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Not a conservative issue. This is not a liberal issue, this is not a moderate issue. This is not a progressive issue. This is a moral and financial imperative. To that end, supervisor cohen, supervisor breed and myself serve as members of the Democratic County Central Committee and it was our colleague keith boraka that issued it to divest. That passed unanimously. Thank you keith for that leadership. Thank you to bay. Org, fossil free sf, indian people organized for change, next gen america. Sf berniec. R. A. Ts. And last night with incredible testimony from victor who talked about the way the investment industry works, about score cards, out of the half a billion dollars that the San Francisco Employee Retirement system has invested in fossil fuels, over 20 of it has not yielded a positive return to the fund. Just what supervisor cohen was saying, for five years or more. Thats what we call a bad investment. That is a bad investment. This decision can be made as a fiduciary decision and moral imperative as we did around guns and ammunition and tobacco. It makes prudent sense for the retirement system to divest. I want to shout out the commissioners gathered here who took the very bold step and at the department of commission of the environment last evening voted for full divestment within 180 days. Which is a strong demand. Thank you commissioners. With that, i would like to bring up isabelle sezie who is a young leader, a grassroots leader and thank you isabelle for being here and thank you for your work. Good morning relatives. I come from the northern tribes. Im 23 yearsold and live on occupied territory. I want to first pay acknowledge to the people of the land we do stand on because indigenous voices, indigenous rights and sovereignty is important to remember and acknowledge. I am a member of idle no more sf bay. Sfd fund dapo coalition and defending mother earth treaty. I want to start by saying we welcome the pension board and seiu Public Sector members to join our ranks as water protectors. The vote to defund is critical. Its critical to protecting the water. The divestment vote and movement in San Francisco has been initiated and fostered by long standing grassroots, indigenous advocacy throughout Turtle Island and mobilizing groups that have fought long and hard for this moment today. We have seen and continue to see the violation of indigenous rights and the threats to our water. All of the sacred systems of life. The standoff at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota Access pipeline is not over and its just the beginning. To show that the many other Standing Rocks around the world that we are not afraid to stand up to big oil and to divest. The assault on mother earth is real. The Climate Crisis is real. And all who are living in those yet to be born need clean air, clean water and clean soil. And we need to remember that. We all need clean air, clean water and clean soil to live a healthy and sufficient life here on mother earth. And i want to thank the San Francisco board for hearing us out and responding to the frontline call to divest from fossil fuel projects and the investments. And last, i want you all to know that my generation, the next seven generations and all our non human relatives, we thank you for this and we will be completely relived of any hardships and i send my best regards to the vote in favor for us to divest completely of fossil fuel projects and infrastructure, expansions and any investments because we all know we need to keep it in the ground. Keep the oil in the ground, keep fossil fuels in the ground and divest. Thank you. applause thank you for those profound words. Before i introduce the final speaker, i want to say that all aspects of our government minus the sfers board, at least until 1 00 this afternoon, are on the same page and i want to shout out our City Attorney who has initiated some of the most Ground Breaking litigation against some of the largest fossil fuel polluters in the United States of america. And the reason i bring that up, because as cities and states start this kind of litigation, these investments become more and more risky. These become stranded assets and i speak to you not only as a member of the board of supervisors but as a member of the California Coastal commission, where last year more emergency permits were applied for because of sea level rise, king tides, beaches being buried under the sea, than any previous year. As we just heard, this is real. We would not be here without the strong support of labor advocates. Sciu 101 have led on the fight and they take it personally because many are vested pensions invested in the risky big oil assets. Thank you joseph bryant, thank you Martha Hawthorne. With that, my friend joseph bryant. Who is ready to divest in fossil fuels . We are were not in the chamber. I want to hear noise. Who is ready to divest in dirty fossil fuels . We are thats right. Im the regional Vice President of sciu 101. We represent in San Francisco over 15,000 city workers who are vested in the citys pension fund and were urging the board of retirement to divest in dirty fossil fuels now. I want to give a huge shout out to everyone who has played an Important Role in this, its been a village that has come together to help move this. Thank you former supervisor ovolose, supervisor peskin, supervisor cohen, president breed. And the commission on the environment for your resolution pass last evening. Thank you very much and i would be remissed without acknowledging our retirees here who have broken their backs to ensure this is a priority for sciu 101, particularly david page, Melissa Hawthorne and many others here who have led the fight. With this, we have reached the point of insanity. Its a bad investment. Were losing money on this investment and destroying our communities and we still have to spend our time, energy and effort here to fight for it. What is going on. This is absolutely insane. With all the challenges were facing right now from the federal level, from throughout this country, were having to spend our time in the most progressive city in the country to fight for a very basic concept, to do the right thing, divest in fossil fuels. Were here for that and were not just asking to say do it eventually. We want a timeline. We want something real. We need something real. So please join us today sciu 101, again adamant supporter, well be up there in the chamber causing whatever ruckus we need to to ensure it happens. Thank you very much. All right. Lets keep it real, lets make it real at 1 00 p. M. , at 1145 Market Street on the sixth floor is the meeting. I hope all of us will be there sitting in the audience ready to testimony. And with that, Martha Hawthorne leading us in a few chants. San francisco, the most beautiful city on the planet. Let me take a moment to introduce myself. My name is kimmy, and you listen to me every morning on the morning dream team. It is a pleasure to be here. There are events that i do, but theres events that mean a lot to me. Im born and raised in San Francisco San Francisco. Im a Bernal Heights baby, courtland kid, so when i hear that Galileo High School is not only the city champs but the state champ, it makes me extra excited. And when president london breed asked me to emcee this event, its clear theres no place i would rather be than right here right now. So we are here to honor you guys. The focus is on you. We are so proud of you, and on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, can we just all say congratulations . Cha yes. Give these young men a standing ovation for all the times you were tired, you wanted to quit, they didnt you couldnt do it, they didnt believe in you. What are these guys from San Francisco going to do . Theyre going to bring home the ship. See, bring home the ship. So we have a lot of people here to celebrate all your success, and it is my pleasure, i would love to bring up our first speaker. We have the incredible Vice President of the school board, stevon cooke, please. It is such an honor to be here to represent the San Francisco Unified School District at city hall, but i think because the walls are lit with purple, its somebody else today. Whose house . Whose house . We have the state champion ghouse to that because these incredible student athletes, as a previous speaker said, won the city championship, but took it all the way to win the 6 a championship state title. I would like to take a moment to recognize some leaders from the school district. We have president hydromendoza mcdonald today, our Athletic Director for the school district, don collins, is also here. And the principal of Galileo High School has joined us. Dr. Matthews, our superintendent, wanted to be here, but unfortunately, his father passed this weekend, so if we can keep his family in our hearts and our prayers as they go through this difficult time. This is a really incredible occasion. The first time in the history of our city we can gather in honor of a state football champion. So welcome to city hall, congratulations, Galileo High School. Lets do it again next year. [applause] now, as you know, you have a very famous alumni who went out of her way to put this together for you. Shes sitting here in the front row. Shes been here for all the right reasons, and we all trust her, and if it wasnt for her, i wouldnt be standing here. So ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for the one and only president london breed. [applause] the hon. L. Breed all right, all right. Its time for a real celebration, and let me start by saying that galileo is always making history. When i went to galileo, with tyrell and dari, and i dont have any glasses on, so i cant see anyone else back there, but it was the first time in the history of the city and county of San Francisco that there was ever a threepeat, where we won turkey day three years in a row. First time in the history. No one, no one has ever broken that record. Galileo is known for always having an incredible football team. And i was there turkey day when you guys beat mission. Now i love all the kids, but missions Basketball Team was here a couple years ago, and i had to give it to them because they were the first to bring a basketball state champion to San Francisco, and the galileo lions are the first to bring a state championship to San Francisco. [applause] the hon. L. Breed thanks to the leadership of coach huynh, who is a lot older than i am, but we went to galileo at the same time, a at some poico ago when galileo won, we honored them here at the board of supervisors, and what is so incredible about what you did, the hard work, the team work, the commitment, the consistency, the drive. When you were out there playing turkey day, i just felt like i was a teenager again, routing for the teams that i used to root for when i was a kid. I was so proud, i was so excited, and i was so incredibly grateful that you basically brought the galileo spirit back to the hearts of so many generations of galileo lions. So youre not just inspiring the people you go to school with, youre inspiring the entire city. This is the first time that a school, not just a public school, but a private school, any school in the history of this city, they have never done what the galileo lions have done with the state championship. [applause]. The hon. L. Breed and there are so many people here to celebrate. They are alumni, they are family, they are friends. This is all for you, but i have a surprise, one that you probably didnt anticipate. Now, you know, when you win the superbowl, what do you get for winning the superbowl . You won a state championship. Youre getting rings for the state championship. [applause]. The hon. L. Breed youre getting rings, yes. Yes. So im so excited. Youre getting rings. Youre also getting, which is probably not as exciting, certificates of honor from me personally [applause]. The hon. L. Breed from our assessorrecorder, carmen true, whos here. And the point is i was when at Galileo High School, the reason why i even thought about going to college is because there were so many amazing people who supported me, who encouraged me, who looked out for me and who ensured that i stayed the course. You all have inspired so many people, and youve got to continue to work and continue to stay the course. Here in the city and county of San Francisco, we celebrate and we honor you tonight. And the real work continues the next day when you study and youve got to make sure you go pass those tests. We are counting on you. We are counting on you to be the next generation of leaders. We are counting on you all to go to college. We want to see great things out of each and every one of you, and it is on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, truly, my honor, as an alumni of galileo, to be here today to celebrate with you and your family and friends. Thank you so much for being here, and at this time, i am going to issue the certificates of honor and ask am i . I know we have some more speakers here or we can do it at the end. Well do it at the end . Okay. So at this time, im going to turn it back over to kimmy, and we didnt have the rings tonight because you have to do what . Give your ring size, but youre going to have rings, so i want you to wear those rings with pride and show them what the galileo lions are made of. Thank you, everyone, for being here. [applause]. Once again, thank you president london breed. You guys are getting rings. Whoo, you guys are getting rings. Now, with every team, you have to have a leader, and every leader has a story. In this era, were talking about dreamers and people with dreams. I bet you 5 at no point did coach huynh ever dream that he would be sitting here in city hall with state champions at his fingertips. You think so . Coming from vietnam at the age of seven, making his way up, coming over here, and look at the young men that youve inspired, coach. It is time for us to honor you. San francisco, get on your feet for your championship coach, coach huynh. [applause] i didnt know i was supposed to talk, so i got this prepared. Actually, now, before i speak, we have a gift for london. Ill bring it down to you. We have the boys signing this for you, uhhuh. And we have this for you. There you go. [applause]. All right. Its thank you for for this. I was telling them earlier, when we came in 2013, we didnt have this. We had upstairs in a quick meeting, we had a picture here. When i first walked in, and i saw this, i was impressed. Are you guys impressed . I just want to say, for me, as a coach, youre right. When people ask me, did you ever think youll win a state championship . No, not in my lifetime. I thought i could help build a program leading up to the state championship. I knew we had a chance to win the city championship, but to move on two more games and win the state championship i had a player who always asked me after the day is over, how do you feel, coach . I feel excited. Big norcal game, im excited. State championship, i have no words. And its the fact that you guys, you dont feel it yet, but you guys are part of a tradition at gal, a part of a family at gal. You guys feel it, right . [applause]. And its not its not going to leave, right . Nobodys taking this away from you guys, so as a coach, i do appreciate being a part of you guys winning the state this year. So im blessed in that way, all right . And other than that, theres nothing to say. Honestly, i think well do it again next year. So you guys go to class and take care of your class academics. Thats it. Thank you. Thank you. [applause]. Thanks, coach. Now, you guys speak football, right . And we represent the red and gold all day. 49ers. So who better else to give you a celebratory message than a person whos actually represented that team. Galileo high school, the one and only San Francisco 49er legend dennis brown. [applause]. Wow. Did you say rings . You guys are getting rings in high school . Wow. I dont know i dont know about you, but listening to miss breed speak, i was getting fired up, cause she was talking football, and she was talking pride. And i think i mean, ive come out here every year to be a part of this. And i tell the young men, the Young Athletes every year, now youre champions, and a lot comes with being champion a champion. Folks are looking up to you. Your community, theyre looking up to you. Everywhere you go now, you are now, you guys first time you guys have won the state championship, correct . You guys are now role models. Understand that. A lot of athletes dont get that part. You are now a role model. Everything you do in the city, in school, at home, everybodys looking up to you now. Huge responsibility. Congratulations to you, but understand, theres a lot of responsibility, and everything you did to win that state championship, youve got to do it in the classroom. All that dedication, all that extra work, youve got to do it. Thats whats got to happen. Now, i wear my ring with pride. Everywhere i go, i tell people, i am a former San Francisco 49er, but i am a champion, and i carry myself as a champion. So this day is fun, but understand you guys are role models, and everyones looking up to you. So congratulations, thank you from the San Francisco 49ers, thank you, london for having us out here. Thank you, london. Understa understand, youve got a responsibility now, and lets do it again. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, and its at this time may i please call the captains of the Championship Team to the podium, please. [applause]. All right. Whos going first . Talk to your team. [applause]. Im not good at speech, so i would like to say thank you for inviting us here, and thank you coach mark for the dedication for four years, saying i want to be a quarter back. Coach black, i hate you so much on the field sometimes, but deep in my heart, i love you. I love you so much, coach. Especially you guys, i love you guys. And keep it a secret, youll always be my family. Baseball. And yeah, thank you so much. [applause]. All right. All right. All right. I say its been fun, a lot of fun. I didnt think wed make it to state, but then i saw, i realized all the talent we had, some of it. And thank you for inviting us here. Its very nice. Ive never been here, so its a good experience. And thank you to my coaches for letting me play. We did all the hard work through my four years here, and it was fun. Thank you. [applause]. All right. These four years have been really fun. I never like, never thought i would get here to this point. I was, like, being a wide receiver, because my freshman year, i want a lineman. Now, its really new to me. And then, i just slowly transitioned over, and i never knew that it was like, this can happen. I like, we won a championship my freshman year, and i really wanted to win it, like, either my junior or senior year, too, but i never knew we could go, like, farther than that. Okay. Thank you. [applause]. First of all, i want to say thank you for inviting us. Also, i have fun this four years. I never knew it would come this fast, but also, id like to thank my whole team for actually showing me what brothers are. But in my freshman year, i wasnt doing so good, and my grades werent so good. Then, my coaches, they motivated me and said i couldnt play because of my grades. So i decided my sophomore year to do better. Also my team, they are one of a kind. They are one of a kind. They put what happens in their lives for football, and thats what makes our team special. Were all different, but when we come on the field, we all act like one, so thank you. [applause] [ inaudible ] the captains, theyll look back on this one day i spoke in there one time. So its at this point, we are going to award the special certificates, so at this time, i need a little help. President london breed, would you give me a hand, as well as Assembly Woman carmen chiu, mr. Brown, hydro mendoza, as well as Council Member cooke, weve got a plan. Sure. Carmen chiu and steven hsu are up here so handout these certificates. So im going to go in alphabetical order. The first name ive got is abdul absahid. Joel ali. Andr andres andre alexander. Andres reese bickart. Copy callantalla. Leon leonel dujardin. Ronnie fox. Jackie guo. Antonio haro. Zayru hayes. Oh, he had to check im sorry. Brandon ho. Andy ix. Pedro jaime alas. Dason king. Joh johan lacayo. Eric larreynaga. Roberto lee. Brian lee. Kingsley mai. Max miles. Jiovani molina. Donny nguyen. Rafael oropeza. You are next, adrian poot. Thomas santos. Yarvell smith. Matthew tu. Kyree coleman. Oh, cesar garcia. Cant forget about you. And of course coach mark huynh. Marcus blackshire, jr. , is your offensive coordinator. Steven carlton is your head coach, and daniel lynch, please come to the stage, assistant coach. And of course, galileo principal, principal bernal. G. You guys feeling good . Give yourselves a round of applause. But before we get out of here, lets give our time to the woman of the hour, the one who made this all happen, your president i love how that sounds london breed. [applause]. The hon. L. Breed just a few remarks to close it out. Again, thank you each and every one of you for being here. Thank you, mr. Brown for being here, thank you to derek brown for all the work he did to bring it together. Thank you so much. [applause]. So youre getting rings, you got certificates, and tonight, city hall will be lit in purple and gold in your honor. [applause] the hon. L. Breed whose house . Whose house . Whose house . Lets get fired up and ready to go. Thank you, everybody, for being here this evening. Have a wonderful night. [applause]. Bayview. A lot discussion how residents in San Francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and theres not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the Arts Community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. Nonprofits cant afford to operate here. My name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in Housing Insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. My name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to 10,000 a most. And chad of the arts project pursue. The evolution of the orientation the focus on Art Education between children and Patrol Officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run. Im the nonprofit manager for the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute Technical Assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. Snooechlz is rob the executive director and cofounder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of San Francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know theyll not renew our lease the last years the city with the nonprofit displacement Litigation Program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and Technical Assistance. Fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around 40,000 a year now 87,000 taylors dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota Street Project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a Nonprofit Organization National Anthem and turned out the Northern California fund they accepted us into the Real Estate Program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the Litigation Fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. Which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didnt know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits Displacement Mitigation Program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a 946,000 grant that is provided through the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and thats going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. The purpose of the Organization Trust to stabilize the arts in San Francisco working with local agency i go like the Northern California platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property were sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years well renting 10,000 square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. The loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been weve had tremendous support from the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. Our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as were doing the work weve been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. The single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. It has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. With the Economic Development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of Economic Workforce Development oewd. Com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit Mitigation Program and the Sustainability Initiative and find their information through Technical Assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, january 30, 2018. Madame kle, please call the roll. Thank you, madame president. [roll call] cohen not present

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