That we have been prevented from an open, free and Fair Election for our District Attorney after 110 years of unbroken inkum benn see. With my Charter Amendments it would be. We, who are democratically elected to serve the people need to trust the people to decide for themselves who is best suited to represent them. I hope that as we Work Together to bring this Charter Amendment forward, in iron out details, we will. Thank you. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor peskin. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor ronen. Thank you. Colleagues, today im introducing legislation to initiate a landmark designation for 7070woleey. Which unanimous resolution the board of supervisors declared the Garden District and explicitly called out the University Nursery greenhouses as one of the very few remaining physical markers of the historic role in flora culture. Immigrantowned and operated businesses that produced flowers to supply retail flourists flors forecast i lived there for several years and along with my former neighbors. Im proud of this unique history of San Franciscos flowergrowing district. The University Mound nursery and the remaining historic grown houses are a focal point of this cultural landscape. Initially, this request for landmark designation was proposed by members of the grassroots group, friends of 7070woolsley. An al analysis was prepared and documentation compiled and applications submitted to the sf Planning Department. Preservation staff and the Planning Department analyzed the nomination and concurred with Historic Resource evaluation that the property is significant and as well as meeting three of the four priorities for landmarking including the need to encourage designation and goughgraph i cannily under represented areas like the portala and submitted it to the Historic Preservation commission which hpc would district staff to add it. That would have been essentially the next step to flush out the analysis hold public hearings and who are charged with making the final designation about local landmarks. I was shocked when i listened to the recording of the h. P. C. Hearings. First, each commissioner mentioned theyve been contacted by the Mayors Office on behalf of the property owner. And u matily they declined the staff recommendation to add this project to the work plan. So i feel that i have no choice but to respond to this heavy handed hack tick and i oppose housing on the site. The hpc encourage a false choice between landmarking and housing and the sponsor and friends have at times set into that. But it is absolutely untrue. Landmarking will not preclude housing from being built and i will work with the developer and the community to find that solution. But in the meantime, i would like the Planning Department to properly and without improper corrupt influence analyze the historic merit of the property. Thank you, supervisor. I just want to be added to supervisor fewers legislation regarding the two bedrooms for teacher housing. We werent able to let her know before introduction. Thank you. Mr. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. Supervisor yee thank you, madam clerk. Lets go straight into Public Comment. The public may address the board for up to two minutes each on subject matter jurisdiction items within the hands of the board. You may speak for up to two minutes on the Board Meeting minutes. Items 3234 did not go through committee as you already know, items previously heard in committee that were subject to Public Comment may not be heard again today. Display document on the overhead projector, please, just put your document under the projector and remove it and when you would like the coverage to return to live coverage of the meeting. The president believes there might be a coup in the white house and ive asked people to get the podcast of yesterdays broadcast. Phillip mud and brandon and other former clapper directors of the c. I. A. Have made very threatening statements and i am praying the marines will execute them. These are epic times, ladies and gentlemen. Its hard to cram two hours into two minutes. I made a mistake at san jose, supervisors, we only got one minute a couple months ago and i said i was counting how many words and the bird landed on me and that was not true. Because i tried an hour into 60 seconds i made a mistake. If theres anyone out there watching that live, pray for me that god will help me in jesus name. Now what really happened was that i was praying after i counted how many words elijah had spoken and i was just pondering, you know, what he said and how god told him to a joint jesus to be king over israel and other things and i wrapped my head in the green flanel cotton shirt and a bird landed on my head it quacked and it flew off. Its interesting because it says here in second kings that the house they have their master may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the ser visits of the lord for the whole house shall perish and i will cut off him that pissed against the wall and him that shut up and left in israel and i will make the house like the house of son the nebat and like the house of the son. And the dogs shall eat jess a bell. Supervisor yee next speaker. If you we need to keep him out of the chamber if he is going to behave that way. Next speaker, come on up. Unto the lord said peace. I dont understand what just happened. He has got it. Good afternoon, im peter war field. Library users association. And in an action of extraordinary arrogance and difference to Patrons Service and the San Francisco Public Library last month stopped making stopped the mailing of printed notices to patrons about activity on their accounts. That means the library quit a core function sending people notices of overdue, sending people notices that books are available. This was done with no public discussion or approval bit Library Commission and no advance notice to the public. There was nothing posted for the public at library locations. Instead, there was a single letter to recipients of printed notices announcing this as a done deal. And that notice didnt even mention that there are alternatives if folks want them and that would include email and telephone notifications. That will hurt a lot of people who dont have easy access to a computer and dont have email and who dont have a telephone or dont want notices in that way. What about language barriers . If you get a notice in english, by mail, you can take it to a Family Member or friend and can them what its about. There are serious issues of privacy. People being exposed to privacy breaches and the exploitation that that involves through the internet. Through email and phone notification. Its a reduction in Service Despite the fact that the librarys income from you allocations have gone up and up and up every year and theyre now at 160 million. We ask one or more of you to requesrequest thequestion the ls matter and they not degrade service with no due process and no public process ahead of time. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Nick. When a patron phones the library trying to find a book, the usual practice is for the librarian to set aside the book would a hold to be picked up at a branch. When the book has been retrieved, the library mails a notice. Without warning or notice of the impact of a change in this policy, the library has eliminated the mail notice. It bars the use of the library by 100,000 San Franciscos. Because of the damage this illconceived policy change inflicts on San Franciscos most vulnerable, this policy must be changed and restored to its longstanding Viable Service level. The Digital Divide is a life and thriving in San Francisco. Thanks to the mismanagement of the San Francisco Public Library. There are more than 100,000 san franciscans who dont have Internet Access in their homes. I am one them. A couple of weeks ago, i received an unsigned letter on the San Francisco Public Library letter head that effectively bars me and all 100,000 other san franciscans in the full use of all Library Services by virtue of requiring enter access. I believe this radical change longstanding library policy to be illegal. This policy runs contrary to the stated and mandated purpose of the library to serve all patrons with the same level of Service Without discriminating on the base of income, race, gender, religion or any of the long list of protectioned guaranteed by city, state and federal laws not limited to the california state civil rights act. If its not broken, dont fix it. Supervisor please be seated. If you dont respect us, then we will not respect you. Now, there is a word drawn out equity. If you look at our dictionary about the word equity, you will find there are members coming over here and they come here and plead and beg and tell you about what theyre suffering there is no empathy. There is no compassion. But most importantly theres no fairness and there is no justice. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. You know, i look around. We lost one of our drivers october 3rd. I want to wish his family nothing but peace and happiness. Its very sad. Why cant we have spikes going the other way so that the drivers cannot get on the freeway like they do out places. Lets do something different. Lets shake it up, guys. I feel like no one really listens. People on their phones and talking to each other and acting like this is a big game. We have over 200 signatures now of drivers that want us to represent them. Do you know what every single one of these drivers say to me, they all say one word. One word. They say when . When . What are we doing . When . What do you guys want from us . Its the same old story here. War getting mass occurred. Im physically, emotionally and financially done. I have to look for a new place to live. I have maxed out my credit cards. Ive sold my car. Ive given you guys everything. Everything. I give you my time and you give us nothing. You dont even give us respect. Were not standing up here asking for anything than other than we deserve. How would you like it if im driving you down the street and texting my friend at the same time. Its disgusting, how secretary e traffic not be worse. You have to redo it all. Start over. Lets look back. Stand on california montgomery in the morning and count how many. When are we going to limit these guys right now it is subjugated by ride share companies. They made ride share and they have done nothing for hardworking. Theres nothing left for us. Everything has been looted by ride share. This is extorsion. And sfmta and city and involving this and i tell you explicitly this will be foreclosed soon. Prime with us make your final decision. Relief of us this imprisonment. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am in here to remind you last week we lost one dear friend and a driver. He is very, very hardworking person. I feel very sad talking about it because he has a wife, kids, like a family man. And i tell you the worse things i was 10 or 15 cars behind him. I see exactly what happened. Because i was the same situation. You imagine you sitting in your port three or four hours. They hold your and mentally, believe me. You drive far away and they levee your own car you imagine every day four hours is like that. We are sitting behind. Your feet blow up. And these guys, he was sitting behind a car. I know, maybe it was an accident but i dont see that. You guys and this situation killed him. Over a tire. He may be at the airport and he controls everything. He is more than three hours, the whole day. 12 or 14 hours. What do you expect . This is happening. And i want to remind you other things, new york, chicago, boston, other cities he was not like this in San Francisco. San francisco is guilty. Because they have to stand up for his m medallion. You broke your promise. You have to bring if back. No choice. You have to next speaker. Good afternoon, everybody. My name is abdullah and im a longtime taxi driver and the press shuprecious medallion anda father of five kids. I dont know what to say. We didnt give up yet. We have faith in the city of San Francisco. I tell my kids i want to keep the relationship with the city of San Francisco because we gave them 22 years. I dont say they lived to us. Well always respect you. Even if you listen to us or not, come on. Its way too much. I dont want to be in the freeway. I dont want to get in an accident when im driving a taxi. I want to exist from the shop and i want to give someone an opportunity to drive a taxi. We treat the customers maybe one of you ride in my taxi we get them home safe. You know, were human beings. We need you to feel with us. I came today not to pick up my check for money back or bail out, i cant drive and support my kids. One of the other drive and make the payment and keep my kids. I dont want to be homeless in the city of San Francisco. I see a lot. I show my kids all the homeless in every street. So, come on. Help. Help the people. Help the hardworking people. We love this city of San Francisco and we want to be part of the city. We want to remember you with the good things. You back up the cab drivers. You damage the drivers and you have to fix your damage. So that is what i have to say. Thank you. Good afternoon. Sam the taxi drivers and we come coming back and fourth again and again and nothing has been changed and the things are getting worse and worse and same like what we are losing and start losing hope on up guys and dont bring us up to the point where we lost complete hope. Some of you have promised us you will buy back. You promised us you will get our money back. Please, help us out. Everybody in San Francisco has the right to make a living wake. Why not the taxi driver . With the 250,000 investment we are not making a living wage. We are legalized under big slaves and this is the democra democracy. This is what you want to see the San Francisco and thats how you want to be remembered . We are finished. This is a question of all the board of supervisors how you would like to be remembered among the taxi drivers. At least you can give us some relief as long as you dont come up with the master plan of how you are going to buy back at least you can get us out from the neck of the Cab Companies that we are not making money but we are filling their tummies and theyre never going to say enough. We dont want your money anymore. They are so greedy that they are take our 700 a month and we can spend that towards mortgage and towards our future. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon. Its my first time here. The reason why im here is i just last week i was right behind the cab driver who died on the freeway so i have seen everything. So, i just want to ask how long we have to wait. Weve been back and fourth for almost eight years or nine years and that is no answer from you or the sfmta. We kept waiting and waiting. The sfmta told us the medallion and this plan and this plan has failed. Is there anyway to solve this problem. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I come down tonight to speak about how you have it in a room District Attorney appointed and felt very bad about that because i came down to speak out against mario woods shooting death and no one is going to speak out except for capper nick and capper nick was a Great Quarterback in that he put a need out and i want at statue put up in his behalf. I am pictures of it and everything. I enjoy being able to ex down here and speak out because you know, what is happening in hong kong and what happened over in chinatown, we are going through a lot of hell here in the city. And its on our backs what is going on. With cappernick and everything, he spoke for mario woods and mario woods brother are celebrating this moment right now. I thank you. Theres a lot going on in this world. And be able to come down here and speak out against all of that. You know, when kaepernick was out there in alcatraz, and they appointed him indian or you know, honorary chief, he said this is like a chapel here with the priest down here talking were all married to our lord jesus christ. He is just unbelievable for what he has done to us and i hope we can have a statue out here. Next speaker. Tom, i wish for this board and the mayor to create and sign a National Petition for the complete ban of all assault semi automatic rifles and wells in an the United States. Let other towns, cities and villages sign up. An opportunity to get some local majority out into washington too the people who are here. We dont need these weapons that kill people. We just want it changed. And i think the cities are the place where we can get the most amount of change. Were closer to the people. And the people that we need. Direct television, again, is canceling out or threatening to cancel out channel 2, ktvu and channel 7. If you are a broadcast station and you have news, a local news affiliation you should not be able to be canceled or cut off from your broadcast. No cable should have that ability. Right now, we are living in object sudden tee where we have thousands of people burn oil, pollute the air, set carbon dioxide, increase our disaster that is happening so they can make a living and secure a safe home for their children and the next day they go out and buy more gas to burn to more fuel so they can come to the city to create a regular job so they can go back home and have a safe house. Its not happening. Were in a destructive mode. We need policy ranges. Thank you. Good evening. Mr. President and supervisors. My name is wo duffy im a neighborhood activist from this area around here. About a year or two ago, this body approved a big tower in the downtown area with housing and mostly market rate housing and they promised they would put an mexicanamerican museum in the ground there were thats great and they said well what are you going to have . Were going to have the head of request teen murry e. T. Asomeone. What i said then is we have to get more out of the buildings and we had a perfect example of that today. A building that did not provide enough and our planning code did not allow us and also ceqa did not allow us to get a better outcome. Especially now when you start to consider Global Climate change. We know upper income people who live in market race housing has a tendency towards creating more climate problems. Climate emissions. They have a bigger profile. So, as big a problem is that is, i cant help but say after our first speaker and you have 50 of america inundated talk about revolution and the civil war is acceptable and theyre literally the people we are fighting against now are literally pushing violence against us citing that people to violence and i hope that our city can help because we need help with a non violent change of gover governance. Supervisor yee thank you. Good evening president ye e and supervisors. I dug these up when i was 12 years old. The bottle is from the south of market area. Many years ago and the can is from camp used from the loggers up there. Im going to get the late 1800s. And the locket is from sutters mill when i was 12yearsold, one of the first thing that locked up gold. Have you seen a older lock. Thats i didnt like that one. Bruce is retiring. Can you see the tshirt. And i want to say good luck to retirement to him. He worked there quite a while. He is leaving on a jet plane. And good luck in retirement to him. Oh i hope he does real good. Supervisor yee thank you. And well see. Well meet again. Do know where or when but i know well meet again. Some supervisor board of supervisors day. Supervisor yee thank you. Any other speakers . Please come on up. When i first moved to San Francisco it seemed inform and it didnt put out very much heat and to inspect the appliances and he explained his procedure and took a look and stated all was well and left actually the guides who installed the new gas stove had failed to seal the connection. It was a metal thread to metal thread no puddy or tape whether the thermostat was up or down the flame remained the same. I turned off the gas and sealed the stove connection in my opinion neither p. G. And e. Or private contractors who might break an old alliance and in order to sell a new one are necessarily the best parties exam such issues. This is why i suggested the Fire Department recruit and our Police Cadets inspect furnaces and Carbon Monoxide and fire alarm devices and crowded neighborhoods particularly where there are many children. And one thing i seem to perceive here is that under the budget chair contractors are not simply and running the mill and soltation osoltation of the indi have had witness on no less than half a dozen occasion and ringing funds out of the Budget Committee and offering no more than poorly constructed and arguments yet, they have succeeded in receiving additional funding on nothing more than an assumption of payment for an opening. Thank you. Seeing no other public speakers Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, before we do that, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer. Made by supervisor safai and no objection shes excused. Please call for the adoption with our Committee Reference calender. Items 32 to 34 are introduced a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on First Reading today alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. Supervisor yee ok. Would any of my colleagues like to officer any items. 32, please. Ok. Madam clerk, could you go ahead and take 33 and 34. Items 33 and 34, supervisor stefani. [roll call] there are eight ayes. Supervisor yee so, these two resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call number 32. A resolution urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to ensure further compliance with private scooter permit conditions. Supervisor yee thank you. Thank you president yee i would like to thank yourself and supervisors for cosponsoring this resolution. I have circulated some amendments. As ive said repeatedly about. Is zero tolerance for riding these devices on the sidewalks . Its plain and simple. Thats the law but as we did a Pilot Program and as its not been fixed and as the current regiment that is is being proposed in just a few days from now has three steps before someone is blocked for walk riding and can move from platform to platform and you havent fully figured this out and safety first and we do not want these people coming in with traumatic and finally, lets use all of tools that we learned here. First hiring direct hiring and stop the 1099 economy and lets have the w2 economy all of these pay your employees right and i thank you for your co sponsorship and there are before you some non substantive amendments and theres one correction to what is before you on page 2 at line 4 that april 2016 is a typo it should be april 2018. What my office said to the clerks legislative division has that so id like to make these amendment requests thaamendmente additional change. I want to say one thing from today, chris tanevance a d5 person. Hey, as skip scooters, your scooter was parked as a 45 angle and a man tripped and fell. Paramedics had to be called. Remove the scooter asap the sidewalk is too crowded as it is. I rest my case. Supervisor yee theres a motion to amend. Is there a second. Second by supervisor stefani. Can we take these amendment without objection. Amendment passes. Can we take this item as. I wanted to be added as a cosponsor. Can we take this item as amended same house same call. This passes unanimously. Is there anything else . Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. Supervisor yee that brings us to the end of our agenda. Is there any other business before us today. That concludes our business for today. Thank you very much. We are adjourned. My name is naomi kelly the singlestory for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. Not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored United States and excited about the future. My name is is jack listen and the executive director of a Phil Randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in San Francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the Community Members and i think i found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. I worked in hes Mayors Office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of San Francisco State University and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the Taxicab Commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and. Having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our Workforce Development services after a couple of years offering pathways to sustainable jobs. clapping. weve gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do Public Services but we also really build Strong Communities when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that brings a whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. clapping. i have a very good team around me were leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordablecare act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and were in support of of the women and support. In my industry i feel that is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more opportunities for i dont know women to do what tell me dream i feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever they need to make that achieveable. Education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of San Francisco law school and the fact i passed the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or an where you can in the way cant get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we cant let adversity throw in the valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. The first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the Mission Neighborhood extending from market to mission street. It is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. From 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. The mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m. T. A. To put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [ ] valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in San Francisco. It has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. We promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. Valencia is our mission fits our mission perfectly. Our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. Whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. I have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. During that time, i have seen the emergence of ridesharing companies. We have people on bikes, we have people on bike share, scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at night. One of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway. The most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. We kept all the passengers the passenger levels out, which is the white crib that we see, we double the amount of commercial curbs that you see out here. Most people arent actually perking on valencia, they just need to get dropped off or pick something up. Half of the commercial loading zones are actually after 6 00 p. M. , so could be used for fiveminute loading later into the evening to provide more opportunities or passenger and commercial loading. The five minute loading zone may help in this situation, but they are not along the corridor where we need them to be. One of the most unique aspects of the valencia pilot is on the block between 14th street. We worked with a pretty big mix of people on valencia. On this lot, there are a few schools. All these different groups had concerns about the safety of students crossing the protected bikeway whether they are being dropped off or picked up in the morning or afternoon. To address those concerns, we installed concrete loading islands with railings railings that channel channeled a designated crossing plane. We had a lot of conversations around how do you load and unload kids in the mornings and the afternoons . I do like the visibility of some of the design, the safety aspects of the boarding pilot for the school. We have painted continental crosswalks, as well as a yield piece which indicates a cyclist to give the rightofway so they can cross the roadway. This is probably one of the most unique features. During the planning phase, the m. T. A. Came out with three alternatives for the long term project. One is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. A twoway bikeway. The third option is a Center Running twoway bikeway, c. Would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. Earlier, there werent any enter lane designs in San Francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for San Francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesnt exist already. With all three concepts for valencias longterm improvement , theres a number of tradeoffs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. When he think about extending this pilot or this still this design, theres a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to everyone in the community. The pilot is great. It is a nobrainer. It is also a teaser for us. Once a pilot ends, we have thrown back into the chaos of valencia street. What were trying to do is incremental improvement along the corridor door. The Pilot Project is one of our first major improvements. We will do an initial valuation in the spring just to get a glimpse of what is happening out here on the roadway, and to make any adjustments to the pilot as needed. This fall, we will do a more robust evaluation. By spring of 2020, we will have recommendations about longterm improvements. I appreciate the pilot and how quickly it went in and was built, especially with the Community Workshops associated with it, i really appreciated that opportunity to give input. We want to see valencia become a really welcoming and comfortable neighborhood street for everyone, all ages and abilities. Theres a lot of benefits to protected bike lanes on valencia , it is not just for cyclists. We will see way more people biking, more people walking, we are just going to create a really friendly neighborhood street. [ ]. Chair peskin good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for today, tuesday, october 8, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Quintanilla. Could you please call the roll. [roll call] clerk we have
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