For the past 17 years of my life , my father has worked in korean history and many korean other services. When i was younger, i never understood why he was doing this having volunteered the festival, i can understand why its so important for him. We need to carry on their traditions, especially for those of us never had the opportunity to experience living in korea. Passing the this resolution will help the next generation very on with korean traditions, region that leaves the country. I would like to thank the board and recognize supervisor stefani in recognizing the solution. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors. My name is lena and i am the executive director of the koreanamerican Community Foundation of San Francisco. We are a philanthropic organization. We are a very Young Organization , five years old, but we have just repeated approximately 1. 1 million to the Korean American Community to address some of the vital needs that we have, including Domestic Violence, mental health, senior care, and youth empowerment. We have one of the highest rates of suicide amongst the korean americans, and right now, in San Francisco and in the bay area, there is no Domestic Violence language specific service, so these are some of the issues that we are addressing as a community, but i come here today not as an executive director, but as another koreanamerican. I came here when i was about four years old and i was an immigrant at that time. Since then, i have grown and experience the koreanamerican experience in the u. S. I am one of 80,000 korean americans in the bay area, 90,000, actually, about 500,000 korean americans in california and 1. 7 million koreanamerican people in the united states. So i come here as a koreanamerican requesting that you supports this day and i feel like its not only just for the koreanamerican community, but really it is an opportunity to celebrate the diversity in this city, as well as the diversity in the bay area. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Mining is gordon khan and i am a San Francisco native and a resident of district seven. Im also the former Board Chairman for the green center. I wish to speak in favor of the resolution, which, by the way, will not negatively impact the budget of the city. If anything, it will be another source of revenue, one thing to look at. For the past 20 years, since i moved to San Francisco, i have worked to share korean culture and history through korean adoptees like myself, families that are adopted from korea, which will for which there are well over 100, and many non koreans in the area. It has not been easy coordinating the community. Passing this resolution will not make it easier but will help the next generation not only understand the disparity in health and wealth of koreans in the area, but carry on the teaching and sharing of korean cultures and traditions in the bay area. A region that leads the community leads the country, if not the world in Ethnic Community outreach. I would like to thank the board for recognizing and recognizing supervisor stefani for recognizing this solution and thinking andrew mullen. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. I run a Small Business in the city. I did a workshop at the event. It was amazing. His only people showed so much interest and had so much fun. At the event i said, why havent we had this kind of day event sooner. I hope to see this korean day continue to next year. Thank you so much for your support. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I represent media in San Francisco. The u. S. Census bureau reports 1. 7 million koreans live in america. Half a million live in california. 80,000 people live in San Francisco. I know by heart that is severely undercounted. The state of alaska claims that there are only 4,000 koreans living in alaska. More than half people are uncounted. I know by heart that is more. There are even more gaps in california and in San Francisco. I would urge you to pass this resolution so that we can mobilize and make sure that every korean is counted. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is dawn. You may notice that i am not korean, nor is my wife, nor are my children, with both my children speak fluent korean and were given a gift by the city of San Francisco to receive a by literate education in korean in our city. Last friday at the school, we celebrated, and every child, regardless of their race, religion, or heritage or culture , had an opportunity to celebrate this wonderful, traditional holiday, eating korean food, singing on korean songs, and as a san franciscan who celebrates our cultural diversity, of course, we support this resolution. This will spread an opportunity for other children in the city to be exposed to this rich culture and heritage. We support it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, board board. My name is drew. I served as someone appointed to the Youth Commission and i serve as a chancellor. I spoke here last week, talking about my distant relative who is the first diplomat to the united states. We had the festival on september 14th, and 5,000 people came, twice the number that we had expected, and this is a first step in getting the korean community, the culture, to get interwoven with the fabric that is the diverse and beautiful fabric of San Francisco. You saw here that there are many children who came to speak, or tried to speak, and as a San Francisco native, i want to say that i grew up without a korean community, i grew up without knowing anyone who was koreanamerican besides my family. I was surrounded by other folk and i grew up with the cherry awesome festival and the Chinese New Year parade, and doing this has given me an opportunity to serve the community i never knew i want to these kids to grow up, and i want these kids to look towards the future in the years to come to see the number of 5,000 to become 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, and become something that is huge and important in San Francisco so that they never have to feel the same way that i did when i grew up. Thank you so much, supervisor stefani, for introducing the resolution and thank you for considering this. Thank you for your comments. And. Good afternoon, board of supervisors, it is nice to see you guys. I know it supervisor haney is working on no cars in the tenderloin. I do back that, but we also have to remember that we have a lot of elderly, handicapped people in San Francisco and you have to allow taxis to go pick them up. The other day i saw someone getting harassed by a rideshare driver. I should have filled it and sent it to all of you guys. Why cant we put cameras in the front of their vehicles . If we start enforcing the rules, the rules will not be broken. Dont forget who bailed out San Francisco in time of need. Dont let our egos get in the way of our decisions that we will make in the future and dont, for god sake, please do not let the sfmta make anymore decisions regarding the San Francisco taxicabs. They are destroying us. I will say that the taxi detail is doing a good job, that they are understand. If you go to any of the taxi stand, they are filled with cars , then we honked, they get out and yell, then we have altercations. Dont shut us out. You know how we feel. We deserve some compensation here. I believe you guys should issue us a chance for a medallion when the time comes. We have put in a lot of time, a lot of suffering. Dont delay us anymore, please. Please do not delay us anymore and dont come me we dont deserve it. What i do want you guys to do is do the right thing. Do what San Francisco is built on. People and sacrifice and humanity and love. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. San francisco is very sympathetic. [indiscernible] they grabbed our money, bought buses, and never considered us. They treated us as if we were there slaves. How many taxi medallion holders died with a heart attack . You dont know. You never helped them with money you help to your homeless. You go to peoples homes, hug them, no one cares about us. Rideshare is bent on destroying the taxi business. There is no doubt the taxi business has not destroyed as completely as long as rideshare exists, the taxi business cant recover. The city projected to isolate us with 50,000 rideshare charity medallions that they have given to rideshare companies, we have become billionaires. We are any deficits. You can your rideshare but give us our money back. You can leave our medallions to Cab Companies. Dont ingest inject us with a b. Five. We do not support it and it doesnt benefit to us. We never asked for it. The sfmta wants us to walk off these medallions. We did not get these medallions and charity. We paid for these medallions. We paid our whole lives and savings. We want you to approach the sfmta for our money thank you. Your time is concluded, thank you. [indiscernible] thank you. Next speaker, please. I appreciate mr. Sherman. Everything he said, i stand up for him. It is true. We are a bunch of people, like myself. I have worked for 30 years. The city promise was never, never stand up for these promises. These these have to be issues this San Francisco city or the m. T. A. , they are not going to to ask for health, where do we have to go . I have to go with my own hands . Do not put us through these situations. [indiscernible] we are a bunch of good americans we pay our dues. Like me, 66 years is my age, i want to be retired. My brother, my friend,. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] this business is never coming back for us. Most of our people is over age. We cannot continue like that. I swear on my mother, i did not get even one fair. I come in here, i am really upset so much. Please get to the bottom of this situation. I love you guys, i ask you guys to help. Put together your minds, go check with the m. T. A. And get the money back. I love you guys. Good. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, everybody. I am a cabdriver. I go around the city begging for my life. I had a stroke and i cannot drive like before. The sfmta promised to us when we are unable to drive anymore that we can get that money back, but they dont want to take the medallion back. I dont want to get in trouble or somebody else in trouble for no reason. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is david smith. I am a purchase medallion holder the one thing i wanted to bring to your attention today is that the San FranciscoTaxi Workers Alliance and the Medallion Holders Association does not speak for us. I just want you to keep that in mind and your discussions with each other and m. T. A. I understand you need to take, you know, take input from all vested parties in the industry, and that is understandable, but do know they do not represent us one, because the Taxi Workers Alliance has conflict of interest, at least for us. Their leadership our prop k. And cab Company Owners or ownership. They have or have had in the past, and of course, the medallions Holder Association was the group of medallion holders mostly that lobbied against us forgetting our purchased medallions. Obviously we dont appreciate that. So we obviously dont want we want to separate ourselves from that. We have plenty of people. You know the guys here. We could bring more people if you want. If you want to hear from other people besides us. Nothing against the earned medallion holders. My father is one, just to let you know. Im not coming out of left field with anger and hostility. This affects me in many ways. Another thing i want to keep in mind is that when it comes to dealing with the medallion situation, that was still get priority to sell if we sell, if we are able to sell. By the way, no one has bottom italian in over three years. If no one has bought and it medallion, it does not exist. It is only existing by name. It is dead. And it. Give us our money back and give us our nontransferable medallions as agreed to in the contract with the credit union and sfmta. Thank you for your comments. Good afternoon, everybody. I am here again for the same issue, the medallions, because it is not working anymore because we cannot find anybody to work for us and theres no value left in the medallion whatsoever because uber has taken over, which is okay, but we really want you to take responsibility and get us out of that. This is nothing but a nightmare for not just the drivers, but all their families. It is a nightmare. We are really looking forward to see that. Take the responsibility and get us out from there so we can just pay the money to the banks and leave something because this thing is not going to work out. You can drive free without medallion for 250,000. Why are you stupid to work by a medallion to work for the city i wish that we would Pay Attention to this and say the medallion value is zero. Please get us out because that thing is lost and we are suffering really badly financially and mentally and physically. God bless you, thank you so much thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, everybody, the same issue, cabdriver. The medallions is a big burden on our shoulders. I would like to tell you that our study expense, either we drive or not. It is 2,300. The bank is fine because they paid two to 50,000, but what if the companies are charging us 1,400 . Will you please exempt us from those Cab Companies so, if you can alleviate our burden from 2,000, 21,100 so we can survive and live in the market and we still can serve the people of San Francisco. The very best as if you can buy back. If it is not possible right now, or you are still working on, or the time is going by, if you can alleviate us of our paint to exempt [indiscernible] that will help us a lot. I hope you will consider this option as well that we can create our independent cabs that we dont have to pay to the Cab Companies. That would be a great help for us. Before you speak, are there any other members of the public would like to address the board during general Public Comment . This is our last speaker. Sorry for the delay, thank you. The overhead, please. I wanted to end last week, but i ran out of time, so supervisor brown and president yee overhead, please. Theres one thing about a chevrolet van that is better because we can drive across the u. S. A. In your chevrolet and is the greatest land on earth. [indiscernible] i picked up this and then in 1974 and i drove it until 1988. Around the country. It was great. The van ness the beach parking lot off rose street. The overhead, we will stay with it a little bit more as a struggle. It is hard to reach back. Thank you for holding the microphone. These are all 25 milliondollar chips. This was everything that was given to the tax break through the to the rich folks. This is a 25 billiondollar chip theyre supposed to be a raise for the federal employees but trump said no, they dont get it , we have to balance the budget. Trump showed us, by taking a few Million Dollars away from the defence budget that he wants, he can build a rusty wall with it. How about the democrats taking a few Million Dollars from the defence budget and giving it a billion to each city in this country, and help what we need here . That is it. Thank you. I ran out of time again. Sorry. Thank you for holding the microphone. Mr. President , i will let you make the last call. Thank you. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Madame clerk, please call the before adoption without committee agenda. Items 21 through 24. [reading items] would any of my colleagues like to sever any items . Seeing none, madame clerk, lets see, why dont i just say same house, same call . With no objection mr. President , apologies, we do need a roll call. Okay. That is correct. Roll call, please. On items 21 through 24,. [roll call] there are 11 aye. The resolutions are adopted on the motion is approved unanimously. Please read the in memoriam his, if any. I have not report. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Is there any further business before us today . That concludes our business for today. 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 . Which city can clean more neighborhoods . The city with the most volunteers wins. Signup to be a bay protector and a neighborhood cleaner. Go to battle fo its great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. I am desi, chair of Economic Development for soma filipinos. So that [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and its also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. I studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. Working at imarket is amazing. Youve got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. When i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of