San francisco and reroute it to green spaces, work that continues today thanks to the momentum he built and i actually served on that same board of directors when it was first formed in the 1980s. By every account, including my own, he was a mentor and a friend to countless colleagues in the financial social justice and environmental fields. Earlier this year, his lifes work was honored with a dedication of the phil arnold trail in Golden Gate Park in february named in his honor. The trail maya goes through livk trees in the Northeast Corner of the park providing the type of respite from urban life that phil was so intent on preserving for fellow san franciscans. He married his wife of 33 years who i used to fondly and sometimes not so fondly refer to as the 12th member of the San Francisco board of supervisors many of the former deputy city controller monique in 1986 in addition to monique, and our hearts go out to her, he is survived by his sons, brother steve, nieces, christina and malia and grandson sage. Our condolences to them all and particularly monique. Supervisor peskin, can i just have us all be on the memorial. I would be delighted. Supervisor yee thank you. Ok. I think thats it for roll call. Madam clerk, lets go to Public Comments. Clerk its time for the public to comment. You will have two minutes to share your thoughts on topics that fall under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors to includes items 3832 which did not go to committee. Your comments should be addressed to the board as a whole. I will redistrict you if you address a Single Member or audience. Public comment is not allowed on items that have been heard on Public Comment or during a board committee. Speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and if youd like to display a document on the overhead project projector, place jury document under the projector and ask for sfgov to show the document and row move it when you would like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. Supervisor yee go ahead. To all the anarchists here i would like to say that trump is the only president that is attending the pro life rally and i thank god everyday for president trump. And you know, i remember when paul hill protected his children there and took him nine months to execute him for that. The lady was interviewing him, he is a press pa terry minister and he said would you do it again. He said it wasnt easy to protect the children but i would protect them. Ralph, you know ralph northham, the governor there in virginia. He is on info wars. He said the baby can be born 40 weeks from conception, thats where are created by the almighty. It can be placed on the table and then you can shoot it, you can stab it, ralph likes to hang it up and throw darts at it. He likes that. I think about how god says the powers that be are ordained of god to punish evil doers. My bible says before jesus comes back, you know, that the sun will be dark and the moon will be turned to blood red. Wondering what that means. But you know, jesus said, its written in your law, he is referring to deuteronomy, the fifth book of moses, its written in your law the testimony of two men i am one ta bear witness of myself and my father, he bears witness of me. When we read in gods law, by the way the kings were commanded everyday to read the bible. We find its god says god shall not kill and the punishment for killing someone i see my time is up. Next speaker. Good afternoon. We are back again. The taxi medallion owners to talk about our issue and looks like we are keeping coming back and back but we feel that there is no action taken. We just feel like no one cares about us. Basically what we want is sf to give the money we put to this ma dill yans back and they can rent those medallions and make the default to the Taxi Companies and we put a lot of down payments and some of us we need that because theres no business in the city. I say that if it wasnt for the airport, we wouldnt make my any money. Because, a couple days ago, i had a doctor apartment and i api worked from 2 00 to 4 00 in the city. Believe it or not i had two fares and i made 25 an hour. So, that comes to like 12 and a half dollars an hour which is the minimum wage, right. So what we want is you guys have to, i mean, take actions and push sfmta to do something about our issue. In the contract, they agreed that if the medallion Sales Program fails theyre going to have to repurchase the medallions and even issue us free medallion. Thats in the contract. They should expect everything. They have to give up to their signature and do something about our issue. Thank you. Ive been in school all my life. I have three dock rat, two bachelors, two masters. I set out to say its very practical. I have a plan where i could solve this homeless problem across the country and im seeing its in germany and also in england so perhaps we need the federal government involved and the u. N. I did send an email to mr. Trumps office and he sent out people to l. A. And San Francisco to talk about housing the homeless and so fourth. He says that he started before so that probably the way for me to say that ok he has a plan and its my plan but im not going to talk about my plan. I need a contract first and im going to mention my plan because the government wont have to spend in any money in my plan. Im guaranteed this housing thing could end in 90 days to one year. Money comes no the government. He wants to use the federal buildings but as i said, i asked the chairman carson to let us have a conference and so that i could mention it once and i could be guaranteed that im going to be paid. By the way, if everybody was president obama no one knows but me. Im the man given this ideas and if i hadnt held him, he had nothing to do and he had no ideas and everybody would have been over and no one knows about me. So im not doing anything free again. Nor aim doing anything which im not going to be benefiting from. For my intellectual properties, and when i spend all the same and i cant live on my education, thats bad. In this housing move, i think that i need a contract and i need to have everybody involved so that i just mentioned once and we can move on. Also i have interested in Global Warming and i have a green plan. I notice that folks are talking about electric housing and electricity users so there we go again. Thank you, very much. Supervisor yee thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. I am speaking on behalf of inaudible . I say the same thing again and again. Taxi ma cal ya medallion shoulde sold. Its Racial Discrimination with us. That caused destruction in taxi business. Uber has lift. No one thats consent. Its trust and no one why did they put us to death for payments. No one bans nor no one is willing for. Keep your ride share. Leave the ma cal yan to Cab Companies. They never allowed us medallions independently. We are not leaving medallions from companies, we are dealing with the catastrophic situation, we are limping on and it deprives us of sleep. We cannot sustain in the taxi business. Sfmta are calling to their argument with the union now its responsibilities. We cannot trust them anymore. All supervisors should write a notice for sftam for money fund. We waited two years. How issues has not been reinvolved yet. Its very painful. We have to strike. We want justice. Thank you. Good afternoon. Here again with the same issue as every week we have. So, i dont know how to make that you guys approximate belieu take the action of it because i feel like were just like tissue paper and just use it and throw it out because no one listens to our voice and believe me, were in a crisis. We have so many ma da medallion holders that killed themselves because of the stress. How much improvement do you need for that to believe that we are not lying here. Even the kids know. Every single individual knows about the medallion and uber things. What we needed, we are not aliens. Were part of the public and the city. When we serve the city for many years, we have a appreciation and we have all these good things but when the other interest that comes in like ride share, no one will know what we are. Like i see like were trapped and thrown in the darkroom and no one listening to us, no one looks at us. We have live in the darkroom so when we come see that light to get a our justice. Please, help us out. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Hi, my name is hajeet and im making a request to the supervisors of San Francisco. If theyre going to help us, i dont know how long it will take us to solve this problem and its really big trouble for the cab driver, not only for me. And we dont know how we can stay on the city now getting solve this problem and we need our money back and we cannot support anymore color scheme if some we need help for the color scheme too you know and we dont make money. I dont know how were going to pay this color scheme, you know. And im making a request to the smfta and i dont know how long i can survive. Maybe im getting heart attack soon. I need some information from city hall. My family can sue after some things happen to me. I dont want to die myself, you know, with the trouble. And i have so much stress. Im not able to drive anymore. I dont want to thank you very much. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon. I am again in here just i want to remind you. Behind my heart start crying, you know. And i feel right now my voice start to change. I dont know how you guys just reaction, you know. How many times we come in here every week and every time we did different scenario and you guys go home, you see your family, i come home and i dont see anybody. I am pissed off. I am feeling like i am hostage to the situation. Swear to god. I take any Social Security paying to the stupid medallion. My social se security. I not worth that for this situation. I was not having Social Security maybe i would be homeless. Every each one of these guys they have a problem financially. Most worse things is mentally. We cannot carry that one. We cannot be able to hold it to the situation. As myself i cannot take it. We language, which kind of scream do we have to show to your guys. Please, we cannot take it. He dont care. Last week i try to send an email. They block the email. Because i ask them some questions before they have a connection with us with the emails. We would be able to have say something. Completely we are out. You talking about democracy. Write a check to the average person or buyer of medallion to take off. Its a democracy. Supervisor yee next speaker. Come on up. Hi, im purchase medallion but i tell you before the story. Im married and i have two child. The oldest one 27. She is doing great. Shes a physician assistant. And second one San Francisco university. And theyre doing great. We are not bums. Ok. Im a father. Im an uncle. Im family member. Personally, im sick of all of you. You know. Because you guys you dont give a shit about the chapter. Very simple. You guys open your mouth very big. San francisco is a liberal city. Everybody has its right except cab drivers. You guys put 215,000 for homeless. Take a pee on sixth and market. That is my right. I drive in a cab for 30 or 40 years. I want to be retired. I get sick about this job. I look at your face, i hate this job. Very simple. I hate this job. But i dont have a choice because its the only source of income for my family. If i dont do that, ill be homeless. Ill have to sit by the market begging for penny and nickel. You guys, everything important in city. But if it comes to the cab driver, everyone has a right but not the cab driver. Please, its enough. I was sitting here by the she announced for the supervisor. According to her, if i want to sell my medallion, they thank you. Good afternoon board of supervisors, my name is matthew sutter. Im six generation related to john general sutter. We do not want anything more than what we were told we were going to be given. In the envelope is 91 signatures of owners that want us to represent them. We are not part of anything other than the buyers association. Theres no union for us, were not part of any coalition and anything like that. The sfmpa now is allowing all the handicap vans to go unlimited time at the airport which takes them out of San Francisco to tend to our handicapped people here in the city. I do grow in avoiding them something but unlimited use at the airport of theyre waking home at 5 00 in the morning and going at home in midnight. Unlimited pick ups at the airport without waiting. Is that fair . Sfmta, look what theyve done to taylor and sixth street. You cant get up the street mr. Haney. Do you see what is happening . You made it more dangerous for pedestrians. We are going to want to sit down and talk with you guys. We will write out a plan to figure out what we need to do to satisfy the situation. You need to take the bank out of the equation. You need to start with the bank. You need to take those medallions away. We are suffering you guys. We are in pain. All my life i was a proud San Francisco an and now im stuck for the first time in my life. I feel stuck. I dont want to be here anymore. Thats a shame. I thought you guys are the ones that will make San Francisco great. Its passed mayors and now its current mayors. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon, my name is jones and i am also a cab driver. Let me ask you one very simple question, what is the fate of my 250,000 that i have paid to the sfmt for the taxi medallion. If i day today or tomorrow what is the fate . Someone has the answer for that one . That 250,000 should be defended to my family or not . If it is being defended to my family, i would like to have it in writing. And the second thing is, do you guys have a family . Its a question for all board of supervisors and even the mayor. Do you have a family . I am a father of four. One of my daughters is coming everyday from hercules to sf state. You can figure out the bart and bus fare. My second daughter is uc davis. I have two children in hercules in high school. I am taking home everyday. Like 50, 60 sometimes 100. Do you guys think that i can live with that continuously . No. I have anxiety. I have a depression. I and i want you to help us. We are paying these Cab Companies so much money because i am driving for almost 30 years and we are paying them by the name of color scheme and today those who have color scheme it does not do anything for me. Why am i am paying 600 a month. I have raised this issue a couple of times before and i am raising this one again too. Please help us out and lower our expenses. If you are really a friend of the people of San Francisco and you want speakers time is concluded, sir. Supervisor yee next speaker, please. My name is helena and im supervisor ronens constituent and a volunteer with the Sunrise Movement bay area. I came here to talk about the climate emergency. I am humbled at all that ive heard today. From the car drivers about the people dying of fentanyl overdoses. I came here to say we need to connect the dots in terms of climate and Work Together and make things work. And i want to say that climate is an umbrella that Everything Else can fit under. We can look for what is th the h to a good future and look for a Just Transition for everybody. For the cab drivers medallion and for people who take drugs because theyre desperate or theyre addicted, right. Sometimes it starts with desperation. Ive been there. You are not going to solve the problem siloing things one or the other. Were not going to solve the problems unless we are brave. Unless we mandate that even for buildings that cant yet be designed perfectly with only electric heating, that they are electric ready for when that Technology Comes to pass, which will be soon. Weve heard it from architects. Weve heard it from engineers and weve heard it from the legal community. We need to join together, have different agencies Work Together, and make a truly Better Future for San Francisco and hopefully a Better Future for the world. Thank you. Supervisor yee next speaker. My name is Sarah Greenwald and im a constituent of supervisor stefani. Also a member of 350 San Francisco. About the taxi drivers, i would note theyre driving better cars whereas the ride hails are ice cars, internal Combustion Engine gas burners. I want to thank you, supervisor brown and supervisor mandelman. You reminded us the climate situation is terrible but the good news is we do have clean power available in this city partly because of what board of supervisors has done. We have clean power sf. We do not need to keep constructing New Buildings that use methane, which is a vicious Greenhouse Gas as youve all been aware of. And incentivization and banning methane and new municipal buildings is a start. I urge you to go further. We must be mindful that 75 of our new construction will be in the southeast corridor which currently suffers from some of the worst environmental injustice and pollution as you know. So its an Environmental Justice issue. And the new construction should all be methane free but lets at least make it electric ready and make clean power s f1 hundred renewablf 100 renewable. Supervisor yee next speaker. My name is John Anderson and im a constituent of supervisor stefani and a member of 350sf although today im speaking for myself. I too would like to comment on supervisor mandelman and browns proposals. Proposed ban on methane and new City Construction and incentivizing electric Ready Construction is a start. It shouldnt be confused with anymore than a first step. The recent special report from