To get hurt. This is not to say that this micro Mobility Technology might be a good firstmile, lastmile solution, but i think mta and these Companies Still have a little ways to go. And relative to the item that president yee introduced, item 47, on todays agenda, which is cosponsored by every Single Member of this board urging the mta to issue permits that are compliant with ab5 and respect workers rights, lets be clear that some of these Companies Continue to exploit loopholes in state and local employment law. And i was actually informed by a representative of the Teamsters Joint Council 7 this morning, that at least two of the Scooter Companies that are anticipating permits in two weeks are using thirdparty basically temp agencies, like Silicon Valley startup blue crew to get around the obligation to hire employees with adequate compensation packages and benefits, even though these employees are technically w2 classified employees. This labor model has been a problem for decades in the Agricultural Industry and in the Food Processing industry. And my belief is that by enabling this type of employment model, San Francisco is on the verge of exacerbating a problem that has plagued the teamsteres and other labor organizations up and down the streets for decades. In my offices discussion with the mta the past few days, they have been thankfully receptive to the concerns. And so to that end, i am introducing a resolution today to urge the mta to respect workers rights as well as to address some of the other issues that i have raised and i will distribute copies of that resolution to all of you colleagues and look forward to your support. The rest i submit. Supervisor ronen . Okay. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. President yee okay. Why dont we go to the 2 30 recognition of commendations. Its now time to recognize various valuable members of the community who have stepped up to the plate. To assist our residents and families. President yee so supervisor brown . We have brown, mandelingman, ronen and fewer. Supervisor brown thank you. There you are, rica. Today i am commending ms. Rica chambers. An Incredible Community leader and executive director at collective impact. Collective impact is a Community FocusedYouth Development nonprofit based out of the fillmore Western Addition that is dedicated to providing youth, families and other programs the tools and resources they need to succeed. For close to 20 years, i cant believe were that old, rica, shes worked in youth and education throughout San Francisco. Specifically in the fillmore Western Addition neighborhoods. In 2016, she joined the collective impact team as their executive director. Prior to taking on this role, she served the magic zone program for five years as educational director, guiding all aspects of k12 out of school time programs. She also spent eight years at school of the sacred heart and 10 years at the boys and girls club of San Francisco. Youre an inspiration. Your longtime commitment to Youth Development and education is an invaluable resource for our community and ensuring equitable accesses to resources in the city. And its really most traditionally the communities that are left out that you actually work with. Your work is an incredible and important to the vitality and diversity of San Francisco. The residents of San Francisco, as well as everyone who comes to visit our city are so much better for all the work you do, rica, and that you have done to preserve, create opportunities for the youth in the fillmore western. Rica, from the bottom of my heart, i hate to see you go, because thats actually, this is a goodbye, but for you. But i know its a new beginning for you also. Im selfishly talking for me and the community losing you at collective impact. So today i wanted to recognize your leadership. And your vision for more inclusive educational spaces, social justice, and communitybuilding. San francisco extends its most honorable praise to you and wishes you the best when you enter your new career. Your work has helped create a more welcome and equitable San Francisco. And especially for our youth, but also for our families. So thank you for your commitment, rica. And i just want to say, you know what . You have my cell number. You know how to get ahold of me, dont be a stranger. Thank you. [applause] president yee before you speak, supervisor walton would like to say a few words. Supervisor walton thank you so much. And thank you, supervisor brown, for acknowledging rica and all of her hard work. I just wanted to chime in and say, you know, ive had opportunity to work with you, on the Community Side and this role as member of the board of supervisors and i want to say thank you so much for all of your hard work. With our young people, which of course, have been some of the hardest to serve traditionally. And youve been successful in helping young people reach their goals. And achieve success. So thank you so much. And you deserve this honor. I just want to say, it has been an honor and privilege to come back to the city i grew up in and help, not just young people, but families and young parents. And create equity in spaces where it was not. And really push our young people and advocate for them to go as far as they want to go and do whatever it is they want to do. I just want to thank the community of San Francisco and thank supervisor walton and supervisor brown, mayor breed and also cheryl davis. Thank you. [applause] president yee supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, president yee. St. Francis lutheran folks, you want to come up. Today, i want to honor st. Francis Lutheran Church on Church Street for the sunday morning hospitality hour. For nearly 25 years, members of st. Francis and their neighbors and friends have provided a weekly breakfast for all of those hungry. Each saturday, volunteers meet in the afternoon to sort food donated by trader joes and whole foods and deliver to the church by the amazing folks at food runners. Then bright and early on sunday morning, like really bright and early, like 5 00 a. M. , volunteers meet to prepare a delicious warm breakfast. Each week more than 100 meals are served. Last year, st. Francis was able to serve more than 6,000 meals over the course of the year. They provide an hour of respite for folks facing chaos on the streets, a warm room to set aside belongings, read, chat with with friends or just rest. People ask me what they can do about homelessness in San Francisco . I encourage them to volunteer to st. Francis or others that provide help to those in need. Dawn, a lesbian woman at st. Francis, invited me to join them for a sunday hospitality hour. Like so many of their volunteers, i kept coming back. In my case, for a monthly shift working the door. The stalwarts are there every week. I only make it in once a month. But whatever our level of commitment, i would imagine all the volunteers agree, we get far more than we can give. For that, this jew is incredibly grateful to st. Francis lutheran and the wonderful family of volunteers. Now for the bit of the history. Which i did not know before doing this. The corner stone of the church was laid at 152 Church Street in 1905. During the 1906 earthquake, the church served as a feeding station and hospital, perhaps a foreshadowing of the role it would play later. They emerged with first Lutheran Church and the United Church became st. Francis. They embrace diversity of households, race, gender, gender identity, age, and they feel a particular calling to advocate for the lgbtq community. In 1990, st. Francis Lutheran Church and the first united Lutheran Church ordained a gay man and lesbian couple. Solely because they were refused to pledge life long abstinence from sexual relations. As a result, the st. Francis church was expelled in 1996, which was a year prior to pastor dawns order nation. St. Francis never faltered and continued to celebrate diversity. Eventually, the elca voted to make key changes more friendly to lesbian, gay and transgender clergy in 2010. St. Francis was to rejoin the sin odd. In recognition of this history, it is my great pleasure to acknowledge is the francis Lutheran Church. Id like to give randy tomba, a chance to speak. Thank you, supervisor mandelman, for your well researched words. I appreciate that. And for your decade of serving at st. Francis on sunday morning once a month. And thank you, board of supervisors, for this commendation. Im offering words of thanks on behalf of the people of st. Francis Lutheran Church, our Church Council and pastor. Im especially pleased to say thank you for the commendation on behalf of the many hardworking volunteers to provide the get it done enthusiasm to make our food programs as successful as they are. In addition to feeding eggs, oatmeal, fresh fruit, crowd pleasing cup cakes, big shoutout to kara, she donates every week to the program and coffee to 100 guests, st. Francis hosts a food bank on tuesday. Serving approximately 150 families. Also on wednesday, our longstanding Senior Center provides a program and a threecourse lunch for 2 to 40 seniors. And on saturday, as raphael said, our volunteers prepare for the sunday breakfast using food brought to us by food runners and other fantastic organizations from mainly trader joes these days. We get amazing, Amazing Things theyve donated. Additionally throughout the week, our church opens the door to 12step programs and other group meetings. St. Francis is a lovely Modest Church located at 152 Church Street, across from the safeway. And it was built by the danish immigrants at the beginning of this century. During the great earthquake, as raphael said, it was partially built. So there are wonderful stories about the programs that happened on the site in the partially completed building to serve the refugees of the earthquake. But then it was educated at the end of the year and so the congregation really got their act together despite the earthquake and completed the building. In 1964, the danish congregation of st. Francis and the finnish congratulations of the church, one block away, merged and became st. Francis, naming the church after the patron saint. In the belcher street property, we have the friends of st. Francis, where 38 children are preschooled. And thats been going on for over 40 years, since the churches merged. Then the significant moment that raphael mentioned was the calling of ruth and phyllis, along with jeff johnson in 1989. And 20 years later, after a lot of work, that prohibition was overturned by our national senate. Were a small congregation. We stretch our limits in every way. We welcome all who walk through our doors. Please come and visit us to volunteer, participate in one of the programs or attend worship in our beautiful sanctuary. Bathe in the warm light of 100yearold stained glass. In the spirit of gift, giving, service, and faith of all those who have come before us in the 120 years. Thank you very much. [applause] president yee thank you. Supervisor ronen, i believe youre up. Supervisor ronen thank you. Amazing San Francisco mind troupe can come forward. [applause] hello. This is on behalf of supervisor peskin and myself, although i know supervisor peskin will want to chime in when i finish, but it is truly a privilege to honor the legendary mime troupe on their 60th anniversary. For the past 60 years, the San Francisco mime troupe has inspired, educated audiences throughs the city, across the country and around the globe with this brand of revolutionary theater. They have received local and national awards, including nomination for this years Treasure Island. And theyre studying in universities and colleges inspiring the next generation of activist artists. Mime troupe veterans including performers and writers on broadway, television and film, as well as founders of theaters like the pickle, family circus, heart beat ensemble and countless more. But more importantly for the last 60 years, the troupe has always stood for speaking truth to power. And has brought its working class analysis to the largest possible audience for a price every worker can afford. Free. The troupes began in 1959 when founding director davis staged performances in San Francisco lot of and basement. Inspired by the italian renaissance i dont know how to pronounce marketplace comedy, the troupe began their own tradition, offering shows in the park as they still do every summer. Launching their annual circus on memorial day and wrapping up the season there on labor day. Since going becoming a collective in 1970, theyve done every manner of experimental theater, drama, spy, sitcoms and cartoon acceptics. Just to clarify, the mime troupe does not do pant mime. They are bent on making you laugh, while at the same time, exposing the truth behind the issues of our time. Congratulations on a remarkable 60 years and thank you for all you do to enhance the cultural and political fabric of our city. I hope you are with us for many, many years to come. Congratulations. [applause] supervisor peskin i will only add a few brief words. Ive been around almost as long as the mime troupe and was raised on that in berkeley where i grew up and later in washington square, where you were not able to have a show because were putting in a new irrigation system, but it will be back. And beloved by the community. Youve had countless shows, all of which have been very impactful, but none morel havent to this board of supervisors than the one you did this summer on Treasure Island. This is not something you can get a dvd for, so if you missed it, youre out of luck. But it really spoke to all of the things that this city at every level has managed to ignore relative to radiological contamination and the way were treating disadvantaged people on the island. Thank you for having the guts to do that. Thank you very much. And in thanks, were going to do a short scene from Treasure Island for you. Now, the show was about, like you said, about housing and about corruption and about race and about environmental problems. All of those things, so many communities around the country and the world are facing. In this particular show, we decided to do a takeoff on Treasure Island. Only in our play, the pirates were the developers. People who sweep into every community, snatch up the gold, make promises and sail off into the sunset leaving devastated communities. Now in this particular scene were going to be doing, lizzie here. Shell be playing jill hawkins, who is the Deputy Director of housing of district 6. And she has come out to Treasure Island because shes found things, whispers about the problem about the developments out there. She runs into me. Old benny gun. A crazy old exdeveloper pilot who lives under the offramp of the bay bridge with his bats and questionable drinks ive snatched her out of the meeting and taken her back to me cave to talk to her about what really is going on. I know why youve come. Because of the pirates. Pirates . How did you know . Its where they all come, contractors, surveyors, to clear the decks. Ive seen it all before. Seen what . It wasnt like this always. Living under an offramp. I was one of them. You were a pirate. Not at first, no, no, government man i used to be. Stars in the eyes, thinking i could make things better. What was your job . Environmental protection. I was ordered to monitor the cleanup of an old navy base in Hunters Point in San Francisco. The Hunters PointNaval Shipyard . Even ive heard of that. The chemicals, the heavy metal, the radiation. I told you before, quit talking to them. I have to give them background. Thats what im here for. Sorry. Radiation. Radiation. Loads of it. Ships hot with all the nuclear in the south pacific. The families and the neighborhoods starting getting sick and we didnt tell them why. You lied to them. I was just a Deputy Director. But one night, a man came in to me cubicle and said he had information about me, said he was going to ruin me unless i signed off on test results saying everything was safe. What was the mans name . His name was flynn. The navy, they were glad to have the mess off their hands. And the city was glad to redevelop the area. What happened to the people who lived there . Asthma, cancer clusters. Oh, but those views, breath taking. And so close to downtown. But the developers, they had plans. Got the city to declare urban blight. The sick and the old. And now its just condos for rich tekkies. How would you convince anyone to move to an area that is radioactive. Easy we didnt tell them. Just like were not telling them about Treasure IslandTreasure Island. Another poisoned navy base, plutonium. There are spots on the island that will give you an hour a dose of radium five times what they get in a year