Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in projects. I want to say that for a long time i was punching my fist against the wall. I met supervisor brown ten years ago when she was a legislative aid. And she i cannot tell you how many hours of time she spent speaking with me and other people about how to make change. She said start small and grow fast. Today we raised 700,000 to renovate the fillmore mini park. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is catherine roberts. Im a long time resident of d5. Im just here to express my undying appreciation and gratitude to outgoing supervisor vallie brown. And i dont even have a speech prepared, which i usually do but i just i am so sad and disappointed beyond words that she lost this last election by 170 votes which if you think about it is really 85 people one way or the other in our district. And i think due to something that was did you go up on her from 25 years ago that had a lot of nuance and a lot of mitigating factors but because it came out so close to the election and managed to sway a few people in an election that otherwise i think she would have surely won. I consider supervisor brown to be one of the great unsung and underappreciated heroes of our city. Both as supervisor and as legislation aid to ross and london breed and before that, for pouring her heart and soul into the district for pretty much as long as shes lived there. I consider myself to be extremely progressive democrat in terms of my politics. Im what a friend of mine in new york calls to the left of karl marx. You would think i would be a supporter of dean preston but im skeptical of whatever promises hes made, which i would love to see all come to fruition, im very skeptical that hes going to be able to accomplish any of that. And great, if he does, ill be the first person in line to cheer him on but what i see so far is supervisor brown put her nose to the grindstone and created the kind of change that weve needed over the years. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon president and supervisors. I went to city college for the cooking classes, which they are known for a lot. And it was meetings go until late. I know you are getting hungry so i used to write and send you 10 in food and stuff. I want to show you this. There it is. Dave thomas of wendys. There it is. Used to send me letters and food and stuff. And he was a great cook. And so i want to say this is the latest song that ive ever done here. We could have had it all, city hall [music] at city college went to spring and fall, instead the budget aid was lulled and theyd like their classes please reinstalled. You could be a graduating city college doll well decorate the college decorating holiday walls and well have a dancing celebration ball please help it please, yall. We are going to expect it coming and i hope its not too big of call. I still have a few more seconds. Dropping everything. Its a letter from gavin newsom, the Special Olympics used to practice at this city college and he wished me luck there. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Hard to compete with that. Immy name is steven with citizens climate lobby. Im here to support item 55 on the agenda which endorses a bill before the u. S. House of representatives hr763. Ive been following San Franciscos declaration of Climate Emergency. I heard a lot of great ideas from city departments but i kept hearing this caveat, and it was we are but one city trying to do a small part in fighting what is a Global Climate crisis. There is little we can do to impact Climate Change outside of our 49 square file miles. We can stand up for the truth, that bold action is required to prevent the worst impacts of Climate Change. Hr763 drives emissions reduction, bringing it below 2016 levels in 12 years. The mechanic mechanism it yous, putting a fee it uses, putting a fee on carbon emissions, makes a carbonless future an affordable proposition. For a city like ours, which is focused on reductions from buildings and transportation, perhaps the most important impact of a price on carbon is to all businesses wanting to compete that green economy. It incentivizes them to make emissions free products. Imagine what a boon that would be for building owners looking to convert or neighbors who want to switch to an electric car. For all these reasons and many more, i urge the supervisors to vote for this resolution. I thank supervisor mandelman for introducing this resolution and others for cosponsors and for all the behind the scenes work to make this happen. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im david. I also volunteer with citizens climate lobby and a number us do as well. And i live in district 8. Im here to talk on item 55. I want to thank you for considering a resolution of support for a common sense, bipartisan, National Climate law that will bring Global Warming emissions down in line with what scientists recommend, which is something we need to start doing now. I want to especially thank my own supervisor, raphael mandelman, for taking a lead on this resolution. Five years ago, the board adopted a resolution supporting the concept thats in this bill. Making San Francisco one of the first cities in the nation to do so. Supervisor yee was here there. Thank you for your vote. Mayor breed was also a member of the board then and so we hope that she may sign off on this as well. But im putting the cart before the horse. I encourage you to consider joining our bay area cosponsors, and i ask you, jackie spear, barbara lee and mark and 82 other local governments nationwide, to make San Francisco the largest California City so far to support this critical legislation. Thank you for your conscientious work for San Francisco. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is barbara jew and im also a member of citizens climate lobby. And i reiterate the remarks that have been made by my colleagues. But i also have another motivation for supporting this bill. I was a biology major in college, and i took a class in ecology, which actually was one of the first in the school. And ever since, ive been really fascinated with the delicate balance in and across various ecosystems. That balance is driven by biodiversity, and it is being threatened by the Climate Crisis. Species lost is accelerating at an alarming rate which will ultimately impact us as human beings, because we are an integral part of that ecosystem. After all, human beings are a species too. If we dont take action immediately to stem carbon emissions, our ecosystem will be irreparably damaged. We have less than ten years to make a significant improvement, according to the experts, in reducing the harmful carbon emissions. A livable planet for future generations is at stake. That is why i lobby for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividends, hr763 because it takes concrete action to reduce carbon emissions. Imagine the severe impacts to plant and animal species which are at the mercy of humancaused Global Warming. I ask you to endorse hr763. We all share in the responsibility to ensure a livable planet on behalf of all living things. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is jordan rose. Im a bay area native now living in the castro, d8. Like the previous speakers, barbara and steven, im in support of hr763, the Energy InnovationCarbon Dividend act which is item 55. As a bay area native, im watched Climate Change change how we all think about weather, what counts as normal and what is not even something thats a disaster but even just commentworthy. A few years ago this was just oh, its february and it hasnt rained yet. That could be some kind of multiyear variation perhaps. But more recently its now a yearly occurrence that we are watching literal ash floating on the air from sonoma county. While we are not going through anything like what they are, this is, as was stated before, a place where a local government can do something to affect a worldwide problem. A carbon fee is only part of the larger plan but its a part that we need to get moving as soon as possible to have the greatest possible effect. In february, this board declared we are in a Climate Emergency. And as this, i admit, is my first time coming to give Public Comment to this board, and i see here that everything is critical, everything is an emergency. Everything is affecting the people who live in this city right now or has already affected them. But we are in a Climate Emergency. And so i thank supervisor mandelman for introducing it. I urge you to approve this measure and take your proper consideration on all the measures before you today and i look forward to future climate legislation we can do here and as a model for other cities. Thank you. Hello. My name is evan kenward. Im also a volunteer with citizens climate lobby. I want to first appreciate supervisor mandelman for supporting this resolution and really carrying the torch. This is incredibly important resolution to help support hr 763, the Energy InnovationCarbon Dividend act. San francisco is one of those things of it seems like a we are just a city in this large problem, what can we do. But especially San Francisco can be the, as my colleague said, the 83rd city signing on and one of the most important cities to sign on and really move the tides, no pun intended. So we all, i can assume are in agreement that Climate Change, the severity of it that we are in the Climate Crisis, and this bill is above and beyond the most effective farreaching solution to really get the ball rolling for our nation. So San Francisco can really be at the forefront of that. So lets please get this stuff done before the water gets back to montgomery street. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is paul armor. And i am a local San Francisco resident here. Im here with my colleagues of citizen climate lobby to urge you to support the resolution to endorse hr 763 thats in the house right now. And while i was trying to collect my thoughts on what i wanted to say about this bill is i was reflecting on the Climate Emergency that was locally that was recently declared. And frankly, what raphael said about how we solve this Climate Crisis that we are in. When she was giving her presentation at the focus 2030 report, she brought up that there are a lot of solutions that we can take, but they need to be equitable solution for all people. I know us here in San Francisco, we are very conscious of supporting all people, no matter what income they make. And what i love about hr 763 is it puts a fee on carbon and distributes it equally to everyone. And as a result, it actually creates a sort of progressive tax, really supporting the lowerincome folks. And i while we can do a lot here locally to support, to act on Climate Change, we need to show that we are a bright, shining star in that in the efforts to take action on Climate Change. So supporting a nationallevel bill would also really push those really show that we mean it in addition to all the actions we are going to take here locally. So i would love all of the board of supervisors board to support this endorsement. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is rebecca sand. Im a San Francisco resident. Im also a member of citizens climate lobby. Im here to support hr 763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend act, because i believe it could have the ability to create a large impact across the country. Climate change is a complex problem that requires smart, longterm solutions. And i really believe this bill, like i said before, could be something that gets the ball rolling and starting creating more solutions nationally. On sort of a personal note, i worry about my safety and the safety of my friends and family a lot. And i really dont feel, after talking to many other people, that im alone in this worry. And i really think that its time for government to show real leadership in confronting this problem, because im just one person, baa im trying to help government but im trying to help government get it going on a national level, and thats what i wanted to talk about today. So thank you so much for all that you have done so far. I look forward to seeing the resolution go through, this board of supervisors. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is barbara wilson. Im a fourth generation San Francisco grandmother to nine bay area children. Four of whom represent the sixth generation to be raised in our great city. Two of my grandchildren in santa rosa have been evacuated twice in the last three years. I want to go back to a time in the early 50s when my brothers and i used to make fun of our grandpa, class of he used to walk around crying about the weather, worrying about his grain stocks, which was his business. And then the co2 levels were at 313 in the 50s. I wonder how he would react today if the co2 level was 412, at seeing his great, great grandchildren already at the age of five and six with the fires of fall, victims of runaway carbon emissions. Today in this great chamber, you have the power to be aamong the first of our nations major cities to endorse hr 763. In doing so, you can help the children of 2050, my great grandchildren, enjoy a firefree fall, when hr 763 passes and this level falls to 255 parts per million. You can lead the bay area. Lets beat san jose and oakland in endorsing this win win resolution for our fellow San Franciscos. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is alex, district 8, represent. Im also here in support of hr 763. Im here because my mom told my sister i need to stop being so negative about Climate Change. Any time a bird flew by i would say we better enjoy it now, its probably hungry, did you annoy 25 percent population decrease in songbirds. I said i hope they make it. I dont want to be that person. I dont want to sit there and be negative and not say i tried to do something. This involves all of us. Its obviously intersectional. I even found this suit to put onto come to you guys. I will be back. I want to help and i know we can be a leader in San Francisco and in california. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you for all your patience in listening to all of us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years with whats been going on. I thought i was numb to a lot of the everymorning upsets. But today, i was mad. And i decided to do something about it. And thats why im speaking today. Please vote with your heart and not with your pocketbook. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is candice fault. Im a resident of our fine city of San Francisco. And im also one of the coleaders of the San Francisco chapter of citizens climate lobby. I would like to thank all of you for the time and attention youve already given to the Climate Crisis. I really appreciate the work that you have done. And that you continue to do. But we need to do more, we always need to be doing more. And right now, we need to be focusing on solutions that help the most vulnerable among us at the same time. And fortunately, the resolution endorsing hr 763 can help do just that. The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend act would allow for more Just Transition to a greener economy and would make sure that a very, very necessary monetary support would be provided to vulnerable populations. I think that San Francisco can continue to do what we do best and continue to lead into the 21st century by sending a message that we support a carbon fee. And i think that there are theres much more to be done beyond just this policy, but i think that t