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land here and there. i was tuck to the president and the supervisor of district 10. i want to public the make sour they give me a public hearing. to concerning my case i came to y'all expecting y'all to help me. we are speaking with reparations. the right people here for y'all to stop denying my hearing you denying temperature i'm in the street. i'm a handicap you understand i have no right to be in this street sir this is my fourth time coming can you get my name and check my right everything i speak up for they down playing yoochl thank you. next speaker, please. i will say to the president of board and the supervisors. and let me start boy saying to our modern day doctor king, walton, thank you for the dream keep and to our modern dayela baker. thank you for your present sxagz doctor davis or modern day rosa park thank you for standing on your square. i gotta tell you i was touched when i heard michelle obama say in her speech this black girl from the south side of chicago. say this to the black grirl fillmore. california. london breed thank you for standing on your square and standing with supervisor walton and being our harriet tubmachine leading us throughout troubled times as for reparations 1790 this country of the worse country in the world and 1860 became the richest because of the slavery and cotton they talk about 5 million dollars i think we got interest, thank you. i love you brother. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. good to be back i'm ej jones i'm here with gwen brown my cyst and cofounder of sf black wall street. i'm and gwen together represent 6 generations of families in the legacy omi community. most low because of the red lining and other factors. we the not trade our community for another community in the world. and often -- supervisors come to our community and ask yous, what can we do? today is your day. that's all i ask. >> next speaker, please. i'm jay crawford the director of new community leadership foundation i want to add when my colleague jamal talked about. we won the jefferson award and twhaun raising millions in guarantee performance no way we dolled this if in the for the dream keeper invest nothing our organization. and as many it this room that have been serving the community and fighting for the community with no investment from the city at all. as doctor -- davis said. d k i is not reparations that the city should have been doing for our community. i want to thank you for the mayor and this board for d k i and support reparations that is how our community will [inaudible]. thank you. next speaker, please. why reverend brown. board members i'm james taylor a professor at university of sudden fran and teach political science i think you should acknowledge historical context saz importantace the reparation commission in south alpha~ camp i hope you appreciate black foeshg told nou no for 20 genterations everybody always said, no. every state that ever enslaved black people is still here. california was free in name but peter barnet standses for it. fremont, hastings and others, dopely implicate conscience set for the black and indian and mexican experiences and want to you change that once and for all you are in the position to be a watershed council that can make history and change the history with black folk and white folk and the capitol sxichl police and themselves. it would change everything. everything martin luther king was not something. reparations. thank you. and thank you for your service on the committee. go ahead, sir. >> don'ts let the elders die without getting that money and this justice. without getting all that. they deserve am you know i see tierce in ice. my father talks about it almost every day. don't let them go without getting they sdefrnl i'm larry dorsey and i have no relationship to the supervisor except i have a slave name. the history is still here i'm speaking a europe an language born and raised in san francisco and have several degrees and tell you at san francisco state university the inlectual people are in the fully aware of what the black experience is. so for all of y'all here you can make historiure names could be in the history box by pass thissing thank you for your time i'm honored. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i'm atuma bill free sdpi have been denied the right to live and tloif as a fourth san francisco native i'm not a victim or looking for a hand out i have been harmed by the structure and institutional racism that exists here. i have a college degree a union electrictrician i'm current homeless and out of a job. how is this happen and i'm here in san francisco because i'm a black woman. >> thank you, next speaker, please. good afternoon i'm karen i am here as a strong supporter of my black siblings to demand reparations for black san eversan franciscans in my family the reason i'm a middle class homeowner because my great grandfather was a beneficiary of the homestead act 160 acres of stolen land the traditional territory of native peopleful you have the opportunity to create genterations of homeowners and college graduates by doing the right thing enacting reparations. also as a white woman the reason i'm free the reason i don't experience discrimination in the work place is because of the black people who gave their lives in the civil right's movement. had their lives taken from them and this is the same for queer americans,im guarantees and children of immigrants, disabled people we owe our freedom to black people and it it is time for you to repair it it is time for toughs repair ourselves. it is time for toughs repair san francisco so black people is [inaudible]. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. upon barbara wilson from the western edition in san francisco i'm 80 this i don't remember my daughter will give you lessons from martin king you should when the architects wrote the words of the institution and the declaration of independence they were signing a promise note to every american was to fall approximate error this was a promise all men, black men and white men guaranteed the right of life, learnt and pursuit happy knows. it is obvious today this america defaulted on the promise note. of for citizens of color concerned honoring the obligation america gave negro people a bad check marked insufficient funds we refuse the bank of justice is bankrupt and insufficient funds in the opportunity of the nation. and so we come to cash this check a check will give us approximate richest of freedom and security of justice, we have also come to the spot to reminds america of the urgency of now this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or take the tranquilizing drug grandulism. now is the time to make the promises of damage now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the racial path of racial justice. lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the rock of brother hood and make justice a reality for god's children. thank you. >> good upon afternoon. good evening i'm drew jenkins from communities resources. i would like to say i'm in full spchlt dream keep are narcoticive. we are talking about women's history month. i think young women our fully known as doctors now doctor davis and doctor psy are leading the way in the change of history now. and before as as far as reparations nobody had to make the decision special now we near a place where we have people to make the right decision now. and we love that our leadership has doctors now and this they come to the community. they have a hell of a team they have built and come to the community and get information from the community to build when we need. support that thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. just a moment good afternoon will upon i'm naleashia jones i'm here to say what i need to say to the board of supervisors. we are not asking or beg we are demanding that dream keep are initiative be part of the 23/24 budget in order to safety people you must serve the people of in order to lead the people, you must lost people of so we thank mayor breed. weed thank walton. weave thank director daves. and the work they do. so again, i leave you with this, president peskin, because i'm not sitting down until i finish and so upon again know these words that i'm going to use my sister doctor psy put where you are hands in the area everybody in here and let them know if dream keeper initiative is not passed, and the 23 similar 24 budget we be back. and so this is nice. this is nice. black peopleum here being nice we talking intel gent low you know we looking good. but i'm telling you, if dream keeper is not put on that budget! shammon, we got you. it will be some fire up in here. you already know who i am you know what i stand for and you know i ain't scared. thank you very much. >> hello, everyone i'm director of youth promise at college toin toin. and upon we received a part of the d k i initiative 125,000 give you numbers. we work with 21 people in the community, 10 of intern it is got 5,000 a piece. 3 got 107 guest speakers 3,000 a piece. provide 10 thousand dollars in door dash and technology accessibility 125,000 and provided kohn 10 sick become in the community when you think about our numbers we when to do to our communities when you think about the black community when we think about d k i you pass another 200 million but we got for our community we always have. thank you. >> good afternoon i'm here in support of d k i. approximate they helped me as a single parent suffering with homelessness and stump helped me get my daughter to college nile daughter is in ucla tuesday and part of reparation committee if not for that i don't know what i valid did. and also i like to talk about reparations we need reparation you when i was 7 i was abused in the city in san francisco school. where teacher took my head and hit it on the desk. and today -- still to today in the city of san francisco when you go to different agency you still responsibles the same thing. when are we going to stand up supervisors! and stop this. we received the housing when you sign up for house and going for housing and doctors. when is it going to stop! i'm a residents i have been here all my life am all my life! and it statute worse i ever seen it. ever! i don't think i should have to see it like this. do what you need to do. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello i'm cheryl shanks. i'm a second generation native that has been pushed out. i'm currently living in the sro because i'm contained. i'm also on the behalf of the tenderloin people's congress. the tenderloin people's congress supports the work of the san francisco african-american advisory committee and human right's commission [inaudible] in other forms ofs is attic racism we strongly and urgency ask for your support for the reparation resolution before you. we urge you to vote, y today while the harm caused slavery, race simple for the fast to the present cannot be undonful moving approximate slousing toward compensation and the beginning and the right thing to do. tell it is past time for san francisco to begin currently correcting the years of injustice propaganda against our african-american san franciscans, there is no time like the present to be begin process. cast your vote to get the correct side of history and move us forward. uponef line allowable's people's congress. we are a grass root resident lead organization based in the tenderloin. >> i'm the founding director of love never fails a national 18 trafficking organization. i was raised in upon san francisco i had the pleasure in 21 serving several black lead organizations representatives 10,000 black inference france 43% suffer friday sexual, buchls 39% homelessness. 50% mental health issues and 50% made urn 25,000 a year. 45 percent 25 and 50 thousand dollars a year. these other things that make us vulnerable to human trafficking the reason why black women are trafficked at 40%. we are will grateful to be participating in the dream keep are initiative and mentoring and providing art and dance to 17 girls on the nil potrero hill. girls survivors and risk of human trafficking we hope you will condition to invest in d k i human trafficking programs and lastly black girls don't want to be exmroitd they want to live in freedom and purpose and safety and love. thank you. >> good upon afternoon. we have been doing this for 43 years. and i don't want to come down here every time we always feel like we are beg. so, you heard the stories over and over. i am here to support doctor davis and -- supervisor walton to fight for yous it is important you see that we support our leaders and have out here but dot right thing. because i'm not here to beg. of and it feels like we're beg dot right thing what is happening will get visit you in your backyard if you don't dot right thing. >> thank you for sharing your comments. >> good afternoon honorable board i'm drew glover the director. homeless children's network a black lead nonprofit and recipient of dream keep are funds i ask to you support the dream keeper initiative. it illustrate whatted is public with community driven investments in the african-american community. dollars which available or unvisible to black residents create space and capacity for black lead organizations. the increased capacity has a correlation to impact in the black community a community under served by city g. speak as someone who works with an organization that received funds i atest to the increased services and access to mental health health care committee investment. the impact is real. there is one small step toward equity tecreated a model forical cal and the nation to if thank you for your time and the opportunity to speak. >> thank you. i'm jeffrey allen junior i come buffer in full spchlt dream keeper funding i'm a therapist i w with black children and families and providing services through groups and individual services. i want you to know how important service are for our people and the d k i funding a lus you to do that work. i spoke in spchlt upon funding >> thank you. s good afternoon will san francisco. i'm doctor brown a bay area native rot in oak lands, california deep notoriety fillmore and haight/ashbury district i'm a black professional at the homeless children's network. i'm here to talk about the work i do with the a manny program participates have been in and out today. i want to spoke to the impacts that d k i dollars have on the program. the program impacted them both. firms the w they have been doing in community and adds to skill set and increases the capacity to serve the communities using community well of courses interventions wooshgs neil need funds to pick update slack. we fill in the gaps that corporate health systems failed communities like the fill mccormick bayview and hunter's point this . is why i support the d k i funding. thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello is this the first time i have done this i'm going to say quickly so you don't cut my mic off. i'm employed approximate with children's network and support initiate 55 i come to you as a therapist sppth black clinician in training who serve black children and families under served in san francisco. i heard on occasions how families lack trust in mental health services. experienced lack sponsive care and high turn over providers are. >> the d k i aforded resources need to restability trust with families- i ask we look outside the walls and throughout ice of families and children who we serve and think how the resource will reaffirm the electric of trust with the upon community and the system this is govern that support. keep our d k i funding alive. >> nooim spchlt dream keeper fung. the deputy director of home will children's we experienced how funding further the work with wellness for the black community in san francisco the cultural trust we can provide. and when community members trust us we have meaningful work. supports hundreds within our program and each individual impacts their community that is crediting a rip they'll affects thousands. multiboy that by number of businesses and people able to continue their work throughout fungdz. and we can understand the [inaudible] as leaders approximate continue support of the funding alus to you work with the black community rather than doing things to us or for yous. i urge your support d k i initiative. thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> that was a long wait. good evening. it was. truth to be the truth i'm antoinet moseley. they are my folks i wanted come tonight it say thank you everyone who is working on this my mom retired here in bayview in 1981 no benefits or pension or sick leave. no benefits. reparations are truly due to folks here. i want top thank supervisor walton for spearheading this along with the mayor. cheryl davis. i heard so much about and you a pleasure to hear you speakism thank you for your energy. sudden front black wall street. one thing i want to say in closing we as a people are known to never leave anyone behind. harriet tubmachine didn'tful i encourage you. >> next speaker, please. i'm joan mathis i have been in this community all my livment i work hard and everyone i know works hard. everyone here works hard. you are work hard on specialing this will help my community. pithank you for that. i want you to know that my children and children's children and their children will be noticed for had they are recognized for what they can do. they all work hard. thank you and i wish this reparation will pass. this evening next speaker, please. i'm darlene robots i was born in tulsa, oklahoma in 1947 in the basement of morton memory yell hospital i learned in order it conchor civil wrongs i had to fight for my civil rights. when i moved san francisco i was 18 i am 76. i learned then when i went to [inaudible] and i met miles davis i was a ridiculous and roll lover but i loved jazz. as a result i created fillmore jazz ambassadors because of dream keep and cheryl davis and the budget and mayor and supervisors we are working on a do you meanary 150 years of jazz history in san francisco! is going to start from the coast to harlem of the west dub to today. that's because jazz is a metaphor for all our music that is when we are purning. we want to thank you and want to tell you that there can be no reparations without dream keeper. dream keepers will help us keep up after that. we gotta keep up after the reperations. we don't want to turn this backward. i want to thank you all for listen to me and tolerate thanksgiving loud voice and all this passion i have for this. thank you for what you doing. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i had to come here tonight. i'm >> landa women the president of officer for justice peace officer's association. i represent the black peace officer in san francisco. i will say my dad taught me never to bechlg and i'm not beg you today. but i'm telling you when my parents migrated here from well lato san francisco, it was for a hope and a dream that they would be treed fair low and equal. and for this to have witness the racial desparivity i respected as a peace officer was atrocious. it is time for you to dot right thing and provide us with the reparations make us whole. make us important in your lives. black lives matter. you have an opportunity to demonstrate this today. do so with rep rigz and support miss davis with the dream keepers. thank you. >> thank you, good to see you. next speaker, please. how amazing we are. and the demographic that holds the country row to the upon founding prince pels i'm prud to be a black american exit see us showing up. testimony makes me prouder. rep rigz system about justice we cannot have justice for some and not for all. please, funds the dream keeper initiate and i have reparations i cannot upon imagine this city without us. thank you. next speaker, please. i am the executive director of the good rule and represent lake view. lake vow and the forgotten south side of the city. and we have been taught for many years that because zev no resource that when something happens nobody is coming. this is opportunity to make sure that all of us have resource. we have done so much with the director davis and doctor psy with the dream keeper initiative opening a computer lab for the community. support for will chide hood educators and sppth the community where they need and giving the machine tow the community the people on the floor. we are on the floor. there is nobody coming for yous. we are recognized by director dave xis appreciate this initiative and appreciate your effort in voting this inform i stand for the children this have been forgot sxen lost in the system. >> thank you. hello. greetins. director dave and isis thank you we done lost city don't nobody see us about nothing. i was trying to figure out why i went to nursing school and why i'm not in the hospital doing nursing work. i have been up there pulling out bullets. police not xhchlth emt not showing nobody doing nothing. director dave us gave me a chance in 2019 and told her when i was going through and put our shoeos and came up looking for me. she found me. and ever since then i have been doing baptist can i take care of the youth and the seniors. food security. community cleanups. i'm teaching young how to advocate for what they want and desire and when they sdmeed teaching them how to be responsible and take accountability for actions. so what i ask from you don't cut no check everybody don't want to spends no money we need twhoon to do how to do that don't mean have you to types we got people in our communities that know what to do. let us do what we need to make ourselves better. thank you. approximate i'm den us bishop i'm a black entrepreneur. your job, i don't enkosovo it. you have a huge task ahead of you. every single movement for black empowerment in the country met with backlash or a stop. right? and so this being the seat of innovation in the worlds this is no accident. that you guys have to -- in a human level. i challenge you to understand the task ahead of you and to make a sports troefrns sport's reference and not drop the ball >> i'm a residents of d2 and provide small business services for the past 8 years in 2021 and 22 funding from the dream keeper i witnessed an investment in black businesses from san francisco or other funder than any time in my career as a service provider the past 2 years i saw d k i invest in the growth with trin and min guarantee and mothers and fathers, college students and full time professionals pursue dreams. reclaim times launch their businesses. i saul make up artists open their own studio and 18 black owned businesses in the fillmore being in the blk perform d k i is changing lives it is over due and need if with reparations pick up a history become that is not whitewashed. cut check. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> i'm renee. i was hesitant to take up pace and take a minute away from the beautiful black voices listening to tonight. the last time i was here was during redistricting. and there was all the ugly words tossed around meant it diroadway people who should be natural al ice against a rowelling billion airclass and reparations rightly so are meant to right a specific injustices against the very specific community the black community. this helps all of us. any heeling and anyone given an apol joe to someone the relief the burden lift side processless. to even suggest that what is being asked is absurd. thank you. >> good evening board of prierzs i'm lar's martin i'm a long time residents of south of market. i'm a college student and a foundir of black integrity expression group and upon what i want to say is i continuing is the right decision for y'all to continue the funding for d k i as well as reparations. you know because when we win, y'all win. you know, i think it is important this the funding is approximate continued. you know and i think it it is a good investment and -- that's all i got to say. i have been here too long yoochl thank you very much. next speaker, please. i'm jeffrey greer san francisco recovery theatre. aaron i knew you when you had black hair. so i'm here -- first of all is d k i baseline? notederator i'm reclaiming my time. is d k i baseline we don't answer questions but the answer is, no. black people are endangers speciousise in ease in san francisco the information you required is invaluable. black folks are endangers d k i dollars should remain untouched and enhanced. i want to make sure you understand upon that without the leadership of doctor daves and si, doctor where is she? yea. april. the young queens take the weights off their legs and can't you see had they have done? can't you see. langeston hughs told us what happens to a dream deferred a raisin in the sun. >> and run? does it sting like a [inaudible]ip don't need a microphone or does it just is it a crush and shrilleded over [inaudible]. thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon i'm aid republican the screw you have director at open door legal temperature felt important for me to come and express support for reparations and the last 10 years we representatived thousands of black residents and i seen the harps in the report thousand fold over with our clients. i am want to mention something on page 36 of the report mid town park apartments this is a really unusual property it is owned by city and i have read the board resolutions promising ownership to residence denial and read the e mails from the city reneging on their froms this it is one promise that will not cost the city one dollar and will only require a vote. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm elgin rose i w for code tenderloin beneficiaries of fundses that helped family in need homeless families -- you just throughout the san francisco. and i'm here to speak in for everybody powerful 4-5% of san francisco. don't take our community dreams away our hopes or we will find another way to solve our solutions don't mention equity again. my ice working with d k i we helped families of victims of violence. am women flowing persecution throughout san francisco. and also we witnessed businesses start friday conversations to ideas formed to businesses launched. supported framework now we have a dream. i want to emphasize that -- the opportunity here we don't want to get lost by starting and g. support dream keep and reparations. good afternoon. . i'm is that von al sxen i'm here today as a commune organizer. former edindicator in san francisco school district and today i'm a proud daughter of my father came here fleeing apart tide jim crow south raised by his grandfather african descendant who of enslaved the stories he told me fillmore was a dpeeld few watermelons i'm proud to be here with my sister passed the torch to me. approximate approximate >> linda hill i'm a native of san francisco 75 years here and ran mobile assistance patrol ask lead the school district and think when dream keep are is doing is necessary today. thank you very much for your work >> thank you. next speaker, please. . good evening i'm donna i'm the executive director of coat tenderloin and known as ms. don at woman that will move mountains and expect to you dot same i support d k i funding they have given the opportunity to break down barriers that normallied not be able to do. we have to wait 2 weeks to get things solved we are able to do it in real time. saving lives on the day they come in our door i have a list of stores i want e mail a mother who lost custody 4 kids the father who was on our corner addicted heroin we got that father in drug rehad been and the mother the support she needed attended job readiness and community health work are program and now the approximate mother and father are u knifed as a black custody with full custody their 4 kids and the son was able to attends our program now wants to pursue a career in public health. do you hear me this it is why we have to keep the funding going because if you say no to d k i you are saying no you don't support black family in san francisco. thank you >> thank you for your work. >> next speaker, please. good evening supervisors and thank you for your time i'm deborah levy a member of the san francisco black and jewish coalition president. [inaudible] and retire friday city college my great grangd mother of the born in the city in 1901. we will read that if isreal ice many of us not all not guilty jewish community reaped the benefits of white i think prosecute from the beginning our country have racist policies and practices the resulting wealth to whites overnight gent ragszs the wealth desparity multiployed. jewish values teach when well is a theft must be repaid. as prierzs charged with welfare our city you must act by figure out how to fund the recommendations. thank you, appreciate it. next speaker, please. good evening sprierdzs i'm theresa wallace i have been here several times and will be here next week i'm the found and creator of i am that i am. trauma and crisis center. and it it is my endefer city provide a place for our people to the go and to be heeled. to be educated inspired and empowered. i would not be here if not for dream keepers and i support reparation. >> thank you. next speaker, please. . good evening or good afternoon. president walton supervisor, my district. director dave us. the whole h r team. thank you. i come with a different perspective of the work i get the opportunity to lead dream coper with the d. public health and my colleagues. we have done so much to get so much funding in the community. from mental health services, youth, so much to help black pregnant people have a place to go in danger in a crisis. i'm honored to work with this team. you have blessed me because you value me. i'm a native born and raised here my father wasave muni driver my mother a weld in war i come with my heart and unapol jettic to sigh i'm here to support dream keeper, the dream and the people come through thissed thank you we need to keep this funding and reperations going. blessings. >> thank you for your work. next speaker, please. hello board of supervisors i'm happy to be here on this great day my apartment is in supervisor peskin's district. my name issan rubin representing the san francisco black and >>you usual coalition. we support the work and mission of the committee on reperations for black san franciscans. we are a group of faith based people fromming different traditions who come to advance racial justice issues and build bonds. last september we organized a neap at the church and honored to learn last year ms. jewel stewart from human rights commission briefed our group on the work. we following the reparation movement for 3 year and thank the teachers bringing us long we will stand up to upon [inaudible] of alli and political will in san francisco. >> i i'm not a rabbi the tora and my grant father taught me that. thank you. next speaker, please. i'm jaime a resident and organize in the tenderloin i'm here to peek in spchlt reparations for black people and to send a message to filipino people listening zee to support this like america we owe a deal to black people if youim gritted after 1965 you are a recipient of the benefit from the civil right's movement black people bled and fought for without their acts immigration reforms would not have been successful if marginalized people are taken care of they have can take care of the rest of us. repair what has been broken for so long justice cannot be accomplished without reparations let the actions be true actions. let's not allow politics to get in the way of justice am thank you cut them their check. i'm team upon brian i lived in san francisco for more than 5 decades and 4 in the fillmore i livid here when the blk community of 14% san francisco and we were a better city. we need to upon bring back black residents displaced footwork d k i to invest on the front friends and the black community is most effective way to support black communitiful we know with resources and programming we will ensure out come. weave see this in the report 2 years is the beginning lays the ground work i'm for to you continue the robustly funds d k i. let's be the example by justice here a threat on justice every where injustice every where. >> we gotcha. >> next next. good evening board of supervisors i want to say i'm dianty burden and how the so out to supervisor walton frooim baltimore i have been in the bay area for the plat 3 years and seen a lot of things young black boys have not seen i will get into the work integrating moiz in the community. being a young boy teaching young boys brothers making change. i am now [inaudible] and also at hcn funding of dream keeper. i heel people internal i help people homeless. substance abuse and strugglingism think the reparations are more of a conversation it is action. when haugh due respect start acting on it. thank you. >> next speaker, please. throughout chair, members of the city family. upon one thing i know about black people appraisal pidon't know at the beginning of any of the meetings outside and inside the chambers has anybody thanked god. i'm going to say our father in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come give us this day as we give our daily bread and forgive our trespasses for those who trups lead us not to temptation and deliver us from evil. this is the power and the glory of gochld and remember, god is watch happening. and he will pass judgment. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors i'm alicia mayo. my family are with me in spirit they are the mc gee and williams family. i was comborn raised here in approximate 1965. the first black digital content executive producer for television i launched chronicle in 2018 in december. an anchor for i heart media covering the northwest and i worked as a traffic reporter for metro traffic control you heard my voice and black media now i own my own media agency. thanks to the dream keeper initiative. support initiative i met supervisor approximate george mosconi in the fourth grade. i have been inside and the first tie i sat in the prisz area i will learn about this more now. right >> my dreams are supported throughout dream keep and initiative and all have you done. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. president, formingy president walton thank you for spearheading this project. cheryl davis. and everybody support i heard words from the board and thank you for your support for this. for the dream keep every initiative and rep rapgsz i'm erika and i'm a third generation san francisco nay 55 p.m. my mom opened a nonprofit education centers for preschool and pirnts in upon 1980. i felt like i was born into the struggle but that's what it it is a struggle watch reperations as black people we'll be able to live opposed to always fighting a struggle. we worked hard as kids you do better than your counterparts. don't act black. don't look black. upon uponure not as good as others. these are weights and unfair practice that commissioner carry and we carry throughout our adult hood through generations. again. rep rigz system not a hands out at this time is a tool for heeling. thank you. gloria bare reparation committee lead for edge subcommittee. no amount is enough to compensate the damage throughout education system in san francisco and the seeds planted to discourage us, misdiagnose us and with hold our history and beneficial information that will help us succeed. gotten blk people tom come back and teach in the upon education system in san francisco. we want student loan can't to be eliminates that did not prepare for us jobs that could helppate loans back a black school like the lebron james school in ohio. there are 4 jewish schools 3 latino, 10 japanese schools. 18 french schools and no 2 german schools and 3 native american schools how can we navigate system when we attends school with teachers that hate us. next speaker, please. >> good evening you want to thank hrc, i want to thank our supervisors. i want to thank dream keep andment to say out of a mountain of despair a stone of hope. reparations dream keepers have been that stone of hope. you are a stone of hope as well by approving a dream keep and approving of reperations and we as black people with the despariies we suffered through with resilience and rose we build, give and contribute each one of you have a series of the upon 1-6 book mark in your office that was taken by your aid, we have not stopped contributing. we are seen as noncontributors but this changes the narrative and the first time in history the book markers in every know front library no city or state in the nation has the markers tellingoir history and stories of inventions. you can also carry on with making history. thank you. next speaker, please. inspect hello supervisors and thank you for lynching i'm curtis the cochair. people's congress and tenderloin residents. i typeset say i'm disappointed there are not more alis i waited speak i felt it was important for others to come first i thought there would be more allis and want to call out my other community members to show up next time. i don't know but this is true of you all but when i was raise said my mother taught me when you cause injury you apologize but saying you are sorry is newscast enough you are expect today make that your right and w to improve or correct the wrong. and we did not do it when it was convenient or had a little money and i could try to make pickup. you didn't do it like when i get around it. now you worked make it light. if you acknowledged you did harm it is time to make it right. right the check. get it done we owe it do it this much. good evening to the community i'm with the well tino task force. i would like to honor then cestors of the left lane and the blk ancestors of the country. there is no amount. money that will repair the pain and the anguish of then cestors. disrespect, the a because. physical, verb am and sexual abuse. no amount of money you can't put a price tag on that. whatever the black community is asking for or requesting demanding today you give it to dmem then some and merchandise i want to honor doctor davis thank you for the w buzz i'm going to say this left buffer cut me off if you take care of the black community the black community will take care of all of us. trust me on that. >> i'm lanette i'mom 2 sides. because i lost my grandfather he died not want to give up his home to redevelop. . we were the left family that houses they took, thai took my mother and he grand fathers left us with coins. that's one side. the other side for the dream keeper. i lost a grandson to suicide and thank good for the dream keeper program all of the little programs i went to to help me get money to bring awareness to suicide. and today, we are saving lives lots of lives and i'm planning on doing another if you take dream keepers we are taking await ability to share with how to save your life. please, keep temperature thank you. >> good evening supervisors and director davis. doctor si. and the incredible people. thank you whatever you are now. supervisor walton. i'm moneastbounding executive director coalition for health and wellness. i say that doctor cornel said it benefit public looks like justice this budget season now. reperations now. dream keepers now. thank you. upon. good afternoon. supervisors i'm ahsha james. i'm a native of bayview 76 years here. i said before when i was here the left time. this was a city i did not care for at all because of the racism. they received growing up in the city. i like to ask you to dream keepers keep the program alive f. dream keepers in existence when i was young i would not be where i i would with not be the attorney i seek to be. young were age. some of the things i seen coming up was one when i went with a guy red to the different san jose modesto picking water melons and bringing them become to the farmer's market the chinese market in oak land and the market down on embark embark defero. >> time e lapsed. thank you. mr. james. thank you, sir. thank you, mr. james i appreciate your comments. next speaker, please. mruz mruz. good evening. i'm vanearbyia carlos i residents of know fran raised my children here. staff i like to say that a lot of truths spoken i'm not surety truth about the system has been spoken. the system is not broke 10 is work the way intended. i think we need to acknowledge that understand that, and as prierzs have chime immediate and said they support this. nathey want to see reparations, i trust that when the rubber meets the road those that have stood here today will stands with their vote. thank you. >> mr. washington my name is ace. i have been on this case [singing]. some of those people want me off in this accomplice. but it is no mystery just of check the history. [singing] i have been working some case. conspiracy what is going downtown! in this town, black population going down. [singing]. when the benefits come you might not be nowhere around. [singing]. at city hall [singing] getting sill all. what you say you call the city home. i call it simi hall. i'm going to tell you'll i have been up in the job. thank you, ace. dream keeper. thank you, ace. next speaker, please. approximate >> wow. i am truly honored i'm honored to have my solders and hebrew queens next to me to stand. of the unity of what we represent which is culture. myself and the contributor to make sure the cultural clubs are put in bayview now given birth to the african-american and the san francisco african district. it is know honor 35 years fighting for my people and nile nation to make a better humanity. this is the birth that myself have given even with that having my only son murder of the san francisco quad rulel homicide 4 men murder he was the young man trying to cash his check on his lunch break. i'm still standing. i want to thank cheryl davis. because cheryl daves contributed and helped myself with the dream initiative to contribute to our black history among celebration, i want to thank you cheryl davis. i want to thank my people and nation for stand nothing this oppression. speaker time elapsed. thank you. . >> thank you. . >> thanksgivingment inspection inspection ever are are are are are i'm an dria draper i'm a resident of the district that dean preston represents. i'm not from san francisco. i came here via chicago and new jersey. i'm extremely proud of everyone here that we are working on reperations. and i want this to happen. also dream keeper initiative. please, fund it we have a moral obligation. and i'm intimidated all the other really well spoken people. i had to come up here and say, it it is time to do this and past time to do this. so thank you, walton, thank you everyone they'lls worked on this. this is when we need to do. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments, next speaker, please. >> greetings. president supervisor peskin, all the supervisors. upon might have district supervisor dean with long time coming. i know not long but straight up, support the dream keep initiative and the reparation for black people. it feels good to see so many black people come out on a moment's notice, by the way. with a limited budget and kudos to you know the hrc staff. and to all the other support we are getting this . is a beautiful thing and i reminds you the great mary rogers fwraut up reparation in 1971. so i'm think burglar those not here with us. but i'm filled with joy and like an og from coming down here to city hall. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening president preston and supervisor walton and the supervisors here i'm jonathan butler. i come in support of the reppingeration recommendation especially on the matter of health. this is about life and death. especially when arabians life xins expectancey is 87 and black men it is 62. we embody that [inaudible] johnson today when he said we have come over a way with tierce have been watered. we have come treading the path of blood of the slaughtered. out of gloomy past we are here standing and ask you stand with us and 've support the reparations tonight. next speaker, please. holeo, everyone. i'm not a speaker. my gift is singing. so i'm going to respect my reparation sam cook. change will come. i was born by the river! [singing] in a little tent. in old like that river. [singing]. [singing] next speaker, please come on up, ma'am. all righty. we are finished. we are done i need to give yourself a clap. come on, give yourself a clap. you said yes, we said, yes, we thank you for this time and thank you for upon lynching ears and your hearts we heard them the last 4 hours you lynched to us we know you heard us we have been speaking you heard the great impacts what the dream keeper initiative accomplished. we are novelty finished the more importantly we need to you appropriate. to advocate for the dollars like it is your own money. fighting for your own family and fighting for your own right. because you heard it over and over and time again, right it keeps telling you if you help us you help us all. you are part of us. tlufr help us you help all of us. we want to make sure that when it is time for the budget decision this was a great night but that the dream keeper the initiative was is celebrated for well spent dollars spoken highly successes and -- >> [applause] >> thank you. next speaker, please. can i use the over head? >> yes. is it there >> yes? >> okay. thank you, everyone. i'm paula brown i'm here advocating for unsolved homicides i'm a mother who lost her child to homicide in san francisco his case is not solved along with other family members and other young men case are not solved. you know there is money 200 thousand dollars reworried that money has not been paid out for our children's homicides. there is a 250 thousand dollars reward for my son. the what do we do about it? this is when they left me be. neil spending no mother or auntie nobody wants to do this. we are suffering in silence. we need money to help solve our children's homicides. i am still suffering it has been 16 years. and i still stand. what do we do about it, something needs to be done. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello. everyone. first i want to commends you for the brave work you are doing and the brave words you spoke. update what is going on around the world you have been doing the past 4 hours in case you miss today. you got blog ors twitter every where, san francisco board of they wrote it wrong consider 5 million for black reparation. san francisco could be the first major city to fund rep rippings. it is all over the place. i commends you for the work you are doing and hope you are prepared for the fight we are prepared and you have people in deep southern states rooting for you guys all the way. you are about to make world history not just san francisco or california or american history you will make world history! if keep going. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. thank you for listening. thank you to everyone and the fearless staff. i will close us out with a quote from odd ralord. when i dare to be powerful to use my strength and service of my vision and becomes less important whether i am afraid. and blk san francisco are we afraid? >> no. are we afraid? >> no. >> odd rasays we ask you stand with us to protect the dream keeper initiative and uphold this reparation report and make sure our dreams will no longer be deferred. thank you. >> before we go to remote public upon comment are there other individuals in the chambers who wish to comment on item 14. go to remote comment on this item. why all right we do have a member of our clerk's office to see how many are on remote. if you are a call nothing remote make sure you are speaking in your phone so we can hear you bechlt mr. lamb do we have callers in the queue? welcome, caller. go to the next caller we are setting the timer for i minute if you have in the pressed star 3 now is your opportunity to. welcome, caller. are you with us? >> hello. proceed. [inaudible]. this is the public hearing on reparations and the dream keeper initiative i need to speak public comment. sorry press star 3 that will get you in the queue and later on we will call general public comment. next caller. hello caller? perhaps that line is unattended. next caller. caller? >> hello. >> we hear you. >> yes. hello i'm i have a video i appropriated i sent in. are you have a video? i believe we might. hang on a mobile home we are checking for the video. staff when you are ready just show the video. is your name nate ford >> hang on a second. staff are trying to, there you are. all right. proceed. what can helping we are having a problem playing your video's audio. >> begin your one minute now -- i wanted play the video. and ensured everything was okay my staff are saying they are apologizing. i'm jefferef nixon in bayview hunter's point all my life i dreamed of playing sports at the college level then pro's. case management program moved me closer to those dreams dream keepers has given kids the town to get a personal tutor for academic and allow me to visit colleges to compote in front of coaches. i will play line backer next season. thank you to the dream keepers in levelling the playing field. thank you. i'm miller i have been with the san francisco railroads the past 7 years. the left years have been special with the help of dream keepers i participated in the college academic case management program with the san francisco rebels it opened doors for me help in academics to qualify for a sport's scholarship to fresno state next season. i would like to thing the rebel and dream keepiers giving mow the resources that. one minute has expired. next speaker, please. mr. lamb. let's go to the next caller. good evening joe wilson hospital house want to acknowledge the hard work in the reparation recommendations. and supervisor walton for his leadership. we are in full support with the recommendations. and we also point out that in a capitalist economy one needs capitol. to participate. also. to upon express passport for the dream keeper initiative. want to point out to the supervisors the deem keeper initiative created reallocating funds, way from the police department we want this maintain that guiding spirit move us away from patrol to community investment. thank you. >> thank you. noise to hear your voice. let's go to next caller, please. >> good evening this is pat buckner from d 5 i support reparation plan and dream keeper initiative and was heart other thaned hear each supervisor express support. devil in details. as earlier mentioned let's support the investment in this budget season so this we can truly deliver on these recommendations. thank you. next caller, please. hello? we hear you, welcome. sorry. i'm [inaudible] robinson a parent -- apack manage manager educate on behalf of black families and we other proud recipients of d k i funding we fight for policy change because dream keeper funding we financial low support groups hire staff and build capacity of parents. and able to provide scholarships for college students. never cut off young people it is a minute if a vo we hear young people. and thank supervisor walton and director daves for stland everstanding strong when nobody else and ticking on the hard thing its is to stand strategy they know when it supports blk people there is always a problem. thank you. >> we have 47 callers who are listening and there are 30 in the queue. if you and to comment this evening press star 3. hear from the next caller. please. hello supervisors i'm rubin diaz and live in san francisco in d 4 don't shelf reparation 2022 r. will the report on page 51 list 3 previous reports on san francisco black community fwhon 9330 years ago followed by another in 09 and the august 2020 report. dream keeper was funds. reparations to reparity damage done to black and begin the heeling of america. thank you y. thank you. when i will do is mr. lamb don't send the next caller through we have someone here in the chamber i don't make it a habit of going back and fourth i see you are always on the phone start your minute now. i disrupted the queue i was driving here. i was working. and heard the meeting was opening the public comment. set your time are now. i'm william walk are born at st. lounge in the mission. currently live in lake view. move in the lake view out of my car and i already had been approved for the down payment assistance program but have not qualified because i don't have the credit score. if you think this giving people just a year to if i can their lives it does in the work that way. and hoping upper able to funds dream keep and able to pass the reparation and like supervisor chan said pass it and get become to the detail it is later. make a statement we are going to repair the lives of black people of and upon diamond head does not have black people i hope you look at expanding this program to looking at where we all live i live in more than half the district. thank you for making the effort appreciated. mr. lamb. let's hear from the next caller. welcome caller. we'll circle back. welcome the next caller. hello i'm am athe foupdzer of veteran meal project in the tenderloin i'm speaking in regards to the d k i. the dream keeper narcotic p thank you to doctor davis and the folks in the city provided the funding allowed us to expand the program and out reach in the tenderloin. folkless talking about the threat % of people that are unhoused who identify african-american but 60% of our clients are [inaudible]. and this is giving an opportunity to collect to -- different types of services and provide different programs and oustlets for them to begin to precipitate the heeling process as we try and work with them to get them red for next steps. thank you. i apologize for cutting anyone off the timer is 1 minute. mr. lamb, next speaker, please. upon good evening i'm with the [inaudible] public defender's office i'm a black machine in my 20 year [inaudible] with regard to dream keeper the web page indicates the aim to break the cycle poverty and ensue new investment in youth development. economic opportunity. by the nature of works we are in the best position to break involvement in the criminal justice system black clients make up 50% and less than 5% of the population that is by design and dream keeper moncompetence rep rigz money go to end the cycles of end violence in the black community. thank you for the individuals who worked to make this happen. thank you. >> thank you. next caller, please. from i'm [inaudible] a holocaust survivor on gray panthers we support reparations. we ask the board supervisors respond affirmative to the 5 asks of the reparation committee. no other forms of compensation is adequate. upon the gray panthers hold the human rights. the harm that has been done to the human rights. african-american in san francisco is immense we urge you the board of supervisors to embrace this reparation process for our city's african-american communities. let's make history and make san francisco proud of when we do to repair the world in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> okay. . [inaudible]. >> good afternoon -- board of supervisors and members of the reparations and dream keeper i would like it take this opportunity to thank you for the heard work you have done and will continue to do. i'm grip i'm a native of san francisco and my mother is the former president of the naacp. and given that it is initial women's month i felt it was important to note that in august and july of 92 the pedestrian naacp my mother was approximate energy the end of her term of the pedestrian chapter spoke out against flus in school districts red lining black buildings and the prospects of racial inequality in a racist city this was in 92 we are inspect 2023. i look forward to cheryl davis. ref randled brun and the committee dog the right thing i regret i cannot be there in person. thank you. next speaker, please. good evening commissionering and everyone i'm a very proud paraphernalia leader i a approximately joiz i was in the able to make it in person i would like to thank commissioner walton the mayor and director davis of being bold and [inaudible]. the current status of the students in sfusd over representative in the special sxejz discipline eshgs we and until we boldly say with confident the children are well we have to keep investing in the blk community and doing all that we can do to ensure this one day we can boldly say all the children are well. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. we have 39 listening and 26 callers, next caller. >> of were hi. i'm upon daunte king and i want to be there but i could not i want it point out in 1919 the california state supreme court upheld racial convenance legal document if you comb throughout red lining reports of san francisco, you will see of that here on the 2 decades prior to red lining san francisco emprayed this practice. emheld racial zoning. san francisco also had an ordinance this dis, loud black people from owning property in certain districts or communities around the city. and made me think about the economic [inaudible] miami grandparents migrateed san francisco in the 40s. >> i do apologize if you cut anyone off the timer is a minute this evening. mr. lambful next speaker, please. >> hello? welcome. we hear you. >> hi. i'm camill second generation san francisco native only woman black business in noevilley for 16 years i'm an activist in ocoh our community p. [inaudible] so many black families owned businesses are not there my family came from texas my dad passed young from being expose to the waste growing up in the bay vow and my family members were pushed out of the city. black families have been hurt in not getting the quality and as other white and ethnic communities we need to be compensated for pain and suffering. my ice are opening statement majority of homeless and mentallyil are after can americans rep rapings are long over due and due now. thank you. next speaker, please. yes. hello? welcome we hear you. jury room i'm india i'm from oak land, california as a result of my mother dying when i was 19 years and she died due to [inaudible] the [inaudible] hospital. i was left without a mother and forced move to texas. i say this because it is important them this gets processed not just for san francisco but all of california and america the world is watching i'm watching through texas and hoping this gets passed. thank you for everybody and their work and we are all watching. thank you. >> thanks keep watching. thank you for your comments. >> let's hear from the next caller, please. i'm upon virginia marshall educator in the district 36 years. retired 2 years ago i was on the steps of city hall it was beautiful am thank you president walton and mayor breed and doctor davis and hrc and the speakers today. fund the dream keep initiative and fund reparations for the harm done on african-americans in san francisco the dream keepers done so much >> can you imagine the kids this december during the holiday events at elis how much. these are a few of the many projects done by the d k i. fund it and give black folks [inaudible]. next speaker, please. yes. hi. i'm moneastbounding. i would like it thank i'm a community healing specialist. helping families in the community for over 25 year. i am here to speak on reparations and the support dream keepers. my father tell me stories that when he was a kid he picked cotton before they came here. and they never got paid. my grandfather this . is life to feel come here to california to bring your families here. i want to that's my grandfather. ipment to speak for my grand mother morrison upon. she worked as a home care provider cleaning homes they neverified her social security. reparations are needs. thank you very much. approximate earlier this evening we found a phone if anyone. your friends are missing their phone you can come to the bannister and hand it over to you otherwise tomorrow you might find it can the sheriff's office down stairs room 008. next speaker, please. hello. welcome. >> hello community i have a minute to throw you love. apologies for everything in the past i stand for all reparations for my friends i lost in jones town. and her mother so you know i know way back when in the 70s nawhat happened there. exit sustained for my friends that i follow around the store. mos sceney watch out for the democratic party understand that. i absolutely stand for your community the community and memory yell is in order for the community for the night and jones town fillmore and gory. keep this in minds to ask for a memorial and [inaudible]. bottle thrown through his window. and the same with henry aaron. death threatos his life because of the color of his skin i sustained for my fellow human beings. why 20 callers there are 34 that are listening if you are speaking make sure you press star 3. mr. lamb. next caller, please. can you hear us? are you with us? >> hello. can you hear me. yes. we hear you >> hello i'm mrs. brown. and first, thank you to everybody this is listening. i'm asking you honor the recommendations and board of prierzs as well as the people working within city hall when you clock out hop in your tesla well and get home and hop in the 100 count thread sheets or designer suit you remember the people this put you in office we other people asking you honor the recommendations. we other people that were there if you ever when you didn't have those things. we are asking that not only do you honor these recommendations we ask you that you stop giving our leaders so much grief for when they are trying to do. you stop getting so much growe to our mayor london breed. the director cheryl dave and is shammon. and you work with them. alis with them. because we need your support! we need abolitionists like yourself. >> next speaker, please. good evening. can you hear me >> yes, >> welcome. >> thank you, good evening i'm ladonna williams born in san francisco. am i request this you pass reparations today. appreciate your comments and support but we want to see action. my third generation grand father was a 16 year old enlist in the the civil worry who won or freedom. acknowledge billie holiday for her sacrifice in sing the song strange fruit a sip bove' manslaughter of black people swung and hanging by trees. demanding payment with on going support. we ask the black people be made protects class and reparations made tax exempt. again appreciate your passport we want action now and see this pass tonight. thank you >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. hello. >> college fresh machine in well lai was born and raised in san francisco and live in bayview i am a student with college prep because of dream keeper and commitment to education and mobility of black people in san francisco. am i'm one. a handled students attending college and focus on my studies. dream keeper [inaudible] grants approximate [inaudible] in ways i can't explain i get to be a student worry free. [inaudible]. i'm calling as a san francisco residents. and as a recipient of the dream keeper doubt program. i was able to purchase a home in san francisco as an african-american person and had is something i never thought could come true. i'm beg and pleading that you guys continue to funds the dream keeper initiative and reparation. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good evening i'm alec lemberg on the board ever appeals. i endorse all 1 upon 11 recommendations in the reparation report as well as the dream keeper initiative and hope you will adopt the report and funds the program discussed for the long-term and set them up for success. of note one action the board needs to take turn over ownership of the mid town park apartments of the residents. beginning today is the city's town to right the government's many wrongs for the stele's black community occur in the our lifetime and still on going today. thank you. >> thank you alex lemberg for your comments. next speaker, please. can >> hello. i'm thomas robert simpson director of afro solo theatre company and so moved by the passion of the board members speaking about their lives especially those who spoke about the reparations they received from their grand parents received regarding germany. it made me think of my great grand further enslaved and republican away and joined the north and think of my sister who was a freedom rider. i see her picture now of her. it made me think of my sister 17 years olds beaten in initialville, tennessee at a prosecute test. my father had a saying one of these days. and i got so tired of hearing one of these days i wanted our freedom now. but may be he is correct and this may be the beginning of one of those days in san francisco. i have been here from nash roll for 39 years. please support dream keeper. >> thank you for your comments. i apologize. we are setting the timer for one minute. next caller. >> [inaudible]. hi. i'm vitoria lewis in the bayview district i wanted to say thank you to supervisor walton. and as well as the other board members and supervisors there. it is to lower the finger pointing of sxefrn say thank you. this w is in the easy. my grand father worked for dpw in sudden fran and retired i w feb. for san francisco planning department and in full support of funding the dream keeper and reparations. it is long over due. we need this to be whole. i sent my sons to college. came back and got a criminal justice degree and currently protecting and serving in san francisco. this means much more than you know. to the black community. tell mean familiar as much to you and your children and your grand children. why thank you. >> we have 12 callers and there are there that are listening if you are one of the 32 and like to comment press star 3. all right. mr. lamb. next caller. can you hear middle east? >> we can. grievings board of supervisors pedestrian board i'm kathy an sfmta manage a leader of the black-alpha~ american affinity group. upon i want to say thank you to the reperation task force for present anticipation today and the dream keeper initiative. thank you to the board supervisors for transparency and candaceor surround thanksgiving work and calling out the media smear tactics focusing on one component out of the 111 items. thank you to everyone this showed up today and every time equity work calls this is not whether or not black people deserve reperations it it is atone want to return had was stolen from ouran cestors white people stole black people for prefer and acquired generational wealth. san francisco board. thank you. sorry, next speaker, please. >> can you hear me? yes, we can. >> please, proceed. i'm alisa williams in nursing program in albuquerque, new mexico a residents of the bay vow a member of the 100% get through college program and urge you to keep the funding going this experiment aluing mow to be confident and prud of my skin function nothing a westerlied this wants my to feel otherwise temperature is lead by several powerful approximate educated black men can women when give and want put me on the position i'm able to help people. i would approximate appreciate you continuing the funding. thank you. >> thank you. hello. we can hear you. i'm ja niece murray born in san francisco, california i agree that black people are due reparations my father was ran oust texas at age of 11 by the clan and my mother and father forced boy's house in an area they did not choose to live inform every accomplice they applied for there was not inspect yours they were denied. and i just have to say black people are not a hand out t. is somethings to try and make things right and [inaudible] it is just a start. 5 million cannot make up for the damage and hurt still going on. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. greetings i'm green director african-american art and culture complex and recipient of dream keeper fungs born and raised in mem fishgs tennessee and lived in san francisco for 23 years people talk how small the black population is in san francisco. thank you their breechld director daves and supervisor walton for continuing on lead the way for westerlied to change. i'm proud of this moment and i'm here for the fiechlt board supervisors, please support reparation and funds the dream keeper initiatives. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. hello. we can hear you. why good evening. i want to thank the board for passion comments today. director davis to a mayor breed. and were supervisor walton for vision around dream keeper a god send to black organization and community advocate in our city and this it is the beginning. i'm. determine gina a sickth generation san franciscans my mom and grand morning died without owning property they tried heard and does not come to fruition we have to right the wrongs of our people and appreciate you speaking on that. what will your legacy be. will you be on the right side of history. be the change we need to see in our city. give us what is due and owed. this it is an amazing opportunity and history in the making time i thank you, for listening and a part of this amazing opportunity. some is this for item 14. item 14. that's correct. i call back. thank you. next speaker, please. good evening to the board of supervisors and supervisor walton. i appreciate the work of san francisco's advisory committee on reparations excellent job and wonderful turn out. i want to say that some of the things i heard tonight from the board were great. but i did have a baptist conflict because i have -- attended and anticipated in court watch and it is a part of prosecute stop crime sf. ive find it difficult to be in line with reparations if i am going to court wondering if an african-american should end in carseration and i want to say it was very are othered heartning to heart people making decision in san francisco concerned with the "power for life" african-americans. i recommend instead of having we have -- sunday streets. i apologizing the timer is a minute this evening. all right. mr. lamb, next caller. yea. greetings, can you hear mow? >> yes, welcome. i'm lisa shepherd and i want to be there but i'm in the hospital. but so glad that so many folks showed up today. i want top say before i get cut off thank you to doctor davis and so many others and i support the dream keeper. supervisors you heard the cries of the black community. i emrepresent the tribes in the area. unlike snaes united states of america from the first day blacks contributed to san francisco. all i want to say is -- the ramaytush ohlone tribe the first people of this area, request you board of supervisors to dot right thing. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. decosta for your comments. >> we have 6 callers left there are 26 listen figure you have in the spoken and part of the 26 press star 3 otherwise we may take this last group to the very end. next speaker. good afternoon i'm edwards gift the college program funded by dream keeper. i'm in my third year of college. i study criminal justice to become an attorney this program has been beneficial to students. reparations helped [inaudible] my event of racism i experienced at a [inaudible] where i received bomb threats due to the color of our skin this is a gruesome experience i'm sure and you your children would not want to walk in the shoes i walk in especially [inaudible] i'm grateful [inaudible]. not forget [inaudible] blks make up 2% of attorneys. have the commune this supports me [inaudible]. >> thank you. good oop board of supervisors i'm malcolm i'm a student at morgan state university november maryland. i'm a residents of san francisco and raised in bayview. i'm a member of the college prep gifted college program funded by dream keeper because the program i was able to snail school special be a part of the community and surround by like minded black people. i just am depending on you to keep funding this program and doing the right thing. helping us all out. thank you for hearing me. upon next speaker, please. i'm phyllis, can you hear me >> yes. welcome. i am a residents of mid town a native san franciscans generational second generation living in the fillmore. thank you to everybody other thanning all the black folks that helped make this plan broad. i want to thank the mayor and for the dream keeper and thank the board of supervisors every left one of you to do what is right i don't have to go ton cestors today we are terrorized and torture in the housing. the apartment i live in, please, pass the we should not have to beg for this you give reparations to everybody without them having to beg or spends 2 years for a resolution. please! please do that is right. we are having pain now and killed noughted. evicted now. thank you. i'm envelope district one born and raised in san francisco my mother came in the army and worked at presidio. from the time her being here to her raising us here. you know she taught us to work hard. to study. she explained our history. we understood reperations would come. now there statute dream keeper which is the future. i'm hoping you continue for the dream keeper it it is an investment in our children and in our men, women and seniors. and reparations is for our ancestors to tell them we are sorry and we love them this is what will it is for us. it is to restore joy and heel and help moving forward. thank you. hello. >> we can hear you. >> o. and i republican away and i was in the streets in tenderloin for many years until it was the days and i have breed who gave me a platform to get in my talent and teach. and today they support me through dream keeper homeless network and other resource in sudden front that believed in me when i did in the believe in myself i'm thankful. the dream keeper program works. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> i'm [inaudible] founder of [inaudible] unite for peace. i live in bayview hunter's point of i want my family [inaudible] i want it add to had so many said tonight of ask to you keep funning dream keeper and fund reparations. black san fremantling lift each other and building in our capacity. thank you doctor dave us. mayor breed. supervisor walton direct mile and he and [inaudible] so many others. working to move [inaudible] keep it together black san francisco we got this our ancestors are watching. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. caller. >> hi. will i'm [inaudible] comborn raised [inaudible] san francisco survivor of the war on drugs. i would like to thank san francisco for adding in my dad's sergeant banks to the new city college mural. i want to invite san francisco to my [inaudible] sponsored by e k i and the bayview april 23 at 5 o'clock at the bayview. because of the d k i move am my dreams have not been deferred. and 2020, i believed san francisco write a letter to us saying that they did some damage [inaudible] we [inaudible] [inaudible] compensate us for the damage and the [inaudible] that has been done to us. i will also like to thank our black leadership. and in my director doctor cheryl dave us. we appreciate everybody that has boots on the grounds for black san francisco. >> thank you, queen vanessa banks for you were comments. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] schout out to the 100% college prep and fillmore jazz embassadors the support of dream keeper. we commends all those who put this effort in place the mayor, prierz walton the human right's commission. the advisory committee and the citizens who spoke tonight. we look forward to watching the strong collaboration with the community and the supervisors to act and get thanksgiving done. we look forward to the reparation actions becoming codify exclude law. my grand upon patients started the migration of the 1940's the highlights of the black community thrive am playing a role in winning the war for democracy. i witnessed more than 800 black businesses upon [inaudible] in the 50s and died in the 60s. will be great to see our black magic [inaudible] by many around the planet restored. >> i'm upon calling from district 4 in the west side. i want to talk for the people on the website that are strong supporters of the dream keepers. and reparations long over due. we are awfuls housing advocates affordability housing and we will stands strong against any of the un[inaudible] in our community. to make sure that we get housing that welcomes people of all race and classes. and relations in our neighborhood. and i want our supervisor and the supervisors to stand strong, be the first in the country. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. good afternoon will i'm [inaudible] mason. [inaudible] take agi time out to come here everybody on the matter. both of my grand upon parents are [inaudible]. about this my parents born in san francisco. same evercame in the 40s and worked at the ship yard. my father jessy mason a carpenter. i support reparation. and i hope you take the time to listen and take in all information one thing i am against is providing this reparation toward nonprofit like the d k i. dream keeper. i don't support this . but i support everyone receiving the rep rigz in doing when we can to benefit their communities. thank you. >> thank you, lonnie mason for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. yes, welcome. can you hear me? this is diana mshg kiny. can you hear me yoochl yes, proceed. >> i'm 38 year resident of mid town park apartments. and i want to put a brief reading from resolution done by board of supervisors in 2008 we are still working with today to get across. and thereupon have been some misinformation. but we are the mayor's office housing recommended city ownership mid town park apartments terminated when the new ownership structure acceptable by both city and the corporation can be determined this has been the guileding prince pel for the board for over 30 years i have been here. and we should have been by now this property has been tronzificationed [inaudible] one mortgages. so -- i'm asking that because there is no one put out by board of supervisors. but they [inaudible] funding. >> thank you. mr. lamb hear from the next caller. please. >> good evening distinguished board of supervisors i'm a community tonight representing children's counsels. and also recipient dream keeper funding should not be lost. should grow from here. based upon what happened the d k i. if you look ahead the next 5 or 10 years the board of supervisors 400 years. shout out to you the city should create space for new opportunities. we done the work. we need to expand on the work and model the d k i to other areas of policy. thank you to everyone who has been involved in the work. shout out to everyone given their time. free, unpaid to make the recommendations based on providing support for the city. >> thank you. do we have another caller in the queue. i'm freddie martin and i'm a life and community engage am manager. and i support dream keeper, homeless children met york. collective impact and both dramatically changed the course of my life. and my career in terms. things upon done started by [inaudible] and for black people should issue fund forever temperature has been a tremendous sxrment a great impact to our community. i also like to -- support the reparations. draft upon whatever the recommendations are. i feel like we should get all of them. and -- someone said the centuries of harm deserve centuries of repair. next speaker, please. hello everyone i'm a cofounder of sf black wall street and upon founder of [inaudible] against domestic vinyls the dream keeper initiative has been amaze nothing addressing community trauma imposeod black women and through the initiative black women has been able to support counselless black women throughout willing system and support in a way. the dream keeper is an amation initiative that needs to continue. as well as the reparation upon plan. i will give you the conswhept we talk d about tulsa, oklahoma they burned 35 blacks in the fillmore you did 40. think about this. we need the reparation and i appreciate supervisor walton. . >> thank you. don't be a strange are say hello. >> mr. lamb do we have another caller in the. queue. hi. supervisors this is [inaudible] i want to reiterate additional the dream keeper initiative have been for students like i. and the words of the great malcolm x education is the passport to the future reperations, has been beneficial to me and other students. take the transportation and paid for [inaudible] [inaudible] become on rent [inaudible]. dream keepers allowed them to take minds financial issues and become to school. you have students that are parents. all of the opportunity are given to [inaudible] in san francisco and it is over joyful to see how bless exclude capable. we have students in offers to harvard. uc berkeley. they are black doctors and larceny policy makers. dream keeper is doing a wornful job in keeping our students focused. that's all i wanted to say. thank you and thank you supervisor walton. >> thank you for sharing your comments. >> next speaker, please. am this is diane again i wanted say i appreciate my board of supervisors for their effort. and that i will [inaudible]. and that we appreciate all the w they are doing now. and we hope that they pass this initiative perform thank you for sharing your comments we know you call in the earlier we appreciate you. >> trying again. all right. mr. lamb do we have another caller, please. there are no more callers in the queue yoochlt remote public comment on item 14 is closed. are there any individuals in the chambers who have not commentedom this item who would like to do so? seeing none, public comment on item 14 is closed. thank you, 1 and all. supervisor walton? >> thank you. so much supervisor peskin. i want to start one by stating were as stated earlier. the reparation conversation did not begin with our legislation to set up the task force. the conversation began immediately following slavery there was a commitment maid to the black community 40 acres and a mule it was never kept this . conversation has been going on since that travesty. i want to make sure everyone understands that niam fortunate to be in the position to carry the voice of the community and push legislation this will achieve what we are fighting for but certainly this conversation is work did in the star with mow or this board of supervisors. this the reports we received from dream keep and reparations are extreme low thorough. they present data and informationa is pertinent to understanding president dream keep and investment proven out come that do demonstrate success. while we are talking about d k i i want to make sure that we end the attack on black organizations and on black people in san francisco and i think when we have seen today presented by dream keeper initiative is something that one the folk who is @minster dream keeper initiative understand evaluating programming is important to understands this being able to present and move out come is important. and we seen and heard that. and today a discussion. allment to thank all of my colleagues for noting the importance of today's hearing. and why reparations is owed to black san franciscans. i want to thank the entire human right's commission. dream keeper team usa doctor davis, birch. brittney. chair mc donald and hol end and every task force member that put in the work to come up with the recommendation in this plan and also awful you who showed up to peek to behalf of the work. now the real work continuous. as i said period we have to stay focusd and stay together as a community. because now it is 100% prevalent we cannot be separate or divided. let's not lose focus when we receive the final report we resource the path forward. today, proper we are going to work and should approve a resolution to accept the african-american reparation committee report and as the work continues to the final report in june. one thingip want to say said before it is you cannot quantify injustices. i think we all need to remember that as we move forward. one thing is for sure we need to ensure this work continues when the task force does sunset. i want to thank my colleagues for reiterating support here. this afternoon and quite frank low in the evening. i want to thank you to supervisor dorsey for being willing to go to the bell on the in support of reparations. this is not off of the table. the first step i want to do is inform everyone i will ask this body to and our city government to support either a deappropriation of supplemental or supplemental to fund office of reperations to continue the work of the task force and follow through on selective recommendations when we make that decision. as community for action we'll take action immediately at the very least on continuing the work and having something in accomplice to make sure that we do achieve reparations in san francisco this budget and not waiting until the next budget. with that said, i do want to move that we continue this hearing to september 19th. and the reason is because one, we will not raft report until june. we have the budget sxresz have recess in august. so want to make sure that we have an exact date when we will continue this hearing i move we continue this hearing until the september 19th meeting. >> motion made by supervisor walton and as discussed earlier with the board president and that date works. so is there a second for that motion. by supervisor chan. take that without objection the item is continued to 19 september 2023 without objection. supervisor walton. just in case people are waisting or want to know when we will approve the resolution. accepting the report upon that is not until item 19 we have another hearing and we have public comment. i want to make sure everyone knows that is coming. thank you. supervisor walt only. and thank you doctor davis. >> good idea. >> supervisor safai. >> just -- friend low suggestion. since folks are sitting is there a way we can vote on it now. >> madam clerk. only because. >> would you say that public comment on item number 19 has been satisfied? no. >> the answer is, no. >> thank you. in sorry. all right. madam clerk read the next special 3 p.m. order. >> item 15 a public hearing of the board supervisors at a committee as a whole for the board to hear and receive updates on the progress and implementation status of united states d. justice recommendations. regarding reforms within the police department. schedule pursuant to a motion approveod september 15 of 2020. >> thank you madam clerk and thank you to chief scott for stick around. colleagues. this it is part of an on going set of hearings with regard to the 272 recommendations many we are on track. . upon to meet. supervisor walton? >> thank you, president peskin and this is going to be a report on the 272 department of justice recommendations that we're supposed to satisfy as a city and police department. we have outstanding recommendations. today's hear suggest an update. on the findings and recommendations. and changes in law enforcement practice. and we will learn how close our how far we are from commroeth the changes needing went recommendations. i know we will hear from chief scott and sergeant rivera and may be other staff present. that will be presenting on this item. so with that i will pass it over to chief scott. >> we still have 27 to go. and much work has been done on the 27 and that's when we will talk about today. and i want to say that -- birch turn the mic over our commitment to making this police department bert is unwifr nothing 2020 when the stele and the world shut down. it would have been easy to give an excuse why we had to slow things down. we took that opportunity with all the challenges with staffing. during the covid height of the covied crisis we got majority of the work done. now facing challenging shortages and committed not let this be the troen not finish the w. i will turn it over to sergeant rivera. i will be here for questions and details. on thank you for the upon opportunity to continue this presentation on the collaborative reform initiative by the sfpd. now we are 245 recommendations. compliance by the california department of yesterday this . graph depicts those and notice it ends in october of 21. i don't want the graph to depict our work taken a pause at that moment. what occurred from october 21 to january of 23 consists adjusting reform efforts to sustainability and the management structure of the recommendations. new sponsor went department on board contract negotiations took place and project plans were developed. we engaged with department of justice and made submigsz weekly of documents. xrfrm sthl where each objective stands as far as our sustainability effort. words stating targeted. review. and general review. what that is the department's strategy in -- maintaining the promises made throughout the efforts. targeted review and sum row on recommendations that have deliverables at regular times. general review is the recommendations were a one time sdpeel did not call for additional work. however the department's commitment to maintaining best practice and the forefront of reform we review the files they don't themselves require a review. department made it priority to maintain our focus on those as well. little use of force electronic use of force we can collect the use of force did thea. department is able to catchure use of force that can bean liess and reported out through quarter low did thea report. the department general order for use of force updated twice. in april of 2022 and again in december of 22. the change to this was in responsibles of the upon department leadership noting challenges the policy created raised by the members. you will see the significant changes to the daa based on changes made to reporting requirements. the use of force efforts field tactics and unit genesis continue its review use of force ins debts. early intervention system conducts use of force audits. in crisis training mule promoted members and trained officers trier everrequired across all shifts those are efforts for use of force object itch. am it is graph shoes incidents from 2017. to 22. you will note the 2 different lines blue and orange. the end of the blue line and beginning of orange the change that occurred in professional 22. most significant low the april 22 policy reduces the reporting threshold removing the sfafrnld meaning there was no longer a requirement for pain to be present when use of force was required. that were sipping cantly use force for now required. the april 22 policy added having a firearm in low ready a category of reportable uses of force. biassed mreegs. can you go back wh i was reand noted that little sliver of orange repeat that you are saying that the in new use of force policy per such that when an officer deplays a weapon in instances but does in the ewe likewise the weapon that is a use force and therefore we the initial a largey initial incidents not captured in the blue sloin that when you said? a number not captured that are now captured in the orange line the drawing of the weapon at the low ready position was a factor. are we going to continue to look at the blue line? there is no base line to compare from which 2017 to 21. it dropped in half. the the upon centers did an assessment many things that the department was doing. this was about 4 years ago. one of the recommendations was that we lower the threshold per reportable use of force. people have minor force used on them and not reportable. and then -- when it is not reportable it is not evaluated. so it make its hard to get better when we are not evaluating. that was a recommendation we work with the commission to ghet in accomplice to which your question we electronic that not on the slide but do electronic that. >> and chief relative to early warning intervention, do you differentiate between the 2 did thea sets as if you are doing quarter low evaluation of officers who have outside use force behaviors. dot xorge blue lines tree them different low as an early worning or use it is orange line. >> not for early morning the use force reportable will trigger that eis review. the new policy does not if impact that. we did have to go become to the commission and make adjustments. because it really went beyond when the intention the policy was. fiapproximate sergeant's wrist and he tried yank and i full back. that was your adjustment. now we have a category called and [inaudible] what i described is considered [inaudible] force tell be do you meaned but not reportable. if i pushed him to the ground that would be reportable. we continuing it is a more sensible way and still approximate accomplish what the mreegs equity recommend. >> thank you. chief >> are thank you >> sorry, sergeant. upon the department is committed to developing on going institutional vision. that addresses bias as a part of over all strategy plan. twhoon is transparent and gives voice to the community. a strategy that includes can early identification and intervention of behaviors indicative of bias and bias training for members. through the use audits bypass unattorney affairs. captains review of the data and the development of tools the department with best inform further train and policy development. examples include the deteriorating of department 9.0 search curtailing pretextoms and p d members attending the e mersive program aimed developing the struggles and fight for equality through the civil lite right's move am. prior to the initiative, the department gauge in the 30 tools in training. as a result, the department has over 100 bias related training tools. this head an increase of 25% the past 2 years. public safety relint on well built reps with the community and the police department. community policing are a philosophy of the. community mreegs rescue niegz evernigsz the guarantees for members original approaches to solving community, and self initiated community engage am project the inclusion of the awards inbe tended recognize department members who demonstrate guardian minds set. youth incorporate in the the revision of department be general order 701. youth incorporated in updating of [inaudible] to the department [inaudible]. 2 early drafts of department manuals related policing shared with the accountability. the policing and problem solving manual and xhooef form manual are all part of president community mreegs project plans. upon much of the work done explored by public on the department's website o. this page the community can take a look in the reform efforts and strategic plan and sum row reports. training continues with internal affairs. add to the internal affairs to assist with the future department data collection needs. the management tools. policing a requirement for all members. and i ad member in training updates for operating procedures with quarter low audits detail case tracking sheets. discuss hiring deperities. and implementation of marking campaign includes print approximate electronic and launch of the new department website. formalpicion in the national 30 boy 30 campaign aims to increase recruit am of women in law enforcement. and formalizing perform to evaluate our recruitment strategies. many of the remaining recommendations are related with shared work efforts. reimagine magged management structure. the mirjt of the reming policed in the 5 project plans. project plan woornld improve am of the capturing and analysis of data, and use of force data. will 2, the capturing of demographic data of both suspects and officers and force is used. 3, community policing. approximate included is the revifthz community policing machineual. the machineuals assist in the chief forum and development of community policing strategies. 4, approximate reform efforts about further [inaudible] bias policies. increased supervisor involve am and creation of systems through use of technology to better further our understanding of bias behavior and causal factors. 5 is centered internal developful dedicated community to review develop and report findings to the san francisco police commission. some are stand alone. they are not tired to other recommendations. these range from the staffed of causal fact xors deadly use of force. the development of other develop strategic lan and identify complaint support publication. these are needs suited for discussion with chief scott. if there are questions i will take them here or turn it become over to chief scott. >> thank you. chief. on slide 9 a reference to the patrols i wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about more. feel there is having been resource put toward this. and if this is a priority as part of this plan and strategy and recommendations it does not seem that foot patrols have been deployed equal plea as much as they could. give you an tube to talk about foot patrols. thank you supervisor safai. our talented is consistenciful and as you stated there are areas in the city we have not been able to show that consistency. approximate or at all. and will we had this conversation. i'm sorry i'm not laughing union square had some and as they should. i'm supportive of this. my point is this this is one of the key recommendations. how do we achieve that this . is a staffing and over time issue. but i think this is there has. i want to say that. there has in the been emphasis and there is a prior in terms of staffing and patrol cars and in terms of initiatives you spread out and then foot boat in yours this have not been able to get them.

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