It was really difficult to watch sharon take on so much, so much pain and hurt and guilt for every single baby of hers that she lost, and so really embrace so mappy different families. London talked about sharon yelling and screaming and cursing, and ive definitely been the target of that, as well. And she never let you know if you didnt commit to bringing contributions and Holiday Gifts to all of her families at clear every holiday season. Sometimes i used to dread her phone calls because i knew she would just yell for a very long time. But at the end of every single call, like president breed said, she always told you that she loved you, and that she knew you would deliver, and she was proud to live in the city. Sharon eventually moved in the tenderloin, and she switched gears, and she basically became a community grandmother to all of our filipino arab american, muslim american, latino families, and i saw a few weeks ago and visited her. Ve she signed one of my forms, and she was in top form. She had just gotten out of the hospital, and she was sick. She knew there was not much time left, but she was still telling people what to do. Which families needed which vegetables from the roof top garden that she tended. She continued to run so many events in the tenderloin neighborhood, making sure that all the organizers and families were in sync, building for stores in the tenderloin and converting them from liquor stores. I had actually called her fwo weeks ago because she was my first choice to be an honoree for black History Month in february. I called her a few times, and she said you really need to honor the next generation. Shes like, weve done our work. Im hoping you can really honor someone in the next generation, that she didnt need the accolades. I really miss sharon. I really miss you. I just want to thank you so much for being a role model. Losing you and rose pack in the last two years has been hard. You taught young women how important it was to speak up, and to fight book, and to fight hard. I just want to thank you for agitating for a better scity every single day, and literally giving your body and all to our communities. Thank you, supervisor kim. Supervisor peskin . Skbl i think all of the supervisors have said all of the profound things about sharon, but we had the same birthday. She would call me year in and year out, call and wish me a happy birthday. The rest of the year, you would never know when she would call, because she was watching from afar. When you would mess up, she would call and let you know in no uncertain terms. When i was chair of the San Francisco democratic party, she realized i was going to have a vacancy, before i realize it, and she would tell me who i was going to appoint to that spot, and i would just do it. Thank you, sharon. Well miss her terribly. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Thank you, president breed for me to have an opportunity to thank publicly sharons contributions. Ive had a chance over the last week to reflect on all the money gifts that shes given me personally, as well as what shes given personally to the city and county of San Francisco. She was an incredible woman, truly a force to be reckoned with, and i also personally want to express my thanks inform heto her family, who have suffered a great loss. I know she loved district six, but i think its safe to say a lot of her heart was in sunnyvale. It was ground zero of her work really started, and i recall when i was just a candidate, late nights, coaching me. She was not a morning person, and would keep you on the telephone for hours into the evenings, coaching, mentoring, chastising, all of the above, of what it meant to be in service and how to change your language, and how when you change language, you change your thinking, and to move away from the i and move more into the collective we, and so there are many elevelessons that iv learned and im truly grateful for the tremendous amount of opportunity i had from here. I want to let dede know that we will continue to support her children and grandchildren throughout this ordeal. Want to honor her exhusband, chet, who has also suffered a profound loss. This is a profound transition that were in, when you think about the sudden loss of life of rose pack, of mayor lee, and now of sharon hewitt. This is a tremendous transition time from the old guard to the new guard, and i would implore my colleagues here and the colleagues that are out in the field and on the front line in the resistance to remember and to lean onto those teachings that our elders have given us. Thank you. President breed thank you, supervisor cohen, and each and every one of you for adjourning the meeting in sharons honor. Dede, you are loved, and we will be there for you. And also, i just want to let everyone know, the Funeral Service will be this coming monday at 11 00 at third baptist church. Yes. So the last item i have is i just wanted to invite everyone out to celebrate the end of black History Month. Yes, i know it went by really fast, and here we are. Tomorrows the last day, and every year, supervisor cohen and i, we host a black History Month celebration in the rotunda. It will begin at 5 30. It will go until 9 30. There will be performances and speeches and food from African American restaurants here in San Francisco. Its just a way to invite the community in to city hall and celebrate the rich history and culture of the African American community here in the city and county of San Francisco, and you all are invited. At the very much. The rest i submit. Thank you, madam president. Given that it is 3 08, madam president. Okay. Did you want to call the special order at 3 00 p. M. Or keep going with roll call . So were going to finish up roll call and come back to our 3 00 p. M. Special order. Thank you, madam president. Supervisor cohen . Thank you very much. I have an inmemoriam id like to offer on behalf of my very good friend Kimberly Smith who just recently lost her father. Mr. Howard eugene smith, age 78 years old of yucca valley passed away peacefully in his home, and he passed away of Natural Causes on february 28, 2018. He was a graduate from Edison High School in fresno. He lived an incredible life. He spent many years working as a professional musician. He went back to school and obtained a nursing degree from Mount San Antonio college which was located in walnut, cleveland. He obtained a bachelor of chiropractic from cleveland college, and he ran his business as a chiropractic doctor for over 23 years. Howard lived an accomplished life with interests and talents from being a guitarist who played on occasion with artists like james brown and ike and tina turner. He was a motorcycle aficionado and often took apart and rebuilt his Harley Davidson bikes from the ground up. He was preceded in his by his mother, mother, wife, brother and sister. Hes survived by a whole host of family members children, his children, many cousins, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. Six great grandchildren and five great grandchildren. His services will be held at 11 00 a. M. At Community Baptist church in fresno, california. This is in loving memory of Howard Eugene smith. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor fewer . Spie supervisor kim . Theank you. I also have an inmemoriam and that is jessica smith. She was an accomplished artist, an accomplished pianist, who live index rincon hill for the last 25 years. She attended the Berkeley College of music in boston, receiving a bachelors degree and performance art. Shes a classically trained concert pianist who knew how to play bach by heart, and she recorded for a and m records. She moved to hollywood in 1980 as new wave, goth, and punk and synth pop was starting. While she was a contemporary with cyndi la u9d per lauper and gwen stefani, neil young wrote a song about her, an unknown urban legend in 1992, where he wrote somewhere on a long highway, she rides a Harley Davidson, her lock hair flying in the wind. She appeared in many magazines and was featured in a coffee table book, chicks on bikes, and starred under her stage name, goth girl in a Discovery Channel movie, motorcycle women, and she wrote the sound track to that movie. She was the founder of devil dolls, the first female Motorcycle Club in the country in 1999, and she had a profound influence in her community. She did not feel that she did politics, but she did culture. While she lived in rincon hills, she became an environmental activist at the neighborhood, fighting to save trees in the city, and in this endeavor, she was often successful in working with our office in rec and parks in a major redesign of a 3. 5 million pocket park, which was directly across the street from her residence. Her profound influence on modern culture, women, musician style will endure and far outlast us, and i want to recognize matthew steen, the partner she leaves behind, and her family. The rest i smith. Thank you, supervisor kim. Supervisor he is pin . Thank you. Madam clerk, colleagues, today im asking for a motion to convene a committee of the whole between the board of supervisors and the San FranciscoEthics Commission on april 3rd in order to consider and with any luck, finally adopt the sweeping reform to our Council Member paampaign f conflict of interest codes. I dont believe the circumstances have ever been more pressing for us to do this than now. For the past two years, the Ethics Commission has pursued broad finance reform to regulate independ dent super pacs, and other conflict of interest issues pertaining to developers and city contractors. On february 16, the ethics took the step to pass the torch to the board of supervisors and now it is our job to finally pass these reforms. While third party soft money pours into unregulated campaigns, we have an opportunity to shed light on that hidden economy and to enhance the Publics Trust in the work that we do in this building and in these chambers. I look forward to this discussion and to collaborating with our Ethics Commission to passing the sweeping rebuttal to Unrestricted Campaign financing since the Supreme Courts decision, citizens united. This morning at the transportation Board Meeting, i announced your support, a tax to meet the citys growing need. There are things we can be doing to impose if equity at the local tax. Ive been working with the City Attorney because San Franciscos now in a situation where we are catching up to the common sense tax structures that many states and localities have already imposed as a result in the changes in behavior. With the growing population and impacts to match, San Francisco is constantly searching for a revenue tool that is equitiable. This would be a general tax for the November November ballot, and i look forward to working with each of you in the days and weeks ahead to strengthen it. In addition, im introducing a resolution urging our state legislation to introduce a law allowing San Francisco to impose a fee to pay for the structure, our city streets, which are badly in neat of improvement. Finally, i have several in memoria that i would like to submit and ask the Board Meeting to be adjourned. First for sigfried hessie, a remarkable attorney who graduated from bolt hall in 1950, and was instrumental in defending that the the 800 individuals that the California University system brought in the free speech movement. My condolences to his widow, sarah, his son, eric, his daughter, andrea, his daughter, renata, and his daughter, ca carla. Id like to adjourn the meeting in memory of [ inaudible ] next village, the movement that was taking care of folks ageing in place. She will be sorely missed. Very courageous woman, and my condolences to her husband harvey and a community who misses her. Finally, certainly, not least, my friend of some 20 years, Norman Tyler Larson passed away peacefully in the presence of his family last week, on february 20th. He was a fourth generation san franciscan who unlike the previous two individuals that we are that im adjourning for, was not a lefty. He he was a remarkable person who really kind of reached across lines. I in the late 1990s, was trying to preserve the columbo building and didnt know what i was doing and wrote an article in the first examiner, and he somehow managed to find my phone number and asked if ecocontribute that cause, and he helped us through the effort to save the columbo, number 1 columbus avenue, which has since been restored. And i want to thank him for that. He had a zztop white beard, and in 198 0, bought 557 haight an ashbury, that corner where the grateful dead were photographed in that s e picture. In 2006, asked the supervisor to landmark as the doolenlarson residents and storefront landmark in 253, which later in 2011, he got registered on the National Registry of historic places. He was a proud day guy who took me on my first day bar crawl in 2000 when i was running for supervisor, which was funny because i was a lefty, and he was a proud conservative. My condolences to cisteve, christine, amy, lucille, emma, and claire, ed olson and marilyn olson, and stay tuned for a large celebration of life honoring norm hopefully to occur during the spring. I just want to say he was an incredible historic preservationist, and donations can be made in his honor to San Francisco heritage, of which he was a proud member for many decades. And i will submit the rest. Thank you, supervisor ronen . The first is a resolution of the case janus versus afsme. Groups supporting the antiunion side include americans for prosperity foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange council, known as alec. Clearly, this move is part of the trump agendas overall and part of a right wing strategy that is seeking to use the amendment as a weapon against government protections. The case follows a similar case that the Supreme Court heard calls fr e drichs versus california conservative association. When late Justice Scalia passed away, the vote was left at a tie. We now expect that the new Supreme Court justice, neil gorsuch will deliver the win. So whats exactly at stake in this case . This case could decimate unions by greatly reducing the dues that you know downs collect, severely limiting protections. According to the bureau of labor stratsticks, Union Membership has been steadily declining and has lost 2. 9 million members since 1983. Organized probusiness efforted have expedited the decline of unions. Janus is part of this assault. This is a critical moment in our labor movement, and i believe we need to take action in San Francisco now to forestall the impact of a negative decision. This resolution affirms that the city and county of San Francisco supports of freedom of all City Employees to exercise their voice and dignity on their job in joining together in strong unions. It also urges the mayor and department of Human Resources to engage in good faith discussions with the citys union, to implement a gold card memory bes membership. It would provide annual membership commitments, and city labor contracts would ensure adequate release times for union rank and file leaders to communicate to members and nonmembers the implications of a negative janus members, and to encourage membership to their city colleagues and employees. It is time for us to stand in solidarity with our unions. I want to thank local 21, suif 1021 for partnering with my office on this resolution. I will be asking the department of Human Resources about this during our up coming closed session, and id also like to thank my cosponsors of this resolution for their support. Secondly, i also have an in memoriam today for a woman named alice. Im very filled with sadness over the fact that alice passed away this past saturday. She was a 65yearold homeless woman who had been living on the sidewalk in front of the burger king at 16th and mission for at least the past three years. She died saturday at 11 45 p. M. At st. Francis hospital. According to the floor nurse at st. Francis, her final hours were peaceful, but she sadly did pass alone. I never would have gotten to know alice if i hadnt been working to clean the b. A. R. T. Plaza every week with b. A. R. T. Commission director. We whether it was raining or freezing or a beautiful day, alice was always sitting in a chair in front of the burger king, knitting surrounded by her belongings, a big suitcase, overflowing with her possessions. We called her alice, but we learned later her name was Alicia Gonzalez and that she was born in the philippines and had a dual citizenship in the United States and philippines. I alerted a volunteer to my office about alices situation, and she eventually became a daily visitor to alices place on the sidewalk, hoping to persuade her to take the offers of shelter by various city agencies. There were several nights alice insisted on staying out in the pouring rain evening on thanksgiving. Finally on a morning in december, alice was even more sulliv vulnerable because her shopping cart with all her belongings had been stolen the night before. After a day long effort by multiple agencies in the city, she finally took our pleads to go inside and started at a dropin center. Then, she finally allowed medical workers to assess her, and unfortunately was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and accepted Supportive Housing at a Mission District sro. There she was followed by a primary transition team, a primary care doctor, and visited by ann who reported back to me almost daily with his condition. Alice retained her dignity and strong will toward the very end. She had a very likeable personality. She was feisty. She was a person who had dreams, plans, preferences, needs, perconnection and so much more. Her tragic story teaches us that we have many ways to improve in this city in terms of our system of care, and thats something i will continue to work on, holding her close in my heart and mind as i do so. I also want to thank Heather Knight for recording on her compelling case. It meant a lot to me to look at the paper this morning and see her face on the front page of the bay area section, and the fact that so many of us were going to acknowledge her existence, her story, her life, and her passing. I also want to acknowledge and thank Ann Gallagher in our office, who made sure that alices last months were spent with dignity in a warm bed and receiving quality medical care, but most importantly, that she had someone by her side every day who she considered a friend and in fact called ann her best friend. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor safai. I just have a couple brief remarks. First, i want to commend supervisor stefani for leading on the italian heritage day resolution, working with supervisor cohen, supervisor peskin. We have a rich tradition in my district of many, many proud italian americans. They are the every day working people. Theyre the front lines of this citys workforce. They are the descendants of many of the people named in this great city, helped to build this city, so thank you for leading on that. I also just want to add a couple of words to sharon hewitts passing. Sharon was actually one of the very first people i met on my first day of work at the housing authority. We battled every day. Some of you might not believe, but i might have rubbed sharon the wrong way a few times, and she let me know about it every step of the way, but one of the proudest things i was involved in with her and president breed and i had this in common was we were both trying to build a Recording Studio. I was building a Recording Studio in sunni sunnyvale, and president breed was building another one at the same time. She went out of her way to prove how tough she was, and she went out of her way to prove it on a daily basis. But once you won her over, she was your mentor for life. I was proud to have been worked with her on the front lines out in sunnydale with daily gun shots and people diing. She was a front line person, and she had no fear. She would get in the biggest and strongest persons face, and she would also be the most gentle person in the same breath. The last way i remembered her is after she started to clear, she started this angels program, where during the holidays, she would ask you to come in and she would pair you up with a family that did not have the means to buy presents for their children. And when i was out campaigning this last time to be elected to this office, i bumped into the person that she paired me up with. And the woman was standing there on the corner with me out in front of the balboa b. A. R. T. Station, and she said it was so good that sharon was able to connect us. My daughter still talks about that to this day. So sharon truly was an angel in this city, and dedicated and as supervisor kim said, truly gave her life, and you could see her begin to wither because how much she internalized all the Different Things she was involved in. She was a warrior, she was a leader, and she was someone that i considered a friend, and im proud to consider myself her mentee. Im proud to be adjourning this meeting in her honor. The rest, i submit. Thank you, supervisor safai. Supervisor cohen, you asked to be rerefered. Thank you. So colleagues, i have two other pieces of legislation that id like to discuss. [please stand by for captioner switch] the last few months to come to a settlement and agreement leading to the appellants dropping or withdrawing this appeal. I know we have to hear Public Comment on this item, but after we do so, i will be making a motion on 36, 37, 38. Thank you, supervisor kim. With that, i would like to open this item up to Public Comment. This is not general Public Comment. Its on the item before us, the appeal. It has been withdrawn. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor kim. I would like to make motion. Supervisor kim has made a motion, seconded by supervisor peskin. Without objection, the motion passes unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to general Public Comment. Thank you, madam president. The public may address the board of supervisors. Item 39, whether or not you believe the board should continue into closed session on the labor. Public comment will not be allowed when an item has previously been subject to Public Comment. Pursuant to the board rules, please direct your comments to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors, and not to the audience. If youre using interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. If youre interested in displays a document on the overhead projector, state that. Remove the document when you would like to screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Thank you. Before this begins, sir, there were three people in line. Im not asking you to leave. In the future, if you could be considerate of those who are already lined up before you move to the podium. Thank you very much. First speaker. I ask for your resignations. You eve violated your oaths of office. You swore to defend the constitution against all enaemis foreign and domestic. A joint project of the San Francisco campus. 100 million per year. Citywide performing involuntary medical and surgical procedures upon residents of this city and county. It is able to do this only by depriving its patients of life and liberty. Citywide also denies freedom of participation and freedom of association. Citywide perpetrates unreasonable searches and seizures in violation of u. S. Constitution 4. Citywide deprives