00:00:13 GOOD MORNING. >> THIS MEETING WILL COME TO
00:00:14 ORDER. WELCOME TO THE OCTOBER 1ST 2026
00:00:16 REGULAR MEETING OF THE GOVERNMENT AUDIT AND OVERSIGHT
00:00:20 COMMITTEE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
00:00:24 I'M SUPERVISOR STEPHEN SHERRILL, CHAIR OF THE
00:00:25 COMMITTEE JOINED BY VICE CHAIR SUPERVISOR JACKIE FIELDER
00:00:27 AND SUPERVISOR ALAN WANG. TODAY WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY OUR
00:00:32 COLLEAGUE SUPERVISOR BELAL MAHMOOD.
00:00:33 >> THE COMMITTEE CLERK TODAY IS JOHN CARROLL.
00:00:35 AND THANKS TO CLINTON MENDOZA OF S.F. GOV TV AS WELL.
00:00:40 >> MR. CLARK, DO YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS?
00:00:41 YES, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU'VE
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00:01:40 WHICH YOU ARE COMMENTING. >> THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR
00:01:43 ANNOUNCEMENTS, MR. CHAIR. >> THANK YOU MR. CLERK CAN YOU
00:01:46 PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER ONE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A
00:01:50 HEARING TO INVESTIGATE THE MASS EVICTIONS AND CONCERNS AROUND
00:01:54 HABITABILITY, AFFORDABLE HOUSING RECERTIFICATION,
00:01:57 PAYMENT PROCESSING AND RESIDENT SAFETY AT MARTIN LUTHER KING
00:02:01 SLASH MARCUS GARVEY SQUARE COOPERATIVE APARTMENTS.
00:02:02 THOMAS PAINE SQUARE APARTMENTS AND OTHER PROPERTIES CURRENTLY
00:02:06 OR PREVIOUSLY UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF A DOMUS
00:02:09 MANAGEMENT COMPANY. >> THANK YOU.
00:02:14 AND THIS IS WHY I ASSUME MOST OF YOU ALL ARE HERE FOR THIS
00:02:19 HEARING. OUR COLLEAGUE SUPERVISOR BELAL
00:02:20 MAHMOOD WHO REPRESENTS THE WESTERN EDITION IS GOING TO
00:02:24 LEAD THIS HEARING. FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK
00:02:26 YOU FOR CALLING IT. >> I THINK IT GOES WITHOUT
00:02:31 SAYING THAT IT IS NECESSARY BUT I'LL SAY IT ANYWAY.
00:02:34 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND TO ALL OF YOU IN THE
00:02:35 AUDIENCE WHO HAVE SUFFERED UNNECESSARILY BECAUSE OF THIS,
00:02:40 I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR BEING HERE AS WELL.
00:02:43 WITH THAT I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD.
00:02:47 PLEASE TAKE IT AWAY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHERYL.
00:02:50 COLLEAGUES, I'M GOING TO SPEAK FOR A LITTLE BIT BEFORE DIVING
00:02:53 INTO THIS HEARING. THE WESTERN EDITION
00:02:58 NEIGHBORHOOD WAS DEVASTATED. WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE MANY
00:03:02 YEARS AGO DUE TO THE ACTIONS OF JUSTIN HERMAN AND THE STAFF
00:03:06 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BUSINESSES WERE DESTROYED.
00:03:09 BLOCKS UPON BLOCKS OF HOMES DEMOLISHED THOUSANDS OF BLOCK
00:03:13 SAN FRANCISCANS DISPLACED SCATTERED ACROSS THE CITY
00:03:17 REGION AND THE COUNTRY. BUT SOME REMAINED.
00:03:21 AND OUT OF THAT RUBBLE CAME TWO TYPES OF INSTITUTION THAT
00:03:25 PROMISED STABILITY AND AN UPLIFTING FOR THE WORKING CLASS
00:03:28 RESIDENTS OF THE WESTERN. IN ADDITION, LIMITED EQUITY
00:03:32 COOPERATIVE HOUSING COMPLEXES OR CO-OPS ARE SELF-GOVERNING
00:03:35 HOUSING COMPLEXES WHERE DECISIONS ARE MADE BY RESIDENT
00:03:40 SHAREHOLDERS LED BY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
00:03:43 THE SECOND TYPE OF HOUSING THAT WAS DEVELOPED, BUILT AND ARE
00:03:47 OWNED BY THE HISTORIC BLACK CHURCHES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
00:03:48 LIKE THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH AND BETHEL AME CHURCH.
00:03:50 BUILDING ON THE STAYING POWER AND COMMUNITY DRIVEN MISSION OF
00:03:54 THE CENTURY PLUS OLD INSTITUTIONS, CHURCH OWNED
00:03:57 HOUSING AND CO-OPS ARE BOTH CENTRAL TO WHAT MAKES THE
00:04:01 WESTERN CONDITION GREAT. >> THEY'RE A BIG PART OF WHAT'S
00:04:05 ALLOWED THESE VERY FAMILIES THAT ARE THAT WERE DISPLACED
00:04:06 IN REDEVELOPMENT TO STAY IN THE CITY OR RETURN HOME.
00:04:12 >> THEY'VE ALSO BEEN MEANINGFUL TO IMMIGRANT SAN FRANCISCANS
00:04:14 WHO HAVE ALSO BEGUN TO CALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOME IN HIGHER
00:04:17 AND HIGHER NUMBERS. >> HOWEVER, OVER THE YEARS THE
00:04:21 QUALITY OF THE MANAGEMENT LEVEL OF UPKEEP AND THE FINANCIAL
00:04:25 STABILITY OF THESE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS HAS BEEN UNEVEN.
00:04:29 >> SOME HAVE THRIVED UNDER STRONG OWNERSHIP SUPPORT OR A
00:04:32 VISIONARY CO-OP BOARD. OTHERS HAVE BEEN AT THE BRINK
00:04:36 OF DEFAULTING ON LOANS RIDDLED WITH DVI COMPLAINTS AND HAVE
00:04:40 HAD STRIFE TEAR AT THE INTERPERSONAL FABRIC THAT MAKES
00:04:44 THESE COMPLEXES AND THIS GREATER WESTERN ADDITION
00:04:47 COMMUNITY SO MEANINGFUL. >> TODAY WE'RE HERE TO TALK
00:04:51 ABOUT THREE COMPLEXES WHOSE RESIDENTS HAVE COME TO US
00:04:55 BECAUSE THEY FEEL THEY'VE RUN OUT OF OTHER OPTIONS FOR
00:04:56 FEELING SECURE IN THEIR OWN HOMES.
00:04:59 >> THOMAS PAINE SQUARE APARTMENTS IS OWNED BY ALLEN
00:05:04 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WHICH IS AFFILIATED
00:05:07 WITH BETHLEHEM CHURCH WHO PURCHASED THE APARTMENTS
00:05:09 IN 2001. >> RESIDENTS HAVE LONG REPORTED
00:05:13 ISSUES BUILDING CONDITIONS, INABILITY TO ACCESS TENANT
00:05:15 RECORDS AND SERIOUS LAPSES IN SECURITY.
00:05:20 A FEW BLOCKS TO THE WEST IS THE MARTIN LUTHER KING MARCUS
00:05:22 GARVEY APARTMENTS HERE. YEARS OF LEADERSHIP TUMULT
00:05:25 COMBINED WITH THE REVOLVING DOOR OF MANAGEMENT COMPANIES
00:05:29 HAS LED TO LEAKING ROOFS SHODDY PAPERWORK MANAGEMENT
00:05:33 AND INTIMIDATION OF RESIDENT ORGANIZERS IN THE LEAD UP TO
00:05:36 THIS HEARING. >> MY OFFICE ALSO BEGAN WORKING
00:05:37 WITH THE RESIDENTS OF ALMA PARK WHO HAD ISSUES OF BUILDING
00:05:41 MANAGEMENT AND BOARD LEADERSHIP.
00:05:44 >> ADDITIONALLY, BOTH CO-OPS HAVE SEEN EVICTION FILINGS
00:05:49 IN THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS RELATED TO NON RECERTIFICATION
00:05:52 UNDER U.S. HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECTION EIGHT
00:05:55 REQUIREMENTS. ALL THREE OF THESE COMPLEXES IS
00:05:59 THOMAS PAINE SQUARE, KING GARVEY CO-OP AND AMIL PARK
00:06:03 CO-OP HAVE ONE MAJOR THING IN COMMON THEY ARE ALL MANAGED
00:06:07 BY DOMA'S PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. >> THE LODI BASED FIRM IS
00:06:14 SUPPOSED TO BE IN CHARGE OF MAINTAINING UNITS OVERSEEING
00:06:16 THE HUD RECERTIFICATION PROCESS, MANAGING CO-OP SHARES
00:06:19 AND ENSURING RESIDENTS SAFETY. WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM
00:06:22 RESIDENTS IS THEY HAVE NOT PERFORMED ON THESE TASKS.
00:06:26 DOMAS IS HARDLY THE ONLY BAD ACTOR.
00:06:30 NOR ARE THEY ALONE TO BLAME FOR THE DIFFICULTIES RESIDENTS AT
00:06:32 THEIR PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN FACING.
00:06:34 THEY'RE EMBLEMATIC OF A BROADER ISSUE OF POOR MANAGEMENT ACROSS
00:06:37 CO-OPS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT WE HEAR FROM OUR NONPROFIT
00:06:41 LEGAL AND ORGANIZING PARTNERS ALL THE TIME.
00:06:42 >> MANY OF THE ISSUES WE'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT TODAY ARE
00:06:46 OUTSIDE OF THE CITY'S DIRECT PURVIEW AND ARE TYPICALLY
00:06:49 MATTERS FOR THE COURT OR TO BE PRIVATELY SETTLED BETWEEN
00:06:50 TENANTS OR SHAREHOLDERS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT.
00:06:54 THESE BUILDINGS ARE UNDER DB II AND DEPARTURES STICTION.
00:06:57 BUT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
00:06:59 FOR THEIR PART HAD PREVIOUS LOANS WITH THEM ALL CAME MARCUS
00:07:02 GARVEY BUT NO OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY.
00:07:03 >> ALL THREE PROPERTIES RECEIVE ASSISTANCE FROM HUD DIRECTLY
00:07:07 THOUGH ITS PROJECT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE OR PBR A PROGRAM AS
00:07:10 OPPOSED TO LOCALLY MANAGED PROJECT BASED HOUSING CHOICE
00:07:14 VOUCHERS WHICH MEANS THE S.F. HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS
00:07:17 UNFORTUNATELY NO AUTHORITY. >> DESPITE THIS HOLDING THIS
00:07:21 HEARING AT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, GOVERNMENT AUDIT
00:07:25 AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE IS IMPORTANT FOR A FEW REASONS.
00:07:28 >> FIRST, THE AFFECTED COMPLEXES ARE CENTRAL TO THE
00:07:32 FABRIC OF THE WESTERN EDITION. >> THE HEALTH OF THE FILLMORE
00:07:35 IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE CITY MORE GENERALLY IS
00:07:37 CONTINGENT UPON THE FUNCTIONING OF ITS INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING
00:07:40 AND ESPECIALLY ITS CO-OPS AND CHURCH OWNED AFFORDABLE
00:07:44 HOUSING. ANY THREATS TO THESE
00:07:45 INSTITUTIONS IS A THREAT TO THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD.
00:07:48 >> SECOND, DOMAS HAS DEMONSTRATED A PATTERN OF POOR
00:07:54 MANAGEMENT AT THESE COMPLEXES THAT WE WILL HEAR ABOUT THE
00:07:55 SPECIFIC CASE OF SHORTLY. BUT THE ROOT ISSUES HERE ARE
00:07:59 GENERALIZED BY RAISING AWARENESS OF THE NATURE OF
00:08:03 THESE ISSUES. THE HEARING CAN HELP INFORM
00:08:06 TENANTS, CO-OP STAKEHOLDERS AND THE CITY ENFORCEMENT BODIES
00:08:10 ACROSS THE CITY ABOUT WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR AND PROBLEM
00:08:11 MANAGEMENT COMPANIES AND EVEN ENCOURAGE POLICYMAKERS TO COME
00:08:15 UP WITH SOLUTIONS THAT HELP NOT JUST THE RESIDENTS OF THESE
00:08:19 THREE COMPLEXES. AT THE CENTER OF THE HEARING
00:08:21 BUT THE WHOLE CITY. THIRD, CO-OPS LIKE MLK, MARCUS
00:08:26 GARVEY AND MILL PARK ARE GENERALLY NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD
00:08:27 BY CITY AGENCIES AND HOUSING NONPROFITS.
00:08:30 SUPERVISOR MELGAR HAS ANNOUNCED LEGISLATION THAT WILL HELP WITH
00:08:33 CO-OP GOVERNANCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CO-OPS
00:08:37 AND THE TESTIMONY WE HEAR TODAY SHOULD HELP INFORM THE
00:08:40 LEGISLATION TO ENSURE THESE ISSUES ARE ADDRESSED
00:08:41 AND PRESENT DAY CO-OPS AND NOT REPLICATED IN ANY NEW CO-OPS
00:08:44 THAT MAY BE CREATED. >> AND FINALLY THESE RESIDENTS
00:08:48 WHO YOU WILL HEAR FROM TODAY DESERVE REAL ANSWERS FROM THEIR
00:08:52 MANAGEMENT COMPANY AND FROM THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT OWN THESE
00:08:56 COMPLEXES. AS A SUPERVISOR I HAVE A
00:08:59 RESPONSIBLE PARTY TO ENSURE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO STAY
00:09:03 IN THEIR HOME, HAVE A RIGHT TO THEIR BASIC HEALTH, HAVE A
00:09:07 RIGHT TO THEIR SAFETY AND THAT THEIR SECURITIES ARE MET, NEEDS
00:09:10 ARE MET IF THOSE NEEDS ARE NOT BEING MET.
00:09:14 WE HAVE TO BE THE ONES TO ELEVATE THOSE QUESTIONS AND IF
00:09:17 NEEDED ISSUE SUBPOENAS SO THAT THEY CAN COME TO THIS PUBLIC
00:09:21 SETTING AND EXPLAIN WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON.
00:09:24 >> TODAY WE'LL FIRST HEAR FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION WHO
00:09:26 CAN GO OVER WHAT THEIR JURISDICTION IS AND GIVE A HIGH
00:09:29 LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THEIR INVESTIGATIONS THUS FAR.
00:09:32 >> THEN THE EVICTION DEFENSE COLLABORATIVE WILL SPEAK TO
00:09:37 THEIR WORK AND THE PARTICULAR ISSUES FACING RESIDENTS AT
00:09:40 THESE SITES. >> THEN I'LL ASK QUESTIONS OF
00:09:41 SELECTED RESIDENTS FROM THOMAS PAINE SQUARE, MLK, MARCUS
00:09:44 GARVEY CO-OP AND ANIMAL PARK CO-OP IN THAT ORDER.
00:09:48 AFTER THAT WE WILL MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT TO GET MORE
00:09:52 INDIVIDUAL STORIES FROM RESIDENTS AND THE BROADER
00:09:53 COMMUNITY. >> IF ANY REPRESENTATIVES OF
00:09:56 THE OWNERSHIP OR THE CO-OP LEADERSHIP OF THESE COMPLEXES
00:09:59 OR IF ANY REPRESENTATIVE DOMAS IS PRESENT, THEY WILL ALSO HAVE
00:10:03 AN OPPORTUNITY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
00:10:05 WE ARE EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF
00:10:07 BETHEL AME CHURCH BUT DO NOT EXPECT THE ATTENDANCE
00:10:11 UNFORTUNATELY OF DOMAS OR THEIR CO-OP EITHER CO-OP BOARD.
00:10:16 >> FINALLY WE'LL WRAP UP THE HEARING BY ISSUING SUBPOENAS OF
00:10:18 THOSE BODIES WHO WERE CALLED AS PART OF THIS HEARING BUT DID
00:10:21 NOT ACCEPT THE INVITATION OR DO NOT SHOW UP TODAY.
00:10:25 >> WE KNOW THAT THAT IS FRUSTRATING AND THAT WE DON'T
00:10:29 HAVE ALL THE RESPONSIBLE PARTIES HERE TODAY.
00:10:32 MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING YEARS TO EXPRESS THESE ISSUES
00:10:36 FACE TO FACE WITH THOSE COMPANIES.
00:10:37 JUST KNOW THAT YOUR TESTIMONY TODAY WILL BE A CRITICAL
00:10:41 ELEMENT OF NOT ONLY FUTURE HEARINGS BUT FOR ANYONE ELSE
00:10:44 GOING THROUGH SIMILAR DIFFICULTIES IN THEIR HOMES.
00:10:47 >> I'VE ALSO INVITED AND ASKED FOR INPUT FROM THE U.S.
00:10:48 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT BUT THEY ARE ALSO
00:10:52 NOT PRESENT AND DID NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION.
00:10:55 UNFORTUNATELY, WHILE WE CAN ISSUE SUBPOENAS TO SOME OF THE
00:10:59 AFOREMENTIONED PARTIES, WE CANNOT ISSUE SUBPOENAS TO
00:11:00 FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS. WE HAVE ALSO REQUESTED
00:11:03 INFORMATION FROM THE CALIFORNIA AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVE'S
00:11:07 WHO MANAGE HOUSING CONTRACTS IN CALIFORNIA FOR HUD.
00:11:08 BUT THEY DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RESPOND TO MY OFFICE'S REQUESTS
00:11:11 IN A TIMELY MANNER. STAFF FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:11:15 BUILDING INSPECTION ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND TODAY BUT THEY HAVE
00:11:18 MET WITH OUR OFFICE TO DISCUSS ONGOING ISSUES PARTICULARLY KEN
00:11:19 GARVEY. >> FOR ALL OF OUR GUESTS
00:11:22 INVITED TO SPEAK IN THIS PORTION OF THE HEARING, THEY
00:11:26 WILL GET ABOUT TWO MINUTES TO MAKE A STATEMENT AND THEN WE'LL
00:11:27 FOLLOW UP WITH QUESTIONS. >> WITH THAT I'D LIKE TO INVITE
00:11:31 DIRECTOR MOSELEY FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS
00:11:34 COMMISSION UP TO THE PODIUM ON HIS WAY.
00:11:43 OKAY. THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE
00:11:48 EVICTION DEFENSE COLLABORATIVE WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE DIRECTOR
00:11:50 TO ARRIVE. IS TUESDAYS.
00:11:52 >> WE ARE JOINED TODAY BY TUESDAY THORNTON, A RESTAURANT
00:11:57 STAFF ATTORNEY WITH THE EFFICIENT DEFENSE COLLABORATIVE
00:12:00 ALONG WITH OPEN DOOR LEGAL WHO WILL SPEAK WHO WE SPOKE TO
00:12:01 IN PREPARATION FOR THIS HEARING.
00:12:04 EDC REPRESENTS CLIENTS IN EVICTION CASES RELATED TO
00:12:05 DOMA'S PROPERTIES. >> HI.
00:12:08 GOOD MORNING. I AM REPRESENTING TWO TENANTS
00:12:12 OF THE KING DERBY COPS. >> I WILL SPEAK TO THE
00:12:16 ADMINISTRATIVE MISMANAGEMENT THAT I HAVE WITNESSED
00:12:19 AND ONGOING AND THE ONGOING EVICTION LITIGATION AT KING
00:12:23 GARVEY. BUT YOU HAVE DOZENS OF TENANTS
00:12:24 HERE WHO ARE THE EXPERTS OF THEIR OWN LIVING CONDITIONS
00:12:28 AND I URGE YOU TO BELIEVE THEIR STORIES AND TAKE THEIR REQUESTS
00:12:30 SERIOUSLY WHEN THEY SPEAK TO THE HABITABILITY ISSUES
00:12:34 AND OTHER OTHER SERIOUS ISSUES THEY'RE EXPERIENCING IN THEIR
00:12:35 HOUSING. >> I WILL ALSO STATE THAT THE
00:12:38 PRACTICES THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY ARE NOT UNIQUE TO CO-OPS
00:12:42 AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. >> THE PRIVATE MARKET IS RIFE
00:12:43 WITH PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ABUSES.
00:12:47 BUT HERE THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WERE
00:12:50 CREATED TO KEEP SAN FRANCISCANS HOUSED AND THAT OBJECTIVE
00:12:54 SHOULD BE OUR TOP PRIORITY. >> SO AS YOU KNOW, IN EVICTIONS
00:12:58 IN THE PRIVATE MARKET AS WELL, LANDLORDS ARE EXPECTED TO
00:13:02 STRICTLY COMPLY WITH NOTICE REQUIREMENTS WHICH REQUIRE THEM
00:13:05 TO STATE EXACT AMOUNTS OF RENT THAT ARE DUE AND HAVE EVIDENCE
00:13:13 TO BACK THAT UP. IN BOTH OF THE CASES OF TENANTS
00:13:15 THAT I'M REPRESENTING AT KING GARVEY THERE WERE MONTHS OR
00:13:21 YEARS OF CONFUSION ABOUT THEIR RENTAL RATES AND THEIR RENTAL
00:13:25 ARREARS LEADING UP TO THE EVICTION NOTICES BEING ISSUED.
00:13:32 >> YOU KNOW THE NOTICE AMOUNTS THEMSELVES AND BOTH OF MY CASES
00:13:36 ARE VERY SMALL. ONE OF THE NOTICES IS FOR
00:13:39 $5,000, THE OTHER IS FOR $6,000.
00:13:42 THESE CASES COULD BE RESOLVED VERY EASILY ACTUALLY AND WE
00:13:44 HAVE OFFERED TO RESOLVE THEM BASED ON THE AMOUNTS STATED
00:13:48 IN THE NOTICES. >> HOWEVER, THE PROPERTY
00:13:54 MANAGEMENT LEDGER HAS ARREAR AMOUNTS THAT GO ONE OF MY
00:14:02 IN ONE OF MY CASES THE PLAINTIFFS ARE CLAIMING THAT
00:14:06 THE TENANT OWES LIKE $47,000 EVEN THOUGH THE NOTICE AMOUNT
00:14:09 IS ONLY $6,000. >> SO EVEN THOUGH THE NOTICE
00:14:12 ITSELF IS $6,000 AND COULD BE RESOLVED LIKE THAT, THESE OTHER
00:14:19 ALLEGED ARREARS ARE KIND OF BEING TROJAN HORSE IN THROUGH
00:14:23 THIS EVICTION CASE AND WE'RE NOT ABLE TO JUST GIVE KING
00:14:27 GARVEY THE MONEY AND RESOLVE THE CASES AND MORE TROUBLING IS
00:14:31 THAT WE HAD A MEETING I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT MONTH IT WAS BUT
00:14:36 SOME PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM WERE PRESENT AT THIS MEETING
00:14:38 AND CHRISTINE MASON, WHO IS A PROPERTY MANAGER AT DOMAS, OUR
00:14:43 OPERATIONS MANAGER I BELIEVE STATED THAT DOMAS DID NOT HAVE
00:14:46 THE RECORDS TO BACK UP THE ARREARS THAT WERE IN THESE
00:14:50 LEDGERS AND EVICTION CASE SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT FORWARD
00:14:57 IF THERE'S KNOWLEDGE THAT THE ALLEGED AMOUNTS CANNOT BE
00:15:01 SUBSTANTIATED AT ALL. SO THE FACT THAT THESE CASES
00:15:02 WERE EVEN BROUGHT FORWARD IN THE FIRST PLACE IS ALARMING.
00:15:05 BUT THEN WHEN YOU SPEAK TO THE TENANTS AND REALIZE THAT THEY
00:15:08 HAD BEEN WORKING WITH DOMAS TO TRY AND RESOLVE THESE
00:15:12 DISCREPANCIES TO FIGURE OUT WHY THEY WERE BEING ACCUSED OF NOT
00:15:14 PAYING RENT FOR MONTHS THAT THEY HAD PAID TRYING TO FIGURE
00:15:17 OUT WHAT THEIR ACTUAL ACCURATE RENTAL AMOUNT WAS SO THEY COULD
00:15:21 GET BACK ON TRACK AND PAY THEIR RENT INSTEAD OF WORKING WITH
00:15:24 TENANTS, DOMAS CHOSE TO PURSUE UNLAWFUL DETAINERS AND SO NOW
00:15:31 THE CITY IS PAYING ME AND MY COLLEAGUES TO DEFEND THESE
00:15:32 EVICTIONS. I WILL ALSO SAY THESE CASES
00:15:36 HAVE TAKEN A LOT MORE TIME THAN I THINK ANY CASE I'VE I'VE
00:15:42 LITIGATED IN MY THREE YEARS AT EDC.
00:15:43 THE THE PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEY IS LITIGATING THEM VERY
00:15:50 AGGRESSIVELY AND FILING A LOT OF MOTIONS IN COURT AND IT'S
00:15:54 OUR POSITION THAT THESE CASES COULD BE RESOLVED THROUGH
00:15:58 SETTLEMENT BUT INSTEAD WE ARE BEING PULLED INTO COURT
00:16:02 ROUTINELY ON DISCOVERY MOTIONS AND JUST REALLY INCONSEQUENTIAL
00:16:09 MATTERS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE OFFERED TO PAY THE MONEY
00:16:10 THAT WAS ALLEGED IN THE NOTICES.
00:16:13 >> SO I DON'T KNOW YOU KNOW, THIS IS COMMON JUST ANECDOTALLY
00:16:17 IN MY EXPERIENCE AS A AS A TENANT ATTORNEY THAT WHEN
00:16:20 THERE'S TURNOVER OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT NEW PROPERTY
00:16:24 MANAGERS TRY TO COME IN AND GET THE BOOKS KIND OF CORRECTED OR
00:16:29 WHATEVER. >> BUT IF THEY DON'T HAVE
00:16:30 RECORDS JUST SUBSTANTIATE AMOUNTS THERE'S THERE'S SERIOUS
00:16:33 MARGIN FOR FOR ABUSE THERE. SO I THERE ARE A LOT OF
00:16:40 QUESTIONS THAT I THINK SHOULD BE ANSWERED BY PEOPLE THAT
00:16:43 UNFORTUNATELY ARE NOT HERE TODAY.
00:16:44 I THINK THE THE ABSENCE OF SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT THESE
00:16:51 CASES INTO BEING IN THE FIRST PLACE IS IT ILLUSTRATES WHAT
00:16:55 WE'VE BEEN SEEING WHICH IS THAT THERE WAS JUST A REFUSAL TO TO
00:16:58 WORK WITH TENANTS PRIOR TO PRIOR TO LITIGATION.
00:17:02 SO AND YOU KNOW IN CALIFORNIA JUST SO PEOPLE KNOW WE DON'T
00:17:07 HAVE WHAT'S CALLED THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.
00:17:10 SO EVEN IF A TENANT COMES UP WITH ALL OF THE MONEY DEMANDED
00:17:13 IN THEIR NOTICE, WE CANNOT MAKE THE EVICTION CASE GO AWAY
00:17:17 AND THEY COULD STILL ALL OF THESE TENANTS COULD LOSE THEIR
00:17:18 HOUSING EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE OFFERING TO PAY ALL OF THE
00:17:21 MONEY. SO IT'S REALLY SERIOUS AND IT'S
00:17:22 REALLY CRITICAL THAT THESE CASES BE DISMISSED ESPECIALLY
00:17:25 BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN TOLD BY SOME OF THE PLAYERS THAT THERE ARE
00:17:29 NO THERE'S NO EVIDENCE TO TO SUPPORT THE EVICTIONS.
00:17:32 SO I HOPE THAT WE GET SOME ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS
00:17:37 AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THESE CASES DISMISSED.
00:17:40 >> THANK YOU TUESDAY. A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
00:17:46 >> I THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING THE CLIENTS AT THESE BUILDINGS
00:17:49 . >> TAKING A STEP BACK, I THINK
00:17:50 ONE IS YOU HAVE AN EXPERTISE IN EVICTION.
00:17:54 CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH HOW THIS IS TYPICALLY PLAY OUT,
00:17:58 PARTICULARLY WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE RESIDENTS BUT ALSO
00:18:01 FROM THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT IS THIS QUESTION OF UNLAWFUL
00:18:05 DETAINERS AND WE'RE HEARING FROM ONE SIDE THAT IT'S NOT
00:18:12 HAPPENING AND SOMETIMES IT IS. SO CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH WHAT
00:18:15 IS AN UNLAWFUL DETAINER AND HOW DOES IT FIT INTO THIS EVICTION
00:18:19 PROCESS? >> DEFINITELY AND I'M AWFUL
00:18:20 DETAINERS ARE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH IN ALL OF YOUR DISTRICTS
00:18:24 SO I THINK IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT THAT YOU ALL UNDERSTAND THAT
00:18:27 PROCESS. >> SO IF A TENANT DOES NOT PAY
00:18:31 RENT AND ALSO SOMETHING LIKE IF A TENANT DOES NOT PAY RENT OR A
00:18:35 LANDLORD IS ALLEGING THAT A TENANT DID NOT PAY RENT OR IS
00:18:38 IN VIOLATION OF A TERM OF THEIR LEASE OR IS CAUSING A NUISANCE
00:18:41 ,A LANDLORD CAN SERVE THEM WITH A NOTICE.
00:18:45 THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF NOTICES THERE THAT ARE THAT
00:18:46 COMPLY WITH STATE LAW FOR NONPAYMENT OF RENT SPECIFICALLY
00:18:50 AT A LANDLORD NEEDS TO SERVE A TENANT WITH A WHILE FOR
00:18:57 SUBSIDIZED HOUSING. IT'S A 30 TO 30 DAY NOTICE FOR
00:18:58 NOW BUT MOST COMMONLY IT'S A THREE DAY NOTICE.
00:19:01 >> SO A LANDLORD SERVES A TENANT WITH A THREE DAY NOTICE
00:19:05 TO PAY OR QUIT AND THE TENANT IS HAS TO IN THREE DAYS PAY THE
00:19:08 ENTIRE AMOUNT DEMANDED IN THE NOTICE IF THEY DON'T THEY ARE
00:19:12 AN UNLAWFUL DETAINER AND EVICTION PROCEEDINGS START
00:19:16 SO AN UNLAWFUL DETAINER IS JUST THE NAME FOR THE LAWSUIT FOR AN
00:19:18 EVICTION. THREE DAYS IS NOT A LOT OF TIME
00:19:20 ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET A HOLD OF YOUR
00:19:24 PROPERTY MANAGER FOR YEARS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THESE AMOUNTS
00:19:25 ARE. >> THEY MIGHT NOT RESPOND TO
00:19:28 YOU IN THE THREE DAYS TO TO RESOLVE THE AMOUNTS AND SO IF
00:19:32 YOU DON'T COME UP WITH THE FULL AMOUNT IN THREE DAYS IT GOES
00:19:35 INTO AN UNLAWFUL DETAINER LAWSUIT AND LIKE I SAID
00:19:39 IN OTHER STATES TENANTS CAN PAY THE FULL AMOUNT DEMANDED
00:19:40 IN THEIR NOTICE AND THE LAWSUIT RESOLVES UP UNTIL THE POINT
00:19:43 WHERE THERE'S A JUDGMENT AGAINST THEM IN CALIFORNIA ONCE
00:19:46 THE THREE DAYS IS OVER, THAT'S IT.
00:19:50 >> AND EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALL OF THE MONEY, YOU CANNOT RESOLVE
00:19:53 THE LAWSUIT AND YOU CAN BE REMOVED FROM BY THE SHERIFF.
00:19:57 >> SO DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?
00:20:01 >> YES, THANK YOU. AND IN THE COURSE OF LITIGATION
00:20:04 ,OBVIOUSLY TENANTS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DENY THAT THEY
00:20:08 DIDN'T PAY THEIR RENT OR OFFER AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AGAIN,
00:20:11 MANY TENANTS HERE ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH IMPLIED WARRANTY
00:20:16 OF HABITABILITY DEFENSES WHICH IS YEAH, MAYBE I DIDN'T PAY
00:20:17 THAT RENT BUT I ACTUALLY DIDN'T OWE THAT RENT BECAUSE YOU ARE
00:20:20 NOT PROVIDING HABITABLE LIVING LIVING ENVIRONMENT AND THEN
00:20:23 IN THE CASE HERE HOW MANY CLIENTS DO YOU REPRESENT WHO
00:20:28 HAVE RECEIVED UNLAWFUL DETAINER SO FAR IN KING GARVEY YES I AM
00:20:34 REPRESENTING TWO TENANTS IN KING GARVEY.
00:20:38 I WANT TO SAY THEY WERE BETWEEN 10 AND 13 UNLAWFUL DETAINERS
00:20:44 FILED AND THEN 13 AND THEN HONING IN ON SOMETHING THAT YOU
00:20:51 MENTION WHICH IS THIS QUESTION OF THE AMOUNT THAT IS BEING
00:20:52 REQUESTED AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT ALL EVICTIONS CAN ONLY
00:20:56 BE A MAXIMUM OF ONE YEAR OF MISSED PAYMENTS.
00:21:02 SO HOW IS THE MARCUS GARVEY AND THOMAS MANAGEMENT
00:21:07 AND PARTICULARLY A LAWYER MERCEDES GAVIN HOW ARE THEY
00:21:08 USING THE SETTLEMENT PROCESS TO GET MORE THAN A YEAR'S WORTH?
00:21:13 YOU MENTIONED THE 46,000. YOU SAY A BIT MORE ABOUT THAT
00:21:14 DISCREPANCY. YEAH.
00:21:17 AND AGAIN THIS IS YOU KNOW, I'M SPEAKING TO THESE CASES BUT
00:21:20 THIS IS COMMON PRACTICE ACROSS PRIVATE HOUSING AND AND PUBLIC
00:21:25 HOUSING AND SO A LANDLORD CAN ONLY FILE AN UNLAWFUL CAN ONLY
00:21:32 DEMAND IN THE NOTICE RENT THAT CAME DUE WITHIN THE LAST 12
00:21:35 MONTHS. >> BUT LIKE I SAID EVEN IF YOU
00:21:36 COME UP WITH THE AMOUNT DEMANDED IN YOUR NOTICE THE
00:21:39 LANDLORD DOES NOT HAVE TO RESOLVE THE LAWSUIT.
00:21:40 THEY CAN GET JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND EVICT YOU STILL.
00:21:44 SO WHAT A LOT OF THESE LANDLORD ATTORNEYS WILL DO IS THEY WILL
00:21:50 LEVERAGE A SETTLEMENT WITH OUTSTANDING ARREARS THAT ARE
00:21:54 NOT INCLUDED IN THE NOTICE. SO IN ONE OF MY CASES ACTUALLY
00:21:58 THEY ARE ALLEGING THAT SHE DIDN'T PAY RENT FOR MANY MONTHS
00:22:05 IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS THAT SHE HAD.
00:22:06 BUT BUT AGAIN THE NOTICE THE NOTICE IN BOTH OF THESE CASES
00:22:10 IS LIKE $5,000 AND $6,000. BUT THERE ARE ALLEGED RENT
00:22:16 DEBTS FROM YEARS EARLIER BEFORE DAMAS WAS EVEN THE PROPERTY
00:22:20 MANAGER THAT THEY ARE SAYING WERE NEVER PAID AND ALSO THEY
00:22:23 DON'T HAVE RECORDS FOR AND THEY DON'T AND PAY THE PROPERTY.
00:22:27 CHRISTINE MASON STATED TO US THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ANY
00:22:28 EVIDENCE SUBSTANTIATING THOSE DEBTS YET THEY ARE ON A LEDGER
00:22:31 THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO ME BY COUNSEL.
00:22:34 AND SO AGAIN BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION
00:22:39 LANDLORDS CAN USE ANY OUTSTANDING ARREARS AND AGAIN
00:22:43 LIKE IN THIS CASE THEY ACTUALLY CAN'T PROVE THEY STATED THAT
00:22:46 THEY DON'T HAVE RECORDS TO PROVE THESE ARREARS BUT
00:22:48 IN OTHER OTHER UNLAWFUL DETAINERS EVEN IF THERE ARE
00:22:50 DEBTS TRACING BACK YOU KNOW MAYBE TO COVID WHEN THEY
00:22:54 COULDN'T EVICT ON THEM LANDLORDS WILL LEVERAGE THOSE
00:22:57 DEBTS AND SAY YOU YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO STAY UNLESS
00:22:58 YOU CAN COME UP WITH THE FULL AMOUNT THAT YOU OWE SO THEY'LL
00:23:01 TROJAN HORSE THESE AMOUNTS THAT OTHERWISE COULD NOT BE THE
00:23:03 BASIS FOR AN UNLAWFUL DETAINER IN ORDER TO GET MORE MONEY OUT
00:23:09 OF TENANTS OR MAKE IT SUCH AN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION THAT THE
00:23:12 TENANT HAS TO MOVE OUT EVEN IF THEY CAN PAY THE AMOUNT ON
00:23:13 THEIR NOTICE. >> AND SO THE LAST QUESTION FOR
00:23:16 ME YOU MENTIONED AUSPICIOUSLY THAT THIS THESE CASES HAVE
00:23:20 TAKEN MORE TIME THAN ANY OF THE CASES YOU'VE TRIED BEFORE.
00:23:21 >> WHAT MAKES THIS ATYPICAL IS THAT THE LAWYER INVOLVED LIKE
00:23:25 WHAT IS ATYPICAL ABOUT THIS THAT IS SO EXTREME?
00:23:28 >> YES, THE LAWYER IS LITIGATING AGGRESSIVELY WHICH
00:23:32 IS ABSOLUTELY HER RIGHT TO DO. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN MULTIPLE
00:23:38 STATEMENTS MADE THAT WERE NOT ACCURATE.
00:23:43 FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK KEN GARVEY'S ATTORNEY INFORMED YOUR
00:23:47 OFFICE THAT WE HAD BEEN THAT ALL OF THE ATTORNEYS, ALL OF
00:23:51 THE TENANT ATTORNEYS HAD BEEN GIVEN OFFERS TO SETTLE THE
00:23:54 CASES AND WE HAD REFUSED THEM. >> I HAD NOT RECEIVED AT THAT
00:23:58 POINT OFFERS IN EITHER OF THE TWO CASES THAT I'M
00:24:01 REPRESENTING. AND WHEN I SPOKE TO ATTORNEYS
00:24:02 REPRESENTING OTHER KING GARVEY TENANTS AT OPENDOOR LEGAL, THEY
00:24:05 CONFIRMED TO ME THAT THEY HAD ALSO NOT BEEN GIVEN OFFERS.
00:24:08 >> SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF THAT.
00:24:12 AND ADDITIONALLY JUST THE VOLUME OF MOTIONS THAT ARE
00:24:16 BEING FILED IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, NOT TO GET TOO IN THE
00:24:20 WEEDS BUT LIKE DEMERS TO ANSWERS MOTIONS TO COMPEL
00:24:24 FURTHER INFORMATION ON DISCOVERY WHICH IS AGAIN WITHIN
00:24:28 THE RIGHT OF AN ATTORNEY LITIGATING A CASE.
00:24:29 >> BUT GIVEN THAT WE'VE OFFERED TO SETTLE THE CASE ON THE
00:24:32 AMOUNT DEMANDED IN THE NOTICE, IT SEEMS THAT THE TIME WOULD BE
00:24:36 BETTER SPENT RESOLVING THESE CASES INSTEAD OF COSTING THE
00:24:39 CITY AND AND THE LANDLORD MONEY LITIGATING ISSUES THAT ARE NOT
00:24:47 PERTINENT TO THE CASE. >> THANK YOU MR..
00:24:48 MY COLLEAGUES. >> ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
00:24:51 PRINCE FIELDER JUST ONE QUESTION THAT STATE WAS IT A
00:24:55 STATE LAW THAT YOU REFERRED TO IN WHICH LANDLORDS DON'T HAVE
00:25:02 TO ACCEPT THE AMOUNT THAT'S RIGHT THE RIGHT OF REDEMPTION
00:25:06 IN OTHER STATES IF A TENANT COMES UP WITH THE MONEY
00:25:08 DEMANDED IN THEIR NOTICE THEY CAN PAY IT AT ANY POINT UNTIL
00:25:10 THERE'S A JUDGMENT AGAINST THEM .
00:25:13 YOU CAN ALSO THINK OF IT AS THE RIGHT TO PAY YOUR RENT.
00:25:17 >> BUT IN CALIFORNIA THE STATE LEGISLATURE, WHOEVER THE STATE
00:25:22 CIVIL CODE SAYS THAT IF YOU DON'T PAY IN THREE DAYS IT'S AN
00:25:25 UNLAWFUL DETAINER AND YOU DON'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PAY.
00:25:29 >> SO THAT THAT'S ALSO A FANTASTIC PLACE FOR REFORM
00:25:32 BECAUSE THESE CASES WOULDN'T WE WOULDN'T BE AT THIS POINT IF
00:25:36 TENANTS WERE JUST ALLOWED TO PAY THEIR RENT AND THEIR
00:25:38 NOTICES AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM OF TROJAN HORSE
00:25:40 IN OTHER ARREARS. AND AGAIN BECAUSE THOSE OTHER
00:25:44 ARREARS ARE NOT ACTUALLY PART OF THESE CASES IT'S HARDER FOR
00:25:45 US TO LITIGATE ON THOSE ALLEGATIONS BECAUSE IT'S NOT
00:25:49 THE BASIS OF THE CASE REALLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS WHAT'S
00:25:53 IN THE NOTICE SEEMS LIKE THAT WOULD ALSO SAVE THE CITY MONEY
00:25:56 IN PROVIDING LEGAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL.
00:26:00 ABSOLUTELY. AND OUR RENTAL ASSISTANCE
00:26:01 PROGRAM IS FANTASTIC AND IT KEEPS TENANTS HOUSED AND IT
00:26:04 SHOULD BE USED, YOU KNOW, ACCURATELY AND AND THAT'S WHAT
00:26:09 WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE. THANK YOU.
00:26:12 THANK YOU MR. THANK YOU. NEXT UP WE'D LIKE TO INVITE A
00:26:17 REPRESENTATIVE FROM THOMAS PAINE SQUARE, THE RESIDENCE FOR
00:26:20 THE FIRST COMPLEX. WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THOMAS
00:26:21 PAINE SQUARE APARTMENTS. THESE APARTMENTS HAVE BEEN
00:26:24 MANAGED BY DOMAS SINCE 2024. THEY'RE OWNED BY ALLEN
00:26:27 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WHICH IS RUN
00:26:30 ACTUALLY I THINK IS DIRECTOR TO BEGIN HIS TENURE HERE.
00:26:35 YES. OKAY.
00:26:36 WE'LL START OFF WITH THE DIRECTOR.
00:26:44 >> GOOD MORNING, SUPERVISORS. THANK YOU, CHAIR MAHMOOD FOR
00:26:49 CALLING THIS IMPORTANT HEARING .
00:26:53 MY NAME IS WILL LISA BENU, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
00:26:55 AGENCY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OR THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
00:26:59 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT OUR
00:27:01 CIVIL RIGHTS WORK. ALL RESIDENTS OF COURSE DESERVE
00:27:04 TO HAVE HOUSING THAT IS SECURE, SAFE, PREDICTABLE AND THEY
00:27:11 DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR CONCERNS HEARD AND ADDRESSED WHEN THINGS
00:27:12 ARE NOT GOING WELL. THE HRC WORKS TO PROTECT PEOPLE
00:27:15 FROM DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT AND PUBLIC
00:27:19 ACCOMMODATIONS. OUR CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION
00:27:22 RECEIVES HUNDREDS OF COMPLAINTS EACH YEAR AND THESE COMPLAINTS
00:27:25 ARE ACTUALLY UP BY 84% FROM JUST THREE YEARS AGO, TOPPING
00:27:32 OUT ABOUT A THOUSAND COMPLAINTS THIS YEAR.
00:27:33 THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR I BELIEVE THIS INCREASE IS DUE TO THE
00:27:36 CLIMATE THERE. WE'RE LIVING IN BUT ALSO OUR
00:27:39 RECENT OUTREACH OUR WORK SITS WITHIN A BROADER CIVIL RIGHTS
00:27:43 FRAMEWORK. IF YOU THINK ABOUT TITLE 789 OF
00:27:46 THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT A PRIVATE PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION
00:27:50 IN HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT BASED ON RACE, SEX, COLOR, RELIGION
00:27:54 OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. WE ENFORCE THE APPLICABLE SAN
00:27:58 FRANCISCO ANTI DISCRIMINATION LAWS AS OUR AUTHORITY IS
00:28:02 OUTLINED IN THE CHARTER AMENDMENT ADAM ADMINISTRATIVE
00:28:05 CODE AND THE POLICE CODE THE LAWS MOST RELEVANT TO TODAY'S
00:28:09 DISCUSSION THOUGH OUR FAIR HOUSING LAWS FEDERAL, STATE
00:28:13 AND LOCAL LAWS PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE,
00:28:17 COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RELIGION, SEX, DISABILITY
00:28:20 AND OTHER PROTECTED CLASSES. AND UNFORTUNATELY IF YOU LOOK
00:28:25 AT THE REPORTING ON THE ISSUES THAT KING GARVEY AND MANY OF
00:28:29 THE COMPLAINTS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED, WE OUR CIVIL RIGHTS
00:28:32 DIVISION HAS RECEIVED COMPLAINTS FROM PRIMARILY
00:28:36 SENIOR BLACK AND WOMEN AT PRESENT WE DO NOT HAVE
00:28:43 AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE AT THE KING GARVEY SITE BECAUSE DOMAS
00:28:52 IS NOT A CITY CONTRACTOR AS HE HAVE HIGHLIGHTED SIMILAR TO
00:28:55 OTHER CITY AGENCIES, RESIDENTS CAN AND STILL DO BRING THEIR
00:28:59 CONCERNS TO HRC FOR FOR REDRESS AND INFORMATION THE LIMITS ON
00:29:06 OUR AUTHORITY THOUGH DO NOT DIMINISH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
00:29:08 ISSUES THAT KING GARVEY THE IMPACT ON THE RESIDENTS LIVES,
00:29:14 THEIR FAMILIES AND THE BROADER COMMUNITY.
00:29:15 SO NOW I'D LIKE TO PASS IT OFF TO OUR SUPERVISING MANAGER OF
00:29:19 OUR CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION, ANA MARAGA OR SHEILA WHO WILL
00:29:23 PROVIDE YOU A FEW OF THE SPECIFICS ON SOME OF THE
00:29:24 COMPLAINTS WE'VE RECEIVED. >> GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS
00:29:29 AND GOOD MORNING COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
00:29:33 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INVITATION AND AS DR. RUBINO
00:29:36 MENTIONED WE DO NOT HAVE JURISDICTION.
00:29:40 HOWEVER, WITH THE COMPLAINTS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED WE HAVE
00:29:43 ATTEMPTED TO MEDIATE AND TO FIND A RESOLUTION OFTENTIMES
00:29:48 BECAUSE WE ARE PREEMPTED BY THE STATE FROM BEING ABLE TO MOVE
00:29:52 FORWARD WITH FULL FORMAL COMPLAINTS ON DISCRIMINATION
00:29:55 CASES IN THE AREA OF HOUSING WE STILL HAVE POWER TO MEDIATE
00:30:00 THESE COMPLAINTS. >> THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE
00:30:01 ATTEMPTED TO DO. UNFORTUNATELY, AS WAS MENTIONED
00:30:05 BY THE EVICTION DEFENSE COLLABORATIVE ATTORNEY, WE HAVE
00:30:08 SIMILARLY HAD DIFFICULTIES ENGAGING MEANINGFULLY WITH THE
00:30:15 ATTORNEY FOR DOMAS. WE SENT A LETTER OF CONCERN TO
00:30:20 DOMAS TO BE ABLE TO FIND A RESOLUTION TO THESE COMPLAINTS.
00:30:28 >> UNFORTUNATELY WE RECEIVED AN ANSWER LETTING US KNOW OF
00:30:32 GENERAL CHANGES TO THE PROPERTIES WE ALSO DID SHE SHE
00:30:39 LET US KNOW OF FUTURE CHANGES. HOWEVER NOTHING SPECIFIC TO THE
00:30:41 ALLEGATIONS THAT WE PUT FORWARD BY THE RESIDENTS.
00:30:47 >> THERE WAS A DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION COMPLAINT THAT
00:30:51 WAS SEPARATE FROM THE DISPARATE TREATMENT RAISED DISCRIMINATION
00:30:55 COMPLAINTS AND WE WERE ABLE TO ENGAGE IN A AN ONGOING
00:31:02 INTERACTIVE PROCESS FOR THAT COMPLAINT.
00:31:03 SO CURRENTLY THAT'S WHAT DOES THOSE ARE THE CASES THAT WE
00:31:07 HAVE OPEN HAD AND LOOK, MARCUS GARVEY IN THE PAST IN 2024 WE
00:31:13 SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGED IN MEDIATION FOR A CASE THERE
00:31:17 AND ALSO BACK IN 2020 TO 2023 WE WERE ABLE TO RESOLVE A
00:31:24 HABITABILITY CONCERN FOR ONE OF THE RESIDENTS THERE.
00:31:27 UNFORTUNATELY AS I EXPLAINED, CURRENTLY WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE
00:31:31 TO SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGE WITH DOMAS ON THE ISSUES PRESENTED.
00:31:38 THANK YOU. A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS IN YOUR
00:31:41 EXPERIENCE OF THE COMPLAINTS THAT YOU HEAR ON A REGULAR
00:31:43 BASIS, IS IT TYPICAL TO NOT HEAR BACK FROM THE PROPERTY
00:31:46 MANAGEMENT WHEN YOU ARE DOING THESE INVESTIGATIONS?
00:31:50 >> WE GENERALLY HEAR BACK IT'S NOT TYPICAL TO NOT HEAR BACK
00:31:54 IN THIS CASE WE HAVE HEARD BACK BUT WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO
00:32:01 ENGAGE SO THAT WE CAN RESOLVE THE ALLEGATIONS AT HAND.
00:32:05 >> THE THE ANSWER HAS NOT BEEN TO ACTUALLY HAVE A CONVERSATION
00:32:10 ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON ABOUT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO EXERCISE THE
00:32:14 POWER THAT WE HAVE TO MEDIATE AND TO FACILITATE A RESOLUTION.
00:32:18 WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT HERE.
00:32:21 SO THAT SEEMS ATYPICAL. THEY'RE NOT IT'S ALL PRETTY
00:32:22 TYPICAL. SO THEY'RE NOT ENGAGING TO
00:32:25 ACTUALLY HELP AND MOST OF OTHER PROPERTIES DO CORRECT.
00:32:29 >> OKAY. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY OUR NEXT
00:32:30 STEPS BEYOND THIS LETTER BEYOND THESE LETTERS TODAY BEYOND THE
00:32:35 LETTER OF CONCERN? >> YEAH.
00:32:36 WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS THEY WOULD SAY FROM FROM THE
00:32:39 DEPARTMENT'S PERSPECTIVE SO BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE
00:32:40 JURISDICTION WE CANNOT HAVE A FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST DOMAS
00:32:46 THAT IS A CHALLENGE HERE SO WE CAN ONLY MEDIATE IT AND THEY
00:32:50 HAVE TO BE WILLING TO TO COME TO THE TABLE AND ENGAGE IN THAT
00:32:54 PROCESS WITH US IF WE ARE ABLE TO COMPEL THEM TO COME TO A
00:32:58 FUTURE HEARING. HOW WOULD THAT ASSIST WITH YOUR
00:32:59 PROCEEDINGS IN THAT CONTEXT? >> WE WOULD LIKE FOR THEM TO
00:33:03 ENGAGE IN A CONVERSATION SO THAT WE CAN RESOLVE THE
00:33:06 SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS FROM THE RESIDENTS.
00:33:09 >> OKAY. THANK YOU.
00:33:10 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT?
00:33:13 >> OKAY. THANK YOU.
00:33:14 THANK YOU. NEXT WE WILL INVITE THOMAS
00:33:17 PAINE SQUARE APARTMENTS AND THE RESIDENTS SPOKESPERSONS.
00:33:21 THESE APARTMENTS HAVE BEEN MANAGED BY DUMMIES SINCE 2024.
00:33:24 THEY ARE OWNED BY ALLEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
00:33:26 CORPORATION WHICH IS RUN BY BETHEL AME CHURCH, A
00:33:29 HISTORICALLY BLACK CHURCH JUST ACROSS THE INTERSECTION FROM
00:33:32 THE APARTMENTS LED BY REVEREND CECIL WILLIAMS JR THE SAN
00:33:35 FRANCISCO STANDARD REPORTED EARLIER THIS YEAR THAT BOBBY
00:33:37 SISK WHO LEADS ALLEN CDC ALSO CONTRACTED WITH THE COMPANY HE
00:33:40 ALSO CONTROLLED TO PROVIDE SECURITY SERVICES AT THOMAS
00:33:44 PAINE RESIDENTS ALLEGE THAT SISK IGNORED THE CONCERNS OF
00:33:48 THE RESIDENTS ABOUT THEIR SAFETY AND WELL-BEING RESIDENTS
00:33:51 I HAVE MET WITH GOINS AND BETHEL BETHEL AMY PASTOR
00:33:56 REVEREND CECIL WILLIAMS ON TWO OCCASIONS TO DISCUSS THESE
00:33:59 ISSUES. MANY OF THESE PROBLEMS WE'RE
00:34:00 HEARING STILL PERSIST AND DOMAS IS STILL THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY
00:34:03 OVER THOMAS PAINE SQUARE AS WELL AS PRINCE HALL
00:34:06 AND POTENTIALLY LAUREL GARDENS AS WELL ALL OF WHICH ARE OWNED
00:34:10 BY ALLEN CDC THROUGH THEIR ATTORNEY VERNON GOINS AND GOINS
00:34:14 LAW FIRM THE ALLEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION HAS
00:34:17 DECLINED OUR INVITATION TO JOIN THIS HEARING THEMSELVES.
00:34:18 HOWEVER, MY OFFICE UNDERSTANDS THAT SOMEONE FROM GOINS LAW
00:34:22 FIRM IS PRESENT IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF BETHEL AMY OR
00:34:26 ALLEN CDC HERE THEY ARE NOT SO NOT SURPRISING UNFORTUNATELY WE
00:34:39 IF THEY DON'T SHOW UP SO WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON THE GO HERE IS
00:34:57 THERE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE COMMUNITY OR THE BOARD OF
00:35:02 THOMAS PAINE TO COME UP AND SPEAK?
00:35:03 >> OH YEAH. >> WELL TOM IS GOING TO STAND
00:35:07 UP UNTIL GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU FOR US HAVING THIS
00:35:17 TIME TO BE HERE AND MAKE OUR NOTES AND OUR NEEDS MET.
00:35:24 I LIKE TO PREFACE THIS AND SAY THAT WE RENAME DOUGLAS WE CALL
00:35:28 IT DUMB US DUMB FOR PUTTING UP WITH WHAT WE HAVE TO PUT UP
00:35:32 WITH AND STILL WANT TO LIVE IN THESE CONDITIONS BUT WE ARE
00:35:38 SICK AND TIRED. WE APPRECIATE YOU SUPERVISING
00:35:42 YOU AND YOUR STAFF AND ON US SPACE WE PRAY THAT THE OUTCOME
00:35:47 WILL IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITY. THOMAS PAINE HAS A RICH HISTORY
00:35:54 IN THE FILLMORE AND WE SEEK TO CONTINUE THAT LEGACY.
00:35:57 BLACK RESIDENTS ARE BEING TARGETED BECAUSE OF THESE
00:36:01 GREEDY OWNERS BRING IN MANAGEMENT COMPANIES TO DO
00:36:05 THEIR DIRTY WORK. GOMEZ HAS BEEN TRULY SERIOUS
00:36:09 ABOUT HIS STORY DESTROYING OUR NEEDS AND THIS COMMUNITY SINCE
00:36:13 THIS COMPANY HAS OVERSEEN THOMAS PAYNE THERE HAS BEEN
00:36:17 TOTAL CHAOS IN THE OFFICE MANAGEMENT.
00:36:21 ITS MANAGERS HAVE COME AND GO LIKE A PANDEMIC.
00:36:25 SOME MANAGERS AND WE'VE BEEN THERE FOR TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT
00:36:28 MANAGERS WHO COME TO THE TABLE TO HELP THOMAS PAINE THEY
00:36:34 REALLY EXPEDIENTLY GET RID OF HIM.
00:36:41 THEY COME IN WITH THEIR OWN AGENDA WHICH IS THERE TO CLEAN
00:36:45 HOUSE, GIVE EVERYBODY WHAT DO THEY CALL IT, GIVE US
00:36:52 VIOLATIONS FOR FRIVOLOUS THINGS.
00:36:57 >> WE'RE THREATENED WITH EVICTIONS.
00:37:01 OFFICE HOURS ARE NOT RESIDENT FRIENDLY WHO HAS AN OFFICE
00:37:05 HOURS BETWEEN 10 AND 3 IF YOU WORK THEY TAKE ONE DAY A WEEK.
00:37:13 THEY TAKE ONE DAY A WEEK FOR TRAINING.
00:37:17 >> WHAT THEY'RE TRAINED JUST JUST FOR A MOMENT THIS IS THE
00:37:19 CLERK JUST THREW THE CHAIR FOR A MOMENT TO THE FOLKS IN PUBLIC
00:37:22 GALLERY. IT IS VERY CHALLENGING TO HEAR
00:37:23 THE SPEAKER FROM THIS SIDE OF THE ROOM SO PLEASE HOLD YOUR
00:37:26 APPLAUSE EVERYONE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE THEIR
00:37:30 PUBLIC COMMENT. PUBLIC COMMENT IS CALLED BUT WE
00:37:31 WANT TO HEAR FROM THE SPEAKER WHILE SHE IS AT THE LECTERN.
00:37:34 >> THANK YOU. WE'LL TAKE WE WILL TAKE A
00:37:37 FINGER SNAP WE'LL TAKE A FINGER SNAP.
00:37:38 BUT ANYWAY, THE PHONES THAT WE WHEN WE CALL THE OFFICE NO ONE
00:37:44 ANSWERS THE PHONES. THE REPORT REPAIRS ARE NOT
00:37:47 FOLLOWED UP IN A TIMELY MANNER OR A PROFESSIONAL MANNER.
00:37:48 WE CERTIFICATION HAS BECOME RETALIATORY.
00:37:52 THE PAPERWORK HAS BEEN MISPLACED ROUTINELY FILES ARE
00:37:56 BEING ASKED AND GIVEN TO THE OFFICE AND WHEN IT COMES TO
00:38:01 ASKING FOR THOSE FILES WE DON'T HAVE THEM.
00:38:04 >> WE REQUEST DELAY IT ALLEGES FALL ON DEAF EARS.
00:38:08 THIS NEW MANAGEMENT WAS TELLING RESIDENTS WITHIN THE LAST MONTH
00:38:12 OR SO WE DON'T HAVE TO PROVIDE YOU A LETTER.
00:38:15 HOW CAN YOU GET HELP AND ASSISTANCE IF YOU CAN'T GET
00:38:18 A LETTER TO SHOW WHAT'S GOING ON?
00:38:22 SECURITY? WELL SECURITY WE NEED SECURITY.
00:38:26 WE NEED REAL SECURITY. >> THE SECURITY COMPANY THAT WE
00:38:31 HAVE THAT WAS THE WBC. IT'S A JOKE THEY DON'T POLICE.
00:38:34 >> THE PROBLEM IS THE PREMISES. THEY DON'T ENGAGE IN ANYTHING
00:38:38 THAT'S GOING ON. THEY SIT THERE WITHIN 30FT OF
00:38:42 THE GATE AND THERE'S LOITERING, THERE'S NUISANCE, THERE'S
00:38:49 PEOPLE COMING ON TO THE PROPERTY.
00:38:50 THEY DON'T LIVE THERE AND IT'S GETTING OUT OF HAND.
00:38:54 RESIDENTS ARE FEARFUL OF COMING AND GOING ON THE GROUNDS AS
00:38:57 THEY SEEM TO BE SUBJECTED SUBJECTED TO WHAT ARE YOU DOING
00:39:01 HERE? ARE YOU A PART OF THE GROUP?
00:39:05 THEY HANG ON THE STAIRWAYS AND PEOPLE CAN'T GET UP
00:39:08 AND DOWN ON THE STAIRWAYS, ESPECIALLY ON CHURCH STREET
00:39:10 LIKE IT'S A LIKE IT'S A CLUBHOUSE AND THE ISSUES WE
00:39:20 CERTIFICATION HAS NOW BECOME REALLY MENTALLY UNSTABLE FOR
00:39:24 OUR RESIDENTS. SOME RESIDENTS HAVE TO GO
00:39:27 THROUGH 3 TO 18 MONTHS TO GET RE CERTIFIED ONLY TO FIND OUT
00:39:31 THAT OH WE NEED MORE INFORMATION, WE NEED MORE
00:39:36 INFORMATION. SO WHERE THIS INFORMATION GOES
00:39:37 TO AND ALL OF THAT, IT'S REALLY GETTING OUT OF HAND.
00:39:43 DURING THE PANDEMIC WE FORMED A TENNIS ALLIANCE AND WE WANTED
00:39:50 TO BUILD A BETTER COMMUNITY FOR THOMAS PAINE.
00:39:53 >> WE STARTED A PETITION TO KEEP THE PERSON WHO WAS IN THE
00:39:55 OFFICE THERE WHEN WE WENT TO THE CHURCH AND SAID WE WERE
00:39:58 HAVING PROBLEMS THEY SAY WHY ARE YOU GETTING READY?
00:40:02 HER? AND THEY SAY OH WE DON'T GET
00:40:05 INVOLVED IN MANAGEMENT DECISIONS BUT THEY SEEK TO HIRE
00:40:09 COMPANIES THAT COME IN AND DO THEIR DIRTY WORK AND THAT'S
00:40:15 WHAT WE'RE SICK. >> WE'RE TOLD IT THEY DON'T
00:40:20 HAVE THEIR THEY DON'T RESPOND TO STUFF.
00:40:24 YOU CALL THE OFFICE AND YOU SAY I HAVE SOME OF YOUR PAPERS.
00:40:27 YOU CALL THEM THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING THEY DON'T OPEN
00:40:30 TILL TEN. WHO'S THINKING WHY ARE YOU AT
00:40:32 WORK OR LET ME LET ME CALL THEM BEFORE THEY CLOSE.
00:40:34 IF YOU HAVE A MEETING IT'S NOT DONE WITHIN THE RESIDENT'S TIME
00:40:37 FRAME. THE NOTICES THAT GO ON THE DOOR
00:40:41 24 HOURS IS A JOKE. THEY PUT THE NOTICES ON ON A PR
00:40:45 YOU NOTICE WHEN THEY FEEL LIKE IT AFTER HOURS AND SAY OH YOU
00:40:49 DIDN'T RESPOND. THEY'LL SAY THAT WE WERE COMING
00:40:51 IN ON ONE DAY THEY'LL COME IN THE DAY BEFORE AND YOU DON'T
00:40:53 KNOW THEY'RE THERE. THEY DON'T HAVE THEY DON'T GIVE
00:40:56 US THE THEY USED TO GIVE US THINGS SAID WE'VE BEEN IN HERE,
00:41:00 WE'VE WORKED ON YOUR PROPERTY. WE WORKED ON SOMETHING.
00:41:04 >> THEY LEAVE NO NOTICE OF BEING THERE.
00:41:07 THEY COME IN LIKE THEY OWN THE PLACE AND CAN COME AND GO AS
00:41:09 THEY WILL THE CORPORATE OFFICE FOR DUMMIES THEY'RE NASTY TO
00:41:14 BOTH THE EMPLOYEES AND THE RESIDENTS.
00:41:18 >> THEY INSTRUCT PERSONNEL TO GO HARD, BE RUTHLESS WITH THEIR
00:41:22 AGENDAS WITH LITTLE OR NO REGARD FOR ETHICAL OR HUMAN
00:41:26 CONCERNS WHEN IT COMES TO MEETING THEIR AGENDA THEY
00:41:29 FABRICATE AROUND THE PAPERWORK AND WE'VE REACHED A BOILING
00:41:33 POINT A BOILING POINT. >> WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT WHEN IT
00:41:40 COMES TO RECERTIFICATION YOU MUST HAVE SIX MONTHS OF BANK
00:41:43 STATEMENTS, SIX MONTHS OF THIS, SIX MONTHS OF THAT AND WE FOUND
00:41:46 OUT THAT WHAT IS IT TWO MONTHS ?
00:41:53 SO LIKE I SAID, THEY COME IN WITH THEIR OWN AGENDA.
00:41:55 THEY THINK THAT WE ARE SO DUMB THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO FIGURE
00:41:58 OUT WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING AND THEY HAVE PEOPLE IN THE
00:42:04 OFFICE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT EVEN BE IN CREDENTIAL OR CERTIFIED
00:42:08 TO BE THERE. THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDLING OUR
00:42:09 OFFICE SENSITIVE SMILES LOOKING THROUGH OUR PRIVATE RECORDS
00:42:12 WITH ALL OF OUR PRIVATE SOCIAL SECURITY AND ALL OF THAT AND WE
00:42:16 DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE. SO RESIDENTS HAVE COME TO ME
00:42:20 AND SAY WELL IF WE GOT TO SHOW IF THEY GOT TO THEY WANT THEM
00:42:24 TO BE CREDENTIALED TO WE HAD MANAGERS IN THE OFFICE THAT
00:42:27 HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS RECENTLY SO WITH ALL OF THAT THAT'S LIKE
00:42:35 A LOT TO HAVE TO BE GOING THROUGH AND THEIR EXPLANATIONS
00:42:39 ARE SO FRIVOLOUS THAT YOU LOOK AT THEM AND SAY YOU'RE NOT
00:42:40 GOING TO WORRY ME. >> THANK YOU, DEBORAH.
00:42:43 APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU, DEBORAH.
00:42:46 >> THANK YOU AGAIN FOR SHARING YOUR STORY AND LEADING THE
00:42:50 RESIDENTS TO PRESENT TODAY WE HEARD FROM MISS THORNTON ABOUT
00:42:58 THE PARTICULAR NATURE OF THE TYPE OF EVICTION PROCEEDINGS
00:43:02 THAT ARE HAPPENING AND I UNDERSTAND THAT UNFORTUNATELY
00:43:06 YOU RECEIVED AN EVICTION NOTICE AS WELL.
00:43:07 >> CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH WHAT THAT PROCESS WAS LIKE?
00:43:14 >> DEVASTATING. I MEAN BECAUSE I'M A PERSON
00:43:19 THAT I ALWAYS PAY MY RENT WHEN I WENT TO THE OFFICE ONE MONTH,
00:43:24 GAVE THEM MY MONEY ORDER OH, LET ME CALL CORPORATE.
00:43:31 I'M SICK OF THIS SITUATION. AND I SAID I AM TO LET ME CALL
00:43:35 CORPORATE. SO THEY WERE GIVING ME THEY
00:43:38 WERE NOT ACCEPTING MY RENT. >> THEY USED TO ACCEPT MONEY
00:43:42 ORDERS. >> THEY ALWAYS ACCEPT MONEY.
00:43:43 WHAT IS PAID FOR THESE FOR THIS AGENDA THAT THEY WERE KEEPING
00:43:46 THEY STOPPED ACCEPTING MY RENT. SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS I HAD OVER
00:43:53 THREE $400 OF CREDIT. I WAS NOT ABOUT TO GET A MONEY
00:43:58 ORDER FOR A DOLLAR SO I ASKED THEM TO TAKE THE CREDIT OF A
00:44:02 DOLLAR AND WIRE TO MY RENT. THIS WENT ON FOR FOUR MONTHS.
00:44:05 THEY DIDN'T TELL ME WHAT IT WAS.
00:44:06 THEY PUT THE MONEY ORDER BACK IN MY DOOR WITH NO NOTICE SO
00:44:12 NOT JUST DROPPED IT BACK IN THE DOOR.
00:44:13 I HAD TO GO AND GET WHICH CORPORATION WAS THAT A LAWYERS
00:44:19 UP ON VENICE TO REPRESENT ME. >> OPENDOOR LEGAL.
00:44:23 IT'S NOT A JUST STORE EVICTION THE DIXON DEFENSE FILE.
00:44:28 >> YEAH DEFENSE I MEAN I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH ALL OF THIS
00:44:31 BETWEEN THE RESIDENTS AND ALL OF THAT OTHER STUFF BUT YEAH, I
00:44:33 HAD TO GO TO THE ADDICTION THE DEFENSE FINE CALAMITY DFC, DDC
00:44:41 OKAY. >> I HAD TO GO TO THE GOOD
00:44:42 PEOPLE TO GET HELP SO SO I WENT THERE AND EVEN THE LAWYER THEY
00:44:48 REPRESENTED ME. SHE SAID LOOK, THIS SHOWS YOU
00:44:49 RIGHT HERE THAT YOU HAD FOUR MONTHS OF PAYMENT AND THEY
00:44:52 REFUSE TO TAKE IT. SO THIS WENT ON FOR MORE THAN A
00:44:56 YEAR. THEY FINALLY WE FINALLY CAME TO
00:44:59 AGREEMENT OF WHAT TO PAY WAS PAY AND LIKE I SAID, I PAID
00:45:03 WITH MONEY WHAT IS BECAUSE I CAN'T TRUST THEM?
00:45:06 I HAD RESIDENTS TELLING ME THAT SINCE THEY MOVED IN THEIR
00:45:10 CREDIT SCORE HAS DECREASED FROM FROM THEIR MONEY CREDIT CHECKS
00:45:16 . >> I'M SORRY.
00:45:17 AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN THIS APARTMENT?
00:45:19 16 YEARS. 16 YEARS.
00:45:20 AND YOU HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH RENT BEFORE?
00:45:24 >> NO, NO, I PAY MY RENT ON TIME.
00:45:25 THANK YOU. I'M SORRY.
00:45:27 I AM TOO. BUT MOVING FORWARD YOU
00:45:31 MENTIONED CRIME AND THE INCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED
00:45:34 IN SPECIFIC. THERE WERE TWO HIGH PROFILE
00:45:36 CRIMES JUST A FEW WEEKS AWAY AT THE END OF THIS LAST YEAR
00:45:40 AND THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR .
00:45:42 >> YEAH. YOU MENTIONED ALSO REPORTS OF
00:45:44 HARASSMENT FROM MAINTENANCE STAFF.
00:45:49 >> HAS THERE BEEN ANY CHANGE TO SECURITY?
00:45:50 WELL, IF SECURITY WAS PRESENT AND ACCOUNTABLE MAYBE THERE
00:45:56 WOULD BE A CHANGED. BUT I THINK AS OF A FEW MONTHS
00:46:00 AGO ONE OF THE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE ON TOP OF SECURITY SAID HE
00:46:04 HASN'T SEEN THEM IN TWO MONTHS. >> THE GATE BUILT IN TWO
00:46:08 MONTHS. >> THAT'S WHAT THE RESIDENTS
00:46:09 SAY. ANYBODY ELSE SEEN SECURITY
00:46:11 AROUND HERE? THEY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR
00:46:12 AND TOOK VIDEOS, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SECURITY OPEN.
00:46:14 NOTHING WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY PATROL WE'VE ASKED WHEN WE MET
00:46:19 WITH YOU THE LAST TIME WE ASKED FOR A JOB DESCRIPTION SO WE
00:46:22 KNOW WHAT SECURITY SHOULD BE DONE.
00:46:23 NONE OF THAT WE STILL GET PEOPLE THAT DON'T LIVE THERE
00:46:27 COMING ON TO THE PROPERTY I CAME HOME ONE AT 1:00 ONE
00:46:32 MORNING GETTING GOING IN THE GATE WIDE OPEN, 4 OR 5 CARS
00:46:35 BLOCKING THE DRIVE JUST THE PARKING SPOTS.
00:46:39 >> SO WHEN I PULL UP THEY PULL IN AND LET ME IN ANOTHER
00:46:43 PARKING SPOT. I LOOK BACK OUT THE WINDOW
00:46:44 THEY'VE SWITCHED CARS AND WE BLOCK THAT.
00:46:47 WE ARE ALL THREE CARS ARE BLOCKED AND SO IT'S GETTING
00:46:51 REALLY DANGEROUS TO BE MOVING AROUND IN A GATED PROPERTY.
00:46:57 YOU MENTIONED ACTUALLY LAST QUESTION YOU MENTIONED THAT WE
00:46:59 HAD A MEETING. YES.
00:47:01 >> IN JUNE BETWEEN YOU AND ONE OF THE OTHER TENANTS AND THE
00:47:03 OWNER. YEAH.
00:47:06 NO, NO FROM AND LEADERSHIP FROM BETHLEHEM.
00:47:07 THEY PROMISED SOME CHANGES. >> CAN YOU SAY WEATHER
00:47:11 CONDITIONS HAVE GOTTEN BETTER SINCE THAT MEETING?
00:47:14 >> NOTHING HAS GOTTEN BETTER. I MEAN IF IF ANYTHING HAS
00:47:17 GOTTEN WORSE, IT'S GOTTEN WORSE.
00:47:18 >> OKAY. SORRY.
00:47:21 I MEAN PEOPLE ARE STILL COMPLAINING THAT STUFF IS
00:47:23 MISSING OUT OF THEIR CARS STUFF AND THIS NOT IN THE GARAGE OUT
00:47:26 OF THEIR HOUSES AND YOU KNOW, BEING A PART OF THIS TENNIS
00:47:30 ALLIANCE I GET TO HEAR A LOT OF IT.
00:47:33 I GET TO HEAR A LOT OF IT AND IT'S REALLY IT'S JUST
00:47:36 DISHEARTENING TO HAVE TO LIVE UNDER THESE TYPE OF CONDITIONS.
00:47:38 >> YEAH. THANK YOU.
00:47:38 THANK YOU. >> AND JUST FOR THE RECORD,
00:47:41 JUST TO NOTE AS HAS BEEN REPORTED AND MULTIPLE OUTLETS
00:47:44 FROM THE STANDARD TO MISSION LOCAL THE SPECIFIC INCIDENTS
00:47:48 THAT WERE DISCUSSED ARE OF CRIME WERE STAFF BROKE IN AND
00:47:52 STOLE GIFTS DURING CHRISTMAS? >> ONE RESIDENT WAS REPEATEDLY
00:47:56 HARASSED UNTIL SHE WAS BRUTALLY ASSAULTED.
00:48:00 YES, SECURITY HAS NOT PROVIDED ANY ASSISTANCE TO OUR CONTEXT
00:48:04 AND THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF INCIDENTS THAT WE HAVE OBSERVED
00:48:11 AND HAVE HAVE BEEN RECORDED. SO THANK YOU AGAIN.
00:48:15 THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DEBORAH.
00:48:16 THANK YOU. >> THE NEXT WILL HAVE DISCUSSED
00:48:22 MARTIN LUTHER KING MARCUS GARVEY CO OP THIS IS A CO OP
00:48:26 ASIDE MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DEBORAH THIS IS A
00:48:31 COP THAT TAKES UP TO TWO CITY BLOCKS IN THE WESTERN EDITION
00:48:32 AND HAS BEEN AT THE BRINK OF DEFAULTING ON ITS LOANS IN THE
00:48:35 PAST BUT HAS SINCE STABILIZED AND FINANCIALLY UNDERWENT A
00:48:38 MAJOR RENOVATION IN 2012 DOMAS HAS MANAGED THE PROPERTY THOUGH
00:48:42 SINCE 2020 FOUR. >> SHORTLY THEREAFTER,
00:48:46 ACCORDING TO THEIR ATTORNEY MERCEDES GARVIN, THE PROPERTY
00:48:47 UNDERWENT A REFINANCING PROCESS THAT REQUIRED RECERTIFICATION
00:48:51 OF RESIDENTS AND RECOUPING OF BACK RENT.
00:48:54 >> IT WAS THIS PROCESS THAT LED TO EVICTION WARNINGS
00:48:58 AND EVENTUALLY EIGHT UNLAWFUL DETAINER IS THAT WERE FILED BY
00:49:01 THE CO-OP RESIDENTS ARE STILL WORKING WITH OPENDOOR LEGAL TO
00:49:02 RESOLVE SOME OF THESE CASES. MEANWHILE THERE HAVE BEEN
00:49:06 LONGSTANDING REQUESTS FOR RELOCATION AND HABITABILITY
00:49:09 ISSUES THAT HAVE GONE UNADDRESSED.
00:49:13 THERE HAVE BEEN 80 AND 80 DB II COMPLAINTS FILED ON THE COMPLEX
00:49:17 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2024, SOME OF WHICH REMAIN UNABATED.
00:49:23 >> ONE OF THE COMPLAINTS READS CUSTOMER REPORTED THE ROOF
00:49:27 AND HER UNIT HAS CAVED IN AND THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
00:49:31 IS NON-RESPONSIVE. THIS WAS FILED IN MAY AND AS OF
00:49:36 THE MOST RECENT INSPECTION MID AUGUST THERE ARE STILL SOME
00:49:39 ITEMS THAT REMAIN UNABATED. >> FORTUNATELY WE DO NOT EXPECT
00:49:43 TO HEAR FROM THE BOARD AT THIS MEETING BUT IF LINDA YOAKUM,
00:49:46 MERCEDES GARVIN OR ANYONE WHO CAN REPRESENT THE BOARD OF
00:49:49 MARKETING GARVEY IS AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, NOW WOULD
00:49:51 BE THE TIME NO CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS CAN USE ANOTHER EMPTY
00:49:58 CHAIR. SO INSTEAD WE'RE GOING TO CALL
00:50:02 UP THE FEATURED RESIDENTS FROM MA'AM OKAY MARCUS GARVEY R D T
00:50:07 HEWETT PARALEGAL AND CORP SHAREHOLDER AND FORMER BOARD
00:50:10 MEMBER AND THE DIRECTOR OF SHIRO AT THE SHARE THE SHARON
00:50:13 HEWETT EMPOWERMENT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION AND DANIELLE
00:50:15 LANDRY, A VERY LONG TIME RESIDENT OF MLK MARCUS GARVEY
00:50:18 AND UNTIL RECENTLY ALSO A MEMBER OF THE BOARD GENERALLY
00:50:24 COULD COME UP AS WELL AS WELL. SO THANK YOU DEEDEE WE'LL START
00:50:29 WITH YOUR OPENING STATEMENT AND THEN DANIEL FOR TWO
00:50:32 MINUTES. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH ESTEEMED
00:50:36 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR RESPONDING TO OUR CRY FOR HELP
00:50:40 OUR INSISTENCE FOR OVERSIGHT, OUR DEMAND FOR OVERSIGHT
00:50:44 AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT IN EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW.
00:50:51 >> THANK YOU. I AM DEEDEE HEWETT, THE
00:50:52 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SHARON HEWETT EMPOWERMENT
00:50:56 RESOURCE ORGANIZATION, A 30 PLUS YEAR RESIDENT OF MARTIN
00:50:59 LUTHER KING MARCUS GARVEY CO-OP I NEED TO CALL IT AN INTERNMENT
00:51:04 CAMP BUT IT'S A CO-OP. OKAY.
00:51:07 THANK YOU FOR RESPONDING TO MY HARSH DEMANDS PARTICULARLY I'D
00:51:10 LIKE TO RECOGNIZE YOU SUPERVISOR MAHMUD BECAUSE I
00:51:14 WASN'T NICE ABOUT IT AFTER 30 YEARS OF ABUSE SO THANK YOU FOR
00:51:18 HEARING US OUT. >> OKAY.
00:51:19 NOT ONLY AM I A PARALEGAL, NOT ONLY NOT ONLY AM I A HOUSING
00:51:22 ORGANIZER, NOT ONLY AM I THE FORMER CEO OF THE MARTIN LUTHER
00:51:26 KING COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT, OKAY, BUT I ALSO WORKED IN CITY
00:51:30 GOVERNMENT UNDER WILLIE BROWN AND GAVIN NEWSOM.
00:51:34 >> I'M A HOUSING EXPERT TRAINED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO
00:51:37 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE
00:51:40 HOUSING. SO I AM NOW A CONSULTANT FOR
00:51:44 THE PEOPLE I HELP THE PEOPLE FOR FREE.
00:51:45 >> I'VE BEEN AT THOMAS PAINE. >> I WAS OVER 88 BUILDINGS FOR
00:51:49 THE CITY AND FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THOMAS PAINE, MARTIN
00:51:52 LUTHER KING ALL OF THESE BUILDINGS WERE UNDER MY
00:51:56 SUPERVISION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HOUSING.
00:51:59 >> THE HONORABLE WILLIE BROWN HAD THE VISION AND THE
00:52:01 FORESIGHT TO SEE THAT SAN FRANCISCO WAS FACING A GREATER
00:52:04 LOOMING HOUSING CRISIS OTHER THAN THE HOMELESS PROBLEM THAT
00:52:08 MOST OF THESE WERE UP FOR GRABS THESE BUILDINGS THAT HAD THESE
00:52:12 SWEETHEART DEALS IN THE 60S AND 70S WITH THE HUD
00:52:15 ORGANIZATION THAT THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:52:19 DEVELOPMENT WE'RE NOW GOING TO BE FACING AN OPPORTUNITY TO
00:52:22 KICK EVERYBODY OUT BECAUSE THEY HAD CONTRACTS WERE UP FOR
00:52:25 EXPIRATION. >> SO WE'RE ON THE CHOPPING
00:52:29 BLOCK BECAUSE WE LIVE IN THIS UNIQUE BEAUTIFUL CITY.
00:52:32 >> THEY SAY THE 94115 ZIP CODE IS THE MOST DESIRABLE PLACE TO
00:52:36 LIVE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD SO WE'RE INUNDATED WITH
00:52:41 MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES AND PEOPLE WHO WANT A PIECE OF
00:52:42 THIS BEAUTIFUL SAN FRANCISCO PIE AND WE'RE ON THE CHOPPING
00:52:45 BLOCK BECAUSE MOST OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS WHO ALSO LIVE
00:52:51 IN OC ONE OF WHOM WILL ALSO LIVE IN MOST OF THESE
00:52:52 DEVELOPMENTS ARE PRIME REAL ESTATE WITH STRATEGIC LOCATIONS
00:52:59 AND SO WE'VE SEEN AGGRESSIVE POACHING AND WE'VE SEEN
00:53:04 AGGRESSIVE SOLICITATION OF OUR PROPERTY.
00:53:07 >> IN THE CASE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, MARCUS GARVEY, WE ARE A
00:53:11 CO-OP WHICH MEANS WE OWN IT. SO WHEN WE SAY WE'RE FACING
00:53:15 EVICTION, HOW DO YOU EXIST SOMEBODY OUT OF THEIR OWN REAL
00:53:20 PROPERTY. >> SO I WANT TO SPEAK TO A
00:53:23 VIOLATION OF EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW.
00:53:26 >> I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE FACT THAT 16 AFRICAN AMERICAN OWNERS
00:53:30 WERE PLACED ON EVICTION LISTS WITHOUT BEING PROPERLY SERVED.
00:53:35 >> I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE HAVE EQUITY
00:53:39 AND THEY CAN'T ACCOUNT FOR HOW MUCH THEY OWE US ANY TIME YOU
00:53:43 WANT PROBABLY THIS SHOULD BE LISTED AT THE CITY ASSESSOR'S
00:53:46 OFFICE ANY TIME YOU WANT REAL PROPERTY YOU GET TO WRITE OFF
00:53:49 YOUR INTEREST ON YOUR TAXES. >> I HAVE NOT SEEN MY TAX
00:53:53 INTEREST DIVIDEND REPORT FROM THOMAS IN FOUR YEARS.
00:53:57 >> I HAVE NOT SEEN MY EQUITY AT THE 30 PLUS YEARS.
00:54:01 >> I HATE TO SAY BUT I'M A GRANDMA.
00:54:02 I'VE RAISED THREE GENERATIONS AS THEY HAVE FIVE KIDS
00:54:04 AND THREE GRANDKIDS. >> I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH
00:54:08 I'M LEAVING TO MY MY PROGENY THAT IS GONE ACCEPTABLE WHAT
00:54:12 WE'RE CALLING FOR I'M GOING TO STOP YELLING.
00:54:13 >> I'M JUST PASSIONATE. >> WHAT WE'RE CALLING FOR IS
00:54:16 OVERSIGHT AND THERE ARE SOME JURISDICTION ISSUES I WANT TO
00:54:19 LET YOU KNOW THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THE TABLE.
00:54:23 >> I CALL IT EVICTION DEFENSE COLLABORATIVE.
00:54:24 I CALLED OPEN DOOR LEGAL. >> I CALLED THE PRESS.
00:54:28 WE WERE FEATURED. >> THE FIRST ONE TO STEP ON TO
00:54:30 SEE WAS YOURS TRULY A WASHINGTON WHO I SAID COME HERE
00:54:34 AND SEE BECAUSE NO ONE BELIEVES THE RESIDENTS NO ONE BELIEVES
00:54:38 YOU CALL ME 5250616I BELIEVE YOU AND I WILL COME FIVE FEET
00:54:45 NOW THE SECOND TO RESPOND TO OUR MEDIA REQUEST WAS LIZ PENYA
00:54:49 OF ABC NEWS WHO REVISITED THIS WITH ME FOUR YEARS AGO.
00:54:53 >> EVERY TIME I COMPLAINED ABOUT A HABITABILITY ISSUE
00:54:57 WHICH IS PROTECTED UNDER STATE STATUTE IN CALIFORNIA I WAS
00:55:00 SERVED AN EVICTION NOTICE EVERY TIME THE BUILDING INSPECTION
00:55:04 INSPECTOR LEFT MY UNIT I GOT A CORRESPONDING SURRENDER YOUR
00:55:09 KEYS AND VACATE THE PREMISES NO ADJUDICATION THROUGH A COURT
00:55:13 JUST I LOOK THAT STUPID I SAID YOU'RE RIGHT.
00:55:16 >> YOU'RE GOING TO BE TALKING TO MY ATTORNEYS OPEN DOOR LEGAL
00:55:18 STEPS TO SEE THE FIRST EVICTION DEFENSE.
00:55:20 I LOVE THEM. HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO AS A
00:55:24 CITY AND COUNTY YOU NEED TO INCREASE THEIR FUNDING BECAUSE
00:55:28 THIS IS RAMPANT CITYWIDE I GO TO BUILDINGS IN EVERY
00:55:29 NEIGHBORHOOD. THERE'S NO LONGER A HOUSING
00:55:32 PRESERVATION PROGRAM THAT I WAS IN OVER 88 BUILDINGS.
00:55:36 >> THEY SAID YOU DID A GREAT JOB.
00:55:37 DIDI HOUSING SECURE AND I SAID NO.
00:55:39 >> AFTER FIVE YEARS IN THIS ELEVATED MARKET REAL ESTATE
00:55:43 GOES UP. THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE
00:55:46 PEOPLE INTERESTED IN DOING A AND GRAB.
00:55:49 WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE EXISTING RESIDENTS
00:55:52 AND WE HAVE TO SECURE WE HAVE TO SECURE THE EXISTING HOUSING
00:55:57 STOCK. >> I WAS OVER 80 EIGHT
00:55:58 BUILDINGS. OKAY?
00:56:01 >> AND WHAT I SAW WAS HABITABILITY VIOLATIONS.
00:56:05 I SAW EGREGIOUS VIOLATIONS OF THE RENTERS RIGHTS.
00:56:09 >> THAT'S WHAT THEY DO WITH DOMAS DID AS THE TESTIMONY OF
00:56:13 THE LAST PERSON IS THERE INDICATED THIS IS INDICATIVE OF
00:56:14 THEIR PRACTICES THEY LOSE YOUR MONEY ORDERS YEAH RIGHT AFTER I
00:56:21 ORGANIZE THE RESIDENCE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING FOR MY MONEY
00:56:22 YOU JUST CAME UP A GOOD THING I KEEP A CREDIT CARD AND I SAID
00:56:25 ALL YOU WANT TO TALK TO SOME ATTORNEYS THERE?
00:56:28 >> THAT'S OKAY. I'M SURE YOU CAN MAKE ME RICH.
00:56:30 HERE'S THE ISSUE IT'S AGGRESSIVE RETALIATION
00:56:32 AND REPRISAL. SO TAKE NOTE HAND THE CAMERAS
00:56:37 AROUND WHO'S HERE BECAUSE THOSE ARE GOING TO BE THE NEXT PEOPLE
00:56:40 ON THE EVICTION LIST. >> THOSE WHO STAND UP AND SPEAK
00:56:44 UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS ARE CONSTANTLY HARASSED.
00:56:47 >> I CALLED THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO THE TABLE GIVE
00:56:49 THIS MAN A RAISE. >> HE WAS RESPONSIVE ON THE
00:56:52 SCENE. HE'S A DEPARTMENT HEAD, THE
00:56:55 SHAREHOLDER SAID. >> WE'VE NEVER SEEN SO MANY
00:56:56 PEOPLE COME OUT LIKE THIS AND THEY'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH
00:56:59 THIS ABUSE. >> THAT'S WHY CHANNEL SEVEN
00:57:00 PICKED IT UP FOUR YEARS AGO. >> I COMPLAINT FOR THE
00:57:03 RESIDENTS THEY PUT ME ON THE EVICTION LIST.
00:57:04 I SAID HOW MANY AN EVICTION LIST AND I HAVE A CREDIT
00:57:06 AND YOU OWE ME MONEY. PLEASE EXPLAIN IT TO ME.
00:57:10 WHAT'S THE CALCULATION BY THE WAY, THE OVERSIGHT THAT YOU
00:57:13 GUYS NEED TO DO THERE'S SOME JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES AS
00:57:16 ATTORNEY SUSIE BROUGHT UP. THERE ARE JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES
00:57:18 BUT WE JUST SIGNED WE HAD A 54 MILLION DOLLAR RENOVATION
00:57:24 IN 2010 FROM THE AGENCY THAT I WORKED FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO
00:57:28 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY IN TANDEM WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF
00:57:30 HOUSING THAT I USED TO MEET WITH ALL THE TIME.
00:57:32 >> THEY DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO HELP YOU GUYS REBUILD TO TAINT
00:57:36 YOUR PROPERTY. >> OKAY?
00:57:39 >> AND AFTER THAT $54 MILLION REHABILITATION DURING THE
00:57:41 PROCESS I SAID HEY, THESE ARE ALL BUILDINGS.
00:57:44 >> ONE BLOCK IS BUILT IN THE LATE 60S.
00:57:46 ONE BLOCK WAS BUILT IN 1970 WHEN I WAS BORN.
00:57:48 THAT'S 56 YEARS AGO. >> OKAY.
00:57:50 YOU HAVE OLD PLUMBING YOU NEED TO UPGRADE, YOU HAVE
00:57:53 ELECTRICAL. YOU NEED TO UPDATE BACK THEN
00:57:57 THEY USED EXPRESS THOSE BECAUSE IT WAS A FIRE RETARDANT TO SAVE
00:58:00 THE BUILDING IN A FIRE FOR FOUR HOURS I GOT CERTIFIED
00:58:02 IN ASBESTOS ABATEMENT TO DURING THE REHAB AND GUESS WHAT THEY
00:58:05 DIDN'T ABATE AND THERE WAS A LAWSUIT AND A GAG ORDER FOR THE
00:58:08 WORKERS TO KEEP QUIET. I DIDN'T ACCEPT THE MONEY SO
00:58:11 I'M GOING TO BLAB AND TELL THE TRUTH AND LET YOU KNOW THAT.
00:58:15 >> SO I JUST RECENTLY DID A LITIGATION WITH THEM.
00:58:16 THEY SETTLED OUT OF COURT WITH ME AND THEY'RE HARASSING ME.
00:58:19 >> THEY FOUND FOUR NOT ONE FOUR DIFFERENT KINDS OF ASBESTOS
00:58:25 IN MY UNIT. >> I HAD A LEAK.
00:58:26 THE TUB FILLED UP. >> NOBODY IS USING A TUB
00:58:30 UPSTAIRS. I'M IN A FOUR BEDROOM
00:58:31 TOWNHOUSE, TWO BATHROOMS, MIKE'S EN SUITE.
00:58:33 THE TOILET OVERFLOWED SIMULTANEOUSLY WHILE THE TUB
00:58:37 OVERFLOWED IN ANOTHER BATHROOM AND I'M DOWNSTAIRS ON THE APPLE
00:58:41 WITH MY COLLEGE AGE SON. >> OKAY, BUT I'M 25 WINK WINK
00:58:45 AND WE GET IN A SPACE TO SHOWER GRAY AND MURKY RAIN BATHS OUT
00:58:49 IN THE KITCHEN TABLE WHILE WE'RE ON WITH HIS SAN FRANCISCO
00:58:53 STATE UNIVERSITY COUNSELOR AND WE'RE LIKE, WHAT IS THIS?
00:58:54 >> OH MY GOD, I CALL FOR MAINTENANCE.
00:58:57 THEY DON'T COME LATER ON I GO UPSTAIRS.
00:59:01 >> I'M LIKE WHAT'S THE SOURCE OF THE WATER?
00:59:03 IT'S 3.5IN OF WATER WITH NOBODY UPSTAIRS.
00:59:08 EVERYBODY'S VACATED THE HOUSE, WENT TO WORK, WENT TO SCHOOL.
00:59:10 HE AND I ARE JUST THE ONLY ONES IN THE HOUSE.
00:59:12 WE GET UP, WE GET IN AS BEST AS SHOWER SO THAT WAS THE BASIS
00:59:15 FOR MY SETTLEMENT WITH THE OC. BUT BEFORE THAT THERE WAS RAW
00:59:19 SEWAGE COMING UP IN MY SINK WHEN I GO TO BRUSH MY TEETH
00:59:21 AND THE EN SUITE THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM.
00:59:23 THAT IS NOT A KING GORVY PROBLEM.
00:59:26 THAT IS A MAINTENANCE ABATEMENT ISSUE THIS UBIQUITOUS OF ALL
00:59:30 THE 88 BUILDINGS THAT I DEALT WITH I AM A FIRSTHAND FORM OF
00:59:32 GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WITNESS TO THESE PEOPLE'S TESTIMONY.
00:59:35 THEY'RE NOT LYING BUT THEY'RE ALWAYS TARGETED.
00:59:39 >> OH, YOU'RE A PROBLEM. I WAS LABELED A PROBLEM.
00:59:42 >> I'M A BIG A PROBLEM YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET
00:59:46 BECAUSE I'M GOING TO CALL OUT ALL THE MALFEASANCE, ALL THE
00:59:49 HABITABILITY VIOLATIONS. I'M GOING TO ORGANIZE THE
00:59:53 RESIDENTS LIKE I WAS TRAINED BY THE NATIONAL HOUSING LAW
00:59:55 PROJECT ON THE BILL GATES TO DO I HELPED COAUTHOR THE SAN
00:59:58 FRANCISCO HOUSING PRESERVATION ORDINANCE AND I'M GOING TO HOLD
01:00:01 YOU TO THESE LAWS. MY PEOPLE ARE NOT SOME SECOND
01:00:07 AND THIRD CLASS SUBJECTS. THEY DO NOT DESERVE ANY LESS
01:00:11 IN THEIR RESIDENCY AND THEIR PROPRIETORSHIP IN THIS CITY
01:00:15 AND I'M HOLDING ALL OF YOU ACCOUNTABLE EQUAL PROTECTION
01:00:19 UNDER THE LAW THEY ARE IN VIOLATION.
01:00:23 DON'T MISS A FEDERAL LAW, STATE LAW AND A SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING
01:00:26 PRESERVATION ORDINANCE. WE HAVE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.
01:00:31 >> WE DESERVE TO LIVE. WE DESERVE TO BREATHE AS A
01:00:33 RESULT OF HEART MEDICATION AND BREATHING TREATMENTS
01:00:37 BECAUSE THEY WAITED THREE AND A HALF YEARS TO ABATE MY UNIT
01:00:39 CURRENTLY THE SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING DEPARTMENT BUILDING
01:00:42 INSPECTORS JUST FOUND SOME MORE VIOLATIONS IN THAT VERY UNIT
01:00:48 AND IT'S CALLING FOR A HEARING SOON.
01:00:50 SO THIS IS A REPETITIVE, REDUNDANT RETALIATORY REPRISAL
01:00:57 AND BLATANT DISRESPECT AND SUBJUGATION THAT IS A
01:01:01 VIOLATION OF OUR EQUAL PROTECTIONS UNDER THE LAW.
01:01:02 THAT IS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
01:01:05 >> THAT IS A VIOLATION OF OUR CIVIL RIGHTS AND YOU CANNOT LET
01:01:08 IT HAPPEN ON YOUR WATCH BECAUSE THAT MAKES YOU EQUALLY
01:01:12 CULPABLE. OKAY.
01:01:16 NOW I ALSO WANT TO SAY SHOUT OUT THANK YOU TO MALIK
01:01:17 WASHINGTON WHO ALSO INITIALLY COVERED THIS STORY AND IS
01:01:20 WILLING TO COVER ALL YOUR STORIES ALL YOUR STORIES.
01:01:24 >> LIZ PENA AT ABC NEWS WANTS TO DO A FOLLOW UP.
01:01:29 >> ALL OF YOU GUYS I WILL CONNECT YOU WITH THAT AND I
01:01:32 HAVE SOMEONE HERE THAT'S DOING A DOCUMENTARY.
01:01:33 >> I'M GETTING INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION BECAUSE I WON'T SHUT
01:01:36 MY MOUTH FOR YOU. >> YOU UNDERSTAND I WILL NOT
01:01:40 STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU. >> YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE
01:01:43 HEARD. >> YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE
01:01:44 TREATED EQUALLY. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO CALL OUT
01:01:47 MERCEDES GAVIN WHO BY THE WAY IS THE CORPORATE ATTORNEY.
01:01:51 I WAS ON THE BOARD OVER DECADES LIKE 4 OR 5 TIMES IN DIFFERENT
01:01:55 CAPACITIES. I WAS ON SEVERAL BOARDS THAT
01:01:58 FIRED HER TO MY BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION I BELIEVE WE FIRED
01:02:02 HER NINE TIMES. THE CURRENT BOARD PRESIDENT
01:02:05 LINDA YOAKUM HAS CHOSEN TO RECRUIT THIS LADY WHO'S AN
01:02:09 EVICTION ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT US AS A CORPORATION UNDER HER
01:02:13 LEADERSHIP AND LEGAL ADVISE ME WHEN DOMAS SAID HEY, YOU KNOW
01:02:18 WHAT WE STARTED ORGANIZING WE SAW THE MEDIA IN THE COMMUNITY
01:02:22 CENTER WITH HER AND WE DON'T WANT ANY PARTS OF THIS.
01:02:23 >> WE SHE DID MAKE MISTAKES IN THE RECERTIFICATION PROCESS
01:02:26 AND IT'S NOT US AND EVERYBODY IS DOING THIS.
01:02:29 >> ALL OF THEM ARE CULPABLE. ALL OF THEM SHOULD BE HELD
01:02:33 ACCOUNTABLE. EVERY LAST ONE.
01:02:36 AND WHEN YOU HAVE A KNOWLEDGE OF A PROBLEM YOU HAVE A DUTY A
01:02:40 MORAL AND LEGAL DUTY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
01:02:43 THEY ARE BREACHING FEDERAL LAW, THEY ARE BREACHING STATE LAW
01:02:45 AND THEY ARE BREACHING CITY ORDINANCES.
01:02:47 SO I NEED TO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH YOU GUYS IN TANDEM, STAY
01:02:51 IN CONTACT BECAUSE I AM GOING TO KEEP MY BOOTS ON THE GROUND
01:02:55 LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE WHEN THEIR COMPLAINTS WE HAVE ADA
01:02:59 VIOLATIONS. THIS GENTLEMAN HERE IS A
01:03:00 PRIVATE EXAMPLE IN THE WHEELCHAIR.
01:03:03 HE'S A FORMER BOARD MEMBER ALSO SAMMY BRIGHT MAKES I HAVE A
01:03:07 WOMAN WHO'S 96 YEARS OLD WHO CAN'T GET A REASONABLE
01:03:11 ACCOMMODATION WITH A NUMBER OF LAWYER LETTERS FROM HER
01:03:14 DOCTORS. SHE COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY.
01:03:15 SHE CAN'T MAKE IT DOWN THE MULTIPLE STEPS SHE HAS IN HER
01:03:18 HOUSE AND THEY REFUSE TO MOVE HER SISTER MIRIAM WHAT YOU GET
01:03:22 WHO'S A LONG TIME OWNER, SHAREHOLDER RESIDENT OKAY.
01:03:25 AND ADVOCATE FOR THE PEOPLE SHE IS SICKLY AND THEY REFUSE TO
01:03:27 MOVE HER WITH ALL OF HER REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
01:03:31 DOCUMENTATION. IT'S DEPLORABLE.
01:03:34 THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY SHOULD NOT HAVE THIS BLEMISH ON THEIR
01:03:38 RECORD SO I IMPLORE YOU TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
01:03:43 THANK YOU FOR RESPONDING ON MY INSISTENCE THAT YOU CALL A
01:03:46 HEARING AND SO WOW WHO SALON FIRST OF ALL, GOOD MORNING
01:04:07 SUPERVISORS AND I WOULD BE REMISS IN MY DUTY TO SPEAK UP
01:04:13 FOR HER. >> I WOULD BE REMISS IN MY DUTY
01:04:16 TO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT THIS HEARING NOT ONLY IS
01:04:23 IMPORTANT BUT THIS IS A T AND TS ON AND ON AND ON AND EVEN SOME
01:04:29 CROOKED SHAREHOLDERS OR SHOULD I SAY COWARD SHAREHOLDERS
01:04:37 AND SAY WE GOT TO BE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING
01:04:41 IN KING GARVEY IS JUST A SIGN WHAT'S GOING TO START HAPPENING
01:04:48 EVERYWHERE ELSE WE HEAR STORIES ABOUT THE FILLMORE CENTER
01:04:51 AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE FILLMORE CENTER.
01:04:52 >> WE HEAR STORIES ABOUT ROBERT PITCH WHICH IS ADJACENT TO US.
01:04:59 >> I DON'T WANT US TO THINK THIS IS SMALL.
01:05:02 NO, THIS IS MAJOR AND I WAS, YOU KNOW, SUBMITTING HIS
01:05:07 REPORT. I WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW THE CITY
01:05:10 LIKE RECOMMENDATIONS, RIGHT? SO I PUT ON MY PEN HERE BECAUSE
01:05:13 I SAID ON THE REPARATIONS TASK FORCE FOR BLACK FOLKS YEAH, WE
01:05:18 STILL NEED REPARATIONS RIGHT? I'M DOING MY PART IN A PART OF
01:05:23 THE CITY REPAIRING THE DAMAGES IN A PART OF THE CITY, RESTORE
01:05:29 IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS USING OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS.
01:05:33 ONE OF THE REAL ISSUES WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HOOD THE WAY OUR
01:05:37 STRUCTURE IS SET UP, OUR BUSINESS MODEL IF ANY ONE OF
01:05:41 THOSE AGENCIES IS NOT AT THE TABLE, WE'RE DYSFUNCTION.
01:05:48 >> SO HUD IS JUST CONVENIENTLY ABSENT WHEN IT COMES TO THE
01:05:52 CONCERNS OF THE SHAREHOLDERS AND RESIDENTS AT KING GARVEY
01:05:56 AND EVERY OTHER HOUSING DWELLING IN OUR COMMUNITY
01:05:59 AND THEN THEY HAVE THE NERVE WHEN WE CALL IN ACTS TO SIT
01:06:04 DOWN AND INTELLIGENTLY GO OVER THE CONCERNS OF RESIDENTS HAVE
01:06:08 THE NERVE TO LISTEN TO OUTSIDE EARS LIKE MERCEDES GAVIN THAT
01:06:15 REALLY IN TRUTH I SUBMITTED A COMPLAINT TO THE CALIFORNIA
01:06:19 BOARD OF SOCIAL CHANGE AT THIS POINT SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED.
01:06:23 >> YES THIS SHOULD BE TO TWO OR ADVANTAGE TO DEAL WITH HOW ARE
01:06:33 THESE AGENCIES MAJOR AGENCIES AND I KNOW SAN FRANCISCO AT
01:06:37 THIS POINT HAVE ALL THE REASON WHY TO KNOW THAT THE TRUMP
01:06:41 ADMINISTRATION IS TRICKLING DOWN TO THIS GOVERNMENT HERE
01:06:44 IN SAN FRANCISCO. >> WHERE IS HUD?
01:06:48 >> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO ON THAT FLIER THAT WE
01:06:52 SUBMITTED OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, THAT'S WHY WE PUT THE IMAGE OF
01:06:56 HUD ON THAT FLIER TO PROMOTE THIS HEARING BECAUSE AT THE END
01:07:03 OF THE DAY THEY CLAIM TO BE THE REGULATORY BODY.
01:07:07 WE NEED REGULATIONS. WE DON'T NEED THE FEDERAL
01:07:11 REGULATIONS TO BE OVERLOOKED OR JUST PUSHED TO THE SIDE BECAUSE
01:07:16 IF YOU MISS YOUR CARRYING CHARGE SLASH RENT SO THE
01:07:20 MORTGAGE THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT YOU YOU WILL BE HELD
01:07:23 RESPONSIBLE PERSONALLY. NOW I WANT TO JUST SAY JUST A
01:07:28 FEW MORE THING NOW THIS IS CLEAR WHERE IS OUR EQUITY?
01:07:31 >> LISTEN TO THIS SUPERVISORS. >> THIS IS WHAT THOMAS PAYNE
01:07:35 SAID. THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THOMAS
01:07:39 PAINE A BODY OF MEN HOLDING THEMSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO NO
01:07:42 BODY ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED BY ANYBODY.
01:07:46 >> YEAH. YEAH.
01:07:49 >> AND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID AS A QUOTE AND JUSTICE
01:07:53 AND CORRUPTION WILL NEVER BE TRANSFORMED BY KEEPING IT
01:07:57 HITTING BUT IT WOULD ONLY BE TRANSFORMED BY BRINGING IT INTO
01:08:01 THE LIGHT. >> YEAH, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE
01:08:04 FOR. AND ALL OF THESE
01:08:05 RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH YOU PROBABLY HAVE RECEIVE AND YOU
01:08:09 WILL HAVE TIME TO REVIEW THEM AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE
01:08:12 FOLLOW UP COMMUNITY HEARINGS. YES, LIKE WAS WELL SAID BY THE
01:08:17 HRC AND I MISS USA AND THE TENOR FROM THOMAS PAINE EXCUSE
01:08:21 ME IF I DON'T SAY YOUR NAME BUT YES, WE CANNOT ALLOW THE
01:08:28 JURISDICTION ISSUE OR THE YOU KNOW, THE CLAIM OF WELL, YOU
01:08:33 KNOW, IT'S DON'T FALL ON MY PURVIEW SO SOMEONE ELSE GOT TO
01:08:36 DEAL WITH IT. WE HAVE A CITY THAT'S ANXIOUS
01:08:42 SOMETIMES WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING INVOLVED IN ISSUES THAT
01:08:46 THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO JURISDICTION AT ALL.
01:08:50 >> SO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO STRENGTHEN HRC TO BE GIVEN MORE
01:08:58 AUTHORITY. >> YES, COME UP WITH SOME LAWS
01:09:01 THAT CAN FORCE FOR EXAMPLE LIKE A HOOD OFFICIAL TO SIT ON A
01:09:06 COMMITTEE IN THE FUTURE WHEN I'M PROBABLY DEAD AND GONE
01:09:10 AND MANY OF US HERE DEAD AND GONE.
01:09:11 SO WE'RE NEVER AGAIN HAVE TO PRESSURE THE CITY TO CALL A
01:09:17 HEARING AND FOLLOW THE LAW BECAUSE WE NEED WAYS TO BRING
01:09:21 OVERSIGHT ON THESE HOUSING DWELLERS IN A WAY IS ROBUST
01:09:26 AND IN REAL TIME. >> WE DON'T NEED TO HEAR THE
01:09:30 HORRIFIC STORIES TO GET PEOPLE NOW ALL CONCERNED.
01:09:36 >> SO WE THANK YOU SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD AND AND OF COURSE THIS
01:09:40 COMMITTEE BUT AS YOU ALL KNOW THE FOLLOW UP AND THE
01:09:43 IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICIES IS WHERE WE GO NEXT WITH THIS
01:09:48 AND OBVIOUSLY IT SPEAKS VOLUMES THAT YOU KNOW DOOM IS
01:09:52 MANAGEMENT IS IS NOT HERE MERCEDES GAVIN IS NOT HERE
01:09:55 ALTHOUGH YOU KNOW, IF A DOSSIER WAS WRITTEN BY ME I WOULD BE
01:10:00 HERE WHO'S WHO ELSE AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM KING
01:10:06 GARVEY. NOW JUST RECENTLY I WAS REMOVED
01:10:11 FROM THE BOARD WHICH I TAKE AS AN HONOR AS LONG AS AS MARTINA
01:10:18 ROLLING WAS REMOVED FROM THE BOARD THESE ARE SOME OF THE
01:10:22 TACTICS THAT THEY ARE USING TO KEEP US QUIET IF THEY'RE NOT
01:10:26 CHALLENGING AND THREATENING YOU WITH EVICTIONS THEN ALL OF A
01:10:31 SUDDEN YOU GET A LETTER SAYING THEY WANT TO INSPECT AND THEN I
01:10:34 CAN LOOK IN THE FEDERAL CODE LAWS IT SAYS THAT WAY YOU ONLY,
01:10:38 YOU KNOW, REQUIRED TO ALLOW THEM TO COME TO YOUR UNIT ONCE
01:10:42 A YEAR UNLESS THERE'S AN EMERGENCY.
01:10:45 >> BUT THEY TAKE THE LIBERTY TO BEAT THE DRUMS AND KEEP
01:10:49 EVERYONE IN FEAR HOPING YOU WILL MAKE A MISTAKE
01:10:53 AND LEGITIMIZE THEM TO PUSH AN UNLAWFUL DETAINER THEN
01:10:58 TERMINATION YES BUT WE CALL THEM SELF-HELP EVICTIONS WHICH
01:11:01 YOU KNOW IS ILLEGAL IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
01:11:04 >> IT'S NOT JUST AN UNLAWFUL DETAINER IS A SELF-HELP
01:11:06 EVICTION. WE HAVE MANY A STORIES FROM
01:11:09 SHAREHOLDERS IN KING GARVEY YOU PROBABLY WOULD HEAR IF WE HAD
01:11:13 LOWER MILLARD RESIDENTS STAND UP AND TALK TO THEM WHAT'S
01:11:17 GOING ON OVER THERE? >> I MEAN WE HAVE TO NOW PUSH
01:11:20 LAWS HERE IN THE CITY TO GOVERN THESE TYPE OF ROGUE MANAGEMENT
01:11:27 AGENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE MISMANAGING OUR FUNDS
01:11:31 AND THEY'RE TREATING US WHICH IS SHAREHOLDERS LIKE TENANTS I
01:11:35 DON'T LIKE TO USE THE WORD TENANT GOES TENANT MEAN YOU
01:11:36 HAVE A LANDLORD? WE DON'T HAVE A LANDLORD.
01:11:38 WE ARE THE LANDLORD AND THIS IS YEARS AGO I HAD TO LITERALLY
01:11:43 FIGHT JOHN STUART COMPANY WHICH I CALL THIS DOOM IS JOHN STUART
01:11:47 COMPANY PART TWO YEAH FOR THE SAME ISSUES SO THE PATTERN IS
01:11:54 THAT WE NEED LAW, WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT LAW AND IT REALLY
01:11:58 WON'T MATTER WHO BECOME MANAGEMENT AGENT I WOULD
01:12:02 PREFERS TO EVENTUALLY BECOME SELF MANAGE BUT IN TRUTH UNTIL
01:12:05 THAT HAPPEN WE NEED LAWS TO ENSURE THAT THESE KIND OF
01:12:10 MANAGEMENT AGENTS THESE ROGUE CONTRACTORS BY THE WAY WHICH
01:12:14 REFUSE TO SUPERVISE WORK THAT'S HAPPENING ON OUR PROPERTY WHERE
01:12:21 I HAVE PLENTY OF PICTURES I COULD SHOW YOU OF THEM GOD I
01:12:22 MEAN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMMERCIAL LADDERS JUST LAYING
01:12:26 AROUND A PROPERTY YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY
01:12:29 GOT SOULS AND IT'S JUST RIDICULOUS AT A CERTAIN POINT
01:12:33 IT'S LIKE A CHILD COULD DO A BETTER JOB SUPERVISING
01:12:36 AND ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK ON THIS PROPERTY.
01:12:40 >> AND ONE OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS THINGS I HAVE
01:12:44 AND I'VE BEEN A KING EVER AGAIN SINCE 76 AND BEEN ON THE BOARD
01:12:48 FOUR TIMES OWNING OFF ME AND ONE OF OUR OTHER BOARD
01:12:52 MEMBERS, MR. COLLINS AND KNOW HE'S HERE.
01:12:56 YEAH, WE WAS IN THE BOARD ROOM AND I LOOKED OVER TO TO MY LEFT
01:13:04 AND IT WAS A BOX FULL OF FILES AND I WAS LIKE THAT'S WEIRD
01:13:07 BECAUSE THE BOARD ROOM IS FOR THE BOARD, RIGHT?
01:13:11 BUT THEY YOU KNOW THEY LITERALLY OCCUPYING SPACES.
01:13:14 THAT'S NOT IN OUR CONTRACT BY THE WAY.
01:13:16 THE ONLY SPACE THAT THEY SHOULD BE IN IS THE MANAGEMENT OFFICE
01:13:18 BUT THEY'RE TAKEN RIGHTS TO THE RESTROOM, THE KITCHEN, ALL
01:13:23 THESE OTHER AREAS WHICH IS COMMON WAY AREAS BY THE WAY
01:13:27 THAT WE PAY INTO OUR SHAREHOLDERS.
01:13:31 >> RIGHT. BUT CHECK THIS OUT A FOLDER OF
01:13:38 THE MOVE IN WAITING LISTS. >> IT'S JUST IN A BIG OLD BROWN
01:13:42 BOX OVER 500 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.
01:13:45 >> YEAH. >> WHAT KIND OF MANAGEMENT
01:13:52 AGENT JUST INTENTIONALLY PUT A FILE WITH SOCIAL SECURITY
01:13:56 NUMBERS CONFIDENTIAL. >> SO INFORMATION OF PEOPLE WHO
01:14:01 HAVEN'T EVEN YET BY THE WAY IT'S NOT IN KING GARVEY IS NOT
01:14:04 RESIDENTS IN KING GARVEY AND WHEN THEY SUBMITTED THE
01:14:07 APPLICATIONS HOPEFULLY LEAN IN THEIR MIND IS THAT YOU KNOW
01:14:13 WE SUBMITTED TO A LEGITIMATE MANAGEMENT AGENT THAT WOULD NOT
01:14:16 JUST THROW IT TO THE RIGHT OR THE LEFT.
01:14:19 IT IS INSANITY TO HAVE PEOPLE'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS WHICH
01:14:24 IS BY THE WAY A FEDERAL CRIME AND IT'S CLEARLY STATED AS A
01:14:31 MANAGEMENT AGENT ON OUR MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE FORM
01:14:35 WHICH IS A HUD FORM THAT YOU AGREE TO A CERTAIN LEVEL AS MS.
01:14:43 YOU WOULD PUT IT VIOLATIONS OF FEDERAL LAW, STATE LAW
01:14:47 AND LOCAL LAW YOU WOULD DO EVERYTHING YOU GOT TO BE A GOOD
01:14:51 CARETAKER AND WE'RE PAYING YOU ALL THIS MONEY.
01:14:52 >> YOU DON'T IT DIDN'T NEVER COME TO MIND.
01:14:56 >> YOU DON'T PUT A MOVE IN FILES IN A BOX IN A BOARD
01:15:00 ROOM WHICH ANYONE COULD COME IN AND OUT.
01:15:04 >> THESE ARE SOME OF THE EGREGIOUS THINGS THAT'S
01:15:07 HAPPENING AT MORNING SEEING MARCUS GARVEY AND I JUST WANT
01:15:11 US TO AGAIN TO UNDERSTAND THAT FRAUD, WASTE, MISMANAGEMENT
01:15:15 AND HUD IS GOT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MIND OF SUPERVISORS AS
01:15:19 YOU FIGURE THIS THING OUT AND MOVE FORWARD TOWARDS HAVING
01:15:23 ADDITIONAL HEARINGS OR EVEN HAVING EVEN A BROADER HEARING
01:15:27 OR EVEN JOINT HEARINGS. >> WE NEED LAWS TO BE CHANGED
01:15:31 SO WE CAN HAVE AGAIN T FOUGHT OUR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
01:15:36 AGENCY AND OTHERS TO LESS EVEN IF WE HAVE TO CREATE A NEW
01:15:40 COMMITTEE OR A SPECIAL STANDING BODY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE
01:15:43 BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A ALARMING ISSUE THAT WE'VE GOT TO DEAL
01:15:47 WITH THIS RIGHT? >> YEAH.
01:15:57 SO AS YOU WERE JUST BROUGHT UP AN EXCELLENT POINT TOO AND I'M
01:15:58 EXPERIENCING THIS PERSONALLY ABOUT OUR EQUITY.
01:16:01 >> SO WHO AT HERE AT KING GARVEY WE ARE DEALING WOULD
01:16:08 COME PLEA AND WE HAVE REALLY JUST PUT IT THIS WAY EVERY
01:16:14 SHAREHOLDER RIGHT OWNS A SHARE IN OUR EQUITY.
01:16:20 >> WE WAS TOLD YEARS AGO WHEN WE TOOK OUT THAT LOAN FOR THE
01:16:22 REHAB THAT THEY BOUGHT OFF THE EQUITY AND SOME EVEN BOARD
01:16:25 MEMBERS TOLD US THAT THERE IS NO EQUITY WITHOUT OUR CONSENT.
01:16:31 THE LAW REQUIRES 66.6% TO AGREE TO THAT.
01:16:35 >> NO, MISSY ELLIOTT, PLEASE COME ON TO THE MICROPHONE SO WE
01:16:36 CAN HEAR YOU. OKAY.
01:16:38 SO I DON'T WANT IMPEDE ON YOUR TIME BUT THERE ARE SOME REALLY
01:16:40 KEY SALIENT POINTS THAT WILL BE HELPFUL IN YOU HELPING US.
01:16:44 AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO POINT OUT AS A
01:16:46 GRAVE EGREGIOUS POTENTIAL ILLEGALITY IS THAT IN ALL THE
01:16:50 CO OPS IN THE CITY THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS, THERE ARE
01:16:53 LIMITED EQUITY AND THERE ARE FULL EQUITY.
01:16:54 >> KING GARVEY IS A LIMITED EQUITY CO OP WE AMASS ANNUALLY
01:16:57 EQUITY AND INTEREST AND WE GET A SUBSCRIPTION CERTIFICATE WHEN
01:17:04 WE MOVE IN THAT PROVES WE'RE A MEMBER.
01:17:05 >> WE DO NOT OWN OUR APARTMENTS.
01:17:08 CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, WE OWN ONE SHARE IN THE 119
01:17:12 MILLION DOLLAR TWO BLOCKS SQUARE RADIUS OF THE LAND WE
01:17:18 OWN ONE SHARE AND THAT WHOLE MULTIMILLION DOLLAR COMPLEX NOT
01:17:23 JUST OUR UNIT AND SO THAT IN SAN FRANCISCO A REAL ESTATE
01:17:27 IS APPRAISED VERY HIGH AND IS ELEVATED HIGH EACH YEAR
01:17:31 ANNUALLY AND THEY HAVE THE LEGAL DUTY TO REPORT ANNUALLY
01:17:34 HOW MUCH OUR EQUITY IS. >> I HAVE NOT RECEIVED THAT
01:17:36 REPORT IN 4 OR 5 YEARS. >> OKAY.
01:17:39 AND THEY ALSO HAVE A LEGAL DUTY TO PROVIDE THE INTEREST REPORTS
01:17:45 ON OUR REAL PROPERTY INVESTMENT SO THAT WE CAN COMPLY WITH THE
01:17:49 DEPARTMENT OF IRS AND THE STATE FRANCHISE TAX BOARD.
01:17:54 WE HAVE TO REPORT THAT WE CANNOT BECAUSE THEY STILL GIVEN
01:17:58 US THOSE INTEREST RECEIPT DIVIDEND REPORTS WHEN DOMAS
01:18:02 CAME ON BOARD. >> THANK YOU JUDY BISHOP WE
01:18:03 JUST SAY ONE MORE THING SUPERVISOR I KNOW WE CAN WRAP
01:18:07 IT UP BECAUSE OF COURSE YOU GOT THIS REPORT BUT I WANT OF
01:18:10 COURSE THE AUDIENCE TO OR THE PEOPLE TO HEAR JUST A FEW OF
01:18:14 THESE MAJOR VIOLATIONS AS WELL AS WHAT DEE DEE WAS JUST
01:18:17 SAYING. SO WE'RE OPERATING WITH A LEGAL
01:18:24 BYLAWS WHICH WAS REVISED IN 2009.
01:18:27 WE ARE FAILING TO BEING PROVIDED EVEN AS BOARD MEMBER
01:18:32 AS ME PRIOR PREVIOUSLY BEING ON THE BOARD AND MANY OTHERS
01:18:36 MONTHLY REPORTS, COUNTY REPORTS WHAT ELSE AND FAILING TO
01:18:42 PARTICIPATE IN SPECIAL MEAN BOARD MEMBERS IS SO ROGUE AT
01:18:46 KING GARVEY THE WAY OUR BYLAWS WAS COMPILED IS THAT IF YOU
01:18:50 HAVE REAL BOARD MEMBERS THAT ONLY TWO BOARD MEMBERS CAN CALL
01:18:54 A SPECIAL MEETING. BUT WHAT HAPPENS AT KING GARVEY
01:18:57 IS OF COURSE IF THEY OPPOSE THE AGENDA AND A TOPIC THEY JUST
01:19:01 WON'T SHOW UP AND THEN YOU DON'T HAVE A CORNER.
01:19:04 SO WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THAT FOR YEARS.
01:19:07 THEN ALSO WHICH I SUGGESTED WHEN I WAS ON THE BOARD ME
01:19:12 AND A FEW OTHER BOARD MEMBERS IS THAT WE CLEAN THE SLATE OF
01:19:16 THE ISSUE DEALING WITH, YOU KNOW, SHAREHOLDERS IN BACK
01:19:20 PAYMENTS BECAUSE OF THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC THAT TOOK PLACE
01:19:26 AND THE TENANT SELECTION PLAN IS WHAT I SUGGESTED WHICH IF
01:19:31 YOU HAVE SOMEBODY COME IN TO THE CO-OP AND THEY REALLY ARE
01:19:35 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SHOULD THEY SUBMIT AN APPLICATION
01:19:36 AND NOT YOU NEED TO GIVE THEM SOME KIND OF POLICY TO
01:19:39 UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS. >> LIKE MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE
01:19:43 CAME TO ME AND CALL ME SAY WELL THEY DIDN'T CALL ME BACK
01:19:46 AND HAS 14 DAYS TO FILE A COMPLAINT IF THEY, YOU KNOW,
01:19:51 DENY YOU OR DENY YOU I MEAN DENY YOUR APPLICATION.
01:19:55 SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS AGAIN ADDITIONALLY OF THE
01:19:59 VIOLATIONS THAT'S HAPPENING WITH DOMUS MANAGEMENT AND AND
01:20:02 THE BIGGEST ONE IS DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS.
01:20:04 >> SO WHAT WAS SAID EARLIER EVEN AS AS TIME IS PLAYING
01:20:07 AND WHAT'S HAPPENED AT ALL THESE CO-OPS IS OVERSIGHT
01:20:11 SUPERVISION JUST DAY TO DAY WALKING THROUGH THE PROPERTY AS
01:20:15 A MANAGER OR A MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR TO SEE THAT THINGS
01:20:21 ARE GETTING DONE. >> YOU CAN'T FIX THE DOOR KNOB.
01:20:22 YOU PUT IN A REPORT. WE'LL COME BACK TO SEE IF THE
01:20:26 DOOR KNOB WAS FIXED. IT'S JUST A SIMPLE STUFF
01:20:29 AND THIS IS WHY YOU'RE HEARING THIS FROM THE PEOPLE AND IT'S
01:20:33 JUST OUTRAGEOUS. SO I LEAVE IT THERE BUT AGAIN
01:20:36 THANK YOU FOR CALLING THIS HEARING AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
01:20:41 FOLLOWING UP AND WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
01:20:44 AND DOCUMENTATION BY THE WAY, TO PROVE EACH AND EVERYTHING
01:20:48 THAT'S BEEN SAID THIS MORNING. >> THANK YOU, JANE.
01:20:52 I THINK I JUST WANT TO CLOSE REALLY QUICKLY AND LET YOU GUYS
01:20:55 KNOW YOU GUYS DO HAVE JURISDICTION WHEN IT COMES TO
01:20:57 THE FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD CURRENTLY IS LINDA
01:21:00 YOAKUM. >> SHE SIGNED OFF ON THE 50
01:21:03 FILM THE $54 MILLION RENOVATION AND ABATEMENT IN 2010 FROM THE
01:21:07 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY. SHE JUST LAST MONTH SIGNED OFF
01:21:11 AND PUT US IN DEBT ANOTHER 59 MILLION DOLLARS $59,000,000.16
01:21:18 YEARS LATER YOU DIDN'T DO THE ABATEMENT.
01:21:22 YOU HAVE ALL THESE OPEN DEBATE CLAIMS AND YOU'RE GOING TO PUT
01:21:25 US IN DEBT FOR ANOTHER 30 PLUS YEARS.
01:21:26 >> I'M CALLING FOR AN INVESTIGATION AND SHE DID NOT
01:21:29 ASK SHE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A QUORUM OF THE SHAREHOLDERS WHEN
01:21:33 SHE DID ANY OF THIS. I'M CALLING FOR A LEGAL
01:21:34 INVESTIGATION, A FORENSIC INVESTIGATION INTO THE BOOKS OF
01:21:37 DUMMIES AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS THAT MARTIN LUTHER
01:21:39 KING, MARCUS GARVEY, THANK YOU .
01:21:44 THANK YOU, DANIEL. I'LL TAKE A DAY.
01:21:48 THANK YOU FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE REMARKS.
01:21:49 I COVERED A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO COVER THE
01:21:55 FLOODING THE THE THE WATER, THE SEWAGE, THE TBI COMPLAINTS ALSO
01:21:59 SOME OF THE CRIMINAL COMPONENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED WITH THE
01:22:04 CRIMES THAT HAVE HAPPENED ON WITH STOLEN PROPERTY AS WELL.
01:22:10 >> CAN WE ASK A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS?
01:22:11 SO ABSOLUTELY TO COMMENT THE FIRST IS ON THE QUESTION OF YOU
01:22:24 MENTIONED I THINK YOU'VE COMMENTED A COUPLE OF TIMES
01:22:28 DANIELLE, BUT ISSUES WITH CONTRACTORS HAVING UNAUTHORIZED
01:22:32 ACCESS TO SPACES CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE REALLY
01:22:36 BRIEFLY WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ABOUT SECURITY AND SAFETY?
01:22:40 OH WELL I SPEAK TO SO WELL THE BIG THE CONTRACTORS SELF IS
01:22:44 DOMUS HAVE AN ACCESS TO SPACES AND YOU WILL YOU WILL FIND
01:22:48 EMPLOYEES OF DOMUS TAKING THE LIBERTY TO EVEN UTILIZE SPACES
01:22:52 WITHIN THE PROPERTY ILLEGALLY BY THE WAY AS AN APARTMENT.
01:22:56 SO THERE'S ONE PARTICULAR SPACE ON TURK SIDE OF OF MARTIN
01:23:03 LUTHER KING SIDE OF THE PROPERTY.
01:23:06 ONE DAY I WAS JUST WALKING THROUGH THE PROPERTY AND A LADY
01:23:10 THE DOOR WAS OPEN AND SHE WAS IN PUTTING UP SOME LAUNDRY,
01:23:14 CLOTHING, YOU KNOW, HANGING CLOTHING AND I'M LIKE WHAT IS
01:23:15 GOING ON? THIS IS A THIS IS A JANITORIAL
01:23:18 SPACE BY THE WAY. IT'S NOT AN APARTMENT.
01:23:22 SO SHE SLAMMED THE DOOR AND THEN I WENT UP AT TIME OF
01:23:26 COURSE I'M A BOARD MEMBER AND I AM A SHAREHOLDER.
01:23:29 >> I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
01:23:30 AND I SAID SCUSE ME MA'AM, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
01:23:32 IN HERE. >> WHAT'S GOING ON?
01:23:33 SHE SAID, OH NO, YOU GOT TO TALK TO MY HUSBAND.
01:23:35 YEAH. >> AND COME TO FIND THE FACT
01:23:37 THAT YOU'RE SURE YOU'RE ALL SHARE OWNERS AND THIS AND THIS
01:23:41 IS ACCESS YOU SHOULD BE HAVING YOURSELF AS OWNERS OF THE
01:23:44 PROPERTY BUT DOMAS IS BLOCKING IT IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING,
01:23:45 RIGHT? >> NO, NO, NO.
01:23:48 THIS IS THIS IS NOT THIS IS NOT EVEN APARTMENT.
01:23:50 THIS IS JUST ACTUALLY LIKE A UTILITY SPACE, A STORAGE SPACE
01:23:52 ON THE PROPERTY AND THEY'RE USING YOU GOT EMPLOYEES OR
01:23:56 PERSONNEL USING THESE SPACES ADDITIONALLY LIKE THEY YEAH AS
01:24:03 IF IT'S YOU KNOW PRIVATE ONLY AND ONE OF THEM HAVE A WASH
01:24:07 MACHINE IN IT AND I MEAN IS CAUSING PROBLEMS ON THAT WHOLE
01:24:10 SIDE OF THE BUILDING ON TARTT STREET AND THESE ARE JUST ONE
01:24:13 OF MANY SPACES THAT'S BEING USED BY EMPLOYEES AND IT'S NOT
01:24:18 BEING APPROVED BY THE BOARD BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL.
01:24:19 >> IT'S AGAINST HOOD LAW IS AGAINST STATE LAW AND IT'S IS A
01:24:23 HAZARD IF SOMETHING CATCH ON FIRE YOU KNOW, THESE BUILDINGS
01:24:27 IS LIKE CRACKERJACK ALMOST BOXES I MEAN A WHOLE PROBABLY
01:24:30 WHOLE BLOCK A BURNED DOWN. >> SO THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE.
01:24:34 LAST QUESTION I'LL HAVE BEFORE WE NEED TO TALK TO EMMA PARKER
01:24:38 FOR THIS AND THEN WE'LL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
01:24:41 SUPERVISOR MELGAR HAS PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO SUPPORT CO-OPS
01:24:44 LIKE I'M OKAY. >> MARCUS GARVEY WHAT WOULD YOU
01:24:45 LIKE TO SEE IN THAT LEGISLATION ?
01:24:48 >> CAN WE BOTH ANSWER THAT? YEAH.
01:24:49 YEAH. OKAY.
01:24:49 SO WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AN ORDINANCE AND OR A LEGISLATION
01:24:52 IS AN OVERSIGHT BODY WITH REGARDS TO AND THIS HELPS YOU
01:24:56 WITH THE JURISDICTION AGAIN CONTRACT COMPLIANCE.
01:25:00 SO THE REASON WHY I BROUGHT UP THE $50 MILLION LOAN THAT WAS
01:25:01 JUST RECENTLY SIGNED IS IN THE PREVIOUS WE WORKED IN TANDEM
01:25:05 WITH THE CITY AS WELL AS COMMERCIAL BANKS AND HUD.
01:25:08 >> SO THERE GIVES YOU SOME LEEWAY FOR OVERSIGHT BY VIRTUE
01:25:15 OF THE CONTRACT SIGNING FOR THE ECONOMICS THAT'S FUNDING THE
01:25:18 SUSTAINABILITY OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS.
01:25:19 SO IN ORDER FOR US TO GET MONEY IN A LOAN WE HAVE TO HAVE
01:25:23 PARTNERS SO YOU NEED TO CHECK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AND THE
01:25:27 IG AROUND WASTE, FRAUD AND MISMANAGEMENT.
01:25:33 OKAY. AND MAYBE EVEN YOU CAN
01:25:34 SUPERSEDE AND INTERCEDE IN SOME OF THESE I THINK ARE
01:25:38 POTENTIALLY QUESTIONABLE CONTRACTS WITH REGARDS TO THE
01:25:42 USE OF SPACE THAT YOU ASKED DANIEL LANDRY THERE ARE WE HAVE
01:25:47 27 STORAGE SPACES AT KING GARVEY AND PEOPLE ARE USING
01:25:51 THEM AT THEIR WHIM. >> THEY'RE EVEN TAKING OUT
01:25:53 PARKING SPOTS THAT HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO US.
01:25:56 WE AS WE WE A LOT FOR IN OUR MANAGERIAL CONTRACTS FREE
01:26:00 APARTMENTS FOR THE PROPERTY MANAGER WE HAD A PROPERTY
01:26:04 MANAGER LIVING THERE WHOSE TIME SHARING HER SERVICES WITH
01:26:08 ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT BUT SHE'S GETTING A FULL TIME SALARY AT
01:26:12 KING GARVEY AND A FULL TIME FREE APARTMENT WHILE SHE'S
01:26:15 ELSEWHERE MOST OF THE TIME THERE WE NEED TO LOOK INTO THE
01:26:19 LEGALITY OF THAT WASTE, FRAUD, MISMANAGEMENT.
01:26:23 >> OKAY. AND THE OTHER ISSUE IS THESE
01:26:24 SPACES ARE BEING COMMANDEERED BY AGENTS AND SUB AGENTS
01:26:31 BECAUSE THERE IS A LACK OF OVERSIGHT BY THE BOARD AND THE
01:26:36 MANAGEMENT. >> SO THOSE 20 SEVEN STORAGE
01:26:37 ROOMS COULD BE SOMEBODIES PRIVATE MAN'S SHED BUT THAT'S
01:26:40 NOT PERMISSIBLE UNDER THE USE OF THE PROPERTY UNDER THE
01:26:44 FEDERAL GUIDELINES. >> SO YOU NEED TO LOOK TO
01:26:48 WHAT'S CALLED THE HUD 4350 HANDBOOK AROUND THE OPERATIONS
01:26:52 AND PROCEDURES REGARDING KING GARVEY, I ALSO WANT TO SAY
01:26:56 REALLY QUICKLY I HAD FOUR KINDS OF AS FESTUS THEY'RE LYING
01:27:00 TELLING RESIDENTS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE AS BEST THOSE IF
01:27:02 IT'S IN MY UNIT IT'S IN ALL THE UNITS.
01:27:04 >> OKAY THERE'S PLUMBING PROBLEMS, ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS,
01:27:07 CDBG AND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PLEASE FOLLOW THROUGH IF
01:27:11 YOU WANT TO DO LEGISLATION YOU MANDATE COMPLIANCE WOULD
01:27:14 EXISTING STATUTORY LAW FEDERAL GUIDELINES UNDER THE HOOD HUD
01:27:19 GUIDELINES AND CITY ORDINANCE THEY'RE NOT EVEN FOLLOWING
01:27:20 WHAT'S ALREADY ON THE BOOKS. WE WOULD LOVE TO MEET WITH YOU
01:27:23 AND HELP YOU LEGISLATE THAT THEY DID AND THEY ALL YOU KNOW.
01:27:29 >> THAT'S IT. THANK YOU.
01:27:30 THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT.
01:27:32 LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO EMMA PARK.
01:27:36 EMMA PARK IS A CO-OP JUST TWO BLOCKS SOUTH OF THOMAS PAINE
01:27:40 SQUARE. IT HAS BEEN A CO-OP SINCE THE
01:27:42 1970S AND DELMAS TOOK OVER THE MANAGEMENT ALSO IN 2020 FOUR.
01:27:46 >> UNLIKE KING GARVEY, EMMA PARK HAS A MIX OF HUD
01:27:50 SUBSIDIZED AND MARKET RATE UNITS.
01:27:51 >> SHORTLY AFTER TAKING OVER, MARKET RATE UNITS WENT FROM
01:27:55 $2,000 TO OVER $6,000 FOR FOUR BEDROOM UNITS IN THE SPAN OF
01:28:02 TWO YEARS. >> IS IT PUBLIC SPEAKING?
01:28:03 NOT YET. NOT YET.
01:28:04 SORRY. >> RESIDENTS OF THESE FOUR
01:28:06 BEDROOM UNITS WERE ASKED TO CERTIFY UNDER HUD FOR THE FIRST
01:28:09 TIME IN YEARS EVER. AT THE SAME TIME CONSTRUCTION
01:28:13 OF A NEW LAUNDRY ROOM CREATED UNSAFE LIVING ENVIRONMENT FOR
01:28:14 ONE HOUSEHOLD. THOSE COMPLAINTS WERE NOT
01:28:17 ADDRESSED AND REMAINED UNADDRESSED.
01:28:18 MY TEAM MET WITH THE PRESIDENT AND ONE OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF
01:28:21 ALMA PARK BOARD TO GET THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
01:28:22 BUT THEY'VE OPTED NOT TO JOIN THE HEARING.
01:28:25 SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO HEARING FROM.
01:28:28 TO HARRIET LARKIN. HARRIET, IF YOU'RE HERE PLEASE
01:28:29 COME TO THE LECTERN. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
01:28:33 HELLO. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE.
01:28:36 I'M HERE TO REPRESENT THE RESIDENTS OF ANIMAL PARK.
01:28:41 >> THEY ARE FACING EVICTION BECAUSE ACCORDING TO DELMAS,
01:28:45 THEY HUD HAS CHANGED THE THE REQUIREMENTS UNDER HUD AND FOR
01:28:52 BEDROOM UNITS. A SUBSIDIZED UNDER HUD ARE NO
01:28:56 LONGER ALLOWED. WE HAD A MEETING WITH THEM.
01:28:57 I ASKED THEM FOR PROOF OF THIS. SHE SAID MY MY MANAGER HAD A
01:29:03 CONVERSATION WITH HER AND THEY TOLD US THAT.
01:29:07 I EXPLAINED TO THEM IN A SPIRIT OF TRANSPARENCY WE NEEDED TO
01:29:10 HAVE SOMETHING IN WRITING. SHE BECAME UPSET.
01:29:14 THEY THEN CAME BACK AND TOLD US THAT FOUR BEDROOMS A MARKET
01:29:18 RATE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZED BY HEARD.
01:29:22 BUT THESE PEOPLE HAVE LIVED HERE 16 PLUS YEARS UNDER THAT
01:29:25 SAME CONDITION. THEN I EMAILED TO HER THE
01:29:29 DOCUMENT THAT WAS SENT FROM DELMAS TO THESE RESIDENTS
01:29:35 IN DECEMBER OF 2025 THAT HAD THEM AS FOUR BEDROOM SUBSIDIZED
01:29:39 MARKET RATE UNITS. SO I ASKED THEM FOR PROOF OF A
01:29:44 TRANSFER FROM HER. THEY COULD NOT PROVIDE IT.
01:29:47 THEN THEY WENT BACK AND FORTH EXCUSE ME ABOUT WHO WAS
01:29:51 RESPONSE ABOVE THE BOARD OR THEM.
01:29:55 >> WE NEVER GOT ANYTHING PROVEN .
01:29:59 >> WE'VE NEVER GOTTEN ANYTHING .
01:30:02 >> BUT IF THEY DON'T CONVERT TO SECTION EIGHT THEY'RE GOING TO
01:30:06 BE EVICTED. THAT'S ALL THEY SAY THEY'RE
01:30:10 GOING TO BE EVICTED. AND IN THE MEANTIME THE BOARD
01:30:13 OF DIRECTORS ARE SOMEONE TOOK OUT A $1.5 MILLION LOAN.
01:30:17 >> NO UNITS WERE REPAIRED. THE AND THE UNITS ARE
01:30:21 IN HORRIBLE REPAIR. THERE'S WATER FLOODING INTO
01:30:25 THEM. THERE'S COMING FROM UPSTAIRS
01:30:26 BATHROOMS. THERE'S RAT INFESTATION.
01:30:29 WATER COMES THROUGH THE WINDOWS SILLS.
01:30:33 WHEN IT RAINS, THERE'S MOLD EVERYWHERE.
01:30:36 WHEN WE REMINDED DELMAS OF THIS, DELMAS SAID, WELL, WE'LL
01:30:40 DEAL WITH THAT LATER. BUT RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE GOING
01:30:44 TO DO IS WE'RE GOING TO SPRAY SOMETHING AROUND THE OUTSIDE
01:30:47 FOR THE RAT INFESTATION. NOTHING ABOUT THE CONDITIONS
01:30:51 INSIDE. SO THESE PEOPLE ARE INHALING
01:30:52 MOLD AND OTHER ISSUES FURTHER. >> THEY HAVE NEVER RECEIVED
01:30:58 UNDER THIS PRESENT BOARD AND DELMAS A REPORT ON THE
01:31:02 FINANCIALS. WHEN WHEN A BOARD GETS MONEY
01:31:06 AND THEY DO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT THAT AS WELL AS IT GO BEFORE
01:31:10 THE SHAREHOLDERS. >> I'M SURE THE SHAREHOLDERS
01:31:11 WOULD HAVE RATHER THAT THEIR MONEY WOULD HAVE BEEN USED TO
01:31:17 FIX THE DILAPIDATED UNITS THERE SO PEOPLE CAN HAVE SAFE LIVING
01:31:21 ENVIRONMENT VERSUS REPAIR IN THE PARKING LOT VERSUS
01:31:26 PUTTING IN A LAUNDROMAT WHEN THERE'S ALREADY ONE THERE
01:31:30 AND THE LAUNDROMAT IS ALSO CAUSING HARM TO SOME TENANTS
01:31:33 THAT LIVE NEXT TO IT BECAUSE OF THE DEBRIS, BECAUSE OF THE
01:31:39 DEBRIS. AND ON TOP OF THAT THEY FINALLY
01:31:44 HAD A BOARD MEETING AFTER ALL OF THIS TIME.
01:31:48 AT THE BOARD MEETING THEY PRESENTED NO FINANCIALS.
01:31:51 THE BOARD MEETING TOLD THE THE SHAREHOLDERS THAT THEY COULD GO
01:31:55 TO THE DELMAS OFFICE THE FOLLOWING DAY AND GET THE GET
01:31:56 THE FINANCIALS. DELMAS TOLD THEM NO, YOU HAVE
01:32:02 TO GO BACK TO THE SHARE TO THE BOARD.
01:32:03 >> THE BOY DID NOT GIVE THEM THEY WERE GOING TO EMAIL HIM.
01:32:06 TO THIS DAY WE STILL DO NOT HAVE THE FINANCIALS AND OTHER
01:32:10 CAPITAL AND I CAN ACTUALLY TELL YOU WHAT THE PRESIDENT LET ME
01:32:13 JUST LIKE I SAID, THIS IS A WRONG.
01:32:17 >> WELL, IN ANY EVENT, THERE'S A CALIFORNIA STATUTE TO THAT A
01:32:22 BOARD A FINANCIALS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SUBMITTED EVERY YEAR BY
01:32:26 MAIL TO THE SHAREHOLDERS DELMAS NOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS HAVE
01:32:33 DONE THIS. >> SO WE DON'T KNOW HOW THE
01:32:36 MONEY IS SPENT. WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING THEY'RE
01:32:38 USING TACTIC X OF HARASSMENT AND INTIMIDATION TO LET THE
01:32:44 FOUR BEDROOM UNITS BUCKLE DOWN AND BECOME SECTION EIGHT
01:32:47 HOUSING AND THEY ARE ALSO PEOPLE WHO HAVE REQUESTED A
01:32:52 LARGER UNITS YEARS AGO HAVE BEEN DENIED UNITS.
01:32:56 THEY HAVE NOT BEEN MOVED. ONE SUCH RESIDENT, HER MOTHER
01:33:00 FELL ON THE PROPERTY. THEY LIVE IN A ONE BEDROOM.
01:33:04 THERE'S THREE ADULTS AND ONE OF THEM IS IN A HOSPITAL BED
01:33:07 AND THE HUSBAND AND WIFE'S BEDROOM THEY CANNOT SHE CANNOT
01:33:11 GET PHYSICAL THERAPY BECAUSE THE SPACE IS TOO TIGHT.
01:33:15 BUT WHEN THEY ORIGINALLY MOVED INTO THAT UNIT THEY TOLD THEM
01:33:19 THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE YOU OUT AS SOON AS A TWO BEDROOM IS
01:33:23 AVAILABLE. THEY DID NOT DO THAT.
01:33:26 NOTHING I BELIEVE THAT NOTHING THAT DOMA'S OR THE BOARD OF
01:33:30 DIRECTORS AT A MALE HOUSING SAYS IS TRUE.
01:33:34 I DON'T TRUST THEM AT ALL. AND IF YOU AND IF THERE WAS
01:33:38 SOMEBODY AND YOU COULD TRUST THEM, THEY COULD BE ABLE TO
01:33:41 PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME DOCUMENTATION.
01:33:42 ANYTIME YOU CAN'T DOCUMENT THAT SOMETHING IS QUESTIONABLE TO ME
01:33:46 IT'S LIKE I TOLD YOU THIS IS HOW IT IS.
01:33:50 NO IT'S NOT HOW IT IS BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT WE ARE THESE ARE
01:33:53 HUMBLE PEOPLE. THEY'RE KIND PEOPLE.
01:33:54 THEY WERE A CLOSE KNIT COMMUNITY NOW THEY'RE A
01:33:57 COMMUNITY IS BEING DIVIDED BECAUSE THIS GROUP THAT WANTS
01:34:00 TO BE ON THE SIDE OF THE BOARD AND NOT BE HARASSED THEIR FAVOR
01:34:04 WHILE THIS OTHER GROUP THEY FEEL ARE TROUBLEMAKERS BECAUSE
01:34:08 THAT'S WHAT THE BOARD IN DELMAS TELLS THEM.
01:34:11 SO THE PEOPLE THAT THEY'VE BEEN FRIENDS WITH FOR EONS THESE
01:34:12 PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER SPEAKING TO THEM AND THESE PEOPLE ARE
01:34:16 LITERALLY IN FEAR. THEIR HOUSING CONDITIONS ARE
01:34:19 UNSAFE. IS IS HORRIBLE.
01:34:23 >> YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT PICTURES OF SOME OF THE UNITS,
01:34:27 IT'S LIKE YOU'RE IN I DON'T KNOW SOME OTHER COUNTRY YOU
01:34:31 KNOW YOU'RE NOT IN THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE NOBODY SHOULD
01:34:35 HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THAT HERE. THE PEOPLE THAT I REPRESENT ARE
01:34:36 FROM EAST AFRICA. THEY CAME HERE FOR A BETTER WAY
01:34:40 AND WE SHOWED THEM A WORSE WAY AND IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
01:34:44 IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. >> YOU SHOULD NOT LEAVE
01:34:47 SOMEWHERE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITY AND HAVE NO
01:34:50 OPPORTUNITY TO BE TALKED TO AND HUMILIATED AND SPOKE TO YOU
01:34:55 LIKE IT'S LIKE YOU SALLY STUPID.
01:34:59 THEY TRY TO SPEAK TO THESE PEOPLE LIKE THEY SELL THESE
01:35:00 STUPID AND IT'S NOT OKAY. >> THANK YOU.
01:35:03 I THINK I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT POINT THAT YOU'RE
01:35:06 REPRESENTING TEN RESIDENTS FROM ALMA PARK.
01:35:08 YES, ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE ETHIOPIAN AND ERITREAN.
01:35:14 YES. AND THEY ARE LESS COMFORTABLE
01:35:15 WITH ENGLISH AND THEY HAVE YOU TO SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF.
01:35:18 >> SO THANK YOU FOR DOING SO. YES.
01:35:19 AND AND THEN THERE'S A LARGE GROUP OF THEM HERE.
01:35:22 STAND UP. YES.
01:35:22 SO WE ARE THEY CAME OUT YET BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS GOT TO
01:35:31 CHANGE. >> SOMETHING HAS GOT TO CHANGE.
01:35:32 THANK YOU. HERE.
01:35:33 OKAY. THANK YOU.
01:35:34 ONE ONE QUESTION I THINK IT'S REALLY AUSPICIOUS AND AND
01:35:39 REALLY CONCERNING THAT YOU RAISE THIS ISSUE ABOUT THE
01:35:40 MASSIVE RENT SPIKE. >> CAN YOU TELL ME HAVE YOU
01:35:46 HEARD ANYTHING FROM HUD IN TERMS OF RESPONSE TO THIS
01:35:54 ISSUE? >> NO.
01:35:55 NO, IT'S NOT AND IT'S NO, I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM
01:35:58 HER. THERE'S NO PAPERWORK FROM HER.
01:35:59 I GOOGLED HEARD HEARD HAS NOT MEET HUD HAS NOT MADE ANY
01:36:03 CHANGES AND ALL THE DUMB IS IS IS SOMEBODY TOLD ME SO OKAY
01:36:09 AND SOMEBODY TOLD ME SO IS NOT OKAY.
01:36:12 >> OKAY. UNDERSTOOD.
01:36:13 OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
01:36:14 YOU HEARD LAST THANK YOU AGAIN WE DO NOT EXPECT TO HEAR FROM
01:36:21 DOMAS ON THAT NOTE BUT IF THERE'S ANYONE FROM DOMAS HERE,
01:36:24 PLEASE COME FORWARD BECAUSE WE ARE DYING TO TALK TO YOU.
01:36:34 THEY ARE UNFORTUNATELY NOT HERE.
01:36:35 SO THAT ENDS THIS PORTION OF THE HEARING.
01:36:39 THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SPOKEN SO FAR.
01:36:40 IF THERE'S NO COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS COMMITTEE MEMBER IS
01:36:43 CHAIR TURNER BACK TO YOU FOR PUBLIC COMMENT SUPERVISOR MIC
01:36:46 MOOD THANK YOU ESPECIALLY TO THE RESIDENTS WHO TOOK TIME OFF
01:36:50 FROM WORK FOR BEING TO BE HERE. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE.
01:36:54 COLLEAGUES ANY COMMENTS BEFORE WE GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT SO IF
01:36:58 WE COULD OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT PLACE OH I'M SORRY.
01:37:01 >> I'M SORRY EXCUSE ME ONE SECOND.
01:37:02 SUPERVISOR WRONG. OH, I JUST LIKE TO THANK ALL
01:37:05 THE RESIDENTS FOR COMING TO OUR COMMITTEE TO SHARE THEIR SHARE
01:37:08 THEIR CONCERNS AND SO THAT THIS CAN BE ADDRESSED AND THAT THE
01:37:10 BOARD CAN BRING AND ASK FOR ACCOUNTABILITY ON THESE ISSUES.
01:37:13 >> THANK YOU. IF WE CAN TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT
01:37:16 AND HEAR FROM THE RESIDENTS. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
01:37:20 THE GOVERNMENT AUDIT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE WILL NOW HEAR PUBLIC
01:37:23 COMMENT RELATED TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE FOLKS HAVE ALREADY
01:37:25 LINED UP. CAN WE GET THE FIRST SPEAKER TO
01:37:27 COME FORWARD TO THE LECTERN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
01:37:30 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS RANDALL EVANS.
01:37:34 I WISH YOU WOULDN'T EVEN TURN ON THE CLOCK.
01:37:36 THE STUFF WE TALKING ABOUT TAKES TIME TO SAY BUT THIS IS A
01:37:39 PATTERN YOU KNOW IT'S A PATTERN FROM ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE
01:37:43 50S. YOU KNOW 2500 VICTORIAN HOUSES
01:37:45 TOOK AN AWAY 4500 BLACK PEOPLE ERASE EIGHT HUNDRED AND 70
01:37:53 BLACK BUSINESSES STRICTLY BY GOD.
01:37:57 >> THESE PEOPLE THEY ARE SPEAKING IN BEHALF OF PEOPLE
01:38:01 TODAY ARE UNDER A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
01:38:05 YET THIS BLACK COMMUNITY IS UNDER A STATE OF EMERGENCY
01:38:09 AND SOMETHING FUNNY IS GOING ON.
01:38:10 >> SEE BECAUSE I KNOW FOR A FACT I'VE BEEN DOWN HERE WHEN
01:38:14 PEOPLE HAVE CAME DOWN TO THIS BUILDING TO THIS ROOM BEFORE
01:38:18 AND MADE THESE SAME VALID COMPLAINTS.
01:38:21 >> SO DO YOU HAVE A RECORD OF IT?
01:38:22 IS THERE IS THERE A WHO'S WHO IS THE POLICE OFFICER OF THIS
01:38:27 PARTICULAR SITUATION? I MEAN WHY IS THIS ONLY
01:38:30 HAPPENING IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY?
01:38:34 OKAY. WHY IS THIS ONLY HAPPENING
01:38:37 WHERE WE LIVE? YOU KNOW, WE KNOW HERE AND YOU
01:38:41 DON'T SEE NO ONE ELSE DOWN HERE HAVING THOSE COMPLAINTS BUT MY
01:38:45 PEOPLE SEE SOMETHING FUNNY GOING ON.
01:38:46 >> OKAY. NOW I RESPECT WHERE YOU COME
01:38:50 IN FROM SUPERVISOR AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT THEIR FEET TO YOUR
01:38:54 FIRE BECAUSE WE GOT NO OTHER CHOICE BUT AT THE END OF THE
01:38:56 DAY IT SHOULD BE A SERIOUS COMMITTEE WITH THE
01:39:00 MAYOR SITTING THERE TALKING ABOUT HEY, THIS IS SERIOUS
01:39:04 STUFF, LET'S DO SOMETHING. >> YESTERDAY SOMEBODY IS JOB TO
01:39:08 BE STOPPED. SOMEBODY FROM HEIGHTS SHOULD BE
01:39:09 AT THE DOORSTEPS RIGHT HERE. SOMEBODY FROM THAT TOWN IS
01:39:15 EITHER THEY DON'T THIS BRINGS ALL THE DEVELOPMENTS.
01:39:19 >> HOW DID THAT TAKE PLACE? I MEAN HOW DID THEY GET UNDER
01:39:23 FROM ONE DEVELOPMENT TO ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT TO ANOTHER
01:39:27 DEVELOPMENT LIKE LIKE A STEWARD LIKE THE BROTHER BROUGHT JON
01:39:31 STEWART BEFORE THERE IS SOMETHING YOU RANDALL ANY
01:39:35 COMMENTS? >> THERE IS SOMETHING BECAUSE
01:39:38 I'M JUST CONCLUDED MR. EVANS I'M SORRY WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TO
01:39:40 THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> YOU SHOULD BE HERE.
01:39:43 EACH SPEAKER IS GOING TO HAVE TWO MINUTES TO PROVIDE THEIR
01:39:46 COMMENTS. >> WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE
01:39:47 NEXT SPEAKER. MR. EVANS YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY
01:39:48 I WILL GET TO THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU ARE MR. CHAIR, WE
01:39:56 HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER FOLKS, I THINK HEARING
01:39:59 EVERYBODY'S WORDS ARE INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY
01:40:03 IMPORTANT. WE'RE DEEPLY APPRECIATIVE ALL
01:40:04 OF YOU HERE. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:40:07 EVERYBODY GETS THEIR TIME WITH THEIR TWO MINUTES BUT THANKS.
01:40:09 >> WE'RE NOT GOING NOWHERE. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
01:40:14 >> GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME IS MIKE PINKSTON AND I
01:40:18 AM A COMMUNITY LEADER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FROM THE HART BAYVIEW
01:40:22 HUNTERS POINT. NOW WHAT I WANTED TO SAY IS
01:40:26 THIS BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT AND I'M NOT GONNA SAY BAYVIEW.
01:40:30 I'M GONNA SAY HUNTER'S POINT. WE MIRROR WHAT'S GOING ON
01:40:34 IN FILLMORE. OKAY, SO THAT MEANS THAT THIS
01:40:38 IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT THING.
01:40:42 >> THIS IS CITYWIDE. >> I ALSO REPRESENT THE
01:40:46 CITYWIDE HOOD ALLIANCE. THANK YOU EVERYBODY WHO'S HERE
01:40:49 . >> THIS IS THIS I'M GOING TO
01:40:53 SAY THIS DISCRIMINATION I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY SPEAK
01:40:54 ABOUT DISCRIMINATION. >> OKAY?
01:40:57 AND YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THAT IS? WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
01:41:01 HAPPEN IS YOU ALL CARE. OKAY, SO THIS TWO MINUTES I'M
01:41:05 GOING TO SAY THAT PLEASE CARE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING
01:41:09 TO US. DON'T NOBODY CARE.
01:41:12 AND WE GET LIKE THE BLACK PANTHERS AND START BERNIE DOWN
01:41:13 THEN THAT'S WHEN Y'ALL CARE. RIGHT NOW WE KNOW LEADERSHIP
01:41:16 AND WE WANT IT TO BE DO THE RIGHT THINGS AND DO IT BY PEACE
01:41:20 AND LOVE AS OUR LATE MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID WE SHALL
01:41:24 OVERCOME. >> OKAY SO WITH THAT BEING
01:41:27 SAID, MR. BLOUGH YOU KNOW ME WELL.
01:41:28 YOU SIT NEXT TO ME PLENTY OF TIMES WE'VE SPOKEN PLENTY OF
01:41:32 TIMES YOU KNOW THAT I'M NOT FOR VIOLENCE SO COME ON, STOP THE
01:41:36 SHIP BEFORE WE GET ACTIVE OUT HERE.
01:41:39 >> THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING. ALL RIGHT.
01:41:40 YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE NOT LIKE US. >> WE ACTUALLY GOT SOME SENSE
01:41:44 SO WHEN THEY GET STARTED NOW Y'ALL GOING TO START CALLING
01:41:48 IN A MARCH THE NATIONAL GUARDS AND WE GO AND START TEARING UP
01:41:51 AND IT'S GOING TO GET BAD OUT HERE.
01:41:54 IT'S NOT WORTHY. ALL WE ASK HIM TO DO IS LIVE
01:41:57 PEACEFULLY. OKAY THAT'S SAY WE WANT TO LIVE
01:41:58 LIKE Y'ALL LIVE. >> WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ALL THE
01:42:02 MONEY THAT Y'ALL HAVE BUT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE IN GOOD
01:42:05 CONDITIONS NOT UNINHABITABLE. >> WE SHOULD NOT BE FIGHTING A
01:42:10 RATS TO GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT. IT SHOULD NOT WE SHOULD NOT
01:42:13 HAVE PEOPLE GIVE 4045 $45 MILLION IN OUR NAME AND THEN
01:42:17 COME IN WITH. THANK YOU.
01:42:21 THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING YOUR COMMENTS.
01:42:22 WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
01:42:24 >> RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.
01:42:30 GOOD MORNING AND ALMOST AFTERNOON.
01:42:31 THANK YOU. EVERYONE IS HERE FROM THE
01:42:34 FILLMORE, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM THE BAYVIEW
01:42:35 COMMUNITY LEADERS AND SO FORTH. AND THANK YOU SUPERVISORS.
01:42:39 GOOD TO SEE SUPERVISOR JACKIE FIELDER AS WELL BACK ON THE
01:42:43 PANEL. EVERY TIME I SEE HIM IS FILLED
01:42:47 THERE I'M REMINDED OF WHEN SHE WAS A SENATOR ELECT AND HELPED
01:42:51 US IN A COVID ERA PLAZA EASE WHICH THE COMMUNITY NEEDED AT A
01:42:55 DARK TIME. UNFORTUNATELY WE WERE
01:42:55 EMBARRASSED BECAUSE IT WAS AN ALMOST 100 YARD RAW SEWAGE LEAK
01:43:01 THAT WAS NORMAL TO PLAZA EAST RESIDENTS AT THE TIME.
01:43:03 BUT WE HAD A POLITICIAN THERE IN UNFORTUNATE THAT WAS THEY'VE
01:43:07 SEEN IT WELL THAT'S STILL GOING ON AT PLAZA IS CURRENTLY WE
01:43:12 JUST HAD AND I WONDER HOW DO WE KEEP PASSING HUD INSPECTOR
01:43:17 SIGNS ALL ACROSS THE CITY WHEN WE'RE IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS
01:43:21 ? SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE
01:43:22 ABOUT THAT. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
01:43:23 THE FILLMORE DEMANDS CHANGE. THE SAME DISTRICT FIVE
01:43:25 COMMUNITY HAS ENDURED DISPLACEMENT DISINVEST, MINT
01:43:29 DETERIORATING HOUSING CONDITIONS, EVICTION THREATS SO
01:43:32 FORTH. THOMAS PAINE MARCUS KING GARVEY
01:43:33 A.M.E. PARK PLAZA EAST AND OUR BROTHERS SISTERS AT ALICE
01:43:37 GRIFFITH BAYVIEW APARTMENTS SHORE VIEW ON THE SOUTH OUR
01:43:41 TIRED OF ALLOWED TENANT INTIMIDATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS
01:43:44 VIOLATIONS WE'RE TIRED OF DOCUMENTING ILLEGAL BLACK MOLD,
01:43:48 DOCUMENTING ILLEGAL EVICTIONS AND THE LOSS OF BLACK FAMILIES
01:43:52 IN BOTH DISTRICTS. WE'RE ALSO TIRED OF DOCUMENTING
01:43:53 CONTRACT DISPARITIES. YOU CANNOT HAVE HOUSING JUST
01:43:56 SUPERVISOR I KNOW YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME AS YOU OFTEN DO
01:43:59 IN THE FILLMORE BUT WE'RE TALKING THERE'S CURRENT LONG
01:44:04 STANDING WELL THERE'S A LOT OF LARGE HOUSING TO COMPLAIN.
01:44:11 EXCUSE ME. HE HE GOT ME MAD RIGHT NOW THE
01:44:14 VELLUM IS GOING ON IN BOTH BAYVIEW AND IN THE FILLMORE
01:44:15 AND TOTALING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
01:44:18 UNFORTUNATELY WE KEEP COMING HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ALLOWED
01:44:20 TO WORK ON THOSE PROJECTS. MYSELF AS A MICRO DEVELOPER OUR
01:44:25 HYPER LOCAL COLLECTIVE CONTRACTORS ARE NOT BEING
01:44:27 ALLOWED TO WORK AND THE SHODDY CONDITIONS ARE BEING DONE BY
01:44:30 OUT OF STATE EITHER DEVELOPERS AND OR CONTRACTORS FROM THE
01:44:34 EAST BAY AS FAR AS SACRAMENTO SUPERVISORS GOT UP AND TALKED
01:44:40 WHILE I WAS TALKING THANK YOU SO MUCH.
01:44:41 >> THE SPEAKER'S TIME IS CONCLUDED.
01:44:42 WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER WHEN WE HAVE THE BILL
01:44:46 WOULD THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE COME FORWARD TO THE MIKE OR
01:44:49 I'LL DO THE THINGS WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR
01:44:56 COMMENTS TO THE COMMITTEE. >> EVERYONE HAS TWO MINUTES TO
01:44:59 PROVIDE THEIR COMMENTS. THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OVER
01:45:03 THE INTERNET SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT.
01:45:04 >> SCUSE ME EXCUSE ME. WE ARE HERE TO LISTEN.
01:45:09 EVERYBODY HAS TWO MINUTES IS A VERY STANDARD PRACTICE WE'RE
01:45:11 GOING TO HOLD TO THAT AND MY VISION EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME.
01:45:18 WE ARE WE WE'RE EXCUSE ME. >> EVERYBODY HAS TWO MINUTES.
01:45:23 WE WANT TO GET THROUGH EVERYBODY AND ALL OF OUR
01:45:26 OFFICES ARE OPEN FOR THE DAY. THIS IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
01:45:30 I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE'S VOICES ARE HEARD.
01:45:31 EVERYONE HAS TWO MINUTES PLEASE TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
01:45:39 >> GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS SAM EBERLE AND I
01:45:44 WANT TO STAND UP FOR HANDICAPPED PEOPLE LIKE ME.
01:45:47 >> YES, MY 80 YEAR OLD BLACK MAN BECAUSE OF HIS SPEAKER I
01:45:58 CAN'T PUT THIS IN MR. CLERK, CAN YOU PASS HIS TIME WALL TIME
01:46:06 HAS PASSED. GET OVER HERE.
01:46:07 TAKE YOUR TIME, SIR. >> I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:46:10 BOTH THOSE MIKES ARE WORKING. COME STRAIGHT BACK.
01:46:15 THERE YOU GO. >> TAKE YOUR TIME.
01:46:19 MR. CLERK, CAN YOU JUST RESET? IT'S TIME TO OF COURSE.
01:46:22 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
01:46:23 THANK YOU. ABLE TO GET YOUR GET TO MAKE
01:46:33 YES. >> CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
01:46:34 I CAN HEAR YOU I'LL START YOUR TIME.
01:46:36 OKAY. AND I WILL MENTION MY 80 YEAR
01:46:41 OLD BLACK MAN. IT HAS BEEN REALLY REALLY RAW
01:46:45 AND MOVED MARTIN LUTHER KING AND MARCUS GARVEY OVER CLOSE TO
01:46:54 40 YEARS AND THINGS HAVEN'T CHANGED WHATSOEVER.
01:46:58 >> I MEAN THINGS ARE REALLY ROUGH NOW.
01:47:02 WHEN I FIRST MOVED THERE IT WAS A NICE PLACE.
01:47:03 I THOUGHT I LIVED THOUGH AMERICA FIRST AND I WENT TO THE
01:47:06 MARTIN LUTHER KING AND MARCUS GARVEY WHEN I GOT THERE
01:47:10 EVERYTHING WAS COVERED THERE. >> NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN I CAN'T
01:47:17 GET AROUND IN MY WHEELCHAIR. THEY GOT TO SAY I WAS HERE, SAY
01:47:21 I WAS OVER THERE. YES, I FEEL MAYBE A WEEK AGO I
01:47:28 FELT SINCERE. I HAVE SAY THEY HAD PUT ME UP
01:47:33 ELEVATOR ALIVE AND THIS I FEEL SO ZUMA'S PROMISED ME THAT THEY
01:47:43 WAS GOING TO DO THIS AND THEY'RE GOING TO DO THAT.
01:47:45 I CAN'T EVEN GO OUTSIDE ON MY PATIO TO SIT OUT IN THE SNOW SO
01:47:52 IF SOMETHING IS WRONG OR SOMEWHERE YOU KNOW I HAD THIS
01:47:59 DREAM OF EVERYTHING I'LL BE JUST PERFECT.
01:48:00 >> THEY MOVED ME ON ONE SIDE WHEN THEY CALL IDEA BUT THEY
01:48:06 GOT LOCKS ON EVERYONE. >> NO.
01:48:07 SO IF WE HAVE A FIRE AND WE'LL GET BURNT OUT I CAN'T CLIMB
01:48:13 OVER HERE. I'M CRYING OUT SO YOU TELL ME
01:48:17 WE ARE TREATED FAIRLY. >> NO WE ARE NOT TREATED FAIRLY
01:48:24 . SO YOU GOT BUMPS HERE AND BUMPS
01:48:25 OVER THERE? I MEAN MY ARE LOOK AT IT
01:48:31 AND MEDICARE A LITTLE MORE PAIN ME ME ANY MORNING SO WE HAVEN'T
01:48:36 REALLY READ IT WRONG I CAN'T GO WHEN THE KIDS TIME IS CONCLUDED
01:48:40 THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR COMMENTS OF THE COMMITTEE LET'S
01:48:43 HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE THANK YOU.
01:48:47 >> THANK YOU. HOW CAN I TELL WHO ARE
01:48:48 LINGERING? >> VERY GOOD.
01:48:51 LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
01:48:52 THANK YOU. BE PART OF THE LEGISLATE SHOULD
01:48:54 AN ENFORCEMENT HI MY NAME IS BELINDA ROCKLIN.
01:49:02 >> I WAS CHRISTIAN AT BETHEL WAY AND ME CHURCH.
01:49:09 I SPENT MY SUNDAYS SCHOOL MONEY PUTTING IT INTO THE CREDIT
01:49:14 UNION SO THIS HOUSING PROJECT COULD TAKE PLACE.
01:49:17 I HAVE BEEN IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING SINCE I WAS A KID
01:49:21 AND I'M A HUD CERTIFIED CALVARY COUNCIL COUNSELOR.
01:49:25 MY QUESTION IS HOW DOES HOW DID THIS EVEN GO THAT FAR?
01:49:29 >> HOW HOW HOW HOW DID IT PASS THE HOUSING AUTHORITY
01:49:36 INSPECTIONS, SOME OF THIS STUFF AND WHAT THIS GENTLEMAN SAID
01:49:40 RIGHT NOW IF HE'S ON A SUBSIDY, SOMEBODY SHOULD BE CALLING THE
01:49:44 HOUSING AUTHORITY AND SAY MOVE HIM RIGHT NOW.
01:49:47 >> FIX IT RIGHT NOW IS NOT THAT IT'S NOT THAT BUT THE HOUSING
01:49:52 AUTHORITY DAN ADAM WHO WORKS FOR ME WAS OFFERED THE HOUSING
01:49:55 AND SAID LET'S HAVE LET'S HAVE THIS ANYWAY.
01:49:58 >> OKAY SO ALSO THE CITY HAS HUD CERTIFIED HOUSING
01:50:02 COUNSELORS THAT ARE TRAINED IN EVICTION.
01:50:06 YOU GUYS KNOW THIS WAS HAPPENING.
01:50:07 WHY WEREN'T THEY DISPATCHED OUT TO HELP THESE PEOPLE?
01:50:11 >> RIGHT. RIGHT.
01:50:11 WHY WEREN'T THEY HELP? WHY WEREN'T THEY DISPATCHED
01:50:14 OUT? >> RIGHT.
01:50:15 AND THAT RIGHT. >> AND THEN ALSO THERE ARE THE
01:50:21 CITY HAS PREFERENCE POINTS SO IF WE KNOW THIS IS AN ISSUE
01:50:26 AND WE KNOW THEY'RE UNFAIRLY BEING EVICTED, WHY AREN'T THEY
01:50:29 BE BEING PROVIDED A PREFERENCE POINT?
01:50:30 BECAUSE I'M SURE A LOT OF THEM HAVE THIS CERTIFICATE OF
01:50:34 PREFERENCE AND THEN ALSO THIS IS LEANING ON THE ELLIS ACT.
01:50:37 >> SO IF THEY'RE EVICTED GIVE THEM THAT CERTIFICATE AND LET
01:50:41 THEM APPLY FOR SOMETHING ON DALIA AND HOUSE THESE PEOPLE
01:50:45 THERE'S NO REASON THEY HAVE TO BE UNHOUSED AND THERE ARE NO
01:50:49 REASON THEY HAVE TO HAVE THIS EXPERIENCE.
01:50:50 >> SO THAT'S MY MY POINT USE THE RESOURCES THE CITY ALREADY
01:50:53 HAS TO FIX IT. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:50:57 SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> MARTIN LUTHER KING, MARCUS
01:51:00 GARVEY AND THEY SHOULD. >> GOOD MORNING.
01:51:03 MY NAME IS MAXINE JONES. I SIT ON THE HOMELESS BORDER
01:51:08 COMMITTEE HERE AT CITY HALL. I ALSO SIT ON THE COORDINATING
01:51:11 ENTRY BOARD, A COMMITTEE, A HOMELESS COMMITTEE AS WELL.
01:51:14 MY THING IS THIS I, I MOVED MY MOM MOVED IN TO KINGS SQUARE
01:51:19 BACK IN 1967. SHE MOVED OUT IN 2007 ON HER
01:51:26 WAY TO PASSING RIGHT. SO SHE MOVED WITH MY BROTHER.
01:51:29 SHE RECEIVED $2,000 WHEN SHE MOVED FROM THERE.
01:51:33 THAT'S KIND OF CRAZY, RIGHT? SO WHAT REALLY HURT MY FILL
01:51:36 IN WAS WAS ONE DAY WHEN I WAS WATCHING THE NEWS AND I JUST SO
01:51:40 HAPPENED TO SEE MISS HARPER ON THE NEWS AND I'M THINKING
01:51:44 WHAT'S GOING ON NOW IN THE KING'S SQUARE TO HEAR HER SAY
01:51:47 THAT SHE'S 90 YEARS OLD AND SHE DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S GOING TO
01:51:49 DO BECAUSE SHE'S GOING TO BE EVICTED RIGHT.
01:51:54 >> I'M. I'M.
01:51:55 I'M AND I'M NOT JUST SPEAKING FOR HER.
01:52:00 >> I'M SPEAKING FOR EVERYONE. I'M SPEAKING FOR MARTIN KING,
01:52:03 MARCUS GARVEY, THOMAS PAINE, OSSIE PROJECTS BECAUSE I'M FROM
01:52:07 FILLMORE I GREW UP IN WAS RAISED FROM THERE AND THIS LADY
01:52:11 WATCHED ME MISS HARPER WATCHED ME GROW UP.
01:52:12 >> I WENT TO SCHOOL. WHAT HER DAUGHTER?
01:52:14 >> YES. THIS LADY OF ALWAYS HAD A
01:52:15 MOUTH. SHE ALWAYS SPOKE NEVER BIT HER
01:52:18 TONGUE AND I THINK IS BECAUSE SHE SPOKE WHAT SHE FELT
01:52:22 AND PEOPLE USE THAT AS A RETALIATION AND AND IT ALSO
01:52:26 HAPPENS TO ME. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
01:52:30 I STILL HAVE A VOICE AND I'M GOING TO USE IT AS LONG AS I'M
01:52:33 SITTING ON HIS BOARDS I'M GOING TO USE MY VOICE.
01:52:37 SHERMAN WALTON SAYS LET THE COMMISSIONERS DO THEIR JOBS.
01:52:41 LET THE OVERSEERS DO THEIR JOBS.
01:52:42 WHY DO YOU HAVE OVERSEERS JUST NOT OVERSEEING?
01:52:48 I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. COMMISSIONERS GOT TO DO THEIR
01:52:52 JOBS OVERSEAS. >> YOU HAVE YOU HAVE COMMITTEES
01:52:55 OVER OVERSEERS OVER OVER COMMISSIONERS AND THEY'RE NOT
01:52:59 DOING THEIR JOB MAY SOMEDAY RIGHT AND YOU TALK ABOUT
01:53:03 CLEANING THE CORRUPTION IN CITY HALL.
01:53:04 I'M SPEAKING NOW TO THE MAYOR. >> SPEAKER SAMMY'S CLEARING UP
01:53:07 CLEAN IT UP. THANK YOU, MAXINE JONES FOR
01:53:10 YOUR COMMENTS TO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE PLEASE WITHHOLD
01:53:13 YOUR APPLAUSE SO WE CAN GET THROUGH THE LINE AND HEAR
01:53:18 EVERYONE'S COMMENTS. >> NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
01:53:19 HI, MY NAME IS MARTINA ROLAND. I LIVE IN MARTIN LUTHER KING.
01:53:23 MARCUS GARVEY AS OF TWO WEEKS AGO I WAS REMOVED FROM THE
01:53:26 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. I DO WANT TO MAKE TWO COMMENTS
01:53:29 THAT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT WANT TO HEAR TODAY.
01:53:30 WHEN WE WENT TO HER AT HER RECOMMENDED DOMUS TO COME THE
01:53:33 MARTIN LUTHER KING DERBY AND WE ASKED THEM WHY WOULD YOU
01:53:37 RECOMMEND DOMUS WHEN THEY DID HAVE NO CUP CORPORATION OF
01:53:41 SPARES? THEY SAID THEY WAS HIGH UP
01:53:44 AND WE RECOMMENDED IT HAD NO CHARGES AGAINST THEM.
01:53:48 EVERYTHING WAS GOING WELL. I'M GOING TO SAY ANOTHER NAME
01:53:51 THAT YOU GUYS DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT WAS A PART OF IT TOO.
01:53:53 >> AMOS BROWN. >> AMOS BROWN WAS AT A MEETING
01:54:00 AND HIM AND HIS WIFE AND BOBBY SIS RECOMMENDED DUMAS BECOME
01:54:04 THE MARTIN LUTHER KING. >> MARCUS GARVEY TOO.
01:54:07 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS OH, LET'S PUT ON
01:54:09 RECORD THAT I WAS THERE IN A MEETING.
01:54:11 I WAS A BOARD MEMBER AT THE TIME AND I ASKED THEM AND THEY
01:54:15 RECOMMENDED JIM DUMAS TO COME OVER TO US AND WE'VE BEEN
01:54:19 HAVING PROBLEMS SINCE MERCEDES GAVIN'S I WANT TO PUT THIS ON
01:54:23 RECORD. HOW IS SHE WAS.
01:54:26 SHE WAS IN THE MEETING WITH US AND DUMAS DID SAY THAT THEY DID
01:54:30 NOT WANT TO EVICT PEOPLE AT MARTIN LUTHER KING BECAUSE THEY
01:54:34 DID NOT HAVE THE LETTER FROM CHALCO AND THEY COULDN'T MAKE
01:54:37 MERCEDES. >> GAVIN SAID THIS OUT OF HER
01:54:38 MOUTH. >> SHE DON'T CARE WHAT DUMAS
01:54:42 SAY. THEY STILL GOT EVICTEES PEOPLE
01:54:45 . SHE'S THE ONE THAT WENT OVER
01:54:46 DUMAS WAS NOT GOING AFTER THE PEOPLE AT FIRST.
01:54:50 LINDA YOAKUM WAS NOT GOING AFTER THE PEOPLE FIRST.
01:54:52 SORRY I'M LEAVING RIGHT NOW BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:54:55 WE KNOW THAT MERCEDES GAMMONS IS THE ONE THAT SAID GO AFTER
01:54:59 THE PEOPLE. >> YOU DON'T HAVE NO OTHER
01:55:00 CHOICE. THANK YOU.
01:55:01 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE COME UP
01:55:10 ALREADY. >> MY NAME IS CARR AND I LIVE
01:55:14 WITH MY MOM AND MY BROTHER AT MARCUS GARVEY MARTIN LUTHER
01:55:18 KING AND MY MOM IS ELDERLY AND THEY WERE ATTACKING US
01:55:22 AND THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE ANY SPEAKING AND THEY DIDN'T
01:55:26 PROVIDE ANY ACCOMMODATIONS. SO NO TRANSPARENCY, NO
01:55:30 COLLABORATION WHATSOEVER TO HELP MY 83 YEAR OLD MOTHER
01:55:33 AND MY BROTHER HAS FIGHTING CANCER RIGHT NOW AND THEY WERE
01:55:36 STRESSING THEM OUT AND THERE'S A LOT OF NOISE.
01:55:38 MY MOM'S HEARING IS BAD BECAUSE OF ALL THIS NOISE THAT'S GOING
01:55:41 ON WITH THE CONSTRUCTION AND I JUST WANT TO TALK TO THEM FELL
01:55:45 IN THEIR FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITIES AS A BOARD
01:55:49 AND MISINFORMING THE SHAREHOLDERS AND SCARING US
01:55:52 INTO COMPLACENCY AND DURESS AND THEY HAVE BEEN COLLUDING
01:55:56 AND ALSO I WANT TO SAY THAT THERE IS NO LAW THAT REQUIRES A
01:56:00 CO-OP TO HAVE A CORPORATE LAWYER.
01:56:03 THE LAW REQUIRES PROPER GOVERNANCE AND COMPLIANCE.
01:56:07 LAWYERS ARE RECOMMENDED NOT MANDATED.
01:56:10 SO THEY MAKE US BELIEVE THAT THE LAWYER IS MANDATED AND THEY
01:56:14 DO NOT PROPERLY INFORM US AT ALL AND YOU CANNOT CONQUER
01:56:17 PEOPLE AND ALLOW WHAT MAKES THEM TO BE GREAT TO MAINTAIN.
01:56:21 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:56:26 LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
01:56:29 >> COME ON. HI, MY NAME IS RAYMOND
01:56:33 WASHINGTON. I'M A VETERAN NAVY VETERAN.
01:56:34 I LIVED AT KING GARVEY SINCE 96.
01:56:37 >> I'M JUST WANT TO ASK YOU TO LOOK BACK FIVE YEARS OF HOW THE
01:56:42 PROPERTY BEEN RAN AND ALL THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH LIKE DANIEL
01:56:46 SAID DEEDY SAID JUST LOOK BACK FIVE YEARS AND YOU'LL SEE THE
01:56:50 LEADERS TODAY ARE STILL THOSE SAME LEADERS FAILING US.
01:56:59 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER
01:57:01 PLEASE AND GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS ANTONIO MCBRIDE.
01:57:04 I'M A TENANT AT THOMAS. I'M A TENANT AT THOMAS PAINE
01:57:07 SQUARE APARTMENTS. I'M A KEEP THIS VERY BRIEF
01:57:12 RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THEIR LEDGERS VERY
01:57:15 CLEARLY. IT SHOULD I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO
01:57:19 BECOME AN ACCOUNTANT TO UNDERSTAND HOUSING RECORDS OR
01:57:22 BOOKKEEPING. >> I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THEIR
01:57:23 JOB. I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WITNESS
01:57:29 NEGLIGENCE OR INCOMPETENCE OR BIGOTRY ACROSS MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
01:57:34 MY MY NEIGHBORS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SUFFER DUE TO THEIR
01:57:35 NEGLIGENCE AND I'VE BEEN ALSO DENIED PHYSICAL COPIES OF MY
01:57:42 LEDGER. SO IT'S VERY TROUBLING TO
01:57:43 UNDERSTAND. I WANT YOU GUYS TO UNDERSTAND
01:57:46 THAT WE AREN'T JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE THEM.
01:57:50 MY NEIGHBORS ARE ACTUALLY SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THEIR
01:57:54 INCOMPETENCE AND I JUST WANT I WANT US TO BE HEARD AS PEOPLE.
01:57:58 >> WE'RE NOT NO SECOND CLASS. WE'RE NOT ANIMALS.
01:58:02 WE ARE HUMANS. WE DESERVE TO BE TREATED AS
01:58:05 HUMANS. >> WE ARE NOT LIKE COME ON MAN
01:58:09 . >> THAT'S ALL I WANT TO SAY.
01:58:10 THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:58:11 SEVEN SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HI, I'M GRAHAM THOMAS PAYNE
01:58:18 SQUARE APARTMENTS. >> WHAT GOES ON THERE IS YOU
01:58:23 PAY YOUR RENT AND THEY SAY YOU DIDN'T BUT YOU HAVE YOUR
01:58:27 RECEIPTS AND THEY DON'T HAVE THEIRS.
01:58:30 THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. MAINTENANCE DON'T DO THAT.
01:58:34 THEN THEY STARTED DOING SOMETHING BECAUSE THIS HEARING
01:58:37 WAS COMING UP. BUT DELMAS NEEDS TO LEAVE.
01:58:41 >> THEY NEED TO BE GONE AND BOBBY'S SISK WHO GETS THESE
01:58:45 MAINTENANCE THESE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES HE NEEDS AND HIS
01:58:49 SECURITY HE'S ON THE BOARD FOR THOMAS PAY AND HE HAS SECURITY
01:58:56 THERE. >> THAT'S THE CONFLICT OF
01:58:57 INTERESTS. >> HOW DOES HE GET AWAY WITH
01:59:01 THIS? I MEAN THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING.
01:59:07 YOU NEED HIM TO DO MAINTENANCE. YOU'RE WAITING FOR MONTHS OR
01:59:11 THEY DON'T WANT TO DO IT. >> I HAVE MY CARPET.
01:59:15 I'VE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR 37 YEARS AND IT TOOK ME THREE
01:59:19 AND A HALF YEARS TO GET CARPET. THEY JUST DID IT THIS WEEK
01:59:23 BECAUSE GBI AND THIS HEARING WAS COMING UP.
01:59:26 >> PLEASE DON'T LET THEM. THAT'S WHY THEY NOT HERE TODAY
01:59:30 BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE. >> THEY BEGIN THE WAY WE DID
01:59:34 FOR SO LONG. >> BOBBY, THIS NEEDS THAT GIRL
01:59:38 OUT OF THE COMMUNITY. HE NEEDS TO LEAD THOMAS PAY.
01:59:42 THEY NEED TO DO BETTER. WE'RE TIRED.
01:59:48 >> WE HAVE STRESS FROM THEM. >> THE RETALIATION IS
01:59:54 HORRENDOUS AND THEY DON'T CARE .
02:00:01 SO THANK YOU, MR. BLOUNT FOR DOING THIS BECAUSE WE NEEDED
02:00:05 IT. >> OUR OTHER SUPERVISORS, THEY
02:00:09 DIDN'T HAVE THE TO DO IT. >> BUT YOU DID.
02:00:12 AND THAT THING WE NEED TO HOLD HER AND EVERYBODY ACCOUNTABLE.
02:00:20 >> SPEAKER THOMAS CONCLUDED THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR
02:00:22 COMMENTS. THE COMMITTEE SAID THE NEXT
02:00:24 SPEAKER PLACE A MY NAME IS KIM JOHNSON.
02:00:29 I'M A NATIVE SAN FRANCISCAN AND I HAD TO MOVE OUT OF THE
02:00:32 CITY BECAUSE OF RENTS ANYWAY ON MONDAY I FOUND OUT AT THE
02:00:36 MEETING ABOUT GARY STREET THAT THE MONEY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO
02:00:44 GO TO THE FILLMORE WAS GIVEN TO THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE $400
02:00:49 MILLION THEY WERE BUT NOW LOOK AT THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.
02:00:53 YES, IT HASN'T BEEN PAINTED IN YEARS.
02:00:57 IT'S RUSTY AND THE ROADWAY IT'S GOT HOLES IN IT.
02:01:01 SO WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH ALL THIS MONEY?
02:01:04 YOU GUYS NEED TO REALLY FIGURE THAT OUT.
02:01:05 YOU KNOW HE'S GIVING OUT MONEY BUT THEN THERE'S NO THERE'S
02:01:09 THERE'S NO FOLLOW UP AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW
02:01:12 GO ACROSS THAT BRIDGE ALMOST EVERY DAY IT BRIDGES IT WAS
02:01:15 RIDICULOUS IF YOU GO ACROSS THE OPEN BAY BRIDGE THIS IS
02:01:20 BEAUTIFUL. THE SAN RAFAEL BRIDGE IS REALLY
02:01:24 NICE BUT THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IF ANY OF YOU DRIVE ACROSS
02:01:28 AND YOU'LL SEE WHERE I'M SEEING AND WALK ACROSS IT AND YOU SEE
02:01:31 THE RUSH LINE AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THE MONEY?
02:01:34 THAT'S A HISTORIC BRIDGE AND YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE
02:01:38 RESPONSIBLE IF IT FALLS DOWN. YOU NEED TO CHECK IT OUT.
02:01:44 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE
02:01:46 CAPACITY. >> HI, MY NAME IS DENISE
02:01:54 BENJAMIN. >> I HAVE LIVED AT THOMAS PAINE
02:01:55 FOR 14 YEARS. I'VE SEEN A LOT OF CHANGES
02:01:59 AND A LOT OF MANAGERS. NONE OF THE CHANGES HAVE BEEN
02:02:02 GOOD. IT STARTED OUT AS A NICE PLACE
02:02:06 AND WENT DOWNHILL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
02:02:10 THE LACK OF MAINTENANCE IS A MAJOR ISSUE.
02:02:11 IT HASN'T BEEN DONE PROPERLY IN YEARS.
02:02:14 IN MY OWN UNIT I HAVE TO BOIL THE TUB WITH A BUCKET TO BE
02:02:16 ABLE TO TAKE A SHOWER EVERY TIME I TAKE A SHOWER IT WILL
02:02:18 NOT DRAIN. >> I CAN'T DO DISHES IN MY
02:02:21 KITCHEN SINK BECAUSE IT WILL NOT DRAIN.
02:02:25 I HAVE HAD ELECTRICAL ISSUES SINCE MOVING IN.
02:02:28 >> THEY WON'T FIX IT. ALL THEY WILL DO IS CHANGE A
02:02:29 LIGHT BULB OR TELL ME TO HIT IT WITH A BROOM TO GET IT TO WORK
02:02:32 RIGHT. >> I HAVE LOST WORK BECAUSE OF
02:02:39 ALL OF THE INSPECTIONS AND SINCE EARLY MARCH I'VE HAD
02:02:40 AT LEAST A DOZEN PEST INSPECTIONS, LEASE VIOLATIONS,
02:02:44 ANYTHING THEY COULD THINK OF EITHER THEY DON'T SHOW UP TO
02:02:48 THE INSPECTIONS OR THEY'VE NEVER EXCEPT FOR RARE INSTANCES
02:02:51 GIVEN ME A FULL 24 HOURS AND THEN RETALIATE WHEN I TELL
02:02:56 THEM THEY CAN'T COME IN WHICH I KNOW IS MY RIGHT.
02:02:59 I CAN REFUSE THEM AFTER TWO IF THEY DON'T GIVE ME 24 HOURS BUT
02:03:03 THERE'S BEEN MAJOR RETALIATION FROM THAT.
02:03:06 >> LIKE I SAID, I HAVE LOST WORK.
02:03:07 I AM LUCKY TO WORK WITH FOR A FRIEND OF MINE SO SHE'S
02:03:11 FLEXIBLE BUT I'VE PROBABLY LOST A COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS
02:03:15 IN INCOME BECAUSE I CAN'T TRUST THEM IN MY UNIT.
02:03:18 I CAN'T TRUST THEM NOT TO STEAL FROM ME.
02:03:19 I CAN'T TRUST THEM NOT TO DRUM UP VIOLATIONS.
02:03:26 >> I CAN'T TRUST THEM AT ALL WITH MY INFORMATION.
02:03:27 I CAN'T I DON'T FEEL SAFE LIVING THERE ANYMORE
02:03:30 AND THEY'RE NOW TRYING TO EVICT ME WITHOUT EVICTING ME.
02:03:33 THEY HAVE NOT ACCEPTED RENT CHECKS IN TWO MONTHS BUT THEY
02:03:37 WON'T GIVE ME AN EVICTION AND THEY WON'T GIVE ME ANY
02:03:40 ANSWERS. SO THAT'S WHAT I NEED ANSWERS
02:03:43 AND DOMAS OUT OF THE CITY. >> THANK YOU.
02:03:45 THANK YOU FOR COMMENTS. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER
02:03:49 PLEASE. >> HELLO.
02:03:59 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE. I'M A THOMAS PAINE RESIDENT AT
02:04:03 THE HEAD ON A BODY IS MALIGNANT AND PROTRUDES AND IS DEAF.
02:04:07 WHAT DO YOU DO? YOU PUT IT OUT LIKE A.
02:04:11 >> I WAS STUCK IN MY APARTMENT FOR A WHOLE YEAR.
02:04:15 NO HELP FROM MANAGEMENT AT DUMAS EVEN WHEN I WAS
02:04:19 VANDALIZED BY THE STAFF. >> STILL NO HELP.
02:04:23 THANK GOD FOR THE TENDER DISSOCIATION LAWYERS SAN
02:04:26 FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT 911 EMERGENCY WHO CAME IN HELP ME
02:04:30 THE MAIL LADY CAME DAILY TO TAKE MY MAIL UP AND DOWN.
02:04:34 OKAY. AND ONE MAN ON THE MAIN THIS
02:04:38 CAME DAILY TO MAKE SURE MY GARBAGE WAS TAKE DOWN.
02:04:42 >> SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE THERE IS TERRIBLE.
02:04:45 I WAS VANDALIZED. NOTHING WAS DONE.
02:04:49 >> TOLD THEM ABOUT IT THEY THREATENED ME SO I'M HERE TO
02:04:51 ASK FOR YOUR HELP. >> PLEASE HELP US ALL IN THIS
02:04:54 CITY. I'VE BEEN HERE OVER 50 YEARS.
02:04:56 >> THE CITY HAS CHANGED. YOU CAN'T HAVE GUMBO WITHOUT
02:04:59 PEOPLE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
02:05:04 >> PLEASE. >> HELLO?
02:05:07 YEAH, MY NAME IS PAT COCKER AND I'VE BEEN A TENANT
02:05:11 ORGANIZER WITH THE TENANTS AT THOMAS PAINE FOR FIVE YEARS
02:05:14 AND EVERY TIME YOU THINK YOU SEEN THE WORST THING ABOUT
02:05:17 THOMAS PAINE, IT'S LIKE NOPE, THERE'S WORSE.
02:05:19 AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
02:05:21 I THINK IT WAS THE FOLKS FROM MLK GARVEY WERE TALKING ABOUT
02:05:23 HOW THESE RESIDENTS ARE GOING TO FACE RETALIATION AND THAT IS
02:05:26 WHAT I'VE SEEN WITH THE LADIES AND JUST ALL THE TENANTS OF
02:05:30 THOMAS PAINE EVERYONE WHO'S INVOLVED IN THE TENANTS
02:05:33 ASSOCIATION HAS FACED EVICTIONS.
02:05:34 THEY DON'T GET THEIR STUFF FIX THESE LADIES HAVE CRAWLED
02:05:37 THROUGH GLASS TO GET HERE TODAY AND THEY ARE SO BRAVE AND JUST
02:05:42 IT IS RIDICULOUS THAT SOMEONE LIKE DOMAS IS SUCH A TERRIBLE
02:05:46 PROPERTY MANAGER AND ARE STILL ALLOW THE MAN AS PROPERTIES.
02:05:49 AND LET'S BE REAL THERE'S MONEY IN POVERTY.
02:05:53 >> THERE IS MONEY IN LOW INCOME HOUSING IN SAN FRANCISCO YOU
02:05:57 GET LIKE $4,000 FROM HUD FOR LIKE A THREE BEDROOM UNIT.
02:05:58 SO THE PEOPLE THAT OPERATE THIS BUILDING ALLEN CDC AND LET'S BE
02:06:02 REAL BOBBY SISK THEY'RE MAKING BIG MONEY THIS ORDER IS MONEY
02:06:08 IN POVERTY AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE RESIDENTS CAN
02:06:10 LIVE IN DIGNITY, THAT THEY CAN HAVE GOOD HOUSING AND BE ABLE
02:06:13 TO LIVE SOMEWHERE SAFE AND YOU KNOW, NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
02:06:16 GETTING EVICTED THE RENT THEIR CASHIER'S CHECK STOLEN.
02:06:18 SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD FOR HOSTING
02:06:21 THIS MEETING THIS WAS A DREAM OF OURS FOR YEARS I WAS SO
02:06:25 GRATEFUL THAT YOU STEPPED UP AND I'M REALLY HOPING THAT
02:06:28 TODAY IS JUST THE FIRST STEP SO THAT WE CAN REALLY START TO
02:06:31 RECLAIM THIS PUBLIC HOUSING SO THESE RESIDENTS CAN LIVE WITH
02:06:33 DIGNITY AND SOMEWHERE THAT IS DECENT FOR THEM.
02:06:36 >> SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:06:38 SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:06:46 YEAH. MY NAME IS BARBARA CARTON ALLEN
02:06:54 . >> I LIVE IN THOMAS PAINE
02:06:54 SQUARE. I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THOMAS
02:06:56 PAINE SQUARE. >> I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THOMAS
02:06:58 PAINE SQUARE SINCE MY CHILD WAS THREE YEARS OLD.
02:07:04 >> I HAVE ONE IS 55 YEARS OF AGE.
02:07:07 YOU KNOW WHAT I CAN DO? TURN AROUND.
02:07:08 SO I TURN AROUND AND YOU KNOW I'M SPEAKING UP.
02:07:11 BUT THOMAS PAINE SQUARE HAS NEVER LOOKED LIKE IT LOOKS NOW.
02:07:15 IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOW WHO THE MANAGER IS
02:07:19 IS COMING IN. >> WE DON'T HAVE THAT
02:07:22 NOTIFICATION. THEY JUST COME IN HERE.
02:07:23 YOU GOT A NEW MANAGER WHO ARE YOU?
02:07:26 >> I GOT MY CAR. I GOT MY STAIRS DONE A WEEK AGO
02:07:30 THE MANAGER WALKED INTO MY APARTMENT WITHOUT ME EVEN TELL
02:07:34 HER SHE COULD COME IN. >> WHO GIVES HER A RIGHT TO
02:07:36 COME WALK UP AT MY HOUSE WITHOUT ME?
02:07:39 >> TELL HER. OKAY.
02:07:40 YOU WELCOME TO COME HERE. >> I DON'T HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE
02:07:43 BUT INSIST THAT MAINTENANCE IS OFF THE HOOK.
02:07:47 YOU HAD A LOBBY IN THOMAS PAINE SQUARE DOMAS DID NOT FIRE THE
02:07:51 MAINTENANCE GUY OR HE FIRED MAINTENANCE THE MAINTENANCE
02:07:54 GUY. >> THEY FIRED THE MANAGER STUFF
02:07:55 BUT THEY DIDN'T GO TO JAIL IS OFF HOOK WHEN YOU DO ALLOW
02:07:58 PEOPLE TO COME INTO YOUR UNIT BECAUSE YOU'RE SCARED THEY GO
02:08:02 STEAL SOME THEY'RE GOING TO NOTARIZE SOMETHING THAT OH I
02:08:05 COME BACK AND I'LL GET THAT. >> THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE
02:08:07 GEORGE PLEASE REMOVE THESE PEOPLE DUMMIES FROM THOMAS
02:08:10 PAINE SQUARE. >> THANK YOU.
02:08:13 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:08:20 GOOD AFTERNOON TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF
02:08:22 SUPERVISORS AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR DISTRICT FIVE
02:08:25 SUPERVISOR PAULA MAHMUD. MY NAME IS JESSICA.
02:08:28 I AM A RESIDENT OF THOMAS PAINE SQUARE AND A MEMBER OF OUR
02:08:31 TENANTS ASSOCIATION. MY SONS HAVE GROWN UP HERE.
02:08:35 THIS IS OUR HOME AND HOME SHOULD BE WHERE WE FEEL SAFEST.
02:08:37 BUT MANY RESIDENTS DO NOT FEEL SAFE.
02:08:39 WE HAVE RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT VIOLENCE, INTIMIDATION,
02:08:43 DISCRIMINATION, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS THAT FIRES ON SO UNSAFE
02:08:47 BUILDING CONDITIONS AND ADA ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES WE PAY FOR
02:08:51 SECURITY SO WE NEED ANSWERS. WHERE ARE THE CONSISTENT
02:08:54 PATROLS? WHO DO RESIDENTS CALL AFTER
02:08:55 HOURS WHEN SECURITY IS UNAVAILABLE?
02:08:59 >> HOW ARE DOORS, KEYS CAMERAS AND ENTRY POINTS BEING
02:09:03 MONITORED? WHAT IS THE EMERGENCY PLAN FOR
02:09:04 OUR SENIORS AND DISABLED RESIDENTS WHO MAY NEED
02:09:06 ASSISTANCE EVACUATING? AND WHEN RESIDENTS REPORT THEFT
02:09:11 OR SAFETY CONCERNS, WHO FOLLOWS UP AND WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE?
02:09:14 THOSE QUESTIONS DESERVE DIRECT ANSWERS FROM DOMA'S MANAGEMENT
02:09:18 AND ALLEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION BOBBY SISK AND THE
02:09:20 SECURITY PROVIDER RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING THIS PROPERTY.
02:09:22 RESIDENTS SHOULD NOT BE PASSED FROM ONE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION
02:09:26 TO ANOTHER WHILE NOBODY TAKES RESPONSIBILITY.
02:09:30 I ALSO WANT THIS ON RECORD SPEAKING UP DOES NOT ALWAYS
02:09:34 FEEL SAFE. I STAND HERE KNOWING I MAY RISK
02:09:35 RETALIATION, DISCRIMINATION OR DIFFERENT TREATMENT FOR
02:09:38 SPEAKING PUBLICLY. MEMBERS OF OUR TENANT
02:09:42 ASSOCIATION CARRY THAT SAME FEAR WHEN WE ORGANIZE
02:09:45 AND ADVOCATE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. THIS HAS TAKEN A SERIOUS MENTAL
02:09:46 TOLL ON ME, MY FAMILY AND MANY RESIDENTS.
02:09:50 BOTH OF MY SONS HAVE EXPERIENCED RESPIRATORY
02:09:52 PROBLEMS INCLUDING ASTHMA. I AM ASKING THAT CONCERNS ABOUT
02:09:54 MOLD AIR QUALITY AND UNHEALTHY BUILDING CONDITIONS BE PROPERLY
02:09:57 INSPECTED AND CORRECTED. RESIDENTS OF THOMAS PAINE
02:10:00 SQUARE HAVE FOUGHT FOR YEARS TO HAVE OUR VOICES BE HEARD AT
02:10:02 THIS LEVEL. SUPERVISOR BALA MAHMOOD YOU
02:10:05 HEARD THE CRIES OF DISTRICT FIVE RESIDENTS TOOK OUR
02:10:07 CONCERNS SERIOUSLY AND HELPED BRING THESE QUESTIONS INTO THIS
02:10:11 ROOM. FOR THAT I SERIOUSLY THANK YOU.
02:10:14 NOW WE NEED ANSWERS FROM THOSE RESPONSIBLE.
02:10:16 PLEASE DO NOT LET WHAT WE SAY IN THIS ROOM AND IN THIS ROOM.
02:10:19 WE DESERVE ANSWERS. WE DESERVE ACCOUNTABILITY
02:10:22 AND WE DESERVE TO GO HOME TO FEEL SAFE.
02:10:24 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:10:25 SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> MY NAME IS TERRIE MARUTI.
02:10:31 I LIVE AT THOMAS PAINE ON TURK STREET.
02:10:38 I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION ABOUT CONSERVATIVES.
02:10:43 >> THIS MYSTERY COMPANY GOT PAID.
02:10:47 >> WE PAY GOOD SERVICE AND CAN SERVICE PAYS PER UNIT BECAUSE
02:10:51 UNLESS I'M WRONG, PIGEON IS THE ONLY COMPANY THAT SUPPLIES
02:10:57 ELECTRICITY IN CALIFORNIA. SO I WAS WITH A PROGRAM THAT
02:11:02 HELPS SENIORS WITH THEIR UTILITY BILLS.
02:11:08 AND SO WHEN I TRIED TO ASK OKAY, WELL WHAT IS THE ACCOUNT
02:11:10 NUMBER THAT CONSERVATIVES HAVE WITH PTSD?
02:11:13 JUST COMPLETE MYSTERY. NOBODY KNEW ANYTHING.
02:11:17 I STILL TO THIS POINT RIGHT NOW I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
02:11:24 CONSERVATIVES. AND WHAT IS THEIR ACCOUNTANT
02:11:28 NUMBER TWO? >> PITNEY?
02:11:29 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I NEED FOR THIS PROGRAM FOR SENIORS THAT
02:11:33 HELPS US. WHAT ARE UTILITY BILLS?
02:11:39 >> YEAH. WELL, I'LL STANDING BILL THAT
02:11:43 NEEDS TO BE PAID. AND I HAVE A COMPANY OR
02:11:47 ORGANIZATION THAT WILL HELP. BUT THEY SAID WHAT IS THE
02:11:51 ACCOUNT NUMBER? AND STILL NOTHING.
02:11:55 SO CONSERVATIVE IS SOME KIND OF MYSTERY COMPANY.
02:12:04 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT. SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:12:12 >> HELLO. I LIVE AT MARTIN LUTHER KING
02:12:16 GARVEY SQUARE. MY NAME IS RONALD KELLER.
02:12:20 >> THE PHONE IS. I'VE BEEN TELLING THEM ABOUT
02:12:26 OVER TEN YEARS AGO. >> THEY THEY NEVER FIXED THE
02:12:27 FURNACE. >> THIS ABOUT THIS THICK RIGHT
02:12:33 NOW INSIDE THE FURNACE IN THE BACK.
02:12:39 >> IT WON'T CATCH ON FIRE. THIS YEAR I DON'T GIVE A.
02:12:43 YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN TELLING THEM LONG TIME AGO FIX THE FURNACE.
02:12:47 BUT THEY NEVER DID. WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?
02:12:54 >> I KNOW FOR A LITTLE REASON, YOU KNOW IT'S NOT FAIR.
02:13:01 THAT'S MY VIEW. >> THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR
02:13:03 COMMENTS. THE COMMITTEE LET'S HAVE THE
02:13:04 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. I THOUGHT PLEASE BEGIN.
02:13:13 MY NAME IS LULU JACKSON AND I LIVE IN MARTIN LUTHER KING
02:13:16 MARCUS GARVEY. I'VE LIVED HERE APPROXIMATELY
02:13:20 25 YEARS. I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD
02:13:23 AND BOARD PRESIDENT FOR TEN YEARS.
02:13:26 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I KNOW THE BOARD COULD HAVE DONE
02:13:28 BEFORE THEY SET UP THE EVICTION THING IS THAT THEIR FIDUCIARY
02:13:31 DUTY IS FOR THEM TO TALK TO THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE BEHIND THE
02:13:35 CARE IN CHARGES AND SEE WHAT THE BOARD CAN ASSIST THEM
02:13:39 IN DOING THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. SECONDLY, I'M ONE OF THE ONES
02:13:43 WHO HAVE A HOLE IN MY LIVING ROOM ROOF AND HAS NOT BEEN
02:13:49 FIXED. I'VE BEEN BEFORE BECAUSE I'VE
02:13:50 BEEN BEFORE. THING IS STILL THE SAME WAY.
02:13:53 THIRDLY I WAS AGAIN VOTED TO THE BOARD AND I'LL BE ONE OF
02:13:59 THE OTHER PERSON THAT WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND ALL OF A
02:14:03 SUDDEN MY NAME WAS REMOVED AND I WAS BEHIND IN MY CARE
02:14:05 IN CHARGES. SO I WENT UP BECAUSE I KEEP MY
02:14:09 RECEIPTS AND I WENT TO SPEAK TO THEM AND I SAID OH NO, NOT YOU.
02:14:12 SO I SAID WHY WASN'T THAT ON THE BOARD?
02:14:16 I'LL BE THE OTHER LADY. SO WHO ISN'T STILL ON THE
02:14:19 BOARD? OH WELL YOU HAVE TO TALK TO
02:14:20 TAKE THAT UP WITH DUMAS. DUMAS DON'T RUN A COMPLEX.
02:14:24 WE HAVE BOARD. WE HAVE ELECTIONS.
02:14:27 THE ELECTION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF AND IT TELLS YOU WHAT WE WANT
02:14:30 AND WHO DIDN'T WIN ON ANYTHING. SO TO ME THAT'S A VIOLATION
02:14:34 ELECTION FOR ELECTION FRAUD THAT THEY DO AND ALSO ONLY
02:14:38 BECAUSE I STOOD UP TO HELP MY FELLOW NEIGHBORS
02:14:45 AND SHAREHOLDERS AND I WILL CONTINUE TO STAND UP AND SPEAK
02:14:49 FOR THEM. BUT DUMAS AND THEN THE YOAKUM
02:14:53 WILL SAY TO GAVIN THEY GOT TO GO.
02:14:56 THEY GOT TO GO. THEY HAVE GROWN UP THERE.
02:14:58 WE HAVE PEOPLE WE HAVE 7:00 IN THE MORNING.
02:15:04 WORKING DAY NOW THE NO, I THOUGHT THE LAWS THE LAWS ARE
02:15:08 THAT SAY FROM EIGHT ON 7:00 WE ALL BUT WE'RE IN THE DARK RIGHT
02:15:11 NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PUTTING SOLAR PANELS
02:15:17 IN BECAUSE I WAS CONCLUDED. >> THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR
02:15:19 COMMENTS TO THE COMMITTEE. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER
02:15:21 PLEASE. >> OKAY.
02:15:22 THANK YOU. THIS.
02:15:25 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS RHONDA AND I'M A
02:15:29 TENANT AT THOMAS PAINE SQUARE APARTMENTS AND I WAS ONE OF THE
02:15:32 TENANTS THAT HOLMES WAS BROKEN INTO BY THE MANAGER AT THE TIME
02:15:39 MARKETABLE OFFERED BY THE MAIDS IN HIS SUPERVISOR DOUGLAS
02:15:46 SESSIONS AND THE SECRETARY JANAY.
02:15:50 >> BUT I NEVER GOT HER LAST NAME.
02:15:54 >> MY GARAGE WAS BROKEN INTO BUT YOU COULDN'T TELL THAT IT
02:15:58 WAS BROKEN INTO BECAUSE THERE WASN'T A TAMPERING WITH THE
02:15:59 LOCK. THERE WAS A SPECIAL KEY BECAUSE
02:16:01 EVERY TIME I GOT LOCKED OUT I'D HAVE TO HAVE THE MAINTENANCE
02:16:05 SUPERVISOR AT THAT TIME DOUGLAS SESSIONS COME AND HE USED A
02:16:08 SPECIAL KEY TO UNLOCK IT. >> WELL WHEN MY HUSBAND AND MY
02:16:12 SON WE ALL WORK OUT IN THE IN THE GARAGE DISCOVERED THAT
02:16:16 HIS BIKE WAS MISSING WE WERE LIKE BEFUDDLED.
02:16:20 >> WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAD HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, SO WE
02:16:24 CONCLUDED SOMEONE HAD THE KEY IN AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
02:16:29 SO THEY WENT IN, THEY TOOK MY HUSBAND'S BIKE, THEY STOLE HIS
02:16:32 BIKE, THEY STOLE TOOLS AND OTHER THINGS.
02:16:36 WELL AS A RESULT, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I WOULD LEAVE MY HOME
02:16:39 I WOULD MAKE SURE THAT THE GARAGE WAS LOCKED BECAUSE WE
02:16:41 HAD TO GET A WHOLE NEW MOTOR AND ALL THE RESIDENTS GOT NO
02:16:44 KEYS AND I WASN'T THE ONLY RESIDENT THAT GOT ROBBED.
02:16:48 I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE. AND I DISCOVERED THAT MY
02:16:49 NEIGHBOR DOWN THE WAY MR. TIM HIS UNIT AND IT WAS BECAUSE
02:16:53 THAT THEY HAD CAMERAS THAT WE DISCOVERED THAT MR. DOUGLAS
02:16:57 SESSION MARKETABLE FOR A MISS JANINE THERE WAS A FOURTH
02:17:01 PERSON BUT WE DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE FOURTH PERSON WHO
02:17:04 WENT IN AND ROBBED THEM AND THEY CAME OUT WITH ALL
02:17:08 THESE GIFTS AND WHATNOT, YOU KNOW, PACKAGES BECAUSE THIS WAS
02:17:09 AROUND CHRISTMAS. THIS WAS LAST YEAR IN DECEMBER
02:17:11 THIS IS ON RECORD. THEY ALL GOT FIRE.
02:17:15 >> BUT DOMAS WHEN I CALLED IT IN TO THE MANAGER, MR. NATE
02:17:19 TOOK MY REPORT AND SHE CLAIMED THAT SHE CALLED DOMAS
02:17:23 MANAGEMENT AND SHE SAID THAT THEY SAID THERE IS NOTHING THAT
02:17:26 THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT AND TO THIS DAY BECAUSE TIME HAS
02:17:30 CONCLUDED THANK YOU FOR SURE. >> THANK YOU YOUR COMMENTS THE
02:17:32 COMMITTEE LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:17:34 >> I KNOW I CAN'T GET THIS OUT IN TWO MINUTES.
02:17:40 MY NAME IS SAM ON THE CASE BUT I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE
02:17:43 HISTORY AND I'VE BEEN COMING TO THESE BOARDS SINCE 1987 AND I
02:17:46 CAME TO THE BOARD HERE WITH DIDI'S MOTHER SHARON HEWETT
02:17:50 AND ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HERE I'VE BEEN AROUND THEM ALL THESE
02:17:53 YEARS. SO I'M STANDING UP HERE SAYING
02:17:57 WAIT A MINUTE YOU SUPERVISORS, YOU BRAND NEW SUPERVISORS BRAND
02:18:00 NEW YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. LISTEN, ME AND RANDALL BOUGHT
02:18:05 FILLMORE SUPERCENTER THE HERITAGE CENTER.
02:18:09 >> WE BROUGHT THEM TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WHEN WHEN ANGELA
02:18:12 ALGER TO BE PRESIDENT. >> SO YOU CAN'T TELL ME YOU
02:18:15 CAN'T MAKE THESE LAWYERS COME HERE.
02:18:16 YOU GOT THE STRAIGHT YOU GOT THE POWER TO DO IT WHOEVER IT
02:18:20 IS. I JUST I WISH I KNEW WHO IT IS.
02:18:24 I GO KNOCK ON THE DOUGH. SO WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU ME
02:18:27 SLOW DOWN. >> MY NAME IS CASE Y'ALL GO
02:18:31 HAVE TO GET TOGETHER AND SUBPOENA EVERYBODY BECAUSE
02:18:35 IF WE DID IT BACK THERE WITH THE FILLMORE HERITAGE CENTER
02:18:39 AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE HOUSING AUTHORITY WHICH THE YOU DEFUNCT
02:18:42 NOW A REDEVELOPMENT IS GONE NOW SO Y'ALL GOT TO STEP THE GAME
02:18:47 AND FIRST OF ALL I WILL APPRECIATE SUPERVISOR YOU DID A
02:18:51 GOOD JOB HERE YOU DOING A WONDERFUL JOB JAKE FIRST OF ALL
02:18:56 BUT BUT I'M SAYING WE NEED MORE AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
02:19:00 OTHER HEARINGS. I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THESE
02:19:01 DEVELOPERS AND COME TO THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T
02:19:05 BRING THEM THERE, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THEM.
02:19:07 WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THEM. MY NAME IS ACE.
02:19:11 I'M ON THE CASE. I'M 72 YEARS OLD.
02:19:14 I GOT THREE GENERATIONS. THEY GOT KIDS.
02:19:15 THEY GOT KIDS AND THEY HAD KIDS.
02:19:18 >> I USED TO STAY IN THOMAS PAINE YEARS AGO SO I'M NOT NEW
02:19:22 TO THIS. IT'S ALL I'M SAYING TO Y'ALL
02:19:26 AND I GOT 12 SECONDS LEFT MY NAME THEY IT AND I'M GOING
02:19:30 BEYOND THE CASE. >> ALL RIGHT.
02:19:34 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I HAD A LOT MORE THAN THREE
02:19:36 COMMENTS. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER
02:19:37 PLEASE. THANK YOU.
02:19:44 SO THESE ARE MY NAME IS ISAAC. SINCE 11 I'M A HUD ORGANIZER
02:19:48 WITH THE HOUSING RIGHTS COMMITTEE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
02:19:51 I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THE PATTERNS OF WEAK OVERSIGHT OF
02:19:55 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
02:19:58 FOR EXAMPLE, AT THOMAS PAINE RESIDENTS ARE REPORTED IN AN
02:20:00 INADEQUATE REPAIRS POOR COMMUNICATION AND SERIOUS RENT
02:20:03 LEDGER PROBLEMS UNDER DOMAS RESIDENTS HAVE PERSONALLY TOLD
02:20:07 ME THEY WERE GETTING CHARGED BACK RENT FOR MONTHS THAT THEY
02:20:11 HAD ALREADY PAID FOR. THERE ARE ALSO SERIOUS TRUST
02:20:14 ISSUES AS YOU'VE HEARD THERE'S THERE WAS A BREAK IN DOMAS AT
02:20:21 FIRST DENIED IT AND THEN BACKPEDALED ONCE THEY SAW HOW
02:20:22 MUCH NOTICE HE WAS GETTING. WELL, I ALSO WANT TO MENTION
02:20:29 THAT WE PARTICIPATED IN A CITYWIDE WALK WITH THOMAS PAINE
02:20:32 RESIDENTS AND THE CITYWIDE HOOD ALLIANCE AND ALSO MAYOR DANIEL
02:20:33 LEARY, WHICH MEANS THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IS AWARE OF THESE
02:20:37 CONDITIONS AND THE CONCERNS RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN RAISING.
02:20:41 BUT RESIDENTS ARE STILL ASKING WHERE'S THE ACCOUNTABILITY THIS
02:20:44 MET? THIS PATTERN GOES BEYOND THE
02:20:48 FILLMORE AND INTO THE BAYVIEW. ONE SPECIFIC CASE IS ALICE
02:20:51 GRIFFITH WHERE RESIDENTS HAVE SPENT YEARS DEALING WITH
02:20:53 SERIOUS HABITABILITY ISSUES UNDER ANOTHER HORRIBLE
02:21:00 MANAGEMENT COMPANY JOHN STEWART MANY OF THESE RESIDENTS THAT
02:21:04 I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH HAVE FILED DUI COMPLAINTS AND WHICH
02:21:08 LED TO THE MAJOR SETTLEMENT THAT WAS ON THE NEWS AND THIS
02:21:11 IS WHY RESIDENTS ARE ASKING FOR TRANSPARENCY, OVERSIGHT
02:21:15 AND ACCOUNTABILITY. IF A MANAGEMENT COMPANY ALLOWS
02:21:19 CONDITIONS TO DETERIORATE FOR YEARS, WHY DOES IT CONTINUE TO
02:21:20 MANAGE THE PROPERTY WHILE MORE PUBLIC MONEY IS BROUGHT IN TO
02:21:24 FIX A DAMAGED RESIDENTS DESERVE TO KNOW WHERE THE MONEY IS
02:21:28 GOING AND WHAT REPAIRS ARE BEING MADE, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
02:21:31 AND WHAT CONSEQUENCES EXIST WHERE WE'RE MANAGEMENT FAILS
02:21:35 PUBLIC FUNDING SHOULD NOT REWARD FAILURE.
02:21:38 >> IT SHOULD COME WITH REAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESIDENT
02:21:40 OVERSIGHT. THANK YOU.
02:21:42 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER
02:21:43 PLEASE. >> HELLO.
02:21:53 MY NAME IS EVELYN FIELDS, A NUMBER OF RESIDENT OF THOMAS
02:21:57 PAINE ON LAGUNA STREET AND I'VE BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT THE
02:22:02 WATER THAT IS COMING UP UNDER THE FLOOR IN THE KITCHEN AREA
02:22:05 UNDER MY REFRIGERATOR AND THEY'VE CHECKED IT AND SAID
02:22:09 THERE'S WATER THERE THAT THEIR PIPES ARE BUSTED AND THEY WOULD
02:22:13 LET ME KNOW WHEN THEY GET ENOUGH MONEY TO FIX IT
02:22:17 AND REPAIRING SO WITHIN 48 HOURS THEY PUT A NOTICE ON MY
02:22:22 DOOR AND TOLD ME I HAD TO VACATE MY UNIT AND GO TO A
02:22:25 HOTEL AND STAY. BUT I'M DISABLED.
02:22:29 YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME A NOTICE WAY BEFORE THEN BECAUSE I HAVE
02:22:32 A WORKER THAT LIVES WITH ME TO ALSO MY DOCTOR COMES TO MY HOME
02:22:36 TO SEE ME AND MY DOCTOR BEEN ASKED TO MOVE ME OUT INTO A TWO
02:22:42 BEDROOM AND THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T HAVE IN I WOULD HAVE TO
02:22:47 GO UP THREE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS TO A TWO BEDROOM.
02:22:50 SO I TELL THEM I WANT TO MOVE AND I NEED YOU TO GIVE ME THE
02:22:54 NOTICE SO I COULD GIVE THEM A 30 DAY NOTICE TO MOVE AND SEE
02:22:58 THE MAKE THE MANAGER THE NEW MANAGER ASKED ME BECAUSE SHE
02:23:02 PUT IT ON MY DOOR BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY WHERE SHE COULD
02:23:06 GIVE IT TO ME IN WRITING SO YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.
02:23:09 AND SO WHAT SHE PUT ON MY DOOR WAS A PGD BILL FOR $7,000
02:23:16 INSTEAD IT'S YEAR AND I OWE THEM AND I DON'T KNOW HOW I OWE
02:23:22 THEM $7,000 JUST FROM RUNNING AN OXYGEN MACHINE.
02:23:26 >> SO ALL I'M ASKING IS TO JUST BE DISPLAY FROM THOMAS PAINE
02:23:33 BECAUSE I CAN NO LONGER STAY THERE.
02:23:37 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS .
02:23:41 >> LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
02:23:44 >> I'VE BEEN INJURED ONCE ALREADY WITH THIS WATER STUFF
02:23:49 IN THE SHELF. >> BYE.
02:23:49 THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR COMMENTS WITH THE COMMITTEE.
02:23:54 >> ENDED UP WITH 15 STITCHES THE MINE MADE FROM HIM SITTING
02:23:56 THE BACK OF THE LEG WITH THE BOARD TRYING TO FIX THE SHELL
02:24:01 LOOKING IN TERMS PAIN DIDN'T DO ANYTHING FOR THAT AND I AM A
02:24:11 NATIVE OF SAN FRANCISCO. I'M ONE OF THE CAREGIVERS FOR
02:24:16 MISS EVELYN FIELDS WHO LIVES AT THE THOMAS PAINE APARTMENTS.
02:24:19 I'VE LIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO MOST OF MY LIFE AND WHEN I
02:24:23 LISTEN AT ALL THESE PEOPLE TODAY I JUST WANTED TO SHARE
02:24:26 AND SAY THAT I FEEL HURT FOR HOW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TREATED
02:24:33 FROM THE HEART. MY GENERATIONS OF MY PEOPLE A
02:24:37 LOT OF THEM ARE GONE AND WHAT REMAINS IS WHAT I TRY TO GIVE
02:24:41 BACK TO PEOPLE. IT WAS PUT IN ME YOU KNOW
02:24:44 AND TRY TO NOT PERFECT BUT WE TRY TO DO OUR BEST.
02:24:45 I WORK WITH PEOPLE WITH COMPLEX, YOU KNOW, SICKNESSES
02:24:52 AND DISEASES AND I WORK WITH PEOPLE WITH ADDICTION CARE.
02:24:53 SO I UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES OF THE SPECTRUM AND TRY TO LOOK
02:24:57 AND TRY TO HELP PEOPLE. BUT WHAT I SEE PEOPLE GOING
02:25:01 THROUGH WITH THIS HOUSING YOU KNOW, I WAS BLESSED TO GROW UP
02:25:05 IN A HOME THAT WAS PURCHASED BY MY PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS.
02:25:08 BUT WHAT I SEE PEOPLE GOING THROUGH FROM THE STRUGGLES I'VE
02:25:12 HEARD THEM TALK ABOUT YOU KNOW, THE STRUGGLES THAT COME OUT
02:25:14 FROM THE SOUTH BUT TO COME HERE TO LOOK FOR A BETTER LIFE
02:25:17 AND TO GET TREATED THIS WAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S YOU FEEL
02:25:20 INVISIBLE SOMETIMES YOU YOU CAN FEEL THE HURT AND THE PAIN
02:25:24 AND JUST THE ANGUISH OF THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE AND WE
02:25:28 WANT BETTER AND WE WANT TO DO OUR PART AND WE'RE TRYING TO I
02:25:32 WANT TO DO WHATEVER I CAN DO TO DO MY PART.
02:25:34 DURING THE PANDEMIC I HELPED FAMILY MEMBERS THAT WERE
02:25:38 HOMELESS. I HELPED FAMILY MEMBERS THAT
02:25:39 WERE STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION. I HELPED PEOPLE TO DO THE
02:25:42 PAPERWORK WHEN THEY COULDN'T DO THE PAPERWORK I TOOK THEM TO
02:25:44 THE HOSPITALS. >> SO WE JUST NEED TO ALL DO
02:25:47 OUR PART. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR
02:25:50 COMMENTS. THE COMMITTEE LET'S HAVE THE
02:25:52 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HELLO, MY NAME IS ROSALYN
02:25:58 AND I AM THE ADVOCATE FOR EVELYN FIELDS.
02:26:01 I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ALL OF THIS THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON.
02:26:05 I'M HERE JUST I WAS ONLY COMING TO SPEAK ON HER BEHALF.
02:26:09 I JUST WANT TO SPEAK REAL QUICKLY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
02:26:12 YESTERDAY AND I THINK THAT WE SHE WAS TREATED TOTALLY
02:26:16 DISRESPECTFUL BY MANAGEMENT. THEY GAVE HER A NOTICE ON
02:26:21 MONDAY, SAID SHE HAD TO LEAVE ON WEDNESDAY.
02:26:22 THEY WERE AT HER DOOR AT 9:00 BUT THEY WANTED HER BUT THEY
02:26:28 SHE HAD A HOTEL RESERVATION FOR 3:00.
02:26:32 THAT IS NOT ENOUGH TIME. I'M A PROPERTY MANAGER.
02:26:36 >> YOU NEED MORE THAN 48 HOURS TO DO A WHOLE PLACEMENT AS WELL
02:26:40 AS INTO A HOME ENTER INTO A RESIDENCE.
02:26:44 >> SO I ASKED THE MANAGER WE NEED TO GET MORE TIME.
02:26:48 THEY WERE TRYING TO MAKE IT AS IF WE SHE WAS GOING TO NOT BE
02:26:52 ABLE TO GET THE SERVICES DONE IF SHE DID NOT LEAVE YESTERDAY
02:26:59 AND I STOOD MY GROUND AND I TOLD THEM NO SHE'S NOT LEAVING
02:27:02 . BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
02:27:03 YOU KNOW THAT IT'S BECAUSE THEY DID NOT GIVE THEM ENOUGH
02:27:07 NOTICE. BUT I AM STILL EXPECTING THAT
02:27:10 THEY'RE GOING TO HOLD UP THEIR END OF THE BARGAIN AND GET IT
02:27:12 DONE. SO THEY SAID IN A WEEK OR TWO
02:27:15 WEEKS THEY WILL GET IT DONE. SO IF NOT YOU'LL BE HEARING
02:27:19 FROM US AGAIN AND ONCE AGAIN I AM SO SORRY FOR WHAT EVERYONE'S
02:27:22 GOING THROUGH BUT I WILL BE NOW HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR EVERYONE
02:27:26 IF I CAN'T HELP YOU. THANK YOU.
02:27:29 THANK YOU. OKAY.
02:27:35 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS BARBARA DAGS AND I'M
02:27:42 A SHAREHOLDER AT MARTIN LUTHER KING MARCUS GARVEY CO.
02:27:47 I COULD GIVE YOU MY CREDENTIALS BUT TWO MINUTES DON'T ALLOW FOR
02:27:57 ME TO DO THAT AND TO TELL YOU OF MY CONCERNS.
02:28:01 MOST IMPORTANT TO ME IS AS THE SENIOR.
02:28:09 I KNOW I DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU BUT I MAY.
02:28:13 OH, I NEED HELP. WE NEED HELP.
02:28:20 AT KING GARVEY ESPECIALLY I WANT JUST SENIORS RIGHT NOW.
02:28:28 I'M IN A UNIT THAT FLOODED THREE MONTHS AGO.
02:28:31 OH, THEY HAD CONTRACTORS IN WORKING THAT USED MY
02:28:39 BATHROOM FACILITIES. >> THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE.
02:28:46 I HAVE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE REPAIR.
02:28:48 >> MY BLINDS ARE MISSING SLATS SO YOU CAN SEE INSIDE MY UNIT.
02:28:54 >> SECURITY ISSUES THE EXACT. THE LIGHT SWITCH WHEN YOU FIRST
02:28:59 COME INTO MY HOME HAS A SHORTAGE.
02:29:04 IT'S BEEN TWO MONTHS THAT I'VE CALLED AND TRIED TO GET THEM TO
02:29:08 COME OUT AND FIX IT AND NO ONE OR THEY HAVEN'T ALSO ALL MY
02:29:16 REFRIGERATOR WHICH IS NEW. THEY CAME IN BECAUSE THEY HAD A
02:29:20 DENT IN THE DOOR AND THEY REPLACED THE FREEZER DOOR.
02:29:24 AND NOW THAT'S NOT WORKING PROPERLY.
02:29:27 MY FOOD IS GETTING FREEZER BURN BECAUSE THEY WON'T COME BACK
02:29:34 AND DO IT. THIS HAS BEEN OVER A MONTH.
02:29:37 IT'S UNACCEPTABLE AND IT'S THE TIME LAPSE.
02:29:42 THANK YOU. I'M SORRY YOUR SPEAKER TIME HAS
02:29:45 ELAPSED. >> THANK YOU, MY BOARD MEMBER.
02:29:46 YOUR TIME. >> MY TIME.
02:29:49 YES. YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED.
02:29:53 OKAY. WELL, ONCE AGAIN I'M JUST GOING
02:29:54 TO SAY THAT WE NEED TO STOP GIVING YOU.
02:30:03 OKAY. YES.
02:30:07 >> THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. AND THANK YOU.
02:30:14 >> THANK YOU. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER
02:30:15 PLEASE. AND MADAM, DURING PUBLIC
02:30:17 COMMENT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR EACH
02:30:21 SPEAKER. >> EACH SPEAKER HAS TWO
02:30:22 MINUTES. SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE BE
02:30:25 HEARD. >> THANK YOU.
02:30:26 IT'LL BE QUICK. >> YEAH.
02:30:30 YEAH. I WAS SPEAKING ON THE ON BEHALF
02:30:33 OF THE SENIORS AND THE DISABLED PEOPLE THAT LIVED IN MARTIN
02:30:37 LUTHER KING AND MARCUS GARVEY. >> THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH
02:30:40 RESPECT FOR SENIORS OR DISABLED PEOPLE OR ANYONE ELSE.
02:30:45 >> YEAH. YEAH.
02:30:47 THESE PEOPLE THAT'S WORKING RIGHT?
02:30:51 THEY NEED TO GO. THE MANAGER YOU NEEDED THEY
02:30:55 NEED TO GO. >> THEY DON'T HAVE NO
02:30:56 COMPASSION FOR THOSE SENIORS THAT ARE REALLY SICK AND CAN'T
02:31:02 WALK AND MOVE AROUND THERE. YEAH.
02:31:06 THEY DON'T RESPECT THEM OR ANYBODY ELSE.
02:31:10 AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM OUT OF THERE AS SOON AS
02:31:12 POSSIBLE. >> YES.
02:31:14 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU.
02:31:15 AND THAT'S MY AUNTIE HAVEN. >> THANK YOU.
02:31:19 TO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> SUPERVISOR.
02:31:25 MY NAME IS MALIK WASHINGTON. I'M A JOURNALIST.
02:31:27 SINCE APRIL I HAVE REPORTED ON THE MARTIN LUTHER KING MARCUS
02:31:30 GARVEY SQUARE COOPERATIVE IN THE FILLMORE.
02:31:33 ALVAREZ HARPER IS 85 YEARS OLD. SHE CAME TO SAN FRANCISCO FROM
02:31:37 AMARILLO, TEXAS IN 1960. SHE DROVE FOR MONEY.
02:31:41 IN 1978 SHE MOVED INTO THE KING GARVEY.
02:31:45 RAISED FOUR CHILDREN THERE. AND SHE HAS LIVED IN THE SAME
02:31:46 TOWNHOUSE FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES.
02:31:50 THIS SPRING HER MANAGER TOLD HER THAT SHE OWED $93,000.
02:31:53 THE EVICTION NOTICE TAPED TO HER DOOR SAID 10,000 $83,000
02:31:57 APART. NO ONE HAS ANSWERED THE
02:32:01 QUESTION IN PUBLIC. NOT THE MANAGER, NOT THE BOARD
02:32:04 ,NOT THE CORPORATIONS ATTORNEY.
02:32:05 THAT IS NOT A BOOKKEEPING ERROR.
02:32:08 THAT IS A MACHINE IN OUR PRIVATIZED SYSTEM AND ELDERS
02:32:12 HOME DEPENDS ON A MANAGER FILING HER RECERTIFICATION.
02:32:16 WHEN THAT FAILS THAT SOMEBODY DIES.
02:32:17 THE RENT QUADRUPLES IN THE EVICTION FOLLOWS.
02:32:20 RESIDENTS SAY THE RECERTIFICATION WENT ON
02:32:23 PROCESSED FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS.
02:32:25 16 BLACK RESIDENTS GOT NOTICES IN MARCH.
02:32:27 MOST OF THEM SENIORS. >> NINE UNLAWFUL DETAINERS WERE
02:32:31 FILED ON MAY 1ST. SO I AM ASKING THIS COMMITTEE
02:32:35 FOR SOMETHING PRECISE. DO NOT ACCEPT AN EMPTY CHAIR.
02:32:38 VOTE THE SUBPOENAS COMPEL THE LEDGERS, THE RECERTIFICATION
02:32:42 LOG, THE BOARD SOLUTIONS, THE LEGAL FEES CHARGED TO THE
02:32:45 COOPERATIVE. PUT THEM IN THE PUBLIC FILE
02:32:47 AND HAND THAT FILE TO HUD THE CITY ATTORNEY AND THE ATTORNEY
02:32:50 GENERAL AND DIDN'T DO THE HARDER THING.
02:32:53 LEGISLATE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING MEAN PROPERTY MANAGER
02:32:57 ACCOUNTABILITY ACT A MODEL BILL PUBLISHED TODAY DOES SOME
02:33:01 SIMPLE THING. A MANAGER CANNOT EVICT A
02:33:05 RESIDENT OVER A SUBSIDY THAT MANAGERS LOST A CERTIFIED
02:33:09 LEDGER BEFORE ANY NOTICES GOES OUT.
02:33:10 AUDITS EVERY TWO YEARS THE MANAGER PAYS NOT THE ELDER
02:33:16 $83,000. A 40 YEAR HOME.
02:33:18 SUPERVISORS THE PEOPLE WHO HOLD THE LEDGERS MUST ANSWER FOR
02:33:22 THEM. >> THANK YOU.
02:33:23 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. AND DON'T FORGET TO FIND THEIR
02:33:27 EQUITY. THAT LADY IS SITTING HERE
02:33:30 IN THE AUDIENCE. >> WE WANTED HER TO COME UP
02:33:31 AND SAY SHE'S BEEN FEATURED IN SEVERAL MEDIA OUTLETS.
02:33:34 MS.. MS..
02:33:35 HARPER YOU SHOULD COME UP. >> SHE'S THE SECOND LADY IN THE
02:33:39 FIRST ROW. THEY TOLD US SHE OWED 90 $3,000
02:33:42 . >> THERE'S SOMEONE WHO HASN'T
02:33:43 HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK YET WHO WOULD LIKE A CHANCE TO SPEAK
02:33:47 NOW. WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
02:33:50 >> WE'RE READY HERE WITH YOU. BACHELOR NEGLIGENCE.
02:33:53 >> CORRUPTION. SO ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS PUBLIC
02:33:55 COMMENT FOR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE FROM WHOM WE HAVE NOT
02:33:58 ALREADY HEARD. >> WE'RE READY TO HEAR WHAT
02:34:00 YOU'RE GOING TO DO. >> MR. CHAIR, IT APPEARS
02:34:04 THERE'S NO FURTHER SPEAKERS. OKAY.
02:34:05 SEEING NO SPEAKERS PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED.
02:34:11 VERY BRIEFLY I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO EXCUSE SUPERVISOR
02:34:12 FIELDER. >> SUPERVISOR FIELDER.
02:34:19 MOTION TO EXCUSED SUPERVISOR FIELDER HAS BEEN OFFERED BY THE
02:34:21 CHAIR ON THAT MOTION MEMBER WONG DEREK WONG.
02:34:27 THIS IS A MOTION TO EXCUSE SUPERVISOR FIELDER.
02:34:31 OKAY. ON THE MIKE PLEASE.
02:34:31 I WHANG I CHAIR CHERYL. I CHERYL I.
02:34:38 MR. CHAIR, THERE IS A THERE ARE TWO EYES.
02:34:39 THANK YOU. THE MOTION PASSES.
02:34:42 OKAY. SORRY, FOLKS.
02:34:43 THAT WAS JUST A QUICK PROCEDURAL ELEMENT THERE THAT
02:34:45 DIDN'T REALLY APPLY TO THE HEARING.
02:34:49 FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE.
02:34:53 I'M ABOUT TO PROCEED AND MAKE A COUPLE OF MOTIONS IN A MINUTE.
02:34:57 BUT BEFORE I DO, I'D LIKE TO TURN OVER THE FLOOR TO
02:35:01 SUPERVISOR MAHMUD. SUPERVISOR AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR
02:35:05 BRINGING US TOGETHER TODAY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR.
02:35:11 >> I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE FOR ALL OF YOUR
02:35:15 COMMENTS. I KNOW WHAT ALL OF YOU ARE
02:35:19 GOING THROUGH IS FRUSTRATING. THERE ARE SCARY SITUATIONS
02:35:20 AROUND YOUR HOUSING THE PLACE THAT YOU SHOULD FEEL SAFE
02:35:26 AND YOU ARE BRAVE TODAY FOR SPEAKING OUT.
02:35:27 I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU ARE BEING HEARD HERE TODAY
02:35:31 BY ME AND BY THE CITY AND I TAKE SERIOUSLY THE NEED TO
02:35:34 TACKLE THE UNDERLYING SYSTEMS THAT ALLOW FOR SITUATIONS LIKE
02:35:38 THE ONES THAT WE HEARD TODAY TO PERSIST.
02:35:43 I ALSO WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WE NEED DOMAS AND THE
02:35:44 PROPERTY OWNERS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT WE'VE
02:35:47 HEARD TODAY AND WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT DECREPIT CONDITIONS.
02:35:54 WE'VE HEARD ABOUT SEWAGE. WE'VE HEARD ABOUT ROOFS.
02:35:59 WE'VE HEARD ABOUT UNLAWFUL DETAINERS.
02:36:00 WE'VE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE PAYING FOR MORE RENT THAN THEY
02:36:03 ACTUALLY WERE DUE. WE'VE HEARD TIME AND TIME AGAIN
02:36:06 ABOUT SO MANY OF THE CONDITIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE PROPERTIES
02:36:10 AND ALL PROPERTIES HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON THEY ARE ALL
02:36:14 RUN BY MISMANAGEMENT. AND IN LIGHT OF MANY ACTORS NOT
02:36:22 BEING PRESENT TODAY I'M GOING TO BE ASKING CHAIR CHERYL TO
02:36:26 MAKE A MOTION TO INTRODUCE SUBPOENAS FOR THE FOLLOWING
02:36:36 ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. THE DOMAS MANAGEMENT COMPANY
02:36:40 SPECIFICALLY ANTHONY SANDOVAL AND CHRISTINE MASON, MERCEDES
02:36:44 GAVIN THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MARTIN LUTHER KING MARCUS
02:36:52 GARVEY SQUARE CO-OP SPECIFICALLY LINDA YOAKUM,
02:36:55 SHAWN KEMP. >> AMELIA.
02:36:59 SORRY. SORRY.
02:37:00 CAN WE JUST MAYBE THAT MAYBE THE HANDS.
02:37:03 >> YEAH. VERY BUSY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF
02:37:07 TRADE. >> AMELIA PINATA LAVERNE
02:37:09 MCINTOSH THE OFFICERS OF THE ALLEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
02:37:14 CORPORATION SPECIFICALLY REVEREND CECIL WILLIAMS HOUSE
02:37:20 JOHNSON, NICOLE ACKER AND BOBBY SISK THROUGH THEIR
02:37:31 REPRESENTATIVE VERNON GOINS AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
02:37:35 ANIMAL PARK COOPERATIVE. >> SPECIFICALLY EZRA MORGAN
02:37:41 I'LL BE CALLING AS WELL FOR A HEARING TO BE TENTATIVELY
02:37:45 SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 3RD AND THEN MOVE TO CONTINUE THIS
02:37:48 HEARING TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR.
02:37:49 THANK YOU, CHAIR. I KNOW THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST
02:37:53 SUBPOENAS THAT THIS BODY HAS ISSUED IN SOME TIME.
02:37:56 I APPRECIATE YOU TAKING LEADERSHIP HERE.
02:38:00 >> THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD.
02:38:02 >> SUPERVISOR WONG THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR COMING HERE TO
02:38:07 TESTIFY FROM ALL THE COMMENTS FROM THE RESIDENTS I'VE HEARD
02:38:12 ENOUGH THIS WHAT I'VE HEARD FROM YOU DIRECTLY IS A PATTERN
02:38:16 OF MISTREATING PEOPLE AND MISMANAGEMENT OF THE
02:38:22 PROPERTY. AND I'M GOING TO SUPPORT A
02:38:26 MOTION FOR SUBPOENA. >> THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU
02:38:33 COLLEAGUES. >> I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE
02:38:38 DEPARTMENTS WHO CAME TODAY DIRECTOR TO BENU WHO'S HERE
02:38:41 EARLIER AND YOUR STAFF MOST IMPORTANTLY THE RESIDENTS.
02:38:47 >> I THINK WE ALL WISH WE WEREN'T HERE TODAY FRANKLY THIS
02:38:54 IS ONE OF THE WORST PARTS OF OUR JOB.
02:38:57 BUT IT'S ALSO PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF OUR JOB.
02:39:04 I THINK I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT MY COLLEAGUES HERE AND I KNOW
02:39:09 SUPERVISOR FIELDER AS WELL WOULD AGREE THAT THAT WE ARE
02:39:10 INCREDIBLY DISMAYED AND THE ACTIONS WE'RE ABOUT TO TAKE
02:39:19 WILL NOT BE THE LAST ACTIONS I'M ABOUT TO MAKE A COUPLE OF
02:39:23 MOTIONS HERE THAT SUPERVISOR WANG AND I WILL BE VOTING ON AS
02:39:27 PART OF THIS COMMITTEE. >> ONE OF THEM WILL BE A
02:39:31 SUBPOENA. BUT I WANT TO MAKE VERY CLEAR
02:39:34 TO EVERYONE HERE THAT EVEN THOUGH SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD
02:39:35 BECAUSE HE'S NOT ON THE COMMITTEE WILL NOT BE VOTING ON
02:39:38 THESE MOTIONS, THESE ARE ALL HAPPENING AT HIS INSTIGATION IS
02:39:41 ONE DESERVES CREDIT FOR THIS. >> AND SO EVEN THOUGH I THINK
02:39:46 WE'RE VERY PROUD TO SUPPORT THAT IT IS IT IS SUPERVISOR
02:39:49 MAHMOOD WHO DESERVES THE CREDIT FOR DRIVING THIS.
02:39:53 >> OKAY. SO WITH THAT I, I WANT TO TALK
02:40:04 ABOUT A SUBPOENA. SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS WE
02:40:06 ASKED TO BE HERE TODAY OBVIOUSLY DID NOT.
02:40:09 SO PURSUANT TO BOARD RULE 3.3.1 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION
02:40:15 TO DIRECT THE CLERK TO PREPARE SUBPOENAS DEMANDING THE
02:40:17 PRESIDENT'S PRESENCE OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AT A
02:40:19 CONTINUED HEARING OF THIS MATTER LIKELY TO OCCUR ON
02:40:23 DECEMBER 3RD. BUT SPECIFICALLY THE DOMAS
02:40:27 MANAGEMENT COMPANY SPECIFICALLY ANTHONY SANDOVAL AND CHRISTINE
02:40:31 MASON, MERCEDES GAVIN THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MARTIN
02:40:34 LUTHER KING MARCUS GARVEY SQUARE COOPERATIVE APARTMENTS
02:40:35 INC. SPECIFICALLY LINDA YOAKUM SHAWN KIM EMILY AMELIA PINOT.
02:40:41 I'M SORRY IF I'M MISPRONOUNCING THAT.
02:40:43 LAVON LAVON MCINTOSH THE OFFICERS OF THE ALLEN COMMUNITY
02:40:46 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SPECIFICALLY THE REVEREND CECIL
02:40:50 ELLA WILLIAMS JR. ALICE JOHNSON, NICOLE ACKER
02:40:53 AND BOBBY SISK THROUGH THEIR LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE VERNON
02:40:54 JONES AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ANIMAL PARK
02:40:58 COOPERATIVE SPECIFICALLY EZRA MORGAN.
02:41:04 >> ON THE MOTION MR. CLARK, CAN YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON THE
02:41:06 MOTION TO INVOKE BOARD RULE 3.3.1 IS INDICATED AND OFFERED
02:41:09 BY THE CHAIR NOTING MEMBER FIELDER EXCUSED MEMBER WANG
02:41:13 HUANG I CHAIR CHERYL HI CHERYL I MR. CHAIR THERE TO US THANK
02:41:17 YOU THE MOTION PASSES. FOLKS WE STILL HAVE BUSINESS TO
02:41:24 ATTEND TO. AND THEN AND THEN I'D LIKE TO
02:41:27 AND THEN I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO CONTINUE THIS HEARING TO THE
02:41:32 CALL OF THE CHAIR ON THE MOTION OFFERED BY THE CHAIR THAT THE
02:41:37 HEARING BE CONTINUED TO THE CALL.
02:41:39 THE CHAIR MEMBER WANG WANG I CHAIR CHERYL HI CHERYL.
02:41:43 >> I AM MR. CHAIR THERE ARE TWO EYES THANK YOU.
02:41:45 MOTION PASSES MR. CLERK DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER BUSINESS?
02:41:51 >> THERE IS NO FURTHER BUSINESS.
02:41:52 THANK YOU. WE ARE ADJOURNED