Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Okay. , good afternoon okay, good afternoon. Im sorry, what . Okay, good afternoon. Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, supervisor stefani is excused. So, madame clerk and colleagues, before we move on, i would like to do something a little bit different today and introduced to you a new segment to highlight the work of our city departments that are sometimes overlooked. Today we will have a short clip from whats next San Francisco, or whats next s. F. , produced by our Emmy Awardwinning team at San Francisco government t. V. , featuring the department of recreation and park and theyre wheelchair basketball program. Can we roll the clip . I got the hang of it a little bit from the first time. I never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask me twice. That is where you can always find me, on the court. [ ] thank you to some generous support for sports and recreation, we have been able to purchase approximately 12 athletic wheelchairs. This grant provides a really expensive tool to facilitate basketball, specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden skate war golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state. Led by its captain, chuck gill, it was a National Pair olympian and is now an assistant coach on the u. S. National team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. This is the main hub of the bay area which, you know, we should definitely have these resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i am looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that these resources are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied to be able to see and to try this sport and to appreciate just trying different things. People can come and check out the chairs to use them any time we have openings, but also friday evenings from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball. We will make sure the floor is available. That way people can no that other people can come into play at the same time. We always try to meet people where they are at regardless of any difference in ability. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusionary programming, but this is the first time we have ever had our own equipment and that enables us to do some important things. [ ] thank you. Thank you. You know, we often times are here to critique, criticize, or to try to get our departments to be more aware of issues that come from our home districts and throughout the city and we forget on a daily basis that our departments actually do a lot of positive things. I want to take the opportunity to maybe do this once a month where we have these short segments. I hope that you will provide some suggestions and some of the departments that you would like to see. I think it is important for the public to know how our tax dollars are being spent. Okay . So, thank you. Lets go to our approval for the Meeting Minutes. Yes, approval of the june 4 th, 2019 Board Meeting minutes. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from june 4th, 2019. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the a minute prove the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor fewer. Motion to approve without objection, these minutes will be approved after public comment. Madame clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda and call items one through five. Items one through five are considered routine, a single roll call vote will occur, otherwise discussion of an item will occur only if a member severs it to be considered separately. Okay. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk, please call the role. On items one through five. [roll call] there are ten imacs. Okay. Without objection these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item six is an ordinance to call and provide for special election to be held in the city on tuesday, march 3rd, 2020 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded debt of this city in the amount of 620. 5 million to finance the construction and seismic retrofitting of multiple facilities for earthquake safety and Emergency Response pursuant to california Government Code Section 43607 and 608. This item requires a vote. Okay. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item seven is an ordinance to appropriate approximately 12. 2 million in Public Utilities Commission Funds to appropriate to but 1 million from airport airport Commission Funds to d. Appropriate and re appropriate 304,000, approximately from the port Commission Funds and pursuant to charter section 9. 113 subsection c. , this ordinance requires a 23 rd vote of all members for the 12. 1 million in Public Utilities commission appropriations approval, 200 and 83,004 Airport Airport Commission reappropriation approval and 139,000 in Port Commission reappropriations. Chair peskin okay okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . This ordinance is finally passed madame clerk, please call item number 8. Item eight is an ordinance to amend the ministry to code to establish the cooperative living living opportunities for Mental Health loan fund and the Mental Health program to finance the acquisition of Residential Properties operated as communal housing for people with chronic Mental Illness and or Substance Use disorders. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection oh, i see supervisor safai. Sorry, you are moving so fast i almost missed it. Colleagues, i am in support of this amendment, this legislation today. I think it is very thoughtful. I wanted to add my name is a cosponsor, but just speaking to the sponsor of the legislation, i wanted to add one small piece of language on i am proposing an amendment on line 23, page 5 that would add the ability that there would be an appraisal of the Property Done before any purchase of the property, so that would just be four words after the word start with the Program Regulations shall address matters such as programs and fund administration, public and competitive processes to apply for loans, compliance with applicable laws and regulations, appraisal of the property affordability restrictions for the longest possible term. Those will use the funds underwriting the criteria and Transaction Processing documentation and compliance monitoring and enforcement. Okay. Any objection . I see there is a motion put forward by supervisor peskin. I think the actual provision in the code is pursuant to chapter 23 of the administrative code, but i will defer to council. Deputy city attorney. You are correct, supervisor peskin that chapter 23 addresses appraisal requirements for city purchases of property. This amendment will authorize the department to adopt regulations regarding appraisals under this program. Okay. Any other comments . While i have the floor, perhaps a relevant section of law that supervisor safai wants to refer to his chapter 23 of the administrative code. He said applicable law, the applicable law is that chapter. The current ordinance provides that the department will adopt regulations regarding compliance with applicable law and other issues including appraisals, Program Administration et cetera. So i think supervisor safais amendment hits the mark. For the president , i get it. Is there a second for that . Okay. If there is no objection, one can we take the amendment as stated . Okay. Motion passes. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call as amended . Without objection, this ordinance as amended is passed. On First Reading, mr. President. Thank you for the correction. This ordinance is passed as amended on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item nine is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the castro lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer cultural district in and around the castro neighborhood and to affirm the sequel determination. The sequel determination. Colleagues, can we take the same house, same call . Without objection this ordinance is finally passed. Madame clerk, please call items ten through 12 together. Okay. Item ten through 12, item ten is a resolution to determine and declare that the Public Interest and necessity demand Affordable Housing improvements and related costs necessary to be financed through bonded indebtedness in an amount not to exceed approximately 600 million, to authorize the 50 passthrough of the property tax increase to residential tenants under chapter 37 of the administrative code and to adopt the requisite findings. Item 11 is an ordinance that calls for and provides a special election to be held in San Francisco on tuesday, november 5 th 2019 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur the 600 million of bonded indebtedness for Affordable Housing improvements into and to adopt the appropriate findings. Item 12 is the motion to urge the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to update and amend the 2019 general obligation Affordable Housing bond report to reflect the increase to the bond amount update allegations of proposed funding and proposed amendments on prioritized issues pursuant to the california Government Code Section 43607 and zero eight. Item ten and 11 require eight votes. Thank you. As you know, in anticipation to this vote this morning, we had a little press Conference Rally out in front of the city hall steps. I want to think all the supervisors who attended the event because this really shows that we are working very closely with the mayor, not only the mayor, but also the community in presenting this bond measure. As you know, we started this discussion a few months back with a 300 milliondollar bond housing bond measure. Eventually people all agreed that we needed to grow it. The needs are much greater and much too great for us to not make it larger then the 300 million. I think with the urging of many of the members on the board of supervisors and with the mayor agreeing that we finally grew it to 600 million, and that is a good thing. Because of your efforts and your staffs efforts, we are going to be able to do a lot more than we had anticipated. Because of this, with the input of the Board Members, we have been able to secure funding to address the Housing Needs in neighborhoods that have not seen any net new Affordable Housing for many, many decades, and we have seen even more investment in Supportive Housing for those with chronic Mental Illness. We also have a callout for a very important population, housing for our Public School educators and staff. I am most proud of us seeing the diverse crosssection of the Community Partners who came together to help form this bond. With the help of our four Incredible Community cochairs, malcolm and others, they were able to engage in a robust discussion about the bigger picture. Housing is a Public Infrastructure issue. It is a Public Health issue, it is a social equity issue. Our roads, our parks Means Nothing if there are no residents here to enjoy them. We need to invest in ensuring existing Affordable Housing stock, but also bring in units that will be available to those who need it most. For the first time ever, and im so excited for this, there is a dedicated conversation about our aging population. Nearly half of our seniors cannot even qualify for Affordable Housing because they are on fixed incomes. We also have seniors who feel trapped in homes that they can no longer maintain, but are unable to move out because of scarce options. Only 12 of the housing in the pipeline for Affordable Housing was dedicated for seniors. Now we have 150 million in this bond to reverse this trend. In addition, this bond measure emphasizes that while we must invest in Public Housing units and build more extremely affordable units for our low income residents, there is still a growing need for our middle income households. If we want to keep our workforce and new families in San Francisco, we must do more to support these residents, too. The need will continue to be there after this bond, but we will be bringing 2800 units online. This is not a small feet. It shows that we can it shows what we can do when we roll up our sleeves and put our brains together. That is what we intend to do. After this board approves this bond measure, it will be in the hands of the voters in San Francisco. I hope we can keep this momentum going strong. The mayor and the board of supervisors, who dont always agree on everything, but for this one, this one particular issue, were coming together to make sure this bond passes overwhelmingly and i want to think you for being with us every step of the way. I would say, lets take the goal and lets get this done. Colleagues, i can see there are other supervisors who would like to make some comments. Supervisor mar . Thank you. I just wanted to briefly acknowledge and commend mayor breed and president and your staff and all the members of the Affordable Housing working group for all of the work that you brought in on this incredibly important bond measure. I would like to add im very pleased that it includes the importance of geographic balance of the criteria and allocation of Affordable Housing dollars to prioritize projects in district four and other districts that havent received their fair share of Affordable Housing over the years. I also wanted to highlight that from all of the input that i received from my constituents in district four, also very pleased that there is allocations not only for the different a. M. I. Levels for Affordable Housing, but specific populations that are a high priority including seniors and our educators. Finally, i just wanted to also comment that i think we can all agreed that while this is an incredibly important measure to move forward and 600 million of new investment is supported by housing, that, you know, it is clearly not enough. And all the difficult discussions that happened through the Affordable Housing working group and among Board Members about how to allocate that pie highlights the need for us to continue to look at other Revenue Streams or Revenue Sources so we can truly address the Affordable Housing crisis at the scale that it is and really something that is affecting, you know, all districts and all communities here in the city. I look forward to further work with colleagues on the board and other stakeholders at looking at other revenue proposals that we can come up with and finally i would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor ronen . Yes, thank you. This is so exciting. Congratulations to all of a sudden and especially to you, supervisor yee for fighting so hard to double the quantity of this housing bond. This is absolutely essential to create the Affordable Housing that we so desperately need for our working families. People exiting homelessness, seniors, and people with disabilities. I really wanted to take a moment to talk about the Immediate Impact that this will have on district nine. The mission, as you all know is continuing to be ground zero for displacement and i certainly, as a supervisor for the district, felt the organ urgency of the crisis every day. I was determined this bond would keep the pipeline of Affordable Housing Development Going and it will with two projects that havent Broken Ground yet. We will also use a portion of this bond to help and the crisis of People Living on our streets by dedicating funds for acquisition of small scale cooperative delivering just living spaces. I wanted to thank you, president yee because not only did you pay so much close attention to having making sure that all of our individual priorities were included in this bond, but you brought us a mayor and the community all together. I think it is really a testament to your fierce and elegant leadership and i am just so excited about it. Thank you so much and lets go win this thing. Supervisor haney . Thank you. I also want to echo my congratulations and gratitude to you for your leadership in bringing us together and representing us so well in this process. I know we had a conversation early on and we both agreed, well, if theres anything we can do to make this bigger, lets do it. So i really appreciate you and mayor breed and all the members of the committee for seeing that through and doubling the bond in terms of its size from where it was first proposed. I really appreciate that because as supervisor mar said, this process i think we realized how much need there is and how urgent this funding is, and how, you know, if we can have twice as much that we would still feel like we have a long way to go. I want to appreciate your leadership and mayor breeds leadership and our controller who i know, every time i see him i say goodbye. They were able to do that. It is really exciting because this will mean that hundreds of more people, thousands of people will have a place to call home, a stable and affordable place to call home, and it is an extraordinary thing, and life changing for so people. There are a number of projects in district six that are shovel ready that we that will be able to be built if this bond passes. I know we will do everything we can to make sure it passes in november, but this is one of those issues where as the district that has seen the large majority of a lot of the housing being built in the past, im very excited to see housing be built throughout the city as a result of this bond and the commitment to geographic equity and our shared commitment to the board is very exciting. I want to know there was a lot of work done to make sure we maintain our commitment to union labor and prevailing wage and really partner with labor in this process. I think this was a critical aspect that we were able to work through that and educate our housing, seniors, cooperative living, theres so much that is exciting about where we ended up last thing i wanted to say, we did have the need to secure additional ongoing funding. Through this process we have been able to identify where we would prioritize. I hope that we will put the Affordable Housing priority into our bond schedule moving forward so that, on a regular basis, we have an Affordable Housing bond and that we take advantage of things like the jobs housing linkage fee, which is also going to be coming up soon for us to secure hundreds of millions of more and Affordable Housing dollars. Thank you to all of my colleagues for your work on this i would like to be added as a cosponsor in this bond and we look forward to getting it passed in november. Thank you. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. I rise to also affix my name to this Obligation Bond as a cosponsor and salute you and your staff for your work and concur with the previous members of the board to salute the good work of the controller. I want to address one thing. It is the compromise that then supervisor tom made to have a 50 50 passthrough, capture by landlords, have shared by tenants, were indeed it was raised by the Tenants Union that that has actually turned out not to be equitable. I wanted to share with all of you that with the good work of mr. Rosenfield, i will be introducing legislation to make that right. If anybody from the Tenants Union is watching, you can join the forces of labor in supporting this because we are going to fix that little technical problem, which is, i never believed it because we always say that we retire as much debt as we issue, and therefore your marginal tax rate should not be going up, and therefore the past should not be going up, but it turns out that is not true, that it is fixable. It is fixable. That is another thing i wanted to say is that i just had the honor of coming from a ribboncutting of our newest Affordable Housing project with the mayor who has long been in the making. I was delighted to be there. Almost 200 units of Affordable Housing. Much of it for seniors, but i wanted to reflect on something because the controversy of the day is the notion that the bureaucracy and the input is slowing down the building. I wanted to say for the record, what is slowing it down is not community input. Everybody saluted the fact that neighborhood input made to the project back better. It is the lack of actual funding that is why i am affixing my name to this measure today because 600 million, over half a billion dollars of the public s money that we will all pay for it, that we will all work to get past this november, that is where the rubber hits the road, that is where we actually build Affordable Housing. And given that it takes a long time to raise those funds, we have time to have Good Community process and Good Community input , so lets not wreck what makes projects better and lets fund what builds these projects. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I just want to add my excitement about the bond and i want to thank president yee for working so closely with the Mayors Office, but also with our four cochairs from community who worked very hard to galvanize community and bring everyone together. I want to just say that 600 milliondollar of a bond is a big deal. I think people should really sit back and analyse how much 600 million is and how important the resources to finance Affordable Housing is. It is estimated at about 750,000 is what it takes per unit to build Affordable Housing , and that depends on what type of project and materials you use, but 600 million is a big deal. I want to make sure that everybody understands that it gives us the resources to revitalize our Public Housing, the resources to build more housing for seniors, the resources to have more marginalized populations, and i think that this is a testament to the prioritization from this board and from the leadership of the city that we are committed to building more and more Affordable Housing across San Francisco. And like supervisor morris stated, this is one thing that we are finding hard to do and make happen because there is a lot more work that we need to do as a board and as a city to address the issue, but like supervisor peskin, we can have all the land available, we can have we can go through all the process, but after financing , we cannot get the housing built. So this bond is a great deal. We need to thank everyone for working together, particularly for the geographic equity. As we know, a lot of the Affordable Housing is built in my district, as well as district six and district nine, and only highlights that because it is important that we continue to fight for our resources for us to build more Affordable Housing across the city so this notion of people trying to stop the building of housing or trying to somehow slow down that, you can see it is actually an unrealistic argument and the board has pushed hard to make sure that the 600 million was possible, which didnt start off at 600 million. As we know, it started off it half the size. Thank you. Supervisor safai . Thank you. I just want to echo a lot of the statements that were made. I also want to underscore the fact that i represent a part of town that there has only been one Affordable Housing project ever done, and that is for lowincome seniors. We have two phenomenal projects in the pipeline and we do have two phenomenal projects. One being done by mission housing, the others being done by Bridge Housing that will bring, for the first time, 260 units of affordable workforce housing, middle income housing, affordable in all of the senses of the word. We spent a lot of time in this chamber over the last two and half years as the economy has been raising, and the price of housing has been raging. To expand the definition of Affordable Housing, and who benefits from that Affordable Housing, we have a down payment loan assistance in this bond that will help firsttime homeowners compete in a market to be able to buy their first home and stabilize. Thank you supervisor fewer for pushing so aggressively to add additional funding in there for the acquisition of apartment buildings for the Small Program that is in here. Thank you to supervisor walton, haney, peskin, ronen, and also fewer and president yee for pushing for a fund for educator housing. We are doing some very phenomenal things in this bond and, you know, there is all also times where we stand up and pat ourselves on the back and say we are doing such a great job, but really, at the end of the day, the faster we can get this bond out there, the faster that we can get this approved and put it in front of a board, the faster we can construct Affordable Housing, the faster we are saving families and keeping our city divers and keeping the Economic Diversity of what makes this city special. I just want to say a shout out for parts of the city that have not seen Affordable Housing built in them, im very excited about that, as well as some of the other categories that we named. And lastly, thank you, president yee, thank you were pressing so hard for a fund that no other group has the ability, there is no other Funding Source for a net flow income seniors and lowincome seniors will be a big beneficiary of this as we have a strong aging population. Im super excited that this bond is going to to have unanimous support of this body and that we will quickly move this to the ballot and see it past. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor brown . Thank you. I want to echo a lot of what people have said but i also want to thank you for really working with our mayor to get this bond right and doubling the money. It is not enough. We know that. We need more money, but it is a good start. I think when we are looking at building Affordable Housing, i have five sites sitting in my district that have been waiting. Eight of them have been waiting for over eight years to have Affordable Housing being built. One is the transitional age to youth housing which we so desperately need. I am excited that this is moving through and the possibilities to have, you know, to build Affordable Housing, but also to buy existing buildings. I was fortunate enough just a few months ago to buy a building in haightashbury, seven units. They were beautiful apartments and the people that we saved in there, a lot of them are seniors a few of them had absolutely nowhere to go if they lost their place. For me to be able to buy existing buildings and keep people in the homes and the neighborhoods that they love and that they have weaved into the fabric of that neighborhood is so important. So to have a pot of money more than what we have now to buy existing buildings to keep people in place is really, that preservation is so important, but also Public Housing. This money will be used for Public Housing, which i think its really important because we have to remember that we have a lot of Affordable Housing within our Public Housing and our h. U. D. Housing out there. I am just really happy right now that with all the combinations, everyone in this room has been fighting to make sure that we have a right partnership when we are looking at the 600 million, and moving forward, i think it will be a lot easier for us because i think we see a pathway , and i just want to thank everyone. Thank you. Supervisor fewer . Thank you. I just want to say, in the words of my legislative aide, this is a good thing. I think this is a really good thing for all of San Francisco and longoverdue. I respectfully ask that pain that my name be added as a cosponsor. Thank you for your leadership. It doesnt happen often, but when it does, democracy is a wonderful, wonderful thing that we have heard from everybody, that all of us have come together to work for a problem that has been hanging over us in San Francisco and we are finally putting money where our mouth is i want to say congratulations to everyone. Thank you for your leadership and thank you all, colleagues. I want to add my thanks and congratulations to all who have gotten us to this point and my preemptive gratitude to all the folks who have been working so hard between now and november to get it over the finish line. Great work. Thank you for your comments from all of you. I just want to reemphasize that there wont be any increasing the tax on the property. We made sure of that in terms of how much we could do that, how much we could actually put on the bond measure. And a lot of that was the analysis of the controllers office. Thank you very much. He probably isnt paying attention. He is going to get fired. [laughter] no, thank you for your work on the bond measure. [laughter] i also want to say that one of the biggest pushes that we did was for the capital plan that the housing piece of this now, we are actually going to make this be part of the capital plan it will be they will be regular housing bond measures in the future, and i am glad that supervisor peskin mentioned that little correction that needed to be made. It is kind of coincidental. When i looked at it more carefully today, just at my final reading, this was passed through with 50 . And in my mind, i said, i guess that means there shouldnt be any increase, and i stand corrected. It seems like, i mean in the past maybe people have kept on increasing it and they shouldnt have, so i would love to lend my office to help with that. I think it needs to be corrected if i may, mr. President , our controller has to do with the fact that in the old days we did not pass them through, and as we were retiring the debt, 100 was passed through and that is what was impacting the baseline for tenants today. It is a relatively easy fix. I have actually discussed it with both landlords and tenants, creating a hardship exemption i think will be expected by all of the parties. Thank you very much for that. Okay, i think this is one of the few times where we have, on a piece of legislation, the mayor and all 11 supervisors as cosponsors and i thank you need to appreciate what happened. Thank you very much, my colleagues. Can we take this same house, same call . Without objection then the resolution and Everything Else is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, i think we need to go im sorry. I think this is First Reading, isnt it . Yes, the ordinance is being passed on First Reading. The resolution should be adopted thank you for correcting that madame clerk, can we go to our 2 30 p. M. Commendations . We have four commendations. Supervisor peskin, brown, walton , and mandelman. Okay. Supervisor peskin, would you like to present your commendation . Thank you mr. President. I actually really would like to present this. This individual i have known for almost 20 years, and when i met her, she worked for the city and county of San Francisco for almost 20 years, which is to say that miss omalley, a new her under a different name 20 years ago, has worked for the department of Public Health for 38 years. During this time, lisa worked as an environMental Health inspector, senior environMental Health inspector, and when she retired a couple of weeks ago, she retired as the manager of one of the citys food districts this is actually some of the toughest work. We honor first responders, we honor people who do incredible work like clean our sewers, but Health Inspectors have it really , really tough. Lisa was in charge of much of the district that we have represented on and off for the last 20 years. North beach and chinatown. She was absolutely instrumental in increasing the health and Safety Standards within chinatown, outside of chinatown and i have to say, despite the irrational fear of the government and Health Inspectors in particular, particularly in the Restaurant Industry, lisa is incredibly regarded by the community because she understands the local business culture, the local culture, the practices, she is fair, she is patient, accommodating and takes no shit. I rarely use words like that but that will summarize lisa. She was so thought of in the community that she was invited to be the grand marshal of the Chinese New Year parade which says a lot. She always had the sense to call me to say, im shutting down a restaurant in your district and your phone is about to ring, but i knew everyone would start screaming at me and rose would say she called and did the right thing. She is a legendary fixture at the department of Public Health, as patient as she is with ignorant owners, she is equally, and i mean it, no nonsense when dealing with selfserving operators who intentionally avoid doing the right thing, the legal thing and the healthy and safe thing. At 5foot two and 110 pounds, which is just about my size in wait, lisa can lisa, where are you, come on up here. [applause] you are a force of nature when it comes to protecting the public. Here is lisas infamous winwin question. There are a couple of them. One is, this is of course, a hearing with an alleged offender this is lisa. I am appalled at the conditions in your restaurant. After reading the report and reviewing the photos, how many days a week are you at your restaurant . The operator says, i am only there a few times a week. To which lisa says, well, there you are. How can you be expected to be responsible for a restaurant if you dont commit to be there on a regular basis . Look at these disgusting photos. Or, alternatively, the operator says, i am there without fail, to which lisa says, really, you are there were there every day . It is negligent. Look at these disgusting photos. Whatever the operator, the alleged offending operator chooses, lisa ensures that the operator admits fault, takes responsibility for the conditions of the restaurant, and most often, lisa and her team doesnt shut them down. A little bit of education and they are back on line in a few hours or maybe overnight when they call people in, and as a respected manager, she is remarkably, was remarkably, and im sure will continue to be a remarkably will be remarkably committed to her staff that she mentored, and loved her, and she would bring them all together for lunch is, and occasionally i would have the honor of being invited. Under her leadership, she was instrumental in establishing the first online food application and the entire state of california and has been recognized by the California Council environMental Health directors as the winner of the food Safety Leadership award in 2015, and most importantly, i have her 100 clean record in my kitchen, which he actually never inspected. And after four decades, she decided to enter her retirement last month where she will finally enjoy spending some time with her family and her newly born twin grandchildren. I wanted all of you to know that i introduced a piece of legislation last week and the last week before last. It will change the restaurant Rating System to green, yellow, red, which i think the Restaurant Industry or Restaurant Owners will appreciate, and lisa, it makes good sense. It is used in many other counties in the bay area. Lisa, from the bottom of my heart, i wanted to thank you for your decades of tireless, mature , and constructive commitment to the people of San Francisco and i love you very, very much and i want to give you a certificate of honor and some flowers, but first, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, supervisor peskin. I appreciate working with you and having you understand the important work that the environMental Health inspectors do every day to protect your Public Health. They are a great team of inspectors and we dont just regulate, we enforce and we empower businesses and therefore empower communities. It started out and chinatown but we do it citywide and the inspectors, thank you for the recognition. This isnt really just for me, it is for the great work that they do every day. Thank you, and think all of you. [applause] thank you. Before i give you the certificate of honor and these flowers, i just want to say lisa suffered many epidemiologists and Department Heads and survived with valour and honor. [applause] thank you. Supervisor brown, please present your commendation now. Thank you. It sounds like a day of retirement for people who have been in the city a long time. Today i am commending Elizabeth Murray who is retiring this month from 38 years of services to the city and county of San Francisco at the war memorial and performing arts center. Forty years ago, Elizabeth Murray began her career of service to the citys arts and Performance Community as a secretary at the louise Symphony Hall construction project. In 1982, she joined the war memorial as executive secretary to the board of trustees an assistant managing director. She has guided the war memorial to most consequential a longstanding commitment to preserving the War Memorial Building has enabled millions of people, as well as the patrons of ballet, opera, symphony, and Chamber Music to benefit from the Historic Resource at the heart of San Francisco. Over the years, elizabeth has also shaped the structure and growth of the war memorial workforce, engaging directly with employees in helping them to develop a sense of occupational pride in their work she has truly proven her worth as a leader, as head of the war memorial serving under seven mayors, wow, seven, and guiding the war memorial through major Capital Improvement projects, economic recessions, presiding over unprecedented periods of growth and success. The residents of San Francisco, as well as anyone who comes to visit our city and as landmarks are indebted to keep the war memorial open and available for all. Today we recognize her skill, her leadership and her vision for the San Francisco war memorial. And to extend to her the best wishes as she is entering a welldeserved retirement. Elizabeth, please come up. Elizabeth, before you say something, there is supervisor peskin who would like to make a comment. Thank you. Having been on two tours of duty with you and your department and others, i really want to salute to you. I thought that project would never actually happen despite beens rosenfield deep commitment to it. Congratulations for getting it done in stewarding that incredible resource for all of these many decades. Thank you. I am very grateful. I thank you so much. My job has been a gift to me. It is a labor of love. I didnt always have a great relationship with band, but i do understand i was persistent and i did want to get i thank you very much. [applause] i lastly, we have supervisor mandelman. Would you like to present the commendations . I would pick one of the privileges is getting to present the demon family and today i want us to honor her. [applause] she was born in chicago, moved to the west coast shortly after. She spent most of her youth in the bay area, graduating from high school before earning her bachelors degree in social work from the university of the pacific. She met her husband, who when he retired was the longestserving judge in San Francisco history. [applause] they were married one year later she conditions with food runners which works to alleviate hunger by turning over 17 tons of leftover food into 20,000 meals a week for sa san franciss in need. Shes best known of a tireless supporter of the local democratic party. Where she has helped many local candidates get there are start in politics