Early Childhood Development education from the city college of San Francisco to help elementary schoolchildren succeed in their academics in addiction to enjoying outdoor wreck rowation. For the past nine years, he was to protect land, water and air of the Indigenous People in the philippines in addition to documenting Human Rights Violations towards people who are working on various social issues. I am asking for your subpoena or thsupport tohelp brandon be evaa medical team back to San Francisco for his safety and access to specialized medical treatment and rehabilitation from his injuries. He was just transferred to another hospital because of a hospital infection he contracted. I am also asking for your help in urging a congressman pelosi to initiate a formal investigation attempted assassination of my brother and supporting a congressional hearing using u. S. Tax forces for the philippines and philipines hash police. Police. I have been carrying for him for over 12 hours a day as a nurse. I hope you can do everything within your power to help brandon. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is julie lee and im brandons auntie. Brandon was born and raised in sunset district of San Francisco. He attended middle school and Lincoln High School and San FranciscoState University. He is a caring, good natured kindhearted person. I used to drop by saturday mornings after working a night shift and would fall asleep on the sofas. At that time, brandon was six or sevenyearsold. And would always find a blanket to cover me to keep me warm. Which was sick in bed, whoa come to my bedside and tell me funny things to cheer me up. I was very sad when he decided to leave his home in San Francisco and relocate to another country. There was a bigger purpose. Something he cared so deeply and passionately about. That made him leave his comfortable surroundings. For the past 10 years, he has been a human rights and environmental rights advocate for the farmers and Indigenous People in the province in northern philippines. I have Great Respect and admiration for all the courageous Human Rights Defenders like brandon in the world who give so much of themselves to educate, stand up, and speak out for the most vulnerable. When i heard the news that brandon was shot he was in a state of shock and total disbelieve. Now, i am upset and worried for his safety and wellbeing. The evil perpetrators who shot brandon not one, not two, not three but four times in cold blood are still out there. In recent weeks, his mother and brother stayed bedside while Community Friends kept watch outside icu guarding him from suspicious people. I urge the board of supervisors to pass resolution 190909 and do whatever is in your power to support the immediate evacuation of brandon from the philippines to San Francisco. Thank you. Supervisor yee thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is ed chan and i am brandons uncle. Sacrifice is a big part of life. Strangers donate organs to save lives. Single parents work two jobs for their children. Children move back home to take care of their sick, elderly parents. Brandon lee knows all about sacrifices. He gave the same fairytale lifestyle in the United States and devoted a decade of his life being a parallel volunteer in human rights advocate for the movement. During the last four years there were constant harassments and threat on his life by suspected fell Filipino Armed force and in august 6th, an assassination attempt occurred after he picked up his daughter from school. Brandon was shot four times in the back and the bullets are still lodged inside his body. He has been fighting for his life with Health Issues and estimates eight cardiac arrests at the hospital in the philippines. His wife, bernice, mother, brother and other family members and friends have provided constant 24 hour protection and care. Please ensure the sacrifices made by brandon and family do not go to waste. I encourage and hope the board of supervisors pass resolutions 190909 condemning the 14509ing g and providing medical care and safe passage back to the United States. Thank you, very much. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is lena lee i am brandons auntie. My family would like to thank the board of supervisors for looking into brandons case. We we like to thank supervisor mar being there from the start and matt haney for leading a Factfinding Mission in the philippines and visiting brandon at the hospital for reporting back and helping us call for support and protection. And supervisor norman yee for his help collaborating on this resolution. We thank our friends and relatives and brandons fellow activists and colleagues and strangers for their support both emotion and financial and for their thoughts and prayers. We thank dr. Lee kimburg who went to the publichealth and advocated for and im so amazed by the help we have received from the public. I am thankful to the department of publichealth for issuing their letter of support. We thank congresswomen judy chew for speaking out for brandon. If you have become a victim and have fallen, activists are the ones who run to you and pick you up and get you help and speak for you and the organized and network and raise money for you and i cannot believe how much good there is in the world. You are so comforted knowing their right there supporting you. I would like to thank the Peoples Alliance the sf committee for huma human rightsn the philippines and filipino concerns and the Chinese Progressive Association, the ma laaiah movement and the Amnesty International and all the groups and individuals who have supported us, thank you. Good afternoon. My name ami haun and i havent been given this testimony by a professor of medicine at ucsf who works a lot sf General Hospital and serves as the interpersonal violence prevention coordinator for the San Francisco department of publichealth. Im providing this testimony to request that you support brandon lee and his family in throw ways. As many of you know, brandon lee is a u. S. Citizen who grew up in San Francisco. He is the son of louis lee who has been an employee of the San Francisco department of publichealth for 40 years. Brandon is a person who understands that our health is connected to the health of our planet. He feels privileged to support indigenous communities who honor the sacred connection. Brandon has been living and working in the philippines corinth usually advocating for environmental communities. He is paralyzed riddled with an unin known must be of bullets. He is unsafe due to the risk of violence and the urgent need for surgical and medical care in a topnotch hospital that special sizes in trauma care. Physicians think that brandon will be stable enough to transport to sfgh via an air ambulance. The cost of transport are high. 200,000. On behalf of brandon lee, a son of this beautiful city that helped shape him into the brave Environmental Justice activist that he is, i am asking you to support the lee family in throw ways. I ask that you locate funding to support his medical evacuation and three issue a proclamation of support for brandon and his family. Thank you. My name is felicia and my mom is a friend of brandons and im going to read a statement from his daughter, jesse. Children want peace. Stop killing our family. Stop the attacks, stop killing. Help our environment. Love and respect. Peace, love, calmness is important. Thank you. Hi, everybody, im with the Malia Movement its a u. S. Based movement against the killings and dictatorship in the philippines. San francisco has an opportunity to stand with one of their own. We need to make a Public Statement condemning the first assassination attempt on a u. S. Citizen. A victim and survivor of a assassination attempt. Been don lee is also a father, friend of many, a son of San Francisco born and raised in the sunset and a Lincoln High School graduate and an sf state alum. Were asking San Francisco to support the call for the u. S. To launch a formal investigation but a moratorium on military aid to the philippines and perpetrators of this crime are brought to justice in the same way a recent u. N. Resolution to investigate the Human Rights Violations in the philippines is connected to u. S. Tax dollars. From the philippines side we know the executive order 70 is regime encounter insurgery tee program silences advocates and criminalizes activists, brandon lee is one of m. P. Being targeted for advocating for Environmental Justice because in the philippines, land is life. The guardian has recently named the philippines the deadliest place for Environmental Justice. Indigenous peoples organizations like those brandon was a part of. The corn evennia People Alliance and Human Rights Alliance chra are land defenders they have been fighting the Development Aggression in northern philippines and this is the cause that brandon has dedicated himself to. We urge San Francisco to support the call to save brandon lee and support a medical evacuation. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor. Supervisors. I want to acknowledg leadership against the nra and especially supervisor sev annie which has been steadfast. We have hate crimes and Mass Shootings here in the u. S. But our government is also the biggest exporter and provider of arms throughout the world. In particularly to the philipines military and police who have been implicated in close to 30,000 killings in the three years of the presidency. Im a friend of brandon lees and i was part of the delegation lead to the philippines. I thank him and supervisor mar. And also supervisor ronen and president yee for cosponsoring this resolution. And i have known brandon close to 15 years. I have admired how courageous and dedicate he has been to fight along the community to defend the environment and their indigenous land culture and livelihood. Despite harassment, surveillance, death threats, he is steadfast in his commitment. I felt so lucky to be able to travel to the philippines to see him in his hospital bed alive fighting for his life and also you are sunday odd by family and friends who attend to him 24 7. However, i also felt the fear of how vulnerable my friend was. And how his mother, brother, wife and daughter are and that those who tried to kill him would go to the hospital to try to silence him forever. The impunity in the philippines will continue for as long as the u. S. Supports. I urge you to pass this resolution and help brandon get back home safely to San Francisco where he can recover safe from harm. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is reverend sady stone im the pastor at beth knee United Methodist church and im also on the global board of the International Coalition of human rights in the philippines. This past august, i was also on eye co current trip with supervisor mainly an haney to vh him in the hospital and pray with his mom in the chapel at the hospital. As he looks behind me and sees the line not supporters here and see that brandon has a Strong Community of people who know and love him and i was able to assure her that there are people in San Francisco those who know him and those who do not who are here fighting for him and for his life. I thank you for the resolution that you have put before us and what you have resolved to do to resolve to fight for an investigation, a resolve to help us in bringing him home. Our coalition has been working and fighting at the initial level for an investigation on the military aid being sent with our tax dollars. We hope he receive the care he needs while he is in the philippines and the cost and finding a way inform safely and effectively bring him back to San Francisco. Where he can continue in his recovery with this support and love of this entire city. Thank you. Good afternoon. Everyone. My name is zachary brown. I am also a member of the umc philippines solidarity task force. And i am from district 5 where i operate the waller center. Thank you for taking the time to hear us today and for voting on this resolution. While spending time in the philippines with haney and the rest of the task force, i was exposed to a society that benefits off of human right violation and the stories of those humans that the rights are being violated are in the hands of brandon and those of us who have gone to the philippines and came back. Theres a lot of effort to silence those voice and this was a direct example of that. Brandon surviving and coming bag coming baccomingback. It started a movement and its very imperative that listening to the stories of matt heaney and some of thoughts wen of us. Thank you for your time today. Good afternoon. Supervisors, my name is mario demeasurdemira. Let me just start off say thank you for your leadership youve we would like to see support behind passing this resolution and highlighting the other issues related to u. S. Funding going to a regime like this and the Philipines Armed forces. You know, on another level, why its very personal the c. A. P. Is that brandon was a volunteer c. P. A. He got his Early Community organizer in San Francisco working on workers rights campaigns like the monster Cable Campaign and he also worked on some Environmental Justice campaigns in china town. So he has the roots that are from San Francisco and from china town and from the sunset. And that type of charter, that type of experience that brandon represents to c. P. S. Many of thf the folks in this room capture what is good and great about San Francisco and so many things and we have to protect his life. He is a u. S. Citizen that has been an attempted murder. An attempt on his life in a foreign country and we need to me ticketoprotect and life and d see him come back home. Thank you. Very much. Im julian. Im part of the tenderloin and im also i live in the Mission District and ill be reading this and its of the united meth methodist church. I was also sent to the philippines to investigate the chico river dam project that threat enter the ethnic indigenous tribes living on the mountain range. In 1978 i stayed with the tribe and got to speak with the chief for many hours. He explained why the land was so precious not only for their livelihood and their lives. The beautiful rice terraces and land is their identity and their callture and their history. And inns tuesdayed marshal law and have had chief killed and along with others trying to save their land. I see that same history repeated itself again with brandon lee, who was also defending the legacy a protecting the human rights and ancestorial domain. Please, bring brandon lee home now reverend norman fong. Im the outreach veteran chapter 69 San Francisco. Im also a nativeborn San Francisco living in San Francisco. You heard a lot about brandon lee and i think you all know who and what he is. The main point for me is that he is one of us. What he stands for is what all of us stand for. Id like to thank supervisor norman yee, mar and hanley for your support. The regime is supported by the United States of america. We have our military, our special forces there today helping them t the. What we do in america is critical. We can make a difference. We have leverage. And i urge you to do everything that you can. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the director of the Filipino Center in San Francisco and im proud to have worked alongside Community Organizations and several folks out here today including c. P. A. The Chinese Progressive Association and a statement by norman fong. All of our communities have supported the work that were doing in the Filipino Community and that stretches from the excel see year soma to the sunset to the philippines and what brandon has been doing. I got a chance to work with brandon. He volunteered and worked with us there and the work he has done across the city and all the way back to the phones and i supported him and we both became parents and he is he is good fatherment his wife lives and works five hours away but brandon is there for his daughter everyday. Im right there with him becoming a parent and father. I you kno urge you to do whatevu can. You will have stood by us when the typhoon happened in the philippinephilippines and now wo protect the life and save the life of one of our own from San Francisco and bring him back to San Francisco. I support whatever you can do as individuals, collectively as a board of supervisors to stand with brandon lee and bring him back safely and stand with us as a Large Community that is supporting him. Thank you. Good afternoon, im the coordinator nor Amnesty International group 30 here in San Francisco. Im also im a San Francisco native and i come here as a Human Rights Defender and as a colleague of friends of brandon lee. Many colleagues know and are friends with brandon and his work is so admirable and something that one could only aspire as a Human Rights Defender. As many of you know amnesty opposes the extra judicial killings, the war on drugs otherwise known as the war on poor. Also red tagging which is also what brandon is the victim of, falsely being accused of being a communist friend. Brandon, weve heard numerous stories on brandons fight for his life after being assassinated and still surviving and if he can fight for his life so strongly and courageously, i think we can fight for his life and meet him halfway and bring him home to where he will get medical treatment he deserves and also as everybody has said in this line and more will say, it gives a strong message to the philippines and to the folks trying to kill so many people that this is not ok. Please, bring him home. Good afternoon supervisor su. We were both San Francisco natives born and here all of our lives. We were over sell us i zealous e to go to giants games when they were 8 bleacher seats. We are products of San Francisco schools through and through. Lincoln, sf state and city college. Last bun least, when were passionate about something. We put our hearts into it and gave it our all. When brandon was at sf state he was engage in Asian American studies class and i saw how this turned into a desire to help the american community. He was advocating for people spence abuse. I saw him grow into his element as his political activists branched out for people of injustice around the world. I was shocked when he broke the news he was moving to the philippines. Iphilippines. It was his calling and he need today go. He has been a human rights activist in the province since the end of 2010. While he has been creating a family life with his wife and daughter, he is also been fighting the good fight for Indigenous People. Helping them protect their land. Time has felt like it stopped since his brother gave me the news that brandon was shot four times. I prayed for him to hold on and he survived cardiac arrest. He went on a ventilator to breathe and his visittal signs fluctuated but he is on an up turn and has positive results. Supervisor yee next speaker. My name is johnathan bautista and im a San FranciscoState University student. I am a member of league of filipino students. Im here to talk about brandon lee who was shot by the u. S. Backed regime. A matriarch daughter of a chief of the tribes. I can say that my ancestors and i understand that brandon lee is one of us and he understood that the people are deeply and spiritually connected to this land. He fought to defend the community from the big interest of big land landlords and forren tomorroForeign Corporations. They have less than 5 of the words population and they protect 80 of global diversity. Global biodiversity and theres already so little of us and the indigenous communities of the filipinos are constantly under threat and or even death. Something that my ancestors and brandon lee are victims of. Brandon lee understood the environmental rights is indigenous rights. So i urge you San Francisco state supervisors, you should match brandon lees medical expense and spread his story. I encourage that the u. S. Government to start investigations against a San Francisco resident and San Francisco state alumni. Thank you. Hi, everyone, good afternoon. My shame is char a and i am the chairperson for legal filipino students and i am a current student at San FranciscoState University. Both brandon lee attend the. I am also a San Francisco resident and i particularly reside in bay view districts. I want to thank the supervisors here for putting this resolution forward because brandon lee represents all of us. He represents the people who are active in the community. The ones who were tire h tirelen serving the people. He is doing his protecting from Foreign Corporations keeping Indigenous People from paramilitary groups. But he is still one of us. The Political Climate in the philippines is worsening with his war on activists that effects organizers and activists in the philippines but starting to take part here in the u. S. Brandon lee came out of this same institution i now currently attend and he was also a part of lfs which means he paved the way for students like me to serve the filipino people here in the u. S. And also back home. I see myself and support of our friends and family of brandon and i encourage you to consider doing a city contribution and they have medical evacuation. Please bring herself home. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is christina and i am a human rights advocate but im also here to show support and solidarity for and with the family of brandon lee also for human rights activists and Environmental Justice advocates and im also here to read a message from kristen, a district 11 resident housing case manager with bill sorrow and a longtime friend of brandon lee. This is kristens message. Thank you to supervisor mar, haney and y for your leadership in introducing this resolution to the board and supporting our calls to protect to the regime and brandon is a native and it is this city and compassionate and progressive politics that help knewture his desire to dedicate his life to be in service of others normalize that being absolutely selfless is as much of an honor as it is a sacrifice. We all working people with limited means and brandon needs more than were able to fundraise on our own. In addition to practicing the resolution, you are assistance is thousands of dollars needed to bring hem home would be a show of concrete and were not asking for a handout and one of the citys own. Help us bring brandon home. Thank you. Hello, good afternoon. My name is charles rumello and im from the Filipino Community center and i work at the Community Clinics and the sf help network including San FranciscoGeneral Hospital. I have known brandon for 12 and a half years including spending many days together in college, meeting each others families, going on a trip to the philippines and learning about diverse human justice cultural and committee values. We have took a jogging class together at sf state. Although brandon moved away to the philippines south, Indigenous People protect themselves and their land from threatening forces we still keep in good contact. As his friend and spent in a clinic ive been concerned over his wellbeing and security during his hospital stay in the philippines. As much as we are thankful for what is being done for his care, we agree with the family and in the best interest of his wife and daughter to be evacuated back home to San Francisco in the safe setting. To financially do so would be impossible for his family to meet as someone who spent a large percentage of his time working and volunteering in San Francisco, and knowing brandon used to run track and field, he makes positive changes in the bay area, San Francisco and all over the world. Were asking city leaders and the community to help spread awareness and to Work Together on fundraisers and bring issues and important as these to our community. I have been also working with the family and friends for the medical evacuation information and would love to continue working together on this. Thank you sf board of supervisors. And everyone for your time and consideration putting fourth this resolution. Hello. Im jack stevens ups truck driver and shop stewart with teamsters local 2785 and soma resident. Brandon has been my close friend for over 15 years. Like brandon, i am myself is a sunset district native. While ive never moved to the philippines, i spent a lot of time and organizing and the labor movement. And fighting alongside working class filipinos trying to survive. Fighting for basic rights and. I want to thank supervisors mar, haney and yee for putting that s resolution together. Such as throwing fundraisers and sharing his gofundme page and having the city to contribute to his lifesaving medical costs that continue to incur while he is receiving urgent and needy care in the philippines. Thank you. I am a friend, and i want to thank the supervisors for putting this resolution together. Brandon represents the best of San Francisco. And hes a wonderful friend and we visited the filipinos together and we were able to visit farmer peasants being displaced and workers dealing with abuse and this is why i continue to do his service for the people there. Hes a great father and hes a loving husband to his wife. He cared about defending Indigenous People. We had about about many people who supported his gofundmecampaign and many were moved by his story and his work in the community. But we still need more to support for his medical evacuation. He miracuously survived eight cardiac arrests as you have heard, and so still has bullets lodged in him, but the greatest danger is that his assailants are still out there. Who he believes that are military or paramilitary forces. The u. S. Government and the state department have not acted on his behalf. So the San Francisco community and his friends and family, and the city has to. As city leaders we hope that you can do everything in your power to help brandon and his family and help to spread awareness and share his gofundme page and consider doing a city contribution for his medical evacuation. Thank you very much for your time. Hi, everybody, i am david delana and im a resident in San Francisco, and born and raised in district 11 all of my life and San Francisco has played a major part for me and my family. My parents emigrated here in the 1970s to escape the Economic Conditions in the philippines and also to raise to have opportunities to raise a family and also to escape the political repression while marco was president. And San Francisco has also played a major role with not just my family but also many filipinos who are currently living here in San Francisco, who still have many family members in the philippines. And for me, like, San Francisco has been really been important and played like a Critical Role as far as not just for filipinos but for many people of color and we really appreciate supervisors and the city overall. And for my friend brandon, i have known brandon since around 2005, he was my friend since we went to School Together at San FranciscoState University and we played basketball together. Hes a 49er fan. And s. F. Giants fan and he supports San Francisco to this day. And then in 2015 i was able to visit brandon in the philippines. And he was able to introduce me to his family in the philippines and also to share the conditions and the challenges that him and his friends are going through. But with that he still cares deeply about San Francisco and he still has strong roots over here in San Francisco. So i urge you if you can, please do what you can to help to save my friend, brandon lee, and also i want to thank the board of supervisors for putting this forward. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. Im lynn, i met brandon lee exactly a year ago on an International Solidarity mission in the philippines where he was organizing and doing human rights work. While his work included documenting Human Rights Violations much the indigenous communities in the region and defending their ancestoral land, he himself had his rights violated continuously by the armed forces of the philippines. And, you know, the attack on brandon is not an isolated incident. And because of his specific compassion, his dedication, and love for his family, friends, community, and the specific work that he was passionate about he had a target on his back. And today we still want to urge that he receive, you know, all of the support that he needs. And so we know that the assailants are still out there and as students we support him and we hope that he can be protected. And that his message of what he was fighting for, you know, throughout his longevity continuously comes across. So i think that this resolution would really demonstrate, you know, what is possible and the collective efforts of solidarity and so, again, thank you for your efforts. And we hope to protect brandon lee and, yeah, and to make sure that he is safe. And, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is indiscernible and good luck to brandon lee and the supporters of him over the yea years. This is not at your doorstep and you have to struggle very hard and we have been coming back and forth to you for more than two years and we have not even gotten a peanut yet. And all of our demand is that our money back, the money that we have given, and your system, the board of supervisors and the city of San Francisco and sfmp have. They have taken that money into buying buses and running from route a to b and were demanding that money back. And we will love to see that if we can get our money back. And we will keep coming back and forth and we keep knocking your doors and we will see that how far you can serve the justice to us. I dont know what to say. I mean, coming here for almost two years. And i have not moved even a bit. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im speaking on the indiscernible and they sold us heart attacks. No sensitivity, brought tremendous change with rideshare. That has caused destruction in the taxi business. As mayor london breed did nothing for our betterment. They agreed to rideshare and they made it inexcusable that we are in deficit and i should have became so rich. Theres no optimism for this kind of business. No one has come forward to ban rideshare and no one is willing to refund the money to us. The support for rideshare is absurd. And rideshare is to isolate us from the taxi business. And they have given us this wounds and we not recover of it. And our business has been locked out. They do not listen to us. And still indiscernible . They grind us in the middle of two stones. And we are dealing with many challenges and difficulties in taxi business. Our lives have been devastated and our teams have been shattered. We need your support of San Francisco city of supervisors. Please help us, please take momentous steps to bring our issue and to refund the money back to us. Thank you. Good afternoon, the board of supervisors. I want to thank you for your efforts for bringing brandon lee back home. You guys are not the problem. You guys are the solution though. The ssfmpa is making decisions behind your back that you know nothing about. Theyve given control of the bank, issued 60 medallions and theyre now waiting at the airport, something that you guys say that you dont want. Its time to dump sfmpa. We all know the problem here, guys. Ive heard in a taxi that this is what you guys are aiming to do. And i want to know is that true . Should we dump sfmta . Are they the cause . How much did it cost us to make those red lanes . Do you guys see any enforcement . Lets not think about the money youre going to give back to us. Lets think about the money that we want to bring back to the city. We want you guys to run our medallions. We want to pay you color scheme and we want to have a city app that we can charge less money to the drivers, put it into homeless, and put it into state parks and put it into education. Lets put it into flying brandon lee back home. I want to submit ideas to make San Francisco thrive. The airport now is having a problem with the runway six and what does uber do on sunday night and monday night . They charge so extreme, who saves the people of San Francisco and the people that come here and spend money in our city . Who takes them to the hotels . And who picks up our families . What is it that you guys want. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Good to see everybody again after six weeks. So we have a very simple solution. If you understand, like, you see uber car, theyre not paying anything to mortgage to like medallion that were paying and uber is not paying scheme color as were paying. So we have that two big payments every month that we pay. And uber makes money and we suffer, and we are three hours, 2 1 2 hours work and we make somebody. And so we really need a replacement for our body. Were numb working by themselves. Theres n drivers for us because no one wants to drive for less. And were hoping and looking at you guys and seeing that dream will come true for us someday and well hear when we get up in the morning, and well hear the news that, yeah, theres something for us. And so thats how were surviving and struggling and dragging ourselves to see what is your decision for it. Because we are really like, uber is free and were pay a chunk of money to drive. And then were not making money. So this is a very simple solution. If you figured out that uber have only 5,000 or 10,000 car and we pay so much to the companies which as i think is not fair. For everything they charge, and the scheme color that we pay, like 1,300 they charge for us and we pay to the bank. And the bank is okay to pay because the bank we owe the bank because we bought the medallion from them. But we want to get out of that because this is not working out for the taxi anymore, we have so many cockroaches around us and theyre just like uber and lyft. If you decide to do that, keep it. But we need to get out of it because were individuals that are dying and we have families and we want to get out of that. So, please, for gods sake. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, everybody. I am ali alukani. A threeyear driver. And just coming in here today, i went to the city and to look to see around what is going on. To see what we said to you. And i want to remind you a couple things. The way that everybody said that the smpta from the beginning just, please, i bring a note in here and i would like to you have it, please, no . No. And you have it. And see what is promised to us. Just for example, you know, just get to your heart and just listen to your own. They promised to us that i have a price for the medallion and this is you pay at that time 95 or something and we put you in the lease and after 17 years, and to give you free medallion. And youre coming to 17 years and its your life and it makes me angry. This is a crime. Coming to me and saying that the law has changed and we cannot give it to you, you have to buy it . 17 years of my life this is one, okay. And second thing, i remind you and i say again, believe it or not, they are not doing right. They are fooling the system and theyre trying to hide the situation from your guys. They have been doing this and this is not right. This is using us. The m. T. A. Is looking for and voting for the company because the Company Makes the people, the situation, shut up their mouth because it looks like theyre busy and doing something for the city. For us, just repay. Thats amount of money right now. Its not working. Thank you very much. We need action. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is debbie and im a resident and a voter of San Francisco district 1. Im here to support brandon lee. He is a wonderful person. I admire his qualities for speaking up for the voiceless and his advocacy for justice. I am horrified by the violence committed against him. And for seeking what is right. And for writing up the truth. So im here to plead for your help and compassion to help him to come home as well as launching an investigation on the perpetrators that have committed this horrendous crime against him. Hes a symbol of americas democracy and the fight for justice. And i this should not be silenc. So thank you for your attention and thank you for your help to bring him home. Okay, any other public speakers . Yes, i see one more. Tom gilberti. Lets help brandon lee. Against Tyrannical Authority. Lets help the seniors. Theyre a Tyrannical Authority that could be there, and lets help the taxi drivers because they got no help from the mayor or the smtpa for years now. And lets go into a little makebelieve moment. Let us be let me be at an appropriate age to have a 12yearold son and lets call him little tommy. And lets go grab our ak47 with a hundred round magazines and head up to the high country and shoot up some canadian geese. Maybe well get a medal from president trump. And then in the springtime when the during the rabbit hunt when those bunnies come out of their den in the ground well take our ak47s, and 100round magazines and blast them, well have a ball. It could be male bonding. And it could happen but its not worth having ak47s and assault rifles in this country for the people already killed and maimed and scarred in their lifetime. Lets ban these weapons. This time we have to bring the people to the government. Trump wants to deal with greatness and losing to hillary by more than three million votes doesnt help that. And barack obama is showing his birth certificate, and thrusm is hiding his trump is hiding his taxes but he has greatness and hes one of a kind. Hes the greatest terrible ever and he has the perfume of benedict arnold, one of the kind because he continues to create hairballs and one of a kind. And i have run out. Okay, any other speakers in seeing none, then Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, call the committee agenda. Items 22 and through 24. Clerk items 22 through 24 were for adoption without reference to committee and a unanimous vote is required for a resolutions on First Reading today. Alternatively any supervisor may require to go to committee. Any of my colleagues like to sever any items . Supervisor mar . Yeah, id like to sever item number 23. Okay. Clerk, on the remaining balance of the items call the roll. Clerk this is for 23 . 23 and 24. Im sorry. Supervisor fewer . Im sorry president yee and i forgot the protocol and i would like to add to sponsor item number 23 and item number 24. Should i do it at this time . President yee right now we have severed item number 23. Somebody want to sever item 24 . So that you can add your name . Thank you very much, president. President yee okay, supervisor safai . Yes, i just wanted to be added as a sponsor of 23 as well. We still need to call the item though. Why dont you call it. President yee right. What about okay. Okay, lets get back to where it is. Madam clerk on the remaining balance of the items which is 22 and 24, please call the roll. Cloi clerk supervisor mar, a. And supervisor peskin, peskin abcenter. And supervisor ronen, ronen aye. And supervisor safai, supervisor safai, aye. And supervisor walton . Walton aye. And supervisor yee . Yee, aye. And supervisor brown, brown aye. And supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer, aye. And supervisor haney. Haney aye. And supervisor mandelman. Mandelman aye. Theres 10 ayes. President yee its adopted unanimously. Call item 23. Clerk item 23, a resolution to condemn the attempted assassination of brandon lee in the philippines by suspected elements of the armed forces of the philippines, support the immediate evacuation of lee to ensure his safety and access to adequate medical care. And urge our federal representatives to initiate a federal investigation into the shooting. And urge our federal representatives to support a congressional hearing on consequences of the United States tax dollars going to the Philippine Military and police, and to advocate for suspension of the United States aid to the duterte regime until lees case is resolved and the perpetrators are brought to justice. President yee i see several people wanting to speak but i would like to take that honor to speak first. Supervisor moore . Thank you, president yee. And, really, thank you so much to all of brandons family, friends and comrades, for your powerful and beautiful comments this afternoon. All of that really makes it Crystal Clear that this resolution is before us because Brandon Brandon lee is still in critical condition, fighting for his life. Fighting an infection with bull bullets still in his body. Brandon is still subject to military and Police Surveillance in the philippines. Even though we know that it was military or Police Agents who shot him multiple times in the back. This is before us because the attack on brandon has gotten too little attention here in the United States, even when a United States citizen was subjected to an assassination attempt by a foreign powers military that we as taxpayers continue to subsidize. This is before us because the attack on brandon has been met with silence by far too many, because the u. S. Embassy in the philippines is failing to protect him, because the federal government is failing to acknowledge or to address the systematic human rights abuses under the philippine president duterte that led to this. And, to fran be frank, because y are failing to have the ability to adequately defend brandon or to bring him home. I appreciate the partnership and the assistance that we have received from speaker pelosis office and senators harris and finestein and i want to be clear that its insufficient and we are running out of time. We need to bring brandon home. We need to ensure that he receives adequate medical care, care that we here can give him. Weve added to the record to this file a letter fromt