get places faster than any other form of transportation. it amplifies the power, it doesn t replace it. it makes it easier to get places by bicycle and it we re back in open session. the board finds it s in the best interest that the board not disclose this closed session deliberations? motion made by fewer, and seconded by supervisor haney. then without objection, we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. madame clerk, please read the in memoriams. today s meeting is you a adjourned on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late ray antonio, for president yee for the late calvert jang. on a motion made by president yee and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late ms. madeleine co-tava. and are the made by president and the board of supervisors for the late mr. francisco shai. okay, that brings us to the end of the agenda. madame clerk, any further business that concludes our business for today. we are adjourned. thank you. my s.f. dov
every collision in her city streets sorry. i ll just submit it, madam clerk. thank you, mr. president. can we go to our 2:30 item. we have submitted by supervisor mendelmam, supervisor ronan. i m sorry, supervisor memdelman. thank you, president. daniel birsherack around? come on up, daniel. this is on completion of his five years of service. since daniel s tenure began in april of 2014, the customer mers have grown to meet changing needs of the neighborhood. under leadership, the membership reached 325 businesses, the highest number ever. over the past five years, the castro merchants have launched the windows for harvey and weekly castro art walk promotions and expanded popular annual holiday promotions to include and monthly promotions and expanded holiday promotions on market street. each of these have drawn visitors along to appreciate and celebrate community in the castro. daniel s service goes above and beyond the needs of small service and was active in
for our last commendation, supervisor hainey. thank you, president. colleagues i m honoured to stand here today, continuing the beautiful commendations by all of you at our last board meeting to offer a post commendation, shire ron hewitt. i wanted to ask for many of those here to for sharon, can yu please stand? thank you for being here. i appreciate it. so there are many things that we could say about sharon. she was known to many of us as san francisco s own grandmother for social change. she was the cofounder of the tenderer loin people s congress and the founder and executive director of the community leadership came and emergency response project, which offered peer to peer empowerment and civic engagement programmes for victims of violence. she s had an impact on every neighborhood in our city from the bayview where she did most of her early work to ingleside, to the western addition and she stood up against violence, against guns and against hate and for diversity
present. thank you. leads and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag to the united states of america, to the republic which it stands, one nation under god, with liberty and justice for all. i were like to acknowledge the staff at ffng who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. madam clerk, are there any communications? i have none to report, mr. president. colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the february 26, 2019 board meeting. are there any changes to these meeting minutes? i see none. can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? motion by secur secure supervisd seconded and those minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda? items one through nine, these items are considered to be routine if a member objects, an item may be removed. colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items
rafael. eight and a half years ago, we were up to our ears in sawdust doing tenant improvements and mayor ed lee came to take a look around and scott weiner looked around and look me looked me ins and realized i m one of the few people scott can look in the eyes. [ laughter ] he looked around for a couple more minutes and looked at me, really, really? and as rafael will tell you, i m a follower of rules. i couldn t think there would be another way i could go about doing those tenant improvements and this was my baptism in the san francisco local government. it s been an honour and privilege to serve all of the businesses in the castro upper market neighborhood but especially the small independent ones. i ve had the pleasure of working with supervisor weiner, supervisor shihe mendleman. small businesses face challenge, sky-high rent, taxes, regulations, lack of workforce, house, be empty storefront, the homeless and mentally ill that roam or streets. and those are easy to se