Because it is petty bone. It has that weird look because it was framed. It had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. We had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. It wasnt a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. We have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. That i could donate myself. From theyre, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well . The historic moments in San Francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [ ] it brought all of the punks on the web west coast to San Francisco to see this show. The sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to San Francisco. They skipped l. A. And they skipped most of the media centres. San francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. Their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. We were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. And the nuns were also asked to open the show. It was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. It was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l. A. , obviously. To San Francisco to see this show. There are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. It was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. It was also, the pistols last show. In a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. The city of San Francisco didnt necessarily support punk rock. [ ] last, but certainly not least is a jello be opera. They are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. If we are blaming anybody in San Francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. There you go. We had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought that he thought was obscene that had been put up. The city of San Francisco has come around to embrace its musicians. When they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. That was, at in a way, and appreciation from the city of San Francisco for the musical legends. I feel like a lot of people in San Francisco dont realize what resources there are at the library. We had a film series, the s. F. Punk film series that i put together. It was nearly sold out every single night. People were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. It is free. Everything in the library is free. It it is also a Film Producer who has a film coming out. Maybe in 2018 about crime. What is the title of it . It is called San Francisco first and only rock n roll movie. Crime, 1978. [laughter] when i first went to the Art Institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. I did not know i would turn into a punk singer. I got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. One of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. I was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. I did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. They are in the San Francisco history centres s. F. Police department records. There are so many Different Things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i dont have a library card. Ive never been there. They need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. The people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. And it started with this man right here today. [applause] today we reclaim our space here in the tender loin and raise the rainbow flag. And my deepest appreciation to Deborah Walker. Without her support and leadership, this would have never happened. [applause] and finally, our next speaker for lending her support for this project, for championing the needs of h. I. V. Positive, the transgender, lesbian, gay bisexual communities, please help us welcome the one true queen of San Francisco, our mayor, london breed. [applause] thank you so much, brian. And what an amazing story. Its great to hear. When i think about, you know, sadly some of the discriminatory practices that existed in our country for so many years, i definitely relate to those challenges and we all know the history of this country and how so many people, the African American community and the discrimination in housing, the Lgbt Community and discrimination as it relates to housing and that just shows us that we have work to do. Because when we come together, when we come together for a common purpose, we can accomplish anything. And it also tells us that names make a difference. I mean, the rainbow flag apartments and the iconic rainbow flag and what it has meant to our Lgbt Community. When you come to San Francisco, and you see this iconic flag that Gilbert Baker created in 1978, you know you can be safe. You know there is a place for you. And im just so proud of San Francisco. In fact, last week when we raised the rainbow flag at city hall, it was my first raising of the rainbow flag for lgbt pride month in San Francisco as mayor and i have been to those flag raisings many years before. Itself was so special. Because there were so many people who had pride in the city and so many people who were there who were not lgbt. So many folks from various communities celebrating what we know is important in our city. Is to bring people together. To provide opportunities and to make sure in the process, as we deal with many of the city challenges, we dont leave anyone behind. I want to thank bill jones for being here today and thank you so much for, you know, just creating a safe space for people. What you did, you may have thought im providing an opportunity. Your opportunity has led to not only thousands of people being housed, but other organizations that have changed and shaped the lives of so many people in the Lgbt Community and it will for generations to come. You started a movement with the rainbow flag apartments and now today the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments. How amazing is that to do that in San Francisco . And now that were just talking about housing and Housing Affordability and opportunities, im really proud that in this past budget, one of the first things we were able to do in listening to the blgts community and people who came to my office to meet with me, to talk about many of the disparities that existed around housing with our Lgbt Community, we were able to add to our budget an additional 3 million to help with subsidies and support. 2 million [applause] 2 million specifically for trans people in San Francisco because we know that they are 18 more likely to experience homelessness, more than anyone else in the homeless population. [sirens] we have to be deliberate in how we invest our resources and how we continue to provide opportunities for people to come together. [sirens] because that is whats [sirens] having an emergency is all about. [laughter] but the fact is, when we think about pride, yes we can think about our incredible Lgbt Community. We can think about inclusiveness. But having pride in our city so critical to the success of our city. Its about bringing people from all walks of life together, to celebrate, celebrate an opportunity to make us feel like we belong and we hear and you will hear us and we will be loud and we will be proud. Thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] and with that, im going to do what mayors do best. Im going to declare it somebodys day. [laughter] we know that just a few years ago, unfortunately, we lost Gilbert Baker and we also know that his legacy and the work that he has done in creating this incredible symbol will not only live on in San Francisco, it lives on throughout the world. It will live on in the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments and it will also live on in his estate, established in his memory to do the kinds of Amazing Things that will continue to advance the rites and love and support of the Lgbt Community. So with that, id like to present this proclamation oh, to you. Come on up. [laughter] hi. Thank you so much. Introduce yourself. Im charlie beal, the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. And so on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, today we are going to declare it Gilbert Baker estate day in San Francisco. [applause] thank you for your work to continue his legacy. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much for being here today. Congratulationss to the residents who were so fortunate enough to be here and a little secret a couple of years probably about 15 years ago, during the pride celebration, i had a really great time during a party on the rooftop. [laughter] and i remember going back the next year and there was no party uhhuh. Reporter i dont know what happened, but i hope what this means is a chance to celebrate pride, San Franciscostyle at the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments in the heart of San Francisco have a wonderful time, everyone. Thank you. [applause] thank you, mayor. Thank you so much, brian. Thank you everybody coming here today. Again, my name is charlie beal. Im the manager of the Gilbert Baker estate. I really am just one of his best friends who, when he died unexpectedly a little over two years ago, we tried to pick up the pieces and had no idea in a way what we were getting ourselves in for. But we found out a lot of things about gilbert. We found out that he had a memoir hidden away on his hard drive. Its now published. And available just this past week. In that book, he writes a lot about San Francisco. And i learned so much about him from San Francisco. I came here with him many times. I came here i was here, the art director in the movie milk and we were looking at research and all thesen n banners from the old pictures in the 1970s and i sent pictures to gilbert and i said do you know anything about those and he said, girlfriend, i made those banners. Well, come out here and make them again because we have to make them again for the movie. My husband vincent here is also very active in the estate. We came out and made the flag for when we rise and ive held the end of the banner in more marches for Gilbert Baker than i can count don my than i can count on my fingers and toes. The heart of the rainbow flag is here. Im from new york and new york, you know, stonewall is our heartbeat of the gay movement there, but here it is the rainbow flag. The one thing he wrote about in the book that always gets me choked up because he talks about that time he was out walking with cleave and artie and harvey milk was saying we need a new symbol and he was walking in this area over here and he looked up at the American Flag and he thought about the power of the American Flags and what he had seen in the bicentennial two years before. And then a while after that, after thinking we need a flag to begin with, he and cleave were out dancing and looked at the diversity of the crowd and he describes in the book about how, in San Francisco, you just have everybody of every race, creed, color, type, sexuality, gender and he saw that and the swirling colored lights and he just saw a rainbow and that is how that experience that is the genesis of that symbol that we see around the world. And at that moment, he writes very passionately that the drag queens and the young transpeople at stonewall would finally have a symbol of their own. So, he felt like he had fulfilled a purpose and a cause in doing that. It still lives on. Were lucky here in San Francisco. We see rainbow flags up and down the street. I just came from new york. Stonewall 50. They cant stop putting rainbows up in new york. Theyre everywhere. My god. It is pretty incredible. We can never forget that if you tried to unfurl a rainbow flag in the middle of red square right now, youd get arrested. Im happy that in taiwan, you can get married. But there are so many countries around the world where you cant even love another person openly. And when they do try to proclaim their visibility the way they do it is by hoisting one of these. And when you are in a country and visiting overseas and not quite sure if you really belong and suddenly you see a cafe with the rainbow flag, you know youve found a safe space. Brian, i thank you so much for doing this, for creating safe spaces for people with h. I. V. , for dedicating to this to gilbert. It means so much to me and so much to the estate. Id like to thank you and San Francisco. Thank you so much. [applause] our next speaker embodies what it means to be an ally. Im more of a coconspirator. Im like somebody whos down there fighting hard next to you. And learning how to be an ally takes poo em who embody it and show you the way. And our next speaker i think that is really who he is as a person. And so were really lucky to have him as our supervisor. In distribution six. Please welcome matt haney. [applause] thank you, brian. Thank you, mayor breed. Isnt this a wonderful day . This is an extraordinary thing to be celebrating the Gilbert Baker rainbow apartments here on larkin street in the tender loin. I want to give a special thank you to you, brian. I can tell you that during the budget process, there was nobody who works harder than Brian Basinger and the q foundation to make sure that everybody who is lgbt have a safe and secure place to call home. Thank you, brian. Give it up for brian and he leadership. Im also very excited that we have this flag here in the tender loin. The tender loin is among, along with lower pope, the oldest lgbt neighborhood, not just here in San Francisco, but across the country. It is a neighborhood where comptons cafeteria riots, the first ever documented collective uprising of lgbt people in the country took place in 1966 and it is a neighborhood where the comptons transgender cultural district, the nations firsts officially recognized cultural transgender neighborhood is here today. Its a place that, for so many years, during some of the worst times in San Francisco when the socalled public decency laws prevented them from being themselves. But tenderloin was an area they were provided respite from prosecution and harassment. The raising of this flag and the rededication of these apartments for Gilbert Baker, the man responsible for creating this beautiful symbol, reaffirms the importance and contributions ofpt community, to the tenderloin, to the city of San Francisco and to the world. The Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments is one of the most important gateways to the tender loin. And from city hall to the comptons district, we envision a place where transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, h. I. V. Positive and every stripe of the rainbow lives in a liberated life, free from oppression, free from fear of violence and secure in knowing theyre receiving equitable access to shelter, housing, jobs and services that we know that they deserve. One of most shameful things i recently saw is that the Trump Administration is now saying that this flag cannot be displayed on embassies around the world and when they pushed back, when they resort to the worst of it. When they try to deny peoples identity and humanity, that is when we have to celebrate this flag and what it represents, even more. [applause] thank you all for being here. Thank you veritas. Thank you to mayor breed. To the q foundation. And thank you to everyone who made this possible. There is a small group of us who are survivors who have been through it all, from the depths of the aids epidemic, homelessness, all kinds of struggles. And i was thinking about it a couple of week ago. I said, you know, how many people have really risen from that experience and gone on to do wonderful things and to make meaningful contributions to society. Really i was looking at who are my peers in that experience. And one of them is up next for us who is a longtime friend and ally of ours from the office of congresswoman nancy pelosi, please welcome gary mccoy. [applause] thank you, brian. This is very exciting for me personally to be out here today. I also have friends that lived here that were their housing was alsos subsidized and h. I. V. Positive and really meant the life to them. On behalf of the congresswoman and speaker of the house nancy pelosi, have a letter id like the read from her. Friends, we proudly gather today with city officials, Community Leaders and the q found diagnosis dedicate this Historic Building as the Gilbert Baker rainbow flag apartments. Referencing the importance to San Francisco and the lgbt communities. It is my regret that i could not be with you today. Just a few blocks from here, Gilbert Baker created the now iconic rainbow flag by hand and it was outside of this building where the flag proudly flew. It is my privilege to represent San Francisco with its large Lgbt Community. Were a city that thrives because of its diversity and take great pride in the innumerable contributions that the Lgbtq Community make to our great city and country. By hanging the rainbow flag once again, we affirm our connection to the acceptance of the Lgbtq Community. We honor gilberts memory and legacy by dedicating this building in his name. When gilbert created the rainbow flag, he generously chose not to trademark it because he recognized its symbolism and knew it should be accessible to everyone to show their pry. This month, millions of lgbtq americans march through the streets with pride, celebrating the beautiful diversity and vibrancy of the Lgbtq Community, rallying around gilberts contribution. Last month, House Democrats and i proudly passed this act to fully end legal discrimination against lgbtq americans. This month, we celebrate this momentum establishment and the generations of leaders, activists and allies such as gilbert who made it happen. As we reflex on this buildings history and gilberts place in it, it brings me great pleasure to say that 324 larkin street is once again a symbol of the love that we have for all people. Best regards, nancy pelosi. [applause] our next speaker is a person of considerable distinction. In 1969, he was the first single adult in america to adopt a child. The fact that he did that as a gay man is really profound. He was also or tainted by mayor Gavin Newsome and has the distinction of marrying the most number of couples during the summer of love at city hall. He is the original owner of the rainbow flag apartments. He was the one who put up the name rainbow flag, who put up the flag itself and also as i said before, he was the one that gave us a chance. He said yes whenever other land lord that we approached in six monthses said no. He then said thats a security come of 3900. [laughter] i did not rob a 7eleven, but i got really creative. And that single act of generosity, that single act of saying yes changed our lives. And hopefully [applause] that we have dedicated the last 15 years to paying that back. [voice breaking] phil jones. [cheering] [honking] its nice to be home again. [laughter] i know you guys are so hot. Can you get in the shade, at least . I feel so sorry for you. Yeah. I got i would like the give you a little history of it. This whole block was owned by hastings law school. And they wanted to tear down the buildings and build an extension of the law school. The city said no, we need the housing. So, they sold this apartment to me and two others on mcallister side to somebody else. I know how you feel. [laughter] it is an emotional thing. So the first thing i did, i painted the building and put in new carpets and everything and the tenants were worried sick that i was going to raise their rent. And then i did something absolutely horrible. [rustling noise] [applause] i did this. [cheering] [applause] and so then the tenants wrote in this little neighborhood paper. Perhaps the greatest indication of the change overtaking the west block in the wake of the change of landlords is that the Apartment Building at 324 street is now called the rainbow flag apartments. Its a pretty silly name for a building with lousy wiring [laughter] i love that. The flag that you see here didnt always just fly from the fire escape. I erected a 50foot flagpole for one reason. That building wasnt built yet. City hall were putting roller skates under it so in case of an earthquake it could roll back and forth. The museum was the library it was a library, right. And so they were changing that and they were building a new library. So i was in this construction and was bound and determined that that flag would fly higher than anything else. And we got it up. Four stories and 50 feet and i knew it would be photographed and i wanted us to be a part of what was happening at the civic center. So, thats how that happened. [applause] just one more thing. The flag didnt have an ending when i took it down. Oh, i sold the building to an arab. The first thing he did, took off the letters. And i took down the flag. So i gave the flag to the university of pacific. They had a gaylesbian alliance there. And the flag disappeared. They found it later in a latrine covered with urine. Well that just when that word got out, hundreds and hundreds of students in pacific had a rally and thousands of people in stockton came down to protest what had happened to that flag. So it now hangs in the Rainbow Resource and study room. Which i donated to university pacific. I copied the one that is in the library here. So, anyway, i feel vindicated. I feel absolutely wonderful about this. Thank you so much. [applause] next up is one of my personal heroes. One of the National Leaders for lesbiangaytransgender and one of the architects of marriage equality, kate kendall. Good afternoon. Im going to stay the obvious. Is this not the best of San Francisco right here . [applause] i mean when i came to San Francisco in 1994 from utah, i fell like i had arrived in oz. And to see to hear different languages spoken on muni, to walk down the street and see a diversity of the beautiful humanity of this city just meant so much to me and i know weve had some challenges recently in recent years. People have given a knock to San Francisco. Its not the same place it used to be. The mayor talked about the challenges. But you know what . This is who San Francisco is. This is who San Francisco is. And i want to really do a shoutout to Brian Basinger. So brian [applause] brian, at huge personal sacrifice, that very few of us and i mean us would have ever made has made the leaves and the futures of thousands of people richer with dignity and depth in a way they could have never imagined. I adore you. I love you. Thank you for everything youve done. [applause] and then finally, i just want us to move forward as i see ken will be up here in a second and Deborah Walker and so many people that i know here. Were in a perilous moment. We all get that. We were in a toxic moment. Were in a dangerous moment. Were in a moment where so many communities are terrified. But you know what . This is an example of the muscle memory we have of how we get through a moment like this. San francisco has been through this before many, many times. We know how to traverse this and the way we traverse this is by locking arms and saying no way, mother [beep] youre not getting through them without coming through us. And that whew that is what this moment demands and what typifies brians leadership. Im so happy youre all here. Happy to look arms with you. Thank you so much. [applause] so, the history of the closet did not let any light in. There was no light to illuminate our history. So much of it went unwritten. Unrecorded, unacknowledged and unknown. Our elders are our historians. Theyre the ones that keep the flame alive, that tell us how it was back in the day and teach us how to navigate the world with grace, dignity and a little bit of fearness. Fierceness. We are so lucky to have one of our own to come and tell the tales and my Dear Colleague and friend, ken jones. [applause] thank you so much for inviting me here this afternoon to talk about the rainbow flag and to let you know that your dues are due. All protest movements rely on symbols, boycotts, strikes, sitins and flags. This is an everyday complacency and forces us to think. Today that flag embraces us and covers us. It keeps our Fragile Coalition together and moving forward and you know what . As a movement, were old enough, mature enough and wise enough to know that that rainbow flag is our symbol, our hope and our future that speaks volumes. It says that Fragile Coalitions are possible. That we can Stay Together and work together. That we can make this a better place not only for those who are witnessed now, but for all those who will walk these paths in the future. That rainbow flag represents our membership and belonging in the community of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender, intersex queer, questioning, two spirited and our allies. So look at your neighbor and tell em your dues are due. One of the more importantless important lessons ive learned on this journey is legislation, proclamations and executive orders, they cannot and they do not change peoples hearts. We change peoples hearts not through any herculean interventions, no we change peoples hearts when we are present, when we are authentic and when we are transparent and those are your dues to be present, authentic and transparent. You see, im getting old and im getting tired and im getting weary. Of trusting the system for the change that is not happening. The change that is not coming. The change that is not on the way. No doubt about it, your dues are due until our 8 and 10yearolds stop taking their lives because they cant deal with the bullying. Our dues are due. Until our transgender people of color can walk up and down any streets in this nation, unharmed. Your dues are due. Until all lgbtq folks are no longer attacked on the streets of San Francisco, your dues are due. [applause] your dues are due until we cross that finish line. Arm in arm together under our rainbow flag. Your dues are due. Thank you. [applause] so, our event today happens to coincide with the big meeting at the board of supervisors. So, rafael mandelman, has anyone seen him . He is not here. Ok. There is a good chance he was going to get stuck at the board of supervisors. So im sure yay good job. [laughter] so many of you know me. Some of you have read about me. I have a reputation. That ive earned and im proud of. [laughter] some of its true and most of its true. [laughter] so ive wanted this day to happen for over 10 years and almost everybody at city hall knows about it because it is all i talk about. For 10 years. Im going to get that flag back one day. Im getting that name back one day. And so credit needs to go where credit is due. And, you know, really want to thank the workers of veritas who helped put this together. You know, especially danielle washington. Whew [applause] there was a true spirit of joy in this. That you could see it in peoples faces and the wae they showed up to support this. It was genuine and, if i was the boss, id give them all a big pat on the back. And here to do that is the new owner of this building. [applause] thank you, brian. Really appreciate this. Im so honored and humbled to be here today representing the veritas team and all of our partners as well, too. Its really touching to meet bill, the original owner of this building i thought it was a great opportunity to rekindle and look at what he was able to do with that photo of draping the rainbow flag across this building. We had no idea that this building was where the rainbow flag was part of its home as well, too. If you look up, youll see that that flag is raised up high and proud for everyone to see. Youll see this flag right here as well, too. And we feel so proud and privileged to be stewards of this building for all. Moving forward as well. We have a plaque there as well, too. And there is a little bit of old and new here. So, while were respecting and harkening the old, what were renaming and recristening this building as rainbow flag apartment, we have a q. R. Code to learn a little bit about the history of what happened here as well. [applause] so, it is really a real privilege. Thank you, guys, for having uss here and really on behalf of the veritas team, it is such an honor to reraise the flag. Such an honor to recristen this building as one of the homes of the rainbow flag which, to us, symbolizes diversity and inclusion for all. Again, on behalf of all of our team members as well as partners, proud to raise our hand and raise a flag. So, thank you. Now im taking off my Brian Basinger executive director of the q foundation hat and putting on my faint ruby slippers moniker. No dedication would be complete without the blessing and invocation of the sisters of perpetual indulgence. [cheering] this is your moment, ladies. Were so were so proud that brian is one of our saints. And we honor the work that he has done for sisters and everybody else in the community. He is a great force to be reckoned with. And now were going to channel the Fierce Energy of one of our sisters, sister chanel, number 2001, Gilbert Baker. [applause] to keep the demons at bay and make this a sacred space. May the saints and the sinners who have gone before hear our petition. May the hungry be fed and the homeless housed. [applause] may the outcast find a chosen family and the misfit find a fit. [applause] may we honor those among us on their own path, taking the road less traveled. [applause] may we correct and admonish our peers with represent and love and may we receive correction with dignity and openness. May the divine in me see the divine in you, not the holy divine the actress. [laughter] may we be known for radical inclusion of the other and may we call bullshit on the exclusive, the clique, the no blacks, no asians among us. [applause] [cheering] to the she, to the he and to the they, as it was in the beginning and it is now and will be forever, all men, all women and all the others [applause] that concludes our ceremony today. Everyone is invited down to the auditorium at 5 30 just down here at the main library. Where Gilbert Bakers posthumous memoirs, his tellall with all the dirt and all the dish is going to be for sale. [laughter] thank you, everybody [applause] my apartment burned down 1. 5 years ago in noba. My name is leslie mccray, and i am in outside beauty sales. I have lived in this neighborhood since august of this year. After my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and find out about various programs that could help us get back on our feet, and i signed up for the below market rate program, got my certificate, and started applying and won the housing lottery. This particular building was brandnew, and really, this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. And i came to the open house here, and there were literally hundreds of people looking at the building. And i in my mind, i was, like, how am i ever going to possibly win this . And i did. And when you get that notice that you want, its surreal, and you dont really believe it, and then it sinks in, yeah, i can have it, and im finally good to go; i can stay. My favorite thing about my home, although i miss the charm about the old victorian is everything is brandnew. Its beautiful. My kitchen is amazing. Ive really started to enjoy cooking. I really love that we have a gym onsite. I work out four days a week, and its beautiful working outlooking out over the courtyard that i get to look at. It was hard work to get to the other side, but its well worth it. Im super grateful to the Mayors Office of housing for having this for us. My name is andrea, i work as a coordinator for the City Attorneys Office in San Francisco. A lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. I double majored in Political Science and always tried to combine both of those majors. I ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. I thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. I work for the Transportation Agency known as muni and im a senior work supervisor. I first started as a nonprofit and came to San Francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. This opportunity came up by way of an executive fellowship. They had a program at mta to work in Workforce Development type project and i definitely jumped on that. I didnt know this was something that i wanted to do. All i knew is that i wanted to help people and i wanted to empower others. The environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stayathome moms. It wasnt that they didnt have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. My mom came from el salvador during the civil war. She worked very hard. When she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. When i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didnt pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. There isnt much support or advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. There also arent very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. When i first had the opportunity, i thought thats not for me. My previous role was a project manager for a biotech start up. I thought how do i go from technology to working in government. Thinking i didnt know about my skills, how am i going to fit in and doing that kind of work. Thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you dont know and thats important. My mom was diagnosed with cancer. That was really difficult. She encouraged me to go to school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. I wanted to be in oncology. I thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. We need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. There is no way to map that out and no way to tell those things. You have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. You dont have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do. I would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. Its the best time to do it. Being a young woman with so many opportunities, just go for it and try everything. Hi. My name is carmen chiu, San Franciscos elected assessor. Buying your first home is a big deal. For many of us, its the single largest asset that well own. Thats why its really important to plan ahead for property taxes so that there are no surprises. A typical question new homeowners ask is what is a supplemental tax. So understand supplemental tax, we need to start with proposition 13. Under californias prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to a 2 growth peryear, but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we set a properties assessed value to market value. The difference in value between the previous owners value and the new value is the supplemental assessment. How does the supplemental assessment translate to the tax you need to pay . Supplemental tax is calculated by applying the tax rate to the value and then prorating it for the amount of time that you owned it in that tax year. In generale, the tax rate is roughly 1 . Lets walkthrough an example together. Here dan is the original owner of a home with a prop 13 protected value of 400,000. With a tax rate of 1 , he pays 4,000. Dan sells his home to jennie at a market rate of 700,000. In this case, jennies home will be reassessed to 700,000, and jennie is responsible for paying property taxes at that level from the time she first owns it. Many times, people might have already paid their property taxes in full by the time they sell their home. In that case, dan has paid 4,000 in taxes already for the full year. Jennie would likely payback dan through escrow for her share of the 4,000, depending on the proportion of the tax year she owns the home. However, shes also responsible for paying taxes at the higher market value from when she begins to own the home. How does that work . Lets say jennie owns the property for nine months of the first tax year, which is approximately 75 of the year. During the escrow process, shed pay dan back 75 of the 4,000 he already paid, which is 3,000. On top of that, she would owe taxes at the higher rate for the proportion of the year she owned the house. In this case, she owes the amount not already billed through dan or 700,000 minus 400,000, multiplied by a tax rate of 1 , and multiplied again by 75 to reflect the time she owned the home in that tax year. Here, jennies supplemental tax is roughly 2,250. Going forward, jennie will be billed at her new reset prop 13 value. Are you still with us . If this isnt complicated enough, some new owners might receive two supplemental tax bills, and this has to do with the date that you transfer property. But before we get to that, you first need to understand two concepts. First, what is a fiscal year . In california, local government runs on a fiscal year. Unlike the calendar year, where the year begins on january 1, a fiscal year begins in the middle of the year, on july 1. Property tax follows the fiscal year cycle. Second, state law requires property be valued as of january 1 every year, in other words, new years day. The value as of january 1 is used to calculate property taxes for the upcoming fiscal year. This means Property Value as of january 1, 2018 will be usedtor fiscal year 18 used for fiscal year 1819 covering july 2018 through june 2019. Similarly, the value of january 1, 2019 will be used for the fiscal year covering july 2019 through june 2020. Now back to whether you should expect to receive one or two supplemental tax bills. The rule of thumb is that if the property transfers happens in the first half of the fiscal year, in other words between july and december, then you should expect only one supplemental tax fill. If the transfer happens in the second half of the fiscal year or between january and june, you should expect two supplemental tax bills. Heres the reason why. Using dan and jennies example again, dans 400,000 value as of january 1 is used to set the tax bill for the following fiscal year beginning july through june of the next year. Jennie buys the property from dan in october. The taxable value is reset to 700,000 as of october, but the bill issued still reflects dans lower value. In this case, jennie would expect to receive one supplemental or catchup bill to capture the difference between her assessed value and begans fr begans dans from october through june. Because of january 1 we already know of the sale, we would have used the following year to set jennies property taxes and no other supplemental bill should be received. However, if dan sells the property to jennie in march, instead, jennie should expect two supplemental bills. Like before, jennie would receive one supplemental bill to cover the time in which she owned the home in the current tax year from march to june. But because as of the next january used to set the tax base for the following tax year, dan still owned the home, the following years entire bill still reflects the values not updated for jennie. In this instance, jennie receives a second supplemental for the following year covering july through june. After the supplemental tax bills, new owners should receive only one regular tax bill peryear going forward. Remember our office values the properties, but billing and collections are handled by another Organization Called the treasurer and tax collectors office. If youd like to learn more, please visit our website at sfassessor. Org. Thank you for watching. Good morning, everyone. This meeting will come to order. This is the june 26th, 2019 special meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am chair of the budget and finance committee. I would like to thank carmen and lawrence from San Francisco government t. V. For broadcasting this meeting, madame clerk, are there any announcements . Silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copy