Today building on our unanimous approval with regard to the ab 2522 resolution and asking our state legislative delegation to oppose the governments as of right trailing bill. I wancht to thank the supervises for their cosponsorship and ask for your support as we work to ensure San Franciscos local Planning Powers and contributions to Affordable Housing and overall pipeline do not go unacknowledged or cut off at the knees. Thank you. Supervisor tang. Im introducing an ordinance here to amend our addmin coat to help new mothers returning to work. We ask that our department of Human Resources develop a formal lactation policy for our City Departments. I warchght to thank cohen breed, oval owes yee if you want to agree. To allow mothers to breast feed their children when they return to work and provide a place to express milk during their work day. There are laws on the bookings, but theyre not. Our city policy will go beyond the cree requirements and around it will allow allowing nursing mothers for Breast Feeding time. Requiring City Departments to establish a process for nursing mothers to request breaks for lactation. Calling for departments to provide a place for lactation consistent with state and federal guidelines and a with a door that can be locked with one electrical outlet. A chair, adequate lighting. Ability to partition the room for mowlt many mothers and refrigerator, sink and hospital grade breast pump. Lactation rooms will be required to be identified with signage. And we are also requiring that if the city builds any new city buildings or office space that the City Department must cult with dhr to make sure there is sufficient space to use as a lactation room. This policy will be distributed to all new employees and all employees who have requested parental leave and ask that dhr request a web taij to have materials for lactation and Breast Feeding. So, you might ask why were doing this policy. We have quite a few women who work in our city workforce but also in our private sector as well. In fact, there are 40 of our permanent fulltime employees in the city and county of San Francisco who are women and 66 of part time employees are women. And women who work for our city, theyre not just working at their defining. They are engineers out in the field. They are train operators. Gardeners, Police Officers and firefighters. Many are also mothers. If you ask any of them if they continue to breast feed and pump milk when they return to work, you would hear a variety of stores like i pumped at my desk or between meetings. I pumped in a bathroom because there there was no other accommodation. Our lactation policy is not just trying to address the ability for mothers to be able to express milk, but there are Many Health Benefits to children and mothers. Breast milk contains antibodies that protect children from illnesses including ear infections respiratory infections asthma, obesity and diabetes and reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. It can prevent postpartum depression. Cancers. Type ii diabetes and its readily affordable and accessible. When new mothers breast feed for the First Six Months of a childs life and maintain it to the end of first year, only 16 women exclusively breast feed for 6 months after birth. Only 10 of mother whose work fulltime are Breast Feeding their baby after six months. So in order for mothers to feel supported and empowered to continue to provide breast milk employers must create an environment to facilitate a mothers need to express milk. I want to thank supervisor cohen my colleague here who recently encouraged us to convert a restroom into our first lactation room on the second floor. Now that brings us to two lactation facilities in city hall. This was done just in time before one of my aids came back from maternity leave. Now i see every day how much this room benefits my sphaf and she is able to continue working and go down the hall a minute away to be able to provide breast milk for her new baby. I want to thank ashley summers who shortly after giving birth to her child gave birth to the idea of this legislation. I hope our city will continue to be a model city for Family Friendly workplace policies. Lastly, im going to submit a substitute legislation to fire safety legislation that i introduced many, many months ago. Just to strengthen and enchance what were requiring of our apartment managers and landlords for better fire safety. Ten again, this has been pending in committee already and were submitting substitute legislation to strengthen our requirements. With that, i submit. Thank you supervisor tang. Supervisor weiner. Thank you very much. I have in memoriam for Larry Mitchell that im going to defer to my honor of mitchells ice cream during maul sma Small Business week presentation. Im introducing a resolution today to declare june 8th 2016 team edna day in honor of memory edna flores lagoonta. She was a fireless advocate against hivaids and worked on the Public Policy vad cocat and Governmental Affairs based on hivaids issue. She was a 13time participate and fundraiser for the california a. I. D. S. Right and a. I. D. S. Life stiekal alc. She also served as touching thousands with her spirit and smile. Tragically, edna lost her life on june 8th 2014 riding in alc 2014. Team edna consisting of riders as a Fund Raising Team for alc 2015 honor her memory and spread awareness ofiv of hivaids. I introduce that resolution today. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor weiner. Supervisor yee. Thank you. First ever all, id like to thank you thank supervisor mar to point out that im only senior here. Something that i kept a secret for a long time. Im really happier to a coauthor also in the dignity fund we talked about earlier. Several of my colleagues mentioned. Its something that i realize even before i became a supervisor that something was lacking in the city as i watched my own parents age and aunt age and being the caregiver for all three of them in different parts of their lives, there are things that werent happening for them. I thought it was me that wasnt able to Access Services for them. But once i became a supervisor, i realized even within my own district where you have over nearly 25 of the population as seniors, there was only one seen jer service out Senior Service there was only one and when i added a second out there, it was immediately full to capacity. So it didnt take long when there is a service that people actually will find it and seek it out. And so when we talk about the growing senior population, and possibly not being able to serve them in the future, i dont think for me, its not about the future, its about right now. There is a lack of services. For the last few budget cycles now, some of the strongest groups that have v come in to ask for budget help from from the seniors and people with disability. Every year, i realize, we dont have that . So we need to do something about that. Again, im going to be a strong supporter of making sure that i ask all my constituents to support this notion of a dignity fund. And i also want to thank supervisor kim for introducing the transfer tax proposal to allow for students to get the funding to allow for students to attend city college for free. Its something that has something i grew up with. It was free at one time. And people were able to go to work, go for college, buy their books and so forth. Now you go to work and still cant afford it because of the cost of living. What were finding out. I hear from different individuals that graduate from our high schools and im not going to college. I ask them why, and they cant afford it. Thank you for doing that. Supervisor kim and also, acknowledging, its not just about the tuition, its about other costs associated with going to college including if youre a young parent, that you need early care and education to make sure that your child, preschooler and infant is really being taken care of. Now what id like to do is the mta budget has been growing over the years. Just hearing today in terms of the introduction of the different proposals that were talking about, potentially, the budgets can go up further and one of the things that we havent been able to do is try to get more accountability in terms of what is going on out there in terms of changes. Schizophrenia are comin. Constituents are coming to me saying why isnt mta doing this or that . I feel i have no voice being appointed by the board of supervisors. So today im cruing a Charter Amendment by changing the appointment process and allowing for more oversight of the budget. I recognize there are many attempts in the past that changed the way appointments were made to alter the a proiment process or add additional layers of oversight that were deemed far too reaching. I believe that the city amendment i am introducing today is not overreaching or reactional. I am proposing that the sfmta point of directors be appointe ed by a split process from the mayor and board of supervisors. Here we will have a majority of the appointments made by the mayor and remaining three made by the board of supervisors. Currently the board ever supervisors is unable to alter the sfmta built and requires seven votes for rejection. I wanted to bring the approval rejection process to be uniform with other departments that will only require a simple majority vote or rejection. If they reject the budget, the board wb required to make a set of findings that the sfmta board of directors would respond to when a revised budget is submitted. Again, this is not unusual with other departments. And the board of directors will continue to retain the charter and oversee the Municipal Transportation Agency and establish its own budget. I acknowledge the publics desire to have Transportation Department that is independent and apolitical. I also hear the cry from many, many people for a need for future accountability and oversight. Id like to thank supervisor kim, peskin and cam foes for cosponsoring this Charter Amendment. Thawn. Supervisor cohen. Thank you everyone. Another piece of legislation i want to share with you that i think youll be interested in hearing about. Its a Ballot Initiative that would change the structure for the office of citizens complaint. There is no secret there is currently a deficit in the confidence of law enforcement. 23409 just here but across the country. One of the things you hear consistently is a need and desire for transparency. San francisco is not against. This the ballot measure will seek to allow the people of San Francisco to weigh in. This november. It creates a more independent and autonomy for the office of citizens complaint by create ago i new authority for the department to perform regular auditing of Police Departments handling on use of force misconduct. There is initiative now proposition d. One of the criticisms i heard was that it had no teeth. This initiative is in response to that criticism. Think the critics will find it has the teeth and strength and oversight that people are looking to see. Although the name of occ doesnt drive the function of the department, this particular Charter Amendment will change the name of the officer citizens complaint to the department of independent police oversight. Weve learned of the preliminary reporting from the blue ribbon nation reviewed the sfpd as well as the District Attorneys Office and occ. One of the findings was there is no regular auditing function of the police department. So, this moves the occ from districtly being a complaintdriven department to being a more proactive department. We all have seen how much can go wrong in an unfortunate and short period of time. This ballot measure seeks to correct that. I hope to have everyones support and i look forward to the on going discussion. Thank you. Thank you supervisor cohen. Madam president. Thank you madam clerk. Today i want to acknowledge an amazing woman in our community. Yesterday eileen Clark Hernandez celebrated her 90th birthday and i wanted to take this opportunity to honor her and recognize her work as a local and national activist. Miss hernandez was born in brooklyn in 1926 and excelled in school and attended howard university. She was drawn into politics. In 1951, she took an organizational job with the west coast divisional job to begin a lifelong battle against discrimination in all its forms. She became the first woman to be appointed to the United States equal Employment Opportunity commission in 1964. Then in 1966, she cofounded the National Organization for women, the largest Grassroots Organization in the country that focuses on advocatin advocating for womens lights, lgbt rights and racial justice. Years later she became the organizations second priz and led the womens strike for equality on august 26th, 1970. Here in San Francisco she founded and became president of the Consulting Firm hernandez and consultants where she led, facilitated and concerned for ending racism. After the fourth womens dmorches beijing in 1995, miss hernandez who is a cofunder of womens Action Alliance of over 600 organizations in the state. Those are just a few of her accomplishments and i would need a lot more time to talk about everything shes done. But miss hernandez moved to los angeles last year so she could be supported by her brother and her family. I hope that she will see todays broadcast and know that we appreciate her, we thank her for pushing for equality. For everyone and we hope that she lives a long, healthy, and prosperous life. We want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for her is he service. The rest i submit. It will is now 33 0 3 33. Just in time. I would like to ask members of the public to make room for our special ones entering the honoraries making it into our chamber. This is Small Business week and well do a number of commendations for Small Business week. Well wait until everyone gets in and gets settled. If there are members of the public waiting on a item. Well do Small Business commendations. It will take us anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour. Your item will not be discussed nal time. Again, if you could please make room for our Small Business award o honoraries. Well appreciate that. Colleagues, its time for our 3 30 special commendation for Small Business week. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Many are owned by generations of san franciscans and many of those businesses bring our community together. This week is a time for the city and county of San Francisco to honor the contribution and achievements of San Francisco Small Business owners. I would like to welcome at this time the president of the Small Business commission mark dwight to provide opening remarks. Mr. Dwight, thank you for being here. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. As supervisor breed mentions im mark dwight president of the Small Business commission. And im a Small Business owner here in San Francisco. It is an honor to be here today to help recognize the contribution of Small Businesses as e as part of Small Business week 2016. Small business week is a collaboration among our City Government specifically the office of economic and Workforce Development and the office of Small Business. The San Francisco chamber of commerce and the federal Small Business administration. Id like to acknowledge the Small Business Administration District director mark quinn. My fellow commissioners steve adams, irene yee ryley. Kathleen duly. Paul sar caiz yum and marianne zakunis and karen colombo of the chamber of commerce. San francisco launched Small Business week last night with nearly a thousand attending. This years theme is celebrate Small Businesses tapping into opportunities. San francisco fosters a unique entrepreneurial environment. As i tell my colleagues, if you can tap into tourism and tech, you might have a business proposition. The city has nearly 85,000 Small Businesses with a hundred or less employees. They are dog walkers. Child care providers. Marketing consultants. Mobile food operators. ilc manufacturers, massage practitioners. Lawyers, architects, accountants. Florists designers and many others. Joining Small Businesses this year are Short Term Rentals and drivers for Transportation Network companies. The Assistance Center at city hall is here to support and guide Small Businesses that comprise 09s more of all businesses in San Francisco. The sbac as it is known along with invest in neighborhoods deliver a range of Services Including 1on 1on1 assistance in multiple languages overview for multiple considerations for starting a business and customized checklists for license requirements for doing business in the city and county of sphwrx. In 2015 the office assisted nearly 3,000 business complients. First the Second Quarter they 800 complients. It appears that new business starts are alive and well here in San Francisco. The business portal team is presently working on streamlining materials to assist owners in navigating the process for starting a business including on line permit applications customizeable foarlsd save forms on line and custom checklists. Thank you all supervisors for your support in these efforts. Small businesses are the backbone of our neighborhood corridors providing for the needs and residents alike. They strife when the city strug they thrive when the city thrives and struggle when the city struggles. Affordability impacts not only residents, but Small Business owners as well. Competition for commercial space rising rents, displacement and shrinking Profit Margins are the realities of today as Small Business owners in San Francisco. The office of smiewl business are thankful for the many close partnerships they have developed with members of the board of supervisors and the mayors office. This will allow to us mitigate Small Business challenges. Supervisors, thawnch for your support of last years 6. 7 million budget. I think thats b. A billion dollars budget. This allowed us to tap into a network of services from the office of Small Businesses and invest in neighborhoods programs. The citys hosting of the the Small Business development center. These programs are essential to ensuring Small Businesses star start, stay and grow in San Francisco. I want to highlight a few key legislative accomplishments that were achieved together along with the input of Small Businesses from supervisor tangs legislation to access compliance to our businesses providing all gender restrooms and taking one more step in achieving the zero waste goal with the reduction of poly stiernine products. Business products. We thank you for your support in establishing the Program Manager commission. The commission looks forward to building the prej registry and highlighting the thousands of businesses crucial to San Franciscos list tri and legacy and entrepreneurial spisht. Spirit. Today focuses on businesses you have chosen for recognition. Youve nominated a range of wonderful businesses integral to our city. They bring viefersity, vibrancy and goods and services to the neighborhood ever san diego. There arof neighborhoods offer San Francisco. Let me thank them for haul they do to the city and visitors to our city and recognize that they represent the continuation of the american dream. The board ever supervisors is a signature event. It provides a rare opportunity to accept away from desks, counters and kitchens allowing us the chance to recognize them for their hard work and central importance in sa San Franciscos economy and to be recognized not only here but among their peers to show up. Thank you for the special opportunity to show appreciation for the honoraries. We look forward to our continued collaboration to nurture, elevate and retain San Franciscos Small Businesses. Thank you. And thank you for being here today. Colleagues, before we begin, waint to remind my colleagues that you have a total of five minutes for each of your commendations. So please try and keep your remarks brief so that your honoraries have an opportunity to speak and with that, well be following the order of roll call beginning with supervisor scott wiener. Which im excited that hes honoring mitchells ice cream and i hope they brought tasty treats with them today. She stole my thunder. So colleagues today, i have the privilege of honoring as you heard, an amazing San Francisco institution, mitchells ice cream as honorary for Small Business week and we have with us here today linda and brian mitchell. As you know, colleagues, i hope youve all been there. Mitchells ice cream is a truly amazing place for anyone who loves ice cream. Featuring 4 40 flavors. 16 burt fat. Its been a neighborhood favorite for over 60 years now. Its not just a landmark in our district, but for all of San Francisco. Of course, as we learn and our condolences in Larry Mitchells passing may 12, its a huge loss for the family and city. I know he was involved in the business until close to the end. This was his baby in so many ways. Hes a hero in tumorrer terms of actually being able to run a business successfully for a very, very long time. A business that is as vibrant and vital as it was 50 years ago. Well miss him and sincere condolences. The business we are going to adjourn the Board Meeting today in his memory. We want to make sure were sending good energy from city hall to the family and to hes looking down on us i know. Larry was a Third Generation san franciscan. Came from a family of hardworking entrepreneurs. Hay father ran a dairy in Diamond Heights back when it was not the residential neighborhood it is today and taught himself how to make ice cream at a young age. He met his future wife claire in 1948. Just a few years later, he along with his brother jack cofounded mitchells ice cream. In the early 1960s, larry began experimenting with new flavors to expand upon the traditional vanilla, chocolate and strawberry palt o pallet with flavors such as mango and yams and afte avocado. To make sure they stay on the cutting edge. Larry bought out jacks share of the business in the 1980s and managing the daytoday operation unless two years ago. Remembered by his family and colleagues as an unassuming handy man. He left behind a legacy continued today by linda and brian with us today and hes survived by his beloved wife claire and his daughter teresa as well. So congratulations and welcome to the board ever supervisors. If you want to say a few words. [applause] thank you. I wish they had told us we were supposed to bring ice cream. I would have brought gallons and gallons. Oh, gosh dont worry, ill stop by. Just ask for me. Thank you. This ward is bittersweet for my sister and i. As you know, our father and founder passed on may 12 lt. We told him about it. He knew about it. He was thrilled. He had a big smile on his face. He was very proud to win it and certainly he would be here to accept it if he could have. This award is a lasting tribute to a man who along with his brother had eye vision and that vision was to make a good ice cream. And in turn, have people enjoy it which they have. Something so simple that its really provided so many fond memories. To everybody thats come. Thousands of people that have come. He was so proud when people would tell him, many, many people that will the first place theyd come after picking up relatives at the airport was to get a cone at mitchells before they went home. That was something to be proud of. So, we thank you very much. We are a honored and i know hes smiling down from heaven right now. Thank you. [applause] thank you again, and congratulations. Were so grateful to your father for the business that he ran for over 50 years in the great city and county of San Francisco. Its made a lot of people smile. He will be dearly missed and thank you for being here today with us. With that, supervisor yee from district seven. Thank you, president breed. I want to congratulations the mitchells institution. Ive only had 40 years of eating ice cream there. I missed out on 20 others. I am proud to honor nancy and michael, owners of one of the last family owned gas stations in my districts. Its twin peaks auto care on portola drive. I keep seeing you. Last week you came here for the legacy business and then when my Office Hosted the Small Business summit in district seven, michael was there. Thats the type of people you guys are. Youre constantly involved with the community. Theyve owned the station for over 30 years, since 1985. Is it is the only station serving the midtown ter yas Diamond Heights miralomaa forest hills neighborhoods for over one to three miles in any direction. Small businesses are the heart of San Franciscos economy. My on r my honorary is the heart and soul of the twin peaks neighborhoods. You dont think of gas stations as a place where people go and see each other and talk to each other. Its almost like there is a coul coffee shop there. I see people coming there and chatting to each other. Its great place and what i call a community gem. Last fall when their lease was at risk, of expiring, its a testament of the type of support they have. Hundreds of Community Members called and emailed my office and drafted petitions to support the savings of twin peaks auto care kidd personally listened to numerous support stories of the Community Role and what it played in providing customized service. Because of this commitment to the community, im so glad my office was able to work with the dppt of real estate and extend their lease so that they could continue to serve our community for another five years. And have an option to extend their lease for another five years. Because of this extension, only because of this extension today that i can actually be able to honor the valuable community Small Business of twin peaks auto care. Thank you very much for coming. [applause] thank you very much supervisor yee and supervisors in the office of Small Business. Its an honor for us to receive this. We love our city and love our community. Just being recognized is of utmost importance. To Small Businesses like ourselves, it gives us the extra umph going. You have a bigger, Wider Community not just your neighborhood but other people as well. Thank you very much. Thank you and congratulations again. With that. Id like to acknowledge the supervisor from district 11. Supervisor john avalos. Im here to honor george and ed nazra as well as gary tonly. For Small Business week im honoring two businesses in my district. The last two familia family owned pharmacies. Central drugstore and daniels pharmacy. This is ed and george nazra from daniels pharmacy. Jerry tonellie couldnt be here today. Central drug has been at the same location at mission and santa rosa in 1928 with them taking over in 1965. Injury continues to run the operation there. Teed hes the head pharmacist. Central drug is known for their friendly atmosphere and customer service. Theyre more than a legacy business. Theyre a community business. The same can be said for the business here today, daniels pharmacy. Familyowned and operated, daniels has been serving the community on geneva avenue in london since 1950. Ed and george nazra who are here today have built a reputation for excellent public service. Theyre part of the Good Neighbor network ad should be called the great neighborhood pharmacy. They have everything you need to manage your health from wheelchairs to beds to orthopedic products. They provides personalized attention and take care of their customers from packing medication bu by dose to delivery. Of this a store, bill payment center. You can even reload your clipper card here. Ed takes Community Service seriously and his staff have a reputation for being efficient, professional and very compassionate. They also support the community at large. They maintain a beautiful store and have installed sidewalk gardens which help soften and beautify a busy corridor. I hope they continue to serve the area for many years dom. Just recently across the street, the nazras bought a property that was blighted where ther there were all kinds of illis it activity going illicit opportunity. I eu8is it activities going on there. Both central drug and daniels pharmacy has survived where there are two walgreens pharmacies close by. Half a block away from daniels is a wahl greens anwalgreens. The strength is so strong that the fear of the walgreens take them out has been unsubstantiated. A block away is another walgreens and the central drug has been able to survive there. The good Pharmacy Network is alive and strong based on your efforts and connectedness to the community. I want to thank this is Small Business month to celebrate your store and work in the community. If you have any words, please share. Supervisor avalos, we appreciate you and recommending us. We have been a familyrun business. My brothers and sister, its still familyrun. I want to thank all of you supervisors for recognizing the independence throughout the city. For the cornerstone of how comerk merk cas built. Small independent. Thank you very much and thank to the board. [applause] [applause] congratulations again. Okay. Its now my turn. Im excited to honor mr. David zimmerman who is from the inner sunset neighborhood and he owns black [inaudible] which im sure many of you hide out from time to time. Hes the owner of blackthorn sports bar that provides a prime location to enjoy sporting events and cheer on many of our bay area teams. It hosts trivia night, karaoke and a pool league every wook. Its a wonderful place to hang out and showcase your flents. David is a native san franciscan. His father is a retired judge of northern california. His mother was deputy public defender here in the city of county of San Francisco. Grace. Public service seems to clearly run in his family. For the past four years david has served as president of the inner sunset merchants association. Hes been working hard with the community to create a green benefits district for the inner sunset which will provide Additional Resources to maintain and improve parks. Sidewalks and open space . The neighborhood. David works with the inner sunset park neighbors. Each year to put together the inner sunset sundays, a series of big block parties where neighbors can meet oach each other and enjoy each others company. Its one of my favorite events and last time we enjoyed inner sunset sundays, supervisor katy tang joined us as well. On top of that, he is a member of the ucsf Community Advisory group where he serves as access point for public and advises the university on common concerns. David is a wonderful leader in the community and im proud to know him as a friend and recognize him here today as the honorary for district five for Small Business week. Congratulations david. And thank you so much. Thank you so much for the honor, president breed. Thank you to the board for taking your time to honor these Small Business owners that work so hard and spend so much time and effort to preserve their communities and chemo them unique and vibrant. I wasm want to thank the board. As a native san franciscan some of my Cherished Memories were spent in Cliffs Variety and Small Businesses. I want to thank you all for your work and london Brides Office for working with the inner sunset parks and neighbors and merchants. With all the issues that came before us. For all of that, i thank you and thank you for this honor and accommodation. All right, getting back to the rest of our honoraries, we have an additional list of folks. Here today, and we are going to move to supervisor campos. Thank you. One of even though mimpals ice oo cream is in district eight. Those of us who live in district nine, we consider it part of the community. Next, i am honor add and proud to call upon a group of folks from good life grocery, they can come up. Anyone who knows anything about vernal heights knows the Important Role that good life place. This is in vernal heights. Good life first opened in supervisor cohens district in 1974. Then in 1976 it was taken over. And they have a been running it ever since. In 1991, good life opened on courtland avenue here in vernal heights. If you knew if you saw what vernal looked and courtland looked at the time, you wouldnt recognize it. Can there were hardly any stores on that block. And i think its probably fair to say the neighborhood was blighted at the time. Good life certainly brought traffic, it activated that corridor and quite frankly is widely credited with turning courtland into what it is today. It wouldnt be the vibrant place that it is without the good life. Im proud to note that the good life is an employeeowned business. Currently employees own 30 of the shares of the company. I know that theyre working to get to being 100 percent employee owned. There are currently 35 employee owners at the good life. Workers become vested in the company after working there two and a half years. Many of the employees have been with the company more than 10 years. You can see them here. In fact, in addition to karen and lester, there are 10 good life owners who are here. And i want to make sure i mention that because when we honor the ownership, we honor them