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Good afternoon and welcome to july 16th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the. [roll call] please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum okay. , we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our okay, we will get started in a second. I need to talk to our city attorney. Sorry about that. I think we cold will call already. Okay. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government television, michael and maja, who record each of our meetings and make their transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, i have a communication from the office of supervisor gordon mar. He is expecting not to be of the Board Meeting today and requests to be excused. Okay. Could i have a motion from supervisor stefani and seconded by supervisor. Without objection, supervisor mar is excused. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the june 11th, 2019 Board Meeting and the minutes from the june 13 th 2019 special meeting at the budget and Committee Budget and finance committee. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing then, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Motion made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor brown then without objection, those minutes will be approved after public comment. Madame clerk, please call the first item. Item one is an ordinance to call and provide for 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 600 million of bonded indebtedness for Affordable Housing improvements and to adopt the appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Colleagues, as i mentioned it last weeks Board Meeting, it has been brought to my attention that even though since the days that a supervisor enacted legislation to have all of our general Obligation Bonds have 5050 passthrough his, indeed, in some cases, general Obligation Bonds are being passed through to tenants and all in all of our districts that are actually raising their rent. This did not make sense at first to me because the whole concept is that we are issuing as much debt as we are tiring, and our marginal property tax rate therefore is not going up, so presumably there should not be any increased passthrough his to tenants. But as it turns out, because, and our controller can give you his lovely graph, we have debt that preexists that 5050 passthrough. That is not always the case. And to that end, and because we want uniform support for this Affordable Housing bonds on our november ballot, i indicated last week that i would be introducing legislation that would include hardship provisions for tenants. This is very commonplace. It is commonplace on utility passthrough is, it is commonplace on operating passthrough his, and hopefully it will soon be commonplace for general Obligation Bonds. I have discussed this with representatives of the tenants community and the landlord community and hopefully this will be accepted by everyone and we will have uniform support for this measure. To that end, i have passed out each and every one of you members and amendment at pages ten and 11 to add a new section 18 which would read, landlords may passthrough to residential tenants under the rent stabilization arbitration ordinance, administrative code chapter 37, 50 of any property tax increase that may result in the issuance of bonds authorized by this ordinance. Here is the operative sentence, the city may a ordinances authorizing tenants to seek waivers from the passthrough is based on financial hardship. So i would like to make that amendment, continue this one week to a committee of the whole and then vote for this on second reading at our last meeting this month. By way of disclosure, this would make this measure the late measure. I want everybody to be aware of that going into this, and i hereby make that motion that i have described to item number 1. Supervisor brown . I would like to sign on, please. I will consider that a second you are just going to second . This is an amendment. Okay. There has been a motion made and seconded by supervisor brown. Roll call. [roll call] there are ten aye. Okay. Even though this will delay the final vote for the bottom measure it is a it is continue to a committee of the hole. I understand. I just want to Say Something. Is that okay with you . So the good thing is that we still have enough time to still put it on the ballot. So, supervisor peskin, you just made a motion to continue. I would like to make a motion to continue this to a committee of the whole for next week, july 23rd, please. Okay. Is there a second for that . Supervisor mandelman. Can i take this same house same call as amended . Okay. Motion passes to continue this item. That would be on First Reading, mr. President. Yes. Okay. Could we go to item number 2. Item two is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the cooperative living opportunities for the Mental Health loan fund and the program to finance the acquisition of Residential Properties operated as communal housing for people with chronic Mental Illness and or Substance Use disorders. Okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this is passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please go to items three through seven. Item three through seven comprised five ordinances that authorize settlement of the following lawsuits. Item three is settling a lawsuit filed by Joseph Alvarado against the city for 175,000, filed on september 6, 2018. It involves an alleged personal injury on city streets. Other material terms are a waiver of the San Francisco General Hospital lean and further appropriates the amount for the Public Utilities commission Wastewater Enterprise Fund balance. Item four, authorizes the settlement of the lawsuit filed by gwendolyn woods against the city for 400,000, filed december 11th, 2015 in the United States district court, lawsuit involves alleged civil rights violations. Item five settles the lawsuit filed by margo grant against the city for 175,000, filed on october 20th, 2017 in the United States district court, Northern Division of sand of california and involves an employment dispute. Autumns item six authorizes assessment through dixie against the city for 125,000, filed october 23rd, 2017 in San Francisco superior court and involves alleged medical negligence and item seven authorizes settlement of the lawsuit filed by general washington against the city for 40,000 from generally fifth, 2016 he San Francisco superior court. And involves an alleged personal injury sentences go General Hospital. Can we take these items same house, same call . Without objection, these ordinances are passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the budget items eight to 24. Eight through 24 beginning with item eight, is the budget appropriation ordinance to appropriate all estimated receipts and expenditures for departments of the city as of june first, 2019. Item nine is the annual salary ordinance. New positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for fiscal years ending june 30th, 2020 and june 30th 2021. Item ten is the ordinance to adopt the neighborhood beautification and graffiti cleanup. Item 11 is the ordinance to authorize refunding certificates of participation for multiple Capital Improvement project not to exceed 100. Item 12 is an ordinance to appropriate refunding certificates of participation for 160 million to places place these funds on rollers was there. I can 13 is the ordinance to amend the fire code to increase certain Fire Department fees. Item 14 is to amend the park code to permit the recreation and Park Department general manager to said guest docking fees at the marina small craft harbor. Item 15 is the ordinance to amend the park code regarding nonresident fees a certain specialty attractions. Item 16 is the ordinance to amend the park code for temporary surcharges at the japanese tea garden. Item 17 is the ordinance to amend the administrative code, eliminating fines for Overdue Library materials. Item 18 is resolution to approve the fiscal year 2019 through 20 budget for the office of Community Investment and infrastructure. For fiscal year 2019 through 2020 budget. Item 19 is resolution to concur with the controllers establishment of the Consumer Price index for 2019 and to adjust the access line text by the same rate. Item 20 is a resolution to concur with the controller certification item 21 is a resolution to authorize the Planning Department to accept and expend 625,000 from the California Department of housing and Community Development for a Planning Grant program fund. Item 22, resolution to accept and expend grants funds for the department of Public Health. Item 23 is a resolution to approve the fiscal year 2019 through 2021 expenditure plan for the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, and item 24 is a resolution to authorize the San Francisco Public Library to accept and expend an 808,000 grant of inkind services, cash money from the friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Supervisor viewer . Thank you. I would like to take this opportunity to speak a little bit about the budget and this budget process for 2019. I would like to first thank the board, the mayor, the Mayors Office, my fellow supervisors on the budget committee. He Office Clerks office, especially long advocates and community organization. I think in the beginning it was daunting. So many city budgets is only asks. In fact, over 400 million in community asks. I would like to especially thank Tracy Bullard who was the backbone of this process, working closely with departments , advocates, the Mayors Office in the offices of other supervisors. I want to appreciate my legislative aides were holding it down well we were deep in the budget stuff. And to thank all of the aids of the offices for their support. Chelsea and i both learned a lot during this process, but the biggest lesson was how dependent san franciscans are on a budget that serves them well and reflects the values of our city. I would also like to recognize cameron . Patrick for her hard work and collaboration, as well as sophia kittler, also our hardworking budges late budget legislative office and ever controller, and his team. It takes a team to deliver an astounding budget, and i was honored to be part of the team. Many thanks to john gibbon are for all those hours of public testimony and reading of the budgets to make sure that we were legally sound, and i would like to thank all the Public Servants, in particular the Department Heads for their honorable work that they do every day to serve the residents of San Francisco. Public service is not only noble employment, it is imperative to have Public Servants who deliver City Services to the residents of our city. You, the workers of the city and county of San Francisco are the machine that makes the city run every day. Thank you all again, and especially to president you for forwarding these opportunities to serve the city and this board in the capacity of budget chair. Inc. You. Budget chair fewer, i really want to personally thank you in public. I think more than that, just the process that you took us through was very smooth. I know it was a lot of work on your staff to make that happen, and there was open discussions, and there were a lot of needs, as you pointed out. At the end of the day, we were able to put a budget together that actually provided resources for many of the needs that we feel are very important to us and to our residents in San Francisco and i really also want to appreciate the Mayors Office and her staff, and ben rosenfield, and also harvey rose s b. L. A. s office. They sat with us throughout the whole process and im really glad that we got it done. Today we would not be able to vote on it, unfortunately because we have to continue our items, and so thank you very much, supervisor viewer. Now, these items are all related to the budget, and since we introduced it at the same time, even though some may not need to be continued, and im talking about items eight through 24, i would like to have a motion to continue all these items to week , two next weeks july 23rd meeting. There is a motion made by supervisor mandelman and seconded by supervisor brown. Can i take this same house, same call . Then we will continue all these items eight through 24 until next week. Madame clerk, please call item number 25. Item 25 is a resolution to amend the budget legislative Analyst Services contract to enact a threepoint 2 costofliving adjustment effective july 1st, 2019, to exercise a final twoyear option and increase the total contract amount to 18 million from genui, 2014, through december 31st, 2021. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item 26 is an ordinance to retroactively approve an agreement between the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and the California Independent system operator for Reliability Coordinator Services , for an initial 18 month term through july 6th, 2020, to suspend the administrative code section 21. 9 , subsection b. , to authorize automatic renewal of Contract Term in excess of ten years without returning to the board for authorization, and a maximum cost not to exceed 3 million. Okay. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. I just would like to note that i have been briefed as to the retroactivity by the department of the Public Utilities commission and understand and support the retroactivity in this item. Okay. Then colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, hall the next item twentyseven is a resolution to retroactively approve the six amendment to the revenue agreement between public works and jc to co for an automatic Public Toilet and Public Service program to extend the contact Contract Term by 166 days and extend the termination date to june 30th, 2019. Can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Please call 28 through 30 together. Twentyeight through 30 are being called together. Item 28 as a resolution to provide for the issuance and sale of city general Obligation Bonds for the embarcadero seawall earthquake safety. Item 29 is a resolution to authorize the issuance and sale of 50 million in aggregate Principal Amount of city general Obligation Bonds and to make the appropriate findings for both items 28 and 29, and for item 30 , an ordinance to appropriate 50 million of this series 2019 be embarcadero seawall earthquake safety general Obligation Bond proceeds to the port of San Francisco in fiscal year 2018 through 2019. Colleagues, can we take these items same house, same call . Without objection, these resolutions are adopted and the ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please call item 31 and 32. Item 31 and 32 are two resolutions at approved agreements, item 31 a proves the cargo facility lease between China Airlines limited and the city for space in airport building 648 and adjacent ramp space on plot ten for an initial term of one year with two when your options to extend for an annual base rent of 1 million. Item 32 is a resolution to approve a 2011 lease and use agreement between the city and iberia to conduct light operations at San Francisco through june 30th 2021. Can we take these same house, same call . These resolutions are adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 33 is a resolution to authorize the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to apply for the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program from the California Department of housing and community for approximately 1. 8 million. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . This resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Thirtyfour is resolution to authorize adoption of the San Francisco Mental Health services act annual update for fiscal year 2019 through 2020. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . This resolution is adopted unanimously. Next item, please. Thirtyfive is a resolution to approve an amendment number 4 to a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Agreement for preliminary design and environmental services, Power Transmission project with Urs Corporation americas to increase the amount for a total not to exceed 11. 5 million, a total duration of 11 years and eight months and to execute a name change from u. R. S. Corporation americas to u. R. S. Corporation. Can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call item 36. Thirtysix is a resolution to approve the Fourth Amendment to a contract between the Municipal Transportation Agency and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority for Transbay Transit Center Program Services to extend the term through december 31st, 2019 and to reallocate funding within task budgets at no additional cost. Can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 37 is a resolution to approve amendment number 2 to the agreement between richmond area Multi Services inc. And the department of Public Health for behavioral Health Services through the peer to peer programs, to increase the contract amount for a total amount not to exceed 28. 3 million and to extend the term for a total term through june 30th, 2021. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . This resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Thirtyeight is a resolution to approve and authorize the director property to acquire Real Property located at 1515 south van ness avenue from lnc San Francisco holdings for a purchase at 19 million to construct Affordable Housing, adopting findings that the conveyance is consistent with the general plan and to execute documents to make certain modifications and take certain actions in furtherance of the Purchase Agreement and to assume a lease in Certain Service contracts. Supervisor ronen . Thank you so much. When i took office two and a half years ago, i inherited an appeal of the luxury Apartment Building that was first proposed for this site. The community was appalled at the shockingly low numbers of affordable units included in the initial proposal. They appealed and i was able to bring them together with members of the community and they reached an agreement that doubled the number of b. M. R. On site. The appeal was withdrawn on the project was approved. That was in march of 2017, but despite been fully entitled, the project did not start construction. Ultimately, the developer decided they didnt need the project expectations of the investors and opted to sell and move on. So here we are, a true win for the community, another 150 units of Affordable Housing in district nine. This purchase was made possible by a 5 million jumpstart grant from that former supervisor, david compost that was secured directly from the state when he served on m. T. C. , which is the first regional investment of its kind to recognize the link between transportation and Affordable Housing. We now are considering how to activate the vacant billions building for the immediate term a temporary arts, cultural, and services, and im excited that in the future will be choosing communitybased nonprofit to develop the site to build the affordable units that district nine and the whole city so desperately needs. I wanted to thank and give so much credit to kate hartley and mohcd stuff for the work to complete this purchase and to Mission Housing activists who never give up. Thank you so much. Thank you. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 39 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to accept and expend 5 milliondollar grant for the metropolitan Transportation Commission for the Affordable Housing jumpstart Grant Program through june 30th , 2029. Can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 40 is an ordinance to amend the environment code to raise the amounts stores style charge for checkout bags from 10 cents to 25 cents per bag to require that precheckup backs provided by customers before they reach a point of sale be recyclable or compostable and to affirm the secret determination. Supervisor brown . Thank you. I would like to first thank my cosponsor, supervisor peskin and safai, and the department of environment. This legislation updates and strengthens our checkout back ordinance. In 2012, we were the first city in california to introduce the checkout bag charge. We have been a leader when it comes to plastic and 20 waste and we are still struggling to reduce waste. San francisco generates 3 million tons of waste a year. Despite our efforts to date, this amount continues to grow. We are recycling and composting with the best of them, but it is now clear that we will never achieve our zero waste goals if our consumption and generation continues to grow. We need to change. We need to make refuse the new recycling. In 2012, the sent San Francisco was the first sitting california to implement a 10cent charge on all bags at checkout, including paper, plastic, and reusable bags. Since we have implemented the checkout bag charge, many other california cities have followed suit. And today, a dozen other cities in california have mandated a checkup bag charge higher than 10 cents. The cities of san mateo, santa cruz, monterey, pacifica charges 25 cents, as to the counties of san mateo and santa clara. It is time for us to do the same this legislation proposes to increase our bag charge from 10 cents to 25 cents, effective july 1st, 2020. This legislation also takes a new step in combating plastic waste. It requires that precheckout bags such as produce or bulk item bags provided to the customer prior to checkout are composed double or made of recycled paper. These are the bags that you might see the produce aisle to back up loose foods or vegetables. They are typically clear in color, made of polyurethane or other plastic film and are extremely thin. They are also very difficult to recycle or reuse. Recently, some businesses have been using noncombustible green bags green plastic bags in the produce aisles. People think they are being responsible environmentalists because they compost, but they are actually being fooled by these types of plastic bags. These types of plastic bags absolutely screws up our composting. If passed, starting july 1st, 2020, the single use plastic produce bags will no longer be allowed to be provided to customers at stores and including farmers markets. It is time for us as a city, as a leader on the environment, to step up. We only have this once 80, this one planet, and it is all on us. Thank you. Thank you. Madame clerk, can you call the. [roll call] code can you call roll call. [roll call] there are ten imacs. Okay. This item this resolution is adopted unanimously. It is an ordinance. Thank you. This ordinance is passed on First Reading. Why dont we go to before we go to commendations, lets take item 41. Item 41 is a resolution to declare the intent of the board of supervisors to order the street vacation for the entirety of seawall lot 337 and setting a hearing date for the board of supervisors to sit as a committee as a whole on september 3rd, 2019 at 3 00 p. M. For all persons interested in the proposed vacation and publicservice easements to come and provide the public comment. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go to our 2 30 p. M. Commendations. Yes, mr. President. I believe i have two. One from supervisor fewer and one from supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin, would you like to go first . Thank you. Colleagues, today i have the distinct pleasure of recognizing a woman who is almost half a century career in the newspaper business has seen the industry adapts to no shortage of dramatic change. This kind of institution is such a gift for San Francisco, so i would like to bring leah up to the podium and just take a moment to reminisce about the adventures of San Franciscos. [cheering] premier print informant and influencer here in the peoples house. Welcome to leah guard check. [applause] she started her career as a clerical worker 47 years ago at the San Francisco chronicle before the industry was driven by cliques and digital circulation and then started her writing career as a columnist in 1984 when i was still in college her colleagues have spoken about her den mother qualities, as well as the inspirational and intentional work she has done to pave the way for other women writers and journalists. She spoke recently on a show about the readers critiques she often faces a being too positive and overly optimistic. I have to say, this is a brand of journalism that should be celebrated at a time when most headlines can sink readers into a perpetual state of depression. I also find that positivity quite impressive for someone who has been described as being perpetually on deadline. Leah joins the ranks of great San Francisco news folk such as a hurricane, stanton della plane , charles mccabe, and others, all of whom she knew and worked with. She has managed to capture the quintessential San Francisco moments in words, in vignettes that bring our daily lives and city identity into truly lovely focus. She has been she has a full list of favorite columns over the years, but a couple stand out for me based on their ties to the corner of the safety that city that i live in. There are many. I had my interns scrubbed them. One of them that i remember, and this is from, i dont know if you remember this, but this is from almost 15 years ago, she describes the eclectic chaos of larry coffeys barbershop, watering hole, a top russian hill by swims ands a screen, with vivid recall in a touching obituary and tribute to larry that also highlighted the things that i personally love most about this city and its archipelago of villages. That is how the neighbors that check in on one another and take care of one another, and how leah managed to boil that down by writing about the neighbor that found him with his lights on after he had a heart attack, because it really is about the Larger Network of community and friends and family, which leah quite ably expressed by saying that larry was as messy as his address book, and the word spread, and he was honored in high fashion by the Italian Athletic Club after her column was published. You have celebrated the literary genius of Lawrence Getty on occasion of his 100th birthday , not long ago, and even reported on my official request to city administrator kelly at the behest of my staff to illuminate city hall in royal purple tribute to the memory of the one and only prints after his passing. But it was your last column that both broke my heart and restored my faith in the powers of journalism, storytelling, and community correspondence. You reflected upon your readers or genuine love and gratitude and affection for the invitation , as you pointed, to break bread with us at breakfast you havent just been a storyteller engaged in a oneway discourse, you have been a confidant and trusted penpal, engaging us all in a real conversation about our city. What a special and intimate relationship that we have two thank you for. On behalf of the board of supervisors, leah, thank you, and i also want to say thank you to jury, your loving husband, who has supported you for all of these many years. You two are both mentioned is, and i know that all of my colleagues share in that. On behalf of the board of supervisors, i wanted to give you the opportunity to say a few words and present you with this highest commendation. Thank you, leah garchick. [applause] i am absolutely thrilled and touched. I have never been here to see anybody else, so i am honored. I had no idea what to expect. This is such a detailed remark and your poor Office Workers being asked to hunch over my scribblings, as though they were doing readings. I am very touched. I am kind of dazzled to be in this beautiful room where i dont think, in all these years in San Francisco, i have ever been, and im not sure about this library. I cant help sitting there and being both the honoree and a citizen of San Francisco. I never i tried not to wax poetic about the city of San Francisco, but i live here, as all of you do, and i am proud and happy to be a citizen of this complicated and deliriously happy and blissful he said city at the same time. Thank you. It can bailey sends his regards. Okay. Supervisor peskin, before you go, supervisor brown i just wanted to also give my comments. You are a district five resident , so leah, thank you very much, both you and jury. I always enjoyed talking to you, especially your street fair at the d. M. V. Heights, as you call your neighborhood, which i think is hysterical and very appropriate, but, you know, you also admired youre admired in the city not only for women journalists and writers, but for all women. You hit a Glass Ceiling and push through it. I just want to say thank you. All of us are looking forward to your next gig because you told me you would still be writing. Oh, yes,. Absolutely. Well be waiting for that book, but thank you so much and i appreciate all your work as a writer and as a Community Person , also. Thank you. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. So i would like the next person i will call up to Say Something is not doing a commendation, but he wants to recognize somebody special in the room. Supervisor safai. Thank you. I just wanted to take a moment to recognize my son and daughter and mother and motherinlaw. Thank you for coming today and thank you for joining us. [laughter]. Thank you, president e. [applause] dont worry, i will make sure that your dad behaves. [laughter] so next up for commendation will be supervisor fewer. Colleagues, please join me in welcoming director ed ruskin to the podium. [applause] ed has been a true and tireless Public Servant for the residents of San Francisco for the past 12 years. He has always had an open door policy and has been present and accessible in the community. I have seen him on early mornings, on a walk to work day, meeting me an Elementary School at 7 00 a. M. I have seen him warmly and humbly greet bus riders it during transit riders week. I have seen him out at Community Meetings at 7 00 p. M. , thoughtfully answering questions from neighbors. He is the picture of a hardworking Public Servant. Directing an agency like the sfmta is nothing short of absolutely demanding. I have seen him bleed with kindness, a steady hand, and a combination of heart and determination in delivering transportation improvements for the city, and especially our most transit dependent and low income communities in the city. A humble, gentle man, he has always been wanting to listen, not just to my opinion as a supervisor, but to the thoughts and feedback from my residents. Real conversations about transportation policy and how decisions impact the everyday experiences of my residents. Under his leadership, we increased Service Levels by more than 10 . We launched free Transit Service for approximately 115,000 low to moderate income youth, seniors, and people with disabilities, which began as a Grassroots Community campaign. The Service Equity strategy is taking into consideration the needs of equity neighborhoods and addressing the gap in performance between equity neighborhood routes and roots and the transit system. The network made transit a priority on our streets. As a result, ridership continues to grow on rapid routes. Bucking national trends, even through this political streetscape amidst a sea of ride chairs and emerging abilities. In 2014, we adopted vision zero to create an aggressive and Strategic Plan to court nate efforts toward eliminating serious injuries and fatalities. Until recently, munimobile operated the oldest transit fleet in the United States, today, hours is one of the newest and is the greenest fleet in north america. The city passed a 500 milliondollar bond measure to support transportation infrastructure investment. Today, the sfmta holds the highest Credit Rating of any Transportation Agency in the United States. And, thank you for all that you have done for the city and our residence and i wish you all the best in your future endeavours. I want to open the floor to my colleagues who would like a few words to say a few words as well supervisor walton . Thank you. I just want to commend you on taking the helm of one of the most difficult organizations here in San Francisco and i know when something happens on our streets in regards to munimobile , you take all the blame, none of the praise when things are actually going well in some instances, but i wasnt always a member of the board of supervisors, but you were always very responsive as a leader and always willing to have conversations and talk about some of the difficult things that we need to address with munimobile. So i just want to say thank you for your service, commend you for that. I will end with these three words. Munimobile is complicated. [laughter] supervisor brown . Thank you. Director ruskin, ed, like i said at the m. T. A. Board meeting earlier when we were discussing you and your career, i mean, i have to say, when chief scott said that you always stay calm, that is completely true and i have seen you people rattle your chains when you were the public works director, whether the street was dirty, trees werent trimmed, you name it, we were complaining. And then as m. T. A. Director, whether the trains are two fuller we cant get on, or a protected bike lane, and it was really interesting because i was at the Bicycle Coalition last night talking and we were talking about, you know, protected bike lanes and Pedestrian Safety and even though we need to do more and we have to push for it, i remember a time when we were talking about the wiggle, the idea of the wiggle and how, you know, people were talking about, we will have to take a parking space away for daylighting. Were talking about masonic boulevard instead of making it a mini freeway, were also going to ask the state to lower the speed limit. And so when i was talking about this last night, i was thinking of all of the improvements and all of the advancements that we have done and i have just, as a city, and you as a leader, i just want to thank you. Yes, we have to do more, but i just want to thank you for your service and your kind way of handling a lot of us in distress when we are trying to get things done. Thank you, ed. Supervisor safai . Thank you. Director ruskin, ed, i remember, part of my career in the city, you were my boss, working a public works. You have truly worked your way through this city, but i like to tell people the last job youll ever have in the city is the director of the sfmta. So we knew this was going to come, but i have to say that the seven years plus that you let that agency, you let it with gumption. You let it in an even keeled manner. I know you took a lot of heat. Is a very difficult job to have. I have to say it was always, always, whether it was 311, public works or sfmta, it was always truly a pleasure to work with you. I think your style of returning phone calls immediately, meeting with people, opening your doors up, always making yourself available, i think it is an admirable style in a way to lead i thank you can walk away thinking back on the seven years that you have led this agency and looking at all the accomplishments, the bike lanes, the vision zero advancements. I know there will always be people that you are not going to fulfil theyre overall demand, but the truth is, i have said this over and over again, the progress that has been made in the past seven years, for some people, not fast enough, but the truth is we have made a significant amount of progress under your leadership and you have brought stability to an agency that was in complete and utter disarray when you took over. There was a series of changes that had happened. I have been one of the biggest critics, you know that, and i still think theres a lot more work than needs to be done. I thank you would agree with that, but i think the fact that you were always open, you always have your ears open and talk less, i think that is a hard lesson for a lot of us to learn, but you really do a good job at it. At the end of the day, i thank you can walk away proud of what you have accomplished in the city and how much time you have given to us all. Thank you for all that you have done and i appreciate the time i had to work with you as a member of the board, as an employee, and as a citizen of San Francisco. Supervisor ronen . Thank you. I will miss you very much. You have always been one of my favorite civil Civil Servants and Department Heads in the city it is because of your kindness and your true dedication to equity that i dont thank you are often recognized enough. It is very genuine and real and hardfought. I know you have always done that im very excited for you and what ever you will do next, getting a little break after so many years of this crazy place. Congratulations and thank you for everything. Supervisor mandelman . Thank you. You have had these last eight years probably possibly the hardest job in city government, maybe maybe an impossible job, and yet you have heard some accomplishments. The tough work that you have done is going to bear fruit over a period of years that will expend expand beyond your term. We will be benefiting from the work that you did to buy additional buses, trains, fixed infrastructure, over many, many years. I wanted to thank you for that and was she will. Supervisor haney . Thank you. I havent been here in this role that long, but i have been here long enough to see that you probably have the hardest job in the city. There are so many demands on you and challenges on our streets. And the breath of your responsibilities is really incredible. I have been impressed during my time here with the way that you have done your job, your responsiveness, your humility, which everyone has talked about, and i thank you have this commitment to Public Service in our city and it is really commendable. Because ive seen how hard your job is, im grateful that you are here. Hopefully youll get some time to relax. I hope you know that we are very appreciative of everything you have done. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Director ruskin, it is so sad to see you go. I have worked with you over these last eight years as a legislative aide mostly and as a supervisor. I have to say, you have always been so responsive and respectful. And given aids your complete attention, as well. Not just the supervisors. I cant thank you enough for that. When everyone was talking, i was writing down the words, client, responsive, and respectful. That is you to a tee, always. You are all of those things and people are not kind to you and people are not respectful to you and people do not remain calm and i think this is a testament to who you are. I was just thinking of you as st. Francis and our patent patron saint of San Francisco. I think the fact that you embody those things when a lot of people dont, really i think you are our patron saint and im sad to see you go. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Everything has been said, but not everybody has said it. I will not reiterate what i said at the m. T. A. Board a few minutes ago, but i do want to say thank you for putting up with all of us, and particularly , supervisor safai. [laughter] director peskin, i guess i will have the last words here before you speak, but i really want to appreciate and let you know i have appreciated my time working with you on the board of supervisors in the last six and a half years, and as you know, improving the safety of our streets is one of my highest priorities. And with the passage of our vision zero policy, you have been such a champion with in your department to get us there, even though we have a long ways to go, i have seen a lot of improvements, and i know that i probably drive you crazy with my Participatory Budgeting Program where each year, unexpectedly you have 510 more projects to do in regards to Safety Measures , and, you know, these are important things for our residents to understand. That when they point out these unsafe conditions that our city will respond to it and i thank you have done such a fabulous job. And even when we have projects where we are trying to improve it and we point out from, you know, what the residents tell us that, you know, it would be better if you had done it a different way, and you listen and instead of defending whats there, you look at the situation with your staff, and you say, you are absolutely right. I think we ought to spend a little bit more money to change the condition and actually improve the situation. For that alone, i really am going to miss you at the home because when it comes to Pedestrian Safety measures. This job at the sfmta is one of one of the hardest positions in San Francisco. Within your own department you have to balance the different demands and make it go faster, make it go slower, make it safer , give me more parking spaces, no, take away parking spaces, and so i know that is really a difficult situation. Even when we are talking about daylighting our corners, it is a balancing of, well, will we make it safer or not . Do we care about safety . And we knew it was going to be difficult, a difficult dialogue, but at the end of the day, we all agree it will be safe for people. We will lose a few parking spaces, but hopefully we will save a few lives. What i will really miss about you, actually is maybe that is why, you know, you are nervous that i am drawing the end line. I was hoping you would be around to see that actually happen. Maybe it will be the start of something in regards to making it more efficient for people and growing the capacity of the trains coming from the downtown area into the west side by allowing not only two cars, but four cars to be hooked up together. [please stand by]