And was dying and dennis still involved with cannabis would give jonathan cannabis and the cannabis that jonathan received gave him substantial relief from the symptoms of aids. It helped him eat. It relieved pain. In the early case, many of the diseases that people were struck with were incredibly painful, whether it was the sarcoma lesions, which were unbelievably painful, or some of the bacterial infections that made it hard to eat, and hard to swallow. And so out of that came really the origins of the medical cannabis movement. Dennis opened the first cannabis club. And i believe i could be wrong, but i believe the very first one was the church at market, where people i think that was the original where people suffering tom aids would come and he would provide cannabis to them. That cannabis, like what happened with jonathan, would relieve their pain, would stimulate their appetite. Eventually, he opened a 5story club, and i talked about this before, around the corner on market street, more of an aids hospice than a cannabis club. Countless lives were saved by the work of dennis parone in the early days. Out of that came proposition 215, the medical Marijuana Law passed by the voters in 1996. Now this spread across the country. And we found that cannabis provides relief for people with h. I. V. Aids and a host of other conditions and, again, besides the lives that dennis saved in the early days, he continued to save lives through his advocacy for medical cannabis that really benefited patients all across the country and he created a movement. He changed history. You know, its funny, we now have prop 64 and january 1, here january 5, we have full legal cannabis. It strikes me as ironic. You would have thought that dennis had lived to see his greatest dream. But the full commercialization of cannabis is not something that dennis supported and he did not support prop 64. His view was that it was much like his close friend and my close friend Gilbert Baker that created the rainbow flag, which gilbert never patented. It was old hippie ethos, shared in love and if the for commercial gain. Its interesting that a lot of people that sacrificed a great deal to make the movement happen are not the people profiting today. As we go forward, we should keep that in mind. It is very difficult for many of us to have lost gilbert and dennis in the same year. Gilbert introduced me to dennis in 1996 and took me to the club where gilbert was the muralist in the building and, unfortunately, theyre gone, but several rooms gilbert painted. And i know for those folks who have been fighting this fight for so many decades within the medical cannabis movement, the aids movement, lgbt civil rights movement, this is a tremendous loss for our community. And were sad. But we also have to recognize that this was a person whose influence and impact were truly colossal and it was somebody that really was a great, great person to have sprung out of the freedom and the energy that we used to have in this city, where people would show up here, be able to define themselves authentically, often in confrontation with the existing power structure, something i fear, unfortunately, is ebbing away. I want to honor dennis and let his family know that were very sad for his loss and let the Community Know that were sad for his loss. Clerk thank you. Supervisor tang . Supervisor tang i have something amazing to submit but i will talk about it at a later time and want to welcome supervisor stephanie, excited to have you here and wish supervisor safai a happy birthday, but hes not here right now. Clerk thank you, supervisor tang. President breed . Supervisor breed i think you skipped over supervisor yee. Clerk at his request. Supervisor breed i have two items today. I will introduce a resolution to senate bill presented by scott weiner. San francisco has experienced a car breakin epidemic for far too long. We all see the broken glass on the streets every morning. Many of our residents who return to their car knows what it feels like when you walk up to your car and you see your window smashed. Its the worst feeling in the world. Many of our residents know what it feels like to shell out 300 that they really dont have to fix that car window. Personally, its happened to me and its happened, actually, in front of my own home. And we must do more to educate our residents and visitors on how to prevent car breakins. We need to ensure that the crimes can be effectively prosecuted, which is what this senate bill is all about. Last year we worked to increase Public Awareness about car breakins as a preventative measure. It requires rental Car Companies to notify and educate drivers on how to prevent car breakins. And were already seeing improvements in tourist hotspots. We know improving the education piece results in the reduction of car breakins, but we have to continue advancing Creative Solutions to address this epidemic. We have to solve for all neighborhoods in our city and not just areas where there are tourists. Believe it or not, under the current state law, breaking a car window is not enough to be convicted of a burglary. Think about that for a minute. Smashing a car window is not enough. Under current state law, a prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the car was locked, regardless if the window was smashed or the door was forcibly opened. Who here remembers if you lock a car door. A tourist that rents a car will not come back to San Francisco and testify that they locked the doors. So this Legal Standard is not only out of date, but it makes it impossible for us to hold individuals committing these crimes accountable for doing so. Senate bill 916 will make it possible for prosecutors to prove individual committed an auto burglary if they broke the window period. Regardless if the doors were not locked or not. This is common sense legislation and i want to thank senator scott weiner for his levelheaded, common sense legislation and we need every tool possible in the tool book to address what we know as an em epidemic in San Francisco. Secondly, a hearing on trumps tax plan. Today we know that the president will give his state of the union address. Ive asked for a hearing request to ask the budget and legislative analysts as well as the controller to prepare comprehensive analysis of the impact of the trump tax package on our city and our residents. Particularly how we anticipate it will impact small businesses, homeowners, working families and what we can do locally to help our residents navigate this misguided policy. Tonight when he gives his state of the city address, state of the union address, we will, im sure, hear a lot of things we dont like. And weve been here before. And as a city, weve always stepped up and tried to be prepared, hope for the best, and try to be prepared for the worst. And this is one way in which we can do so. In december, our president said, we broke every record in describing a tax package that provides the most generous tax cuts to the wealthiest of americans, eliminated deductions for state and local income taxes, and severely limited the mortgage interest tax deductions. I heard from dozens of residents who are Property Owners in december scrambling to pay their property taxes in advance so they could be eligible for the deduction. People in our city are starting to feel the impact. People are scared and people want us to focus on fighting for them. We as a city need to know in detail how the policies will help our working families or teachers that have been able to purchase a home in the city and those who are still struggling to realize their dreams of home ownership. We need to know how local businesses that often file their businesses on their personal returns, how they will be impacted by the elimination of the state deductions. We need to know how the impacts of the removal of Tax Credit Program on our Housing Production and preservation work will be impacted. I believe the robust discussion well have will help us to identify every possible solution to support our residents and protect them from these harmful policies that are being imposed upon us and the rest i submit. Supervisor cohen rerefer. Supervisor fewer im calling for an update on vision zero. It began in 2014 as a measure to eliminate traffic fatalities using the tool kit of engineering, education and enforcement, despite the news theres been project on the vision zero goal that im growing increasingly concerned about Traffic Safety on our city streets. In the last few months alone, theres been several collisions. Its focused exclusive on Traffic Enforcement and investigation. What are the duties of traffic officers . I think its important to understand what districts theyre focusing on. Whether the enforcements are requestbased or databased. How are motorcycle solos dispatched, allocated across Police Precinct and how has that changed in the year since vision zero was adopted . How many times are they pulled off to do other duties such as Police Escorts and dignitaries . I hope that this will be an opportunity to better understand the role of the Traffic Company and how we can further strengthen our process to vision zero. And today supervisor ronen and i are calling for a hearing on gang injunctions, in response to a letter sent from a public defender to the City Attorney. Calling for the end to gang injunctions was discussed at a recent meeting of the reentry council, of which im a member. Gang injunctions were put into place in 2007. 10 years later, i have questions about whether they should continue to exist. Between 20072011, seven injunctions were brought covering four neighborhoods naming 139 people, all africanamerican and latino men. 10 years later in a different San Francisco, there are questions about the efficacy of these gang injunctions about the neighborhoods of color. Oakland eliminated gang injunctions and l. A. Has made major reductions to their list after an audit. Today i call for a hearing to hear the status of our own gang injunctions. The rest i submit. Clerk supervisor kim, not in chambers. Well go to rereferred. Supervisor ronen last night, over 200 chinesespeaking residents and merchants attended a packed meeting to share their concerns involving crime and violence in the neighborhood. Muggings, car breakins and home invasions continue to hurt residents of all ages. Ive heard of a disturbing amount of muggings. On january 19 a merchant had his laptop stolen and then was run over by a car. Its not okay that constituents of mine are afraid to walk home, do their Grocery Shopping or go to work. What is most frustrating to may constituents and to me is that currently there are no cantonesespeaking officers working in the portola neighborhood. And this is a neighborhood where 60 of the resideidents are of chinese dissent. In fact, the bayview station does not have even one cantonesespeaking officer right now. This is completely unacceptable. Im sure that supervisor cohen would agree for other neighborhoods where large numbers are cantonesespeaking, such as bayview, where 17 of the residents are cantonesespeaking. My office has been in conversation with the leadership of sfpd over the last month to demand that we get cantonesespeaking officers in the bayview station immediately. Captain steve ford and commander lazare made a promise to the community and put cantonesespeaking officers in the portola. Im glad and grateful this promise has been made and we will follow up to make sure its a reality. If that does not come to pass, im committed to looking into other possibilities, including legislation to make sure that it happens. The chinese residents in the portola deserve to feel safe. Secondly, and this is in response to supervisor cohens Statement Today that shes going to be introducing legislation or a resolution urging our mayor to appoint a caretaker mayor to district 2. Im hoping that we might have some unity here where we can move forward on an issue thats been plaguing the issue or this city for quite some time. Over the last five years, there have been numerous debates about San Franciscos unusual charter that i believe confuses the separation of powers by allowing the mayor to appoint supervisors and supervisors to appoint a mayor when theres a vacancy. Supervisor avalos introduced legislation in 2016 that ensured that its the public who represents their next supervisor and then in the short, interim period before a special election is called, that a caretaker is appointed in the interim. The legislation became known as proposition d. When a Supervisors Office is vacant, they appoint a caretaker that would be scheduled within five months time. I was a proud supporter of this ballot measure, because i believe that separation of power is fundamentally important part of our american government. And i say this with full respect for the supervisors on this board, tang, sheehy and stephanie. You have dedicated so much of your life to Public Service and im honored to be working with all three of you. We cannot legally move backwards on any of those appointments, but i do believe that we need to fix this charter moving forward into the future. Proposition d was barely defeated. It got 48 of the vote and thats after the mayor ran an active campaign against it, spending close to 2 million to defeat it. Today i will be asking the City Attorney to prepare a new version that will require caretaker positions for mayor and supervisors moving forward. We need to stop the seesaw of rallying for appointments when we split the candidate and against when we dont. We need to create clear rules that allow the people of San Francisco to elect the people serving them in elected government. So i really hope, supervisor cohen, that we can work on this issue together. That would be a great honor to me and i think could help us heal moving forward. With that, i submit. Clerk supervisor cohen . Supervisor cohen i have three items. Im asking the City Attorney to begin drafting legislation to landmark the historic Arthur Coleman medical building, which is on 3rd street in district 10. Dr. Arthur coleman was the bayviews first africanamerican physician and faithfully served the community for 20 years particularly when africanamericans didnt have the ability to go to any hospital in the city and county of San Francisco. Dr. Coleman originally opened his clinic with an array of Health Services to meet people where they are, creating access to community Health Services. Dr. Coleman helped black and brown students enter the field of medicine and create a thriving practice for black medical professionals. As San Francisco continues to change, its critically important for africanamericans to define our community and claim our history and protect the San Francisco cultural monuments for change. Beyond physically displacing people, trauma is afflicted. When people are priced out of a neighborhood from where they and their parents and grandparents lived, the family breaks down. Bayview clinic is continuing a legacy by providing low Income Health care for those on medical. And its creating a place where Community Members can receive every kind of care and learn healthy ways to live. I would lick like to honor this work by landmarking this building. A film about dr. Coleman will be shown as part of a Community Discussion on february 8 at 6 00 p. M. The next item im calling for today is to introduce a hearing request on Street Safety in the visitation valley portola neighborhood border, specifically calling question and attention to the intersection where they all meet together. What happened is tragic. Last tuesday, there was a tragic and fatal headon collision and people lost their lives. There have been numerous headon accidents, as twoway traffic tries to fit into a single line. Would i like to hear from sfmta about the changes made to the street in the last few years. And i will call on rec and park to come and defend its reconfiguration of the streets around mclaren park. Im considered in looking at data that they may have collected on collisions and other incidents and i want to understand mtas strategy for improving Street Safety in the neighborhood. I want to lift up and recognizing my friend and constituent arturo sandoval, who is here with us today, for bringing this important matter to my attention. In closing, i want to take a moment to express my concerns around the appointment process of new colleagues and then ultimately conversations that transpired last week when we were in the process of electing a new, interim mayor. As you recall at the Board Meeting last week, i want to recognize that i heard and understand the importance of the concerns of a caretaker mayor. Ive received that message and have had an opportunity to internalize and process it. And i heard what the body said, insurmountable advantage to any candidate, and to have somebody with incumbency would be to silence voters of San Francisco. I heard you when you said to give someone the incumbency provided an unfair advantage and the election of a mayor must not be in the hands of the board of supervisors. I understand the concerns about money, influence and politics. I understand the instincts to, of course, avoid paytoplay and back room deals. I understand all of these concerns and i believe they apply as much as the district 2 seat as they do to the Mayors Office. I had intended to introduce a resolution urging interim mayor