District two honourees. It is truly inspiring to celebrate these stories and to recognize how immigrants are the backbone of this country and i am proud to be in San Francisco where we not only recognize that but we celebrated. Colleagues, today i am proud to honor alberto and lily meyer. They are longstanding members of our neighborhood and they, like all of our honourees, are a testament to the strength and importance of our diverse communities. Alberto first came to San Francisco from mexico as a chemistry student at San Francisco state. After college, he returned to mexico, h. Which is when he met his wife. He was on vacation in veracruz and she was there helping her mother run a restaurant. Together they moved back to San Francisco in 1981 to start their life together and they spent a beloved fixture on union street ever since. With nothing but their tireless work ethic and lilys family recipes, they started a small Catering Company in 1987 and it should come as no surprise to anyone who has tasted their food , especially their burritos, that the small Catering Company grew to become a big restaurant on buchanan, one of my Favorite Places in San Francisco to get mexican food. For the last 32 years, alberto and lily have remained rooted in the traditions in which they were raised and their menu reflects their values. All their food is made right in front of you from scratch with the freshest ingredients. They have worked hard to keep the quality of their food high and prices extremely low. It is hard to find a delicious meal in San Francisco for 6, but thanks to alberto and lily, it is not impossible at union. In addition to these fabulous Small Business owners, they are kind, compassionate, engaged members of their community, and has spent the last three decades making their adopted home a better place for all of us. I am lucky that there son attended the same school where my kids have gone and they have been incredible members of the School Community right now. Their lives, traditions, and careers have always spanned two countries and we are all better off because they were able to do that. Thank you to alberto and lily for your dedication dedication to our community. You embody the best of what the American Dream has to offer. Thank you. [applause] i just want to think all the board of supervisors and especially supervisor stefani for recognizing and bringing up our humble beginnings. We thank you for your support and we are very happy, as we have always been, we are very honored to be part of this community that is embracing all races, all nationalities and all cultures. We are so happy and very grateful, very honored, and thank you, again, for everything [applause] mr. President , if i associate myself with supervisor stefanis words, i have been a long time customer, so thank you. Thank you. Okay, we are getting down to the last section. Theyre two more of us left. Next up is supervisor walton from district ten. Thank you. Thank you supervisor ronen. Thank you for coordinating the ceremony and congratulations to all of the awardees here today, most of which i also wanted to chime in and say some special words about, but i also didnt want to be here until midnight. Congratulations. It is my honor to be able to recognize the work of yolanda gutierrez. [applause]. Known to most as jolie. She is the daughter of immigrants who came to this country from nicaragua and mexico and met here in the United States looking for a better life. They worked hard to provide the children with a bright future. Their father owned a Small Business in the bayview and their mother worked at s. F. General and they are both here today to celebrate with us. Jolie was born in San Francisco and attended public high school, graduating from Downtown High school in 1993. Yolandas family lost her brother to street violence when she was young, in this tragedy was heartbreaking. The gutierrez family, like so many other families, had to suffer this senseless loss of life. Yolanda new that this pain was so deep and committed herself to improving the lives of others in efforts for them to avoid having ever feeling the same pain. After having an opportunity to do community service, her life was changed. She began to work with young people and provided them with a platform to be successful in her own commute in their own communities. I have often watched her go above and beyond to help someone else advance and grow. At first, as executive director of young unity developers, she became a part of the team and it was evident from the very beginning that her spirit was genuine and her motives peer. Jolie was instrumental in conducting formerly incarcerated young people to jobs and careers , and help them become productive role models in their communities. Meza g. , is known to participants, always made sure she exhausted every available opportunity for everyone she served. No one was on savable, although true to the mission, her deep love for community gave her all the skills she needed to help people in bayview Hunters Point and across San Francisco. Yolanda was one of the key leaders in developing the i. P. O. To organize a Violence Prevention Program where formerly incarcerated transitional raised youth forgiven job training, city employment, and Case Management in order to maintain gainful employment and to reduce recidivism. Theyre all of this, she is amazing mother of her son, alonso, who is right here with us today, as well. She loves him more than anything she is currently with urban strategies and continuing to connect bayview residents to jobs, supportive services, and anything that they need. Aside from today, one of my proudest moments in life was when i had the opportunity as a member of the board of supervisors to personally give her her degree on stage in the spring of 2017 at city colleges graduation where she received her degrees in criminal justice and social behavioral science. Give it up for that. [cheers and applause] yolanda is a Great Team Player and brings that special touch of celebration to everything. She is a true event planner at the heart, and most often, i have had to try to stop her from turning a small gathering into in Academy Award like presentation. [laughter] she knows how to put together a party. This extra touch makes a celebration so much more personal. As a resident of bayview and someone who works in bayview, she is an example of overcoming what so many of our residents face even in this great community. No greater example of her love for this community then when in my first week of office, it was her that dealt with the families of homicide victims. And in her mind, serving our communities a 24hour job and she was there every step of the way, helping victims families get through the worst times of their lives. She has had to endure these also through personal experience. Im very excited to Honor Community advocate, mother, big sister, leader, and personal close friend and sister, miss yolanda gutierrez. [applause] [cheering] thank you, thank you, everyone. Im deeply honored for this recognition today. First off, i just want to give all glory to god because without him, none of this would be possible. Secondly, my parents for paving the way for us, coming from mexico, and nicaragua at a young age without any family support, they were here alone, they managed to be have the American Dream, owned businesses in the bayview, and do things for us, and pave the way for us, for all five of us. I just want to say thank you to my parents. Also, to murray, if she is in here still. She saw something in me that i didnt see in myself for about 22 years, when i was a young girl walking into a Community Center to do community service, and from that, i just want to continue to fight for justice, and a big shout out to tracey for connecting me with such a great man like shimon who is just a great leader to me and has paved the way for me, also, and to my son, alonso, i want him to know that you can dream to be whatever they you need to be, son. And to beat and to all my community members, and everyone here today. Thank you so much. I am so honored today. Mr. Walton, i love you. Thank you. [applause] [applause] all right. I guess it is my turn. Supervisor ronen and your staff, i am truly honored to introduce the best i saved the best for last. Im introducing my latin x. Honoree, the one and only, fabulous sonia torres. [cheers and applause] come on up. She was groped he grew she grew up in mexico city. She is only a few blocks from where i live. It is worth mentioning that she also has a staff that speaks vietnamese. Her program actually, in reality , is a multi lingle program. She started her Family ChildcareSmall Business when her children were small, they are both grown and in college. She says she has a job but it does not work. A lot of parents tell me the raising kids is a lot of work. I am glad you think it is not work. As someone very familiar with Early Education and teaching young children, sonya, what you do is probably the most important work, and it is not easy. In 2018, she was recipient of the health apple award. This recognition is only awarded to early educators who have demonstrated commitment to nutrition and civil activity and to have incorporated this philosophy into the curriculum. She is very unassuming. [please stand by] theres a huge unmet need a while back for their families, so she started sharing caring for them in the evening. Many of them work night shifts and nights in hotels. Her Family Childcare is also open to families that need her services until midnight. This allows families to work. Evening hours continues to be an unmet need and sonya offers this to our community. As if running a Family Childcare with extended hours isnt enough , she also volunteers at st. Anthonys. The theme this year couldnt be more fitting. As latin x. Immigrants, who Small Business provides bilingual education that supports the growth and development of our San Francisco children and families. I couldnt be more honored to recognize her today. I am grateful for this opportunity to really honor latin a latin x. Woman who has impacted nearly a generation of San Francisco families. Sonya, would you like to say a few words . [cheers and applause] many thanks. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be here and be honored. I really appreciate it. I would like to say thank you so much for approving the programs. They really support me a lot. It is my pleasure to work for people with low income like the arts program, homeless people, that is my pleasure. This job, you have to not only do it because you have an education, masters, no. These people need, also people with incredibly good patients. And also, i feel so proud because every morning, they get a healthy breakfast. It has to be healthy to start the day to start to learn. And my lunch is also very heart healthy with no oil, no salt, and no sugars. Thank you so much for supporting me. I have been getting a lot of support from them and i really feel very blessed. Thank you to my coach, thank you to reagan, im a little bit nervous, and thank you to you guys. I really appreciate it. My lord bless you, everybody. [cheers and applause] once again, congratulations to all the people that were recognized today. What a great group of people to recognize. Thank you, my colleagues, on the board of supervisors for really being so thoughtful about who you wanted to honor. I wish i could honor each one of them by myself, but i guess i only get one. Again, thank you very much. We will build on this. Next year we will make this bigger, right . All right. Lets move on to our business. Madame clerk, lets go back to item 20. Item 20 is an ordinance to amend an administrative code to reenact and revise the Tourist Hotel conversion ordinance which restricted the conversion of hotel rooms in large Tourist Hotels to condominiums, and to delete the sunset provision and to affirm the secret determination. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please call the next item. Item 21 is an ordinance to amend administrative code to establish the streetlevel Drug Dealing Task force to advise the board of supervisors and the mayor and the city departments regarding policies to address harms related to streetlevel drug dealing in the tenderloin, civic centre, midmarket, and south of market neighborhoods, into set forth the membership and the duties of the task force can we take this same item, same call . I think there are amendments, mr. President. Supervisor haney . Thank you. We do have some amendments before you that are pretty simple. I just wanted to thank all of the Community Organizations and residents and Small Businesses who brought this proposal forward. I also want to thank the rules committee who passed this unanimously and all signed on as coauthors. I appreciate that. What is before you is legislation to create a streetlevel Drug Dealing Task force. This will bring together the Department Leaders impacted individuals, residence, to begin to put forward a more comprehensive strategy that really gets at the root of this crisis that is impacting these communities. The task force has seats that are appointed by the board of supervisors and will be comprised of a very Diverse Group of individuals. There will be 12 seats. The task force will look at crime prevention, recidivism, Economic Development, diversion, and alternatives to incarceration. It will hold public hearings and solicit testimony, and ultimately you will have the power to access data and provide recommendations to this body, as well as to the mayor and other departments. Thank you to the Budget Committee and budget share fewer we were able to secure 200,000 of funds to the task force in this years budget. Im hopeful that putting all relevant stakeholders and departments in the same room will lead to meaningful collaboration and dedicate us to address the Harms Associated with this crisis. The two amendments that are in front of you, first on page five , line 21, i highlighted on your copy that we are adding the department of Emergency Management to the list of departments to provide data, and second on page six, line nine through ten, we are adding of the workforce about mint program as another data point to be analysed and collected by the task force. I think we all agree that all of our resident should have safe and healthy neighborhoods and that we should protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. I also believe, as a representative of soma and the tenderloin, their residents and organizations who have a lot of good ideas about how we can approach this differently, with Creative Ideas to really get at the root of this problem, and to get our departments working together more effectively. That was something that came out of the hearing that we had in the b. L. A. Report. It really didnt have an effective strategy that was coordinated across the departments. With that, we would like to take these amendments with positive recommendation. Is theres a motion to make amendments and seconded by supervisor peskin. If there is no objection, then the motion to amend passes. Colleagues, can you take this item same house, same call as amended . Okay. Without objection, this ordinance is amended is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please call item number 22. Item 22 is a motion to appoint supervisor mandelman for a two year term to the association of bay area governments executive board Regional Planning committee. Colleagues, and we have a motion to excuse supervisor mandelman, . Made and seconded. Without objection, super mandelman supervisor mandelman is excused. Please call roll on this item. On item 22. [roll call] there are ten aye. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. I believe we are going to committee reports. Yes. Item number 23. Twentythree and 24 were considered by the government audit and Oversight Committee on a regular meeting and were forwarded as committee reports. I dont 23 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by gregory sapper tely. This alleged personal injury on the city street. Colleagues, can we take these items roll call, please. [roll call] there are 11 aye. Without objection, these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. That was just item 23. Would you like me to read item 24 . Without objection, this is passed on First Reading unanimously. I dont 24 is the ordinance authorizing less settlement of a lawsuit against the city 425,000. This lawsuit involves a personal alleged injury on a city street. Can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Lets go to im a little confused. I think there is item 25. Twentyfive was consi