Centre of any in the united states. It is the largest collection of monumental municipal buildings of any city. It is a National Treasure and we need a Strong Organization to help tell that story and get people to come because for the last 50 or 70 years, the area has been misunderstood, it has been neglected, and it has been ignored. The c. B. D. Is one of the biggest steps along with a number of others in the last ten years to try to overcome that but more needs to be done. If case in case you havent seen it, i have written it all up in a book that i have put out recently and i hope that you all have gotten a copy and read it closely because the last chapter underscores a lot of the things that happened to mess things up. So i will leave some of my flyers here to encourage you to get the book. [laughter]. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is susan and i represent the San Francisco conservatory of music. We are enthusiastic supporters of the c. B. D. We have 400 and more students coming and going at the building on 50 oh, every day. On saturdays we have as many as 350 children between the ages of four and 18 coming with their parents to learn about music, and they come through that area, too, as well as the fact that we have about 600 concerts a year free to the public. So we have people coming and going all the time and we couldnt imagine doing it without the services of the c. B. D. We are very strongly in support. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you. My name is lisa and they represent the San Francisco opera. We are thrilled to be here in support of the civic Centre Community benefit district. We welcome hundreds of thousands of patrons from all over the world, all over the country and here in San Francisco and in the bay area to the beautiful War Memorial Performing Arts Center in the work that the Community District has done to clean our streets provide ambassadors for patients walking to and from areas around the civic centre and it has been crucial to our retention of patrons, and we support this and appreciate your consideration. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am george, the new manager of permits and reservations for recreation and park, formerly the executive director of San Francisco pride, also here to enthusiastically encourage you to renew the civic centre c. B. D. I can say from experience, producing events in this space, knowing it is a wellfunded, a well perceived and they well resourced venue, it is of the utmost importance when youre literally bringing millions of people to the heart of the city so i encourage you to renew it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is justin. I have been a resident in this district since 2012 and i have seen it transform. We need to continue this program because it is actually working to make our streets a lot safer, cleaner, you know, theres not a lot of needles out there anymore , they are offering a public service. They have been doing a great job and we need to keep this going. Supervisors, i am a publicpolicy leader at square. Square is headquartered at 1455 Market Street within the c. B. D. Boundaries. We have about 2,000 people in that headquarters. I also represent square on the Advisory Board of civic Centre Commons initiative, partnering with the c. B. D. We partner with them on friday markets to get local merchants participating and activating spaces like the plaza. We have sent many employees to events like block parties. These activations are having important impacts to revitalize the community. Square is proud to work with the c. B. D. On this. Im also a neighbor of civic centre. I live in the tenderloin and have seen every day in my walk to work to civic centre the drastic improvements that the c. B. D. Has helped to make in the neighborhood. Im here to support the renewal and expansion of the c. B. D. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im here representing emerald fund. I am their chief building engineer for 100 venice, 150 van ness and the civic. Im here seeking your support and showing my support for the civic centre c. B. D. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is tonya and i am the property manager at 10150 van ness. I fully support the renewal of the c. B. D. And i do believe that the services they do provide are vital. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is art. I am the owner of one United Nations plaza. It is a little art deco building , but it is the top of the escalator from the civic centre by main station. That is where tours from the airport come up and see San Francisco for the first time. I was born in the city. I practised law in that little building for the last 25 years. This is the best i have ever seen it. It has a ways to go in terms of the policing. The neighborhood policing in the neighborhood has has recently been stopped at night. The tenants in the cafe had to close early because they dont feel safe at night. Whatever you can do to get 24 7 policing of that neighborhood will help to supplement what this and if it district can otherwise do. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. I would like to start by asking you all how you got here today. Did you take munimobile . Did you get off at bart . Did you walk on hyde street . Did you park underground of the civic Centre Garage . Any wait you got here, you are directly benefiting from the c. B. D. s efforts in our public spaces. They provide essential services that the city does not, specifically outside of this building where you all work. Without their efforts, we would walk through human waste or animal waste, syringes, garbage, other Hazardous Materials, and the ambassadors help others in the neighborhood feel safe and welcome. That is a direct c. B. D. Program. My name is kate and in a managed the Visitor Experience with the San Francisco symphony across the street and we adamantly support the c. B. D. I would like to especially lift up the c. B. D. s evening ambassador assistance and garage creators which positively affect our patients who come to concerts on nights and weekends when the area isnt filled with workers such as yourselves. There is much more work to be done to keep the area consistently clean and safe for employees, residents and visitors and i would like to register support and thank the board of supervisors for hearing this Public Comment. Thanks. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is samara, i am representing lynn lease. It is a property owned he is a Property Owner in the district i am here to register our support for the c. B. D. We are great supporters of the c. B. D. We greatly value the work that the c. B. D. Has done to make this area safer, cleaner, and more vibrant, and we are particularly supportive of what the c. B. D. Is doing to Program Civic centre plaza with events that help all of us to enjoy this beautiful place. The civic centre plaza, which some may call a National Treasure. We look forward to partnering with the c. B. D. Going forward to make this whole area more welcoming for the whole community. Thank you. Good afternoon, my name is david. I am representing hastings cold of law. We strongly support the civic Centre Community benefit district. I think their effectiveness is demonstrated by the success they have had to date and with the renewal, we are very hopeful that they, along with the other Community Stakeholders that are committed to improving this immediate area will continue to see progress as the neighborhood continues to evolve and become all the more embrace of, inclusive, and welcoming for all folks. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Joanne Desmond and i am an assistant business agent, the theatrical stage hands union. On behalf of our members, we are pleased that the city and sh and have come to an agreement with respect to the community than if its district and to compromise on the financial burden of safety and security around the Orpheum Theatre and surrounding areas. As indicated, the Community Benefits district will help coordinate ten officers with sh in. It looks to assist in this effort as best as we can. Special thanks to supervisor peskin, safai, and haney, as well as their staff, and the staff at the office of Economic Development for helping to facilitate this agreement. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am the Vice President of production for sh in theaters. We represent the golden gate theatre and the tenderloin c. B. D. , as well as the Orpheum Theatre in the proposed civic centre c. B. D. We are pleased of come to an agreement with the civic centre c. B. T. To compromise on the financial burden of safety and security around the theatre and surrounding areas. We look forward to working with the c. B. D. Executive committee and tracy, starting in january, to fulfil the letter of intent and to assist us in coordinating ten beat officers during a time that we have security concerns at a projected 200 hours a year. We look forward to sitting down with them before january to discuss their commitments and our needs. As just mentioned by joanne, we have special thanks for supervisors peskin, safai, and haney, as well as their staff, and the staff at oewd for helping to facilitate the agreement between the c. B. D. And us. Thank you. Thank you. Next. [please stand by] that is that the c. B. D. , through its board and committee meetings, offers a forum where the different Property Owners, the different property and Business Owners and tenants and so on, but the big groups here, theres a lot of government Property Owners government owned properties, a lot of performing arts groups, a lot of private businesses and private properties. Those groups kind of operate in their own world, for the most part, and this entity here offers a way for those groups to communicate with each other and Work Together for the common good of sales and of the city. It is a very strongly recommend that you support it. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is lynn. I am from the San Francisco travel association and im here to support the renewal of the civic centre c. B. D. The c. B. D. Provide services for our visitors and our residents. Some of the key services are sidewalk power washing, Hazardous Material cleanup such as syringes, graffiti removal, neighborhood activations, events , public art, concerts, community ambassadors, safe, informed, and inspired. All of these things make people feel more welcome on the streets of San Francisco. For that reason, we support the renewal. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Could afternoon board of supervisors. My name is barry and i am an nonprofit and Service Support analyst and i depend on analyst in this area. I have been living in this area for almost 14 years and i know that the support of those animals on the people that cater to the city center, this may be very beneficial for them and i thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you, again. Tom, i am glad we are cleaning up the area. The u. N. Was given birth at civic centre, the u. N. Plaza. I think weve got some of the local big shots that are in the room here. It would be nice to have a little statuary for mrs. Eleanor roosevelt. If you want to know a little bit more, refresh your memory about the women, go to ken burns, i believe it was roosevelts episode. It was his last. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My office is in the civic centre c. B. D. And i have been on the board there since the inception. We utilize the services of the c. B. D. And probably call two or three times a day. We strongly support the renewal and the expansion. Thank you for your time. Next speaker. I just have a word with matt and i asked if one of these kinds of programs in the tenderloin. He says that there already is one. If there is, you are doing a terrible job and i want to put strong urgency on it. As far as these upper income bracket people expanding, they need to expand to the tenderloin where strong drug abuse, discharging of both animal waste and human waste is all over the place. Thats why you have the poop squad to detail. They get paid 194,000 a year plus benefits and you still cant keep the area clean. It is disgusting, but yet all of these organizations and these testimonies from people that are predominately white within the city, they are taking money out of their income to keep their areas cleaner than they already are. Thats a fraction of the areas where you live if it was just half as clean as the tenderloin is, and with the amount of money that is being wasted, we would be all right. I will tell you the source, the reason why. It is like this. S. F. Viewer, please. The viewer is out of check. Anyway, can you stop my team for a moment please while i get this together . Aroundtheclock, 24 hours a day it is like this, and even more so. This is life. This is one of the reasons why because you discriminate against those people who are in low income back brackets. You have a brandnew 300 unit Apartment Building complex, section 410 that he told you about, it is part of your own rules and regulations and says 15 dispose spee for low and very low income bracket people, the people that are homeless. Out of this 300 unit Apartment Building complex, 45 of though units those units is supposed to be for people in low income. You have it where low income is 39,000 thank you. Thank you. [indiscernible] any other thank you. [indiscernible] thank you, mr. Right. Next speaker. Any other speakers in support . Seeing none, now i would like to welcome any speakers who are in opposition of the assessment. Come on up. You have two minutes. Good afternoon. Nothing like feeling outnumbered , but i am paul alec, the priest of these pissed vocal church at the advent on fell street at the episcopal church. Not necessarily speaking against the idea, i love the concept of it, i wish we would have known and been part of the process. Its neck up on us. I think we got swept in the expansion of it and our organization does not have the resources that the City Government has or the opera, or anyone that spoke today, and it sounds funny in San Francisco, but 1,000 here or there, and ours would go up about 3,000, is a lot of money for us. We live on the edge financially. We dont produce income, we live by donations. I just wanted to name that reality. I dont know if other nonprofits got swept up in it without realizing it. We found out about two months ago by accident before the mailing came that it was even happening. Having said all that, and identifying those unintended consequences, the area around us certainly needs to be cleaned up thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im at 234 linden. This is my ballot. This is what it is worth. As a condo owner. I am paying, you know, a dollar a month and after right hotline to, it is only a dollar a month. After 15 years, that is about 30,000, okay. For the average homeowner, fs ff s. F. Jazz this is nothing to them. My calculations are right and know what he has gotten back to me on this so i had to go clicking through the thing to find how much they are paying. The ultrarich here, they are paying some around 200 a day. Twitter and uber, and their free cafeterias, they are throwing away that much sushi every day. For me, this is real money. In 15 years, what is the 30,000 going to be . Cancer treatment . For me, it is a lot. For the average homeowner, who are paying what i am paying, this is a lot of money. Nobody cares. People are regularly laughing. It is not fair. Look at all the people who are speaking in favor. Neither single one of them is super rich or they benefit financially. They are getting money back from the c. B. D. This is amazing because there are fewer Homeless People and drug addicts you cant even see the say their home whole name. They are on linden now. There is a guy every morning, you know, he has a pile of his own feces on one side, syringes on the other, and he is completely comatose. We are calling 311 all the time. You could completely have the camera going and say here is linden street. It is completely sad. Why am i paying, you know, the bulk of the bird and when this is nothing for all the rich people . One hundred van ness, come on. This is nothing for them. It is totally unfair how the poor have no say. Think about who owns this election. It is the ultrarich. The properties over 75 million, they completely owned the vote because it is weighted by Property Value. My Property Value is almost nothing, as are the other condos in the area so we have no voice. S. F. Jazzs vota 75 of mine. Uber has over 200 of my vote. How come i [indiscernible]. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Next speaker. Im sorry. Oh,. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is donna. I live at 720 gough street. I just wanted to say a couple of things. One, we have worked with supervisor brown and her office and we want to thank them for the work they did with us. We could not afford to stay in the c. B. D. We recognize that it has done some great stuff in the civic centre area. We do appreciate what you all have done. The other comment i want to add to what the minister said is that if theres something that can be improved in th