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Deputy City Attorney lisa powell, sophia kitler in mayor breeds office, and my legislative aide, edward wright. Colleagues, im open to my questions that you have, and i urge your support for this emergency ordinance today. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, mr. President. I just want to say a true great deal of gratitude for supervisor mars leadership on this issue. We did a similar thing on the city side all in the vein of ensuring that city worke...

Good afternoon and welcome to the may 5th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors and i want to wish everybody a happy cinco de mio. Madam clerk, please call the roll. role call . Mr. President , you have quorum. Thank you, madam clerk. Will you please join me in reciting 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. On b...

Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Everybody, please place your hands over your heart, and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. Supervisor safai supervisor safai is present. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. President yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who air the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any an...

President yee good afternoon and welcome to the april 28th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. President yee thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer, fewer, present. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney . Okay. All right. Supervisor mandelman. Present. Clerk mandelman. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor peskin, peskin present. And supervisor preston. Preston, present. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, present. Supervisor safai. Safai ...

And i look forward to working with the departments and the neighbors to open up a safe sleeping site at the castro area soon as soon as possible. And the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mar. Submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin let me take myself off of mute, thank you, madam clerk. I want to start my roll call by thanking president yee for including me in the Armenian Genocide commemoration and then as referenced earlier by supervisor sa...

Phyllis was born in tulsa, oklahoma in 1924 and soon moved to northern california, graduated from u. C. Berkeley in 1946. She then embarked on a career in journalist, which led her to seattle, where she met del, and after, they moved to San Francisco. In 1955, she and del, along with other gay and lesbian couples, they began publishing the first lesbian publication the ladder, and remained in publication for 16 years, until 1972. That first year, they published lesbian woman. The couple made his...

Us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years w...

Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. ...

House, and the main work that we did was with the native american community, and at that time it was with the 558 federally recognized tribes was one group, but there was also a special group that they talked about, and that was urban indians. Those that lived in urban centers that were not recognized, that were not on the map. So we went out of the way with president clinton. We hosted the First National conference for native americans with president clinton, so thats something that i carrie wi...

12 years. Theres a lot of issues on the table here today, reparations for destruction of the black community, i support nurses in the e. R. , i support taxi drivers, i still take taxis. I will not take uber or lyft because im a union person. It seems like the people here in San Francisco are hurting. And thats what im hearing from everybody today. So i know that you guys are not god, and you cant solve all the problems, but to the extent that you can, im asking for help. You are probably tired a...