Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. Michael batazar and colleen a memendoza who make transcripts available online. Are there any communications . Clerk i have none to report, mr. President. Supervisor yee we are approving the minutes from the july 30th, 2019 regular Board Meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor fewer. Motion to approve ok. Then these minutes will be approved after public comment. Madam clerk, will you please call the 2 00 p. M. Special order. Clerk item number 1, formal policy discussions with the mayor. There was one topic submitted by the district 6 supervisor, supervisor haney regarding drug use and overdose treatment. Supervisor yee welcome madam mayor breed. Do you have any opening remarks . Thank you president yee as well as members of the supervisor and public. Earlier today, along with the department of publichealth and supervisor mandelman, we announce San Franciscos annual report detailing new h. I. V. Infections in our city. Im proud to report that from 20172018, new infections dropped by 13 declining below 200 for the First Time Ever in our citys history. While this is incredible progress, we still have a lot of work to do, especially among certain populations like our African American community. We are committed to doing that work. Still, its worth recognizing that weve come a long way. This kind of progress would have seemed impossible in the 1980s when aids first ripped through our Lgbt Community and our city. Decimating a generation. People were dying at astonishing and frightening rates. People who just, months before, had been healthy and vibrant. But thanks to the actions taken in San Francisco by the community and organizations coming together under the leadership of the department of publichealth, we turned the tide. Together, people did not work to heal our city. Well, today, we are confronted with another publichealth crisis. We are seeing people with Mental Illness and addictions suffering on our streets and today we need to come together again. Just last week, i joined the department of publichealth and others to announce the launch of a new initiative. To heal our city by focusing on those most in need. Our focus will be the 4,000 people we have identified who are homeless, who are suffering from both Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder. Guided by data, the initiative will be a multiyear effort which will enhance healthcare for the most vulnerable and expand hours as the citys Behavioral Health Access Center which is a single location where anyone at any time can go to get the help that they need. And let me be clear, these three elements of the initiative are just the beginning. Over the next few months, we will be recommending more ways to improve transparency and efficiency in our system and enhance services and Innovative Solutions and improve the case for the citys most vulnerable residents. Our department of publichealth, under the leadership of drop grant coalfax and anton blan is ready to take on this action with the community, with our state and federal partners and its really going to take a collaborative effort working on a number of things in order to get us to a better place with its very complex problems but weve done it before as we have proven in the past and well do it again. Thank you. Supervisor yee thank you, mayor. Madam clerk, can you please call the first topic. Clerk the first topic by district 6 supervisor haney regarding drug use and overdose treatment. Supervisor yee supervisor haney, please ask your opening question. Supervisor haney thank you for being here and taking my question. My question today is related to your opening comments about the drug use, Drug Overdose and drug dealing crisis facing our city. I want to thank you for your hard work and advocacy for safe infection sites along with experts and Community Advocates you champion this initiative and continue to advocate for this Harm Reduction approach despite push back from the federal government and were grateful for that. As you are well aware over 70,000 people died of overdoses nationally last year and making overdoses the leading cause of death for people under 50 and in San Francisco, 259 people died of an overdose in 2018 and a rate higher than the national average. This is over five times as many that die of touchdown homicidesc deaths in our city. The overdoses went up and will increase this year. I recently walked the streets at the tenderloin with Harm Reduction Services Team and visited their clinic. I was impressed and inspired to people in our community who are experiencing drug addiction. They believe, as i think we all do, every death from an overdose is a tragedy and is preventable. Narcan saves lives but is not accessible to be there to ensure that overdoses are reversed and lives are saved. Providers and First Responders have told me programs are not available for the people that need it most, where and when they need t even after someone experiences an overdose they release without treatment or follow up. Treatment options or out patients are rarely discussed or offered in the course of street outreach. I also see myself in here on a daily basis for my constituents about the impacts of extensive open air drug use and street level drug dealing on a residents, businesses and neighborhoods. In many parts of the soma, mid market and the tenderloin, deadly drugs are dealt with impunity everyday. The crisis of Drug Overdoses are getting worse and the preventable tragic deaths are increasing. If the city has a plan to reverse this deadly drug crisis and save lives, my constituents and i are not aware of what it is. There is a clear urgency to do more and im personally committed to working with you and your department to develop the departments and implement a plan to immediately address the crisis. So my question is, what commitments and plans can you share with us on how your administration is proactively addressing the crisis of drug use, overdose death, street dealing of deadly drugs and what more we can do to support these initiative. Supervisor yee mayor, you may respond to the opening question. Thank you. The overdose death rate involving methamphetamine in the city has tripled from 1. 8 to 5. 8 persons per 100,000 san franciscans. Opioids overdoses were essentially flat for many years in San Francisco but saw 17 increase in 2018. A single overdose death is unacceptable but this growth is clearly, especially alarming not just in San Francisco but all over our country. We are saving lives by ensuring that city staff and Service Providers are trained and prepared to address overdoses. Our outreach workers, our shelter staff, our hsoc officers are all trained in Harm Reduction, including narcam administration. Our Street Medicine Team provides mor teen to help Homeless Individuals start treatment on the spot. Weve invested in additional 6 million and a grown our Street Medicine Team to 10 additional people. In response to the growing rise of methamphetamine use in San Francisco, supervisor mandelman and i launched the Methamphetamine Task force in february of this year and next month, the task force will release a report with recommendations on Harm Reduction, strategies and policies to reduce the impacts of methamphetamine used and to help people who need our help. We also know that we really need to reverse this trend of overdose death and part of that is providing safeinjection sites but sadly the federal government is a challenge but i am still committed to doing just that. We need to have we provide as a steed to hold accountable for those dealing drugs on our streets. We cant let it a occur in neighborhoods like the tenderloin. The San Francisco Police Department, along with the u. S. Attorneys office has really launched an Incredible Program to really hit this particular issue in a way to address the higher level drug dealers and really focus on removing drugs. Its an ongoing effort. What we know is people are arrested and i believe in a Second Chance and in this particular way. Ultimately there are a number of things that we will continue to do and to provide a Additional Services to address this issue. It will continue to bal challenge and i hope that the work were doing with the Methamphetamine Task force will provide some recommendations to better coordinate services similarly is what were doing with people who have duel diagnosis around Substance Abuse disorder and Mental Health. Supervisor yee supervisor haney, you may ask a question related to the opening question. Ok. Supervisor haney one of the challenges i heard a lot about is having dropin centers and Detox Centers for people to be able to go to either after theyve used or when they experience an overdose. Is that something you considered or thought about. Its something ive heard from First Responders and providers and something is that i would love to talk to you more about. Supervisor yee mayor. The hon. London breed weve been expanding our location so that people who are expressing center and getting clean can have the environment where they cannot only get clean what but what will be the next step to get help and support they need. Health right 360 and their locations are a perfect example of people who get treatment, get the support they need and then when theyre clean and sober and ready to get back into society, the biggest charge is you know is housing and providing access to Affordable Housing so that they can continue to maintain their sobriety. Its an issue that i am definitely committed to as someone who, sadly, has had family members impacted by the drug epidemic in this city and im happy to work with providers and others to look at new solutions to this real challenge. Supervisor yee mayor breed, you will ask your first question to supervisor haney or any other supervisor in attendance pertaining to the same topic. Not necessarily related to the previous question. The hon. London breed thank you, president yee, i dont have any questions at this time. Supervisor yee in that case, with no question from the mayor, this concludes the mayoral the hon. London breed whoah o supervisor yee thank you. The hon. London breed thank you. Supervisor yee madam clerk, can you please read the Consent Agenda. Clerk item 2 and 3 are on consent. They are considered routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. Supervisor yee colleagues, would anyone like to officer any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none. Madam clerk, please call the roll. [ roll call ] clerk there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee they are passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our regular agenda. Clerk item number 4 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to revice the tables of the chinatown mixed use districts to make them consistent with those in articles two and seven to apply the use definitions and section 102 to set an abandonment period to allow general entertainment uses with conditional use authorization to affirm the ceqa determination and make appropriate findings. Supervisor yee the ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Next item, please. Clerk item number 5, is an ordinance to order the street vacation of the entirety of seawall lot 337 and portions of terry aim francois boulevard along with Public Service easements in connection with the mission rock project to reserve temporary rights to adopt the ceqa determination and make appropriate findings. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call. Without objection, this ordinance has passed unanimously. Please call the next item. Clerk item number 6 is an ordinance to order the vacation of streets in the sf project phase 2 allow a reservation of rights for electric utilities access at 25th and wisconsin streets and require Pedestrian Access authorizing the city to quit claim its interest in the vacation areas to the Housing Authority to affirm the ceqa determination and make appropriate findings. Supervisor yee can we take this same house same call . Without objection, this ordinance has passed unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item number 7. Clerk number 7 is an ordinance to wave the banner fees under the public works code for up to 300 banners placed on cityowned poles for a period beginning september 24th, 2018, to celebrate the culture and visibility of the filipino Cultural Heritage district. Supervisor yee same house same call. This is passed in First Reading. Madam clerk, call the next item. Clerk an ordinance to appropriate 11. 5 million to fund balance to the port for the San Francisco seawall, earthquake safety and disaster prevention in fiscal year 20192020. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call . This ordinance is passed in First Reading unanimously. Call the next item. Clerk item number 9 is an ordinance to levee property taxes for the city, San Francisco unified school district, San Francisco county office of education, San Francisco Community College district, Bay Area Rapid Transit District and bay area air quality mackment district establish a pass through rate for residential tenants for the fiscal yearending june 30th, 2020. Supervisor yee supervisor fewer. Thank you, very much. Colleagues i bring fourth amendments to update the property tax rate based on the final rates set by the bart board. A amendments are reflected on page one line three and 19, 24 and 25 page four line 1, 2 and 15. I believe that you have three happened outs in front of you, one are the amendments of the legislation and the secondly legislative digest, third bart resolution. Second. Thank you. Supervisor yee motion made by supervisor fewer and seconded by supervisor peskin. To amend as stated. Without objection, these amendments are passed. Can we take this item same house same call as amended. Without objection the amendmente ordinance has amended. Passed the First Reading as amended. Madam clerk, call the next item. Item number 10, is a resolution to retroactively authorization a Police Department to accept an ex pend and enkind gift of 768 units of naloxone estimated at 58,000 through the naloxone distribution project funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and administered by the California Department of health carhealthcare services for the m of february 1st, 2019 through may 30th, 2019. Can we take this item same house same call without objection. This receipt solution adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, calling the next item . Item number 11 is a resolution to authorize the execution and delivery of a multi Family Housing revenue note in an aggregated Principal Amount not to exceed 23. 5 million for the purpose of providing financing for the construction of a 55unit multi Family Rental Housing Project known as bernal gateway apartments. Supervisor yee colleagues, same house same call without objection. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call the next item. Clerk number 12 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Arts Commission to accept and expend a gift of art entitled larose distance from the julie lepnard foundation valued at 390,000 authorized installation of the art work in front of the conservator of flowers and Golden Gate Park and authorization the Arts Commission to accept and expend 190,000 donation for a total gift value of approximately 580,000 for the purpose of maintaining the art work from september 1st, 2019 through september 23rd, 2039. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Supervisor yee call items 1315 together. Clerk item 13 is a resolution to authorization and direct the sale of a not to exceed 3. 1 million principle amount of general Obligation Bonds for clean and safe Neighborhood Parks and docking appropriate findings. Items number 14 is a resolution to authorization and direct the sale of city taxable general Obligation Bonds for Affordable Housing and aggregate not to exceed 92. 7 million and 15 is an ordinance to appropriate 3. 1 million proceeds from the general obligation parks bond to the port of San Francisco and appropriate 92. 7 million proceeds from the general obligation housing bond to the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development in fiscal year 20192020 and placing approximately 96 million on controllers reserve pending the sale of the bonds. Supervisor yee colleagues, can we take these items same house same call . Without objection, the resolutions are adopted and the ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, item number 16. Clerk item number 16 is a resolution to declare the intent of the city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness and authorized the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to submit an application to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to prevent the issue of mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 19. 4 million for 480 eddy street. Can we take this item same house same call. This is passed. Madam clerk, call item number 17. Clerk a resolution to authorization the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development on behalf of city to apply for and execute a grand application and defined here in under the California Department of housing and Community Development housing for a healthy california article 2 grant not to exceed 14. 3 million. Can we take this item same house same call. Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, can you Call Committee reports for now . What was that . Go ahead and go to Committee Reports. Number 18 or 19. Clerk item 18 was not forwarded as a Committee Report and is not before the board today and item 19 considered at a regular meeting on monday september 9th, 2019 and forwarded as a Committee Report. It is an ordinance to amend the planning code to allow longterm parking of and overnight camping in vehicles and ancillary uses including administrative offices, rest room, showering or bathing facilities, kitchen or other food preparation facilities and eating areas at san jose avenue. Supervisor yee supervisor safai. Superivsor safai i wanted to say a few words on this item. Im honored to be speaking today on this. The vehicle triage lot. This is a years work of collaborative work with supervisor brown and hilary ronen and of course mayor breed. When this came before us, in my district, along with supervisor ownen we saw People Living in campers in most visible display of this and in the homeless crisis. This is something that we see from bay view Hunters Point to lake mer saiced all up and downe bay area. We brought it to the attention of the sfmta. Any knee jerk reaction was to talk about overnight camping signs. To the credit of the sfmta board they gave us the stiff arm and said absolutely not. Weve been pushing you to come up with a policy and we challenge you to do something better. My colleague, supervisor brown, left a photograph on my desk and that picture was of her as a young woman, as a young child, living in an r. V. And she said, lets work on this together. I thank you supervisor brown for sharing your personal story and i know your bother meant a lot to you and i know she did everything she could to provide for your family. And one of the things that struck me the most about that conversation was, she said, we did not believe we were homeless. We had a rof over our head. We have somewhere to come home at night. And that has been the case for the stories i know supervisor ronen and yee have heard. That street did not get turned into overnight camping and we came up with a policy. That policy was what was approved four or five months ago was our vehicle triage lot but we said we would identify a location. In that location, we would allow people to be referred from the Homeless Outreach team and they could stay up to 90 days with possibility of staying longer. The idea was to transition them into permanent housing. We have been very fortunate, we found a location in district 11. The upper yard adjacent to the balboa bart station and we went through an accelerated, for many reasons, but an Extensive Community process. We had two very Large Community meetings and weve had some focused groups. Weve had some focus smaller meetings and i have to say im very happy to say that folks in my district are happy to be the first part of San Francisco to put forward a proposal to provide space for those living in their vehicles. This is not limited to people in r. V. S its people in vans as well as people in vehicles. They will be screened by the department of homelessness and will be asked and referred over and made over a priority from district 11. I know that since that time, supervisor yee has made a commitment and sheared with me that he is also looking for a location and i think that this is something that we need to take seriously because this is something that, based on the most recent point in time count, that we had, we saw an increase to 13 to 15 . Of that increase from homelessness, 70 were those living in their vehicles. So, this location will have 24 hour security. More community embassador type security, where we will have lighting and it will have on site cameras, privacy for the individuals that were there and it will have on site social services. They will come to the site and care. Hopefully this will be a pathway into more permanent housing for those individuals. Also, i want to thank mayor broad for allocating a billion dollars tmilliondollars to this. This first phase and this is a pilot, as many of you have noted. This site will be built into 100 Affordable Housing in a year. We thought it was also a good location for that reason because it allows us to prove to neighbors and the public that this is something that can be successful as well as transition and look for a different spot. I thank all of my colleagues that have been supportive and i have words of encouragement from everyone. I thank my neighborhood leaders from new mission tariff provement association to the cayuga Improvement Association to the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing along with all of the different agencies and along with my staff, monica who led on this and tim hall for all their hard work along with supervisor browns staff and their hard work in their office and supervisor ronen. I hope we can have your support today. We will, after todays vote, well vote again and this will be ready to go and open as of november 1st. Construction will begin if approved next week. Thank you. Supervisor yee supervisor walton. Thank you, president yee. I just want to commend supervisor safai, supervisor yee and supervisor ronen for making this happen. We know that we have a major crisis here in the city and we have to address the issues that exist and seeing someone step up is very important so i want to say i appreciate that as we move forward. Homeless count has increased, particularlying folks living in volkswagen so this is a major way to address that need and is particularly important and i just want to continue to stress the emphasis of the fact that we all need to step up here in the city and all districts and make sure that we do something to address the crisis and district 10 were working on our third Navigation Center and we are going to continue to do everything we can in our role and play our role to address the issues that exist in homeless and also just excited my colleagues steps in a way i just want to add a a cosponsor. Supervisor yee supervisor brown. Thank you president yee and i just want to say that im really happy about this legislation, its something that, when you see me and my colleagues really get together, and say we have a problem and then our amazing legislative aids that got together and to secure to really get together and say were going to dive deep into this to find out what the best way to proceed. There was a lot of things that we could have done that we could have passed this legislation but it would have had no teeth. It would have been weak. And it would not have solved this issue. I just want to thank everyone and actually, supervisor safai, we actual will he lived in a van. An rv would have been a mini fanmansion for us. A constituent and identified it. Said that was a vw van and we started it with a screwdriver. We didnt consider ourselves homeless. We felt like we had a roof over our head and we lived there a couple times for a couple months while my mother had gotten the next apartment. This is personal but using my personal experience and then everyone coming together and also with the mayor trusting us saying ill give you a million dollars, shows if we Work Together and we really say this is the right thing, and we can see we can get things done. I want to thank everyone. I also, looking at state land, because i think we have, we do have state land and my district and other places that if we can get the permission to use, we can open more of these bays think were going to have to open more of these unfortunately. You cant get many vehicles in these lots. For the the amount of People Living in vehicles, i dont want to call them homeless, that we could really be creative of where we can actually open them. So, thank you. Supervisor yee supervisor ronen. I would be remiss if i didnt chime in as well. I remember when we first started working on this legislation, i had a much bigger vision than a lot it could accommodate 30 vehicles at one time because we know the problem is so much bigger than that. Honestly, working with supervisor brown and her staff and supervisor safai and his staff, really was an amazing process and i just want to thank, really, really give an extra special thanks to shakira and caro lena and kathy because we went to visit too Navigation Centers for vehicles and other counties together and we really dug deep and tried to figure out how to not make this symbolic but make it real and supervisor safai stepped up and said i have a location in my district and he took on neighbors and kindness but also to get it open fast reminds me of the mayor and matt haney and embark a darrow center. Its not easy to open the sites and our districts but it is incumbent upon us to do that hard work and to fight and to explain with reason and compassion to the neighbors that are fighting back that this is what we have to do to take care of all of us. Again, i just wanted to chime in and also from the bottom of my heart thank supervisor brown and safai for your work and your staff on this. Supervisor yee supervisor haney. Thank you. Supervisor haney i want to congratulate supervisor safai on your leadership. I recently went through an experience around working with neighbors in my district around bringing Navigation Centers to the embarkadero and you were able to do it with a little bit less drama and no lawsuit, yet. I think its a testament to your leadership and again, to be able to say we are for something that will be not the whole solution but a part of the solution and we have a responsibility to lead and that, in our city, homelessness is a city wide crisis and it is impacting all of our districts and to be able to say that you are a part of solving it in your neighborhood and for the city as a whole is very important. I know weve talked about this and we are still bringing back the legislation, which would ensure that theres some geographic equity around where these Navigation Centers are and i think its important to be able to share that with residents and ive heard from you that that was something that was important to them that they knew that this was something that was going to be happening all over the city and so for those of us who have Navigation Centers and shelters, were open to having more and taking on more of that responsibility but i do just want to really appreciate your leadership and the leadership of supervisor brown because this is a creative solution to a problem that we could have easily just said, lets give everybody parking tickets or kick these people out of our neighborhoods but instead were doing the creative thing and the compassionate thing, the more effective thing to get to a rel solution. I know we have a lot more to go on that. Thank you to all of you, especially supervisors, ronen, brown, safai and president yee for all of your leadership and we have your back and i know were going to go through this again but its the right thing to do for our city and i also appreciate mayor breed for bringing the money forward and supporting it as well. Id love to be added as a cosponsor. Supervisor yee supervisor mar. Thank you, president yee. I just want to echo and add on to all the previous comments and congratulating and thanking supervisor safai, brown, ronen, president g, also mayor breed and all of your staff on working on this important, really important First Step Towards creating safe space for vehiclely housed people in our city. Just to say i look forward to working with president yee. Ive gotten many requests and comments from my constituents wanting to see this strategy brought to the west side to address our needs too. Thank you so much. I would like to be added as a cosponsor as well. Supervisor yee ok. I also want to thank supervisor safai in pushing this element in which i guess ive been trying somewhat to do similar things and the west side and i actually am working towards a site. Unfortunately theres some snags there because of some contracts that gave the space for some other usage for a few months. Like supervisor brown, i was also living in a van, a v. W. Van. I ran out of money on my last quarter over at cal and so it was an experience and i never considered myself homeless. I had a van. I joined supervisor brown in having similar experiences and i know that many of the people that will are in these vehicles are probably very similar situations. I see no one else on the roster so can we take this same house same call. Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, now can we go back to our special order 230, special accommodations item. Clerk yes. There 30 from supervisor mandelman and another for supervisor ronen. Supervisor yee please share your accommodations. Thank you, president yee. Sophie, i want t you want to co . This is exciting. Today we get to honor resident sophie constanteneau. Sew fee is a bay area native and lived in San Francisco for 30 years. After studying film and humanities, she began her filmmaking career. As a dock tar yan, shes focused on the intersection of story telling and Community Building and exploring how communities create change. Sophie co founded citizen film a not for profit Production Company dedicated to collaborating with Community Organizations and cultural institutions to create documentaries with care and dignity. With over 20 years of cinematography experience her work is guided by the believe that documentary story telling is a powerful tool for creating healthy, sustainable communities. Her work includes films that address how communities of Public Housing residents can simultaneously create social and environmental change. The films shes produced have been used in Public Housing sites around the bay area to engage residents in neighborhood beautification, violence prevention and job creation. Her long form documentary project on this work was the first of its kind to receive a prestigious art place american grant that helps to quote strengthen the social, physical and economic fabric of communities unquote. Thats not the only accolade shes received. Her films have been awarded an emmy premiered at sundance, per berlin tribeca and screened at museums including the whitney and aired on hbo, pbs and show time. In addition, to progress films that tackle complex topics with artistry and sensitivity, sew fee has taught future generations of filmmakers at uc berkeley journalism school, stanford, and city college of San Francisco. Go rams. But thats just her day job or actually thats a number of her day jobs. In her spac spare time, she imps her neighborhood which is college hill. Since 2014, sew fee has been the bernal cut parks steward through the department of public works. And for those of you who may not have noticed, as you were coming into San Francisco off the well, moving more deeply into San Francisco off the 280, up san jose between supervisor ronens district and my district, as you come in, up on your right you will see the most amazing landscaped area that has been done by sew fee and neighbors. Shes organized her neighbors for many, many volunteer days on the bernal cut and deserves huge thanks for the cleaner, greener bernal cut we have today. In addition to corralling her neighbors she will tend to the cut on her own caring for the trees and plants she and her neighbors have lovingly planted for everyone to enjoy. And as if that werent enough, sew fee has also helped organize a College Hill Neighborhood association which in true San Francisco tradition has no particular Leadership Structure but you are pretty essential to it sew fee. And so she organizes the annual college hill black Party Taking Place this saturday from 2 00 to 6 00. So fee, you are the epitome of a neighborhood leader and you make me proud to be a district 8 supervisor so i just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for all that you do and to give you the opportunity to say a few words if you would like. Before you do that, theres a couple other supervisors that would like to add to the comments. And before i eliminated the names, it was supervisor brown first. Thank you. So se sophie. Let me tell you, i cant believe youve gotten around all this time. They have brought the Community Together and they have envisions buchanan mall in the western edition. They worked with explore t expl. They have listening stations where you can go in and listen to peoples stories as you said in the buchanan mall. The buchanan mall was an area that a lot of people just didnt want to walk through because of all of the different violent issues and other issues. Now you can actually walk through it and you can actually participate with the buchanan mall whether its setting in the listening stations or there is gardens that you can tend. I just want to thank you for the work that youve done and the kind of outreach that youve done. I mean, as a former community organizer, i can tell you when i go to your meetings and i see seniors, young women, young men, people of all age coming together, at the really look and work to build better communities. Its so impressive and so i just want to say thank you from district 5 residents and the Western Addition for the work that youve done with the community. And your team. Thank you team. As i know, you are as good as your team. Thank you, very much. Supervisor yee supervisor walton. Thank you, president yee and thank you supervisor mandelman. I just wanted to step in and say, you know, i had the privilege of working closely with se sophie on a project that was important to the community and trying to bring Law Enforcement and Community Together and we did a series of filming adds, barber shops and beauty salons across San Francisco and it addressed Community Relations between Law Enforcement and we had the Sheriff Department involved and the chief was a part of a conversation but i just wanted to commend sew fee and the team on how you included the youth and how the youth were a major part of the process and you really allowed them to learn and lead throughout that process on the topic that is of course, something that we continue to work to change the effects that Law Enforcement have on community and how we all engage and Work Together. I just want to thank you for your professionalism. I did not know that you also were doing all of that on a daily basis so its just good to see you here and this is well deserved. Thank you, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor yee the floor is yours. Now im a little bit embarrassed. As most people who know me know that i dont like to take center stage. This is super exciting and i just want to say how much the city has taught me. I have to say, it all started with a crosswalk. So, we were complaining as neighbors complained about the speed of the people who drive past our house. You cant cross the street and you cant do this. That was one of those moments where we organized and i realized the power of my community. I think in work and in my professional life, i put so much passion into the work that we do and the stories we tell. I realize that my neighbors had our own set of challenges and it was an opportunity to try something. We didnt think we were going to get a crosswalk. We did. We reached out to public works and we reached out to our supervisor, scott wiener, at the time, said just help us here. When we got that crosswalk, that was the way that the city fed us. We realized there was so much more that could be asked of the city if we only just tried. So then im going to tell you that i thought, well, i could take care of this path and i found out about the public works street Parks Stewardship Program and that seemed really simple. It was tending to the plants anyway. So i joined the department of environment is giving me plants because you are a zero waste city and that means if you have a conference or some convening and you have stuff you cant throw it away. You have to give it a home. So, the dots connected and i think thats been my joy of working with the city as seeing that if you push a little bit, the dots do connect and there are places where the department of the environment and the public works and the Supervisors Office we all can actually Work Together and they are the piece of my street park is not just the trees and the plants and the beautification but theres a lot of garbage and there are a lot of unhoused people who live in the hills and under the bridges and so part of figuring out how to navigate with my neighbors is my housed neighbors and unhoused neighbors and trying to find middle ground. Its been a pleasure. I feel at every turn whether its working with Law Enforcement and realizing that we have allies and there are conversations we can have working with these big institutions and working with all of you is beautiful individuals who actually take time and share, it makes our city a better place. Thank you for all that you have backed. I appreciate it. [applause] supervisor yee ok. Next up for a computations would be supervisor ronen. I would like to call up to the mic manual giuardo. Good afternoon. Today it is my absolute pleasure to honor mr. Juan manual guiardo the beloved owner of the Mexican Restaurant on 18th street in the heart of the mission district. Juan is a shining example of the generosity and resilience of San Franciscos immigrant community. Families and businesses who have given so much to our city. Juan arrived in the United States in 1981 at the age of 14 from jalisco, mexico and settled in on alabama street where he and his family still live today. You are still here still in the mission right away, juan found work in a boundary. A few years later, he got his first job working at a restaurant starting off as a dishwasher in the kitchen. Determined to succeed and move his family forward, he worked his way up the ladder and eventually became the owner of a deli and redwood city. On september 9th, 1995, juan opened his restaurant. For the last 24 years, they have been a vital part of the mission community. Offering the very finest of truly authentic and delicious mexican cuisine. When you enter the restaurant, you are greeted by the aroma of incredible food, the sound of live mariachi bands playing and lively conversations happening all around you. By all accounts, the pisole is one of the best the mission has to offer, thats the word on the street, and people come from far and wide to experience it. And its not only delicious, but it has been known to cure whatever ails you. Juan doesnt just provide incredible mexican food to his customers. He also often donates food to Homeless Individuals and the neighborhood. His restaurant also helps support a variety of Mission Based on profits and social Service Organizations through food donations through the homeless prenatal program, and countless other community programs. In fact, it was from the collective that called me and said you have to honor mr. Guirdo and the community loves him so much. We wanted to thank her for asking us to recognize what we should be recognizing, the amazing leaders of our Small Businesses here in San Francisco. Juan and his incredible wife, maria elaine a have been married for 26 years. Congratulations. Quite an accomplishment. They are the proud parents of alondra who is here today they are here to join us in celebrating your accomplishments and everything that you give to the community. I also want to congratulate juan on his 52nd birthday, which he celebrated last sunday. And to thank you for your incredibly generous heart and for all you do, not only for the Latin Community but all of San Francisco. Congratulations. [applause] thank you. [ speak being i speaking in spa] so, i would like to thank the board of supervisors for this recognition specifically id like to thank supervisor hilary ronen for acknowledging the incredible efforts and contributions of institutions like ours. Its not easy as an immigrant coming to a foreign country and walking a country that is not our own. I wanted to let you know that it is possible if you have an ambition you can accomplish it and i want to thank the other members of the board of supervisors for acknowledging our efforts. I would like to thank ermina for recognizing our institution and our family and the events we do in the community and i would like to invite all members of the board. [please stand by] as my office has spent months engaging with s. F. M. T. A. And the Merchant Community to address the deeply felt and deeply real concerns on how years of construction will impact their lives and of construction will this isnt limited to my district, of course. From the central subway to van ness, there are many Small Businesses impacted by construction, and they deserve answers on how we, at the city, are addressing those impacts. Im very much looking forward to this hearing, and im asking the b. L. A. , s. F. M. T. A. , and b. C. T. , to report. And i want to thank president chi and the supervisor. Thank you, supervisor marr. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Id like to adjourn today todays Board Meeting by Geraldine Mary crowdley, who was a one woman army for the neighbourhoods of the Northeast Corner of the city, but the city at large. She passed away early this morning in the style that she should pass away, listening to Frank Sinatra and watching monday night football last