Addition. He loved his community, and he was well loved in return. Speedy got his name because of his outstanding track skills. Speedy was a viet nam war veteran, and during his time in viet nam, he experienced tragedies that profoundly changed him. When he returned to San Francisco, he worked on organizing and strategizing for the betterment of black life. He helped organized a strike at San Francisco state university. This strike aimed to address racist policies and procedures and the pay of faculty on campus. Because of speedys activism, it led to the first pay Equality Program in the country. He also oversaw Community Efforts to develop lowincome housing and preserve black Home Ownership during the time of redevelopment. He guided the development of the 100 owned and operated Victoria Square complex located at sutter and fillmore streets. He also helped save many victorian homes owned by African Americans, and because of this, many of the African Americans were able to stay in their homes. At the bright young age of 24, he ran for a position on the board of supervisors. Speedy had a huge heart and a great sense of humor, and he really loved his family and community. He leaves behind many loved ones. Speedy, we will miss you, and thank you for your Amazing Service to the western additionfillmore communities. And theres two events that are happening this week in the western edition fillmore that speedy was always there and involved. One is the San Francisco black Film Festival that starts on wednesday, june 12, and goes through sunday, the 16. And the 16th year of june tetee juneteenth, and its on sunday at 6 00 p. M. I hope everybody goes. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor fewer . Thank you. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you. I want to thank my colleagues, supervisors ronen, walton, mar, brown, and yee for supporting our efforts and vision to provide universal Mental Health care for all. I also want to thank all of the Community Members, experts, and leaders in the Substance Use and Mental Health field that have assisted us with this legislation. There would be a surtax on c. E. O. S, and tax on the companys gross receipts is estimated to generate 100 million annually to fund the overhaul of San Franciscos Mental Health and Substance Use treatment systems, estimated at 70 million in new annual costs. This is based on a Similar Program that has been implemented in portland, oregon. Similar resolutions have been considered in several states. Theres also a history of funding Mental Health services through progressive taxation. Prop 63, the Mental Health services act of 2004, was funded through a 1 income tax on personal income tax in excess of 1 million. Corporations recently received a massive windfall under the trump administrations tax reforms which slashed the tax bracket from 34 to 21 . Large corporations in california were able to keep an extra estimated 13 billion to 17 billion a year. This is a fair measure tax, asking companies that are making some of the highest profits to give a little bit more to get people with Mental Illness off the streets and into care. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you. It has been nearly a quarter century since the city of San Francisco to demand treatment on policy. [please stand by]. Supervisor mandelman more than a decade later, in 2008, voters passed proposition t, reiterating the citys commitment to the policy and requiring the department of health to submit an annual report to this board assessing demand for Substance Use treatment and requiring that the city budget include followupping to funding to fund the plan. For years, a hardy and irrepressible group of experts have pushed the city to make investments in behavioral Health Services and treatment, and finally with this mayor and this board, the city may finally be hearing the call. Last years d. P. H. Budget finally increased funding for Substance Use treatment to 81. 5 million, and the mayors proposed budget for 201920 increases that to 89. 6 million, which amounts to a 20 increase over twoers i cant. Earlier this year, the mayor and this board added 100 new treatment beds, and the mayors budget includes 100 more, the most significant increase in a generation. Many of us on this board have done deep work on where and how to improve our treatment system. I i believe we all bear a deep commitment to fix Mental Health systems and the community in which they live. As we move forward with new initiatives, its important to understand where weve been. If you want to deliver on the treatment of efficacy on demand, support the sobriety of those successfully completing treatment and reduce harm to those who do not in the communities in which they live, there are no easy shortcuts, we need to come to the table together, do the work, understand why and how we havent been successful, and identify opportunities for success. With a new director of Public Health and a new director of Public Health reform, a Meth Task Force taking a deep dive on the particular challenges of meth addiction, and a mayor and board singularly focused on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, this moment presents a unique opportunity to do that work. I want to extend a sincere thank you to the incredible folks on the treatment on demand coalition who have been working tirelessly on this issue for many years and who have been partnering with my office and supervisor stefanis office for bringing this forward. I want to thank my legislature aide legislative aide for her work on this, and i believe that supervisor stefani wants to say a few words on this. Clerk supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, i am pleased to join supervisor mandelman on this. These are issues that i am personally connected to in many different ways. Ive seen firsthand how they impact individuals and families, and i am personally committed to working to create policy that helps those with addiction who need our help. San francisco first passed a resolution to address the desperate need of Substance Abuse treatment almost 25 years ago. Treatment on demand was followed by a dramatic increase in funding and still the Program Fell Short of its goal. As we continue to grasp the ongoing Mental Health and Substance Abuse crisis in our city, i think its important that we take stock of all of our resources and all that we are currently doing, including what we are doing well and what we are doing not so well. We need a better understanding of why, despite our best efforts, Overdose Deaths are at historic highs. This is why im pleased that mayor breed introduced dr. Bland as the citys first advocate and as we continue to work to improve our citys response to the Mental Health and Substance Abuse crisis we face, i believe it is incredibly important to bring everyone to the table on what services we are offering and how we can improve. We must not just bring together the Mental Health community and working in those departments, but those if recovery and what worked for them. I want to thank again the treatment on demand coalition for their thoughtfulness on this subject. Too often, we talk about what is happening on the streets and what we are doing wrong, but we dont look at what is working. We so often hear about the addicts on the streets that are taxing our systems, but rarely do we hear about the people who are in recovery, leading productive lives, and staying sober. Addiction is a mysterious disease. Some people dont understand that its a disease and cant understand why a person cant just have one glass of wine or it happen just using heroin. When i was thinking about these talking points, lady gaga came to my mind, and i thought, am i really going to say lady gaga at the board of supervisors. She said something about the oscars, and she was talking about the movie, a star is born where Bradley Cooper was obviously someone suffering from Substance Abuse. She said, you know, weve got to take care of each other. If you see somebody thats hurting, dont look away. And if youre hurting, even though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and tell somebody. I say that because when people are ready, they need someplace to go. If you dont understand addiction, you dont realize that it takes a long time for people to get ready, if they ever do. It is so extremely difficult for people to admit that a life without alcohol would be okay, that a life without drugs would be okay. People dont think they can live without their drug of choice, and we have to be able to provide a place where they know, when they are ready, that we will provide that for them. So i am pleased with supervisor mandelman to call for a hearing for treatment on demand, understanding the current resources and what is working, and what is critical in reaching the populations we havent yet been able to serve. Thank you. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. That concludes your introduction. Supervisor mandelman the rest i submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, colleagues. Today im introducing senate bill 343. Thank you to supervisors peskin, brown, and haney for cosponsoring the resolution. S. B. 343 would require health care rate and data disclosure across the financial industry in the expectation that this will fully inform Health Care Purchasing decisions by businesses, companies, and consumers. S. B. 343 eliminates provision in Health Insurance rate Filing Requirements that permit kaiser to report medical trend in a different form than other health plans. Currently, kaisers plans is 40 of the california insurance market, and not having that data means that other institutions, employers, workers, and consumers are disadvantaged in this data held by kaiser. S. B. 343 is currently backed by many groups, and i look forward to adding our citys support. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin madam clerk, colleagues, i rise not to introduce a piece of legislation. Ill submit my legislation, and i do want to do an in memoriam, but i wanted to address an issue thats been percolating in various conversations around the board, something that we all and the mayor genuinely care about, which is providing the path to Affordable Housing. And there are many ways to reach that goal, but i am most concerned in doing something that is in thoughtful collaboration where we can adjust over time and fix mistakes and perfect programs and legislations and will ultimately be good for the best Public Policy that we can collectively come up with. Without undermining the checks and balances that are enshrined in our constitution which i think we should be very careful with i am concerned and i say that with all due respect to our mayor in tinkering with the charter. Weve before through this before, and i think in 2012, our colleagues made a mistake by putting that in the charter where it could not be increased in good times and decreased in bad times. In 2018, i teamed up with supervisor kim, and we went to the ballot, and we removed that. But by the time the voters voted to remove over 1,000 sites of onsite inclusionary housing, and a lot of we all voted or many of us who were on the board voted to stream line 100 [inaudible] supervisor peskin was declared to be infeasible because the Mayors Office of housing, with the best of intents, doesnt want to invest in that small a site, and because what we all hear relative to the projects that we bring along, which is that theres no money. And i think that is why were having a conversation about a 600 million Affordable Housing bond. Resources do matter, funding d does matter, and i think we all hear that funding is one of the primary if not the primary issue. As i said, were not only committed to an Affordable Housing bond, but i think many of us are committed to including a special category for educator housing. And i differentiate that from teacher housing because when i say educator housing, that includes paraprofessional housing, and actually a huge part of the San Francisco workforce that makes significantly less money. When you look at the money that former school board member, our colleague, sandra fewer, reminded me of today, 50 of new teachers leave the sfusd within five years because they cant afford to live here. So affordability levels do matter, and who were building for does matter. Theres a reason the proposed charter separates 100 Affordable Housing from teacher housing, and i want to come up with a definition that has a broader a. M. I. Span and includes the paraprofessionals. The mayor said she would like the government to be flexible and effective, which i think is counter to locking these things in the charter. Then, theres no ability to fix things. I think ive been clear about that, and i dont want to do ballot box fixing. It generally comes back to bite us. It is the season, it is the official ordinance season, it is the charter season, and it is the season of intrigue, and next friday is the last day for four members of this body or the mayor, with her signature, to put something on the ballot. When i was a supervisor, that was crazy intrigue. Nobody knew who was going to drop in what into the hopper at 4 59. I worked to create the system that we have now, where you have to have at least some public hearings, and i think its made the process a lot better. But what i fundamentally believe, whether were the board or the mayor is to get the job done in these chambers as collaboratively as possible. I think the ballot is the court of last resort. Yeah, if you want to change the charter, thats where you have to go, but i prefer to get the job done here by ordinance, having said that, the discussions that ive heard recently is that mayor breed is considering putting something on the ballot. Maybe some of you know what it is. I have not been consulted. I dont know what it is, but if it is around streamlining educator housing, i think we can do that here at the board. Having said that, ive been to this rodeo before. As a matter of fact, when we got into the intricate details of getting out of the charter in the ensuing weeks and months, we were actually able to withdraw our initiatives so that neither one of them went on the ballot, and we all got together, supervisor safai, supervisor kim, thenboard president london breed, and we actually worked it out, and we came up with an ordinance that passed 110 and is the law of the land now. So to that end, i am publicly suggesting that the bigtent collaborative approach is better. Having said that, i am working on a ballot measure that i think will enjoy the support of not less than three and not more than four of my colleagues in the coming week if for no other reason than to create a place holder so that we can have that negotiation and hopefully end up with Neither Initiative ordinance on the ballot, without the Charter Amendment on the ballot, and with us doing the best Public Policy at this board, hopefully by unanimous vote. Finally, i would like to adjourn this meeting in the memory of hope wiseman eisenberg, who was a lifelong teacher in the San FranciscoUnified School District and my neighbor and a lovely person that i had coffee with at the same cafe for the last 30 years. She retired only to pass away way too soon, and my condolences to her husband, who many of us know, neil eisenberg, who once ran for city attorney, and the rest, i will submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Sorry for your loss. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. Today, im proposing a resolution to honor virginia ramos, fondly known as the tamale lady. Her legacy lives on, and ensures that she is forever held in San Franciscos memory. She was born on june 23, 1953, in mexico. Virginia emigrated to San Francisco with her seven children to escape a life of poverty and abuse and to give them a new life. She sold her homemade tamales in the Mission District using an old family recipe. She became an institution not just due to her tamales, but to her caring attitude. She touched the hearts of countless residents by taking time to speak with them and hear their woes, often giving candid advice and always offering warm hugs. This has been a labor of love together with a Wonderful Group of people who are committed to keeping her spirit