History. Women in our communities who are courageous leaders since 1996 the San Francisco commission and department on the status of women has recognized the vital role and contributions of woman in our communities so at this time before we begin to recognize some of the amazing women that are here in the audience today, i want to acknowledge emily the executive director welcome to the board of supervisors chamber. Thank you president breed im very pleased to be here for womens History Month were here to celebrate and recognize women in our communities working to improve the lives of all San Francisco i san franciscans. It is the 11th consecutive year. The National Theme this year is weaving the stories of the womens lives. Before we begin i just wanted to share with the board some very exciting news. As you all know San Francisco was the first city in the world enacting a local ordinance for all forms of discrimination against best of my women and this was made possible by San Francis
Is un undeniable that we need to do more. Here in San Francisco our office has been working with senator gilabrand to brainstorm what we can do here locally and weve learned that San Francisco is at the forefront of survivor centered approach in which survivors take priority and campuses such as u. S. F are considered role models yet when we talk to students they still feel with even our model approaches we can do more to encourage more women to come out and report and im kicking off a series of actions by introducing a resolution today. Last year a Bipartisan Group of senators introduced this legislation aiming to turn the tied on how Sexual Assaults on College Campuses are handled and the legislation failed to pass and the bill has been reintroduced this past month. We cant wait any longer and we can not allow Sexual Assaults to simply be an accepted part of our Higher Education experience. Students will have a place to confidentially access and work with advisors to have training an
Accepting their rent check for years and they worked regardless of this work the landlord has decided not to pursue the residential option that the city provided. Rent payments that he actually refuses to accept have been put in he in escrow accounts and i recuse myself. I think he is confused about the work of ee elected representatives and yes i have a clear bias to preserve Affordable Housing in San Francisco. Further i have little sympathy for Property Owners that convict tenants because they can now make more money by doing what is legal and i want to thank the City Attorneys Office for helping to develop legislation that ensured that we as a city are evaluating loss of housing during this time and finally i want to thank the tenants many of whom are actually here today for their courage of coming out to support this legislation which is actually very complicated. It not only affects their lives but the lives of many others and what these tenants are doing today home is often our
Colleagues support and i thank the courageous survivors and you can witness some some of the amazing advocates yourself. And i also want to recognize supervisor tang a cosponsor of this resolution and the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor kim so now it is time for our 3 00 p. M. Special order so we are going to abandon roll call temporarily in order to honor some Pretty Amazing women in our city today im extremely pleased to welcome you all to the San Francisco board of Supervisors Chamber for our womens History Month celebration which is a time to recognize the efforts of some amazing women in our citys history. Women in our communities who are courageous leaders since 1996 the San Francisco commission and department on the status of women has recognized the vital role and contributions of woman in our communities so at this time before we begin to recognize some of the amazing women that are here in the audience today, i want to acknowledge emily the executive director welcome to t
Planning to work to find a resolution to the issues that the Property Owner brought forward that he had to evict the tenants and had profited by accepting their rent check for years and they worked regardless of this work the landlord has decided not to pursue the residential option that the city provided. Rent payments that he actually refuses to accept have been put in he in escrow accounts and i recuse myself. I think he is confused about the work of ee elected representatives and yes i have a clear bias to preserve Affordable Housing in San Francisco. Further i have little sympathy for Property Owners that convict tenants because they can now make more money by doing what is legal and i want to thank the City Attorneys Office for helping to develop legislation that ensured that we as a city are evaluating loss of housing during this time and finally i want to thank the tenants many of whom are actually here today for their courage of coming out to support this legislation which is