Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

That say, you know, i cant because i want another opportunity to do it. Now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i dont have the class. And i dont want to say please i need your support to everybody to culminate together. Thats what i see, working with them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im a 2121 member, chapter president , San Francisco general first. I want to say that the staffing in Public Health needs to be fixed. Its outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, its terrible. People are calling in sick more, their productivity is going down. We are losing money, because things arent getting done properly because you dont have enough people to fix that problem. But im really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldnt get a house in San Francisco. He couldnt get a loan. We ended up in bay leaf city. So im saying we need the reparations. We need a right of return. Everybody is complaining about how many black people are in San Francisco, but i do not hear anybody saying what are you going to do to reverse that. Because there is a way to bring people back. So i hope you talk to the black community who want to solve this problem and we can give you great ideas on it so we can reverse this and people like me can come back to san fraz, sn francisco, because ive tried and i cant. Even when i was poor i couldnt get in San Francisco. I couldnt even get in the projects. So this needs to be fixed. So hopefully you guys will give us the reparations and correct this problem. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. Im here, my name is cheryl, and im here to speak on behalf of reparations which im in favor of. Ive been a employee for 29 years. And i have seen the policies that have been implemented in San Francisco, adversely impact black people. We have the worst Health Outcomes in the nation, yet we are the fifth largest economy in the world. We have more billionaires here but black people live 12 to 15 years less. We have the worst educational outcomes. We are 55 percent of the residents in the county jail. We have the worst Employment Outcomes and the lowest incomes in San Francisco. Shame on San Francisco, shame on you. 29,000 for black people to live on in San Francisco when theres more billionaires than anywhere else . We need change and we need it now. We deserve reparations. Our businesses have been run out. We have been run out. And its not fair. And we deserve to be in this city. So i urge you all to really think about reparations and what it means to us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is madeline mueller. Ive been a faculty member at city College Since 1965. I was researched as the oldest on the faculty, and i keep track of things a lot. Whats happening now, im thinking of the world love, and im thinking of nancy pelosi said dont use the word hate. We dont hate in San Francisco. But we are hated. And lets not put our heads in the sand about that. This whole thing going on with impeachment, one way or the other, they are going to hate us. They are out to get us. I have a paper trail on this. I dont make this up. They in this case are two very, very, very obvious entities. One is the aelectric group, american low pressure alec ac group that put in the legislative, cookie cutter language against postsecondary schools, funded by the kocks. They are responsible for the funding they are funded by the kochs. The former mayor and i discussed this and he was clear, an attack against the college is a direct attack against San Francisco values and San Francisco. So we got to watch out for the Koch Brothers and their legislative funding formulas. The other thing is lumina where the Student Loan Company sally may put their enemy into a completion program. So you limit yourself to a Junior College and force them to come in and get on student lens and be indebted for life, trillion point seven they are in debt and people are highly suicidal about this. Its a toxic environment. You guys have to set up, you have to save San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I want to thank mar, walton and fewer for looking after the city college. I want to address in a totally different way, connect the reparations, connect it with the housing crisis and city college, what do they have in common . They have to do with, well, not having reparations and cutting city college, the housing crisis, they connect and contribute to the divide of the diversity of this city. That is whats going on. Its with housing sorry the depletion of the africanamerican population, the housing that is only built for the rich and the housing alone, building housing alone is not enough. We need to do things for all the people here. One of those things is keeping city college, the rich people dont need city college, but everybody else does. So please, build diversity. Walton, mar and fewer, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for the supervisors for hearing us around city college. Im also in support of reparations, and thats a big part of the reason i support the work happening to support our students. I work at a transfer center at city college. I teach in Health Education as well as College Success classes so the students that are working to transfer. I work at a program for first generation students. Im the first in my family to go to college in this country. I know what its like to navigate the college system. My students are telling me the classes i need to major in art and transfer are now cut. Half of our art and music classes were cut. So with city college being free, a lot of students are getting mixed messages. One student said i thought people wanted us here. I thought we were supposed to come here. So it feels difficult to have to explain to them that in this moment, some of those classes that are so essential are not available. So i know once we lose a student, if a student goes to skyline for a semester, they are probably not going to come back, and we want them to be able to stay here because not only can city college provide those classes but our retention programs, ethnically studies changed my life and my trajectory, the same can be said for music and art programs. So we want to support students. Our students other classes are being cut like biology and english. Its not just noncredit. All classes are being impacted by this. The fact that we still have a lot of time and all the biology classes are full at this time, that tells you the need. So thank you for your time. We hope to see more support for this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. We were reported 6,000 assaults, 3,000 sexual assaults, 235 rapes out of 1. 3 billion rides. Does that number sound correct . Proposition d has passed. Its said to bring almost 35 million per year to San Francisco. Give city college money. You dont take money. Shame on you guys. Take 2. 7 million, give a million dollars. Its a disgrace. Yeah, im a little pissed off but when they suspend my pension, why am i not . Because you stole my money . No, im mad because i dont see any action. You are voted in by us. We are the people. We pay your salaries. What a disgrace. You guys have more than enough money in your budget. You got hundreds of millions of dollars. And you are going to take 2. 7 million from kids and people that want to educate so they can make money to live here in San Francisco . You may be able to take my money, but you are not going to take my mind. You are not going to take my heart. You guys promised if if the medallion Sales Program failed, you told us, talked to her and she makes nothing but promises. Promises slash delay. Thats all it is. Thats all you guys do, delay. I pick up people in your jurisdictions and hear stuff thats shocking. Like how is your supervisor . Some good, some bad. That is a disgrace. You guys are just too much. S fm ta, sucks. We go to the board of directors [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. My name is rajeed. I drive taxi cab in San Francisco for almost 26 years. Life is worse than it was. I make a request to get my money back because sfmta promised to us if we are not able to run the medallion anymore, not able to drive, they can take the medallion back and give us our money back. We are asking only our money, not for their money. I dont know why they are taking so long and not thinking of us. It is getting worse and worse. Im making a request again, please get our money back from sfmta. If they need money, they can go somewhere else. They dont have somewhere. Getting older disease and more worse life. And we have a lot of problems because of medallion. And they even when we pay the fine to the airport, 4, 5, from that the money, five percent five percent, taking the company. I dont know why. And please, help us sooner and before we die. And after that, i dont know who you are going to help, somebody else. Sfmta, they are lying for their promise. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. This is for the taxi drivers daily expenses. 40 per day airport fee is 40 30. Then the cab company is 25 a day, then the gas is an average of 40 a day, then the taxi insurance is 20 a day, car payment is 10 a day, Credit Card Fee is 10 average then 10 a day is maintenance fees and the bridge toll, 200 if you deduct all the expenses then 18 left. Thats the taxi drivers earning. I want you all to take the snapshot of it. And i was here for this purpose, for the taxi, but my daughter is also classes have been taken off or have been cut short. She is not going to be graduating unless you the classes offer microbiology. And if she will be able to get she is on a waiting list at sf state. I dont know if that is affected when all these people are coming here to get the money to afford those classes. And i dont mind if you do them. My fund but you have to give them the money to keep their classes as usual. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im speaking taxi, uber, lyft environment. Turned 500 taxi medallion holders. We live in fear of death. We dont live for life, we live for work. Medallions was a scam. Driving empty taxis is so painful. Uber lyft have given contagious disease to the public. Its in their blood and never goes away as long as you dont now days no one takes taxis. For us to get less money. It is an unfair business. As long as uber and lyft exist, we cant make our living. As long as you delay our money, you have to ban uber lyft from the airport pickup as supervisor told you before. We are dealing with this catastrophic situation. We go in deficit. 500 taxi medallion numbers. Buy back the medallions, give us the money back. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. I give my support to the reparations. And thank you everyone for listening. I know that its dinner time, you are hungry, you are probably tired, you are a little bit bored of my there have been a lot of speakers from city college. The reason there are so many of us is because there is so much at stake. Theres been a false narrative floated out there, first it was, oh, only in lowenrolled classes being cut. Thats obviously not true. Then oh, we are trying to be fiscally responsible. Thats obviously not true. The older adults program, 90 percent of the classes were cut with no notice, with no justification. They are healthy, fully enrolled classes that are benefiting the city. So we know there are a lot of lies out there. Supervisor walton pointed out you say theres no money yet there were behind closed doors raises given to the top administrators. We were told by the chancellor this is all about fiscal responsibility yet even if you give us money he said we dont need it, we have it all under control. So we want to set the record straight. We want you to know whats really happening there. The exact same thing happened before with the same chancellor. Hes trying to downsize. Hes trying to make it into a Junior College, and thats not what we want. So we want you to know how much is at stake. And we also want to say city college gives so much to this city. Firefighters, the Aircraft Maintenance people, culinary, we are the city, weve raised money for the city. Its not a lot of money. And you might not realize how much is at stake here. You might think its your own problem that you should just take care of later. If you dont act now, you will not recognize city college, and you will not recognize San Francisco. So please do the right thing and support us. Its not that much money. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Im a parttime faculty member at city college. I want to thank you for having this conversation and its a testament to democracy that weve gotten this far. Part time faculty at city college are considered temporary employees, laid off at the end of each semester and hopefully rehired at the start of the next. Though we make up more than half of the faculty, we are the most vulnerable employees. As a result of those class cuts, dozens of part time faculty will either lose their jobs or their health benefits. Three months ago the administration presented what they assured the board of trustees was a balanced budget. So confident were they that they gave themselves more than 2 million in raises. Now they say we are broke and the class cuts and laying off is necessary and part of an intentional plan of restructuring. How can we trust their math . Who is checking the numbers and holding them accountable for the devastating impact of their decision making. Really, really people are hurting as a result of their decisions. Some dedicated instructors have been teaching fully enrolled classes for decades at the campus. Others have dedicated hundreds of hours of their own time to developing curriculum for classes in the hope of being able to teach for years to come to the students who come each semester to take their classes. Please allocate the funding and reemployee these part time instructors. You can make a difference right now for dozens of employees. We are not getting rich off working at the college. We are only trying to get by. We have dedicated our lives to sharing our expertise and experience with students and want nothing more than to be able to continue to do that with dignity and integrity. Meez stop making us beg for our jobs please stop making us beg for our jobs. Thank you. Next speaker. I am the daughter of activist sharon hewitt. Im going to talk fast. Im in support of reparation. Let there be no mistake about that. But im going to address a couple things here. City college and how can i say this . City college and essential part of the fabric of San Franciscos infrastructure in terms of producing diversity, culture, infrastructure that you need politically and economically. So i applaud your efforts on this matter and i thank you. This is great work you are doing. Supervisor walton, haney, fewer, for the issues that you have addressed, hats off to you. Mom would be proud of you. And i want to say that first and foremost. I want to say to you guys on the issue of affordable housing, we are talking about reparations here. I worked for redevelopment for five years. We never found all those people who we were supposed to give certificates of preference to whose property was taken from them, those africanamerican businesses, the jazz preservation district, their businesses and homes. We never found them. I knocked on the doors. We never found all those people. Reparations is necessary in San Francisco. We are a world class city. You can look to the washington posts article on december 2 for chicago, a suburb of chicago is approving it. They are going to use the cannabis taxes to give reparation. Detroits had compensation on this. We need to close those inequity inequities, various inequities in San Francisco. We need to close that. And employment, theres an impact on africanamericans. The average salary is 19,000 in a city where the median numb is 200,000. In honor of sharon and of my work for 25 plus years, do this. Show the world [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is ken tray. Im a retired San Francisco Public School teacher and long time former member of the executive board of the united educators of San Francisco. Im not surprised coming here today to hear that supervisor walton has taken the lead on trying to maintain funding for city college. I taught in high schools from Continuation School where kids are just trying to stay in the Education System and move forward to the high schools that are magnet schools for high achievers. In both of those campuses, the school that paved the way forward not only for them but often from their parents trying to seek better jobs, was city college. 2. 7 million is a cheap price to maintain what auto to be one of the great World Class Community colleges. So just want to put it on the record that united educators of San Francisco, they keep our school going day in and day out. We are standing by the city college community. And we want to join in the fight to maintain the 2. 7 million in funding. On a personal note, i drove taxi in the 1980s and its interesting and sad to see the drivers here who have been so abused by the current medallion system. Back in the day, the medallion system, any driver could get it for like 50 bucks, you signed up, you were working a cabdriver. And you could join the middle class. The attack on city college and the abuse of city cabdrivers are one and the same. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is crista. Im an emergency room nurse at San Francisco General Hospital and a steward for seiu1021. Weve had the pleasure of talking to some of your chief of staff and some of you in person as well. I want to appreciate everything you have been doing city. I want to recognize based on some of the speeches ive heard, our city is in a crisis. Im worried in particular because im here to represent my patients, about the safety of our staff and patients. We are in a disaster mode every day. Our short staffing is the worst i have seen since 2014. Our Emergency Department has admitted that between 2014 and 2018, our census has increased by 25 percent but our staffing budget has not matched that. We are suffering. Our patients are suffering. Today we went to a joint commission meeting, and we shut it down. And ill tell you why. We shut it down because weve gone to Health Commission meetings since january. And weve been telling them the issues, weve been very clear about what we need, that we need more staffing, that they need to decrease the hiring process from 220 days to less than 90. 220 days it takes to hire a new nurse. Thats absurd. And we need to meet our population needs. So on our last financial the financial chief Financial Officer said he admits that they have saved 2. 1 million in the Public Health sector in delaying our hiring process of new staff. You guys, its time for us to Start Talking to you, the board of supervisors, because the Health Commission, they are not listening to us. So we are going to be coming here. And we would love to meet [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. My name is julie. Im ray nurse in the emergency a nurse in the Emergency Department at San Francisco general. Ive been there about 20 years. Its always been kind of a mess. We came in there begging for that disaster, we are trauma nurses and doctors. But today you are seeing here a survey we did that shows 90 percent of the nurses are experiencing anxiety, half of them have quit or are considering quitting. Another 80 percent admit to having p. T. S. D. Because working there is so hard. To look at our patients and say we just dont have the resources, the teachers it seems we are not alone as crista said. Im not sure what happened to the city in the past few years where the supposed liberal and Ground Breaking things we are known and hated for in many places, we are just not doing anymore. I think it would be amazing for the city to do more Ground Breaking work and to come and work with us, the frontline staff who have to face these patients that you see all around here, those are our patients. And if you dont have your health, you have pretty much nothing. You can have billions of dollars but if you cant walk and talk on your own, you limited so the amount of money is not relevant that people have. The city has really lost its character as well and i support the reparations, bravo, and the teachers, how can we join you and how can you join us . Because its all of us. [applause] thank you. This is a packet of some of the stuff that weve been giving people. And we would love to meet with any of you more. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is kristin. Im also an er nurse at the general. And i can also reiterate, we are in crisis, guys. We are in crisis. I did work today, eight hours. The amount of people in the hallways and the psych population or the Mental Health population, not receiving the care that they deserve. We are asking, we are begging you guys for your help. Please help us. We dont want to put our patients out on the streets with nowhere to go. Without the Proper Services we know that the city can provide. Please help us. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Thank you for hearing from fromy college today. Reparations, yes, by the way. But for city college, the testimonial youve heard today is extraordinary. And i dont think that i really have that much more to add, except to say that everybody here has been a piece of city college and ensuring the continuation and the depth of what city college does for this city. And i no know that individually and as a board, the supervisors have that understanding, not just as supervisor fewer has talked about her own personal history but all of you have had that connection to city college. Weve been here before. This will not about the last time we are here, because what city college is about is keeping San Francisco, San Francisco. And thats something that i know that you are very engaged in. And we need to continue to find ways, including this bridge funding, to make sure that city college is here for San Francisco for working class San Francisco, for all of San Francisco. And i ask you to consider this funding and to continue to support the depth of what the college does for the city. Thats not what the trustees are talking about all the time right now, and its certainly not what our chancellor is talking about, but i know its what you understand, and i ask you to continue to work on this with us and sport this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you for hearing us this evening. My name is mary brave woman. Im a math teacher at city college. While my Department Personally did not suffer in these cuts, we lost one class, out of the 286 classes that were cut. Im here because i wouldnt have a life without city college. When i came here to the city of San Francisco 30 years ago i was a single mother living below the poverty line, had a High School Diploma but it wasnt enough to get me a job or to have any kind of Meaningful Life for my daughter and myself. I spent four years at city college before transferring to San Francisco state. I earned my degree in mathematics and came back to teach at city college. My daughter spent time at city college before transferring and finishing her last two years at a fouryear school. And shes now working at the state legislature. City College Changes lives. We would have had no prospects without those opportunities of those classes. When i first started my classes at city, i didnt know that i wanted to be a math major. I had no idea i needed to take some of those other classes. I had more than 100 units by the time i transferred from city after four years. I was still young, i was trying to grow and find myself since ive graduated and become an instructor, ive come back and taken womens studies classes to enrich my life to enrich my Knowledge Base so that i can better serve my students. I implore you, thank you for those of you who have signed on, and i implore the rest of you to support city college. City College Changes lives, city college is San Francisco. Yes. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Can i get the screen, please . Turn it the other way. Okay. Im the associate director for the new Community Leadership foundation. Im here today to talk about the fillmore. As many people know, the fillmore during the 40s through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in projects. I want to say that for a long time i was punching my fist against the wall. I met supervisor brown ten years ago when she was a legislative aid. And she i cannot tell you how many hours of time she spent speaking with me and other people about how to make change. She said start small and grow fast. Today we raised 700,000 to renovate the fillmore mini park. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is catherine roberts. Im a long time resident of d5. Im just here to express my undying appreciation and gratitude to outgoing supervisor vallie brown. And i dont even have a speech prepared, which i usually do but i just i am so sad and disappointed beyond words that she lost this last election by 170 votes which if you think about it is really 85 people one way or the other in our district. And i think due to something that was did you go up on her from 25 years ago that had a lot of nuance and a lot of mitigating factors but because it came out so close to the election and managed to sway a few people in an election that otherwise i think she would have surely won. I consider supervisor brown to be one of the great unsung and underappreciated heroes of our city. Both as supervisor and as legislation aid to ross and london breed and before that, for pouring her heart and soul into the district for pretty much as long as shes lived there. I consider myself to be extremely progressive democrat in terms of my politics. Im what a friend of mine in new york calls to the left of karl marx. You would think i would be a supporter of dean preston but im skeptical of whatever promises hes made, which i would love to see all come to fruition, im very skeptical that hes going to be able to accomplish any of that. And great, if he does, ill be the first person in line to cheer him on but what i see so far is supervisor brown put her nose to the grindstone and created the kind of change that weve needed over the years. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon president and supervisors. I went to city college for the cooking classes, which they are known for a lot. And it was meetings go until late. I know you are getting hungry so i used to write and send you 10 in food and stuff. I want to show you this. There it is. Dave thomas of wendys. There it is. Used to send me letters and food and stuff. And he was a great cook. And so i want to say this is the latest song that ive ever done here. We could have had it all, city hall [music] at city college went to spring and fall, instead the budget aid was lulled and theyd like their classes please reinstalled. You could be a graduating city college doll well decorate the college decorating holiday walls and well have a dancing celebration ball please help it please, yall. We are going to expect it coming and i hope its not too big of call. I still have a few more seconds. Dropping everything. Its a letter from gavin newsom, the Special Olympics used to practice at this city college and he wished me luck there. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Hard to compete with that. Immy name is steven with citizens climate lobby. Im here to support item 55 on the agenda which endorses a bill before the u. S. House of representatives hr763. Ive been following San Franciscos declaration of Climate Emergency. I heard a lot of great ideas from city departments but i kept hearing this caveat, and it was we are but one city trying to do a small part in fighting what is a Global Climate crisis. There is little we can do to impact Climate Change outside of our 49 square file miles. We can stand up for the truth, that bold action is required to prevent the worst impacts of Climate Change. Hr763 drives emissions reduction, bringing it below 2016 levels in 12 years. The mechanic mechanism it yous, putting a fee it uses, putting a fee on carbon emissions, makes a carbonless future an affordable proposition. For a city like ours, which is focused on reductions from buildings and transportation, perhaps the most important impact of a price on carbon is to all businesses wanting to compete that green economy. It incentivizes them to make emissions free products. Imagine what a boon that would be for building owners looking to convert or neighbors who want to switch to an electric car. For all these reasons and many more, i urge the supervisors to vote for this resolution. I thank supervisor mandelman for introducing this resolution and others for cosponsors and for all the behind the scenes work to make this happen. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im david. I also volunteer with citizens climate lobby and a number us do as well. And i live in district 8. Im here to talk on item 55. I want to thank you for considering a resolution of support for a common sense, bipartisan, National Climate law that will bring Global Warming emissions down in line with what scientists recommend, which is something we need to start doing now. I want to especially thank my own supervisor, raphael mandelman, for taking a lead on this resolution. Five years ago, the board adopted a resolution supporting the concept thats in this bill. Making San Francisco one of the first cities in the nation to do so. Supervisor yee was here there. Thank you for your vote. Mayor breed was also a member of the board then and so we hope that she may sign off on this as well. But im putting the cart before the horse. I encourage you to consider joining our bay area cosponsors, and i ask you, jackie spear, barbara lee and mark and 82 other local governments nationwide, to make San Francisco the largest California City so far to support this critical legislation. Thank you for your conscientious work for San Francisco. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is barbara jew and im also a member of citizens climate lobby. And i reiterate the remarks that have been made by my colleagues. But i also have another motivation for supporting this bill. I was a biology major in college, and i took a class in ecology, which actually was one of the first in the school. And ever since, ive been really fascinated with the delicate balance in and across various ecosystems. That balance is driven by biodiversity, and it is being threatened by the Climate Crisis. Species lost is accelerating at an alarming rate which will ultimately impact us as human beings, because we are an integral part of that ecosystem. After all, human beings are a species too. If we dont take action immediately to stem carbon emissions, our ecosystem will be irreparably damaged. We have less than ten years to make a significant improvement, according to the experts, in reducing the harmful carbon emissions. A livable planet for future generations is at stake. That is why i lobby for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividends, hr763 because it takes concrete action to reduce carbon emissions. Imagine the severe impacts to plant and animal species which are at the mercy of humancaused Global Warming. I ask you to endorse hr763. We all share in the responsibility to ensure a livable planet on behalf of all living things. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is jordan rose. Im a bay area native now living in the castro, d8. Like the previous speakers, barbara and steven, im in support of hr763, the Energy Innovation Carbon Dividend act which is item 55. As a bay area native, im watched Climate Change change how we all think about weather, what counts as normal and what is not even something thats a disaster but even just commentworthy. A few years ago this was just oh, its february and it hasnt rained yet. That could be some kind of multiyear variation perhaps. But more recently its now a yearly occurrence that we are watching literal ash floating on the air from sonoma county. While we are not going through anything like what they are, this is, as was stated before, a place where a local government can do something to affect a worldwide problem. A carbon fee is only part of the larger plan but its a part that we need to get moving as soon as possible to have the greatest possible effect. In february, this board declared we are in a Climate Emergency. And as this, i admit, is my first time coming to give Public Comment to this board, and i see here that everything is critical, everything is an emergency. Everything is affecting the people who live in this city right now or has already affected them. But we are in a Climate Emergency. And so i thank supervisor mandelman for introducing it. I urge you to approve this measure and take your proper consideration on all the measures before you today and i look forward to future climate legislation we can do here and as a model for other cities. Thank you. Hello. My name is evan kenward. Im also a volunteer with citizens climate lobby. I want to first appreciate supervisor mandelman for supporting this resolution and really carrying the torch. This is incredibly important resolution to help support hr 763, the Energy Innovation Carbon Dividend act. San francisco is one of those things of it seems like a we are just a city in this large problem, what can we do. But especially San Francisco can be the, as my colleague said, the 83rd city signing on and one of the most important cities to sign on and really move the tides, no pun intended. So we all, i can assume are in agreement that Climate Change, the severity of it that we are in the Climate Crisis, and this bill is above and beyond the most effective farreaching solution to really get the ball rolling for our nation. So San Francisco can really be at the forefront of that. So lets please get this stuff done before the water gets back to montgomery street. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is paul armor. And i am a local San Francisco resident here. Im here with my colleagues of citizen climate lobby to urge you to support the resolution to endorse hr 763 thats in the house right now. And while i was trying to collect my thoughts on what i wanted to say about this bill is i was reflecting on the Climate Emergency that was locally that was recently declared. And frankly, what raphael said about how we solve this Climate Crisis that we are in. When she was giving her presentation at the focus 2030 report, she brought up that there are a lot of solutions that we can take, but they need to be equitable solution for all people. I know us here in San Francisco, we are very conscious of supporting all people, no matter what income they make. And what i love about hr 763 is it puts a fee on carbon and distributes it equally to everyone. And as a result, it actually creates a sort of progressive tax, really supporting the lowerincome folks. And i while we can do a lot here locally to support, to act on Climate Change, we need to show that we are a bright, shining star in that in the efforts to take action on Climate Change. So supporting a nationallevel bill would also really push those really show that we mean it in addition to all the actions we are going to take here locally. So i would love all of the board of supervisors board to support this endorsement. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is rebecca sand. Im a San Francisco resident. Im also a member of citizens climate lobby. Im here to support hr 763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend act, because i believe it could have the ability to create a large impact across the country. Climate change is a complex problem that requires smart, longterm solutions. And i really believe this bill, like i said before, could be something that gets the ball rolling and starting creating more solutions nationally. On sort of a personal note, i worry about my safety and the safety of my friends and family a lot. And i really dont feel, after talking to many other people, that im alone in this worry. And i really think that its time for government to show real leadership in confronting this problem, because im just one person, baa im trying to help government but im trying to help government get it going on a national level, and thats what i wanted to talk about today. So thank you so much for all that you have done so far. I look forward to seeing the resolution go through, this board of supervisors. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is barbara wilson. Im a fourth generation San Francisco grandmother to nine bay area children. Four of whom represent the sixth generation to be raised in our great city. Two of my grandchildren in santa rosa have been evacuated twice in the last three years. I want to go back to a time in the early 50s when my brothers and i used to make fun of our grandpa, class of he used to walk around crying about the weather, worrying about his grain stocks, which was his business. And then the co2 levels were at 313 in the 50s. I wonder how he would react today if the co2 level was 412, at seeing his great, great grandchildren already at the age of five and six with the fires of fall, victims of runaway carbon emissions. Today in this great chamber, you have the power to be aamong the first of our nations major cities to endorse hr 763. In doing so, you can help the children of 2050, my great grandchildren, enjoy a firefree fall, when hr 763 passes and this level falls to 255 parts per million. You can lead the bay area. Lets beat san jose and oakland in endorsing this win win resolution for our fellow San Franciscos. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is alex, district 8, represent. Im also here in support of hr 763. Im here because my mom told my sister i need to stop being so negative about Climate Change. Any time a bird flew by i would say we better enjoy it now, its probably hungry, did you annoy 25 percent population decrease in songbirds. I said i hope they make it. I dont want to be that person. I dont want to sit there and be negative and not say i tried to do something. This involves all of us. Its obviously intersectional. I even found this suit to put onto come to you guys. I will be back. I want to help and i know we can be a leader in San Francisco and in california. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you for all your patience in listening to all of us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years with whats been going on. I thought i was numb to a lot of the everymorning upsets. But today, i was mad. And i decided to do something about it. And thats why im speaking today. Please vote with your heart and not with your pocketbook. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is candice fault. Im a resident of our fine city of San Francisco. And im also one of the coleaders of the San Francisco chapter of citizens climate lobby. I would like to thank all of you for the time and attention youve already given to the Climate Crisis. I really appreciate the work that you have done. And that you continue to do. But we need to do more, we always need to be doing more. And right now, we need to be focusing on solutions that help the most vulnerable among us at the same time. And fortunately, the resolution endorsing hr 763 can help do just that. The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend act would allow for more Just Transition to a greener economy and would make sure that a very, very necessary monetary support would be provided to vulnerable populations. I think that San Francisco can continue to do what we do best and continue to lead into the 21st century by sending a message that we support a carbon fee. And i think that there are theres much more to be done beyond just this policy, but i think that this is a very necessary first step. So i encourage and appreciate all the support that you can give to this resolution. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. My name is sue as a in atwoo. My mother went to city college, my nephew went there, i went back to school when i was 40 to become a cpa and took the accounting classes. Then i became an internal auditor at the university of california full time. But in the evenings and on saturdays, i taught accounting and auditing at