He has been quite a main stay in the excelsior district. He passed away at the ripe age of 97 last tuesday surrounded by his children in the home where he was born and raised. John was known as mr. Excelsior because of his dedication to the community. He helped to revitalize the excelsior District Improvement association, the edia. In 1959. And to this day the edia holds its monthly meeting in the spacious basement of his home on santa rosa avenue. John continued to remain active as the sergeant of arms and led the pledge of allegiance before each meeting. As a former president of the edia, one of his proudest accomplishment was to safe 88 homes from the demolition for a parking lot. John organized a petition drive and delivered 8,000 signatures to city hall to successfully stop the demolition. I cant imagine that happening now, what an incredible feat that would be. John was a very active member of Corpus Christi church which is right across the street from his home in the excelsior.
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Me questions about, you know, what happens when there are vacancies, including vacancies on those board of supervisors and consistent with the statements that i have made, i believe that it makes sense that when there is such a vacancy on this board or any other office, that it is up to should be up to the electorate to the voters of San Francisco to decide who fills oyez vacancies. In the past we have seen a power struggle between the board of supervisors and the mayor which is one of the reasons i really appreciate the way that supervisor avalos has approached this because instead of actually trying to engage a power struggle or a tug of war between the board and the mayor, i think that this takes it out of that and brings it back to the voters. I think that makes a great deal of sense, letting the voters decide. I also think the study that was done by the lafco on this piece on this issue is very informative because it actually shows that San Francisco is the exception, not the norm
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Director john arents for his assistants. [speaker not understood] to bring this forward. I also want to thank my colleagues who are so far cosponsoring. Supervisors mar and supervisors campos. I think this is a measure thats really about democracy. Its about Good Government and how can anyone really be against democratic elections. So, colleagues, i hope we can all come on board with this as it move to rules committee and gets placed on the ballot. And we can give san franciscans the type of democracy that he he we all believe is worthy of this great city of ours. The rest ill submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to speak about two item. The first one i do want to add my voice in supporting the Charter Amendment that has been introduced by supervisor avalos. In the last few months ive had a number of constituents and residents of the eastern half of San Francisco who have asked me questions about, you know, what happens when