Transcripts For SFGTV League Of Women Voters District 6 Candidate Forum 20221016

Redistricted into district 5 the tenderloin became district 5. I moved south of market and lived there before. I have been a long time activist and advocate. Im a person a long time survivor living with hiv and clean and sober 20 years. I believe it is time for a chink. I have been degree street politics the whole time. Came to San Francisco in 1982 and hit the streets rung because of the confusion and anger and segregation and the whole gammet in the tenderloin and oppression and Homeless People on the streets. We have the same issues in the tenderloin now that were 40 years ago. It is time for a change. Im in change im ms. Billie cooper and hope to win your vote or hi, out there your vote, people in tv land because i know what we need. Thank you ms. Billie cooper. Next candidate in the Opening Statement system cherelle. Good afternoon im Cherelle Jackson and running for district 6. Im dedicated and committed to serving our under served communities to be a strong voice for this district. I want to ebb serve our seniors, disabled communities as well as those that are veterans. I want to continue to make sure you have an understanding of the work and my backgrounds that includes a member of the tenderloin working with labor and they have an advocate. Cochair workers with disabilities the Womens Committee as well. Serving on the social economics committee. I do a lot of Work Community activism making sure Homeless Individuals have the resources they need in order to thrive and placed in good how longs. I have done work being the executive producer of my own pod cast and making sure that provide my time to help those who need at this time most and ensure weup lift folks where they are at. Thank you. Next honey mahogany. Thank you im running for district 6 supervisor. I grew up in San Francisco. My family did in the they came to the country as refugees from a long war. My father at the time was a medical student studying in greece and protested against the Ethiopian Government revoked his citizenship and lost everything. He and my mother came to San Francisco to build a new life. When they came they believed in the american dream. Through work and education you can do anything. My dad instead of being able to continue his work in medical school no credits transferred worked 30 years as a taxi driver and they sent us to catholic school. My family was religious and thought it was the best way for us to move forward. I did not agree with everything but i believed being a person for other, being of service and being the change you want to see in the world. I got my msw from berkeley and working to get folks off the street and into recovery and helping those who were incarcerated rebuild their lives. Thats why i have done the work over 20 years it help make San Francisco a better place. The cultural districts. Saving small accidents and more. With everything that happens in the country now, we need San Francisco to be a refuge for people not just from all over the country but all overnight world but from other accomplices in the country. Thank you. [applause]. Finally for Opening Statements matt dorsey. Thank you very much. I want to thank the league of women voters and also i realliment to thank ucsf it is personal one of the proudest things i did in San Francisco politic in 2019 i had the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with ucsf leaders like stan, valerie and john to take on joule labs when they respondent millions to change San Francisco law to sell vaping device its means a lot to be here. It was the convergence of a Public Health crisis in drug over dose death in my journey and recovery prosecute addiction that moved me to ask the mayor to consider me as her appointee to the board of supervisors for a job i never thought i would. Or have. Having the opportunity to be here, gives me, i think a rare and unique voice on the board of supervisors against the back drop of a record shattering crisis that is deadly as covid19. I have said i will not be a single issue supervisor or candidate. If there is a single issue to make progress on a multitude of things in San Francisco, getting more people in recovery would make a meaningful difference and enable our city to be worthy of being the city of st. Francis. Thank you all. Now we are moving to the questions that were submitted by odd jens in advanced. How have you defined Affordable Housing and what specific actions will you take to increase Affordable House nothing district 6 . For this question i will begin with cherelle. We need to make sure it is affordable for me im looking at working clasdz and lower income individuals and making sure that when the job they are obtaining can they afford house nothing that regard. If they cant that means we need to make more available. And that is a mile mark in my respect. Especially for seniors and lower income individual who is have a hard time obtaining housing because it is market rate. Because of their fixed incomes. I want to ensure we provide enough Housing Available for them to obtain it and needs to be affordable. Thank you. Mahogany. Thank you for this question. Truly, for me Affordable Housing means when working class people or poor people afford to live that is Affordable Housing. I know this deeply because my family came here has refugees with nothing. When they came here in the late 70s that was possible they were able to find a small apartment in the sunset and crammed 4 or 5 of my Family Member in there and me and my brother were born and my grand mother lived with us we got by. Today, this is not the case. I dont know how people do it now. We are still getting refugees more and more we get more transpeople coming to San Francisco seek to rebuild their lives. Ir met someone the other day saying i came here from alabama i was not safe at home. For me it is deeply concerning we dont have enough Affordable Housing in San Francisco and we need to build more housing at all levels. The city needs to take into consideration how it is building deeply Affordable Housing. It has been my lifes work. As executive director of the transdistrict i fought to get more Affordable Housing and subsidies in San Francisco. When i was chief of staff the at board of supervisors we fought for legislation we passed making sure those sros pay no more than 30 of income toward rent. I worked on a variety of thing to ensure San Francisco is affordable but we have a lot of work to do. Thank you. I just find Affordable Housing the way the state defines affordable is worthwhile of looking at what the Regional Housing needs targets that will be governing how we will Guild Housing the next 8 years part of the 6 cycle Housing Element will do that. There is low housing, which is 50 of ami or area Median Income goes to low income 50 to being 80 . Moderate is 60 ever80 to 120 and sometimes in prop b can go up to 140. I think sometimes we 92ed the flex at because we dont when we are baking manage in the charter how the compel be in years to come. We have aggressive targets and district 6 supervisor one thing i said in my speech after sworn in not enough as a district 6 supervisor to be a reliable voter on housing the district 6 supervisor is the conserves housing for the board of supervisors. If we are going to fulfill the promise of the progressive and ambitious Housing Elemented ever. We have to build supporting housing in our own district but also in every district at all income levels and we are meeting the tarts of affordability the state has set. Im committed to make sure we fulfill the promise of the most progressive Housing Element in San Francisco history. Last question is billie cooper. Hi, everyone. Low Income Housing is when we need. Poor people couldnt afford, Affordable Housing that is number one. I am one of those people and until i got a section 8 voucher to afford a beautiful place in trinity apartments, trinity places that is how im living there. I could not afford that, Affordable Housing is a push back to poor and low income people. Most that live in the Affordable Housing are tech people. You go from third of market up to castro and market, all that is Affordable Housing bmr a poor person cant afford a bmr. I know i know exactly that is happening my street politics an act viv. Im the face of the tenderloin. Lets not forget we cant forget all the other communities in district 6. But we gotta stop leaving out the poor people of we have to get them situated in housing. During this covid scare. So many people were on the streets outside city hall. Sleeping up on palette and a mattress and sometime not sleeping in the tent. Because you are not there, that does in the mean you should not care for People Living below the poverty line. Thank you all. I will ask the audience to hold the applause until the very end. Thank you. Question number 2. What are your plans for bring Retail Business to the area honey mahogany . Thank you, so much. I think it is everyone here should know that San Francisco has been hit really heard by the pandemic before that Small Businesses were struggling. The rents are just too high. And unfortunately, foot traffic is in the what is used to and be not enough to support the rents i know this as a Small Business owner coordinance of the stud. In order to save that business 16 friends and myself put the funds together to save that business from closure. Unfortunately during the pandemic we were forced shut doors but working to bring it back. Unfortunately, there is a lot of issue when is it come to zoning and permitting and the costs that it takes to open a small accident. When it costs more than half a Million Dollars to open an ice cream shop in the city that is a prospect that is something we need to work on. I will continue to work that i have been doing at the Small Business advocate work width Small Business commission and Workforce Development to take the burden off our small buildingses. Thats why i opposed the tax about to be on the ballot and luck low it is getting removed. We have been taxing and hurting our Small Businesses to the upon point they are not allowed survive. We have to do something about it and have to absolutely change the conscience on our streets to support our Small Businesses increase tourism and foot traffic through restructuring of streets and get people back in our Small Businesses and shops. Thank you. So. What im hearing from Small Business owners in district 6 is that the main concern is Public Safety on the street. It is street conscience. People who are acting out violently and many case in my neighborhood i live in mid market, it is open air drug scenes brazen drug dealing and people acting out often violently. Owner of Harvest Market a friends of mine i known for 20 years attacked and knocked unconscious this is something we have never seenful mark sag on the works a block away at the box was had surge row on his wrist. He talked about this openly attacked he told someone to stop ticking a door. Tony baloneys wife was attacked because she told someone to stop shop lifting. A degree of Public Safety issues i have not seen in the years 14 years i have been in south of market. I think we also have to i think the other thing i talked to big Large Companies about is what we can do to encourage people to come back and stop doing remote work. I know we are a tech heavy city and sometimes that plays out in this being a labor work benefit. But i said, im willing to hope the hood on the gross receipts tax if it means incentivizing people to come back to work. That supports Small Businesses. Hi. Again. Testimony is ms. Billie cooper. I am running for district 6 supervisor. I want to talk about policy and i want to talk about legislation and i want to talk about you know there are people that do and people that dont and for the left 40 years the city of San Francisco has in the gotten it right because of people of color, white people. Asian people, mexican people, there are no businesses for low income marginalized people. You know they said the city, i spoke to machine with the city and they said, ms. Cooper, they need seed money a poor person dont have seed money to start a business the city needs to create legislation and policy to afford people to get up to be able to open a business. I have been here 40 years and i have seen black people and brown people work nothing a business they were just doing working there they did not own nothing. I think we gotta make it cohesive and equal to everybody and not only in district 6 but across the city. We have to help people that realliment to help themselves but cant. So many cant afford a decent meal i was one of those people. When i got my housing my life changed and im so grateful im a United States disabled veteran thats how i got my section 8 vouch and im so grateful. All right. We gotta hit this in multiple ways. We gotta create tax incentives that help out businesses especially those impacted bite pandemic. We need to ensure that we start to invest back in business. And create of a way in which they feel supported. They are able to obtain the resources in order to thrive and make sure businesses are running efficiently. Especially for those defaults. We need to ensure that our that we are addressing Community Safety. I heard a candidate mention that. I agree with that you need to address safety as limp this is one of the things is a concern those in organized crime that affects the Retail Industry especially when you think about the square. You have to address those in a way you provide Community Safety making sure the staff in the industry i work in the retail i know what happens in the stores. And sometime its is in the the very safe conditions for them to conduct business. We have been sure that the security is in place and investment in communities, safety and available ensuring they have resources they need. And making sure that the resources are available for [inaudible] making sure grants are available when folks need for marginalized and low income Small Businesses so they can start up there is a lot we can do in the way we address this so thank you. Thank you. Next question. Could the city create a bus route from mission bay to sfo airport . I will begin with matt dorse y. I think that we could do that. I know that one of the things that plays out in transit often in the San Francisco bay area is we have i believe 27 transit agencies. There is organization in that. I think that there are this is the first this is a refreshing the first time i got that question that is novel. Yea. This is something i would be willing to have a conversation with jeff tomlisten about at muni. I know there are private sector shovels here. That is something that would be helpful to the area. I do im a strong believer in when we need to do in mission bay. Back in the. Com era i worked on barry street when people hit golf balls. This was a place that Jordan Administration talking to ucsf about the growth issues on their campus. And the discussion was, may be we should look at mission bay . I think this is fulfilling the promise of an area that is a Life Sciences cluster and i am committed to make thanksgiving a success. So if a shuttle to sfo or any transportation infrastructure, im committed as i am to the mission bay elementary school. Is that my question, too. Good ahead. I want to say, that would be a gang buster. Air fabulous idea because so many people that live beyond ucsf and alled buildings here and the fabulous apartments and giant stadium who live further down third street most of those people cant afford 16 dollars one way in a shuttle to go to the airport. I remember before all this was here, the 15 the historical 15 bus used to come down third street. Come down this street. I remember i used to eat across the street at the fire house before they took it down where the sisters prepared meals for the low, poor and marginalized people this is might have neighborhood. This is my neck of the woods. You know i have done street politics and im waiting to get in city hall as district supervisor, honey they need to be taught a lesson how to run things. It would be fabulous im disabled and i love ticking the bart to the airport and it is half price. 4 dollars each way i would come down to catch the bus to go to the airport because it it is an experience for low marginalized poor people to actually be able to afford the fly out of the airport. You know so thats a fabulous idea if you need my help im here if you need someone to sit on the board. We need marginalized poor people on some of the boards. How you going to create stuff for us if we are not on your board. Thank you. The question is could the city create a bus route from mission bay to sfo airport . Miami answer is a bit more simple. I would say that yes , i continuing is a great idea. A lot of folks do business back and forth. You got companies and industries that have to get to where they are going and this may be an efficient way to reduce traffic. Think about the environment. Think about how that will reduce the traffic back and forth and everything else. If well is a route that is directly for those that are here in the city and in this district. I think that we need to ensure that we are looking at transit in general. Ensuring there are safer routes so that the care providers can get and continue to have investment there. And also making sure that i know there is work in regards to the chase center down the street here. That you when there are games and everything that could be a concernful i wanted to make sure we also ensure we continue to make safer routes for those getting the care they need. Thank you. Yes. So i believe that is possible and something we can do. I would priorize making transit more reliable in San Francisco and in district 6. Bart is already goes straight to sfo. Why are we not then making access to bart easier improving how afternoon muni committee t line or n. We left lane is transit that connects the mission to the downtown area. We need to make sure it is coming quickly. Rather than starch a new shutsdz i prefer to reinvest in the resources that exist to make them reliable, consistent so folks get to sfo safely. Thank you for answering. A reminder the questions submitted by the audience in advance. Do you accept pack undzing from outside california if so from who and why. Begin with ms. Billie keeper. No , i dont i dont accept no pack fundingien what it is. [laughter]. No running for district 6 supervisor we have a threshold you can take so much money from donors and not allowed to take money from corporations and outside entities. You know i think there should be a kind of policy and we should relook the structure of when people run for district 6 supervisor and any district you should be able to get more money from someone that backs and you wanted to funds because i dont have a lot of money, you know, you know, i might lose this race but i know my heart has been in the right place for 63 years. And you know if im lucky enough to win i will do everything within my breath, everything while im living and district 6 supervisor to help the poor people. I know other people that got money live in district 6 and need help, too. My heart is with my people. People that look like me. You know. I have stage 4 cancer. I have one eye. You know so many disabled people are kicked to the curb well is no one that looks like that to represent them. Im here to say i know i gotta stop. Here to say i am for my peeps. Thank you. Cherelle. I have not taken money in regards to out of state im very modest. That is not something im doing im trying to run a good race with integrity, honest and he respect for the folks running next to me and will make surety rest of the race is respectful and want to run it this way and hopefully others take this as an example in a way you see a black woman that can run without disrespectful or unupon kind and continue to represent in that way. Thank you. For me the vast majority of my contributions all from individual donors the exceptions have been from unions who have contributed to my campaign. But there are some national and state wide organizations that have endorsed me and crashed 500 example california womens list. Other organizations that may be endoergs the Victory Institute or fund which is a National Organization you know they make criminality 500 and i would, yes, accept that. There are organizations in groups i will not accept money for obviously those on the right wing, those who are evictors, people who are private Prison Companies things of this nature. Private Oil Companies there are certain things are groups i will not accept money from. A vast majority from individuals or labor unions. My donors largely individuals. I think to the extent there could be something out of state it might be a labor Union Endorsement i gotten checks but most those are also from in state. I would happy uponly take a look at that i have not solicited anything from out of state. And most of the funds raising i have been doing is among people i known for years and you know, early rounds is usually the love money. Thats it for me. Thank you all. Call it sometime in funds raising love money like your upon friends. I will move on to the next question. Thank you. So what is your comprehensive plan to address Public Health . I will begin with cherelle next. This is also something we have to hit to ensure that number one we are making sure our diverse and disadvantaged communities have the access to care. Making sure that Mental Health is addressd and resources are available. I want to make sure our seniors with access to health care and make sure it is accessible to them our disabled communities who need access to care and women and black women who may feel sometimes uncomfortable with the conversations about getting access to care and going to hospitals and getting care when they need it the most. I want to make sure that you know organizations that are available in orbit providing the resources that they get to the communities that need them and that women feel comfortable with that and having that rep centation be available to them all. Ensure we get the access to care in that regard. There is a lot that needs to be done to improve the Public Health care system this. Is something i worked on both as chief of staff to the former supervisor matt hane and he someone who had to access Public Health service as a black transwoman we know well are specific care we need in our community. Luck low in San Francisco we have that cover said. Unfortunately, with that care, as long as along lchs other health cares waits are far too long and some case deadly. I think that this is actually what is creating the crisis in our streets. I have my partner worked for years at general. As a nurse in the psyche ward and told me there were full and nothing people could do they have to be triage in the emergency and turned out in hospital gowns that is unacceptable not enough for the city to purchase beds we have to support our Health Care Workers and make sure things are properly staffed. Paying people a liveable wage to recruit people to the jobs and also making sure we are funding the programs so they are appropriately staffed. What happens is people burn out. And then folks dont get the service they need and create chaos in streets im endorsed by many Health Care Workers in this race. On the Public Health challenge that san front is facing that is more serious than anything we failed since the aids crisis. Last week i proposed along with supervisor mandelman and kathrin stephanie an ambitious road map called, San Francisco recovers. Seeks to address the crisis in drug over deaths and the criminal aspects dealing with drug dealing and other things temperature is an Ambitious Program i spent 4 months reaching out to national leaders. On the Street Level Drug Dealing Task force. Mike marshall from oregon recovers and many others. To identify the things that have work in the other cities including europe cities who have addressed the challenges Public Health and criminal justice challenge this is go with this complicated issue. Wham we did we are asking 21 city departments to report become to the board of supervisors within 90 days on the steps they could what resources they need to do what other cities are doing. This is important to me. You can count on the fact that this never will be an issue of the month for me temperature is why im here. Nothing less for me than the obligation of my own survival. Ms. Billie cooper. Cherelle did not want to give me the mic. Yes Public Health. Honey, im glad you brought it up. Public health is a very i remember 40 years ago Public Health was a big issue then and krez it is still a big issue now. I mean we are in the richest country why dont we have universal health care. Poor marginalized people dont get the right diagnose. They get pushed oust hospitals like my fellow peoples my fellow board of supervisors yall said. Candidates said. Im a little nervous. But yea, im know the face of one of the people who got misdiagnosed for years. I know what it is like. I know what like i said earlier. It is people that, cities that do and the cities that donts. San francisco wake up. We know exactly what we have to do. We have to do. It is a shame they have not done it yet. Im here for change. Do we want a 12 more years of the same politics we just got, just left. Do we want 12 years of the same nothing that was there before temperature is time for change. Put me put machine like me from the other side of the track in city hall. You know let me bring up my game and show what you i can do. Thank you. Thats how it feels up here. Didnt it. Weyy returning to the timic of Affordable Housing how can new construction be used to address low income and unhoused individuals and families. Begin with honey mahogany. Thank you this is something that impacted my community as a black person who grew up in San Francisco i was arc pauled see how many black people forced oust city including many of my Family Member when is we first moved here when i was born here there were 30 of us in the city now there are 2 of us left in San Francisco. And people get pushed further east. I spent the last 20 years working on this issue. Whether fighting to get rental subsity in accomplice so people stay housed we know is the most Cost Effective way of preventing crisis. In the last 4 years chief of staff to supervisor haney i worked on affordable issues and in preserving unit in so many arc permanently affordable by the city through the Small Site Program or purchase of large scale buildings like the panoramic used for people transitioning out of homeless knows the city must do more i will find new streams to funds housing in district 6 we said yes to so much including navigation centerses and we need more. Nies people to transition out of homelessness we have them and need more. Not only in district 6 i will fight to makure city does itself part we need the rest of the city to step up and continue to support the w that we need to do to get folks off the streets and into housing. It is sad on San Franciscos failure to produce Affordable Housing it will be the state of california that is going to make this happen and not for San Francisco but the state legislator and the governor have had it with municipalitieses not doing their part and doing more to stymie progress rather than shape it. In the next 8 years throughout Housing Element or city has to build 82 thousand units of housing. 40 percent of this has to be affordable at different levels. And we will have to have serious conversations about not just if we cant get now we cant get a 4 plex legislation through the board of supervisors we will talk about 10 plex that is something i reached out to the d. Planning on to make sure we can do things like local versions of state senator scott wiener sb10 and 50 theory ambitious and bring solutions. If we hope to make progress on Affordable Housing we have to think that big and creatively if we dont, the consequence of failure are immense we could lose state funding for transit and Affordable Housing and mroel control all together that will affect district 6 which is why i will be a champion for Affordable House negligent board of supervisors. Ms. Bill keeper. Why dont people say low Income Housing Affordable Housing is in the low Income Housing my people can barely afford to live in the sros. Barely afford a sfud i dont. So many people in San Francisco are on disability. Social security. Ssi. What you call that un. Am. Cant nobody afford, you gotta have something set in place where they are allowed pay 30 of their income. Apartments here in district 6 builders in district 6 or kondzo kondzos empty near years. We dont know the correct number of people who die on the street from fentanyl or from heroin or crack. We need to sit down at the table. Listen. San francisco people, we need to sit down at the table and create better policies. You know what yall are not doing. Come on now, i dont gotta sit here and keep digging a hole and you know hoping that tell get filled up with housing for people. You know we need low Income Housing. I hate that word Affordable Housing. Ir ksdz not afford, Affordable Housing before i got my section 8. Low Income Housing from section 8 changed my life and can change many more peoples lives, too. We gotta address this sxsh build housing in the staechl what we are not addressing can the fact that a lot of folks need good paying jobs. Right. To live here and afford here. And if you are we gotta work with the industries and cutches out here that are providing the employers the providing wages for employees. Think about it in that regard as well. If people have good paying jobs they are able to afford their housing. They are able to pay rent and bills and put food on the table. We have to address that and i think you also are eluding to ensuring that not only are we addressing and making sure there is enough Housing Available is that we create rates. That are at the rate in which people are obtaining funged the average amount of people in the city, how much are they make. We need to look at that as well. And then correlating that with the pricing that we need to have available for folks and i think that will make it a competitive not a competitive, more available for folks and addressing issues like ensuring we reduce i will not go into that. The last part is i want to make sure we provide Affordable Housing that make it available and ensure that people have resources they need to afford it and credit a lower Income Housing as well. How issue you going to meet the needs of all of the conscientist wentss including the new once of your district, after the redistricting process . I will begin with matt dorse. This is interesting. You know can i was one of the Board Members of mid market neighborings. The other thans can that we had was redistricting risked take a neighborhood defined by Market Street and dividing that neighborhoods by Market Street. We were opposed splitting tenderloin off the most Elegant Solutions to keep tenderloin and south of market together. When i had a conversation earlier whether was the mayor might want to talk about being appointed or interviewed to be appointed a, assumed the rational for my candidacy for the board of supervisors was base instead drug crisis in the tenderloin and south of market i assumed when redistricting happened the 2 split i was not be the appointee it is irrelevant havent it so manyasm one thing we have to remember as supervisors is we may be elected from districts but serve the city. I have made a commitment to my colleague dean preston i will be the best supervisor the tenderloin never electd and invite him to be the best supervisor south of market never elected we have the ability to Work Together on a lot and disagree on smchl the things we agree for neighborhoods we be joined at the hip i will continue to be that time of supervisor. Ms. Billie cooper. The redistricting. It was horrible. Because i had to move i lived right on geary on the last street that was in district 6 i moved south of market to run for district 6 supervisor i was not going to let that stop me after 40 years in living in district 6 i was not going to be pushed out and office of elections telling me i could not get sworn in to run for district 6. I had to move. And im sure im not the only person who had to move because of their subsidy or because of their lifestyle the loip line is my home. Tenderloin is was all i knew before i knew it was district 6 it was the tenderloin. Im making the promise right now i will roll my sleeves up going out and talking to people and going to talk to different property managements and developers and get things right. Because we cannot continue to keep leaving people on the door step on the curb outside. We have to bring everybody in. It really saddens mow to see people sleeping on patt palettes and mattresses and glafrngets for all the people that the sea is just pushing toward one area that are out there selling drugs and using. We have to finds them and have to create a better cohesive way. Okay. This is a time where we need to ensure that we are inclusive making open and working to ensure it is inclusive. We have a diverse San Francisco. This is a place where we can ensure it stays and remains inclues and i have making sure people feel invited and supported. These are our neighbors we need to make sure people have what they need and invest in them. Recenter folks and people here in the city. Ensure that people feel comfortable we can all agree that we want the best for San Francisco but we want the best for the district 6 in a way we do that is continue to make sure that we are providing the resources we need toup lift our communities. Making sure our under served communities have resures sources they need and we bounce back from the pandemic. Right. Making sure that our Business Industries are invested in, right. So they can our Small Businesses they can make sure they areup lifted, too. And i being we can do that and make sure we are safe at doing it, too. Jools for me, this is a personal question. I spent the last 4 years working chief of staff in district 6 office and had the opportunity to work deeply with Community Groups throughout soma and Treasure Island. This goes back further. Spent last 20 years work as a social work in this district. In the south of market in the tenderloin as well. And unfortunately we did lose the tenderloin part of ref districting. But in some ways that does lessen the load a bit and allow you to concentrate on the other parts of the district. The west soma central soma, the east cut, mission baker Treasure Island, show place scare, district 6 needs attention and recover from the pandemic. As a Small Business owner i know the struggles of the small buildingses in this neighborhood and worked with many of them whether wine embarrass or whether it be bars like oasis or the eagle or restaurants. Many other organizations i have deep roots with the Filipino Community in south of market. West bay or united i worked with all of the cbds from soma west to east cull and Civic Center Downtown cbd. And there is a network of support systems that can be bolsterd and utilizeed best service this district. The next question. According to the cdc and San Francisco Government Data there were 297 upon fatal drug over dose in San Francisco between january and june. 15 occur in the soma. What is your plan to address this issue. I will begin with ms. Billie cooper. As someone who used to run the streets using drugis know it is is purchasing drugs off the street, i know and i have been clean for 20 years. It was real difficult for mow to get clean and sober. We have to continue to be better at meeting people where they are. And you know the people that are selling drugs on the street to the people that are sitting next to them. You knoween if we were to arrest the other drug dealers the people on the street when you are a dope addict you know where to go get drugs. Whether it is right next door or a couple miles away. We need to utilize people that are clean and sober for numerous years to help you know get the people into recovery. Gur but everybody does in the want recovery we cant force recovery on people. We need to have a plan laid out for people in addiction that want recovery. And that want it that want to use it. Wants to utilize it and hopeful low to have a better way of life. But then we cant say that somebodys life that their life i cant say another addicts life is screwed up. I cant say that. I will never say this. But as an exaddict and someone had used for over 25 years i will get out there and help the people. Im roll up my sleeves and out there. Why thank you. I will move to Cherelle Jackson. Yes, we need to invest in self Harm Reduction models. We do this already in our private sectors as well in nonprofits. We need to make sure that there is investment in clinicians and facilities as well as our hospital and Health Care Providers that are providing Substance Abuse prevention and Mental Health care. We need to make sure they have resources to conduct their job and invest in Community Safety options. And also ensure we have those Resources Available and we recognize other issues that need to happen. Like investment in our Community Ambassadors i want to make sure i indicate that and investment in making sure that we establish transitional programs for those that are ready to you know begin the process of uplifting themselves out of these condition in better continues to build back their life that is when we are looking at. Folks that are struggling. Continuing to have the cycle in and out of jail systems and things of this nature. Invest and make sure there are opportunity for them to get in jobs if we are not building up their skills to be epieligible for jobs we will see a cycle. We are not invest to ensure they have jobs in the workforce and gotta recenter and focus in that regard. Thank you. Yes. We have had a huge drug problem in San Francisco for a long time with fentanyl it has been more deadly. Unfortunately, we have not done a good job of addressing the needs. This goes back decades. As a social worker worked for 20 years on the issues, getting folks off the streets. My first was a council for larkin street i swheen it looks like on the grounds and work nothing city hall i seen the ways in the city failed to responded. City failed to listen to providers who know the work, know how to get folk in care and know how to keep will people in recovery and how to help people succeed. It has under if you believed many of the programs and you can purchase 100 beds if you are funding enough clinicians to get 10 staffed. You are only upon serving 10 patients. This slgz i worked on as an aid in chief of staff in supervisor haneys office. We need to i want to acknowledge we did work to establish a state of emergency. I wrote the resolution establishing the state emergency in San Francisco around over dose deaths and supported the tl emergency and establishment of the tlc the centers served as a safe consumption site im in favor of over dose prevention sites to deal with the issue we need accountability on the streets and need it for the city. The loss of life is stackering. Sings the add vents of covid real lost 900 people in San Francisco to covid19 and 1700 to drug over dose. 75 of those fatalities to drug over doses are attributable to fence nal. Upon over dose of fentanyl is 2 milligrams the people in the tenderloin will take about 55 kilos of felony nal off the street which it is enough to wipe out the population of the bay area twice over. That is terrifying on the east coast there are narcan resistant synthetics if that come here we will have a Public Health calamity worse than the aids crisis. I asked for this job and why i proposed the most ambitious and far reaching plan i seen or in the experts i talked to seen. Since the crisis started here. Includes aggressive Public Health strategies. Treatment on demand. Taking a look at the things we need to do with the criminal justice system. Right to recovery. Sober new deal programs to give people purpose and make sure we expand our transparency so the city has a hajj what it is doing right and wrong. Next request. Your position on proposition b the public works and Commission San station and Streets Department and commission. I will begin with Cherelle Jackson. While i have not taken a formal position on this i believe this we need to ensure we provide resources forker Public Utilities and make sure that we are also working to ensure our city is a safe and clean and operate in that respect. Making sure our streets are can on a regular basis being cleaned. Making sure we invest in our environmentally and friendly options that will hymn not cause too many to beingince while conducting business and ensuring there are Resources Available for this and also supporting different operations within the internal system this needs assistance there especially making sure people will trust the system and the department then. And those resources are available. I think whoefrn has visited downtown San Francisco or the tenderloin will tell you that the state of our streets is unacceptable. The smell of urine, feces. Thing that children fear is poop. This is done from a study we did in the tenderloin. And this is something i worked on as chief of staff in the district sick office. This is why we did research all overnight country talked to workers of dpw to talk to everyone we could, business ordinance and when we did was listened to all of the feedback and created prop b the voters passed by 66 . Stake a d. Sanitation and streets to be focussed on getting streets cleaned it may cost 7 Million Dollars extra if this means we have better oversight and have people rung dpw and department of san fragz qualified do that work e elimination corruption special we can get our streets clean that 7 upon Million Dollars off of a 14 bilgsz is worth temperature tour sxichl Small Businesses and the revitalization of city dependses on us succeeding at this. Give sanitation a shot it is about to launch. Lynch to the voters and if it does not work then change temperature this new prop b removes many of the protections against corruption as well as destroying the new d. Im supporting prospect b. Giving voters an opportunity to look at something that will cost needlessly 7 Million Dollars. One observation i made in City Government and when we see with the drug policies. I think it applies city wide. Problem with infortunate delivery of City Service System something attributable to scylloing and making us more scylloed is in the helpful. When i talk to people i respect richel gordon, supervisor peskin and we disagree on policy,s when it come to the efficient delivery of City Services and Public Integrity aaron is smg someones gentlemen i trust and had bayers remorse about this when we looked we concluded we should go back to voters. We keep the best both worlds with oversight commissions but im convinced that the Public Integrity seperson to me. I was part of the team in the City Attorneys Office in 2004 that did the first report when he was rung the league of urgardeners prop b keeps oversight and keeps commissions but does not mean we are spending 7 Million Dollars needless low to scyllo the functions. The same question. With prop b i feel it needs to include more street toilets. Especially in south of market and the tenderloin. We have more places that people can use the bathroom they will not be shitting on the street. People will use those bathroom. A study in the neighborhood about there is not that many people shooting up in the bathrooms anymore. They move to the streets. Shoot up and use their drug. If we have more bathrooms every 2 years someone is buying the 20 thousand dollars garbage cans and put toilets out there i would love to see south of market on eighth and mission i would love to see one of those green toilets there. I love to see one down by sickth and howard. And a toilet by fifth and bryant. You know i doentdz why they only victim them in certain areas the city caafford to do it thats why so much does in the get done dprnt offices and agencies create this policy for the red tape so they dont have to do it and serve the people. If elected i will change all that. I will be out there with my people and talking to everybody i can. Thank you ms. Billie cooper. All right. The next one. City wide Case Management district 6 with ucsf and the city and county provides care to 1, 500 people experiencing serious Mental Illnesses every year. What more should be done to help those with unmet Mental Health needs and as supervisor, what actions will you take to address the on going mental Health Crisis playing out in streets i will begin with honey mahogany. I feel like a broken record i worked as a social work in the city and seen a lot. I will will say that we need to fully funds Mental Health sf. We will be getting our beds funded. But means we will be funding enough staff to deal with the need. We have something we have thousands of people on our streets in mental Health Crisis who cannot get care they need. Thousands of people on streets could get in recovery and could using up recovery beds. I think that we need to first make sure the services are in place and Strong Enough to meet the need. And then we need to work on enforce. And boundaries on streets. Node to let people know, no they cannot use drugos streets that is illegal. We have to set boundaries if we have to resort to conserve torship to get the folks out of mindses they cannot take care of themselves that some be a tool. First we need to make sure we are fully funding the service [talking fast] wee have Services People come in the place where they are ready. Not everything is recovery is in the a one size fits all. We need options for people a lot so something can work for them. I agree. Mental health sf is promising and needs to be a part of with the San Francisco strategy thshg it is a part of this. One thing will be important in terms of what i have heard from clinicians out in the street dealing with issues it is difficult for them ton whether someone is present nothing a mental Health Crisis or dug induced tell present the same way. Im convinced if we make progress on the drug use acting out open air drug scene. Issues. Related this, we will be better em4ed and effective in how we deal with people who are mentally ill. I think that when i talked to health right 360. In is about staffing capacity. Beds recovery beds but Mental Health capacity. If we dont have the ability to staff this. The beds are useless. Thats yet things im proposing is a new deal. People who are new in recovery who are committed to staying in recovery im reaching out. We have job training problems i reached out to jose about a drug program the best drug counselos have been through it themselves. Gi wish i could drop things like matt dorsey does. It is dreadful. Really dreadful. And for the last 12 years nothing has worked. Because it is the same way it was from 2000. 22 years of the same horrible issues on the street. And no one has created an anecdote to solve the problems on the street. Tell take more than with the open air drug dealing. More than arresting the drug dealers. You dont need to arrest the people using the drugs get them help. Like honey mahogany and matt dorsey said, there are difficult levels of homelessness and meantsal health capacity. I was throughout. When i was out there they could finally decided to listen to me. You cant give me a cohesive Mental Health diagnose if im crazy drugged out. If i come to your office drugged out. You have to see people for more than 5 or 10 minutes. Thats another issue. We have to see people that come looking for help more than 5 or 10 minutes. You know. We have to change the system and the way people look at thing when is it is really helping people. If you want to help people. So. As a social worker we worked with ucsf case managers. And some of the clientele and those who are needing services, you have to make sure the benefits are am available. And to help them get the housing they need to pay for temperature on one ends we unsured we worked with getting them the resources they need in order to get obtain services. And so under that, we need to make sure we invest in protections for workers especially burn out. Mental health. And making sure that there is resource in that regard. I would like to see that the nonprofit and department relation between the secretary sectors are working together. Data provided to the service wars not everybody has access. People operate in their own deputies providing resources. When you know something is available you will be able to look that and up see temperature in order to do that we provide funding and software and training employees need that. In order to conduct the job. [speaking fast] i want to see that nonprofit and it is departments wing on home and wills housing have that software to work back and forth. Thanks. Joof next question. What are your top Community Safety concerns for your district . I will begin with matt dorse. At the risk sounding like a broken record. You heard about San Francisco recoveries and why that is a priority. One of the other 1s that is important i dont think we can accomplish much if we dont solve the Police Staffing crisis. There is a National Phenomenon this is in the limited to San Francisco. San francisco is feeling a staffing crunch in the Police Department that is a problem. 25 under staffed. And when that means is the work the chief bill scott has been doing the last 56 years to create a department that aspires to be a model of 21st Century Policing the recent San Francisco Police Commission did a nationwide search it find a chief like bill scott was because the reform our Police Department needed to do given the problem its had. We cant fulfill the promise of that if everybody is running to the next priority you know 911 call. It is about community policing. It Building Trust and recruiting from the communities this serve us. There is promise there, i will say that the last couple of Police Academy classes are more diverse than before in San Francisco history. We dont have enough mrfrs that will be something we dont solve many Public Safety problems if weapon cant solve that. Ms. Billie cooper. Thank you, Cherelle Jackson. You know i felt so safe in my neighborhood when i saw Police Walking through the neighborhood. What you call that00 eye forget what do you call that. Foot patrol. I felt safe when i i felt more cohesively sense of safety seeing the Police Walking through the neighborhoods and getting to know the neighbors and the store owners. The people that run the shops and everything. We need more of that. We need people to clean the streets more. We really do. People have to clean the city and county of San Francisco needs to clean the streets more. Because when they clean it once a week or every 2 weeks bite time they come back it is really screwed up. I think we know this will kill my career i think we need more police, also and need police that are culturally sensitively trained and cultural competency trained. People that electric like me when we call the police the numbers are high we have the police give us more problems, you know we get more push back from the police and some agencies in the tenderloin in south of market have found out that the police dont always write up a report when certain people in the community that are called. I will go on to Cherelle Jackson. I called [inaudible]. You told me to stop. What are your top Community Safety occurrence for your district. Oh. Sorry about that. So my top Community Safety concern system number one need to invest in Community Safety ambassadors. I think they are doing a wonderful yen if you are walking and you see a Community Safety ambassador they are providing food and help to our Homeless Individuals that experience homelessness and to those who are under served and underprivileged. You see them from street to street trying to make sure we feel more safer out there. And i want to continue to ensure that. I wanted to make sure we invest in Harm Reduction. I think that is important as far as upon addressing some of the issues we mentioned before the Mental Health and Substance Abuse. And they need to have the resources as well. And then lastly ensure we continue to look at way in which we invest in more safety for other industries and businesses who need to feel supported within the commute and also our residential they need to feel supports and safe reside nothing homes and some of them looking out and feeling unsafe is not it is ideal situation. We want to make sure folks feel safe and are streets are clean and i had think we can do that together and working together and getting this done. Thank you. Again i think that everyone hereness we have a safety crisis in our streets. Someone who has been work nothing soma and owns a Small Business in soma and live in soma i give you personal accounts times i or my friends have been threatened someone who shut down a bar when i bar tended at night it females unsafe. We had people break in the bar. People destroyed property and it staff that have been threatened. Friends hit in the head with golf clubs and arms broken and shot in the leg all within soma. This is personal for me. You know i agree that police are a part of the solution. I have family in sfpd you dont grow up here and not know a lot upon people who are active Police Officers. I believe we need to hold them accountable. I cant tell you how many times i heard from owners and residents the police were there and did not do anything that is unacceptable. Thoo that should not be tolerated and need to get to the bottom of that. I do believe that we Police Salaries will go up that is normal labor negotiations. We do need to hire new officers but we need someone in district 6 seat who will hold them accountability and that person is me. Thank you. Where more affordable Family Housing being built at the form are Transbay Center what other affordable serviceers needed does what your plans to bring those thot communities. I will begin with ms. Bill cooper. The question submitted referring to fordable Family Housing built at the formy trarnz bay center. Where is that at . That is sales force downtown they will not build no housing down there. The question is when additional Affordable Services such as Grocery Stores, parks and schools and what are your plan i will rt roll up my sleeves even if im note elected to get low Income Housing there. To get training for individuals to get job trainings to make it more cohesive to people to go back to school you know i have been here for 40 years how come we dont have a safe way or something in district 6 or the tenderloin . People live there dont get a chance to have fresh fruit and vegetables. Dont get a chance to have upon a chance upon to have upon produce that probably not a couple days old. I noticed that you know they had to make people put the fruit dp vegetables on the inside the sun was messingum and the fruit was hershel to make it simpler and easy for people to have a more afford at to a better way of life thats when people need. So many on the street we pass and ignore and upon dont say, hi, are looking for a better way of life or look to are different. Something different. Looking to step up. You know if most people reach back and help a person or a couple people move forward this would be a better city, i think. So i think we have to do as far as the parks we have to work with sf park and rec. Make sure they have the resources to connect a method of planning in regards to making sure parks are available in the district. Also i think we need to look at also invest Nothing Community and farmers markets that will provide the fresh fruits that the other candidate mentioned. And also making sure that as we grow that is something that will happen, for this year well forecast to have a large are population of folk who is want to lay their ground roots and settle here we have to acknowledge those here will have to invest in those folks first. And what i mean by that the families trying to grow here already and we have to invest in schools and education to make sure they are available for those as well because well is in the enough schools you will see others that will be over populated. People will not have quality education we noot need to look at of this and operate it successfully looking at future years approximate how many in the area and getting it doneful thank you. For me, we need to focus bolleding more deeply Affordable Housing and making sure we meet the needs of those residence dens that means making sure we get a school in mission bay. That means make sure we have childcare available in the district. We do but need more. I worked as chief of staff to previous supervisor matt hane and he worked with rec and park do finds new parks in south of market. To find piece of property that we could purchase and turn into green open space. District 6 is one of the districts with the least amount of green space in the city that has negative health and people need more to enjoy with families and exercise. And also you know we need to make sure we do that work. It is something i have done the last for you years special will continue to which i will mention that having affordable deeply trurl affordable food that is health tow be able to purchase is river in soma. Many of the Grocery Stores are unaffordable to the families and many of them shop at food marts or the small are chain stores and have prospects to help have Fresh Grocery in thes small are markets and node to do more. I will be working with office of workforce develop and Small Business to increase the number of markets and fresh food available in south of market. This is a really great question. The reason suspect if we accomplish when we hope to accomplish in the new Housing Element cycle the next 8 years everything you think you know about wealthy neighborhoods will change. If welhave and fulfill the propgs of foordzability on site it may look like an up scale neighborhood will have people with low incomes and a lot of economic socioeconomic diversity. We have to make sure they are not prized out because they can live there because it is affordable but nothing else is. So we have to do more on this. I think open space is a part. One thing im working with small Stores People by cigarettes is the ability to have all of those small buildingses pull resources to have access to things like or beganic produce if they purchase it together this. Is a flam new york city has done successfully and im working with zouzounis and others and dropping the name. [laughter] it it is exciting and something we have to do. If we will have Affordable Housing that means we have socioeconomic diversity in neighborhoods that dont look like they need services that are low cost but they do. Moving to our final 2 questions then statements. According to the citys figures cost 19 billion dollars the next 8 years to build the Affordable Housing required by the housing nights allocation goals. Where that money come from come hudo we balance opportunity for market rate housing against the state requirement for Affordable Housing. Begin with Cherelle Jackson. There are concerns we have to be compliant and regulations near place and ensure we continue to invest in Affordable Housing [speak fast [address those heads o. It is working with folks and working with different departments to address this this means that we invest in making sure we work as a team to make decisions about building more Affordable Housing and i think we also need to work closely with the state. Listen to the legislators and making sure we are work to ensure that we resolve this. So that we can move forward. I think if we are not doing that and making sure we recognize the differences there, and the conflictses within, we will have occurrence. And we will continue to. We gotta move faster and make sure we have the decision and conversations and bring happening everyone to invest in more housing and do it at a quicker rate than have been before. Thank you. Im glad we are talking about the goal they are important and highlighting the lack of Affordable Housing built in San Francisco. This it is not just a San Francisco issue, it st this is not a state wide issue it is a national issue. If theed government used to be more involved in building housing and building Affordable Housing across the country. And as chair of the Democratic Party we have been fight to elect more democrats across the counts real so we can get packages past that meets needs. We need to continue to gets the democrats elected. Push our federal representatives in california to do more to bring resources to build more housing especially Affordable Housing and social housing here in San Francisco. We need the federal dmrrz to come back. We pay into temperature we pay a lot of federal taxes and need the state to do its part. Working with matt haneys senator upon scott wean and all representatives to bring the billions that San Francisco produces for the state back to build Affordable Housing and have to prioritize and stream line the way in which we do that. We will continue to see people come to San Francisco from across the country seek refuge. And in the state of california as Climate Change continues we have more people coming to places like San Francisco that are liveable and we need to make sure we build to pick up that capacity. Why matt dorsey when i said that i see the roast District Service supervisor the conscious of housing on the board of spriersz in part it is the local what we need to do to mic make sure we build house nothing all parts of the city in every district. And means we have to be the district 6 supervisor has to be fierce advocate for funding if the state is going to make municipalities do this, dot most ambitious set of goals in housing productions since world war ii we better do it right. Do it equal and we had better make surety state is accountable for helping municipalitieses live up to the promise of this. When worried mow i think we are going to be going to be able to get low income around less than 50 ami and low income about 50 to 80 ami we will have gentlemanal support for that. There is another category that is the middle the moderate low income that is 80120 that will be very doyle get funding for right now state and federal funding does in the electric at that. We have to be creative with social housing. Group housing. Everything has to be on the table to get creative about how we will do it but have to fulfill the promise of this. To build the housing required bite Housing Needs allocation goals where that money come come fr and how do we balance the opportunity market rate against the state requirements. Once again other low Income Housing we have to stop saying say Affordable Housing for low Income Housing or gotta stop mentioning Affordable Housing because so many people still are going to get left out. So many cant afford, Affordable Housing. Here if San Francisco you have to make 140 thousand dollars a year to have a sustainable life here. People are will some are getting less than 10 thousand a month here. A year. We have to create more low Income Housing and have to hold people accountable and hold builders and developers and builders and developers responsible for not putting people in the buildings they builted city. Upon girn people the right to opt out to pay the opt out to put give apartments to low income people thats why so mean people are on the street. We have to hold people accountable do audits and have to make sure the agencies are ethically doing the right thing to create and give people a right chance to live. And for our final quest evening before we move to closing statements, do you have a holistic strategy for Public Transportation for district 6 for getting in and around the city and also commuting outside of the city . I am begin with honey mahogany. Absolutely. You know i group in the outer sunset and i grew up on tear very well and 43rd we would take the l in the city to downtown my mom worked at that time in the fillmore took it every day. I know what upon transit a life line transit can be especially to folks across the city weigh need to do more. District 6 is lucky we have access to Public Transit but aside from the 14 most is not reliable. Once you get in the south of market and once to get to Treasure Island it is poultry and i know i struggled take it and ends up late because of the inconsistency. For me as someone who worked as chief of staff on transit weave worked to bring back certain lines the 27 bryant and 31 balboa so residents get the service they needed. We have to do more. We have to increase how upon often muni come. And make sure it is reliable. And in addition, we have to make it safer. You know district 6 is filled with high injury networks. I worked hard to build protected bike lanes bulb outs. Scrambles and more. S and as supervisor im committed to do that work and make district 6 the safest. I think the downtown extension is one of the most important Center Pieces that we could have of our transit system. With caltrain electric and getting the caltrain to Sales Force Tower to the Transit Center so the center is in the the most expensive buffs stop in the worlds. That will set it is stage for high sfeed rail when i talked about had the fact that the bay area has 27 different transit agents and a lot of difficulties with organization and half of the agencies connect in district 6. So i think that the dtx in addition to creating 60,000 jobs. This will be an ambitious prk program and center piece of when we can do on transit. And i think that we have to make sure we doo everything we can to set up muni. I appreciate chair mahogany the one thing we have not talked about when we talk about safe streets we talk about period of time safety. Im glad hoping that would come up as a question. Im glad it was mentioned because this is we are going in the wrong direction vision zero. My first week as supervisor there was a double fatality. We cant have to do better. Ms. Billie cooper. We need strict lus for people that ride bikes in bike lanes and scooters and people will stay off the sidewalk with the scooter. Stricter laws to make people stay offer the sidewalks with bikes like matt dorsey said we live there have been numerous fatalities or seniors getting hit and young people getting hit by the scooters and people on bikes. We need to mt, muni, mta, muni needs people from the community, if im elected supervisor i will make it my purpose to bring in people consumers from the neighborhood to sit on the board with the people too many make decisions for us we are not included. We need to be at the table. Im so tired of people making decisions to cut out a bus or reroute a bus and not telling seniors or disabled people in wheel chairs or canes and crutches. We have to hold people hands to the fire. We have to make it more accountable. Most of the people making decisions about the bus lines have drivers. That dont even take the bumps dont get on bart. We need to hold all the agenciless accountability to bring people from the community to help make decisions. Thank you. So, yes. We need to ensure that we investing in Public Transportation absolutely. And continue top do so. People have to rely on this to get to and from work daily and we want to ensurety resources there are for folks to use Public Transit. It is environmentally friendly. We need to continue to do that. Also see upgrades happen. This means that you know some of the stops we need to make sure that the cleanliness of the stops look at civic center we need upgrading and just reinvest and ensuring we upgrade the section there. To provide a clean look. And more safer look. You know people are walking down the stairs to get to Public Transit daily. I think about the city workers that use civic center daily and heville to go up and down the stairs t. Is in the the safest. And it is in the the cleanest. The reason is because there are Different Things that people have to step over. A lot have tolerated it for so long. Days are over we need to make sure we upgrade and make sure we continue to provide more trains, more efficient, fast running trains available. For our bart and muni, invest in more operators. [speaking fast] and work on this for the future. Thank you. Thank you that was our final question. Now we will move to our closing statements from the candidates. These will be 90 seconds and will start in reverse alphabetical with matt dorsey thank you im grateful to the league of conversation voters and ucsf. You know last friday was my 4 among anniversary of a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I will say i came enemy with good axs to grind. Im proud of the San Francisco recoveries detailed strategy we have that out lines ambitious approach on criminal justice and Public Health, right to recovery programs and encourage people to get on the other side of addiction. Sober new deal programs help people in early recovery say and transparents initiatives. I went to the mat to fight for the people flooded out of 33 that homga to make sure we headlight bmr folks. I made sure i was elevated that to the City Attorney to make sure if there was a business issue or ununlawful business practice it was investigated. I worked with the Controllers Office to get a report how much untreated addiction cost. I will fight to make sure we funds everything we need to and know how much attach is costing not to solve the problems and negotiateded with pride in the lbgtq plus to have inclusive pride dithis in 4 months. Give me 4 years and i will show you what i can do. Next honey mahogany. Thank you. Thank you to league of women voters and ucsf and everyone here and. Wag at home it hen an humanor to be on this panel with all of you folks here. Im a daughter of San Francisco. I grew up this is my home in a place that welcomed my family and community for many decades this is a place i want to see continue to be not just my home but home for many other people seek refuge. I spent 20 years work to make San Francisco a better place as a social worker, i helped get people in housing. Into recovery. Helped work with those who were incarcerated rebuild their lives and take accountability for crimes. I spent 4 years working chief of staff. Working with Community Groups. Residents. Small buildingses on all the issues that matter to the residents of district 6. Public safety. Homelessness or building housing built 9,000 units of housing helping to run land use tha for our office that is more than all of the other districts combined and more Affordable Housing. I registered voters and fought to get democrats electd and as a Small Business owner i know the plight of small buildingses. I know bring so much perspective so much deep love to San Francisco and hope to serve as the next district 6 supervisor. Cherelle jackson . [laughter] thank you again for having me i have been excited and really in the past couple of days looking forward to this. I am going to continue to ensure our under served are uplifted in district sick. I want to pooik make sure im a strong voice advocate for seniors, disabled and veterans, women and our lbgtq communities have resources they need for their communities to be uplifted. Now is that time. To bring forth someone that is going to dot work in district 6. That candidate is me and i will continue to uplift communities as much as i can throughout my time in the seat. And so lets ensure the choose someone that is treed and willing to uplift all of you. Listen to the work you need done in your community because you know best. And im ready to do that work. Thank you so much. You got my vote. Billie cooper. Thank you to the league of women voters and ucsf. I am miss billie cooper. The promise i can make that i will every day roll my sleeves up to get out there to talk to people and to see what the people really need and to talk amongst my supervisors in city hall and talk to the mayor. And have people you know, like i say, it is people that do and people that dont. We know so many people got elected that did not do jack, you know. Because it is either they didnt care about the people or didnt want to learn. Who is ever elected to district 6 supervisor you have to learn about the people you are dealing with. It goes beyond 5 p. M. The job will go beyond 9 a. M. To 5 p. M. Some days. You have to talk to the people that will put you in office. Not only the rich people but the poor people. The poor people also. Because poor people have a vote. Because i am one of those poor people and i do have a vote. And if you see it you hear it in my talk, and i hope you will listen and see it in my heart that im serious and im going to get work done. You know sometimes i get a little confused sometimes thank you, ms. Bill cooper time there. I cant finish . I can allow to you finish your sentence. Sometimes i get confused sometimes i get my words twisted but my heart is in the right place. Because i am one of the many faces of this district 6. Thank you and on november the eighth vote. Great keg segue for my closing. [applause]. On behalf myself and the league of women voters of San Francisco thank you to the candidates for participating this evening and thanks to each you watching at home and the audience for taking time to inform yourself about choiceos november 8. Please remember to register to vote and get 3 others to register if you changed name or move youd need to register again. Voting by mail drop off at a drop off location in mail on or before election day on november day for information including the measures go to lwvsf. Org vote. Thank you and good evening. The tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. The tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. As city and communitybased partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. We invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. Were all citizens of San Francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. What i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that its really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. [speaking foreign language] my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other Community Organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for Small Businesses. Everything in the tenderloin is very good. The food is very good. If you go to any restaurant in San Francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. The people are nice. It is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. So this is the soul of the tenderloin. Its really welcoming. The. The tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. So with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there. For us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. Food and drinks. There is a lot for a lot of folks and community. For us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. I think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. To have a popup in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. We are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. Coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. I have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. So we carry that into everything we do. Currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in San Francisco specifically in the tenderloin. We want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. So we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. It has been well supported and well talked about in our community. Thats why we are pushing it so much because thats how we started. Very active community members. They give back to the community. Support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. We also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it Forward Program that allows 20 to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. To be among our community, you are always welcome here. You dont have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you. My name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with Family Members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, Family Members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. What do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the enough and with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. Welcome to wednesday fight october 12, 2022 Police Commission meeting. We have a full line up today, so sergeant why dont you go ahead and get started with the pledge of allegiance. If you can stand if you are able for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President elias, if i may take roll. [roll call]