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Afternoon. Welcome to the october 1, 2019, regular meet ongoing meeting of the board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the roll . Brown present. Fewer present. Haney not present. Mandelman not present. Mar present. Peskin present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please 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. President yee on behas of of the board behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee please call the Consent Agenda. Clerk items 1 through 21 are on consent. Considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, madame clerk, please call the roll . On items 1 through 21, safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. Fewer aye. Haney absent. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Haney aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, these ordinances are passed on First Reading. Or finally passed. And the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Lets go to our regular agenda. Please call item number 22. Item 22 is ordinance to amend the administrative code to set forth the drugdealing task force, to address harms related to the street drug dealing in the tenderloin, mid market, south of market neighborhoods. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 23 through 25 together. Items 23 and 25 are three department of technology resolutions that authorize the office of Contract Administration to enter into market place purchases for item 23, to enter into a first contract amendment between the city and cct technology, doing business as computerland, to increase the contract amount to 23 million, to expire on december 21, 2021, with two oneyear options to extend. Item 24, entering into a first contract amendment between the city and extech j. V. For a new total contract amount not to exceed 44 million with no change to the threeyear term to expire on december 31, 2021. For items 25, a resolution to accept 750,000 inkind gift during the fiscal year 201819. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, these are adopted unanimously. Item 26 is resolution to recreation and Park Department to accept and expend approximately 111,000 grant from the San Francisco Parks Alliance to Fund Community events, staff development, recreation programming and other activities through june 30, 2019. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, the next item. Item 27, a resolution to authorize the department of Public Health to apply for onetime housing funds for the whole Person Care Pilot Program from the California Department of Health Care Services in an amount not to exceed 8. 1 million from january 1, 2020, through june 30, 2025. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Items 28, resolution to authorize the office of economic and Workforce Development to accept and expend 400,000 grant from the bay provincial Regional Planning unit, the north Valley Consortium workforce board for expansion of incustody job center and coordination of post release job training and Workforce Development programs through march 31, 2022. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 29. Resolution to authorize the department of the environment to accept and expend 160,000 grant from the California Department of pesticide regulation for the purpose of evaluating pest prevention efforts in Affordable Housing through september 30, 2022. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Item 30. Resolution to approve and authorize the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development for a Loan Agreement in an amount not to exceed 18. 5 million for financing for predevelopment activities for the construction of a 137unit multifamily rental 100 Affordable Housing project, known as 4840 mission street. President yee supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, president yee. Ill be brief, but i wanted to say a few thanks. Thank you, supervisor fewer for asking really good questions, allowing this and the process to move forward in an expeditious manner. This is a very Important Development for my district. This would represent the first ever family Affordable Housing constructed in district 11. This is over 130 units. Weve been able to 137. Weve been able to take an original proposal that would have built 20 town home, market rate townhomes that would go over 2 million apiece, thats 80 affordable units and transfer into it 137 units of Affordable Housing, doubling the size and footprint of an existing health clinic, Mission Neighborhood health centers. Along with additional retail space. A beautiful paseo connecting al maine and commission street. Were super excited. What is before us is an 18. 5 million loan. The project is an 83 million project. We changed the construction type weve changed the scope. Weve added Additional Units at different income levels. I wanted to underscore and thank Bridge Housing and my staff. Were closer to getting this done. And Mayors Office who has committed to filling the gap to get this project done, saving us almost a year time on the project. We look forward to breaking ground this time next year. This project in the upper yard will represent the two first 100 Affordable Housing in district 11. Just wanted to say that quickly. And appreciate all the hard work that everyone has put into this. Thank you, mr. President. President yee okay. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, item number 31 . Item 31 is a resolution to declare the intent of the city to reimburse expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness to authorize the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage bonds in an amount not to exceed approximately 47. 7 million. For 1049 golden gate. Laguna street, 900 mcallister street and 1010 buchanan street. Supervisor brown thank you. Colleagues, this is a resolution to allow the Mayors Office of housing to issue tax exempt bonds to assist in the renovation of the gardens. This Housing Development is located in the soma western edition. Frederick douglas gardens is 104unit project that serves lowincome africanamerican and african residents. This Housing Project a couple of years ago, like a lot of our cooperative housing in the Western Addition, fillmore, that was cooperative housing in hud that developed in the late 60s and 70s, a couple of years ago this Housing Project paid off their hud loans. And then the board with zero residents put it on the mls to sell. And we actually found out because someone called us and said, hey, this Housing Development was for sale on the mls. So we actually moved fast to get it back into the city to get it back to make sure they werent going to sell and jeopardize a lot of lowincome africanamericans. These tax credits will allow for new amenities and ada accessible units. Further, no one will be displaced and the project will remany affordable forever. It is so important to stop the displacement of africanamericans in San Francisco. We need to keep fighting to keep people in place. We are losing and have lost too many families. By working collaboratively with our coops, our Africanamerican Community can stay and age gracefully in neighborhoods they have raised and nourished. Our families, elders and youth will have a clean, accessible home for years to come. Thank you. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 32 through 35 together. Items 32 through 35 are three resolutions and one motion that responds to the presiding judge of the superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 201819 civil grand jury reports. Item 32 is the report entitled act now before its too late, expand our High Pressure emergency Fire Fighting water system. Item 33 is for improving continuity review. The 2018 through 2019 civil grand jury continuity. For the report Pedestrian Safety in the era of electric mobility devices and urge the mayor to cause the implementation of the findings contained in those three reports through her Department Heads and development of the annual budget. And for item 35, the motion to provide a status update on the boards response to recommendation r2 and r3, contained in the 201718 report mitigating the housing prices, accessory dwelling units and modular housing. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, the resolutions are adopted and the motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk, call the next item. Item 36 is ordinance to accept the street and the irrevocable offer of improvements and to dedicate acachia street for public use and declare it as open public right away and adopt the ceqa determination. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 37 imposes interim zoning controls for 18 months to require a conditional use authorization and specify findings for proposed change of use from a Residential Care facility and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call item number 38. Item 38, ordinance to amend the administrative code to change the name of the Mental Health board to the Behavioral Health commission, to include in the definition of a consumer, one who receives Substance Use services and to permit a consumer who is an employee in a private agency, public, who does not have interest, influence or authority over any contractual manner considering the employer to be appointed to the commission. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Item number 39. Was considered by the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee at a regular meeting on thursday, september 26. And was forwarded as a committee report. Resolution to determine the premises to premises transfer of a public premises Liquor License to 32 third street l p ship, will serve the public convenience. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go the beginning of the roll call for introductions. Before we do that, just for the audience listening, the public, item 40 was considered by the rules at a regular meeting on monday, but was not forwarded as a committee report, so its not before the board. First up to introduce new business is supervisor safai. Supervisor safai submit. Thank you. Supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani thank you, madame clerk. I recently held a hearing on Food Insecurity in San Francisco which is a dire and growing problem among lowincome pregnant women and families. Access to food should be a basic human right because its a fundamental human need. Food insecurity is limited or uncertain access to adequate food. It affects every neighborhood and every community in the city. Almost 30,000 San Francisco children live in households earning below the poverty line. 50,000 for a family of four. 12,000 of those live in households earning 22,000. These families are food insecure. Children need adequate nutrition for health, wellbeing and proper brain development. Pregnant women who face Food Insecurity are at high risk for preterm birth. The cost of not being able to eat today can have permanent negative health consequences. Despite the programs available to address the issue, Food Insecurity remains high and continues to rise. In a survey of San Francisco families on wick more than half were food insecure. In the face of this growing problem, its important to prioritize the issue and take stock of all the available resources. As a follow up to the hearing i held, im submitting a request to the Budget Office to do analysis of our current resources in programming and to assess what our departments are doing to track this increasingly important issue, including assessing what data is collected on Food Insecurity and ascertaining what further data we need. Analyzing what other cities are doing. Understanding what the tools the city is using to measure the success our current of our current Food Insecurity programs. And determining what program and resources it would take to make all of our families food insecure. I look forward to the results and for making any changes as needed. Also, colleagues, i want to thank you again for your unanimous support of declaring the nra a domestic terrorist organization. Words i will not shy away from. The resolution as we know is nonbinding, but still calls them out for what they have done to this country. I want to thank the Mayors Office clarifying for the nra what we already know. I want to thank the mayor for her support and taking seriously our sentiments on this subject. Since we passed this resolution, the times reported that the chief lobbyist offered Financial Support for the president s impeachment defense and asked trump to stop the games on gun control legislation. A new Senate Report rio vealed that the revealed that the nra was a foreign asset to russia. Another report revealed that the nra board benefitted insiders. Theyve continued to block the u. S. Senate from taking up house bills on gun reform that will save live, including universal background checks on all gun sales, something that 96 of americans approve of. Today happens to be the twoyear anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in this country. The Las Vegas Shooting left 58 dead and 422 wounded, not to mention 20,000 who ran for their lives, the hundreds that witnessed death, the ones who attended the dying, who attempted and failed to save lives. Most, if not all of them, will live with ptsd, nightmares and depression. Most of them will never feel safe attending a public event again. It will affect their work lives, their relationships and the way they raise their children. We hear about the 36,000 americans killed by guns every year, but we dont hear about the 100,000 gunshot victims who survive and the family lives that are shattered. We dont hear about the life long complication. We dont hear about those who survive the loss of a loved one. The grieving parents, widows and those left behind. The media rarely reports on the trauma experienced by the witnesses, the emt, the police, the people who clean up the blood. We dont hear about the marriages that crumble, the parents who die of heart attack, suicide. We dont hear about the more mothers who give up their lives to care for an incapacitated child. Gun violence is an epidemic. A monster with tentacles that reach far and wide. It is a Public Health crisis to which our nations leader and many legislators have turned a blind eye. All with the blessing of the National Rifle association who doesnt give a damn about the terror i just mentioned. That is why i will not shy away from calling them out for what they are. That is why i will persevere in spite of any criticism hurled my way. That is why i will never stop fighting with everything i have at my disposal to keep communities safe to live in a country free from gun violence. The nras reckless assault on america will come to an end. We will make certain of it. The rest i submit. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton colleagues, this afternoon, im proud to introduce more preference legislation along with the mayor, supervisor mar, supervisor safai, supervisor ronen, supervisor haney and supervisor stefani that will allow the right to return to anyone who has lived in one of our hope sf Public Housing sites. As we continue to create ways to fight displacement, to help migration and bring black people back to the city, it is important to allow people who have lived in dilapidated, inadequate housing. This is just one strategy to bring back communities that were once hubs for people of color. As we look at the unfinished agenda, the outmigration report, this is one step we need to continue to right our wrongs. Our Public Housing communities in San Francisco were neglected and isolated for decades. And we want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity, who has lived in squalor, isolation, to have opportunity to return into the new housing that is going to exist for us in our community. And this preference will do just that. Allow people the right to return to a brand new Public Housing replacement unit for former residents of hope sf sites. Which includes hunters view, alice griffith, sunny dale and petrillo hill. This is regardless of what time period they resided in the housing communities. I also want to thank theo miller, sigh eata and akeys gray for all the work. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. President yee. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Supervisor walton, please add me as cosponsor. Supervisor walton my pleasure. Thank you, president yee. President yee so, colleagues, im introducing a hearing on San Francisco foster youth status, placement and future. Under governor brown, a major Child Welfare initiative was developed called continuum of care reform. In 2015, california passed Assembly Bill 403, which i intended to phase is intended to phase out group homes for foster youth. With the phasing out of group homes, the intention is to place children and youth more quickly into foster families. Not known as now known as resource families. This is critical step as studies show that children have Better Outcomes when placed in home environments. However, in San Francisco, more than half of our foster youth are placed out of county and 25 of those are placed more than 100 miles away. The very act of being placed in foster care is dramatic, but now more than more often than not, these children and youth are being taken away from their community. Their schools, their friends, and their support network. In San Francisco, we need to commit to keeping our children and youth in the city. And in an environment that are very familiar with them. We talk about being a Family Friendly city, but when we are literally shipping out more than half of our foster youth, we are failing. When less than 50 of the foster youth graduate from high school and only 3 graduate from college, we have failed. Today, 50 of the youth who have aged out of foster care end up homeless or incarcerated. This is a tragic and unacceptable. These are disturbing statistics, but more than that, these are young people, children that our city is failing. It is our responsibility to support and nurture stability for Vulnerable Children and youth. We have a desperate need for resource families in the city. This is why im calling a hearing. As a city, what is being done in order to promote stability for these youth, what resources are being allocated to promote residents becoming certified as resource families so that our children can remain in their community . We must remove barriers from our residents to become certified resource families so that our children can stay in San Francisco and the community. These are just some of the questions that need to be answered so that we can do the right thing and be our citys foster and be our citys foster youth and families who are interested in supporting them. The rest i submit. Supervisor brown. Supervisor brown yes, could i be added onto supervisor waltons preference legislation . And supervisor stefani, the Food Insecurity hearing. And then the rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer can you please add me to supervisor waltons legislation and the rest i submit. Thank you. Haney. Mandelman. Mar. Peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you. Colleagues, last year this board of supervisors by unanimous vote created a scooter permit requirement for the sfmta in response to the dumping of thousands of scooters in San Franciscos public rightofway in wanton disregard of Public Safety concerns and regulations. The City Attorney filed several cease and desist against the companies, the department of public works gathered up hundreds of them. And i think all of us heard thousands of complaints and testimony as to the disproportionate harm to seniors and disabled people and other pedestrians who use our sidewalks, which is to say nothing of the resulting injuries to scooter riders themselves. Those complaints, thankfully fell off after the sfmta limited the number of scooters to went to lengths to ensure that scooter providers were educating the riders on how to ride them, namely keep them off sidewalks, and to wear helmets when using them in the streets. Last week i dont know whether they consulted with any of you, but they did not consult with me in spite of specifically requesting a briefing in advance the sfmta announced it would be expanding its Scooter Permit Program from the existing approximately 1425 scooters to 4,000 on october 15 and ultimately to 10,000. And this came in the wake of mtas assessment of the Pilot Scooter Program that revealed that the companies are providing to provide outreach. Theyre failing to account for how many of the scooters are ending up in the way stream. Individual riders continue to illegally ride them on sidewalks and many of the riders continue to get hurt. This is not to say that this micro Mobility Technology might be a good firstmile, lastmile solution, but i think mta and these Companies Still have a little ways to go. And relative to the item that president yee introduced, item 47, on todays agenda, which is cosponsored by every Single Member of this board urging the mta to issue permits that are compliant with ab5 and respect workers rights, lets be clear that some of these Companies Continue to exploit loopholes in state and local employment law. And i was actually informed by a representative of the Teamsters Joint Council 7 this morning, that at least two of the Scooter Companies that are anticipating permits in two weeks are using thirdparty basically temp agencies, like Silicon Valley startup blue crew to get around the obligation to hire employees with adequate compensation packages and benefits, even though these employees are technically w2 classified employees. This labor model has been a problem for decades in the Agricultural Industry and in the Food Processing industry. And my belief is that by enabling this type of employment model, San Francisco is on the verge of exacerbating a problem that has plagued the teamsteres and other labor organizations up and down the streets for decades. In my offices discussion with the mta the past few days, they have been thankfully receptive to the concerns. And so to that end, i am introducing a resolution today to urge the mta to respect workers rights as well as to address some of the other issues that i have raised and i will distribute copies of that resolution to all of you colleagues and look forward to your support. The rest i submit. Supervisor ronen . Okay. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. President yee okay. Why dont we go to the 2 30 recognition of commendations. Its now time to recognize various valuable members of the community who have stepped up to the plate. To assist our residents and families. President yee so supervisor brown . We have brown, mandelingman, ronen and fewer. Supervisor brown thank you. There you are, rica. Today i am commending ms. Rica chambers. An Incredible Community leader and executive director at collective impact. Collective impact is a Community Focused Youth Development nonprofit based out of the fillmore Western Addition that is dedicated to providing youth, families and other programs the tools and resources they need to succeed. For close to 20 years, i cant believe were that old, rica, shes worked in youth and education throughout San Francisco. Specifically in the fillmore Western Addition neighborhoods. In 2016, she joined the collective impact team as their executive director. Prior to taking on this role, she served the magic zone program for five years as educational director, guiding all aspects of k12 out of school time programs. She also spent eight years at school of the sacred heart and 10 years at the boys and girls club of San Francisco. Youre an inspiration. Your longtime commitment to Youth Development and education is an invaluable resource for our community and ensuring equitable accesses to resources in the city. And its really most traditionally the communities that are left out that you actually work with. Your work is an incredible and important to the vitality and diversity of San Francisco. The residents of San Francisco, as well as everyone who comes to visit our city are so much better for all the work you do, rica, and that you have done to preserve, create opportunities for the youth in the fillmore western. Rica, from the bottom of my heart, i hate to see you go, because thats actually, this is a goodbye, but for you. But i know its a new beginning for you also. Im selfishly talking for me and the community losing you at collective impact. So today i wanted to recognize your leadership. And your vision for more inclusive educational spaces, social justice, and communitybuilding. San francisco extends its most honorable praise to you and wishes you the best when you enter your new career. Your work has helped create a more welcome and equitable San Francisco. And especially for our youth, but also for our families. So thank you for your commitment, rica. And i just want to say, you know what . You have my cell number. You know how to get ahold of me, dont be a stranger. Thank you. [applause] president yee before you speak, supervisor walton would like to say a few words. Supervisor walton thank you so much. And thank you, supervisor brown, for acknowledging rica and all of her hard work. I just wanted to chime in and say, you know, ive had opportunity to work with you, on the Community Side and this role as member of the board of supervisors and i want to say thank you so much for all of your hard work. With our young people, which of course, have been some of the hardest to serve traditionally. And youve been successful in helping young people reach their goals. And achieve success. So thank you so much. And you deserve this honor. I just want to say, it has been an honor and privilege to come back to the city i grew up in and help, not just young people, but families and young parents. And create equity in spaces where it was not. And really push our young people and advocate for them to go as far as they want to go and do whatever it is they want to do. I just want to thank the community of San Francisco and thank supervisor walton and supervisor brown, mayor breed and also cheryl davis. Thank you. [applause] president yee supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, president yee. St. Francis lutheran folks, you want to come up. Today, i want to honor st. Francis Lutheran Church on Church Street for the sunday morning hospitality hour. For nearly 25 years, members of st. Francis and their neighbors and friends have provided a weekly breakfast for all of those hungry. Each saturday, volunteers meet in the afternoon to sort food donated by trader joes and whole foods and deliver to the church by the amazing folks at food runners. Then bright and early on sunday morning, like really bright and early, like 5 00 a. M. , volunteers meet to prepare a delicious warm breakfast. Each week more than 100 meals are served. Last year, st. Francis was able to serve more than 6,000 meals over the course of the year. They provide an hour of respite for folks facing chaos on the streets, a warm room to set aside belongings, read, chat with with friends or just rest. People ask me what they can do about homelessness in San Francisco . I encourage them to volunteer to st. Francis or others that provide help to those in need. Dawn, a lesbian woman at st. Francis, invited me to join them for a sunday hospitality hour. Like so many of their volunteers, i kept coming back. In my case, for a monthly shift working the door. The stalwarts are there every week. I only make it in once a month. But whatever our level of commitment, i would imagine all the volunteers agree, we get far more than we can give. For that, this jew is incredibly grateful to st. Francis lutheran and the wonderful family of volunteers. Now for the bit of the history. Which i did not know before doing this. The corner stone of the church was laid at 152 Church Street in 1905. During the 1906 earthquake, the church served as a feeding station and hospital, perhaps a foreshadowing of the role it would play later. They emerged with first Lutheran Church and the United Church became st. Francis. They embrace diversity of households, race, gender, gender identity, age, and they feel a particular calling to advocate for the lgbtq community. In 1990, st. Francis Lutheran Church and the first united Lutheran Church ordained a gay man and lesbian couple. Solely because they were refused to pledge life long abstinence from sexual relations. As a result, the st. Francis church was expelled in 1996, which was a year prior to pastor dawns order nation. St. Francis never faltered and continued to celebrate diversity. Eventually, the elca voted to make key changes more friendly to lesbian, gay and transgender clergy in 2010. St. Francis was to rejoin the sin odd. In recognition of this history, it is my great pleasure to acknowledge is the francis Lutheran Church. Id like to give randy tomba, a chance to speak. Thank you, supervisor mandelman, for your well researched words. I appreciate that. And for your decade of serving at st. Francis on sunday morning once a month. And thank you, board of supervisors, for this commendation. Im offering words of thanks on behalf of the people of st. Francis Lutheran Church, our Church Council and pastor. Im especially pleased to say thank you for the commendation on behalf of the many hardworking volunteers to provide the get it done enthusiasm to make our food programs as successful as they are. In addition to feeding eggs, oatmeal, fresh fruit, crowd pleasing cup cakes, big shoutout to kara, she donates every week to the program and coffee to 100 guests, st. Francis hosts a food bank on tuesday. Serving approximately 150 families. Also on wednesday, our longstanding Senior Center provides a program and a threecourse lunch for 2 to 40 seniors. And on saturday, as raphael said, our volunteers prepare for the sunday breakfast using food brought to us by food runners and other fantastic organizations from mainly trader joes these days. We get amazing, Amazing Things theyve donated. Additionally throughout the week, our church opens the door to 12step programs and other group meetings. St. Francis is a lovely Modest Church located at 152 Church Street, across from the safeway. And it was built by the danish immigrants at the beginning of this century. During the great earthquake, as raphael said, it was partially built. So there are wonderful stories about the programs that happened on the site in the partially completed building to serve the refugees of the earthquake. But then it was educated at the end of the year and so the congregation really got their act together despite the earthquake and completed the building. In 1964, the danish congregation of st. Francis and the finnish congratulations of the church, one block away, merged and became st. Francis, naming the church after the patron saint. In the belcher street property, we have the friends of st. Francis, where 38 children are preschooled. And thats been going on for over 40 years, since the churches merged. Then the significant moment that raphael mentioned was the calling of ruth and phyllis, along with jeff johnson in 1989. And 20 years later, after a lot of work, that prohibition was overturned by our national senate. Were a small congregation. We stretch our limits in every way. We welcome all who walk through our doors. Please come and visit us to volunteer, participate in one of the programs or attend worship in our beautiful sanctuary. Bathe in the warm light of 100yearold stained glass. In the spirit of gift, giving, service, and faith of all those who have come before us in the 120 years. Thank you very much. [applause] president yee thank you. Supervisor ronen, i believe youre up. Supervisor ronen thank you. Amazing San Francisco mind troupe can come forward. [applause] hello. This is on behalf of supervisor peskin and myself, although i know supervisor peskin will want to chime in when i finish, but it is truly a privilege to honor the legendary mime troupe on their 60th anniversary. For the past 60 years, the San Francisco mime troupe has inspired, educated audiences throughs the city, across the country and around the globe with this brand of revolutionary theater. They have received local and national awards, including nomination for this years Treasure Island. And theyre studying in universities and colleges inspiring the next generation of activist artists. Mime troupe veterans including performers and writers on broadway, television and film, as well as founders of theaters like the pickle, family circus, heart beat ensemble and countless more. But more importantly for the last 60 years, the troupe has always stood for speaking truth to power. And has brought its working class analysis to the largest possible audience for a price every worker can afford. Free. The troupes began in 1959 when founding director davis staged performances in San Francisco lot of and basement. Inspired by the italian renaissance i dont know how to pronounce marketplace comedy, the troupe began their own tradition, offering shows in the park as they still do every summer. Launching their annual circus on memorial day and wrapping up the season there on labor day. Since going becoming a collective in 1970, theyve done every manner of experimental theater, drama, spy, sitcoms and cartoon acceptics. Just to clarify, the mime troupe does not do pant mime. They are bent on making you laugh, while at the same time, exposing the truth behind the issues of our time. Congratulations on a remarkable 60 years and thank you for all you do to enhance the cultural and political fabric of our city. I hope you are with us for many, many years to come. Congratulations. [applause] supervisor peskin i will only add a few brief words. Ive been around almost as long as the mime troupe and was raised on that in berkeley where i grew up and later in washington square, where you were not able to have a show because were putting in a new irrigation system, but it will be back. And beloved by the community. Youve had countless shows, all of which have been very impactful, but none morel havent to this board of supervisors than the one you did this summer on Treasure Island. This is not something you can get a dvd for, so if you missed it, youre out of luck. But it really spoke to all of the things that this city at every level has managed to ignore relative to radiological contamination and the way were treating disadvantaged people on the island. Thank you for having the guts to do that. Thank you very much. And in thanks, were going to do a short scene from Treasure Island for you. Now, the show was about, like you said, about housing and about corruption and about race and about environmental problems. All of those things, so many communities around the country and the world are facing. In this particular show, we decided to do a takeoff on Treasure Island. Only in our play, the pirates were the developers. People who sweep into every community, snatch up the gold, make promises and sail off into the sunset leaving devastated communities. Now in this particular scene were going to be doing, lizzie here. Shell be playing jill hawkins, who is the Deputy Director of housing of district 6. And she has come out to Treasure Island because shes found things, whispers about the problem about the developments out there. She runs into me. Old benny gun. A crazy old exdeveloper pilot who lives under the offramp of the bay bridge with his bats and questionable drinks ive snatched her out of the meeting and taken her back to me cave to talk to her about what really is going on. I know why youve come. Because of the pirates. Pirates . How did you know . Its where they all come, contractors, surveyors, to clear the decks. Ive seen it all before. Seen what . It wasnt like this always. Living under an offramp. I was one of them. You were a pirate. Not at first, no, no, government man i used to be. Stars in the eyes, thinking i could make things better. What was your job . Environmental protection. I was ordered to monitor the cleanup of an old navy base in Hunters Point in San Francisco. The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard . Even ive heard of that. The chemicals, the heavy metal, the radiation. I told you before, quit talking to them. I have to give them background. Thats what im here for. Sorry. Radiation. Radiation. Loads of it. Ships hot with all the nuclear in the south pacific. The families and the neighborhoods starting getting sick and we didnt tell them why. You lied to them. I was just a Deputy Director. But one night, a man came in to me cubicle and said he had information about me, said he was going to ruin me unless i signed off on test results saying everything was safe. What was the mans name . His name was flynn. The navy, they were glad to have the mess off their hands. And the city was glad to redevelop the area. What happened to the people who lived there . Asthma, cancer clusters. Oh, but those views, breath taking. And so close to downtown. But the developers, they had plans. Got the city to declare urban blight. The sick and the old. And now its just condos for rich tekkies. How would you convince anyone to move to an area that is radioactive. Easy we didnt tell them. Just like were not telling them about Treasure Island Treasure Island. Another poisoned navy base, plutonium. There are spots on the island that will give you an hour a dose of radium five times what they get in a year. But the navy. Yes, it was their own contractors found it. But the navy, oh, they buried the results. Just like they buried the contamination. They say we plan to build 8,000 units of housing. Paradise. Radioactive island. That liquifies during the earthquake. It will be under water in a few years. Under water . 2 of Climate Change and the whole island is submerged. And all that radiation is released into the bay. But if the developers know you think they care . Theyre pirates i couldnt take it any more. I was going to tell the truth, but thats when flynn stabbed me in the portfolio, kicked me overboard. There is a bridge right my own. Every day i think about it. Every night i dream about it. What i did to those families. And how i damned me self. [applause] president yee thank you for the wonderful performance. Supervisor fewer, youre next. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, president yee. Id like to call up to the podium wanik. Colleagues, today, i would like to honor the life of phil arnold, loving husband and father who passed away september 6, 2019, after a courageous battle with cancer. You may remember that supervisor peskin adjourned the meeting last week in memory of phil. Today, i would like to present a posthumous proclamation for phil arnold. He born to marine and harold arnold. After growing up in long beach, he received a degree in history from Stanford University and his doctorate from the university of wisconsin at madison, before settling in San Francisco. Phil wore many hats over the three decades he served the city and county of San Francisco. Debt administrator, abilitying director of the San Francisco zoo, assistant general manager of the parks and Rec Department and c. F. O. Of the Human Services agency. He served as treasurer and chair of the board of directors and commissioner for the Housing Authority and member of the Parks Alliance board of directors. Throughout his career, phil maintained a steadfast commitment to preserving open spaces. To quote him, improving things people cant see, so what they do see works. Whether he was putting together bonds to repair the San Francisco zoo to prevent similar damage. Creating and operating reserve for the bay area ridge trail council. Or acquiring hilltop throughout the city to preserve views from Public Access for Public Access, phil was steadfast and meticulous in doing what he believed was right. His legacy lies in the intersection of financial planning, social justice and environmental preservation. Which is why friends and colleagues describe him as extraordinary. The highest model of what Public Service can and should be. And the ultimate renaissance man. Phil