Me on facebook, send me a twitter and pick, found me on next door. I tell you, this is your day. Put your hands together. Hang in there, were almost done. But this is the day that we get to celebrate applause im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you, but im glad like the speaker said, it is whole. And that is whats important, is that that neighborhood r
Perspectives on this. What i will say ab is that t know that any one side here has a monopoly on caring for the maintenance and the reliability of the system. I think all of us believe that thats a priority, and thats something that we should do. But the reason why the amendments are made, supervisor wiener, simply because there are those of us who believe as a principle, that in reality in fact being for making the system accessible touocu income youth is not exclusive mutually exclusive from trying to maintain the system. And that i think goes to the very heart of this point that to the extent that you have issues with what muni is doing or not doing with some things, that predicating the resolution of those issues solely or primarily on whether or not to put this thats the right way to frame this. The last thing that i would say is, as you correctly noted, the board of supervisors has acted before on this. I dont know that there has been any new information or evidence thats been p
Thats the right way to frame this. The last thing that i would say is, as you correctly noted, the board of supervisors has acted before on this. I dont know that there has been any new information or evidence thats been presented here about the pros and cons of this system. The fact is that the folks who have raised concerns about the free muni for youth for low income youth pilot have consistently been against that. And i respect that. But there is nothing new that theyre saying in terms, respectjjp 9 terms of their opposition. So the amendments that are before you reflect the fact that this board of supervisors has been on record before, and we believe should be on record again, asking that we commit to making this pilot a reality on the premise that working on this pilot that makes muni accessible does not preclude maintaining the system and if so it is in that spirit that this amendment is offered and i hope that my colleagues support the amendments. Thank you. President chiu col
Institution in San Francisco, the Labor Community but also the Lgbt Community and so many communities that have been fighting for social justice. It is true that howards Sisters Brothers in the queer labor and elder human rights movements had the sad duty to report his death on wednesday, november 14 at the beautiful vista manner in San Francisco. He was a veteran of social Movement Since his High School Years in denver, colorado, where when he became an activist. He was born on august 29, 1936 worcester, massachusetts and then to denver where howard spent most of his upbringing. As he talked about his Sexual Orientation and the fact that he was gay, youx jr,i know, he sais aware being gay in the second grade. It gave me a strong empathy with other underdogs that stuck with me all of my life. Howard was actually a junior in high school when he joined the local chapters of the naacp and he diagram onstraitd demonstrated leadership skills, managing the campaign of the first africanameric
And mayor George Moscone who were brutally assassinated decades ago. And we gather every year to remember, and not just to remember and to mourn, but also to remember the positives and to remember frankly both of these great men and what they contributed to our community. You know, with respect to harvey milk, there will never, ever be another harvey milk in our community in terms of what he represented for our community in terms of a step forward. We are now elected lgbt peep to office and harvey was such an incredible trail blazer, not . In just getting elected, but in being a great leader and always holding his head high for our community. And i know when i was first sworn into office, one of the things that i always kept in mind was something that i understand harvey to have said, that when you go into city hall, you walk up the central staircase. You dont walk on one of the side staircases because for our community, it is so important for us to walk up that central staircase and f