City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, February 26, 2019

>> good afternoon and welcome to

the February 26th, 2019 regular meeting of the san

francisco board of supervisors. Madame Clerk, would you please

call the role. >> thank you, Mr. President.

Role mac -- [Roll call]. Mr. President, you have a quorum. >> all right.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Will you please join me in the

pledge of allegiance.

Pledge of allegiance]

>> on behalf of the board, I

would like to acknowledge staff

at san francisco government T.V. They make the transco his

available to the public online. Are there any communications.

>> I have none to report. >> colleagues, before proceeding with today's meeting, I would like as to take a moment of

silence to honor the life and

legacy of our beloved public

defender, jeff adachi, who passed away unexpectedly on

February 22nd.

>> thank you. Jeff served our public with

conviction, honor and tenacity.

As a lifelong warrior for justice, he never shied away from doing what is right, even

if that meant being unpopular. He will always be remembered for

the countless ways he shifted

criminal justice reform, and what it means to truly uphold

the rights and liberties of

every individual's regardless of income, race, or immigration

status.

He was a model public defender,

and he has shaped the lives of so many young attorneys who have

joined the fight and will do so with fervour.

I want to extend my decent --

deepest condolences to his wife

and his daughter. San francisco has lost one of

our greatest, and before I turned this over to my

colleagues to speak, whoever

wants to speak, I would like to invite the acting public

defender, matt gonzalez, to

share a few words. Will you please come up.

>> thank you. I would like to think of my

title as chief attorney and that the public defender position is

vacant right now.

I came here today to hear your remarks, and I will be certainly

conveying to the family that you have taken a moment out of your

schedule to honor jeff, and

certainly I know my staff at the

public defender's office is very proud of jeff and will be very

thankful for this overture by

his colleagues in the city hall family. Jeff was fierce, he was

unrelenting, he chased after all kinds of fights, some would say perhaps a few too many, but with

hindsight, judging from his

success, you know, we are proud of his legacy. We know that what it will be remembered for a long time.

Thank you all.

>> thank you, Mr. Gonzales, for

sharing those kind words.

Supervisor peskin?

>> thank you, President Yee,

colleagues, to my former colleague, matt gonzalez, when I

got that call on friday night,

it was pretty devastating, and my wife has had to put up with

me randomly having outbursts of

tears all weekend, and I can't really imagine what jeff charge of family going through right

now, and I wish them all of the

comfort in the world. Jeff has long been an institution in this city, and became a symbol of independent

power of an office that was elected by the people. One of only two in the united

states that elected public defenders to defend people that

cannot afford the crime to the

crime of the legal profession, but get the crime to look at them for free.

I came into public service with

the class of 2,000. A bunch of individuals and including the acting public

defender, matt gonzalez, that were truly buoyed by a tidal wave of community lead change

and activism almost 20 years ago we were put in the service by

neighborhoods who were really rebelling against the political machine at city hall at that

time, and jeff's election happened right after that.

He was the vanguard of that next

wave in 2002 as an underdog in the race for public defender, or

2001, and just like many of the campaigns then and now, those

campaigns forged lifelong relationships. People who got married on those

campaigns, and there was a sense

of energy and of purpose, and jeff represented the opportunity to take the P.D.'s office in a new direction.

It was already a great P.D.'s

office under Mr. Brown, but he really shaped it beyond the

status quo of that time to make

it the most progressive and effective public defender's office in the united states of america, and I don't say things

like that lately. He actively recruited a

remarkable team of talented folks who, quite frankly, could have gone to higher paying jobs,

but it is really their life's work.

It is a scrappy, amazing team,

and I do have to say, jeff and I had our differences, I am known for being a bit tight with the money.

He would come in, and kemal

harris was asking for three new deputies, and then he said he should get three new deputies,

and I would say no, the D.A. Handles all the cases, you handle a subset of the cases, so let's do it on the map. He would stay here until 3:00 in the morning until the budget was done, and would ultimately end

up with one more than he should have.

But jeff was the of cool. This is the guy who could pull

off wearing a suit suit, and he was also cool as it related to his legal innovations, whether

it was drug court, the clean slate expungement services, of which I actually try to avail

myself of, but was told, and everybody would know about my record, so I didn't do it at the

time, and other justice reforms, not to mention his bar exam

survival kit, but he also was totally into arts and culture.

I think I went and got to see all three of his films, we

actually bonded around japanese internment camp experience, and

executive order 966 back in the day, 20 odd years ago, when -- when in another walk of life before I was a supervisor, i

worked for a nonprofit that bought the topaz internment camp and jeff was totally all about

that, but most of all, he had

guts, he had incredible guts,

and he took on issues that none of us, myself absolutely included, would touch with a 10-foot pole. He wasn't afraid to go toe to toe with power.

He was the real deal in that respect, and even the chronicle

acknowledged that.

He was not afraid of the cops. He was not afraid of exposing what needed to be exposed, and

relative to the cops, and I believe most of this for another day, but I must say I am deeply

troubled by the unprecedented

leaking of a police report that members of this board, and members of the press and any other circumstance would not receive, but I would receive

that for another day.

It is a huge loss, not only for

the A.P.I. Community, but for the african-american community,

and I want to acknowledge that. I want to thank matt for being

here in the supervisor his chambers. I know you guys were a great

team and were going through it,

that concludes my comments.

>> thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor brown class.

>> thank you. I did not even write down any of the comments that I was going to talk to about jeff today because

it is still painful for me.

I know I was, when I first heard

on friday, and I knew -- and just trying to reach out to a lot of different folks in the community, and people reaching

out to me, it was hard to wrap our brain around this world

without jeff a dodgy -- jeff

adachi. I will talk about my personal experience with jeff. I met jeff a little over 20 years ago when I was teaching

art at hunter's point.

He came up, he wanted to know what I was doing, how I was

getting the money, the impact that I thought it was happening on the community, I didn't even

know who he was. He was still -- it was before he

ran for public defender, anyway,

he made a huge impression on me. When I was a neighborhood

activist in the western edition,

and we were fighting the violence in the western edition, and just how it was completely destroying neighborhoods and

families, jeff started getting

involved. He first started be magic in

bayview which is an amazing

program where it is a convenor. They bring all the nonprofits together to talk about how they can solve issues, and the issue

was violence at the time.

I remember, we were all asking jeff to come into the western

edition and start that steam --

same program, and he didn't want to do it. He didn't think the western edition was ready for it because

he said it has to be organic. That was a favorite line he used to say.

It has to be organic take, but there was a little bit of pressure politically at city

hall, and then sister cheryl davis had said she stepped forward as the executive

director for that, and he said okay, let's try it.

so it was started.

It was an absolute collective of all the nonprofits, the neighborhood working together, and looking at solutions of how

to solve the violence with --

before it even starts, and I

have to tell you, for a short

minute, I worked for them and I worked for jeff. I went in there and he said yes,

I want you to be involved. I think I worked for about two weeks and then a supervisor offered me a job in city hall,

and I was really afraid to tell jeff that after two weeks I was

leaving, so I had to go back in

there and tell jeff, jeff, I'm leaving, I'm going into city hall. With the thing that was amazing about him as he was so excited.

He said that is the place for you, go to city hall, because when budget comes up, I will have you help me get things

through.

It was a typical jeff answer.

I went in there, entry to his word, he was here a supervisor peskin said to make sure we were pushing money through so the things that were important for

communities like mo magic, be

magic, his office, thinks he felt really passionate about. One of the things that jeff, and

all of his know this, anyone who knew jeff, is a lot of times he didn't do it was popular or what

was politically popular. He did what he felt was right.

He stuck with that, and in my

role, coming in supervisor, the first person I spoke to was jeff

about it, he said, I am with you, we are going to do this, I

am so excited you are there, and I will be there for budget to

talk to you about it. And I will Miss When budget comes around when jeff should be

here talking to me about it and

sitting in my office, our office

at whatever time, and eating whatever crap that is around to

keep us going, he was they're right with us, eating cookies,

and everything else to keep us going through the budget process. I will myth -- Miss Him.

I think that is probably how

most people feel. There will be all these times where we think, jeff should be here.

I just want to say, thank you,

jeff for all the work that you

did for all of us, for where we are now, a lot of us are where we are now because of you and

your support, and I want to reach out to his family and give

them our thanks for having this

wonderful man in our life, and how supportive they were for him to do this.

Thank you.

>> thank you, supervisor brown. Supervisor fewer?

>> thank you, President Yee.

I hope I don't start crying, but I am deeply saddened to hear of

the passing of our public

defender, jeff adachi. I want to express my deep condolences to his wife and his daughter. During my time a supervisor, I had the opportunity to work closely with jeff to create the

unit in his office to provide

legal representation to incarcerated, documented individuals awaiting deportation hearings.

However, I knew jeff as a friend before I was elected to the office of supervisor. My husband and I worked on his first election campaign for public defender, and at -- as a school board commissioner, I

looked to him for advice and consultation on matters of adjudicating youth.

I knew jeff dossey as a man with a big presence, but also a

gentle and kind and steadfast determination to deliver justice to those most marginalized in

our society. He led a progressive vision for

the public defender's office to

be the voice for those whose voices are not heard in the

justice system. He was unafraid to shed light on

injustices like police criminal behavior, harmful bail practices, and racist policies like gang injunctions. He believes that every human

deserve to be treated with respect and humanity. Perhaps it is his own humanity

that I will Miss The most. His smile, his warmth, his

belief in people, and yes, his big, sometimes showy personality too. Thank you, jeff for what you have done to make us better and

May you rest in peace.

>> Chair Peskin:   thank you.

Supervisor ronen? >> thank you. As you all know, my husband, who

is here right now, had the honor of working for jeff, and so when

we heard the news, I was most

focused on him and making sure he was okay, because I knew what

it would do to him, but I didn't expect what it would do to me.

I really didn't. I have been walking around since

friday night feeling like I have been punched in the gut, and just have that hole in my stomach.

I don't have an appetite.

That feeling that you get when you're you are gutted. And when something really bad

just happened and I have been trying to understand, aside from

the obvious that we all feel

about losing jeff in our city, I have been trying to understand

how it feels so deep and so

personal to me what I have been thinking about, and what I've

come to realize is that there is

very few people in this business

of politics that go into it

because they feel that society has broken, and that there is a

whole class of people, if not, you know, sometimes it feels

like the majority of us who aren't left behind, and who are

not held up and protected, and there are very few people who go

into this business with really

genuine, prime objective of

fighting tooth and nail for those people, and jeff was one

of those people.

And so much so that when francisco said walking in a tenderloin with jeff was like

walking with steph curry or beyonce .

People on the street felt like

he was theirs, that if they had gotten into trouble, which they inevitably went because they were poor, and they were black

or they were brown, that they would have the best of the best

representing them, and people don't get that in most places in our country, and they got it and they get it right here in san

francisco. And that is something that is

just so special that I think that is why I am gutted, and that is why we all are gutted in

a very personal way.

I will also just say, on a personal level, getting to be

married to someone that worked

for jeff and matt, because jeff

is jeff, but matt is matt, they

are a team, and we are 18 -- we

are a team. And seeing san francisco -- singh francisco's excitement for

his job, one of the hardest job so you can possibly do. Representing people who are very

unpopular, you have their entire

life at risk, is one of the most stressful jobs you can ever

imagine. But they have each other's back

in the public defender's office. They demand excellence, they demand it, and what happens to the lawyers that are in this

office is not only do they feel

like they're part of a team and

a family that are fighting, but they know that they are expected to rise to the occasion, to fight with everything they've

got, for every single client, to take risks, to push boundaries,

and at the end of the day when

they do that, that jeff and matt will have their back no matter what happens. And that is something really

special, and I just want to thank jeff and to think his

beautiful family for helping and supporting him to create that kind of environment in the

office for giving the opportunity to my family.

I want to thank matt for holding it together for olivet right

now, because I know the burden on your soul shoulders, and we want to know we are all with you

and we love you as you are doing that.

I will just end by saying that

God, I don't know how jeff did it. He might have had only 59 years,

but man, he did not waste a minute. How do you run the best public

defender's office in the country , and personally try these incredibly hard cases, and

get acquittal after acquittal,

make movie after movie after movie, go to every event, because all of us know we go to

events, but he is just not in district nine, he is all over

the city all the time, and just get up every morning to work out. Who is that guy?

I was always like, damn, I wish I didn't have to sleep like

jeff, he didn't seem to like he had to sleep. At least we know he never wasted

a minute, and that he not only fought with everything he had, but man, he had fun in the

process. May you rest in power, jeff. >> thank you. Supervisor mar?

>> thank you, President Yee.

I join with all of my colleagues

and so many diverse community members here at city hall today, and throughout our city and

beyond in mourning the loss of such a courageous and groundbreaking public servant,

and a genuine superhero to our most marginalized and oppressed

community members, and really to everyone who believes in the aspirational and unfulfilled

vision of liberty and justice

for all.

Like so many others, I was really honored and privileged to have counted jeff as a friend

and a mentor. He was also an incredible inspiration to me personally in many other A.P.I. Community

activist -- A.P.A. -- activists. We both grew up in south sacramento and we bonded over

our common roots in the

asian-american community there, and also how that influenced our worldviews, our dedication to serving the people, and the

trajectory of our lives. Jeff was, and always will be, one of the coolest dudes to come out of my hood, and I feel like

I sort of followed in the trail that he has blazed that goes through U.C. Berkeley, and ends

up in the west side of san

francisco, but of course, it includes a lifeline commitment to activism and leadership on

righteous causes to protect and expand social justice in our

city and beyond. My heart goes out to his family.

I hope they know how deeply he was loved and respected by the

city and communities he served. Resting power, jeff. Thank you. >> thank you.

Supervisor mental men?

>> thank you.

Unlike some folks, I did not have a close personal

relationship with jeff.

I knew him, we are friendly, I

would run into him at the gym, we would extreme -- exchanged

pleasantries, but I knew of jeff, even before he was public defender, because even as a law

student 20 something years ago, jeff adachi was a giant, and you

heard about him in law school. If you're interested in social justice, or you're hanging out with the national lawyer's guild, we thought you might take the bar at some point, his name was going to come into your consciousness and you were going

to be aware of this person in the public defender's office he was also doing a million other things, and I knew he was

extraordinary then.

When he was passed over in 2001, I knew it was wrong.

I knew it was an injustice.

The politics were against him. The san francisco political community, including a lot of

people I am close to where supporting his opponent, but he

was the right choice, and he was the choice of his office.

He had been doing the work, and the voters saw through the politics and did the right thing, and I was so proud of san francisco in 2001 when they did

that, and he did such extraordinary things with those

18 years in that office, and I shared the feelings that have

been expressed by my colleagues about how extraordinary the

people in that office are, and like jeff, like their leader,

and like matt, they absolutely know that their clients deserve the best representation, and

they will work there asses off to push every boundary and provide representation.

They want to give folks the cre me de la cre me representation, the very best,

which is what they deserve.

I want to honor and remember jeff adachi, and I want to thank matt can doll it -- gonzales for all the work you have done in

that office from 1991 to 2001 as chief attorney, and then coming

back to that office in 2011. I thank you for continuing on

now. >> thank you. Supervisor haney?

>> thank you President Yee. I also first want to share my condolences with jeff's family,

with the members of the public

defender's office, who I know

are grieving now, and with our entire community here in san francisco, who I know are

collectively grieving.

As you said, jeff has definitely

been someone in my district, in district six, who defended, who

came to know, who stood up for

so many people, who I now have the privilege of representing,

and I want to share also on their behalf, our condolences.

I came to know jeff probably most directly nearly 15 years

ago when my sister became an intern for him, and she was in law school at the time, and I

remember hearing that she told me, I got an intern with jeff

adachi, and of course, knowing

of him, I figured it was internship with the office in

some capacity, but she was

literally his intern, and I remember talking to her that

summer and asking her, what are you working on?

Thinking that jeff, as a public defender, was probably

overseeing management things and that she wouldn't actually get

to be in the courtroom, and she

was writing motions for a murder case that he was the lead

attorney on at the time. And I think that's one of the things that is so extraordinary

about jeff, which is that he was

not afraid to do anything

himself that he would ask if

anybody else, and I think that's really the testament to him and

his leadership, in many ways, that not only was he willing to

go to trial, if that's what it took, and we know from our friends in the public defender's

office that they are often willing to go to trial, maybe that's what they are most known for his willing to stand up and

fight at a time when across the

country, we were seeing, and we continue to see a situation

where plead deals and making a

deal is sort of the expectation.

Jeff never gave into that, not only was he willing to fight and ask others to fight, he would take the trial himself.

He would take the case himself, and if it wasn't staffed as we saw by the city, he would say,

I'll go do it then, and it is something that I have tremendous

respect for him, and of course,

my sister was his intern, and later came and worked in the

office as an attorney, but jeff was also there for so many different communities in the way

that he showed up, not only was

he a trial attorney, but when the immigrant community was

under attack, you came here and worked with supervisor fewer and

others to actually find a systemic solution to make sure they were protected. When there was police brutality, he led the fight. He let the marches, he let the

policy change.

I think the way that he saw his responsibility as a public defender, as extending from the

courtroom throughout this

building, to the state building,

across the country, I think it's just an extraordinary legacy

that he left, and he also, he was somebody, and everybody has a story like this when they had

somebody who got in trouble, or had some sort of problem, he

called -- he would call jeff directly, and he would be there for you personally.

He would make sure if there was a family who had a sun or a daughter who was in trouble, you could call jeff and he would say, I will take care of it, I

will figure out what is going on. That is egg and extraordinary thing for somebody who is always there for people at the most

vulnerable moment, in the last thing I want to say is that jeff

had fun.

I would always, if we were at an

event, I would find him on the dance floor. You've had such incredible joy in him, and the best place to be

at the pride parade was always

as part of the public defender contingent, because of the way

that jeff set the tone around celebrating justice and

celebrating the struggle and my

aunt and her wife, we would

always March with jeff, because

we knew that he had their back, and he was fighting for something that we wanted to

stand with the pride parade, and

what that meant for him standing

with our lgbt brothers and sisters and siblings. I know that the work will

continue on in the public defender's office. I'm very grateful to have one of

his mentees working with me in

my office and so many public

defenders who will continue his legacy. He is irreplaceable.

He was our most courageous champion for justice in our

city, but I know that he wanted

his work to go on, and I hope

that you will extend him to the

office that we will continue to have their back during the

budget season, and anything else, because the legacy that jeff has left us will continue

on and our city needs it more than ever. >> thank you. Supervisor stefani?

>> thank you, President Yee. Why I -- while I personally did not know him all that well, I did know of his passion and commitment to his work.

It was never lost on anyone, and I'm extremely sad that my colleagues lost a friend, a

wife, husband, and dad, an entire office their fearless

leader.

As a former prosecutor, I have gone head-to-head with public defenders, but it is not lost on

me either that the role of the public defender is so critical,

it is a critical one in our society. Every person in the country deserves an attorney to defend

them when accused of a crime.

For nearly two decades, jeff led to that office with such

boldness, even if you didn't

like it, you had to admire it. Last year when I was running for

office, I didn't think -- I saw him a lot.

I would run into him at events. He was always so kind and always

so nice, and I did not think to ask him to endorse me because I thought because I was a former prosecutor, and I am moderate

that he wouldn't want to. He sought me out and did.

I thought that was very kind of him, and certainly tells me you

can't judge a book by the cover. I appreciate him for that.

I know he works so hard. I have worked with supervisor ronen when we were legislative

aides, with supervisor farrell

and supervisor compos on some immigrant issues that were so important.

We knew that jeff was going to be there for all of them.

I have tremendous respect for him, also, I started in 2007, and it didn't take long to realize what a presence he had

in city hall. I was here when mayor newsom asked everyone to make those

cuts.

Jeff came back with the 1.7

million-dollar ad to his budget,

and everyone, so many sentences started off in the offices where I worked, can you believe jeff a.

She did this?

-- jeff a dodgy -- jeff a doll she did this?

The last time I saw him was at a veterans dinner.

I know he always stood up for our veterans, and that will never be forgotten. My thoughts are with all my colleagues today who I know are suffering and his family,

especially his wife and daughter , and to the public defender's office, and his leadership there and how he

brought everyone together it's really commendable.

Thank you. >> thank you.

Supervisor walton?

>> thank you, President Yee. it is a testament when you are a

community and you know people

are excited and would rather be represented by the public defender's office and a private attorney.

It tells you a lot about jeff

and the public defender's office this year, this time around, jeff and I were actually sworn in on the same day. I attended his swearing in that

morning and a little while later, he came and attended my

swearing in. Be magic was first formed and we developed a bond and a friendship from those early

interactions.

As we both advocated against gang injunctions, alternatives

to incarceration for youth, and

protections for immigrants, both documented and undocumented, and

making sure that the policy was never violated under any circumstance, our friendship

grew closer.

More recently, and immediately after my election to the board

of supervisors, I reached out to jeff about a report that I had

read about the abuses of inmates

in custody here at the hands of

the sheriff's department, and

the fact that the sheriff's department was conducting their

own investigations.

That was something that we both knew was problematic at the very

least, and unacceptable for a

law enforcement agency to be conducting their own investigations when they were

actually accused of misconduct. So we immediately began to work

on the best way to ensure that

there was some type of independent oversight for

investigations, of accusations

within the sheriff's department. And the fact that he passed away

today -- and the date that he passed away, we're texting back and forth about information that

he shared with me, and the best path forward as we had heard, also on the day that he passed

that we had a date for our hearing so that we could push forward, and so that is something that we are definitely going to be working to see through together.

Not only with the public defender's office, but all of our communities.

I will Miss Jeff not for his

amazing ability to win cases, not for his fun-loving spirit, and not for his brilliance in

the courtroom, before his fight for justice in every aspect of

his life. He really fought hard, epoque -- fought with passion and conviction, and very few people fight in the way that he did, and didn't feared consequences, but really focused on the end result, and I was making sure everyone had an opportunity at justice.

So my prayers go out to his family, all of his friends, all of my colleagues, and of course,

to everyone in the public defender's office. Rest in peace.

>> thank you. >> thank you. I want to add my name to the

chorus of my colleagues here. We are honoring a man that truly

gave his life to this city, for the amount of people that you

hear and talk to that knew him intimately or worked for him,

they know that he dedicated

hours upon hours of his life to serving those that did not have

a voice, and truly gave his life. This is the second time in my

short time on this board that I'm standing to talk about a

public servants that gave his life to this city.

And jeff was a true model for those that were underprivileged and did not have a voice, so I

just want to honor him in that way, saying that giving his life to the city really means a lot, and he set an example that I know many of his colleagues and those that have worked with him, and that will continue to work

in the public defender's office, will carry that torch on. I want to add one other thing.

When I got on this board, one of

the first because I got, and I didn't really have a relationship with him, was from him. I have to say, out of many of the people that I've worked with

in the city, boy, did jeff adachi have class.

He was full of class. He invited me out for breakfast, he gave me an entire tour, personally, that took two hours

out of his day, of his entire team, walking around from office to office, and sat me down and talked about the agenda and what

he was about, and what he wanted to do.

He did have a budget request ultimately at the end, and I was

okay, because it was for undocumented people. It was for adding additional

staff, but that is his job.

He was really good at it. I have nothing but respect and appreciation for his style and for the amount of class that he carried, in the way he carried

himself.

May he rest in peace, and my condolences to his family, to

his colleagues, and everyone that considered themselves a

friend of jeff adachi.

>> thank you for sharing your

fond memories.

As you can see, we all feel like he was a giant. I want to share one story, one last story here.

I think the reason why he is so

good at getting -- getting money from the budget process, I

remember early on, 15 or 20 years ago, I was at a community event where they're trying to

raise some money. It was a preschool.

They were going to buy the ywca

building overeating jay town,

and -- over in jay town. Somebody asked him to come up. They were asking the audience,

about 400 people for pledges. And I said oh, what is he going

to do?

Jump up and down and do a dance

or something? What he did was amazing. He knew everyone in the room.

He would call them out by name.

Can you pledge 10,000, okay.

Uncle, can you pledge 5,000?

Auntie jenny, it was amazing how he could raise money. So when I became a supervisor

and went through the budget process, and for him to fight

for his budget, it didn't surprise me at all. I said jesus, this is like being

in a community.

I want to say that I think we will all Miss Him. We will all Miss Him in the

budget process, for sure.

He would keep us fairly entertained. Basically, people in the art world, and even in the jazz

world will Miss Him, and certainly he will be missed in

the community.

So, Madame Clerk, I would like

to make a motion to adjourn this

meeting in memory of our late

public defender, jeff adachi, and on behalf of the board of supervisors. Do we have a second? Seconded by supervisor peskin. Thank you very much. Without objection, the motion passes.

Thank you, Mr. Gonzales. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the

generally 15th, 2019 meeting

-- from the January 15th, 2019 meeting. Are there any changes to the

meeting minutes?

Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve the minutes as

presented? Motioned by supervisor brown.

Okay.

Motion to approve made by

supervisor brown and seconded by supervisor walton.

Without objection, those minutes will be approved after public

comments. Madame Clerk, can you please

read... >> items one through ten are on consents.

These items are considered to be routine if a member objects, an item maybe removed and

considered separately. >> okay.

, colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the

consent agenda? Seeing none, Madame Clerk, please call the role for item

one through ten. >> on items one through ten...

[Roll Call] >> there are 11 imac. >> these items are finally

passed unanimously.

Madame Clerk, let's go to our

2:30 P.M. Special commendations.

>> at this time, it is time for

black futures celebration. >> thank you.

Today we will be commemorating

black futures month. With special commendations from each of our districts. I will now turn it over to

supervisor walton to make

opening remarks. >> thank you so much, President He. As you all know, it is black history month, and we wanted to

make sure that as we honor history, we also honor the

future, and the legacy of some of our young people moving

forward, and I am glad that the city of san francisco recognizes the contributions of african-americans in the city,

in district ten, we like to celebrate black history all year, and with the declining african-american population, it is important that we take the time to recognize the contributions of our african-american communities through their culture, art, and social justice and advocacy work.

Just a brief history. As a harvard trained historian,

carter g. Woodson believed that

truth could not be denied, and that reason would prevail over

prejudice.

He hoped to raise awareness of african-americans' contributions

to civilization and it was

realized when he and the organization he founded, the association for the study of

negro life, and history,

conceived in -- conceived and announced negro history week in 1985.

By the time of his death, negro history week had become a central part of african-american

life and a substantial -- and

substantial progress had been made in bringing more americans

to appreciate the celebration.

At mid century, the mayors of cities nationwide issued

proclamations noting negro history week. The celebration was expanded to a month in 1976.

The nation bicentennial, gerald r. Ford urged americans to seize

the opportunity to honor that too often neglected accomplishments of black

americans in every area of

endeavor throughout our history.

That year, 50 years after the first celebration, the

association helps the first african-american history month, and now, at this time, I would

like to call up a 20-year-old native that was raised both in

the western tradition in the bayview.

She is a poet, a policymaker, a community integration specialist

who studies communications at

san francisco state university. >> thank you.

Hello.

I will be sharing some work with you today.

I was given the title of what

does a black future look like? As a leader of that, allow me to

explain.

The black future is full of liberations.

in fact, it is poetic justice. The 53 trillion from slavery before the emancipation won't

even discuss us.

In God we trust. The black future looks like the

incarceration of bryant don ham, and the reinvestigation of the

death of emmett fill. Looks like black beauty would

seem surreal.

No words or need to kill, it

looks like more graduations, and

less funerals. Nappy hair in cubicles and black

girls doing their own hair and

cuticles out of their own shops

where the staff look like them. The black future will remember sandra bland, mario woods, oscar

grant, eating rice as we hope they don't choke while

screaming, I can't breathe. Gardner, taste the rainbow of my sorrow as we regurgitate the

name, trave on martin, as we make our way to her grandma's

house after dark only to be made into coroner art. Stephan clark, planted deeper

than roots, and here it is, we have our hands up and you still

shoot.

The black future will begin with the book of revelations, and at

the hands of a black scribe. The black future will even look

mexican too to let him know that

even he has african roots.

The black future looks like nine

consecutive black presidencies,

and the tenth being albino who

will roar that he is black too, you see. The black future is tougher than

hair glue on $400 frontal his.

Nicer than edges, lay for friday nights, and stretch marks that

lead to a road of heaven.

The black future looks like me.

skin is sun-kissed and alive,

thriving and healthy, undisputed, deeply-rooted and so groundbreaking that gravity even

has a new way to hold us down. The black future looks like the

imminent incarceration.

And the funny thing is, the black future starts here in this nation. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> thank you. Now to kick this thing off, I

will start with my future

honouree. This is a young man who I have

had the pleasure to watch grow

over the last couple of years. He is someone who has really stepped up and taken leadership

in so many different ways. Living in the public housing community, undergoing lots of

change, in his district and his area. He has really stepped up in so many ways. As he walked up to the front, I

want to say a few things about

Mr. Gary, who is 17 years old, and he is a senior at city arts tech high school. [Cheering]

>> he serves on san francisco's my brother and sister's keeper youth council.

He is the chair of the council's

health committee, he is employed

as a hope S.F. Champion, he is a youth leader and advisor for

hope S.F. Which is the nation charge a first large-scale public housing revitalization

project to prioritize current residence, will also investing

in high-quality sustainable housing and broadscale community development.

More importantly, to know that he is an example to young people

in his community.

He is bold, he is courageous, he is not shy, he is not intimidated, and for that, I

want to honor him. This afternoon in city hall.

If you want to say a couple of

words, you have a minute or so.

>> hello, everyone. I am honored to be here with

everyone. I am doing mostly just following

in the steps of my grandma, and my mom.

Seeing them work hard every day and doing things for the community, and giving their very

last to make sure the

communities okay, especially my grandmother, commissioner titus, seeing her every day work tirelessly for her community and

the people she really loves.

I appreciate her for giving me the pathway to do the same thing.

She has been a great example all

my life, and bobble -- also hope S.F. And others. I appreciate all organizers for giving me a chance to make a difference, because not a lot of youth have this opportunity. When I get a position to help

other youth, I want to give people the same opportunity that

I have. So thank you.

[Cheers and Applause]

>> we continue to dispel myths

every day, all of our young black males are not out doing something negative. Congratulations.

[Applause]

>> okay. , thank you, supervisor walton, for keeping that within five

minutes.

i also want to thank

Mr. Williams for his

presentation.

Right now, what I will do is, I

will be calling supervisors in

alphabetical order and if you

will keep an eye on your panel, your screen, I will tell you how

many minutes you have.

Try to keep it within five minutes for yourself and your honouree to say a few things.

We appreciate it.

So, first up, alphabetical order would be who?

Supervisor brown. >> thank you, President Year.

Today I am honoring four amazing women, community leaders.

If you could come up, I am

honoring sica garcia, jasmine

thomas, sasha earl, and sala my hair. I wanted to honor these amazing

young women because their community -- they are community activists. A lot of times we don't think of community activists, young women, or young adults as community activists, but they are.

A few years ago, I think it was

in 2015, they stepped up,

because they saw an area of

their neighborhood, the buchanan mall, which is six blocks right smack in the western edition,

that was violence plagued, it

was surrounded by public housing, H.U.D. Housing, and

other housing, and no one used them all. Six blocks of recreation and park.

This area was closed and made a park in the seventies by mayor feinstein at the time.

Unfortunately, it was neglected. Neglected by the city, by people that really should have been out

there trying to make it a better place.

It actually became very violent. People were afraid to walk

through the mall, and so it was

six blocks of a neighborhood of recreation and park that no one actually used, which is really

unfortunate because we have community centers that are right on the buchanan mall.

We have alley he'll hatch, the cultural complex, and the

buchanan ymca just a little ways

away, and so these women stepped up, these young, amazing women,

stepped up with another group

and said, you know what, this is

our home, this is our community, we will make it better.

[Please Stand by]

Who were the people that lived in the western addition and came up and made it the rich

community that it is today? And right now, they are actually

working on a bigger plan for buchanan mall.

They are actually working with reckum park.

They've said, and the city has said what can we do to make this a better place, where people want to walk there, where people

want to ride their bikes?

And when I say buchanan mall,

this is like going through the panhandle. Can you imagine the panhandle if

no one used it? This is what buchanan mall was

like until these young women,

and men, stepped up and said

we're going to make a difference.

This is our community. So today I honor you, because it's black future month, and this is our future. these are our community activists, they are our leaders,

our next politicians standing here where we all are making

decisions for community and the city. And so I want to thank you and honor you, and I'm going to give you a few words, because you have -- I don't know what time it is. But you have a few words and I'm

going to give you the floor. >> thank you, supervisor brown.

Okay, so, hello, everyone. So I would like to accept the

award that we're about to

receive on behalf of jasmine, sasha, and silo, who couldn't

make it here today.

I'm wittia, and we're part of the buchanan mall youth community leaders. So the buchanan mall you see today is a result of our footwork. We were talking to residents

along the mall and we conducted the survey so that the mall could be representative of everyone who lives there.

We, the youth, are the vessels, so we the youth are the vessels

that carries the change that you

wish to see, so the question that I had after the buchanan

mall activation was, how could you build on your assumptions of what's best for the community if

you aren't really out there?

So this is why we're here.

So an example of what -- we're an example of what it means to build the right way, all while being exposed to new experiences, such as collaborating on events, being a part of film productions and, like, preserving the fillmore history and uplifting the local and unsung heroes that are here.

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   next up will

be supervisor haney.

>> Supervisor Haney:   thought I was after. First of all, thank you, President Yee and thank you

supervisor walton for putting

together this celebration of black futures. I want to recognize everyone who's going to be honored today.

I think this is a fantastic

thing that we're doing, honoring

the tremendous contributions of

black leaders in our community, of black excellence, not just

today, but moving forward. I am going to be honoring one organization, but I also wanted

to give a shout-out to the many

black leaders in district 6, who contribute to our community in measurable ways.

District 6 has a black population that is, and not everybody May know this, that is three or four times higher than the city average, and many of district 6 black residents have been unjustly displaced from other parts of san francisco.

And I want to thank them for

being able to lead our community in district 6 to become safer and affordable and a better place for everybody.

When we talk about black futures and the future of children in

our city, we must acknowledge

the epidemic of displacement in

our city and the history of

antiblack policies in city planning and policing. These are issues that are

further compacted for those community members who must

navigate multiple layers of oppression.

black women, black trans women, formerly incarcerated black trans women face unimaginable

hurdles in building lives for

themselves here in san francisco.

We see numbers like 21% of trans

women having been incarcerated and among black trans women the

number rises to an incredible 47%. As a comparison, the general population has an incarceration

rate of 2.7%.

Additionally, california trans prisoners are 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted

while in prison, likely for survival crimes like sex work and drugs.

But it isn't exclusively

relegated to the confines of prison.

2018 saw 20 trans women murdered across the nation, one of the

murderers, bubbles, happened less than a mile from where we are sitting today, and of the remaining murders, nearly all of the victims were black trans women. In spite of all of these

hurdles, it is the resilience of spirit, the power of the activism, and specifically the labor of black trans women which

has contributed so greatly to our collective liberation, and that is the work that I want to acknowledge today.

It's work that is carried out

every day, despite incredible obstacles. It's work that has deep history

and legacy in our community.

Black trans women like marsha

johnson and Ms. Major griffin

gracie were on the front lines of stonewall and compton, so today, with that, I want to acknowledge and celebrate the

fact that over the last 15

years, the transgender gender

variant intersects justice has built the futures of trans people who come to san francisco looking to build a future.

It started in 2004 by trans

activists and lawyers tgijp, an organization led by black trans women continue to center the experiences of trans women of color and has been there to provide legal services, peer-based advocacy services, support groups, case management,

and job readiness training

programs to all trans women exiting incarceration.

The advocacy work has helped inform prison reform policies and initiatives across the state and changed the lives of countless individuals who have

come through their doors seeking support.

I want to thank tjijp for all

their incredible important work.

Their executive director,

janetta johnson, honey mahogany

from my staff, and serenity and portia taylor for the work you do in our office.

We're lucky to have you and have tgijp in our district.

Thank you.

[Applause] >> hello, good afternoon,

everyone.

My name is serenity romero, and

I'm here to represent tjijp.

Tjijp works to challenge and end

the human rights abuse committed against transgender, genter

variant, and intersex people, particularly against transgender women of color. In california prisons, jails,

detention centers, and beyond. Tgi justice project is celebrating the 15-year anniversary in 2019.

The past 15 years we have been successfully providing leadership development, as well as legal and social support

services to incarcerated and

formerly incarcerated trans people. This includes our highly successful re-entry program,

which I am a part of, providing housing support, employment, and

re-entry services to formerly incarcerated trans people.

In addition, we are working to

support the leadership of black

trans leaders to build a national movement fighting back

against racism, criminalization,

and transphobia. Thank you.

>> President Yee:   thank you.

[Applause]

Thank you. Supervisor mandelman.

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   thank you, President Yee. Could I invite julius pikes

prince to come up?

With lyric staff.

Hi, julius.

Julius is a prep youth leader at

lyric, one of the first lgbtq

centers located here in san francisco, where he's leading in

the fight in hiv and aids epidemic.

Julius works to break barriers

to access and destigmatize hiv

and aids prevention. Julius has led hiv prevention

retreats and launches lyric's first-ever Prep youth campaign,

let's be real about it, which

used ads around the city to raise the visibility of youth of

color accessing Prep.

At age 20, julius is empowering

queer youth of getting to zero efforts. We know african-americans make

up a disproportionate number of

hiv infections, while making up

just 5% of san francisco's population in 2017, african-americans represented 17% of new infections. With julius and his peers leading the way, it's my hope we

can reverse that alarming trend. In addition to his advocacy as a

lyric youth leader, julius is a proud city college student, majoring in fashion design. Go rams.

In the near future, he hopes to open his very own queer resource center for youth. He says harvey milk is one of his greatest inspirations and has shaped the leader that he is today. I'm sure that harvey would be proud of julius and the way he's continuing work that harvey started 40 years ago. I am proud to recognize julius today, and I want to thank his

family, who's here in the chamber, I think, as well as

jody schwartz, executive

director at lyric, for working with my office on today's commendation, and now I would like to invite julius to say a few words.

>> I just want to say thank you, all. Y'all, I'm vibrant, I'm not

boring.

This has impacted me a lot, and it changed me to become the

better leader I am today.

I feel like -- I feel like this

is what I was put on earth to

do, is lead this young

generation and the hiv-free --

generation -- I'm so nervous, y'all.

but, yes, I feel like, honestly,

I'm doing what's right in the community. Thank you, all.

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   thank you, julius.

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   okay, next up, supervisor mar.

>> Supervisor Mar:   thank you,

supervisor yee, also thank you supervisor walton and percy

birch and your staff for leading

this accommodation of

african-american youth and their voices. I want to keep my remarks short, because I want to give most of my time to the amazing honorees

that I'll be talking about, but

for black futures month, incredibly excited to commend

the youth and young adults of a star records, which is a program of sunset youth services. Sunset youth services provides young people communities for

creative expression, healing, and leadership.

Upstart records honors the often-negligented accomplishments of youth of color, especially our black youth.

You are amazing, resilient overcomers.

You move the needle on society's expectations, and you are

artists who speak truth to power.

You are also a vital part of the sunset community.

Thank you, desiree, deshaun,

ruben, abdale, giovani, desmond,

christie, anglo, also cofounder

don stuckel for being here.

Lastly, I'm really excited to

have dina rowe and des mac

perform two short pieces entitled "dreams" and "don't shoot," so let's give them the floor. [Applause]

>> thank you.

My name is kazina, known as dina, you already know, I'm with

sunset youth services and I'm an artist here and we're performing

a song for you guys called "dreams." a little bit about that song, my family and I, born and raised in san francisco, and growing up in

the city was hard, especially with the gentrification, so my family and I became homeless, and through that hard time I

wrote a song and inspiration for

myself and for anybody going through a hard time, that if you're optimistic and if you

keep going, the hard times will

push over and your dreams can come true.

>> hello, my name is desmond Mcroy from youngstown, ohio.

I moved to the bay area to pursue music and launch an app with my brother.

I started writing the song "dreams" around 2013, knowing one day I would perform this and pursue this. Thank you.

Also a big thank you to sunset youth services and Mr. Mar. >> hope you guys like it.

[Applause]

[Music]

[Rapping]

[Music] [Applause]

Thank you guys so much!

>> and one last thing, I just wanted to perform one verse off of my new album that I just released in January.

It's called "don't shoot." I just want to be me. Tired of seeing another dead man laid on the streets.

We need to spread the peace, remember gandhi when he wouldn't eat? Carrying heat, like the big three all for the same thing, trying to get a ring of the

stripes, in and out like a cobra strike, that's a massive bite

and when I write, I'm at peace.

We need our own police, got people patrolling where they never beat. Hands up and he still got

struck, now there's puddles everywhere, puddles of blood that is. That man can't even give his

mother a hug again, they get paid leave. Flowing, different emotions,

wait until they hear this. Hey, I'm stacking chips with my head to the ceiling.

We going to have millions and make a killing. We going to give back to the children, so don't shoot. Officer, please, don't shoot. Don't shoot.

Officer, please don't shoot. We all on our grind. Hey, what if it was you or somebody you knew?

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   okay, next up

is supervisor peskin.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you, President Yee.

For black futures month I really wanted to highlight the grassroots leadership of residents who are reshaping the future of public housing.

Yes, come on up, twanna, Ms. Granger.

We all know that public housing

has had a checkered history in

san francisco, and I think many

members of this body actually

voted to remove justin herman's name from that plaza at the

bottom of market street. Twanna lives as we affectionately call them at the

pings at chinatown on pacific,

and she has really done incredible work in building

community and in building a

coalition across racial and cultural lines, so today, I

would like to honor Ms. Twanna

granger, who brings an energy

and joy to her community work

that we are here to celebrate.

I will say, she is not,

supervisor walton, a native san franciscan. She hails from st. Louis,

missouri, but she is homegrown

in as far as she grew up in the fillmore and lived --

>> since the age of 2.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   since the

age of 2, and lived through the battle days of redevelopment.

And despite growing up in a neighborhood that was tough,

twanna faced it all down with

zeal and perseverance, and she thrives at st. Paul's catholic high school, where she was a

member of the girl's athletic association, varsity basketball team, and served as vice President Of the peace club.

Outside of school she volunteered at mt. Zion hospital

and at the golden gate chapter

of the red cross, and ultimately

after graduating from college,

entered into a noble, honorable profession of nurse, where she

is a registered nurse, and I can

honestly say, that is a job that

suits Ms. Granger quite well, because she can make anybody

feel at ease and carries her

bedside manner in an incredibly beautiful way.

she later found her calling in

chinatown, as I previously said,

and helped organize the ping

U.N. Tenants as a member of the

ping U.N. Residents improvement association, which we all in the

neighborhood call pirea and she did that from the late 1990s

until today, and she has done incredible work to bridge the divide between the

african-american and chinese-american communities, and with that, thank you for being a role model, thank you

for what you're doing for our neighborhood and community. You are the future, twanna granger, the floor is yours.

>> thank you, and I love you, aaron.

You are fabulous.

As he said, I grew up in fillmore, like the other young ladies, but I moved here.

My mom and dad moved here, and I

moved in fillmore on buchanan and Mcallister in 1967.

To this day, my mom's still there.

I am the original buchanan mall kid.

I can look out my window and see vergo's.

I was there before the storer

vergo's was mentioned and got popular because of the trug drugs. I'm not going to go too much,

because we don't have time, but

I just have a speech, also, I'm a me too victim.

I shared my story with my black

history last week for the first time.

This happened at -- when I was 18.

I'll be 54 in May.

And it took that and a lot of other women coming out sharing the story, and my story is very, very tragic.

But to move on, community to me

is understanding experience and

common problems, the common

letdowns, the goal, the gang,

the love, the support to someone else.

Me and mayor london breed grew up one block from each other,

both enduring the community at

the toughest times. In her community, I supported her, voted for her, because

community is family, and once we

get this about each other,

greatness, like never before can happen. I have a speech.

Being a black woman, I wrote

this, everything I'm saying is originally from me.

Being a black woman is hard as hard can be. Knowing that your men don't respect you and love us like

they used to, like when we were in slavery. The world and the government don't respect me either.

At times, my kids don't either, too.

How do I -- how do you think

being soft and weak that our

race is still here without us

being there and being what we've

been? Saying we're bitter and angry

and mean, but no, look and feel what a black woman so has

endured and reach, but still in all, we're still here, for jesus is the one for me.

I wish everyone can just, for

one month, walk the shoes of a black woman. The responsibilities, the

demands, the problems, the pains, the letdowns, and the

games, but through it all, we're mother earth. We're the first, and we're going

to be the last to walk this earth. Thank you for spirituality,

because it keeps me focused. Because without it, we're still slaves to this world that's trying to destroy us.

[Applause] This is my poem, it says "what am I." when I look into the mirror, what do I see?

Do I see race, sexuality,

gender, creed, belief, the same as men see? Or what the world and the people want me to be?

Or what people say and know about me? Tradition is the only thing that separates us.

No, no, no.

I believe, look forward, practice, move close to me, and

the only way I do that is to see

the jesus in me.

Plus, the will he has for me.

One thing that we all don't get, no matter where you're from, no

matter where you come from, no

matter what you believe, no

matter how you feel, this world is a rainbow, and it started off as a rainbow.

It's going to end as a rainbow.

And if you take one color out of that rainbow, it's not a

rainbow.

So as us, seeing we're human beings, let's focus.

Let's get it right.

Let this rainbow shine super bright.

Not two, not three, but let's

see if we can get four rainbows

in the sky at one time.

I just want to say a prayer, and i'm done. Father God, please bless us with the love and understanding you have for us.

Let us really hear one another.

Share our likeness, more than differences.

Let us see each other's spirit

and not our shells and not our shells.

Let us unite as one, because the

beautiful rainbow you made is us to be.

Be not one color, be left out,

because then it's not a rainbow.

So let us all see. Amen.

And I thank aaron.

I thank cdc, and one thing I can tell you guys, I've been here

for 27 years, and I'm from western addition, you're still in chinatown? You're still in chinatown? Of course, because I'm black in the east.

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   supervisor ronen?

>> Supervisor Ronen:   thank you.

I am very pleased to introduce

najari turner, our district 9 black futures month honoree. If najari could come up.

Where are you?

Here she comes. Yeah, if everyone can give her a round of applause.

[Applause]

Thank you so much. Najari grew up in the heart of the mission district.

She is the youngest of four siblings. I hope I'm pronouncing this right.

Please help me if I get this wrong.

Tajricka, lucerne, and tajari.

Her mom, melvia, is with us

today, as well, as amy ai varo

came to support, john, wilbur

ramirez from mission graduates.

Najari attended kit bayview

academy for elementary school and is now a senior in the mission. When supervisor walton suggested

that we focus this year on exceptional black youth in our community, we were thrilled and immediately reached out to mission graduates and other

adults we know who work at john o'connell high school in the mission to tell us about which

young people at o'connell stand out to them.

This is when we learned about

the incredible leadership of

najari turner. Najari's involved in an impressive number of activities, both in school and beyond. She has a number of leadership roles within the student body

and is constantly working to improve the school community.

She is the sports chair of the associated student body leadership team, she is an

amazing emcee at nearly all of o'connell's school assemblies

and rallies, and she plays on the basketball team.

In addition, najari is a proud

member of both the latinx club

and black student union and also the President Of the yearbook team. Outside of school, she somehow

finds time to work at the exploratorium, where she's not only learned to do seven magic

tricks, but how to dissect a cow's eye. I can't wait to hear about that from you, more about that.

Throughout all these activities,

najari displays an open-hearted commitment to bringing together students at o'connell to celebrate their cultures and diversity.

She is a kind and empathetic

mentor to underclass girls and

boys, and she's constantly pushing other students to do well in school, support each other, and give back to the community.

Najari, I'm so proud to honor you here today. You exemplify what is best about young people, not only in the mission, but in all of san francisco. You are a rising star, and we

wish you the very, very best in

your -- as you pursue your dreams in college and beyond. Congratulations. >> thank you.

[Applause]

>> I just want to say thank you guys for recognizing me for this

award.

I'd like to thank my counselors who help me every day after school helping me on

scholarships for college, who

helped me complete my fafsa

application, helping me write my letters of rec for college, and

I want to thank my mom for pushing me even sometimes when I don't want to do anything, and making sure that I stay on track and that I'm pushing myself each and every day to make the best

out of every situation, and just helping better my community as best as I can.

Thank you.

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   okay, next up

is supervisor safai.

>> Supervisor Safai:   thank you,

President Yee. so today I'm honored to tell the

story of a rising hero in my community, in the lake view community, young man by the name

of kendrick martin. I'm going to wait until the door closes.

A lot of laughter and hugging.

That's okay. Today's a joyous day. So kendrick is a strong, compassionate, dedicated young man who's committed to honoring

the legacy of his hardworking family and change the outcomes

for young black men in his community.

In the midst of adversity, he's become the only young man within his social group and his peers

to go on to college.

More importantly, he's dedicated

to changing the face of who's

represented in technology and is currently pursuing his degree in

the mechanical engineering at san francisco state university.

As you know, we are at the heart of the technological revolution

here in the bay area, and yet

and still the representation in

that workforce does not reflect the overall representation in the united states.

So kendrick is in so many ways a

trail blazer, and we're so proud to be honoring him today. He's 23 years old. He's a second-generation san

francisco native, and his story begins with his grandparents who migrated here from the south,

like many of the families in san francisco in the 1950s to provide a better opportunity for their children.

His grandparents, rowland and shirley, had a very strong influence in his life and instilled within him the importance of a good education.

Now this is even harder than my mother and parents were on me, but they even required him to attend summer school every year

until the end of middle school.

Right, so they were focused on helping him achieve in math and science.

So getting that early foundation in math and science has led him to where he is today.

He attended balboa high.

Go, buccaneers.

>> go bucs.

>> Supervisor Safai:   where he

got involved with the football achievers that provide mentorships and scholarships to

young african-american men and

women in sfusd.

Through this program he went to

washington, D.C., where he met dianne feinstein, jackie speier, and other leaders from the bay area to share ideas and talk about how he wanted to make his

community better.

He went on to attend city college before being admitted to san francisco state, where he's studying mechanical engineering

with a minor in microeconomics.

He stayed committed to improving his community and worked hard to

elect leaders like our own mayor breed most recently.

He is driven by all the people who have ever had a chance to

make it, as he likes to say, a driving motto for him, times are

hard, but they can get harder. He will one day, one of the

goals he has is to own his own engineering firm here in san francisco and will be a role model for young man to follow in his footsteps. He hopes to support organizations that will build community and bring people from diverse backgrounds together, because the more we understand about one another and each other, the stronger our communities will become. Kendrick, thank you for your

hard work and resilience and your leadership.

We're happy to honor you today, encourage you in this moment,

and look forward to seeing all that you accomplish in the future. >> thank you.

>> Supervisor Safai:   thank you.

[Applause] If you'd like to say a few words, please.

>> yeah, I'd like to thank you,

ahsha safai, for the opportunity, and I'm just glad to be here, you know, there's a

lot of people, you know, in my neighborhood, lake view, what not, who didn't make it or didn't get the same opportunities that I've had.

And I just want to speak through -- speak for them, you

know, this is a great opportunity.

And I also want to bring light

to two more rising heroes, who,

you know, I felt deserve an award, too.

My good friend jimmy fells, who just had a documentary "the last

black man in san francisco," won

a sundance film festival award

and another man, michael evans, who's in that, and tells jokes around san francisco. If it wasn't for good friends

like that, from lake shore, city college, you know, throughout my

journeys, because I grew up in and spent most of my time in

lake view, but bayview, visitation valley, all throughout the bottom half of

san francisco, and I am just thankful for the opportunity.

>> Supervisor Safai:   you have someone special here with you today, right?

>> yes, I also have my father here with me. My grandparents couldn't make it.

[Applause]

>> Supervisor Safai:   I'd also like to give a special shout-out

to one of your mentors, gwen, and it is her birthday today, so happy birthday. >> it definitely is. Happy birthday to Ms. Gwen.

[Applause]

>> Supervisor Safai:   thank you,

President Yee.

>> President Yee:   okay, next up

is supervisor stefani.

>> Supervisor Stefani:   thank you, President Yee. Colleagues, today I'm honored to

recognize our veterans academy

residents from suarez and the presidio for this year's black futures month.

If you all would come up. I don't think it's a secret to

anybody that I have a special place in my heart to veterans and have been in awe of their sacrifice to our country.

When I was sworn in on my inauguration day my dad was here, as you know, he made himself very known and I told a

story about his service in vietnam, his reaction when we

went to the vietnam memorial and what I didn't tell is the story about the toll it has taken on him. As he ages and his dementia

kicks in a little bit, stories that once weren't told come out,

and these are stories that would break my spirit if it wasn't filled with hope for the future that we can make a difference in

the lives of our veterans that

have endured so much.

On January 17 I attended the

22nd annual veterans day dinner and could not hold back the

tears as they honored their

profiles of courage awardees.

And what they overcame with the

help and their fellow vets was just absolutely nothing short of

miraculous.

I couldn't wait to get to the veterans academy and district 2 and the presidio to meet everyone there, and I was lucky that last friday I got to visit

and I was able to talk to a few veterans. The mission is to heal the

wounds of war, restore dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency to

all veterans in need and to prevent and hend end homelessness for our veterans. This should be the future of our veterans that we care for them for generations to come and never leave them behind.

The veterans academy is located in the presidio.

The housing site was opened in

2000 and houses 108 veterans with disabilities. The mission is to provide a peaceful location to help senior and disabled veterans heal from their wounds of war and age in place.

I was so happy to visit, like I said, last friday and speak with some of the veterans about their experience. With black future month in mind,

I am taking this chance to honor

the 28 african-american veterans

who currently reside at the veterans academy site for their service to our country. Today we have four representatives who are joining

us, john baker, who served in the U.S. Army, michael crain,

who served in the U.S. Air force, richard hollingsworth,

who served in the U.S. Army, and robert scott, who also served in the U.S. Army. Each of these men have incredible stories about their

time spent after returning back to civilian life. For instance, since his service,

michael worked as a security

policeman, richard worked at the

army medical center, which brings his residency at full circle. Robert attended classes from both the university of

california at berkeley and san francisco state university.

He's also featured in the video "taking responsibility," which

illustrates the story of how a

veteran came there.

Black history month and black futures month is a time to look at the contributions african-americans have made in shaping our nation. We must recognize that while we do honor and support our veterans and their sacrifices, we need to acknowledge and remember black veterans were more likely to be attacked for their service than honored for it throughout our nation's history. For generations, african-americans returning home

from service were more likely to

face discrimination, disrespect, violence, and sometimes even death. Each of these men have experienced great challenges in

experiencing war battles, losing friends in service, and

traversing through an extremely

difficult transition back home

into civilian life. Yet each of these men and their neighbors are working through those challenges and dedicate their time to build a community

at the veterans academy helping each other heal. I commend them, I commend you,

for your service and dedication

to our country and for your continued service to each other here at home. I would also like to recognize

one of our guests, kenyan wingo, of the U.S. Army and army reserve, who is a staff member at the veterans academy site.

We appreciate all you do,

kenyon, to give back to this community.

So I want to thank soars for your work to help this community, for whom we owe so much.

I would also like to thank tramicia garner, associate

director for housing and residential programs.

I'd like to invite her to make a

few comments and also if john, michael, richard, or robert

would like to say anything,

please do. [Applause] >> hello.

I am tramicia and work at soars. I work on behalf and in service to the veterans that we held within our programs and those

that come within our drop-in center, legal clinic, as well as our training and employment program. Soars has been around since 1974 here in san francisco.

we've been doing a lot of great work representing the veterans that are living here in san francisco, but throughout the bay area and beyond.

So with that, I don't want to take up too much time. I'm not sure if any of our veterans are wanting to speak.

We sometimes have a shy bunch. But I would like to thank them for their service. It takes a lot of courage to really put your hand up and say that you're willing to honor and serve the united states of america and to know some of the tragedies that folks experience

coming back, a lot of, you know,

our veterans are vietnam-era veterans, so that was not a particularly welcoming time for folks to serve in the united states military.

A lot of folks were not treated well, and especially a lot of

veterans of color, who endured racism in the military, but as well as when they returned home, so I would just like to say thank you for them and all that

they do, and also just to honor and see them get up every day, get up, put one foot in front of the other is inspiration and hope for all of us that work here and work for them. With that, I'd like to say thank you to supervisor stefani for recognizing our veterans and I know we have veterans in many of your districts here for the board of supervisors and just thank you for your time today.

[Applause]

>> my name is richard hollingsworth, and I'd like to say thank you all. Thanks, that's it.

[Applause]

>> hi, my name is robin love and I also work for soars.

I'm very close to 60, but I'm

still that 19-year-old marine, and my heart flutters when I see

a flag blowing in the wind.

I like to see people serving and helping one another. It's my life goal. I didn't really realize that

until I became a marine, but

like tramicia said, putting one foot forward every day is worth

it if you get to serve and you

get to be around like-minded people like yourself and so I would like to thank you for

being a like-minded person, like

swartz, and just thank you for just giving us the opportunity to be here and be recognized. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> my name is kenyan wingo, I'm one of the program monitors and I want to say to my fellow veterans who I work with, thank you all for your service.

You all make my job fun, simply put. Y'all some 49er fans, but, you know, it's fun. Thank you.

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   okay, next up is supervisor fewer.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you very much, President Yee.

Last but not least, I'd like to

invite youth leaders, cheyenne,

charles peacock, chante allen

from 100% college prep up to the podium, please, as well as

director diane gray and

associate director lane.

Colleagues, I'm honored today -- come on up.

Thanks.

Colleagues, I'm honored today to recognize an organization that has been deeply rooted and

invested in providing academic resources for students from low wealth and underserved

communities to become empowered

as college-ready students.

100% college prep, a program a bayview association for youth

was founded in 1999 by cousins jackie cohen and diane gray, and I actually had the opportunity

to first meet diane shortly

after that. 100% college prep began with the goal of supporting african-american students to

reach college and has really grown into a powerful organization championing predominantly black first-generation college

students both academically and wholistically. The program has graduated over

120 alumni, who now have bachelor's and graduate degrees.

This amazing program promotes lifelong learning and supports students to uplift their

academic careers and their communities. They were the first organization to specifically tackle the racial achievement gap at the

san francisco unified school district.

And 100% college prep forged a strong partnership with san

francisco state university step

to college program, where

students participate in dual enrollment, earning up to ten college credits, getting a jump start on college.

I am absolutely thrilled to

honor 100% college prep as an organization, in particular some of their phenomenal youth leaders today during black futures month.

i know cheyenne, charles, chante would like to share a few words,

so I will turn it over to them. >> hello, hello. I'm a student of the 100%

college prep and also step to

college, and I've been part of

the 100% club since the sixth grade. They weren't accepting sixth graders at the time, but, you know, they accepted me, and I'm

very honored.

I participated and I am a cofounder for brothers making change, for short, B.M.C., and I'm part of the organization

that says "solutions over suspensions," if you're familiar with that.

Also, I'm a co-facilitator for

the board of education, today

suspensions for students of color have gone down dramatically, and we are very

proud of that.

And this is all over the school districts in san francisco,

something that we're very proud of.

I continue to be the youth leader every day, and I'm just

honored to have this, and I'm

thankful for supervisor fewer

and also Mr. Shamann walton here, you know, they are very influential to me, and I hope to be there some day and reach their achievement.

So thank you.

[Applause]

>> hello, supervisors. My name is cheyenne.

I'm an 11th grader at city arts

and tech high school.

I've been a member of the 100% college prep since the seventh grade. I've gone from being an average

student to honor student by

attending the 100% after-school

program for tutoring and working with my student success coach.

I'm also looking forward to

attend my second historical

college, black college tour. Without 100%, I wouldn't be the student I am today. Thank you, supervisor fewer, for this award to 100% college prep.

[Applause]

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name's charles peacock.

I attend ida b. Wills high school and I'll graduate this year.

I just joined 100% this year.

The program has helped set

future goals with my student success coach and put me on the

path to a career in construction.

Through this step to college

class, I am a student at san francisco state and have applied

for five scholarships to attend

college next year, so I just

thank you, supervisors, fewer, for recognizing 100% college prep.

[Applause] >> hello, supervisors.

My name's chante allen, and I'm

a junior at city arts and tech high school. I've been with the 100% college prep since I was in the seventh grade, as well, and ever since

then I've been attending their

tutor programs, and I was a student in their step to college

class, and I've earned ten credits for college.

Last semester with their help I

earned a 4.0 gpa, and my career of choice -- [Applause] -- is to become a ceo of a

multimillion dollar company.

Thank you, supervisor fewer, for your accommodation and recognizing 100% college prep. Thank you.

[Applause] >> well, I was just going to let our youth speak, because that

speaks for itself, but my name

is diane grey, I'm the cofounder and executive director of 100% college prep, and it's certainly an honor to be here, certainly

an honor to be recognized, but

the work is standing behind us.

The real work that we do, and so

we do what needs to be done in our community, and that's how my

cousin and I started it, just being volunteers and filling a need.

And so that's what we do, and so

many of our students have

graduated from college, we had

our first Ph.D last year right there from the community, and so we're going to continue to do this work in partnership with so

many other organizations in the community and also throughout

the city, as well as government agencies, as well, so we thank

you again for this honor and

thank you so much, supervisor fewer, that I've known for a very long time. She even did some parent right workshops at our center back in the day, so we are all connected. Thank you so much.

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   okay, thank

you.

No, supervisor fewer's last but not least. Okay. First of all, I want to really thank all the supervisors here for picking, choosing, such great candidates for today's black history month honorees.

and for me, today I am thrilled

to honor city college student

gudu keir, a recent immigrant

from ethiopia, gudu's story is one that reflects many immigrants' stories in america.

He moved to the U.S. To pursue higher education and work hard in pursuit of better opportunities and a better life.

Since moving to the U.S. Only a

year ago, enrolling in his third

semester at city college, he has

already impressed his professors

and supervisors by his work

ethic, attitude, and character.

The chancellor's office

recommended guru to my office as

an excellent candidate for the black history month.

Several of his instructors and supervisors had many great things to say about him. Beyond being a thoughtful

student, who is always eager to

take new challenges, he also

serves as the appointed senator

of the associated student

council, works the maximum

allowed hours for the

matriculation team, while being a full-time student.

And he also tutors his fellow students in math at the learning

assistance center.

He also joined just one, the memorial scholarship, a competitive scholarship awarded

to a current city college international student in the

basis of economic achievement.

Expert curricular activities, leadership, and financial need. The purpose of the award is to encourage international students

to pursue studying business. Faculty and staff describe him

as a strong team player, a

person of integrity, and a joy

to have a class, who works

quietly and diligently.

Finally, I'd like to share a few

comments from one of the faculty

members at the -- at city

college, at gudu. Matriculation department

supervisor teresa chang said, "I

hired gudu and he came from

simple means in ethiopia and

never stops pushing himself to be better. Everything he does, he does with

an eye to making his mom proud.

Guru never gives up, he's

tenacious and can overcome any obstacle. He's kind to everyone and is

known for his infectious smile.

Gudu is an optimistic and is

positive even on a bad day. He's supportive and always willing to help.

He lives with an aunt and babysits the children in the

house and keeps fit with his exercise.

He just competed in his first

spartan athlete challenge,

athletics challenge, and, boy,

makes me feel like I'm a

sloucher here. So I want to congratulate gudu on this recognition and we wish you the best as you continue

your excellence as a student

leader at city college. You really remind us how proud we are to be a city and county

of hardworking and optimistic immigrants, and I'm sure you'll

follow my footsteps in terms of going to city college, to cal, where you want to go.

And I hope to see you there next year.

The floor is yours. >> thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I'm extremely honored and grateful for this recognition. >> please, speak directly into the microphone, thank you.

>> I'm extremely grateful and honored for this recognition.

I want to say thank you to city

college san francisco for

nominating me and President Norman yee for honoring me with

this special recognition.

Ladies and gentlemen, when I, as a very proud recipient who's standing here before you, but I would not have been able to do

this without the inspiration I

got from my colleagues and seniors, but my inspiration, however, is not limited just to

them, but to my home and roots.

You May know it as ethiopia,

where it has been immortalized

as many legends, stories, and history books.

Celebrating this year's black

history month, we all, as we

should, remember and praise the people who gave up their

precious lives for me to stand

here before you.

Even though we acknowledge we've

come a long way as people, there's still work that needs to

be done.

Finally, I really want to say

thank you to my fellow student

colleagues and advisers and associate student council on the campus to give me the opportunity to be involved in my school as a student senator and a member of the student government. And which I have strived and

will continue to strive to make

all students' voice heard and

better the school that I am so highly appreciative for. Lastly, I want to say thank you to my wonderful family, friends,

and my mom, who unfortunately

couldn't be here, who all have

supported me tirelessly in order for me to achieve my goals. Even though this might be my

first recognition, this won't be

my last, but this always will have a place of honor on my wall. Thank you so much.

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   Madam Clerk, I

think it's past the 3:00 special item.

Could you call item no. 37?

>> Clerk:   items 37 through 40 comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the

determination of exemption from environmental review under the california environmental quality

act issued as a categorical exemption by the planning

department on May 10, 2018, for

the proposed project at 2831-3833 pierce street to

remodel a three-story, two-unit building and construct the addition of a fourth floor.

Item 38 is the motion to affirm the department's determination.

Item 39 is the motion to conditionally reverse the department's determination, and item 40 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings.

>> President Yee:   okay.

Thank you.

Colleagues, we have before us,

and if you on the determination of exemption from environmental

review for the projects at 2831-2833 pierce street in district 2.

For this hearing we will be considering the adequacy, accuracy, sufficiency, and completeness of the planning department's environmental

review determination for the

project at 2831-33 pierce street.

Without objection, we will

proceed as follows, up to ten minutes for a presentation for

the appellants or appellants' representative, ten minutes for the speaker in support of the

views, up to ten minutes for presentation from the planning

department, up to ten minutes

for the project sponsor or their

representative to speak, then

two minutes per speaker in

opposition to the appeal.

And finally up to three minutes

for rebuttal from the appellants

or appellants' representative. Colleagues, are there any objections to proceeding this way? Seeing no objections, public

hearing is now open. Supervisor stefani, do you have any remarks you would like to share?

>> Supervisor Stefani:   yes, I'm

sorry, President Yee.

I wanted to, based on some

last-minute conversations, ask for a continuance, actually. I know you opened the hearing, but if we could have a continuance of this matter for one week.

I'm sorry to ask it last minute.

I wasn't planned to do this, but

if we could have a week's continuance.

>> President Yee:   continuance until when?

>> Supervisor Stefani:   one-week continuance.

>> President Yee:   that's the date -- so did you want to

continue this to March 5th?

>> Supervisor Stefani:   yes, please.

>> President Yee:   is there a

second?

Seconded by supervisor peskin.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you,

President Yee, I am a cause for

the last-minute continuance

request and so I'm happy to second it and look forward to visiting with supervisor stefani and appellant and project sponsor in the intervening week.

>> President Yee:   thank you.

So what I'd like to do now is,

if there's any public comments

on the continuance, step on up if you have any.

I see no public comments, so

public comments is now closed. Is there -- should we take roll

call or can we take this same house, same call?

>> Clerk:   same house, same call, Mr. President.

>> President Yee:   same house,

same call, the motion is passed.

That will bring us now to -- can

you call the next items, please?

>> Clerk:   yes, items 11 and 12, Mr. President?

>> President Yee:   yes.

>> Clerk:   items 11 and 12

approve two contract modifications on behalf of the airport commission.

Item 11 modifies modification

no. 4 to the airport extension

and improvements program for project management supports

services to extend the term by 555 calendar days through

October 31, 2020, and to increase the contract amount by

$6.3 million for a total not to exceed $16.3 million.

And item 12 approves modification no. 9 for the

terminal 1 center renovation

project with acjv for project management support services to extend the term by four years

and eight months from May 1,

2019, through December 31, 2023, and to increase the contract

amount for a not to exceed $61 million.

>> President Yee:   colleagues,

can we take these items same house, same call? Without objection, these

resolutions are adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, next item, please.

>> Clerk:   item 13 is an emergency declaration to approve

the emergency declaration of director of public works

pursuant to administrative code

to repair damaged sewer system in the vicinity of third street.

>> President Yee:   same house, same call? Without objection, adopted unanimously. Please call items 14 and 15.

>> Clerk:   items 14 and 15 called together are two resolutions from the united states

department of justice grants to retroactively authorize the

police department to accept and expend an $800,000 grant to improve the collection

management and analysis of crime

gun evidence from October 1, 2018, through September 30,

2021, and item 15 retroactively authorizes the police department to accept and expend a $61,000

grant increase to the fiscal

year 2018 dna capacity enhancement and backlog

reduction program grant funds for the new total of $367,000 to

be used to upgrade software, purchase laboratory equipment, and provide continuing education

training for dna analysts from January 1, 2019, through

December 31, 2020.

>> President Yee:   colleagues,

can we take these same house -- supervisor peskin?

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you. just my usual question either to the sponsor or the police department relative to why this

is retroactive to October 1st of 2018.

>> President Yee:   is there a representative?

Yes.

>> good afternoon, I'm patrick wong with the san francisco police department.

I'm the grants manager.

The reason that it's retroactive

is merely because of the start

date for the grant programs.

For the -- hold on. For the grant from the U.S.

Department of justice bureau of

justice assistance, the crime investigation center, we

received a notice of the award

on October 1, and because of the

timing of putting forth the grant resolution before the

police commission and scheduling

it for the budget and finance

committee, all that took time,

and the retroactive only

pertains to the start date.

We have not expended any funds

or started on the activities of either program.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   thank you.

>> President Yee:   colleagues, can we take these items same house, same call? Without objection, these

resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 16 is a resolution to approve amendment no. 2 to the grant agreement

between the city and the san francisco marin food bank to provide the food assistance program to older adults and

adults with disabilities from

July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2022

for a new total not to exceed amount of approximately $11.3 million and to further authorize the executive director of the

human services agency to execute the amendment.

>> President Yee:   colleagues,

can we take this item same house, same call? Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, please call items no. 17.

>> Clerk:   item 17 is a

resolution to authorize the tax collector to sell at public

auction certain parcels of tax-defaulted real property.

>> President Yee:   okay, colleagues, can we take this

same house, same call?

Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, please call items 18 through 20.

>> Clerk:   items 18 through 20

are three resolutions to reimburse future expenditures of

future bonded indebtedness to submit an application and related documents to the

california debt limit allocation committee to permit the issuance of residential mortgage revenue

bonds in an aggregate principle

amount for item 18 not to exceed

$160 million for parcell e-2 on

pier 70, 185 maryland street.

Item 19, not to exceed $48

million through 710-760 la playa

street and item 20, not to

exceed $40 million for 22, 102, and 106 south park street.

>> President Yee:   colleagues,

can we take these items same house, same call? Without objection, these

resolutions are adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, please call item 21.

>> Clerk:   authorize the office of cannabis on behalf of the

city to apply for state grant funding under the california cannabis equity act of 2018.

>> President Yee:   colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? Without objection.

This resolution is passed unanimously. Next item, please.

>> Clerk:   item 22, resolution to authorize the city to submit applications for payment programs and related

authorizations by california department of resources recycling and recovery for the

purpose of safely managing and reducing household hazardous

waste and used motor oil and promoting opportunities for

beverage containers, recycling, and litter cleanup.

>> President Yee:   colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam Clerk, next item, please.

>> Clerk:   item 23 is a resolution to approve and authorize a second amendment to

the existing permit with another

planet entertainment llc for the production of the annual outside

lands music festival to extend

the term for an additional ten years until 2031 and modify provisions to the permit fee,

rent payments and outreach to determine the ceqa determination, and, Mr.

President, we added a note on the agenda that due to a pending

appeal of the categorical

exemption under the california

environmental quality act for this amendment, this matter cannot be acted upon until the

appeal is resolved. I understand a motion May be

made to have this continued.

>> President Yee:   supervisor fewer?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you, President Yee. I understand an appeal has been filed for the proposed outside lands festival use permit. Due to the depending appeal under ceqa for this amendment, I would like to motion to refer

this matter to a later date to April 2, 2019, at 3:00 P.M.

>> President Yee:   okay.

April 2nd?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   April 2nd.

>> President Yee:   thank you, motion is made.

Is there a second?

Seconded by supervisor safai.

>> Clerk:   Mr. President, I'll add, supervisor fewer, you are

not making a 3:00 P.M. Special order?

>> Supervisor Fewer:   no.

>> Clerk:   thank you.

>> Supervisor Fewer:   thank you.

>> President Yee:   okay. Without objection, this item

will be continued to the meeting

of April 2nd.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 24 is a resolution to authorize the

director of public works to execute agreements with the california department of transportation pertaining to the jefferson street improvements

phase ii project for the amount of approximately $6.7 million.

>> President Yee:   colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call?

Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam Clerk, please call items 25 and 26 together.

>> Clerk:   items 25 and 26 called together are two labor

management agreements for the department of human resources,

two resolutions to authorize for

item 25 a workers' compensation

alternative dispute resolution labor management agreement with the san francisco firefighters association local 798 with an

initial term of three years to commence following approval by

the board and continuing year-to-year thereafter in

one-year terms, and for item 26,

to authorize a workers'

compensation alternative dispute resolution with the san francisco police officers association with an initial term of three years and continuing

year to year thereafter in

one-year terms.

>> President Yee:   okay, colleagues, can we take these

items same house, same call? Without objection, these resolutions are adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, please call item no. 27.

>> Clerk:   item 27 is a resolution to respond to the partial federal government shutdown to affirm san francisco's solidarity with federal workers and urging the mayor and the city departments

to assist those impacted by the shutdown.

>> President Yee:   supervisor haney?

>> Supervisor Haney:   yeah, we have some amendments that just got passed out. They are very simple, reflecting that the shutdown's over and that we'll be encouraging these

types of actions by the city in future, hopefully doesn't happen, but if there are future government shutdowns.

I want to move those amendments.

>> President Yee:   okay.

So there's been a motion to -- for amendments.

Is there a second?

Second by supervisor stefani. Without any objection, we'll

take these amendments.

Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call as

amended?

Seeing no objection, the

resolution as amended is adopted unanimously.

Madam Clerk, please call items

28 and 29 together.

>> Clerk:   items 28 and 29 are

two resolutions to amend the

planning code to landmark

designations, 460 arguello boulevard, aka theodore

roosevelt middle school as a

landmark and item 29, 2728 bryant street, sunshine school,

as a landmark and affirm the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings.

>> President Yee:   okay, colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? Without objection, the ordinances are passed

unanimously on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 30 is an ordinance to amend the planning

code to rezone a portion of 170

valencia street from a

residential transit district,

R.T.O., to moderate scale transit district to establish uniform zoning for the site and determine ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings.

>> President Yee:   colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? Without objection, this

ordinance is passed unanimously

on first reading. Next item, please.

>> Clerk:   item 31 is an ordinance to waive permit and inspection fees and a public works hearing for the installation of a plaque at one location on the silver avenue sidewalk to accept the plaque

and commemorate former hillcrest elementary school student selena

lamb and to affirm the ceqa determination.

>> President Yee:   colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 32 is an ordinance to amend section 191 of the planning code regarding

the conversion of medical cannabis dispensary uses to

retail cannabis uses and expand

the expiration date to affirm the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings.

>> President Yee:   colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? Without objection. This ordinance is passed

unanimously on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call item no. 33.

>> Clerk:   item 33 is an ordinance to amend the police

code to rescind the authorization for the police

department's membership with the national rifle association or

nra and to terminate the

collection of tournament fees for the nra.

>> President Yee:   supervisor stefani?

>> Supervisor Stefani:   thank you, President Yee. Colleagues, the day we heard

this item in committee was the one-year anniversary of the parkland shooting that killed 17 people, 14 students, and three educators. Today, as this item is before

the board, it is the seven-year

anniversary of the killing of trayvon martin.

Trayvon was shot and killed while walking home from a florida convenience store.

His killer was exonerated by the state's stand your ground law,

which promotes a shoot-first, ask questions later mentality. The nra has promoted stand your ground laws throughout the country and is responsible for

proudly promulgating this dangerous mentality that's taken

many lives, including trayvon's.

The nra insights domestic terrorism, as witnessed in the latest copy of the nra's

magazine that features a story with the words "target practice"

next to a photo of speaker nancy pelosi with gabby giffords in the background.

As you recall, congresswoman

giffords was shot in the head eight years ago last month. Six people were killed that day and 13 people were wounded.

Before gabby was shot, proud nra member sarah palin had gabby's

district on a targeted list

showing it to be in the crosshairs of a gun site over her district. The ordinance before you today would rescind the police department's authority to be a

member of the nra and to collect

tournament fees on behalf of the nra in connection with holding firearms tournaments. I want to thank chief scott and the san francisco police department for supporting this ordinance and for not engaging

with the nra for years. We all know that words matter,

and I want the nra removed from

our police code to avoid any

possibility of legitimizing this toxic and dangerous organization. My goal really is to make the

nra the pay phone of lobbyists, rarely seen, hardly necessary, and ancient history.

I want to thank my fellow

members, chair mandelman and

supervisor walton for passing this out of committee with recommendation and to the rest

of my colleagues, I urge your support.

>> President Yee:   supervisor ronen?

>> Supervisor Ronen:   could I get

down as co-sponsor, please?

>> President Yee:   of course. Supervisor walton?

>> Supervisor Walton:   I just

wanted to be added as a co-sponsor.

>> President Yee:   supervisor mar?

>> Supervisor Mar:   yeah, I'd

like to be added as a co-sponsor, too, and thank supervisor stefani for her leadership on not just this ordinance, but these very important issues. thank you.

>> President Yee:   okay, supervisor stefani, if I hadn't

already indicated, I want to be

a co-sponsor.

I want to be co-sponsor.

Okay, anybody -- supervisor safai.

>> Supervisor Safai:   I'd like to

be added as a co-sponsor, as well.

>> President Yee:   supervisor

brown, supervisor fewer,

supervisor peskin, supervisor mandelman.

I guess there's no objection to this.

So that's unanimous in terms of

everybody being a co-sponsor, so without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously

in first reading.

Madam Clerk, next item, please.

>> Clerk:   item 34 is a resolution to support california

state senate bill no. 23 authored by senator scott weiner

and co-authored but multiple

assembly members including members david chu and phil ting

to expand the definition of vehicle burglary to include any unlawful entry.

>> President Yee:   colleagues,

can we take this -- supervisor brown?

>> Supervisor Brown:   yes, thank you, President Yee.

I just want to thank senator

weiner for bringing this bill, sb 23, forward and also my

co-sponsor on the board of

soups, supervisor stefani, supervisor stefani, mar, and walton. I just wanted to give a couple

of facts about this particular sb-23. San francisco has the highest

rate of property crime in the state, and in 2017 there were

over 32,000 auto burglaries in san francisco. The city's property crime rate

is over double the statewide average.

I receive calls every week from

my constituents asking what is

city hall doing about the car

break-in epidemic and I imagine other supervisors are getting the same kind of calls. My constituents are frustrated and want us to do something to help them get relief.

What sb-23 does, it clarifies

the definition of auto burglary, defines auto burglary as

entering a vehicle unlawfully with the intent to commit theft.

It also removes a wide loophole

currently when a suspect auto

burglar is arrested, prosecutors

must prove beyond a reasonable

doubt that the vehicle was locked. Problematic, often victims are

unable to attend a hearing to testify. They May be tourists who have

returned home, or they May be residents who cannot take time

off from work or school to testify.

Additionally, many folks do not

have the -- have comprehensive insurance or their comprehensive insurance is too expensive, so they are forced to pay out of

pocket to repair their smashed windows. Sb-23 does not increase penalties for anyone convicted

for auto burglary.

What this does is it closed the

loophole, removing a barrier to provide proving the obvious, that a window was broken to gain

entry to a locked vehicle.

Sadly, car break-ins are now epidemic in california cities,

and we have to be smart when

parking, but san franciscans and tourists shouldn't have to think twice any time we consider parking. No one should. Broken glass ought to be enough to prove forced entry. That's just common sense.

Thank you.

>> President Yee:   okay, thank you. Colleagues, can we take this

item same house, same call? Without objection, this resolution's adopted

unanimously.

Madam Clerk, please call the next item.

>> Clerk:   item 35 is an ordinance to amendment the ad

administrative code from

prohibiting police officers from questioning persons 17 years of

age or younger and demand

responsible adults be given access to youth while primp police officers are questioning the youth.

>> President Yee:   supervisor ronen?

>> Supervisor Ronen:   thank you so much, colleagues.

First I want to thank everyone

who sponsored or co-sponsored this legislation. This legislation is about protecting the rights of children and youth in the city when they come into contact with the police.

It mandates all youth under 18 consult with legal representation before they can be interrogated by police or before they can waive their miranda rights.

It also requires that a responsible adult, such as a

parent or a caregiver, have the opportunity to be present when a young person is in police custody and being questioned or

talked to by the police.

I have passed around some small

technical edits that the city attorney made after this item was heard in committee, as well as one important addition.

We are naming this law after our beloved public defender jeff adachi. Jeff worked closely with our office on this law from the very

beginning, together with patty lee. Among his many accomplishments,

he was a champion for youth rights and juvenile justice reform and did incredibly important work to protect the civil liberties of our young people.

Therefore, on page 3 it now

reads "this chapter, 96-c, shall be known as the jeff adachi

youth rights ordinance." these increased protections for youth are unprecedented. If we pass this today, san francisco will have the strongest laws in the country protecting children and youth in

police custody. [Please stand by]

>> is there a second? Supervisor walton.

With no objection, we will take

the amendment.

Colleagues, can we take this

ordinance as amended and pass it -- take the same house same

call? Okay.

Without objection, the ordinance as amended has passed

unanimously on first reading. Madame Clerk, please call the next item. >> item 36 is a motion to

appoint annmarie fortier, bunny elizabeth rosenberg and brian

vanhorn, terms ending April

30th, 2020 and nina irani,

April 30th, 2021, to the commission of animal control and welfare. >> okay. Colleagues, can we take this

item say house same call? Without objection, this motion is approved unanimously.

Madame Clerk, let's go right

into roll call. >> will call for introductions.

You are first up to introduce new business, supervisor peskin.

>> thank you, Madame Clerk. I want to thank all the

cosponsors for their support of

the resolution I am introducing

today for next week charge or adoption without community reference calendar supporting california state assembly bill

1161, which our entire legislative delegation has

sponsored a simile member two, senator weiner, and assembly

member tang.

Rarely in politics do things

move this quickly, but our legislative delegation has

actually authored legislation that would extend consumer

protections for the practice of balanced billing, not only at san francisco general hospital, but throughout the state of

california, so I again want to thank the media for shining a

light on this, and for the courageous testimony that we all heard at the government audit and oversight committee, and again yesterday across the

street in the governor charge a conference room from patients who, like our President, and a number member of this body, were

balanced build. I also, relative to a few more words about public defender jeff

adachi, like supervisor ronen, I want to cite that we worked

closely together on the

legislation that will come before this body to check the unchecked surveillance industry,

and I just wanted to -- I forgot to mention that in my earlier

comments, and finally, I have introduced a request for a

hearing pursuant to section

3.100 of the charter, as to the mayor's appointment of somebody

named scott health board to the

retirement board, and they look

fuller to hearing about his qualifications and experience in front of the rules committee

pursuant to florida rule to .18.3.

The rest I will submit.

>> thank you supervisor peskin.

Supervisor ronen? >> thank you, Madame Clerk.

Today I rise on a couple of issues. First of all, I want to acknowledge that supervisor

walton, wherever he is, and I have been dealing with some

seriously vexing issues in our

district, pertains to illegal dumping.

We have, based on 311 data, and also from my own experiences can

speaking with constituents, a significant, significant volume of individuals and 311 calls as

it pertains to illegal dumping

all over district ten and 11. Today, he and I are asking, and

requesting the city attorney to begin drafting legislation as it pertains to construction and demolition waste. If you've -- if you recall, we

had a hearing about a year and a half ago regarding the zero

waste goals, in the first piece

of the step we took was our mandatory recycling and

composting legislation. That was supported unanimously by this body.

I think I -- I think all of my colleagues that supported that,

but part of the hearing in that conversation was about how we are going to achieve a zero

waste in san francisco, and one

of the last areas of concern was

large refuse generators, if you

recall, those large buildings that produce their less than 1% of the account holders in the

city, yet they produce over 20%

of the volume that we send to landfill.

A second piece of that is construction and demolition waste, and so we are asking the

city attorney to work, to begin drafting legislation, and

working with the environment, working with supervisor walton and the mayor's office. We are very concerned about achieving our zero waste goals, and at the same time, dealing

with laws that choose to dump on our streets, rather than using the appropriate channels.

We believe that reforming this process, whether they are small contractors are large contractors, and having them go through a more certified process and oversight, we will begin to really tackle the amount of

illegal dumping that happens in our respective districts, particularly district ten and 11.

Well at the same time, helping to achieve our environmental

goals as part of the environmental agenda, or is more popularly -- popularly called today, the green agenda.

And having that is the last piece of that. So we look forward to working with the city attorney on that.

The second piece is, we are working on our A.D.U. Legislation.

We have asked for a 90 day extension.

This ain't the legislation that we introduced is conforming to state law.

We have some pyrite requirements that have been enabled through state legislation, and he knew

to conform to that, but we want to ensure the historic preservation commission and the planning department have had an opportunity to work. We are asking for a 90 day extension on that. The rest I submit.

>> thank you, supervisor. Supervisor stefani. >> thank you, Madame Clerk.

As you know, they ended their service in san francisco on

February 1st, 2019 period.

Chariot reported 3500 writers

use their two busiest lives in district 1200 the morning and evening rush hour.

The significant number of constituents and commuters in need of transportation. I'm calling for a hearing to islam examine the impact sufficiently it shut down on transportation in san francisco, including had chariot writers

have adopted to the loss of the surface, and to explain the steps the sfmta is taken to provide transportation options

to former riders and requesting

the sfmta to report.

earlier this month, as you know, chariot did and all of his operations, ending a key transportation service in san francisco that many people in my district have relied upon.

A key take away from chariot

shutdown is that it is externally difficult to

privatize public transportation.

It requires a subsidy that

obviously they cannot afford. Nonetheless, thousands of people took chariot shuttles to commute to get around the city. Chariot arose because we need that was not covered by many mobile transit system or any other forms of transportation in the city. Some chose chariot because it was faster than our own any mobile system. Others opted for chariot is a more affordable and environmentally from the way to travel down their own cars or

T.N.C. Either way, chariot users benefited from the surface, and they do not have it now. We need to adapt and accommodate all our residents no longer have shuttle service yes, I did ask whether or not the current system can accommodate his thousands of users, and what

steps we need to take to provide these writers transportation alternatives. We also need to learn why writers opted for chariot of

their other options in the first place, and what lessons we can learn from chariot service to

improve our own system. While this venture did not exceed, it demonstrated an unmatched demand from transit in

san francisco, a demand that is critical to fixing congestion on the street as combating climate change. I would like to thank clear me robredo her leadership following

the closure. She initiated -- initiated the

city drive program to expedite the process. This program will help address operator shortage, improve transit service across the city, and connect people with jobs. I look for to hearing from the sfmta as to how we can

accommodate these writers and improve upon our public transportation service. I'm also introducing a

resolution today in support of sv 281, introduced by senator scott weiner that would ban gun

shows at the cow palace, and create a joint powers authority to oversee the area. 182017, you had the highest number of gun deaths in the last 20 years. America has a gun homicide right mac 25 times higher of its pure nations, and over 100 lives are

lost every day. Mass shootings have become so commonplace that they are sometimes not even mentioned by

the media get just last week in hamilton, some thought there was

a gun, and it caused pandemonium quickly our nation traumatized by gun violence. Afraid a mask shooting May occur at a production of hamilton because why not, they had occurred in movie theaters, places of worship, concerts,

bars, make clubs, college

campuses, high schools, and even elementary schools. A california has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, yet we experience an unacceptable amount of gun violence and must do everything

we can to turn the tide against this image of -- epidemic.

On five -- five previous

occasions for the california legislature has attempted to ban the cow palace gun shows.

The most recent being lesser in 2018 which governor brown vetoed.

And on twitter previous occasions, the legislator attempted to ban gun shows a statewide. I'm absolutely thrilled that senator weiner introduced S.B.

281, van -- banning the sales of guns and a musician at -- ammunition at the cow palace. The governing bodies of san francisco, daily city, and san mateo county have voiced their

opposition to gun shows, being held at the cow palace fairgrounds. In san francisco, specifically, does not allow gunshots to exist

within its communities. I'm introducing this resolution, supporting sv 281. This bill is another step towards ending violence in california and america, I'm saving thousands of lives every year. I would like to thank

supervisors brown, supervisor ronen and walton for their sponsorship in support of this resolution.

Lastly, I also want to thank senator weiner and a family

members for co-authoring this legislation. After years of effort, I hope this bill becomes law with this

miniature -- signature of governor newsome. finally, I would like to close the meeting in memory of john

penny -- john connie. I'm sorry. Of the left member of our

community.

Also known as Mr. San francisco. He passed away peacefully in his sleep on thursday, February 7th.

He was born in the heart of san francisco charge admission

district. He attended st. John's school at sacred heart cathedral prep.

He developed a love for all things san francisco.

He was very proud of his irish heritage and loved to entertain with his renditions of irish

poems and songs.

He was passionate about his city I could always be found telling stories of growing up in san francisco to anyone who would listen.

He was a lifelong fan of the giants, 40 niners, and warriors, and was incredibly proud of his Mr. San francisco nickname.

His life predeceased him into thousand and six. They met at st. John's grammar

school, and were married 53 years. The greatest passion in life was the left they have for their

children. John touch of children are grateful to his companion, dianne, for the love and happiness he brought to him the last several years.

He retired at the age of 85, just six weeks before his passing. He worked in the financial district for over 65 years.

Several of those as my -- with my father-in-law. the stories of being around her on the stock exchange are legendary.

He was 48 years so there when he passed, and his primary purpose

in life was to stay sober and help another alcoholic. This was the cornerstone of his

life. His greatest passion was helping others and to show them that being sober really isn't such a bad thing.

The lives he touched through the commitment of countless -- are countless any measurable. This friendship helps -- friendships helped him stay

sober for so long, and he was forever grateful.

He will always be remembered for his compassion, selflessness and generosity. This summer, he stopped by my

campaign headquarters with a check, flowers, and doughnuts. I know I wrote eight thank you note, we never got to think him in person. If you're listening, thank you. So many will keep coming back because of you. He had the ability to make you feel like you are the only person in the room because he genuinely cared.

He had a zest for life that was contagious, and with his sparkling blue eyes, he was

always able to find humor in every situation. One of his favorite sayings was ask yourself three questions,

was a kind, was it truthful, was it necessary. If you couldn't say yes to all

three questions, you shouldn't have said what you did.

John judge and life will be celebrated as a memorial mass in daily city on monday, March 4th at 11:00 am. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and all those who knew and loved him.

There were many, including me. Thank you.

>> thank you, thank you supervisor. Supervisor walton, please. >> thank you so much, Madame Clerk, I know we have had a

chance to honor our amazing public defender, jeff adachi,

but I want to put it on the record, in memoriam during this

meeting, and I also want to thank my colleagues so much for

your participation in honoring our young people, and the

contributions of black people into they charge at meeting. I truly appreciate you all for stepping up and participating. I want to thank my amazing team

for reaching out to your amazing

team to make this happen today,

and the rest I submit. >> thank you, supervisor walton.

Supervisor yee? >> thank you.

Today, I am asking for a

hearing, public works safety hearing on their street cleaning

truck operations. Colleagues, today I will be

introducing this hearing on the

safety improvement plans for the

department of public works street cleaning truck operations, requesting the

department of public works to report to my office. We have in working with director

new roux and his staff to

prepare for this hearing, which is an opportunity for the

department to present their

safety improvement plans in response to the in B.C. investigative report, which

aired last week.

I also am introducing, along with supervisor mar and fewer

legislation to address the growing need for child care facilities in san francisco. We have 23,000 infants and

toddlers in -- and nearly 20,000 preschoolers in the city.

Eighty 5% of the children ages

zero to that what luck, do not

have licensed care, had around

50% of the children ages zero to five have an unmet need.

There are over 2,000 families

who are on a waitlist to receive care. While the passage five early

care and education for all last

June, it meant an unprecedented

level of investment to eliminate the waiting list, and to expand

access to our middle income families.

We are still awaiting court decisions.

At this point in time, we have a

long ways to go in order to provide the services for the growing demand.

We certainly need to do more to support the childcare educators who are barely getting a living

wage despite the significance of their work.

We all know how expensive it is to seek quality early care seen -- and education for young

children. It can cost more then a renter

even college tuition.

But what has become more

apparent is it is also exceedingly difficult for child

care facilities to operate,

because of the hot real estate market, many childcare facilities are at risk of

displacement and are unable to

find new spaces.

We are hearing stories from long time childcare providers who are

uncertain about their future.

What does a child care site closure mean?

Not only for the educators,

staff, and students, but their families. Inc. -- an entire neighborhood

will lose licensed lots that May never be replaced. Losing a childcare facility

leaves a gaping hole in the community. We are already falling behind in

terms of existing needs. Therefore we need to stabilize the existing licensed facilities

if we ever want to serve all the families we seek -- who seek

childcare. In order for us to better understand how to support these facilities and how best to encourage the licensed childcare

spaces, we are proposing an 18

month interim control that would require a conditional use authorization if any existing

childcare facilities is changed to another use.

As san francisco grows, we will

need more childcare spaces to accommodate existing unmet

needs, and the projected growth in our young child population. I will now turn it over to

supervisor mar to share his

remarks on this ordinance.

Would you like to say anything? >> yes. Thank you for using this

legislation. I am really committed to cosponsoring it and working with

you on exploring solutions to the threats to our existing childcare and preschool facilities and I would just add

that for me, this is really

important because there are a couple of childcare preschool

facilities in my district teen district four, the sunset

district, that right now are under threat because they are housed in properties that have

been put on the market for sale,

and one of these schools in particular has been serving the community in the sunset and citywide for over 30 years.

It was really the first on san

francisco -- it was the first by legal preschool.

It really -- and they have been at that same location throughout

-- throughout the past 13 years. In my communications with the

school, they have struggled, they have rdb looking for

another site in the neighborhood for about a year now and haven't been able to find that.

This is the tip of the iceberg

of a problem that we are seeing for our existing childcare and preschool facilities threatened

due to the development in san

francisco.

>> Chair Peskin:   thank you, supervisor mar. I want to add that it was only two years ago that we almost

lost one in my district for when

a facility was going to be close

down because it was going to be redeveloped.

And then I also know that in

district six, there is another

facility that might be under threat. Because again, because of the

sales, so we really need this

moratorium to figure out how best to move forward, and I also

want to thank supervisor peskin

for introducing the resolution

to support A.V. 1611.

i think this is an important move. We are listening to so many other folks that have been

impacted by this so-called

balanced billing, and san francisco is not alone in this. We need to do something about that.

I want to also echo, joining and

appreciating us in layman david

to, and senator weiner, and also

assemblyman phil taking.

The rest I submit. >> thank you, Mr. President. Supervisor brown. >> thank you.

Today I will introduce legislation with mayor brayden

my colleagues to establish a new one-year pilot to leave the dvi department of building inspection fees for 100%

affordable housing, and

accessory dwelling units known as A.D.U. It is not news.

We need more housing, especially affordable housing. We need more choices for people

who live and work here and want to stay here. We need this for working people,

for people getting back on their feet, young people just starting

out, for growing families, our multicultural and generational families, and for our seniors

who maybe ready to downsize but

want to stay in their neighborhoods, close to families

and friends. 100% affordable housing projects are absolutely essential to ensure san francisco remains a

city for san franciscans of all income levels.

Not just the rich. By lowering costs and

streamlining the process, this legislation supports the construction of these important

projects. A.D.U.S are another simple, creative, cost effective solution for expanding our housing supply, especially for studios and one bedrooms.

A.D.U. His have been found to be

a good match for the housing needs and preferences of many single households, which make up a significant and growing percentage of all san francisco

households, nearly 40% today. These are all san franciscans of all ages.

We hope and expect the fees waived will make a real difference for small property owners who typically personally

finance the cost of A.D.U. His, construction. We need them to help us build

the housing we all need. I'm excited about unlocking this potential and looking forward to

continuing my work with

supervisor mar and all of you to encourage more san francisco's to help build new affordable housing. The rest I submit. >> thank you.

Supervisor fewer. >> thank you very much.

Today, I introduce a hearing with supervisor hilary ronen on

the policies and protocols within the san francisco police department governing the public

relief -- release a private citizen information,

particularly during an active investigation. I am outraged at what appears to be leaked information to the

press surrounding the tragic death of our friend and

colleague, jeff adachi, but i

have to say, my frustration about this issue extends far

beyond this particular case. We have seen an increasing practice of particular stations posting mugshots of arrestees on social media.

A year ago, in early 2018, of

police department opened an investigation into whether a former P.O.A. President Had broken state law by using an

individual rap sheet as a prop

during a public community forum, although I'm not aware of the results of that investigation.

All of this contributed, has contributed to pressing

questions for me and my colleagues, what are the departmental general orders

governing the release of private information? Who has access to sensitive private information? What is a protocol for what information can be made public and by whom?

What is the accountability mechanism within the department if staff are found to have released private information in

violation of departmental

general orders are in violation of state law?

And how is the police department ensuring that improper conduct with regards to the release of private information is prevented in the future?

This is not just an issue with high-profile cases, what this is

an issue about public trust, and whether members of the public

can trust that they and their loved ones are not being exposed

and an unwarranted invasion of privacy or confidential information.

Whether as a suspect, victim, or informant. In addition to supervisor ronen,

I would like to thank the other cosponsors of this hearing.

Supervisors mar, brown, yee, peskin, haney, mantle men and

walton. The rest I submit.

>> thank you, supervisor. Supervisor haney? >> thank you. I am introducing a resolution today in support of the

california state assembly bill

362, which would create a three-year pilot program allowing san francisco to implement an overdose prevention

program to the operation of safe injection sites, creating a safe injection sight in the city is a holistic approach by tackling the opioid crisis, by

proactively engaging in highly vulnerable and difficult to

reach populations with compassion and treatment options. This is very similar to the bill

that passed last year that was

unfortunately vetoed by governor brown, we are hoping for a different result this year, because of the particular impact that this will have on san

francisco, it is important that,

again, the city and county takes

a proactive approach in helping to ensure that this bill is passed and signed.

Thank you to the leadership of

senator scott weiner and a simile members for tackling such an important issue.

As you all know, there are an estimated 22,000 people who

inject drugs in san francisco, and drug injection is responsible for approximately

100 deaths each year at the

bottom.

It is a leading cause of accidental death in california.

All of the evidence that is out there, from the examples and from the research suggests that

safe injection sites can both

save lives and save money.

There are other cities across

the country that are considering similar approaches, and san francisco has been a leader in this.

I want to also thank and commend

mayor breed for coming out in

support of this approach, and I

hope that it not only passes the

legislature this time, that that

it is signed into law, and that

we are able to move forward this bold and proactive approach.

The rest I submit.

>> thank you, supervisor yee had. >> thank you.

Today I am introducing the

resolution that is a product of the powerful and steadfast efficacy of amazing climate justice activists, in

particular, I want to thank some folks who worked closely with my

all it -- office in crafting

this resolution. We are declaring an emergency because simply put katherine his normal time to waste. San francisco, like the rest of california, a suffering impacts

of climate change in the form of droughts, air pollution, extreme heats, and lowland flooding.

Earlier today, at a press

conference we did, I stated some

pretty scary projections. 8 feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years, and we know

that even at 3 feet, the ferry building will be flooding twice daily. the embarcadero, mission bay and marina will all be at risk. Already we are planning to permanently closed two lanes of

the highway in response to rising tides quickly know that we and our successes successors

will have to find billions and

tens of billions or more to make the infrastructure investments necessary to protect the city from climate change impacts that

are already inevitable. We have to take every feasible

action to prevent even more severe impacts. Emergency is upon us and we need to recognize that an act with urgency face on the recognition every day. San francisco has been a leader on environment issues and we

should all be grateful for the tremendously talented staff of the department of environment and in particular, I want to

think director raphael and others for their help with this resolution. I also want to thank the mayor charge office for their council. This resolution seeks to build on and amplify their efforts. I want to thank my office as

well.

Brickley hayward, richmond and oakland taking steps subject to

a state of emergency, and we should certainly during that period I want to thank my

cosponsors, as well as supervisor viewing, supervisor

peskin, of supervisor brown, and matt haney. We need to respond to the greatest emergency of our time. The rest I submit b thank you,

supervisor. >> today I am reintroducing a

call for a hearing and introducing two pieces of legislation, I previously called

for a hearing on home burglaries and home invasion robberies and it is currently pending in the public safety and neighborhood services committee. Since then, I have heard from

countless constituents who have had packages stolen from their front porch, driveway or

doorway, with the gross -- growth of online shopping, package that has emerged as a

major concern for residents of my district and in the city. As such, I'm adding package thefts to the hearing on home burglaries in order to learn more about the growing problem

and work towards solutions. Seconds, I am introducing an amendment to the question time ordinance to close a loophole that emerged in my first week in office. This will grasp the clerk of the board the authority to extend the deadline for submitting the topic of a question for the mayor charge a appearance before

the board board by 24 hours, during holiday periods, especially noticed meetings, or the week of new members joining the board.

I am grateful to mayor breed to graciously allowed me to submit

a question for my first board of supervisors meeting despite the

deadline for doing so being in question. With this amendment, there will

be clarity for the process going forward. Next, I'm introducing a resolution in support of a

permanent memorial or the survivors and victims of the

irish famine.

in the 19th century, in a span of three decades, the population of ireland declined by over 50%,

well some site a potato blight as a cause of the famine. They produce more than enough food to feed his people during

that time. The deaths of over 1 million irish people at the immigration

of many millions more must be

understood as a failure of

politics, of policy, and it is important we acknowledge its lessons. These lessons remain poignant and relevant today as food

insecurity threatens billions in the world, and millions in the united states.

It is also important we celebrate the essential contributions, the irish-american community has made to our city, and in

particular, to my district where irish culture and traditions have rooted and flourished to

the benefit of us all.

I would like to thank the entire irish famine committee, in particular john o'riordan for

their leadership in their communities, in our city, and on this memorial.

I would like to thank my

cosponsors, supervisor yee, matt haney, and aaron peskin.

The last I submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. Mr. President, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> okay.

Thank you, Madame Clerk.

>> Mr. President,. >> Mr. President, I want to be

added, I think it was an oversight.

We were supposed to be on there as well what supervisor might

just introduced, so for the closed charger information. >> thank you, supervisor. >> okay. Now we can go to the next item.

>> at this time, the board

welcomes public comment for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the

January 15th, 2019 board

meeting minutes. Item 43, the closed session on

existing litigation including

whether or not to go into closed

session, or on the possibility that the board continue this

item to a future date. Item 44 through 47, additionally

are also welcome to be commented on during public comment. Speakers using interpretation will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. If you like to display a

document on the overhead projector, please just place it under the projection and then remove it when you would like to return to live coverage of the

meeting. >> okay.

, come on up.

>> first and foremost, I would

like to offer our condolences to

our elected public defender from

all of us in san francisco.

The workers at the public

defender's office, and the

numerous supporters of jeff adachi.

Having said that, I am on a mission today to address a situation in san francisco at

555 santon street.

We have serious problems additively browned middle school

and others. We have supervisors who are

involved in all sorts of

shenanigans, but are not addressing seriously the

education of our children.

A principle, 25 years of teaching, one and a half years

at the school as a principal, ganged up on and the san francisco unified school

district did not give a hoot. This black woman got a nervous

breakdown, and normally I don't

like to interfere, I used to, and supervisor sandra fewer knows about this in the past, but I don't like to interfere,

but I was forced to.

I advise the principal to get a Dr. Dr.'s certificate where she

will be getting three weeks to look after herself, and I will

address the board of this school

district at about 6:00 P.M. >> thank you for your comments.

>> next speaker. >> hello. My name is denise.

I stand before you as a

representative of taz auto detailing.

The only company that meets the

requirements and mandated by S.F. Shasha charger.

Taz is the only vendor awarded detailing contracts, all the

others vendors being paid

through prop q. Authority. As vendors would violate city purchasing rules for contracts

over $400,000.

Taz is the only vendor with a contract being excluded by the

san francisco police department and other city departments through mar farley, the senior

purchaser in O.C.A. Office of contract administration, as well

as brian young, his fpd fleet

management.

Taz is the only qualified black car wash in san francisco that

is being discriminated against. It has been discriminated

against since 2014, to the present time.

Taz has filed a whistleblower

complaint in 2,016, in 2016 for

the same behavior, whereas essential shops forced taz to do horrible fittings, which is

illegal.

Sergeant rick yee engaged in bid-rigging along with city

purchasing departments.

Doing the bidding process for the carwash contract. We have been complaining about

this since the award date.

Under written policy that the city departments don't have to

abide by contract requirements

or road contracts does not require city departments to do

so, but taz, but to do business

with taz, although --

>> thank you, next speaker.

>> hello. I don't know if people are going to be claiming that they didn't believe me.

My word is pure gold, and I have all kinds of references to that, but my word is not enough about

me restoring tourism and bringing millions, if not more

of revenue to the city. They didn't offer me the chance to show more evidence and more witnesses as to the fact that I

really did restore tourism. They told me they didn't want to come because it is so filthy. They started talking to me saying they would come back next year because it is starting to look clean.

Then the tourist came back.

This is true, and I need to be able to verify with you that you

know this is truth, and ask you again, why do I go three days

and no one will give me a piece of bread in this city. Can I not, if I did bringing millions of dollars of revenue to the city, expect someone with give me a piece of bread once a

day and not go for the last three days or two days without giving me a piece of bread, but

today I got one piece of bread. I haven't eaten for several days

it just seems like I should have a right to demand that you treat me that well at least and don't

let me go hungry four days. You don't give a freak in a darn.

I -- it doesn't matter if I

earned that or not. I start taking it out of myself that I am maybe a worthless

piece of -- >> thank you.

Next speaker. >> hello. I am a resident of mount davidson at the edge of some park.

I want to ask for more resources

to manage the trees in our open spaces.

I want to give you an example. In 2012, a consultant did a tree

assessment of the trees in glen

canyon and recommended dozens of

trees be removed because they

are unhealthy, they are -- they

pose a risk for our injury damage and death because they

are along roads, sidewalks, and

trails in the canyon, and most of the trees in glen canyon are

in the park, but dozens of trees were also recommended for

removal west of o'shaughnessy

boulevard in district seven and on the soda property, which belongs to the unified school

district. trees are still there. Additional trees were

recommended for pruning. The trees haven't been pruned.

Sensitive city took over all the management for the street trees,

we should do the same for the trees in our open spaces, and if

you can find the funds and

resources to help wreck and park

mainly to manage these trees,

that would be really good for the environment where neighbors have already explained our

concerns for reducing the potential for catastrophic

wildfire in the canyon, and

within the past year, a tree along o'shaughnessy, not 25 feet

from me when I was standing

there just dropped a heavy

branch and then the following

month, a tree right next to the

trail england canyon --

>> thank you. Next speaker kick.

>> hello.

I am a resident of north beach place.

I am in district three, and I am directing Mr. Peskin. I notice you do wonderful work

in chinatown and over there by washington square. >> I will stop you and pause for a moment. He will direct your comments to

the board as a whole. >> okay. Also, there's things going on in north beach place that needs to be addressed.

When I used to live in pereira

hill, they use to shoot up the wall next door to my Dr.'s bedroom. I had gunfire outside of my dining room last night on bay street. There's a vacant unit that is

underneath me with a man is deceased.

I have talked to the management. And the police department has supported me on this. They will not put no plywood on

it or nothing to stop vagrants from coming into the unit and using it. Half the time it is used for

drugs are coming in and out to

rob people, and that was part of the procedure last night with the gunfire. They tried to rob somebody and

somebody shot at them.

So I wish that somebody would address this in district three, and he north beach place, that

ice -- because I have been there for five years. I was born and raised there.

I would like to see my complex

in that area more safely because it is north beach and fisher menchaca worth on the edge. When he sent me to come down

there and see about us. Thank you. >> if I just me through the

President, I go way back with your mom, as you know, but my

staff is actually coming in right there and will give you my card and take you to my office right now.

We will hook you up with the captain. >> thank you.

Next speaker.

>> Mr. President, Madame Clerk,

w. Oh, duffy san francisco.

The greatest problem of our time, "green book getting the oscar.

I'll go with the brown bridge machine, which is alive and

well. I'm speaking in more general terms about gun deaths. two thirds of gun deaths have occurred in areas like ours that are dominated by the democratic party. This party constituents get killed and the governments and

communities injure the carnage. When the shooters are brought to justice, it is democratic governments that have to pay for

the incarceration for the rest of their lives. If you recognize the cultural and physical location of the

carnage of gun deaths, the only

conclusion that you can draw is that the republican party has maintained dominance over the

united states governance since

November 22nd, 1963, not by being democratically elected,

but by killing us.

The national rifle association is the domestic terrorism of the republican party.

The rest I will submit.

>> thank you, next speaker,

please.

We have a contract to clean city cars.

We are the only contractor being denied work. We want the board of supervisors

to look into it. That is that what we are

requesting is that you look into the contract practice related to

the surrounding contract.

>> thank you for your comments.

Either any other members of the public would like to address the

boards during public comment? Please step up.

Mr. President?

>> so no other public comment?

Public comment is now closed. Madame Clerk, I'm sorry, please

call the next item. >> item 43 is the conference with the city attorney, it is a closed session for the board to

convene today, figure 26, 2019 for the purpose of conferring with and receiving advice from the city attorney regarding

existing litigation, regarding the american beverage association and california

retail association, and the california state outdoor

advertising association versus the city filed in the united

states district court for the northern district of california

on July 24th, 2015. >> okay. Colleagues, given that we have a

black history month closing

ceremony in the rotunda shortly,

I would like us to entertain a motion to continue this in

closed session to the meeting of tuesday, March 19th, 2019.

Is there a motion? >> so moved. >> okay. Moved by supervisor peskin.

Is there a second? Seconded by supervisor stefani. Without objection, this closed

session will be continued to the meeting of March 19th, 2019.

Madame Clerk, please call, no. Okay.

Madame Clerk, please call the for adoption without committee

reference calendar. >> items 44347 introduce for adoption without reference to committee.

These items are resolution.

Unanimous vote is required. Alternatively, any supervisor May require a resolution to go to committee.

>> okay. For item -- colleagues, are there any items you want to

sever?

>> I would like to sever an item

>> as if you. >> my apologies.

Yes, I have worked, I would like

to sever number 45. >> forty-five, okay.

Any other items? Seeing then, could we take items

44, 46, and did you call 47? >> yes.

>> I 47, same house same call, without objection, these resolutions are adopted

unanimously Madame Clerk, please

call eight and 45.

>> item 45 is a resolution to urge the san francisco public utilities commission to include in their preliminary report to

the mayor regarding pg and he a plan to build that renewable power facilities in city-owned property. >> okay. Supervisor viewer.

>> thank you. I have worked with the san francisco public utilities

commission and colleagues on amendments to strengthen this

resolution and I present those to you today. I understand that these amendments are nonsubstantive,

and do not require a continuance at the local agency formation commission meeting last week,

the body heard from stakeholders that even as he explored the immediate opportunity in front of us to acquire pg and the

distribution infrastructure, we also must continue to advance planning to build out local

clean and renewable power

resources on city-owned property these amendments as language about affordability as a priority for clean power S.F. And the importance of energy

independence given the actual

operational volatility, and clarified that the public utilities commission would be

developing a plan by the end of the 2019 calendar year to

present both to the board of supervisors.

And eager to see design and continue these important discussions.

Thanks to colleagues for

cosponsoring this resolution. >> okay.

Supervisor viewer, that is a motion to amend.

Can we have a second?

Seconded by supervisor ronen. Without objection, these

amendments are approved. Without objection, can we approve the resolution as

amended? Great. The resolution is approved

unanimously as amended.

Give me a second here. Okay, it looks like everything

is cleared.

Madame Clerk, is there -- >> in memoriam. >> please read the in memoriam. >> today's meeting will be

adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor peskin,

for the late gwendolyn hill, on behalf of supervisor stefani,

for the late Mr. San francisco,

on behalf of supervisor yee, the

late michael palmer, and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, the board to being deeply aggrieved by the passing

of the great lion of equality

before the law, the late, great

public defender, jeff adachi. >> colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madame Clerk, is there any other for the business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you very much.