To represent poland to represent team u. S. A. , that was a great experience because i got to compete against skaters from other countries. And nationals, i pushed myself to try to land the triple axel. And that has really been a huge goal for me. And just looking up to nathan chen, hes top skater right now, and competing at the olympics. That has inspired me. Sometimes i lack motivation and i watch the top skaters and that helps me a lot, one of my favorites is nathan chen. I try to be like him, but in my own way, so that really pushes me to attempt quads. And try to improve. And yeah, right now, my hope is to make it to the olympics and hopefully 2020. 2022 olympics. And yeah, i would like to thank everyone for coming. [applause] congratulations, again, well watch you on tv at the olympics. Congratulations. Next up, we have supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Today, it is my honor Kate Williams yam and william and his family come up . President breed come on, you guys can do better than that. [applause] today, it is my honor to present a commendation to william, a 5yearold resident who has set an incredible example of leadership and caring for our neighborhood. William has adopted his corner drain, which he named dream robot and actively sweeps away leaves and debris to prevent flooding and water damage to the surrounding blocks, especially before large rainstorms. Adopting a drain is one of the the best ways the residents of richmond and San Francisco can protect environment, manage storm water and minimize flooding. Those hoping to follow williams leadership can sign up any time at adopt a drain. Now, if this wasnt enough, william has set an incredible example as a community leader, to participating 100 local beach cleanups and donating food, not only to homeless residents of golden gate park, but also for their dogs and cats. He hopes to open a store for Homeless People where they can access anything they want for free, including money, and a place to sleep. William, thank you for setting such an amazing example for the Richmond District residents to follow. We know you have a Bright Future and both the department of public works and Public Utilities commission would be thrilled to have you on their team. And i believe john is here to say a few words on behalf of the Public Utilities commission. Hello, william, the man of the hour here. As an agency, were always looking for our next generation of environmental stewards, and clearly we have that with william here today. Your work is unbelievable. And its really an inspiration, not only for all of us here, but the entire agency of 2300 people have heard your story and are so inspired by it. Im here to say thank you and there is clearly a job waiting for you. Youll probably be my boss, so remember this situation where i thank you for your work now. And again, we can not thank you enough and we look forward to supporting your great work in the community. Thank you. It is my honor today to present to william the golden broom of the Richmond District. In our appreciation and recognition of your Outstanding Service to the residents of district one. Thank you, william. [applause] william is man of few words, but we were at dinner and he came up with a few signs. If i could put them on the projector. This is a thank you sign to all of you for recognizing his work. He does it not for the thanks, but because hes passionate about it. He put animal stickers on there, they glow in the dark. You cant tell right now. Thank you very much. As hes 5, he doesnt quite know all of the words, but he wanted to let you know, i love the ocean. And [laughter]. Thank you very much. Congratulations, william and keep up the good work. Thank you. Our final commendation is given by supervisor peskin. Thank you, madame president , william for supervisor 2032, i just did the math on that. Hell be 18 then and eligible. Colleagues, today i am really honored and delighted to rise to honor one of the kindest, gentlest, more artistic souls that this town has. And this is actually the subject of item number 47 on our calendar today. Which will designate a San Francisco artist amare tus and nobody could be more deserving of that than a beautiful man named michael rios. Thank you for being here today, brother. [applause] his story is linked with the city and county of San Francisco where hes devoted half a century of his life creating beautiful artistic master works that reflect the vibrant characters and rich Cultural Heritage of San Francisco and san franciscans. Hes native of oakland, student and graduate of freemont high, where his teacher first noticed his exceptional talents. While we tangle from time to time with the academy of art and we set a little bit of litigation with them, michael got his first break at the academy of art with richard stevens, who actually gave him a scholarship can kind of a scholarship, in reality, in exchange for sweeping the place up, richard got michael got art lessons from richard. And he acknowledged the talent. And upon graduation from the academy, michael worked for the famous i dont know how many of you were around that will remember ruse atkins, i think supervisor yee and fewer would. I remember ruse. And soon launched his own commercial art at 311 columbus avenue where you just furnished me the most awesome picture of the front door of that. You looked just about the same, but you have black hair in that picture. And there he created childrens books, billboards, paint ads and what michael refers to as high end commercial art. But after a few years, michael became tired of working for squares in a square business and fell in with a group of grassroots artists in the mission, where his work began to inspire and reflect the Mission District latino heritage and a lot of the murals that you see and love and also take for granted, michael was the guy who painted those. His first project helped paint the side of a Community Group building that was helping to pay rent at a supportive neighborhood gallery. He ditched the boring brown paint and created a mural that depicts everyday scenes of the time, people going to work, standing, going to the Welfare Office and Manning Court and in jail. Another infamous mural at 22nd, michael paid homage to Carlos Santana. It spans three buildings and it was santanas father who came to michael and said that does not look like my son. Furnished him a picture of carlos, which he then got right and that started a life long friendship between michael and Carlos Santana, which is why you see michaels beautiful work on the cover of supernatural, as well as other Carlos Santana albums. And within the city art community, michael is known for his soft spoken demeanor and advocacy to keep artists from being displaced in San Francisco. And his work continues. Today, he is actually in residence at pier 70, in one of the coolest funky art studios. And i want to thank supervisor cohen and the port of San Francisco, because as pier 70 is being redeveloped were taking care of michael rios and his studio and putting him in a lightfilled art studio at the noonan building. So i just wanted to if anybody wants to see his work, ive got a ton of it on my cell phone. I have three of his images in my office. It is all around the mission. And i love you, brother, and im happy to designate michael rios as artist in San Francisco for a lifetime of uplifting corrects to the arts contributions to the arts. His sister is here today. His wife couldnt be here. With that, the one and only michael v. Rios, come on up. [applause] i also want to say that michael, who has been having a little bit of difficulty talking, may have a little Translation Services from john. But he is putting an incredible wall mural up on the building south of market in supervisor kims district. Which is going to be an incredible addition to that area. The floor is yours. I want to thank the board of supervisors for this prestigious invitation to be in your chamber with all you beautiful people. I know you all care about people and work hard in City Government and turn the wheels to make the city a more livable and beautiful place. Ive always felt the same way in the work that i do, that art has the capability of enhancing the lives of us here in the city. Please stand by. By thanking aaron peskin and the esteemed board of supervisors for the prestigious honor, something i feel i have not earned or deserve, with all due respect, though i would say this honor is something i would accept on behalf of my fellow artists in the city and wherever they are working hard behind the scenes to follow their visions and dreams of making the world a more beautiful place with their art. Im also sincerely grateful to the friends and folks here today for the support you have all shown the artists in your life. Transcends ethnic labels and for me a more universal identity. Always be grateful to the city i love to be part of the fabric of life here and follow my dreams to become an artist. San francisco has always been a magical place from my childhood, although i was not born here, my two sons were. Im a kid of the 1960s, and those were for me formative years in art school, i give thanks to richard stevens, the director of the original academy of art for the working scholarship. He always encouraged me to never give up. San francisco has become the magical place for me like a lot of us feel. Its a unique place in the world. A mecca of culture and art. Im a kid of the 1960s, those were for me formative years. The years i started at the academy, the time i started my career in north beach, it was a time of renaissance. When the young people throughout thought they could change the world with our young enlightened values and principles, aspiring to make our community a more beautiful place to be enhanced with art and music. I still maintain the claim to these values and principles to this day. The world is always changing. Our lives are always changing. It seems to much like a dream, and when i look within, it will always be amazing and a mystery. I do thank god and the universe for being able to have a vision to be a witness to it all. Its amazing and infinite wonders. Sister wendy said one of the ways of looking at god is by looking at art. We all have different ways and how we experience the world in our lives, and the end, we will all come to the same conclusion. In the meantime, lets try to stay beautiful and continue to aspire. We will all become diamonds some day. Thank you all again for the love and support you show me with your divine and honorable presence here today, all my love to you all. Thank you, john. [applause] and in addition to actually having michael here in the flesh, there are a number of individuals who are wearing some of his signature unbelievable silk screen shirts. So, if you could just stand up, those who are wearing ive got one, my wife has one, they are there you go, all right. Michael, brother. [applause] its an honor to have you in the chamber, congratulations again and thank you for making San Francisco a beautiful place for everyone to enjoy. Thank you. Well, colleagues, that concludes our commendations for the day. Thank you to all the honorees and the people who join them in recognizing some amazing folks who not only take care of San Francisco, but make San Francisco a more beautiful place. Looking forward to next week commendations where we will im sure have some more amazing people. Thank you all so much for being here today. All right. With that, madam clerk, well go to our first 3 00 p. M. Special order. Please read the item. Items 2427, comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from Environmental Review, under the California Environmental quality act or approved on november 30th, proposed project at 1526 wallace avenue to process and sell small lifestock in a pdrtwo processing distribution and zoning repair district. Item 25 is the motion to affirm that it is exempt. Item 26 is the motion to conditionally reverse the departments determination, and item 27 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. President breed ok, colleagues. We have an appeal of the Planning Departments determination of exemption from Environmental Review for the project at 1526 wallace avenue in district 10. For this hearing, we already considering the Planning Department determination the proposed project at 1526 wallace avenue is exempt from environment review. Without objection, we will proceed as follows. Up to ten minutes for a presentation by the appellant or representative, up to two minutes for speaker in support of the appeal, ten minutes for the Planning Department, up to ten minutes for the project sponsor, or their represent, up to two minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal, and finally, up to three minutes for rebuttal by the appellant or the appellant representative. Colleagues, if there are no objections to proceeding in this way, we will move forward and open up this hearing. And supervisor cohen. Supervisor cohen thank you ladies and gentlemen, president breed. Colleagues, today we will hear from the appellant, along with the Planning Department and members of the public about a halal poultry butcher. Brought forward by the animal Legal Defense fund, alds, expressed concerns with the Planning Commission concern to exempt in the approval of the conditional use application submitted last november. My office has spent the better part of the last month working to understand how this particular facility would impact the proposed area and city at large. And with that, madam president , i turn back the rest of the hearing over to you. Thank you. President breed thanks, supervisor cohen. And before we proceed, im going to ask members of the public, if you could please keep it down, we need to move forward with our agenda. Thank you very much. And with that, we will start with the presentation for the appellant, or appellant representative. Please come forward. You have up to ten minutes. Good afternoon, christina stella, here on behalf of the animal Legal Defense fund and the 2,000 individual members who reside in San Francisco. Aldf urges the board to remand it back to the Planning Commission to be adequately considered before it is granted a conditional use permit. Highlight three points from our alds written materials today. First, reiterate at the outset that the concerns raised in the comments are squarely in those addressed by seqa, and appeal based on the misuse or lack of process that took place here. Alds supports fostering stronger connections between consumers and their food. With respect to this project, the position is that a facility that seeks to transport, confine to indoor cages and slaughter more than 100,000 animals annually has environmental effects that must be considered under seqa, and particularly because slaughterhouses have contributed to the frustrating legacy of pollution that lingers in the bayview today. Inviting that industry into San Francisco anew, over the opposition of San Francisco residents, and without any meaningful consideration of its Environmental Impacts before permitting it. Continues the injustice of residents for decades. Second, the project sponsor has tried to distinguish itself with larger operations with more of an Environmental Impact, it has not introduced to directly address the contention. For example, aldf presented evidence that live transport can travel from animals to humans and increases salmonella. The response from the project sponsor, the amount of overall truck traffic will not increase. So nothing about the nature of live animal transport in the project sponsors response. Aldf presented evidence that confinement facilities are recognized as sources of air pollutants, such as ammonia, bacteria, yeast, mold, airborne dust and patrols from grains mice and fungus. Can cause problems. And severe irritation to the track. And cardiac arrest. Longterm exposure to decreased lung function. Poultry manure, collecting in the cages of the facilities before transported off site and contaminating the air pumped out of the building, contains nitrogen, phosphorus and heavy metals. 2 to 4 times more nutrients than the manure of other livestock. Also parasites, bacteria and pathogens that are with humans, and nothing with regard to filtration system or evidence the ventilation system will address these problems. Aldf presented evidence that cages prevented chickens in cages from being mentally or physically healthy. Physical stress, more susceptible to infectious dies, and bacteria colonization. Overcrowding, overheating, withholding of food and water, excessive lighting, incorrect flock sizes, different ages and colors and abrupt changes in management environment, all of which are concerns that relate specifically to the type of operation proposed here. Can all precipitate feather pecking and can ballism. Caged birds cannot escape this behavior. These impacts on animals are directly related to food safety and Public Health. And the response from the project sponsor, that seqa does not apply to livestock. So the factual matter, the sponsor has not contradicted the evidence submitted or addressed the concerns raised by a