The city of San Francisco meeting of Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee occurring on april 2, 2015 will begin shortly. [gavel] good afternoon everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the thursday april 2, 2015 meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is eric mar. Im the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor Julie Christensen and to my right is Supervisor Scott Wiener and katy tang. Our clerk is mr. Derek evans. Could you give us the announcements. Thank you mr. Chair. Please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and files should be splitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. We have three important hearings on the agenda today so its going to be a substantive meeting. The third hearing on addressing bias in the San Francisco Justice System and the racist and homophobic texts withi
Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is eric mar. Im the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor Julie Christensen and to my right is Supervisor Scott Wiener and katy tang. Our clerk is mr. Derek evans. Could you give us the announcements. Thank you mr. Chair. Please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and files should be splitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. We have three important hearings on the agenda today so its going to be a substantive meeting. The third hearing on addressing bias in the San Francisco Justice System and the racist and homophobic texts within the San Francisco Police Department will be last and i will start with the first one. Number one for the health code and prohibit wild or Exotic Animals for public entertainment or amusement. Thank you. This is sponsored by supervisors tang, wiener and y
Good afternoon. My name is daffy lang and a lifelong San Francisco resident and representing the animal Legal Defense fund. I want to thank supervisor tang, wiener and yee for sponsoring the legislation. When it comes to handles these animals for entertainment abuse is the rule, not the exception. Handlers embed the sharp hook into the soft tissue behind elephant ears and other sensitive spots and under the chins and tigers are whipped and beaten and man are in tiny cages and this ordinance is in the best interest of Public Safety and animals that are subjected to abuse are prone to unpredictable dangerous behavior that has a serious risk of injury and death and while weapons can inflict serious pain on animals they cant control a elephant or tiger that attacks and we applaud the supervisors for taking the lead on this issue and San Francisco should join the other california cities that have banned Exotic Animal performing acts. Thank you. Good afternoon everybody. My name is Krista He
Different places around california are only required to have extremely small spaces for their animals to live, up to 3,000 square feet for a tiger for the entire life. 300 square feet for the tiger to life and many things the people dont see when the tiger comes for a performance. The opposition fights to keep the standards so low and the public that supports that thing is much more aware of what happens. The animal trade is another disgusting part of the wild animal business, not just the ones that come to the city, but the ones that are bought, sold and traded that are considered surplus, so if anybody has any questions i have been doing this a long time and i might be able to answer some. Thank you very much. I think that you have been a really great supporter of this legislation. I really support your efforts and what youre doing. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon committee members. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you. I am captain cindy michado and the directo
Important hearings on the agenda today so its going to be a substantive meeting. The third hearing on addressing bias in the San Francisco Justice System and the racist and homophobic texts within the San Francisco Police Department will be last and i will start with the first one. Number one for the health code and prohibit wild or Exotic Animals for public entertainment or amusement. Thank you. This is sponsored by supervisors tang, wiener and yee. Supervisor tang. Thank you very much and i would like to thank everyone for being here today and last month i introduced legislation that will prohibit the performance of wild or Exotic Animals for public entertainment or amusement in San Francisco and many of us attended a circus or live animal performance in the past. They are common place in many of our cities. San francisco last hosted a circus in the fall of 2013 and again slated for this year but circuses i believe do not provide educational value. I think that they do a disservice t