Hope you will support us. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am a senior at Lowell High School and i have been a San Francisco native and i wish to speak in favor of the resolution for the past 17 years of my life , my father has worked in korean history and many korean other services. When i was younger, i never understood why he was doing this having volunteered the festival, i can understand why its so important for him. We need to carry on their traditions, especially for those of us never had the opportunity to experience living in korea. Passing the this resolution will help the next generation very on with korean traditions, region that leaves the country. I would like to thank the board and recognize supervisor stefani in recognizing the solution. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors. My name is lena and i am the executive director of the koreanamerican Community Foundation of San Francisco. We are a philanthropic organization. We are a very Young Organization , five years old, but we have just repeated approximately 1. 1 million to the Korean American Community to address some of the vital needs that we have, including Domestic Violence, mental health, senior care, and youth empowerment. We have one of the highest rates of suicide amongst the korean americans, and right now, in San Francisco and in the bay area, there is no Domestic Violence language specific service, so these are some of the issues that we are addressing as a community, but i come here today not as an executive director, but as another koreanamerican. I came here when i was about four years old and i was an immigrant at that time. Since then, i have grown and experience the koreanamerican experience in the u. S. I am one of 80,000 korean americans in the bay area, 90,000, actually, about 500,000 korean americans in california and 1. 7 million koreanamerican people in the united states. So i come here as a koreanamerican requesting that you supports this day and i feel like its not only just for the koreanamerican community, but really it is an opportunity to celebrate the diversity in this city, as well as the diversity in the bay area. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Mining is gordon khan and i am a San Francisco native and a resident of district seven. Im also the former Board Chairman for the green center. I wish to speak in favor of the resolution, which, by the way, will not negatively impact the budget of the city. If anything, it will be another source of revenue, one thing to look at. For the past 20 years, since i moved to San Francisco, i have worked to share korean culture and history through korean adoptees like myself, families that are adopted from korea, which will for which there are well over 100, and many non koreans in the area. It has not been easy coordinating the community. Passing this resolution will not make it easier but will help the next generation not only understand the disparity in health and wealth of koreans in the area, but carry on the teaching and sharing of korean cultures and traditions in the bay area. A region that leads the community leads the country, if not the world in Ethnic Community outreach. I would like to thank the board for recognizing and recognizing supervisor stefani for recognizing this solution and thinking andrew mullen. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I run a Small Business in the city. I did a workshop at the event. It was amazing. His only people showed so much interest and had so much fun. At the event i said, why havent we had this kind of day event sooner. I hope to see this korean day continue to next year. Thank you so much for your support. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I represent media in San Francisco. The u. S. Census bureau reports 1. 7 million koreans live in america. Half a million live in california. 80,000 people live in San Francisco. I know by heart that is severely undercounted. The state of alaska claims that there are only 4,000 koreans living in alaska. More than half people are uncounted. I know by heart that is more. There are even more gaps in california and in San Francisco. I would urge you to pass this resolution so that we can mobilize and make sure that every korean is counted. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is dawn. You may notice that i am not korean, nor is my wife, nor are my children, with both my children speak fluent korean and were given a gift by the city of San Francisco to receive a by literate education in korean in our city. Last friday at the school, we celebrated, and every child, regardless of their race, religion, or heritage or culture , had an opportunity to celebrate this wonderful, traditional holiday, eating korean food, singing on korean songs, and as a san franciscan who celebrates our cultural diversity, of course, we support this resolution. This will spread an opportunity for other children in the city to be exposed to this rich culture and heritage. We support it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, board board. My name is drew. I served as someone appointed to the Youth Commission and i serve as a chancellor. I spoke here last week, talking about my distant relative who is the first diplomat to the united states. We had the festival on september 14th, and 5,000 people came, twice the number that we had expected, and this is a first step in getting the korean community, the culture, to get interwoven with the fabric that is the diverse and beautiful fabric of San Francisco. You saw here that there are many children who came to speak, or tried to speak, and as a San Francisco native, i want to say that i grew up without a korean community, i grew up without knowing anyone who was koreanamerican besides my family. I was surrounded by other folk and i grew up with the cherry awesome festival and the Chinese New Year parade, and doing this has given me an opportunity to serve the community i never knew i want to these kids to grow up, and i want these kids to look towards the future in the years to come to see the number of 5,000 to become 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, and become something that is huge and important in San Francisco so that they never have to feel the same way that i did when i grew up. Thank you so much, supervisor stefani, for introducing the resolution and thank you for considering this. Thank you for your comments. And. Good afternoon, board of supervisors, it is nice to see you guys. I know it supervisor haney is working on no cars in the tenderloin. I do back that, but we also have to remember that we have a lot of elderly, handicapped people in San Francisco and you have to allow taxis to go pick them up. The other day i saw someone getting harassed by a rideshare driver. I should have filled it and sent it to all of you guys. Why cant we put cameras in the front of their vehicles . If we start enforcing the rules, the rules will not be broken. Dont forget who bailed out San Francisco in time of need. Dont let our egos get in the way of our decisions that we will make in the future and dont, for god sake, please do not let the sfmta make anymore decisions regarding the San Francisco taxicabs. They are destroying us. I will say that the taxi detail is doing a good job, that they are understand. If you go to any of the taxi stand, they are filled with cars , then we honked, they get out and yell, then we have altercations. Dont shut us out. You know how we feel. We deserve some compensation here. I believe you guys should issue us a chance for a medallion when the time comes. We have put in a lot of time, a lot of suffering. Dont delay us anymore, please. Please do not delay us anymore and dont come me we dont deserve it. What i do want you guys to do is do the right thing. Do what San Francisco is built on. People and sacrifice and humanity and love. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. San francisco is very sympathetic. [indiscernible] they grabbed our money, bought buses, and never considered us. They treated us as if we were there slaves. How many taxi medallion holders died with a heart attack . You dont know. You never helped them with money you help to your homeless. You go to peoples homes, hug them, no one cares about us. Rideshare is bent on destroying the taxi business. There is no doubt the taxi business has not destroyed as completely as long as rideshare exists, the taxi business cant recover. The city projected to isolate us with 50,000 rideshare charity medallions that they have given to rideshare companies, we have become billionaires. We are any deficits. You can your rideshare but give us our money back. You can leave our medallions to Cab Companies. Dont ingest inject us with a b. Five. We do not support it and it doesnt benefit to us. We never asked for it. The sfmta wants us to walk off these medallions. We did not get these medallions and charity. We paid for these medallions. We paid our whole lives and savings. We want you to approach the sfmta for our money thank you. Your time is concluded, thank you. [indiscernible] thank you. Next speaker, please. I appreciate mr. Sherman. Everything he said, i stand up for him. It is true. We are a bunch of people, like myself. I have worked for 30 years. The city promise was never, never stand up for these promises. These these have to be issues this San Francisco city or the m. T. A. , they are not going to to ask for health, where do we have to go . I have to go with my own hands . Do not put us through these situations. [indiscernible] we are a bunch of good americans we pay our dues. Like me, 66 years is my age, i want to be retired. My brother, my friend,. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] this business is never coming back for us. Most of our people is over age. We cannot continue like that. I swear on my mother, i did not get even one fair. I come in here, i am really upset so much. Please get to the bottom of this situation. I love you guys, i ask you guys to help. Put together your minds, go check with the m. T. A. And get the money back. I love you guys. Good. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, everybody. I am a cabdriver. I go around the city begging for my life. I had a stroke and i cannot drive like before. The sfmta promised to us when we are unable to drive anymore that we can get that money back, but they dont want to take the medallion back. I dont want to get in trouble or somebody else in trouble for no reason. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is david smith. I am a purchase medallion holder the one thing i wanted to bring to your attention today is that the San FranciscoTaxi Workers Alliance and the Medallion Holders Association does not speak for us. I just want you to keep that in mind and your discussions with each other and m. T. A. I understand you need to take, you know, take input from all vested parties in the industry, and that is understandable, but do know they do not represent us one, because the Taxi Workers Alliance has conflict of interest, at least for us. Their leadership our prop k. And cab Company Owners or ownership. They have or have had in the past, and of course, the medallions Holder Association was the group of medallion holders mostly that lobbied against us forgetting our purchased medallions. Obviously we dont appreciate that. So we obviously dont want we want to separate ourselves from that. We have plenty of people. You know the guys here. We could bring more people if you want. If you want to hear from other people besides us. Nothing against the earned medallion holders. My father is one, just to let you know. Im not coming out of left field with anger and hostility. This affects me in many ways. Another thing i want to keep in mind is that when it comes to dealing with the medallion situation, that was still get priority to sell if we sell, if we are able to sell. By the way, no one has bottom italian in over three years. If no one has bought and it medallion, it does not exist. It is only existing by name. It is dead. And it. Give us our money back and give us our nontransferable medallions as agreed to in the contract with the credit union and sfmta. Thank you for your comments. Good afternoon, everybody. I am here again for the same issue, the medallions, because it is not working anymore because we cannot find anybody to work for us and theres no value left in the medallion whatsoever because uber has taken over, which is okay, but we really want you to take responsibility and get us out of that. This is nothing but a nightmare for not just the drivers, but all their families. It is a nightmare. We are really looking forward to see that. Take the responsibility and get us out from there so we can just pay the money to the banks and leave something because this thing is not going to work out. You can drive free without medallion for 250,000. Why are you stupid to work by a medallion to work for the city i wish that we would Pay Attention to this and say the medallion value is zero. Please get us out because that thing is lost and we are suffering really badly financially and mentally and physically. God bless you, thank you so much thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, everybody, the same issue, cabdriver. The medallions is a big burden on our shoulders. I would like to tell you that our study expense, either we drive or not. It is 2,300. The bank is fine because they paid two to 50,000, but what if the companies are charging us 1,400 . Will you please exempt us from those Cab Companies so, if you can alleviate our burden from 2,000, 21,100 so we can survive and live in the market and we still can serve the people of San Francisco. The very best as if you can buy back. If it is not possible right now, or you are still working on, or the time is going by, if you can alleviate us of our paint to exempt [indiscernible] that will help us a lot. I hope you will consider this option as well that we can create our independent cabs that we dont have to pay to the Cab Companies. That would be a great help for us. Before you speak, are there any other members of the public would like to address the board during general Public Comment . This is our last speaker. Sorry for the delay, thank you. The overhead, please. I wanted to end last week, but i ran out of time, so supervisor brown and president yee overhead, please. Theres one thing about a chevrolet van that is better because we can drive across the u. S. A. In your chevrolet and is the greatest land on earth. [indiscernible] i picked up this and then in 1974 and i drove it until 1988. Around the country. It was great. The van ness the beach parking lot off rose street. The overhead, we will stay with it a little bit more as a struggle. It is hard to reach back. Thank you for holding the microphone. These are all 25 milliondollar chips. This was everything that was given to the tax break through the to the rich folks. This is a 25 billiondollar chip theyre supposed to be a raise for the federal employees but trump said no, they dont get it , we have to balance the budget. Trump showed us, by taking a few Million Dollars away from the defence budget that he wants, he can build a rusty wall with it. How about the democrats taking a few Million Dollars from the defence budget and giving it a billion to each city in this country, and help what we need here . That is it. Thank you. I ran out of time again. Sorry. Thank you for holding the microphone. Mr. President , i will let you make the last call. Thank you. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Madame clerk, please call the before adoption without committee agenda. Items 21 through 24. [reading items] would any of my colleagues like to sever any items . Seeing none, madame clerk, lets see, why dont i just say same house, same call . With no objection mr. President , apologies, we do need a roll call. Okay. That is correct. Roll call, please. On items 21 through 24,. [roll call] there are 11 aye. The resolutions are adopted on the motion is approved unanimously. Please read the in memoriam his, if any. I have not report. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Is there any further business before us today . That concludes our business for today. Thank you. We are adjourned. Bayview. A lot discussion how residents in San Francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and theres not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the Arts Community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. Nonprofits cant afford to operate here. My name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in Housing Insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. My name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to 10,000 a most. And chad of the arts project pursue. The evolution of the orientation the focus on Art Education between children and Patrol Officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run. Im the nonprofit manager for the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute Technical Assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. Snooechlz is rob the executive director and cofounder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of San Francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know theyll not renew our lease the last years the city with the nonprofit displacement Litigation Program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and Technical Assistance. Fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around 40,000 a year now 87,000 taylors dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota Street Project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a Nonprofit OrganizationNational Anthem and turned out the Northern California fund they accepted us into the Real Estate Program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the Litigation Fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. Which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didnt know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits Displacement Mitigation Program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a 946,000 grant that is provided through the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and thats going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. The purpose of the Organization Trust to stabilize the arts in San Francisco working with local agency i go like the Northern California platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property were sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years well renting 10,000 square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. The loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been weve had tremendous support from the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. Our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as were doing the work weve been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. The single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. It has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. With the Economic Development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of Economic Workforce Development oewd. Com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit Mitigation Program and the Sustainability Initiative and find their information through Technical Assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the my son and i was living in my car. We was in and out of shelters in San Francisco for almost about 3. 5 years. I would take my son to school. We would use a public rest room just for him to brush his teeth and do a quick little wipeoff so it seemed he could take a shower every day. It was a very stressful time that i wish for no one. My name is mario, and i have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. Born here in hayes valley. I applied for the San FranciscoAffordable Housing lottery three times. My son and i were having to have a great happened to have a great lottery number because of the neighborhood preference. I moved into my home in 2014. The neighborhood preference goal was what really allowed me to stay in San Francisco. My favorite thing is the view. On a clear day, im able to see city hall, and on a really clear day, i can see salesforce tower. We just have a wonderful neighborhood that we enjoy living in. Being back in the neighborhood that i grew up in, its a wonderful, wonderful experience. Now, we can hopefully reach our goals, not only single mothers, but single fathers, as well, who are living that. Live your dream, live your life, [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to work together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of Northern California, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. We have folks that help give out lunches in the cafe, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. Volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. Participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. We do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. They can bring them into the event as well. We also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. We also have a bag check. You dont have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. We get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didnt know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. Our next event will be in march, we dont yet have a date set. We typically sap set it six weeks out. The way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. We always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. A lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they dont know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [ ]. My name is dave, and i play defense. My name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, because they need a goalkeeper. Soccer u. S. A. Is a nonprofessional organization. We use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in ones life. The San Francisco recreation and Park Department and street soccer u. S. A. Have been partners now for nearly a decade. Street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for Youth Development and for reaching people of all ages. Rec and park has a team. Im been playing soccer all my life. Soccer is my life. I played in the streets when i was a kid. And i loved soccer back home. I joined street soccer here. It was the best club to join. It helps me out. The tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. We put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. The kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a neighborhood that really isnt the most hospitalable to youth hospitable to youth playing in the streets. One day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. So i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, ive got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever. A lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. Its a pretty lengthy process. Here, i am the only one with my dad. We were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. My sister, shes in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know . Yeah. Thats the one of the most important things that challenge me. My dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. I came here, finish elementary in San Francisco. After that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. Last time i went back was a couple years ago. I came here six months, i know nobody. Now i have the team has a family, the coaches. Amazing. Im hoping for lifelong friendships, and im super inspired by what theyve been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. I love my family, i love my team. Theyre just like a family. Its really nice. Street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, a