Nominate you, and i wanted to know if you wanted to come up and share any thoughts with us. Thank you so very, very much, chair ronan supervisors. Good morning, and i wept tmeantto say happy new year when supervisor walton was here. I have been thinking about being on this committee for a while. I just had to wait for things to clear off my plate. I had to graduate for my doctorate. But ive always been watching this committee because i not only have lived in district 9 for so long, since 2004, 2005, but also have lived in district 10, since the 90s, so this area and its growth and expansion, and the environmental issues, but also, you know, the transportation issues that have come across between district 10 and district 9 are on the forefront of my mind all of the time, as well as the area my area of expertise, which is education. And not just any type of education, but my doctoral degree is in education for speakers of other languages. And also adult learners. So what i hope to bring is really a deep sense around educational concerns, but also, you know, to remind the folks at ucsf, of the promise that was made to the residents of district 10 and district 9, that while mission bays growth, which has been expotential, was really quick, one of the things that was promised was they would do an Adult Education program for residents. I want to make sure i support and remind them of that promise to the community. I would be honored to sit here, but also bring my Education App to the committee. And im so grateful for your nomination. Chairwoman and im so grateful for your willingness to serve. Thank you. And now i want to any questions . Chairwoman sorry. Any questions . No . Is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I would love to make the motion to forward applicant kemtry moffet with positive rome day recommendation, sitting in seat 6. Without objection, that motion passes unanimously. Congratulations. Should i reopen item number two . Okay. Mr. Richard, we just unanimously appointed you. [laughter] to the committee. But i wanted to give you the opportunity do you want us to make a motion to withdraw your nomination so that you can speak, or are you happy with just letting things move forward . Im going to leave it up to you. Lets do it again. Chairwoman yeah. Lets do it again. You missed supervisor walton, who was here to speak on your behalf. But you might as well hear all of the wonderful things we had to say about you. Supervisor stefani, do you want to make a motion . Yes. I move to rescind the vote on item 2 and move to reopen. Chairwoman without objection, that motion passes. Mr. Clerk, can you read item number two again. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending december 3, 2020, to the cannabis Oversight Committee. Chairwoman i see we are joined by mr. Sean richard, one of the applicants. Would you like to come forward and make some remarks . Ms. Moffis also spoke on your behalf. Well, thank you, supervisors. Its an honor. It has been a long time coming. I have been in this community and this city of San Francisco for over 51 years. And i am proud to be a member of this Oversight Committee that was nominated by you four lovely people. And thank you so much. Its an honor. And as you know, my store is now officially open. Yes. And im really excited about ilim moving forwardit. Im moving forward. Brothers against guns was started 25 years ago, behind the death of my two brothers, who was murdered. And i didnt imagine, by any chance of me standing before you, talking about overseeing sitting on a committee of legal marijuana, and i am thrilled about it. The fact that i will be able to not only employ folks, but at the same time take some of the profits of the money that we receive from our store and put it back into the community, and that was part of the oversight goal of me joining forces with that type of brand, which is the cookies brand, make insuring that themaking sure thk to the community. 5 of our profits will go back into the city. It wont just be particular organizations, it will be many types of organizations. The only difference is i know how stressful it is to put together a proposal to get some money. Im not going to do all of that. I know all of the organizations out there doing the work that needs the money, all the way from sunset to chinatown to the bay view, to the western addition. They will automatically be blessed with some of that money. I want to just say thank you, guys, for appointing me to the Oversight Committee. I really appreciate it. Chairwoman thank you so much. We really appreciate you. You can go back i dont know if were going to spend a lot of time repeating everything we said, but if you go back and watch the video on s. F. Gov. Tv, you will see how much you are appreciated and loved in this city by us. Thank you so much. And the work is still going to continue with brothers against guns, guns, so i just wanted to put that out there as well. Chairwoman thank you. We wouldnt accept anything less. Thank you so much. Ill now reopen this item for Public Comment. If any member of the public wishes to speak anybody . No . Oh, youre not allowed by the rules. You can only comment ones. But so i will ask my colleague, supervisor stefani, to make her motion again. Thank you. I want to reiterate how amazing sean richard is. And he is going to be amazing on this Oversight Committee. Thank you so much for all of the work you do, brothers against guns, and weve worked together for a long time, and youre an amazing advocate not only for gun violence, but for equity on cannabis issues. I would like to move to appoint sean richard, and forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Chairwoman without objection, that motion passes anonymously. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 4. It is a hearing appointing two members in indefinite terms to the college Oversight Committee. There are two seats and three applicants. Chairwoman thank you. If we can call the applicants up in order. Win monki, good morning. How are you . Good morning. So i can speak orally because i dont have a presentation. Good morning, everybody. I want to introduce myself. I am born and raised in San Francisco, grew up in filmore, mission, and sunsitsunset, and have attended ucsf as a student since 2011. And ive participated since its initiative, and have contributed to the discussions in the free city coalition, with community groups, students, union folks, and other community members. And so, yeah yeah, throughout the application for free city, on the ground from doorknocking, from speaking, i had aimed to really keep the students in mind, right . Because at that period, i was part of the solidarity committee, which was already fighting against antistudent policies, that was predominantly pushing predominantly students of color out of an educationtha tha education ty deserved. From there to participating in the free city coalition, it has been exciting advocating for this visionary program, and looking at it from line by line, from looking at what are the conditions that we want to consider . And keep in mind that students are facing issues, and keep their needs in the free city initiative. My aims and goals while being an active member, hopefully, on the free city Oversight Committee, is to contribute to the transparency and democracy that has transpired. This program has changed the conditions of my peers, including myself. Me and my brother also qualified for free city, and so seeing how it really has grown and been implemented from its inception until now, and have been really, really exciting, and so i hope to further deepen my commitment through this committee and challenge my peers alongside in the committee to also be vocal, critical, and vigilant in this time, and to also seek any timely opportunities that can be voiced, any opportunities that can also expand, potentially, you know, and advance the program as well. So if we really believe the principles that education is a human right, i really hope to serve on the committee and work alongside with others based on this principle. So thank you. Chairwoman thank you so much. Are there any questions . Great presentation. Any questions . No . Thank you so much. Thanks for your willingness to serve. And i see connie ford. Would you like to come up and present . Thank you, chair ronan and supervisors. My name is connie ford. The first thing i want to say is i highly recommend win mah. She is exemlary in exemptlary. In the bierpg o beginning of the 20th century, this country made a good decision to decide to include education, k12 for every citizen in the country. That was really a wonderful thing. During a lot of that time, if you got a High School Degree, you had access to the path into middle class, working class jobs so you can thrive. In the last couple of decades, things have changed. And now that is not adequate. You get a High School Degree and it doesnt mean much. You need to go on. And so the so thats really what started the whole discussion of free city. And president obama started it during his term in 2015, saying that he thought everybody should have access to a Free Community college. And then a few states took that up. Tennessee, portland, oregon, and minnesota, i think, and it was at that time that we at San Francisco started studying it. And then with jane kims leadership, and the leadership of the faculty at city college and then labor and community, you know, we were able to win that fight. And we won it and then we were able to fund it. And that was in 17, and so 17 and 18 was the first year. And then there was an Oversight Committee on that, and i served on the Oversight Committee as the community representative. On that, there was a subcommittee that tasked us to make an annual report. And we did. And it took a long time. And it was dcyf, the Controllers Office, 2121, and myself. And we worked tirelessly for a year and produced this report. And it is now up on the website, in november of 19, where the mayor approved it, the Controllers Office approved it, and everybody did. And it was a tremendous success. It was took away peoples fears. It raised the population of going, and it stabilized those who were already getting scholarships by giving them an extra stipen, so that they could do their books and their transportation and all of that. It did have five recommendations for improvement, because we all know city college had some ups and downs now. It is those five, and this is really the reason i would like to serve on the commission again, so that as a community member, we can keep clear on the definition of free city, expand it, if possible, but at least make these five recommendations real and clean it up a little bit. So thats why im running, and i appreciate being here and working with all of you. Chairwoman supervisor mar . Thank you so much. I dont really have any questions for you, connie. Thank you. Chairwoman do you want to wait until we hear from the last applicant . Okay. Kevin fraser . I believe that mr. Fraser communicated with your office, and i believe there is an email on your desk. Chairwoman oh, im sorry. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do you want to speak before Public Comment . Okay. Supervisor mar. Thank you, chair ronan. I wanted to briefly acknowledge and thank win manki and connie forward. Ive had the great pleasure of working with both of you very closely on these issues. Before my role at jobs of justice, and now on the board of supervisors over the past year. I think the two of you are the most qualified people that i can think of to fill this seat, the student seat, and the sort of general public seat on the Oversight Committee. The two of you really are among the most have demonstrated the most deep commitment to city college, and just capability in really organizing around the complicated issues to strengthen and support city college here, from the campaign to originally create the Free City Program in 2016, to over the past year in the complicated, but ultimately, very successful work we all did to ensure the full funding for city college for the next decade. And city college, as we awe know, continues to face challenges. I think this Oversight Committee for Free City College is cite clee importanis criticallyimportant r issues. As a board of supervisors representative, i look forward to working with you. Thank you. Chairwoman thank you so much, and thank you for your leadership, supervisor mar, on this very important program. I really appreciate your voice on this. Well now open up this item to Public Comment. Any member of the public who wishes to speak, please come forward now. Sorry. Chairwoman dont be sorry. We love hearing from you. Good morning again. I had no intention of speaking, but i just want to support the two members of the community, and the student member, because this committee does need their voices. Working for a little bit with city college myself, i know that some of the challenges that were met the first few years of free city, and just the bumps of something new and so large coming forward, in terms of rolling out Something Like this that has such public goodness, but also has such bureaucratic i dont know what to call that poop. It is what it is. With the help of a really strong Oversight Committee and these two members here, win and connie, i just want to support them going on the committee. I really have a lot of trust in their work already, that ive seen, and im really confident that theyll be helping with smoothing out some of the rough edges there. Thank you for their consideration. Chairwoman thank you so much. Any other member of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, public comoancomment is closed. I just wanted to say i read mr. Frasers email, which was very compelling, and i just want to appreciate his interest in willingness to serve. But today im going sto be supporting connie ford for seat 14, and win manki for seat 4 im sorry if im mispronouncing your name. How do you pronounce it . I believe it is very important to have the continuity of ms. Ford on this body so that she can continue her excellent work on this program that is so important to our city. Youve been there since day one, and i think having that continuity is extremely important. So i just wanted to appreciate mr. Fraser so much for being willing to serve and for sending this very compelling email to us. It is very appreciated. But today im going to be supporting connie ford. And i would like to ask supervisor march h mar. If he would be willing to make a motion. I recommend win manki to seat 4, and connie ford to vacant seat 14. Without objection. Chairwoman and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. Mr. Clerk, can you read item number 5. Item 5 is a hearing appointing one member to the park open space advisory committee. One seat, one applicant. Chairwoman wonderful. This is a district 6 nominee. Mr. Roddy, are you hear . Good morning. Good morning. Chairwoman thank you for being willing to serve. No worries. Im Patrick Roddy, and ive been working in the city since 2011, and working in the tenderloin since 2013. I did a lot of work around the alcohol prevention coalition, the store frontage work, and im working with that, and helping youth around the abc argument around certain stores should sell alcohol as well. But i recently now its been going on three years been working at boddecker park for boys and girls of San Francisco. In that time, it has been eye opening to see what is going on and what is happening, and the advocacy, and the former person who had this seat, anna g. , i worked closely with around the Parks Network and how we connect as parks. Really what it comes down to is that in the tenderloin, if you give everybody in the neighborhood a piece of open space, you get half a yoga mat, which really isnt acceptable. When you look at the equity of some of the parks and how safe those parks are, it becomes a concern. Especially with working in that network trying to get more parks activated, and more park safety activated. And how do we partner to make the best of the situation that we have . Chairwoman thank you so much. I appreciate your willingness to serve. Any member of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Anybody wish to make a motion . Sure. Ill do it. I move that we recommend appointment to the Parks Recreation and open space advisory committee, Patrick Roddy to seat 17. Just note, a waiver is required for this applicant if you do want to make a recommendation. With a residency waiver. Chairwoman without objection, that motion passes unanimously. Congratulations. Mr. Clerk, is there any other business before us . That completes the agenda for today. Chairwoman thank you so much. The meeting is adjourned. Is our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States, which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city, if we dont have all of the folks in california, california and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. Its really important to the city of San Francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so weve created count sf to motivate all sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. For the immigrant community, a lot of people arent sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u. S. Citizens or whether its something for anybody whos in the yUnited States, and it is something for everybody. Census counts the entire population. Weve given out 2 million to over 30 communitybased organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. Weve also partnered with the Public Libraries here in the city and also the Public Schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and weve initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. Because of the language issues that many Chinese Community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. So its really important that communities like bayviewhunters point participate because in the past, theyve been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasnt enough. Were going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. You know, any one of our given blocks, theres 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u. N. Of San Francisco. So its our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. You go online and do the census. Its available in 13 languages, and you dont need anything. Its based on household. You put in your address and answer nine simple questions. How many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. Your name, your age, your race, your gender. Everybody is 2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. All of the residents in the city and county of San Francisco need to be counted in census 2020. If youre not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved. As latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. Our debts are not for sale. A piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and its a long Family Tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. I have been cure rating here for about 18 year. We started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. The most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. In Traditional Mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. Keeps u. S us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that Community Dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. When i first started doing it back in 71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. I think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. I think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us its not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, its really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. People are very respectful. I can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. What should we wear . What do you recommend that we do . They say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and its all hybrid in this country. What has happened are paper cuts, its so hybrid. It has spread to mexico from the bay area. We have influence on a lot of people, and im proud of it. A lot of tim times they dont represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. I can see the city changes and its scary. When we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. As someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. I have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. In the 80s, the processions were just kind of electric. Families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in San Francisco. Service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a Family Practice of a very strong cultural practice. It kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many Different Directions but i will always love the early days in the 80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. Our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. Thats what makes it unique. You have to know how to approach this changing situation, its exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. Whats happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well its relevant and its relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but its become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. Our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know . We have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. The common hi, im with building San Francisco. And we have a special program of stay safe today where were going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. Were here at spur in San Francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. And this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. And we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Well talk about things you can do you dont have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. I want to talk about things a homeowner can do. We have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. So unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. Lets look at windows. Lets assume this window is broken in the earthquake. We have wind and rain blowing in. One of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. If you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, were going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. What im going to have somebody do is theyre going to have this is an old piece of shingle. You might have everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. It doesnt have to be fancy. They take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. There is one at the neighborhood support center. At the neighborhood support center. Youre going to wrap this plastic around this board, take your screw. And then screw that in. You need a permit for this . You do need a permit for this. And you can contact the former head building inspector to get that permit. Thats it. Now when the wind blows, its tight and its not going to pull through, having a single point of contact. Great. What about this door . Take a look at this door. What can you do . Lets say it doesnt shut tight. What can you do . For the sake of argument, were on the inside. I cant lock my door at night. I have a very similar, very similar idea. Im going to take my 2 by 4. I can put it across the jamb in the door. One. Two. Maybe i want another one up here, maybe another one down there. But i can go to sleep. And that quickly, i can get it off in the morning. Terrific. What about the roof up here . We see people throw blue tarps over their roof after an earthquake. That seems reasonable. I think the blue tarp is reasonable. The things that people want to know that they need to know is if you have multiple tarps, how you overlap. Starting from the bottom and moving up so that youre overlapping this way. So, rain running down doesnt slide under your tarp. Right. And the same technique we did over here, as silly as it may sound, wrapping the end of that blue tarp with your board and then securing that if you can underneath, if you have to on top is fine. But making sure that you dont have an area where the wind is going to get under and bill owe that tarp. The wind can rip it right off. And then youre back up there again. Lets go inside and check out what we can do inside. Old fun. Here we go. So, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. Mans best friend. Duct tape. Let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. This window right here, because its off kilter, we have open seams all along. I have a lot of air coming through. I want to stay comfortable at night. I want to keep that air out. Its as simple as that, all the way around. Excellent. Now i dont have any air coming in. Lets say this one is one that would annoy me. Everything is a little off. My doors wont stay closed. I take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. And at least it will stay out of my way when im trying to live throughout my day. If were not talking about pressurized water, were talking about just the drain, sometimes theyre going to get a crack here. Right, sure. And youre going to get a leak. Duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. Lets say we only have electricity in one room, so were running extension cords across the house. If im going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i dont want kids tripping on it. I dont want to trippon it. I take my trusty duct tape, tape it to the floor, and i dont have to worry about it getting kicked. Great, great. Look at this. Lets look at the duct tape here because we see a big yes. In the event of an earthquake, i dont think were going to have too many too much debris thats safe to put into a plastic bag, even as strong as it might be. These are called vice bags. This is what they use to put rice and things when they ship it. This is something where i take my glass, i can take broken pieces of wood, i can take anything sharp and fill it. And its not going to puncture and come out. Its not going to fall all over the floor. Ive not going to have it sticking out, maybe scratch myself, cut myself or anything like that. These are a great thing to have. You have a little goto box for emergencies. Thats great. Thanks very much for joining us, ben. Its really been interesting. And i want to thank you all for joining us here at the spur urban center. And well see you again San Francisco recreation and Parks Department offers classes for the whole family. Rec and parks has a class for everyone. Discover what is available now and get ready to get out and play. Henri matisse. Frida kahlo. Andy warhol. Discover the next great artist. Get out and play and get inspired with toddler classes. Experience art where making a mess is part of the process. Classes and the size the artistic process rather than the product. Children have the freedom to explore materials at their own pace and in their own way. Talks love art, especially when they died into the Creative Process dive into the Creative Process. At the end of the classes, they have cleaned and washup. Of. Com great way to get out and play. For more information, visit sfrecpark. Org. That out and play and get into the groove. Rec and parks offers dance classes for seniors. Firsttime beginners or lifetime enthusiasts all are welcome. Enjoy all types of music. Latins also, country and western. It is a great way to exercise while having lots of fun. Seniors learn basic moves and practice a variety of routines. Improve your posture, balance, and flexibility. It is easy. Get up on your feet and step to the beat. Senior dance class is from sf rec and park. A great way to get out and play. For more information, [applause] [cheering] all right. Now i would like to invite supervisor hilary roane into the microphone. [cheers and applause] Hillary Ronen to the microphone. [cheers and applause] [cheering] it feels good to be in this room tonight. [cheering] so one year ago today, he was not a politician, lucky him. He had never run for office and he wasnt someone you would usually see at political events. What he was doing a year ago was getting up every day to go to a job to work in a system that can only be described as broken. And broken in a way that destroys families and ruins lives. So chesa boudin decided to do something about it. Not just complain or post on facebook, he put himself on the line and he ran for office. And after a year, together with the people in this room, donating their time, our time, and our money, and then more of our time and more of our money, something absolutely amazing happened. We won. [cheers and applause] San Francisco, we are about to inaugurate a District Attorney the likes of bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, alexandria steel cortez, and others. [cheers and applause] like them, chesa boudin is a big thinker. He believes the worst and the most entrenched problems in our city must be solved by taking action on ideas that match the size and the scope of these problems. And like them, he loves people. When he asked, he acts from a place of deep love and he asked with the ultimate goal of making life not only bearable for our residents, but to create the conditions where we can all thrive. At the same time, chesa boudin is practical. While his ambitions are large, he doesnt spend his time with his head in the clouds or pontificating endlessly. He wants results always. He wants everyone to see and feel the fruits of the labor of our collective movement. This is why i placed chesa boudin in a category of leaders like bernie and elizabeth and the squad. Yes, he is unabashedly progressive, but he will never be content just talking about dreams. He will turn ideas into a reality. [applause] klopfer that one, absolutely. [laughter] clap for that one, absolutely this is why i believe we are a major part in San Francisco of one of the most important political moments in not only the history of this age, but in this country as a whole. This last election just proves the Progressive Movement is moving full steam ahead in San Francisco and in the United States. [cheers and applause] my people, we can do this. I often hear so much fear and so much selfdoubt from within our movement. Things like, i love bernie, but he cant win, so we should just hold our nose and choose biden. No, no. Absolutely not. We win when we believe in ourselves, when we share our ideas for changing the world and when we all Work Together to implement those ideas. That is what chesa boudin did. That is why, against all the odds, and believe me, it was against all the odds, he one, we won. [applause] so lets do this right now. Lets promise ourselves that we are no longer going to bargain against ourselves ever again. [applause] we are going to demand the type of worlds that we want to see and refuse to take no for an answer. We know that in response they will always throw every excuse in the book at us. Sometimes they try to undermine our ideas, its too expensive, or the flip side of the same tired argument, great idea, we dont have enough money, no, no, no. We are used to hearing no. Sometimes they try to attack our character. On, do i know this one well. They describe us as too emotional or too difficult when we refuse to be quiet about the injustices in our broken system that cause havoc and terror in the lives of residents in San Francisco. [applause] and heres my one note, slumber note for the night. They are going to do this to chase us. Here is what i want to tell you, chesa boudin. I want to tell you that they will try to undermine your ideas in any way that they can and they will attack to attack you brutally and personally in brutal ways. But they will only have the power to succeed if we let them. And we will not let them. [cheers and applause] so please, as you sit here today so excited about the inauguration of chesa boudin as our next District Attorney of San Francisco, dont ever let them let us get off track. We are with you, chesa boudin. We will work by your side and we will defend you when they try to tear you down. We are proud to be the status quos worst nightmare. [cheers and applause] and we, the collective we, will make this city a place that takes action and implements big, bold, exciting change. Weve got this. [cheers and applause] thank you, hillary. I couldnt have said it better myself. [laughter] we have a real treat to today. We have youth speaks. It is a local San Francisco organization that empowers Young Artists to use poetry in the spoken word to express themselves and their struggles authentically. Please join me in welcoming two young poets to the stage. [cheers and applause] good evening, everyone. My name is jamie and i may spoken word poet. For those of you who do not know what spoken word poetry is, allow me to introduce you. We are all in this room together this is not netflix, this is not hulu, this is not youtube. If i Say Something you like, you can snap, you can let me know. The more love you give me, the more love i will give you. [cheers and applause] before i hop into the poem, i want to invite you all to raise your voice is with me. When i say move, you say forward move. Forward. When i say make you say change. Make. Change. Make. Change. Here we go. They say you cant judge a book by its cover. I say you have never been black. Never been categorized by the color of your complexion, never been stigmatized because of your skin to be black in america is to be another author in a never ending anthology about oppression. It is to be a chapter. Standing under the loveliness of sons, thinking negro spirituals and songs about freedom, a chapter in chains and carried to the table of contents known as this country. Isnt it ironic that they call this the land of the free . To be black in america is to know that you could have been a commodity had you been born 200 years before. 200 years before today, i would have been born a slave, my hands would have been drenched in burgundy blood from picking cotton and fights and the rights to run away and sometimes, i said sometimes being black feels like being the prequel to the road revolution. Or a ceqa titled retaliation. I am tired. I said, i am tired of being a walking publication of pain. Im tired of being a footnote where no bootstrap to pull myself up, but isnt it heritage for africanamericans to turn sugar and fear more like a home, to be seen as a home. One must exist in a mobile or something. To be black in america is to know that you can we target practice to at any white mans will. It is to keep your will on standby, it is to standby injustice and say nothing. If only we could speak every time we were traumatized. So please, remind me how you dont judge books by their cover my bad, how you dont see color. Remind me again how you can blatantly skim over all of this magnificent black skin. [cheers and applause] my name is zou. I have a poem for you all today. [cheers and applause] home is missed all jetway listen to miracle. Or oncall rides with my mother. And i briefly understand anything was possible. Home is the nostalgia i said when i listened to. [indiscernible] it made me move my feet to the beat of my ancestral roots. 500 miles away from where my grandparents are buried. Searching for a home or stumbling the home that would serve through my feet as a dance my life away to the rhythm of the deluca sitting in my mother s lap, the beat of her hands cruising across the animal hide that sits on this african drum. Every thump returns my body to them. The woman that birthed me [indiscernible] my lips belong to the wind. I speak two languages. [applause] i see little brother. A language created by roughhousing now out of line with my cousins. [indiscernible] the second language i speak is to donnie arabic. [applause] [speaking foreign language] the some of a battle between adopted language and native tongue, the product of care down the mile. Running down the streets with my cousins as the sand hugged our feet. From 1956 to 2019, the crowds of my people died and stretch from the mountains to sit down, history doesnt repeat itself, it never ends. Every stray bullet it in eaten up by cracks in the road hits my chest. Every dead body flushes my heart with pain. It stings my blood. Every piece of underwear termed rape trophy picks apart my soul. My mama tells me my cousin and them aint safe. She says they must any movement can trigger the government to send 100 rounds their way. My cousin tells me its impossible to stay safe with fear running down her spine. I said moving targets are harder to catch. I am always hooping to the sound of gunshots trying to escape the bullets into my back. I have learned to sleep only with commotion. The noise eases my anxiety. [indiscernible] im caught in a revolving door. Any day the trigger can be set on dodge. As a child, people would walk up to me and apologize for my home being wartorn. I waited to see if they meant to down or oakland. I come from two origin stories of residential warfare. I only hope to find a home lies within memories of music of the earth hugging my feet, serving familial love regardless of how tori was. My only hope to find a home lies within memories of a broken lineage that doesnt repeat itself. It never ends. Thank you. [cheers and applause] now i invite emily lead to the podium. She is the director of one second. Thank you, thank you. One second. Emily is the director of s. F. Rising where she works with the Broad Coalition to build the political power of San Francisco s workingclass communities of color. [cheers and applause] good evening, everybody. Thank you for the perfect introduction. Im also the director at of s. F. Rising action fund and we worked to build the political power of our folks, our communities of color, or workingclass communities in San Francisco. I know theres over 1,000 of us in this room today who helped to elect chesa boudin as District Attorney. Lets give ourselves some noise. Thank you. [cheers and applause] so im very honored and humbled to stand on the stage was so many inspiring leaders. I dont take it for granted. As hillary said, when i was telling folks that, you know, we will be throwing down for chesa boudin at the Rising Action Fund , we are throwing down. Many people said, its impossible to win. This isnt the critics, these are the supporters of chesa boudin who were saying this. Sure, but, you know, you know you will not win, right . You are up against too much money, no name recognition, not enough endorsements, starting too late. And all those things were true. The odds were not in our favor, but where i work we have a belief. We believe in throwing down, for fights that build peoples power over the longterm. [cheers and applause] and we believe in worthy fights. And the fight to elect chesa boudin was both of those things. So while our volunteers and our canvassers were out doorknocking , shout out to the daily team. [cheers and applause] folks working hard every night on the weekends, in the mission, the o. M. I. , the excelsior, chinatown, the bayview, we heard a lot of stories from folks. There was the grandmother whose son spent years in and out of the system after a small mistake he made. That experience led him down a path where he thought was even worse. She heard about Chesa Boudins commitment to find alternatives to incarceration and to promote reability. She pledged to vote for him and she promised that all four of her kids would do the same. There was the mother who went into debt because her suns bail was set so high that their whole family was trying to dig themselves out of that debt. After learning about Chesa Boudins fight for many years to and cash bail, she pledged to vote for him. [applause] there was a man we talked to who had been assaulted on the same block three different times in one year. And he learned about Chesa Boudins commitment to disrupt the status quo and truly think about how do we help victims . How do we support them . He agreed to vote for chesa boudin. [applause] i have the great honor to meet and walk with some people and he took me to the site of alexs murder. And told me every morning at 7 00 a. M. , he walks to the place where his son died after being shot by police over 50 times. He told me the story that he told hundreds of times too many people and the hopes he had for his son, where the bullets tore through his body, and there is no words. Theres no words for us who are just bearing witness to that pain. And witnessing the deep suffering and the injustice that those families face there is no words to comfort this, but it is a privilege to bear witness and it is a promise that we can make , a promise we will keep fighting and that all of us, including chesa boudin is not going to allow such a justice to be the norm. [applause] so, after hearing about Chesa Boudins commitment to and police brutality, he endorsed chesa boudin. For that same reason, when woods , the mother of my awards, also endorsed chesa boudin. For these folks, these families, that is who we are holding this promise for. For now, here we all are, even those who didnt think it was possible. We are here, and the real work lies ahead. Winning is hard, governing is harder. All of the folks in the front row know that. For us, as the movement that elected chesa boudin, our work is not done. As our movements win, we have to grapple with how to govern, not just come to the Victory Party on Election Night or in Chesa Boudins case four days after Election Night, but if we truly want to end mass incarceration, then our job continues, too. We have to keep organizing on the grounds. We have to keep organizing in our community. We have to keep pushing and advancing an agenda that results in real, concrete changes for black and brown folks, for immigrant communities, for homeless folks, Trans Community and youth of color. [applause] we have a long way to go in San Francisco before all of us feel safe. But there is someone in the d. A. s office who week in advance that agenda with together. Someone who was put in that office by a movement who is now accountable to that movement. [cheers and applause] we are all in this together. From the thousands of folks we talked to on the doors, to chesa boudin. And none of us here are naive. We know that no one person can make systems change alone. It will take chesa boudin, his whole team, the folks working inside and the folks working outside the system and you can see this is not just Chesa Boudins inauguration. This is an inauguration of the people on the Freedom Fighters of San Francisco. Right . [cheers and applause] that is right. As folks have said, though many will be watching and waiting to see chesa boudin fail and try to pit our communities against each other at the same time, for the grandmothers, the sons, when woods and others, they have not currently taking all of us into account. All of a sudden put him into office. We will not forget the promise that we made to folks when we campaigned for chesa boudin, when we sat on the doors that he will serve. He will serve the community, we will not forget that promise. And chesa boudin will not forget that promise. For all of us, we have to make his vision the new reality for San Francisco and the real work begins now. Congratulations to our new District Attorney. [cheers and applause] folks, almost there. Good news, you all agree. Please direct your attention where we will hear from sonya my Court Sessions resume next week so i am unable to join your inauguration ceremony. I send you this message to tell you how much i admire you and wish you well in your new endeavours. A little over 10 years ago, i was visiting the Public Housing project where i grew up in the bronx. The film crew was following me around. As i left the building in which i have lived, i stood next to a young child about 10 years old whose mother was looking down to one of the apartments above us. The child asked me why all the people surrounding us or making such a fuss about me. I paused to think and finally said, i grew up in this building where you live now and there are many people who think that kids like us can never be something important in life. They think because we maybe poor in money, we are poor in spirit, too. You are not, and i have not been we can make something of ourselves and and my becoming the first letting a justice of the United StatesSupreme Court gives hope that People Like Us have a chance in life. You too are an example that gives hope to so many. It is uncommon for a former public defender to become a District Attorney of a major city like San Francisco, but more uncommon is a District Attorney who spent his childhood visiting parents incarcerated for committing serious felonies. As you described it today, the difficulties you faced as a child, including that you did not read until age nine, are common among children of prisoners. You have lived the stigma of anger, shame, and guilt that so many such children in the criminal Justice System experience. By your own admission, you are fortunate that friends of your parents have the means to help you get back on track, but your parents friends could not supply you with the strength of character and moral compulsion that ultimately led you to graduate from yale college with high honors, become a rhodes scholar, clerk for two respected federal judges, the get a fellowship, and publish scholarly and important social justice pieces. Your personal strength and commitment to reforming and improving the criminal Justice System is a testament to the person you are in the role model you will continue to be for so many. Chesa boudin, you have undertaken a remarkable challenge today. The hope you reflect is a great beacon too many and the road to accomplishing when you have set out to do will be daunting. Nevertheless, the city of San Francisco will be so very well served by a man whose life creed is believing, as you told me quote we are all safer when we uplifted that come victims, hold everyone accountable for their actions and to do so with empathy and compassion. I wish you much success in all you will do. Thank you for giving us hope. [applause] now it is my pleasure to introduce a 40 for the mayor, london breed, who herself was sworn in earlier today. Thank you for being here. [cheers and applause] thank you. It is an honor to be here to swear in the next District Attorney for the city and county of San Francisco, chesa boudin. [cheers and applause] i grew up in this city, and a community that was devastated by crimes and violence. Sadly, i have seen people go to jail and get prosecuted for crimes they never committed to, people get ridiculous sentences, but i also have experienced a lot of the violence and the challenges that have existed with people who were never held accountable in our community. We know that there is a balance between justice and fairness and i appreciate that chesa boudin understands that balance. He knows that we need, so desperately, to reform our criminal Justice System, but we dont have to do so at the expense of keeping our communities safe. We can strike that balance. We can hold people accountable and we can make sure that there is fairness in our criminal Justice System and i am looking forward, over the next four years of working with him, to do just that. Ladies and gentlemen [applause] without further ado, it is time to swear in the next District Attorney for San Francisco. [cheers and applause] all right. Are you ready . Give me one second. [laughter] now im ready. All right. Please your right hand and repeat after me. I, chesa boudin do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of california. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that i bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of california. That i take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter and during such time as i serve as District Attorney for the city and county of San Francisco [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] i have to say, i think mayor breed has the entire oath memorized. [laughter] but seriously, thank you for your kind words, thank you for swearing me in today after your own swearingen just a few hours ago. Im so excited to work with you and the rest of the leadership. Many of whom are here in the audience of this great city. We will go further together. [cheers and applause] i am so honored to stand here tonight. I have to start by thanking a few people who have been working so unbelievably hard these last two months to get us ready for the very serious job ahead. Thank you two and irwin, kate, christine, james, and emily. [cheers and applause] i also want to thank dylan, kelsey, lara, donna, becky, and the real justice team and sciu 1021. Thank you for all of the judges and elected officials that i see here, for all the members of Law Enforcement and city leaders who are here sharing in this moment. So many of you are here in the audience and many others sent your regrets for not being able to be here, but you are here in spirit with us. Henry ronen, thank you for your generous words, for being the very first elected official to support my campaign before it was even a campaign. [cheers and applause] and thank you, of course, to justice for your leadership and the example you set for all of. For your presence here with us via video and for your words of encouragement and support. Im also so grateful to all of you that i did not name. So many of you here in this auditorium and across the city and country contributed to this movement for justice. Not because you expect personal recognition, but because you understand that the fight against injustice is so much greater than any one person. It is a stage upon which individual victories are victories for all of us. To all of you here today, thank you. Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for believing in change. Thank you for believing inhumanity. Thank you, most of all, for believing in our movement to make this great city safer and more just for oliver. [cheers and applause] finally, i want to mention a few more people, without him i would certainly not be here today. My wife, valerie. [cheers and applause] you are not done yet, keep clapping. [laughter] thank you for your intelligence, for your support, for your patience, which seems infinite, though i hope not to test that limit, and for being my best friend. You are our secret weapon during the campaign. As an immigrant, youre not even allowed to vote. [laughter] my mother, kathy. [applause] my mother is here today with us. Thank you. [applause] your incarceration lasted 22 years, but your love and support are endless. To my father, david. [applause] he cant be here today because he sits in a cage in a prison, thousands of miles away. Thank you, both. Your lives instilled with me lessons that continue to guide me and to give me clarity. You taught me that we are all more than our worst mistakes. That taking responsibility for our lowest moments requires dignity and courage. The familial bonds can be stronger than steel gates. [applause] even in maximumsecurity prison, both of you found ways to save lives, to aids education, and antiviolence trainings. The crime you both participated in when i was an infant cost three innocent men and families, their lives. It did not matter to the d. A. Or the judge in your case that neither one of you was armed, nor that neither one of you personally hurt anyone. Those details, they matter to me [applause] what matters even more is that since that terrible day, you and my father have lived your lives focused on love. Thank you for teaching me about forgiveness and redemption. [applause] this is really not the day that i ever could have imagined for myself as a child. As the son of children, and the son of incarcerated parents, the odds were definitely not in my favor. Like so many children with incarcerated parents, i struggled with guilt, anger, and shame. I fell behind in school and i demonstrated a range of behavioral issues and challenges i met my childhood friend, lorenzo, on a prison visit. They were incarcerated together. Lorenzos mom was a casualty of the war on drugs. She served nearly two decades in prison. We came from different worlds. He was poor, black, and an immigrant while i was uppermiddleclass, white, and usborn. Lorenzo was every bit as intelligent as i was. He was a role model for me. What i didnt learn to read until i was nine, my mother urged me to be more like lorenzo who was excelling in school. What i would throw a temper tantrum on a prison visit, lorenzo would gently calm me down. Parental incarceration meant we both had a significant risk factor for incarceration ourselves, but i was adopted by friends of my parents who had the means to provide me with the help i needed. A vast network of family and friends who afforded me the endless Second Chances that i needed to overcome the odds. My freshman year at yale i received a letter from my biological father. He had a new neighbor on his cell block in maximumsecurity prison. It was lorenzo. I had privilege and lorenzo did not. A few years later, lorenzo was deported to a country he had never even known as i was on my way to oxford. Four lorenzo, the odds played out. Anyone who sets foot inside a criminal court room will see these odds play out time and time and time again in endless parades of predominate black and brown faces, nearly all of whom lock the opportunities that i was granted. Until we distribute opportunities with more equity, until the institutionalization of punishment and retaliation is replaced with the institutionalization of restoration and redemption. [applause] until them, we will continue to fail those harmed by crime. Our criminal Justice System is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime and punishment. More than any country in the history of the world, we have the longest sentences, the largest prison populations, the most bloated Law Enforcement budgets, and the highest recidivism rates. We consistently fail to address the needs of survivors of Sexual Assault. To offer meaningful restitution to victims of property crime, to include nonEnglish Speakers. To heal the trauma caused by violent crime. These failures have led us as a community, as a nation, to accept the unacceptable. Join me, join this movement, join us in rejecting the notion that to be free we must cage others. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] join us in rejecting the notion that to seek justice we must abandon forgiveness. [cheers and applause] that to empower a requires Excessive Force them to be safe we should with the mentally ill and addicted in cages that jails and prisons should be the primary responses to all of our social problems. [applause] over the course of the last few months, we have often seen my name in the press besides the word radical. [laughter] but consider this. My friend, angela davis [cheers and applause] i will say it again, my friend, angela davis [cheers and applause] who is here with us today, along with her partner gina [cheers and applause] refers to the latin root of the word radical to explain the simple thing. Radical simply means grasping things at the root. [laughter] for far too long, criminal Justice Policy has been shaking the tree when the plant itself has rotted out. The solution lies beneath the surface. [applause] in november, the people of San Francisco joined the course of voices around the country and jurisdictions from philadelphia, chicago, baltimore to st. Louis, virginia to vermont, to say enough. I begin fulfilling my promises to you today. [applause] today we prioritize giving victims of crime a path to closure and restoration. [applause] there are over 1,000 cases in San Francisco were a member of our community has been harmed. Someone who has waited over two years for their case to conclude we have already begun working to clear that backlog of two year plus old cases. [applause] accountability must be swift, certain, and consistent and predictable. By finding resolutions for old cases we can address the needs of crime survivors and we can heal as a city. Today we end cash bail. [cheers and applause] we end a system by which innocent people can be kept in jail simply because they are poor. While wealthy people who are guilty and dangerous go free. [applause] today we end racist, punitive sentencing enhancements that punish people for who they are, where they live, or something in the distant past, rather than the harm they caused. Three strikes ms now in San Francisco. [cheers and applause] these enhancements warned of an age where children are referred to as super predators, have added years and decades to prison sentences and there is no evidence to deter crime. They do not rehabilitate those convicted and they certainly do not heal victims. There will be no baseball in the courtroom on my watch. [cheers and applause] and today, we begin implementing a new and improved Sexual Assault response policy. [cheers and applause] thank you for the policy. Thank you for moving this Initiative Forward over the last two months. [applause] today we will stop filing cases that arise from illegal searches following a minor traffic violation. [cheers and applause] for decades, people have deprived describe the perils of driving while black. Finally we act. Stopped and frisked while walking down the street or driving the car is a civil rights violation. [cheers and applause] today we create a program for primary caregiver parents. One of the first in california under a new law authored by the bay area areas on senator nancy skinner. Children should not grow up the way lorenzo did. These reforms are what we can implement immediately. Here are a few of my priorities for the months and years ahead. Auto burglaries, unprecedented, extreme wealth inequality in our city has contributed to an epidemic of car breakins. The cost of repairing a single broken window can destabilize an entire working family. Few victims ever see a penny of restitution. We will be rolling out a threepronged response partnering with s. F. Safe to deter and map the flow of stolen goods from car breakins and auto burglaries from a Public Awareness campaign, and together with supervisor dean preston, sponsoring legislation to better meet the needs of victims. [cheers and applause] immigration. We will launch an immigration unit, one that builds trust between our immigrant communities and the Justice System. [cheers and applause] when immigrants are fearful of deportation and illegal acts and are refusing to cooperate with Law Enforcement, we are all less safe. [applause] victims rights. Our work will yield the most comprehensive, Restorative Justice program in the country. [cheers and applause] Restorative Justice saves lives. I know this because it has saved mine. Victims services, especially for limited English Speakers and marginalized communities is a critical and under resourced part of the criminal Justice System. Every victim of every crime will have a right to participate dramatically expanding the options of those harmed by crime to heal, while also holding those who cause the harm accountable. [applause] in San Francisco, we are getting started. Thank you so much. [cheers and applause] [ ] about two years ago now i had my first child. And i thought when i come back, you know, im going to get back in the swing of things and ill find a spot. And it wasnt really that way when i got back to work. Thats what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. When it comes to innovative ideas and policies, San Francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. And this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. Being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. I was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. She was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i dont know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. Not all returning mothers have the same access, even though theres existing state laws on the issues. These moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they dont feel wellsupported at work. We started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. But this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. With the newcome accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. What are legislation . We wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. Do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. I would love to. Lets go. This is such an inviting space. What makes this a lactation room . As legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesnt have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. And we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. The things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. And the sink is in the room. Our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but its all right in here. You can wash your pump and put your milk away and you dont have to put it in a fridge that you share with coworkers. The new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in San Francisco. But are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city . I think Small Businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for Small Businesses that may have small footprints. For example, we dont mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. In city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. So the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. I think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and Breast Feeding mothers is necessary. What is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. Otherwise a lot of times moms dont feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. Really its hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, youre leaving your heart outside of your body. When you can provide your child food from your body and know youre connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. And businesses and employers can just provide a space. If they dont have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in San Francisco. If you want more information visit sfdph. Org breastfeedingatwork