETHER. IT HAS THE INTEGRATION STORY TO
03:39:58 TELL TO OUR COMMUNITY TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER, FORMING
03:40:03 NEW RELATIONSHIPS, SHARED HUMAN EXPERIENCES AND UNIFICATION.
03:40:10 I AM IN AGREEMENT TO KEEP BOOKER T WASHINGTON
03:40:13 IN CONNECTION WITH THE L.A. HEAL HUTCH PROGRAM BECAUSE THAT
03:40:17 PROGRAM PROVIDE ME STABILITY INVITED ME WITH CONNECTION
03:40:22 AND I'M IN ALSO IN THE SENIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM.
03:40:26 I'M 74 YEARS OLD AND I AM ALIVE AND WELL AND GOING TO MY NEXT
03:40:30 JOURNEY THE NEW BOOKER T WASHINGTON.
03:40:34 SO PLEASE HELP US AND MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
03:40:36 >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
03:40:43 . >> WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER
03:40:47 . MY NAME IS TORI SPRAGUE AND I'M
03:40:48 A DISASTER WEEK FIVE RESIDENTS. I WAS RAISED IN FILLMORE
03:40:55 AND I'M ENCOURAGING THE TRANSITION OF BOOKER T
03:40:59 WASHINGTON INTO ELLIOT HIRSCH COMMUNITY CENTER.
03:41:00 AL HILL HUTCH WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN BOARD OF
03:41:03 SUPERVISOR. THE HUB IN THE FILLMORE NEEDS
03:41:09 TO STAY OPEN. IT'S A PLACE THAT I GREW UP
03:41:11 IN AND I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE THAT MY CHILDREN NOT ONLY WENT
03:41:15 THERE FOR SUMMER PROGRAMS BUT ALSO THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH TO NOW
03:41:21 WORK THERE. KELLEY HILL HUTCH COMMUNITY
03:41:22 CENTER NEEDS TO REMAIN OPEN. THE FILLMORE HAS ALREADY LOST
03:41:26 SO MUCH WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE FILLMORE ACTION
03:41:31 PLANNING MEETINGS AND THE VOICES OF THE COMMUNITY NOT
03:41:34 BEING HEARD. >> ALSO GROWING UP IN SAN
03:41:38 FRANCISCO. >> I HAVE WITNESSED THAT
03:41:42 PROGRAMS IN CERTAIN COMMUNITIES ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO YOUTH
03:41:46 UNLESS YOU GET IN TROUBLE. >> I WORK FOR SAN FRANCISCO
03:41:49 UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. I'VE CAME THROUGH THE FOSTER
03:41:51 CARE SYSTEM. >> I CAME THROUGH THE JUVENILE
03:41:54 JUSTICE SYSTEM AND I IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE KEEP ELIHU
03:41:58 HUTCH COMMUNITY CENTER OPEN SO THAT OUR CHILDREN HAVE A PLACE
03:42:02 TO GO AND NOT ONLY OUR CHILDREN ,OUR SENIORS AS WELL.
03:42:09 >> IT NEEDS TO BE A COMMUNITY HUB AS IT WAS BEFORE AND I
03:42:12 BELIEVE THAT BOOKER T WASHINGTON TAKING OVER THE
03:42:16 LEAST OF LITTLE HUTCH COMMUNITY CENTER CAN FULFILL WHAT WE NEED
03:42:20 IN OUR COMMUNITY. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
03:42:23 . WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
03:42:27 >> REVEREND BROWN, WELCOME. >> MR. PRESIDENT, MADAM CLERK,
03:42:41 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, PLEASE HEAR ME.
03:42:45 >> EACH OF YOU HAS SAT IN THOSE SEATS WHERE YOU ARE SITTING NOW
03:42:52 . WHEN I SERVED ON THIS BOARD I
03:42:56 RISE SIMPLY TO SAY IN MISSISSIPPI WHERE I CAME
03:43:03 FROM AS AN OLD ADAGE THAT SAYS YOU CAN'T JUNK ST WITH A
03:43:09 CROOKED STICK AND YOU CAN CHUNK STRAIGHT WITH A CROOKED STICK.
03:43:19 >> LET ME SAY RESPECTFULLY AS WE CONSIDER THE MATTER WHAT IS
03:43:26 TO HAPPEN AT BOOKER T OR WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HAPPEN AT LITTLE
03:43:31 HUTCH? I BEG YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT
03:43:37 ALL THE TRUTH IS NOT BEING TOLD .
03:43:41 AND I RISE AS A PASTOR OF THIS DR. BAPTIST CHURCH FOR NEARLY
03:43:48 50 YEARS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH. THE GOOD BOOKS AIRS AND YOU
03:43:56 SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH. >> AND THIS TRUTH SHALL SET YOU
03:44:00 FREE. AND THE TRUTH IS THERE HAS BEEN
03:44:07 SOME IN SIGHT DEALING STRAIGHT UP ON THIS MEASURE.
03:44:14 >> THERE HAS BEEN A GOOD TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY.
03:44:19 BUT EVERYBODY WAS NOT INCLUDED. WE WERE EXCLUDED.
03:44:27 >> WE KNOW AND THAT THE SPEAKERS WHO CAME PREVIOUS THEY
03:44:31 UNDERSTAND. PLEASE I AM NOT SAYING YOU DO
03:44:35 NOT RECEIVE GOOD MEASURES AT BOOKER T.
03:44:41 >> THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE. WELL THE LEADERSHIP OF BOOKER T
03:44:46 HAS REFUSED TO MEET WITH THE BLACK COMMUNITY INCLUDING THE
03:44:53 BLACK FAITH LEADERSHIP. >> AND THE QUESTION BECOMES WHY
03:44:59 ? >> WHO IS THE MOTIVE?
03:45:03 THAT HAS HAPPENED. >> AND THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS
03:45:08 WHO ARE SHAKING THEIR HEADS TO SAY IT'S STRANGE THAT THE
03:45:15 LEADERSHIP REFUSED A PLAN. THERE WAS ADVANCE.
03:45:21 >> WHAT WAS THEIR PLAN? THAT THERE WILL BE JOINT
03:45:26 LEADERSHIP. >> AND THERE'S ONE PERSON OF
03:45:32 INTEGRITY A PERSON OF SKILL WHO WAS RECOMMENDED AND THE
03:45:37 LEADERSHIP KNOWS ABOUT IT. >> WELL, THAT LEADERSHIP SAID
03:45:41 NO. NO.
03:45:44 AND THE QUESTION BECOMES WHY? >> WHY?
03:45:51 >> THE AFRICAN PROVERB SAYS IF YOU WANT TO GO FAST, GO ALONE.
03:45:59 BUT IF YOU WANT TO GO FAR, GO TOGETHER.
03:46:02 >> AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD DON'T ADOPT THIS MEASURE UNTIL
03:46:10 YOU SEND THE MESSAGE TO THE LEADERSHIP OF BOOKER T THAT YOU
03:46:15 MUST GO TOGETHER ON THE PLAN THAT THE COMMUNITY RECOMMENDED
03:46:21 IN THE FIRST PLACE. >> THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
03:46:26 WE'VE HAD TOO MUCH DIVISION. >> BY INTENT AND BY ACCIDENT
03:46:30 IN OUR BLACK COMMUNITY. THAT'S WHY OUR POPULATION IS
03:46:34 DOWN FROM 15% NOW DOWN TO 4% IN THIS TOWN.
03:46:42 AND WE SAY, REVEREND BROWN, YOU'RE GETTING ME IN TROUBLE.
03:46:46 >> AS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, I GET
03:46:49 THREE MINUTES AND YOU KNOW THAT, MR. CHAIRMAN, WE'RE WELL
03:46:51 PAST THAT. >> MAYBE WRAP IT UP IN THIS
03:46:55 RACE TO. >> MR. PRESIDENT, DON'T DIVIDE
03:47:07 THIS COMMUNITY. WE CAN HAVE THIS L.
03:47:14 STAY OVER OPEN. I WAS THERE WHEN THAT WAS THE
03:47:19 GROUNDBREAKING. I WAS AROUND DIANNE FEINSTEIN,
03:47:22 FORMER MAYOR OF THE CITY WITH TOWNSEND AND OTHERS.
03:47:29 AND WE WENT TO WASHINGTON D.C. AND THAT IS A FACT.
03:47:33 >> AND NOTHING MADE UP. ALL WE'RE SAYING LET'S BE
03:47:37 DRIVEN BY THE TRUTH AND NOT INSIDE DEALING AWAY.
03:47:44 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, REVEREND BROWN.
03:47:48 >> HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE PLEASE. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HAS A
03:47:52 BOARD RULE WHICH ALLOWS PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR TO BE
03:47:56 GRANTED AND THE BOARD GAVE IT TO FORMER MEMBER OF THIS BOARD
03:47:57 OF SUPERVISORS IS REVEREND AMOS BROWN.
03:48:01 >> CAN WE HEAR FROM THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE?
03:48:04 >> WE ARE SETTING THE TIMER FOR TWO MINUTES.
03:48:05 THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO WANT TO SUBMIT A
03:48:08 COUPLE OF DOCUMENTS FOR RECORD PLEASE.
03:48:09 AND I'VE GOT COPIES FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AS WELL.
03:48:12 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
03:48:15 THAT'S A HARD ACT. A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW.
03:48:18 I'M GOING TO SPEAK A LITTLE TRUTH HERE AS WELL.
03:48:19 MY NAME IS LISA DAGES. I'M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT FOUR
03:48:22 COMMUNITY LEADER, AN ACTIVIST AND A PRINCIPAL OFFICER OF THE
03:48:26 EQUAL FIRE PROTECTION FOR ALL COMMITTEE.
03:48:27 I'D LIKE TO SUBMIT INTO THE RECORD WRITINGS FROM TWO PUBLIC
03:48:32 SERVANTS WHO HAVE DONE MORE FOR THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO THAN
03:48:36 ANYONE IN THIS CHAMBER. NO DISRESPECT BUT I CALL IT
03:48:39 LIKE I SEE IT. >> THE FIRST IS FROM FRANK
03:48:41 BLACKBURN, ASSISTANT CHIEF SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT
03:48:44 RETIRED WRITTEN SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH LAST SEPTEMBER.
03:48:47 THE TITLE OF WHICH IS LESSONS FROM LOS ANGELES ARE WE CAPABLE
03:48:52 OF LEARNING FROM THEIR LACK OF PLANNING?
03:48:53 FRANK SERVED AS A FIREFIGHTER AND IN COMMAND STAFF AT SFD FOR
03:48:58 35 YEARS AFTER HIS RETIREMENT. FRANK CONTINUED TO ADVOCATE FOR
03:48:59 THE EXPANSION OF THE HEAVY WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM.
03:49:03 >> THE SECOND PIECE IS FROM FORMER SUPERVISOR STATE SENATOR
03:49:06 AND RETIRED JUDGE QUENTIN KOPP. A PERSONAL FRIEND OF FRANK
03:49:10 BLACKBURN. JUDGE COP'S PIECE WAS PUBLISHED
03:49:13 IN THE EXAMINER AT THE LOCAL 798 NEWSLETTER AND IN THE WIND
03:49:16 . NOW FOR MY COMMENTS THERE ARE
03:49:17 TWO THINGS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO FIGHT FIRE, WATER
03:49:20 AND FIREFIGHTERS. NOWHERE IS MORE TRUE THAN WITH
03:49:24 FIGHTING POST-EARTHQUAKE CONFLAGRATIONS AND FIRESTORMS.
03:49:25 I BELIEVE IT'S A GOOD THING TO PROTECT OUR FIREFIGHTERS,
03:49:29 POLICE OFFICERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS.
03:49:31 EVERYONE DOES. BUT IF THEY ARE FORCED TO WATCH
03:49:34 THE CITY BURN, TO WATCH OUR HOMES, BUSINESSES AND OUR VERY
03:49:38 LIVES PERISH IN THE GREAT CONFLAGRATIONS AND FIRESTORMS,
03:49:39 WHAT WILL BE THE POINT OF ANY OF IT WHEN THE NEXT MASSIVE
03:49:43 EARTHQUAKE HITS SAN FRANCISCO? THE FIRESTORM WILL COME AND IF
03:49:47 WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO MAKE NO MISTAKE WE ARE NOT PREPARED NOR
03:49:51 ARE WE GETTING PREPARED EVERY DAY.
03:49:53 WE DON'T HAVE THE BIG ONE IS ONE DAY CLOSER TO THE BIG ONE.
03:49:55 HOW MANY FIREFIGHTERS WILL PAY FOR THE CITY'S HUBRIS WITH
03:49:58 THEIR LIVES? HOW MANY RESIDENTS?
03:50:01 RESIDENTS ARE MORE THAN 15 UNPROTECTED NEIGHBORHOODS
03:50:02 AND SOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOOD. SIX YEARS.
03:50:05 BROKEN PROMISES THREE BONDS 1.44 BILLION BORROWED
03:50:08 AND SPENT. ZERO HIGH PRESSURE HYDRANTS.
03:50:11 ZERO MILES OF FIREFIGHTING MAIN PLACED IN THE ALMOST TWO THIRDS
03:50:15 OF THE CITY THAT'S UNPROTECTED. WE NEED A RESET.
03:50:18 >> IT MUST BE HAPPEN NOW. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:50:22 >> WE WELCOME THE NEXT SPEAKER. OH, THANK YOU.
03:50:26 >> THANKS FOR LOOKING OUT FOR ME.
03:50:30 >> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS SHANI WYATT AND I AM
03:50:34 PART OF K'ICHE CARES AS WELL AS ASSAF HTC.
03:50:37 I AM HERE ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND BOTH OF THE ORGANIZATIONS
03:50:44 TO SUPPORT BOOKER T WASHINGTON AND THE 13 MONTH LEASE TO
03:50:48 OBTAIN THIS SPACE. IT WILL WORK.
03:50:51 >> THIS IS VERY VITAL FOR THE COMMUNITY.
03:50:56 >> IT IS NOT TO DIVIDE THE COMMUNITY.
03:50:57 IT IS TO CONTINUE TO TO LET THE COMMUNITY PROSPER THROUGH THE
03:51:01 RESOURCES IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FAMILIES IN THE CHILDREN
03:51:08 WHO HAVE BEEN A PART OF ALI HILL FOR ALL OF THESE YEARS
03:51:12 CONTINUE TO OBTAIN THIS SPACE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO THRIVE.
03:51:17 WITHOUT THIS AND SUMMER APPROACHING, SUMMER JOBS WILL
03:51:23 BE LOST FOR THE TEENS. >> SUMMER JOBS WILL BE LOST FOR
03:51:29 THE ADULTS AND ON A PERSONAL NOTE, TWO YEARS AGO WHEN MY SON
03:51:41 PASSED AWAY OF ASTHMA WHICH LED TO HIM HAVING A HEART ATTACK,
03:51:48 SHAKIRA IN HER TEEN PULLED UP TO MY HOUSE TO MY LIVING ROOM
03:51:54 WITH ONE OF THE WORST TIMES OF MY LIFE AND HELPED ME TO PLAN
03:51:59 ARRANGE THE HOMEGOING FOR MY 22 YEAR OLD SON WHO WAS A SENSE
03:52:08 FRANCISCO NATIVE. THAT WAS ONE OF THE WORST TIMES
03:52:10 IN MY LIFE AND WITHOUT THEM WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THEM I
03:52:16 DON'T KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE. >> I WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THE
03:52:20 CASKET WITH HIM BECAUSE LOSING A CHILD IS SOMETHING THAT I
03:52:23 DON'T WISH UPON ANYONE BUT ONCE AGAIN WITH THEIR SUPPORT.
03:52:30 I WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT THROUGH THAT TOUGH TIME AND I AM
03:52:34 STANDING HERE IN FRONT OF YOU TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
03:52:41 WHICH YOU YOU LOVED. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
03:52:46 AND I SAY THANK YOU. >> WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER
03:53:03 . >> GOOD EVENING BOARD OF
03:53:04 SUPERVISORS. THIS IS NEW FOR ME.
03:53:07 >> I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THE SPEECH THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO
03:53:11 SAY. I THINK A LOT OF US FROM A
03:53:14 BOOKER T WE SAID THIS SPEECH SO I'M JUST GOING TO SAY STANDING
03:53:19 HERE LOOKING OUT. I REMEMBER I AM A YOU KNOW I'M
03:53:26 A I'M PART OF THE SENIOR CLUB THAT'S GOING ON THERE AND I
03:53:30 HAPPENED TO BE LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW ONE DAY AND I SAW ALL
03:53:34 THESE LITTLE BITTY CHILDREN PLAYING OUT IN THE BACK AND YOU
03:53:41 SEE THE CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH THERE.
03:53:42 YOU SEE THE TEENAGE YEARS. >> WE HAVE THE MOST FUN IN THE
03:53:46 SENIOR CLUB ESPECIALLY WHEN WE DO BINGO.
03:53:49 AND SO THIS IS I WANT TO SAY THIS IS A PERSONAL FOR ME AND I
03:54:00 CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY EXCEPT FOR I LOOK OUT AND I
03:54:04 LOOK INTO THE YOU GUY SITTING THERE AND I THINK ABOUT THE
03:54:11 LITTLE CHILDREN THAT WERE RUNNING AROUND AND NOT ONLY
03:54:14 THAT WE HELP SO MANY PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS
03:54:19 AND DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES HIS AND YOU KNOW WHICH FOOD AND THE
03:54:24 HELP WITH THE DAY CARE AND THE SCHOOLING THAT GOES ON IN THE
03:54:31 SUMMERTIME JOBS YOU KNOW SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO I DON'T KNOW
03:54:36 MUCH ABOUT POLITICS AND THINGS BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
03:54:39 CONVERSION OF BOOKER T L HEAL HUTCH AND I JUST THINK THAT WE
03:54:46 JUST NEED TO MOVE FORWARD AND I THINK YOU CAN'T REALLY KNOW
03:54:51 ABOUT THE CUTTING OF ANYTHING UNLESS YOU COME AND YOU
03:54:55 EXPERIENCE IT WOULD BE SUCH A GREAT THING IF SOME OF YOU
03:54:59 COULD COME SOMETIMES AND BE BINGO IN WITH US OR EAT DINNER
03:55:03 WITH US AND TO KNOW REALLY WHAT GOES ON THERE.
03:55:07 >> OH THAT'S MUST BE YOUR THANK YOU.
03:55:10 >> WELL THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:55:11 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. HI.
03:55:14 MY NAME IS RYAN BABBITT. I'M THE ASSOCIATED RECTOR OF
03:55:18 EXPANDED LEARNING ENRICHMENT AT BOOKER T.
03:55:20 I'VE BEEN THERE FOR SIX YEARS AND I CERTAINLY HAVEN'T SEEN
03:55:22 THE IMPACT THAT BOOKER T HAS DONE IN COMMUNITY.
03:55:25 I'VE SEEN THE LEADERSHIP THAT SHAKIR HAS BROUGHT OVER THE
03:55:28 LAST SIX YEARS. WHEN I STARTED THERE WE ONLY
03:55:31 HAD SEVEN STAFF AND NOW WE SIT AT 57.
03:55:32 BOOKER T HAS BEEN DOING HIS WORK FOR 107 YEARS AND EVEN
03:55:35 THOUGH THIS IS NEW TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT AS GOING OVER
03:55:40 AND TAKING OVER AT LEAST THAT EARLY HILL 40 YEARS AGO WHEN
03:55:43 ELLIE HILL STARTED THERE THERE EDDIE LEFT WAS A CASE MANAGER
03:55:47 AT BOOKER T FOR 20 YEARS AND SO WE SHARED A BOARD WITH THEM
03:55:54 AND SO THIS IS JUST AS DOING FULL CIRCLE AND STEPPING IN AND
03:55:55 MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN SUPPORT OUR FAMILIES, OUR SENIORS
03:55:58 AND OUR YOUTH AND MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A SAFE THIRD SPACE TO
03:56:01 GO TO. I'M JUST TIRED OF BURYING OUR
03:56:05 BABIES AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR BABIES HAVE A
03:56:06 SAFE PLACE TO GO TO DURING THE SUMMER AND FOR AFTERSCHOOL AS
03:56:10 WELL. SO AGAIN I PLEASE ENCOURAGE ALL
03:56:13 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PLEASE PASS THE LEASE SO THAT WAY WE
03:56:17 CAN MAKE SURE WE START SERVICES FOR 95 K THROUGH EIGHT AND 60
03:56:23 TEENS ON JUNE 6TH 15. >> THANK YOU.
03:56:26 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME.
03:56:27 NEXT SPEAKER HELLO MY NAME IS MARVELOUS LUKE LUCAS.
03:56:31 >> I WORK WITH BOOKER T WASHINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICE
03:56:34 CENTER. I AM UTMOST FOR BOOKER T
03:56:38 WASHINGTON STEWARDING ALLIE HILL HUTCH AND LOOK, LET'S JUST
03:56:42 STICK THE BLINDS DOWN. IT'S FOR ONE YEAR AND SIX
03:56:45 MONTHS THESE PEOPLE GET TO BID FOR IT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE RIGHT
03:56:48 NOW THEY'RE DEADLOCKED ON IF THEY DON'T COME TO THE TABLE
03:56:52 THEN NOTHING HAPPENS. >> WHO WOULD SAY THAT ABOUT THE
03:56:53 COMMUNITY AND WHAT'S AT RISK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THEY'RE
03:56:56 READY TO SAY STOP THE PROGRAM. WE'RE TALKING 60 CHILDREN TO
03:56:59 ALL KINDS OF FAMILIES WHO WOULD TAKE THAT POSITION.
03:57:02 IT'S NOT A GOOD POSITION TO TAKE WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT
03:57:03 BACKDOOR DEALS. >> HOLD ON, BROTHER.
03:57:07 I'M I'M STIRRING IT UP. LET ME START UP NOW I'M A START
03:57:10 UP BROTHER WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE PERSON THAT I WON'T PUT THE
03:57:14 PERSON'S NAME OUT THERE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE PERSON WHO
03:57:17 WANTS TO CO EXECUTIVE DIRECT WOULD SECURE THAT GUY HAVE AN
03:57:21 OPPORTUNITY THAT BACK ROOM DOOR DEAL IF YOU WANT TO CALL THOSE
03:57:25 DEALINGS I WAS THERE OTHER PEOPLE WERE THERE HE SAID THESE
03:57:28 WORDS I DON'T HAVE THE THE CAPACITY TO SECURE HAS THE TEAM
03:57:35 AND FRANKLY IS SOMETHING I DON'T WANT NOW NOW THEY'RE
03:57:39 UPLIFTING THEIR CHAMPION THE GUY WHO DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO
03:57:40 TAKE THE FIGHT BECAUSE THE FIGHT IS LOOKING LIKE IT COULD
03:57:44 BE SAVED AND EVERYONE WANTS TO COME IN ON WIN.
03:57:46 THAT'S NOT WHO AND PEOPLE THE REASON AND YOU GUYS PROBABLY
03:57:50 DON'T LIKE WHEN PEOPLE COME IN WHO REALLY WANTS TO MEET
03:57:54 WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE IN FIGHTING ALL THE TIME YOU WILL NEVER GET
03:57:58 ANYTHING DONE. >> BUT SHE MEETS THESE PEOPLE
03:57:59 PLANS ON MEETING THESE PEOPLE BUT THAT'S IT.
03:58:02 >> THEY COME UP WITH ANOTHER REASON I WILL SAY THIS I CAME
03:58:06 BY A STUDY FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND IT SAID THAT
03:58:09 BLACK ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE CLOSED DOORS WERE 6800 TIMES
03:58:16 POSSIBLE NEVER OPENING AGAIN. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
03:58:20 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER
03:58:27 HOUR GO BEHIND THAT. >> HELLO MY NAME IS KAT SWIRE.
03:58:31 I AM THE SENIOR WELLNESS COORDINATOR AT BOOKER T AND YET
03:58:34 I DON'T COME HERE TODAY AS AN EMPLOYEE.
03:58:35 I COME HERE TODAY AS A MOTHER, AUNT AND A FORMER EDUCATOR.
03:58:42 >> HAD I NOT HAD QUALITY CHILD CARE FOR MY 16 YEAR OLD TWINS I
03:58:46 MIGHT NOT BE EMPLOYED OR BE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED TODAY I AM
03:58:53 IN SUPPORT OF ELLIE HILL STABILIZATION PROJECT BECAUSE
03:58:57 NOT ONLY WILL IT PROVIDE QUALITY CARE FOR BABIES, IT
03:59:01 WILL PROVIDE A SAFETY NET FOR WORKING FAMILIES AND SINGLE
03:59:04 MOTHERS LIKE MYSELF. >> SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE
03:59:06 PARENTS, SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE GRANDPARENTS.
03:59:09 >> SOME OF YOU GUYS ARE AUNTS. THINK ABOUT THOSE BABIES
03:59:12 AND WHAT WOULD THEY DO IF YOU COULDN'T GO TO WORK OR YOU
03:59:16 DIDN'T KNOW WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO DO OR YOU HAD TO BRING YOUR
03:59:20 BABY TO WORK BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T HAVE SOMEWHERE FOR YOUR BABIES
03:59:21 TO GO. >> I REALLY, REALLY CONSIDER
03:59:24 MOVING FORWARD WITH THE LEASE BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT ONLY
03:59:28 PROVIDE QUALITY CARE AND SERVICE FOR OUR BABIES, IT
03:59:31 WOULD JUST PROVIDE A SAFETY NET FOR THOSE WHO LOOK LIKE ME,
03:59:35 TALK LIKE ME, WALK LIKE ME AND MAYBE LIKE YOU.
03:59:36 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:59:40 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD EVENING.
03:59:43 FIRST GIVING HONOR TO GOD WHO'S THE HEAD OF MY LIFE?
03:59:47 >> MACCHIA WALK WATKINS FROM DISTRICT FIVE.
03:59:50 >> FIRST I WANT TO SAY TO MY COMMUNITY THAT WE DO NOT
03:59:54 DISAGREE MUCH ON WHAT'S GOING ON.
03:59:58 >> WE WANT THE HILL TO STAY OPEN AS WELL.
03:59:59 WE WANT THE BABIES TO BE FAIR WE DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT WANT
04:00:03 ANYONE TO LOSE THEIR JOB. >> BUT WE'RE HERE BECAUSE THE
04:00:10 PROCESS WASN'T DONE RIGHT. >> THERE WERE BACK DOOR
04:00:13 AGREEMENTS AND WE'VE TALKED ERICA AND I WE'VE TALKED TO
04:00:18 BILAL AND OTHER SUPERVISORS AND AND PEOPLE ON A HUMAN
04:00:22 SOURCE COMMITTEE AND WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW IS THAT YOU YOU GUYS
04:00:27 HAVE OFFERED A COUPLE LEADERSHIP AND WE HAVE YOU
04:00:31 FIRST WHO'S A WHO IS A BLACK MAN NONPROFIT WHO CAN CALL HOME
04:00:37 CALL DIRECT WITH HER AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THAT IS
04:00:39 THE HEART SITUATION. >> HALL HE SHOWED THEY COULD
04:00:42 HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE. SO I'M SAYING PLEASE DON'T VOTE
04:00:46 ON THIS UNTIL WE COULD COME TO SOME KIND OF COLLABORATION
04:00:50 AND GET A COLE DIRECTOR IN THERE.
04:00:54 >> AND IF YOU GUYS ARE MORE TRANSPARENT WITH HOW YOU RUN
04:00:57 THINGS IN A CITY ARGUMENT YOU WOULDN'T BE LIKE THIS BUT THIS
04:01:01 IS WHAT YOU GUYS DO AS A CITY. >> YOU GUYS COME IN, YOU SPEW
04:01:05 ALL THESE IN THIS RHETORIC TO ONE SIDE THROUGH THINGS TO THE
04:01:09 OTHER SIDE AND HERE WE GO. >> WE'RE DIVIDED BUT WE'RE NOT
04:01:13 GOING TO BE DIVIDED. I LOVE ALL MY COMMUNITY BUT WE
04:01:17 JUST HAVE A DIFFERENCE OF AGREEMENT.
04:01:18 SO ONCE AGAIN WE I SUPPORT A COLE DIRECTOR AND IF YOU CAN'T
04:01:24 VOTE ON THAT I SAY DON'T VOTE UNTIL YOU CAN.
04:01:27 THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
04:01:31 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD EVENING BOARD OF
04:01:35 SUPERVISORS. I ALSO WANT TO GIVE HONOR TO
04:01:39 THE LORD WHO'S THE HEAD OF MY LIFE AND I'M ERICA SCOTT.
04:01:42 I AM HERE AGAIN TO SHARE THE CONCERN AS TO WHY WE ARE EVEN
04:01:50 HERE AND IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE PREVIOUS LEADERSHIP AND WE
04:01:54 CAN'T JUST LOOK AT SIX MONTHS OR 13 MONTHS.
04:01:57 WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE LONGEVITY OF OUR COMMUNITY.
04:02:00 WE HAVE LOST TEN YEARS OF OPERATION REGULAR OPERATION AT
04:02:05 LITTLE HUTCH COMMUNITY CENTER BECAUSE OF THE PREVIOUS
04:02:08 LEADERSHIP AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT JUST DOESN'T
04:02:12 HAPPEN AGAIN. WE NEED SERIOUS ACCOUNTABILITY.
04:02:13 WE NEED TRANSPARENCY. AND THE WAY THAT THIS PROCESS
04:02:17 HAS HAPPENED HAS BEEN TOTALLY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
04:02:21 JESS, RECENTLY HAS IT BEEN BROUGHT TO THE PUBLIC?
04:02:25 BUT SO MUCH HAS BEEN DONE THAT I WAS ACTUALLY TOLD FROM
04:02:29 SOMEONE WHO WORKS IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE NOT TO SAY
04:02:32 ANYTHING, NOT TO SAY ANYTHING TO MY COMMUNITY ABOUT AN
04:02:36 INSTITUTION THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO US WHICH IS CAHILL HODGE
04:02:39 COMMUNITY CENTER. SO WE ALL WANT THE SAME THING
04:02:43 BUT WE DON'T WANT TO FACE WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW
04:02:44 COURT PROCEEDINGS THAT ARE ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE BECAUSE OF
04:02:47 MISGUIDED LEADERSHIP. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT
04:02:51 EVERYONE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND THERE WERE SOME VERY CLOSE
04:02:54 DEALINGS WITH THE LEADERSHIP AT BOOKER T THAT WITH ELLA HILL
04:02:58 HUTCH. SO WE WANT ACCOUNTABILITY.
04:03:02 WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S CHECKS AND BALANCES.
04:03:06 WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES DON'T
04:03:07 HAVE TO FACE THIS AGAIN. >> THANK YOU.
04:03:10 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
04:03:17 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DARBY VALES.
04:03:20 >> I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF BOOKER T'S LEAD FOR ELLA HUTCH
04:03:24 HILL. I WORKED WITH K THROUGH TWO FOR
04:03:28 ABOUT TWO YEARS AND I JUST FEEL LIKE IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE KIDS
04:03:33 THAT I WORKED WITH BECAUSE EVEN SO THAT I'M CURRENTLY WORKING
04:03:36 WITH BOOKER T I GOT LUCKY. >> MY MOM WAS UNEMPLOYED AND I
04:03:43 DIDN'T HAVE A JOB SO WE WERE BOTH UNEMPLOYED.
04:03:47 >> I GOT LUCKY AND GOT HIRED ALOHA CHILL AND GOT THE
04:03:51 OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH KIDS. BEFORE THAT I DID WORK WITH
04:03:55 THEM UNDER THE HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM AND I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH
04:03:59 TO DO A LOT OF INTERNSHIPS WITH THEM WITH UCSF AND I JUST THINK
04:04:07 THAT I WITH THE LITTLE TIME THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH
04:04:10 BOOKER T, I FEEL LIKE THEY CAN DO SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT WE
04:04:15 HAD LHO AND THEY CAN HELP SURPASS THAN WHAT WE HAD
04:04:22 AND MAKE IT WAY BETTER THAN WHAT WHAT IT WAS.
04:04:25 >> SO PLEASE HELP US OUT. >> I DON'T WANT TO CLOSE THE
04:04:30 BUILDING. I GREW UP IN MAYBE NOT FOR TOO
04:04:33 LONG BUT I DID GROW UP THERE FOR A GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME.
04:04:37 >> UM, SO PLEASE HELP US KEEP ELLA HOTEL COMMUNITY CENTER
04:04:42 OPEN. >> THANK YOU.
04:04:44 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
04:04:51 >> HELLO. MY NAME IS FREDERICK CLAREMONT
04:04:52 AND I OVERSEE PROGRAMING FOR ADVOCACY WASHINGTON.
04:04:56 AND I AM GOING TO TRY TO KEEP THIS SHORT AND SWEET IN THAT
04:05:03 THIS IS A DAUNTING TASK THAT IS ABOUT TO BE UNDERTAKEN.
04:05:07 THERE WILL BE AN RFP PROCESS. SO IF ANYBODY WANTS TO APPLY
04:05:11 THEY CAN. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT'S
04:05:14 ALMOST INSULTING TO EVEN IMPLY OR TO INNUENDOS THAT THE
04:05:21 PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION OR THE PREVIOUS A COLLECTIVE IMPACT
04:05:25 THERE WAS ANY ASSOCIATION. WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH
04:05:30 CONTRACT MONITORING AFTER CONTRACT MONITORING PROGRAM
04:05:34 AUDITS AND WE ARE STILL IN THAT SENSE.
04:05:37 >> AND SO DO NOT INSULT US. AND WE WILL LOOK FORWARD TO
04:05:45 THIS CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP AND THE IDEA THE IDEA THAT
04:05:49 SOMEONE CAN ACTUALLY BE A CO LEADER AT THE SAME LEVEL OF
04:05:57 BOOKER T IS ALSO INSULTING. WE ARE ABSORBING SO MUCH COST.
04:06:02 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS CONTINUED DISCUSSION.
04:06:06 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
04:06:09 WE JUST ASK THAT THERE'S NO INTERRUPTION FROM THE PUBLIC
04:06:12 GALLERY WHILE SOMEONE IS SPEAKING PLEASE.
04:06:14 THANK YOU. >> WELCOME SIR.
04:06:22 WELL, I'M KIND OF YOUR GADFLY. I'M NOT HERE TO SUPPORT BOOKER
04:06:34 T OR NOT SUPPORT IT. MY SON WHO'S NOW IN HIS 50S,
04:06:38 WAS BUSED AROUND SAN FRANCISCO AND I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT
04:06:42 SCHOOLS AROUND THE CITY ARE IMPORTANT TO TO STUDENTS
04:06:49 GROWING UP. >> BUT ON MY GADFLY THING I
04:06:52 NOTICED THAT THE SUPERVISOR KAISER FROM DISTRICT NINE IS
04:06:57 ONCE AGAIN ABSENT. AND WE TALK ABOUT TRANSPARENCY.
04:07:01 I'M REALLY KIND OF PERPLEXED ON WHAT KIND OF LEGAL BASIS WE
04:07:12 HAVE FOR ALLOWING A SUPERVISOR NOT TO REPRESENT HER DISTRICT
04:07:16 AND ACTUALLY SIGN ON TO CERTAIN NOT ENDORSE CERTAIN RULES THAT
04:07:24 COME UP. I THINK THAT'S WRONG AND I
04:07:25 THINK THAT THE LET THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY ARE TO
04:07:28 START INVESTING GATING THIS DISTRICT.
04:07:32 DISTRICT NINE IS NOT REPRESENTED.
04:07:36 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN SHE COMES BACK?
04:07:37 I SAID AS SUDDENLY IS THERE GOING TO BE A MONTH OR THREE
04:07:41 MONTHS OF NOTHING BUT DISTRICT NINE?
04:07:44 CONGRATULATIONS FOR SERVICE TO DISTRICT NINE.
04:07:48 SHE'S MISSING OUT ON A LOT OF THINGS.
04:07:52 SO I'VE GOT 30S TO WIND UP BY SIDE JUST JOE ESKENAZI ADDRESS
04:07:59 THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB AND ESSENTIALLY IT WAS
04:08:06 EVERYBODY WAS GETTING ALONG JUST BOUGHT A SUPERVISOR
04:08:09 GETTING ALONG WITH THE MAYOR AND THE MAYOR WAS DOING
04:08:13 REAL WELL BUT NO MENTION WAS MADE EXCEPT THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT
04:08:18 THAT DISTRICT NINE HAD A SUPERVISOR ONCE.
04:08:24 SO LET'S GET A NEW DISTRICT NINE SUPERVISOR FOR DISTRICT
04:08:28 NINE. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
04:08:31 . >> WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER
04:08:34 . MY NAME'S SHELLY AND I
04:08:38 REPRESENT THE WESTERN DISTRICT COMMUNITY.
04:08:42 >> SO WE WANT TO HEAR YOU BEST. CAN YOU SPEAK DIRECTLY INTO
04:08:45 THAT MICROPHONE PLEASE? >> HAVEN'T STARTED YOUR TIME
04:08:50 YET. I SAID MY NAME IS SHELLY.
04:08:51 I REPRESENT THE WEST IN ADDITION COMMUNITY AND I'M
04:08:54 HERE SPEAKING ON BEHALF HEARD AND YOU KNOW Y'ALL KEEP TALKING
04:08:58 ABOUT THE CHILDREN EARLY. YOU HEARD WHAT ABOUT MYSELF?
04:09:01 YOU KNOW I REMEMBER ELLIE WHO USED TO HELP ALL PEOPLE IT
04:09:05 WASN'T JUST NO CHILDREN. I WAS ABLE TO RUN NEAR IT 20 TO
04:09:08 20 YEARS OLD, 23 YEARS OLD AND GET HELP YOU KNOW, GET A
04:09:09 JOB, WHATEVER. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
04:09:13 SO IT'S NOT ABOUT WHO PARTY TAKE OVER THE OWNERSHIP HERE
04:09:16 WAS ABOUT HOW Y'ALL DOING IN THE PROCESS THAT IT TOOK TO
04:09:20 BE DONE YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO WE JUST
04:09:22 TRYING TO GET SOME TRANSPARENCY AND SOME SOME CLARITY ON WHO
04:09:25 ACTUALLY FINISHED COMING EARLY AND WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO
04:09:29 HAPPEN BECAUSE IT CAN'T JUST BE FOR NO CHILDREN.
04:09:31 NO, I MIGHT WANT TO GO PLAY BASKETBALL.
04:09:32 I MIGHT WANT TO GO DO SOME AS I ONCE DID BEFORE YOU I MEAN
04:09:36 BECAUSE WE JUST SAW THE PROGRAM WE SEE NO WE DIDN'T SEE NO
04:09:40 BOOGIE TEAMS AND ALL THE OTHER TEAMS TRYING TO GETTING CLICKED
04:09:43 DOWN EARLY HERE AND MAKE IT OPEN TO WHERE'S THEY TRYING TO
04:09:44 DO NOW WE JUST WHAT WE JUST WATCHED HOW YOU FEEL WITH ALL
04:09:48 THESE PROGRAMS AROUND HERE THAT WAS IN CLOSE QUARTERS THEY JUST
04:09:51 WORKING WE WE WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T SEE NO WE JUST SEE NO
04:09:55 THRIVING BOOGIE NO THRIVE IN LSU NO DRIVING NOTHING
04:09:58 AND LSU WAS FOR GUYS THAT DIDN'T GROW UP IN IN IN IN THE
04:10:02 GOOD AREAS LIKE THE PRESIDIO THAT'S WHAT THE GUYS THAT
04:10:06 PRESIDIO GO TO THE GUY THAT COME FROM THE PROJECTS WE GO TO
04:10:10 HOLLYWOOD IS A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT.
04:10:12 IT'S A DIFFERENT TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT WITH A DIFFERENT
04:10:13 TYPE OF STRUCTURE DOWN HERE FOR US THAT THAT WAS THERE, YOU
04:10:17 KNOW AND I WANT TO STAND YOUR GROUND JUST TURN IT FOR THE
04:10:21 KIDS. I WAS GOING TO BRING BOOKER T
04:10:22 WE'RE JUST DEALING WITH KIDS AND NOT KNOW THE WHOLE NO
04:10:25 COMMUNITY BECAUSE I WANT TO GO IN EARLY MYSELF AND PLAY
04:10:29 BASKETBALL AND DO SOME SOME TIME.
04:10:33 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS OR WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER
04:10:39 . GOOD EVENING.
04:10:42 GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU.
04:10:43 YOU HAVE A MINCED DECISION TO MAKE BOOKER T WASHINGTON
04:10:48 STABILIZE HSIEN ELLA HILL HUTS WERE PREPARED FOR THE FIRST OF
04:10:55 ALL MY NAME IS KEVIN BROWN I'M THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
04:10:57 AND FACILITIES FOR BOOKER T WASHINGTON AND WE HAVE A HEAVY
04:11:03 LIFT AS WELL AS YOU HAVE A HEAVY LIFT WE ARE PREPARED TO
04:11:07 STEP IN AND DO THE WORK. IT WAS A NUMBER THAT WAS THROWN
04:11:11 OUT THERE A FEW MINUTES AGO BY THE STEAM BROTHER AND HE STATED
04:11:18 THAT 15% OF IT USED TO BE 15% OF BLACK POPULATION IN SAN
04:11:22 FRANCISCO. NOW DOWN TO 3%.
04:11:25 AND I JUST WANT TO JUST YOU KNOW, STATE I WAS ON YOUR WATCH
04:11:29 AND WE NEED TO DO BETTER. THERE WAS A TIME WHERE CERTAIN
04:11:36 TEAMS WERE SUCCESSFUL BUT NOW THERE'S A TIME THINGS NEED TO
04:11:37 CHANGE AND EVOLVE AND WE ARE PREPARED TO MAKE THAT MAKE THAT
04:11:43 CHANGE AND HELP WITH THAT EVOLUTION.
04:11:47 THE FILLMORE NEEDS TO BE STABILIZED BECAUSE NOT JUST
04:11:51 L.A. OR HUTCH AND OUR PRESENCE STEPPING INTO THAT SPACE
04:11:55 AND ACTIVATING THAT SPACE WILL IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY IMMENSELY
04:12:02 . >> ALSO STATING OUR OUR WORK I
04:12:07 MEAN AUDITS THE JUST THE GROWTH OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, THE GROWTH
04:12:14 OF OUR PROGRAMS IN THE COMMUNITY EXTENDED INTO L.A. OR
04:12:18 HUTCH WILL IMPROVE ELWELL HUTCH AS WELL AS THE FILLMORE WHICH
04:12:22 IS SOMETHING I BELIEVE EVERY PERSON WHO SITS BEHIND THESE
04:12:26 DESK WANT FOR SAN FRANCISCO. >> THANK YOU.
04:12:32 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
04:12:36 >> HI. MY NAME'S ARLENE EDWARDS.
04:12:40 I'M A NATIVE OF SAN FRANCISCO, GREW UP IN GLENDALE HEIGHTS,
04:12:43 FOREST HILLS. MY FAMILY CAME TO SAN FRANCISCO
04:12:47 IN THE LATE 20S AND HAVE SUPPORTED THIS COMMUNITY AS
04:12:52 I'VE SEEN IT IN MY LIFETIME. IT TURNS 65 NEXT MONTH.
04:12:55 I'VE SEEN THE BLACK COMMUNITY KIND OF WITHER AND FLY OFF
04:12:59 MOSTLY TO THE EAST BAY AND OTHER PLACES BUT ANYTHING
04:13:03 YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE CHILDREN, THE ADULTS, ALL THE
04:13:07 PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT HAVE DONE MANY
04:13:11 THINGS TO SUPPORT IN THEIR HARD WORK.
04:13:14 YOU KNOW, I HEARD ONE OF THE PEOPLE MENTIONED THAT THERE'S A
04:13:16 LOT OF SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE HAVING TROUBLES BUT IF
04:13:19 YOU WANT TO BUILD A HEALTHY CHILD YOU NEED TO START WITH
04:13:23 THEM YOUNG AND SUPPORT THEM AND ALL THE GOOD THINGS AND LET
04:13:24 THEM KNOW THAT THAT IS A PATH OF LIFE FOR THEM AND I BELIEVE
04:13:27 L.A. HUTCHINS CENTER IS ONE OF THOSE
04:13:31 PLACES ALONG WITH BOOKER T WHO HAS DONE THAT IN THIS COMMUNITY
04:13:34 AND WE NEED TO FIND ANY WAY WE CAN TO KEEP IT OPEN, SUPPORT IT
04:13:38 AND NOT ALLOW THE STRONG HISTORY TO BE LOST BY NOT
04:13:46 SUPPORTING THE THE NEW THE YOUNG AND MAKE THAT SO PEOPLE
04:13:52 KNOW WHAT'S GONE ON IN THIS CITY AND AND IN THIS COUNTRY
04:13:56 WITH BLACK PEOPLE THAT THERE'S BEEN TRYING TO BE ERASED ALL
04:13:59 OVER SO NOT JUST IN THIS COUNTRY BUT EVERY COUNTRY BUT
04:14:02 SO WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THAT AND PLEASE MY UNCLE WHO IS 101
04:14:07 JUST PASSED IT'S GOING TO BE HONORED AT THE END OF THIS
04:14:11 GERALD JOHNSON AND MY MOTHER WILHELMINA EDWARDS AND MY
04:14:14 GRANDMOTHER ANNA WHO SUPPORTED WHEN THE JAPANESE WERE PUT INTO
04:14:18 INTERNMENT SHE TOOK CARE OF THEIR BUSINESSES AND RETURNED
04:14:22 THEM TO THEM FOR THE PRICE THAT SHE BOUGHT THEM FROM THEM SO
04:14:26 THEY COULD HAVE MONEY WHILE THEY WERE IN CAMP.
04:14:27 AND THAT'S THE KIND OF SUPPORT WE NEED TO HAVE.
04:14:30 WE NEED PEOPLE LIFTING UP ALL OF THESE COMMUNITIES NOT TRYING
04:14:31 TO TEAR THEM DOWN AND SHUT THEM OUT.
04:14:34 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER SPEAKS
04:14:37 I'LL JUST THIS IS THE LAST CALL LAST CALL FOR GENERAL PUBLIC
04:14:41 COMMENT AFTER THIS INDIVIDUAL AFTER THE SPEAKER WILL THEN GO
04:14:48 TO THE NEXT HEARING. >> ALL RIGHT.
04:14:49 WELCOME. THANK YOU.
04:14:52 HELLO. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS MY NAME
04:14:56 MONICA HOPKINS. >> I AM THE BSA ASSOCIATE
04:15:00 DIRECTOR AT BOOKER T WASHINGTON WHICH STANDS FOR BELONGING
04:15:03 SAFETY ACCESS FREEDOM AND EQUITY.
04:15:08 >> I THINK I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THINGS
04:15:09 BECAUSE WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND THE SENIORS
04:15:12 BUT BOOKER T IS STEPPING IN TO STEWARD ELLA HILL HUTCH TO SAVE
04:15:19 COMMUNITY MY PROGRAM AND PARTICULARLY THE SERVE
04:15:22 ADULTS ENSURING THAT THERE IS COMMUNITY STABILIZATION FOR THE
04:15:26 ENTIRE COMMUNITY NOT JUST CHILDREN.
04:15:30 SO I JUST WANT TO ECHO THAT THIS IS ABOUT SAVING COMMUNITY
04:15:34 AS A WHOLE AND NOT SPLITTING TWO BLACK AGENCIES APART WHO
04:15:38 ACTUALLY HAVE HISTORY TOGETHER PREVIOUSLY IN THE HUNDRED
04:15:42 AND SEVEN YEARS THAT BOOKER T WASHINGTON HAS EXISTED.
04:15:45 THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
04:15:49 >> ALL RIGHT, MR. PRESIDENT. ALL RIGHT.
04:15:53 >> PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED AND MADAM CLERK, I THINK WE
04:16:00 HAVE DBE STAFF. YES.
04:16:03 >> TO RETURN BACK ON ITEM 16. THANK YOU.
04:16:10 >> SO SHOULD I JUST READ IN THE LINES THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED?
04:16:14 OKAY, SO I WILL REMOVE OR READ IN THE LINES THAT WE REMOVED
04:16:19 WHILE WE WERE IN SIDEBAR. LINE SIX, LINE 30.
04:16:27 LINE 37 AND 38 AND 46 7588, 89 9100 102 103 104 118 119 133
04:16:55 134 135 150 224 233 241 242 243 2733083 16 317 THREE 22 THREE
04:17:19 39 3793 80 AND THAT'S THAT'S THE ONES WE'RE REMOVING.
04:17:26 >> OKAY SO COLLEAGUES CAN WE ACCEPT THE AMENDMENTS THE
04:17:31 REPORT CONTAINED IN ITEM 16 AND REMOVE THE PROPERTIES THAT
04:17:34 WERE JUST IDENTIFIED BY DEPARTMENT STAFF?
04:17:37 WITHOUT OBJECTION I DON'T SEE ANY OBJECTION.
04:17:40 >> SO WITHOUT OBJECTION THE CHANGES ARE ACCEPTED AND THEN
04:17:44 MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON RESOLUTION
04:17:48 ITEM 16 WITH THE AMENDED REPORT ON ITEM 16 WITH THE AMENDED
04:17:51 REPORT SUPERVISOR CHAN CHIN I SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN I
04:17:55 SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY I SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I
04:18:02 SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN I MANDOLIN I SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR I
04:18:06 SUPERVISOR SADR SADR I SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I
04:18:10 SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I AND SUPERVISOR HUANG WONG I
04:18:18 THERE ARE TEN EYES WITHOUT OBJECTION ITEM 16 IS ADOPTED
04:18:22 WITH THE AMENDED REPORT MADAM CLERK LET'S GO TO THE FOR
04:18:26 ADOPTION OF THAT COMMITTEE REFERENCE AGENDA ITEMS 19
04:18:30 THROUGH 25 ITEMS 19 THROUGH 25 WERE INTRODUCED FOR ADOPTION
04:18:33 WITHOUT COMMITTEE REFERENCE A UNANIMOUS VOTE IS REQUIRED FOR
04:18:37 ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION ON FIRST READING TODAY ANY MEMBER
04:18:40 MAY REQUIRE A RESOLUTION ON FIRST READING TO GO TO
04:18:43 COMMITTEE SUPERVISOR MELGAR THANK YOU.
04:18:47 >> I'D JUST LIKE TO BE ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR FOR ITEMS 19
04:18:50 AND 23. >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK NOTED
04:18:54 THAT NOTED THANK YOU PROFESSOR WALTON.
04:18:57 >> THANK YOU PRESIDENT MADAM AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE
04:18:59 THAT I'M ADDED AS A CO-SPONSOR TO ITEM 19 NOTED YOU'RE ALREADY
04:19:05 ON THERE FROM YOUR STAFF. THEY JUST PROVIDED IT TO US
04:19:11 TODAY. >> THANK YOU.
04:19:11 THANK YOU. >> JAN PLEASE COVER ITEMS 19
04:19:18 AND 25. OKAY.
04:19:22 >> AS A CHAIRMAN I WOULD LIKE TO ADD AS A CO-SPONSOR OF ITEM
04:19:26 NUMBER 25. >> OKAY THEN MADAM CLERK, CAN
04:19:30 YOU CALL THE ROLL ON ITEMS 20 THROUGH 24 AND ITEM 23 AND 2420
04:19:44 THROUGH 24 SORRY 2021, 22, 23 AND 24.
04:19:48 >> GOT IT 2122, 23 AND 24 AND 20 AND 28.
04:19:53 PARDON ME MR. PRESIDENT. I HAVE LOST MY HEARING A COUPLE
04:19:57 OF YEARS AGO SO I APPRECIATE THEY'RE JUST INDICATING WHAT
04:20:01 THE NUMBERS WERE 20, 21, 22, 23 AND 24.
04:20:06 SUPERVISOR CHEN I CHENNAI SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN I
04:20:14 SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY I SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I
04:20:20 SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN HI MENDELSON I SUPERVISOR MILKER
04:20:24 MELGAR I SUPERVISOR SHORTER SHORTER I SUPERVISOR CHERYL
04:20:28 CHERYL I SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I AND SUPERVISOR WONG
04:20:33 WONG EITHER ARE TONIGHT WITHOUT OBJECTION THE RESOLUTIONS ARE
04:20:37 ADOPTED MADAM CLERK PLEASE CALL ITEM 19 ITEM 19 RESOLUTION
04:20:43 RECOGNIZING JUNE 5TH 2026 AS HIV LONG TERM SURVIVORS
04:20:46 AWARENESS DAY IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
04:20:50 SUPERVISOR JAN THANK YOU AND COLLEAGUES YOU ALREADY HAVE
04:20:53 HEARD FROM MANY OF THOSE WHO CAME TODAY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
04:20:58 SO I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THANKS TO DECADES OF
04:21:02 RESILIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT, THE FIRST
04:21:05 GENERATION OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IS REACHING OLD AGE
04:21:09 IN SAN FRANCISCO. THESE LONG TERM SURVIVORS ARE
04:21:10 NOT AS SMALL OUTLIER THEY REPRESENT 75% OF ALL PEOPLE
04:21:16 LIVING WITH HIV IN OUR CITY. BUT AGING WITH HIV BRINGS
04:21:20 UNIQUE HEAVY CHALLENGES. THESE SURVIVORS AS THEY HAVE
04:21:24 INDICATED PARTICULARLY TODAY DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS FACE
04:21:27 CHRONIC PHYSICAL ILLNESS NEUROCOGNITIVE CHALLENGES
04:21:31 AND SOMETIMES SEVERE SOCIAL ISOLATION FROM LOSING ENTIRE
04:21:35 NETWORKS DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE EPIDEMIC.
04:21:39 LOCAL DATA SHOWS THEY EXPERIENCE DISPROPORTIONATELY
04:21:40 HIGH RATES OF PTSD AND FINANCIAL INSTABILITY BY
04:21:44 PROCHAIN CLAIMING TODAY, JUNE 5TH BY PROCLAIMING TODAY THAT
04:21:53 JUNE 5TH 2026 AS HIV LONG ARM SURVIVORS AWARENESS DAY WE ARE
04:21:58 NOT JUST OFFERING SYMBOLIC SUPPORT.
04:22:01 WE ARE RECOGNIZING THAT THERE ARE DISTINCT CHALLENGES REQUIRE
04:22:05 A DISTINCT FULLY FUNDED CITY RESPONSE.
04:22:09 WE OWE IT TO OUR ELDERS TO ENSURE THEY DO NOT JUST SURVIVE
04:22:11 BUT THRIVE. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
04:22:16 WELL, I THINK WE CAN TAKE THIS OUT THE I THINK WE CAN TAKE
04:22:20 THIS ITEM SAME HOUSE, SAME CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE
04:22:22 RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED. >> MADAM CLERK PLEASE CALL ITEM
04:22:27 20 FIVE. ITEM 25.
04:22:30 THIS IS A RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE MONTH OF MAY
04:22:33 2026 AS NATIONAL NURSES MONTH AND MAY 6TH THROUGH MAY 12TH
04:22:40 2026 AS NATIONAL NURSES WEEK IN THE CITY AND COUNTY
04:22:43 SURPRISED CHARM THANK YOU PRESIDENT AMENDMENT
04:22:48 AND COLLEAGUES AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS THERE WERE NURSES
04:22:49 THAT ACTUALLY WANTED TO ATTEND AND JOIN US DURING PUBLIC
04:22:52 COMMENT TODAY BUT THERE ARE NURSES AND THERE THEY ACTUALLY
04:22:56 ARE TRULY BUSY WITH THEIR SHIFT AND THESE NURSES PARTICULARLY
04:22:59 ARE ACTUALLY FROM SAN FRANCISCO VETERAN AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER
04:23:03 LOCATED IN THE HEART IN THE IN OUR OUTER RICHMOND
04:23:06 IN ADDITION TO ALL THE CELEBRATION THIS MONTH MAY IS
04:23:10 NATIONAL NURSES MONTH AND MAY 6 TO 12 IS NATIONAL NURSES WEEK.
04:23:14 NURSES ARE THE BACKBONE, THE HEARTBEAT AND THE SOUL OF
04:23:18 HEALTH CARE. EVERY SINGLE DAY NURSES STEP
04:23:19 INTO THEIR SHIFT NOT KNOWING WHAT CHALLENGES AWAIT THEM.
04:23:22 THEY ARE CLINICAL EXPERTS QUICK THINKING PROBLEM SOLVERS
04:23:26 AND FIERCE PATIENT ADVOCATES. BUT JUST AS IMPORTANTLY THEY
04:23:31 ARE ATTENTIVE LISTENERS AND KEEPERS OF HOPE FOR FAMILY
04:23:32 AND FRIENDS AT THE FACE OF CHALLENGING NEWS.
04:23:35 SO SPECIFICALLY TODAY I DO WANT TO TAKE UP THIS OPPORTUNITY TO
04:23:39 CONGRATULATE THE ENTIRE TEAM OF NURSES AT THE SAN FRANCISCO
04:23:43 VETERAN AFFAIRS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM WHO RECENTLY WAS AWARDED
04:23:47 THE PRESTIGIOUS PATHWAY TO EXCELLENCE DESTINATION BY THE
04:23:51 AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER.
04:23:55 THIS DESTINATION MAKES THE SAN FRANCISCO VA MEDICAL CENTER ONE
04:24:02 OF ONLY 16 VA HOSPITALS IN THE ENTIRE NATION.
04:24:05 V.A. NET WORK TO HAVE RECEIVED AS DISTINGUISH RECOGNITION.
04:24:09 THANK YOU TO THE TEAM OF EXTRAORDINARY NURSES AT THE SAN
04:24:14 FRANCISCO VA HOSPITAL AND THE VISIONARY LEADERSHIP OF TERRI
04:24:18 SHARP, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PATIENT
04:24:22 CARE SERVICE AND NURSE EXECUTIVE FOR THE VA S.F. VA
04:24:27 CARE SYSTEM WHOSE COMMITMENT TO NURSE EMPOWERMENT
04:24:31 AND COMPASSIONATE VETERAN CARE MADE THIS RECOGNITION POSSIBLE.
04:24:35 AND THANK YOU AND I THINK WE CAN TAKE THAT SAME HOUSE SAME
04:24:39 CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED.
04:24:46 >> MADAM CLERK DO WE HAVE ANY IMPERATIVE AGENDA ITEMS?
04:24:47 I HAVE NONE TO REPORT. MR. PRESIDENT, COULD YOU PLEASE
04:24:49 READ THE IN MEMORIAM? >> YESTERDAY'S MEETING WILL BE
04:24:51 ADJOURNED IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING BELOVED INDIVIDUALS
04:24:54 ON BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR CHAN FOR THE LATE MR. KENNETH LEE
04:25:00 YONG AND MR. GERALD W JOHNSON ON BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR DORSEY
04:25:05 AND SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN FOR THE LATE MR. JACK DAVIS ON
04:25:09 BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR MANDEL MIN AND SUPERVISOR MELGAR FOR THE
04:25:13 LATE MISREAD ASSEMBLE AND ON BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR WALTON FOR
04:25:20 THE LATE MR. MAGNUS MARC MARTEL .
04:25:24 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK. DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER BUSINESS
04:25:28 BEFORE US TODAY? THAT CONCLUDES OUR BUSINESS FOR
04:25:29 TODAY AND WE ARE ADJOURNED