Because weve been in a longterm drought. So can you speak a little bit more how youre confident that were not going to hit the water floor even in good or even regular rainfall years . Sure. Ive been working in San Francisco for close to 40 years and im working actually on the armory and been working on it off and on since the early 2000s. I actually worked on the cathedral across the street from us. Im very familiar with this soil conditions and the groundwater conditions. So what we do is we know we have a snapshot when we do our investigations. Sometimes we do it when its try in september and october and sometimes we do it during the rainy season. We always know that the groundwater fluctuates. So what we do is we take the measurement we have during the construction, we look for monitoring wells, whatever data we have, ideally the highest groundwater occurred in 2005 and then during the el nino years in 1997 and 1998. We see how much the groundwater fluctuates overtime. We new during a drought, we always want to have design for the highest level we think it will ever get. Basically we have measurements and we look at all the data in the area. When its the highest and thats the number we pick for the design groundwater. Im confident it will not come up to the ground because i think theres the concern there is that theyre blocking drainages to the bay and so fourth. As we mentioned, this is at grade. Those drainages, i mean, all the buildings in San Francisco and this area that New Buildings will have some sort of ground improvement, which is what were proposing makes its on i can la fie ablliquefyable soil. So basically the groundwater flows around those. When they mention that theres rivers and streams its not really rivers and streams, its still soil. Sometimes the soil is a little more permeable. This was filled with sand and it was dumped on top of sand. There was in river or creek under the site. Supervisor yee any other questions . I see none. So, id like to invite the members of the public who wish to speak in opposition of the appeal and in support of the project to please come forward. You have up to two minutes. First speaker, please. Hello. Good to see you again. This is my second time speaking in front of you guys so hell o i just want to say we need your help. The black community. We need all of your guyses help. Everyone who is white or who has White Privilege. We need your help. You guys are the ones who have the White Privilege of the skin that you were born with even you guys back here. Everyone who has the white skin privilege. We need your help. The black Community Needs your help. I need your help. Im battling homelessness. I just met someone whose mom just died today because she was battling homelessness and they just bought someone and i had to break up the fight because of the anger kind the gentrification that is happening. If you have your white skin privilege that can help our society, black america, mexican america, asian america, indian america, they did not create this america. White america did. And its on the backs of the blacks and mexicans that this america has been created on and it inter twines in every layer of our society. And we need your help. We cant do this anymore. Look at tenderloin, the containment zone. Look at how your Black Brothers and sisters are living. You guys are the ones that can change this. Its not us. I cant do anything. I truly cant. It takes you guys. Please, help us. This gentrification is killing us. The native indians are already almost demolished and the blacks are right behind them if theyre not in prison already. Help me. Help us. Please. I beg you. I beg you. Supervisor yee thank you. So, is there anybody that would like to speak in support of the project. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Lastly, id like to invite the appellant or the representatives to present a rebuttal argument. You have three minutes. People dont understand that there has been no study about what happens when we dewater this whole area and the cumulative study of all the new building thats have come in since 2012 dewatering. Why are we seeing sinkholes . Where do these occur . What is going to happen of the were not so concerned with we understand that theres no basements and theres an old Brick Foundation and theres an elevator shaft and theres garbage there that needs to be excavated and soil needs to be remediated and that might require dewatering. We do know because no one has dug up the parking lot and started digging there. And this whole when they now what was going on. Here. Why did they unload it on the project sponsor. They got rid of it. Its the impact that have been studied yet. What if it causes harm to this project . That is what environmental study is about and why is it not being done . Why do you not take the things that you know and make accumulative changes and make those study this is addition to the plan e. I. R. This Community Needs you to do that. And why do the supervisors not require this . Why do we keep coming here year after year after year and it gets worse and worse. Supervisor yee there are additional things that need to be studded. There was a vibration study analysis. These people changed their foundation several times. Im an architect by training and i understand this. 82 word ward was not going to be excavated when it was a basement but now theres no choice but to go right up to it. The vibration report said it would be. 24 out of allowed. 25 and theyre chipping out Old Foundation and were not there yet. Supervisor yee thank you, very much. This public is item 25 and has been held and its now filed. We will now reconvene as the board of supervisors, colleagues, we now have items 26, 27 and 28 before us. Supervisors ronen, final remarks. Thank you, president yee. First of all, i have to say that im always sorry to see when a project in my district comes before the board. My office did meet with both the developer and the appellant separately before they stalled several months ago. I was hopeful that we could bring the parties back together to reach a compromised agreement as weve been able to do in the past with a number of other projects including most recently, on another mid scale Apartment Building on cesar chavez. If i believed there was a possibility of doing that again, i would continue this and bring the parties together again. Unfortunately, i think weve reached an impasse where the discussions will no longer be fruitful. Before i go into anymore further details of this appeal, i just have to say that i was there was an october 1st letter from David Blackwell of alan matkins that i received that i just have to publicly say was way out of line. Im not always 100 in agreement with United States of mission just like im not always 100 in agreement with project sponsors. I cannot tell you how grateful i am for the dedication and support for united to save the mission. Our mission no eviction. Specifically of la reece a, pedro and kelly hill who volunteer hours and hours of their time to protect the working class neighborhood that they call home. And when mr. Blackwell compared these hardworking activists to criminals, i think that was nasty and it was offensive and it wasnt only offense offensim but to me. To all of us struggling to take the seriousness of these conversations to heart and to make thoughtful decisions around land use and housing in our city. That is not how we do development in San Francisco and i expect never to see this again come up in a sponsors rebuttal. It offended me and i want to thank everything you do for this neighborhood. You are tireless. We love and appreciate you for that. Having said that, and put that to the side for a minute, i also want to thank, i want to comment on whether or not this would be my dream development for this par self land in the mission, absolutely not. We all know that what the city needs, but particularly what the mission needs, isnt more luxury housing, its Affordable Housing. Its Affordable Homes for the thousands of people that have been displaced, for the teachers and working class communities that are getting pushed further and further out of our city. Thanks to this Community Fighting so hard, we currently have four cranes up in the Mission Building 100 Affordable Housing projects, housing that we truly need as a city and as a neighborhood and we have 300 more in the pipelines and these are ninestorey building thats same Community Embraces and welcomes to the community. I also get very incensed when i hear them call Mission Activists nimbys, all they want is more housing but housing for the working class communities that are being pushed out of the neighborhood. So i just have to say that. Unfortunately, this isnt that project that we want to see in our neighborhood. Not only does it not meet the current 25 affordable requirements, it was grant grandfathered into a earlier requirement. Unfortunately, the density, bonus law, statehousing accountability law and even now more strict laws that supervisor wiener and others are pushing in sack ra men csacramento are takl our local power to actually talk about the impact that these projects have on displacement in our community. And ceqa is the tool that is left which is really not very powerful. It doesnt allow for the room, especially as being interpreted under current case law for us to analyze and plan for the human impacts these developments have on the neighborhood. And i hate while this project is 19 affordable on site from the base project, that these state density laws allow the developer to fee out on the additional heighten density so if you look at the total project over all, its only 13 thats going to be below market rate units on site. They will be eight homes that working class families will have in the mission but that percentage is way too low. And its frustrating to me. I wish i had more power to do something about it. I have read all the documents and racked my brain and pushed the Planning Department to think through, is there anyway under ceqa where theres not sufficient analysis that we have to go back and review more and i just dont see it with the geo tech nal report that i have analyzed over and over, i just dont see where there is room to push on that and as weve zendaya this board several times has said that under these laws that dont protect our communities, this Community Plan infection, what environmental factors would make this plan outofdate and so perhaps we have to consider going back and looking at the underlying plan because there are no environmental factors that will make this exemption stale. So, today im going to make a motion, i know im going to days point several members of the community that i admire deeply. Its not easy for me but i am going to move to adopt item 26 and table item 27 and 28. Supervisor yee so theres a motion thats been made. Is there a second. A second by supervisor fewer. And can we take this same house same call. Clerk roll call mr. President. Supervisor yee roll call, please. Clerk it is the same house. I didnt see supervisor safai so you can do same house same call. Clerk can we take this same house same call. Supervisor yee the motion passes. Excuse me. We need to continue the meeting, please. Lets move on. So, i think we are, i believe Public Comment. Supervisor yee we are on roll call. Clerk supervisor. [roll call] supervisor yee colleagues, i know ive been talking about this particular issue for a while now. And im going to talk some more about it. The office of emerging technology. Disruptive technologies and trends are changing the way we work, communicate and live. We are in another Industrial Revolution, one where the speed scope and pervasiveness of technologies advances are unprecedented. The Industrial Revolution of the past came with many benefits including increased Job Opportunities and production levels. Inspire innovation, allow foray sis able and faster communication and reduce the experience of borders. However, before regulations there were unintended consequences that have profound negative impact of our public including labor practices with the use of child labor, unsafe and dangerous working conditions, unregulated house of minimum play and the list goes on. This is because the pace and impact 6 neck logical change increasing while the speed of government is considering and adopting regulatory legislation has not kept pace. This is about what is going on in San Francisco. And today, the unintended negative consequences must stop. Early in 2018 when i tried to ban the delivery robots, i was seen annan anti tech or solving for something that wasnt a problem. A few weeks later when scooters were dumped on our sidewalks everyone understood. The city and our residents demanded action in order to control what was taking place on our streets. Monthly, we read about private data being hacked and millions of peoples identity being identified. Its workforce as employees in order to be fairly compensated and in hong kong, were seeing we are seeing technology and in china technologicalbased social Credit Systems are rolled out that could reward people and punish people according to their stores. To address this by being reactive and legislating other technology or devices already launched is not good governance. We need to be as innovative in our policies as emerging tech and its in adopting and launching products. Today San Francisco is the first in the world as far as i know that will establish an office of emerging technology. The o. E. T. As i call it will allow the city and the public to effectively evaluate any emerging Technology Benefits and impacts before they operate on our Public Infrastructure. I support innovation and technology. Our residents are not guinea pigs and are Public Infrastructures is not a free for all on regular unregulated space. San francisco becomes emerging technologies but as the city we must ensure that technologies provide a net common good measure in identifiable ways and that they are safe and appropriate. Many emerging technologies impact the public in disruptive ways. They utilize a Public Infrastructure or the right away of our airspace or our data. To their basically benefit the profits. I want to be clear that the objective is not to stymie or control those technologies but to balance the Public Service of innovation with the public good and safety. This is why i am proud that we had a robust, thorough and collaborative process through my emerging Technology Workgroup and were over 200 people and organizations participated including small startups, well established tech firms, advocates, labor, merchants and neighbor associations, multiple departments and academics. The recommendations from the report are what informed the legislation for the office of emerging technology. So the office of emerging technologies is unchartered territory but we now have a holistic Regulatory Framework and i am confident in the process that has brought us here. As a reminder of the most examples of emerging technologies today, are mobility focus but the office of e. T. Will be inclusive with the technologies beyond mobility to anywhere theres a nexus between technology and Public Infrastructure. Whether this is the hover boards or publicly facing Data Collection bio metrics and the public right away anywhere that will be potentially and impact to other critical resources, for the first time they will have a clear and streamline process for approval and the office of emerging technologies will number one, act as a front door for emerging Technologies Companies to a Central Point of contact for companies. A streamline process by facilitating approvals by all departments impacted by the emersion technology that is regulated. And in office of e. T. With safely test and evaluate new technologies and clear evaluation criteria and well improve communication between among emerging tech companies, San Francisco residents local businesses. The office of et will support responsive policy development in areas such as equity, accessibility, privacy and data ethics. And office of emerging technology will process smart forecasting through expert collaboration zoos that our city can bs so that our citycan be p. The office of e. T. Addresses both unmet needs protecting the public and supporting emerging tech. We thank tekin owe rate isors e are happy to emergency merging technology for public interest. This is why our city policies need to be on the forefront just as San Francisco is the center for tech and innovation. I want to thank supervisor fewer for cosponsoring and thank city administrator naomi kelly and her Team Including mattias jamie and bill barnes, debra lusky from the public works and kate tourin who helped us formulate the legislation hearing. A special thanks to chris tom as well as many of our other City Attorneys who work on this legislation. I also wanted to thank all other city departments who helped inform the recommendations of the office of emerging technology. So, i want to extend my gratitude to the tech sector, businesses labor and academics who participated in the workgroup. And last but not least, i would really want to thank my staff. Erika mayborn who ree really wod on this legislation and she did it without ever looking back and saying why did i get myself into this and im really glad she took this on because i would have lost my patients about a year ago. So, that is what ill be introducing. And hopefully you will be supporting that. Also, colleagues, i would like to close todays meeting in honor and in loving memory of robdale pelasios. Rafael was also known as super jeff and a force of nature as the lead instructor of city bill academy. He lived and breathed his work. Even in his final days, he spoke with the director joshua arsay about plans for when he left his post, he cared so deeply about his apprentice and the mission of the city build. Rafael fought and battled cancer until his final days. Even in sickness, he never complained. He was positive and inspirational to everyone around him. Last week his family organized a touching memorial to allow his friends, band mates and city build members to celebrate his life. They are compiling a book of memories to honor his spirit. He is survived by his loving wife, jackie and his children. Colleagues, i ask for this memoriam to be on behalf of the San Francisco board of supervisors as rafael was the heart of city bill academy. Which is incredible in providing the opportunities and workforce development. We want to share our deepest condolences to his loved ones, his friends and entire city build family. His memory and regularly lives on through his students, past and present. As city bill academy, the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, mr. President , supervisor brown. Colleagues, as many of you new, governor kne gov will sign. Rent app and eviction legislation puts in place some of the strongest renter protections in the nation. While many San Francisco owe tenants are protected by our rent control ordinance, those living in buildings constructed between 1979 and 2004 do not benefit from those same protections. Including potential outrageous and predatory rent increases and unjust evictions. With ab1482 becoming the law of the land today, im looking forward how to implement it in San Francisco. I am interested in seeing to what degree the rent board can help and implementing this new law and i am working with the City Attorney and rent board on legislation to implement 1482 in San Francisco. And i look forward to working with my colleagues and that effort. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor brown. Supervisor fewer. Thank you, madam clerk. Today i am introducing legislation to ensure that the Francis Scott key Teacher EducatorHousing Project will qualify for the full streamlining benefits of prop e if and when its approved by the voters. This legislation will amend the unit mix for educator Housing Projects by removing the three bedroom requirements and requiring that half of the unit in an educator Housing Projects are two bedrooms or larger by making this tweak, we can shave more than a year off the approval of timeline for Francis Scott key by eliminating the need for rezoning. In the future, i will be introducing legislation to create a baseline high increase for 100 Affordable Housing projects and educator Housing Projects. This high increase is not needed by the Affordable Housing projects in the pipeline and its not time sensitive. I will be asking the board to consider this change at a later date after Environmental Review is completed. I want to thank my co sponsors, supervisor peskin, haney and mar. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor fewer. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you, madam clerk. Harvey milk said, every gay person must come out as difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family, you must tell your relatives and friends if they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with, you must tell the people in the stores you shop in. When they realize that we are their children that we are in deed everywhere every myth, lie will be destroyed once and all and when you do you will feel so much better. Colleagues, this friday is the 31st annual National Coming out date which marks the anniversary of the National March on washington for lesbian and gray rights. Its important and its also as harvey milk new important. If we arent out, we arent seeing, we dont count and we arent counted. Thats why i am introducing a request for a hearing on the citys fiscal year 20182019 Sexual Orientation and gender identity reports. Passed by the board of supervisors in 2016 requires departments and contractors providing health and social services to seek, collect and analyze data on the Sexual Orientation and gender identity of the clients they serve and to provide annual reports on that data at the end of each fiscal year. Lgbtq people have largely been ignored in the collection of demographic information by state local and federal governments for decades. This lack of data has led organizations including the center for dataen ovation to advocate for data to be collected at all levels of government to help address Service Disparities that negatively impact the lgbtq community. In april, i held a hearing on the first annual reports which covered fiscal year 2018 as well as 20182019. This gave us a look at disparity and access to essential services for lgbtq people and identifying challenge to Data Collection faced by a number of city departments. Although the initial results in mixed the first round of reports showed that unless programs are designed to specifically serve lgbtq people, they will not serve lgbtq people. They make up 30 of our homeless population, according to 20172018, only 17 of clients assess for coordinated entry identify as lgbtq. Similarly only 6 of clients receiving Public Services to the Mayors Office of housing come Community Development identify as lgbtq and 2 are trans or nine binary despite 12 of our citys identifying agency lgbtq. We learned that several departments struggled to collect soji data. I look forward to working with the office of transgender initiatives and participating city departments to use this to review progress made toward improving Data Collection and Service Outcomes for ledge lgbtq people in the 20182019 fiscal year. Today i am also introducing a resolution in support of tipping points all in Campaign Launched in july. Tipping point has been a Strong Partner in the citys efforts to address homelessness, funding the implementation of a new Behavioral Health bed tracking tool and committing 3 million to create a 15bed behavioural bed respite center. Its a Public Education and Engagement Campaign that seeks to build support for Supportive Housing and services and every San Francisco district. Many san franciscans want to be part of solving homelessness and all in aims to galvanized everyday san franciscans to secure homes for people experiencing homelessness throughout the city. Tipping points launched all in with its First Community roundtable. Im declaring a state of emergency for the emergency firefighting water system to protect all neighborhoods in the event of a major earthquake and fire. The resolution urges the city to create a comprehensive plan including three key points. First to expand the emergency firefighting wire system High Pressure water pipelines dedicated for firefighting to all unprotected neighborhoods. To create an interim protections within three years by increasing the emergency firefighting capacity in all neighborhoods that are unprotected by High Pressure firefighting water pipelines. And thirdly, to strengthen public oversight and accountability by requiring an annual consolidated report to be presented to the board of supervisors on the status of the emergency firefighting water assistance preparedness for a major earthquake and fire. Since the earthquake 30 years ago, the city has taken many important steps to protect residents in our city from the next big one including widespreawideseismic retro fit d engage Community Members in Disaster Preparedness. One critical area of Disaster Preparedness thats not been adequately addressed is the threat of fires following a major earthquake. The even more devastating 1906 earthquake caused 3,000 deaths and destruction of 80 of our city due to fires following the earthquake. Following the 1906 earthquake, the city took the important step of building a High PressureEmergency Water supply system dedicated for firefighting which is independent from our Drinking Water supply system. This system is defined to furnishish large amounts of water for firefighting purposes and contains special features to increase reliability in the event of an earthquake. The emergency firefighting water system was built over 100 years ago when most of San Franciscos population lived in the northeast portion of the city. As a result, the network High Pressure water pipelines covers the North Eastern part of the city. Today, onethird of the city is not protected by the emergency firefighting water system. Most of the citys residential neighborhoods on the west side and in the southeast remain unprotected and are vulnerable to widespread fires, loss of life and property destruction following a major earthquake. We are all well aware that another major earthquake will impact our city in the near future. And were just reminded that by the earthquake of saturday morning. The u. S. Geological society estimates a 72 likelihood of a major earthquake before 2043 and the usgs warns the pace of large earthquakes will increase due to gough owgeo logicals so these ws along with the tent 30th annivey 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 say 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 benn 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 flors 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 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 requesrequest thequestion the ls 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 e 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