If you are utilizing interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and to display documents on the overhead projector. Just place it underneath the projector, mention it, then remove it when you like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Members of the board, my name is amos brown, im Senior Pastor of Third Baptist Church and president of the San Francisco branch. The National Association of the branch for coloured people and a former member of this body. I wish to say happy pride month to you. I give you this greeting against a backdrop, one of George Bernard shaw most eloquent quotes. When he said, the worst sin for our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be in different to them. That is the essence of inhumanity, end of quote. Now i do not make these comments to be insulting, but still a truth. Human beings can make oversights , but we do say, to air is human, but to give his divine. I would like to invite all of you to g
It comes to the lgbtq populations but we still have dealing with a lot of violents and discrimination in our own city. So we want to continue to lift up the voices of not just those folks who are here and surviving and being open and proud of being lgbtq but also folks that we have lost and we have lost a lot of community and we track a lot of death and a lot of violence again lgbtq of colour, and as you know by being on social media now, a lot of black trans women continue to be murdered and we want to lift those voices up and thank you for lifting our voice and celebrating the 40 years weve contributed to the change that is possible. And i want to also take this moment to just thank our staff and i dont know if anyone else wants to say anything but i want to continue to thank the folks that i work with and the tremendous hero work that they do and to our board and to our volunteers and to our supporters and to our donors, i want to say thank you very much and thank you, supervisor ro
Violence again lgbtq of colour, and as you know by being on social media now, a lot of black trans women continue to be murdered and we want to lift those voices up and thank you for lifting our voice and celebrating the 40 years weve contributed to the change that is possible. And i want to also take this moment to just thank our staff and i dont know if anyone else wants to say anything but i want to continue to thank the folks that i work with and the tremendous hero work that they do and to our board and to our volunteers and to our supporters and to our donors, i want to say thank you very much and thank you, supervisor ronen. [cheers and applause] last but not least, our esteemed supervisor from district 11, supervisor safaye. Yes, thank you. Long anticipated. [ laughter ] we have to do what you did last time, president yi, and start with district 11 first next time. [ laughter ] but anyway, very, very honour and happy to be here today to honour a friend, lifelong devoteee to the
Month. I thank you for your service and your advocacy and i would like now to turn the floor over to an officer and the pride alliance. [applause] on behalf of the pride alliance, i would like to thank you for this recognition. It means the world to us. A little history on the pride alliance, it was created in 2001 when a group of courageous San Francisco Police Officers who identified as lgbtq establish an organization because they felt the department needed to change and that the relationships between the lgbtq officers and the department needed to be flourishing and needed to change for the better. I dont think those officers would have thought we would have had a rainbow s. U. V. Rolling around the streets of San Francisco or that Police Officers from the department, lgbtq, straight, allied, members of the command staff and the chief himself will be Walking Around the month of june wearing pride patches, which we would like to thank the commission and the command staff for allowing
A testament of the bravery of his parents who are immigrants from ethiopia. I know there are not any words take away the pain but i want to extend my deepest condolences to his family. His loss will be felt for years and the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor walton. Thank you. Supervisor yi. Yes, i would like to close todays meeting in memory of johanna frugui. She was the first person with a disability to attend the Public School system in her native greece. She was really a trailblazer from the start. Shes a graduate of cal berkley and pursued advocacy work at the well institute on disability. The pacific ada centre and the city of sacramento before joining the office 13 years ago. In this time, joanna played a leading role in ensuring that San Franciscos implementation of the americans with disabilities act was consistent with our citys progressive values. As a dedicated employee and as a woman with a disability, joanne thashe wasa strong believer thrh education and t