And he left everyone in the Police Department with his love of San Francisco, his love of the Police Department, a love that he had been a seven cisco police officer. It is a huge loss for the Police Department. We miss him dearly. I want to thank you, supervisors , for recognizing joe today. We have not been able to find him since he left, so we are glad he is still around. Joe, good luck to you and your family, you are sorely missed. I will be calling you for advice as the years go on. Thank you to the board. [applause] okay. Next up is supervisor fewer. Thank you. I would like to invite mr. David parr to the podium, please. Colleagues, today i would like to thank david parr for his 34 years of service to San FranciscoUnified School District as an educator and recognizing his Lasting Impact on a generation of students. David parr was born and raised in his beloved braintree, massachusetts. He attended salem state as an undergraduate and attended boston state for his masters in education. In 1975, you begin taking special education to middle School Students in salem. He chose a teaching career because of his great he was greatly influenced by many of the teachers he had growing up. In the early 1980s, he began teaching special education in San Francisco. After eight years, you moved across town to room 108 at a middle school where he has been and it has been his second home for the last 29 years. Former students use the adjective phenomenal, unique, and interesting to describe him and his teaching style. Notable accolades from the age group that is typically tough to impress. Not only did he go the extra mile to make his class enjoyable , he spent countless hours nurturing students long after the day ended and often long after they graduated. His career should serve as an exemplary model for all aspiring Public School teachers and its enduring warmth and positivity she remind us to always look on the bright side, even in the most difficult of circumstances. Mr. Parr saw his students holistically, individuals, and understood the relationship between experiences they face outside the classroom and their educational performance. I know him personally, as he was my suns teacher and he was one of my sons favorite teachers. I was that p. T. A. President at the school for six years and knew mr. Parr very well. We worked together on projects and developed a deep friendship. The adjective i used to describe him are warm, delightful, humble , kind, gentle, simply wonderful. As his career comes to a close, one thing is certain. The middle school will not be the same without mr. Parr. His presence will be deeply missed and its impact on the community will continue to ripple out for generations. I know i will see david often as he is also my constituent. Colleagues, please join me in congratulating mr. Parr on his welldeserved retirement. I am thrilled that we will be voting to consider declaring today david parr day in San Francisco. Mr. Parr . [applause] thank you, supervisor fewer, thank you board of supervisors. I am very grateful for this honor and i would also like to say that i am incredibly grateful for 37 years of having the opportunity to work with some of the most outstanding educators in San FranciscoUnified School District, and also to work with so many wonderful San Francisco families , and to work and to teach with thousands of amazing young people in San Francisco. So all of this has been quite an honor. I thank you all for your support thank you very much. [applause] okay. Next up we have supervisor ronen would you like to share your commendation . Thank you. Colleagues, today i am recognizing an Incredible Group of mission workers, residents, and activists who have made on the street possible. Team, can you please come up to the podium . [applause] when i took office in 2017, i heard weekly from my constituents about an unpermitted Street Vendors who are highly concentrated in one block of Mission Street. Blocking the sidewalk to pedestrians and leaving piles of trash in front of the residences the situation was dire for the residents, but also for the vendors on mission and 15th street. Increasing inequality in our district has pushed out workingclass residents and the businesses that employ them. The sidewalk vendors were looking to support themselves but couldnt afford paddlers licenses or risking expensive police citations. I met with many City Departments and tried and number of strategies, with the challenges persisted. It was time to take a risk and a more creative solution. With the help of my incredible staff who worked nonstop on this project, and in partnership with neighborhood leaders, we created a permanent outdoor market on julian street that we call [speaking spanish] which means little flea market in spanish. It provides an organized, clean, and affordable market for workingclass vendors to supplement their income. It redirects vendors from the sidewalk to a safe, permitted location, helping maintain Mission Street cleaner and more acceptable. This project proves we can solve neighborhood challenges without criminalizing the poor and while also uniting diverse stakeholders. It brings together important organizations such as [speaking spanish] and united to save the mission, with neighbors of all backgrounds, and several City Departments including public works, as ff sfmta and the Police Department. More importantly, they have been fuelled by community power. This market may never have been possible without the tenacity, vision, and countless hours invested by the groups of the leaders that we have here today. This team of hardworking social justice activists have brought towards the talent, dedication, and talent in an inspiring way. I want to give a special thank you to neighborhood leaders for their interviews leading to the outreach you conducted to humanize the challenges and help envision a people centred solution. I want to think [speaking spanish] for lending your artistic resources to create an inviting logo and your help to find locations for Community Meetings jorge rivera, jose, gabby, thank you for teaching us lessons of running an outdoor market and for welcoming an expansion of the original group within the area. Natalie, luis, and jeanie, thank you for bringing your love of the neighborhood and its diverse community, your experience as mission natives, and your commitment to stopping a multicultural market. I am incredibly inspired by all of you and im grateful for your partnership as we collaborate to improve the lives of all Mission Residents and workers. Thank you so much. [applause] good afternoon, supervisors. We would like to thank you for this opportunity and for the ability to do this amazing work in this project. The launch of our group is a right of optimism. We see how important it is for cultural place keeping and community plays holding for our neighbors. We especially want to thank supervisor ronen and her staff. She came down, walked the market , talked to vendors and so how important this work really is, and especially we want to think the legislative aide, kerley number malice for all of her amazing work. Looks like it was all pretty easy when you walked on the street right now. There were so many weaving parts we especially want to thank the vendors. About two and a half years ago, larissa and myself went out and started interviewing everyone, and it is the vendors who told their stories. They articulated just the diversity of who they are, what they do, and just made it seem so much more important to see this kind of work happen. We thank them. They have been consistently making our market amazing. If you have a chance to walk down the street any saturday, you can see the great work. We want to think [speaking spanish] who has long been a pillar in the community. If anyone understands cultural place keeping and Community Development, it is the staff there. We also want to thank our team and our young staff, jeanie, rowell, luis, and especially natalie. They all grew up here in the city and they understand the importance of Community Development and cultural place keeping. They worked really hard. They have a cando attitude, and it has been inspiring to see them as future leaders in our community. We want to thank sarah noris who was willing to draw a beautiful cartoon logo, not a logo, local, the cartoon character, and this really cool flea guy. They worked on making that into the access that we have, the banners that we have, the letterhead, the rules, and things like that. Lastly, our whole team wants to say thank you to our Community Side team leader who has done some amazing work, as well, and help to say stay focused. Maybe we have all worked 100 and 10 for our community, but she has already get always given 125 . Thank you all, from the whole team. [applause] i want to say thank you. We really appreciate thank you. [applause] now [applause] before we move to our next item, supervisor ronen would offer some words to a special family. Thank you so much a kind oh, this is a little unusual, but i have an in memoriam today, and the widow of [indiscernible] several of his neighbors and beloved friends. I didnt want them to have to wait hours. So i am wondering if you want to come up to the microphone and i will read a few words, and then we would love to hear from you. Thank you so much. The microphone is right over there. Today i am sharing an in memoriam for paul andrews who died on july 21st at his home in Bernal Heights where he has lived since 1990. After originally moving to the bay area area in the late 1970s. I had the honor of marrying paul to his beloved wife last wednesday. Paul was born in 1950, the sun of andrew and and and grew up in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. As a very young child, he contracted polio, which left his health and his body permanently compromised, but imbued him with vast stores of courage, resilience, incest of life. He should creative promise and deep intellectual curiosity from an early age, and earned his b. S. In physics from Carnegie Mellon university and an m. S. And ph. D. From u. C. San diego in earth sciences. Focusing on seismology. He also studied filmmaking at California College of the arts. Over his more than 35 year career as a Research Seismologist at the u. S. Geological survey, paul conducted numerous Field Research projects, offered hundreds of scholarly articles and technical presentations, mentored many doctoral students, and consulted with Research Scientists and academics of crap around the world. Among many professional honors and recognitions for his scholarship, he was named a fellow of the American Geophysical union, the Largest Organization representing geophysicists across the globe. This honor is only given to about one in 1,000 of its members. He also deceived a department of interior Meritorious Service award in 2011 and the distinguished Service Award in 2016. Paul was also a gifted pianist and singer whos wide ranging musical musical interests stressed from palestrina to the sex pistols. And in trumpet world traveller who spoke three languages fluidly and many more with gusto , optimism, and food centric vocabulary, a wickedly funny conversationalist and a devoted and loyal friend to many , many people around the world. In addition to his many friends and colleagues, and so many neighbors who will miss him dearly, paul leaves behind his widow and his sisters. I am so sorry for your loss, and may paul rest in peace. Supervisors, thank you so very much for marrying us. The wedding was last wednesday in his hospice home. When i took him home, i thought he would live a little bit longer. I dont know if i myself or he me or the doctors fooled me, i dont know whom, but i was not ready for this. The reason i married him is because i wanted with him forever. I didnt want to leave him, ever i wanted to take care of him. We met when he was a professor in minnesota. I didnt mind were i wanted to be with him and take care of him. It doesnt matter how long. I thought he was going to be months, or at least a year, but i never thought it would be four days. Im so privileged to meet supervisor ronen and have her in my house marrying us, he called me wife the next day and i said hi, husband, how are you today . What would you want for breakfast . And, you know, he was fine the next day, he was fine on wednesday, he was fine on friday morning, he was completely coherent. He actually asked for an espresso for breakfast, and for dinner on friday he asked for something very tasty, so i ordered some indian food. As supervisor ronen said, he had so many interests. He was the only scientist, she was not only a scientist, he was a humanist, he cared about art, he cared about film, he was interested in people, he was respectful of everyone, no matter their condition, their rice, their background, he always appreciated people. He was welltraveled. Every time he was going to go to a country, you went to russia, he went to japan, if you went to italy, if he went anywhere in the world, he would learn the language before going. So he worked, in several locations in italy, so he spoke italian very fluently. Of course, he spoke spanish, also because of his italian knowledge. He also enjoyed piano and i may be getting a piano, so he enjoyed me enjoyed counting me coaching me and said i wasnt counting right. He said i should count. From his bed, he could tell me, wherever he was, without looking , he could tell i wasnt putting my fingers on the right key. He said wrong key, a wrong key, move your hands to the right. Okay, he was not only a scientist, he was also a humanist, but above everything, he was a man of integrity. He had the highest morals, the highest ethics, and that is why we all love him so much. There will never i will never have a friend like him. I met him in 1987 and we were best friends. Forever, we were loyal to each other. For all this time, even if we were just married last wednesday , not even a week ago, we were always loyal to each other and we cared for each other so much that we were there for each other always. He will always be with me. Thank you, everyone for being here and for sharing this day with me and this experience. Thank you. Sorry for your loss. Thank you very much. That concludes our special accommodations for the day. Now we have to go back to business. Madame clerk, can we go to our committee of the whole special order at 3 00 p. M. . Item 52 and 53. Called together, comprise the public hearing scheduled pursuant to a motion approved by the board of supervisors on july 16th, 2019, for the board to convene as a committee of the whole today july 23rd, two consider the proposed ordinance, the subject matter of item 53 calling and providing for a special election to be held in the city on tuesday, november 5 th, 2019, to submit to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded indebtedness 600 million to finance the construction, development, acquisition improvement, rehabilitation preservation and repair of Affordable Housing improvements and related costs necessary or convenient and to adopt the appropriate findings. Thank you, madame clerk. Now we are sitting as the committee of the whole and you might feel like we have been through this, but we had some lastsecond amendments, so procedurally, we have to do this for the purpose of this hearing, the purpose of this hearing is to take testimony of the general obligation bonds. Colleagues, are there any comments . Seeing none, then we will now open to Public Comment. If you would like to comment on item 52, please come up. You have two minutes. See no Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, we are now reconvening seeing no other speakers, this hearing has been heard and is now filed. Colleagues, we are now reconvening as the board of supervisors. Can we take a vote on item 53 . Madame clerk, please call the roll. On item 53. [roll call] there are ten aye. Okay. This ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, can we go back to item number 22 . Twentytwo is a Charter Amendment, second draft to amend the charter of the city to create the Homelessness Oversight Commission to oversee the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing at an election to be held on november 5th, 2019. Are there any comments on this . I definitely have comments. [laughter] i didnt see her name. Thank you. Supervisor haney . Thank you for calling this Charter Amendment which would put on the ballot in november a Homelessness Oversight Commission. I wanted to thank my coauthors, supervisors peskin, mar, ronen, and walton, and i want to think the rules committee who heard this item and passage of the full board with unanimous support. I want to thank Courtney Mcdonald in my office for all of her work on this, and all of the stakeholders, providers, residents and members who helped us draft it. I want to