Next item, please. The next item is general Public Comment. This is opportunity to comment on any matter within the boards jurisdiction not on the agenda including requesting the board place a item on future agenda. Well display the instructions on the screen and anyone can wait for any inperson Public Comment. I know there is a longer set of instructions so well wait momentarily. Im seeing we quite a bit of online participation, so illwith your acceptance, be able to move through in person and then i can read the fuller description. Absolutely. We can anyone who is ready to do Public Comment, feel free to step to the podium. Dennis krueger, active retired firefighter. Good afternoon commissioners. Director yants. After last week or last month discussion about dental care, i spent a little time just thinking about Different Things and what i came up, i went through a 3 year period where i had my teeth cleaned twice a year and that was it. In those years delta dental rolled over my 1200
Supervisor supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Supervisor ronen. Present. Supervisor safai. Supervisor self neil. Why present. Why supervisor walton. Present. You have a quorum. Thank you, in dam clerk the San Francisco board of supervisors acknowledges we are on the unseed ancestral home land of the recommend ram the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As stursd of this land and with their traditions the Ramaytush Ohlone have never cd, lost nor forgot their responsibilities as care take exerts all people his reside in their traditional territory. We rescue noise we benefit from living and working on their Traditional Home land. We wish to pay respects acknowledgingan cest sxors relatives of the recommend Ram Community and rights as first peoples. Join mow in the pledge. [pledge of allegiance] in dam clerk do we have communications yes. The board away the public to attends this mote nothing person. Here in the board legislative chamber in city hall
And the needs of the children, youth and families of our city. Clearly were seeing increases of violence amongst the population of lgbtq young people, a sobering 97 of violence and increases of homelessness from 39 six years ago up to 68 in this past year. Thank you. Hi, im tracy, a native of San Francisco, homeowner and an advocate for the community. My community is under attack and underrepresented in City Government and the setasides make us feel part of San Francisco. This is my city. This is our city. This is a sanctuary city for everyone. In 1994 and please correct me if im wrong, i worked on the first Children Fund campaign, i was a mother of three children under six. I needed childcare to be able to work, i needed after School Services to work and provide for my family, so i could stay in college. So i could do a lot of these things that the services that the Children Fund protects. Therefore the next time it was up, i was a mother of four and all of my kids worked on the campa
Generating clean air, clean energy . Yes. Supervisor peskin and if i may, supervisor, i just actually im going to ask for an amendment through the chair, and you will see that in the amendment that i have circulated, there is actually language very specifically to that effect to make it abundantly clear that it cannot finance the construction of a power plant that generates electricity using fossil fuels or for that matter, nuclear energy. Supervisor yee thats great. Supervisor safai thank you. Supervisor tang . Supervisor tang thank you. Im just excited that this is coming forward. I think the puc has the record, and i think it is time for us to do this the same on the power side. Im really looking forward to this passing so that we can continue to provide a more clean power for our customers here in San Francisco. Supervisor safai thank you, supervisor tang. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, chair safai, and again, thank you to the cosponsor of this measure, supervisor
And that ultimately was, in 1999, as the result of a Charter Amendment, proposition e, became its own independent, what we call the sfmta. And certain powers and authorities that the board of supervisors had relative to Budgetary Authority when i first became a member of the board in 2001, the board of supervisors would literally approve each and every yellow, red, white, blue curb, and i dont know if you remember, but the land use and Transportation Committee used to have pages of red zone 25 feet west of, you know, stockton and what have you. And in 2007, there was a wyatt spread sense of creating the sfmta had not realized all of its promise. And we were at a juncture, and the juncture was should the board of superviso board of supervisors reinsert itself as it existed prior to 1999, or should it hand virtually all legislative authority over to the mta, and i became the author in 2007 of proposition a, which folks in the taxi Community Still dont believe i did not realize would nega