So, we spent six grueling months doing some really Engaging Community outreach talking and listening to our constituents about what some of their ideas and suggestions were to improve the sunset district. We also met with all of our city departments to gather their feedback about what it is that we are already working on that can help also improve our district. And we came up with five issue areas that we wanted to focus on. Children, families, and seniors, Public Transportation pedestrian safety, land use, economic development, and Public Safety and emergency preparedness. So, in those five issue areas we have laid out what it is we hope to see short medium long term in the sunset district and really hoping to provide a more focused effort in our office to better serve our residents. So, we did this all inhouse, depth hire any outside consultants. It was a huge incredible effort. So, i really want to thank my staff arkly summers, stanley [speaker not understood], we had incredible intern [speaker not understood] as well as Planning Department staff adrian who helped us put this together. I want to thank them for that. Were going to officially reveal it to the community tomorrow evening, 6 to 7 00 p. M. , [speaker not understood] on 20th avenue. In the meantime want to pass around a draft. Were proud of our accomplishment, but i will ask for the draft back afterwards and i just really want to hope that we will be able to continue being very proactive in how we serve our community and residents. So, thank you very much. Thank you, supervisor tang. Supervisor yee. Thank you, madam clerk. Id like to close todays meeting in memoriam to layton dong. Layton was a close friend of mine for 40 years and he was [speaker not understood] with his son up in the mountains over a week ago when he suddenly passed away, not really knowing what he passed away of. And i have to say that losing him will be a great loss to San Francisco. I mean, i just loved his sense of humor and his knack for life. He what probably the best cook ive ever known. And more recently he was well loved by the swing dance community. And prior to that he was a leader in bringing culturally for the first time in the United States chinese drumming. He was the head of the founder of the yellow river drum troop that taught chinese drumming to just 15, 20 years of children learning at schools and so forth, and now its becoming a little more of a mainstream in term of that cultural activity. And prior to that he always was into his martial arts and line dancing and always taught many people in the community these trades. So, its like i said, its a great loss to not only me, but many of his friends and the city of San Francisco and what he had brought to San Francisco. He he is survived by his wife janet and his two sons kegan and logan. ~ the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor yee. Supervisor avalos. Thank you, madam clerk. Today i have an in memoriam for edna Eileen Flores lagunte, wife to a member of the clerk staff richard lagunte. On june 4, 2014, riding her bicycle as part of the 7 day aids life cycle she suffered a cardiac arrest climbing the final hill on the fourth day. She passed away surrounded by her family and friends a few days later on june 8, 2014. Edna was a very kind person. She could make anyone happy with just the twinkle in her eyes, wide smile and hearty laugh. She aspired to change the world and she did. For everyone who was lucky enough to cross her path. Edna discovered her passion for justice when she protested for an Asian American minor at u. C. Irvine [speaker not understood]. She selected to participate in a [speaker not understood]. She interned for the [speaker not understood] followed by a fellowship in the [speaker not understood] aids Public Policy program. She served on the staff of congressman javier from 1997 to 18. Edna was an active member and volunteer with the filipino womens network. Shes was also a volunteer at [speaker not understood] ~ where she was named volunteer of the month august 2013. She was a 13 year participant in the aids life cycle and the california aids ride and was a proud training ride leader who helped prepare thousands of people in Northern California for the event. Over her years of participation she raised over 60,000, volunteered countless hours and mentored others in the fight against hiv aids. In a final act of service, she donated her organs in order to sustain others. Edna was a dodger fan, marathoner, cyclist and an activist. She was a devoted wife, auntie, daughter and friend. She will be remembered as someone who empowered and up lifted everyone with a huge smile that lighted up the darkness. My heart goes out to edna, ednas family and to richard. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor avalos. Supervisor breed. Thank you. Colleagues, today im introducing legislation to rewrite San Franciscos regulations for arcade and pinball game. Honestly this issue came as a bit of a surprise. I didnt see i didnt set out to be the pinball supervisor, but there is a boy in my district who has been an excellent member of the community that unknowingly found himself in violations of some existing arcade regulations. Stop laughing, supervisor farrell, because you were playing these games when you were growing up here in the city, too. In 1982, arcade and pinball games were becoming increasingly popular and evidently some concerns that they were corrupting our children. Overrunning our neighborhood and possibly leading to the downfall of western civilization as we know it. So, the board of supervisors passed extensive regulations, over 6,000 words controlling when, where, and how arcade games can be placed in San Francisco. There are arbitrary restrictionseses about how many games you can have depending on the Square Footage of your business. If your restaurant, for example, installs one game you will have to pay over 700 in onetime fees and over 300 thereafter. You cannot have a single game within 300 feet of a school, or within 1500 feet of another arcade or in any gas station in an ncd. Im not sure what that what the concern was there. So, just think about that when were writing policies here to this day, someone can be tearing them apart and changing them. You cant have an arcade with 11 or more games in those places or ncd. You cannot operate during school hours from the day after labor day to memorial day. I assume for fear kids would ditch class or play adoringy kong like we did back in the day. You are required to give the Police Access to any game as often as they deem necessary, required not only is unreasonable but im sure violates the Fourth Amendment of the constitution. And possibly my favorite clause, you are knowingly or otherwise in violation of the permit requirements, the chief of police will immediately impound all of your games until you pay 25 per game to the Police Department. Now, chief suhr is a great cop, but i have a hard time imagining him to bring out a dolly to take out your pacman machine. I know im being a bit tongue in cheek here, not trying to bad mouth our predecessorses. These codes had their day and they arent quite relevant any more in this day. The time has changed since 182. Arcade and pinball games are more of a niche, a novelty that appeals to people my age who grew up in the 80s ~. According to the Entertainment Commissioner, there are only two permitted arcades in the city and if kids want to play video games instead of paying attention in class all they have to do is pull out their cell phones now a day. We didnt even have cell phones when i was in high school. Yes we did, im just kidding. Im not that old. We spent a lot of time passing new laws here, but i think its important that every so often we go back and we review old laws and bring them up to date, especially when those laws are unduly restricting residents and Small Business owners. The business [speaker not understood] that prompted me to look at this issue has a Pinball League that attracts dozens of people who enjoy spending time there and getting to know their neighbors. It is a true asset to the community and i think it is important we dont leat outdated codes stand in the way of a Small Business owner and residents as they pursue Creative Ideas to enliven their communities. So, working with the Entertainment Commission and the Police Department, i wrote amendments to these codes that will ease permit requirements for Small Businesses that want to add a few games, maintain the Entertainment Commissions overall roll with the bars, delete arbitrary and outdated rules and strengthen controls against illegal gambling. And streamline the permit process to bring it in line with other Entertainment Commission practices. This has been a fun issue to work on and i want to thank supervisor wiener for joining me in this effort and i want to thank jocelyn cain and [speaker not understood] blackstone from the Entertainment Commission, commanders [speaker not understood] at the San FranciscoPolice Department and especially deputy City Attorney fred [speaker not understood] for all their help and support. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor breed. Supervisor campos. Thank you very much, madam clerk. And i want to begin by acknowledging, i know there was a demonstration today at the board here by members of seiu 10 21 and other nonprofit workers. And i just want to note my support for the fact that i do believe we need an adjustment for cost of living for our nonprofit workers. And i think that as we move forward in the future, i think we will have an opportunity to address that issue and i think we can collectively as a board and city Work Together to make that happen. And i know that there are a number of ideas as we move forward. And i think that it is important for us in this housing crisis and this affordability crisis to do what we can to help nonprofit workers who are struggling to live in San Francisco. The main item that i have today, and i think my staff, including [speaker not understood] rodriguez who is interning with us this summer for working on this issue is two item. One is a hearing request relating to the issue which i hope we will hold a hearing at the Neighborhood Services and Public Safety committee as soon as possible. But related to it is a resolution to address the very important crisis that is facing our country right now with rising number of unaccompanied minor that have fled the u. S. From Central America. ~ fled to this is a resolution that urges the city and county of San Francisco to commit resources addressing the need of the rising number of un accompanied minorses that have fled Central America and have created what is essentially a humanitarian crisis ~ of unprecedented proportions. In recent months we all have been hearing about the unprecedented number of children who have fled their home countries in Central America, including places like honduras. The data that has been collected by the department of Homeland Security shows that since october 2013, about 40,000 Central American children have fled their countries to the United States. This has been a significant increase from prior years. It is estimated that the number of children entering the United States in fiscal year 2014 from these countries will exceed 6,000 children with an average of 120 to 400 children crossing the border each day. I have to say that for me its a personal issue because i am originally from Central America and was brought here by my parents undocumented and i can tell you that coming here as an undocumented child with a parent is very difficult, difficult enough. But the idea that you have tens of thousands of kids from these countries who are 7, 8, 9 years old and they are coming to this country in search of a loved one, escaping persecution, and the numbers are staggering. And were also seeing that more girls are actually coming than in previous years because many of them are escaping genderbased violence in their native countries. The dangerous journeys that they come that they face, many of these children become victims of trafficking, of sexual abuse, of different form of violence. The United Nations high commissioner for refugees interviewed more than 400 of these unaccompanied minorses, and during these interviews they came out why they were coming, because there was extreme poverty, because of unemployment, because of trauma that they face at home, and because the lack of state protection from the violence, drug trafficking, among many other reasons. According to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, approximately twothirds of these minors who are coming to this country qualify for some form of International Protection because of what they have experienced in their native countries. Unfortunately as they are facing persecution in the native countries then they flee to the United States, once theyve come to this country and theyre apprehended by the u. S. Customs and Border Patrol, many of these kids have been placed in detention facilities and Processing Centers where they have been subjected to what are unfortunately and embarrassingly inhumane living conditions, conditions that by any standard do not meet what we as americans believe would be humane treatment for any child. The United States department of health and Human Services and the office of refugee reset re settlement, [speaker not understood] there is a need for these kids to receive culturally competent services, and simply we in the federal level do not have the resources needed to address the plight of these kids. The federal Foster Care Program which is designed to place unaccompanied children who cannot be reunited with their families is simply unable, doesnt have the resource he to meet the growing demand for host families. The Obama Administration and the department of health and Human Services are soliciting the assistance of cities throughout this country and major cities like San Francisco. They are asking for our help to leverage city resources to help address this escalating International Humanitarian crisis. If this were happening anywhere else in the world, this board likely would be submitting a resolution calling on our country to take action to address this International Crisis in another country, but it is happening here in the United States. Here in San Francisco, the San Francisco bay areas home to a large environment Central American community and we in San Francisco, the city of st. Francis, has a long history of supporting the advancement of human rights not only in Central America, but in other parts of the world. And when it comes to Central America, we have a long history of involvement here in San Francisco where we saw the birth of the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s when San Francisco provided a safe haven for Central American refugees fleeing civil war. Since the passage of the sanctuary ordinance in 1989, San Francisco has held the distinction of being a sanctuary city and i think that consistent with that tradition today, we need to be on the record saying that whats happening with these kids is simply wrong. We in San Francisco benefit from a rich network of culturally competent organizations and Service Providers that have the expertise to address the needs of these children. So, this resolution calls upon the following. First, it calls upon the city and county of San Francisco to commit its resources to address this humanitarian crisis. It also calls upon this city to urge our congressional delegation to make sure that there is humane treatment of these children by our country and that the treatment reflects the values of the United States which has a long history of nation of immigrants welcoming kids like the ones that were seeing coming to this country today. We also ask that when this resolution is approved, and hopefully it will be unanimous approval for this resolution when it comes before us next week, that we send a copy of the resolution to our congressional delegation so that they can take all necessary steps to address this crisis. Along with this resolution, there is a hearing request that im introducing and the hope is that when we have a hearing at the Neighborhood Services and Public Safety committee that we can have a discussion about what actions this city should take to address those humanitarian crisis. I especially want to thank the various individuals and organizationses that are working to address this crisis, including [speaker not understood] of the Central American Resource Centers center, the [speaker not understood] who is at the Legal Services for children, and estella from [speaker not understood] who have been helping me and my staff put this resolution together. They will also in addition to the hearing be a public demonstration that will be happening next week and that will be timely because it will be the day that we actually vote on this resolution. I ask for your support, colleagues. I also want to acknowledge that mayor lee has put together a working group of city departments and community leaders, and i appreciate the work that the mayor has done on that. And that is an important first step, but it certainly doesnt go far enough in terms of what we need to do. And, so, the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor campos. President chiu. Thank you, colleague. I have just a couple of items. First of all, i want to join supervisor farrell in the in memoriam for reverend anthony turney. He was not only a longtime champion of social justice issues, but lgbt rights, prominently openly gay member of the clergy in my district, he served in many leadership capacities including the arch deacon of the diocese of california. [speaker not understood] colleagues, you remember some years ago california passed prop 187 which restricted undocumented students from having access to public schools, restricted immigrants from receiving basic Government Services in our Health Care System and our social Service System and required teacher and doctors and social workers to profile and report residents who were suspecting to reside in our state without immigration papers. This was a proposition that reflected an antiimmigrant tradition within our state and it was rendered unconstitutional and null and void in many components by our federal courts including by legal teams here in San Francisco that i had an opportunity to work with. Recently in our state legislature, california state senator Kevin De Leon appealed portions of prop 187 found to be unconstitutional and unenforceable and i am offering this resolution to support the senate bill to reverse the discriminatory policies embodied in proposition 187. The last item i have is simply to mention that this is the last week for one of my aides, catherine [speaker not understood]. Shell be traveling around the world with her partner. Like many of our amazing aides, she did not want me to go into any big to do in front of the board of supervisors so im not going to ask her to do that but at least wanted to acknowledge her Great Services while she watches on sfgovtv. Catherine has been an incredible public servant. She worked for budget analyst, rec and park department, department of environment and my office and within my office in addition to assisting thousands of constituents, she was responsible for moving many important pieces of legislative agenda. Including championing our first in the country Family Friendly workplace ordinance, a policy that was recently adopted two weeks ago by president obama for 2 million federal workers. She did all the work for our first in the country environmental legislation. She phased out plastic water bottles, yellow page phone books, move for agricultural, Community Districts broadway and polk street, [speaker not understood] to better help manage our budget discussion. Shes helped to make our city better. We wish her the best in her new professional and personal ventures and we hope shell come back to serve our city after her time off. Thank you, mr. President. That concludes the introduction of new business. Why dont we go now to general Public Comment. At this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including those items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. Please note that Public Comment is not allow on r on items which have already been subject to Public Comment. If you would like to direct your remarks ~ to the board as a whole and not to individual supervisors nor to the audience, that would be appreciated. Speaker using translation assistance will be allowed twice the a. Of time. And if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such to sfgovtv and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to reiterate Public Comment is for those items that have not yet been considered by a Board Committee and so that means anything that we have voted on already today including lauras law and any other issues are not appropriate for Public Comment, but you may discuss general topics that have not yet been covered by specific legislation today or previously by this board. So, with that, lets hear from our first speaker. I would like to put this up on the tv. Sfgovtv, if you could hit the projector. We are watching the destruction of the United States of america before our eyes. And i cant help but think about what happened in the walls of jerk ~ jericho fell down. In ezekiel 38 it talks about the walls of israel falling down in the last days. The United States is the new israel. And there is nothing you can do to stop this. Pelosi should be arrested for trees on, obama like wes. Theyre not ceiling up the borderses. I feel sorry for these poor people coming in here, i really do, i really do ~. And i also feel sorry for the people that work for info wars. Kip daniels was filming the treasonous behavior of the Border Patrol agents that are putting the illegal aliens onto greyhound buses and sending them into the 50 states. And he is being threatened to spend six months in federal prison for filming the treasonous behavior. You know what, im going to preach the word of god, okay, im going to preach the word of god. Christ is the only way of salvation, folks. A my tee shirt says in due time, christ died for the ungodly. In daniel chapter 9, the most remarkable prophecy in the bible was given that stated that the messiah would be killed in the 4 87th year. When jesus died, the bible says that he was delivered for our offenses. He was raised for our justification. Jesus christ was always obedient to all of gods laws and he said, which of you convicts me of sin . And he meant it. He is absolutely righteous. Righteousness can be given to the sinner that come to christ with a broken heart, a contrite heart by faith. By faith are you saved through grace and thats not of yourselves. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im peter war field, executive director of Library Users association and it is extremely disappointing, the lack of accountability that the supervisors have shown with respect to the library. As you spend every year, more and more money on the library, just in the past year a number of things have reduced access to the public. First of all, the literacy and learning socalled center is destroying access has destroyed access to shelf space for thousands of magazines. Magazine section a through part of l. The librarys draconian rules were so awful that the American Civil Liberties union sent a letter saying how bad they were and increased dramatically and completely out of proportion to the offense, the suspensions that would be imposed on supposed violators. And finally, the hours this is with respect to access. The hours that the library was opened, the library attempted to cut every single evening session at branches from 9 oclock where they closed to 8 oclock and it was only through our alerting the public and the supervisors and others that it pull mostly back from that as well as some saturday morning closures. And, of course, they continue to have poor hours at the main and no increases for the biggest branches such as richmond. With respect to violations of law that involve violations that involve conflict of interest, the city librarian in september was found in violation by the fair political