Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 52416 20160601

Present. Supervisor yee. President. Supervisor farrell, prept. Automatic members are present. Can you please join us for the pledge of a geedges. [recitation of the pledge of allegiance] thank you. Are there any chaimgs to the april 19th or the april 20th special budget and finance Meeting Minutes . Seen none. There is a motion . Colleagues can we take that without objection . The Meeting Minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. One through four comprise the agenda. An eye tomorrow may be removed and considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster. Madam cleerk, please call the roll. One through four, supervisor weiner. Aye Company Supervisor weiner aye. Supervisor avalos, aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. Iewp visor breed aye. Iewp visor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, mar aye. Supervisor peskin, aye, tang aye. There are 11 ayes. Those items are approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please read the next item. Item five is it an ard nans to allow departments to procure contracts threw a best val iew process with bid discounts applicable to price and to get performance and creation of a database. Call the vote. Weiner aye, supervisor eafl hes, no. Breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar, aye. Peskin aye. Supervisor tang. Aye. 10 ayes and one know with supervisor avalos in the dissent. Next aye testimony. Item six for 4. 1 million in revenues and deappropriate [inaudible] for nonpersonnel services and appropriate rating 4. 7 million to overtime in the Sheriffs Department. Fire department, Public Health department. Public Utilities Commission and Police Department operating budgets in order to support the departments increases in overtime. Supervisor avalos. Thank you madam president. I voted on this last week and i intend to no on it this week as well. I did want to mention some concerns i had, one issues i had with this last week is i felt that the board of supervisors had not practiced its budget short as effectively as we generally should. Especially when it came to the Police Salaries. We had 8 million left over that was moved in this ordinance being moved from Police Salaries to cover overtime that was used for the super bowl. I think we should be much more effective in how we do a budget review. This year, and i did have a conversation with the chair of the Budget Committee today, based on the requests from the Controllers Office, according to the chair of Budget Committee, that our budget process has been bumped up a week ahead of schedule. And that gives harvey rose less time to be able to do his analysis of the budget and without that analysis, were ham strung. I have a concern again for a next budget psyche that will starts next moppett. Are we going to have the ability to scrutinize this budget the way we need to to avoid the problems all over again . Im concerned based on request from the controller that the Budget Committee following we may not be able to do that. Today again, im voting no. Thank you supervisor avalos. Supervisor farrell. Id like to divide the file and have a separate vote on fire d. E. M. And sheriff. Okay. Roll call on the initial separated file as suggested by supervisor farrell. Avalos. Fire, d. E. M. And sheriff, i add d. U. C. To that as well. To include the d. U. C. Fire,. D. E. M. And p. U. C. . Okay, so were going to vote on that particular part of the divided file first and then well take a second vote on the remaining file. Madam clerk on the divided file which initially includes fire, d. E. M. Sheriffs department and p. U. C. Please call the roll. Our minutes from last Tuesdays Division was dphuc and the [inaudible] without the fire department. Can you repeat that. Original division from last week was dpheuc and sheriff without the fire department. Madam president supervisor farrell. For clarification purposes last week we had three separated out. Pyre, d. E. M. And sheriff and a dphsfud and puc. What supervisor avalos is suggesting that we not have a 33 vote. That we lock together four of them. On second reading, that is fine. Well have a first vote, if point. Fire, d. E. M. And sheriff and add p. U. C. To that. So just for clarification, there is no requirement for second reading. Yes, the entire ordinance must pass on second reading fire requires eight votes. The rest require six votes. The division from last week doesnt have to match up with the division of this week. Thank you for that clarification. Our first vote on the divided fire with will be for the fire department, d. E. Member of the k. Sheriff and p. U. C. Madam cleerk please call the role. Weiner aye. Yee aye, avalos aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye, peskin aye. Tang aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay, the ordinance finally passes unanimously. On the second part of the divided file, please call the roll. Supervisor weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos no. Breed aye. Campos know. Cohen no. Farrell aye. Kim no. Supervisor mar aye. Peskin no. Supervisor tang aye. There are six ayes and five Noh Avalos Kim peskin in the descent. Ma. Clerk item seven and eight are two leases between the city and bank of america for automated teller machines for item 7 with a 365,000 minimum annual guarantee for the first year of the lease and a five year term and item 8 is the lease for automated teller machines with a 250,000 minimum annual guarantee. Five year term with a two year option to extend. Supervisor campos. This is not an easy one in the sense that ideally, i personally dont want to have anything to do with any company that is headquartered in North Carolina. I do know this institution has actually gone out of its way to fus push back on the practices of that state. In recognition of that, i will be supporting this. But i would ask bank of america and any other company that is headquartered in North Carolina that if we fail to change the mind of this state and this government that they did seriously consider coming out of that state and moving on to different state headquartered, their offices somewhere else. City of San Francisco being one is one possibility. For that reason, i will be supporting this today. Supervisor cohen. Madam president , i need to ask that i make a motion to rescind item six. I voted incorrectly. So supervisor cohen has made a motion to rescind the vote on the split file of the second vote for item number six. Is there a second . Second. Can we take at that without exception. I did not catch the second on that. Supervisor farrell. All right, for item seven and eight since we called those items together, well finish the vote with that and go back to the second part of the split file that we rescinded the vote for. Clerk, please call the roll for items seven and eight. Weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos no. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim no. Mar aye, peskin no. Peskin no. Supervisor tang aye. Eight ayes and three knows. Nos. Those are adopted. On the item number six, the second part of the split file of the vote that we rescinded, madam clerk, please call the roll. This is for dch and ffdp. Weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos. Pd and dh no. Breed aye. Campos no. Cohen yes. Farrell aye. Kim no, mar aye. Peskin no. Peskin no. Supervisor tang aye. There are seven ayes and four knows. Avalos, kim and peskin in descent. Item nine is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to prohibit the use of city funds or resources to assist in the enforcement of Immigration Law except for individuals that are convicted of a violent felony. Avalos. Id like to refer this to later in the agenda. Well refer to later in the agenda. Madam clerk, items 10 through 14. Five resolution resolutions that declare of intent of city to reimpurse from multifamily housing rev if knew bonds. In the following amounts for item 10. Resolution in the amount not to exceed 76 million for 171 loehr street and sunnydale avenue. A re liewtion not to exceed 479 million for 158 1500 through 1508 avenue. 13 in the amount not to exceed 111 million for 54 mccallister street mcallister street and not to exceed 20 million more the knox sro. Vote. Item 10 through 14. Supervisor weiner. Weiner aye. Supervisor yee aye. Avalos aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Tang aye. There are 11 ayes. The resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please read item 15. Ordinance to amend the police code to prohibit any person from keeping an ire arm within any residents unless thats locked in a container or disabled with a trigger lot. Supervisor farrell. Thank you. I appreciate your hearing this item today and voting on it and for my colleagues at committee. Gun violence is a large issue not only here but across the country. One of the factors is the unsafe storage of firearms. I believe earlier this year or last year a recent study found that over 1. 6 million children and youth under 18 were living in homes withed and unlocked firearms. Can and they knew the low cautions of their parents firearms. Its into the just children and youth at risk, theyre also susceptible to theft during home invases. Over 80,000 firearms are stolen a year in burglars and 57 are used in crimes. Thats why i want this to close the loophole to ensure that all arms are kept in a locked container or secured by a you trigger lock. I want to recognize supervisor cohen as well for her work in this area. This is not in response to something that happened on the streets of San Francisco but i do not want to wait for a tragedy to enact this legislation. This proposal itself mandates all firearms not just handguns be be properly stored and have the proper trigger locks. In order to encourage risk of lost or stolen firearms, a person that would file would not be subject to prosecution under my proposal. This continues to be a top priority for everyone inside of city hall and we owe it to our families and children to be aggressive as possible to promote Public Safety especially in the home. We have the opportunity to be one of the the strongest gun safety cities in north america and continue to be at the leadership of these types of legislation and opportunities. I do want to thank a number of piano. First jeff from my office and the professionals at the law center for all their work on this issue. They do a loot of work in our country and are sphwrx. I want to acknowledge their leadership in this. Thank you. And madam clerk, please add me as a exoa sponsor. Supervisor campos. I want to be added as a cosponsor. The key here it to shak make sure we spread the word and make sure that firearms are kept safely in their home and im proud of the fact that we continue to lead the way around the issue of gun safety here in San Francisco. Thank you again supervisor farrell. Thank you. And madam clerk, can we take item 15 without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Item 16, please. Item 16 is an ordinance to designate 35 to 45 onendagga avenue also known as the hospital and Health Center as a landmark. Supervisor avalos. Im delighted to bring this forward to landmark these two buildings for historic Landmark Preservation list. These are would sites, two hospitals one was an Emergency Hospital part of the system that was built in the 1930s during the depression. It was a system in place for about 40 years. Until it was shut down in the 1970s. Interesting about the history here, is that the when d. P. H. Decided to shut down the site, workers and residents occupied the space to keep the healthcare continuing for residents in that part of town. They held it for a month. Within the building you can see graffiti held behind during at that occupation of the building. There are other many, many historical parts of the stild building. Architecturally theyre amazing in terms of spanish architect. Architecture. And there is the health at home building. There are two murals by bernard zakheim. We found two frescoes partially covered by paint. More recently in the past five years in the lealt and home building. And were going to be landmarking this building. Whatever happens in the future, these historical remnant can remain. Colleagues, i encourage your support. Also, this measure has big support from my district in particular the new Mission Terrace Improvement Association which had filed for the Historic Preservation resolution. So, colleagues, i encourage your support. Thank you. Thank you supervisor avalos. Colleagues item 16 without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Madam clerk, please read item 17. Clerk to amend the health code to protect the Public Water System by replacing obsolete requirements consistent with current state and federal Drinking Water laws. Without objection, the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Please read items 18 through 20 together. Items 18 through 20 with three resolutions to authorize the issuances to licenses for the following locations to ensure that the alcohol beverage control. Item 18 is a type 18 premises license to Frank Leclerc for gaiten restaurant. 21 is a general license to howard goh located at 5900 third street. Item 20 to issue a type 20 offsale beer and wine license to Surinder Singh doing business at 7eleven on mission street. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Please read item 21. Resolution to urge governor jerry brown to declare a state of emergency to this growing crises and provide state assistance to the cities and counties to provide needed support and services. Colleagues, can we take this item . Madam president ,. Item 21 weiner aye, yee no. Afl yoas aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Tang no. There are nine ayes and two knows yee and tang in i the dissent. The resolution is adopted. Item 22 please. 22 is an ordinance to exempt the California State University of Fresno Foundation from the chapter 12 access ordinance to facilitate the agencies entering into a contract with the foundation for Training Services required for Child Welfare staff and foster parents. Supervisor weiner aye. Yee aye. Avalos aye. Breed aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Kim aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Tang aye. Tang aye. There are 11 ayes. The ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. Item 23, please. A motion to reappoint annemarie fortier and nicole bunny math use rosenberg to the commission of animal control and welfare. Can we take this item. Without objection the motion is approved unanimously. All right, lets skip over the 3 00 and 33 00 p. M. Especially items and 3 30 p. M. And go to special items. Supervisor yee. Id like to be rereferred. Supervisor avalos. We cant all rerefer. Are you guys ready for roll call for introduction . Okay. President breed. Rerefer, please. Campos. Great, ill take it. Thank you. The first item is an item i know a number of people have talked about. But i want to give credit for credit is due by thanking former assembly man tom enono. Hes been thinking about this for more than 10 years. Hes been working tirelessly to bring people across the aisle to bring needed change in different aspects of government. You think a lot of the structural changes that made government function bet railroad because of tosm and his work. For the last six months, a blem bli member anonoeo. S have what been working with labor unions and nonprofits to draft the legislation im about to introduce which is the creation of an office of public advocate here in San Francisco. The office of public advocate is a complaint and whistleblower department empowered to fight for San Francisco residents here in city hall for the purpose of Getting Better results for those residents. Now more than ever, the public is yearning for accountability and transparency here in government. Whether its around police accountability, homelessness, housing, you name the issue. I want to thank my cosponsors of this Charter Amendment supervisor mar, supervisor avalos, supervisor kim and i look forward to adding to that list. This Charter Amendment makes three major changes. When it comes to the office. And the responsibilities. I want to thank the City Attorneys Office and tom owen in particular for all his great work in putting this proposal together. First, this office would be a constituent services agency. On an individual level, the public advocate takes complaints, and makes it sure that members of the public are treated fairly by their local government. If you get a parking ticket as an example because they start sweeping streets, and you complain because you point out rightly so that you actually were not there at the time that would have made you liable for the ticket. If you complain to the sfmta, chances are youre not going to get your complaint answer. On the systemic level, the public advocate would investigate on going patterns and problems to address whatever the issue is whether its an effectiveness, ineptitude. Waste, corruption you name it. The second function is to respond to something that i think is very much at the forefront of what is happening here in san diego. In San Francisco in that is what is happening with our Police Department. The second disappoint that is an important part of this proposal responds to the preliminary findings by the panel created by the District Attorney and specifically does that by bringing the office of citizens complaints under the public advocate. Currently, you have a situation where you have the Mayors Office that overseas the San Francisco Police Department. At the same time, the Mayors Office also overseas the office of business complaints. The idea that the occ which is supposed to provide independent oversight to the Police Department ultimately reports to the same individual from our perspective from a government and best practice standpoint, ebl that change is needed. This Charter Amendment would bring the offices of citizens complaints and gift public advocate the authority to appoint the head of occ. The third piece is to enhance the advocacy for workers to make the public advocate, an advocate for workers by bringing the office of labor standards enforcement under the public advocate. The office ever economic and Workforce Development and labor standards and enforcement are both under the Mayors Office. One agency is tasked with bringing in as much big business as possible and weve seen that. At the same time, you have another agency that also reports to the Mayors Office whose job is actually to provide oversight into investigate and regulate those businesses. There is an inherent conflict. Thats what this Charter Amendment addresses as well. Im excited that the public advocate is also an omed buts person. Whaed but om buds person. And its led to millions of dollars in of savings in these governments in just the first two years of office of the current publicked zero cat in nepublic advocate. Her office saved 170 million. Because they focused on reviewing contracts because of the good work that went directly though that city. She also recouped 2 million from the state of new york, money owed to the city and because of the work of the public advocate, this su surfaced. This Charter Amendment is about this administration, mayor lee, its not about this board of supervisors or any of the members, its about checks and balances about making sure the system functions as well as it possible can function. In the current system, i believe we lack a high level of accountability for certain departments that many major cities have demonstrated that in fact having a public advocate is Good Government, its about transparency, its about accountability. We believe that we need this office in San Francisco and look forward to making the case in november. The second item is very difficult one any time there is a death and this is in memoriam for a special person, a young person. In memoriam for leighen Reuben Medina. Leighen Reuben Medina passed way this morning of may 22nd in his home in elk grove california. He is survived by his mother who is a former member of the San Francisco human rights commission. Who is also a past executive director to the Mission Economic development agency. He is also the father the son of jose medina who is a former member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Former member of caltrans and one of the founders of [inaudible] leon Reuben Medina is followed by his mothe brother. Leon worked for fair employment and equal opportunity and rights in the public and nonpublic sector. He fought for labor rights. Before working for 13 years with the state of california at the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board Department of fair employment and housing. The department of fish and wildlife and most recently the department of business oversight. He was not afraid to take on his employers or to openly speak truth to power if that could further the rights of people. Leighen was a San Francisco native born at st. Lukes hospital in my district here in the mission. He grew up in the mission, pou portala. He attended st. Pauls and hillcrest elementary and graduated from lowell high school. He went on to uc la where he earned his b. A. In history and law school where he learned his juryis doctorate degree. He overcame so much since developing epilepsy in high school but never compromised his values and condition and imparted additional wisdom to his friends and family who loved them so dearly and wish he could still be with them. He was 45 years old. My age. For those who want to attend his memorial, its this sunday. At 1 00 p. M. Actually sunday 1 00 p. M. June fifth east lawn and elk grove. Mass is monday june 6th at Good Catholic Church in elk grove. We know this a difficult time for this family and our thoughts are with leon and his entire family and i ask we close the meeting today in his memory. The rest i submit. Thank you. Madam president. Ready to be referred back to. First off, colleagues, i want to thank supervisor campos for introducing the charter for public advocate and i am a big supporter oaf the work of the public advocate. That the public zero cat will be able do. We have a lot of enforcement, bodies and agencies within the city and county of San Francisco. I have always felt that many of them didnt have the need toed to carry out their work. Time and time again weve been saying that they are hamstrung often by politics by competing political interests. We want to make sure that these agencies can be as strong as they can be to support workers in the case of olfc and support people who have cases of Police Misconduct or Police Brutality here in San Francisco. With the Police Department and office of citizens complaints, we have to have a more robust occ that can handle the crisis of confidence that many communities in San Francisco have towards the Police Department. This the lowest ive ever seen it and it means we have to restructure our agencies and institutions here in San Francisco to make sure that they can hold accountable the Police Department and also be a place where the public can get a sense of confidence in the enforcement bodies and investigate tri bodies helping them with their cases. I am honored to support the public advocate. Its important that occ has a director that is appointed by the public advocate rather than by the mayor through the Police Department which gives the kind of independence that the public advocate, or occ needs to have to really be able to do its work and the public can have confidence in that agency to be successful in representing their cases. And so, just want to put in a word for that. Charter amendment will be wending its way through the board of supervisors here in the next couple of months but it has my full support in moving forward. Today im also introducing a Charter Amendment that is related to new revenue that will be supporting transportation develops Homeless Services. This amendment will be aligned with what appears to be. 75 cents sales tax and that sales tax is a tax that would apply to everyone, but in San Francisco, we have a big part of our sales tax revenue that comes from businesstobusiness transactions paying for up to half of what the total revenue on the sales tax will be. The tax measure, as i said, will Fund Transportation as well as Homeless Services. On the transportation side. Ive been pushing for a number of years based on the t2030 process to look at how to make long term improvements especially around capital to our transportation programs and capital programs in San Francisco. And part of that process, ive been working with Many Community stake holders especially teak holders who have a stake in affordability and equity and in robust Transit Service that will get to the outlying neighborhoods and neighborhoods that are more low income where a lot of people of color live. D8.  based on the work of the past four years on getting that discussion around equity, the m. T. A. Made a lot of strides forward in building an equity framework for how they make decision on funding and how they make decisions on theirero their lines and were building in language into our transportation Charter Amendment that will accompany the sales tax to ensure there is equity and affordability in there. We also know and appearance on the daily, our homelessness crisis here in San Francisco. And weve just the Mayors Office to his credit has restructured Homeless Services under a particular office that will be headed by jeff kazinski. And we have a very comprehensive system, but coordination is going to be key. One of the things that is lacking in terms of how we can help the hardest to serve people on our streets is to react to homelessness. This tax measure will bring the revenue up to 50 million to be applied a year for helping create those exits to homelessness and certify services that will address homelessness in San Francisco. This measure, we havent gone the full breadth of cosponsors, but it has the input allowing great input from supervisor wiebeer and his office from supervisor farrell and his office from the Mayors Office from the mta and transportation authority, Mayors Office as well. We are a trying to make sure that we can have the type of investment that is going to hit the huge needs we have around building our Transportation System for the 21st century as well as addressing our huge, huge problems with homelessness to make sure that were making strides and real concerted effort to bring people off the streets and into secure housing in San Francisco. Thank you supervisor avalos and back to supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. Colleagues, im excited today to be introducing some legislation that well be bringing to voters in november. Im excited because id like to it reminds me many times i spent with my grandmother who instilled upon me the importance of taking care of our seniors. Im introducing along with cosponsors of supervisor mar, yee, campos and avalos in an important measure for novembers ballot. Were drug the first of its kind in San Francisco history. Our senior population is growing and its growing rapidly. Did you know by the time 2030 rolls around, well expect to see a population grow by over a hundred thousand people. The dignity fund will allow our growing senior population, our veterans. Disabled and those with chronic diseases including hivaids to age in place with dignity by helping to stabilize funding that allows the populations to age in their homes, not only their homes but communities. Each year during the budget system, our seniors and advocates have to come to fight over pennies to make sure they have enough money for the budget for basic services as homedelivered meals and inhome support services. Were creating a dedicated and predictable funding stream beyond what our department aging and Adult Services already receives each year and looking to put a stop to the fight around the budget season. Many of our seniors in San Francisco are living in fixed incomes that dont meet the rapidly growing cost of living here in San Francisco. What the dignity fund will do is that it will create additional funding of at least 30 million that will help offset some of the cost of growing older so the seniors can remain their homes and communities much longer. The dignity fund will provide Financial Support for inhome care service provisions. Housing modifications. Homedelivered meals a pped groceries. Adult healthcare services. Conditional housing and more importantly protections and Financial Assistance against eviction and homelessness. Thats incredible. This is just a short list of the services that will allow our seniors to age in place. Our seniors helped build this miraculous city. Our veterans fought for our freedom. We have seen jers that were adults in the 1980s that contracted hivaids and other chronic diseases. I think its time for us to stand up and be a champion for them today. We must treat our elders with respect and dignity especially as they get on in their years. Its what they deserve. I feel this is the morally right thing do for our city and citys future. I do hope to have more cosponsorship with my other colleagues. Thank you. Thank you supervisor cohen. Supervisor farrell. Thank you. Colleagues, i have one item today. An ordinance regarding dpw permit reform. Its not a shock to anyone that our Construction Industry is booming in our city and the sheer amount of construction has a effect on the quality of life. Residents are frustrated by the volume of scarce neighborhood parking faces taken away. The frustration are on permanent situations that are taken up when construction is not being done on a project site. Were told of and investigating an issue in district two where a parking space has been reserved for a nonexistent Construction Projects for 13 years. Given these issues, i teamed up with dpw and dbi to do the following first dictate that the duration of a street space occupationy for permanent construction cannot be longer than our Building Code allows for the work. Adds more review before permanent extension and directs the director not to grant it unless there is on going work on the sietd. This proposal would giver in discretion to the dpw director. Under this proposal, the directorrer may deny the extension. In addition the proposal would give the director the discretion to revoke any street occupationy per myth mitt if he or she feels an inconvenience will be reserved by revoking the permit. Residents will be able to a appeal. Its intended to free up limited Parking Spaces and not curtail residential construction. It will only apply to residential, urban mixed use or commercial transit districts as defined in the planning code. Lastly this would apply retroactively so we the city can proactively address those that have quality of life issues in our neighborhoods. I believe this is a very simple, especially some of the other items that are coming forward today. But straightforward piece of legislation that will have a positive impact into our neighborhoods. I want to thank dpw and dbif working closely with my office that stems from one particular project site in my district that i think we can work across our city. I want to thank jerry and john. Bill strong as well as my staff. The rest i submit. Supervisor farl, thank you. Supervisor kim. Thank you madam clerk. San francisco as we often talk about here this chamber is experience being unprecedented change driven by a rapidly growing Economic Growth and wealth here in our city one that is envied by cities around the country and one that lous us to boast 3 Unemployment Rate here in San Francisco yesterday. However, with this change, were experiencing the fastestgrowing income gap in the country. According to our own data, our Human Services agency, one rivaled only countries like rwanda. For too many families, this displacement comes in the form of eviction. In recent poll commissioned by toddco this past week, it shows that 7 a of san franciscans are concerned that the rent is too high and 10 is concerned that rent is too high. Only 4 stated its not a concern or certaining. We are seeing that were becoming a city that is rapidly becoming unaffordable with record levels of evictions an rent here in our city. There is a pervasive sense that were losing the city we once loved along with the Community One person at a time from friends, parishioners. Businesses to teachers nurses and artists. Nimmune to the wave of displacement sweeping our bay area. But we can do more to address the tremendous anxiety with regards to our future. Im proud to stand here with many members of the colleagues to fight for more Affordable Housing to work to protect our business legacies to fight to increase our minimum wage to 15 15 and hour here in San Francisco and fight for the strongest tenant protections here in the country. There is much more do and that is why today im introducing a package f package of legislation for city stability in growing the middle class and that is in education. Specifically in Community College. I have a propose that will i announced last month that well make City College Free for all San Francisco residents. I also promised to introduce a proposal in order to generate the revenue that will allow us to do so. We know that Community College is often the institution that allows our working class to rise in the middle class and there are barriers to attending Community College today. In fact, it is the california promise that Higher Education be free here in the state of california. In fact, Community College was once free here in the state of california until 1983. Where we can work to make that a reality again here in San Francisco. My proposal today, a mansion tax that i had first talked about last december. Its a real estate transfer tax that we increase by a quarter percent for tax paid on building and luxury homes on and condos that sale for more than 5 million, 10 ml and 25 million. We cant stop people from creating a market for luxury homes. But we can ask those that contribute to the market to pay a little bit more to protect the San Francisco, the city we love here. In fact, if we nas measure, in november, well become the first city in the country to make City College Free for all of our residents regardless of age, income or any type of gpa prerequisites. This measure will jen rit more than doubling the amount of money we need to make City College Free today. Were looking an examining at a proposal to also serve students that are qualify for Free City College by looking at an educational stipend for books, transportation and potentially child care as well because we know that tuition is not the only barrier to attending Higher Education. In fact, books are far more expensive these days than the fees are in and of themselves. We believe there will be money remaining leftover to work on other initiatives to make our city more affordable to all. I want to thank and acknowledge our Controllers Office who has been working with us over the last six months to craft a proposal that would work where were doing a slight increase in our real estate transfer task asking a small investment from those who are able to afford large and expensive buildings and homes in San Francisco to help keep San Francisco affordable for all. I want to acknowledge afp 2121, the faculty at city college Alyssa Messer along with chance letter lam and City College Board of trustees bringt davala and john rizzo and radioing my colleagues who have been strong supporters from the beginning. Supervisors peskin, mar, campos and avalos. Free city college is just one of the way that we can work to protect San Francisco for San Franciscoens. We hope youll join us in november to fight to make this a reality. I look forward to november 8th that we can announce San Francisco will be the first in the nation to make Community College free for all our residents put us at the forefront of building more equity and affordability here in this country. The rest i split. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Thank you. Colleagues, i wanted to first say that im applauding our senior and disability advocate organization the dignity fund owe lition for working for several years with supervisor croween, supervisor ye and avalos and campos in putting forward what i spheel an historic piece of legislation that when passed by voters in november will make sure that our city can claim being an aging friendly city for the future. Some of you know that supervisor yee is probably the lone senior on our body. I will be a senior in a couple of years as well. And i think its not just the 200,000 seniors and people with disabilities that were talking about represented by the coalition before us, but its also the baby boomer generation that supervisor yee and i are a part of that will be rapidly becoming seniors. Over the next 20 to 30 years well add a hundred thousand seniors by 2030. By 20 oo, well be 40 of San Franciscos population and were not keeping up with the funding levels of our senior and disabled population in our city. With the guidance of our brass roots coalition. Weve learned where the gaps are. The Dignity Fund Coalition will make history in november as we begin the process not only to pass this measure, but to really lift up our senior and disabled organizations especially from low income communities throughout the city so well have dignity and respect for all. I want to thank the coalition along with the allies on the board of supervisors pushing this measure. My mother is 91 years old. She has dementia and lives in an assisted living facility. We have many aging in place programs that we as the board of supervisors funded over the years but we need many more of these types of organizations and programs so that seniors not only like my mom, like supervisor cohens dad or grandparent that she mentioned but they deserve to be able to age and live in their homes and in their communities with dignity. My hope is that well pass this measure and San Francisco could make history as the first city perhaps in the nation that responds to our rapid growing senior boomer population with an Adequate Funding stream of resources that we call the San Francisco dignity fund. I also wanted to applaud supervisor kim and the Free City College coalition for the city College Funding measure and ma matching tax as well that im proud to cosponsor. To add a point to supervisor campos and form ar assembly man amanone call in San Francisco. I think for the occ and police accountability, its important for an om bud om buds program but for workers and hundreds of thousands oaf people in the think sti that are workers. We need and an advocate for borks in San Francisco. The office of standards needs to be an independent enforcement agency. Under the mayor and city administrator, i dont believe that it is. I think this public advocate position helps to ensure that we have Good Government and checks and balance system. I recently called with a number of labor organizations including jobs for justice and others for moving the enforcement out from under the Mayors Office to either the City Attorneys Office or a newlycreated Public Advocates office created in order to have the independence. I think this Charter Amendment led by supervisor campos with ammianoo and our commission will achieve this. For the ofc and labor standards. Its critical our workers have an independent office to ensure that wages and wage step to ours and Worker Protections we built in are protect. I a flawed supervisor campos. This is a Good Government measure with good checks and balances that will save money and increase accountability for our city. I hope what voters in november will support a public advocate for San Francisco. Also, i have a couple of quick announcements. First of all, join me on saturday were unveiling yet another mural in the richmond district. I and my office are advocating for public art and more murals whether its on pea body elementary or argon elementary, to a new one coming up or the two brand new murals at the ocean beach safeway complicting playland at the beach and ocean beach is a treasure. The new mural is on complemen complement clemant street. Ace plumbing or standard plumbing or ace hardware. Well be unveiling a brand new mural on saturday from 4 00 to 6 00 in front of ace hardware on third and clement. I wanted to thank Cynthia Hughey and michael busk for really helping our office achieve not only the funding, but the selection and implementation of this amazing mural. There is a new character in the mural called foggy it will be an icon of clement and the richmond district. Thank you to the artist jason jaigal for the incredible mural with lots of great characters. It reminds me of richard scary storybooks. This marks district one movie night. Bundle up with blankets and sleeping bags. Well be watching finding nemo well gather at 7 00 and as the sun goes down well thank the merchants, ymca, San Francisco rec and Park Department for collaborating with me and my office to make it happen. Joins at Rossi Playground at sunset for great movies. Lastly, jackie chan center of help for elderly on 22nd and geary is celebrating 20 years of serving seniors and low income and immigrants. Theyve served the low income residents in our district and surrounding areas. Props to jackie chan for supporting the center over the years. Were celebrating the anniversary on n two weeks at noon. Join us for lunch for the seniors. For more information, selfhelpelderly. Org. I want to thank leon modine that ive known for 20 years and his family. I want to say i met leon 20 years ago when he was a young law students and was appreciative of his thoughtfulness, his warmth, how much he gave to the community in how he looked at life. Thank you to Gabriel Medina and family for bringing leons passing to our attention. I wanted to say when Community Leaders like leon pass on, i think its important that as g gabriel today, we cant forget them. Gabriel wrote in a posting after leon passed, i love you leon and im glad you have everlasting peace. Through your friends, im discovering who you are so genuinely pained and im glad you lived a life where others admired your heart. Condolences to leon Medina Medina and his family. I want to be added as cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisor peskin. First i want to grasm late our colleague supervisor cohen on her recent nuptials and witch her the best on her new life. Congratulations supervisor cohen. There is quite an uproar in the last 24 hours with respect to Recreation Parks Department proposed loor park pilot program. This is not an isolated incident. Its not okay and its not been okay for quite a while. When the oversight body has made recommendations isnt even apprised of what the department is doing or the rationale behind it, i think we have a problem. When policy calls are made on an ad hoc basis depending on what backlash is happening and what neighborhood is sphrugling to get access to their own Public Open Space, i think we have a problem. I want to add my name as a cosponsor to supervisor kims resolution and hearing request and i think its time we make some system attic changes and ensure that this kind of stuff does not happen again. As a former employee of the trust Republic Land and a long time parks and open space advocate, i find it troubling weve even considered piloting a proposal to charge the general public to enjoy the grass in the park. This park, by the way, is the same one that city taxpayers just laid out 20 million to renovate. We all have the right to enjoy the citys precious open space and recollect rate without having every square foot and every blade of grass privatized, micromanaged and monetized. Today im asking the City Attorney to draft amendments to article 7 of the park code expressly restricting picnic permitting of Public Open Space including our public lick meadows, lawns, natural areas and every blessed piece of public grass within our jurisdiction. This legislation will ban the yo issuance of picnic permits including park bonds and with the exception of capital improvements. There will be a limited picnic issued for those that have structural facilities. Also today, i am drug a Charter Amendment for all of your consideration which i think is long overdue. Its something this body in years past saz well as Good Government advocates have been talking about for some time. We have some critical core city offices who do very important work with little to no oversight. I believe the public deserves to have transparent processes in place that ensure that your public dollars and policies are administered in appropriate, transparent ways. Im drug a Charter Amendment that establish establishes a Housing Development to oversee the Economic Workforce Development and our department of real estate with limited oversight authority. Recently resubmitted an inquiry to the oches of economic and Workforce Development regarding their grant process and request specific sets of criteria to utilize how to determine how they structure their rfp process. After reviewing their responses, it is quite clear to me that more transparency is needed with respect to the allocation process can. According to the Neighborhoods Grant Program in fiscal year 2014 201550 of the budget was for Capacity Building neighborhood organizations a total of 3 million. In the current fiscal year, that rose to 47 . In the same category to the tune much 3. 8 million. This is a lot of money that generates a lot of consternation among neighborhood organizations that is pickup trucked against each other in a fight for funding. I dont think thats Good Government. Weve heard a tremendous amount of concern around the lack of oversight with respect to the Mayors Office of Housing Community development. These departments, by the way, collectively are worth well north of a hundred million dollars. We have commissions for every other important City Department and nothing to help create a good system of checks and balances for these core offices and functions. The Mayors Office has requested funding for 64 positions in the budget. 124 total positions if offbudget positions are included. In the office in the office of housing and community development. And an additional 101 positions in the office of economic and Workforce Development. To put that in perspective, the last time i was on the board of supervisors when willie brown left office, that department was s shrunk to 0 ftd. Thats a lot of growth. I look ford to discussion and debate as this makes its way hopefully to the ballot. I thank to thank you for your unanimous massage of resolution 25223. Many of you have 2522. Many of you have seen that awr governor is moving to deford Affordable Housing and give an as of right privilege for those in exchange for modest housing commitments well below our local standards here in San Francisco. In the midst of this housing crisis that continues to impact thousands of san franciscans and californians. Governor brown released his budget on friday and allocated a grand total of nothing in new housing funds. He opposed the 1. 3 billion assembly affordable heable housing plan by our david chu keeping money in the Rainy Day Fund and putting forth an as you ever right Development Plan that would have applied to every project in San Francisco and is in essence a give way to developers. Especially concerning is the provision that market rate projects with 10 inclusionary and 20 affordability in other areas be given a complete pass on local development and planning controls. Ld im introducing a resolution today building on our unanimous approval with regard to the ab 2522 resolution and asking our state legislative delegation to oppose the governments as of right trailing bill. I wancht to thank the supervises for their cosponsorship and ask for your support as we work to ensure San Franciscos local Planning Powers and contributions to Affordable Housing and overall pipeline do not go unacknowledged or cut off at the knees. Thank you. Supervisor tang. Im introducing an ordinance here to amend our addmin coat to help new mothers returning to work. We ask that our department of Human Resources develop a formal lactation policy for our City Departments. I warchght to thank cohen breed, oval owes yee if you want to agree. To allow mothers to breast feed their children when they return to work and provide a place to express milk during their work day. There are laws on the bookings, but theyre not. Our city policy will go beyond the cree requirements and around it will allow allowing nursing mothers for Breast Feeding time. Requiring City Departments to establish a process for nursing mothers to request breaks for lactation. Calling for departments to provide a place for lactation consistent with state and federal guidelines and a with a door that can be locked with one electrical outlet. A chair, adequate lighting. Ability to partition the room for mowlt many mothers and refrigerator, sink and hospital grade breast pump. Lactation rooms will be required to be identified with signage. And we are also requiring that if the city builds any new city buildings or office space that the City Department must cult with dhr to make sure there is sufficient space to use as a lactation room. This policy will be distributed to all new employees and all employees who have requested parental leave and ask that dhr request a web taij to have materials for lactation and Breast Feeding. So, you might ask why were doing this policy. We have quite a few women who work in our city workforce but also in our private sector as well. In fact, there are 40 of our permanent fulltime employees in the city and county of San Francisco who are women and 66 of part time employees are women. And women who work for our city, theyre not just working at their defining. They are engineers out in the field. They are train operators. Gardeners, Police Officers and firefighters. Many are also mothers. If you ask any of them if they continue to breast feed and pump milk when they return to work, you would hear a variety of stores like i pumped at my desk or between meetings. I pumped in a bathroom because there there was no other accommodation. Our lactation policy is not just trying to address the ability for mothers to be able to express milk, but there are Many Health Benefits to children and mothers. Breast milk contains antibodies that protect children from illnesses including ear infections respiratory infections asthma, obesity and diabetes and reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. It can prevent postpartum depression. Cancers. Type ii diabetes and its readily affordable and accessible. When new mothers breast feed for the First Six Months of a childs life and maintain it to the end of first year, only 16 women exclusively breast feed for 6 months after birth. Only 10 of mother whose work fulltime are Breast Feeding their baby after six months. So in order for mothers to feel supported and empowered to continue to provide breast milk employers must create an environment to facilitate a mothers need to express milk. I want to thank supervisor cohen my colleague here who recently encouraged us to convert a restroom into our first lactation room on the second floor. Now that brings us to two lactation facilities in city hall. This was done just in time before one of my aids came back from maternity leave. Now i see every day how much this room benefits my sphaf and she is able to continue working and go down the hall a minute away to be able to provide breast milk for her new baby. I want to thank ashley summers who shortly after giving birth to her child gave birth to the idea of this legislation. I hope our city will continue to be a model city for Family Friendly workplace policies. Lastly, im going to submit a substitute legislation to fire safety legislation that i introduced many, many months ago. Just to strengthen and enchance what were requiring of our apartment managers and landlords for better fire safety. Ten again, this has been pending in committee already and were submitting substitute legislation to strengthen our requirements. With that, i submit. Thank you supervisor tang. Supervisor weiner. Thank you very much. I have in memoriam for Larry Mitchell that im going to defer to my honor of mitchells ice cream during maul sma Small Business week presentation. Im introducing a resolution today to declare june 8th 2016 team edna day in honor of memory edna flores lagoonta. She was a fireless advocate against hivaids and worked on the Public Policy vad cocat and Governmental Affairs based on hivaids issue. She was a 13time participate and fundraiser for the california a. I. D. S. Right and a. I. D. S. Life stiekal alc. She also served as touching thousands with her spirit and smile. Tragically, edna lost her life on june 8th 2014 riding in alc 2014. Team edna consisting of riders as a Fund Raising Team for alc 2015 honor her memory and spread awareness ofiv of hivaids. I introduce that resolution today. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor weiner. Supervisor yee. Thank you. First ever all, id like to thank you thank supervisor mar to point out that im only senior here. Something that i kept a secret for a long time. Im really happier to a coauthor also in the dignity fund we talked about earlier. Several of my colleagues mentioned. Its something that i realize even before i became a supervisor that something was lacking in the city as i watched my own parents age and aunt age and being the caregiver for all three of them in different parts of their lives, there are things that werent happening for them. I thought it was me that wasnt able to Access Services for them. But once i became a supervisor, i realized even within my own district where you have over nearly 25 of the population as seniors, there was only one seen jer service out Senior Service there was only one and when i added a second out there, it was immediately full to capacity. So it didnt take long when there is a service that people actually will find it and seek it out. And so when we talk about the growing senior population, and possibly not being able to serve them in the future, i dont think for me, its not about the future, its about right now. There is a lack of services. For the last few budget cycles now, some of the strongest groups that have v come in to ask for budget help from from the seniors and people with disability. Every year, i realize, we dont have that . So we need to do something about that. Again, im going to be a strong supporter of making sure that i ask all my constituents to support this notion of a dignity fund. And i also want to thank supervisor kim for introducing the transfer tax proposal to allow for students to get the funding to allow for students to attend city college for free. Its something that has something i grew up with. It was free at one time. And people were able to go to work, go for college, buy their books and so forth. Now you go to work and still cant afford it because of the cost of living. What were finding out. I hear from different individuals that graduate from our high schools and im not going to college. I ask them why, and they cant afford it. Thank you for doing that. Supervisor kim and also, acknowledging, its not just about the tuition, its about other costs associated with going to college including if youre a young parent, that you need early care and education to make sure that your child, preschooler and infant is really being taken care of. Now what id like to do is the mta budget has been growing over the years. Just hearing today in terms of the introduction of the different proposals that were talking about, potentially, the budgets can go up further and one of the things that we havent been able to do is try to get more accountability in terms of what is going on out there in terms of changes. Schizophrenia are comin. Constituents are coming to me saying why isnt mta doing this or that . I feel i have no voice being appointed by the board of supervisors. So today im cruing a Charter Amendment by changing the appointment process and allowing for more oversight of the budget. I recognize there are many attempts in the past that changed the way appointments were made to alter the a proiment process or add additional layers of oversight that were deemed far too reaching. I believe that the city amendment i am introducing today is not overreaching or reactional. I am proposing that the sfmta point of directors be appointe ed by a split process from the mayor and board of supervisors. Here we will have a majority of the appointments made by the mayor and remaining three made by the board of supervisors. Currently the board ever supervisors is unable to alter the sfmta built and requires seven votes for rejection. I wanted to bring the approval rejection process to be uniform with other departments that will only require a simple majority vote or rejection. If they reject the budget, the board wb required to make a set of findings that the sfmta board of directors would respond to when a revised budget is submitted. Again, this is not unusual with other departments. And the board of directors will continue to retain the charter and oversee the Municipal Transportation Agency and establish its own budget. I acknowledge the publics desire to have Transportation Department that is independent and apolitical. I also hear the cry from many, many people for a need for future accountability and oversight. Id like to thank supervisor kim, peskin and cam foes for cosponsoring this Charter Amendment. Thawn. Supervisor cohen. Thank you everyone. Another piece of legislation i want to share with you that i think youll be interested in hearing about. Its a Ballot Initiative that would change the structure for the office of citizens complaint. There is no secret there is currently a deficit in the confidence of Law Enforcement. 23409 just here but across the country. One of the things you hear consistently is a need and desire for transparency. San francisco is not against. This the ballot measure will seek to allow the people of San Francisco to weigh in. This november. It creates a more independent and autonomy for the office of citizens complaint by create ago i new authority for the department to perform regular auditing of Police Departments handling on use of force misconduct. There is initiative now proposition d. One of the criticisms i heard was that it had no teeth. This initiative is in response to that criticism. Think the critics will find it has the teeth and strength and oversight that people are looking although the name of occ doesnt drive the function of the department, this particular Charter Amendment will change the name of the officer citizens complaint to the department of independent police oversight. Weve learned of the preliminary reporting from the blue ribbon nation reviewed the sfpd as well as the district Attorneys Office and occ. One of the findings was there is no regular auditing function of the Police Department. So, this moves the occ from districtly being a complaintdriven department to being a more proactive department. We all have seen how much can go wrong in an unfortunate and short period of time. This ballot measure seeks to correct that. I hope to have everyones support and i look forward to the on going discussion. Thank you. Thank you supervisor cohen. Madam president. Thank you madam clerk. Today i want to acknowledge an amazing woman in our community. Yesterday eileen Clark Hernandez celebrated her 90th birthday and i wanted to take this opportunity to honor her and recognize her work as a local and national activist. Miss hernandez was born in brooklyn in 1926 and excelled in school and attended howard university. She was drawn into politics. In 1951, she took an organizational job with the west coast divisional job to begin a lifelong battle against discrimination in all its forms. She became the first woman to be appointed to the United States equal Employment Opportunity commission in 1964. Then in 1966, she cofounded the National Organization for women, the largest Grassroots Organization in the country that focuses on advocatin advocating for womens lights, lgbt rights and racial justice. Years later she became the organizations second priz and led the womens strike for equality on august 26th, 1970. Here in San Francisco she founded and became president of the Consulting Firm hernandez and consultants where she led, facilitated and concerned for ending racism. After the fourth womens dmorches beijing in 1995, miss hernandez who is a cofunder of womens Action Alliance of over 600 organizations in the state. Those are just a few of her accomplishments and i would need a lot more time to talk about everything shes done. But miss hernandez moved to los angeles last year so she could be supported by her brother and her family. I hope that she will see todaye appreciate her, we thank her for pushing for equality. For everyone and we hope that she lives a long, healthy, and prosperous life. We want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for her is he service. The rest i submit. It will is now 33 0 3 33. Just in time. I would like to ask members of the public to make room for our special ones entering the honoraries making it into our chamber. This is Small Business week and well do a number of commendations for Small Business week. Well wait until everyone gets in and gets settled. If there are members of the public waiting on a item. Well do Small Business commendations. It will take us anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour. Your item will not be discussed nal time. Again, if you could please make room for our Small Business award o honoraries. Well appreciate that. Colleagues, its time for our 3 30 special commendation for Small Business week. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Many are owned by generations of san franciscans and many of those businesses bring our community together. This week is a time for the city and county of San Francisco to honor the contribution and achievements of San Francisco Small Business owners. I would like to welcome at this time the president of the Small Business commission mark dwight to provide opening remarks. Mr. Dwight, thank you for being here. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. As supervisor breed mentions im mark dwight president of the Small Business commission. And im a Small Business owner here in San Francisco. It is an honor to be here today to help recognize the contribution of Small Businesses as e as part of Small Business week 2016. Small business week is a collaboration among our City Government specifically the office of economic and Workforce Development and the office of Small Business. The San Francisco chamber of commerce and the federal Small Business administration. Id like to acknowledge the Small Business Administration District director mark quinn. My fellow commissioners steve adams, irene yee ryley. Kathleen duly. Paul sar caiz yum and marianne zakunis and karen colombo of the chamber of commerce. San francisco launched Small Business week last night with nearly a thousand attending. This years theme is celebrate Small Businesses tapping into opportunities. San francisco fosters a unique entrepreneurial environment. As i tell my colleagues, if you can tap into tourism and tech, you might have a business proposition. The city has nearly 85,000 Small Businesses with a hundred or less employees. They are dog walkers. Child care providers. Marketing consultants. Mobile food operators. ilc manufacturers, massage practitioners. Lawyers, architects, accountants. Florists designers and many others. Joining Small Businesses this year are Short Term Rentals and drivers for Transportation Network companies. The Assistance Center at city hall is here to support and guide Small Businesses that comprise 09s more of all businesses in San Francisco. The sbac as it is known along with invest in neighborhoods deliver a range of Services Including 1on 1on1 assistance in multiple languages overview for multiple considerations for starting a business and customized checklists for license requirements for doing business in the city and county of sphwrx. In 2015 the office assisted nearly 3,000 business complients. First the Second Quarter they 800 complients. It appears that new business starts are alive and well here in San Francisco. The business portal team is presently working on streamlining materials to assist owners in navigating the process for starting a business including on line permit applications customizeable foarlsd save forms on line and custom checklists. Thank you all supervisors for your support in these efforts. Small businesses are the backbone of our neighborhood corridors providing for the needs and residents alike. They strife when the city strug they thrive when the city thrives and struggle when the city struggles. Affordability impacts not only residents, but Small Business owners as well. Competition for commercial space rising rents, displacement and shrinking Profit Margins are the realities of today as Small Business owners in San Francisco. The office of smiewl business are thankful for the many close partnerships they have developed with members of the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office. This will allow to us mitigate Small Business challenges. Supervisors, thawnch for your support of last years 6. 7 million budget. I think thats b. A billion dollars budget. This allowed us to tap into a network of services from the office of Small Businesses and invest in neighborhoods programs. The citys hosting of the the Small Business development center. These programs are essential to ensuring Small Businesses star start, stay and grow in San Francisco. I want to highlight a few key legislative accomplishments that were achieved together along with the input of Small Businesses from supervisor tangs legislation to access compliance to our businesses providing all gender restrooms and taking one more step in achieving the zero waste goal with the reduction of poly stiernine products. Business products. We thank you for your support in establishing the Program Manager commission. The commission looks forward to building the prej registry and highlighting the thousands of businesses crucial to San Franciscos list tri and legacy and entrepreneurial spisht. Spirit. Today focuses on businesses you have chosen for recognition. Youve nominated a range of wonderful businesses integral to our city. They bring viefersity, vibrancy and goods and services to the neighborhood ever san diego. There arof neighborhoods offer San Francisco. Let me thank them for haul they do to the city and visitors to our city and recognize that they represent the continuation of the american dream. The board ever supervisors is a signature event. It provides a rare opportunity to accept away from desks, counters and kitchens allowing us the chance to recognize them for their hard work and central importance in sa San Franciscos economy and to be recognized not only here but among their peers to show up. Thank you for the special opportunity to show appreciation for the honoraries. We look forward to our continued collaboration to nurture, elevate and retain San Franciscos Small Businesses. Thank you. And thank you for being here today. Colleagues, before we begin, waint to remind my colleagues that you have a total of five minutes for each of your commendations. So please try and keep your remarks brief so that your honoraries have an opportunity to speak and with that, well be following the order of roll call beginning with supervisor scott wiener. Which im excited that hes honoring mitchells ice cream and i hope they brought tasty treats with them today. She stole my thunder. So colleagues today, i have the privilege of honoring as you heard, an amazing San Francisco institution, mitchells ice cream as honorary for Small Business week and we have with us here today linda and brian mitchell. As you know, colleagues, i hope youve all been there. Mitchells ice cream is a truly amazing place for anyone who loves ice cream. Featuring 4 40 flavors. 16 burt fat. Its been a neighborhood favorite for over 60 years now. Its not just a landmark in our district, but for all of San Francisco. Of course, as we learn and our condolences in Larry Mitchells passing may 12, its a huge loss for the family and city. I know he was involved in the business until close to the end. This was his baby in so many ways. Hes a hero in tumorrer terms of actually being able to run a business successfully for a very, very long time. A business that is as vibrant and vital as it was 50 years ago. Well miss him and sincere condolences. The business we are going to adjourn the Board Meeting today in his memory. We want to make sure were sending good energy from city hall to the family and to hes looking down on us i know. Larry was a Third Generation san franciscan. Came from a family of hardworking entrepreneurs. Hay father ran a dairy in Diamond Heights back when it was not the residential neighborhood it is today and taught himself how to make ice cream at a young age. He met his future wife claire in 1948. Just a few years later, he along with his brother jack cofounded mitchells ice cream. In the early 1960s, larry began experimenting with new flavors to expand upon the traditional vanilla, chocolate and strawberry palt o pallet with flavors such as mango and yams and afte avocado. To make sure they stay on the cutting edge. Larry bought out jacks share of the business in the 1980s and managing the daytoday operation unless two years ago. Remembered by his family and colleagues as an unassuming handy man. He left behind a legacy continued today by linda and brian with us today and hes survived by his beloved wife claire and his daughter teresa as well. So congratulations and welcome to the board ever supervisors. If you want to say a few words. [applause] thank you. I wish they had told us we were supposed to bring ice cream. I would have brought gallons and gallons. Oh, gosh dont worry, ill stop by. Just ask for me. Thank you. This ward is bittersweet for my sister and i. As you know, our father and founder passed on may 12 lt. We told him about it. He knew about it. He was thrilled. He had a big smile on his face. He was very proud to win it and certainly he would be here to accept it if he could have. This award is a lasting tribute to a man who along with his brother had eye vision and that vision was to make a good ice cream. And in turn, have people enjoy it which they have. Something so simple that its really provided so many fond memories. To everybody thats come. Thousands of people that have come. He was so proud when people would tell him, many, many people that will the first place theyd come after picking up relatives at the airport was to get a cone at mitchells before they went home. That was something to be proud of. So, we thank you very much. We are a honored and i know hes smiling down from heaven right now. Thank you. [applause] thank you again, and congratulations. Were so grateful to your father for the business that he ran for over 50 years in the great city and county of San Francisco. Its made a lot of people smile. He will be dearly missed and thank you for being here today with us. With that, supervisor yee from district seven. Thank you, president breed. I want to congratulations the mitchells institution. Ive only had 40 years of eating ice cream there. I missed out on 20 others. I am proud to honor nancy and michael, owners of one of the last family owned gas stations in my districts. Its twin peaks auto care on portola drive. I keep seeing you. Last week you came here for the legacy business and then when my Office Hosted the Small Business summit in district seven, michael was there. Thats the type of people you guys are. Youre constantly involved with the community. Theyve owned the station for over 30 years, since 1985. Is it is the only station serving the midtown ter yas Diamond Heights miralomaa forest hills neighborhoods for over one to three miles in any direction. Small businesses are the heart of San Franciscos economy. My on r my honorary is the heart and soul of the twin peaks neighborhoods. You dont think of gas stations as a place where people go and see each other and talk to each other. Its almost like there is a coul coffee shop there. I see people coming there and chatting to each other. Its great place and what i call a community gem. Last fall when their lease was at risk, of expiring, its a testament of the type of support they have. Hundreds of Community Members called and emailed my office and drafted petitions to support the savings of twin peaks auto care kidd personally listened to numerous support stories of the Community Role and what it played in providing customized service. Because of this commitment to the community, im so glad my office was able to work with the dppt of real estate and extend their lease so that they could continue to serve our community for another five years. And have an option to extend their lease for another five years. Because of this extension, only because of this extension today that i can actually be able to honor the valuable community Small Business of twin peaks auto care. Thank you very much for coming. [applause] thank you very much supervisor yee and supervisors in the office of Small Business. Its an honor for us to receive this. We love our city and love our community. Just being recognized is of utmost importance. To Small Businesses like ourselves, it gives us the extra umph going. You have a bigger, Wider Community not just your neighborhood but other people as well. Thank you very much. Thank you and congratulations again. With that. Id like to acknowledge the supervisor from district 11. Supervisor john avalos. Im here to honor george and ed nazra as well as gary tonly. For Small Business week im honoring two businesses in my district. The last two familia family owned pharmacies. Central drugstore and daniels pharmacy. This is ed and george nazra from daniels pharmacy. Jerry tonellie couldnt be here today. Central drug has been at the same location at mission and santa rosa in 1928 with them taking over in 1965. Injury continues to run the operation there. Teed hes the head pharmacist. Central drug is known for their friendly atmosphere and customer service. Theyre more than a legacy business. Theyre a community business. The same can be said for the business here today, daniels pharmacy. Familyowned and operated, daniels has been serving the community on geneva avenue in london since 1950. Ed and george nazra who are here today have built a reputation for excellent public service. Theyre part of the Good Neighbor network ad should be called the great neighborhood pharmacy. They have everything you need to manage your health from wheelchairs to beds to orthopedic products. They provides personalized attention and take care of their customers from packing medication bu by dose to delivery. Of this a store, bill payment center. You can even reload your clipper card here. Ed takes Community Service seriously and his staff have a reputation for being efficient, professional and very compassionate. They also support the community at large. They maintain a beautiful store and have installed sidewalk gardens which help soften and beautify a busy corridor. I hope they continue to serve the area for many years dom. Just recently across the street, the nazras bought a property that was blighted where ther there were all kinds of illis it activity going illicit opportunity. I eu8is it activities going on there. Both central drug and daniels pharmacy has survived where there are two walgreens pharmacies close by. Half a block away from daniels is a wahl greens anwalgreens. The strength is so strong that the fear of the walgreens take them out has been unsubstantiated. A block away is another walgreens and the central drug has been able to survive there. The good Pharmacy Network is alive and strong based on your efforts and connectedness to the community. I want to thank this is Small Business month to celebrate your store and work in the community. If you have any words, please share. Supervisor avalos, we appreciate you and recommending us. We have been a familyrun business. My brothers and sister, its still familyrun. I want to thank all of you supervisors for recognizing the independence throughout the city. For the cornerstone of how comerk merk cas built. Small independent. Thank you very much and thank to the board. [applause] [applause] congratulations again. Okay. Its now my turn. Im excited to honor mr. David zimmerman who is from the inner sunset neighborhood and he owns black [inaudible] which im sure many of you hide out from time to time. Hes the owner of blackthorn sports bar that provides a prime location to enjoy sporting events and cheer on many of our bay area teams. It hosts trivia night, karaoke and a pool league every wook. Its a wonderful place to hang out and showcase your flents. David is a native san franciscan. His father is a retired judge of northern california. His mother was deputy public defender here in the city of county of San Francisco. Grace. Public service seems to clearly run in his family. For the past four years david has served as president of the inner sunset merchants association. Hes been working hard with the community to create a green benefits district for the inner sunset which will provide Additional Resources to maintain and improve parks. Sidewalks and open space . The neighborhood. David works with the inner sunset park neighbors. Each year to put together the inner sunset sundays, a series of big block parties where neighbors can meet oach each other and enjoy each others company. Its one of my favorite events and last time we enjoyed inner sunset sundays, supervisor katy tang joined us as well. On top of that, he is a member of the ucsf Community Advisory group where he serves as access point for public and advises the university on common concerns. David is a wonderful leader in the community and im proud to know him as a friend and recognize him here today as the honorary for district five for Small Business week. Congratulations david. And thank you so much. Thank you so much for the honor, president breed. Thank you to the board for taking your time to honor these Small Business owners that work so hard and spend so much time and effort to preserve their communities and chemo them unique and vibrant. I wasm want to thank the board. As a native san franciscan some of my Cherished Memories were spent in Cliffs Variety and Small Businesses. I want to thank you all for your work and london Brides Office for working with the inner sunset parks and neighbors and merchants. With all the issues that came before us. For all of that, i thank you and thank you for this honor and accommodation. All right, getting back to the rest of our honoraries, we have an additional list of folks. Here today, and we are going to move to supervisor campos. Thank you. One of even though mimpals ice oo cream is in district eight. Those of us who live in district nine, we consider it part of the community. Next, i am honor add and proud to call upon a group of folks from good life grocery, they can come up. Anyone who knows anything about vernal heights knows the Important Role that good life place. This is in vernal heights. Good life first opened in supervisor cohens district in 1974. Then in 1976 it was taken over. And they have a been running it ever since. In 1991, good life opened on courtland avenue here in vernal heights. If you knew if you saw what vernal looked and courtland looked at the time, you wouldnt recognize it. Can there were hardly any stores on that block. And i think its probably fair to say the neighborhood was blighted at the time. Good life certainly brought traffic, it activated that corridor and quite frankly is widely credited with turning courtland into what it is today. It wouldnt be the vibrant place that it is without the good life. Im proud to note that the good life is an employeeowned business. Currently employees own 30 of the shares of the company. I know that theyre working to get to being 100 percent employee owned. There are currently 35 employee owners at the good life. Workers become vested in the company after working there two and a half years. Many of the employees have been with the company more than 10 years. You can see them here. In fact, in addition to karen and lester, there are 10 good life owners who are here. And i want to make sure i mention that because when we honor the ownership, we honor them. Samantha, lorne, juan torres. Maria navarro. Sam yu. Jesus hernandez. Keith gardner. And sman that, i wanted to highlight samanthas story. Samantha started with good life when she was 17 years old. She started bagging groceries. More than a decade later, she is now the store manager and general operator of the store. Good life is very proud of offering true Career Advancement opportunities for its employees, owners, like samantha. And in addition to presenting this honor to good life, im very excited to announce that well be nominating them shortly to be a legacy business and as was noatd earlier, the legacy business registry ensures the protection of Small Businesses that are as part of critical part of San Francisco as any. It would not be vernal heights without the good life and it wouldnt be San Francisco without so many of these businesses. Supporting historic businesses like good life is really what the business legacy business registry is about. The other thing i would say about the good life, as a resident of vernal heights, its not just what the business does as a business, but the involvement in the community. It becomes a focal point for the community. And i think that i got to know a lot more about vernal heights because of getting to know the good life and what it has meant. I know you cant think of vernal heights without the good life and im honored that its in my district and in my neighborhood and today its truly a special treat for me to recognize the good life in Small Business week here in the city and county of San Francisco. Ill turn it over to you. [applause] thank you ver very, very much. Thank you for honoring Small Business in Small Business week. Supervisor campos and malia, thank you so much for always being there when a small store needs to know the answers to so many questions these day. When i heard that we were being honored. I asked who do i bring in they said bring all owners. I said i cant bring all owners because my husband tells me there is now 40 plus owners and someone has to run both stores while were here. I want to say that i maybe speaking i may be speak, but its the people behind me that are essential in the daytoday operations. From lorne and tom who have been with me for 23 years and jesus who has been here 23 years, the others here 10, 12, 14 years, its a testament to how to run a good business, how to be involved with your coworkers and community. Its these people behind me that are honored today. And im honored also to be in the presence of the other businesses that have been brought forward. Its amazing in a world where we think its always corporate, but Small Business is the backbone and Small Business is where you really know your community and your coworkers and i thank very much for this honor. [applause] come closer now. Thank you an congratulations. With that, id like to recognize the supervisor from district 10. Malia cohen. Thank you very much. Congratulations to all the awardees being recognize today. In may 2014 we formed a bay view Steering Committee to promote the vision of the third street neighborhood or door. It contains representations of Business Owners, property own wrs a specific working focus on Economic Development and the issues that have had an impact on implementing the strategies to support, promote and celebrate local businesses particularly those on the third street corridor in the bayview community. This a amazing collaboration of Small Businesses has been working day and night to ensure that the third street emergent corridor becomes a vital and bustling corridor as it was in the past. I want to recognize the Mayors Office who has been my partner this he ever did he ever and working closely with edot to help move the work ford. Id like to bring forward and standing before you is earl shattucks he is one of a handful of Many Community threersd stepped up to fill in the gap to partner with the city, to partner with my office and partner with the business as long the corridor to chair edot and i want him to a couple of words on why this organization was organized to just share with us the beginning part of edot and how it came possible about and more importantly your mission. Thank you. Real quick, i want to acknowledge the mitchells as well. I have at least 40 pounds of rocky road ice cream on this body here. Edot wasd as Economic Development on third. We were informed along with supervisor cohen and the office of Workforce Development, they reached out to our community, Business Owners along the corridor to put together a group to figure out how that we can grow our third street corridor. As all of you know, its important that your business corridor reflect your community and what your Community Looks like. And we have a bit of a ways to go. We had a few challenges, but now we have a tremendous amount of opportunity and we have incredible Board Members in place. With supervisor cohens leadership, of cost. Joaquin who always answer mice text, thank you to you all and we wouldnt be here without ow or moving us forward and marsha for herding us around. Were all at peace with each other and we have the same goal to move third street along. I hope youll join us on the third street corridor. If any one of you are looking for an election office, i have two vacancies on third street. Please come and see me. Thank you, its a privilege to celebrate the 12th annual San Francisco Small Business week by recognizing the Economic Development on third street. Congratulations. All rightnext up supervisor from district two. Colleagues, i have the honor to recognize someone in the market, a Small Business inside district two that is truly the fabric of a neighborhood. That is ellie here, ellie and the van teen Valentino Market. He immigrated from lebanon and came to the United States in 1988. He has been fabric or part of the fabric of our neighborhood for so many years. He started working on union street as a clerk in the Grocery Store in the early 1990s. 10 years later with the help of friends, he purchased the Valentino Market where he has been serving and giving back to our neighborhood for the last 25 years. Ellie has built a lot more than a corner Grocery Store. Weve been losing so many of them in San Francisco. This is one of the true remaining ones which you might think of truly is the heart and soul of our Small Business community in San Francisco. But its so much more than a place to buy groceries, its a place for neighbors to gather for people to meet every time i drop by ellie is hanging out and spending time from someone else from the neighborhood and our community. He celebrates locals birthdays in the store and participants in the easter parade. Hes all about service to his customers. I first got to know him when i first ran for office. Our Campaign Headquarters was a block away. Every day i would come down and buy something from ellies store. Itch neve store. I have never met a more mummer humble or salt of the earth person than ellie. Hes been able ive been able to see what an integral part of the neighborhood he is and has become over the years. Ellie, i want to just honor you, to say thank you for all you do for our neighborhood and the city of San Francisco. You are the heart and soul of what we talk about when she say Small Business. I want to thanks for all you do in our city. Congratulations can. [applause] thank you supervisors. Its a great honor to be here and a great ceremony. Its great to be in to say like we all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how. And the words are few, but the thanks are many. Thank you very much for everything. Thank you for your support. [applause] thank you and congratulations again. Now, at this time id like to recognize supervisor from district six jane kim. Thank you president bride and i always enjoy participating in Small Business week. A little known fact that often many dont know, but Small Businesses create the most jobs in our country today. They are the foundation, economic engine of our country. Even in times of recessions, its our Small Businesses that carry own countrys economy through. I want to thank all the honoraries today. I actually shop or go to many of your Small Businesses. I appreciate you being here and making San Francisco the city that it is. I have the honor of recognizing one of our businesses in district six. Only a block away from my house and i want to recognize kevin mccracken, the executive director of official imprints, a brand with purpose here in our strict. Social imprints was started in 2008. After being incorporated by shinebin who was the executive director of a nonprofit Printing Company who hired formerly homeless individuals. Special imprints opened with a bang. Within the First Six Months, it generated 800,000 in sales and received San Francisco magazines startup of the year award. In 2010, the first full year, the Company Generated 2 million in sales to 400 of the nations leading organizations including wik peedia, me wikipedia. Metallica and others. This company is able to make tremendous profits in our city while also building tremendous profits for our community by hiring thoars who have come out of our yim nal Justice System and have arrests on their records. Those who struggle with Substance Abuse and those who are formerly homeless. We dont often see organizations and institutions that are successful. And social pim print is a role model and also a leading example that we can have companies that do good in both areas and for the lives of many of the individuals, that social imprints hire. Theyre making an immense difference in the lives of those individuals. Family for the city as a whole. For every individual that has an opportunity to bring themselves economically and not have to resort or lean on a life of crime or not have to resort to shelter system or a life on streets. Social imprint has been Second Opportunity for many of those individuals including ketch himself. Who hired at the time had been struggling, it spent a short amount of time in our San Francisco county jail. Had been formerly homeless and is now the executive director of social imprint. Several years ago, Supervisor Malia Cohen and myself authored the band a box legislation what we entitled the fair chance ordinance. It had band a box for all private employers here in San Francisco. We appreciate the support of the employers and asking but arrests and conviction history at the time of the application deters the hiring of many folk whose want to work and be a part of our community. For this reason, im proud to hire social imprints. Kevin. I want to hand the mic over to you. Thank you very much. [applause] not quite fair having me come up after the last speech. I come from an immigrant family as well. My great grandparents came to ellis island from cystly. It was good to hear the stories of all the Small Businesss here in San Francisco. San francisco is a city of second chanc chances. We are named after the patron saint of second chance. At this point we have 30 fulltime employee 9 o come from our social commission and we get not only a minimum rage but profit sharing. Sa got a check for 12,000 for profit sharing. We were lucky enough to get manufacturing space thanks to people like mark dwight and supervisor kim has been a great advocate for what we do. I appreciate all of you being here today and thank you for honoring our business and all the other great Small Businesses. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you and congratulations again. Thank you everyone else here in the audience for or patience. I know its hard to walk away from a Small Business to come out for this short period of time. With you bu we appreciate you being here today. With that. Ill like to recognize eric mar from district one. Congratulations to all the amazing Small Businesses. I want to acknowledge one of our Exceptional Community builder businesses. I want to say that chet tom of  one of the hideouts i speak . Eek to. Its on balboa and 38th avenue. Close to hockey haven and a number of other places. I say that chet and la promenade is exceptional in supporting many of the other businesses in the area. Supporting the effort to create a new Business Association called Balboa Village Merchants Association and chet has been a leader in that. La promenade dates back technically over 35 years. It used to be zephyr ca nay. He changed the name three years ago in june of 2013 to la promenade. The look now is a little different. Its frenchthemed entierier. They host countless coffee meetings. There is jazz going on on saturday. Music cuban. Following saturday is poetry then bringing together of arts and community as well. I wanted to say that its comfortable because a lot of young people seniors, and others hang out on the coaches or in the back room, youre so generous to the richmond neighborhood as well. As they hosted the first playland festival. Chet was one of the anchors of our festival. I wanted to say that la promenade is named because of the proximity to Golden Gate Park and our beautiful ocean beach. I wanted to acknowledge that during our Balboa Playland festival, chet makes sure families and kids are welcome. There a fun art of hot chocolate making demo along with the bands that played la promenade. Students go there to study. My daughter is one of them. Its one of the best places that builds community in our neighborhood. They partner with green apple books in their back room to encourage reading and literacy for our neighborhood. Exceptional Community Builder business. Its my honor to introduce chet tong of la promenade cafe. Small business of the year. Chet tong. [applause] june first will be our third year as la promenade. We never thought wed be a part of a community that is so supportive. Thank you to you, especially, supervisor mar. Youve been in and out of our place so many times. We appreciate all the support we get from you and the other supervisors as well 8 when he we started three years ago. Our mission was to create a coffee shop where people are happy to come to so people feel good about it. Its not just about creating a business, but giving back to the community. Its not just a business. My wife couldnt be here because were expecting our first child. Weed a like to say thank you and were happy to be a part of this community of San Francisco. And we know that we can plant our flag here knowing this a great city that has our back that gives us the opportunity to survive and thrive. Thank you. [applause] thank you and congratulations again. [applause] with that, id like to acknowledge supervisor from district three. Supervisor aaron peskin. P p. Thank you madam president , colleagues, like many of the other awardees, the district three awardee has managed to stave off the category killers. Corporate chain stores. Like many other awardees, our honorary has been nominated for legacy business status. Unlike any of the honoraries, mr. Joseph armerren swims all over San Francisco bay because only the bold swim in the cold. Its my pleasure to recognize mr. Armerren. For over 30 years le bow beau has stood in the neighborhood where the corner Grocery Store provides quality goods with gourmet prepared food. He found the market with his brother george with an intent to provide an array of products meeting his customers need. Much of the Fresh Produce comes from the Farmers Market where joe searches for peak season fruits. What really sets la beau apart is the active role in Community Outreach and dedication to causes that the Community Cares about. Its raised money for glide Memorial Church and throws a Customer Appreciation day and raised money for new playground structure. The market sponsors regular mond monthly cleanup events in partnership with our department of public works and joseph sits on his local Police Advisory board helping to keep his neighborhood safe and clean. He knows the names of all his customers. He knows all the folks who are there at the bus stop on the corner. Joseph was the head of the curve by urging his customers to avoid use of plastic garbage bags. Launching a free bag give away program to encourage reusable pa bags. California became the first state in the national to ban plastic bags in the Grocery Stores. Le beau market continues to throif, a fact which is a testament to his Business Model that puts customers and neighborhood first. Its my honor to award them the high oas commendation. Congratulations. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you again and congratulations. [ applause ] all right, last, but certainly not least, our colleague from district 4, supervisor katy tang. Thank you very much and again, congratulations to all the Small Business honorees here with us today. Im so excited about this commendation today. We also have a slideshow. So as im talking sfgovtv, if you could please present what is on the screen . Today im very pleased and honored to recognize three fish studio as our district 4 Small Business honoree of the year and here today with us are the artists themselves, eric weiser and annie galvan, the husband and wife extraordinary. If you have been to our office, you have definitely seen their artwork before and eric a printmaker and may recognize the godzilla destroying the building with his breath and annie, painted i love you bear, can be seen in shops all over San Francisco. Annie is also phone her whimsical sign. So they are outer sunset business located on irving street houses their workshop and studio and they are known for welcoming visitors with open arms and offering an expresso or cold beer as they share their artwork with guests. They transformed their business where neighbors and friends gather and create together. For jump just a little bit of their history annie born and raised in ireland before moving to San Francisco in 1989 just two weeks before the loma prieta earthquake and annie is inspired by San Francisco, vogue magazine, comic books and text tile designs, mexican wrestlers and our own dreams and daydreams. And eric was born and raised in the industrial shores of lake michigan. After studying at Cleveland Institute of art, he moved west. He is inspired by diversity of californias landscape and many facets. The two met in berkeley in 1998 and married and started their studio. I love how they quit their day jobs so to speak to follow their passions, art and building community. Three fish studio comes from annies family in ireland which is proudly displayed on the wall as you enter the studio. They offer classes for all experiencelevels and taught hundreds of their neighbors how to to do printmaking. I have made prints with them and its just as fun as it sounds. Annie and eric are very communityminded and open to collaboration and always willing to be engaged in any event or program and they have a long tradition of donating artwork to support schools and neighborhoods and San Francisco Public Library to name a few. Eric served on the art board since 2012 and arts fan as you all know is our San Francisco nonprofit that has connected artists since 1976. So three fish have also worked collaboratively on two murals in the outer sunset. The first was with our office at 32nd. She also worked with muralist to create a nod for the carvell days. So some additional fun facts about annie and eric, annie is also a doodler. At the beginning of the year she embarked on a tremendous project to create a doodle a day. Using collage, watercolor and ink and whipped up arts this year and include a drawing an imaginary book birch please. And a little yellow cat with the words. You got to be kitting me. Many people have loved how he captured the three world series wins of San Francisco giants and i personally love both his and annies collaboration with paul madonna, who i got to meet today and love their collaboration with our very own Small Business Commission President mark dwight of rickshaw bag works. You have to get one of their bags, it stays in the forms after many, many washes. One fun fact about eric, today is his 50th birthday. So happy birthday eric and in honor of eric we thought we would share other interesting facts his nickname was tiger and spent time in a vw bus and knows the lyrics from soft rock from the 70s, 80s and 90s. So for erics birthday our office also known as d4 fish studios made him a special gift, which you can seen on the screen and each replicated his godzilla print entitled godzilla four ways. I want to sincerely thank annie and eric for the vibrancy of business and its truly businesses like yours that have made our community a better place to live and my job more enjoyable every day as i get to stare at your beautiful artwork. Thank you again and happy birthday to eric. [ applause ] thank you, katy. Thank you, board of supervisors. And thank you San Francisco for recognizing the role of art and artists in our communities, and giving us the opportunity to live our dreams in the city that we love. As katy mention or supervisor tang, sorry, as supervisor tang mentioned we both here in the 80s as young 20some things and i think the thing i like to say most to people about San Francisco, this is the place people line up and tell you how things are going to work as opposed to giving you adozenyns they are never going to work and for us coming from ireland and michigan, this has become home and its a great day for us to just celebrate the joy and the diversity that this city brings to our lives. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you again and congratulations [ applause ] again to all the incredible Small Businesses here in the city and county of San Francisco, thank you so much and also thank you to our commissioner from the Small Business commissioner mark dwight for being here, as well as the executive director regina dickendrizzi who not only this event, but supports the businesss in San Francisco and thank you regina and everyone here today and again, thank you and congratulations. [ applause ] with that, we will return to our regular board agenda. And madam clerk i think we concluded roll call for introductions. That is correct. We also have a 3 00 pep order. Items 2427 comprised special order at 3 00 p. M. And originally ep continued from january 26, 2016tor public hearing of persons interested in the public works decisions dated september 18, 2014 approving tentative map for twounit new construction condominium project at 639 peralta avenue. Items 25, 26, 27, are the motions associated with approval and disapproval of the tentative parcel plan and preparations of findings. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam president. And no, were not trying to set the record for the number of times we can continue an item. But we might very well just do that. I know that this item has been continued many times before. And today, colleagues, in the hope that the partis can have some sort of resolution, i am asking to once again continue this item open to september 6th, 2016. And i would like to make a motion to do that. Okay. So moved by supervisor campos and seconded by supervisor tang. And at this time i will open this up to Public Comment. Any members of public who would like to comment on this particular item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [ gavel ] and on the motion to continue, madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Supervisor wiener. Aye. Wiener aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor avalos. Avalos absent. Supervisor breed . Aye. Breed aye. Supervisor campos. Aye. Campos aye. Cohen aye. Farrell aye. Supervisors kim aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin aye. Supervisor tang. Aye. This will be continued to the meeting of september 6, 2016. Madam clerk, that inbrings us to our second 3 00 p. M. Special order. Items 28 and 29 comprise special order pursuant to motion m16057, approved may 3, 20169 board of supervisors will convene into a committee of the whole for item 28 a public hearing to consider objections to a report of delinquent Real Property transfer tax under business and tax regulation code section 1 15. 1 c to assessorez parcel located at 561 sutter street. Colleagues, today as committee of the whole is being conducted to consider objections to a report of delinquent Real Property transfer tax under the business and tax regulation code and directing transmission of said report to the controller and Tax Collector for collection and deposit into the general fund. So lets this hearing begin. [ gavel ] before we hear from the departments, supervisor tang do you have any comments . Thank you, i just wanted to turn this over to Edward Mccaffrey from the assessors board. Im joined by our deputy over operation, as well as our deputy City Attorney, who is sitting next to mr. Givner. I wanted to take a moment to thank supervisor katy tang and supervisor aaron peskin. The item before you would confirm or offices report and impose liens for total unpaid transfer tax penalties and interest owed to the city and county of San Francisco. Those two properties are 562 sutter street, assessor parcel 0284010 and 55 magnum street assessor parcel no. 0 02303. 562 sutter street a grant deed to transfer title was recorded with our office november 14, 2012. On september 16, 2015 our Office Completed the valuation. And determined that the entire Purchase Price which includes the value of the real estate, but excludes the value of tangible property and intangible asset was 10 million more than declared at time of recording and demand letter was issued by our office september 25, 2015 to the new owner for the unpaid Tax Liability plus penalty and interest. Having not received a response, our office noticed the owners and again after we recorded a notice of delinquent Real Property transfer tax in the same letter we indicated that our office would initiate lien proceedings if the amount owed was not paid by february 14, 2016. Todate, the amount has not been paid and results in approximately 444,000 in delinquent transfer tax penaltis and interest owed. As for 550 magnum street a grant deed transferring title was recorded february 19, 2015 and that same day the assessor recorder sent a letter to the new owner requesting documentation in support of the declared Purchase Price. Two months later, on april 28th, 2015, our office received documentation in response to our letter. Upon review of the material our office determined that what was originally recorded at the time of recording was less than what the total value of the real estate was, exclusive of nonrealty, tangible property and intangible assets. This was approximately 141 million more than what was declared at the time of recording. On december 14, 2015 the assessore recorder issued a demand letter stating liability plus penalty and interest and with no response to our demand letter january 19, 2016 our office recorded a notice of delinquent Real Property transfer tax, a copy of which was mailed to the owners. The notice stated that our office would initiate lien proceedings if the delinquency was not paid by february 16, 2016 and todate the amount has not been paid and results in approximately 5. 1 million in delinquent transfer tax, penaltis and interest owed. Thank you for your time and consideration, we would be happy to answer any questions that you have. Thank you very much for your presentation. Colleagues, do you have any questions for the department . Seeing none, well open this item up for Public Comment. And Public Commenters will have two minutes each to speak. Please come forth. Good afternoon, my name is scott johnson. I am appearing on behalf of the current Property Owner diamond rock hospitality. Am i viewed as a member of the public, supervisor tang . Yes. So i have two minutes to speak . That is correct. Okay. Its my understanding that among other things to allow the Property Owner to raise any concerns or objections that the owner may have . There are two objections that i would like to raise, and i will bring to the boards attention, one relates to the value at the assessor recorder has assigned to the real estate. The second objection relates to the period of time that has passed between the date the property was purchased in 2012, and the current date in 2016, where the assessor recorder is seeking to impose a lien. First of all, for the first objection we believe that the property was purchased in november 2012 and seller and buyer were unrelated partis with adverse interests. The seller and the buyer are in the business of owning and operating hotels. The seller and the buyer determined that the land and the building had a value of 18. 8 million approximately. And the intangible property associated with the hotel was valued at approximately 10 million. Because the seller and buyer are in the hotel business, we think the value they assigned to the intangible properties should be respected. Secondly, the matter of timing. It has been roughly threeandahalf years since the purchase occurred, as we read the transfer tax ordinance, the period to initiate lien proceedings expired in approximately december 2013. In other words, the property was purchased in november 2012 and the tax became delinquent [ inaudible ] and 12 months from that time. Madam chair, the speakers time has concluded. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, president breed, honorable supervisors. My name is charles mall for the law firm of winston and strom on behalf of the par 55 hotel. As you know when hotels are sold, they sell real estate and Real Property beds and tvs, et cetera and tangible property, concerning value, par the name of the hotel, and things of that nature. The parties here agreed to the sale. They worked out the they filed the deed with the Recorders Office and they paid about 9 million of transfer tax. Subsequently the assessor determined that despite the fact that the courts have said there are these other types of assets not subject to transfer tax the assessors determination is not an appropriate number. The problem here is that for whatever reason the assessors notice to the new buyer fell through the cracks and the partis have not had a chance to work that out with the assessor to figure out why there is a difference in value and to get that resolved and request that this matter be put over for short period of time, 30 days to get this resolved. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of public wishing to speak to this item . Seeing none, this Public Comment is held. Supervisor peskin . Thank you, madam president. If i may through the president to the deputy City Attorney, one of the Public Commenters raised an issue of a time bar of oneyear after the transfer, the initial transfer of the Real Property. Would you respond to that for me and my colleagues, please. Deputy City Attorney, moe jamile. We have reviewed the ordinance and the City Attorney is of the opinion that the delinquency time clock starts from the issuance of the delinquency noticed by the Assessors Office after they completed their audit to the extent the taxpayer disagrees with that, as well as the value they are more than welcome to pay the tax, file a claim under government code requirements and proceed the matter in that venue. But the rule is that you have to pay first. Thank you, deputy City Attorney jamile. If i may, representative from the assessor Controllers Office. Mr. Leg, or either one of you . Its my understanding based on the timeline presented by staff, we have had no contact with the new buyer . Is this the first that you have heard . On which of the properties . Because there were telephone discussions with one on one of these two transactions. Which with one one are you asking about, supervisor . Either one, it seems like this has been going on for some time relative to actions taken by the assessor recorder and i have no response by the owner until their verbal statements made by representatives on their behalf. In both cases there was correspondence. Im now recollecting in both cases there was correspondence between with the assessor Recorder Division and its the recorder in this case and the taxpayers. There was disagreement expressed and looking to see if they would pay and we didnt hear anything else. I dont believe we received anything beyond in writing beyond our requests for information as we begin the audit process. Thank you. Colleagues any other questions . This has been closed and filed and colleagues we have item 29 before us. So i think well probably go to rollcall vote on item 29. On item 29, supervisor wiener. Wiener aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Yee supervisor avalos. Aye. Supervisor breed . Aye. Breed aye. Supervisor campos. Aye. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Supervisor kim . Aye. Kim aye. Supervisor mar . Aye. Supervisor peskin . Aye. Supervisor tang . Aye. There are eleven ayes. This motion passes. This measure is adopted. Madame clerk if we could go to Public Comment. Public comment is the opportunity for the public to address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subjectmatter jurisdiction of the board to include the approval of the minutes, and item 32, whether or not the board of supervisors should enter into a closed session on the labor negotiations, and on item 3343, the items on the without reference to committee calendar. Pursuant to the boards rules, direct your remarks to the board as a whole and speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. And if would you like to display your document on the overhead projector, please clearly state such to sfgovtv and remove the document when the screen returns to live coverage of the meeting. Thank you. Please come on up for Public Comment. I know i dont have much time to speak. My name is ace washington. This administration has neglected, has disrespected the africanamerican black race because of a constitutional flaw put together by the lieutenant governor. Im here to say im standing strong as the czar and im summoning the Department Heads to adhere to what they are supposed to do. The other thing, i am the fillmore coordinate ambassador and we have Small Business coming to the 1300 fillmore, a property that is in discussion in our community to find out whether they take all the money given to them, loaned to them through the city and county, but yet the Small Business coming back to them telling them the black business do look out for . The mayor came to the fillmore three years ago in 2011, and every business that he visited, they closed down. So he is committed to our black community, i say foul play. When go to the Small Business administration doesnt have the minutes and administration to do that and im asking for investigation for the Small Business administration. Were at the bottom. Supervisors, im looking over in the press and i see lily white, for 20 years, i cant come over there, you have security blocking me from coming over there, but i talked to the clerk and they are going to work it out. That is why im not demonstrationing my rights with the city by the bay. I call it city hall. I call it silly hall. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My i have the projector, please . Mayor edwin lee, his work is undone. Ordering San Francisco police to remove u. S. Citizens sleeping in tents on division street. Mayor edwin lee and nearby merchants choose to have u. S. Citizens removed by San Francisco police, [speaker not understood] still remain standing that is shown on the tv monitors. Call isis street. Right where those tents were setup. How could mayor ed lee, one of the major terrorists groups name to remain standing who have beheaded and killed thousands of human beings, streets name standing . The Homeless People on division were mistreated and my question is which side of the fence is mayor ed lee really standing on . The tent city was removed and the street must be renamed just as fast. San francisco is a unique city and must be kept that way. But how could it . When mayor edwin lee isnt moving fast enough on these problems plaguing San Francisco . Deportation, housing problems, jobs, real Affordable Housing, displacement plans thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you chair, and all. My name is christopher and live commenting on more bad news. Within the last two weeks climate scientists have presented more alarming reports. These are on our southern Antarctic Ice cap and the reports describe once again how the warming climate and oceans are accelerating the ever Faster Movement of ice mass the size of california, averaging over a kilometer in thickness. Into the worlds oceans resulting in multimeter sealevel rise by the end of the century. Once again scientists are lowballing the numbers and once again their predictions will lag reality. My prediction is still 50 by 55, that is 2055. My prediction is that by that time Climate Change will disrupt food production, that Climate Change will bring famine, that Climate Change will provoke war among the nations over vanishing resources. My solution is still using freely Available Energy to desalinate freshwater to irrigate new trees. What can you do to help . And i would move the absence of a quorum except i have no standing. Well, if you cant think of anything to help, than please just get out of the way. Thank you, next speaker, please. David told solomon know thou the god god of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart and willing mind for the lord searches all hearts and understands all of the imagination of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be fond of thy and forsake him and he will cast you out forever. Nobody know whats you are thinking. God knows what you are thinking. He knows what you are thinking. And the bible is a super natural book and there was a great king from babylon who destroyed the jewish temple. He had this dream and didnt know what it meant, and so he said to his wisemen he was going to kill all of them unless they told him what the dream was and the interpretation of his dream. So daniel prayed and god revealed to daniel what the dream was and what it meant. He was so impressed with that, he gave him a promotion. God made him famous so everybody would read his book and jesus called him the prophet daniel, was given the most incredible revelation in the entire Old Testament because he was given the precise amount of time there would be before the messiah would come and be baptized and then die on the cross for our sins. And he said there would be 70 weeks, each one of these weeks were actually 7years long, dead ending in a sabbath year and what christ died in the 70th 7year cycle he was the 80th 7year cycle if you back up to the destruction of the temple. The jews kept precisely where they are in chronology and ezekiel, they knew in 56 years they would go back because jeremiah said thus sayth the lord and in 70 years, exactly 70 years and these were thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening my name is karen flescherman and came to talk to you about saving San Francisco lives and much remains to be done and it must be done swiftly to keep the momentum going in the right direction. Today britton had an editorial in the guardian about the impact of not guilty verdict of edward nero, one of the officers involved in freddie grays killing by baltimore Police Department. President obama spoke about him in his commencement speech at howard, who joined with police and other experts to produce president obamas task force on 21st century policing. If you want our trust, stop killing us. If you want a relationship, stop getting away with it. June 2nd, 2016 will be six months since sfpd executed mario woods in broad daylight in front of a buses full of School Children and its also the national day against gun violence. The children at my Daughters School want to know why sfpds shoots so many people so many times . You have an obligation to make sure this doesnt happen again. Removing chief suhr is just the first stop to making that happen. Sfpd must be made accountable and this is what you need to do by june 2nd, a National Search for the communities most impacted selecting the criteria for the new chief . We need an end to the cops we need the u. S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and need George Gascon to indict the killers of gomez and woods and need the police to discipline and terminate all officers involved in officerinvolved shootings. This is urgent and i ask you to please take it very seriously. Thank you, next speaker, please. Madam president and supervisors. My name is abraham. Im an engineer and work for one of the top general contractors in the bay area. I had the Great Fortune to attend a fundraiser to honor the legacy of rudy bridges the first black child to be integrated into the allwhite school. I couldnt help but feel saddened because here in San Francisco, only in San Francisco, practitioners are excluded from participating in the annual japantown in Chinatown Community parades. Why and how can this only happen in our great city of San Francisco, none known for tolerance . Since the illegal persecution, the communist party has used this here in San Francisco extends the persecution through the chinese consulate, which directly targets Community Leaders in San Francisco and persuades through them propaganda that its a Political Movement to not allow and exclude citizens who practice this fallen doffa have no policy aspirations and the Chinese Communist party fears it the communities include them into their events these communities will see through their lives and realize that the practitioners are good people that have been wronged. I believe that san franciscans do not support discrimination. And influence from a Foreign Government interfering with the souvenir nation. I look forward to the day one of you will walk alongside us to openly attend the chinatown and japantown Community Parades just as the federal agents walked along ruby bridges every day in 1960. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Translator greetings supervisor, wonder what type of performance would put on . If they were allowed to join the janantown and chinese new years parade and allow me to show it so you can see it . This time is set for the individual at the first microphone there, if she wants to say what you are saying, that is fine. Okay. Sorry. I apologize. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is vicky. And im 13 years old and i live in sunset district. I came to the states last august to learn classical at school. And im extremely excited to be living here in the usa, because this country has more human than Mainland China. I have practiced together with my mom and grand mom since i was born and see their practice as helping me focus on being truthful and being kind to other people and thinking of others before thinking of myself. However, we are not able to talk about falun da la in Mainland China because of the current persecution. Im very happy that the practice is legal in the United States. And i cant even participate in falun parade and marching bands. It would be impossible to do this in china, a country that is under the rule of the communist party. April 27th, 2016, it was my first time to perform in the parade with the marching band. I was full of joy and honor. However, a half hour before the parade was to begin, we were notified that our band was forbidden to join. But we got the permit to perform way beforehand. How could this happen . America is famous for its support of human rights around the world. I wish justice could be done here. Seems like a peaceful marching band. Please speak closer to the microphone, thank you. What happens in the United States, i hope the truth that we can Work Together that it never happens again. Thank you for your time and concern. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is tom borden and im here to speak about something that i have observed, i have seen two supervisors speak on proposition b in the last week. And there have been some shortcome ings i would like to talk about. Sir, im pausing your time, sir. There is no election airing in the chamber. If you want to talk generally about issues, but not about campaign issues, please. I will run your time now. You are at saying i cant talk about anything that is on the ballot . That is correct. Let me ponder that for my next minute and 30 seconds and see if there is any way i can get across my point . We can move to the next speaker and give you time to come back with your remarks. Thank you. Thank you next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is dewith the San Francisco forest alliance. I would like to address in a general way the issue of set asides, and most of you were not in your seats in 2008, but in 2008 the board of supervisors im sorry, the ballot passed proposition s, which was a local measure that said there would not be set asides unless there was a new source of funding. And that it would be city policy that voters cannot approve a new set aside with a cost of living adjustment or other annual increase of more than 2 . And that the setasides could not be for more than ten years. This measure was voted on, and 56 compared to 44 of San Francisco residents voted in favor of that. There has been a lot of setasides that have happened since then. One was discussed today. One is currently on the ballot. And i think the context of understanding how people feel about setasides is very important. As an example on our current ballot, the amount of money that is going to go into a setaside was never discussed, and i dont think that you are aware of how much money was involved in this proposition, which is 4. 5 billion over 30 years. I believe that i have a paper i will give you to go on record about this, and a spreadsheet. But i would like you to understand before you endorse something, that the figures of what ever that you are endorsing that you fully understand what those figures are before you endorse and to understand how the citizens of San Francisco feel about setasides. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im back. I would like to speak on board of supervisors resolution 65302. In which you forebade the recreation and Parks Department from implementing the significant natural areas Resource Management plan until such time as the board of supervisors approved their plan. That plan is still awaiting eir certification. And yet, rec and park is pursuing activities that are part of it such as closing trails, erecting accesscontrol fencings and putting up signs that prohibit walking off designated trails or riding your bicycle in the park or even walking your bike in the park. And the resolution by this body was quite explicit. It said that they shall not impose access restrictions, cut recreation, kill feral cats, cut any healthy trees and yet, this body has done nothing to stop recreation and park from doing these things, and even the Planning Commission hasnt done anything about the violation of ceqa. So im concerned about this. I have talked to several supervisors on this issue, and nothing has happened. And i really think that the recreation and park needs more supervision more teeth in any kind of measure that might that they are involved with. To be sure that the public is protected and their voice and what happens with recreation and park with our parks. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, catherine howard. We have just learned that rec and park is now charging people to sit on the grass in dolores park. Rec and park states that this is a pilot program. But as everyone knows that is rec and Park Departments speak for this is what were going to do, tough. This is the direction that rec and park has taken our parks, continued privatization and monetization and loss of park use for those unable to pay to pay. Heaven forbid that a family decides to sit on the grass in a spurofthemoment. After the dolores park story broke at least two supervisors according to the press spoke up. All of a sudden rec and park has decided to suspend the program. Could it be because that is because the board at this point and for a few more weeks only has budget power over rec and park . You should immediately recognize that this is a rogue department out of control, mistakes were made in the chamber and i think could be rectified and should place a ballot measure that institutes controls for the department of recreation and park. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, and thank you very much for this opportunity to speak. I hadnt planned to come speak. I looked inside the door and thought the line isnt so long. I may as well give it a thought. My name is elizabeth delong, im a proud member of local 2, united here Restaurant Workers Union and im also a neighbor. I am a mother. I am a widow and happen to live across the street from dolores park and i have to tell you, overnight more than 15,000 signatures were put on a change. Org petition to stop selling our parks. Now dolores park is very particular, because you know we have all of these poor unfortunate intimate Technology Kids crammed into apartments, sometimes six or seven at a time and not to mention the families in the neighborhoods an long time residents. This is one place you can go and stretch your legs and get a little bit of fresh air. We dont have to pay for that privilege. Our parks are our parks. No more paytoplay. San francisco is not for sale. We love our parks. We fought to keep them nice and we fought and tried to have investments put into the parks to make sure they were beautified and now its beautiful, you want to take it away from us . No, no, no, no. San francisco is not for sale. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, citizens of San Francisco, and supervisors. My name is mel mel varand i live in the tenderloin district and im a volunteer chess teacher. Supervisor kim probably remembers me from 5160 farrell, the incident last year, where the dead body was left undiscovered for eight weeks and maybe supervisor farrell remembers me from rumor. But anyway, i have an addendum to my Police Case Number that i reported 48 hours ago regarding a certain david, a resident Maintenance Manager of 376 ellis. Who operates a highend prostitution ring using this building and are populated by squatters, who call themselves homesteaders. I tend to agree that most of these homesteaders were illegally evicted by the slum lord using thugs and they are claiming that they are just reoccupying their old units. Most of them are heroinaddicted and when passed out, their belongings are carted away. Now there are foreigners who i witnessed getting escorted inside the room, and there are two foreigners that i saw actually you know, engage in prostitution in davids room. One of those tricksters name is maxie and this makes it a federal Human Trafficking case. I have presented prima facie evidence in order to charge and arrest david, but 48 hours from my initial report to officer bautista, the only thing that happened was this thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors. Thank you very much. My name is lee strayhand, investigator reporter and filmmaker and im here to speak out in favor of the rule of law, commonsense and simple civility. That is because we have reached a point people are trying to shut down opinions that they dont agree with. On some issues currently before the board, for instance, supervisors on this very board have resorted to calling critics racists. Everyone who takes logic knows its simply an insult and has no actual content. Calling everyone who disagree with us a racist has another goal, intimidation. The goal is to shut people up, to make them not want to talk, make them not want to speak out. Even though some of the people who are in the other side of some of the issues before this simply want the rule of law followed and believe that you pass a law, that law should be enforced. You may disagree, but you can hold that view and not be racist and to call people racist and overuse that term that is, in fact, offensive and wrong because racism, lets be clear is wrong and to overuse that term is simply awful. I would ask the board of supervisors to strongly consider the precedent they are setting by not addressesing the issues, but simply tossing out insults. Our democracy depends on open and free debate and intimidation and insults should not play any part in that process. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I want to further highlight and touch base on a conflict of interest, and true and correct way to take care of this Immigration Reform, illegal immigration, and also, sanctuary law. This type of legislation that you proposed due process for people involved in illegal immigration to litigation and legislation that you should be practicing on is to join mexico and make it part of the United States. You need to bring up their Living Conditions in mexico, so they wont have to be crossing across the border, cross ing across the deserts because of the povertylevel and Living Conditions in mexico. The poverty [hrao efrl ] inlevel in mexico is severallevels lower than the United States. You know that and they know that and as a result they take the chance of crossing the border, thousands of them die in the desert and nobody talks about it. If you incorporate legislationion to make mexico part of the United States of america, you would eliminate that problem. Its not fair to them. Im tired of watching them die on educational shows and you have illegal immigration taking place here in the city and you have the Human Service Agency Spending taxpayer money deporting citizens of the United States, talking about you helping the homeless problem. And then you turn around and perform illegal immigration and citizens and have Illegal Immigrants in brandnew apartments paying 25 a month. That is not fair to them and its not fair to the u. S. Citizens and its also not fair to immigrants who go through the process of becoming u. S. Citizens because you are cutting in front of them. Here is an example this past sunday where a thousand immigrants went through the red tape and became u. S. Citizens. This is the way that litigation should be done and you are creating a hostile environment. You are talking about developers pitting themselves against each other. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Madam president , supervisors my name is john jones and i attended the Police Commission at the Elementary School and that meeting as you know was adjourned early because a contingent from the university of california at San Francisco insisted on interrupting unless and until the commission added an agenda item concerning the performance of the current chief stared. Steward. A member of the contingent read part of a letter to those of us remaining in the auditorium and described a host of horribles inflicted on the people of San Francisco by the San Francisco Police Department and the medical person only read the first paragraph of the letter, which was quite lengthy. I replied to the medical folks and i would like to repeat to you what my reply was. I said i lived in excelsior for 30 years and had not had a car for five years and i took the 14 mission bus all the time. And i told her that i had not seen what her letter describes. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Gilbert, a stroll through the city of Small Businesses up at 24th street, noe valley, a neighborhood, west portal, a neighborhood. Laurel village, hub of a neighborhood. 9th and irving, a neighborhood, north beach, a neighborhood. And a location. Castro, a neighborhood and a location. 8, a neighborhood and a location. The mission, a neighborhood and a location. And what is south beach where i have lived for 27 years . Five years ago the mayor started with 8 washington as the focus and the future of our city followed quickly by a trip to china offering Treasure Island for sale and quickly came into the nba. The stadium on the dock. He said this is the jewel crown of a neighborhood. And at that moment in time that i realized was the death warrant for the neighborhood. We had 40,000 for the baseball games and adding 18,000 and two highrise hotels were the end of any chance. I figured he doesnt have a vision or a grasp of what is going on the streets of our town. How would north beach like 18,000stadium and two highrise hotels . He lacks vision, and grasp of reality. Now that started with his ability to understand run lee run. But now its time for lee to leave. Lee leave, please, lee, leave. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Gilberte. Next speaker, please . Supervisors, madam chair, madam president , my name is otter duffy, resident of north of market by city hall here. I am a neighborhood activist. My biggest area of activism and understanding is election issues from always trying to find ways, you know, to get my neighborhood has a somewhat lower turnout than other neighborhoods. There is a lot of extra names on voter rolls of people who dont live there because its a transient neighborhood and there is actually a number of issues with voting and to talk about maybe having a primary eelection for the mayor . Which has been possibly maybe might happen or not . Depending on things. I think it makes a certain amount of sense, because one of the things that voters dont get with rank choice voting, they dont always get a clear idea who the finalists are, the two people . Very often they come in and vote and see that some the votes gets stranded or exhausted and they dont even make a choice on one of the two finalists. In other cases you see them use rankchoice voting and rank both finalists, which if you are trying to make a choice on who the winner should be . It doesnt really make sense to be running them off against each other and indicates uncertainty about the situation. Having a primary for the mayor also would make candidates forums much easier. When you have just wave and waves of a dozen of candidates, its hard to have a forum and its difficult to support Public Financing because you have a smaller field. You could have two or a handful of candidates. Rankchoice works good with a handful, but up to a dozen, it really starts to fail. Thank you. Any other speakers left to speaker for Public Comment . Madam president. Thank you, seeing no other speakers for Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. Madam clerk, lets go back to the item that we skipped over. Item no. 9. Lets go back to item 9. Supervisor avalos, are we ready for that . Absolutely. All right, lets go. Thank you, madam president. And i want to thank sheriff hennessey and her staff for working with us closely over the past few weeks, and very intensely, intensively today. It was a lot of give and take on both sides and i do appreciate her flexibility. First off, and i also didnt get a chance to do the writing i wanted to do to do my speech here. So im using my phone. As we start, i want to mention honduran citizen, and Environmental Justice and human rights activist with Indigenous People in honduras and recently goldman prize winner a prize she received here in San Francisco in 2015. Recently she was murdered in her home in honduras. Honduras is a country hardhit by globalization, Climate Change induced environmental degradation and political unrest and poverty. The u. S. Government has been link to the 2009 political coup that oustered president salialia. Honduras is also where many youth who are trafficked to the mean streets of cities across the United States including those of San Francisco. And i mentioned honduras because its an example that migration and immigration are closely linked to the relationships between mother and host countries. And berta casadas has relatives in the bay area. This is known. Our sanctuary City Ordinance before us today, due process for sanctuary City Ordinance are both together here 27 years in the making. As the United States received immigrants from political unrest in central america, mexico, southwest and southeast asia, and other parts of the world, found it necessary to include and integrate waves of new residents making up our neighborhoods. And sanctuary citis have ensured that people who come here from other lands can feel as close as they can to residents who do not have to fear being denied services, being denied access to housing, being given the support of Law Enforcement to make their neighborhoods safer. And its a reciprocal relationship, so that in cities like San Francisco, that have sanctuary city, we recognize that for our citis to run effectively, for there to be a place where we can advance the interests of our resides, as much as possible, that we need to have relationships with the immigrants who are living with us. One of the key relationships is the relationship between Law Enforcement and the immigrant community and our sanctuary city policy is really most effective when we actually have the clear separation between local Law Enforcement, and federal Immigration Enforcement. Local Law Enforcement is criminal and justice enforcement and Immigration Enforcement is Civil Enforcement and that is exactly what our sanctuary city policy has done the years. Last year was a really challenging moment, last summer, for sanctuary city policy. We have seen the tenor of the president ial campaign has been one of demagogery and preyed on peoples prejudices, from peoples concerns about muslim from other countries and peoples concerns about other people from other countries in general. And because of the tragic event that happened last year, those prejudices came to impact our standing together united to support sanctuary city policy. But here today we have an update to our policy that we get to vote on to ensure that as a city, we can unite all together on what the standard is going to be for upholding our sanctuary city policy and ensuring that all residents regardless of whether you are a immigrant, a resident, a citizen will be ensured due process in our Justice System and will not be turned over without it this. Is critical in San Francisco when we have seen especially with the Police Departments recent officerinvolved shootings that have communities of color reeling, believing that there is no trust to have with the Police Department. Because what they see, what resembles Police Officers using their guns without offering providing due process. And without due process, they could resemble summary executions. We want to make sure, as much as possible that we dont have any lack of due process for people who could be turned over to i. C. E. So i want to thank sheriff hennessey for her work helping us ensure we have due process through our Justice System and our Sheriffs Department and linking to the Police Department and our courts here in San Francisco. So more than anything, this ordinance before us is updating our sanctuary city political and due process for all ordinance to meet changes that have been made in federal Immigration Enforcement. Up to last year the main enforcement through i. C. E. Was changed to the providing letters that asked local Law Enforcement agencies and Sheriffs Department with a voluntary request to hold people past their release date up to 48 hours for ice to pick up and the new program is to notify i. C. E. When a person is to be released there custody. For the immigrant community its the same outcome, that people could be turned over to i. C. E. And to be closing a loophole. This also removes obsolete outdated language from the original sanctuary City Ordinance. It was language that was amended in 1993. And that language is no longer necessary, but what that language did is lower the bar completely for how local Law Enforcement could coordinate with i. C. E. And removing that language to have the most recent update that we have before us today. So this i will read into the record i have the amendment as a whole that discusses what the new policies will be. And we moved a great distance in 2013 had one single exception to when a person could be detained. And that was for someone who had a violent felony conviction in the last 7 years immediately prior to the date of notification or request. So that language is continuing in the new version. We have new language that we have received from the sheriff that were including as well. That actually broadens what the exception is going to be violent felony within five years immediately prior to notification or detention request. And then we have a third exception that we have put in as well. From the sheriff, and so we have come a long way to accept these amendments. And the third one is that individual has been convicted of three felonies, identified as felonis that would contribute that would lead to imprisonment in states penitentiary and reference the penal code. So three felonies subject to trust act exception for notification or detention, that would arise out of three separate incidents in the fiveyears and really prior to the date of notification. So those are the new carveouts that we have. And i want to make sure that you are aware of those. They are on page 13 of our legislation. The other language that we have added that the sheriff has accepted is language that ensures that were not merely notifying people who are merely booked on a felony, but people for whom a magistrate has determined that there is probable cause to believe the individual is guilty of a felony under the trust act guidelines. So having a magistrate to show that there is due process, that there is probable cause, provides that due process that is the foundation of our judicial system. And so i want to make sure you are aware of these changes and how we have been able to unite with the sheriff. Other new language we have is just to provide a reporting requirement that happens once a year. That will be provided to the board of supervisors. Semiannually. What is significant about this legislation that we are united on it, the board of supervisors we vote unanimously with that will be aligned with the sheriff and aligned with the mayor and aligned with the immigrant Rights Community that has helped to work on these amendments and there is no better place to be in. Were going to actually uphold our sanctuary city policy and protect it from wavering under policy pressure. So colleagues i want to urge your support and i want to thank you for your patience today and most of all i want to thank the sheriff for her work with our office, and the sheriff has any words you might want to add to come and share them with us . Thank you. So before the sheriff speaks, supervisor avalos, are you making these proposed amendments to your legislation . Yes, its an amendment of the whole im doing and yes, these are the proposed amendments with the support of the sheriff im motioning to be accepted. Supervisor avalos has made a motion to amend andate circulated and seconded by supervisor. Can we take those without exception . Those amendments pass. Welcome, sheriff to the amendment. Thank you, supervisor. I think we all agree that the immigration cries for the reform and i. C. E. Targets residents and lowlevel offenders and also agree what is needed is comprehensive Immigration Reform is that recognizes that United States is home to immigrants. I stood here before you today to talk about this issue and talked tot people i have listened to and those who dont agree on blanket nonotification policy and those concerned that notification will undermine the safety of their community and families. I always looked for a casebycase review and what i have now is that casebycase review. I want to thank you, and our recent discussions we have constructed parameters within which that will occur. This is a longer, rigorous process and talked with many people and particularly my thanks to supervisor avalos and supervisor peskin and others. We learned a lot going through the process and to serve Public Safety, family unity and bring our communities together and that is what im hoping for. Thank you so much. Thank you, sheriff. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam president. I just wanted to thank our sheriff, and supervisor avalos for working thoughtfully and deliberatively together to, i think, honor the citys longstanding tradition of sanctuary city and making sure that the city is safe. I just want to thank sheriff hennessey and supervisor avalos for such a collaborative process. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam president and thank for the comments. This is a difficult issue for so many different reasons, but to me, the fact that we have this agreement and i want to thank supervisor avalos and sheriff hennessey, its a testament of how San Francisco continues to lead, not only the state, but the country on these issues. I especially want to acknowledge the work of sheriff hennessey. We havent always seen eyetoeye on this issue and i want to thank you for taking the time to understand the concerns of this community. And i think its something that shows that not withstanding what is happening at the nationallevel, we in San Francisco have been very diligent in making sure that we focus on the substance of what were trying to do, which is trying to strike the right balance between Public Safety and the rights of immigrants. The thing about sanctuary is that the point of it often gets lost, which its really about maximizing Public Safety and ill have to say to supervisor avalos and the coalition, thank you for putting the time and energy into it. This is not an easy subjectmatter, and you have to roll up your sleeves and i know you have been doing this for a very long time. And im just very proud as a san franciscan, as an immigrant myself. Its great to see this outcome. I think its who we are as a city, and as a country. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor campos. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. Colleagues im not going to repeat everything that i have said in the past, last time we discussed this issue. I think i have made my position clear. I do want to take a moment and acknowledge supervisor avalos for spear heading the ordinance before us today and to thank our sheriff, sheriff hennessey for taking time to explain to myself, and the Community Members, her perspective on this issue. I believe that supervisor avalos and the sheriff have been working collaboratively, to come to a uniform policy and i think there was quite a gap between the two of you, would you agree . Quite a gap between the two of you. And so i just want to compliment the leader of being able to divorceyourself from the emotion, because sometimes the emotions can really cloud our ability to negotiate a position. I believe what you have presented here today i am prepared to support and i believe that supervisor avalos you have negotiated in earnest and in good faith and that the sheriff has been open to receive the concerns that many of us represent, the concerns of the constituents that we represent. And i think its important that we acknowledge that we cant continue to allow a flawed federal policies and hateful rhetoric from outside of the city to dominate and drive our local policies. And were living in an interesting time, where there is just so much fear, and people are making decisions based out of fear. If residents dont feel safe to go to the police, because they have a fear of being deported by i. C. E. , if people are fearful of reporting crime or fearful of intimidation or physical retaliation, they are not going report crimes. A lot of challenges happening in the immigrant community mirror what is happening in the community with this level of fear and distrust. We need to collectively roll up our sleeves to create policies that are supportive of tranceparency, and accountability. So supervisor avalos, i understand there will be some outstanding requests, and i believe that we have amended the ordinance proposed by you today to meet our shared goals of protecting Public Safety and most importantly upholding our values as a sanctuary city. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor cohen. Supervisor yee. Thank you, president breed. I would just also want to join the chorus and thanking all parties involved in this negotiation. I think over a month ago when i was able to meet with advocates and also meet with sheriff hennessey separately, i encouraged everybody involved to continue talking. Because even though there is language that people are using might be seen as real far away, i just think the individuals involved werent that far away philosophically in what they wanted and it was just a matter of having enough time to listen to each other and understand their perspectives and hammering out the common language that we can all live with, and not just live with. I think its more to say to everybody else outside of San Francisco, that were all together in this philosophy that we have, and support. So once again, i want to thank the advocates, supervisor avalos, and sheriff hennessey, for willingness to Work Together. I think if nothing else, it just goes to show you, when we listen to each other and try to understand each other, we can actually come up with consensus. Thank you, supervisor yee. Supervisor wiener. Thank you very much, madam president. I just wanted to reiterate my gratitude both to the sheriff and to supervisor avalos for working really hard to find Common Ground here. When this first when this dispute first started and the legislation was introduced and sitting down with the advocates and looking at the charts and comparing where the sheriff was and where the legislation was, it just screamed out to me as needing a resolution. The two were never that far apart and it really showed that i think everyone comes from a really good place here, that we want to protect our immigrant communities and we want to protect Public Safety, and we can do both, and do both graciously and i think we have done that here today and so congratulations to everyone. Thank you, supervisor wiener. Supervisor mar. Thank you. I wanted to acknowledge the work of the immigrants rights organizations for defending our citys sanctuary City Ordinance and working with supervisor avalos and others to prevent any weakening of the principles and the concepts. I did wanted to say i wish we were not printing more exceptions, but i acknowledge that supervisor avalos and the coalition have worked in goodfaith with sheriff hennessey as she said to protect Public Safety, but also to ensure that familis are not ripped apart by i. C. E. , pep, whatever they call it, and that sheriff hennessey will work with the Immigrants Rights Coalition and thank you for humanizing stories of being turned over to i. C. E. For just reporting a stolen car. But i think its really important that we just not look at the policies, but the human fear in immigrant communities and if were creating more communitybased involvement, to really keep moving this forward and to thank the coalition for standing strong and working with supervisor avaloss office for this comprise compromise and that we have defended our policies and because of the strength of the i immigrant communities. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor. Thank you again for the work we have done together with sheriff hennessey. I just want to mention my work with the free sf and different communities and coalitions that have come together to support this legislation. I really value the relationships and i hope the relationship is one that can continue and can build with the sheriff as well. Because i think that relationship with free sf and the sheriff is going to be important to make sure that were sharing information, and understanding each other and our points of view. That is important for the relationships that are necessary for sanctuary city. I do want to apologize for losing my cool at times. [laughter ] because i did. And i am really sorry for that. There was it is not easy to it hasnt been easy to work on this legislation, because i know its such High Aspirations for what we want, and going through this process. We dont always get what we want and its been really hard to be in between. I do appreciate the relationship. I most of all want to thank sida huisan for your work and came to the community forum. We needed more of you and there and im sorry that was the case. I do want to thank my legislative aide, jeremy pollack who has been seriously multitasking and thank you for your work. Colleagues, lets vote on this. Thank you. And just quickly, congratulations, supervisor avalos and sheriff hennessey. I really appreciate you both working together to come to a great outcome, which is a winwin for our great city. Thank you both for your hard work on this. With that, colleagues, lets take a rollcall vote on the item no. 9 as amended. Madam clerk. Supervisor wiener. Aye. Wiener aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Ee or yee aye. Supervisor avalos aye. Supervisor breed aye. Supervisor farrell . Supervisor kim aye. Supervisor kim . Supervisor kimm. Aye. The ordinance is passed unanimously on first reading. [ applause ] madam clerk, thank you. Can you please go to the items for adoption without reference to committee. Items 33 through 43 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. A single rollcall vote may enact these items. A member may object or server an item and have it considered separately. Supervisor [pefrbg ]in. Item 4 6r7 vi, please. Seeing no other names on the roster, madam clerk k remaining items roll call. Srs wiener. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor avalos. Aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. Supervisor campos . Aye. Supervisor cohen. A ea. Supervisor farr. Aye. Supervisor kim . Aye. Supervisor mar . Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor tang . Aye. There are eleven ayes. Those items are approved unanimously. [ gavel ]. Madam clerk please call item 43. Item 4 6r7 vi is motion calling from the land use and transportation committee, the proposed ordinance amending the general plan to make conforming changes in association with legislation creating the Affordable Housing bonus program. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam president , i put this on the calendar due to a misunderstanding that the item was not going to be calendared in committee, and failed to speak to the sponsor, supervisor tang, for which i apologize and i would like to make a motion to table this matter. Supervisor peskin has made a motion to table, seconded by supervisor tang, colleagues can where we make the motion to table without objection . Without objection, the motion to table passes unanimously. [ gavel ] all right, madam clerk, looks like we have a closed session item. Yes, madam precioussing pending approval of item 42 which has just occurred, the board of supervisors has agreed to convene in closed session today, may 24th with the Mayors Office and the department of Human Resources under administrative code section 67. 10e and Government Code Section section 5497. 6 regarding negotiations with labor unions representing city employees. Before we move in our closed session, supervisor avalos is it my understanding that you have an imperative item . I do not. Okay, so nobody has an imperative item . Good, great. With that, colleagues, is there a motion to go into closed session . Moved by supervisor yee and seconded by supervisor mar. Colleagues can we take that without objection . I would like to open up before we go into closed session, for Public Comment on the closed session specifically. Tom gilbertee, this was such an interesting and robust session at the board of supervisors, i thought Small Business week was wonderful. I hate to see this session be closed. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Gilbertee. We apologize for that, but we must conduct business on occasion in closed session. Thank you. What is the reason why its a closed session . Its Public Comment, not public question and answer. Its on the agenda. That is a poor excuse. Im sorry about that. And then i really think you should be doing foundation and proposals to incorporate mexico to be part of the United States, so you wont be pitting us against each other. Thank you very much. Because what you are doing with your federal laws that you are talking about. We can only comment on the you can only comment on the closed session. Thank you for being here today. Are there any other members of the public who would like to provide Public Comment at this time on the closed session . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [ gavel ] colleagues can we go into closed session without objection . Without objection, the board will go into closed