Chair mar next speaker, please. Good afternoon, i am cheryl thornton. I work for the San FranciscoHealth Department for 28 years. I witnessed many black coworkers being subject to retaliation. My coworkers complained to city officials with no real relief. I appreciate this legislation. However, i dont think it goes far enough. I think we need more account ability. Otherwise we will see what we have seen in the past the disparities to one particular group of people. Chair mar thank you. I will use this as an example. This is get fiction. This is based on geographical location. You do it in areas that are predominantly black, not white. This is a legal attorney with the same philosophy as myself. He is suing washington d c because of discrimination against black people for 1 billion. I want several billion for what you did in the fillmore. About the Justice System you have mario woods paying her 400,000 for her son being murdered and shot. This hispanic was shot 20 times here is a chance to show how fair you are to refer that back to the City Attorneys Office and get ms. Woods paid 4. 9 million just like the man shot 20 des moine 20 times by t. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Debra gobell. I want to thank you for creating this office. We think it is very important and very needed in our city. We did a survey of our membership. One in five local 21 members have felt discrimination in the workplace that is not acceptable in the country especially in San Francisco. We need this office to work with our members and all Union Members to change the climate. I want to acknowledge the local 10 to 1 and 21 members on the steps of city hall protesting to bring this office about. With the best of intentions that wouldnt have happened without the public protest of the members who have sufficiented. I give a shout out to them. We are giving the shouts out. To those in the grassroots making this happen we need to acknowledge that, too. Chair mar next speaker, please. I am gus, president of i fp local 21 speaking on behalf 65,000 members in the city and county of San Francisco to urge you to move this forward. It is something that is long overdue. It may not be perfect but it is a start. I want to point out in my research i found the city of iowa and long beach and as youstin and see at and san antonio all have offices of racial inequality. As a proud San Francisco native and city worker, i expect my city at the forefront. I think this will allow us to do that. Thank you. Chair mar next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisor. I am Larry Griffin with local 21. I want to thank you forgetting to the point to set this up in the city. It is way, way overdue. I first started working for the city in 1976 and Something Like this would have been unheard of then. It is great that it is here. However we have to keep an eye on this. We have to monitor this. When you set up people to be representatives and departments make sure they can give a real percentage of their time to doing that and not be held to 10 on a byweekly basis where they are able to monitor what is going on in the city departments. You need a prescribed percentage of time to be monitored closely. Lets move forward with this but keep our eyes on it. Thank you for setting it up. Chair mar i will read additional speaker card names. Gloria berry, april mcgill, lucy, chuck morris and lauren bell. I am crawford. I want to thank you for allowing us to get to this place. I am excited about this proposal. One of the frustrating things you have a lot of reports and data collected. In 1979 we had the agenda by the Human Rights Commission and the report collected dust. I am excited this is about action and implementation. The Racial Equity framework allows the office to create a Vision Mission about how to deal with these issues. This allows this office to work with different departments to talk about implementation. We are going to analyze ordinances. City departments have to give annual reports. We somewhere report cards. I am excited about bringing nonprofits together to deal with the issues. I am excited about this. Chair mar next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am tobias, an attorney at the Lawyers Committee for civil rights. The Lawyers Committee is in strong support to create the office of Racial Equity. We are focused on advancing Racial Justice in the employment and public contracting it is vital the city create the office to gather and publish data on the contracting and procurement practices. We support amendments to specifically cover Data Collection for contracting and procurement for all departments. This is the First Step Towards dismantling the old boys and overcoming bias that continues to exist in the procurement process. Chair mar next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisor. I represent the affirmative action in full support of the ordinance. We live in a time when the federal government is trying to roll back key civil rights initiatives. San francisco can do better t to enhance for immigrants, working class, our struggles are all connected. We believe the increase in public accountability to ensure the laws are strengthening Language Access and immigrant rights provides an operation of Racial Equity through budget and oversight mechanisms. If you Foster Community engagement and include the stakeholders you will be successful. We need policies to pro actively address discrimination to protect the rights of the communities. Chair mar thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. I represent the Economic Development agency and the San FranciscoLatino Commission and i am a San Francisco resident and immigrant. We all support this bill and want to add to everything said. The accountability piece is really important. Policies. It was mentioned people are behind institutions. People are behind racist policies. That means there are racist people we need to purge the City Government policies and be more explicit about calling out the white culture that is thriving in the city to lead to violence particularly around black and brown and leading from housing to food instability to murders on the streets. I am gloria berry the only nonestablishment delgant. It is disgusting we are at allowed one minute to speak. Perfect example of the problem. Example of Racial Equity and show what it looks like and allow black people two minutes to speak. Thank you supervisor fewer for being behind the new office. I remember the hearing last year on the atrocities against black people presented and your reaction of concern and followthrough. I also appreciate your presentation to the dccc when addressing the black agenda. I would like to thank felicia jones. Without her data presented we may not be standing here today. Of course, whenever there is new legislation and new office there is more room to tighten it up. There is a new office, a glimmer of hope but i have concerns. Chair mar i will read additional names. Felicia jones, kim lynch, chris hansen. Norma garcia and natalie. Thank you supervisors for bringing this forward and for acknowledging our ancestors. We are visitors on the land. I work for indian health. I am a San Francisco resident. It is important that we have a representation for the native community. I was asked to come in and support this. We have one of the richest cities and largest populations of native people represents over 500 nations in San Francisco. We ask that you give us a voice. Thank you. Chair mar next speaker. I am jeffrey. I am a graduate of the dare program. I want to explain the importance of the rights we have done. I came in to represent adult probation and Tara Anderson is representing the District Attorneys office. We were able to form the criminal justice equity statement where it was accepted at the reentry, Community Corrections partner ship as well as juvenile coordinating council and criminal justice equity statement and war group notes and steps for action. This work is needed. The council has been doing disparity work for five years. This will put more teeth in what we do as public safety. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am the director of the division with the San Francisco adult probation department. I want to thank supervisors brown, fewer and director davis for all of the work on this. I worked most of my life in juvenile justice and bear witness to over representation of brown and black. I want to work and live in the city that is more intentional about how we mitigate this. Parallel to that i set in meetings with decisionmakers and look around tables not diverse enough. We need to continue to change this so that all of our communities are represented. I think this office of Racial Equity is an amazing next step. I look forward to the focus to include criminal justice and help us take a deeper dive in the criminal Justice System. Thank you again. Chair mar chris hansen. I yield my time to gloria berry. For clarity there is not a board rule to yield time to speakers who have spoken. Ms. Berry has used her minute. We will go to the next speak concern or the man yielding his time if he wants to come back. I would like her message to get out. I would like to thank is that where we are at. No, im sorry. This legislation touches on sf history of harming black people specific racist laws existed. Nothing has been done. A report in 1993, 2009 and 2015 was done and no action. Our concern is that the data presented show black people could besicouldconsistently ares of racism. You can leave a written statement. Chair mar next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am norma garcia for the Economic Development agency. Our staff works hard to retain the integrity and the dignity of the Latino Community in the San Francisco mission district. Too often it involves the impact of illinois applied city of San Francisco epoll sees. We are excited about this. The policies are integral to life in the neighborhood. An example of a policy gone wrong. They are destroying the Economic Vitality of the small mom and pop businesses. They are under mining the ability to resist displacement. These need scrutiniesed. If you were in place when this was conceived. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am kim lynch, a member of 1021 at the urban hill center. I am not thanking anybody for anything until i see accountability. When i see netflix feature when they see us it hurt me to the core and reminds me of the city of San Francisco and the dent of Public Health is doing to us now. I will leave you with this. When they see us the misconceptions of black workers in the workplace. The unfair hiring practices of black workers. When they see us. Mistreatment of black workers. When they see us. Black workers released from employment on probation. When they see us. Black workers in black positions. The institutional racism. Long time turnaround. When they see us. Chair mar your minute is up. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am felicia jones. I am the founder of wealth and disparity in the black Community Justice for mario woods. I am a member of 1021. I am a leader in racism. We were responsible forgetting this legislation here now. I also want to thank supervisor fewer and chelsea who i worked with closely at the beginning of this legislation. However, it has no accountability. It has no account ability. We will process. Three reports of 55 years and black folks are still in the same position. In fact, in appreciating the work that has gone into it you dont need this office because everything is supposed to go to the Human Rights Commission anyway. In 19464 iin 1946. The speakers time has expired. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Ms. Jones. Thank you, ms. Jones. Next speaker, please. You know we cant tell you what we have been through. That is an example of it. You know what i mean . Thanthankthanthank you, mr. I will read additional names. Jessica malina, lewis dillon, amanda, ron, kevin and eddy. Next speaker. Am the youth organizer for the coleman advocates. I would like to echo everything the previous speaker said there is a Racial Disparity between the blacks and white could you tell uster parts and asian counterparts. In light of that i would like to say in each one of us there is a piece of humaneness which orchestrates crisis. If we are to keep it from establishing a false hierarchy we must recognize that any attack is an attack against all of us. We recognize our interests are not served by the systems we support. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor. I am an organizer with sf rising. We are here to support this proposed legislation. Thank you for introducing this legislation. As an organizer and educator at city college, we recognize that Racial Equity is driving much of our work in education and building electoral power in the city. Recently we have seen native communities ask for removal of a mural. We have seen a black youth killed in the mission. We need this office to monitor how we are addressing the issues that communities of color face including intimidation and discrimination. Thank you for introducing this. How excellent you are monitoring this and monitoring hiring practices. We hope that will be it. Chair mar next speaker. Good afternoon. Department of Public HealthHuman Resources director. I want to say that the department supports anything that moves us towards Racial Justice in the city and our department. I appreciate the work you have done to get this accomplished. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor. I am with bright line defense in support of this initiative. The fact there are offices of Racial Equity in cities across the country shows San Francisco can do better to address the injustices communities face every day. We recognize this is not a definite solution, this is a step . The right direction. Requiring action plans would be crucial to ensuring the city departments are accountable. Thank you for having this important hearing today. Hello. I am calalo. I am a youth leader. I believe did office of Racial Equity should be passed by the board to help with unjustice toward people of color. We will pro actively protect people of color instead of acting retro actively. Racism still exists. With the help of this project, we can hold those in power accountable. Thank you. I am jessica mallena. I am a youth leader. I support the office of Racial Equity because of my educational work experience, and i have witnessed the Racial Disparities that still exist. The creation of this office will help close the racial opportunity gap in education and that is very important. I believe we need to make that change. Thank you. I will read additional names. Barbara, wanda, wanda slaughter, alexis, king, claudia. I am kevin bogus political director at the children and youth. We are glad to see creation of the offers of Racial Equity in the Human Rights Commission. Our work centers around bringing Racial Equity to the schools and making sure the schools are equitable. We hope this is something the board will grow upon and figure out how to address Racial Equity in the city. Looking beyond the things you have direct control over and figuring how to impact the School District in the region to bring equity to the people who have been displaced from San Francisco but still have roots here. Thank you. I would like to thank the supervisors for their time. Good afternoon. I am barbara. I am the director of Community Investments for the San Francisco arts commission. I want to lend support for the creation of the office and applaud the effort. I am a member of the local American Community and this is essential to ensure our data is fully represented. I have been at meetings with other city departments that referred to me as nonliving culture. I have been told our numbers are option too few to matter. We are number 10 in the nation for missing indigenous women. I look forward to working with and supporting the launch of this office. Thank you. We have a draft action plan. We aim to have the first phase by the end of this year and the second by next year after we do community engagement. We have been doing this for the last few years. This will give us more teeth to move pro actively by integrating into the projects or noticing and hiring prac