Ownership rights. For veterans, thats an irrational choice. Okay, thank you very much. Do you have any questions supervisor mar . How important is it that diversity be on this committee . Absolutely. The majority of the veterans i serve are veterans of color, low income, disabled, housing and food insecure, Substance Abuse experience, and what im here to say if youre going to put a white dude on the panel, im the one you want. [laughter] since coming back from the military, like, you could find me when were protesting on the streets of oakland. Im eyeball to eyeball with the police. Im standing between the police and the community, inviting the tear gas and rubber bullets on me to buffer between the Violent Police and the december Desperate Community demanding justice. Im here to leverage those privileges to elevate the communities affected by these terrible policies. Thank you. Next speaker. Chair ronen, supervisors walton, mar, fewer, hello. Im a fifth generation San Francisco native
Buena gardens. The outcome was the new Nonprofit Organization with the sole intent to operate the yerba buena gardens. We work in conjunction with commercial tenant and the city and county of San Francisco for the civic and Public Health and enjoyment of visitors and residents. I want to touch on key points. The city will maintain the role as landlord but its a True Public Private Partnership as the owner of the gardens and landlords and city would have the ultimate authority. Leadership and the conservancy made of garden stakeholders by community and civic leaders. It brings the strength of community and the city into one governance structure and from an administrator perspective it the aud audit annually and comply with the standards of hud and have openmeeting compliance. Youll hear from others in the community but its an Important Community asset and we thank you for your support and i have 26 letters of support i want to submit to the official file. Commissioner thank you, well co
Supervisor brown on the violence against womens act because in 2014, i had my first assault inside the housing program, but, currently, there is no Emergency Transfer Program in place. In 2016, i was assaulted again. In 2017 so, my biggest concern is, mercy housing is not complying with h. U. D. Regulations. No one is holding them accountable, and because i went to coop in 2014, i went to San Francisco women against rape in 2016, and i went to another. They protected me by providing counciling services, and thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is krystal prior. Im here as a member of the sciu california. I also am a kaiser member, and i hope that you guys will support the resolution. Transparency is really big considering kaiser is considering making their profit. I know coming from medical to go into kaiser, it is important that the members know what is going on with the money and that they can be accountable to all other standards and all other hospitals. Im asking
Items submit ford the file to the clerk and item will appear on the june 25th agenda. The Clerks Office would like to thank supervisor peskin for his service to the city and wish him a happy birthday. Commissioner please your heart. Thank you, madame clerk. Colleagues, last week i warned you wed have a super long Land Use Committee today. It turns out that that is not the case for three items the subject of a continuance so as a matter of housekeeping madame clerk can you please read items 1, 5 and 6 together . Reporter item one a hearing to receiving a report from the puc on options for electric service through acquisition, construction or completion of public yutilities. Item number 5 an ordinance to establish a legitimization program for a certain nonresidential uses at 3150 18th street and affirming appropriate findings. Item 6 requires building setbacks for building front being on narrow streets modifying front yard requirements and residential districts and affirming appropriate
Openmeeting compliance. Youll hear from others in the community but its an Important Community asset and we thank you for your support and i have 26 letters of support i want to submit to the official file. Commissioner thank you, well collect those in a moment. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im the executive director of the yerba buena Community Direct and serve on the gardens conservancy. The neighborhood of yerba buena is an interesting eco system with a variety of uses including a large cultural, residential, you have gardens in the middle and the convention center, etcetera. The gardens serves all the populations as a respite in a concrete jungle of downtown. Its incredibly important to the residents that live in that neighborhood and employees and i dont think we can overstate the importance to the conventioneers. When redevelopment absolved we were surprised that we were meeting regularly for seven years to get to this point. I want to thank the neighborhood. I think you