Meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . Thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , we have a quorum. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv, miss men doe didnt mr. Smith who record our recordings and make a transcript to the public available online. Any communications . None to report, mr. President. So today we are approving the minutes from the october 8th, 2019 Board Meeting and any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor furer and seconded by supervisor ronan. And without objection those will be approved after public comment. Madam clerk, will you please call the two pm special orders in. Yes, the special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the mayors appearance before the board and it is the appearance by the honourable mayor london breed and there were no questions by the eligible members of the board, districts 1, 2, 3 and 4 and therefore, the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. I want to welcome mayor breed partnershi. Breed. I know youre talking about this issue and its something important for all of us in the city and i will go ahead and congratulate you and supervisor ronan and supervisor hainey ahead of time and mayor breed, you are welcome to share your remarks. Thank you to the members of the board of supervisors and the public for having me here today. Im excited because as many of you know, we Just Announced what supervisor hainey and ronan compromised to Mental Health sf, where we are going to focus on addressing this crisis in a way that will deliver the kinds of results that we know we need to see on our streets. We owe it to our residents and we owe it to the people that we know are suffering. We have made it clear that we are committed to working together and today, we will introduce a new Mental Health sf piece of legislation that will dramatically improve how those who are suffering from Mental Health and Substance Abuse on our streets receive services. This legislation will allow us to continue the work that were doing right now and to prioritize those who are currently sadly in crisis. Im really proud of our Behavioral Health system which serves over 30,000 people but we know for 4,000 of those people, there are real challenges with providing them the kinds of service that makes a change and we also know that there are some inequities in our Behavioral Health system because of those 4,000 people, 35 are africanamerican which means we have to make specific investments to support that population. While we rethink and reform how we deliver Behavioral Healthcare in the city, we will provide wraparound supportive services, the office of coordinated care, a revamped and refocused on our Access Center and a significant expansion of the services for Behavioral Healthcare treatment beds, Navigation Centers to help those who need help the most. Its a plan to support our most vulnerable individuals including those who refuse service or are unable to accept help. We will not get there overnight and we cannot get it done without working together. This initiative is ambitious, thorough and lets be clear, it will be expensive. Mental health sf will be a priority in any budget this upcoming budget year and i hope it will be a priority in yours. That being said, we need a lot of additional revenue and i am asked our Capitol Planning Committee to prioritize a bond, to pay for Capital Improvements on the november 2020 ballot so we can do things like build more Mental Health beds, acquire and expand board and Healthcare Facilities and enhance the facilities we already have to provide services. I really want to thank supervisor ronan and supervisor hainey for coming to the table and collaborating with us on this effort and i want to thank supervisor mandleman for his leadership on this issue, as well. Im hopeful each of you will work with us so we can put a successful path forward to what we need to do to build consensus around this important issue. The capital funding, as i mentioned, is crucial, but its also going to take Operational Support and in june, president yi and i asked the controller to convene a process, to overhaul our citys business tax with a goal of creating a consensus measure for the november 2020 ballot. I believe funding for Mental Health sf should be prioritized in this measure and know that supervisor hainey and supervisor ronan both agree, as well. Again, supervisors, i will need your help in getting the measure drafted and passed and with these two measures for november 2020, a Mental Health bond and tax reform, we can make a difference on our streets. Each piece is a joint effort and i know that we want to see change now. The problem that exists on our streets was not a problem that was created overnight. And we are prepared to do everything necessary to be as aggressive as possible in making the investments so that we can see real change. As i mentioned earlier, this is not the first time that San Francisco has dealt with a Public Health crisis of this magnitude. In the 19 1980s, when we dealt h the health crisis, sanfrancisco was a leader and for the first time in our citys history, the number has shown that we have less than 200 new hiv infections in this city which is absolutely amazing exwand we can get thereh Public Health, as well, thank you. Thank you, madam mayor for joining us today. And this will conclude our special order. This item shall be filed. Madam clerk, call items 15 on the regular agenda. Five aarons that repeal the codes in their entirety. Item one is the 2016 Building Code and 2019 addition and it enacts a 2019 addition. It repeals the 201 repeal acode enacting a 2019 addition. Item 4 repeals the mechanical code enacting a 2019 addition and item 25 enacts a 2019 addition and all five ordinances adopt the appropriate findings. Madam clerk, please call the role. Items 15. role call . There are 11 ayes. Theyre passed. A Charter Amendment to draft the charter of city to provide Retiree Healthcare benefits who started working for the city on or after march 17 17, 2019 witht a break in service between employment with the Housing Authority and the city and county of San Francisco and to affirm the sequa determination. Same house, same call . This Charter Amendment will be submitted. Call item 7. An ordinance to amends the administrative code for the Advisory Committee and committee on city workforce alignment. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . This has passed unanimously. Please call item 8. An ordinance to amend the code for the safety Advisory Committee to october 1, 2020 and to require the committee to recommend changes to its structure and duties. Im 9 to amend various codes to renew and extend a prior waiver and refund of investigation fees to provide a twoyear extension of medical cannabis dispensary permits and temporary business permits and a threeyear extension of temporary retail use authorization and to affirm the sequa determination and make the appropriate findings. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this passes unanimously. Please call item number 10. An ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code to add provisions to the traffic mitigation tax and make conforming nonsubstantive change. Supervisor peskin. I wanted to use this as an opportunity to thank everyone of my colleagues on the board of supervisors. Mayor breed and most particularly the electorate of San Francisco for d. Same house, same call without objection. This ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item 11. Item 11 is an ordinance to approve an amendment to the system purchase and installation agreement between the city and motorolla, inc, to increase the amount from 33 million to 81 million and extend the term by 7. 5 years through december 31, 2029. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, its passed First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, next item. Item 12 a resolution to authorize the Risk Management division for the city administrator to enter to a First Amendment for Insurance Brokerage services with alignant services to increase the amount to 74 million with no change to the term length and to expire on june 30, 2020. Colleagues, same house, same call and without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Item 13, please. To approve amendment 44 to the Treasure Island land and structures master lease between Treasure IslandDevelopment Authority and the United States navy, to extend the term for one year to commence december 1, 2019, a total term through november of november 19, 1998 through november 30, 2020. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, next item . Item 14, a resolution to approve a First Amendment to the Grant Agreement between the city and institute on aging for the provision of the Community Living fund for a total amount not to exceed 10. 5 million through june 30, 2021. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, its adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, the next item. Items 1517, mr. President . Yes. Theyre called together and they are companion items. Item 15 is an aaro ordinance see of the lawsuit by the sheriff claiming that the bail schedule when used as a basis for prearraignment or release of a arrestees violates the constitution and item 18, to appropriate 2. 2 million for the right serves an and to implement the terms of the final judgment in the title of rhianna buffen and crystal paterson and item 17, aaron number 170. 19 in fiscal 920 to implement positions and for a limited term through fiscal year 2021 at the District Attorneys Office and Sheriffs Office to implement the terms of the stipulated fine judgment for the aforementioned action. Colleagues, can we take these items, same house, same call. Without objection, these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item number 18. A resolution to rename one block of gilbert street between bryant and branon and perpendicular to jeff adache way. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call the next item. Item 19 is a resolution to approve the jurisdictional transfer of 1419 bryant street under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Transportation Agency and to the Real Estate Division on behalf of animal care and control or the acc and 1,215th 1200 15th street and subject to the terms and conditions of a memorandum of understanding between the mta and the acc and adopt the appropriate findings. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, item number 20. Item 20 a motion to appoint laura geraden to Ballot Simplification Committee term ending november 30, 2020. Colleagues, same house, same call . Without objection, this is approved unanimously. Thathat madam clerk, item 21. To appoint tim think matthews and chu to the terms ending november 21, 2020. Same house, same call . Without objection, this is approved unanimously. So madam clerk, i think well go to item number ill call for introductions. Supervisor furer, youre the first up for new business . I refer. Supervisor hain earthquakes . Ey . I refer. Supervisor mandleman . Yes. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk, colleagues. On the eve of the budget and finance committees consideration of a storefront vacancy tax for the march 2020 ballot, i wanted to provide an update of sorts on another facet of the perennial issue of our ailing Small Business community and vacancies along many commercial corridors. In july of this year, i submitted a letter of inquiry to our clerk to city departments inquirying about frequency and amount of fees saysed on businesses in San Franciscos neighbor commercial districts. At the time, my office was fielding numerous concerns that Small Businesses were being feed to death before they could open their doors. The data we received in response to that letter of inquiry supports that perception in part. In some instances, Small Businesses are confronted with fees and thousands of dollars and improvements that many Small Businesses are paying while waiting for city approvals. It should be fundamentally clear by now to every single one of us that every time we impose new mandates, those mandates frequently come with inspections and compliance deadlines and that means more costs and that is not to say that we shouldnt pass regulations to better protect Public Health and safety, but we should absolutely particularly, when its the citys failure to regulate, we have to take account of these externalized costs and as a policy matter, i want to advance the following idea. Just because we can recover costs doesnt mean that we have to recover all of the costs. This comes as no surprise listening to my office discuss these matters for the better part of the past year. Today im submitting a City Attorney request to establish a Small BusinessFee Relief Program that would allow for substantial reductions in city fees on Small Businesses in the city and county of San Francisco. Approximately 80 of businesses in San Francisco have under ten employees and approximately 9a hav95 have 100 employees. Theres an enormously important segment of our citys economy and i want to thank the merchants who have worked to provide data and insight to inform this process and proposal and i look forward to working with all of you to ensure its success. Thank you. The rest i will submit. Supervisor ronan. Thank you so much, colleagues. I just wanted to repeat some of the remarks i made at the press conference just proceeding this Board Meeting. With the announcement that we are introducing a Mental Health assess today as an ordinance at this board, we are very close to creating the first universal Mental Health and substantive Healthcare System in the country. If you are homeless, uninsured or on medicale, Mental Health sf will treat you, create a plan toward a stable and healthy life and imide yo guide you. If you have insurance but are not getting the care you need and deserve, we will stand beside you and advocate with your prior until you get that care and if we see any patterns of the legal behaviour, we will hold those Insurance Companies accountable. Once Mental Health sf is fully up and running, no one will stand alone battling these diseases of the mind and San Francisco, if you see someone on street with Mental Illness or drug addiction, you no longer have to walk by and feel guilty for not doing anything or debate with yourself about whether or not to call the police. You will have a 24hour, sevenday a week team of clinicians to assist and that mobile team will have the Mental HealthService Center to take people to to get Immediate Care from psychiatrists and psych nurses and we will no longer waste money, time and good will as patients and the rest of us by watching people cycle from the street to psych emergency services, to residential treatment and right back to the street where its impossible to stay healthy, because we will have an office of coordinated care helping to keep people on a path to recovery and well have an expansion of services that ensures availability of beds at all levels of treatment, including permanent support improve housing. Mental health sf is visionary, universal, bold and it is complete and it will soon be the law of San Francisco. I want to thank all of the cosponsors of Mental Health sf, including president yi, supervisor peskin, furer, and brown and thanks to walton and mar resource or on the version e department of elections, thanks for your unwavering support. And also just wanted to send out a huge thank you to our staff who have worked very, very hard on this, including my chief of staff, carolyn gos seconosen any aid, and matt haineys chief of staff. Im introducing a resolution urging governor newsome to affirm the validity of Homeland Security recent extension of temporary protective status, related documentation, including employment authorization documents that thousands of immigrants across california depend on. Tps is a form of temporary immigration status provided to immigrant families and individuals living in the u. S. Who come from countries with conditions that are far too dangerous for them to return. Last week on november 4th, the department of Homeland Security issued a formerral notice that automatically extends the duration of employment authorization documents for tps beneficiaries from el salvador, nicaragua, sudan until january 24 of 2021. They have made attempts to discourage this and this was made possible because of a preliminary ininjectio injunctie Northern Court of california. When an extension is issued by dhs, the department does not provide the beneficiaries with any new documentation, proving the validity of their work permits for the extended period of time. As a result, man beneficiaries across the state have expressed concerns about losing their employment because employers are unaware of the extended duration of the work permits. This resolution urges the governor to recognise the validity of tps extension to encourage employers and state agencies like the dmv to honour the continued apoliticcability oappplicabilty. I want to thank g this to our attention. I have a second resolution that im introducing today, affirming San Franciscos support for assylum seekers fleeing genderbased persecution and confirming, and undermining the survivors of Domestic Violence. Just as the federal government has sought to undercut tps protection in the u. S. , the Trump Administration has also targeted and attacked protections for assylum seekers with policy and practises designed to shut the door on individuals and families fleeing violence that threatens their lives and home country. And one of the most dangerous assaults on asylum protection has been the decision of former u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions in a case known as matter of ab. That declared those seeking asylum, because they face a threat to their lives due to Domestic Violence or Gang Violence will no longer qualify for this protection under u. S. Federal law. This decision is inconsistent with existing law and with the congressional attempt behind the refugee act of 1980 and ever since that decision, this rate for applicants from countries like el salvador, honduras and gogatguatamala dropped by 78 . They are trying to education scape horrific violence at home, including rampant violence and threat to their lives by organized crime. This resolution affirms San Francisco an unequivocal support for the asylum protection and holding the government accountable. Its timely we take a strong position of support for Asylum Seekers in our committees for the elimination of violence against women which falls on november 25, 2019. I would like to acknowledge the fearless immigrant women and the center for gender and refugee studies. I think some are here today waiving. Hello, emma. And for their incredible work as part of a nationwide effort to dependefend the protections to o many and i want to thank supervisor peskin for cosponsoring both. And the rest i submit. Supervisor safye. I didnt get a chance and please add my name as a cosponsor to both resolutions. I think its extremely important. Today, as we speak, also i want to reaffirm my commitment to dreamers or daca beneficiaries. I know thats adjudicated in our Supreme Court as we speak and the entire legality of daca is under assault. Asylum seekers are extremely important so thank you supervisor ronan and as i said, please add me as a cosponsor to that. The next thing i wanted to talk about today is that this week is National Apprenticeship week. Apprenticeship and preapprenticeship are goals for disadvantaged communities in industries beyond construction, particularly and including women and communities of colour that are underrepresented in many Apprenticeship Training programs beyond construction. Many in sanfrancisco today are thriving and our economy is doing well, theres still too far, too many experiencing unemployment across San Francisco and one way to tackle this is with apprenticeship and preapprenticeship program. I was happy two months ago we opened or neighborhood access point in more technical terms but essentially a job center in the lakeview neighborhood and it was the first one that had one of the high rates of incarceration of murder and unemployment and we were very proud and supervisor walton joined me as we cut the ribbon with mayor breed, but essentially designed to work with wonderful programs like Young Community developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the Construction Industry and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for longterm employment. So today after that, last year, many of you supported our citygrow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. And we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with preapprenticeship pathways to state. Approved apprenticeshp program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. Bases on the successful city bill i referenced, that work, were looking forward to our first citygrow class being put to work. So today, im asking the City Attorney, in partnership with supervisor walton, to draft an ordinance to call our San Francisco apprenticeship ordinance to approve the workforce goals and local hiring goals beyond construction. I know supervisor walton has talked in the past about working to do a local hire in the Tech Industry and i know that mayor breed announced this week, i think yesterday, working on Apprenticeship Training work and this is to act as a complement to that but this is beyond the Construction Industry. Were looking to create partnerships with city departments, in particular the office of workforce and Economic Development and department of human resources, to work with community and labor partners in other areas, in training partnerships and working with employers to develop state certified pre apprenticeship pathways and meeting goals of state approved a tiesships. Weve been looking to people in new areas, hospitality, healthcare, commercial, driving, theater, all of these areas that have the potential for expansion and to work in partnership with organized labor. So i want the city, not only to promote apprenticeship as a workforce tool but to lead to lifelong change. So i ask the City Attorney to work with us on that and we will get started. Thank you. Supervisor. To the members, the president has asked we cut away from the introduction of new business to go to 2 30 commendations. Mr. President , there are three. Supervisor safyaye, memdleman and hainey. Please share your commendation. This is what emexemplifies of being a true San Franciscoan and we honour a true leader. Its sad because were losing that person but were happy and super happy for his next faz phe in his life, captain jack hart, transitioning as an instructor in the Police Academy. Our community and the desire district has had such a fortune to have captain hart as a captain. He touches on district 8, district 9, district 10 and parts of district 7 and he has one of the Largest Police districts in the city and has lead that with tremendous, tremendous appplaumb. No hour of the day hes not informing me of what is happening and all of us of what is happening in our district. His grandfather charles joined the Police Department after the first San Francisco earthquake. And sad to say, alemany boulevard is still the site of many, many fatalities and reckless driving and captain hart, before he transitioned out, was working with our office and we now have a plan. Captain hart honors his legacy and wars the star as his great grandfather. He joined the force after attending law school. He served in pa to troll patrols and as an attorney with the departments legal division. He has taught constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure and leadership courses to more than 50 Police Recruit classes, more than 50. As a sergeant, captain hart lead a street Crime Enforcement Team in the bayview district. As a lieutenant, he was the officer in charge of the candl Candlestick Park and lead 70,000 people. As a captain to the unit, he supervised the marine unit and lead the response to the 2017 north bay firearm storm at the Department Operation center. Captain hart is a Master Instructor in blue courage, a course taught throughout the nation. As police captain, he is always available, as ive said, to the public and ever present at Community Meetings, always lead with compassion, demonstrating the best of what Community Policing can be and, in fact, i dont think ive seen him get angry once in the two and a half years. He almost got angry at me one day but the closest it got, he tightened his lips saying next time if you can call me ten minutes earlier, that would be preciatated. Appreciated. [ laughter ] captain hart, its my profound honor to have you as my captain and many are here to honor you and on behalf of myself and colleagues, i want to present you with this commendation. I know some my colleagues want to say a few words but in recognition of the outstanding work in the Ingleside Police station and myself all my colleagues extend the highest commendation to you, captain hart. Our community was profounded impacted by your compassion, dedication and the empathy youve shown in the short time youve been there but it seems like a longer amount of time than two years. You will be extremely miss. We wish you the best of luck in your new role. I think our colleagues will say a few words. Let me have the other i will have the other supervisor speak first while theyre holding their kids. Sorry about that. Supervisor ronan. Thank you, president yi. Oh, captain hart, this is so bittersweet. I have to say i knew this call was coming eventually, because you are such a talent that i had no doubt that the chief wants you to serve in many different ways and if we could, you know, duplicate you, we all would. Because they just dont make them like you everyday. The care that you gave, youre just a model captain and officer and the fact that youre going to be teaching new officers that come in and be the first example and its bittersweet but i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Youre an extraordinary leader and you and your beautiful family, were so grateful to everything youve given to sanfrancisco. Thank you. Captain heart, i wont say its been a joy working with you because most of the time were talking to each other, something has gone wrong but i want to thank you for your tremendous service. You are a treasure and it is great to have you in the San FranciscoPolice Department. Although, im definitely going to miss you at ingleside. Although, we keep you in the district at the Police Academy and i expect well work together, maybe on more pleasant things, actually. Supervisor walton. Thank you, president yi. I want to say captain hart, congratulations and thank you for all of your work. I know weve only had the short part of most of this year, but just to see how responsive you are, particularly having to deal with several different supervisors. You know, you dont make excuses, we call you in. There are hard decisions to be made and you actually make it happen. One major example is being able to get us bilingual Police Officers at two different sites and visitation rallies to work with our constituents and being able to respond to that and making it happen, versus trying to give several excuses as to why its not possible, what the budget looks like, et cetera and you just made it happen. So your commitment to community and dedication to community is not unnoticed and i appreciate all of your hard work. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you. So before you speak, im sorry, you have to your arms got tired. [ laughter ] he always seems to get the last word. I also want to congratulate you in your next opportunity and youre one of those captains that the community really admires and appreciates because you go to so Many Community meetings. Every time im at a Community Meeting concerning safety or some issues with the Police Department, youre always there. So i really appreciate it and i really appreciate, also, when we talked about those property crime issues that we were having throughout San Francisco and that you and the captain over at taravel stepped up and lets try in our station to have, basically, your district or your station unit and im hoping your predecessor, captain mcfaddee effort you made. So now captain hart, its your turn. Thank you so much. I just wanted to thank all of you for taking time out of your hard day to acknowledge a Civil Servant like myself, but really, the credit is to be shared with a lot of people in this room, including the people that spoke up and big advocates wanting enhanced Public Safety and to collaborate on so many issues was great. So thank you to so many people over there in that corner. I want to acknowledge my mother, too. , for all of her love and support. I was a little pal cadet at 16 years old is came home after a shift at the tenderloin and said, look, mom, they like me. They bought a bulletproof vest and she took a gulp and continued to support me. It was her grandfather who was killed in the line of duty in 1931. He was hit and killed by a politicallyconnected person and it was in the middle of the depression. They were told you either take a couple hundred bucks it was 5 04 p. M. And he wasnt on duty. You can take this payoff or get nothing. My grandmother literally to the day she died cursed the city and the Police Department because she was 16 years old and wore her sweet 16 dress to her fathers funeral and just the way that her family was treated at the time and i was able when i told her, i was able to get her fathers star number, 586, she was appreciative and it reminds me of the gratitude in Public Safety and San Francisco, like the people on the board like you to create an enriched environment for us to be able to meet all of the needs and the demands of policing. Also i would like to thank, obviously, my wife, anonda, who has been tireless in support. Shes a criminal defense lawyer and we met over a pitchs motion. She was seeking Police Officers personnel files. She won. [ laughter ] but i think ive won in the longterm, as we continue to challenge each other intellectually and emotionally in discussing how the world works and what justice looks like and a special thanks to her love and support and her mother who is on the board at san quentin, who continues to challenge my thinking and what humanity looks like and how we can make the world more safe and just. I would like to thank my mentor, im nila. He told a story in 1978 how he had a chance meeting with a neuro scientist, saying a Police Officer who has all of the brain connections of a prisoner of war and that a prisoner of war is in this lockedup environment who doesnt have the warm, loving embrace and they dont sleep well or eat right and that the neuroscientist looked at him in 1978 and says if you love your life and your family, youll quit policing immediately. And then, i have family members in policing, tell me theres good news. The neuroscientist perked right up and said, well, there is something called an enriched environment, when the prisoner of war goes home, surrounding by the loving embrace of family and friends drinking a cold beer, flipping burgers on a beautiful sunday sunny afternoon, your brain has an ability to regenerate itself. This idea of neuro plasticity, that the prisoner of war becomes whole because the toxic environment is now over. So long in policing, we find our only ability to create a rich environment is when we leave this profession. We cant wait for retirement to create this enriched environment. When i heard that story, i said, what if we could create an enriched environment now, within our own walls of the profession, amongst neighbors and community members, that perhaps there is a way to overcome this cultural ptsd that we have based on legacy and generations of strife and turmoil and ive taken that to heart, to try to create an enriched environment for Police Officers so that they go out to certainly all neighborhoods in a more just way. I appreciate all of your support to create a more just world as we go along. Im super sad to leave ingleside. I would like to thank assistant chief redman for transferring me. [ laughter ] no, i would like to thank him for giving me this for the two years. But we have a chance at the Police Academy to impact the next 50 to 75 years of the Police Department and so i look forward to, hopefully, amplifying any of the good that youve seen in the ingleside, to amplify that across the department and entire organization. So im grateful for all of you and thank you so much. [cheers and applause] can i have my rebuttal . [ laughter ] so supervisor safaye, thank you and supervisors for your kind words. Obviously, these are tough decisions we make. I know the community is not happy and i grew up in the ingleside myself so even my father is calling me about this transfer. But if you hear jack talk, you see why we want him at the Police Academy and hes going to bring his heart and mind to all of the new recruits, but also in our advanced Officers Training to the officers that are currently employed, hes bringing his work ethic to the academy and were excited for that assignment. And obviously, like he mentioned, his family. So none of us get to the ranks we are without the support of our families. I know he worked 24 7 with the supervisors. Its not an easy job but he has a lot of tasks to accomplish at the academy and were excited. So congratulations to jack. I think this ive worked with jack in every rank in this Police Department. He is not going to stop at this rank. Hes one of the foremost leaders in in department and look forward to rest of his career to see what he accomplishes. So congratulations to jack. [cheers and applause] next, i would like invite our supervisor from district 8, supervisor mamdleman to please offer your commendation. Thank you. Eric guther, come on up. So today, colleagues, i would like for us to recognise and honour eric gutherts. He has served as the principal of mission high. In june, he left to start a new mission for the districts Transformative Mission where he supports leadership for principals and assistant principals. I did not allow his accomplishments during his tenure there to slip by unacknowledged in this chamber. After earning his bachelors degree in English Literature and a masters in education from university of california at los angelos, eric began his teaching career more than 30 years ago as an eighth grade english teacher in east los angelos. He then returned to his native bay area created and directed the bill Wilson School in l. A. , a school for homeless and run away teaches in the l. A. Area. Nearly 20 years ago, he began teaching english where he would serve as the English Department chair and the reform facilitators and principal before becoming principal. Eric has earned an impressive list of honours and awards, completing the stamfords program and was a recipient of the dreamcatcher award for the arts education. In 2014, eric received the principal of the year award and in 2015, he was awarded the Association Region 5 principal of the year. And in 2016, edg eric received e aimhigh award and was in the missions high and the teachers who made a triumph and receive the meredith inspiration award and named one of peers resources 40 changemakers for 40 years. So a lot of awards. [ laughter ] and a lot of great work. Erics mentor and predecessor who was mission highs principal from 2001 to 2008, described erics legacy at merc mission as transformative. When kevin left his post to accept a new position in the school district, central office, he was reluctant to leave mission in the middle of Ongoing Professional Development work he had been leading on antiracist teaching. I know he will be greatly missed. Eric, thank you for all youve done to transform the lives of Mission Students and families and i would want to invite you to say a few words. He is fabulous. Hes amazing and its a school thats been transformed and also teachers have the ability to be selfreflective and he allows that space to be selfreflective with each other and also, i have to say, eric, i went to a lot, a lot of high schools and spoke to a lot of High School Students and i had not heard one complaint from a student. I hear it from all of these other high schools, but the students at Mission High School, i did not hear one complaint and they loved their experience at Mission High School and i want to thank you, thank you, for your service and all of the thousands and thousands and thousands of students that you have an impact on and thanks so much. Supervisor ronan . I wanted to echo that you are such an extraordinary person and your dedication not just to your students and the success of the faculty and the staff and the community at mission high, but your strong, insistent, racial Economic Justice is something that is unique. Its important and very few people do it with the passion and the energy and brilliance that you do. I cant echo my colleagues enough to say thank you for all of your work. Youre someone we all admire so much and cant appreciate you enough. Supervisor walton. Thank you, president yi. Eric, just as a friend and someone who worked with you in several capacities, i wish principals like you could stay forever. The environment that you create for our young people, the environment that you create for our teachers and the environment you create with the school as a part of community is something that is very special and so, of course, youre going to be missed by the district. Youll be missed by the students at mission, but i just want to thank you for your service and i want to thank you for being able to work so closely with community and develop young people to send so many young people to our uc schools. That is a major, major accomplishment and i want to thank you for setting up the environment for learning an enrichment so our students can be successful in that endeavor. Supervisor hainey. Thank you. Er irritatioric, you know we alo much respect. I came and spent a lot of time with you and watched you in action and being a principal in a high school is one of the toughest jobs there could be. But you made it look easy. I mean, i would watch you and the way you would interact with folks and listen to people and value their voices, i was inspired just in terms of how a leader looks, not just how a principal but how a leader in general really lives what their values are and acts on what they say they are. So i just want to thank you and for you and mr. Truett, principal truett, how much youve done that make that an extraordinary school. Whereas supervisor furer said, everybody wants to be there, students want to be there and thank you so much and i know you will continue to serve our kids and families in the city. So i was on the school board when you became the principal and when principal truett was leavleaving to go to another position, who are we going to get to fill his big old shoes, you know, literally. [ laughter ] and when your name came up and with your background and peer resources, i said, i think well be ok. And what, i dont know how many years its been eight, nine years or something, that youve been the principal and youve completely filled his shoes and more and now, as you leave, i want to say the same thing, oh, my god, who will fill erics shoes. So congratulations anyway to moving on and the floor is yours. Thank you. Im a little overwhelmed, to be quite honest. So thank you supervisor mamdleman, and thank you to all of the supervisors. I know so many of yo many of yoe working with all of you and im deeply humbled by this honor today. I was at mission for 18 years and probably the most difficult decision ive ever had to make, even more difficult than having a second child, for example, or a first child. [ laughter ] and i really did grapple with it. But i have loved every moment of my time at mission. I want to thank very much the district, particularly folks that are here today, my friend brian fox i see back there and the superintendent and the entire district office. I cannot thank enough, concer kn truett, who has been there for