Additionally as you saw there is infliction from weapons on the tigers and the camels and the zebras. As far as Public Safety i have witnessed san jose zebras breaking free and camels breaking loose and i want to say as far as education goes these circus tricks dont teach us anything about who the animals truly are. They perpetuate a gross and false image about who the animals are and doesnt teach us about them and i applaud you for introducing this legislation. Thank you very much. My name is terry mad lock and born and raised in San Francisco. I spent my whole life in eric mars district. Im a high school and college drop out. I always wanted to be a zoologist and never made it so im a volunteer at the zoo and joe is my boss and im not a representative or spokesperson for the zoo. I support this legislation because animal cute cruelty makes me sick and many of them involve [inaudible] and there arent many left in the wild and to them abuse side sickening and i know its terrible for ch
Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is eric mar. Im the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor Julie Christensen and to my right is Supervisor Scott Wiener and katy tang. Our clerk is mr. Derek evans. Could you give us the announcements. Thank you mr. Chair. Please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and files should be splitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. We have three important hearings on the agenda today so its going to be a substantive meeting. The third hearing on addressing bias in the San Francisco Justice System and the racist and homophobic texts within the San Francisco Police Department will be last and i will start with the first one. Number one for the health code and prohibit wild or Exotic Animals for public entertainment or amusement. Thank you. This is sponsored by supervisors tang, wiener and y
Good afternoon. My name is daffy lang and a lifelong San Francisco resident and representing the animal Legal Defense fund. I want to thank supervisor tang, wiener and yee for sponsoring the legislation. When it comes to handles these animals for entertainment abuse is the rule, not the exception. Handlers embed the sharp hook into the soft tissue behind elephant ears and other sensitive spots and under the chins and tigers are whipped and beaten and man are in tiny cages and this ordinance is in the best interest of Public Safety and animals that are subjected to abuse are prone to unpredictable dangerous behavior that has a serious risk of injury and death and while weapons can inflict serious pain on animals they cant control a elephant or tiger that attacks and we applaud the supervisors for taking the lead on this issue and San Francisco should join the other california cities that have banned Exotic Animal performing acts. Thank you. Good afternoon everybody. My name is Krista He
Different places around california are only required to have extremely small spaces for their animals to live, up to 3,000 square feet for a tiger for the entire life. 300 square feet for the tiger to life and many things the people dont see when the tiger comes for a performance. The opposition fights to keep the standards so low and the public that supports that thing is much more aware of what happens. The animal trade is another disgusting part of the wild animal business, not just the ones that come to the city, but the ones that are bought, sold and traded that are considered surplus, so if anybody has any questions i have been doing this a long time and i might be able to answer some. Thank you very much. I think that you have been a really great supporter of this legislation. I really support your efforts and what youre doing. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon committee members. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you. I am captain cindy michado and the directo
Would be wonderful. And more funding to go to the funding and obviously that is an issue for everything and more funding could go to the animal care and control and soon, get a new building and facilities that are desperately needed over there for beth the people work thering and more so the animals. That is just on the outside just hearing from the people daytoday and there is a lot of issues that are going on. Everyone has issues going on and with the volunteers and the people and one could complain about their bosses, but it really seems like this is the place that the volunteers dedicated and no one is asking them to come and they are serving a lot of time and energy personal and financial that the people talking about how much they spend of their own money and how much time there working with individual cats that are can be adopted and just need a teeth cleaning. Just basic services. I have been there a few time over the past year and mostly look at the cats. And i actually have w