Supervisor avalos, not present, supervisor breed, supervisor campos, supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor weiner, supervisor yee. There is a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the rep ublic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes madam president. Were in receipt of two communicates. First from supervisor mar and the second from previe supervisor avalos, educating their ab indicating their absence. Motioned by supervisor campos. Seconded by supervisor farrell. Can we take this without objection without objection. They are excused. All right, lets go to our consent agenda. Items one through eight comprise consent calendar. If a member objects, an item maybe removed and considered separately. Roll call please. On consent, supervisor weiner, supervisor yee, supervisor breed, supervisor campos, supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor tang, there are nine ayes those items are adopted, passed on the First Reading and finally passed unanimously. Next item please. Item nine is an ordinance to amend the police code to require firearms dealers to install maintain and operate Video Surveillance equipment and all ammunition sales to the Police Department. Supervisor farrell. Individuals here in San Francisco across our state and across our country continue to have easy access to both guns ammunition. That access continues to be a major contributing factor towards senseless convenient crimes. Even though city and state have some of the toughest gun control laws on the books, there still remains more we can do to protect public state o state. As we witness mass shootings, congress led by the nra and republican counterparts continue to fail us as citizen as they have yet to pass any gun safety laws. Therefore, it becomes up to us as local jurisdictions to promote local gun safety legislation that will prioritize and protect the Public Safety of our resident. The legislation before us today is a step in that direction. Sense introduction, this legislation has received an anticipated amount of attention because as a result of simply introducing it, the last remaining gun store in San Francisco has decided to close its doors for business. Again led bethe nra, this legislation has been criticized by those on the right who view themselves as standard barriers for their belief. If the last remaining gun store in San Francisco wants to shut down because of my legislation, im all for it. I would much rather see a preschool, a coffee shop or Senior Center or some other neighborhood serving institutioning in institution in its place. The first portion will require that the video taping of all gun sales that take place within the city of San Francisco. The video of sale will be made to our Police Department after they serve a search warrant. It will apply to other critical area of the Business Premises including all places where firearms and ammunitions are sold. Currently no federal or California Law imposes security requirements on firearm dealers during Business Hours or rear sellers to install burglar alarms. Simply having Video Evidence of all gun sales will help deter guns and ammunitions. It will give Law Enforcement video records of any individual who buys a gun and if a shooting occurs and they will be able to easily track the gun purchased if it was used in a shooting. Currently, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms at the federal level does no have the resources to properly check 138,000 firearm dealers licensed across the country. I want to give San Francisco all the tools we need as a city to accurately track gun ammunition sales. With the atf being understaffly, theyre lucky theyre able to one check. Washington post investigation a few years ago found that as a result of inadequate staffing, aff was able to. Less atf was able to inspect less than 10 . The second portion of the legislation will require the electronic transmission of ammunition sales. More than a dozen local jurisdictions in california have adopted ordinances requiring sellers to maintain records of these sells. Jurisdictions that have adopted such ordinances have had Great Success utilizing such records to identify people who are legally possess firearms. September 2010 report by mayors against illegal guns, including routine inspections of gun dealers provided Law Enforcement with more opportunities to detect illegal gun activity including improper recordkeeping or a dealer whos gun inventory does not match the sales record. Again, we need to do everything in our power to give our local Law Enforcement all the tools they need to prevent crime this piece will help. I do want to thank a number of people who worked on this legislation. Catherine jeffrey from my office in particular, a number of National Organizations around gun safety. The goals here are simple. To ensure that dealer operations within the city of San Francisco will not be detrimental to our own Public Safety. Prevent and detect illegal trafficking of firearms by dealers and their employees. Previous the loss and theft of firearms from dealers. Prevent and detect sale and firearms to person who are prohibited from law by these firearms. And benefit, we ose the last remaining retail gun store in San Francisco, i believe all of us in San Francisco will be better off. I hope to have your support. Thank you supervisor farrell. Seeing no other names on the roster. Colleagues, can we take item number nine, same house same call. Without objection, this passes unanimously on the First Reading. Colleagues, i wanted to go back on our agenda to the Meeting Minutes of september 22, 2015. Is a motio motion to approve the amendments. Motioned by supervisor christensen. Seconded by supervisor campos. Can we take this item without objection, the Meeting Minutes of september 22, 2015 will pass once Public Comment is completed. Madam clerk, number ten please. Item ten is an ordinance promoting approximately 27 million in fund balance, 675,000 in settlement proceeds. Expenditures to support the commission, Capital Projects in fiscal years 2015 through 2016. Same house same call. Without objection, this ordinance passes unanimously on the First Reading. Item 11 please. Ordinance to appropriate approximately 3. 5 million of city taxable general obligation bon 2015a in the seismic loan program in fiscal year 2015 through 2016. Same house same call. Without objection, this passes unanimously on the First Reading. Item 12 and 13 together. Are two ordinances that adopt and implement eight number 7 through to the 2007 and 2018 between the city and firefighter local 78 by implementing specified terms and conditions of employment for fiscal years 20152016, 20162017 and 2017 through 2018. Same house same call. Without objection, these ordinances pass unanimously. Item 14 madam clerk please call items 14, 18 and 19 together. To recreation and Park Department and port commission. 8. 7million of proceeds in safe Neighborhood Parks bond series 2015c and approximately 43. 8 million proceeds from the 2012 clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond. To deappropriate and appropriate 1. 4 million of 2012 clean and safe Neighborhood Park series. 2013a to support the renovation repair and construction of park and open space and placing approximately 52. 5 million. Item 18 is a resolution to safe Neighborhood Parks. General Obligation Bonds 2008 series 2015c and to declare the citys intent to reimburse certain expenditures and grant general authority. In connection with the reauthorization and delivery of these bonds. Item 19 is a resolution to authorize and directed the sale of approximately 43. 8 million of clean and safe Neighborhood Parks general obligation bond. Series 2015d to declare the citys intent to reimburse certain expenditures in connection with the authorization sale and delivery of said bonds. Colleagues, can we take those items. Same house same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed unanimously on the First Reading and those two resolutions are adopted unanimously. Item 15 please. A resolution to approve a Landscape Maintenance agreement with the state of california allocating maintenance responsibility within state highways rights of way within San Francisco and authorize director of public works on behalf of the city same house and same cough. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 16 please. A resolution to retro actively authorize the Public Defenders Office to spend 78,000 grant from the board of state to implement local juvenile justice Accountability Measures july 1, 2015 through june 30, 2016. Same house same call. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 17 is a resolution to authorize a license amendment extending the original low senses for 10 years beyond the current license expiration of january 31, 2019 with the clay jones Apartment Owners Association at approximately 11,000 monthly which shall increase annually beginning in 2016 in addition to one time fee 25,000, for approximately 163,000 total rent between november 1, 2015 through october 31, 2016. Same house same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 20 please. Ordinance to amend ordinance number 1061 regulating the width of sidewalks to change the official sidewalk wirth at the westerly corner of the intersection of silver and revere avenues and forces of revere avenue, affirming the Planning Department and making other determinations. Same call. This ordinance is passed unanimously. Item 21 is an urgency ordinance to approve an extension of the interim prohibition of score front mergers special use district for ten months and 15 days with the california government code affirming the Planning Department and making other appropriate findings. Supervisor campos. Thank you madam president. I was wondering if ecould continue this for one week to november 3rd. I hereby make a motion to that. Supervisor campos made a motion to continue the item for one week. Is there a second . Can we take that without objection. The continuance to the meeting of november 3 passes unanimously. Item 22. Item 22 is a resolution to receive and approve the first biannual housing planning support. Supervisor kim. Thank you. I want to thank this board for your support for the housing balance. The purpose of the housing balance account is a follow up to the successful proposition k ballot measure which passed last november with the support of this board and the mayor. To have a stated goal of building no less than 33 of Affordable Housing and new construction and acquisition. A goal of 50 including middle Income Housing. This housing balance count report is a way for the city to be able to measure ourselves to see how we are producing and acquiring in relation to this goal. But also to have an understanding of the loss of units from protected rent control status. This is the first report to come from the Planning Department. To establish this account. I do want to acknowledge they are hard work as well as the work of our Comptroller Office on presenting citywide income projection. The data is helping to understand the stock. In order for us to make more informed policy decisions. What i think was most striking about the report is not what were producing but what we are losing. I think that the report makes clear that just as important as building and acquiring new Affordable Housing, it is just as important that we protect and support tenants in protected rent control house and to protect the Housing Stock which is housing for our middle class households. Some of the key points that i just wanted to point out. The citywide housing balance over the last ten years is 15 . This varies greatly by district. It goes negative 109 up to a positive 40 of Affordable Housing. We do have several districts that have lost more protected housing than they are building. This is largely due to the large number of units that is weth drawn from protection such as rent control relative to the total number of net units. The three Major Development projects identified in the ordinance in exclusion of housing of balanced calculation. If we do include these large sites, the balance will go up to 20 . I think whats good to note, while we are on pace to build the number of Housing Units that we as a city and Mayors Office committed to doing, we still have quite a bit of work to do to ensure and fight for more affordable and middle income units. Colleague i ask for your support in approving this today. Thank you supervisor kim. Colleagues, can we take item number 22 same house same call. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Can you please call items 23 through 26 together. 23 is a resolution to determine the issuance of type 22 wine license to Cuong Thanh Tran for key tran located at 745 street. Item 24 is a resolution to determine that the transfer of type 42 on sale beer and wine public premises lie sense license from 660 post street from trubnick johnson jones. Item 26 is a resolution to determine that the transfer of a type 21 off sale general license from 500 laguna street will be in accordance with the california business control. Colleagues, can we take these items, same house same call . Resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, can we skip over our 230. Today supervisor wiener is the first supervisor to introduce new business. Thank you very much madam clerk, colleague, today i am introducing legislation to make it easier to install simple gray water, water recycling for irrigation purposes in they are homes. Water recycling is a crucial part of reforming our outdated water. For outdoor irrigation in their homes. Currently the state plumbing code requires permits for the installation of any residential gray water system. Gray water being a system that uses water from sinks, showers and bathtubs for nonportable uses like irrigation and total flushing. However, the state plumbing code step lates that stipulates that a local agency can exempt simple gray water system discharging 250 gallons of water a day or less. Can be exempted from permit requirements. Legislation im introducing today adopts that state created exemption for outdoorer allegatiooutdoor out door irrigation system. By removing this permit requirement, we can encourage more people to take action to reduce their water use. We must be forward thinking in how we use water. I look forward to working on this legislation with all of y you. Thank you. Thank you supervisor weiner. Supervisor yee. President breed. Thank you colleagues. I have two items for introduction today. The first is an ordinance related to our graffiti Advisory Board. Last year, i had the effort to completely overhaul San Francisco graffiti policy. We created a digital system to track graffiti to bring lawsuit to one of the defenders. We strengthened regulations to protecting our parks. We got all the city departments that deal with graffiti to start working together on combating graffiti. I enjoyed working with all of them, the mta, the department of public works, 311 and the San Francisco Police Department. Of course, the graffiti Advisory Board, a 25 member body of city officials and members of the public that is critical to the cause of graffiti enforcement. The gavel was very involved in the crafting of my legislation last year. They have been very supportive in its implementation. I want to help them be effective. The graffiti Advisory Board authorizing legislation in section feature article 18 passed in 1993. As you might imagine, it needs updating. Currently, one of the members is supposed to be appointed bethe executive director of the department of park and traffic. The department that hasnt existed in the city and county of San Francisco for over 13 years. The code does not have our standard provisions about minimum attendance, meeting frequency and sun set dates. The legislation im introducing today will bring the graffiti Advisory Board admin code up to date and help them to continue our efforts to combat graffiti citywide. This is a code cleanup to make the gray if ity Advisory Board more efficient. Legislation is not always about writing new laws, steam sometimes its about fixing the old one. Graffiti cost San Franciscoians over 20 million a year. It hurts residents and Business Owners who are often forced to clean up the crimes they fallen victim to. I want to thank my colleagues for supporting my legislation last year along with the multiple city, departments and the graffiti Advisory Board. We are launching new more effective and methods to combat graffiti in San Francisco. My second item is the ash Bury Community and gas line ruptures. This is a hearing request about the five gas line ruptures and two sinkholes that have disrespected and endangered the community in the last few months. The city under the management of the department of public works, began an Infrastructure Project this spring to install new water mains, replace sewers and repave haith streets. Since april, the crews have ruptured gas lines on five separate occasions. You can imagine how frightening and disruptive this has been to the residents. The street has been completely closed for hours, stores have been forced to close, the smell of leaking gas has overpowered entire blocks. On one occasion, someone intron a haith street store and told everyone to evacuate only to be followed by someone else running into the store telling everyone to stay inside. The community and i had enough i asked dpw to stop all work on this project, which they have done. Yesterday, i held a press conference on haith street from leaders from the ash bury Neighborhood Council and the merchant association. There are a lot of questions. What happened here, why did these dangerous failures over and over again. Who is responsible for keeping track of where gasolines are and ensuring theyre not hit when work is gone. Are pg what the Safety Record of the contractor and the subcontractor. How did they win these bids. Is the citys employing any safeguards to ensure that companies are repeated safety violations are not able to continue working in our neighborhood. Synergy came in at 1 million below other bidders and now we are left holding the bag. Do we need legislative changes to move away from a low bid requirement to a system that takes reliability safety and path, cost performance into consideration . What else do we need to do to prevent Something Like this from happening again or anywhere else in our great city . I dont want work to see work begin in the haightashBury Community. Until were sure that our neighborhood will be safe. San franciscans deserve safety and accountability from their City Government and from the companies that our government hires. Companies that exceed their bid or provides shoddy work are repeatedly jeopardize Public Safety, should not be working on our streets. Im requesting the department of public works, the San Francisco and the California Public utilities commission, synergy, pg e to participate in this hearing. I look forward to getting to the bottom of this as soon as possible. I rest i submit. Before we move on with roll call for introductions, we are at 2 30. I like to acknowledge that two supervisors have accommodations to give today. Excuse me. Madam president , i have 2 36 on the computer. Okay, madam clark, i like to acknowledge supervisor kim for the first commendation and then supervisor compos will give the second. Thank you, october is Filipino American history month. Today it is my privilege to offer commendation to over 25 filipino veterans and supervisors here today survivors here today. Lets give them round of applause of they are service and leadership on behalf of their country. [applause] last week, with the community, i introduced a resolution to urge our u. S. Congress to award congressional gold medal to filipino ver veterans of world war ii. From 1941 to 1946, the men and women of philippines performed Invaluable Services by being a member of the u. S. Armed service. Serving with great distinction and courage. Out of the estimated 300,000 loyal and courageous filipino veterans, more than 57,000 made the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives and service to the country. To the ideals of freedom and liberty. It is the very least that we can today to recognize their valor, sacrifice and service by awarding these veterans and their survivors the congressional gold medal. I want to recognize that many of the veterans have made San Francisco, their home after their service to continue to support their families and their communities with the benefits that they fought to receive in recognition of their service. For decades, this country did not treat our veterans equitabl equitably. To accept commendation today and later this board will be voting on the resolution asking the u. S. Congress to award the gold medal to veterans. I did wanted to bring up, mr. Felix, demill a long time resident of the south market neighborhood, mr. Demill enlisted in the army on marc march 14, 1946. He served as a radio telephone operator who was responsible for all the communication between the officer in charge and the gunner and his unit. At the age of 93, mr. Demill remains a voice for several veterans and advocating for the recognition of their service, the United States. Not just serving our country ;3cc inc times oftce continuing to struggle and advocate and lead our until today. Thank you so much for your service. Mr. Demill, if would come up to the podium to accept on behalf of the community that is here today. I do want to recognize that our philippines consulate general was here today to recognize our veterans. We have louisek,[zcn7 . A center has been working on this site to recognize our men and women that have specificked served in the philippine wars. Many who have came here today, bishop united fires and members of our community as well. Thank you. Actually, im really sorry, before you speak, supervisor yee also want to say a few words. Thank you supervisor kim for bringing this recognizing the soldiers of the philippines during world war ii. Im so grateful to be able to cosponsor this also. This is long overdue in my mind. If it werent for the 300,000 soldiers during world war ii, theres some thought in my mind that the results of the war might have been very different. Because of your bravery, United States need to be recognizing what impacter you had during the war. When you look at the history after the war, what impact is it has to the whole american civilization. Thank you very much for being here today and im really glad to be a cosponsor. [inaudible] [applause] congratulations, thank you for being here today. Now i like to recognize supervisor campos with our next commendation for today. Thank you madam president. It is my honor to call to the podium today, pretty Impressive Group delegation that is coming from el salvador. Im proud to honor today the first ever transgender activist delegation that is visiting San Francisco from the republic of el salvador. I want to welcome them to San Francisco. Theyre here as part of a historic delegation that is led by the Central American resource center. We have certificates of honor for each one of them. We also have a certificate of honor for her doing quadra for making a priority for bringing these ladies to San Francisco. It is not often that the issue of transgender rites is championed by any organization within the community. Its very inspiring. This incredible delegation, theres a lot of hyperbole that takes place. I think it is not a stretch to say that by being active in the fight for equal rights for the Transgender Community in this country. Each one of these ladies is risking their lives. It is a safety challenge to be gay in a country like el sal have 54. Organization. To enhance the quality of life for transgender people in that country. To engage in hiv and aids prevention in different forms ou education. These fierce women are literally risking their lives. I am just really honored to be in their presence. I want to thank them. [speaking foreign language] with that, ill turn it over to them. Again, i want to thank these amazing ladies. [applause] i know we have a translator. [speaking foreign language] thank you everyone. All in all in spanish, we have female and male tents. Especially thank you to the supervisors for the recognition. Im the director. We also want to thank the foundation for bringing us out to the bay area. [speaking foreign language] the association for human solidarity was founded by a group of transvestite of women and men. It was established to fill the empty holes, ther huge holes in service and attention and support for the transgender woman. It and fight against discrimination, stigma and ongoing abuses of human rights. [speaking foreigng c language] our organization has put on the front line and challenge the true needs that community faces. Organizations that is innovative whos priority is the Trans Community. With a team of volunteers, we have provided leadership in various political issueshnj or the advancement and the goal to establish that. Also engagement and most recently and allowing women to participate in the elections with their own gender identity. Theyre also engaged in documenting on going hate crimes and denouncing all of these crimes and abuses towards their human rights. They use International Solidarity to strengthen their work in their region as well as their country. [speaking foreign language]wncz our priorities and struggle are number one to establish and gender eat in our country that will protect their rights. Identifying; pw÷ a physical sp. Establishment of a transgender shelter because currently, this not on the translation, theres not a single shelter in the continuing the work of education, both elementary, high school as well as University Education where they are also discriminated. Also advancing laws that will include the Trans Community in the labor force. Also trying to invest or seeking investment in enterprise for tran gender woman. [speaking foreign language] we invite you all to join our struggle and to contribute to our struggle and participate in some of the activities including this afternoon at the lgbt center in San Francisco where there will be a panel and discussion. To build solid darety across communities. With that, she wants to say thank you on behalf of the group. I want to add to say, she committed to this group. We have the obligation and the commitment to defend the rights of all of a our Central American brothers and sister. I cannot say enough about the human violations that theyre experiencing. They have been targeted for murders both from the government and the military. Its currently the most violent country in the world thats not in war. They are in the front lines of that struggle. They do their work without any funding. They do their work out of their hearts. They do it because its simply the right thing to do. I want to personally on behalf of them, say thank you to the board and supervisor campos for this recognition. Also to say thank you for the unanimous vote from you guys in collaborating with pep. They would be failing victims to pip. Thank you. In the most violent country in the world, being part of the most targeted and heated group in that country, its really an honor for us to do this. Thank you. Congratulations again and thank you for all of your efforts. Thank you. Were going to return to roll call for introductions. Supervisor campos youre up. Would you like for us to refer you . We are continuing the item on special use district. Look forward to a vote on that next week. I do want to talk a report that was issued today. The request to my office the budget and legislative panelist, looked at the issue of what would happen to the Mission Neighborhood if the current Housing Trend and the current housing strategy that we have followed continue. What would happen to the mission if it became so that we only continued as we are doing now to focus on the building of luxury housing. What would happen to that neighborhood. What this report found is actually very alarming. It essentially means, based on the report, that we would lose this neighborhood as we currently know it. The mission so far has lost about 30 of its latino population. If the current trend continue bees, the missio continues, the mission in 2025 will be 25 latino. That is a significant reduction. From the years when this neighborhood was majority latino. Its not just the Latino Community that will be impacted. It would also mean that this neighborhood would lose its working class and middle class. That in fact, the percentage of individuals making 200,000 or more a year, has increased by 105 . Which means that if if trend cons, the mission will be a community that not only will not have the diversity that has characterized it but will be a community inhabited only bethe wealthy. The second piece of the report, which is very relevant to discussion around housing. Is taking this argument that has been made in the solution and the answer is to build more housing. When faced with housing crisis, we just need to build more without necessarily focusing on what is built, the type of housing that is built. This report actually look at that issue and analyze how many units of housing would have to be built in San Francisco for that argument to hold true and to have a situation where more housing would reduce to a reduction in housing costs. By this estimate, this analysis, we would have to essentially double the housing that we presently have in San Francisco. If that argument were to be followed to its logical next step, we would have to build another San Francisco on top of this city today. In the mission, we would have to build another megs on mission on top of a mission for that argument to have the impact of reducing housing costs. The likelihood and the possibility of something leak like that being a reality in San Francisco is essentially zero. How realistic is it to expect that were going to build another San Francisco on top of the existing city . Its not going to happen. The report notes that we would have to build about 400,000 units of housing to be able to get to the point where the supply housing would impact and reduce costs. In is not going to happen. It hasnt happened where we have situation where were building about 2000 units each year. I want to thank harvey rose and his staff for this very important report. Our hope is that it will shed light on this very important top i can. Rest i submit. Thank you supervisor campos. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very much madam clerk. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I wanted to take a moment to recognize our world war ii veterans that are here in the chambers. Thank you for your service. Elike to close todays meeting in memory of reverend dr. Lee. Who passed away october 18th at the age of 94. He was born in Bluff Springs texas and moved to california in 1946. He and his wife will go on to become the pastor and first lady of the Baptist Church in 1953. He accomplished a great deal during his time with us. Not only in the religious arena but in the secular world. After serving 34 years, he retiered from the United States Labor Department in 1979. His involvement with the community was commendable. As we never grew tiered of doing what he believed to be the right thing. He served as a commissioner on the human rights competitio commission and also served at the bay and hunts point community. I personally knew him and i know he touched the leaves of many lives of many people. May his legacy continue to give expert guidance and good work to lefting experts, touching hearts and leave. Eleak to close the meeting out in his memory on behalf of the entire board of supervisors. Ed in damn madam president. On behalf the entire board, we will close out todays meeting. Thank you madam president. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim. Thank you. Today along with recognizing our filipino world war ii veterans, many who called the south of market their home. Im introducing the to encourage community development, preservation and stabilization over the course of the year. The Filipino Community has deep roots. Living in the south of market. Filipino immigrants have had a long standing presence in the south of market. Many dont know that filipinos actually immigrated to the u. S. In the 1700s. Have been in this country for over 300 years serving in many different capacities starting as fishermen, serving in our military but also across the Service Sectors here in this country and of course here in San Francisco. The introduction of this resolution over seven years in the work, im starting with the beginning, the initiation of the community. This creation is part of a multifaceted approach to acknowledge the areas rich history, preserve diversity and culture. Its home of many of our filipi filipino. These organizations are important part of the south of market and San Francisco community. South market not only home for a thriving Filipino Community but also home to the Betsy Michael elementary school. We also are home to a park, fought for by this community which is named after the first ever filipinoamerican, a San Francisco native to weapon the gold to win the gold medal. She actually swam in many of our rec centers. But was denied access to many of our swimming pools because she was filipino. She took on her mother mothers maiden name in order to pass white. Beyond our small businesses, are Many Community based organizations such as south of Market Community action network, bishop, Veterans Equity Center, even our gene fund rec center. We also host murals, festivals, theater and several thousand residents. Our office is excited to introduce this legislation with the long standing suspect of this organizations. I want to recognize kris and angelica who work with our office to draft the combination of this resolution. I want to recognize him who we look forward to working with partnership with as we look to see how do we preserve our community. How do we fight displacement so we can remain working class and middle class in fast changing city and neighborhood. I want to recognize this community. I want to recognize that on the corner of sedimen sixth and howard were building close 100 units of affordable family houses. This building will be named after bill sorrow. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor kim. That concludes the roll call for introduction of new business. Thank you, can you please read Public Comment. At this time, the public may directly address the entire best board of supervisors up to two minutes. Items 29 through 32. Public comment is not allowed where item has been previously discussed on Public Comment. Please direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to the individual supervisor or audience. Speakers using interpre use interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. [speaking foreign language] thank you. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] thank you, first speaker please. Family members and fans. We apply the principles of loving relationships. Its a scan of whats love for close up relationship. One can have in order to maximize a holiness nature. Can be maximized with preservation. Next speaker please. Good afternoon president breed and supervisors. If it could what would the little building say to the beg monster building. What would it sing to it. It would sing thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, i name is johnnie fetch, due to all the construction and developers, it is nothing but oversight. Being in mindset like Vice President joe biden, missing both. We need to come up with not a slush fund but 100 million trust fund. This will cover the recompense. So we dont wind up like the bay bridge. The work thats going on now today is nothing new. Its hard to figure out whether they are patient under the law. We shouldnt have to suffer, especially the merchants and the residents. We can very much wind up being out in front, standing out there alongside of paulette brown. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. This is so sadly beautiful that i wanted to share it with you. The Midnight Train is running low, im so lonesome, i could cry. I never seen a night so long, when time goes crawling, by, the moon just went behind the cloud, to hide its face and cry. You ever see a robin weep when leaves begin to die. That means he lost the will to live, im so lonesome, i could cry. The silence of a fallen star lights up a purple sky. As i wonder where you are, im so lonesome, i could cry. I have a little question. When did we stop singing lyrics and started screaming instead . Thank you for listening. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is helen batista. Im a member of the board of the International Hotel Senior Housing. Since Diane Feinstein organized a committee to sure this building was built in 1978. I have a long track record. Today im very proud that the board took action of honoring our veterans. This thing has been on the books in congress for several years. It got stalled and stalled. Im hoping that youre backing this medal of honor. Would really recompense the entire world war ii veterans. Secondly, supervisor kim, i have done [inaudible]. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker please. Thank you president breed and other members. My name is christopher. In the season of celebrating menace, i rides to comment on the mental state of the republican party. The contradictions among such a mixed bag of motivations can be entertaining to watch. Although appalling to live with. The most division these days is between the book pounders and the bookkeepers. The bookkeepers are feeling the need to fiddle with the tax system. Their profit curves are losing their profitable slope. Their main problem is their political infantry, their feet on the ground, their fingers on the doorbells of rural and suburban party. Tea party has fallen behind the fashion curb. Critical credibility depend on success. The tea whit party is the problem and not the party. They think the public should just shove off. The many have tried it and few can carry off that attitude. Never having implemented much in the way of big social systems, they are shocked and dismayed that obamacare is settling comfortably. Whats a good look bookkeeper to do. If he want the best goodies that government can distribute, you do have to have functioning bureaucrats in a real government. Its hard to do business when your trump card is acting the fool. Thank you next speaker please. The United States is unique. This is only country who [inaudible]. Youre sitting here can i say people . Youre animals. Youre worse than animals. They dont understand this. You understood. You are animals. If you dont know that this five million homeless stay on this from new york to San Francisco and los angeles, all the way around, anothe eating from garbage can. They bring this. Know neve they never saw doctors. Then they call doctor to confirm this person is dead. You animals. 85yearold, slept on the streets. People should live in houses and not on the street. Animals live on the streets. Youre worse than animals. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im kind of young compared to him. I was evicted too. I was evicted how of a landlord building in the mission district. I love my home. Give me a moment to compose myself. I like to salute all the veterans and the philippines. My dad was in world war ii. I have to salute to veterans in the philippines. That wasnt a proper salute. Let me give a proper. I salute you. Its such a complicated problem. Solving all the things that we have to do and do in such a little time. I try to come up with ideas and sometimes they allude me. I think we can get it done. I really do San Francisco. This is the city of love. Thats what were known for. All we have to do is buckle up and look before we leap. We have to look carefully but still to see. Even though im homeless, my friends, my rich friends that take good care of me. Sometimes they dont. Its just a complicated mess. I think you can solve it. Lets go San Francisco. Lets do it. We can do it. Just do it right. Thank you. Mr. Campos, thank you for being my champion. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My family is louise, im with the Veterans Equity Center. I just wanted to do a couple of things. I want to thank you for well, there will be an adoption of a resolution supporting the congressional gold medal. Once this land, whatever we have left, the filipino world war ii veteran and their families to encourage the United States congress to demand and not encourage that they act on it. Its been seven decades and we cannot wait too long simply because if we wait, one more congress, probably wont have anymore left to recognize for the congressional gold medal. Second of all, i wanted to thank supervisor kim for introducing the filipino Culture Heritage district. It is a milestone for the community. The deference between this, we can celebrate in neighborhood, art, culture. One of the things that were looking into is the preservation of the individual living in the south of market. The Filipino Community, the working class community. Time and time again, we are reminded that the Filipino Community in the town. They were swallowed by the development of financial district. Dont want that happening in the south of market. It is such a vibrant community of filipino working class and that is part of what we are reserving in the heritage district. Next speaker please. Im executive director of the Filipino American foundation. Its been a very long road getting to today. Im honored to be here representing the Filipino American Development Foundation. Partner organizations and so Many Community members. Who have worked to see this district come to pass. Thank you for your dedication. I thank interviews kim, avalos and mar for their leadership recognizing importance of the Filipino Community with introduction some of the philippines. The resolution today, for the filipino heritage district. Thank you to everyone in the community who is working tirelessly to preserve and share filipino culture. For everyone working to keep filipino in San Francisco. We celebrate this resolution together. I send a warm invitation in december. Were going to be celebrating our lantern festival on december 12th. We will be adding a food component at st. Patricks church so we can share our food and our culture. Which is something that everyone enjoys. Thank you again supervisors and for your support. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Before i allow the next speaker to speak, can i remind the public that applause or local expression is prohibited in the chamber. You may use your silent finger. Use your silent finger if you want to applaud. Good afternoon, happy Filipino American history month. Thank you to all of you for your support of the resolution creating filipino heritage district. Thank you to our supervisor jane kim was the main sponsor of this resolution. After this glorious day, the hard work will begin. Its the hard work that will bring true meaning to this resolution. Im here to propose items that can be focus of your and our work together. It will be to keep the Filipino Community in south of market. Without that, this is meaningless. Eneed support for the people who are purveyors of our culture. The San Francisco Arts Commission has a low investment in asianamerican artist including philippines. Its a disgrace and we seek your support top change that. Otherwise, how can our People Community our heritage and shear it with the world. I will seek your support to have San Francisco name its first ever filipinoamerican next year. Third not the least, we need to have more filipinos appointed to public office. There is a wealth of advantage i talent. Should you need help in any of these matters, i offer my personal our communities is the biggest asianamerican population in california today. Thank you. [speaking foreign language] next speaker please. Good afternoon board of supervisors. Im the founder and ceo of the filipino womens network. Im also on the commission of Community Investment infrastructure. The agency to redevelopment. Thank you supervisor jane kim for introducing this resolution. This really makes me very happy now. It sounds very good. 8 our own filipino town in a district that i have levered for more than lived for 20 years. There were 4000 displaced win we built the center. They were displaced. Some of them are still living. This with 36,000 filipinos, this will currently filipinos to be garbage engaged. I want to thank you for helping us recognize our veterans. I think its very important. Theyre part of the fabric of San Francisco. This is Filipino American history month. This is fitting to recognize and start the process of creating our own filipino town. It is also the time for filipino women where we hold our annual filipino summit. I invite all of you to come. We have a reception on thursday with the mayor. Then october 30th, we honor filipino leaders. We have about over a dozen from out of the country to be here. So thank you so much. Thank you commissioner. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, my name is tina shaff. Im staff at the Latino Community center. Today, the board of supervisors has heard the introduction of a resolution to establish the filipino Cultural Heritage district in the south of market. District six, supervisor jane kim, cosponsors Supervisor John Avalos and eric mar, introduced a resolution to establish the district in this historical home to philippines in the city. They represent the largest asian marine, group in california. It forced many philippines to leave San Francisco. Still the south of market remains a touch stone for many philippines to press and learn about their culture. The neighborhood continues to have the largest concentration of philippines in the city. At the press conference, diversity is something every San Francisco takes proceed in. It is also something a we should actively protect. This is a very live and thriving neighborhood. The well being of communities like filipinos as well as latinos, chinese, black communities, other working class communities is also contributes to the rich history, culture and leadership. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Im diane ruiz. We thank supervisor kim, avalos and mar today for their leadership in introducing a resolution to establish sansome philippine. We hope that the supervisors who will be involved in establishing this district, make a priority for this year. So that it gets into the budget for next year. We know there are many people in the community that are willing to work with the supervisors and with the city departments to make this happen. The Filipino Community is a Thriving Community filipinos are a vulnerable population because of history of discrimination. In 1960 to 1970s the fangs of the 56 was mostly filipino seniors was a moment in educationamerican. During redevelopment of the filipinos were displaced. Redevelopment, demolished 10,000 residential units and 700 businesses. Many that supported Filipino Workers and seniors. Today Development Pressures continue to plague the Filipino Community in selma. The citys fight against growing inequality, selma is the front night line. Thank you. Next speaker please. How many of you heard my call yesterday on k fax . Show some hands. I thought nobody was listening. It was a long shot. John is coming to town on the 5th. Elove john. I love john. Hes my favorite. Ewill never forget arguing over and oaf over and again. Youre not going to win. We dont know when well die. Honestly, this whole day, dont get your hopes up. Im not seeing i will die, my chest is killing me. We dont know when were going to die. If you die, youre all going to hell. All of you. David you have these transgenders in here. I want them to be saved. Etried to talk to them. They said i was harassing them. I said look, you need to believe in jesus. Hell forever your sins. These people look like women. I dont know if they have testicles or penises. Theyre promoting this. Theres a judgment day coming. This is the biggest day in history, jesus died. Just another dead sinner. Its beg for us because youre going to hell and im going to heaven. Its only by the grace of god im going to heaven. 33 seconds. Jesus said or david said, my own familiar friend whom i trusted my bread. Raise thou me up. This was a prophesy. Jesus said when this takes place, youll know him. All the religions are wrong. They dont have any prophesy. Its the spirit of prophesy. The bible alone gives us future events in daily. Thank you. Next speaker please. I would like to thank the board of supervisors, especially jane kim for introducing resolution for that adoption of congressional gold medal for world war ii veterans and introduction reestablishment of philippines. Personally, this two resolutionerresolutions are important. Me grandfather was a world war ii veteran and survived. Working at the Veterans Equity Center, really showed how much the filipino really needs to have a vose in the city. I remember my first client what was a world war ii veteran and was homeless. We were having a hard time having him housed because the v. A. Doesnt have enough evaluate for hosing the homeless veterans. We have also housed world war ii veterans in the condition that is ope inhabitable. They are living in such a small room. Theyre having a par technician partition. It roses the needs of the fel Filipino Community. I hope this continues on to be rosed of our existence here. Resolution, recognition and respect. Our community deserves a Cultural Heritage district. Our community has served this city deeply and has been loyal in just being a part of San Francisco. The late bill sorrow said once you lose a community be its hard to bring it back. The seed was planted long ago. I would hope that this resolution would lead to some very concrete moves in the direction of getting this district established. We need to get this right. Thats the concern that i have. When manila town was decimated by the financial interest of San Francisco, that hurt our community. It hurt our community so deeply to have that hole in the ground with the International Hotel stood for more than 30 years. That was our communitys ground zero. It was because of our community and the dedication to having Affordable Housing in that spot and people leak my uncle that insisted that we have a manila county i it is an extension of that fight. Its an extension to recognize our community, recognize people like larry and the workers that have come to San Francisco and have contributed and being threatened by big developers. Who dont give a dam about our history. But we do. We deserve it. Were a hard working loving community. We have values in our community that San Francisco desperately needs. Thank you very much. I am a member of the Veterans Equity Center of bell sorrows Housing Program. Also practice as an attorney. The other issue i support is the landmark resolution establishes, which is the First District named after the Filipino Community. I know that this a critical juncture in the city where many Plan Development thusly in the south market is going to be before you and i really urge you to look at our district in a way that recognizes the filipino people, the residents, the seniors, and the Tireless Community workers that stand to keep it together. Lastly, i really want to stay in closing in support of these two resolutions that we cant say we believe in equality and then allow the continued inequities towards our dwindling populations of filipino world war ii veterans. We can stand here in support of some filipinos and allow these luxury condos to be built not for us, but for new community. We can stand here thank you very much. Thank you. Im sorry that we have to move onto the next speaker. Next speaker, please. Hello. Ada chan project manager Cultural Heritage district with Filipino American Development Foundation. The Filipino American Development Foundation has been working on this idea of espousing cultural district for over the past decade. Were very happy and want to thank the board of supervisors for moving this forward. We like to see move forward and heard this year. Would appreciate if you could schedule it as soon as possible. If the longtime in the works would like to see it heard this year. And voted on this year. Id also like to thank supervisor, justus for the study requested in relation to to the housing severity thats occurring in the city and the radio which develop and is occurring and not benefiting residents i really appreciate the specificity but would you ask that study and information will be useful useful for us in sonoma to add significant amount of development and as you know the workers of the city we have also been the people been displaced by the deference to jobs and financial district about an incident housing development. So thank you very much. Somebody will be struggling with. But some of as filipinos and i also want to mention that the state has recognized the contributions of filipinos could the largest asian population in the state and were very happy that the city is now starting to include Filipino Community and recognize the leadership of the committee. Thank you thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name isive been a resident of San Francisco, south market, for eight years. Its my home and i thank you for recognizing that we have a say in our community by establishing the Cultural Heritage district. Thank you. Next speaker, please hello. My name is teresaa resident offor over 40 years. Ive actually went through four evictions through different owners. But, i want you to let you know that all Community Stands resolute in asking you, please, to pass these two resolutions. For the Filipino Community. My grandfather was actually tortured in world war ii. My uncle was executed in world war ii. I have an uncle who is a world war ii veteran and he passed away. Many of my relatives passed away or were murdered and tortured during world war ii. Now i want to thank you right here in front of you, that you, in essence, are considering to actuallyconsidering im sorry. Im about to cry. Please help us. The community, we work so hard were invisible to you guys to all the previous administrations. We work so hard inside the community and fighting for all the different causes. I look at you right now. I am hoping that you are listening to me and i am hoping that youre not actually fiddling on your cell phones. We hope that, please, you pass this two resolutions that supervisor yee. Thank you thank you. Next he could, please. My name is mr. Ignacionow considered on a november 3 bout. You must write my name in. The gentleman there is no speaking about campaigning in the chambers. Just stating a fact. Im here to talk about Mental Health services across San Francisco. Men advocate for Mental Health rights. We must get more Services Open back to normal. South of market is currently close. All those people without therapy, without psychiatrist without any help. We need Mental Health services to be back intact throughout the city in every district. I then advocate for Mental Health rights for the last 15 years. I felt 2500 Homeless People mental patients off the streets among personal finances. Im advocate of life on the streets. Its not like. On the streets is like where to get if i can help to citizens when is a current mayor doing about . What are the supervisors doing about it connotes the south of market Health Services and close temporarily where all those patients getting their needs met gimmicks they are not. My name again is Ignacio Muniz that one poem to read you. Believe can believe in what . Leaving yourself. The powers within. Believe that you will live a satisfying life of wishes and wonders. Believe that you can and will. Deliver a small existence. Live life large and happy. Spread joy around you. Believe in whats real and your friends and family will help you reach your potential. Believe in your dreams. They can come to. Believe that the answers you seek are already inside you. Reach deep and pull them out. That was written a week ago. I me and i had the help of many Mental Health officials to write only. We believe in the power of ourselves. Thank you. Thank you. Next he could, please. Good afternoon several but that my name is ericwith latino cultural district and were here in full support of the filipino cultural district in summer. We were designated may of 2014 as a cultural district. For us it really meant that we were acknowledged as a people in that community that we existed. That we have history in the neighborhood kids that we are really their living and thriving. So, it gave us a sense of empowerment that we actually did exist. There is a lot of work for us to do in the future developing our special use district and i think thats can be born in this particular piece is that this is a resolution and designation but the work is in the details and its what you have for protections. I think we need to really look closely at what protections this community can have in soma around displacement around small business, around preserving arts and the Cultural Heritage of the Filipino Community just as we are doing in the mission district. So this is an important piece as far as acknowledgment goes but the real piece is the projections. Thats the part that really going to be able to preserve these neighborhoods and diversity diverse. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. The overhead, please. The overhead is always tricky. The lighting is not good. Enough to reach for it. Thats my name. So, if you can see it, that is mining. Back to the future. I submitted this little piece of paper to the board. The housing plan for the future. My five points were going to go straight to number five. The new residential formula down at the bottom. 30 open market, its 100 unit building in the tenderloin in the Community Center of the filipina area. The chinatown. 30 open market, open to everybody. 10 , 30 year residence vocals zip codes over 65 years old. Waited for older folks. They get 10 units of that 100. The next is 50 or 15 units per people lived in the neighborhood in the local zip code for 20 years. Then, 5 goes to San Francisco residents that are 65 or older. And waited for the seniors. 10 , 10 units of this 100 unit building goes for teacher fire municipal and city workers. Initial drivers. 30 left is community specific needs. Lowincome affordable homes, veterans graduated foster care seniors. This, if we did this for 1500 unit building, we would have 150 units for seniors. To entergoodbye thank you. Next speaker, please. Next picture, please. We will get this right. , sir. Hello. My name is. Ive been a resident of soma for nine years. What im seeing is thatwhen i was little it was always about what if is a filipino. What is it is always a binary are you this or that. People thought you are so sure of so few categories, but do we have an opportunity to recognize something that doesnt happen in a lot of other cities. Weve done this for other demographics. We can do it for us, too. We can show that these are steps we can take to combat all this development and what it does or displacement. We all know what will happen if we continue development if we continue bringing in certain income categories and wholl be made to leave. Now, if we can have these designations of cultural importance and preservation, if we can maintain cultivate and acknowledge people, continue to grow the special thing we have that other areas do not, we can show how it can be done. We can be the leaders. We can push back against the changes that are brought on by economics instead of community. Lets find a way to work together. Lets pass these and maintain what brings so many people here, so many kinds of people. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Its not working. Will take the next speaker and come back to you, this prompted next speaker, please. My name is jason bionic. On the Program Manager forworkshop with longestrunning asianamerican asianpacific organization in the city and probably in the country. We work out of the soma district. We hope to continue to do so for a long time. Wed like to thank you for introducing these resolutions and real that you do pass them. I think that to pass them can go a long way to creating visibility for our communities and help us feel that our history and our stories do matter. I think a lot of the work we do is the great space for communities to tell their stories. A measure like this can go a long way. To the work people are doing to bring in their stories out there. As a person of color, you never really feel you must feel like youre outside. To be will to feel that you are part of the city, is important. To have that acknowledged, so thank you for introducing it but we hope you do passive. Thank you very much. Did we get it fixed . [video]thats my son. Wayne on the gurney lifeless. Because of homicide in San Francisco. We have to stand outside in front of city hall as the government to protect our children. Much like myself who lost our children to homicide. Nine years. [video]something about unsolved homicides in San Francisco. We need closure. [inaudible]. I love mice i lost my son nine ago. Thank you very much, mrs. Brown. Next he could, please. Good afternoon, supervise my name is glenn german, member of the [inaudible] i do want to say ms. Brown that we stand with you in solidarity as you continue your fight for justice. I stand here before you because i want to thank you for your support of the filipino world war ii veterans. Their families and communities that backed him up. I really feel San Francisco is doing the right thing sending a message to congress saying well spent for justice and we stand with our veterans. With that said we look for to seeing you at the San Francisco veterans day parade in a couple weeks. Much for freedom we continue to march for the with them for just that i also want to thank supervisor kim for the heritage district. Also for supervisor mar and obelisk for your continued support. The so the Market Community is very special place. As it has been the entry point for many newly arrived filipinos in this center. Its very unique as it includes with the pioneering filipino bilingual Language Program in the country, in a district and its leading the way in terms of bilingual education for newly arrived filipino families. There are a lot of services that allow people come here come to our communities to seek and provide culturally relevant culturally Responsive Services that allow them to find comfort income in San Francisco and in the community. As a work with the Mental Health field and knowing that we have a community and a community that is stable where homes we are allowed to stay and contribute to greatly to Mental Health positively to Mental Health of our people. Many people come here looking for their slice of the pie their American Dream. They see a potential future they find a way to some of filipino. We have placed to go home and knowing i community is stabilized. The establishment of the district legitimizes the presence that our committee is serving for decades and [inaudible]. Thank you. Next he speaker, please good afternoon. Im resident of Southern Market ready to recognize my neighborhood of soma filipino. I live in soma and work in the same community. To me it is where filipinos started their American Dream. The community is full of people like me. Its like back home in our new home. Soma is the [inaudible] rent control for families. Soma that make their way slowly down street. Its the family parks and gettogethers full of food, bluster and sainted soma to me has an organization that i trust to help when i need it most. Soma celebrates filipino culture with performances. We have school that shows students with filipino budget we have [inaudible] all the bay area to celebrate with us. I know other people minutes he spent some of the way i see it but to me maybe to them its not the neighborhood but my neighborhood like other filipino neighbors bear the brunt of that about pressures in San Franciscos history from a little down to the fillmore. We are we appreciate the supervisors of avalos and mar and these thousand of the filipino Cultural Heritage. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name isim with the south of Market Community action network. Some time was actually formed in 2000 by the Different Community leaders and residents that spoke to you to ensure that we actually have Development Without displacement in the south of market and to ensure that the working class and Filipino Community in the area will continue to live, thrive, and prosper in the neighborhood. Im really just very honored to be part of this is a historical moment of having these two pieces of legislation in front of you. As of filipino that migrated here when i was a year old and started anticipating in our community, i started organizing in 2000 with the trinity tenants were being evicted by their landlord in 2000, and in 2003 to participating the Veterans Equity Center to advocate for equality and recognition of veterans. Until now, the ongoing fight to make sure that filipinos continue to stay in San Francisco by establishing the soma filipino Cultural Heritage district. On sunday, was a larryday and i was very honored to be able to be recognized as one of the farmworkers organizers, in the movement. I thought that was really overdue. That shouldve been commemorated earlier, but we also want to thank you for your continuing support in our community and we hope that we will continue to partner with you to ensure that this is not just a resolution but become a legislation that will keep our neighborhood intact. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name isim the director of we are one of the legacy organizations. Arts organizations in San Francisco, filipino arts. I want to thank the board for particularly kim for this historic moment. Cool arts has been around for over 30 years. This resolution will really help bolster our ability to break more jobs, more opportunities to for artists to make a living. I urge you to support this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is Raymond Custodio and im out of Market Action market. I guess will end with this. I want to share these quickly if you dont mind. Itll be less than 2 min. Here we go. Welcome to the Web Community and family is what we be. You can buy me in howard ip there are seven joined with the people of thewalk with me to the bmd parking racks is the place to be. We got children [inaudible] i can do this all day after school we can go to west bay. Was struggling everyday living in the tenement [inaudible]. We got people to represent. Let it be known this is soma will fight for. This is on. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Yes. I think we all come here for common ground. Today, i is a 19 foreman have come to show you pictures of 25 years of San Francisco. Here is a picture fromthis is where people lives in home safe and secure. It seems like everyone is voting this year about billy San Francisco the million man march she said i dont become gentrification like San Francisco and she went to the million man march so she could see black people happy for a week. So, we know that when you cannot cookwhat theyre doing right now in the Planning Commission we have these things called Group Housing we cannot cook in your room with no more. The hotel is, we do have a epidemic. We have Group Housing. This is to show you, this when i first started in 1999. The gamete cheering on obama in 2008. This when lisa cook in a room but now we get attacked in our sros. I house is very important for all of us in San Francisco. We know this is become a trend throughout the nation but the lady said that the million man march, this is how the room once loved. If you go online, 415 sf wp, at gmail. Com 19612015 it will show you how people have done our homes now. This shows you before to what you will see on that email or how my building was built on 1221 last year. So [inaudible]. Youll see the contrast. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any other members of the public would like to provide Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, public common is closed [gavel] madam clerk can we go to the item for adoption without reference to committee . Item 2932 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. Single rollcall vote may not these items and a member may object. To sever an item that considers utterly supervisor too much i like to sever items are to see no other names on the roster, madam clerk can you call the roll on the remaining items items 2932, supervisor wiener aye you not aye breed aye, was aye christiansen aye, corridor aye farrell aye kim aye kim aye. 9 aye those resolutions are adopted unanimously [gavel] please go items are to item 32 is a motion to call United States congress to award the congressional gold medal to filipino veterans of world war ii and recognition of their loyal and selfless duty to the philippines and to the United States of america. Supervisor kim thank you. I deserve one amendment i like to make in the copy of the resolution. It is an amendment to ensure this resolution is communicated to our area congressional representatives and i want to thank supervisor katie tang applied this for office one mange passes resolution on special rep. Miller position here in San Francisco and we are very clear about it. It is shameful as has been mentioned by many individuals here that we as a country have yet to recognize the veterans for the service and sacrifice. So, i do want to thank the board for joining me in urging congress to write this longstanding wrong with this resolution did i do want to reckon i supervisor molina cohen is added her name was to this resolution and to soma filipino. Social cultural district. I asked the entire board would sign on as cosponsors for this item number 32. I see every member of that chicken i did supervisor kim some sure thats fine. Supervisor kim has made a motion to amend. Is there a second he was seconded by supervisor farrell can we take the amendment without objection get without objection the amendment passes unanimously [gavel] on the remaining items as amended, can we take this item same house, same call . Sorry. Supervisor we not thank you. I want to thank supervisor kim for bringing this would be to add it as a cosponsor for this resolution the congressional gold medal and also for the pillow filipino heritage edition. Thank you supervisor wiener. Colleagues, take this item same house same house, same call . Without objection the item passes as amended unanimously. [gavel] madam clerk, can you read the next item. Yes. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individual on behalf of at the suggestion of supervisor what behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late rev. Dr. Victor lee majerus. This brings us to the end of our agenda get madam clerk, is there any other business before us today . That concludes our business for today thank you everyone. We are adjourned. [gavel]amazing district. Some of you know that i grew up in Public Housing. I live there more than half my life, right down the street at eddie and laguna. Good morning out, everything my name is linda and breed in him the supervisor for this amazing district. Some of you know that i grew up in Public Housing. I lived more than half my leaf at eddie and laguna. When i became a supervisor and met with the mayor he asked me, what my three Top Priorities were on the board. And, number one, Public Housing. Number two, Public Housing. Number three, Public Housing. Since then, the mayor and i have been working hand in hand to do something different. 1960 housing policies cannot solve our housing crisis in the city and county of San Francisco. Nor, can we continue to allow the residents of Public Housing to be neglected. The conditions that exist in many of these developments existed when i was growing up there. Bad plumbing. Rodents. No response to fixing the problem. Discovering that we had about 10 12 million to fix over 4000 public Housing Units, and we had over 200 million of the deferred maintenance, well, it really upset me because there was nothing that i felt that i could do to change the lives of the people who live here. So, i did working hard with the mayor, with edward lee to try and figure out something different. No, its not a perfect solution, but its whats going to change this community for the better. Today, we have our amazing representative, leader nancy pelosi, who continuously fights for San Francisco and fights for the rights of those who dont have any fighting for them in congress. It is a battle she deals with every day. Ive witnessed it personally. We are so appreciative of her hard work. We also have the hud secretary, julian castro, here today was a former mayor, and he has a few words that he wants to say and whats great about having the mayor and these incredible federal, National Leaders, to talk to us today is that they get to see firsthand the experience of people who live here. They get to meet the residence. They get to see the conditions, and what i hope that they walk away with is a desire to want to do better. A desire to want to work hard for the folks who live in these units. Every single day i know its a struggle. I have not forgotten about where i came from. That is why, on the board of supervisors, it is been my priority to deal with changing the lives of folks here because even though i made it out, even though im a success story, even though so many people who i grew up with are proud of me, they deserve the same opportunity that i have and today, is a new day for that opportunity. So, at this time, i would like to welcome mayor ed lee to the podium. [applause] thank you. Thank you, pres. Lyndon breed. Were very lucky to have you as not only a supervisor for this district but as our board president and obviously all of you can feel the passion she has and we have ours to share our family stories with each other for quite some time now. With the hopes that we would have a better outcome for our residents here in San Francisco. Let me begin by saying that its not only a pleasure to work with the supervisor, it is a privilege because not only do we share the stories we get to do something about it. One of the things that we get to do about it, we get to and the description that oftentimes is made about Public Housing residents. That is to say that, i want to be here when all of us can say theyre not Public Housing residents. The residents of San Francisco. Thats a difference. Its a complete difference in the relationship that we have with our Housing Authority, the relationship we have with the tenants association, the people that live in a just so happens, it might be economically challenged, but theyve got the strength and hope like all of our families do. When we talk about our stories, we often talk about the strength of families, the hope that people have, the things theyre doing for themselves and for each other to build strong communities. This is what i think, but it was all about when they first began to build these Housing Units and over the decades been challenged with all of the Asset Maintenance jones, the lack of funding, the lack of cooperation between local governments and the Housing Authority. We have been through all that. But we have new leadership. We have walking torres and all the new commissioners that are in line with the Mayors Office of housing and the board of supervisors. We have a federal government that not only listens. They fight for all of us to make sure were doing the right thing. We have a hud secretary that i got to meet again. The last time sec. Castro and i met we had not won the nba championship yet. Of course, i probably stuck out my tie. Welcome former mayor. San antonio. This is warriors ground. Of course, he got it immediately but i also say to the secretary, too, having a former mayor in that position means an awful lot and will go into detail later on about that. I am here today to announce, again, that the robert pitts housing complex is the third of 15 sites that weve already begun. This result Assistance Demonstration Program with our federal government. We arty started at hunters view. If you go down there, take a good look at it. Without rebuilding Public Housing. Rebuilding a community with residents formerly of Public Housing. You are part and parcel of that through a program that leader pelosi has helped that be so much hope sf. It is giving everybody the chance and hope to be part, equal parts, of building a stronger community. Second project, up and center wasnt within urban and thats down that alice griffith. Thats already underway. In fact, the Senior Housing is under construction and pretty soon see some of the seniors that will move over from the dilapidated housing bearing, Public Housing, into a very modern complex as we knock down and rebuild their housing. Now, its robert pitts is turned until the 15 sites for this, over 700 million effort that we call phase 1 of that. Phase 1 of our rental assistance program. It is a program that is new, quite frankly, to hud and to all of us. Because when we got together with supervisor breed and with all of our peop in the city we no longer wanted to have a Housing Authority that would build and maintain poverty isolated housing. We wanted to invest in the people first. We had to make people believe that we are going to do a new model. Something that involved them in their futures. So that we could try to do and demonstrate, what i think is a discussion all across the country. How do you and intergenerational poverty and needed to ask not just have poverty go from generation to generation, from kids to the grandkids, and it takes an entire village to do that. Housing is a great part of it. Affordable housing is a great part of it, and thats why we have a 310 million commitment on the ballot, opposition a to use that money, to use that resource to rebuild Public Housing but also in the private sector as well to upper middle classes as well as our low income residents have we built housing for them. But, we never lost sight of the other things that we have to do as a city to end poverty as well. Our communities have to be safe. So we invest in our kids. We invest in education. If a Good Transportation system. Will we rebuild all of this housing, its going to also be accommodated by worldclass Transportation System. How does it feel to have our kids writing for free by the second year in a row. He didnt do that with having a strong city. They got municipal so excited after we got the google donation that now we have free invisible for our seniors and people with disabilities to ride a worldclass Transportation System that is accessible to everybody and used by so many people. Dont have to own a car to get around to your job and anyplace else. You also have to be safe and thats why we are investing in not only police force, but in job programs. We have tech programs. We have healthy San Francisco. We have so many programs that were investing in to make sure communities are strong. So, i say to you that im a in addition to a revitalized Housing Program for Public Housing residents, where we are no longer building isolated low Income Housing, their integrated communities. They are building the strength of our best nonprofits that are now integrated with our Housing Authority. In working with the residents to make sure they are part of the voice as to how these units are built, and we are hiring as many of our Public Housing residents to do the building themselves to city built. Another Great Program that weve reached in to the heart of our residence in Public Housing and say, we can train you to build and to manage this housing at this same time. This is all part of what we call brad. It takes a lot of different parts of hard and i know that leader pelosi, every time i called her, shes been so wonderful in answering my calls as we explain the latest thing we have to do with hard and to make sure that everybody understands, because we are all subject to old ways of doing things. San francisco is subject to many old ways of doing things. That is why we didnt build enough Affordable Housing and how could we go for two decades without having an Affordable Housing in the city . Are we embarrassed by that that we do not build housing in operation for young family to grow up in different ways . This is what were fighting against. Old traditions of not building well, not building efficiently, not doing it in collaboration with our residents, and getting their talent involved in using the power of hope sf to do so. This is all part of those hours of conversation that ive had with london with the board of supervisors, with our Housing Authority, with our Mayors Office of housing, in our commissioners. So, we have a lot to celebrate as we begin these projects. Robert pitts is going to be retouched, we first, all 203 units. Guess what . Weve got to make sure we do this to give hope to families that are headed up with people like marty anna johnson. You know, she is a 15 year resident of robert pitts, and i know having raised two children herself and being a Strong Family leader, she cannot be more excited than any of us to see a refurbished unit become her permanent home for her and her family and to have it not only upgraded, but maintained for the long period of time and having the touch of other residents feel the same, that theyre not Public Housing residents. There residents of the great city of San Francisco. So, i would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to someone whos working directly with us. As a parent, as a woman, as a strong leader of the tenant here, residence here, Arianna Johnson. [applause]hello. Hello, good morning. My name is Arianna Johnson dominated here of San Francisco. I resided here at robert pitts for 15 years and am the mother of two beautiful daughters. Today is a very special day for me. My grandfather was James Henry Johnson almost San Francisco first African American Services Group what an honor and blessing and for for me to be here. [applause] this project is also very special to me. Not only is a resident here at the robert pitts community but also as a former employee of San Francisco Housing Authority. I was a building concierge here for six years. We as residents affected by this process are excited for a new horizon. For generations, Living Conditions have been heartbreaking and challenging. The majority of us residents that live in low Income Housing desire a clean, peaceful, habitable, safe, functioning and desirable place to live. The majority of us are working or senior disabled persons that are committed to the improvement of our community and our family and refused to leave our great city. But, the reality is, our city is very expensive. So, we have to live here in low Income Housing. We are praying that the citywide that project is not only improves the Living Conditions at home, but that it also ratifies permanent jobs and great benefits for all us residents, such as San Francisco Housing Authority has done for me and many other residents during its history. Im currently in the application process for Construction Administration jobs and renewing my security certification license. We are hoping and praying for new Youth Services and violence prevention here. Here, at the robert pitts community alone we have several mothers that lost children under the age of 25 years. So, i would like to say, let that stand forth. We knew, additional desire. We are the city of champions. The new, additional, desire, for all those who live here, welcome back, government officials and thank you. [applause] now you can see why arianna is our concierge. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Well, i get excited every time i leader is able to come back to it aint easy to maloney type working in dc these days. You all know that. We all read about it you will see it and you all feel it. Every time that we in San Francisco can demonstrate to our federal leaders what weve done locally, it gives them hope that all the arguments that they have to have them all the challenges that they have to meet on a daytoday basis, back in dc, it is not forgotten. It is deeply appreciated by those of us that are here in San Francisco, and someone who as i told you earlier, honestly takes our calls, goes into detail with her staff about what it is we need and what exceptions to different rules that we might want to be advocating for, but also gives us a forethought about where congress is going so that we can be prepared. I have been with her when we got funding restored in hiv cuts and aids programs. I have been there when she says, hey theyre not going to do but be prepared. Start working with your folks. Get ready. We are always ready and the constant partner for us. I so appreciate her every time her visits here that we have Something Else to announce because we are getting things done. That is of course democratic leader nancy pelosi. [applause] thank you very much mr. Mayor for your very generous and for your tremendous leadership. And for making possible this coming together here today. We use the word demonstrate, and the rad rental assistance demonstration has that word demonstrate in it. So here we all are to demonstrate to the secretary as to how San Francisco, not only responds to initiatives from the federal level, but really demonstrates how they could work and how they could work better. Its really an honor to be on the program with a arianna, James Henry Johnson, her grandfather is in a pretty exciting . How proud he would be to see you a leader carrying on in that tradition. Wasnt she wonderful . [applause] San Francisco is a very special pl. , mr. Sec. , honored to welcome you here to see how we respect people. We respect our residents and when were going to have new housing is oneonone replacing the residents who were here for those who want to continue to be here. It is also about their selfdetermination, about how a project will function, how it will be to run. This project, this will be a demonstration to the country of a way to get the job done. In San Francisco were entrepreneurial in our thinking. We like to take advantage of exploits in the best possible way every opportunity that hard provides to grants and policy and the opportunity that the code enables us as low income tax credits and other tax considerations, which enables us to have publicprivate ownership joined with our nonprofit partners. Really, demonstrating to the country how we can respect our residents, have them have Affordable Housing in a way that maintains community. Because, this site over housing is a challenge that is about the soul of our city. We are a city that wants to be representative of every aspect of life in our community that Cultural Diversity as wells economic variation is something that is important to the father of who we are. Our mayor has been such an incredible champion on this subject. He and london bridge, she said she was the supervisor from this area that she grew up in the neighborhood and the mayor acknowledged that she is the president of the board and has used that opportunity to benefit individuals. I salute london. Mdm. Chairman, mdm. Pres. That has a nice ring to it. [applause] for your leadership. The mayor has done a great deal to bring jobs to San Francisco and back dimension transportation mr. Mayor because it gives me another opportunity to salute our president barack obama. Under the recovery act that was passed we were able to do so many things for San Francisco. You know why . Because San Francisco could demonstrate that they knew how to be a model to the nation. To have initiatives that were of national significance. Its a continuation of thursday rail, central subway, transbay terminal, the puppy whatever it is, jobs immediately promotion of commerce and transportation, cleaning the air, promoting qualityoflife, this is really important but sometimes those advances raise the price of housing in a community. So we have to mitigate for that one part of that success by addressing it directly. That is the mayor is the full package. Job creation. Transportation initiative. Jobs immediately and jobs jobs long term but also recognizing the responsibility we have to have Affordable Housing in our community. This secretary is really remarkable. He was amir sue will grant him that. His brother served in congress with me. His twin brother. Joachim castro former mayor of san antonio. We will talk about the spurs in the warriors just now. However, i had the privilege of being invited to his swearing in. I wish you could have been there. I went of course to pay tribute to the new secretary of hud but i mainly went because i was honored to be invited so i could say directly to his mother , rosie, congratulation kit woolseys mom had was actually barefoot into archives. This is the American Dream personified. She made a success of herself but these twin boys trailing along to public civic events, growing up with a sense of responsibility. Of getting back. They had the advantage the best education someone say, that our country could provide, and they were prepared to give back. As i said, i served with walking in the house of representatives. His twin brother, and mayor caster went from being the mayor of san antonio to be the secretary of hud. On that day, read this i get it right. The president said, walking is a proven leader a champion for safe Affordable Housing and strong sustainable neighborhoods. In building a Housing Market we do some homelessness among veterans, thank you and connecting neighborhoods with good schools and good jobs that have our citizens succeed. He has in the one year he is been secretary, lowered mortgage insurance premiums to make ownership more affordable, help families access strong neighborhoods with sure housing choice vouchers and empowering local leaders with new tools to invest in their communities and thats one of the reasons we are here today. That is one of those new tools. In july of 2015, just a couple months ago, pres. Obama wants one of secretary casters signature project. Connect home. Which accelerates internet adoption in 20 communities providing broadband Electronic Devices to children living in public or assisted housing, secretary castro continues to strive to make housing a platform that helps folks achieve a better quality of life. How perfect. How perfect. These two measures, one for mayor my current mayor at that goal, to achieve a better quality of life for the people for whom we are responsible. We think, mr. Sec. , that San Francisco is a model to the nation. We are very proud of the successes and the challenges, and the successes that we have had. We think that when we take on a project we will do it in a way thats about national significance. We are not competitive or anything. We are not proud or anything. We just want to help others and i know you did to. Please let us welcome this wonderful great sec. Of hud, boolean castro. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much mdm. Leader. It is wonderful to be here whoever worlds great cities. I want to say thank you for hosting me. You know, my brother joachim is a privilege of serving with the majority with leader pelosi soontobe speaker pelosi. Again. And by brother joachim, habitually introduce himself by saying a way that tells about since wetlands, minute other than he is. So, hope youll disabuse them of that notion in the future. They told me that was unseasonably warm here in San Francisco. Some glad that i got home a couple days ago to 97 heat to practice for here. Mayor, thank you for having me. This is not the first time that weve had a chance to spend time here in San Francisco, but each time that you visit very impressed by the work that you and the board of supervisors and all the folks that you collaborate with are doing to provide housing opportunity for san franciscans. I also want to commend supervisor london reed could we are in her disappeared as she said, she is only talked about this shes lifted. Because of that emma i know like me, she feels very blessed in her own life to had opportunities in the doing everything that she can for Public Service to give that opportunity to others. Thank you supervisor breed for your leadership. [applause]i also want to recognize just briefly Barbara Smith the second director of this in francisco housing. What about ago . Thank you for the work that you are doing here we cannot do it without a Housing Authority. And of course, to Arianna Johnson. Great Community Involvement and tenant leadership is so important to success in all that we do, so thank you for your inspiring words today. Keep it up. Keep it up. I also want to just briefly recognize all of our private partners who are here. Theyre too many of them to name, but they are integral to the success the reynolds assistance budget please raise your hand if youre one of our private partners. [applause] thank you. We are here today because we believe that housing is a powerful platform for greater opportunity in peoples lives. And because we believe that everyone ought to have access to good Affordable Housing, to build up to other American Dream. We also know that our nation is in the midst of an a for the housing crisis. In fact, just a couple months ago the national low Income Housing coalition reported that in no single community, if youre working 40 hours a minimum wage, can you afford a twobedroom apartment. That in very few places, could you even afford to rent a onebedroom apartment. In fact, here in california the person would have to work 92 hours a week to afford a place. The Affordable Housing crisis comes at a time when our nations public Housing Stock is particularly challenged. We have roughly 26 billiondollar backlog in capital needs. We lose 10,000 units of Public Housing to disrepair every single year. Now, we know that leader pelosi and folks like her have been fighting like crazy and then right on this issue. To ensure that the resources are there. We also know, though, we live in a resource constrained environment and for that reason, in 2012 hud wants the rental assistance demonstration. Also known as rad. Fundamentally, it is housing authorities and owners of assisted housing convert to longterm section 8 contracts. That allows them to better Leverage Private debt and equity to improve their properties. So, instead of falling into disrepair, they get renovated. I am proud to announce that this effort has established a proven record of success in just three years, that has leverage over 1 billion in new construction dollars of Public Housing properties throughout the United States. [applause] that is making a difference in communities throughout our nation and committees like this one. The rack conversion of robert b Woods Apartments will of the San Francisco Housing Authority and its partner to invest 31 to rehabilitate over 200 family units. This investment will help ensure that these families have a modern and safe, good place to live. We want to see rad make a difference in more communities. So hud is working with congress to lift a cap on this program so that we can help more families across this nation also have good housing. We know that the Affordable Housing crisis is growing, and we also know that that is part of a solution. Ive had the opportunity now as hud secretary to travel to more than 50 cities in 14 months. I can tell you that San Francisco is a National Leader when it comes to collaboration and creativity in creating and sparking new housing opportunity. Congratulations, to San Francisco. [applause] so, we look forward to the renovation of these homes and to all the wonderful opportunities that will be made possible because of the work that you are doing here in this beautiful community. Thank you very much. [applause] my pleasure to bring back up leader pelosi. Thank you seconded. Well, let me thank everyone here today. I see across this wonderful field a bevy of nonprofits that i know i can help us rebuild all of our communities from Chinatown Development to bridge to mercy to tabernacle to tenderloin, and then i also does a thank you to bank of america. They won the right to leverage. Two words secretary breezy more often these days in San Francisco. When teaching it to kids. Were teaching it to parents. That is, invest and leverage. Invest and leverage. Because the best investment anybody can make in San Francisco is to start your family here because when you start a family, that means schools, transportation, housing, safety, are all been taken care. Thats the best investment. Then we got a leverage that by people participating making sure you vote and making sure we pass proposition a and all the things we need to do to build an rehab and stabilize our neighborhoods. Thank you everybody very much. Thank you to our federal representatives, two. [applause] clapping. i think we have more companies anywhere in the United States its at the amazing statement were not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. A friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. Why isnt it are that i have the support now we can do that. I realized that was something that wasnt being done in San Francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in San Francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision thats the final product felt opera. I was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. So much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work theres great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs weve worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. I had a model they have a professionally music yes, maam assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor id be able to work with them and its helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. Thats part of the opera lab i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so thats why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. Food in San Francisco isnt just about expensive eat but food for everyone and theres organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. More and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from well look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. So what exactly it, your honor agricultural it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally weve been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. So tell me 0 whats growing in this garden. A really at all plant. In the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. It is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. Now the dpw urban Planning Program so see how the garden community. So i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around San Francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the Department Many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. Im here with nang wong hello nang. Hello. I need to understand house this gleaning work. We come and harvest like for example, well come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. laughter . Made that good, good and ease. The trick is how not to hurt the branches. Like the thing. Im so excited about this. The people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private Property Owners give us the food theyre happy that no of a t is going to waste oh. Thank you. Thank you. Again job aura natural laughter . From backyards to back lots lets take a look at the food and Community Bonding at the free farm. My idea was to start growing food and giving it away. And getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. We were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. Whats the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. Well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away its giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you its primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. Now serving number to 49 come on down. We have the capability of producing this food and in San Francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea were capable of prougdz food in our own backyards were here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. We build time together and its the strength of any ideas of the connections well turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money thats the people power. In this episode weve seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment its truly. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San Francisco General Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc commissioner chow commissioner chung commissioner sanchez and commissioner pating the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of october 6, 2015, and id like to note that commissioner pating requested on page 3 affirmative 3 underneath item 4 add the words state and federal they often dont match the needs you have a revised copy. I do. Just those two words state and federal. What page was that correction on. Page 3 under item 4 the third photograph the
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