School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the
Centre of any in the united states. It is the largest collection of monumental municipal buildings of any city. It is a National Treasure and we need a Strong Organization to help tell that story and get people to come because for the last 50 or 70 years, the area has been misunderstood, it has been neglected, and it has been ignored. The c. B. D. Is one of the biggest steps along with a number of others in the last ten years to try to overcome that but more needs to be done. If case in case you havent seen it, i have written it all up in a book that i have put out recently and i hope that you all have gotten a copy and read it closely because the last chapter underscores a lot of the things that happened to mess things up. So i will leave some of my flyers here to encourage you to get the book. [laughter]. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is susan and i represent the San Francisco conservatory of music. We are enthusiastic supporters of the c. B. D. We have 400 and more students
Francisco opera. I walk every day from the castro neighborhood into the civic centre neighborhood. I have been in San Francisco for over 11 years and i am just amazed by the transformation that i have seen in civic centre we do have more to do and we would appreciate your support in helping us do that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Patrick mills here representing the bayreuth family of businesses including the by right cafe kiosk on Civic Centre Plaza to enthusiastically support the renewal of the c. B. D. At Civic Centre Plaza and to attest to the astute management of our facilities, your support and opening our business, the safety and cleanliness of the plaza and most importantly, the building of Community Within the Community Benefit district. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I live at 100 van nuys. I worked with him on ways to improve civic centre and in 2006 , he authorized the creation of a civic centre c. B. D.
Them to manage and control, this is such an important piece of legislation to allow for those that want to agent continue to live in San Francisco, that they would do so with dignity. I appreciate your leadership on this and i am proud to be a cosponsor. Thank you for cosponsoring. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. This is the first time we have ever done this and i just really want to salute your leadership. It is going to have a profound impact on many of our constituents. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor brown . Thank you. I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you very much. Seniors are our Fastest Growing population. And so this is thinking ahead and working upstream. I really appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor haney . I just want to thank you and commend you for your leadership on addressing not just the needs of this population, but really elevating asked towards having longterm solutions. I would also love to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisor ro
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