Major earthquake before 2043 and the usgs warns the pace of large earthquakes will increase due to gough owegeo logicals so these warnings along with the tenth 30th anniversary is a wakeup call. This resolution will bring greater attention and to elevate the priority of the urgent issues here at city hall and throughout the city. I want to thank my co sponsors, board president s and supervisors fewer and safai as well as many neighborhood leaders who have provided invaluable input. Secondly ive asked the City Attorney to prepare a Charter Amendment for placement on the november 2020 ballot that will prohibit the mayor from appointing an individual who is a declared candidate for an elected position to a having san vacancy for that position and prohibit individuals to positions from running in an election for that position within 90 days of their appointment. The rates to represent district 4 last year was the first open election in the sunset in 13 years. Part of the reason why i ran for supervisor was because of my strong believe that we the people deserve to chose our representatives in free and Fair Elections. Its also why i made strengthening our democracy an early priority in Office Offering two ordinances to expand Public Financing and putting prop f on the ballot to address money and politics and political corruption. Our efforts to strengthen our democracy are weakened when democracy itself is ignored. Its plainly undemocratic and wrong to appoint a candidate any candidate to the office that theyre running for weeks before a contested election. In the words of the aclu, appointments like these are fundamentally undemocratic and favor candidates who have establishment support as opposed to allowing the process to run its course and let Voters Decide in an even playing field. In the case of the District Attorneys Office this has continued uninterrupted for a century. The 13 years it took for my district to have an open election was too long. That we have been prevented from an open, free and Fair Election for our District Attorney after 110 years of unbroken inkum ben inkum ben see. With my Charter Amendments it would be. We who are democratically elected to serve the people need to trust the people to decide for themselves who is best suited to represent them. I hope that as we Work Together to bring this Charter Amendment forward, in iron out details, we will. Thank you. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you supervisor. Supervisor peskin. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor ronen. Thank you. Colleagues today im introducing legislation to initiate a landmark designation for 7070woleey. Which unanimous resolution the board of supervisors declared the Garden District and explicitly called out the University Nursery greenhouses as one of the very few remaining physical markers of the historic role in flora culture. Immigrantowned and operated businesses that produced flowers to supply retail flourists florists forecast i lived there for several years and along with my former neighbors. Im proud of this unique history of San Franciscos flowergrowing district. The University Mound nursery and the remaining historic grown houses are a focal point of this cultural landscape. Initially, this request for landmark designation was proposed by members of the grassroots group, friends of 7070woolsley. An al analysis was prepared and documentation compiled and applications submitted to the sf Planning Department. Preservation staff and the Planning Department analyzed the nomination and concurred with Historic Resource evaluation that the property is significant and as well as meeting three of the four priorities for landmarking including the need to encourage designation and goughgraph i cannily under represented areas like the portala and submitted it to the Historic Preservation commission which hpc would district staff to add it. That would have been essentially the next step to flush out the analysis hold public hearings and who are charged with making the final designation about local landmarks. I was shocked when i listened to the recording of the h. P. C. Hearings. First, each commissioner mentioned theyve been contacted by the Mayors Office on behalf of the property owner. And u matily they declined the staff recommendation to add this project to the work plan. So i feel that i have no choice but to respond to this heavy handed hack tick and i oppose housing on the site. The hpc encourage a false choice between landmarking and housing and the sponsor and friends have at times set into that. But it is absolutely untrue. Landmarking will not preclude housing from being built and i will work with the developer and the community to find that solution. But in the meantime, i would like the Planning Department to properly and without improper corrupt influence analyze the historic merit of the property. Thank you supervisor. I just want to be added to supervisor fewers legislation regarding the two bedrooms for teacher housing. We werent able to let her know before introduction. Thank you. Mr. President that concludes the introduction of new business. Supervisor yee thank you madam clerk. Lets go straight into Public Comment. The public may address the board for up to two minutes each on subject matter jurisdiction items within the hands of the board. You may speak for up to two minutes on the Board Meeting minutes. Items 3234 did not go through committee as you already know, items previously heard in committee that were subject to Public Comment may not be heard again today. Display document on the overhead projector, please, just put your document under the projector and remove it and when you would like the coverage to return to live coverage of the meeting. The president believes there might be a coup in the white house and ive asked people to get the podcast of yesterdays broadcast. Phillip mud and brandon and other former clapper directors of the c. I. A. Have made very threatening statements and i am praying the marines will execute them. These are epic times, ladies and gentlemen. Its hard to cram two hours into two minutes. I made a mistake at san jose, supervisors, we only got one minute a couple months ago and i said i was counting how many words and the bird landed on me and that was not true. Because i tried an hour into 60 seconds i made a mistake. If theres anyone out there watching that live, pray for me that god will help me in jesus name. Now what really happened was that i was praying after i counted how many words elijah had spoken and i was just pondering, you know, what he said and how god told him to a joint jesus to be king over israel and other things and i wrapped my head in the green flanel cotton shirt and a bird landed on my head it quacked and squawked and it flew off. Its interesting because it says here in second kings that the house they have their master may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the ser visits of the lord for the whole house shall perish and i will cut off him that pissed against the wall and him that shut up and left in israel and i will make the house like the house of son the nebat and like the house of the son. And the dogs shall eat jess a bell. Supervisor yee next speaker. If you we need to keep him out of the chamber if he is going to behave that way. Next speaker come on up. Unto the lord said peace. I dont understand what just happened. He has got it. Good afternoon im peter war field. Library users association. And in an action of extraordinary arrogance and difference to Patrons Service and the San FranciscoPublic Library last month stopped making stopped the mailing of printed notices to patrons about activity on their accounts. That means the library quit a core function sending people notices of overdue sending people notices that books are available. This was done with no public discussion or approval bit Library Commission and no advance notice to the public. There was nothing posted for the public at library locations. Instead, there was a single letter to recipients of printed notices announcing this as a done deal. And that notice didnt even mention that there are alternatives if folks want them and that would include email and telephone notifications. That will hurt a lot of people who dont have easy access to a computer and dont have email and who dont have a telephone or dont want notices in that way. What about language barriers . If you get a notice in english by mail, you can take it to a Family Member or friend and can them what its about. There are serious issues of privacy. People being exposed to privacy breaches and the exploitation that that involves through the internet. Through email and phone notification. Its a reduction in Service Despite the fact that the librarys income from you allocations have gone up and up and up every year and theyre now at 160 million. We ask one or more of you to requestrequest thequestion the library about this matter and they not degrade service with no due process and no public process ahead of time. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Nick. When a patron phones the library trying to find a book the usual practice is for the librarian to set aside the book would a hold to be picked up at a branch. When the book has been retrieved, the library mails a notice. Without warning or notice of the impact of a change in this policy the library has eliminated the mail notice. It bars the use of the library by 100,000 San Franciscos. Because of the damage this illconceived policy change inflicts on San Franciscos most vulnerable this policy must be changed and restored to its longstanding Viable Service level. The Digital Divide is a life and thriving in San Francisco. Thanks to the mismanagement of the San FranciscoPublic Library. There are more than 100,000 san franciscans who dont have Internet Access in their homes. I am one them. A couple of weeks ago i received an unsigned letter on the San FranciscoPublic Library letter head that effectively bars me and all 100,000 other san franciscans in the full use of all Library Services by virtue of requiring enter access. I believe this radical change longstanding library policy to be illegal. This policy runs contrary to the stated and mandated purpose of the library to serve all patrons with the same level of Service Without discriminating on the base of income, race, gender, religion or any of the long list of protectioned guaranteed by city state and federal laws not limited to the california state civil rights act. If its not broken, dont fix it. Supervisor please be seated. If you dont respect us, then we will not respect you. Now, there is a word drawn out equity. If you look at our dictionary about the word equity, you will find there are members coming over here and they come here and plead and beg and tell you about what theyre suffering there is no empathy. There is no compassion. But most importantly theres no fairness and there is no justice. Thank you very much. Good afternoon board of supervisors. You know, i look around. We lost one of our drivers october 3rd. I want to wish his family nothing but peace and happiness. Its very sad. Why cant we have spikes going the other way so that the drivers cannot get on the freeway like they do out places. Lets do something different. Lets shake it up, guys. I feel like no one really listens. People on their phones and talking to each other and acting like this is a big game. We have over 200 signatures now of drivers that want us to represent them. Do you know what every single one of these drivers say to me, they all say one word. One word. They say when . When . What are we doing . When . What do you guys want from us . Its the same old story here. War getting mass occurred. Im physically, emotionally and financially done. I have to look for a new place to live. I have maxed out my credit cards. Ive sold my car. Ive given you guys everything. Everything. I give you my time and you give us nothing. You dont even give us respect. Were not standing up here asking for anything than other than we deserve. How would you like it if im driving you down the street and texting my friend at the same time. Its disgusting, how secretary can the traffic not be worse. You have to redo it all. Start over. Lets look back. Stand on california montgomery in the morning and count how many. When are we going to limit these guys . Right now it is subjugated by ride share companies. They made ride share and they have done nothing for hardworking. Theres nothing left for us. Everything has been looted by ride share. This is extorsion. And sfmta and city and involving this and i tell you explicitly this will be foreclosed soon. Prime with us make your final decision. Relief of us this imprisonment. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am in here to remind you last week we lost one dear friend and a driver. He is very, very hardworking person. I feel very sad talking about it because he has a wife, kids, like a family man. And i tell you the worse things i was 10 or 15 cars behind him. I see exactly what happened. Because i was the same situation. You imagine you sitting in your port three or four hours. They hold your and mentally, believe me. You drive far away and they levee your own car you imagine every day four hours is like that. We are sitting behind. Your feet blow up. And these guys, he was sitting behind a car. I know, maybe it was an accident but i dont see that. You guys and this situation killed him. Over a tire. He may be at the airport and he controls everything. He is more than three hours, the whole day. 12 or 14 hours. What do you expect . This is happening. And i want to remind you other things, new york, Chicago Boston other cities he was not like this in San Francisco. San francisco is guilty. Because they have to stand up for his ma medallion. You broke your promise. You have to bring if back. No choice. You have to next speaker. Good afternoon everybody. My name is abdullah and im a longtime taxi driver and the press shutprecious medallion and im a father of five kids. I dont know what to say. We didnt give up yet. We have faith in the city of San Francisco. I tell my kids i want to keep the relationship with the city of San Francisco because we gave them 22 years. I dont say they lived to us. Well always respect you. Even if you listen to us or not come on. Its way too much. I dont want to be in the freeway. I dont want to get in an accident when im driving a taxi. I want to exist from the shop and i want to give someone an opportunity to drive a taxi. We treat the customers maybe one of you ride in my taxi we get them home safe. You know, were human beings. We need you to feel with us. I came today not to pick up my check for money back or bail out, i cant drive and support my kids. One of the other drive and make the payment and keep my kids. I dont want to be homeless in the city of San Francisco. I see a lot. I show my kids all the homeless in every street. So come on. Help. Help the people. Help the hardworking people. We love this city of San Francisco and we want to be part of the city. We want to remember you with the good things. You back up the cab drivers. You damage the drivers and you have to fix your damage. So that is what i have to say. Thank you. Good afternoon. Sam the taxi drivers and we come coming back and fourth again and again and nothing has been changed and the things are getting worse and worse and same like what we are losing and start losing hope on up guys and dont bring us up to the point where we lost complete hope. Some of you have promised us you will buy back. You promised us you will get our money back. Please help us out. Everybody in San Francisco has the right to make a living wake. Why not the taxi driver . With the 250,000 investment we are not making a living wage. We are legalized under big slaves and this is the democracy democracy. This is what you want to see the San Francisco and thats how you want to be remembered . We are finished. This is a question of all the board of supervisors how you would like to be remembered among the taxi drivers. At least you can give us some relief as long as you dont come up with the master plan of how you are going to buy back at least you can get us out from the neck of the Cab Companies that we are not making money but we are filling their tummies and theyre never going to say enough. We dont want your money anymore. They are so greedy that they are take our 700 a month and we can spend that towards mortgage and towards our future. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon. Its my first time here. The reason why im here is i just last week i was right behind the cab driver who died on the freeway so i have seen everything. So i just want to ask how long we have to wait. Weve been back and fourth for almost eight years or nine years and that is no answer from you or the sfmta. We kept waiting and waiting. The sfmta told us the medallion and this plan and this plan has failed. Is there anyway to solve this problem. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I come down tonight to speak about how you have it in a room District Attorney appointed and felt very bad about that because i came down to speak out against mario woods shooting death and no one is going to speak out except for capper nick and capper nick was a Great Quarterback in that he put a need out and i want at statue put up in his behalf. I am pictures of it and everything. I enjoy being able to ex down here and speak out because you know what is happening in hong kong and what happened over in chinatown, we are going through a lot of hell here in the city. And its on our backs what is going on. With cappernick and everything, he spoke for mario woods and mario woods brother are celebrating this moment right now. I thank you. Theres a lot going on in this world. And be able to come down here and speak out against all of that. You know, when kaepernick was out there in alcatraz, and they appointed him indian or you know honorary chief, he said this is like a chapel here with the priest down here talking were all married to our lord jesus christ. He is just unbelievable for what he has done to us and i hope we can have a statue out here. Next speaker. Tom i wish for this board and the mayor to create and sign a National Petition for the complete ban of all assault semi automatic rifles and wells in and weapons in the united states. Let other towns cities and villages sign up. An opportunity to get some local majority out into washington too the people who are here. We dont need these weapons that kill people. We just want it changed. And i think the cities are the place where we can get the most amount of change. Were closer to the people. And the people that we need. Direct television again is canceling out or threatening to cancel out channel 2 ktvu and channel 7. If you are a broadcast station and you have news a local news affiliation you should not be able to be canceled or cut off from your broadcast. No cable should have that ability. Right now, we are living in object sudden tee where we have thousands of people burn oil pollute the air set carbon dioxide, increase our disaster that is happening so they can make a living and secure a safe home for their children and the next day they go out and buy more gas to burn to more fuel so they can come to the city to create a regular job so they can go back home and have a safe house. Its not happening. Were in a destructive mode. We need policy ranges. Thank you. Good evening. Mr. President and supervisors. My name is wo duffy im a neighborhood activist from this area around here. About a year or two ago this body approved a big tower in the downtown area with housing and mostly market rate housing and they promised they would put an mexicanamerican museum in the ground there were thats great and they said well what are you going to have . Were going to have the head of request teen murry e. T. A. Someone in a jar. What i said then is we have to get more out of the buildings and we had a perfect example of that today. A building that did not provide enough and our planning code did not allow us and also ceqa did not allow us to get a better outcome. Especially now when you start to consider Global Climate change. We know upper income people who live in market race housing has a tendency towards creating more climate problems. Climate emissions. They have a bigger profile. So as big a problem is that is, i cant help but say after our first speaker and you have 50 of america inundated talk about revolution and the civil war is acceptable and theyre literally the people we are fighting against now are literally pushing violence against us citing that people to violence and i hope that our city can help because we need help with a non violent change of govern governance. C. E. O. Thank you next supervisor yee thank you. Good evening president ye e and supervisors. I dug these up when i was 12 years old. The bottle is from the south of market area. Many years ago and the can is from camp used from the loggers up there. Im going to get the late 1800s. And the locket is from sutters mill when i was 12yearsold, one of the first thing that locked up gold. Have you seen a older lock. Thats i didnt like that one. Bruce is retiring. Can you see the tshirt. And i want to say good luck to retirement to him. He worked there quite a while. He is leaving on a jet plane. And good luck in retirement to him. Oh i hope he does real good. Supervisor yee thank you. And well see. Well meet again. Do know where or when but i know well meet again. Some supervisor board of supervisors day. Supervisor yee thank you. Any other speakers . Please come on up. When i first moved to San Francisco it seemed inform and it didnt put out very much heat and to inspect the appliances and he explained his procedure and took a look and stated all was well and left actually the guides who installed the new gas stove had failed to seal the connection. It was a metal thread to metal thread no puddy or tape whether the thermostat was up or down the flame remained the same. I turned off the gas and sealed the stove connection in my opinion neither p. G. And e. Or private contractors who might break an old alliance and in order to sell a new one are necessarily the best parties exam such issues. This is why i suggested the Fire Department recruit and our Police Cadets inspect furnaces and Carbon Monoxide and fire alarm devices and crowded neighborhoods particularly where there are many children. And one thing i seem to perceive here is that under the budget chair contractors are not simply and running the mill and soltation ofsoltation of the industry and i have had witness on no less than half a dozen occasion and ringing funds out of the Budget Committee and offering no more than poorly constructed and arguments yet, they have succeeded in receiving additional funding on nothing more than an assumption of payment for an opening. Thank you. Seeing no other public speakers Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk before we do that, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer. Made by supervisor safai and no objection shes excused. Please call for the adoption with our Committee Reference calender. Items 32 to 34 are introduced a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on First Reading today alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. Supervisor yee ok. Would any of my colleagues like to officer any items. 32, please. Ok. Madam clerk, could you go ahead and take 33 and 34. Items 33 and 34, supervisor stefani. [roll call] there are eight ayes. Supervisor yee so, these two resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk call number 32. A resolution urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to ensure further compliance with private scooter permit conditions. Supervisor yee thank you. Thank you president yee i would like to thank yourself and supervisors for cosponsoring this resolution. I have circulated some amendments. As ive said repeatedly about. Is zero tolerance for riding these devices on the sidewalks . Its plain and simple. Thats the law but as we did a Pilot Program and as its not been fixed and as the current regiment that is is being proposed in just a few days from now has three steps before someone is blocked for walk riding and can move from platform to platform and you havent fully figured this out and safety first and we do not want these people coming in with traumatic and finally lets use all of tools that we learned here. First hiring direct hiring and stop the 1099 economy and lets have the w2 economy all of these pay your employees right and i thank you for your co sponsorship and there are before you some non substantive amendments and theres one correction to what is before you on page 2 at line 4 that april 2016 is a typo it should be april 2018. What my office said to the clerks legislative division has that so id like to make these amendment requests thatamendments with that one additional change. I want to say one thing from today, chris tanevance a d5 person. Hey, as skip scooters, your scooter was parked as a 45 angle and a man tripped and fell. Paramedics had to be called. Remove the scooter asap the sidewalk is too crowded as it is. I rest my case. Supervisor yee theres a motion to amend. Is there a second. Second by supervisor stefani. Can we take these amendment without objection. Amendment passes. Can we take this item as. I wanted to be added as a cosponsor. Can we take this item as amended same house same call. This passes unanimously. Is there anything else . Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. Supervisor yee that brings us to the end of our agenda. Is there any other business before us today. That concludes our business for today. Thank you very much. We are adjourned. Shop and dine the 49 challenges residents to do theyre shopping with the 49ers of San Francisco by supporting the Services Within the feigned we help San Francisco remain unique and successful and rib rant where will you shop the shop and dine the 49 im e jonl i provide sweets square feet potpie and peach cobbler and i started my business this is my baby i started out of high home and he would back for friends and coworkers theyll tell you hoa you need to open up a shop at the time he move forward book to the bayview and i thinks the t line was up i need have a shop on third street i live in bayview and i wanted to have my shop here in bayview a quality dessert shot shop in my neighborhood in any business is different everybody is in small banishes there are homemade recess pesz and ingredients from scratch we shop local because we have someone that is here in your city or your neighborhood that is provide you with is service with Quality Ingredients and quality products and need to be know that person the person behind the products it is not like okay. 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the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes Grocery Stores im the cocoordinated of the Healthy Corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about 23,000 a year so a low Income Neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the cocoordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support Small Businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didnt have access to a full Service Grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the Major Development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from Community Members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the Small Businesses as their role within the community and bringing more Fresh Produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. The Different Stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having Healthy Foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they cant afford it not going to be able to allow it so thats why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, im cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about Healthy Retail in the low Income Community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. Huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and Community Safe way. This is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so thats good as far been doing good. Now that i had this this is really great for me i go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic youre not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my Blood Pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the Business Owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride Business Owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how theyre part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. It is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small Grocery Store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but Healthy Options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more brine is in the pro o bryan works on oceanside projects. We understand the infrastructure is old and there is new technology to incorporate. Bryans role is to manage the Capital Projects to update infrastructure and to make things more efficient. Bryan is a unique project manager. He brings technical experience but only that but he is a great mentor to young project managers in my group. Mentors is a lot about compatibility too. He showed me his process and how he organized things and managed projects and had conversations on escalating things with contractors. Brine shows leadership. He is independent. We Work Together pretty well with the resources we have to get the best outcome for the city. I think we have an open communication and that trust again of teamwork. Bryan is a straightshooter, he likes to get things done. He doesnt seek praise. I think that is why myself wanted to nominate him for the award to get recognition for the things he does to go above and beyond in his job. He is committed. That is why he deserved the golden pride award. I havent been awarded anything like this in my 20 years. That is exciting to be recognized. It is special. It is excited to get recognition with the ongoing activities with the focus on the southeast. It is good to have a little bright light over here every once in a while. We are next to sorb ocean beach. I am a project manager for the Sewer System Improvement Program at oceanside. When i open up the paper every day, im just amazed at how many different Environmental Issues keep popping up. When i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. It was really easy to sign up for the program. I just went online to cleanpowersf. Org i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. Now when i want to pay my bill i go to pg e and i dont see any difference in paying now. If youre a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, its not going to change your bill at all. You can sign up online or call. Youll have the peace of mind knowing youre doing your part in your household to help the environment