Forecast. Its scheduled for february 15, 2018. With Corporate Sponsors Bank of america, San Francisco chamber of commerce and bouma, the building owners and managers association. Oakland mayor will be one of the speakers as well as the acting mayor of San Francisco, along with expert forecasters in finance, and real estate who are also scheduled to speak. Tickets are 125 each. I dont know if you can see, but heres the little blur b, its upcoming and there is event information on the second page. They reference the mayoral transition and they talk about the booming economy and all of the opportunities for the new wave of development. Who is going to attend the conference . Who is going to represent san franciscans when they go into the room with all these developers and realtors and people who are concerned about our housing and finance forecast . Please support the item 48 to appoint an interim mayor, we need someone who is not running for mayor in june. Someone who has does not have any kind of interest in running the city. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, my name is denise and i have lived in district 5 for 30 years. I want to you ask you to appoint an interim mayor, one that is currently not sitting on the board, one that is currently not running for mayor, so we can have a fair election. Clerk thank you for your comments. I live in district 5 over 20 years. This situation we are up to dealing with reminds me of something Matt Gonzalez considered having the appointment of commissioners be something that the body does versus the mayor. And his main emphasis was there should be checks and balance, the mayor should not be appointing commissioner, this is representation of the body and it represents more than opportunity for them to tell the board what is right, what is wrong, what is not working right. The other concern that i have that reminds me of this, when anthony ska leah passed away and president obama was not allowed to appoint a Supreme Court judge. I remember people saying that was not right. And so we had someone who has passed away dear to us and we dont have someone appointed, someone not able to say im independent of what we really have. If the same argument you felt that president obama should have had the chance to appoint someone, you should have the same argument why you should allow someone to be appointed, someone to be able to run. If you have the power, you have the representation, you have the authority to make this happen. You have to consider yourself. This is the current environment, its a lobbyist dream where you have someone who is a supervisor, someone who is also sitting on the highest table and someone who is also the mayor, thats a lobbyist dream if theyre in favor and were not that kind of city. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im with the democratic socialists of america, im a 12year resident of district 5. Over the time ive lived in district 5, the vast majority of the communities and neighbors there pushed out by gentryification. I think the same thing is happening on a larger scale across the city and im concerned about the direction the city has been going over the past years. I would like to see that changed. I asked you to support appointing interim mayor to give the people a fair chance to elect a person who is going represent the desires of the people who live here. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Tom gilbert, ditto what he said, its not racial, its political. A lot of us know that. Last time i spoke here i mentioned how supervisor kim said that graduates of navigation schools and programs are better in other neighborhoods than where they came from, where they had the addiction and how the avenues, the challenge there was what could they do for us. And i dont think they can do very much. A couple of years ago in the chamber we discussed having graduate places, places for graduate foster kids in the marina and that went through a lot of pretense. And there is not much space or building out there. The eastern neighborhood plan is just booming. And weve got bold new neighborhoods, but no places for seniors, the giants are giving 1500 new homes, and since the last time i said i didnt care for that, theyve added 24 homes for graduate foster kids. We still need seniors, we still need housing for disabled, for mentally genetically, emotionally challenged folks there for us, there for the god go the grace of i, the foster kids, section 8s, the veterans, the people that are less fortunate. And we need to fill in homes that work for the city. We need a change of direction. Instead of we get one oak, 100 for the 1 . Disappointing. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am frisco, im going to speak for frisco, black and brown, not San Francisco. With that being said, it doesnt matter to me who becomes mayor, black, brown, male, female, it doesnt even matter. Pokemon, peek chiu, because i know the history, this moment that we have right now, it is all part of the systemic depression, with that said, i will say these names. If anyone has a pencil or a text message, write these names, because you need to know them. Right now. Im talking to all the beautiful black people going through it for years and years. Charles august, nate at the gear, nicholas. Michael malone, nathan chiu, justin herb, scott phillip. Jason sawyer. Joshua and i dont know the names of the cops that killed icky two weeks ago in that first point shooting video that obviously looked like a murder. With that being said, those are the names of all of the officers that have murdered black and brown lives, so whoever becomes mayor next, whatever you do w h these names, these murderers, thats part of your legacy. Im going to leave it at that. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is raul, native of glen park. 1959, i came here at 10 00 a. M. This morning to speak to malia and im looking for a champion of one of you to be like gad newsen was for open marriage. We need the people were calling. Africanamerican, everything but indigenous. North america, south america, we dont know it understand because were not getting information. It is available. Look at our history. The majority of the native indians of america, we need to wake up, were from here. Were from here. Were born here, were pailio americans, the ancient americans. We are enslaved here. 8090 of our slaves were here americans. Martin luther king said three days before he was executed, they mechanized our farms. We put the roots in the ground. Our farms. Our land. And i have a dream speech, he said, were in exile in our own land, we need to wake up, amnesia has to end, this spell has to end. Were the Indigenous People of the land, a majority. The president says to and history one of you i hope will be back. Im looking for a champion, i need it for recognition for digits people, paleoamericans. Thank you. Clerk before the next speaker begins, are there any other members that would like to address the board during general comment. You may address the board on the process to appoint the successor mayor. In a couple of minutes were going to take up the items 40 and 41. And you can then provide your preferred nominee to the board so they can then appoint that individual hopefully. Please proceed, sir. Good afternoon to the board. My name is joshua herbert. I was a resident of d5 but evicted from a rent controlled residence from loopholes navigated by my millionaire landlords. As one person said earlier, this is a lobbyist dream. I dont want to live in a city where moneyed individuals and corporations dictate where we live. Please respect the charter. Thank you. Hi, my name is natalia. I wanted to point out two things, people have been saying that london breed would have three discreet roles, there is a fourth, which is fulltime campaigning for mayor. I would like to urge the board of supervisors to honor the charter as well. I would like to also bring up the fact of the Mid Town Park apartments which some of you may be familiar with, or may not. This is a group of tenants ive been working with for the past three years. They were primarily africanamerican seniors who are life long residents of the fillmore community. They were victims of civic redevelopment who had their home equity and assets seized from them due to city policy. And im not confident that london breed is going to do anything for them. She hasnt done anything for them in the past three years. And i would really like to see a district 5 supervisor who could give these tenants the attention that they deserve. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is olga, we represent the janitors and secretary treasurer of the transportation council, we represent 150,000 workers here in San Francisco. Im here to speak on the mayor, we dont need a mayor that is a caretaker, we need a mayor that can take care of the city. There are a lot of issues looming over us and working families, we need a mayor for everyone, not just for some. Unfortunately, weve had to bear witness that for women of color there is always a double standard over how well were taken into consideration. How many progressive men have stepped aside to let a woman take a position they wanted. There is a lot of entitlement in San Francisco, but you have to be on the right side to be folded in. It upsets me as a woman of color, it always has to be whoever somebody else dictates. Dianne feinstein when she was put in this position, never had to preclude whether she had to do this or that. Its horrible as a woman, were telling them if youre in my politics i get to say who you will be and how far you can go. Thats not ok. We live in a city that just a few days ago, we were celebrating women and raise up with women and stand up with women, but in San Francisco in this chamber, were telling women to step down because its not for you to take care of us. The issues of women and families in San Francisco isnt just a oneday issue. We live it every day, every night. We have to juggle with the two shifts, one of that of mother and one of that of a hardworking person. Its not fair families are told this is what you must do, this is how we will speak for you. Let the voters decide, but do not put any one of us women in a box. You do not speak for me. My vote speaks for me. Clerk thank you for your comments. Thank you for your comments. Mr. Da costa. Service, ive coming to this chamber many times. And ive seen people talk about this, that and the other. But i want to ask the candidates, have you dipped into donations . Have you stated in the chambers that youre not going to take a certain amount and you have. If you are hypocrites, then you are not part of the holistic, the healing in San Francisco. I represent the first people of San Francisco. And when i come into those chambers, some people who say they want to represent have been very, very disrespectful to the advocates. And ive heard people say that san franciscans are very astute and theyll vote for the right person. But i havent heard one Single Person say if this person or this persons who are going to represent if they have their heart in the right place. What did we say when the 100yearold woman, miss canada, was not helped and she died . What did we say when hundreds of our children were exposed to asbestos and we did nothing. We have Empirical Data about candidates that have taken the money and there are journalists here that reported on it. Let us not be hypocrites. Let us have our hearts in the right place to take others to a clerk thank you for your comments. Are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general comment. Acting mayor breed seeing no other members of the public who would like to provide Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, on items 4648, supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, i would like to sever items 46, 47 and 48 from the acting mayor breed i apologize. I need to call the items. Madame clerk. Please call the items for adoption without reference. Clerk items 4548, a single rule call vote could approve these items, otherwise matters could be severed and considered separately. Acting mayor breed supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madame president , colleagues, first of all i want to sever the items so we could talk about them. I do have one amendment to item 47. I am acting mayor breed we cant talk about them until we sever them, so which items . Supervisor peskin item 4648. Acting mayor breed and supervisor farrell. Supervisor farrell item 45. Clerk item 45, supervisor kim. Supervisor kim no. Clerk call the items please. Supervisor kim a resolution to urge congress and the federal Communications Commission to uphold net neutrality. Supervisor farrell two things, omitted supervisor peskin as cosponsor and supervisor ronen, thank you for your cosponsorship. And here are the talking points, theyre going into the trash and i hope to have your support. Acting mayor breed thank you. No other names on the roster, madame clerk approximate call the roll. Clerk kim aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Sheehy aye. Tang aye. Yee aye. Breed aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Fewer aye. There are 11 ayes, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call item 4648. Motion to direct the clerk of the board to propose a process for nominating and selecting a successor mayor. Item 48 is the motion that the board of supervisors convene as a committee of the whole on january 23, 2018, to discuss the proposed motion to take nominations and appoint a successor mayor to fill a advocacy in the office of the mayor. Acting mayor breed supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madame president , colleagues. I rise today to as the author of items 46 and 48, and want to thank the clerk of the board and her staff for producing item 47, which is the process modelled after the last time there was a vacancy during the middle of a term in 2010, when then mayor gavin knewsome was elected to be lieutenantgovernor and board of supervisors ultimately selected edwin ma lee as the interim mayor and as we all know, he died untimely and sadly on december 12th. I am the authors of items 46 and 48, because i do believe that we owe it to the charter and we owe it to the public to have this conversation. And much has been said about the charter, so i want to talk about the charter because were a city and a state and a nation of laws. So i want to be clear. Were not changing the charter. The charter says that when an elike an event that happened on december 12 happens, the president of the board becomes the acting mayor. And the board can appoint an interim mayor, or we could choose not to appoint an interim mayor in which case our president , who my colleague supervisor cohen nominated last year and i seconded that nomination to make her president , would continue to act in both roles. The argument about the separation of powers i think is remarkably important and we can elucidate many examples. The voters voted to split the appointments on the Planning Commission and the board of appeals and the police commission, where in those instances, or most of those instances, the board president appoints and the mayor appoints. It is the fundamental underlying notion about what makes america great. And by the way, that was not an american notion, it was a native Indian American notion. It was a first peoples notion, it came from the iroquois nation. The separation of powers came from the iroquois people and we adopted that. Yes, the charter says that the board president can be acting mayor and act in both roles, but it was never contemplated to last for a long period of time. And because for some reason we were not able to get it together because of the holidays, ed lee died, the day of the last Board Meeting of 2017, our colleague ms. Fewer was out of the country, it was not right to schedule that meeting, so im not pointing fingers at anybody. I hope to have that meeting the first week of january, the second week of january, here we are, its the third week of january. I believe this is the longest period of time where a board president has served as acting mayor. I had my staff look at it. There were periods of time where somebody has been a mayor out of town and appointed the board president for a handful of days. There is the instance in 1978 that been referred to in this room after George Moscone was assassinated. They made the board president the interim mayor, the interim mayor. I think its the right thing to adopt item 48 amongst and almost two weeks after the passing of edwin lee to have the conversation and hear from the public. I want to say to the public, those of you have come today, those who have emailed us, thank you. It is not a pleasant conversation to have. Its very painful to have, watching the division on racial lines, watching the divisions around gender, is a very painful conversation to have, but its the conversation were supposed to have. So i wanted to say those things and i also wanted to express im disappointed we did not have this meeting the first week of january, the second week of january, the third week of january. Here we are. I also want to note one thing and remind everybody of something which is that when as the city has gone back and forth between district elections and citywide elections, the way the board president has been shrekked has changed. Selected has changed. When all 11 of us voted to elect one of us to be the board president , in the old days when there were citywide elections, it was the number one votegetter who became the board president. And there is an important distinction there that we should all remember. I say that as somebody who is elected by my colleagues twice, like my friend london breed, unanimously. And i knew that i was one heart beat away from the mayor. And i also knew that should the unfortunate tragic things that happened to ed lee, had they happened, i, too, would have to go before the board should i choose to do it, should the board choose to have me, because the charter is clear, it can be any registered voter, any qualified register voter in the city and county of San Francisco. So i want to have that conversation. I would like to convene the committee of the whole and offer one amendment