Ensuring that people remember his contributions to the city of San Francisco as well as his fight for fairness in the criminal justice system. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Ive had the honor of serving alongside jeff adachi as a fellow public defender and under his leadership when he was chief attorney and then our head. Ive been there for 22 years. I wanted to give a little bit of a background of our presence there on gilbert location. Before we moved to the location where we are currently on 557 street, we were in the hall of justice. In the mid1980s we moved our location to where we are now, partly because we wanted to have a place that was safe. Gilbert street is our back yard. Each day our attorneys back to and from the hall of scwlus on gilbert alley. We chat there with other community folks. Over the years, weve seen many other businesses and buildings come and go, but we have been a steady presence there on gilbert alley. When we first moved into the building we shared a space with the sheriffs department. We are now the sole proprietors of that building. The persons most responsible for the presence and growth of our office is jeff adachi. I urge the board to adopt this measure. Its not the only fitting that the right thing to do to remember and pay tribute to a man who was a leader and protecting the rights of san francisc franciscans and fighting for the rights of those in our community. I am Rebecca Young from the Public Defenders Office. I want to read a statement from a former manager of the misdemeanor unit. By the time jeff died he mentored two generations of public defenders and transformed them into proud fighters for social and racial justice. Though ungulfed by the demands of his work, he made time for those below him. He was trained in the struggle for social justice. His detractors said that he was a force. He was at times deeply unpopular for his beliefs. Some want to sully his legacy, but no one can diminish or eradicate his accomplishments. Before he died he created a nationwide movement for passion and advocacy that changed not only the publics perception of public defenders but changed how they were perceived themselves. So committed was he to the fight for justice that in his spare time he produced documentaries. It is only fitting that a portion of the street be named after him because the way to justice will always be both literally and figuratively jeff has way. And strong and farreaching from gilbert alley all the way over to Juvenile Hall and into our Magic Program. Right before jeff died, he reached out to supervisor safai or vice versa to create another Magic Program in supervisor safais office. So i urge you to rename it. Jeff saved so many lives over cost. Thank you. Hi. Supervisors, i am a native of San Francisco chinatown and now im in upper mission. I want to say this weekend i celebrated day of the dead, and whats so sad is jeffs picture is among many of my friends and family who has passed away. And jeff has been a person i went to undergrad with at u. C. Berkeley. Back in those days he had the makeup of what he was today even then. He was working for affirmative action and we were all part of that. It was great to see 40 years later, we all continued to do that kind of work. So important for us to carry that legacy. With your commissions, your land use committee, he does embrace some of these commissions including Affordable Housing when we discussed about how to get back. Included also in his nontraditional way as a public defender he deals with immigrant rights, something that your other public defenders did not include, all the ancillary rights that are not included usually, but how to sustain what comes about. With that i support the changing of the name. Just please, understand he would love to have the public defender named after him, but i think equally in the alley where a lot of issues are hidden, he would be proud of that as well. I am retired from San Francisco city and county public health. I am a homeowner and resident of San Francisco, and i am here to support the changing of the name. Jeff was a friend but, more importantly, he was a colleague. I worked in the Health Department and worked in the neighborhoods with the highest disparity and outcome and jeff was always there. As a Public Servant for 30 years, its hard work. To have that symbol to show as a Public Servant we have to maintain our humanity and also give back humanity to people that is given away. For us seeing that and all the Public Servants seeing that will have an impact. I do appreciate people who brought up these other issues and i hope other issues are addressed with the changing. Good to see you. Next speaker, please. I pretty much grew up here and im in support of changing the name of gilbert to jeff adachi way. Like the Opening Statement about jeffs work, i dont want to go further with that and with the previous speaker here as we are now, jeff is really doing great work when he is here. Im here in support of changing the street to jeff adachi. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you so much. Im a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco japaneseamerican citizens league, the Civil Rights Organization which was founded in 1929. Jeff was also a president of the San Francisco chapter. Im here to support the renaming of gilbert street to jeff adachi way. I understand that some have expressed the inconvenience of such a change, however, all over the city such changes have been made and i know it takes a bit of time to adjust. Jeff adachi did not think, not for a moment, of his time and work as an inconvenience. He worked tirelessly for civil rights and for the underserved. His voice was a voice for justice in this city. He mentored and inspired and shared his position with so many that his name will remind future generations that a good fight is worth having. Through his tireless efforts, he lifted burdens. Please consider jeff adachi way. Jeff dedicated his life and career to public service. It is an honor and a welldeserved honor. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im a lawyer in San Francisco, a private lawyer. My office is on Boardman Place which is right next to gilbert. I wish my street was up for this renaming, but i want to support the renaming of gilbert as jeff adachi way. I think it will show that this city values public defenders, values the office, as an important institution. I think it will not of course memorialize jeff himself, but it will be a very loud statement against mass incarceration which is a very significant problem in this country. Over 2 Million People in america are in prison and i think that will be a statement against mass incarceration. So i urge the board to adopt the resolution. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. My name is bill groziano. We have a property on brandon and our side is gilbert. Im disappointed in the District Attorney lawyers not wanting the public defenders building named. We just changed the name of the t line station in china town rose pak and we put harvey milks name at the airport. I wonder why we dont do something more relevant of renaming the public defenders building. Every public defender who works in that building. Every client who needs the service of the public defender, when they go in that building with a plaque explaining what he accomplish accomplished, that would be the way to honor him. Next speaker, please. I am a former president of the Japanese Citizens LeagueSan Francisco chapter. I support the name change. The years that i served, i had the privilege of working with jeff when he first came on the board. There wasnt anything that came up about civil rights that he did not introduce or carry through to see what would happen and carried it and made it a cause that the entire board supported. Looking at where he started in the community in San Francisco to this particular point in time, i think it appropriate and the sort of thing that i think the city can and should do. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im resident minister at the buddi Buddist Church of San Francisco. Im here to represent everyone who agrees with me. And i thank supervisor haney for his initiative to present this opportunity for us to recognize mr. Jeff adachis full career serving the people of San Francisco as the conscience of the city. He demonstrated that as something not based on political pressure or popularity. For that reason, im supporting this resolution to support the name change to not necessarily jeff adachi way, but the way of jeff adachi. Good afternoon. I am a deputy public defender. Jeff swore me in as a member of the bar on my 30th birthday and every day i walk up jeff adachi way i hope it will be called i think of him and the inspiration he has given me. It is true that jeff had his critics. What courageous leader doesnt. He had flaws, what human being doesnt . Even his detractors cant deny his practice. His office was the place to be if you wanted to be a great attorney. Jeff adachi made our office the standard across the country the standard for young public defenders. He taught us to be proud and he spread that message from sea to shining sea. This is why gilbert street must be renamed jeff adachi way. It is a humble honor San Francisco can bestow on one of its legends. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Jeff adachi is my hero. Please rename the street. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I voted for the Public Defenders Office and signed a petition to have it there in the 1980s and it was the mayor who developed the idea of getting it out of the hall of justice and putting it in its private location at 5557 street. Everything you heard or most of the people who have spoken are from the Public Defenders Office. The problem with this proposal is that its changing when jeff adachi could ied, there was a huge photo of him and several flower arrangements around the front door. The proposal was to change the tribute from the front door to the back door. Why are you doing that, supervisor haney . Why dont you leave his legacy at the front door where it started out . Its very, very visible to all the traffic that goes up 7th street, especially in the morning because of bryant street. Everybody would see his name there. Why are you sticking him at the back entrance. He deserves more than that, doesnt he, supervisor haney . I think thats the wrong thing. Its near the hall of justice. Whats important is he was a service to the criminal justice system, not that he walked across gilbert street to get to the hall of justice which is going to be demolished in a few years. The Police Department already moved because of mesothelioma and lung cancer. Seeing no other members of the public who want to speak on number 4, Public Comment is closed. When we first heard this in committ committee, we heard a lot of folks on the block of gilbert to the south of bryant. I want to acknowledge that supervisor haney listened to those folks. Those are mostly newer condo buildings. The proposal before us today is to have the block between gilbert and bryant and the hall of justice and branon be jeff adachi way. If you go down that block there are some empty parking lots. Yes, there are some residences, but very few. I think that supervisor haney has come up with a solemnonic compromise and has listened to the preponderance of the constituents in his area. I am more than happy to support the name change and appropriately honor mr. Adachi. With regard to the notion of naming a building after him, i have to say that this came from the community, from his family, and from his staff and colleagues. Far be it from me to secondguess his friends and family and beloved colleagues. So i am most inclined to listen to them, and with that, i will hand it over to supervisor haney. Supervisor safai. I know supervisor haney has some remarks to close out. I understand, having gone through a changing of property. We too have a will and trust and theres a number of different documents and it can be an inconvenience. I think a fiveyear transition period provides for a very fair balance. I think one thing we could do is monitor the situation and have people come back and present their costs to us. For the purposes of honoring someone that dedicated his life and actually gave his life to this city, i think its a really honorable way. I really appreciate all the public defenders who came out and all the members of the public who have kochl out and have come out in the past and have sent letters and have contacted the office individually even if they couldnt be here today, there is a significant ground swell of support for this action. So i look to supervisor haney and his leadership and appreciate the neighbors that came out. I think theres still work that can be done with the district supervisor. I know that hes open to that. Ultimately, i think this is a nice honor for an individual that, as i said, gave so much to this city. This is something that his friends and families think will be an appropriate honor. There is something powerful about having a public street name after jeff, something that really belongs to all of us, his legacy was, yes, and a huge part of that was the Public Defenders Office, but its even beyond that. To have one of the streets that we have in our city a public space designated for him for people who are walking by and seeing it and going to and from court i think is especially powerful, especially in light of the fact that jeffs friends and families and colleagues are in support of it. I want to thank everyone who came out today and spoke on this and was contacted. I love always to hear stories of jeff and new stories. I want to appreciate meno and the story that he shared. There are so many ways that jeff set an example and inspired and mentored people. Supervisor safai, i definitely am i do understand that theres some inconvenience with changing addresses. So i would to the residents or the Property Owners who are here and concerned about that, we definitely would work with you to figure out the best way to do that, whether thats Legal Assistance or ways that it can be done in the most expeditious way possible. There is a fiveyear time period. Thre might be able to provide some other support. Thank you to all colleagues about this support of the resolution. I would ask that we move it to the board with a positive recommendation. Motion made with supervisor haney. We will take that without objection and send it to the full board without objection. Clerk item 3 is a hearing on wildfire prevention and Management Practices for land owned by each internet and requesting the Fire Department and other agencies to report. Thank you, ms. Major. We are joined by our board president yee who is the primary sponsor of this timely item. The floor is yours. Okay. Thanks, colleagues, for putting this on the agenda. I called this hearing today because its clear that we need to be prepared for the impacts of Climate Change in our city. There has been a stark difference in this years wildfires versus in the past. This year no one died. All the News Coverage have noted that what made the difference was learning from the past and using the best and most promising practices. Climate change is real. Again, i get the sense that the climate is dryer for longer periods of time and, more recently, when that wind was blown around, it felt like you couldnt walk around with that went. So the wind feels more powerful. We need to make sure that we are prepared for the changes that will increase the risk of wildfires. We should have a comprehensive understanding about what the city is doing to prevent wildfires in our undeveloped or underdeveloped areas because the objective should be to prevent as much as possible wildfires in our city. We had areas around San Francisco where i should define these maces as small, urban forests. And were we need to be proactive not just reactive. Im looking forward to hearing from the departments. We should also be aware of promising practices that exist but that our city is not yet using. We want to know why. I want to thank the representatives that we have from city departments that own and control underdeveloped land that is with the department of public works. Public utilities commission, rec and park and the Fire Department and our fire martial. I want to welcome our neighbors ucsf and Presidio Trust for sharing your expertise with us. I want to thank my colleagues once again for cosponsoring and for our support. I see that there might be some opening remarks from supervisor mandelman. One of the great things about San Francisco is that we have so many beautiful parks and open spaces, but in light of the citys history and in light of recent events in california with these horrific wildfires, i hear regularly from my constituents about their concerns. I want to thank you were preside president yee, for calling this hearing and what the city is it going to do to address these issues and what were to do to ensure our residents theyre going to be safe. So i want to start with our guests, and i really want to thank all of you for our patience, waiting close to two hours