He was a very passionate about fighting racism, he was very passionate about fighting injustice, and he was also very inspired by the recent move of supervisors to shut down juvenile hall. And i ask in his honor to continue that you fight that. Mass incarceration has one of the massive one of the massive impacts it has on our communities is a culture of violence. And thousands of people rotating in and out of the state penitentiaries with intense ptsd , and without the support to be able to pay rent and buy groceries, and with the potential of their ptsd, just like military veterans, exploding all over again. We are seeing the impact of this and his honor, i want to thank the board of supervisors and San Francisco, and i ask you to honor his legacy by continuing to fight racism and continue to fight for Economic Justice and by dismantling mass incarceration. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im sorry for your loss. Good afternoon. Im his mom, and i just want to say thank you for taking the time to acknowledge my son, and for letting people know him. Too many kids, all victims, and nobody hears about them. On behalf of my family, and all of luis family, i want to say thank you. We will do everything we can to keep his legacy going. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. The rest i submit. Okay. Thank you very much. I am sorry, once again, for your loss. I dont have any formal introductions but i wanted to go on the record to say that i think today is the day in our nations history that we will remember for a long time. I want to give a big shout out and support to our speaker, nancy pelosi, are making for making a strong move to initiate impeachment inquiries against this president. This democracy has been under assault for the last three years , and finally, we have reached the tipping point. This most recent action by our president to use taxpayer money to go after a political opponent is just completely disintegrating what the founding for fathers and mothers and everyone that fought about what this democracy would been would mean is just unconscionable. I just wanted to make a note of support for the impeachment inquiry. I wanted to put on record that i think this board of supervisors wholeheartedly supports restoring our democracy and going after President Trump in all his machinations to undermine our democracy. The rest i submit. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Supervisor stefani . Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor walton . Mr. President . Thank you. Colleagues, i am introducing a resolution today supporting the issuance of permits of s. P. Five compliance emergency technology, entities and contractors seeking to operate in San Francisco by the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. As we have seen in the past few decades, no employment models prioritize an independent contractors and have given way to companies avoiding the responsibility of benefits and investing in workers being ineligible for being ineligible for basic benefits typically made available to employees. This is also been exasperated with pervasiveness of the emerging technologies. California has been at the forefront of addressing the negative impacts of this worker model. In july, as a board, we passed a resolution in support of Assembly Bill five, which establishes the presumption that a worker is they are an employee for purposes of wages and benefits. Two weeks ago, a. B. Five past and was signed by governor newsome. While there is a legitimate space for the use of independent contractors, the exportation of many workers who have been denied the opportunities for benefits afforded to employees has run rampant. These workers are denied the basic benefits such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, workers compensation, a guaranteed minimum hourly wage, and a right to organize to better their working conditions. From my work for the development of the office of emerging technology, it is clear that much of the innovation being launched is in the realm of transportation. The resolution i am introducing today urges the sfmta to consider compliance with a. B. Five when issuing permits to emerging technology entities. Contractors, vendors, and any entity which seeks to operate in San Francisco. This resolution requests any sfmta permit holder that the workers be employees and not independent contractors. I want to thank my cosponsors, and the rest i submit. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor brown . Thank you. Today as cities across california, including San Francisco update our Building Code to ensure we are all in alignment with the state, im introducing legislation to amend chapter 7 of the miscible Green Building requirement to eliminate natural gas and all new Municipal Construction and whole building renovations. And the action strategy, the department of environment has studying the credentials for all new Electrical Construction since 2015 and city agencies. [please stand by] , i hope that you will all join us as cosponsors as well in the rapid accelerated change towards a more sustain allelectric feature. And also, colleagues, i want to address an ongoing issue that threatens vulnerable rentcontrolled tenants in my district and yours. Today, along with supervisor peskin and fewer, i am introducing a resolution urging the San Francisco rent board to develop stronger criteria for the concept of reasonable reliance. Last year the board of supervisors passed legislation to limit landlords ability to pass through Debt Services and property tax increases when purchasing rent control buildings. The original intent of this ordinance was to enable smaller landlords with allowable increase to achieve a fair rate of return and to pay off increased expenses. At the time the board had hoped that the rent board would create objective standards on whether an investor did, in fact, reasonably rely on their ability to pass through these costs when they decided to purchase the building. Following the passage of this legislation, however, weve witnessed an uptick of certain passthroughs that result in rent increases, including operation and maintenance passthroughs. These passthroughs are disproportionately being petitioned for by large corporate landlords who own and manage hundreds of buildings which impact thousands of tenants. My constituents are currently facing hardship, uncertainty and displacement. This is unacceptable. Yesterday we learned that a major private Property Owner petitioning for these o. N. M. Passthroughs had a voluntary relief program. We appreciate that. If they want to offer casebycase relief, thats their choice. But we need to take a citywide approach and an enforceable, clear and meaningful policies. I am committed to work with supervisor peskin and fewer to offer concrete reforms to the San Francisco rent ordinance and push for stronger guidelines on reasonable reliance. This is why ive also called for a hearing and a b. L. A. Report to take a deeper dive in what we need to do to protect the tenants from these rent increases. Too many people are struggling in todays rental market and many are marching today to protest their rights and their homes. We want to ensure that tenants in San Francisco can count on more than corporate benever b b. And the rest i submit. And i left out one name that is a cosponsor, the resolution around 85. Thank you, supervisor, fewer. I submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor haney. Supervisor safai . We werent able to get our word to supervisor yee in time so im also a cosponsor on that. Thank you. Thanks. Supervisor haney. Thank you, madam clerk. Two items, the first is today im directing the City Attorney to draft legislation that will expand just cause protections to more San Francisco tenants. Generally if your Apartment Building was built before 1979 and has two or more units, then you are not only covered by rent protection, but also evacuationn protection. Under the eviction ordinance, the landlord can only evict you for just causes. The landlord cannot do so for nonpayment of use and the illegal use of the unit. And its to prevent evictions and to keep people housed. However, there are thousands of units, individuals, families, who are not granted those same protections simply because they are in a building built after 1979. For these tenants the landlords are not required to state a reason for evicting them. The protections as they are now are arbitrary and they leave thousands without protection. So what im proposing is simple and to expand just cause protections to buildings built after 1979. And no one should have to live in fear of an arbitrary eviction and i look forward to the continuing discussion when the legislation is introduced next month. The second item that i have is im introducing a resolution declaring a Public Health crisis on our streets caused by drug overdoses. The open drug use and Overdose Deaths in our city are absolutely devastating and are increasing at a terrifying rate. People in our city are dying from fentanyl and heroin overdoses at the highest rates ever. This drug crisis is wreaking havoc, particularly on our downtown neighborhoods. It is a Public Health and a Public Safety crisis. Deaths are skyrocketing and our residents, especially those in tenderloin and south of market are feeling the awful impacts of the lack of action. We need an Emergency Response now. I have spoken about this at the last few board meetings but i want to reiterate some of these numbers because of how awful they are. Drug overdoses in San Francisco have claimed the lives of 259 people in 2018. Fentanyl, synthetic painkiller, up to a hundred times more potent than morphine has passed prescription pills and heroin as a leading cause of Overdose Deaths in the city it. Increased 150 in 2018. Drug overdoses account for five times as many deaths as either traffic deaths or homicides. And experts are predicting now that we are on track to have a continuing large rise in deaths in 2019. Each one of these individuals who lost their life has loved ones and a future that was tragically cut short. Their are resources that must be addressed to save lives. The desperation on our streets is increasing and its more deadly and dangerous. Just the other day supervisor peskin and i were walking back from a meeting in the tenderloin and there was an individual who was on the ground who was unconscious. He was surrounded by a few other individuals who were trying to revive him. This is a situation that is i think far too common in our city. He was it seems that they had lost him. He had lost his heartbeat. That he was on the verge of dying. We didnt have narcan on us at that point so we were able to yell and find somebody who did have narcan while we called 911. Thankfully, we were able to apply the narcan and the Fire Department arrived in very quickly, in a few minutes and he was able to be revived. His situation thankfully is one of survival. There are thousands of overdoses that are happening in our city every year and, sadly, many people are not surviving in the way that he did. Some of you may have seen the recent articles in the San Francisco chronicle about an individual named tyson fielser. Tyson had been in San Francisco and had lost contact with his family for years. And they didnt know where he was. Finally they were able to reconnect with him a few months ago here in San Francisco. And it seemed at the time that this was going to be a story of healing and of reconnection and rehabilitation. He left with his family to the midwest and ultimately earlier this month took a bus back to San Francisco and last week tragically overdosed on the streets of the tenderloin and died. This situation of people dying on our streets without any sort of Emergency Response is one that without a doubt that i hope that we can admits at a crisis level that deserves and needs an Emergency Response much greater than we are seeing now. I have spoken to firefighters and e. M. T. S and street outreach workers and theyre all completely shocked at the failure of urgent action on our streets that will save lives. So i know that this is something that i have talked a lot about and that supervisor mandelman and supervisor stefani having a hearing, and working all together on Mental Health s. F. , but i think that the urgency and the need for Emergency Responses to specifically to address the crisis of drug overdoses and drug use as many of the drugs that are coming into our streets are more dangerous than ever, i think that we should expect an emergency plan that responds at the scale of this crisis that were experiencing. So i hope that we can all Work Together on this. There are people who are dying every day. Largely in my district, but also all over the city. And i really hope that we can respond with urgency to save lives. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today im introducing an ordinance to incentivize all electric buildings and disincentivize the use of natural gas in construction. Its one of the significant contributors to our Carbon Footprint and on the heels of thousands of San Francisco youth taking to the streets on friday to demand action on Climate Change, this is an important step toward reducing emissions in New Buildings. The legislation will update the Building Code to favor the design and construction of all electric zeroemission buildings by mandating higher and more efficiency requirements for buildings that use natural gas and end electricity known as mixed fuel. While we have made significant progress in reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions in San Francisco we cannot continue the status quo when it come comes to our citys buildings. The department of the environment, say that 44 of the Greenhouse Gas emission comes from buildings and 82 of those emissions from natural gas, a fossil fuel that is a contributor to our climate crisis. Thanks to the Public Utilities commission and the clean power s. F. Program, we have 100 Clean Electricity that we can use to power all of the energy needs of our buildings. We dont need to use natural gas to hoot our wate heat our waterd should use 100 gasfree electricity to do that instead. Starting january 1, 2020, my legislation will Incentivize Developers to design and build allelectric buildings without using any natural gas. For a mixed fuel commercial buildings and units of four or more, new projects will be required to be 10 more efficient than the Building Code and allelectric will be required to meet the code standards. For lowrise residential of one to three stories, they will be required to be 1 more efficit than the Building Code. And all of this a adds up to mae natural gas more expensive than the allelectric alternative. This is a step forward but not nearly enough. So today supervisor brown and i announce a commitment to bring forward the legislation within the next six months to ban natural gas in all new residential and commercial buildings in San Francisco. Last year mayor breed committed San Francisco to ambitious as supervisor brown described mayor breed committed San Francisco to ambitious building decarbonization targets including a new goal of eliminating emissions in new construction no later than 2030. We cannot afford to wait until 2030. We need to do it in 2020. To accomplish this, we will convene a series of meetings with labor leaders, environmental advocates and equip ares and city agencies to ban natural gas in all construction in San Francisco. And we will not stop there. Following a complete ban on natural gas in new construction, the next necessary step will be to require the retro fitting of existing buildings to be all electric. What we do here in San Francisco can be a model for city it is throughout the world and we are going to lead the way in ending our climate crisis. We want to thank the department of the environment for all of their work on this legislation. Especially director debbie rafael, and barry hooper, Charles Sheahan and peter goloa and the Mayors Office for their work as well and my cosponsors, supervisors brown and peskin for joining me in this effort. Finally, i want to thank our climate advocates for demanding action and making sure that we continue to rein in our emissions and reduce our Carbon Footprint. And finally, i want to thank kyle smeily in my office for all of his work on this. And that is the legislation that i have to introduce. And i also, sadly, have a memorial. Id like to ask that we end our meeting in memory of an extraordinary woman who passed away on september 5th after battling cancer for many years. Tanis was born and raised in San Francisco and her father was jewish, a Second GenerationSan Francisco resident and a teacher. And her mother came to the bay area with her family in search of a better life. In a feature in the San Francisco chronicle, candice wrote about grits with butter, a favorite that she inherited from her mother. She recalled the role that her father played in nurturing the love of food and community and cooking from an early age. After her parents divorced in the 1960s, her single father made sure that shed learn and remember her familys heritage and keeping their house full of good food and eclectic company. And this inspired her to pursue a lifelong career in the culinary and hospitality industry. In 1985, she graduated from the culinary arts and Hospitality Department and after earning her b. A. In management from st. Marys college and a masters in Adult Education through San Francisco state, she returned to city college as an instructor in 1993. Tanis spent more than 20 years working in various positions within the industry, including maitre d and general manager, in several companies, before providing services as a consultant, specializing in restaurant startups and Service Training and wine education. After running a dining room at city college which some of you may have had the pleasure of enjoying, its amazing, where she taught students and ran a restaurant open to the public she was elected chair of the culinary arts and hospitality chairs department in 2009. From that time until her retirement last spring, tanis was the face of the culinary department. Shes remembered not only for her work as a beloved educator and a Department Leader at city college but also for her huge heart. In her offhours, tanis had a boot camp to have the communities to get a start in the industry. And built partnerships to bring culinary training to people in the criminal justice system. Tanis passing is a tremendous loss, not only for city college but for our entire city and she will be greatly missed by all of those who lives she touched. She is survived by her husband, darwin, father paul, and mother jean and brother noah and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor marr. Thank you, madam clerk. Im calling for a hearing on a b. L. A. Report on jobs and housing, that is the analysis of the alignment of the citys Housing Production to workforce growth by income level. In public discussion about solutions to our housing crisis, far too much focus has been paid to simplistically to increasing housing supply generally and not enough on how rapid and uneven job growth drives Housing Demand in our Housing Affordability crisis. Theres concern among the residents in my district and throughout the city that the housing that we have been producing is not meeting the needs of our growing workforce and not addressing the affordability challenges of lowtomoderate income workers. The jobs housing fit analysis can inform future Development Projects and Economic Development decisions and i look forward to hearing the recommendations of the b. L. A. , the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. And supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk. And first id like to rise to a Public Policy issue that supervisor brown spoke to earlier and put it in a little historical context. This board passed through the passthrough ban Going Forward and we could do it retroactively, i am clear on that. But it goes back to the 1970s when one extremely large landlord became known as the father of rent control because in the 1970s we did not have rent control and at that time one individual who owned i think 6,000 units in those days had acrosstheboard rent increases and our radical mayor at that time, diane finestein, i believe was supportive of rent control in those days. And i think what were facing now with another similar large landlord, and while our hands may be tied as to certain types of legislation and retroactivity, it is ultimately going to lead to a whole set of new proposals and policies from this board. So i really dont want to have this fight. I saw the kpix tv show last night about one of my own constituents who lives on a fixed income whose rent has gone up 19 . Almost onefifth in the course of two years on a series of different passthroughs which, quite frankly, are not necessary. He lives three blocks from where i live. And finished his ding tin distinguishedded career as its distinguishedded career as its finance administration. Phil served on the San FranciscoParks Alliance board of directors and is a commissioner for the San Francisco housing authority. He was a member of the richville couple board of directors for almost 15 years and was the chair for two of those years. During that time, he led efforts to complete the rich trail in San Francisco and reroute it to green spaces, work that continues today thanks to the momentum he built and i actually served on that same board of directors when it was first formed in the 1980s. By every account, including my own, he was a mentor and a friend to countless colleagues in the financial social justice and environmental fields. Earlier this year, his lifes work was honored with a dedication of the phil arnold trail in Golden Gate Park in february named in his honor. The trail maya goes through livk trees in the Northeast Corner of the park providing the type of respite from urban life that phil was so intent on preserving for fellow san franciscans. He married his wife of 33 years who i used to fondly and sometimes not so fondly refer to as the 12th member of the San Francisco board of supervisors many of the former deputy city controller monique in 1986 in addition to monique, and our hearts go out to her, he is survived by his sons, brother steve, nieces, christina and malia and grandson sage. Our condolences to them all and particularly monique. Supervisor peskin, can i just have us all be on the memorial. I would be delighted. Supervisor yee thank you. Ok. I think thats it for roll call. Madam clerk, lets go to Public Comments. Clerk its time for the public to comment. You will have two minutes to share your thoughts on topics that fall under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors to includes items 3832 which did not go to committee. Your comments should be addressed to the board as a whole. I will redistrict you if you address a Single Member or audience. Public comment is not allowed on items that have been heard on Public Comment or during a board committee. Speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and if youd like to display a document on the overhead project projector, place jury document under the projector and ask for sfgov to show the document and row move it when you would like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Supervisor yee go ahead. To all the anarchists here i would like to say that trump is the only president that is attending the pro life rally and i thank god everyday for President Trump. And you know, i remember when paul hill protected his children there and took him nine months to execute him for that. The lady was interviewing him, he is a press pa terry minister and he said would you do it again. He said it wasnt easy to protect the children but i would protect them. Ralph, you know ralph northham, the governor there in virginia. He is on info wars. He said the baby can be born 40 weeks from conception, thats where are created by the almighty. It can be placed on the table and then you can shoot it, you can stab it, ralph likes to hang it up and throw darts at it. He likes that. I think about how god says the powers that be are ordained of god to punish evil doers. My bible says before jesus comes back, you know, that the sun will be dark and the moon will be turned to blood red. Wondering what that means. But you know, jesus said, its written in your law, he is referring to deuteronomy, the fifth book of moses, its written in your law the testimony of two men i am one ta bear witness of myself and my father, he bears witness of me. When we read in gods law, by the way the kings were commanded everyday to read the bible. We find its god says god shall not kill and the punishment for killing someone i see my time is up. Next speaker. Good afternoon. We are back again. The taxi medallion owners to talk about our issue and looks like we are keeping coming back and back but we feel that there is no action taken. We just feel like no one cares about us. Basically what we want is sf to give the money we put to this ma dill yans back and they can rent those medallions and make the default to the Taxi Companies and we put a lot of down payments and some of us we need that because theres no business in the city. I say that if it wasnt for the airport, we wouldnt make my any money. Because, a couple days ago, i had a doctor apartment and i api worked from 2 00 to 4 00 in the city. Believe it or not i had two fares and i made 25 an hour. So, that comes to like 12 and a half dollars an hour which is the minimum wage, right. So what we want is you guys have to, i mean, take actions and push sfmta to do something about our issue. In the contract, they agreed that if the medallion Sales Program fails theyre going to have to repurchase the medallions and even issue us free medallion. Thats in the contract. They should expect everything. They have to give up to their signature and do something about our issue. Thank you. Ive been in school all my life. I have three dock rat, two bachelors, two masters. I set out to say its very practical. I have a plan where i could solve this homeless problem across the country and im seeing its in germany and also in england so perhaps we need the federal government involved and the u. N. I did send an email to mr. Trumps office and he sent out people to l. A. And San Francisco to talk about housing the homeless and so fourth. He says that he started before so that probably the way for me to say that ok he has a plan and its my plan but im not going to talk about my plan. I need a contract first and im going to mention my plan because the government wont have to spend in any money in my plan. Im guaranteed this housing thing could end in 90 days to one year. Money comes no the government. He wants to use the federal buildings but as i said, i asked the chairman carson to let us have a conference and so that i could mention it once and i could be guaranteed that im going to be paid. By the way, if everybody was president obama no one knows but me. Im the man given this ideas and if i hadnt held him, he had nothing to do and he had no ideas and everybody would have been over and no one knows about me. So im not doing anything free again. Nor aim doing anything which im not going to be benefiting from. For my intellectual properties, and when i spend all the same and i cant live on my education, thats bad. In this housing move, i think that i need a contract and i need to have everybody involved so that i just mentioned once and we can move on. Also i have interested in Global Warming and i have a green plan. I notice that folks are talking about electric housing and electricity users so there we go again. Thank you, very much. Supervisor yee thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. I am speaking on behalf of inaudible . I say the same thing again and again. Taxi ma cal ya medallion shoulde sold. Its Racial Discrimination with us. That caused destruction in taxi business. Uber has lift. No one thats consent. Its trust and no one why did they put us to death for payments. No one bans nor no one is willing for. Keep your ride share. Leave the ma cal yan to Cab Companies. They never allowed us medallions independently. We are not leaving medallions from companies, we are dealing with the catastrophic situation, we are limping on and it deprives us of sleep. We cannot sustain in the taxi business. Sfmta are calling to their argument with the union now its responsibilities. We cannot trust them anymore. All supervisors should write a notice for sftam for money fund. We waited two years. How issues has not been reinvolved yet. Its very painful. We have to strike. We want justice. Thank you. Good afternoon. Here again with the same issue as every week we have. So, i dont know how to make that you guys approximate belieu take the action of it because i feel like were just like tissue paper and just use it and throw it out because no one listens to our voice and believe me, were in a crisis. We have so many ma da medallion holders that killed themselves because of the stress. How much improvement do you need for that to believe that we are not lying here. Even the kids know. Every single individual knows about the medallion and uber things. What we needed, we are not aliens. Were part of the public and the city. When we serve the city for many years, we have a appreciation and we have all these good things but when the other interest that comes in like ride share, no one will know what we are. Like i see like were trapped and thrown in the darkroom and no one listening to us, no one looks at us. We have live in the darkroom so when we come see that light to get a our justice. Please, help us out. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Hi, my name is hajeet and im making a request to the supervisors of San Francisco. If theyre going to help us, i dont know how long it will take us to solve this problem and its really big trouble for the cab driver, not only for me. And we dont know how we can stay on the city now getting solve this problem and we need our money back and we cannot support anymore color scheme if some we need help for the color scheme too you know and we dont make money. I dont know how were going to pay this color scheme, you know. And im making a request to the smfta and i dont know how long i can survive. Maybe im getting heart attack soon. I need some information from city hall. My family can sue after some things happen to me. I dont want to die myself, you know, with the trouble. And i have so much stress. Im not able to drive anymore. I dont want to thank you very much. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon. I am again in here just i want to remind you. Behind my heart start crying, you know. And i feel right now my voice start to change. I dont know how you guys just reaction, you know. How many times we come in here every week and every time we did different scenario and you guys go home, you see your family, i come home and i dont see anybody. I am pissed off. I am feeling like i am hostage to the situation. Swear to god. I take any Social Security paying to the stupid medallion. My social se security. I not worth that for this situation. I was not having Social Security maybe i would be homeless. Every each one of these guys they have a problem financially. Most worse things is mentally. We cannot carry that one. We cannot be able to hold it to the situation. As myself i cannot take it. We language, which kind of scream do we have to show to your guys. Please, we cannot take it. He dont care. Last week i try to send an email. They block the email. Because i ask them some questions before they have a connection with us with the emails. We would be able to have say something. Completely we are out. You talking about democracy. Write a check to the average person or buyer of medallion to take off. Its a democracy. Supervisor yee next speaker. Come on up. Hi, im purchase medallion but i tell you before the story. Im married and i have two child. The oldest one 27. She is doing great. Shes a physician assistant. And second one San Francisco university. And theyre doing great. We are not bums. Ok. Im a father. Im an uncle. Im family member. Personally, im sick of all of you. You know. Because you guys you dont give a shit about the chapter. Very simple. You guys open your mouth very big. San francisco is a liberal city. Everybody has its right except cab drivers. You guys put 215,000 for homeless. Take a pee on sixth and market. That is my right. I drive in a cab for 30 or 40 years. I want to be retired. I get sick about this job. I look at your face, i hate this job. Very simple. I hate this job. But i dont have a choice because its the only source of income for my family. If i dont do that, ill be homeless. Ill have to sit by the market begging for penny and nickel. You guys, everything important in city. But if it comes to the cab driver, everyone has a right but not the cab driver. Please, its enough. I was sitting here by the she announced for the supervisor. According to her, if i want to sell my medallion, they thank you. Good afternoon board of supervisors, my name is matthew sutter. Im six generation related to john general sutter. We do not want anything more than what we were told we were going to be given. In the envelope is 91 signatures of owners that want us to represent them. We are not part of anything other than the buyers association. Theres no union for us, were not part of any coalition and anything like that. The sfmpa now is allowing all the handicap vans to go unlimited time at the airport which takes them out of San Francisco to tend to our handicapped people here in the city. I do grow in avoiding them something but unlimited use at the airport of theyre waking home at 5 00 in the morning and going at home in midnight. Unlimited pick ups at the airport without waiting. Is that fair . Sfmta, look what theyve done to taylor and sixth street. You cant get up the street mr. Haney. Do you see what is happening . You made it more dangerous for pedestrians. We are going to want to sit down and talk with you guys. We will write out a plan to figure out what we need to do to satisfy the situation. You need to take the bank out of the equation. You need to start with the bank. You need to take those medallions away. We are suffering you guys. We are in pain. All my life i was a proud San Francisco an and now im stuck for the first time in my life. I feel stuck. I dont want to be here anymore. Thats a shame. I thought you guys are the ones that will make San Francisco great. Its passed mayors and now its current mayors. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon, my name is jones and i am also a cab driver. Let me ask you one very simple question, what is the fate of my 250,000 that i have paid to the sfmt for the taxi medallion. If i day today or tomorrow what is the fate . Someone has the answer for that one . That 250,000 should be defended to my family or not . If it is being defended to my family, i would like to have it in writing. And the second thing is, do you guys have a family . Its a question for all board of supervisors and even the mayor. Do you have a family . I am a father of four. One of my daughters is coming everyday from hercules to sf state. You can figure out the bart and bus fare. My second daughter is uc davis. I have two children in hercules in high school. I am taking home everyday. Like 50, 60 sometimes 100. Do you guys think that i can live with that continuously . No. I have anxiety. I have a depression. I and i want you to help us. We are paying these Cab Companies so much money because i am driving for almost 30 years and we are paying them by the name of color scheme and today those who have color scheme it does not do anything for me. Why am i am paying 600 a month. I have raised this issue a couple of times before and i am raising this one again too. Please help us out and lower our expenses. If you are really a friend of the people of San Francisco and you want speakers time is concluded, sir. Supervisor yee next speaker, please. My name is helena and im supervisor ronens constituent and a volunteer with the Sunrise Movement bay area. I came here to talk about the climate emergency. I am humbled at all that ive heard today. From the car drivers about the people dying of fentanyl overdoses. I came here to say we need to connect the dots in terms of climate and Work Together and make things work. And i want to say that climate is an umbrella that Everything Else can fit under. We can look for what is th the h to a good future and look for a Just Transition for everybody. For the cab drivers medallion and for people who take drugs because theyre desperate or theyre addicted, right. Sometimes it starts with desperation. Ive been there. You are not going to solve the problem siloing things one or the other. Were not going to solve the problems unless we are brave. Unless we mandate that even for buildings that cant yet be designed perfectly with only electric heating, that they are electric ready for when that Technology Comes to pass, which will be soon. Weve heard it from architects. Weve heard it from engineers and weve heard it from the legal community. We need to join together, have different agencies Work Together, and make a truly Better Future for San Francisco and hopefully a Better Future for the world. Thank you. Supervisor yee next speaker. My name is Sarah Greenwald and im a constituent of supervisor stefani. Also a member of 350 San Francisco. About the taxi drivers, i would note theyre driving better cars whereas the ride hails are ice cars, internal Combustion Engine gas burners. I want to thank you, supervisor brown and supervisor mandelman. You reminded us the climate situation is terrible but the good news is we do have clean power available in this city partly because of what board of supervisors has done. We have clean power sf. We do not need to keep constructing New Buildings that use methane, which is a vicious Greenhouse Gas as youve all been aware of. And incentivization and banning methane and new municipal buildings is a start. I urge you to go further. We must be mindful that 75 of our new construction will be in the southeast corridor which currently suffers from some of the worst environmental injustice and pollution as you know. So its an Environmental Justice issue. And the new construction should all be methane free but lets at least make it electric ready and make clean power s f1 hundred renewablf 100 renewable. Supervisor yee next speaker. My name is John Anderson and im a constituent of supervisor stefani and a member of 350sf although today im speaking for myself. I too would like to comment on supervisor mandelman and browns proposals. Proposed ban on methane and new City Construction and incentivizing electric Ready Construction is a start. It shouldnt be confused with anymore than a first step. The recent special report from the International Panel on Climate Change emphasizes the importance of methane reductions only reducing methane will actually cool the climate in the short term. Carbon dioxide is going to be with us for a long time. Only decreasing methane in the next 10 years will get us a reasonable chance, not security foray voiding irreversible warming globally. Weve been asked by you to act like our house is on fire. When you sit in your apartment and people have been yelling fire for a while, and you are smelling smoke, it doesnt make sense to say oh, weve wet down 25 of our wall space and were in better shape than our neighbor who is asleep. It wont do. You need to grab a bucket. We need ordinances for prohibition on all new construction. We badly need requirements that new construction at least be electric ready. Supervisor yee thank you. Next speaker. Hello, my name is connie cox and im here from my company youth. I was here a couple months ago. I am an inventor and i couldnt bring my board in because it was bigger than the display board than what you allow in here so im going to see if i could get