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Well. We still need to call the item though. Why dont you call it. President yee right. What about okay. Okay, lets get back to where it is. Madam clerk on the remaining balance of the items which is 22 and 24, please call the roll. Cloi clerk supervisor mar, a. And supervisor peskin, peskin abcenter. And supervisor ronen, ronen aye. And supervisor safai, supervisor safai, aye. And supervisor walton . Walton aye. And supervisor yee . Yee, aye. And supervisor brown, brown aye. And supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer, aye. And supervisor haney. Haney aye. And supervisor mandelman. Mandelman aye. Theres 10 ayes. President yee its adopted unanimously. Call item 23. Clerk item 23, a resolution to condemn the attempted assassination of brandon lee in the philippines by suspected elements of the armed forces of the philippines, support the immediate evacuation of lee to ensure his safety and access to adequate medical care. And urge our federal representatives to initiate a federal investigation into the shooting. And urge our federal representatives to support a congressional hearing on consequences of the United States tax dollars going to the Philippine Military and police, and to advocate for suspension of the United States aid to the duterte regime until lees case is resolved and the perpetrators are brought to justice. President yee i see several people wanting to speak but i would like to take that honor to speak first. Supervisor moore . Thank you, president yee. And, really, thank you so much to all of brandons family, friends and comrades, for your powerful and beautiful comments this afternoon. All of that really makes it Crystal Clear that this resolution is before us because Brandon Brandon lee is still in critical condition, fighting for his life. Fighting an infection with bull bullets still in his body. Brandon is still subject to military and Police Surveillance in the philippines. Even though we know that it was military or Police Agents who shot him multiple times in the back. This is before us because the attack on brandon has gotten too little attention here in the United States, even when a United States citizen was subjected to an assassination attempt by a foreign powers military that we as taxpayers continue to subsidize. This is before us because the attack on brandon has been met with silence by far too many, because the u. S. Embassy in the philippines is failing to protect him, because the federal government is failing to acknowledge or to address the systematic human rights abuses under the philippine president duterte that led to this. And, to fran be frank, because y are failing to have the ability to adequately defend brandon or to bring him home. I appreciate the partnership and the assistance that we have received from speaker pelosis office and senators harris and finestein and i want to be clear that its insufficient and we are running out of time. We need to bring brandon home. We need to ensure that he receives adequate medical care, care that we here can give him. Weve added to the record to this file a letter from the San Francisco Health Commission supporting this request. And recognizing brandons mother, louise lee, has been a dedicated staff member at the department of Public Health for the last 40 years. Alongside supervisor haney we have been advocating on this issue for over a month. In that month, Community Members have come together to raise funds and to send a delegation to the philippines to visit brandon, including supervisor haney and to organize an incredible breadth of grassr509s advocacy, fueled by hope, anger and love. In that month we havent seen enough from our federal government or national media. In addition to security for brandon, and an investigation, with this resolution we are calling on congress to end u. S. Military aid to dutertes regime until the extradition killings and and to provide immediate support to bring brandon back to San Francisco, away from his assailants and that he can receive the medical care that he needs and deserve. We call on the conscience of this country to stop subsidizing abuses and violence that have now hit so close to home. So thank you again, everyone, for turning out and not just this afternoon, but so often and in such a powerful way over the past month. And, colleagues, thank you so much for your support on this. President yee okay, supervisor safai . I will be brief and i appreciate the speakers who came out today and thank you to the leadership from haney on this. And i think that one of the things to underscore is that a threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. And this young man being a u. S. Citizen and being an environmental advocate and being one that wants to fight for justice around the world in his country of, you know, where his mother is from and family is from, i think that its an important thing. And so i want to thank you to all of the advocates who came out here today and say that we stand firmly shoulde shouldertoshoulder with him and we want to see the speedy return of brandon to the United States. So thank you for all of your hard work on this. President yee supervisor stefani . Thank you, president yee. I want to thank my colleagues for their passion and relentless courage to speak out and to thank all of those who came out. Im so sorry for what youre going through. And i wanted to be added. President yee supervisor brown . Yes, thank you. Its pretty powerful when you come out and you speak about it, friends, family, and advocates. And i would like to also be added to item number 23. Thank you. President yee supervisor haney. Thank you, president yee. I want to thank supervisor mar for your leadership, as well as your staff, edward wright, for being there for brandon and his family from the beginning. And for preparing this resolution. Its been, you know, humbling to partner with you as well as brandons friends and family who are here. I want to thank them. I want to thank all of the organizations. I know that brandon was very much a part of San Francisco and was raised in and politicized in many of the organizations that are here. The malai movement, and c. P. A. And the league of filipino students. I want to thank you all for fighting for brandon. When i visited him and his family i was able to share with him that you are all fighting for him, that you are sending your love and your solidarity. And he was able to mouth back, thank you. So i wanted to be able to share that with all of you. And i know that he knows that youre fatin fighting for him. His strength is incredible. I cant imagine the level of resilience and strength that it takes to survive being shot four times, three bullets that are still in his body. Eight cardiac arrests. And he will not give up. And so i know that this conversation and its in this spirit that he sai is leading ho continue to fight. And i know that you are all fighting for him. What we do know is that the work that were doing to raise attention and to put this on the agenda of our federal representatives and the u. S. Embassy is making a difference. They are responding. They werent before, but they are now. But as supervisor mar said, theres so much more that they can do and we finally got a response related to how they can do a humanitarian evacuateion and they said something about providing a loan to the family and so this is information that wasnt previously provided. It should have been provided immediately to the family. And because of the attention theyre now responding. Brandon represents the best of San Francisco. He his Cross Cultural and Cross National solidarity represents a tradition and a history and a legacy in this city that i think that we should all be very proud of. And the last thing that i want to say is that we during our time in the philippines we were able to meet with many of brandons comrades and his colleagues, indigenous leaders, Leaders Within manila and in all of them they shared with us that what happened to brandon should not be viewed as an isolated and random incident. But its part of a campaign of targeting people who are standing up for environmental rights and for human rights across the philippines. And i think that brandon would want us to connect with what happened to him with what is happening with so many people, especially poor people, especially Indigenous People in the philippines. And to say that that their stories and their experiences are not going to be silenced and that to the extent that our government is quiet about this, were going to be louder, were going to demand that we no longer be complicit by funding such mass murder and political assassination that now has impacted one of our own in brandon lee. So thank you all for your leadership with the passing of this resolution and we have a lot more work to do to make sure that brandon comes home safely and that this campaign of terror and murder that the Philippine Government has been responsible for that we do everything that we can to end it. Thank you for being here. President yee supervisor mandelman. 5d aadd me as a cosponsor. President yee supervisor . I asked to be a cosponsor and if im not already on there and i would like to be added. And i wanted to thank everyone so much for coming out today. Your love and your fight for brandon and for all of the people of the philippines that are being abused by the government came across so clearly. And were with you. And just really appreciate all of your work on this issue and your fight for brandon. So, thanks. President yee supervisor walton . I would love to be a cosponsor. President yee supervisor fewer . I just wanted to say thank you for coming out today. And i have already added my name as a cosponsor and to include me in any of your fundraising efforts. Thank you. President yee okay. I also want to add my voice to this, which is to thank the friends and relatives and organizations that came out to support brandon lee. And as you can see we stand in solidarity with the community on this issue. I think i believe that everybody has added names as a cosponsor. And so thank you very much. And right now, madam clerk, i say that we take this item, same house, same call. Without objection. Then this item passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Lets see. Madam clerk, read the memorial. Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in the memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor peskin for the late jerry crawly, and on behalf of president yee, for the late Lawrence Joseph fonk and on behalf of supervisor brown for the late marcia marcela harvey. President yee colleagues that is the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, any other further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee okay, thank you. We are adjourned. San francisco and oakland are challenging each other in a battle for the bay. Two cities. One bay. San francisco versus oakland. Are you ready to get in on the action . Im london breed. And i am oakland mayor libby schaff. Who will have the cleanest city . We will protect our bay by making our neighborhoods shine. Join us on september 21st as a battle for the bay. Which city has more volunteer spirit . 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The work at the Produce Market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than. The San Francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. Its basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office for the city of San Francisco. They passed legislation that said okay, 13 of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and were going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester Greenhouse Gas emission. The grants that were giving, theyre anywhere from 15,000 to, say, 80,000 for a two year grant. Im shawn rosenmoss. Im the development of Community Partnerships and carbon fund for the San Francisco department of environment. We have an Advisory Committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund . Because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. I heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. Im a School Education team. My name is marcus major. Im a Founding Member of Climate Action now. We started in 2011. Our main goal it to remove carbon in the public rightofway on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. If its a greening grant, 75 of the grant has to go for greening. It has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. The dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. It was the seed funding for this whole project. The whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. We usually issue a greening rft every other year, and thats for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. We were awarded 43,000 for this project. The produce thats grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. In this garden were growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. Well be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. The first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. The reason for that is a lot of people in San Francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. We kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. One of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. Pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. My name is david, and im the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. We were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in San Francisco San Francisco. We also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after School Programs for children with special needs that serves the Public School system. The Sf Carbon Fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. We received about 15,000. The money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. We have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. We actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. This is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. They learn about our work in the greenhouse. We have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. We have two kitchens h