Due to the pay and high cost of living in San Francisco. I look forward to your support. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank you supervisor kim . Supervisor kim submit. [roll call] supervisor mandelman colleagues, it has been one year since the city assumed maintenance responsibilities for nearly 100,000 trees in the street tree program. Today i am calling for a hearing to better understand the program s initial impacts, challenges and successes. Of the hundreds of calls and emails our office has received since july, street trees are the number 2 issue after homelessness. One out of every ten because we receive are related to street trees under maintenance or removal. One year into the program, many of our constituents remain confused about how it works, who is responsible for trimming trees, how to make a request for service and how to opt out. We are calling for this hearing to make help inform residents about the program. We also see it as an opportunity to engage with city departments, friends of the urban forest and concerned Community Members about the future of our tree canopy including how to expand the canopy over time. Ensuring the San Francisco neighborhoods enjoy a healthy growing and wellmaintained tree canopy is something previous district eight supervisors have championed and i look forward to carrying on that tradition. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. [roll call] supervisor peskin thank you. I will submit my legislation but i would like to adjourn the meeting in the memory of bob roper. Commonly referred to at the south rowing club as now but bob roper. A former deputy sheriff. A great character, who in the 1960s, i think it was 1968, set the record for swimming across the golden gate in a 19 minutes and some odd seconds. I cant remember the exact number of seconds but that record has never been broken. Bob roper passed away a couple of days ago. I want to adjourn the Board Meeting in his memory. I will also adjourn the Board Meeting in the memory of cyrus shaik who worked at mommas in north beach by Washington Square he was just one of the sweetest souls and i am sorry for daughter and partner. Clerk thank you. [roll call] supervisor ronen colleagues, i would also like to adjourn the meeting in memory of virginia ramos. Better known as the tamale lady. She was known far and wide to many of us, i have a feeling, other supervisors will want to join on, but was especially known in the mission district. Virginia had so much love for all the characters to make up San Francisco and she was definitely one of those characters. I determined and hardworking women with strong opinions, she lived a colourful and rough life virginia was a true San Francisco character. She earned legendary status for her decades of selling delicious tamales a popular watering holes in the mission and beyond. I remember her vividly. She was a big part of my twenties in San Francisco. She rolled her cart through the streets serving tamales to the sober and tipsy alike, will liberally dispensing advice, hugs and loved everyone she encountered. She was born in mexico on june 26, 1953 to a single mother she learned the art of tamale macon making from her mother and grandmother. They would make huge batches of tamales and sell them at church. She emigrated to San Francisco in the eighties where she settled with her seven children in the mission. For decades, she cooked hundreds of tamales in her kitchen and brought them in her cooler to hundreds of hungry patrons and bars throughout San Francisco. The business thrive to make for many years and she was able to raise her seven children with the proceeds from the tamale goodness and even sent most of them to college. Then in 2013, she was barred from selling her tamales at bars a story that gained National Attention because it became a symbol of changing San Francisco with the support of many, including my predecessor, virginia landed on her feet. She launched a Gofundme Campaign that raised over 20,000 to help her find her own restaurant space. She took over a place at 16th and up and began the process of building and opening a brickandmortar restaurant. Unfortunately, her plans were interrupted by the lengthy process and expense of opening a brickandmortar restaurant in San Francisco. At the time of her death, very, very sadly, she was only a few months away from finally realizing her dream. All of San Francisco mourns her passing this week. Thank you from all of us, virginia, for bringing so much love, joy and really good advice to so many of us throughout our lives. May you rest in peace. Supervisor cohen thank you [roll call] madam president . That includes the introduction of new business. Supervisor cohen thank you very much. Madam clerk, i think that brings us to item 44. Public comments. The public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter of the board. Supervisor cohen thank you supervisors, i mentioned earlier i was here at the six hour meeting. I have a leg brace and a back brace and i stayed throughout today. I want to tell you that the years and years of my environmental work are not going to be in vain. I have thousands of articles that i have written. I go before the bay area air Quality Management district and you have some representatives. They dont Pay Attention when you go to the board. The bay area air Quality Management district has employees who want to work very hard and they are told destroy the documents and we have not heard anything from our supervisors and we have not heard anything from our board. So on another level, an important level, you all know that at Hunters Point, equipment was put so that they could register the very, very high levels of asbestos structures. What did they do . Which some of you supervisors have taken money from, they removed the batteries. I know. In any project, and more of dubious projects, that supervisors, including mayors take a lot of money. Illegal money. They think they can use a mechanism of this money or whatever, but that is blood on your hands. So i dont mind suffering, but i dont like to take painkillers. I will suffer. But i will speak up. I make statements, but there are supervisors that have their hearts in the right place and those who get my blogs, they know they have to do what is right. Thank you, very much. Supervisor cohen thank you , for your comments. Mr wright . On the 19th of this month, you heard from 90 black skinned coloured people, both male and females pertaining to discrimination based on race. By all of the departments here in the city, i submit to you that you are running a correct and organize enterprise in the city and county of San Francisco you originate by ethnic cleansing in the fillmore area by justin herman. Any further compound the problem years before them in the forties , with chemical warfare, by using hazardous chemical materials, and the Hunters Point area which kills thousands , probably millions of black people. It just flows. As a result of your employment discrimination against blacks, and every department within the city, and numerous testimony took place, i find it odd that the two black females in the authoritative position failed to appear. And they have the audacity to tell us about employment and about how you dont appreciate us talking about employment and people who are making 184,000 for sweeping up shipped off the street. And you say it was 80,000 and i was being disrespectful. It is not 80,000 a year they are making. They are making a hundred and 84,000. I appreciate you talking to me like that. It just flows. S. F. Glove , gov, please. The bay area has an increase in modern rent. Given the neighborhood sponsors with more than 30 of the decrease in the number of low income africanamericans, latinos and asians living there. Researchers found that the statement supervisor cohen thank you mr daltrey . Do we have two minutes or three minutes . Supervisor cohen you have two minutes. Thank you. It says in the agenda we have three. Ok. My name is anubis. Good evening to madam president and the fellow board of supervisors. I am a San Francisco native and i was homeless for six years on the streets of San Francisco in the city that i grew up in. I have come here today for the general Public Comment to talk about homelessness and the attitude that the city seems to have taken towards the Homeless Population. More than ever, we see that the city is trying to house Homeless People but on the same token, it punishes and it criminalizes the Homeless Population for simply sleeping on the street. I am a person of reason. I understand that people and your constituents have fear of people who commit crimes or perceived to have committed crimes. I understand action seem to be taken when true crimes are committed such as robbery or violent crimes, et cetera. The people should not be criminalized for the simple act of sleeping. And it has become very common in the city for d. P. W. To cave into businesses and even to put barricades on public property, but not only dampers, it dampers the ability to survive on the street but the ability for the general public to use public spaces. One example of this would be the u. N. Plaza. In summary, i just want what im asking for is i want this board to send a message to the entire City Government and the current mayor, that you will not stand for decriminalized of the criminalization of homelessness. Supervisor cohen thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Tom gilbert d. I mentioned earlier about gavin newsom running for governor. He is the man that pressed court against the washington vote. He was saying we need a new formula. So the people of San Francisco said to1 margin, we dont want eight washington. I am wondering, where is he coming from and what his new formula is going to be . Again, financial profits. From what i understand, the world dash the word is fire, now. Financial, insurance, real estate runs the world. We have a situation here that we are going to leave behind 25 or 30 Affordable Housing starting at hundred 20,000. And yet we have social needs in our community. The weave is wearing apart. Where are we going to get Senior Housing . Where are we going to get foster kid housing . Disabled housing . Section eight housing . People that are on the margin that cant afford their own homes anymore. People in the margin who cant afford their rents anymore. We need dignity homes. They dont have to be large, but they can be they should be placed in every format. Especially what we are talking about today in this 15 15,000 or 1500 homes, again. We think 25 is great but how can a teacher make a hundred 20,000 and afford a home here . We need to reweave our society. We need to bring the Government Back home. Times are changing. If we can do this and set this model up here, it can be multiplied into every other community. We need a new direction. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Yesterday Michael Savage made a very interesting statement about christine forward and how she works at some christine forward and how she recruits ford people for the c. I. A. Everything that the American Public believes is a lie. What is his name . He was there talking about that. Do you remember that guys name . What ever. This is big. I dont know why Rush Limbaugh did not say anything about it or sean hannity. I cannot listen to 12 hours a day talk radio. This is big. It makes perfect sense. Christine forward ford is lying about sean kavanaugh. You cant have one big mouth lady bringing down one guy. Where are the four people who were in the room. They all said it didnt happen. Jesus is unique. He can do that. He said if i bear witness of myself, my witness is true. He said in the law of moses that it is commanded that two or three witnesses, everything will be established. Not just one lone witness legacy to. Jesus said, i am want to bear witness of myself and my father bears witness of me. Do you realize what he is saying there . Jesus stands alone. There is no one remotely close to the man, the god to man. He said his father bore witness of him. He said i have greater witness than john the baptist. John is much more than a prophet because isaiah spoke of him. Malachi spoke of him, but all of the prophets profits bear bore witness of him. Supervisor cohen thank you next speaker, please. Thank you. Good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board. I am going to try for the third time to talk about 911. You will recall back in 2001, involuntary outpatient psychiatric treatment was a huge issue in california. It was hotly debated in the state legislature and in the past. And then 911 happened. What is the connection . The patriarch act was passed. It modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 in order to get rid of the requirement that electronic surveillance be conducted for foreign intelligence purposes. Also, there is still a requirement that the target of intelligence be an agent of a foreign power. However, that is a low bar to meet. All a person has to do is meet the requirement for civil conspiracy, which can mean encouragement. Someone who encourages terrorism i could make that. I could meet that by. I am not saying that i ever encourage terrorism but it is such a low bar to meet. There is a lot of grey area. One somebody once somebody is under electronic surveillance, what can be done . They can be entrapped into the commission of crime. Once they are entrapped, then they can be subject to incompetency to stand trial. They can be designated as incompetent to stand trial. This is a backdoor commitment to root for involuntary outpatient treatment. These people can then be committed and here is the proof. San francisco t. V. , please focus on the laptop. An error message. No. Ok. Fifteen seconds. I dont think i will pull this off. There has been 1900 increase in Mental Health filings. I will never get this. I think i will just run out of time. Supervisor cohen perhaps in two weeks. [laughter] supervisor cohen next speaker, please. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. I believe the next item for us to deal with our adoption without Committee Reference . Clerk 12 yes items 45 and items 46. A unanimous vote is required for resolutions on First Reading today. Alternatively, and a supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. Supervisor cohen any members that would like to sever an item . Seeing none, can we take this same house, same colloquy without objection, these items are adopted unanimously. Same house, same colloquy what is next . Clerk in memoriam. Supervisor cohen ok. In memoriam. We had a couple of them. As we get the in memoriam together, i want to announce one thing. October 16th is the next scheduled mayoral appearance. Districts one, two, three, and four will be able to submit a topic to ask the mayor a question on. The deadline to submit your topic is noon on october 10th. This is for districts 14 to ask and submit a question to the Clerks Office for mayoral appearance at the board of supervisors scheduled for october 16th. Clerk by noon . Supervisor cohen yes, by noon. Are we ready . Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. For the late virginia ramos. For the late bob roper and cyrus shake. Supervisor cohen all right i believe that brings us to the end of our agenda. I want to thank our friends at San Francisco television. Thank you for assisting us with the broadcast today. Is there any other business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Supervisor cohen thank you , ladies and gentlemen. We are adjourned. [ ] my apartment burned down 1. 5 years ago in noba. My name is leslie mccray, and i am in outside beauty sales. I have lived in this neighborhood since august of this year. After my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and find out about various programs that could help us get back on our feet, and i signed up for the below market rate program, got my certificate, and started applying and won the housing lottery. This particular building was brandnew, and really, this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. And i came to the open house here, and there were literally hundreds of people looking at the building. And i in my mind, i was, like, how am i ever going to possibly win this . And i did. And when you get that notice that you want, its surreal, and you dont really believe it, and then it sinks in, yeah, i can have it, and im finally good to go; i can stay. My favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brandnew. Its beautiful. My kitchen is amazing. Ive really started to enjoy cooking. I really love that we have a gym onsite. I work out four days a week, and its beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. It was hard work to get to the other side, but its well worth it. Im super grateful to the Mayors Office of housing for having this for us. Hello, everyone. Welcome to kelly Cullen Community. Im an assistant manager here. We have a general manager and another assistant manager. Kelly Cullen Community is located at golden gate and we are formally the ymca. We provide 172 efficiency studio units for chronically Homeless People. Were glad to do so. We also have a Health Clinic downstairs, social workers on site, and also nurses. We thank you all for coming out. Now wed like to just welcome senator wiener. Thank you, i want to thank the community for hosting us here today. This is an amazing facility and amazing. This is a fantastic example of what San Francisco is about. Its about helping our most vulnerable residents. Helping people succeed and be housed and healthy. That is what the city of Saint Francis is about. Im so proud to be a San Francisco an and to represent this great city and the state senate. So, i first want to thank governor jerry brown, for signing senate bill 1045 into law. This bill is a significant step forward in taking a new approach to the epidemic of Mental Illness and severe drug addiction we see playing out on our streets every day. Not just in San Francisco but cities throughout this state. This is not progressive to sit by while people unravel and die on our streets. To be clear, we are not talking about most Homeless People. Large majority of Homeless People are not what this bill is about. This is about a small percentage of chronic Homeless People, who are incapable of making decisions for themselves due to severe Mental Health and drug addiction issues. Who are incapable of accepting services. We need to help these people and we need to stop just letting people unravel and die on our streets. The city of San Francisco and other cities have told us, is that the current conservativeship laws in california, are not meeting the meets, particularly of people with severe drug addiction. People who are cycling in and out of the psyche of emergency room and theyre backout on the streets unraveling more and more. We need to help get these people into housing, into services, get people stable and healthy and do everything we can to get their lives on track and that is what senate bill 1045 is about. This is not about mass institutionalization. This is about really focusing on relatively limited number of people who are dying on our streets and helping to get them stable and into housing. I want to thank my colleague, assemblyman chiu for supporting this bill. I want to thank the city of San Francisco, particularly mayor breed and supervisor mandelman. They have just been champions for this bill. They actually came up to sacramento to testify in committee in favor of the bill. Theyre that committed to it. And i know that they will work hard to implement it. This is not the end of the road. This is going to be a longterm statelocal partnership where we will Work Together to make sure that San Francisco has the tools and resources that it needs to help our most vulnerable residents survive and thrive. So with that, its my honor to bring up our great maryland mayn breed. The hon. London breed thank you so much for your leadership. Trying to address what we know ar major challenges, throughout our city, with people who struggle with Mental Illness. Its something that is going to require leadership from both local and state officials and senator scott wiener and david chiu have been moving forward incredible policies that will help us implement the things that will be important to addressing these issues. I want to thank governor jerry brown for signing sb1045. I probably harassed him every single day until it was done. We didnt get the safe injection site bill signed but we are not going to give up hope. Theres still work to be done in that effort. But this is a great first step. What wore doing here in San Francisco is, we are working to begin the process of passing legislation, through the board of supervisors, so that we can implement this law right here in San Francisco. Ive already given directions to the department of aging and adult services. Our Human Service agency and the department of publichealth to begin working with the public defender, the District Attorney office as well as the superior court so that we develop the right legislations here in San Francisco to move it forward so we can implement this policy. I want to thank supervisor Rafael Mandelman for being a supporter and champion in this effort. We know there are challenges. Many of you know, today we announced we will be opening another 1,000 new shelter beds here in San Francisco by the end of 2020. That is important. We have to build housing and no were not building housing fast enough. We also need places for people to go because clearly, sleeping on the streets is not a humane situation right now here in our city. Part of moving forward with providing more shelter beds also means making sure that we have more Mental Health stabilization beds for people as we move them through this system for the purposes of trying to get them conserved so they can live healthy and productive lives. This is not just trying to were not just trying to force someone into a situation. This is about helping people get healthy and stabilized. We all know what is happening here on our streets is unacceptable. Currently, were using our hospitals and our jails to cycle people with Mental Illness in and out of the hospitals, in and out of the jail systems and they are not getting healthy. They are not getting better. We need new solutions. We need bold leadership to move forward with the kinds of solutions that are going to be effective and deliver what we need. Our next steps are to pass legislation. Our next steps are to fund an open new Mental Health stabilization bed. Our next step are to continue to work collaboratively in order to deliver what we know will make the difference on our streets. Shelter beds, Mental Health stabilization beds, building housing, provided Supportive Services for people we know that are struggling here in our city and dealing with the inequality gap that we know continues to persist, not only in San Francisco but throughout the country. We are making this is a great, great step and i remember back in late january, early february, where we were at Community Housing Partnership Building the richardson apartments, which i absolutely love, 120 units of Supportive Housing for people who were normally homeless and struggle with Mental Illness. The perfect example of a place that we have in San Francisco to help address many of these challenges and we have to open more places like that. More Supportive Services that are going to help us get people who are chronically mentally ill and suffering from homelessness off the streets into a safe environment and healthy. So that all of us in San Francisco are thriving and no one is left behind. I want to thank each and everyone of you for being here today. Id like to introduce someone who is also been a champion in the assembly with so many incredible pushes for legislation, including making sure we build more housing and the state helps us in that effort. Ladies and gentlemen, Assembly Member david chiu. Thank you, very much. Good morning. Let me first start by thanking mayor breed for your bold and innovative leadership as we move forward in dealing with the intensity of the crisis that weve all experienced in recent years. Today is a good day for San Francisco. Today is a good day for the city of Saint Francis. I want to thank so many folks responsible for moving sb1045 but of course the team behind me. Starting with my colleague, who is both a physical and a figurative giant when it comes to moving forward important and bold things, like this bill. A couple months ago, the team behind me came to the Assembly Judiciary committee i serve on. We explained that San Francisco needs this. First, because people are dying on our streets. It is not humane to allow folks to die in the streets when we can do something in the city of Saint Francis. We know there are things we can do. There are services we can provide. There are roofs we can build. Thats why this is so incredibly important. And one thing i also said to my colleagues, as they were looking at all of us as sa san franciscs is we represent the diversity. Not just how we look but we represent diversity of views who all believe the same thing. That we have to saves the lives of folks dying on our streets. We also know that with sb1045, were going to make a good step forward. It is not the last step. We need so many new things. This is why mayor breeds announcement around a thousand shelter beds so incredibly exciting. I want to thank Governor Brown and our colleagues, not just for signing this bill, but for signing my bill that will create streamlining to build Supportive Housing in the state of california. Gill gillman from Community Housing partnership, weve worked together in moving forward project for formerly Homeless Individuals that took years when they should have been entitled within months. Our bill will make sure we get more done. If voters have their way in november, well have, with propositions 1 and 2, another 6 billion of funding coming from the state to build Affordable Housing and Supportive Housing for chronically homeless folks. We can do it. This is the city of Saint Francis and im proud to be part of this. With that, it is my honor to introduce the newest memberrest board of supervisors but someone who for his entire life has been fighting to make sure were addressing the challenges. Rah yalRafael Mandelman, come. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. I want to start by thanking senator wiener, again, for your incredible work on this important piece of legislation at a time when the federal have left cities like San Francisco to fend for ourselves in the face of a terrible homeless crisis. Were so lucky to have senators like senator wiener and assemblyman chiu. I also really want to thank mayor breed, for your commitment to implement sb105 so we have every tool possible in our toolbox. Every San Francisco an has had the experience of walking out our doors and seeing people who are clearly sick and unable to take care of themselves. As compassionate as san franciscans may be, its not the job of neighbors to take care of people struggling from Mental Illness and Substance Abuse. Its the job of the government to take care of those who cannot take care of themselves. Sb1045 is not a panacea, it wont solve all problems. It shows the commitment of the city, of our legislative delegation in sacramento and us here in San Francisco to make sure that sick and Vulnerable People get the care that they need. We are just starting the local conversations. Those who are skeptical about this legislation will be heard. There is going to be a robust process that engages providers and advocates but i think we can all agree that the status quo is not acceptable and that we need to get sick people off of our streets. Were going to have a conversation about assisted out patient treatment but at the end the day we ned inform move people off the streets and indoors. I also want to extend my great thanks to mayor breed, for recognizing that we need to invest more in shelter beds, more off ramping for people who are homeless. No one should be living on our streets and no one should have to live on our streets and i know and im so grateful that mayor breed shares that tremendous commitment. Im looking forward to doing this work with the folks behind me and the folks out here. I think were going to make some Real Progress and we are going to show that San Francisco is the city that knows how. With that, i would like to invite our next speaker, the c. E. O. Of Community Housing partnership. [applause] thank you, supervisor. Before i start i also want to thank senator wiener and mayor breed, who earlier in the year announced we were advancing this measure. Community Housing Partnerships mission is to help Homeless People become selfsufficient. What we know is that as individuals spend more and more time on our streets, without stable housing their conditions worsen. Their Health Conditions are more chronic. Their Mental Illness and Substance Abuse is more chronic because its harder and harder for them to Seek Services and treatment. This is one tool, this is one option, for a small group of people that can help really stabilize and change their lives. We also need treatment on demand. Safeinjection sites, more shelter beds, and navigation cr and supporting housing all things that mayor breed, senator wiener and Assembly Member chiu are championing for. We know with the right levels of support, Homeless Individuals can stabilize, rebuild their lives, peace by peace and many of them become thriving members of their community. They become activists, some of them are here today. They go back to work. They start rebuilding their lives. Community Housing Partnership this year had 75 individuals exit Supportive Housing into the private market and become fully selfsufficient, opening the slots for People Living on our streets and in shelters. Community Housing Partnership believes that every tool should be available to help individuals that cant help themselves. Its our pleasure to be supportive of sb1045. Thank you. Senator wiener. I want to thank you for being here today. That concludes the press conference and folks will be available for questions oneonone. Thank you, very much. I moved into my wonderful, beautiful, Affordable Housing march 7th. I have lived in San Francisco since i was twoyearsold. Ive lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. My name is vlady. I use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the San Francisco housing facility. From the very beginning, this whole transition of Public Housing and Affordable Housing was a good idea. But many, many residents didnt think it would ever actually happen. Its been a life changing experience. And im truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. Theyve done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. Now they have quality housing. I was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. It wasnt large enough to accommodate. The children are grown. I had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. I really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. We still do it from time to time. The Mayors Office has been a real friend to us, a partner. We know that our city supports us. I love San Francisco. Just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, its been a real joy. Its been a real joy. Good morning, everybody. Thank you so much for everyone being out here today. Of course, the jug shop for welcoming us to this extraordinary celebration that really speaks to a Community Partnerships and the success of our invested neighborhoods programs and Neighborhood Economic Development here in San Francisco. Were very happy to have everyone here with us today. And to kick us off with this commemoration of our polk c. B. D. Is our mayor. The hon. London breed thank you. Im so excited to be here today. This is the 16th Community Business district in San Francisco. This is what happens when communities come together. Businesses, neighbors, and all of you are an example of how we make sure that we keep our city clean, we keep it safe, and we do it all together. I want to thank you and i want to thank suzanne, for her leadership. [applause] for the past three years, really spearheading this effort and getting it through. This was one of the lowest votes that we were able to get through the board of supervisors when you had the folks who were the Property Owners here vote to move this thing forward and i am just so glad it passed. Its going to make a difference. Those folks who were not necessarily supportive, theyre going to be happy with the results too. I cant wait until we clean up San Francisco. This is helping in our efforts to do so. And so we also will have embassadors and people who are out on the streets. We want the businesses here to grow and to thrive. Places like the jug shop, which are a legacy business in San Francisco. We have to do everything we can to protect our Business Community. We announced we will be opening another 1,000 shelter beds by 2020 here in the city and county of San Francisco. We know we have a crisis on our hands and we know that we have to make Smart Investments because we see it on our streets every single day. Its effecting the quality of life. Its effecting the Business Community. We know that many of the people sadly that are struggling on our streets are experiencing a lot of challenges. And we want to thank you. We want to thank the discovery Polk Community benefits district for its work and its contributions and being partners in this effort to make sure city safer, to make sure city cleaner, and we know that theres so much work to do. This process has brought so many businesses together and i am just excited to be here today to sign the legislation that made it possible. This is your victory. Were going to get to work to make San Francisco an even better place for each and everyone of us. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause] thank you, very much, mayor breed. Of course, our next speaker is a longtime champion of Community Benefits. The author of the legislation and help make them possible. Supervisor of our district 3, aaron peskin. Thank you. So this is the 15th Community Benefit district in San Francisco. As i like to say, all of our districts are created equal. District 3 is more equal. Why do i say that . Because we have five of the 15 Community Benefit district. When i first became a supervisor 18 years ago, there was one Business Improvement district in San Francisco. One. The city of berkley had more. San diego had dozens of them and i tred to figure out why was San Francisco behind. And the answer actually was because the state law didnt think about places like San Francisco, where we had mixeduse neighborhoods. The vibrant communities of polk street, north beach, and so we had to create our own law. That became article 15 of our business and tax regulation code. That began, what has spread all over San Francisco. Now let me say, it is very rare that people come together to celebrate the fact that they all voted to raise their taxes. That is exactly what we are doing today. It stays in the community. It does not mean a diminishment of city services. Its services on top. I am very bullish on polk street. It is remarkably a vibrant community. I want to salute the lower polk neighbors and the lower polk c. B. D. Which was at the forefront, that gave suzanne and the Steering Committee the vision that the c. B. D. To be extended in a northerly manner. Theres going to be an economy of scale. Christian mar tan, who does a remarkable job of running the lower polk c. B. D. Is going to be the staff to the middle polk discover polk c. B. D. This makes a ton of sense. Larry stringer from our Public Works Department is going to continue you are in trouble. Its all good. Its going to continue cleaning your streets and emptying the trash cannes. Thicans. This is a real boone foe city and county of San Francisco. Im delighted. On behalf of all of my colleagues, who the voters passed it by yes, 50. 01 , we voted unanimously to allow this c. B. D. To move forward. Thank you, mayor breed. This is actually the first time, since mayor breed has become mayor ive been involved in an official signing ceremony and i cannot be more delighted. I want to shout out jaoquin torez and chris corgis who did a remarkable job. [applause] they came in and they brought me a list because they knew the election would be tight. They asked me if i knew those people because we needed just one or two more properties to vote yes and i found one guy who i knew, who actually was on the east coast. He said, yes, that is on my desk. I said, you have until 2 00 on tuesday to get back to the city and county of San Francisco, vote that ballot and that is what took us over the top. Thank you chris corgis. I want to shout out northern captain joe english ler who has joined us. With that ill turn it back to jaoquin torez. We all know if it wasnt for the hard work of the Steering Committee, in addition so many Community Members today, this event today and these resources couldnt be made possible. And it does take leadership, tenacity and commitment and i couldnt think of a person that exemplifies the definition of those words more that dr. Suzanne marklefox who i would like to invite up to speak to us. The director of the Steering Committee who made this possible. [applause] thank you. Thank you so the lower polk, the discover Polk Community. You can tell im nervous. Thank you very much to the lower Polk Community benefit district. It really was not only our fiscal sponsor but also our mentor for all of the process that we went through since may 2015. Thank you to debra neman who was another informal mentor. Shared her knowledge and experience and we definitely want to follow in her tracks. Id also like to introduce you to the president of our board, tiffany yang, who is a brilliant young woman who is going to be taking this to the next level. The wonderful thing about this Community Benefit district is how Property Owners, neighbors, Business Owners and the Faith Community all came together to work on this. It was an amazing experience for me. It really demonstrates the vibrancy of this community. As others have said before me and will say after im sure, that our goals are a cleaner, safer and even more vibrant Business Community in the discover polk area. Thank you, everybody. [applause] thank you so much, suzanne. Really, congratulations and savor this moment. It really is an anchor for so much incredible work to come. I want to point out, you can sense theres a community here supporting efforts like these. I did want to shout out again, i know exercise peskin and mayor breed also recognized some of the folks from our fellow Community Benefit districts across the street who have come here to celebrate. Its a Strong Community of folks who believe in the leadership and the impacts that this work can create across San Francisco. Christian martin to support these efforts along polk street. Deb neman and her work in San Francisco for the c. B. D. And Simon Bertrand from the tenderloin Community Benefit are all here to say thank you. Congratulations for those who are willing to take on a leadership role to make benefits happen in our communities. But it also takes merchants. As well and their support to make this work happen. So, ray baird supported this benefit district idea early on. Providing refreshments at community gatherings. Ray, we want to say thank you so much. Invite you to come on up and say a few words. Im no politician. Im not great at doing this. Im just humble merchants with a beautiful store back here. Its great we have the back drop of my store in the back there. Whoever masterminded that did a really great job. Thank you to everybody who came out today. Theres a lot of sharpdressed people from the city that are here. I feel a little under dressed. Im excited for the opportunity that the c. B. D. Brings us. I kind of wanted to relate it to some stories that were in the news recently. There was a horrible story about some crime that happened in the tenderloin and the footage from the cameras that the c. B. D. Installed were very beneficial to the police and so i think thats one of the resource thats is going to be of great benefit to us. We need it. I dont want to be a bummer and remind everyone about how hard the streets of San Francisco are. We live here and know the reality of that. Filmore has beat cops. The news came across, i was watching on the news the next day, we had an incident at the store where we had to call the police out. I talked to the officers and i said, we want beat cops too. They said well you need an advocate to get in there and stand on the throat of the people at city hall and at the captains office and things like that. So hopefully, what this c. B. D. Promises for us is advocacy for this Great Community that im so happy to be a part of. Ill just wrap it up and i want to say thank you for all the work, all these years. You know what its like to have to canvas and cold call and do this to grind it out. Way to go. [applause] that concludes the speaking part of our program. Now were going to do the signing right now. Chris, if you can get it set up. Id like to invite michael from the add cad mow of art academy. Suzanne, ray. Tiffany, come on up as well. We can invite the members of the c. B. D. Leadership to come up. [laughter] congratulations [applause]. Transbay joint Board Meeting is called to order. It is a special meeting that i have called to hear about a plan to reopen fremont street and the sales force transit center. As we all know, a fissure was found last week in the beam. Out of abundance for caution that, led to the temporary closure of the transit center. I know everyone joins me in expressing our disappointment at the closure, and we fully support the agency taking action out of abundance of caution and that the Public Safety always comes first. The goal of this