Stefani, present. Walton, present. Mr. President , you have quorum. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . Yes, mr. President. The board welcomes to attend in person in the legislative chamber in city hall, second floor, room 250 to participate remotely this meeting is aired live on sfgovtv channel 26 or you may view the live stream at www. Sfgovtv. Org. The telephone number and meeting id are on the agenda and streaming on the television or computer screen. We are answering the telephone mondayfriday, 85 but specifically tuesday till the end of this meeting. If you like to send written comments to the members of the board, send a stamped letter via u. S. Post office addressed to the San Francisco board of surprisers. 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco california 94102. Or send an email to bos sfgov. Org. We will have interpretation in chinese, filipino and spanish beginning at 3 p. M. To 7 p. M. Thank you mr. President. Thank you madam clerk. Do we have a motion to approve the september 5 and september 12 Board Meeting minutes made by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor stefani. On the approval of the minutes, a roll call, please. On approval of the minutes. Preston, aye. Ronan, aye. Safai, aye. Stefani, aye. Walton, aye. Chan, aye. Dorsey, aye. Engardio, aye. Mandelman, aye. Melgar, aye. Peskin, aye. There are 11 ayes. Those minutes will be adopted as presented after Public Comment. Madam clerk, please read the Consent Agenda . 111 are on consent and considered routine. If a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster, same house same call, those ordinances are finally passed. Next item, please. Item 12 ordinance to amend the admint strative code to require the controller to prepare an initial base budget to guide each city agency to preparation of proposed two year budget to provide the base budget must include Cost Increases and agreements with non profit organizations to reflect inflation and to adopt the city policy that departments will enter into multiyear grants when the need for a Grant Program will extend beyond a single year. Supervisor ronan. Thank you colleagues. I hope youll join me and supervisor chan, mandelman and safai in supporting this item today. As a former budget chair and as a supervisor that sat on the Budget Committee five years in a row and has been through 14 budget processes in these halls, i can tell you that 3 in the morning on the last night of the budget all most every year we are battling around this issue whether or not to give cost increase to non profits and collectively it is a big ticket item because we rely on non profits for meeting the basic needs of our residents in major major ways. So, this legislation fixes this problem so it is no longer part of the 3 a. M. Negotiation every budget year and does so in two ways. One, it requires departments to make multiyear contracts with non profits if the service is expected to continue. There might be pilot projects only a year or special funding only for a year, but in general we contract for Ongoing Services so contractsso, departments are expected to create multiyear contracts. Two, departments are supposed to include the cost of living increasescost of doing business increases within that contract, so that non profit can rely on that increase that comes in their expenses and payroll every year but not funded by the city and often dont find out until 3 a. M. In the morning the last minute on budget day whether or not that will happen. That means it is very hard to plan, very hard to hire and insure you can retain the staff you need to provide the Excellent Services happening all over the city. So, it is just a very simple piece of legislation. I want to thank so much our incredible controller, Ben Rosenfeld who convened a non Profit Working Group and his wonderful staff who came up with these two items as potential options for making the process more streamlined and make a lot more sense, and i also want to thank santiago [indiscernible] from my office who has been working on this piece of legislation for quite some time. Thank you so much. Thank you. Seeing no other names on the roster, why dont we take this same house same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Next item, please. Item 13, ordinance to amend ordinance 14523. This is annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 20232024 and 2425 to reflect the deletion of two positions in fiscal year 2324 and addition of 4 positions in fiscal year 2324 in the Police Department. Same house same call the ordinance passed first reading. Next item. Item 14 is ordinance to amend the business and tax regulation code to add provisions to administer the empty homes tax and to make conforming nonsubstunative changes. Supervisor preston. Thank you. Colleagues, before us today is the trailing legislation to implement the empty homes tax, november 2022 ballot measure approved by 55 percent of San Francisco voters. The tax, which will apply to buildings of three or more units that are vacant for more then half the year with exceptions takes effect january 1, 2024. I wanted to take the opportunity to remind non exempt Property Owners with vacant units that now is the time to take steps to fill empty homes, which has been the intent of this effort from the start. Prolonged vacancies after january 1, 2024 may be subject to this voter approved tax. Also, wanted to extend sincere thanks to our treasurer, sis nar osand his team at the office of the treasurer Tax Collector for all their work on helping to shape the policy and take the lead on the implementing ordinance before us today. Lastly, want to thank faith in action bay area for working closely with our office on this effort and including making sure that the revenue from this measure is used as intended by the voters of San Francisco. Thank you very much. Thank you. Seeing no other names on the roster, same house same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Madam clerk, please read item 1520 together . 1520 are 6 resolution s that approve airport concession leases or Airport Professional Services contract modification or another type of agreement. Item 15 is between xpresspa international. 16 is spa br sfo llc. Item 17 approves the second modification to the airport professional Service Contract between beumer Life Cycle Management llc and the city to operate and maintain the baggage handling system in the harvey milk terminal to increase contract amount for 1 4000000 for new amount of 3 million and one and 6 month contract extension. And new Contract Term through june 30, 2025. 18, resolution to approve the Foreign Currency Exchange services lease with lenlyn doing business as ice Currency Service usa and city for four year term with two one year options to extend and minimum annual guarantee of 1 million for the first year of the lease. Item 19 is resolution to approve the 4th modification to a contract with Dignity Health doing business as Saint Marys Medical Center for the operation of sfo Medical Clinic to increase not to exceed 12. 7 million with no change to the Contract Term through june 30, 2024. Item 20, resolution to approve the second modification to lease between the United States government and the city for two year Term Extension from october 1, 2023 for total term of october 1, 2015 through september 30, 2025 and to increase the annual rent to approximately 620 thousand for offices occupied by the u. S. Drug enforcement administration. Seeing no names on the roster, we will take these items same house same call. These resolutions are adopted. Item 21, resolution to authorize and approve the lease of city owned Real Property at assessor parcel block 5695 lot number 23 adjacent to alemany boulevard in San Francisco with our planet recycling sf llc doing business as our planet repsychoblg for 5 year term at annual base rent of approximately 23 thousand plus 3 percent annual increase to the base rent plus additional 5 year extension option to exb tend the term of the lease subject to satisfaction of certain conditions and to be readjusted to the then fair market base rent and affirm the ceqa determination and the appropriate findings. Same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk please read item 2224 together . Item 2224 are 3 resolution that authorize grants for recreation and Park Department. 22 authorizing a 250 thousand inkind grant from the San FranciscoParks Alliance for design and construction for the maintenance and upgrades to the dahlia dell hillside garden. 23, authorize 3. 7 million San Francisco bay Water QualityImprovement Fund grant from the United StatesEnvironmental Protection agency for the india basin Shoreline Park project for term through december 31, 2026 with additional authorization to enter into the associated Grant Agreement. Item 24, authorizes a 300 thousand inkind grant from the Stern Grove Festival Association for the design and construction of a donor recognition instillation for the project term. Same house, same call, the resolutions are adopted. Next item, please. Item 25 resolution to approve the First Amendment between Mission Neighborhood helt and department of Public Health to provide hiv Health Service to increase not to exceed 11. 3 million to extend the term by 6 years from february 29, 2024 through february 28, 2030. Same house same call the resolution is adopted. Next item. Item 26, resolution to retroactively authorize the office of City Attorney to except and extend 200 thousand grant from San Francisco foundation to fund engagement, Strategic Planning and coordination with coalition of public law offices to support affirm ative litigation and enforcement through june 30, 2025. Same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. Next item. Item 27, resolution authorize the department of environment to submit applications on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco for all grants offered by the California Department of Resources Recycling and recovery for which it is elg eligible. Same house same call the resolution is adopted. Item 28, resolution on behalf of department of Public Health to ret row actively authorize cash gift of 79 thousand from the estate of janet d kramer through the federal reserve. Same house same call, the resolution is adopted. Item 29, ordinance to delegate board of supervisors Approval Authority to the Real Estate Division to amend certain existing leases regarding residual rent payments and lender protections for 100 percent afford able housing projects. Same house, same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Next item. Iletm 30, ordinance to amend the park code to restrict private vehicles from a portion of the John F Shelly drive between upper rev reservoir parking lot in mclaren park. Same house same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Next item, please. Item 31, ordinance to amend the police code to prohibit armed guards from drawing or exhibiting firearms other then a hollster to protect property. Seeing no names on the roster, same house, same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Next item. Item 32, ordinance to amend the health code to require each Retail Pharmacy in the city to stock at least two boxes of opioid antagonist. Same house same call ordinance passed first reading. Item 33, resolution to urge the San Francisco department of Public Health to create a program to provide resources and education for victims of gun violence regarding their rights to File Lawsuits against gun manufactures in accord cns to state Assembly Bill number 1594. Same house same call the resolution is adopted. Please read items 34 and 35 together. Two resolutions. 34 determine the premise to premise transfer of type 48 onsale general public premises Liquor License to 790 bush street to do business as ad hoc located at 779 bush street serve the public convenience. Item 35 is resolution to determine that the person to person premise to premise transfer of type 20offsale beer and wine Liquor License to valencia inc. As valencia whole foods at 999 valencia street serve the public convenience and to request the California Department of alcoholic Beverage Control impose conditions on the issuance of both licensees. Same house, same call, the resolutions are adopted. Next item, please. Item 36 is ordinance to amend the administrative code to clarify that a contractor may be suspended or debarred due to violations of state or local labor laws regarding the payment of wages and unfair labor practices. Same house, same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Next item. Item 37, ordinance to approve the Surveillance Technology policy for the department of elections use the social Media Monitoring technology. Same house, same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Item 38, ordinance to establish the labor and employment code redesignating working protection ordinances and ordinances related to employees of city contractors currently in the administrative code and police code as provisions of the new labor and employment code and to direct the City Attorney to renumber the provisions added to the labor employment code to update cross references throughout the municipal code. Same house, same call, the ordinance is passed first reading. Next item, please. Item 39 is motion to appoint Maxine Anderson to Sunshine Ordinance Task force term expiring april 27, 2024. Same house same call the motion is approved. Please read items 40 and 41 together . Two motions that approve the treasurer nomination. 40 approves appointment of Brenda Kwee Mcnulty and 41, approve aimee brown both for terms ending september 30, 2027. Same house same call, the motions are approved. Can we go to Committee Reports starting with item 42 . Yes. Items 4245 considered by the Homelessness Behavioral Health select committee at regular meeting on friday october 13 and forwarded as Committee Reports. Item 42, this item approves the third amendment for services at the cova shelter for 10 month extension and total term december 18, 2021 through august 31, 2024 to increase agreement amount for new total of 15 million. Thank youism before we vote on this, i noted that the budget and legislative analyst called this out as a policy matter for the board of supervisors as opposed to the other two Grant Agreements amendments with Community Service item 43 and 44 and wanted the budget legislative analyst to tell us why and what is being done about the concerns expressed in their report. You are asking about 42. This resolution approves extension of the hsh Grant Agreement with ecs to operate a shelter at the cova hotel which was a shelter in place site that is now used as a shelter and when we look at any contract we look at the performance on that contract and the contract is compliant with various requirements that are in that contract and in this case, there was essentially a complete failure of ecs to live up to the operational and agreement. They were not doing staff training or [indiscernible] or wellness checks or making sure people entering housing were document ready, and resulted in the site manager that was a ecs staff person replaced. Typically, when there is a low performance we would only recommend a one year extension, but this isnt a multiyear agreement, this is extended through august 2024, which is when the city booking agreement for that site expires, so i actually think it makes sense to still given the scale of the shortcomings to have a check in during the budget process because hsh is going into that site january to do a midyear review, but still check in at the budget process to see if it makes sense to continue funding this service in the new budget year, which is particularly important because the funding for this service is now moving from a state source to the general fund, so this is now a primarily locally funded program, and i think if the performance has not improved and there hasnt been a alternative provider identified i recommend terminating funding for this service during the budget process. Thank you. Supervisor ronan. Thank you. I just wanted to mention that we had a good discussion about this at committee that one of the major changes is they hired a new site manager for the building, and they are already noticing changes. They are also going to come and give us regular updates on this particular site and especially give us an extensive update before the budget process. Thank you supervisor ronan. Madam clerk can you read item 43 and 44 . Item 43, approves the third amendment for Property Management and Supportive Services at the henry hotel, permanent Supportive Housing site to extend grant by 20 months for total term of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2025 to increase agreement amount by 4. 8 million for new total of 14. 6 million. Item 44, approves the First Amendment to the Grant Agreement for Property Management and Supportive Services at 5 permanent Supportive Housing buildings to extend the grant term by 16 months for new term through june 30, 2025 and to increase the agreement amount by 20. 8 million for new amount of approximately 47 million. On items 4244, same house, same call, the resolutions are adopted. Next item, please. Item 45, resolution to authorize the office of the mayor and department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to solicit donations from the various private entities and organizations to support the expansion of the temporary shelter and other Homeless Services to support people experiencing homelessness notwithstanding behested payment ordinance. Same house same call the resolution is adopted. Next item. Item 46, considered by the rules committee at regular meeting on monday, october 16 and forwarded as committee record. Motion to amend the rules of order revising rule 1. 3. 3 in person and remote Public Comment to discontinue remote Public Comment by members of the public at meetings of the board and committees accept as legally required to enable people with disabilities to participate in such meetings and pursuant to board rules this item must be adopted by 8 affirmative votes. Thank youism colleagues you are in attendance with a number of we call them white supremacist participated remote ly as those cowardly individuals like to hide in the internet and remote Public Comment as they unleashed a torrents of racist comments we thought we were immune in San Francisco but are not which lead me to introduce this change to our board rules and reverse my previous position that i expressed when the covid19 emergency was ended and we had to take a vote on what we wanted to do with the relatively recent 3 year old advent of remote Public Comment. I do this with a heavy heart and as i said in committee, am more then open to exploring alternative legal and functional measures that might allow the return of Public Comment, which could be changes to the brown act at the state level that allow us to block numbers from the sources of this hateful speech or technological changes that right now are not practical and too costly relative to achieving some delays, so those speakers can be weeded out, but neither of those things are before us today, but i remain committed to exploring that. With that, i will turn it over to supervisor preston. Thank you president peskin. I think we all share a goal of trying to screen out the hate speech that you described, which is not only irrelevant to the proceedings and jurisdiction before the board, but really has no place in our discourse, so i share the goal of trying to screen that out. Im not convinced that the only avenue to doing that is this proposal to eliminate accept in narrow circumstances remote Public Comment and i think on the other side of the scale, we all know are the constituents who i heard loud and clear from who are working people calling in from their jobs, seniors, parents with Young Children who are not able to be here and sit for hours through our proceedings to be able to speak, so i recognize the complexity trying to balance that with us having our hands a bet tied by state law in not being able to do some things that would be common sense as you describe for example, blocking the known number that is hate speech or just anonymous numbers and things of that nature. We are limited under state law in what we can do, but i am concerned about the process. This was just heard in committee yesterday. I think with more time and if there were interest among colleagues i think we could explore alternatives, including possibly a delay from when the Public Comment remote Public Comment is given to when it is broadcast, and so that would be my preference would be to continue doing that rather then eliminating most of the Public Comment until the state law changes. I wont be supporting this today and look forward hearing the views of colleagues. Thank you supervisor preston. Supervisor engardio. Thank you president peskin. Colleagues, remote Public Comment helps many people who couldnt be here to have a voice and helps people disabled, have difficulty traveling the city hall, helps parents who never are able to attend a meeting while tending to kids but can call in while making dinner. Helps people who work during the day and cant take time off to come to city hall. As we experienced, remote Public Comment has a horrible dark side, anonymous callers yelling ugly and racist words. Now we are faced with a choice to end Public Comment because of a few hateful people. I heard from many san franciscansthey do not want us to end it for all. They point out that many ugly things have been said during inperson Public Comment. They point out that the clerks are vigilant cutting people off who cross the line. One sunset resident among many i represent suggested workarounds. A time delay. If the law allows requiring remote callers to register in advance, but the point is, we should try different ideas and see what works before giving up remote Public Comment. Lets be creative how to make government more accessible. We need to find ways to Foster Health y Civic Engagement not limit it. Easier access benefit parents, seniors and disabled people. We need to hear their voices so ill vote no on this item. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor melgar. Thank you president peskin. Colleagues, while i appreciate the intent behind this legislation to protect against hate speech we have been subjected to, i also do not believe that this is the solution and i will remain consistent with my position on this issue, which is that remote Public Comment provides a opportunity for many residents to engage that would not otherwise be able to. It is not just people with disabilities, but also people who have caregiving responsibilities to seniors to folks in their homes. People unable to take the hours off of their work day to be at city hall or cannot afford to. People with mobility issues that may be temporary in nature and yes are, new parents, new mothers in particular who are breastfeeding. The few that have abused the system should not be the reason to limit the ability for every day residents to engage in the policy making process, and as such i will not be able to support the change of the rules and i hope we can find a way to strike a balance, because i believe that as department one, the board of supervisors, we are the most forward facing Public Entity in the city and county of San Francisco, so i also want to take time to commend the clerk of the board for her and her extraordinary staff along with a team at sfgovtv and department of technology for having taken us through the pandemic and for now implementing a system and having gone above and beyond to take us into the era of these remote meetings with elegance, with grace and with [indiscernible] i really appreciate you madam clerk. I do believe it is our duty to increase engagement, opportunity and transparency as part of a open accessible government, so i do hope we can find a better path forward. Thank you. Thank you supervisor melgar. I think we all concur in your remarks about the clerk and the clerk staff. Supervisor walton. Thank you so much president peskin. I just wanted to really repeat what i said in committee and i want to thank for proposing this change and want to be clear that this will not have a negative effect on people with disabilities. Not have a negative effect on seniors and not just about the racist and demonizing comments people make when they call in, but for me also about the fact i dont want to represent people from florida or texas and their opinions here in the board of supervisors and people have taken advantsage of that through remote Public Comment and very unfortunate so 100 percent in support of this and want to make sure people understand, we are not eliminating remote Public Comment for people who have disabilities and people who are seniors and people not capable of coming into the chambers, so i want to be clear and want to make sure anyone who creates that narrative, everyone understands it is not factual. Thank you. Thank you supervisor walton. On item 46, a roll call, please. Preston, no. Ronan, aye. Safai, aye. Stefani, aye. Walton, aye. Chan, aye. Dorsey, aye. Engardio, no. Mandelman, aye. Melgar, no. Peskin, aye. There are 8 ayes and 3 noes with supervisors preston, engardio and melgar voting no. The motion is approved and we will go to our 2 30 special order commendations. I will start with the first one highly deserved and some of you may know of a constituent of mine, a writer and a New York Times cross word puzzle creator Andrea Carla Michaels as the pizza lady for one woman crusade over many years to obtain and reheat and redistribute unsold pizzas from the polk street corridor and beyond to unhoused. Neighbors on the street throughout the Lower Nob Hill and lower polk area. Apitomize the spirit of Civic Engagement and Neighborhood Community building and at a time when the relentless turn of cynical politics, negative press release and toxic sound bites dampered grass new organizing community building, andrea is the grounded neighborhood leader that believes the solutions to the city problems lie with positive and good faith collaboration. When she organizes a Community Cleanup our neighborhood event it isnt because she needs a vote or money or press plug or 501c4, she just loves her neighborhood and the city and she says, i dont think there is anyone who is not willing to help a neighbor and her Actions Prove it. Her Civic Engagement doesnt stop there, and are i think some of you may have seen this article recently. So many of us have sadly seen the aftermath of a burglary or car breakin with ids and papers and photos and backpack on a sidewalk. When andrea found that police were not accepting those stolen items or able to pursue the time intensive effort of finding who the owners of those items are, given their workload, andrea decided to take matters in her hands. When the various city departments were not able to help focus the effort entered a 10 Week CommunityPolice Academy force in 2018 helping to identify how she could be essential part of apparatus to initiate sfpd citizen lost and Found Program and when that didnt work, i do note assistant chief lazar is taking active interest, she set up a simple website, lost and found San Francisco. Com to centralize her math making efforts and sleuthing efforts to collect theetum and stores them and at her home or at a friends home where she meticulous catalogs them, looking for any identifying information that can point her towards the original owner of the stolen often irrelaceable property often of sentimental and personal value. Truly her puzzle solving mind has been a perfect fit for this work. Work she cheerfully disposes with. Her successes have included reunited a miami family with luggage that included a 8 grade graduation card and 6 year old collection of rocks from the grand canyon. Latest brilliant idea creating centralized dmv hotline for passers by to report smash and grabs so victims respond in a timely manner given now a random citizen cannot report a breakin by license plate and neither can our own sfmta with supervisor safai and i were talking aboutsorry, that was a tangent. Her simple ideas to have the hotline,b quickly send an email there is a breakin to at least attend to their vehicle and report the crime sooner to the police. We know that the dmv is having issues communicating with the sfmta around stolen carsactually that is the state department of justice, but there is still hope that one citizen pragmatic idea can catch hold and help in real time. Andrea you are a delight and phenomenon and grateful to have you. Your optimistic outlook on the future of the city and desire to seek out the best in everyone makes us better and stronger. Your Solutions Based approach to Public Safety not only make sense but inspire more cando attitude on behalf of everyone in City Government and for that i want to thank you and celebrate you. Come on up. [applause] may i have a one minute rebuttal . Yes, please. I just want to say thank you president peskin and the board. Im touched to get accommodation and just want to say that in the summer of 77, right before i turned 18 i was traveling from my home in minneapolis, alone on a grayhound bus seeing the United States and when i arrived in San Francisco, the clouds parted, my head exploded. I couldnt believe this place existed. I thought it was gorgeous. Everybody was doing their own thing and i felt i had found a home and a place in the world and there was that postcard shop on grant street in north beach that sold these neon postcards that red, there may not be a heaven, but there is a San Francisco and like many folks who came here, San Francisco gave me life and the reason i wanted to address you today is to say, i could just be and honesty 99 percent of that was due to rent control. I could live on top of nob hill, i still do. I could temp, teach english, do comedy for 50 a night and live a very life. In all honesty i never thought i would respond my 50 and 60 in alleys redistributing food and clothes, but these are my neighbors. By the way, i want to say, i couldnt be the lady without the woman who makes and gives me the pizza to distribute and she is here today and so i like to very much share this commendation with [indiscernible] who is nob hill pizza. [applause] i walked in there one day years ago, it was lifechanging and especially in the fraught times, i like to point out [indiscernible] who works full time and a wife and mother and devote muslim and im a jew with [indiscernible] we are very different women who live very different lives but we share San Francisco and San Francisco has provided both of us with the life we only dreamed of, and thank you for thanking me, but i want to say what i do is not a thankless job. I get an outpouring of love and gratitude every day, but usually from tourists and folks lying in the alleys, not folks in [indiscernible] here in city hall. I am not an ernest dogooder. Some sort of unsung hero. I feel very sung. Im just a resident of San Francisco with rent control, so i can literally afford to be out there helping. Rent control supervisor preston for example is fighting for so fiercely is such a important thing. We got to do everything we can please to protect it. The point is, i can do what i do because i can like everyone on this board. Im just trying to right the ship and all i can say is San Francisco gave me my life and i want the folks in the alleys or tourist to be reminded why they came here to begin with. We are a city, the overwhelming majority of residents still want to do the right thing. Glad im not remote today. I just want their heads and hearts to explode like mine did 45 years ago and recapture that feeling that there may not be a heaven, but there still is a San Francisco. Thank you. We adore you and dont go away. Dont go away. Before i present this to you, i also want to say, thanks for having the fortitude to stand up to a landlord who did everything he could to try to get you out and i am delighted that you had the courage of standing up and fighting and still in your home. With that, i want to give you a certificate of honor from the board of supervisors. Happy birthday andrea. [applause] while we are on birthdays s, colleagues, i like to acknowledge today is the 50 birthday of our colleague, sorry to rat you out, Rafael Mandelman, happy birthday. [applause] thank you, mr. President. Thank you everyone. With that, we will go to our Second Special remarkably special commendation,b which is being presented i believe by supervisor stefani. Are you ready . You want me to do it . Yes, okay. We will do it together, but are you ready to stand up and say words about our friend . [indiscernible] okay. We are honoring carl nulte. Nice to see him in the audience. [applause] i love the last one, especially the sentiment there might not be a heaven but there is San Francisco and the treasures we have in the city include people like carl nulte and i want to thank him and his wife darlene for joining us today. I also want to extend appreciation to supervisor peskin bringing forth this commendation. We talked about it last week and said we have to do something in the board for recognizing a figure whos impact on San Francisco is immeasurableism we know for years of reporting at the San Francisco chronicle, but i always been intrigued by his deep family roots here in San Francisco. With my own family having a history here since 1906, i can appreciate carls strong ties to his german and irish ancestry. Carls career spanned over 60 years of journalism here in San Francisco. He has seen our city through ups and downs and been there to report on all of it. During his time at the chronicle, carl served as journalist and editor and spent time as a war cor spawnant writing about the gulf war invasion of iraq and sf jur mia obrien. Won several awards including distinguished career award and Maritime Heritage award from the San FranciscoMaritime Park Association and holds Honorary Degree from university of San Francisco and California State University maritime acaed omy. In recognition of exceptional career and commitment to principles of journalism express deepest appreciation to contribution to the field and look forward honoring you tomorrow at the iii luncheon. Ill turn it back to you supervisor peskin. Thank you. Carl started working at the chronicle before supervisor mandelman was born but before i was born and got a decade on supervisor mandelman, so that is a long career at the San Francisco chronicle. I wanted to [indiscernible] a couple personal stories about carl. Some 15 years ago, we actually went on a backpacking trip to yosmite. Carl regaled me with prussia and prussian war without taking a breath over 8 hours, but his knowledge isnt only international, his knowledge is not only about the bay and particularly about all things maritime that we read, carl has a remarkable understanding of the history of our first peoples and about 23 years ago carl on behalf of the chronicle actually covered work that i was doing then to acquire water rights on behalf of the pyramid lake piuttribe of indians in northern nevada and amazed how much he knew about the Indigenous People of california but the american west. I have to say that if there is a video of his 90 Birthday Party where he was [indiscernible] everybody from willie brown to many reporters and friends, it was quite a gathering to his so called sailor girl darlene. We salute you for putting up with carl these many years and for your shared interest in all things maritime and with that, supervisor stefani, on the occasion of your being honored at the iii tomorrow and on your 90 birthday want to present you with the board of supervisors higher honor. [applause] thank you very much. Im both surprised and honored. Im surprised because earlier in my checkered career, i spent some time in the chronicle City Hall Bureau covering the proceedings of the board of supervisors, and matter of fact, today i ran into a former supervisor whos name i wont mention. He said, you seem to be in a hurry, where are you going . I told him and he said, i wouldnt do that because some things we said were not entirely complement to the board. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] im honored because one thing supervisor peskin and supervisor stefani mentioned is the iii which stands for irish italian israeli society, which represents three of the many tribes of San Francisco. In a way it is kind of a old school organization. There is only three tribes in San Francisco. But there are many many more. My great grandfather who came from germany in 1850s lived in San Francisco all that time. What made San Francisco great is the addition of other people from over place in the world. People who came here in the gold russian, asian people who came before the gold rush and everyone since. There is a book about that called the world rush in and this is where the world rushed into. We have all kinds of tribes in San Francisco. Many more then we can count and i think it is one of our strengths. One of the strengths of the city and county of San Francisco is not just people born and raised here, but people who came here later, including my own mother who left ireland during civil war and strife and came to San Francisco to start a new life. A story about tribes includes my charming wife darlene who is part italian, part bohemian, part irish. I have a japanese brother in law. A hispanic son in law and my hispanic grandson, not old enough to have grandchildren, that is just a trick. He presented me with a great grandchild and his name is marcos lopez iii. There is a real california name if there was one. That is my story and i leave you to wrestle with the problems of the city for now, and are if you need any advice, you know where to call. Thank you. Thank you, carl. [applause] be sure to give quintan my best. With that, madam clerk, lets go to roll call for introductions. First member up to introduce new business is supervisor preston. Submit. Ronan, submit. Supervisor safai. Thank you madam clerk. I have a couple of things today. First, i will begin with something that president peskin and i actually were discussing earlier and it has to do with the resolution we are introducing today urging the mta to stop ticketing and wave tickets that have been issued immediately to stolen vehicles. This is a practice that has gone on for many years. It is something that it is all most adds insult to injury when you are victim of having your car stolen. One of the only ways you find out and one way many people found out their car is stolen is to go on to the mta website to find that they have been issued ticketed and having those tickets piled up and some cases towed and impounded which happened to one of my own staffers. They are promised they will be refunded those dollars and never came to fruition. Also, we know that many of the cars that are stolen in the city are often then used in other crimes and sometimes Violent Crimes in the city. This is something that the mta funded a department in the technology we have available and the ability they have to coordinate with the sfpd is something that should happen immediately. They have the ability to do it, they have the technology in the past, they stopped using that technology. There is no excuse for this department not to be doing this work today and immediately should begin refunding people who cars were stolen and ticketed at the same time. I will also hand it over to president peskin who will speak on this. Thank you for your cosponsorship. This is something that needs to stop and needs to happen not in 45 days, but should happen immediately. I dont know president peskin if you want to speak now or come back because i have another resolution. Okay. Second folks, i have a resolution today filling in on behalf of my colleague and also again with president peskin, supervisor stefani who had to recuse herself on a item in her district that has to do with the marina harbor project. Introducing resolution today urging the recreation and Park Department to stop their plans and move forward on a project of remediation. They have only gone down one path. Had some Community Meetings but predetermined in many ways before getting Community Input on what would happen, so asking for a more transparent process that provides the opportunity for community to weigh in. There is is a lot of good use that happens along the marina harbor and marina green and the idea of taking that and s hp rinking it and expanding the footprint of larger ships versing smaller ships and doing only 15 percent of the remediation work when you have the ability to do up to 40 percent. If you remember colleagues, there was a settlement with pg e that allowed the city to work with pg e to spend up to 190 million to rebuild, reimagine and remediate the area. Asking rec and Park Department to slow down, listen to the community and get genuine Community Input. We think it will have a Significant Impact to have a good and robust process and until the community has had the ability to weigh in and have a more transparent outcome. I want to thank president peskin for partnership on this. We went the other night, met with about 200 Community Members and they said this is the first time they had hope their voices were going to be listened to, and we also explained to them and apologized their own supervisor was recused because of conflict. Thank you colleagues. Those are the two things that i have right now. I think i had one more thing but cant remember off the top of my head. Thats it. Alright. Thank you. Ill hand it back to you. Thank you supervisor safai. Mr. President , did you want to speak . Ill speak when i get to my thank you. Supervisor stefani. Thank you madam clerk. Colleagues, i like to remind everyone in 2021 we unanimously passed resolution to declare each october Domestic Violence awareness which was launched nation wide in 1987 for individuals and organizations to connect and raise awareness relating to Domestic Violence which is Public Health crisis causing physical, emotional and economic harm to victims families and community as a whole. According to the national Domestic Violence hotline, on average nearly 24 percent per minute are physically abused by a intimate partner in the United States. California has higher rates of men and women experiencing Domestic Violence then the National Average with 33 percent of women and 25 percent of men having been victims. The National Average is 30 percent of women and 10 percent of men. We are not immune to the epidemic in San Francisco. In 2021 the Family Violence council found that in 2020 more then 7 thousand domestic violent 911 calls were made and more then 3,000 incidents responded to by the police. We also cannot ignore the effect access to guns has on the issue of Domestic Violence. The presence of a gun in a domestic violent situation increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent. Every 16 hours a woman is shot and kill ed by a spouse or intimate partner in the United States. Nearly half of all women killed in the United States are murdered by a current or former intimate partner. With our high rates of Domestic Violence related gun violence, the u. S. Is the most dangerous country in the developed world with women and guns. Women in the u. S. Are 21 times more likely to be killed with a gun then women in other high income countries. Domestic violence plays a major role in the lives of women living on our streets and recent survey conducted by community forward, 106 unhoused women responded to the simple question, where in San Francisco would you feel safe . The two primary responses were, no where and with other women. The effects of Domestic Violence perminate through the city priorities and communities. I hope you will join me in reaffirming our city and county commitment to supporting efforts to raise awareness about Domestic Violence, prevent occurrence and provide resources for survivors. I want to wish supervisor mandelman a happy 50. Welcome to this decade. Not so bad. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor stefani. Supervisor walton. Thank you so much madam clerk. Colleagues, toed i have one in memoriam. At the end of september the hunter view formally known as west Point Community and Hunters Point lost a important pillar. Turelporter senior. If you knew him he loved where he came from, it made him who he was and build the strong character needed to survive in his community. Terel was family and community oriented. Loved to put together family gatherings with the help of big brothers and held Community Cookouts and fish fries consistently wanted everyone to love each other and build each other up. There are so many people who can tell he made sure people did not go hungry, even if that minute make agplate from his own grandmothers kitchen. What made him smile is watching the younger kids play basketball in the community. He hopes and dreams for his neighborhood including the park in west point, now known as hunters view, which used to be known as youth park. He wanted to see it cleaned up i and remodeled so the children had a safe place to play and spend time productively. Terel never moved out of his community and stayed up until his passing. I hope the Community Takes away his motto and drive to always make sure your community is better and are brighter and that has to start from within. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor walton. Supervisor chan. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor dorsey. Thank you madam clerk. Colleagues, today introducing a resolution about a exciting new culturally asset in my district. Express support for soma gateway design and urge Arts Commission and department of public works to build and own the gateway. The Filipino Community has a long ringe history. Established in 2016. While most other cultural district and historically significant neighborhoods has physical markers like dragon gate in china town [indiscernible] so in 2019 soma began the process of selecting an artist for creation of cultural gateway or arch for their cultural district. This process involved extensive outreach including Community Meetings and public opportunities for input. I saw some of the early designs for the district when i was new in mew tenure on the board and i was very pleased to see the design they ultimately arrived upon. The gateway draws inspiration and incorporated art, creating a arch over rus street at folsom and encourage everyone to visit the website to learn more about it. Soma is also working with city agencies to insure there is proper fire clearance, does not impede utility lines align with the street scape projects soma west [indiscernible] 10 months planner director rich hillis work [indiscernible] of the gateway. Given the structure will be in public right of way and enrich the public realm. There seems to be agreement among city leaders this is a excellent and worthwhile project but mechanics of getting it done still include challenges. This resolution sends a message from the board of supervisors this is a important project. That elevate the contributions of our Filipino American community to the rightful place in San Francisco public realm and this new addition to our city arts and culture should be prioritized. Thank planning director hillis who is a great partner working with city agencies and of course soma philippinea and execive director for years of work and everything done to enrich the city. No better time then Filipino AmericanHistory Month to call attention to this and propose the resolution and hope i earn your support for this and rest i submit. Happy birthday to Rafael Mandelman for happy 50. Thank you supervisor dorsey. Supervisor engardio, submit. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you madam chair and thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. I have a brief announcement of ordinance we are introducing. Short ordinance to extend through 2026 the temporary cannabis events permit pilot. Folks maythere isnt a lot of you left, may remember back in 2019 we passed legislation to allow to create permits for the consumption and sale of cannabis at temporary events. That pilot has been successful in some regards. I think we have things we learned and i think we are hoping over the next several years we can make some changes to the pilot to make it more useful. We are working with oewd and cannabis industry operators to try to identify locations that work for more events under existing state reg ulation and explore opportunities in the way we implement state regulations and think of different kinds of events that might work under state law. I want to thank Sophie Hayward in office of city administrator. Cannabis Oversight Committee for their recommendsation and sarah crouly and City Attorney office. This legislation would simply extend the pilot through december 31, 2026 and the other stuff well try to figure out and introduce later on. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor melgar. Thank you madam clerk. Colleagues, today i am introducing a resolution urging the sfmta and hsh to develop a joint plan to resolve the large number of inhabitsed recreational vehicles on lake merced and winston avenue. As you may know, im desperate to find a safe parking spot to help relocate the large number of vehicles near the lake, which is our secondary Drinking Water source for the entire city. Most of these recreational vehicles do not have access to sewer and we need to guide these families to permanent affordable housing. Our office has been begging for help for three years now and the process has been excrutatingly slow. Never the less, we have been able to place 18 families from those rvs to permanent housing. However, the number of rvs has not gone down. It is not just inhabited vehicles, we had a problem with commercial companies parking large carrier semicaps, landscape dump trucks longterm because of lack of Parking Enforcement and restrictions. The issue around the rvs not going down despite families housed is that we have a number of these vehicles that are not owned by the people who inhabit them, so there are landlords in these vehicles that are taking up the public right of way and making a collecting rent from desperate folks while taking up our public right of way for free. At this point, we have had no choice but to relocate these vehicles, because we have a important safety quick build project on lake merced. Since i have been supervisor since 2021 there have been two deaths of lake merced boulevard because of high speeds. We are hopeful we will get a safe parking site and we do need to prepare for a efficient transition as moving people from living in their vehicles into permanent housing. We know that hsh has been doing coordinated entry and also moving people in rapid rehousing, however there is no coordination between mta and hsh, so when a family is placed in housing, no one will tow the vehicle after it is vacated. There is no point in the process where mta and hsh collaborate and this is what im asking them to do. When we move one rv family into housing, or another large vehicle an rv takes it place. We are just doing a deservice to both the folks who are living on these streets and our communities. I am urging the mta to work in tandem with the department of homelessness to develop a plan for a efficient transition with these resolutions. Thank you and the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor melgar. President peskin. Thank you madam clerk. Colleagues, today i like to adjourn our Board Meeting in memory of a business man pill anth ropest, billion air named charles known as chuck feney a global lion of social and equitable giving. For those who do not know about mr. Feney enlisted in the United States airport [indiscernible] got a ba from cornell and started by selling sandwiches to fraternity houses and then traveled in europe and eventually cofounded a little duty free business selling luxury goods to tourists, which became Duty Free Shoppers in airports all over the globe that got him to be a billionair. He founded the atlantic philanthropy 40 years ago and gave away 8 billion. He used to advance knowledge and promote health and equity and dignity all around the world. I had the pleasure of meeting him once. He actually resided much of the time in a apartment in San Francisco and i do want to express our condolences to his survivors. I also thought it was worthy of adjourning the Board Meeting noting he did not put his money into politics, he did not put his money into 501c4 and i say that in a city that is home to some 84 individual billionair s and i just want to say, if every single one of them did what chuck feney did we could systematically tackle homelessness and poverty and access to basic resources. Bill gates called him the ultimate example of giving while living. In his biography feney said i have one idea that never changed, you should use your wealth to help people. I wanted to adjourn todays Board Meeting in his memory. There are a couple pieces of legislation ill submit. I want to associate myself with the two pieces of legislation that supervisor safai spoke to. I want to speak to them in a larger way. One, around the recreation and Parks Department and it is predetermination without any meaningful public input. Not only from the neighborhood that adjoins the proposed project at Gas House Cove and the west marina along the waterfront, but with effected users and neighbors throughout the city and visitors as well. The marina green is kind of like the district of columbia. It is a area for all peoples and if you stroll there you will see everybody from every part of the city all ethnicities, all income levels enjoying unimpeded views of the bay. I was frankly taken aback that after two meetings with the public where the recreation and Park Department just said heres what we are going to do. We dont really care about what the public wants. That is antetical to rec and park where it is part of everyone living room and there is work that has to be done whether a dog park that conflicts with a playground and rec and park has done a good job of that up until recently. Their behavior around United Nation plaza,b i said at the time, wow, this is insulting, it is mistreatment of a low Income Neighborhood that is a food desert. This would never happen in the marina or pacific heights. Well, i was wrong, because they are actually treating everybody shablly. I attended with supervisor safai a meeting that had hundreds of people who are all rightfully outraged. My hope is we dont have to legislate, that we dont have to amend the annual appropriations ordinance, but that the rec and Park Commission will slow down, look at a range of meaningful alternatives and let me just say the statements that have come from the rec and Park Department we all voted on this in 2018 is absolute hogwash. What this board for those who were on it in 2018 voted for was the settlement of litigation with pacific gas and electric which had been going on for a generation about the Environmental Remediation hazardous toxic cleanup on the sea floor, bay floor of Gas House Cove. It had nothing to do with building a facility for yachts on the marina green. That is true. Council shares those views because we did not vote on a project, we voted on accepting 130 million up to 190 million for Environmental Remediation so dont spread falsehoods to the public. We can have policy disagreements, but cannot have disagreements on fact and that is fact and the fact that the general manager is a former deputy City Attorney should not spread this to the public. Let me be abundantly clear, it is in that same vain and i want to say i appreciate that about an hour ago the director of the sfmta clarified before the mta board another mistruth that has been disseminated which is that, the administrative code is what has resulted in the mta issuing tickets to stolen cars in San Francisco. Now, this has been exacerbated by 501c4 organizations that are funded by billionairs and it is untrue. Now, that started with misinformation that iminated from the m it a, but lets be clear, the problem is a Software Problem. The problem is a Software Problem the mta knew about or should have known about and should have corrected so that they can communicate between databases. A legacy piece of software that could no longer be serviced stopped functioning a number of years ago. It has nothing to do with the administrative code and i am tired of scapegoating of good pieces of law, including chapter 19b of the administrative code. I understand there is a mayor race happening. I understand people are going to do things in the mayor race, but it is incumbent on all of us, all of you and our mayor to tell the truth and not in a time of disinformation to perpet wait untruths. With that, the rest i will submit. Thank you mr. President. Seeing no names on the roster, that concludes introduction of new business. Alright. Go to general Public Comment. Alright. For those who are here in the chamber, line up on your right hand side. You can speak to the approval of the september 5 or september 12 board minutes. We dont have items offered for adoption without committee reference. You may speak to general matters not on the agenda about within the board subject matter jurisdiction. All other content will have been reported out by a appropriate committee to the board. We do have interpreters today up till 7 p. M. They know to jump in when they have a speaker who needs assistance. Lets hear from the first speaker. Welcome. Everybody is [indiscernible] today is very important day. It is justice. You pay attention. It is a important day because the skies arethey are super blue today. Watch the skies. San francisco incidents with beauty. Im going to tell you the future next time. I dont have the two minutes is not good enough. Today ill tell you who is not going to be part of this. Namely, if you have been most of you [indiscernible] taking part in the weaponization of education via technology, education means science, including medicine of course. Including any form of [indiscernible] anything within the military then [indiscernible] religion, creed, sexuality, or food been taking part in the weaponization of all this that i just mentioned, you are out of existence. Once you are dead you wont be back. These are the rules of existence. Okay . The future is beautiful. We dont weaponize this. Is this clear . Next time, i will tell you what the future is. Fair enough . I dont make the rules. The skies do. You cant fight them. Thank you for your comments. Welcome. Good afternoon board of supervisors. President peskin, you just made a comment about the software not working. That means that there is probably a backdoor access and will make sense when i go through the report. Meaning other cities and counties can gain access to San Francisco so i recommend tackling that immediately. My name is Christopher Cline and want to share information about Public Health and safety that impact San Francisco. Last week i submitted a cdc declaration that states the issues and concerns facing San Francisco. I forward this information to sfpd, sheriff mayor and board of supervisors. I am giving authority to request a copy from the ones that have the document. Waiving the hipaa rights as the documents explain fully. Public Health Intervention place people on digital surveillance or police investigation. The number one issue is credentials were given out illegally and unethically with people with no business or credentials in Public Health or Public Safety. The synergy of surveillance is causing uptick in violence as it disturbed the illegally allowed. One or two officials used this to attempt to influence a automobile and distract the [indiscernible] approximately 1020 hours reported to the Police Department. You want your city back, ask Law Enforcement to investigate the cdc declaration submitsed last week and thank you president peskin because you just figured the whole thing out. Have a good day. Thank you. Thank you for your comments and state when you give your Public Comment you address your comments to the whole board. This is a meeting of the board, so next timethank you. Thank you kindly. Welcome to the next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. Beverly upton, San Francisco deest amic violence. So glad to gather with you today. October is Domestic ViolenceAwareness Month and thank supervisor stefani for your leadership throughout the year. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to meet next week so you all invited after your board of supervisors meeting down stairs at 6 oclock. We want to thank the mayor office for lighting city hall purple. This is about our 10th year having a purple city hall. Then i also want to say as we are seeing on the news, 7, 8, 9 heinous murders domestic violent related homicides throughout the bay area, one including a golden gate law student who came into the city every day, shes ours, we gather with you to help us end this and raise awareness. When i startsed this job 23 years ago, we were losing about 15 or 16 women and children a year. Because of the work we have all done together, some years we are down to zero. We like to keep it zero this year and the coming years and the way we can do that is to stand together. 20 thousand people Call Community based organizations about Domestic Violence and over 50 languages from every region of the city every year. The numbers we see from 7 thousand 911 calls, 5 thousand to the Police Department, of course, but most people in danger are coming to the community so this is a opportunity for us all to stand together in all languages from every district and say, lets celebrate healthy relationships in San Francisco, lets keep people say and keep thes down to zero. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Welcome. Good afternoon. The is jordan pronoun, she, they. You havent run my clock yet. Im not happy now. It is disregulating two weeks being held prisoner thanks to a [indiscernible] offensiveitalian heritage parade that funded by city monies and now the mayor wants to ram a procop Ballot Initiative down our throat. I will spend the rest of the time [indiscernible] in so many ways. We live in a post civility world and should lay back and [indiscernible] and so many are [indiscernible] i will paraphrase and antipolice brutality activist from la and sayi yield my time. We hear from our next speaker, please. [indiscernible] yes, well come collect that. Thank you. Okay. Hello. My name is [indiscernible] this is entry from 16 year old selfseptember 13, 2001. I cried and went to school, deep sadness and pain went out to americans and country. Compared to pearl harbor. We know the high jackers name. [indiscernible] all i can say is i want revenge and war. We can agree my 16 year old selfwas not a genius and ashamed of the entry [indiscernible] nationalism molded by impressionable young mind and not making the same mistake. Albert einstein recognized as being a genius. He started as a zionist [indiscernible] his archives detail awakening of plight of [speaker speaking too fast] post 1948 zionist [indiscernible] he had just escaped. The final years of his life expanding from views from israel, [indiscernible] and capitalism thrives on [indiscernible] told the american friends of fighters for freedom of israel, when a real and final catastrophe [indiscernible] first responsible is british and second is the tearest organization built from our ranks. Not willing to see anybody associated with this mislead and criminal people. [indiscernible] i encourage everyone on this board to use your position of power to condemn the genocide israel state is committing and the u. S. Government is financially and militarily supporting. I hope you learned your lesten from 2001 as well. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. For those who dont know me my name is jake [indiscernible] san franciscans are tired of progressive regressive policy failures the board puts forward. We pay taxes and what do we have to show for it . A worsening homeless problem, a thriving drug dealer market and huge drop in quality of life and so many more problems. Im glad to see the mayor and supervisors dorsey engardio and stefani announce plans for Ballot Initiative measure reform the Police Commission to allow sfpd to do the jobs they are tasked to do to protect the public and shutting down the drug market and i want to encourage other supervisors to sign on in support. Also, as you see me now, i am wearing blue and white to continue to show my support for the jewish people against antisemitism. This board Second Nature from failure is to signal, but today calling on this board to put forth and pass a resolution condemning antisemitism happening in orcity and the world and stand in support of israel. I also want to take this time to denounce the district 5 supervisor preston and band of lunatics those terrorizing the jewish people. Shame on you and thank you. Well, im antieveryone that is antijesus. That doesnt mean i dont love my enemies but everyone who isnt a [indiscernible] i love my enemies and commanded by christ to love all men to turn the other cheek and pray those that persecute us. I like to read from matthew, 23. Behold i send profits and wiseman and scribes and some kill and crucify, some shall sxurj in your synagogues and persecute from sit a eto city. Now, that means christ is god. Only god can commission profits and pastors and teachers. Upon you may come all the blood shed when cane killed able to the last man in the Old Testament. [indiscernible] the good priest that preserved and protected the won son of david. [indiscernible] she killed all the [indiscernible] there was one boy and protected him and preserved him for 7, 8 years and they put the 10 commandments in his hand and god save the king and sat another king on david vacant for a few years. The point christ was making their Old Testament is the same as my Old Testament. Same books but ours ends in malchi and theirs chronicle. From the first man murdered to the last man in the Old Testament murdered will come all the blood will upon this generation. I say to you, there is standing here which will not die till they see the son of man coming in the clouds can glory with the angles. That happened 595 years after Solomons Temple destroyed or 85 [indiscernible] next speaker, please. Welcome. Good afternoon members of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is marlin sanchez. I stood here back in 2017 and i asked you to please ask then director of the department of homelessness and housing Supportive Services jeff to help me with housing and he never did and nobody ever did. I have gone to each of your offices asking you for help and no one ever really did help. When it comes to helping the homeless issue, you havent really helped me or many people. Anyway, one thing i like to share with you and like to ask you to address is the inability of the San FranciscoPolice Department to protect us and how they are failing to protect us. In june of this year, back june this year around the 1 or 2 of june, i was viciously attacked at 7th and market and are then the nextall most killed from the blow i sustained to my head while i was sitting on the ground i still have 20 seconds, sitting on the ground trying to make a call and encourage a girl fentanyl user to go back home. I was making a call to [indiscernible] when i was attacked. Anyway, the officers that came to the scene failed to give chase to the assailant and he got away. Anyway, the next day i came to some of your offices with bandages and what not and you were able to see the damage that i have. Thank you merlin. Thank you merlin. Speaking in the background] thank you merlin. Thank you. Any other members in the chamber like to provide general Public Comment . Dont see any mr. President. Alright. Shall we go i believe we still have to do remote Public Comment, is that correct . Or is thatno, we do not. Okay. Just want to make sure. With that, why dont we go to the imperative agenda. We have a imperative item which requires the board to approve two separate findings by 8 votes before unanimous adoption on the item itself. Supervisor stefani would you lick like to make the findings motions . Yes are, thank you president peskin. I like to move the sunshine ordinance finding the resolution is purely commend torry and brown act finding the need to take action came to our attention after the agenda was posted. Okay. Motion made by supervisor stefani, second by supervisor dorsey. We will take that without objection. Supervisor stefani, like to make any remarks about the imperative item for mr. Nulte. Briefly, as you heard carl nulte is a pillar of San Francisco journal since joining the chronicle. Call native son is a beacon of San Francisco journalism since 2008. Carls reporting and storytelling left a imprint how we view and experience San Francisco. It is a honor to now be acknowledging carls accomplishments and we will be doing that tomorrow at fall luncheon for iii and his legacy will endure as testament to the power of written word and vital role of journalism in society. I hope you join me honoring carl on the profession declaring tomorrow october 18, 2023 as carl nulte in city and county of San Francisco. Thank you supervisor. Before we take the vote on this resolution, lets open up for Public Comment. Madam clerk, would you see if there are members who would like to provide comment . Anyone in the chamber like to provide comment commending carl nulte for career at San Francisco chronicle. Seeing no one get up Public Comment is closed and on the imperative resolution itself, colleagues can we take that same house sameno, we have a differentroll call. On the imperative item offered by supervisor stefani for carl nulte, preston, aye. Ronan, aye. Safai, aye. Stefani, aye. Walton, aye. Chan, aye. Dorsey, aye. Engardio, aye. Mandelman, aye. Melgar, aye. Peskin, aye. There are 11 ayes. This resolution is adoptedue unanimously. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor walter for late mr. Terel porter on behalf of supervisor sor peskin for late charles francis, chuck, feney. We are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] im chanel joyce im a firefighter for the San FranciscoFire Department. I currently am the station 4. In the mission bay districtism lived in San Francisco in noe valley. Grew up with my mom and i went to high school in san ma teo. After high school i went to mississippi where i played volleyball in university of southern mississippi. What got me going after college was i was applying to place related to fire and police i loved my experience but my family is home. I grew up here and could not be far from my family anymore i came back. I have been a firefighter for 4 years the transition to the Fire Department has been seam tells is the same. Team work and coming together. Transitioning to the job med me comfortable that i made the right decision to come become and work for a Fire Department that is big in diversity and equality and becoming a fell. I got to be a member at a few different fire stations. Each station has their own culture. I worked in places that are xroem and with a young crew and had the most seniority have 3 or 2 years in whatever it may be. Learning stuff when people have been in the job for 20 plus years and learning from people got in it grew me to adopt and work with everybody. A lot of people will come up to mow and say, thank you for your service noise to see a woman in the Fire Department. You are doing it. It is nice to see kids waiving look a woman firefighter. They get excited i love that part of the job seeing the excitement that people see. You are a woman you can do this job. Every person has a good experience with the Fire Department. No one ever spokous they say, they are here. Theyre do this work and Everybody Loves them. Not everybody gets that in their job. I dont do it for the recognition but niez nice to see people that respect had you do and know you did a lot to get here and you still do to work and you set your life on the line for other people. It is cool. There is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. It is a unique part of the city. We are off in a corner of the city against the San Francisco county line 101 on one side. Vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in San Francisco. A lot of working class families out here. It is unusual. Not a lot of apartment buildings. A lot of Single Family homes. Great business corridor. So much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. A lot of customers are from the neighborhood. They are painters or mechanics. They are like blue color workers, a lot of them. The community is lovely. Multiracial and hopefully we can look out for each other. There is a variety of businesses on the block. You think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. Library, bank of america with a parking lot. The market where you can grab anything. Amazing food choices, nail salons. Basically everything you need is here. A lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. People running them are family. When you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. Lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. It is very cool. Is Small Businesses make the neighborhood unique. New businesses coming. In mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. The corridor has changed and is continuing to change. We hope to see more businesses coming in the near future. This is what is needed. First, stay home. Unless it is absoluteliness scary. Social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. Cancel all nonessential gather everythings. When the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. A few nail salons couldnt operate. They shut down. Restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. They havent totally brought back indoor seating. It is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. When the pandemic first hit it got really slow. We had to change our hours. We never had to close, which is a blessing. Thank god. We stayed open the whole time. We were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. During covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. It looked like old western town. Nobody on the street. No cars. It was a hard eight or nine months. When they opened up half the people couldnt afford a haircut. During that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. People would come to make sure they were okay. We checked on each other and patronized each other. I would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. This is a generous and kind community. People would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. It was amazing to watch. We saw a perfect picture of community. We are all in this together. Since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. We will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. When we opened up august 1st. I will not say it was all good. We are still struggling due to covid. It affected a lot of people. We are still in the pandemic right now. Things are opening up a little bit. It is great to have space to come together. I did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. It felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. My business is picking up. The city is opening up. We have mask requirements. I check temperatures. I ask for vaccination card and or recent test. The older folks they want to feel safe here. I feel like there is a sense of unity happening. What got us through the pandemic was our customers. Their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they dont over grow. This is only going to push us forward. I sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. We are trying to see if we can help all Small Businesses around here. There is a Cannabis Club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. My business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. In hit us hard. I see a Bright Future to get the storefronts full. Once people come here i think they really like it. If you are from San Francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different. music . I started the o was with a financing and had a Business Partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. We created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasnt used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. What the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. unintelligible . Where we would offer Food Delivery Services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. We had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an oldfashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a Million Dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. We got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i cant let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. And it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what were doing. This building used to be a and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we dont realize how much we affect the Community Around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. And inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the