Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20200212

>> good afternoon, welcome to the february 11th, 2020 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, would you please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, and supervisor yee. mr. president, all members are present. >> supervisor yee: ok. thank you. would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> supervisor yee: on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts to the public online. are there any communications. >> i have none to report mr. president. >> ok, then, let's go to our 2:00 p.m. special order. >> special order at 2:00 p.m. is the appearance by our honorable mayor, london n. breed. they're being no questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 1-4, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. >> supervisor yee: welcome, madam mayor. there was no topics submitted by supervisors today. we welcome you to share your remarks. >> the hon. london breed: good afternoon to members of the board of supervisors and members of the public. i wanted to take this opportunity, this black history month to talk about racial equity and reparations. all too often, people in this country talk about reparations as a financial matter but, it's so much more than that. reparations are a framework through which we as a government together, with the community, actively work to undue the systemic harm that has been inflicted both past and present on the basis of race. here in san francisco, we need to have a serious conversation about repair and justice in every aspect of our policy-making especially as it relates to housing and homelessness and excited about the work that supervisor walton is doing to introduce the resolution around reparations. we know that our housing shortage is rooted in racial segregation of our residential zoning and housing approval process the city's first planning law in 1870 the air for dinnance forced working class chinese renters out of their apartments finding them and jailing them to discourage them from staying in san francisco. and in the 1930s, red lining by the federal government prevented black people from getting loans and buying homes and certain neighborhoods. when thousands of japanese americans returned to san francisco from force, we didn't have a right to return policy for housing back then. through the 1940s, land titles poet in racial restricted covenants to prevent long whites and from renting and buying those companies. some were around in the mid 2000s and i want to thank president yee. even today, we know that of the 4,000 people who were living duel diagnosissed on the streets, 40% of them are black. in 1978, the downing of 70% of the city eliminated 183,000 housing units to begin our housing to keep san franciscans housed in san francisco. we as a city need to reverse that injustice and supervisor fewer, i want to thank you for creating and building support with supervisor vallie brown for the office of racial equity and it's our city, population has been growing and will continue to grow. and the fact is, we don't have enough housing. i know we have our disagreements about how to address this shortage and we are trying to work through those issues. we can't just debate the theories. we need clear and targeted policies that will help address and advance racial equity. it's the investments we make, it's the policy decisions we make and we need to do so with the fierce urgency of now. the right to return is a great example, along with the neighborhood preference legislation that supervisor former supervisor malia cohen and i worked on when i served on the board. this helped to directly address the displacement of african americans in the city but it is not enough. when i talk about displacement or gentrification, i can't help but think about the community that raised me about my own upbringing in public housing. i think about the opportunities that i have and how lucky i am to be standing here as your mayor. and how we have to replicate those opportunities for all san franciscans and lucky breaks are in short order for the thousands of families who are living with housing an insecurity and we mut act with urgency and innovation, advancing policies that meaningfully address the injustices of the past and the present. i will never farther starting through programs to neighborhood presence and right to return and home sf and focusing on building more housing in this the people who are struggling and living on our streets, 40% african americans are depending on us to make better decisions and not continue the fight which delay much needed housing. i ask you to join this year and thinking about how we can drive and truly, not just talk about the need for racial equity and inclusion, and how african americans have been traditionally left out the opportunities that so many enjoy in the city. what are we going to do about it? the time is now. >> thank you, madam. thank you, madam mayor for joining us today. this will conclude our special order and and it will now be filed. ok! madam clerk. please call the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 1-5 are on consent. they're considered routine, if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. >> supervisor yee: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the consent agenda. seeing no names, seeing none, madam clerk, please call roll. >> items 1-5. supervisor walton. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor yee: objection, ordinances are finally passed unanimously. madam clerk, let's go to the regular agenda. please call item 6. >> clerk: item 6 is a resolution to retroactively authorizing public works to expend $260,000 grant from the san francisco bay area rapid transit district for the pit stop toilet program through june 30th, 2020. >> supervisor yee: can we take this item same house same call. without objection, this is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, next item. >> clerk: resolution to approve and authorization the director of property to acquire real property located at 1939 market street from the sheet metal workers international association local union number 104 for purchase at 12 million to affirm the ceqa determination. >> supervisor yee: can we take this item same house same call without objection. this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, let's call item number 8. >> clerk: item 8 is an ordinance for the planning code to enable the use of development projects sites during the project approval and entitlement process by authorizing the planning department to authorize activities at projects sites as temporary uses for up to 36 months subject to extension in increments for a maximum possible total of 24 additional months to adopt the seek what determination and make the appropriate findings. >> supervisor yee: can we take these items same call. without objection. then, this ordinance is passed on first reading. madam clerk, next item. >> item 9 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to clarify provisions for the tenant buy-out program agreement. >> supervisor yee: supervisor ronen. >> the legislation before you today will amend the rent ordinance to tighten our regulations on landlord buy outs of rent-controlled tenants. with speculative rents and sale prices breaking records, landlords have a powerful incentive to remove and replace long-time tenants. until we change state law, landlords have the option of using the ellis agent or they can use an owner move-into evict tenants without cause. some landlords seek wash buy out as a way to get long-term tenants to move out quickly and to avoid our condo conversion restrictions. with the every present threat of eviction hanging over them, san francisco tenants often feel like they're living on borrowed time. holding on until the day their landlord decided it's time for them to go. all too often the message comes in the form of a take it or leave it now or never choice between accepting a cash buy out or facing eviction. my district nine presidencies or, david compost passed the ordinance in 2014, which among other regulations established annual reporting. in 2018, the most recent reporting period, there were 379 completed buy outs filed in neighborhoods throughout the city with the highest numbers in the mission. but some tenant advocates estimate that there may be as many as three untracked buy out for everyone that does actually get filed. we need the facts and we need to be sure our laws are being followed. this legislation strengthens our current regulations by ensuring that tenants are informed of their rights, giving tenants times to decide and forcing landlords to file. press tune hope you will support this today. can we take this first time first call. it's passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, item 10. >> a resolution to approve and authorization a trust exchange agreement with the california state lands commission to remove the public trust from certain trance space streets the na vin tee of the millennium tower and trance bay terminal and further impresses the public trustor fisherman war of streets and adopt the appropriate findings. >> supervisor yee: can we take this item same house same call without objection. the resolution is adopted unanimously. item number 11, madam clerk. >> item 11 is a motion to appoint supervisor catherine stefani to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district term ending january 31st, 2021. >> supervisor yee: can we take -- do we have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani for this item? motion made by supervisor ronan and seconded by supervisor haney. without objection, supervisors stefani is excused. madam clerk, please call the roll on this item. [roll call] >> there are 10 ayes. this objection is approved unanimously. please ask her to come back in. madam clerk, go to the next item. item 12 is a motion to a alien arm strong to for a indefinite term. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. a motion to approve the president of the super norman yee's nomination i want to thank commissioner melgar this was tough to fill and i want to thank the committee for sending to community based work continually around land house and housing issues. maria terry a is familiar face in this chamber because she's dedicated to past decade to advocating for the residents most impacted by the housing we are not just a city of buildings and boxes but a city of people. and the to work supports low income residents and navigating the affordable system in san francisco. she has built collaborative versions to plan a community planning. this to me is very critical. i think the planning commission needs to have a balance view and we want to ensure respective to provide an equitable and far. planning commissioners spend dozens of hours a week to prepare for their weekly meetings and those meetings start in the afternoon during the weekday. the meetings can last hours and hours well into the evening. commissioners are asked to do this voluntarily and many of them still have to hold full-time jobs and sacrifice time away from that in order to serve. we make it incredibly challenging for residents to serve in this capacity. i want to thank them for their patients. the last couple weeks with two vacant seats, we know that it's hard to be quorum to ensure that there's a full compliment in the body and that reach to willing to take on this role and do the hard work to be thoughtful and be a thoughtful member of the planning she will listen she will be a great addition to the body and look forward to working with her in this new capacity. i want to thank supervisor mar and stefani for moving this motion forward with a positive recommendation and i hope that i can count on all of you for your support that we can get theresa to work this week. ok. so, can we take this item same house same call. without objection. then, this motion is approved unanimously. ok. >> clerk: i'll call for introductions, mr. president. >> supervisor yee: that's where we are. >> supervisor walton you are first up to introduce new business. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. i have two items. first, along with supervisor safai, we are announce an ordinance amending the police code to provide that cannabis retail permit applications will not be accepted as of the effective date of the passing of this ordinance. and affirming that the planning departments determination under the california environmental act. we will still remain 100% focus and addressing within the cannabis industry and it appears doubtful that the san francisco market can sustain additional businesses and secondly, i'm going to announce the resolution for reparations for here in san francisco. i want to thank the leadership for the black community and several allies and greater san francisco community as well as every member of this board of supervisors, supervisors ronen, haney, fewer, safai, mar, preston, mandelman, yee, stefani and peskin and we're announcing our process to begin realizing reparations for the black community here in san francisco. we stand on land that was taken from our native american community members, our japanese brothers and sisters were sent to camps, our immigrant children are being torn away from their families and locked in cages. our arab americans are a target of discrimination since 9/11 and we cannot forget the pain and suffering of our own ancestors. the hundreds of years of free labor and the continued oppressions that are directly connected to the impacts of slavery on black people. african americans were enslaved in the united states for hundreds of years until slavery officially ended with the ratification of the 13th amendment. but the trauma of slavery remains for generations throughout the african american community and exists today. the city and county of san francisco has acknowledged the wrongs of history through chapter 12y, the san francisco slavery disclosure ordinance. the impacts of slavery manifests and housing disparities for the african american community through red lining and refusing to back loans for african americans. this forced the african americans to live poor and under resourced neighborhoods and strongly hindered wealth accumulation among black people. for example, folks living in bay view hunters point, a african american neighborhood at one point, and previously red line neighborhood are five times in the marina. the impact of african americans are 7.7 more times likely than wife sawhite san franciscos to e arrested. african americans are more likely to be convicted and when convicted they're more likely to experience lengthy prison sentences and san francisco these they continue to help disparities for the african american community. african american neighborhoods consistently have fewer healthy food options and the combination with predatory have led to african americans having higher rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and tooth decay among other disparities and cancer rates and mental health diseases. those are just some of the areas where we have seen disparities in the black community. reparations are a financial recompence for african americans whose ancestors provided free labor for hundreds of years and lived through the jim crow era. the enslavement and over all persecution of african americans in the united states has enriched the united states and created disparities in income, wealth and education between blacks and whites and almost every other population. reparations are needed to reduce these current day legacy of slavery and jim crow. it describes the injustices suffered by black people and both the u.s. and specifically in san francisco and in addition the resolution describes the coal he ising of leaders in the black community along with allies to provide input on the make up of a working group that will be legislated and tasked with the developing a reparations plan and package that addresses all the injustices suffered by black people. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor yee. [applause] >> supervisor yee: of course that deserves applause. in this chamber, we'll just go like this to show our appreciation. thank you, very much. that was very appropriate timing of all of this because right now instead of me talking about the things, we'll go right into our 2:30 recognition of accommodations. madam clerk. >> clerk: ok. the 2:30 special order is the annual celebration of achievements by and recognition of the central role of african americans in our community and in u.s. history. >> ok. today we will be commemorating black history month with special accommodations from each of the supervisors. i will now turn it over to supervisor walton to make opening remarks and kickoff this combinations. supervisor walton. >> thank you so much, president yee and thank you so much to the community for showing up today to honor these wonderful black women who have contributed to san francisco and so many amazing ways. the first thing i want to do is, say just the order of how we're going to conduct today's honoring ceremony. we're going to start with the singing of the black national anthem. i am going to present my awardee and we'll go and order of your district number. and i do just want to say that as we know the history of black history month started with carter g woodson first pushing hard to make sure that we had negro history week to honor the contributions of black people here in the u.s., which turns into black history month, i think that today is special because we want to take the time to honor our black women and let them know we admire them for their strength and their importance in a vital role in our communities. before we bring up singing sarah to lead us in the first stanza of the black national anthem, i just want to say a quote real simple by gabrielle union. and anything i have accomplished i did so not in spite of being a black woman, but because i am a black woman. sing it sarah. >> if you are able, would you please stand? ♪ lift every voice ♪ and sing ♪ till help us ring ♪ ring with the harmonies ♪ of liberty ♪ let our rejoicing rise ♪ high as the listening skies ♪ let it resound ♪ loud as the rolling sea ♪ sing a song ♪ full of the faith that the dark past has taught us ♪ ♪ sing a song ♪ full to the hope that the present has brought ♪ ♪ us ♪ facing the rising sun ♪ of a new day ♪ is won [applause] >> thank you so much, i had to turn my mic off because i didn't want you all to hear my voice. [laughter] with that section i rise to honor one of the most amazing trailblazers of the black community not only in bay view hunters point but here in san francisco. often times, we don't take advantage of the fact that we actually live through history. having the opportunity to know this person and having the opportunity to spend time with this person and being mentored by this person. having the opportunity to receive treats from this person as she makes sure she looks out for people who work and live in her community. i stand today to honor ms. doris vincent. doris m. booker was born in raised in georgia, graduated from high school at the age of 16 and entered the institute in alabama. while at tuskigi, a black college and university, she met and married melvin vincent and from that union, bore three sons and one daughter. the vincent family moved to hunters point in 1961. doris has had a wide ranging of life experiences. she studied men's tailoring, home economics, nursery school, education, and hotel cookery. completed courses in small business and minority communities, real estate law, introduction to early childhood curriculum, desktop publishing, mini medical and graduated from the san francisco police department citizens academy. and in 1969, as a single mother, she purchased a house in bay view where she currently resides. she planted vegetables, fruit and melons as a child, performed housekeeping duties for a room and board and while in college. and in 1961, she became the first black person hired as a sales clerk by san francisco's white house department store. she's been a girl friday in construction, a seamstress for a dry-cleaner, a clerk for a print shop, a billing clerk for a sausage manufacturer, and a spiritual councilor for a welfare to work program. she's done a bit of everything. doris retired after 28 years with the western conference of teamsters on may 31st, 1996. she used her position as summary department supervisor to hire blacks, asians, and latinos. putting into practice the biblical principals that are the center of her life, she has fed and held bible study with neighborhood children in her home, opened her home to more than 12 families who found themselves needing a place to stay for various reasons. she's helped many communities seniors with shopping, doctors a pointments and important documents. been a choir member, a prayer partners, a big sister, sunday school and baptist training union secretary, assistant and co super inten didn't of sunday school. junior mission president, a spiritual teacher for business and professional women, new member coordinator youth choir councilor, trustee and church treasurer. and a youth division sunday school and vacation bible schoolteacher and she serves food for low income and homeless persons every wednesday at providence baptist church. and i'm not done -- [laughter] >> her community involvement started when she was in college and communities and to this day. she's been a shaper own for many local school activities and a den mother, residents of the southeast sector, circle of positive women. project open hands. bay view brown bag program, the bay view hunters point economic development task force, mission bay, the muni light rail community, advisory group, the ucsf community advisory group, she served two terms as a board member of the bay view opera house. she's patrol bay view streets as a part of the bay view hunters point citizens patrol where you can have people in community working for community to alleviate incidents. she was appointed to the mayor's hunters point shipyard citizens advisory council and elected to the bay view hunters point project area committee. she has held every office that i can think of in community across the city and certainly in bay view hunters point. she says as a part of these groups, we plan for the revitalization of bay view hunters point and we make sure that the voices of the residents of this community are heard. she has traveled extensively well and her travels have taken her to ghana west africa, hawaii, alaska, and on a study tour of jordan in israel. her personal statement is, i believe strong families create great communities. great communities need each of us at the table when plans and policies are made. communities with good plans make for a strong city. taking care of the needs of its neighborhoods. each one of us has a part to play. my father and mother taught me and my sisters that is why i do what i do. a little each day for the good of the whole neighborhood, may god bless us all. [applause] >> i want to thank my supervisor and i want you guys to take his first statement about all of the problems that we, as black people, have had to suffer. and take it seriously. it's still going on. and we need to stop it. all of the stuff that you heard him read, remember, i'm 78-years-old. it's just a lifetime of work. and i believe that we will all create it and as i create a created us, and he created this great world we live in, he intended for us to be his caretaker so we have a responsibility and when we talk to him early in the morning, we need to ask, what test do i have to do for you today? if do that, trust me he will lead you and you might have the answers to someone's problem. and the housing, my father, i was born in georgia. black folks could not go to hotels or motels. so as you traveled from one town to the next, there was always a black family somewhere in the hamlet. where the sheriff could knock on the door or yell out, he used to call mckinley, we have a traveler. i workup many morning to people who were traveling that had spent the night. my parents never charged them any money. since you couldn't go in a restaurant, they were given a little bagged lunch to take on their way. that's the way i was raised. i don't know any better. i think my children think sometimes i'm a little bit nutty. i remember a situation where i was coming from work working at the city of paris and there was a young man standing near the bus stop. and i kept looking at him and he looked troubled so i said to him. are you all right. well he had been on a steamer. it broke down and they had been put out in san francisco with no housing or anything. i came home with him. i brought him home and my kids kind of thought, mom's gone nuts. that is the way i was raised. i don't know any better. i have three people in my house now. mother brown now we call give it another name and we're trying to set up bids for bay view and i had offered it as home share but she thought we could do better grant wise, home for bay view. so you might have a home if your house but i'm encouraging you to help save some the housing problems. before i sit down, we need you to canvas your neighborhoods. if they moved, change their name, change their address, if they're 17 and going to be 18, if they're not registered to vote, register to vote and go vote. [applause] >> supervisor fewer district 1. >> hold on, supervisor. >> all right, president. so, what supervisor walton is describing how we'll roll this out. today we'll start from new mer l order. >> thank you, very much. i'd like to call up to the podium chloe jackman. >> colleagues, today it is my honor to present this accommodation during black history month to a very special district 1 resident, chloe jackman. chloe jackman is a san francisco native, yay, who attended rooftop elementary before studying undergraduate law at the university of california santa barbara. while away at college, chloe missed the diversity of san from and knew she would be back. she's a self-employed photographer who has owned her own business for 10 years now. i met chloe in 2019 which was a huge year for her in the community. she opened up a photo studio on clement street where she's an active member of the merchants association. she and her husband had their first child and she fought to save her families' home and the home of 11 other tenants and her building and she won. chloe reached out to my office in march of last year to ask for help because her building was for sale for the second time in two years and the landlord was lifting the rents at $1200 above the rent chloe was paying. they were terrified of being evicted from their homes less than two months before she was expecting her first child. she started organizing all the tenants in the building, many of whom were elderly families who lived in the building for over 10 years. she worked with my office, the housing rights committee, impacts sf housing, and affordable housing non profits to get her building to be purchased by a non-profit and reserved as affordable housing under the small sites program. after tighting she and her neighbors won. they acquired chloe's building and attributed its success to the hard work and dedication of chloe jackman, organizing her fellow tenants to pursue the small sides program and make sure she got it done. thank you to chloe's tenacity. 369 third avenue will be affordable for 99 years. [applause] we have seen gentrification continuing to push out the african american community out of san francisco and i am so grateful to have a community leader like chloe jack man who will stand up for those who aren't sure how to advocate from the south and stand up against those who try to take advantage of people. again, with so many of our native african american, san franciscans being pushed out of san francisco, i am doubling thrilled that she has a permanent home in my district. in the richmond, we have a initiative called one richmond. very simple concepts for concepts. one in the richmond inclusive. we take of each other in the richmond we take care of the richmond and in the richmond we shop local so chloe, thank you so much today for being also our one richmond hero today and for doing your one thing and today as your supervisor, it is an absolute honor to present this to you. >> thank you. thank you so much. i didn't actually know that i was speaking so i'm just going to say nice things and keep moving. you know, when this happened with our building, as she said, i was newly pregnant and just found out our son was going to spend time in the nicu and be born the same time we would getty convicted from our building. i just said, no way. and i feel very passionate and i have been working with the office to be really vocal about this because this doesn't need to happen to people. this is happening all over the city all the time and people -- i was paralyzed. i was paralyzed but i was pissed. that com bin for me sends me moving forward but for a lot of people if you don't know where to go or what to do, it's paralyzeing and it's terrifying and you just give up and you leave and let's get another greedy landlord wins the fight again. so, i just encourage everyone to tell anyone who is in this position that there is hope and there's community and people are like how did you do all these things at the same time? i didn't do it alone. i do it with community and family and my district. i am just grateful this happened now and not three or four years ago because i might be moving out of the city and not getting to do what i love to do which is staying in my neighborhood and be here in front of all of you and staying in the community i love so much. and i feel grateful that i am a woman with african american roots that has done this as well because i feel like we need more people that look like me who are accomplishing great things and showing other little girls and boys who are growing up that you can look anyway you want and get as far as in the world as want to work. thank you so much, and alondra, yeah, thank you. [applause] >> supervisor yee: ok. next up is supervisor stefani from district 2. >> thank you, president yee. i'd like to call pamela joiner up to the podium. first, i want to start by thanking supervisor walton for leading us in this incredible day and obviously for this singer who opened us up. it was a beautiful voice. i was struck by what your honoree said about how she wakes up in the morning and asks for guidance and i think for all of us to wake up in the morning and ask how we can be of maximum service today is a good reminder. and i am absolutely truly honored to recognize pamela joy ner today as district 2 black history month honoree. i'm just in complete awe of her. pamela is a philanthropist and art collecter dedicated to rewriting our understanding of art history. pamela group up on the south side of chicago, the daughter of two schoolteachers and has fond memories of frequent visits to the art institute of chicago with her mom. as a child, she was struck by george haney of relaxing along the sand and picasso's portraits. however, at a young age, she noticed that within these works, she never saw people who look like herself. later in life, she realized that this wasn't just happenstance, but was in fact the product of african american artists and arts of the african american dais per a being neglected for years because of nothing more than their race. when asked what she really hopes to see change in the art world, pamela replied it's the pictures on the walls and why because that's forever and that's where the void it. pamela has been pioneers ways to fill that void. pamela knows that for young african american girls and boys to start seeing themselves in museums, african american artists needs support. after generations of their exclusion from institutions of contemporary art, pamela has argued that is essential to invest in the art work of african american artists. pamela knows that access to art galleries, interest among collectors, and cure to be y'all support are all essential to any artist success and especially for artist who's have experienced a lifetime of discrimination. pamela has also worked to fill this void through her personal collection which tops more than 400 individual pieces by over 100 different artists and almost every piece is by african american artist 0 the 1940s to today. unlike many collections of fine art, pamela's collection is mission-driven. her mission is to do nothing less than reframe art history and ensure a truly diverse cannon of contemporary art. and incredibly pamela is doing just that. through service on president barack obama's committee on the arts and humanities, as trustee as the art institution of chicago, san francisco museum of modern art, metropolitan museum of art and as a board member of the getty trust and through her work on countless other bodies, pamela has used her seat at the table to call on our most distinguished institutions to diversify their collections. so i want to thank you for tirelessly advocating on behalf of african american artists and thank you for your work to ensure that we all have access to a knowledge of their incredible constitutions. thank you, pamela. [applause] thank you, supervisor. it's an honor to receive this marvelous accommodations. in these challenging times, i think we are all keenly aware that leadership matters. so i have to take a moment to thank this board of supervisors for tirelessly working to create a city that is tolerant, inclusive, and fosters creativity. i appreciate your collective acknowledgment that the arts matter. why do they matter? because they remind us of our humanity, they remind us of the things that they have in common that we have in common rather than those things that separate us. and the arts serve as a beacon, a beacon of light to what is possible. to what is excellent. and to what people who demonstrate excellence are entitled. and african american professionals, artists and people have far too long been excluded arbitrarily from having their place at the table. so, our collective work will never be done and my request to this team, as it steers this great city, is to please stay vigilant in your support of the arts now. i will tell you i'm really excited that our hometown museum of modern art has really made great strides. if you go, the fourth flor of the sf moment today, you will see major masterpieces by african american artist and anybody who wants a private tour get in touch with me and i'm always happy to talk about you're great african american masters. thank you, very much. [applause] >> supervisor yee: next up is our supervisor peskin from district 3. >> thank you, president yee. colleagues, today i am honored to recognize not one person but a number of women. the ping un black women social circle, which truly embodies the notion of unity, and a value that it's central to the theme of the festivities that are going on this month. and these women are wise community leaders and who have really in divided times, constantly worked to bring the community together. and i know that it seems like every day we are just inundated with stories about division at the national level and even locally. stories about pitting people and americans against one another has become bar for the course and we've been numb to it and san francisco is not unscathed either. all of this often i have to note at hand of irresponsible politicians. so, as generations before us have done, we turned to humans sources kind, beautiful, human sources of strength and compassion and resilience to remind us that we have a lot more in common than we have apart. and women have been doing this hard work for a long, long time. and so today, i would like to recognize the black women in our community that have prioritized unity and healing and mutual aid and wisdom in their work. the folks in the northeast conner and chinatown and north beach and that area. real fifth take care of each other and it's always beautiful to see and really, i have to tell you, nowhere do i see a better example of that than in the ping un's black women social circle. it was founded by eight core community leaders, four of them are here today and it's become a safety net and respite from the daily pressures of the outside world for the tenant leaders of the pings so i'll call out, let me call out the four that are here. twana, grainger add son, mother of three in renowned pastry chef known for her pies. come on up, women. and then gale hills and antoinette riley. barbra anne thom a. tiffany thoy lawrence and debra brown. [applause] >> the eight of you have been phenomenal as the -- come on up. come up to those microphones. they have going through a strong, very difficult and transformation and that does not kill you makes you stronger and you all led the way helping families with their children at a time when childcare continues to be one of the single biggest and most expensive issues for families organizing social gatherings and to share stories and cook and break bread together and inviting me from time to time. planning community enters to celebrate birthday and community mile tones and creating a space to share all of your experiences. this circle is a loop and it doesn't have a top and a bottom and it is not hierarchal and so, i just want to honor you. i want to thank you and you have really uplifted the community and i know that because there's a bunch of you, you've appointed two of yourselves and you want to know what, i would be remised if i did not recognize two other women who love you guys very much and they are ccdc staff, candy smallwood and we call her d pang but diana pang, who have been super involved and are very, very excited to be here today. with that, thank you all for the work you do for our community. [applause] hello, everybody. i just want to say thank you to ccdc for supporting the women of our community and bringing us together. thank you. [applause] >> pretty sure you guys remember me from last year. i'm a very good activist. i've been in china town for 27 years. even when it was under housing we never had anything for black women. so when cdc took over and aaron and dianne, which i would love for you guys to give them applause. [applause] when they came, dianne came to me and she says what do you guys need here in the community? as a black person and i said we need a women's circle. we need a circle and be together and talk together and share and know each other and like they should and it happened. and not only that, i support and i want to give applause to my sister that also when i did bring it up, they thought it was a great idea and they came in and supported and still supporting and my over all goal and dream is to have a san francisco women's circle with women from every district, from every district all of us together working as one to raise our kids in the community maybe we'll stop all these killings and this mayhem and havoc but my dream for san francisco is to have a san francisco social all-black women's team. not just from hunters point or western, everywhere, every district. [applause] >> please, everybody, let's troy to make it happen. we have a black social circle with every woman in san francisco from every area. we are together as one to make san francisco the best city ever. >> supervisor yee: thank you. next up will be supervisor mar from district 4. >> thank you president yee. thank you all to supervisor walton for coordinating this really powerful group accommodation of african american women leaders in our city and today in recognition of black history month but also in recognition of the history being written here and now by those that take space, make space, mobilize and organize for a shared vision of justice and liberation. i have the privilege of honoring the sunset's very own caleb page william. remember the name if you don't know it already. please step up. [applause] kayla walks in the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements. a freedom fighter in the shared struggles for racial, social and economic justice. currently, a union organizer for the largest flight a tenant's union in the united states kayla works to lift up working people across the country. and she's long worked to lift up justice right here in san francisco. sf weekly put it in a headline last year, kayla williams leads candidates to victory. she first canvassed as a 15-year-old in louisiana and she hasn't stopped since. working as a local political leader. she managed won against the odds came pain of our new district attorney chase abudene. she won the campaign for the top vote getters in a field of 18 candidates running for the board of education, alison collins. [applause] she founded the afro soch caucus in the socialist of america to build coalitional power for people of color. and she served as the vice president of the young black democrats of san francisco and on the board of the harvey milk, lgbtq democratic club and she's just getting started. accommodations are nice burgis sis bettejusticeis better but jr talked about the statute of liberty. what's the good without the liberty. kayla, you deserve the statute or in this case the certificate of honor and we all deserve the liberty you embody and fight for. thank you so much for your values, your vision, all of your organizing and dedication. i'm so proud to have you as a constituent and san francisco is lucky to have you period. thank you, kayla. [applause] thank you to supervisor mar and thank you to his entire amazing staff including my roommate. to get this accommodation it's amazing because it is from my supervisor and because my supervisor has been such an amazing leader in the labor movement in san francisco and state wide. the labor movement is important to me because it's not intersection between labor and the working class. just as far as martin luther king junior with his work with the sanitation workers in 1968, this shows you sol tar tee and when we win, one person wins from a disenfranchised group and until we build solidarity and we all win together. i've managed and worked on lots of campaigns in san francisco and during that time, i've also been a flight a tenant for association of flight attendants, proud union member. for now a little over five years. during that time, i've been working for campaigns that had the opportunity to learn a lot of skills from jane kim, alison collins, hi and now i feel pride to take all of these skills, all of this movement power that we've created and put it into the labor movement. i'm proud to organize flights across the nation at delta airlines. it's one of the last major airlines that is not unionized so i want to make sure in this last part of my speech, to give time and space to shed light on their struggle and lift up their voices and make sure we know we're stronger together and when he fight together and that's how we win. thank you. [applause] >> supervisor yee: ok, next up is supervisor peskin from district 5. thank you president yee and supervisor walton, thank you for putting together this amazing celebration today of black history month and thank you to everyone who took time out of their schedule to be here and to honor this amazing, amazing group of african american women we're hearing from today. i have a great honor and privilege of bringing up gloria berry to the podium please. i'm pleased to honor gloria berry. gloria is a district 5 native born in the fillmore in 1969. she was later evicted in 1988 because of a condo conversion like so many other african american families who have been pushed out of district five. gloria has always been a leader, even from a young age. she was elected to serve on her high school student council and in her senior year of high school, gloria became a police cadet with the san francisco police department police activities league. she began ride alongs with police officers where she witnessed what she saw as a lack of compassion for victims and for people struggling with substance abuse. it was an experience that set her on a path of fighting for economic social and racial justice. after graduating from high school and unable tol to afford college she joined the navy. she worked in technology in the navy. she rose to the ranks of chief watch officer, a position normally held by men with higher rank than her. gloria ultimately left the navy because of sexism and racism she faced on the job. because she realized after several deployments to the middle-east she could not leave her daughter for war that she did not believe in. gloria returned to san francisco in 1997 and despite her decade of i.t. experience in the navy, she was unable to find a job in the tech industry. she ultimately found employment as a directional officer at san quinton. there she continued to face racism and sexism in the workplace, filing and winning two eeo complaints. in 2012, gloria was diagnosed with chronic incurable blood disease and she's been treating her condition with chemotherapy to this day. and while struggling with her health, gloria experienced homelessness, and housing instability off and on for several years. she lost her home through evictions, couch surfed with friends and lived in transitional housing on treasure island. experiencing the pervasive and destructive impacts of our affordable housing crisis. in 2015, just as she was overcoming homelessness, gloria founded a social media group called berry powerful ladies to bring young african american girls in the bay area to various functions and cultural events. gloria believes strongly that mentorship can motivate young girls to pursue higher purposes in life. not only for her generation of residents battling health disparities but for future generations. she's an extraordinary person who has accomplished so much in her life, far more than i can cover in this limited time. as an activist she gives back to her community and fight for justice ever day in our city. gloria stays active both in the fill more where she was born and raised in bayview where she resides. she attends town halls and meetings in the bayview and and takes part in workshops and event at the heritage center. as part of our celebration of black history month, we commend her for her activism speaking out against racism, homelessness, police brutality, injustice and the mistreatment of fed rans. despite having to defend her own livelihood, housing and family despite enormous barriers posed by systemic racism and sexism and her on going personal health struggles, she always finds time to advocate for her community and for better san francisco thank you gloria and congratulations on this computationsaccommodation. >> thank you, it feels good to see you here in chambers. i am an honorary constituent of district 5 and proud of it. i would like to honor my mother who at home recovering from knee surgery. my dad is black and my mom is latina. my mother took the extra time to emerge me into black culture although she can cook some good ta malis. when i was little, my mother cooked free breakfast for the black panther party on hayes and i got to eat it. i was in the third bar tip church, summer school, and then on to methodist church where i got to be mentors by strong, beautiful black women, all in the fill more district. all women who are still my mentor to this day. after 13 years of working in the military, and eight years working at san quinton, i was restricted from protesting publicly. when i could, i dove in. my first protest was the call for freedom for political prisoner mubia ali jammal. i've been protesting environmental justice at the shipyard for 10 years. along with protests police misconduct and corporate agreed. it's not getting a call from your daughter and having her to ask you to go to new york to protest police violence. she shut reicher island down. she laid down in front of their gate. it's something i wouldn't even do. thank you to my grandson for my my strength and our future. thank you so my sister. where did she go? i also want to thank winnie porter, alison, little i don't knowlillian, i wantto thank the. i see y'all in the trenches doing the work. in closing, i would like to share a text i received yesterday. i was told yesterday that i was being used by progresses. guess what, i don't always agree with everything progressives push for and they will tell you that. i welcome anyone to use me if that means every child in san francisco will feel loved by their city. use me to get mental health treatment for whoever needs it. use me for getting homelessness housed. use me to test the community at the shipyard and to do the right thing there. use me for tenants' rights. use me to get black people back in san francisco and living wages. [applause] use me to get application fees for veterans seeking housing waved. use me to push for the taxing of companies that don't pay women to do the same job as men. use me for long-term drug addiction treatment services. use me to hold the police accountable. and in the famous lyrics of bill withers, spread the news that it feels as good being used, or you can just keep on using me until you use me up. [applause] >> supervisor yee: next up is supervisor haney from district 6. >> thank you, president yee. thank you supervisor walton for you and your staff for organizing this. i'm also just first want to take a moment and congratulate and acknowledge all of the extraordinary black women, leaders who are being honored today. we're so grateful for everything that you do for our city. i know that even though each of us are honoring someone in our district, everyone who has been honored today is someone who has also impacted the residents that i represent in our entire city. i am very lucky and excited to be able to honor today the tenderloin's own cheryl shanks from the community of the people's congress. [applause] cheryl is a neighbor of mine. we live very close to each other. as someone who i admire for her activism, her passion, and her commitment to always put the needs of the community first. she is a san francisco native. a leader in our community. and a resident of the tenderloin. i first met cheryl at friday corner frizz. fridays where we all cometogethd residents, to connect with each other and support each other. cheryl was there on behalf of the tenderloin people's congress as a volunteer, greeting neighbors, children and families with give aways, snakes and games and distributing information to her neighbors on how to get involved. little did i know, i would come to run into cheryl most days of the week after that not always at fork on at friday but always out in the community bringing joy and warmth. one thing all of us who know cheryl can say is that she will always be there to greet you with a warm smile and hug. also, if you get on the wrong side of her, she will tell you that as well. she will get in your face as she already has gotten in mine. she comes from a family of strong grassroots activists. both of her parents were leaders in the civil rights movement in san francisco and bought for desegregation. her father was a writer whose poems focused on building unity and empowering the black community to come together to fight racism. her eldest property was brothee of strength for cheryl and her siblings. she carried on strong values as a teacher. she influenced young leaders with a head start program in san francisco where she was a teacher. and over the course of her career, she has guided hundreds of children through their education and was a source of inspiration and love for both the children and their families. as i mentioned, the tenderloin, she can be found pretty much everywhere there's organizing happening from the tenderloin people's congress, kwanzaa and black history months and celebrations, she always shows up to fight for social justice on issues such as safer streets, homelessness, and most recently, 24 hour bathroom access for all in our community. she was a leading organize err on that and because of her work, and the tenderloin, people's congress and so many others, she was able to bring people together and we now have 24 hour bathroom access in the tenderloin. [applause] i'm honored and grateful to work alongside cheryl to learn from her and be motivated by her. she's an example of leadership to all of us. i'm very proud to call her my friend. thank you, cheryl for all that you do for our city, for our community. you are an inspiration and deserving of this honor today. congratulations. [applause] >> hi. thank you, matt. thank you, matt. i worked really hard on matt's came pain. it was one of the first things i did when i entered the community and that was very, very good way to start out. so, i start off with gratitude. i start off with gratitude. i want to thank colleen lorenzo, curtis, john, laura, sue haun and everybody at the tndc office. for helping me move forward and i also would like to thank sam and carmen from faithful fools. i have so much gratitude for two special people who believed in me, who spent time with me, who saw that i could make a difference in the community and mentored me and that is windy clip and jesse james johnson are my mentors. [applause] i grew up in the avenues and i never imagined being homeless. i became homeless and dealing with mental illness and drug addiction and then i became homeless. so, i got my life back together, actually hear in the tenderloin. the tenderloin embraced me. and i remember growing up and my mother always saying that it's important to be a voice for the people in need, for the people who do not have a choice. i came to the tenderloin and i saw the despair of homelessness, which mostly are people of color and poor whites also. people of color. and we need black leadership. there's not enough black leadership. there is not enough black women. [applause] so then i felt i had to do something and i began my mission and even more than that so i've worked with tndc on uniforming 14 overnight visitors a month which was five more were added on and if you look at the numbers and the units and all the s.r.o.s it gets homeless people off the street. i don't know how many more times a month. hundreds? maybe even a thousand. so, those are the kind of things that motivate me to keep doing what i'm doing. you know, i realize that god brought me back and i realize that i am on a mission from god and that's what i tell everybody. i'm an mission from god. so i do god's work. i feel like we're all on a mission. especially in this work that we do. so i'm forever grateful to god and to the whole community for having my back when i needed it and my sister just walked in and she came a long way. forever grateful. thank you, matt haney. thank you. god bless you. [applause] ok, next up will be the supervisor from district 7 which is me. [laughter] i want to first of all, thank supervisor walton for leading us into today's accommodations and so far what we've seen is being treated to all the strong, beautiful women that we have up to the podium today. we'll continue that order at this point. my honoree today will be american mernaarmstead. as many of you know, i spent most of my professional life dedicated to early education and also in family planning. when i think about supporting expecting mothers and their babies, a lot of people do not recognize it's not just about childcare, it's about public-health, it is about economic justice, it is about racial justice, it is about violence prevention, it's about opportunity and it is about community resilience. the work to support you starts before a child is born. for many families they don't have a fighting chance. although african americans make up only 5% of all birth in san francisco, 23% of all infant deaths were african american infants. today, i am honoring someone who supports prenatal work but revolutionizing how we see maternal health. merna armstead is a born and raised san franciscan. she experienced a high-risk pregnancy. when she turned to her own obgyn at the time for advice, all they could advise her to do was get an abortion. yeah. so, she was not offered support or resources or options. this is the type of experience that black, brown and indigenous mothers face in our health system. merna refused her doctor's conclusion. and successfully gave birth to her daughter. yes. the experience was taxing and left an imprint on her. she turned this experience into empowerment. she decided to train and become a doula and building on a legacy of a traditional african american granny-midwife, who was a pioneer in her own community. her training was fulfilling but she wanted to bring together other doulas of color. she founded sister web and is serving as their executive director. the program that provides a support network of doulas for color and marginalized women of color in san francisco. the organization provides resources and support for doulas who are often facing challenges with their own demand work schedules. low pay and financials sustainable. this is extremely important given the high need for culturally competent doulas. merna has also been able to educate the public about the important work of doulas and establish partnerships with san francisco general hospital, ucsf, cpmc and kaiser as well as community-based clinics. with the help of supervisor cohen at the time, and department of public-health, sister web helped jump start a city initiative call expecting justice. to connect black expectant mothers with doula support. merna armstead is a visionary and i'm so glad to honor her today. i see no better way to honor black history in most importantly black futures when they speak to healthy birth and keeping families healthy in san francisco. thank you for all that you do for this important issue. i look forward to seeing you work flourish and like to bring you up now and to say a few words. merna. [applause] >> first, i want to give honor to god. christ thchrist the messiah. without him i could not stand before you. i want to honor you president norman yee and supervisor walton for putting together this ceremony celebration. the sf board of supervisors. i just want to come to you today and thank you for this recognition. my daughter is actually here. she made it. she survived. she's 19. she's wonderful. [applause] it was through this experience that i enjoyed my pregnancy, despite everything that was happening. and, i had a lot of support from my own family and my extended family. my family is huge. but in those alone moments, i'm a single parent, i just realized, like, maybe i can help someone else get through this. be satisfied. know that they have support. so fast forward to 2017, i literal loliterally walked arouy neighborhood and talked to people asking if they know what a doula was and black women were dying at a higher rate and do they understand the support and options there were. it's like a mix. a lot of people didn't know and a lot of people did. it just became my mission to just teach people about what doulas were. the work and the type of support that we provide and fast forward to 2018, i was standing on city hall steps and producing sister web as a program. 2019, we're rolling. 2020 we're here. i am proud to say that i can accepted out 12 doulas every month to women and families in san francisco and that's very exciting to me because i was doing this work by myself and 12 is so much better than one. i want to appreciate all of the doulas and the staff that i work with. i work with an incredible team of women that are dedicated to supporting san francisco birth, especially those of women of color. i just want to make sure that before i leave, supervisor walton, i heard you talk about the reparations, i'm so excited to hear about that. i hope and pray that in that reparation talks that there's talk about stabilization of black-led organizations and i hope that there's talk about dedicated finances to the sustainability and the stabilization of black-led organizations because it's through these types of programs that sister web was able to launch and we believe that we're going to be sustainable and i just appreciate that and i hope that that's a part of your conversation. i hope that's a part of the board's conversation. and i just want to thank my family for being out here and my community came out. i love it. i love when i can stand and i just never thought that i would effect my community on this level. it amazes me. i'm so grateful for everyone here. i know some of you are here for other recipients but we're all standing together. i just want -- i just want to share that i love it. i love it, i love it i love it. i thank you for this ceremony. i appreciate the time to talk. and i just want to leave with you guys a blessing, if that's ok with you. it says may the lord bless you and keep you. may the lord smile down on you and show you his kindness. may the lord answer your prayers and give you his peace. thank you. [applause] [applause] supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. is jana rickerson here? could you come on up. [applause] >> jana was born in los angeles. at the age of 10 moved to inglewood where she recalls being bussed to integrated june high school and high schools. in 1974 she moved to san francisco to transfer to san francisco state and decided to make it her home. at the honed set of the aids crisis, she joined the frontlines of the fight. working at ward 86 in the early 1980s where she recruited hiv patients to participate in studies of interfere on and an early h.i.v. treatment. from the early 80s to the early 90s she worked at shawn tee project one of the first volunteer organizations dedicated to providing support for people with h.i.v. and aids. she provided training support for hundreds of volunteers and family members. she also developed an h.i.v. program to serve the african american community. from 1994 to 2003, jana worked for the city as a program manager of family and children services at the department of human services. she supervised eight departments and worked on child welfare issues including supporting the needs of lgbtq foster youth and growing foster-parent recruitment development, training and retention. in 2003, jana joined the ekc foundation with foster care, working with the california department of social services, to develop sexual orientation and gender identity and expression guidelines for foster youth around the state. she worked with dr. kaitlyn ryan, a first of its kind research project on lgbtq youth and their families. in 2010 she returned to the city and county as a grants administrator in the department of public-health community program business office where she developed and managed the grant unit before joining health behavior services as program director of the project. in her role with the family mosaic project she supervised staff in a case management program for children and families and conducted outreach to community partners and public agencies to raise awareness and increase referrals to the program. in 2017, she joined open house to focus on serving the needs of lgbtq seniors. as the manager for the support and wellness services from her start at open house until july of last year, jana helped queer seniors overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services of community programs. since july of last year, she's served as the manager of community and wellness services where she oversees community wellness, education, and case management services and programs and supervisors mentors and coaches program and employees. jana's work offer the last two and a half years at open house has include management of open houses participation in the california reducing disparities project and planning for diverse and inclusive programming for lgbtq seniors in the bay area. she's dedicated her career to making the world a better place for lgbtq youth and seniors and has worked tireless lease toward the advancement of lgbtq people of colorment she's done this work at our community organizations as well as within the city itself and i'm so pleased to have the opportunity to honor you, jana, as part of the board's celebration here today. and to thank you for all that you do. if you'd like, you can say a few words. [applause] >> i was told last friday i had two minutes. i'm going to use less than that because i'm shy sometimes. first of all, i am humbled and honored to receive this acknowledgment. thank you supervisor mandelman for this honor. i'm grateful for the opportunity to serve at open house right now. lgbtq seniors who are often forgotten, aging alone and without community. open houses here to change that in the city and county of san francisco. i wouldn't be here without people who are in my support circle who have always encouraged me to go to the next thing and to say yes, even when i wanted to say no. i would like to give a shout out to our open house staff who are here today. thank you guys for showing up. these guys work harder and when times are hard, and things are rough, they will always bring their support and they will always bring their humor and their joy for the work because they believe in the work they do. i'd like to thank my wife for holding me up during days when i'm not sure which way i'm going to go and most of all, i want to thank my grandmothers. i want to thank eddy lee jones from long view texas. i want to thank georgia ross ricker son from little county in texas in georgia whose name i can't remember in this moment. but the most important thing about my grandmothers is how they led their lives showed me how to live my life. they gave me a blue print. the things, the two most important things they ought taught me were always help people regardless of what you have or don't have. they always said, be of service in this world. because that is your greatest legacy. thank you again for this honor, i appreciate that. thank you. maybe we can have the open house staff come up and we can do a picture. >> supervisor yee: next up is supervisor ronen from district 9. >> thank you so much. and thank you supervisor walton for organizing this beautiful ceremony. it's very, very, very inspiring. and it is now my absolute pleasure to introduce the district 9 honor' fo honoree fok history month, lauren back. can you pleasbabb.can you pleas. give her a hand. >> lauren: is th she's the public a pairs director for planned parenthood where she's a fierce advocate for reproductive rights, health justice and gender equity. she covers 20 counties from here to the oregon border where every day she's organizing advocating and managing relationships with local regional and state governments, she's carrying on a strong tradition of african american women who have been on the front lines of the battle for reproductive rights and justice. over the past several years, my office has been working with lauren and her colleagues at the city's only planned parenthood site in the mission to ensure safety for patients and staff. the barriers that african americans and other people of color face in accessing affordal healthcare, make it all the more important to keep planned parenthood accessible for a range of services including birth control, abortion, and cancer and h.i.v. screenings. to tell you a little bit more about lauren, she grew up just outside of detroit. the oldest of three children. her father was a stay at home dad and her mother was a bank vice president. at her all-girls catholic school, she was one of only a handful of african american students. she was elected student body president and realized the power of political processes which ignited the passion to community organizing and social justice that drives her here today. lauren attended american university where she took advantage of being in washington d.c. to immerse herself politics interning for her senator. she also somehow found time to work as a campus build organize erg to register college students to vote and volunteered for obama for america, worked on his inaugural committee, and in her free time managed pope banks and canvassing. she was hooked. after graduation, lauren moved to los angeles to work as a field organizer for ask me and simultaneously earned her masters degree from george washington university. this week, four years ago, lauren work working as a volunteer for the hilary clinton campaign. she says the caucus was much better organized back then. and the results were available that same evening. she followed the campaign through the primary season and even met her partners, kyle tomlinson who is here in the room today. there he is. on super tuesday. lucky for us, her travels took her to the bay area. in addition to all of this, lauren finds time to volunteer for causes she believes in. she was appointed to the california commission on the status of women and girls. she's a board member of the girl's leadership council. and she serves as commission err on the complete count census committee just to list a few. lauren, you are a absolute shining star and wonderful dynamic role model. i can't wait to see what the future holds for you and for your fruits of all of your labor and the fight for reproductive justice. congratulation and keep fighting the good fight with all your might, heart, soul and amazing energy. congratulations. >> we saw some very weird abortion bans in other states and y'all rose to the occasion to say that that was not ok. this is about the women that came before me, my grandmother and my mom who is watching right now from detroit. it's about people who really put that in me that i can have a choice and i can represent people and that i should never be afraid to say what i think. i think all the women in this room that have been honored have embodied the importance of having a voice and protecting and saving our communities. as we look forward, i have to always put a plug in here, but no one tends to think the census is that important. but the census really impacts healthcare equity. the census impacts populations of color and you know, this administration has done a lot to make sure that disenfranchised people and people that look like me are afraid to participate. if we don't do our civic engagement, we do do our homework and show up, we won't have representation and fund to go do the things we need for our communities. so, i just say thank you to all of you and continue to support us. i'd like to say thank you to the planned parenthood leadership because without them, seeing the importance of having a little black girl from detroit represent them in places like this i would never have the voice and work to empower women. so thank you so much. >> supervisor yee: thank you, so last up will be supervisor safai from district 11. >> thank you president yee. it's always nice to go last. it's been a great day. i just want to start by saying i want to thank supervisor walton for organizing this today. i think this is one of the nicest months that we have in terms of honoring given the tradition of this city. i also want to say one of the themes i've noticed today is that, and this is something special about the black community, is that so many of the people that we're honoring here today have dedicated their life to giving. and it's of a community that so much has been taken. in the theme of reparations and the theme of what we're going to talk about this month, i just wanted to underscore that because, let's think about that for a moment. from a community that so much has been taken, people still turn around and dedicate themselves to giving. and in that spirit today, i am honored to be speaking about gwendalin brown. she's been following in the footsteps of her father in the lake view neighborhood. she fought a long time alongside mike brown that many of you know him as to give value and life to the youth of lake view for decades. for decades and he he dedicated his life to that. he passed not so long ago and it was in that spirit that he was truly dedicating him and continue to go give back to the community. she's someone i wanted to honor today because i believe she's a true hero in our community and i wanted to give a little bit more light to the work that she's done. gwen was born to michael and melee brown in 1982 in mary's health and daily city. she's the oldest of four children and raised in the lake view neighborhood. she credits her commitment to service to the community and to her family. she was raised in a family that made it a priority to serve others. she would remember her great grandmother cooking and giving meals out to neighbors who were in need. her father, mike, started inner-city youth as a way to provide opportunities for youth in the neighborhood and later in life would purchase some properties that he could be involved in the section 8 program that offered vouchers to low income families so they can continue to live in this great city. along with her father, she helped inner-city youth grow from academic employment training to case management, even operating a full music studio and offering full wrap around services in the community. in a community that many of you know has felt overlooked and forgotten for a very long time. not in many ways different from some of the other communities that we're spoken about today. in 2008, after the passing of her father, she became the executive director of inner-city youth expanding their program and even opening up the district's first neighborhood access point or what we like to call the hub, which is a full service job training program. she is helped hundreds with employment opportunities. she's done thousands of backpack give aways to children and their families and she's done an annual turkey give away during the holiday program just to name a few things she's been involved in a short time in her life. the most important thing that i would say that inner-city youth is about providing a safe space for those that feel in seige of the violence that they're experiencing in their community. and she's continued to be an anchor for young people. i know you worked hard and you have continued to work hard and you will continue to work hard and you've sacrificed so much in a short period of time to show so much work to the youth in our neighborhoods and i just wanted to say the value and the work you've done means so much to me and to many people in our community and i know you have many years ahead to continue to do this great work. it's my honor today to recognize you and honor you as my hero for black history month. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> before you speak, president yee, supervisor walton wanted to say something. >> thank you. first of all, i definitely just want to say congratulations to all the amazing women who were honored here today. this is been an exciting moment for me serving on the board of supervisors and i could have said some great things about each one of you because i know your work and i'm excited to see your work continue. but i did want to just say to gwen, i am so proud of all the work that you have done and the work you continue to do. knowing the first time that i had an opportunity to visit icy, and just see the community hub and space it was for young people, and what you instill in them and not just about programming but the fact that you pushed them to be owners and entrepreneurs and actually be accountable and responsible for their own destiny i appreciate everything that you do and just excited to zoo everything you will continue to do so i just wanted to add my two cents and say congratulations. >> thank you. i am in total -- i'm totally honored to be in the company of the women that came before me today and who come before in history. i am so honored to be acknowledged by the board of supervisors. i want to thank you just for putting this event together and for being unapologetically black. i stand on the shoulders of my father, michael brown, who founded inner-city youth to provide an after school program for young people in lake view. as i honor his legacy of service compassion and his commitment to young black people in san francisco, i hope to build a legacy that honours the lives and experiences of black people in lake view and throughout san francisco. in particular, black women. recently, there's been conversations and this is why i have my sister up here. who brought it to the forefront about how black women's lives have been expendable. and in an immediate response to that we responded to our rfp put out by the department to the status of women and we hope if we are awarded, we'll be able to turn one of those properties my father purchased into transitional housing for women. [applause] to provide supportive services to women in need. finally, i want to thank and acknowledge supervisor walton for his resolution today on reparations. i hope that the board of supervisors considers this resolution and supports black people in san francisco, with the stabilization fund, so that we can come back and reintegrate san francisco at the same number if not more than once every less. black organizations in san francisco need the support because we are the backbone of the black community in san francisco and i just want to thank you all for your time and i want to thank everyone who came today for honoring the rest of us, it's a privilege for us to work for you. so, we hope to continue so that you can be proud of us and get your support. so thank you, very much. [applause] [applause] >> supervisor yee: thank you, everyone. that concludes our special computations for today. let's continue to honor black history and history. would you like to make any concluding remarks. >> the one thing i want to say, one, again, thank you everyone for coming and supporting our black women in leadership and also i one of the things i didn't mention earlier is we will be holding mohcd accountable for how they disrespect the black community and black organizations and how they only fund 2% of black organizations and this is a trend that's been happening with mocd for years and to the point i stopped applying from funding from them and told them they can go to hell with their resources and we can get it somewhere else. we're not going to continue to let them do that. i want you to know we're working on some things to hold them accountability. the people there have to change and be moved on as well because this is continued for too long. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. all right. so, madam clerk, i guess we are passed our 3:00 special orders so let's get to that. let's call items 18 and 19 out of order. for those of you who are here for items 14-17, we will be considering a continuance and you will have a chance to speak on that on the continuance when we call those items after 18 and 19. so, thank you for your patients. madam clerk, please call items 18 and 19. >> clerk: on january 14th, the board of supervisors agreed to sit as a committee of the whole for item 18 which is a hearing of the board sitting as a committee of the whole to consider item 19 which is the proposed ordinance to order the vacation of streets on a portion of the vallejo street right-of-way between a portion of the davis street right-of-way as part of improvements for the hotel, entertainment venue and public open space project to make findings about the mitigate negative declaration under the california environmental quality act and to adopt other appropriate findings. >> supervisor yee: colleagues, we are now reconvening as a committee of the whole and open this hearing on the street vocation order for the va laio street and davis street right-of-ways in relationship to development project. for the teatro zinzanni. do any of the department staff wish to make any comments? come on up, please. >> thank you, president yee i have a presentation if the board would wish to see it but i would want to make an important remark which sinzanni was a former port tenant and we're excited to welcome them back should the board pass this final ordinance which would be the last piece of legislation. if it goes forward today, we'll work towards establishing a new hotel with a threater, a permanent location and a great amenity with a new 14,000 square foot public open space. >> supervisor yee: thank you, very much. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on these items? all speakers will be allowed two minutes each. come on up. >> dear members of the board of supervisors, my name is joe sa teen and i'm here i -- it isours create inside this industry will serve to lift up the community by providing leading changes and in the hotel. they have historically supported the creation of good jobs by agreeing to remain neutral and present no -- they have proactively reached out to and worked with our union to sign such an agreement and as such of good quality jobs and a positive responsible development this is san francisco. please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you, next speaker. >> my name is jim beaumont and i'm the president of itase local 16. i'm here in support of them returning to san francisco. it was very successful show that 10 years it was here before. and it will provide good-paying jobs with benefits and i believe that it is a good thing to have more hotel rooms in the city. because it promotes tourism and it will benefit the large conventions. thank you. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> i'm in solidarity with our brothers and sister supporting the return to san francisco. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, joanne desmond. these are good jobs that provide good wages, healthcare and we would be really excited to see this project go through. thank you. >> ok. thank you, very much. seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. supervisor peskin. do you want to make any remarks i would be happy to move forward with item 19. >> supervisor yee: seeing no other speakers, this hearing has been heard and filed. we are now reconvening as a board of supervisors. we now must consider the ordinance and ordering the street vacationed. colleagues, can we approve item 19. same house same call. >> clerk: same house came call, mr. president. >> supervisor yee: it's passing unanimously on first reading. madam clerk, let's return to items 14-17 and call the others 3:00 p.m. special order. >> >> clerk: items 14-17 comprise the public hearing and associated motions for persons interested in the certification of conditional use authorization for proposed project at 95 nordoff street. this was issued by the planning commission dated december 12th, 2019 for a subdivision of an existing lot currently containing a single family dwelling unit which would be sub divide into four new lots. >> supervisor yee: supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, president yee. colleagues, my office has been in contact with both the project applicant and a pel apartment an park and i'm hopeful with time, we may be able to mediate a resolution prior to the board holding this hearing so i would like to make a motion to continue this item to our march 10th meeting and respectfully request your support. thank you. >> supervisor yee: as my has beea motion hasbeen made. with the understanding these items will continue, to our march 10th meeting, we will now take public comment on the continuance itself. are there any public comments on the continuance? seeing none. public comment is closed. supervisor mandelman has made the motion and seconded is. is there without objection? can we take items 14-17-ton continued through the meeting on tuesday march 10th. 2020. all right. let's go to roll call continuing. [roll call] you would be next to provide your interesting introductions for roll call. >> thank you, very much. first i'd like to introduce colleagues -- substitute legislation that will clarify the objectives of the ordinance that i introduced in july of last year. that original legislation and substitute been presented today, is the result of many conversations we have had throughout the past year and about how we are going to deal with the affordable housing crisis that is impacting seniors. while we were going through the discussion around successful affordable housing bond, all of last year, it became pretty clear that the city was not doing a very good job and collecting, analyzing and sharing information about senior housing needs and how the city was planning on meeting these needs. there were a number of technical changes that were needed and that is why there is a substitute legislation being introduced today. the objectives have stayed the same. to have the most accurate and comprehensive information about how the city is doing when it comes to understanding the needs of our aging population, when it comes to housing and how the city is preparing to meet those needs. there are some basic facts that might surprise you. within the next 10 years, is our senior population will be more than 1/4 of our total population. seniors 60 years and older make one quarter of persons in the city who are now living under poverty line. during the housing bond discussion, that we had all throughout last year, we learned that in our city, cities pipeline plan affordable housing units, only 12% are being designated for affordable senior housing. with the passage of the housing bond, the largest one that we have passed to date, we dedicated 150 million to senior housing projects. a large part because we had this data and a working group that focused on the housing needs of our senior community and a lack of the city housing pipeline. the bonds' measure is a beacon of hope that we can begin to build affordable senior housing in the city. and for the thousands who need it. now and those who need it in the future. every single one of us is ageing and our housing needs will change as we age. however, the other piece we were not able to address in the bond is that when we build affordable senior housing the units are not affordable to many on fixed incomes that is why i spearheaded legislation to create the senior operating subsidiaries program fund and thanks to your support colleagues, we were able to pass that legislation and seat it with a 5 million-dollar investment over five years. s.o.s. lowers the cost of a unit to meet seniors where they are in regards to their income. instead of 50% of a. m.i. units, units are set at 15% or 25% of a.m.i. so that the seniors on fixeden comes can actually qualify. i was happy to benefit seniors who were able to qualify and move into the shock well development in supervisor ronen's district as a result. i want to thank my colleagues, supervisor ronen, peskin, mar for your early co sponsorship and i look forward to the discussion at the committee in a very near future. i also want to introduce a hearing request on the status update of forecasting resources for public education. as a grandfather of former president of this san francisco board and former president, and a policy maker who has made well being of children and families a priority for over 40 years, i was seriously alarmed by the recent or pre k through 12 as well as our public muni college. it's easy to lose sight of the source of the problem and to engage in simplistic finger pointing and quick solutions. i know we all care deeply about this issue. so let's talk about the real source of the problem. our public education system from early education all the way through to our community college, and four years institutions have been the victim of longstanding under funding by our state and our federal government. given the reality of prolonged financial neglect for a public institution of learning, i would like to invite our partners from the city, the school district, and the community college district and to discuss how we can work together to ensure that our children, youth, adults and seniors will continue to have access to quality education opportunities here in the city. perhaps it will mean a united ballot measure on behalf of public education from pre k to 14 as well as a continuing education training for the november ballot. to establish and on going sustainable source of revenue to make up forel financial gaps that we know exist and persist. not any single option but i do believe that we need to come together as a team to nail down the facts and figure out the path forward to properly and adequately fund our public education system. our residents deserve this investment and public education. which we know benefits us all. and i also want to introduce a motion to meet as a committee of the whole the legal obligation under federal securities when approving city disclosure information in connection with the authorization of bonds. san francisco's debts policy rivers the board of supervisors training be conducted no less than once every three years. this training will be led by the city attorney and our legal, outside legal council and it requires by regulations. as it relates to this training, the budget finance committee will be reviewing for approval a resolution to adopt and revise debt policy on february 12th for final ad adaptation the rest i submit. >> clerk: super fewer >> thank you, madam clerk. thank you president ye. colleagues, today i'm calling for committee meeting of the whole on the controllers report on cannabis in san francisco. i review following adult use legalization. in late 2017, the san francisco board of passed the legal adult use cannabis industry in san francisco and established a equity program for cannabis businesses. when the board passed these, we included a legislative directive the controller shall submit to the board of spurs a report that makes recommendation it's critical to hear this report from the controllers office and their key recommendations for speeding up the permit process and optimizing our equity program so it can improve the lives of those impacted by the wash drugs justice board intended and i realize a majority of my colleagues who are not on the board in 2017 when we passed these to hear the soup or the which is all the more reason that this important issue should be heard by the full board as a committee of the whole. as such, i am submitting a motion that this report be presented by the controllers office as a committee of the whole on march 24th, 2020. i hope i have all of your support next week. i am happy to co-sponsor a hearing today along with supervisor mar to shine lights on the term in the youth agreement with over 50 airlines approved by the san francisco airport in the city and county of san francisco and examine how whether the city can strengthen these leases in the center of workers rights and priorities issues. as chair of the budget and finance committee and additions to the master airline lease often come before the committee through this hearing i want to understand more deeply how the lease determines of defined around worker protection and benefits taking steps to reduce congestion and fully mission and more. thank you so supervisor mar for taking the lead and i look forward to working with this office and with the airport on this hearing. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor haney. >> thank you, madam clerk. first, i am introducing a resolution in support of a bus-only lane on the bay bridge oakland and berkeley have passed similar resolutions in the past few months as well as the ac transit and bart board of directors, san francisco has been a transit-first city since 1973. and it has reaffirmed this status on multiple occasions including cod fying that commitment. the mtc ranks the bay bridge corridor as the most congested in the region leading to slow and unreliable bus services have buses compete with private vehicles as they move across the bridge. for residents of san francisco, living on treasure island many of the neighborhood with the highest percentage of residents who rely on public transit to get to and from work, the only current transit, which is the bus, have delays that are devastating. residents struggle to get to work to doctors appointment and go about their daily lives. with a massive population growth that will happen on the island over the next 15 years, the ability of buses to move on and off the island is even more critical. >> i know all of us have been greatly concerned and alarmed about the serious allegations of public corruption and toes are on going and multi facetted and there's a lot we need to do to restore public trust and we must follow our lead and look at the broader structures and policies that must be change to prevent corruption and ensure efficient, effective public services. even before these allegations were revealed. i think we've all known that our current system for keeping the streets clean isn't working. san francisco's faulty streets and sidewalks are an international deeply unfair and tirelessly to keep our streets clean. for the past year, i have made it a top priority to investigate and every way that i can why these conditions are as they are in this district although if it's not contained to district six and put forward commonsense solutions. in particular why are our sidewalks in particular covered in human waste and trash and many parts of our city we want find a single trash can. many of you have struggled to get answers to these questions and one of the conclusions before this past week is we need to undertake a broader restructuring of the department of public works to ensure our city has a clear, concentrated focus keeping our streets clean. as it stands now, the department of public works scope is enormous and often is a catch-all for all the works that impacts san francisco's 1300 miles of streets and sidewalks, public buildings and right of ways. from construction permitting in manment for excavations and night noise. the department of public's has too much on its plate. public works pay a critical role in keeping the city running every day but within the department's breadth of responsibilities, they have not received focus, attention, strategy and planning and putting a new for success. there's ample precedent for what i'm proposing. homelessness wasn't prioritized by the city we reacted to that crisis by creating a department of homelessness. when housing was a major issue that needed dedicated focus, a new tempt of housing was created and 25 years ago when it was a parent the habits ability inspections voters with the support of a vast majority of the board of supervisors carved out the department of public inspection which was a part of public works and so with that i will work with the city attorney to do three things. upstate our city lawyers to require a cleaning services that reflect the needs of our city in particular, clarifying that which 200which are not in the cy charter and secondly create a department of street cleaning and sanitation which will actually have the singular focus of keeping our streets and sidewalks clean. and third, setting a baseline set of cleaning standards and accountability on the base of data, audits and input have transparency around goals and outcomes for clean streets. i'm looking forward to working with all of you. this is a policy choice for this board and we can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. the residents of our citytv city and certainly the residents of my district who every day are facing streets covered in trash and fee sis, cannot accept more of the same and it means not continuing the same failed structures with the same failed outcomes. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor haney. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues i have two items. first, i'm interrogate an ordinance requiring the department of public-health to update their health and safety standards for commercial adult sex venues and remove regulations requiring the monitoring of patients and private rooms and closed doors. during the 1970s, they were a focal point of gay social life. a place to cruise and a meeting space where friends would gather to share stories, dance to the latest disco hits or watch a live show. performers like bet midler got their starts in the baths. they symbolize the new found freedom to live out proud and happy that gay men from previous men have never experienced. in the mid-80s,. >> sabrina: fran and decades later, with prep broadly available and san francisco successfully having reduced new h.i.v. diagnosises under 200 for the first time since the start of the epidemic, these regulations have no public-health rational. the the city desperate to slow aids filed a lawsuit against the operators of bathhouses cites them as a public-health nuisance. these businesses did present a mechanic health risk and issued an order allowing the businesses to remain only if they employed monitors to prevent unsafe sex from occurring and removed most cubicals, booths or rooms. although the bathhouses could have remained open under these conditions, they all closed. for many gay men of this time, it was the end of reeling communities. in 1997, the department of public they required that all areas of commercial sex clubs as well as patrons sexual activities are monitored by staff and prohibited sex clubs and parties booths. the standards in effect today include the same restrictions. since the enactment, queer individuals and community groups have argued the regulations were invasive, unfair and unnecessary. without private rooms, they have argued people instead have unsafe sex in other venues without safe sex education and supplies. during the time that these regulation have been in place, adult sex venues have operated in san francisco providing access to safer sex educational materials and supplies and h.i.v. and in doing so assisting rather than impeding our efforts to control the trance commission of h.i.v. they have made strides get to go zero new h.i.v. infections employing tools to prevent h.i.v. transmission. they include the broad availability of prep and therapy for people newly diagnosed with hiv and increased viral suppression through increased retention and care. this ordinance will amend the health code to adopt new minimum health and safety standards given commercial sex venue and prohibit the department from adopting standards that require sexual activities or regulate doors or mandate unlocked doors in areas where sexual activities may occur. it provides for those minimum standards to include requirements of venues makes safer sex supplies and education materials available to patrons and the ordinance requires these standards being adopted in july of 2020 and a public notice and public comment process. we've consulted with the department of public-health extensively. i want to thank the director in particular for their openness to these changes and we've also consulted with community and industry stakeholders including the san francisco aids foundation and foundation. i want to thank blade and many other community members who have long been advocating for these changes for their advocacy and support and i want to thank tom for all his work on this. and second, today supervisor peskin and i are interesting legislation to close the loophole in the way the city reviews permits to demolish exiting homes, there's a continual use authorization from the planning commission where a developer proposed to demolish or merge an existing unit or convert the unit to a non residential use. existing single-family homes can be demolished without a planning commission hearing if the value of the property is above a certain amount currently $2.2 million. it's set by the planning department and adjusted periodically. these homes are referred to as you know affordable and exempt from the conditional use requirement. when section 317 was added to the planning nod code in 2007, t was the lack of exceptionally -- the loss of exceptionally expensive home was lesser concerned in terms of preserving existing housing whic house whie affordability the housing price as tripled and many investors are willing to pay top dollar for an older home as they demolish and build a larger single family home. it doesn't help the affordability crisis. it worsens it. as a result, the provision is a loophole where they house middle-class families can be demolished with only limited review. the ordinance would close this loophole so conditional use public hearing before the planning commission will be required when these existing homes are proposed to be demolished. as we address the housing crisis for multiple angles this particular change will law for great public scrutiny offer demolition and slow the loss of housing throughout the city. i want to thank kyle of district 5 but previously of my office who worked on this and jake who picked up after kyle left us. thank you all and the rest i submit. >> clerk: interest mar. >> thank you, madam clerk. today i have one resolution to introduce and one hearing request. today mayor breed and i are introducing a resolution authorization a modest one-time limited term grant from the department of public-health to the edge wood center for children and families. it has been serving families and provides a full continuum of behavioral health services for youth including residentially based treatment, out patient and therapeutic behavioral health and school based and wrap around services. it's the only provider in the city of a stabilization unit. when a child or teen experiences a psychiatric crisis, we have a responsibility to offer them specialized care. no matter their ability to pay. we acknowledge the staff misconduct that occurred at edge wood last year, i supported the decision to stop placing children there. i have been working with edge wood on corrective actions so that the facility meets our high standards of care and rebuilds the public trust so that we can begin placing youth there again. edge wood has spent the last months submit aid 400 page corrective action plan. they meet the california licensing board standards and did receive their permanent license for short term residential treatment programs in december. and they meet the standards for other enter fee and receive refm kaiser. despite this, edge wood's corrective action plan has not been approved by dph and nhsa and the agency is experiencing cash flow challenges due to the lack of referrals and funds from the city. edge wood needs to remain financially solvent to be able to complete the action plan process. the one-time only time limited bridge funding gives us the opportunity to save our last and only crisis stabilization unit for minors. san francisco needs to step in for our children and maintain the critical and unique services our children need, especially when they are at most vulnerable and in need of age appropriate care. i would like to thank dph director, mayor breed, san francisco labor council and the many community advocates for their work on this important effort as well as daisy kwan. secondly, supervisor fewer and i are introducing a request for a hearing on san francisco international airports airline lease and use agreements. lease and use agreements between airports and airlines set the rules for airlines' use of airport property. how the airport's operating costs will be recouped and now non airline revenues are distributed. but too often, airports and airlines negotiate lease agreements behind closed doors behind lawyers that do not represent public interest. sfo and airlines throughout the states have benefited from massive investments of public money. in john of they received $15 million and under federal clam should expect benefits from airlines and it accept billions of dollars in public money and instead of supporting the airports and communities that make their success possible. airlines take advantage of lease agreement requests airports to minimize accountability at the expense of taxpayers, working people and passenger safety. ely h airlines that provide essential ground services including contractors and subsidiaries, must do more to comply with our laws. support good union jobs and ensure the safety of all workers and passengers. through this hearing request, i am asking sfo to report on the status of the negotiations with the airlines over new lease and use agreements and especially how the city can ensure that these agreements serve the broader public interest. including bun limited to whether airlines in their contractors provide good family-sustain be jobs and are utilizing landing fees to encourage use of fuel efficient aircraft. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor peskin. >> submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor preston. >> thank you, president yee and madam clerk. i'm introducing a resolution to urge san francisco mta to refrain from imposing fare increases on muni riders for the upcoming budget cycle 2021 and 2022. the mta budget process began for the upcoming fiscal year with a mta board workshop on tuesday, january 28th and the presentation included the proposed fair increases based on indexing and these would be a significant increase in fares. it prompted the resolution i'm introducing today. the mta is expected to be introducing a fair increase of 25 cents per rides, a 10% increase over current fares, specifically for cash adults, single a fare would go from $3 to $3.25 and for folks using clipper card or mobile app f. $2.50 to $2.75. this is 10% increase over current fares which i believe is unacceptable. increasing fares discourages ridership a at a time when we should be doing the opposite. it's estimated in a reseptembery of public transit that every 10% increase in transit fares decrease transit ridership by 2%. consistent with our city's transit first policy, referenced by supervisor haney in discussing the bridge, our city really should be doing all we can encourage, not discourage the public to ride public transit. over the last 12 years, muni cash fares have doubled in san francisco and the cost of a monthly pass has risen 80% during that same tim per y a 10. they pay $1,000 a year to ride muni for monthly pass and parents and guardians pay more to travel with their children. this imposes a unfair burden on transit riders, particularly those who are already struggling in our expensive and increasingly unaffordable city. i've previously shared my concerns before the budget at the mts budget hearing with mta leadership and i look forward working with all of and you with m.t.a. leadership to improve transit service and reliability but to do so without further burdening muni riders with fare increases. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor ronen. >> i'm sorry. first, it was very timely my district nine nominee for black history month learned spoke about the census because today, i'm introducing a resolution affirming the city and county of san francisco's commitment to closely monitoring the 2020 census data collection effort into are in order tof all parti. this is a campaign organized by the national day laboring network and they are passing resolutions like this through out the country and local supervisor and city councils. the first one was passed in pasadena, california and hopefully this will be the second. as you all know, the 2020 sepsis is quickly approaching and residents will be receiving their questionnaires on march 12th. as you also know the census is a critical tool that helps direct billions of dollars in federal funds to local communities for schools, roads, hospitals and other social services. it also determines the political representation that san francisco residents will have not only in congress but in all of the government. in order to achieve an accurate census count that truly reflects the diversity of our count country they must be confident the information we provide remains confidential and will not be shared with any other government agency, court of law or private entity for any purpose. while there are laws in place that protect the confidentiality, they reduce confidence among members of the public that federal law can guarantee the confidentiality of their information. san francisco is home to hard to count communities including households who are immigrants, renters who have limited english proficiency and we'll only have a successful census count if we can provide strong assurances around protecting the confidentiality of census data. to use transparency, publicity, investigation and litigation and to challenge any breaches of confidentiality for data collected adds part of the 2020 census. secondly, today, i am introducing planning code amendments to promote new housing instead of office construction in the city's eastern neighborhoods. the city launched the process. when the plan was finalized in 2009, some parcels were rezoned umu or urban mixed use. a designation intended to support a balance of diffuse and in particular, to buffer a transitional period as new residential developments spread into former industrial areas. one crucial goal at the time was to protect the wide variety of arts and light manufacturing spaces in these areas while opening for new housing. however, umu also allowed offices on upper floors. what was not for seen at the time was that today's real estate market would in fact make it impossible for other uses to compete with high rent professional and tech offices. look, everyone of us knows that san francisco is facing a you housing crisis many of we need affordable housing. i set a goal of 5,000 units in my unit over 10 years. three years in, we're well on our way. many of these are 100% 100% affordable buildings but we look to the bmr units that come with market rate buildings. i'm doing everything i can to keep an active pipeline. today, san francisco office rents are soaring. office not housing is the investment of choice. particularly troubling is a new phenomenon of using or abusing this streamlining and density bonus programs that were enact today promote housing and development instead to enable expanded office development. we don't need more offices in the mission and we can't allow profits to up end our goals as a city. specifically, what i am introducing today are amendments to remove office as a permitted use on the upper floors and umu districts and to allow neighborhoods serving office on the ground floor under conditional use authorization. no change is made to other uses which include arts and light manufacturing as well as of course housing. all of which continue to be permitted as before. i do think that it's time for us to reexamine the controls we put in place more than a decade ago. to see if all of these still make sense for our current needs. for now, these amendments are needed to ensure we don't drift off course. i look forward to working with my eastern neighborhood colleagues, supervisor walton and haney and to having your support and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor safai. submit. supervisor stefani. submit. thank you. mr. president, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> supervisor yee: madam clerk, let's go to public comments. >> at this time, the public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board from 22-25 from the adoption without reference to committee calender and the mayoral appearance. district your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual supervisors, not to the audience, and speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify if you would like tuesday the document projector state such to sfgovtv and remove the document when you would like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> supervisor yee: ok. again, supervisor safai, i can't see you. reverend brown, go ahead. >> mr. president, members of the board, ladies and gentlemen, earlier i gathered that our supervisor, mr. walton, presented to you for consideration as a first reading very item that we submitted last december. regarding reparations. we are proud to recommend this expression of support coming from the acp, the mayor, and supervisor walton. i have met with each of you individually. i must submit to the public that the support was overwhelming. without much due rest, are questioning. for you fell collectively that there is a moral imperative for us to do the right thing. also we'd like to commend supervisor walton for honoring women. considering that during the state of the union of this nation, number 45, presented mre that this information on this instrument is not true. but it is reported on facebook that mr. rush limbaugh said, he felt he must reconsider accepting that congressional metal of freedom because he scoffed a mar angelo and rosa parks also received the congressional medal of freedom. again, i repeat, if that's true, that's why what you have done today to support reparations to go forward with delivered speed for our air is polluted still with racism. and if you are black you get back. brown you stick around. but it appears that the nation highest office is still the case if you are white you are all right. >> supervisor yee: thank you, very much. next speaker. >> yes, good afternoon. my name is gregory bell and i'm a resident of district 5. i also a san francisco muni customer. my concerns are regarding muni. the safety reminders are on only essentially instructional but funny too. for example, when i hear the safety reminder, please hold on, i wiggle wheren vogue at the background locals singing and we've got to hold on for you and when i hear muni doors are not opening and i giggle in my heat boss activity as i imagine a fortune teller predicting my positive for the rest of my day. but seriously speaking, i'm here to pose this question should safety reminder include one extra instructs the following. open escape vents and windows fully when buses still to and a san francisco muni customer. thank you. >> next speaker. >> i'm here today, because we have a problem. i live in san francisco on reviere street and to date, and that area, racism is in a form that most people don't see it. all the young blacks have to double park in order to go into the store. y'all should make muni pay all those tickets that you given those young people in san francisco on third street. it is unfair for them to say when they put that train out there, they were going to put out the off street parking. they have not done if and the train has been running for six and seven years. when can y'all find out when and what are they going to do about the off street parking that they say the deal to us that when the trains start running they put in all stree street parking. if this was a white neighborhood, we know this you would have parking. all the time, things don't make sense. it's unfair and that is the form of racism that black people spell and see every day. >> supervisor yee: thank you, neck speaker. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is micah and i live in district 10 and i'm bayview and so what i'm trying to do is educate my community on living a healthy, natural lifestyle. we have all these pharmaceutical medications and all this abuse with our people. and so i would like to bring -- [applause] >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is robin reeve. i don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out, so i have absolutely nothing it lose. 2011, i submitted the lacey t. edwards committee on education. reparations? how did you reparate stuff -- we lived in our own feces for weeks on end. that was horrible. what kind of reparations will you get for that? you people have a lot to learn. but guess what? i'll be around. >> president yee: next speaker. >> linda chapman from knnob hi. i never expected i would be here to ask you to save us from public works. now i know the department of public works was, i guess, given responsibility to deal with trees even though they were on public property. sounded like a plan, right? but i guess they just give contracts out to people who are just going to go out and just hack whatever they can. wh when antie butler planted trees, you would see him all over nob hill with his ladder, carefully pruning. these people just hacked. across from me, i was screened with the building of chinatown t.d.c.s housing by these beautiful trees. i'm afraid to go home. i called peskin's office, get in touch with them. you don't know what they're going to do next. we're short trees already, you know, and we raised that money by drawings -- i used to auction bob friese before he ran away to get married and found san francisco beautiful. i would auction -- we have this hand some male, you know, unmarried lawyer, buy your ticket now. we raised money to plant those trees, and you know, save them. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> yeah. hi. i'm glad to speak to so many of you guys when i normally speak to only two or three supervisors. thank you for that. but the second thing is, what surprises me, how long this extortion for the cab drivers is going to continue. this is a ponzi scheme, pure and simple. new york city has come up with a way to solve this problem, refund the money to the drivers. but you did not have the courage to ask for even one meeting between the drivers and the m.t.a. board. we go there, we got a big do not enter sign. we come here, and there's a big do not enter sign. how long is this ponzi scheme going to continue? we drivers are hurting. i live in the east bay. it takes me at least $90, buy card, buy gas, and the bridge. then have to make money for the company. then i have to make money for the loan company, which is $250. uber gets it free. what about me? we don't have a big lobby. you saw that basically what was happened, the bicycle coalition. you listened to them. why? because they have the clout. they come and spend $16 million, $17 million for lanes that nobody uses. have a heart. i'm -- there is one lady up here, sandra fewer. i can thank her. why can't i thank all of you? why can't i thank all of you? but the day will come when we say today, we celebrate the black history month, and today, we will celebrate the brown taxi driver month. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i come back again, over and over. this is my last trip to san francisco city hall. i'm not coming anymore because you guys want to see somebody dead, and nobody is helping us. i'm begging for my life, for my money, for my family, for the future, and nobody giving us back. and i live in sacramento, like, last six years, and i come every day. it costs me, like, $33 every day, gas, plus bay bridges. then, i have to pay the airport, like, $30, $35, each time, and i do not make enough money. i'd like if san francisco city, they give us favor, and give us our money back. and i could not walk, like, even one block. even one block, i cannot walk. i'm breathing very fast, and i could not lift heavy bags. and also, go to the doctor, m.r.i., this test, this test. nobody could not find anything wrong with me. i don't know why. and same thing happened six years ago in san francisco. doctor, they give up. they say mr., yister, you cann stand on your feet. and i don't know why. i look black, brown, whatever. thank you very much. if we're going to get money back, please. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. you don't take pity on him. he wasted his life, he wasted his entire life's money, but you don't care. you don't care about your public. you had 1300 medallion holders who held up that business. your business ruined the lives of 700-plus families. you must not forget us. it is unfair. you must think deeply about it. you must heed our voice. you put us in a do-or-die situation. you have the power to create destiny, but you are presenting big companies like uber and lyft that brought destruction to taxi business. you have proposed antitaxi business agenda. transportation supervisor, your perception toward us is not honest. your propensity towards uber and lyft hurts our business. give us our money back, and we will be grateful to you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is matt, and i'm a taxi driver in san francisco. it's been over six months since supervisor fewer told the sfmta to implement the buy back program. we met up with her, and she said she cannot do a buy back program. in the past and still today, we blame the officials, the government officials that put us in this predicament, but now, if you do not prremedy ou situations, you are to blame. no matter how bleak it looks now, we believe our light will shine again. it is our fuel that allows us to have goals, dreams, and future plans. you may have taken away my money, but you cannot take away my hope. hope will not disappear, and it will allow us to continue fighting all that is wrong in the world. i hope you stop delaying us and make the right decision by giving us back our money. that's hard earned family money because without hope, we do not exist. [applause] >> president yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon. it's the same thing about the taxi, so i want you to intervene between me and the sfmta. i would like to have my written contract with the sfmta, which they declined to me, and i would like to know, do i have signed a lifetime slavery, and lifetime is until how long? until death? i hope some of you will take the action and help me to get my contract, the way i purchased the medallion. there has to be a contract between the "the testamensfmta. i would love to see that. and on the other thing is coming here back and forth to get a refund from the medallions, like chicago have already settled and new york have also $500 million towards the settlement, and san diego have settled. and why not san francisco? and sfmta taxi are nbusinesses not honest. they want to provide the senior citizens of san francisco on my expense. not out of the city expense. and i hope the city have enough funds, enough money to provide the service, too, to senior citizens. we will provide the service, but not at my expense. at the city's expense. not at the $250 million to buy the buses and provide the good services. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you. >> i'm mr. dennis williams. a community leader of district 5. i want to say thank you for the african american accomplishments of the black women today. that was a good thing that you did today. [inaudible] >> -- violate california health, civil, and housing codes. we feel the san francisco health department seems inspectors who falsefy reports enabling a contractor to operate in the city unimpeded while city officials continually line their pockets. mccormick and behren salazar built predominantly in the bayview mainly on toxic environmental lands. >> president yee: thank you very much. next speaker. >> dear members of san francisco. my name is don velez. i would like to ask you, what happened when the pilot program fails? we pay the kind of money, and sfmta say it's your problem. it's the problem of sfmta. they have to give back our money. we pay $250 million or $250,000 for something that was a pilot project. the pilot project failed. we have to have our money back, please. who could be the next, the next guy? me? i already have a heart attack already because the pressure working the time in order to pay my dues with the san francisco credit union in order to pay my dues for the sfmta, when i have to put my fingerprint, when we have to do all the tests. what do uber or lyft do for that kind of thing? how can we split the pie 1800 drivers with lyft and uber? you can put 1800 here. please, i'm very happy if you do something for all the cab driver. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> kim tavalloni, san francisco labor council. i'm here to talk in support of the resolution that gordon mar has put before you regarding edgewood. we have a critical situation here, folks. kids are being shipped out of town for care. we can't have that, kids being shipped out of town for the care they so desperately deserve. so take a look at this. i know it's an expansion of the budget, but it's so critical to our children. our children this service, so thank you for supporting edgewood. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> to my knowledge, the reparations legislation was already introduced earlier, so i just want to commend supervisor shamann walton for making a major step doing that. like what supervisor safai said, our community has been taken from the most, and we give the most. a and i want you all to think about something, too. really think about this. when you invest in black people, locally in nationwide, you can really help stimulate the whole country, and i'm going to tell you why. i see two people that aren't even black to say the right words. i walk-through the mission, some latino elders are playing smokey robinson, singing in spanish. you look at the hip-hop culture, that just brings all the youth together. so when you don't invest in black people, you kind of hold the whole city back. look at people like cecil williams, who was almost forgotten about. he built a church for the lgbt community at the height of when religion was really up there. it was tough to go against that back then. so if you invest in that, it'll permeate through the whole cities. we have asians, middle eastern people. we are inclusive already, so investing in us can make the whole city of san francisco better, right? and reverse the gentrification probable cause because we're not the only ones getting pushed out, baby. san francisco is losing families, period, right? and if you lose the chinese community, the latino community, the black community -- [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you. thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> i'm a bayview resident with district 10. first of all, thank you shamann. i was here on december 10, 2019, and i spoke on reparation, howe they're afraid of us. they're -- how they're afraid of us. we're very powerful. but this slavery, it does exist today. and what they're doing is they're locking up our black brothers and black sisters so we can't reproduce. they're putting them in prison for little things, giving them life. i'm a living testament -- my son was 28 when this first started. he's 35 now. and if he wasn't a child of god, he would be in prison now for something he didn't do. so back in the day, tlehey wer called masses. now, they're called police. back in the day, it's the plantations. now, they're called prisons. back in the day, they were called slaves, but -- oh, wait a minute. wait, wait, wait. the plantation is the prison, the slaves is the prisoners. so i am 59 years old, and i pray to god before i leave this wonderful earth that he created that i can truly say there's no more slavery. so we, too, do need that repercussion. not yesterday, not last night, now. please. >> president yee: next speaker. >> and i'm from district ten once again, and i'm going to -- >> clerk: ma'am, i'm pausing your time just for a moment. did you speak earlier? >> well, actually, we're speaking as a district altogether, so if we can speak it altogether -- >> clerk: no, no, no, each of you can speak, but you're only allowed to speak once. >> okay. i'm ken johnson, president of 100 black organizations. i want to thank shamann, supervisor williams -- supervisor shamann williams for introducing this legislation to recognize reparations. what i'd like to say is something that you all know, you know the history of fillmore, you know the history of black people, you should, in san francisco. as a matter of fact, san francisco was made popular by a black man, linstrom, and he's the one who started the public school system, you know? and if you look at the fillmore and the residential san francisco, you know, black people are full of greatness, even though we -- willie brown came out of fillmore. london breed, the mayor. supervisor shamann. we are a dynamic people, and all we need is a chance, treat us right when you're giving us our grants to train our youth. we need to train our youth. if we don't have no money, how are we going to train our youth? we have assets, and we bring assets to the city. all we're asking is just be fair, be fair, you know? >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is alicia rochelle. i am a native san franciscan, and i want to remain in san francisco. i've been a few places, and i haven't been anywhere that i really want to be outside of san francisco. and i really want the support of everyone here to recognize the -- what's on the table as far as reparations and really coming together to really make it work for everyone. i haven't been in this setting before, but i was just moved, seeing what was going on. i want to be a part, more of my civil civic engagement. i came up under sharon hewitt, rest her soul. i worked for her for some years, so i am honored to work with you, supervisor walton, more on getting the word out. and also, the census is very important. so i'm grateful to be here today, and thank you for this black history celebration. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> greetings. my name is leba shepherd, and i'm an activist, a mother, and a teacher, and a learner. i'm here to talk to you today about the reparations. i just have to say, it's really frustrating. it's so frustrating being black in this city. it's frustrating. the fact that this city has moved out so many of us, for one thing, the fact that this city don't give us credit for anything. and the fact that i see my black brothers and sisters laying on the ground, nowhere to go, no job, the fact that i see you calling us n's, not sisters and brothers. it's not okay. we're human beings, just like the next person. so many people have come here from other countries and other places trying to make a better living for themselves. i don't put you down for that. i don't judge you for that. i don't hate you for that, but you need to understand that we was forced here. we didn't come here for a better way of living. we were brought here in chains and handcuffs and in feces and urine, and we need to have our just due. it's not okay. it's unacceptable, since 1619, and it reads 400 years, that mean 2019. you go and read it in your book. you go and read it in your book, genesis -- [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm so thankful. my name is sala haquiah chandler. i just want to say i'm so thankful for this opportunity to once again be around my soldiers. we are now unified. after 30 years of myself being on this battlefield, myself and my team. and what myself want to say is we've been in trial all day with yolanda banks reed for the murder of charlene tindo who was shot with his hands up, and i'm exhausted. but i wanted to come here to acknowledge shamann in regards to the reparations, to thank you for being the fore runner. i want to thank you that you're holding the seat but not selling out. you and me were born on the same day, word, but you're a little calmer than me. if i'd had that seat, i would be rocking and rolling, but i'll be rocking and rolling out here. i wasn't at the meeting, but i did get the word, and it's an insult to us. and we as a black nation of people, mean now, being asked to be the leaders of san francisco black lives matter movement aren't going to be compromised. we need your support because you support every community from the chinese community to the japanese community, to the latino community, to the black lives matter community. i'm coming you in the way of positive right now, so we may be getting some reparations right now, so we don't have to set it off as a war or anything, right? but yet, if i have to make the call, i'm ready to do that, too. so i want to say we're having a new cultural enrichment program that will be -- [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you very much. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am pastor ewell dorn, sr. i have been pastoring in the city for 17 years. i'm a li i'm a lifetime member of district ten, and i am pastors one of the most prolific congregations in san francisco. 108 years. but i'm here because of reparations. i was evicted from my home of 20 years in 2016. i was emasculated and put on the street. we also know that there was $20 million set by kamala harris, and we didn't get any of it. and there was money used by the governor to payoff bonds, and we didn't get any of it. what's happening with that? i was fortunate to have another home to move in, but i've lost half my family wealth, and i don't get that back. and more importantly, family photos, our stuff was thrown on the street, and i'm a pastor, i'm a leader in this city. i serve providing psychological first aid to people and families who suffered homicide. i served as a chaplain for the sheriff's department. i've done everything that a san franciscan is supposed -- >> president yee: thank you. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you very much. next speaker, please. thank you. >> hi. my name is jess wynn. i'm a student organizer at city college. last week was rough, and i apologize for crying, but i just felt so passionate about public education, and students that are coming to us, telling us that they're one credit shy of graduating. there's a student that keeps texting me, saying i'm supposed to meet to this person, but the student is not even given the class back. the graduation guarantee is if the class doesn't get put back in the spring semester, they sign off and waive it as if you completed the class, and that's cheating my classmates that we deserve, the time that we commit to actually improving our lives. y i went to the board of trustees meeting on saturday, and i was shocked at some of the questions that the trustees asked. if you are our elected official, and you are being paid $500 a month or $6,000 for your time, why are students sacrificing student hours, sacrificing time -- i'm late to class right now? but i believe in the things that my students have told me, and it's a privilege to be honored. last week, i felt completely ripped, and i'm a bay area kid, born and raised. i've been here in san francisco ten years, but i never had a chance to hear all of these powerful stories of resilient, strong women who got things fixed because they were the only ones who could fix the things that they saw. i hope people do support the reparations, because i do, too -- >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is madeleine mcmillan, and i am here to -- to ask my district supervisor -- i live in district 2, and i have been calling and trying to get a meeting with you to talk about my housing situation. i am a native here in san francisco, and i want to continue living here, but i am also a veritas tenant, and i would like to have a conversation with you regarding this, and i have not had any luck. is there a chance that we can have a conversation? and i'd like to say to supervisor shamann walton, what a beautiful ceremony you put on honoring black women because i am one. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. my name is arnold townsend. i serve as the san francisco president of the naacp and also on the board of african american culture complex. i wanted to thank supervisor walton for not only today's recognition of women in leadership but also for the legislation for reparations. i think it's courageous, it's long overdue. but what i wanted to present to you real quickly is i believe that reparations for slavery is a national issue that should be dealt with nshlly. when i talk about reparations in san francisco, i talk about what san francisco has done to the african american community itself. i've been living in this town 52 years, and i'm old, because i was an adult when i got here, and i was visiting years before then. and fillmore didn't look then like it looks now, when you had viable businesses. they took millions and millions of businesses away from people in this community. when miss leola king died, she, at her services, former mayor willie brown said i remember when the painted ladies was owned by a black family. millions of dollars taken by black folk. they took our wealth and gave us money for it. not the same thing. you have an opportunity to make it right, and quite frankly, you are obligated to make it right. thank you so much. >> hi. thank you all for your time today. thank you, shamann, for that beautiful recognition for the leadership and the way that we continue to give to our communities. my name is cherie miller. i am a theater worker, and i use art as my activism. i am an employee at the african american art and culture complex in the fillmore. in 2016, the american conser conservato conservatory held a workshop, and people came, talking about how hard their parents worked when they arrived. black people had to work hard in order to make any kind of lee way, in order to make any kind of inroads. and those were taken away from us. we allowed banks to do bad business, to target our communities, and when they lost their home, they lost our wealth. so here, we have an opportunity to do better and to work for equitable in the way that we continue to operate this city. and i just want to thank you, supervisor shamann, for being that great leader for say this is what's needed. i ask you to read up on the history when we were researching for the cultural district. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, honorable supervisors. i ask for your support of reparations as a step in the right direction and to be pioneers on equity for this entire city. san francisco is known to be a pioneer. i took a class recently at city college on diversity racism and discovered the government started race -- racism, and the effects of it against black people. i still walk down the street, and people either cross or clutch their bag or their purse. reparations can begin to right the wrongs and help stop the perpetuation of black people. the laws have been created to perpetuate it, and it's time to have laws to stop it. it is time to value all human beings and stop the lack of black hires, black promotions, and continued microaggressions. it it's long overdue. i also support cab drivers. as a native san franciscan, i've depended on them all my life, and to allow another business to come and eradicate them is not right. so thank you, board of supervisors of san francisco, for all you do. >> hi. my name is brenda barrows. we are definitely in support of reparations, and we thank you all for participating in it. i don't know why every time we talk about this, aaron peskin seems to be out of the room. what's that about? i don't know, but i hope everybody's on board. and the other thing, i want to speak up for the cab drivers, too. i'm one of those people, i don't shop at walmart. i've never shopped in a walmart? why? because i see it putting all the little businesses out of business. i don't take uber or lyft. i only take cabs, and i do that because people need to make a living. many of the cab drivers know me, and it's expensive, but it's worth it because we have to make sure that every part of this population is taken care of, and that includes car drivers, and the city employees, and the workers, and the people who live in that homeless encampment that i see all over the place. and the wealthy people that live in the big buildings. we all have to live in this one city and be here together. so i don't think one thing should take away from the other, but i do think that all things should be worked on. i thank you, shall mamann, for putting this on, and i thank everybody who has helped us this far. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. 120 seconds is a tough task master. systems analysis, land is sold for profit. oil drillers and financial service drill for profit. pipelines are built with financial backing for profit. oil is sold to refineries and sold as gas or diesel or heating oil for profit. diesel is boughten, and gas is bought and burnt inefficiently so we can go about our society while we burn the planet. we're waiting for the government to arrange -- change the equations so our children may survive, but the industry affords lobbyists. here at home, property owners sell land for profit to real estate developers, financial services, banks, insurance companies, for -- to build commercial offices for profit, residences that 50% of san francisco can't afford. if you are 50 years old in a rental unit that's rent controlled, your only choice is to die before the landlord sells the property. we wait for our government here in the city for a change of equation. everybody does better when everybody does better, cabbies included, african americans included. and yet, something is holding onto the status quo. this is a moment where we need to go forward. fair deals exist for everybody. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. i see supervisor shamann -- supervisor walton. is the ad hoc committee for discrimination and treatment -- mistreatment of african americans, is that committee still meeting, and if it is, i'd like to know if i could attend the meetings? [inaudible] >> okay. thank you. >> president yee: next speaker. >> good evening. i'm peter warfield, representing today, equity for older students. we want to have all of the cut classes that were cut for spring restored, and in particular, the ones that were so drastically cut in the older adults program, where 90% or more of the classes were cut. a little more than a year ago, there were some 76 to 86 classes. this year, there's six. the joint committee heard about the impact of class cuts, but the chancellor who was specifically invited did not show. the trustees who were specifically invited did not show, and the one who did show from the college had evidently nothing prepared to show that was related to the agenda item and was basically ripped by the supervisors and the school board members who were present for that lack of preparation. i hope that the four supervisors who voted against the $2.7 million funding to restore the cut classes will consider changing their minds. those four who voted no on the funding for city college cut classes were supervisor mandelman, supervisor peskin, supervisor stefani, and supervisor yee. we saw on the front story of the beacon, a dog park being renovated for guess how much money phil ting managed to get? $2.7 million for funding that. if we can afford that, we should be able to afford classes. thank you. >> president yee: any other speakers? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, let's call for the adoption without committee reference. >> clerk: items 22 through 25 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. a unanimous vote is required for resolutions. alternatively, a member may require a resolution to go to committee. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items? seeing none, then madam clerk, roll call, please. >> clerk: on items 22 through 25 -- [roll cal [roll call] >> clerk: there are nine ayes. >> president yee: okay. without objection, the motion is adopted. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam secretary, please read the in memories. [agenda item read]. >> president yee: colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: there is no further business today. >> president yee: okay. we are adjourned. >> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciou deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas continuas my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ][gavel]>> good morning, and welcome to the sand morning, and francisco san diego transportation authority board, for today, tucson, tuesd, february 11th. mr. clerk, can you please call the roll. [roll call]

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