Wasnt such a foregone conclusion that we were going to be able to come out of this epidemic and even see the light at the end of the tunnel, there are a lot of young people who werent there. And who maybe dont understand what it was like and what can happen and maybe dont always take it as seriously as we need to take it in terms of prevention. And when i came out in 1990 as a 20year old, one of the first things i did, i went out to the bars of my lesbian cousin who was 14 years older and her partner, they said to me, you really need to start out with gay guys. You shouldnt just be hanging out with lesbians. My cousins partner said to me, you know, i really wanted to bring out some of my gay guy friends tonight, but theyre all dead. For me as a 20year old, that was permanently seared in my memory. You know, ive been careful ever since. But for a lot of younger guys in particular, didnt necessarily go through that. But this is so incredibly important that we continue to lead the way in
Difference not only at the individual level, but for increasing Community Health and wellness. So, again, a real signal real shout out to San Francisco for your leadership. And a real signal to how we can potentially move forward as a nation. So, thank you. So, San Francisco has been a model city for over 30 years in hiv prevention care and treatment. We look forward to working with you at the National Aids policy. We are going to continue to do a lot of outreach, conversations, figuring out how to bring the Community Voice to the federal level. It is always helpful for us to remind ourselves what have we done today to prevent new hiv infections. What have we done today to improve somebodys life living with hiv. And we know to recognize and to realize the present vision of an aids regeneration, we need to continue to build more bridges, which is like this. So, thank you very much and congratulations. applause thank you, brandt. Next id like to introduce herb schultz who is the regional
Have been out, i have been hear more about mobile retailers. I saw something on tv and it wasnt in San Francisco, but its in other cities and my gut feeling was a few years ago when mobile food trucks came out, oh, that wont affect us here, but guess what, that is affecting us here. You are starting to see them pop up. There was the rubber person selling the rubber stuffer out the truck and they vanished and i havent seen them around. I have seen a small truck with clothes in the commission and im okay, its going to start to happen. If we could take about that at one of the meetings because that is going to happen sooner or later. I have seen Womens Clothing trucks at levi plaza. So yes, commissioners, that is starting to be a standing agenda with the policy committee, but we have beening to doing work and staff member Christin Murdock is staffing the work on this and well proficient you with a more detailed update at the general meeting. X any other items . Next item. Item 15, adjourn
To have, on gun control. Senator feinstein will resubmit the assault weapons ban which bans 100 specific assault rifles, including the weapon used in sandy hook and highcapacity magazines of 10 rounds or more. Theres other things that we as major city chiefs would like to see happen, such as the banning of internet ammo sales. Wed like to see inperson transactions. The record of sales and licensing of ammo vendors, and other things i can talk to you about off line. We are doing everything we can to make San Francisco a safer place and reduce Violent Crime. The mayor spoke of ipo, which he introduced at the very beginning of august. And for the first august in memory and maybe even on record, we suffered zero homicides in that month. Unfortunately one homicide in the city is too many. Weve had 67 this year to date, which is up over the last couple years, record low. Still the best weve had in 10 years absent those record lows. Gun violence is down 4 in San Francisco. Largely because of
It goes back to the 18 50s Fishermans Wharf, megs wharf which was the place in San Francisco to enjoy yourself. Eventually Fishermans Wharf moved into youctionv to where the explore or yum is and it moved back up here. But in the 1950s, the port was coming out of world war ii, was trying to understand what container station was going to look like, and they commissioned a study that looked at the Economic Impact of the port to the city. That sounds familiar, does continue, mr. Mayor . And particularly to how the port could participate in the citys tour and commercial industries as well as their cargo industry, and specifically that report found that this area, since we were moving into containerization, were no longer really needed for cargo, that cargo would be better off being in the southern waterfront. And we would have this area devoted to more commercial activities, entertainment, dining, et cetera. And, so, in the early 1950s, the port moved forward and had the franciscan restaur