Of those who are working on this project, 149 workers are from San Francisco, so thank you with that, i would like to introduce the former supervisor, animal care and control champion , katy tang. [applause] good morning, everyone. As i was telling some people here today, the only thing that will take me out of retirement from attending press conferences is something to do with animals. I am so excited to be here and explain a little bit about how i got involved with animal care and control, and really wanting to see this facility rebuilt. Aside from the fact that i grew up with a mother who was a vegetarian, at one point in our life, my dad said, i want a dog, and we were shocked that he all of a sudden in his life, in his early fifties or so wanted a dog , and so we went to animal care and control every weekend for four months straight to search for the perfect dog for him. In that process, i saw the facility firsthand at a. C. C. , and it was heartbreaking to me, and then of course,
Items acted upon today will appear on the june 25th board of sup supervisors agenda. Would you read agenda number one. Yes. [reads selection] thank you so much and im very excited to be a co sponsor of this item and supervisor mandelman the author is here. Would you like to say anything . Yes, thank you chair ronen and thank you for accommodating our request to talk about this item today. I know its a busy month for everyone and we thought it would be important to get it done before this years pride. As you are all well aware. Chair ronen who offered the ordinance, communities throughout the city have successfully organized to create our districts, lgbtq and African American districts. This ordinance is due to the result of the neighborhood process that began in 2017 when members of the community expressed to my predecessor sheehy made sure that they protect the neighborhoods cultural identity. Its an honor to represent this district. The castro has been recognized as an enclave for pe
Unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes of the Health Commission meeting from august 1, 2023. I believe there was some kind of correction, so secretary morewitz, if you can share that with us. Page 2 of the revised minutes i added Public Comment for Robert Rinehart and apologize for leaving that out. Otherwise, the minutes stand before yo
So i have the privilege to chairing and delightful to see all you here today. This is the biggest in person attendance we had since before the pandemicism i want to acknowledge the presence of former Health Commissioner margene sako. Well start with roll call. [roll call] wonderful. Now, commissioner gerardo will read the land acknowledgment. The ramaytush oholone and acknowledgment. The San Francisco Health Commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and rela
Parklets would you like that . Im just kidding. No i dont. I dont like that idea. I think what weve proposed here today is a good compromise. I think it works well within the concept, and i think that youve said this yourself. These have been very success, awful all over the city in your district and otherwise. And i understand the need to look and see how each individual operators regulating them, i think as they start to have to conform more to the city standards and have to work well with more of the departments, well see better, better behavior overall. But i think theyve been a phenomenal success. And i think this this window allows us to work with in that time frame to work with the existing operators and hopefully have maybe a few more come online. And then at that point, i think we go back to what youve proposed after two years. Thank you. Thank you. Vice chairman dorman. Thank the supervisor for his offer. And if it were not going to be an administrative challenge for folks, i