Because the controversy of the day is the notion that the bureaucracy and the input is slowing down the building. I wanted to say for the record, what is slowing it down is not community input. Everybody saluted the fact that neighborhood input made to the project back better. It is the lack of actual funding that is why i am affixing my name to this measure today because 600 million, over half a billion dollars of the public s money that we will all pay for it, that we will all work to get past this november, that is where the rubber hits the road, that is where we actually build Affordable Housing. And given that it takes a long time to raise those funds, we have time to have Good Community process and Good Community input , so lets not wreck what makes projects better and lets fund what builds these projects. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I just want to add my excitement about the bond and i want to thank president yee for working so closely with the mayors office, but also with our four cochairs from community who worked very hard to galvanize community and bring everyone together. I want to just say that 600 milliondollar of a bond is a big deal. I think people should really sit back and analyse how much 600 million is and how important the resources to finance Affordable Housing is. It is estimated at about 750,000 is what it takes per unit to build Affordable Housing , and that depends on what type of project and materials you use, but 600 million is a big deal. I want to make sure that everybody understands that it gives us the resources to revitalize our Public Housing, the resources to build more housing for seniors, the resources to have more marginalized populations, and i think that this is a testament to the prioritization from this board and from the leadership of the city that we are committed to building more and more Affordable Housing across San Francisco. And like supervisor morris stated, this is one thing that we are finding hard to do and make happen because there is a lot more work that we need to do as a board and as a city to address the issue, but like supervisor peskin, we can have all the land available, we can have we can go through all the process, but after financing , we cannot get the housing built. So this bond is a great deal. We need to thank everyone for working together, particularly for the geographic equity. As we know, a lot of the Affordable Housing is built in my district, as well as district six and district nine, and only highlights that because it is important that we continue to fight for our resources for us to build more Affordable Housing across the city so this notion of people trying to stop the building of housing or trying to somehow slow down that, you can see it is actually an unrealistic argument and the board has pushed hard to make sure that the 600 million was possible, which didnt start off at 600 million. As we know, it started off it half the size. Thank you. Supervisor safai . Thank you. I just want to echo a lot of the statements that were made. I also want to underscore the fact that i represent a part of town that there has only been one Affordable Housing project ever done, and that is for lowincome seniors. We have two phenomenal projects in the pipeline and we do have two phenomenal projects. One being done by mission housing, the others being done by Bridge Housing that will bring, for the first time, 260 units of affordable workforce housing, middle income housing, affordable in all of the senses of the word. We spent a lot of time in this chamber over the last two and half years as the economy has been raising, and the price of housing has been raging. To expand the definition of Affordable Housing, and who benefits from that Affordable Housing, we have a down payment loan assistance in this bond that will help firsttime homeowners compete in a market to be able to buy their first home and stabilize. Thank you supervisor fewer for pushing so aggressively to add additional funding in there for the acquisition of apartment buildings for the Small Program that is in here. Thank you to supervisor walton, haney, peskin, ronen, and also fewer and president yee for pushing for a fund for educator housing. We are doing some very phenomenal things in this bond and, you know, there is all also times where we stand up and pat ourselves on the back and say we are doing such a great job, but really, at the end of the day, the faster we can get this bond out there, the faster that we can get this approved and put it in front of a board, the faster we can construct Affordable Housing, the faster we are saving families and keeping our city divers and keeping the Economic Diversity of what makes this city special. I just want to say a shout out for parts of the city that have not seen Affordable Housing built in them, im very excited about that, as well as some of the other categories that we named. And lastly, thank you, president yee, thank you were pressing so hard for a fund that no other group has the ability, there is no other Funding Source for a net flow income seniors and lowincome seniors will be a big beneficiary of this as we have a strong aging population. Im super excited that this bond is going to to have unanimous support of this body and that we will quickly move this to the ballot and see it past. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor brown . Thank you. I want to echo a lot of what people have said but i also want to thank you for really working with our mayor to get this bond right and doubling the money. It is not enough. We know that. We need more money, but it is a good start. I think when we are looking at building Affordable Housing, i have five sites sitting in my district that have been waiting. Eight of them have been waiting for over eight years to have Affordable Housing being built. One is the transitional age to youth housing which we so desperately need. I am excited that this is moving through and the possibilities to have, you know, to build Affordable Housing, but also to buy existing buildings. I was fortunate enough just a few months ago to buy a building in haightashbury, seven units. They were beautiful apartments and the people that we saved in there, a lot of them are seniors a few of them had absolutely nowhere to go if they lost their place. For me to be able to buy existing buildings and keep people in the homes and the neighborhoods that they love and that they have weaved into the fabric of that neighborhood is so important. So to have a pot of money more than what we have now to buy existing buildings to keep people in place is really, that preservation is so important, but also Public Housing. This money will be used for Public Housing, which i think its really important because we have to remember that we have a lot of Affordable Housing within our Public Housing and our h. U. D. Housing out there. I am just really happy right now that with all the combinations, everyone in this room has been fighting to make sure that we have a right partnership when we are looking at the 600 million, and moving forward, i think it will be a lot easier for us because i think we see a pathway , and i just want to thank everyone. Thank you. Supervisor fewer . Thank you. I just want to say, in the words of my legislative aide, this is a good thing. I think this is a really good thing for all of San Francisco and longoverdue. I respectfully ask that pain that my name be added as a cosponsor. Thank you for your leadership. It doesnt happen often, but when it does, democracy is a wonderful, wonderful thing that we have heard from everybody, that all of us have come together to work for a problem that has been hanging over us in San Francisco and we are finally putting money where our mouth is i want to say congratulations to everyone. Thank you for your leadership and thank you all, colleagues. I want to add my thanks and congratulations to all who have gotten us to this point and my preemptive gratitude to all the folks who have been working so hard between now and november to get it over the finish line. Great work. Thank you for your comments from all of you. I just want to reemphasize that there wont be any increasing the tax on the property. We made sure of that in terms of how much we could do that, how much we could actually put on the bond measure. And a lot of that was the analysis of the controllers office. Thank you very much. He probably isnt paying attention. He is going to get fired. [laughter] no, thank you for your work on the bond measure. [laughter] i also want to say that one of the biggest pushes that we did was for the capital plan that the housing piece of this now, we are actually going to make this be part of the capital plan it will be they will be regular housing bond measures in the future, and i am glad that supervisor peskin mentioned that little correction that needed to be made. It is kind of coincidental. When i looked at it more carefully today, just at my final reading, this was passed through with 50 . And in my mind, i said, i guess that means there shouldnt be any increase, and i stand corrected. It seems like, i mean in the past maybe people have kept on increasing it and they shouldnt have, so i would love to lend my office to help with that. I think it needs to be corrected if i may, mr. President , our controller has to do with the fact that in the old days we did not pass them through, and as we were retiring the debt, 100 was passed through and that is what was impacting the baseline for tenants today. It is a relatively easy fix. I have actually discussed it with both landlords and tenants, creating a hardship exemption i think will be expected by all of the parties. Thank you very much for that. Okay, i think this is one of the few times where we have, on a piece of legislation, the mayor and all 11 supervisors as cosponsors and i thank you need to appreciate what happened. Thank you very much, my colleagues. Can we take this same house, same call . Without objection then the resolution and Everything Else is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, i think we need to go im sorry. I think this is first reading, isnt it . Yes, the ordinance is being passed on first reading. The resolution should be adopted thank you for correcting that madame clerk, can we go to our 2 30 p. M. Commendations . We have four commendations. Supervisor peskin, brown, walton , and mandelman. Okay. Supervisor peskin, would you like to present your commendation . Thank you mr. President. I actually really would like to present this. This individual i have known for almost 20 years, and when i met her, she worked for the city and county of San Francisco for almost 20 years, which is to say that miss omalley, a new her under a different name 20 years ago, has worked for the department of Public Health for 38 years. During this time, lisa worked as an Environmental Health inspector, senior Environmental Health inspector, and when she retired a couple of weeks ago, she retired as the manager of one of the citys food districts this is actually some of the toughest work. We honor first responders, we honor people who do incredible work like clean our sewers, but Health Inspectors have it really , really tough. Lisa was in charge of much of the district that we have represented on and off for the last 20 years. North beach and chinatown. She was absolutely instrumental in increasing the health and Safety Standards within chinatown, outside of chinatown and i have to say, despite the irrational fear of the government and Health Inspectors in particular, particularly in the Restaurant Industry, lisa is incredibly regarded by the community because she understands the local business culture, the local culture, the practices, she is fair, she is patient, accommodating and takes no shit. I rarely use words like that but that will summarize lisa. She was so thought of in the community that she was invited to be the grand marshal of the Chinese New Year parade which says a lot. She always had the sense to call me to say, im shutting down a restaurant in your district and your phone is about to ring, but i knew everyone would start screaming at me and rose would say she called and did the right thing. She is a legendary fixture at the department of Public Health, as patient as she is with ignorant owners, she is equally, and i mean it, no nonsense when dealing with selfserving operators who intentionally avoid doing the right thing, the legal thing and the healthy and safe thing. At 5foot two and 110 pounds, which is just about my size in wait, lisa can lisa, where are you, come on up here. [applause] you are a force of nature when it comes to protecting the public. Here is lisas infamous winwin question. There are a couple of them. One is, this is of course, a hearing with an alleged offender this is lisa. I am appalled at the conditions in your restaurant. After reading the report and reviewing the photos, how many days a week are you at your restaurant . The operator says, i am only there a few times a week. To which lisa says, well, there you are. How can you be expected to be responsible for a restaurant if you dont commit to be there on a regular basis . Look at these disgusting photos. Or, alternatively, the operator says, i am there without fail, to which lisa says, really, you are there were there every day . It is negligent. Look at these disgusting photos. Whatever the operator, the alleged offending operator chooses, lisa ensures that the operator admits fault, takes responsibility for the conditions of the restaurant, and most often, lisa and her team doesnt shut them down. A little bit of education and they are back on line in a few hours or maybe overnight when they call people in, and as a respected manager, she is remarkably, was remarkably, and im sure will continue to be a remarkably will be remarkably committed to her staff that she mentored, and loved her, and she would bring them all together for lunch is, and occasionally i would have the honor of being invited. Under her leadership, she was instrumental in establishing the first online food application and the entire state of california and has been recognized by the California CouncilEnvironmental Health directors as the winner of the food Safety Leadership award in 2015, and most importantly, i have her 100 clean record in my kitchen, which he actually never inspected. And after four decades, she decided to enter her retirement last month where she will finally enjoy spending some time with her family and her newly born twin grandchildren. I wanted all of you to know that i introduced a piece of legislation last week and the last week before last. It will change the restaurant Rating System to green, yellow, red, which i think the Restaurant Industry or Restaurant Owners will appreciate, and lisa, it makes good sense. It is used in many other counties in the bay area. Lisa, from the bottom of my heart, i wanted to thank you for your decades of tireless, mature , and constructive commitment to the people of San Francisco and i love you very, very much and i want to give you a certificate of honor and some flowers, but first, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, supervisor peskin. I appreciate working with you and having you understand the important work that the Environmental Health inspectors do every day to protect your Public Health. They are a great team of inspectors and we dont just regulate, we enforce and we empower businesses and therefore empower communities. It started out and chinatown but we do it citywide and the inspectors, thank you for the recognition. This isnt really just for me, it is for the great work that they do every day. Thank you, and think all of you. [applause] thank you. Before i give you the certificate of honor and these flowers, i just want to say lisa suffered many epidemiologists and Department Heads and survived with valour and honor. [applause] thank you. Supervisor brown, please present your commendation now. Thank you. It sounds like a day of retirement for people who have been in the city a long time. Today i am commending Elizabeth Murray who is retiring this month from 38 years of services to the city and county of San Francisco at the war memorial and performing arts center. Forty years ago, Elizabeth Murray began her career of service to the citys arts and Performance Community as a secretary at the louise Symphony Hall construction project. In 1982, she joined the war memorial as executive secretary to the board of trustees an assistant managing director. She has guided the war memorial to most consequential a longstanding commitment to preserving the War Memoria