In 2026, 2001 began the third generation. The fourth generation begins in 2026. This country will lose six cities. San francisco will be lost by water. You better build refugee camps. San diego will be lost by water in 2026. After those two cities, by water destroyed, chicago and dallas will be destroyed by wind next speaker, please. Next speaker. [indiscernible] go ahead. Hello, supervisors. We have seen a dramatic increase in inhabited r. V. S moving into our neighborhood. Who we have a few People Living in vans on this block, theyre always quiet, friendly, we would have them over for holidays and we would pay them to do all jobs around the neighborhood. Where whether as one or two vans, there is now 20 inhabited vehicles and trailers, debris, feces, needles, water, wastewater, dumping, and blocking of the sidewalk. At the moment there is a drug operation right across the street from my home. At night there are a group of eight cars that come out and park on the sidewalks all night. They blast music and sell drugs. That attracts other cars are outside of our community to drive through the main purchases there is a constant flow of traffic, loud music, altercations and gas and Power Generators making noise all night from about 10 00 p. M. Until 8 00 a. M. We have asked the People Living in the r. V. S and cars to keep the noise down, but it is only getting worse and there were more people yelling and fighting at all hours of the night. The music is so loud and our children cannot sleep. We have had to move them to sleep on the other side of the house to lessen the noise at night. There are some new cars and debris blocking the sidewalk. We now have to go around the corner with our strollers. We have been using a nonemergency. You can have your own two minutes. Thank you so much. I will reset the clock for you. I appreciate that. We have been using the not Urgent Police line on multiple times for multiple weeks, and sometimes we have to call multiple times and nights. We have yet to have a patrol car come to check it out. There are people who have been unsafe with drug use, they have filed numerous 311 request online we have never heard regarding our calls and request which has brought us here today. Five years ago we had a bullet go through our house. Our older sons exterior belgium bedroom wall, and it ended up in our living room. With a the new escalation of drug activity, we fear this could happen again or worse. Here is what we need and what we humbly request your help with. One, we want the r. V. S moved out and signs to be put up prohibiting camping in the neighborhood and we immediately asked that the r. V. S on the 1500 block move between from between our streets to at least around the corner outside of the residential part of our neighborhood to a street that is more industrial so we can have enough sleep and function and work, and kids can go to school, and three we want the noise ordinance and forced noise ordinance and forced. I am a musician, and i make a loud music for a living, but there is a time into place for it. A neighborhood where theres working families were trying to sleep and go to school, there is a time and place for loud music. We really appreciate this. Thank you. My name is bruce. I have moved into a senior apartment a year ago. I have a studio apartment and an embarrassment of riches. I stayed in shelters a great deal of my life, but i have to tell you, theres still people that are out on the street. We actually need more shelters. It is cheaper to put people at my place, i could put half a dozen people in their. I think there are there is the agreed ethic and the elitist ethic. There are people who are trying to get either people in s. R. O. Places or out on the street and they dont have anything in between. We need that. We desperately need shelters because theres not enough room for everybody. As well as private shelters as well as public. We need to get people out of tense if they want to get out of tense and put them in places. We need at least warehouses for people. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Board of supervisors, my name is john. I am an attorney and a member of direct action everywhere which was one of five organizations that reached out to mayor breed and this body during the recess to ask for your support for a bill of rights for nonhuman animals. We did so because what happens to nonhuman animals in the bay area, as well as everywhere is an atrocity, and i use that word because this is not an issue around which much rhetorical clarity exists. Governments and Industries Use terms like humanely raised and Animal Welfare standards to reinforce the idea that there is a right way to inflict violence on other beings, but when the we shed our cultural conditioning and we step back and objectively look at the facts that billions of animals are just as smart, just as emotive as our dogs and cats are being confined and mutilated and killed, the degree to which reality and our values diverge becomes apparent. I would encourage everyone here, as well as your staff, to look at documentaries like earthlings , or dominion, on the investigations and rescues of direct action everywhere to get a real sense of what is going on we are approaching this body because San Francisco has always been at the forefront of social causes that soon became adopted everywhere, including the Disability Rights Movement and marriage equality, and including the Animal Rights movement. We worked closely with katy tang last year to make San Francisco the first city in the whole world to ban the sale of fair, and now cities everywhere are starting to adopt similar bands. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, good afternoon. I have made that mulch was drive today from reno, nevada. On august 24th, my vehicle was burglarized at Mission Street in a parking lot. I am a nevada resident, so my life is in nevada. My vehicle, that day in broad daylight, at 3 30 p. M. , they got into my car and took everything under the sun that i had owned. I lost over 55,000 worth of stuff, including my wedding ring i implore all of you, board of supervisors, where you guys know that this is an imminent and a prevalent issue in your city to make this a safer city for People Like Us who are travelling. This is not time not the first time my vehicle was burglarized. In 2012, the same thing happens. I should not be coming into the city and removing my belongings and valuables just so i can go and shop into safeway at 3 30 p. M. In the afternoon. It is not fair, nor is it right. I also an challenging your separation of power, like you went ahead and said, that come together and do something about this, police because last month, august long, you had 2,153 burglaries that have only been reported. That is 59 averaging even one day. It is not safe, it is not okay. This is not acceptable. I understand that you guys have a lot on your agenda and there are a lot of things that need to be done but this is not safe and it is not okay for this to happen. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. I am a member of s. O. S. Nicaragua San Francisco. We are a social Political Organization based in the bay area. We came together last year in april of 2018 because of the repression by the ortega dictatorship that is going on in nicaragua, and we do several events. We have an ongoing purchase every friday at 21st street. We have a speaker coming next week from nicaragua who is a political prisoner and a leader in the Prison Movement and my friend will speak more on that. Thank you. Thank you for your time. We will be having [speaking spanish] the national leader, the worker with nicaragua which is similar to what to watch they were doing here. Protecting the rights of farmworkers. In nicaragua at the moment, the crisis that is happening is already being suffered here in the San Francisco bay area. We are having many people come into the San Francisco bay area due to the humanitarian crisis. At the moment, i hear that it has to do with land rights. It has to do with human rights, and [indiscernible] he will be stopping by here to provide a conference in the San Francisco bay area, which all of you are invited. I encourage you to be, if you cannot make it, send one of your representatives to represent you in this conference. We really need the San Francisco supervisors to understand that they limit the nicaraguan community. Thank you. For more information, youll be receiving a letter in your offices with more information on how to rsvp for this event. Thank you. Thank you. Im also a member of the group. I really appreciate that we can have the time to address you in this regard, but it is so important for the nicaraguan american community. Thank you for your support in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Welcome back to reality. My name is matt sutter. Im here speaking on behalf of [indiscernible] it is pretty upsetting, guys. We have big problems going on here. I am here today to speak because i refuse to be reticent. I want to remind you what it means to be self expressed and come back to the truth of who we are. You should all ask yourselves, why are we working in this career, which we have chosen, and then examine how your decisions are affecting people and their families. We have been pleading with you to help us and make an important and necessary decision to buy back our medallions now. And also, in return, i believe we deserve a chance to have a nontransferable medallion. The pain and suffering that we have gone through and a couple meetings ago, supervisor walton pointed out, although unfortunately after you had made a decision to push the vote on the homeless issue to march. He said, and i will quote, i dont see the word delay with crisis. We are in a crisis. It is time to step up like i have been asking you guys. We need some answers. Thank you. Thank you. August, a period of recognition. One from marijuana, a slang, to cannabis. Something that gives it a little bit more respect because it has been medicinal for thousands of years. Hookers and prostitutes now are sex workers. Lets give them a little bit more dignity. When i was in grade school, that started the fall of rome. I couldnt understand it but it was basically incompetence and the emperors. Here we are in the United States of america, moving on up. Trumps words inspire killings, inspire people to pull guns and shoot. That leads to the assault weapon semiautomatic his, they need to be banned. I have come to this just in the past month, useless, worthless in our society. It is time to bend them completely. Directv, the last three months, my television hasnt had channel four or channel five. If you have a local station in your area that is broadcast and given to you over directv or any other sport cast supplier, they should not be able to ban a local news station ever. We have enough problems trying to get as little news as we can. Distributors should not be able to ban our local t. V. Networks. Inc. You. Okay. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay, madame clerk, please call the for adoption without committee agenda. Items 2323 out of order not out of order. Items 2323 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee, unanimous vote is required for a resolution on First Reading today. Alternatively a member may require a resolution to go to committee. Would any of my colleagues like to sever any items . Supervisor stefani . Item 20. Item 23 . Twenty. I would like to sever item 23 okay. Thank you. On the remaining balance of items, please call the role please call roll call. [roll call] there are 11 aye. Okay. Items 20 and 21 passes. Twenty and 22. Mr. President , 21 and 23 were approved today, were adopted. Okay. Correct. Supervisor stefani wanted to sever item 20. Item 20 is a resolution to declare that the National Rifle association is a Domestic Terrorist Organization and urging other cities, states, in the federal government to do the same. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Colleagues, i know that you know i introduced this after the mass shooting at the gilroy festival, being outraged just by that shooting, since we have been on recess. We have seen more carnage across this country. Mass shootings in el paso, texas , where an individual filled with hate and racism targeted our latin x. Community, armed with an ak47 Assault Rifle with extra magazines. He killed 22 people and injured many more. Hours later, in dayton, ohio, nine dead and in 302 seconds and 22 injured. This person was armed with an a. R. 15 pistol fitted with an extended magazine that can hold 100 rounds. This weekend in odessa, texas, seven people were killed by a gunman, 22 others were injured, with 15 different crime scenes, as the individual, it was banned from owning a firearm, purchase one from a private seller because no background check was required. The n. R. A. Has done more to graduate and create the gun violence epidemic terrorizing our country. They buy off politicians, that gun violence legislation, prevent Gun Violence Research and tell us and everybody that it is video games, movies, mental illness, every country on this earth is exposed to these issue and influenced in equal measure yet only in the United States faced this mass gun violence. The difference is guns. None of our. Countries have Assault Rifles on their streets. The homicide rate in the United States is 25 times higher than any other high income country in the world. The n. R. A. Want you to believe that the solution to gun violence is more gun ownership. We have a gun ownership rate two times higher than that of any other country in the world. There are 393 million guns in this country which means there are more guns than people and we know if more guns meant more safety, then america would be the safest country in the world. The n. R. A. Exists to ask to spread information and puts weapons in the hands of those who would harm and terrorize us by blocking commonsense, gun violence prevention legislation, and by advocating for dangerous legislation like stand your ground laws, permit list carry and guns and schools from kindergarten on up through university. When they use phrases like i will give you my gun and you pry it from a cold, dead hands on bumper stickers, they are saying , there is debate about Public Safety that should be met with the violence. When they hold and National Conferences and expeditions, they aim to intimidate those who have already been terrorized and knowingly threaten anyone who would organize against the financial interest. The n. R. A. Conspires to limit Gun Violence Research, with strict gun violence data sharing , and most importantly, aggressively trying to block every piece of sensible gun violence prevention legislation proposed on any level, local, state, or federal. Over the recess, we had a rally on the steps of city hall, and i want to thank mayor breed and supervisors walton and brown for joining me. We held that rally to urge majority leaders of the senate, Mitch Mcconnell, to bring a background check bill to a vote in the senate. One that passed in the house. It has been sitting on his desk for over 200 days, and he refuses to bring it up for a vote. Had that passed, the gunman in odessa, texas, might have had a background check in the private sale. Mitch mcconnell refuses to bring that legislation up. Why . Because the n. R. A. Has given Mitch Mcconnell 1. 4 million, it is no surprise that he puts the n. R. A. s business over safety of our families and communities, and it is time this ends. The n. R. A. Stokes fear and promotes a culture of hate that is killing our fellow americans. They are misogynists who are fine with arming domestic abusers, even knowing 92 of all women killed with guns in high income countries, 92 in 2015 were from the u. S. In an average month, 52 american women are shot and killed by an intimate partner in this country and many more are injured. It is time to read this country at the n. R. A. And call them out for who they really are. They are a Domestic Terrorist Organization. I urge your support and i urge the support of every county in this state. Thank you. Okay, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution passes unanimously. Madame clerk, call item 302. Item 22 is a resolution to urge the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to implement urgent policy changes to serve pregnant individuals, families living in single occupancy units are doubled up families and urging the department to pursue additional policy changes in coronation with the board of supervisors. Thank you. Colleagues, go ahead, you can speak first. We looked at this resolution at our last Board Meeting prior to the recess and i want to refresh our recollection because of the content. This urgent resolution catches the just of a certain urgent policy change under discussion between the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. Individuals struggling with homelessness and their representatives in the mayors office. These include policies that will help pregnant women to gain access to services and housing much earlier in their pregnancies than the third trimester which is the current situation. It helps to eliminate the difference in the definition of homelessness that the city utilizes versus the federal government, and the impacts on on house families and individuals as a result. Finally, it supports the continued dialogue about how we can address the homelessness crisis in our city, with a focus on developing and implementing best practices as situations and demographics change. I want to thank supervisors fewer and haney for your leadership and your staffs work to help put forward this resolution, and also i want to thank supervisor peskin and supervisor brown for coauthoring. Colleagues, i thank you for your support on this. Supervisor haney . Yeah, thank you, president yee, for your leadership on this , and especially as well to supervisor fewer for all of your support on these critical policy changes these are two very important policy changes that would enhance access to some of the most vulnerable members of our community, particularly pregnant women who are homeless, and ensuring that they have access to Family Services and prioritizing the knees of families who are doubled up or living prioritizing the needs of families are doubled up or living in s. R. O. S. We know very well that the population of children and families in s. R. O. S is one that is very extensive in our city and has particularly a needs that must be addressed, social and emotional impacts have expensing homelessness with doubling up and living in s. R. O. S and right now, it does not provide the adequate access for them to get housing or even receive services. These policy changes have been Top Priorities for homeless Family Service providers and im very excited that we have now started a dialogue with the office of department of homelessness to be able to move these forward thank you to our other coauthors and supervisors , peskin and brown. Okay. Supervisor stefani . I wanted to thank my colleagues for this resolution and add my name is a cosponsor, please. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Same as supervisor stefani. Thank you. Can we take this item same house , same call . Without objection, this resolution passes unanimously. Okay. That will bring us to our next item, which is closed session. Madame clerk . Item 19 is a closed session for the board of supervisors to convene on september 3rd, today, for the purpose of conferring with our receiving advice from the City Attorney regarding the following existing litigation, in which the city is a petitioner, and Pacific Gas Electric co. Is an Adverse Party this closed session can occur today, this afternoon. It was pending approval of a motion that was approved a moment ago by the board of supervisors. Public comment actually did occur on that motion during general Public Comment, but i understand you were going to just ask for Public Comment on this item one final time. Correct. Before we convene closed session , are there any Public Comments . The californias youre putting aside california state funds and taxes, 21 billion to pay off lawsuits that have been filed against pg and e. For the destruction of personal property and wrongful death lawsuits with the fires that the transformers have caused throughout the bay area and causing well over 50 people on or about to lose their lives. Those people got on repairable harm, and for gavin newsom to sit up there and take funds to pay off their lawsuits, is a disgusting and an insult on everybodys intelligence. And by the same response, you got over 28,000 people Homeless People in the overall city and county of San Francisco bay area, and he is sitting up there, spending that type of money, paying off a lawsuit for pg and e. How come nobody have you complained about that . That is disgusting. And for him to sit up there and have approximately a minimum of 8,000 people that are homeless in San Francisco, and then turn around and give another billion dollars to the behavior section of the Overall Health department , and give a statement that that will help the homeless problem, is another insult on everybodys intelligence. What will the behavioral Health Department do . Tell them to behave differently than what they are doing . And what is he doing spending taxpayers money going over to guatemala . He is spending money to go over there. That is another example of misappropriation of funds. Youve got thousands of people that are homeless, and the main street that goes to the building in sacramento [indiscernible] thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . San francisco government t. V. , overhead, please. Pg and e. Should have been taken over a long time ago by the city of San Francisco. They are wall street players. That is first and foremost, that is probably what america is all about right now. How about a new board of directors for pg and e. At some point in time . Fifty 7 bluecollar workers 57 , the bluecollar workers, the people that they put on the advertisement after they have a crucial fall down and say, our workers are the best in the world. Eleven engineers, 5 finance, 3 legal, 4 administrative, 13 residential, commercial rate payers on the board of pg and e. The next time we come around. If you guys want to take it over , you have my blessing. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Seeing non, Public Comment on closed session is closed. We will be convening in closed session in just a moment. I failed to make some amendments on item 22, and i would like to ask that we send the vote rescinds the vote. I guess we need to take roll call. Without objection, we will resend the vote. As i mentioned, there are some amendments that i would like to incorporate into the resolution, just to basically clarify further what is intended. I dont know if i should read it does everybody have a copy of this . Yes . Okay. If everybody has a copy, do any to read this into the record . Mr. President , i dont believe the deputy City Attorney has a copy. Let me just hand him his copy. While youre looking at that, i will just read it into the record. These are three clauses. The sitting county of San Franciscos definition of homelessness in individuals and families living and supervise probably and privately operated shelter designated to provide a temporary living arrangement with the primary nighttime residence that is in the public and private place, not designed for or ordinarily use as regularly regular sleeping accommodations for human beings, including car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport or camping ground doubled up in the homes of families or friends, staying in jails, hospitals, and rehabilitation facilities, and families living in single room occupancy, s. R. O. S. Whereas historically the city has made an effort to include individuals in these living situations by surveying nonna jails, hospitals, and rehabilitation facilities to identify individuals believed you otherwise be homeless, and has included this data in the appendix and the 2019. Of time count, but has not included this data in the body of the report due to an updated methodology, and where as using the updated methodology, the 2019. Of time count on the Homeless Population reviewed a 17 increase in homelessness from 2017 to 2019, so those are the three where as clauses. I dont think it will change anything. Correct . Okay. So i am making a motion to amend can i have a second . Okay. Without objection, can we take these amendments as is . Okay. Can i have a motion to pass this resolution as amended . Made by supervisor haney and seconded by supervisor walton. Can we take this same house, same call . This resolution as amended passes. Okay. Sorry about that. Lets go back to our closed session. Colleagues, we will now be convening in closed session. Members of the public, you will need to clear out and exit the chamber. Sheriff, lock the doors behind them. We will reopen the chamber once we finish this closed session and the public will be allowed to reenter. Okay. Are you ready to celebrate the womens equality day everyone . [cheers. ] good evening. I am the Communications Director to one of our cohost to the w challenge rally. It is my pleasure this evening to introduce our mc for the event assess or carmen. She is the only asian female elected assessor in the state of california, empowering women. [cheers. ] yeah. As you can see, empowering women and expanding representation is one of her Top Priorities. Last year was the w challenge in recognition of womens equality day. May i ask you to come up on the stage. Hello everybody. I am going to ask all of the folks on the edges to come closer. We want you in the photos. Our Congress Woman we want up here. Move closer. We have plenty of space up here. I think as vivian said, we want to make sure everyone stays for the big group photo afterwards. To kickoff i want to thank the team for pulling this together. Vivian, nicole, isabella, holly. Thank you for putting this event together. I am carmen. I want to welcome you to the Second Annual w challenge kickoff for womens equality day. I have been on Maternity Leave for just a bit, for two months now. It is something else. laughter . I think i have a newfound respect for mothers everywhere and fathers everywhere so a big round of applause to every mother and father who is out there, including the ones on the stage. We are here today not only to celebrate womens equality day. It is so more to bring people together to remember women fighting for the right to vote. It is important to make sure we ask for action. You know, in the United States we have gone a long ways to getting women the right to vote, fighting for the right to vote. We have gone a long ways in terms of better representation than before. We know we still have a very, very long ways to go. We have yet to see the first United States president be a woman. In california we have yet to see the first governor who is a woman, right . In many of our corporations and businesses and government, we have still yet to see women at the very top or in the corporate boardrooms, womens representation. I encourage you to take on the idea of womens equality to encourage women to vote and participate, to also spread your knowledge. The theme of this years challenge is about spreading knowledge and sharing the information that you have. That is why we are so, so thrilled to partner with the San Francisco public library, thank you, michael for our partnership this year. Our challenge should you accept it is not only to vote and to register others to vote, but also to pass on knowledge and take up a book this year. This year one of the books i am recommending for folks to read to share the knowledge is a book called what i told my daughter. Now, i have a young one, she doesnt understand a thing that i am saying at the moment, and i dont understand a thing she is saying to me. I hope one day i will be able to share stories from the leaders behind me and in front of me about all of the things we have struggled to make better in this world. I hope yo you will take on this challenge. I want to introduce our be loved congresswoman who is an author. Congresswoman. [cheers. ] i dont know about you. When i had my first child, i didnt look anything like that after two months. Anyway, welcome everyone to our equality day. 99 years ago today women got the right to vote. It did not come easy. It took 70 years for the right to vote in women. Susan b anthony didnt live to see that day come. Women wore white. They marched in the streets, they went on hunger fasts, they went to jail for the simple idea that women should have the right to vote. Why didnt women have the right to vote . Well, if you listen to George Bernard shaw at the time he said if we give women the right to vote there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. Really . Someone who wrote a column from the seneca falls review said if women got the right to vote. They would get thin lipped, flat handed and flat chested. Oh, my god. I dont think any of those things happened after we got the right to vote. I will tell you this. We are at a point in time where we have a 21st century suffe mo. We have a lot at stake. We passed era in california. Congress passed era47 years ago. We still dont have it in the constitution. Why should we care in even scalia said the constitution require discrimination based on sex . His answer was no, but if the question is does it prohibit discrimination based on sex, the as was also no. It is imperative we recognize the time has come for the era to pass in this country. I hope you join me to make virginia the 38th state and we will strike from the pream bell the deadline that our fathers thought we needed to have in that particular amendment and get it into the constitution. This is an issue of our time. Make no mistake, there is a Supreme Court poised now to overturn roe versus wade. What that means immediately is that one in three women in the United States will live in states that ban abortion. 25 million women will not have the right to seek that Health Procedure on their own. The president just by executive order as he is apartment to do, required if you are a title 10 organization that you could no longer refer Health Clients to a Abortion Clinic if they sought one. You know what that means . Low income women in this country arent able to access healthcare. Planned parent hood was responsible last year for detecting 70,000 cancers in low income women, saving their lives. There is really a lot at stake here. I want you to see this tee shirt and recognize that feminism is for everybody. It is as important to the young girls as young boys. The nation deserves a country in which all of us are created equal. Thank you. [applause. ] our Congress Woman did not mention the book she wrote. I hope you pick up her book undaunted. Read about that. The next speaker is someone i have known for a long time, one of my favorite folks that moved to sacramento. We welcome malia cohen. Thank you. Good evening, ladies. And good evening to the fellows that love the ladies and who standby us and uplift us. How are you this evening . I want you to take a look to your right and left because there are warriors that stand among us and sometimes they look like every day average people. They are doing amazing work in the spaces they acoccupy. Activists, mothers, grandmothers or just working. Every day we have an opportunity to make our mark. I am with a battery of talented women and men. I want to tell you why i am here and why i come to celebrate. First it is my pleasure to join the men and women with us today. I want to welcome back for the cameo appearance coming out of family leave, not retimer, family leave. This is an incredible time because we have women up here from the national level, people from the state level and the local level to celebrate the w challenge initiative. You must know what this is about. This is important to us. We together are gathering to make sure that history is being made every day, and this is one of the days we come together to celebrate to wave our flag and to shout and to proclaim i am woman and i am proud. I am delighted to see my little buddy up here. Who took a break off her first couple weeks of school to join us today. Thank you for being here. We are standing up here to fight as women, as feminist to believe in a better future. For the Young Children with us today and that are out there in the audience. That is why we are here. We are here to celebrate because we are smart and give our strength so women everywhere can achieve equality. We know from the remarks from our wonderful Congress Woman who gave a brief report what is happening. It is disheartening to see the rights we have won being rolled back. As a black woman standing proud before you i understand the full urgency and difficulty of the task before us. In that regard i would like to recommend a wonderful book for you. It is called the bluest eye by Tony Morrison. The reason why i selected this book is because Tony Morrison passed away and she is no longer with us. In regards to this book, it is something that i think is opposed upon us by our culture, and that doesnt make sense. That is the yearning to fit into what beauty is. This is how discrimination cultural stereo types can harm people. A beautiful black girl suffered sexual abuse and was harmed by the society racist views of what the standard of beauty can be. The book, the bluest eye, is by ms. Tony morrison. This is a tough book to read. It speaks to the truth about the cultural biases which keep people back and quite honestly which forces people to doubt themselves. When i read it, it hadmita a pause. Me to take a pause. As women it is to unburden ourselves from the cultural biases that exist and say that it is not okay to treat women with anything less than human dignity. We are proud to let you know we are making history every day by our actions, just by our living and breathing. It is our goal collectively and be right in front of me to continue to change history. We must be bold, unafraid and we must not be afraid to fail. We must stand united. To quote Tony Morrison if there is a book you want to read but it has not been written yet, you must be the one to write it. Lets lift up our voice and write our story, and lets own this. [applause. ] thank you. We are talking about owning our stories, we all have stories to tell. Our own struggles and experiences or living through the things our families have gone through. I want to introduce our next spicker, dis next speaker. She has a number of stories to tell about her history, background. That has made her richer in terms of representative for district five. [applause. ] thank you everyone. Thank you board of equalization president cohen. I love to follow her, not really. Thank you to asses assessor. Are you back but not . And to our amazing congresswoman. I read your book. I went and bought the book. It is an amazing story that you and all of us should read it. I am so proud to be standing with all of these women and men leaders up here that really know what the fight is about. You know, we are lucky to have such Fierce Female leaders locally, hillary, catherine, sandy is not here, but she is very fierce, as you all know. I love sandy. Also, our state leaders. We have an amazing women state leaders, and our mayor of San Francisco, a woman leader. Also, yes, at our federal level. This is really important. You know, it hasnt been, when we think it is 99 years since we got the vote, but it hasnt been that long. It is not equal for everyone. Our africanamerican and asianamerican sisters didnt get to vote until 1948. When we think about this, we have a long way to go. When i stand here, i get really upset and infuriated that our basic human rights as women are really being threatened today. We are going backwards, folks, backwards. We must fight to protect our rights. The city and county of San Francisco will continue to fight and be in that lead. I