Commissioner wong and commissioner melara superviso david chius we have quorum with us is greg suhr police chief and joyce hicks the director of the office of citizens complaints. Thank you, officer and welcome to the wednesday, march 2, 2016, meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission im going to start off with one change to the agenda ill be moving the first item the sfpd occ status report commonly known as the sparks report and move that on for another date for a larger discussions thats one sergeant, next line item. Consent calendar receive and file the police chief to accept a donation of 500 from the Health District for the Police League chief anything to share. A request from captain lazarus the hilton hotel wanted to donate 9,500 to charity so it would be the worthy of the Police Activity league im entertain a all in favor, say i. I. Consent calendar passes sergeant, next line item. Item 2 general Public Comment this time, members of the public may address the commission it
Night when he walk home, i have to walk passed no less than a dozen soaks sleeping in the 3 blocks it takes me to get home. There is an emergency happening in my neighborhood. I live there. I own a business there. Put a Navigation Center in my neighborhood. Put a safe injection site. Put a wet house. We have an emergency in my neighborhood and the neighborhoods across the city. And im not going to pretend its not happening in my neighborhood. Help our homeless neighbors, thank you. To you know what happened to your neighbor . The paramedics were able to get him into ambulance. I didnt see him later in the day. But im certain hell be back soon and again, i would love for, in that neighborhood, to have a better safer place for he and our other homeless neighbors to be other than laundromats and stand and sit in our driveways and walkways. So help us do that, please. Thank you. The next speaker, i want to say, i have learned so much from this woman and everyday she is just doing amazing w
Really represents the best that this country has to offer. Its a place that welcomes people from all over the world, from all over the country, and its a place that not only tolerates, but actually embraces diversity, a place that is very forward thinking in terms of how it looks at issues. It always felt like home, and i felt that as a gala tino man that this gay la taken no man, that this is a place where i could be happy. Now doing the job of a supervisor has been the most rewarding experience. It is really remarkable how amazing our neighborhoods are, how amazing its people are. I have a progressive outlook in terms of how i see things, and by progressive i mean we have to make government and make the city work for everyone, and that means that its not just those who are doing well, its also those who are not doing so well, those who have the least. But it also means making sure that the city works for the middle class. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Thank you all for being
San francisco when 4 years i have been doing Public Policy stuff around city hall i have a by the question for a jazz musician kind of got a band together is there a way to play at any kind of Public Events or you know libraries or teach kids things or do Public Service through his service to do something are for the San Francisco Community Event and. Great. Im glad you guys are here. Thank you. We cant nestle address address that ill refer you to the staff the board of directors are here. By the thank you very much house will come to order seeing none, Public Comment is closed. More often on to item 2 approval of the minutes from march first i have one change when actually is required throughout the document i was not here during the meeting it says im here anytime my name to appears to vote cross me out and Audrey Joseph was here to commissioner joseph should replace my name any other questions or comments does seem like will i Public Comment no Public Comment Public Comment is close
The item passes. Thank you. If we can call item 2, please. Item number 2, ordinance amend thing Building Code to require any existing building with a place of public accommodation either to have all primary entries and path of travel into the building accessible by persons with disabilities or to receive from the city ao a determination of equivalent facilitation, technical infeasibility or unreasonable hardship. Er thank you very much, so i am the sponsor of this item and i just wanted to say that its nice that we have soufp groundbreaking pieces of legislation in Budget Committee today. This one particularly has to do with accessibility and all of our places of public accommodation here in San Francisco and it may seem that we have a simple piece of legislation before us today, but it took us about two years or more to work on this to get it to a place where all parties feel comfortable with this legislation including our Small Business community, so first of all, i would like to tha