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You to vote to keep the bid and keep it a safe place to visit, live and work. You it. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for your time and sum or the. My name is ton thomas. I love on the board of directors. For the club donna tell owes association, part of the building at beautiful corner of the post and mayson. We took a step of faith 10 years ago when we said well tax ourselves more money in order to improve our neighborhood. I did not know what i was getting myself into when karen and a few others said don we would like you to serve. Ive been serving on the board. I volunteered to serve on the clean and save committee. If you really want to get involved in the boots on the ground experience, we have meetings every other month. Between the sfpd, d. P. W. , block by block, neighbor streets team, miracle messages and a number of other people, were beginning to change peoples lives one day at a time, one life at a time. Im excited about the future and so were going to take another step of faith. For another 10 years. We appreciate your support for that. Thank you. President yee, members of the board of supervisors, good afternoon. My name is richard lighter. Im a presenc principle and owna breweries and restaurant. The Herbert Hotel at 161 powell and the Stratford Hotel at 242 powell. I have had the pleasure of serving on the board of the bid union square bid. It is critical we renew this bid and it adds a tremendous amount of value to the community and i urge your support. Enough has been said, its just a positive movement for the city and in all things good. Thank you. Good afternoon, members of the board. My name is jessica and im the executive director of miracle messages. Miracle messages is a Nonprofit Organization that helps people experience homelessness reconnect with their loved ones and been working with the bid since october and weve connected 10 people with loved ones that they wouldnt have had the digital access, Digital Literacy or emotional ability to reach out. This has changed lives and through the bid support weve been able to send out two formally Homeless Community embassadors twice a week to canvas the streets to be a friendly face and say a kind word to the people experiencing homelessness and offer them the opportunity to overcome the emotional shame of the disconnection that effects them. Its been an incredible partnership and one of the stories that i think you all should know is of the story of a man named wayne who was disconnected from his loved ones for 16 years who is now in housininhousing due to the efff the bid and the miracle messages. This is a really Important Service that the bid has allowed us to provide and we love working with the bid and we hope you support it. Hello, good afternoon members of the board of supervisors. My name is michelle and im with west field San Francisco center. I will be in zone 1 of the Business Improvement district and since my time with west field, which i just anniversaried 12 months, right off the bat, my Vice President who will be speaking next, encouraged me to develop relationships with Business Improvement district and in that 12 months, theyve helped me create personal and business relationships that helped develop the experience for our 14 million guests that walk through our doors every year through safe and clean efforts as well as advocacy for all members of the community. Im definitely here in support of renewing the union square bid. Thank you. Good afternoon members of the board of supervisors. My name is leah and im the Vice President of Shopping Center management at west field. Im on the board of directors at the Business Improvement district and sat on the renewal committee. Im absolutely in favor of the renewal of the bid. Theres not a day that goes by that we dont discuss the safety, security and clean lessness of the square. The bid has and will continue to be a partner in ensuring that Critical Services are available to our residents, tenants, customers, and employees. The renewals paramount to our future success. I simply cannot imagine what the square would be without the bid. Consensus has been reached that approximate partnership must be maintained and that services should be enhanced and a testament to the work of karen and her team. Thank you for your time and look forward to seeing you at the square and shopping at wes westfield. Good afternoon members of the board of supervisors, my name is spencer. Im a citizen of San Francisco and i lived here since 1999. I reside in district 5. And im the director of Business Development for a Company Called inpark and a longterm member of the board of the union square businesses improvement district. My company manages 15 Parking Facilities for the sfmta, the department of real estate and the board of supervisor including the fifth emission garage in the union square Business Improvement direct. We manage about eight Parking Facilities serving valet. As a result of this ive got to spend a significant amount of time in the Union Square Area and our company gets the opportunity to serve thousands of union square businesses, momenhotel guests, citizens and visitors on a daily basis. When i moved here in 1999, i didnt frequent union square that much and no offense to karen and my fellow members, i thought it was shady at the time. But, over the course of the last 15 or so years, ive seen union square become that destination that now i want to visit as much as i can. This transformation didnt happen overnight. It took a lot of collaboration with the city of San Francisco, departments and the union square b. I. D. I urge you as members of the board of supervisors to continue your support like you have for so many years. Thank you. Good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors. My name is amy howl and i represent trinity. I moved here from the east coast in 1990 with my sister and the first thing on our bucket list was to go to union square. The union square i remember gave me a sense of San Francisco. I really feel that union square is absolutely part of the world stage. The millions of visitors that come to union square leave with an impression they dont forget. I havent forgotten mine. And mine was one of, this is the friendliest city. People are so nice. I was comparing it to new york where i came from. I also thought it was a really clean city. And a really approachable city. And i couldnt wait to make this my home. I now have the pleasure of assisting and managing not just residential communities but iconic buildings on union square where we have people come to work everyday. When you come to work everyday u. Its your home. Its your home away from home. Some of the things that i recognized through the bid, im in support of the union square b. I. D. Renewal. The Camera Network has been inspirational to me and i am mimicking it across other parts of the city. It has stopped crime. It has been a real aid to our Law Enforcement professionals who need that assistance and back up. I think of what the renewal could offer with extended services into the evenings. A place for people to find happiness and comfort and cleanliness as they enjoy the city that i love so much. I hope that you vote to renew the bid. Thank you. Good afternoon members of the board of supervisors. My name is kelly powers and im the director of the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we have members of both hotels and businesses as part of our partnership. Im also a member of the union square Business Improvement District Board and i also sit on their foundation board. First, the twoprong message is i want to provide today to urge you to support the renewal is the clean and Safe Partnership that the Hotel Council has with the union square Business Improvement district. The main question Many Organizations ask themselves to understand the power of an organization like the bid, is to imagine what it would be like without it. What would that Downtown District look like without all the services that the bid provides . It would very much look like a different neighborhood without their support. On the community side, the union square Business Improvement districts creates a fabric of excitement, engagement and diversity. The bid works to incorporate those working to improve their lives like the downtown streets team and the union square cares program. They support the beautification efforts such as tree planting. And they provide fun activities like the downtown ice rink every holiday season, the winter walk. Were losing some of the attractions where families can come together and celebrate, shop and celebrate special times of the year. I thank you for being supportive of the union square Business Improvement district. Thank you. Its a natural reflex to respond when i see its involving business and professional cults pertaining to tax regulations. You give twitter millions of dollars of taxfree money and smaller businesses have not been able to enjoy the freedom of getting taxfro billions of dollars and big yun o billions. They have been paying payroll taxes required by state and federal law. Twitter and the Hitech Companies have not done anything for low income people, people homeless out on the street. These organizations have been helping people giving them a chance and opportunities to get permanent housing above the minimum page that is being paid by city street clean and i agree with renewing their organization and i further like to see them expand and build Affordable Housing for low income and very low income bracket people. These that come from me by the time they get to you it takes several years for you to wake up and smell the coffee and doing what i propose. Just like this 600 milliondollar tax by for low income housing. Ive been talking to you about this for years and now you are doing something about t i dont want you to wait that long to take care of this problem here. These organizations are doing to help people in low income and put them to work. Id like to see you expand and build Affordable Housing for those very same incomes of people that you employ. Because you are in position to do so and you can be a leader and theyll follow your lead. Its hard for them to follow my lead. It took me four and a half years to get them to stop giving that multi billion dollar tax breaks to twitter and several other Hitech Companies. I dont want it to take that long to transact business with you. So i gro agree with them. Any other speakers that want to speak in support . Madam clerk, theres still going to be later Public Comment. Is that correct . Is there still going to be the later general Public Comment . Yes, thats later. Im going to speak out are you going to speak in support of this item . The last negro is playing at the roxy, its a brilliant film. Anyone else wants to speak in support . It was mentioned earlier that there are 9,000 needles found on the sidewalks to be picked up every morning. There are as well 9,000 cases of bloodborn rep titus using those using illicit substances in the city so i believe you can contribute by eliminating the needle Waste Program which i would greatly encourage. Supervisor yee come on up. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is simon chang and im here to represent two buildings in that area. Im just talking about the experience of what i have for those two buildings. To my understanding, your original intention of the union square bid was to improve safety, sanitary, marketing for Better Business for this major important area in the city. Which is also known as the most attractive to tourists and people for shopping. However, i dont feel much improvement for myself. Especially in the recent years can you stop the clock. Are you speaking in support of the benefit . I have concern but i want to support the area. I just want to mention my experience. Go ahead. Can i continue . I dont feel much improvement for myself. Especially for the recent years, my business and my tenants Business Activity has been running down for each year. Many stores in this area has been closed and vacant for a long time. There are a lot of people around and getting more and more. Also store thieves and crime in the area. Im talking about two buildings of mine that i know. People starting to stand, sitting, sleep and Wander Around in front of my business and businesses of my tenants. There is peeing and pooping on the sidewalk and on my property. Also on the garbage can and runs into the building area with very bad smelling, et cetera, et cetera. All these preventing and discouraging people for shopping attempts. There is foot traffic. Thank you, sir. Your time is up. Anybody else . Anybody else want to speak in support. Seeing none. Lets go ahead and have anybody that wants to speak in opposition to the benefit district. Yoyou have to twins. Good afternoon, president and supervisors and supervisors. Yes, once again, this is other San Francisco boondoggle and created by the inept pay to play politicians that you are. The Bigger Picture is you are walking into a buzz saw. You are going to have to pay people to shop in San Francisco. After 20 years of this type of garbage which is more toxic than nuclear waste, people just dont come to San Francisco. Thanks to you. Thanks to your consistent racial politics, you couldnt even run a bathroom in this city let alone a business. You cant run a meeting for the general board of supervisors, thats how bad it is. Your security here is so whacked out onion what drugs, probably cocaine, i cant sit in the pews without them harassing me. Officer martin he is he is, jac, put your legs down. Im coming in here to give you a pulse on the street that you are on your way out and you have ruined the city. Diversity. The worse city. The worse city. Every business, every person i come into contact hates your sucking guts. Thank you. Supervisor yee any other speaker in opposition . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Supervisor haney. Thank you, president yee. I was able to say this in committee but im very supportive of this renewal and proud to be to represent one small sliver here in district 6. One thing i didnt get to say in committee is i want to appreciate you for in concluding in this renewal an increase in the clean and safety in wages. I think especially as we expand and were put more folks to work through our bids and through our d. B. D. S its really important were paying minimum wages and making sure this is a job that allows people to have security in their own lives as well when theyre working so hard to keep us safe. Thank you for in concluding that and i hope that that is a model for other bids and c. B. D. S as well. Thank you for your leadership. Supervisor yee seeing no other on the roster of this hearing has been heard. And is now filed. We will now adjourn from the committee of the whole and reconvene as the board of supervisors. Supervisor yee the department of elections will count the ballots cast and were return later in the meeting and come back to item number 26. Now, we will continue to madam clerk, can you call item number 13 . Clerk item 13 is a resolution to receive and approve the annual report for the Castro Upper Market Community benefit district for fiscal year 20172018. Supervisor yee why dont we just roll call. [ roll call ] there are 10 ayes. Supervisor yee this is adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 14 is a resolution to authorization the general manager of the Public Utilities commission to execute the Fourth Amendment to the memorandum of understanding with the local Agency Formation commissioner and to extend the term by one year for a total agreement of 12 years through 20192020 with no change to the total amount not to exceed 2. 1 million. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call items 15 and 16 together. Clerk items 15 and 16 are two resolutions that declare the intention of the city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness to authorization the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and to submit an application and related documents o the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate principle amount in an amount not to exceed 48 million for 500 through 520 turning street and 555 larkin street and item 16 an amount not to exceed 103 millio. Supervisor yee im sorry, on item 15, what was the amount you named . Clerk of the amount that i read out, mr. President , was 48 million. Supervisor yee thank you. Can we take these items same house same call . Without objection. These resolutions theyre adapted. Please call 17 and 18. Clerk items 17 and 18 are two resolutions that authorization the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to execute a local operating Subsidy Program Grant Agreement to provide operating subsidiaries for formerly homeless adult households for both agreements a term of 15 years and six months july 212,019th to december 31st, 2034. An agreement with 275 10 the street associate l. P. For services at bishop swing community house. For 5. 5 million and for item 18, a Grant Agreement with mayson street Housing Associates lp for services at 149 mayson Street Apartments and 149 mayson street in an amount not to exceed 18 million. Supervisor yee can we take these items same house same call without objection. Theyre adopted unanimously. Clerk item 19 to conduct four performance audits in fiscal year 20192020 and to amend the audit performance scheduled for 20182019 to remove the scheduled audit of the citys Workforce Development programs from low income homeless and formally homeless adults. Supervisor yee ok. Colleagues, can we take the same house same call. This motion is approved unanimously. Clerk item 20 is a resolution to term the premise to premise transfer of a type 21 off sale general beer, wine and distilled to Liquor License doing business as Cloud Kitchens and located at 475 6 the street will not serve the public convenience or necessity of san from and requesting the California Department of alcoholic Beverage Control deny the issuance of this license. Supervisor yee ok. Lets see. Nick wananybody want to speak o . Colleagues, can we take this item same house same call . Without objection this resolution is adapted unanimously. Madam clerk, that brings us to number clerk the committee reports, mr. President. Items 27 and 28 were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on monday july 9th but were not forwarded to the agenda to the and therefore are not before the board. Supervisor yee lets go to roll call. [ roll call ] colleagues, today i am introducing a resolution recognizing the harmful impacts of the institutionalization of the youth of language to refer to formally incarcerated people surgerying all agencies in departments of the city and county of San Francisco to adopted personfirst language. Examples of personfirst language includes, formally incarcerated person, currently incarcerated persons, returning residents, and justice involved person ininstead of convict, fell on and everyday this job reminds me this job as power. As part of the plan the city describes traffic fatalities as occurring during collisions instead of accidents. As settled difference on the surface but important recommend indications. And accident is a responsibility of the individual and the result of a mistake and a system that depends on perfect behavior to produce ideal outcomes. A collision on the other hand is considered through a Public Safety lens and addressed to a comprehensive Public Policy and labels such as fell on, convict, offender parolee assign fault to the individual implicitly accuse them of some moral failure. This language has a culture in which were content to deny employment, housing, healthcare and professional licensing. Today the United States leads the world incarceration locking up a larger share of population 1 5 california residents currently has a criminal record. Our economy depends on the labor of these currently incarcerated people to introduce everything from military equipment to mcdonalds uniforms and safety depends on the thousands of incarcerated people who put their lives on the line to fight last years devastating wildfires. According to the american bar association, our occupational and Business Licenses laws contain over 27,000 restrictions on formally incarcerated people and argues of exclusionary language only adds to the barriers they face. Changing the way we speak about these individuals is far from a cureall for the isle o i will thank you to his leadership, the department of corrections, the wash Ton Department of corrections inside the United States department of justice have all adopted resolutions committing to use people first language. This resolution would not have been possible without the hard work of eric hander son, paula hernandez, jose bernal and jeffrey morris. I want to thank the Reentry Council in which i have the privilege of serving alongside some of the San Francisco most dedicated public servants. The hope the board will adopt and take people convicted. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today i am introducing a resolution in support of California State Assembly bill 5. Sponsored by Assembly Woman lorena gonzales. Is passed through and going through the first Senate Hearing this week would cod fie a Supreme Court decision reclassifying many workers as employees. Late last month, supervisor mar and i held a passenger at the Public Safety neighborhood dg workers came out to share struggles making ends meet without a living minimum wage. Healthcare access of employees. During nearly two hour of public testimony, they asked to stand with gig workers by declaring our support for ab5. I hope you will join me in passing this resolution next week and would like to thank my co sponsors, supervisors peskin, and lee in his office who have the first draft of this resolution, id like to thank our labor partners who worked with my office on last months hearing as well as this resolution uf jobs with justice, the labor council, progressive Workers Alliance, the National Domestic Workers Alliance and gig workers rising and erin for her work on the hearing and this resolution. I also have id like us to end todays meeting in memory a founder of one valencia street beloved and longest restaurants and institutions. It was born october 17th, 1979 in mexico one of more 10 siblings, he put family first from an early stage in the 1950s he made his way to california before arriving in San Francisco. Together with his brothers, chewy, jose and pablo, he will opened mexico lindo a restaurant that highlighted their homemade recipes and in 1968, he bought the building at 546 and moved his family in upstairs and opened his own restaurant. At the time, people thought it was a mistake to open a restaurant on valencia street insisting he would lose everything. This didnt dissuade him and his family who proudly operated it for the last 50 years. He is a true pillar of the community who enjoyed helping others. He fed the hungry and provided shelter to those in need. When he met people looking for work he would find odd jobs to help them out and helped the neighbors secure a grow green c. He was a humble man who never went to school and built his successful Small Business on his own. He became much more than a restaurant offering walls to host local artists and lending support to communities events he passed away may 20th, 2019. He was a loving son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, fatherfather and his four childn manage the restaurant and keep his dream alive. May he rest in peace and power and may his memory be a blessing, the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues. Few months ago in march, supervisor fewer we release aid fivepoint Small Business protection and promotion strategy in front of the old gold spike restaurant on columbus avenue which has long been vacant due to a seismic retro fit and a question able Property Owner who doesnt live in the city and county of San Francisco. A lot has paid out in other publications with regard to what the root causes of vacancies are. The largely, if you read some of those articles, absent of actual Small Business owners voices. Although they do like to quote Real Estate Brokers who think the answer is more formula retail. So we continue to hear from brokers and Property Owners but the escalating concerns from the actual Small Business community are often kicked down the road and since march, my office has been convening real Small Businesses and their owners to hear directly from them and as the hurdles theyve been facing. One of the conclusions were coming to is that one of the chief obstacles is the incredible amount of fees that they have to pay and let me see some of those fees. A 2,000 fee for in respecting toilets, an 800 fee for operating a mobile food facility in addition to hundreds of dollars for the inspection of combustible materials. A 7,000 fee to operate a pawnshop. Thousands of dollars to operate as a tour guide and the list goes on and on. Theyre are actually 200 valid fees that a Small Business might be liable for. Today, im submitting a letter of inquiry to the Planning Department requesting data since january 1st of 2015 on the length of time from application to final approval to open a Small Business and also submitting a letter of inkawartha reto the Controllers Office as to each and every one of those fees that hopefully we collectively can right size. This is actually feeing our Small Businesses to death. Theres no fee as great as the rent being paid from Small Businesses which is precisely why i hope all of you will support for march of 2020 the much discussed vacancy tax that hopefully will charge Property Owners who do not exercise Due Diligence to reexercise the spaces. On other matters, im introducing another infusion of funding for this acquisition and rehab of 937 clay street which is a product of our 2016 Affordable Housing acquisition and rehab bond and proposition c and these funds continue to help preserve valuable Affordable Housing for the most vulnerable populations in the city and county of San Francisco. I do have an item for the impair tive calender which has been co sponsored by each and every one of you. I want to thank a few people. Theyre quite capable of council and theresa mueller, our mayor london breed, who joined with mayors la cardo and shaft in writing a letter opposing late friday evening amendments to Assembly Bill 1054 which is the is Assembly Bill being pushed by the Governors Office to deal with the wildfire cost and how the Electrical Industry going to be stabilized but on friday evening, amendments were added to that bill that would prevent San Francisco and other municipalities or at least hinder San Francisco and other municipalities from acquiring pg e infrastructure during their bankruptcy or after that bankruptcy by giving additional powers to the notorious california Public Utilities commission. I want to publicly acknowledge our state senators scott winger, who courageously fought that yesterday in committee and decented on the floor of the senate last evening. The was the only democrat in the California State Senate to do so. Theres still hope on the assembly side. I want to thank my co sponsors supervisors brown and ronen and since introducing this to the imperative calender were later on well have to make findings that this is truly imperative and it truly is imperative and he grows its imperative because we only came to know about this after the agenda was published and if we fail to act, harm could be done to the city and county of San Francisco before our next Board Meeting a week from today. Id like to thank supervisors brown and ronen and my staff lee heppner and the others for drafting this resolution supporting Assembly Bill 1054 only if amended to strike the amendments that undermine San Franciscos authority to acquire assets of embattled Public Utilities, pacific gas and electric and i want to thank each and every member of the board here today who have since affixed their names as co sponsors. This is a shared imperative between the executive and legislative branches so i want to thank you for that. Finally, i would like to adjourn the Board Meeting in the memory of neo mallak who you can read in sam whitings obituary who passed away at age of 85. Found dead in death valley looking for a gold mine but used to pop up at my house at 10 00 at night knocking on the front door dis shelved and full of history. We will miss you. They have followed a regulation allowed what they have called mixed status families. Families that include members who immigration status makes them inhe will age able pro mating the assistance to cover only those family members considered eligible but now hud has proposed a new rule that would lead to the eviction of more than 100,000 people across the country. The rule would force every person under 62 living in federally subsidized Housing Assistance to undergo immigration status screenings by the department of homeland security. And in a brutal reversal of existing policy, hud would not allow mixed status families to remain together. Instead, families would have two impossible choices. Breakup or leave their homes. Imagine a mom perhaps undocumented, but just as likely someone with a visa who isnt eligible for a subsidy living in public house what is throw house children. The grandmother who lives with them and takes care of the kids sun documented. So either they all go or grandma goes. Imagine having to chose again your family and your home. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development has project inside proposed rule would effect 164 deeply poor families in San Francisco. 680 people. Nearly half of them children. And its expect that many more who chose to leave out of fear. Ben carson justified the proposal rule by saying, its not that were mean hearted, its that were logical. You take care of your own first. The people he is attacking are our own. Our neighbors, our families. We cannot allow them to be turned out of their homes. I want to thank supervisors peskin, walton, mar, haney and fewer for co sponsoring this resolution and i hope you will join me in opposing this horrific potential policy change. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. Have safai. Id like to be added to supervisor ronens resolution along with supervisor mandelman that has to do with ab5. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. And supervisor walton. Thank you so much, madam clerk. Today i have introduction of a resolution and also a memoriam. Ill start with introduction of a resolution. Today i am introducing a resolution along with supervisor fewer to urge the office of Small Business to convene a Small Business economic Mitigation Working Group to outline economic mitigation measures and support of San Franciscos Small Businesses and mom and pop stores, corner stores, small grow sers and effecting bit e cigarette and flavored tobacco ban as well as other operational fees enacted by the city and county. This working group will be established in a next 60 days and would develop recommend recommendations. It would include but not limited to, one representative from the office of Small Business, one representative from the office of economic and Workforce Development, one representative from small Business Development center, one representative from the Small Business commission, the City Attorneys office, four Small Business representatives including one smoke shop representative, one Merchant Organization representative, two small grocer representatives, additional representatives may be sought from groups with expertise or experience in addressing or advocating for Small Business concerns. My office and supervisor fewer owes office is committed to helping our Small Businesses especially or mom and pop shops who have been effected by our recent legislation and we look forward to working together with the office of Small Business on this. I also want to add that our focus to ensure Small Businesses thrive is not just due to the prohibition of e cigarettes here in San Francisco. Its because the Small Businesses are the fabric of our communities. Thats what my colleagues and i put 5 million into mitigate the lost of revenue for businesses effected by construction projects, providing resources in the budget to enhance economic viability for commercial corridors and we will continue to help our Small Businesses be successful and i also want to thank supervisors brown and haney for their support of the workgroup. I want to end this meeting in memoriam of cesar cor nil yus young. He was born in Arkansas City arkansas. On october 27th, 1928. He was a world war ii and korean war veteran. After serving our country, mr. Young endeavored to better himself by obtaining a diploma from the pacific radio school in which he completed courses relating to theory and practice of radio and Television Servicing in 1955. In 1959, will young venture into entrepreneurship in the African American community. He was one of the first African American Business Owners in San Francisco. His First Business venture was in tv and radio repair. Although he had a shop located in the bay view district, he made house calls. By the mid 1960s, mr. Young had a chain of record shops under the name united records. Two in San Francisco and two in oakland, one in richmond, and one in va laio. United records featured artist of the time that greatly influenced the black community. In 1968, mr. Young went into the Small Grocery business and within the course of 10 years opened a series of Stores Within San Francisco. Mr. Young was a maverick of his time. Despite facing racism, and segregation, after serving this country wholeheartedly. He persevered against societal odds and he was truly one of the greatest men of the great of the generation. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. Mr. President , that concludes the production of new business. Supervisor yee thank you. Why dont we go to Public Comments at this point. Clerk the public may address the board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the juns and items 3137 on the adoption without reference to committee calender items. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole. Speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. If you would like to display document on the overhead projector, just let us know and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting and if you would. Thank you. President yee, madam clerk, members of the board of supervisors, supervisor peskin, it pains me to inform you theres an individual living in the same building that i reside who i feel is a grave danger to the north beach and china town communities. This individuals name is stephen schwartz. He lives in unit number 9 of 730 broadway. I live in unit number 19 of 730 broadway. Stephen schwartz is receiving the up or the of the john day ditto and sons real estate firm. Mr. San tino de la rose. He is engage in illegal activity against me. He engages in criminal activity. Stephen schwartz admitted to me from his own mouth that he was under f. B. I. Investigation. I recall upon congresswoman nancy pelosi to make sure a federal investigation is i call upon the newspaper. Thank you, next speaker, please. Ive demonstrated well over several times that im a fair man. I dont care what skin color you are, if you get violated in front of me im going to Say Something about it. If i have to do something in front of a judge i will. Im upset about the issue pertaining to people being shot and murdered by cops. This is an example of what im talking about. Here is a toy gun. This is a hispanic in san jose that was murdered by the cops. Mr. Guerrero. This is what he had on halloween night part of his costume. He was shot 20 times. Understand me, by several cops in ca san jose and he was paid 4. 95 million. Understand me. My point is, its the inassault on my intill against and if you think me pay mario woods mother 400,000 for her son being shot 21 god damn times by a set of racist cops, you got another god damn thing coming. Here is your chance to see how fair you are to rescind that judgment for 400,000 back to the City Attorney and pay ms. Woods a minimum of 4. 95 million just like the judge ordered the victim who was shot by Police Officers in san jose. Is that clear . And if one of your relatives was shot by a Police Officer in the same manner, and you got paid a small time 400 million i would be speaking up for you the same way. Is that clear. More demonstrations. Justified my statement is submitted to this board and called mr. Rights exhibit number one. Is that clear . Is there anybody out there object to that. Now, here i come again. This is about your mission. You are 600 million that is a good deal. Im push that and i dont care about you getting credit for it either but i want to make sure here in San Francisco. I am here in support of supervisors fewer resolution on dehumanizing language. Weve worked very hard on this language and i wanted to give you all a story of why this is so important. Weve all told a lie before. How would you like to be introduced as a liar prior to your name . That is what we do everyday when we talk about people as felons, convicts, yul juveniles. I wanted to read a quote by eddy eddy, a criminal justice advocate who passed away five years ago. Supervisor fewer mentioned him and he was the first to talk about the dehumanizing language that comes with the term fell on ask excon. He said the worse part of repeatingedly hearing your negative definition of me is i began to believe it myself. For a man think it in his heart so he is. It followed that calling me an inmate, a convict, a prisoner, a fell on or offender indicates a lack of understanding and of who i am but more importantly what i can be. And this non binding resolution tells you when you pass criminal Justice Reform bills to take a moment and use person first. Its easy to say offender. But its so much easier on the selfis steem of people to say previously incarcerated person or person who has committed a crime. Recognizing that they are a person and traditionally when we talkp  about the byrnes reportd racial dis parties, African Americans are impacted mostly by this kind of language. Again, thank you all. I see many other co sponsors came on and this was hard work and i appreciate it. Thank you. [ please stand by ] im here to share our support for the person for a language resolution. First are like to say the words of my fellow commissioner. It is an essential part of reclamation of the justice system. It motivates unbiased communication and is a step in fighting the tendency built into the justice system. The committee encourages the city of San Francisco to make their investment injustice evident in the word used throughout. I think she really says all, but in terms of us, actually the Reentry Council and supervisor viewer were very receptive in getting language to replace the word juvenile in this resolution , so we are very happy about that. Again, as youth, we dont want to be followed in every parts of our lives. We deserve a right to feel to move on and still feel empowered thank you so much and i hope to have your support for this resolution. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im speaking on behalf of [indiscernible] it is really bad. Please speak directly into the microphone. And q. They are determined to destroy yes. It wont be the same with us. They are waiting relentlessly. [indiscernible] we are the poorest of the poor, we cannot battle with this financial crisis. Our financial problems are compounded and cannot continue making these payments. We have no confidence in the sfmta because they broke it and are not sending money to us. We appreciate your support. Please buy back our medallions and get us rid of this misery. The supervisor Good Behavior is priceless to us. It could win over hundreds of hearts. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. Thank you