Spare other queer kids from the rejection that he faced. Tom met jerry in 1972, which hao whomhood build a life together. The two would marry in october 2013 in a public block partystyle wedding. Tom was diagnosed with h. I. V. In 1983, a death sentence at the time as little was known about the virus that was killing gay men by the thousands. Tom far outlived his diagnosis and over the decades he and jerry donated time, money and loving support to countless causes and organizations. They founded the Diversity Foundation which for years has been the quiet caretaker of the rainbow flag. And tom gave countless houring to secure lighting for this most iconic installation of gilberts flag. Tom and jerry maintained and lovingly cared for the hundreds of the rain bow flags that line the street. And yet as recalled in a recent bay area reporter column about toms life, few people knew how much work tom put into caring for these beloved and internationally recognized symbols of queer equality. But that was the kind of person that tom was, devoted to bringing joy and hope to others and never seeking recognition for himself. He was a city treasure and San Francisco will miss him dearly. Rest in power, tom taylor, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. Mr. President , id like to be add as a cosponsor to the in memoriam. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, i want to say that im proud to cosponsor president yees resolution to reduce vehicle speeds in our city. Much has been said about the streets program, which doesnt actually require any changes to the vehicle speeds. But in a city every residential street should be a slow street. I dont mean that we should take cars off every road, with a Million People in 49 square miles, every residential street should be slow enough to be safe for all of us. To achieve vision zero, this must be a priority and theres far more work that we could we can and should do on a local and a state level. And this resolution is one important step forward. And im deeply grateful to president youre fo yee for hisp on this truly life and death issue. And today i have a resolution to a fossilfree future for california. As we reckon with the Public Health and peculia and economicf covid19 and racial injustice, we cannot lose sight of the scope and scale of our climate crisis. In fact, Climate Justice is a Public Health issue and an Economic Justice issue and a Racial Justice issue. Last year under the leadership of supervisor mandelman, this body declared a climate state of emergency and yet california continues to frack. We call ourselves climate leaders and yet the state continues to extract nearly 200 Million Barrels of oil every year. In over 250 billion cubic feet of natural gas. This is, frankly, climate denialism. Existing fossil fuel production alone will push the globe past degrees of warming and into a world that will displace more than a billion people and result in Food Insecurity worldwide. We are already in a climate crisis. And we see it with our rising seas and our raging fires. To have any hope of a livable future, we have to leave fossil fuels in the ground. So the resolution that i introduce today urges governor newsome and the California State Legislature to dispermit permitting for fossil fuel, or petrochemical projects in california. To set california on a path to drop the existing Oil Production in line with the paris climate goals. And with a just and equitable transition that protects workers and economies. And to require a 2,500foot health and safety buffer between fossil fuel infrastructure and homes, schools and other sensitive sites. California cannot be a true climate leader without addressing the dirty oil and Gas Production within our borders. Our survival as a city and a species demands nothing less. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Miss calvillo, can you do me the kindness of posting the picture that i sent you earlier of mr. Taylor, please. Clerk yes, ill have brent in operations to show that now. Supervisor peskin so i am so deeply saddened that yesterday the one and only bubba taylor, the many decades dean of the City Hall Press corps passed away. And many of us are going through it right now, her family, of course, for which, mark, i am so very sorry. Her city hall friends who range from mayors, and to lily brown to my former colleague, and to our clerk miss calvillo. And some of her dearest friends, former supervisor dufty, and Rachel Gordon, who has been a fellow member of the press corp with barbara and now a city official in her own right. And my chief of staff sonny angulo who worked with her and im going to now reveal something that barbara swore me to secrecy about. Barbara was a secret weapon in my 2015 campaign. Generations at city hall, press officers like p. J. Johnson who helped me to craft these comments this evening, and many others were her dear friends. And were all so sorry and loved her and her vivacious spirit and professionalism so much. Barbara began her career in broadcasting in san diego before coming to city of San Francisco in the year 1975 to kcbs radio, where she eventually moved on onair work. And in her more than 40 years at kcbs, she covered politics, elections, city hall happenings, and was n known as the great dae of the City Hall Press room which, colleagues, i will introduce a resolution to rename the Unnamed Press room in Barbara Taylors name and honor. She was the kcbs City Hall Bureau chief for three decades before she retired in 2015. She covered every major news event with San Francisco government for four decades, including the assassinations of then mayor mosconi and the supervisor in 1978. And the coverage of the shocking deaths was immortalized in the academyaward winning film that was filmed here in part, mlk. She also coaltogetheauthored n for many years and was the longtime on camera host of city desk where i appeared any number of times which was a weekly televised roundtable of reporters that provided the behindthescenes insights into the happenings at city hall. And she also served for many years as the voice sunday afternoon as the anchor at kcbs radio where i was known to call in a time or two. She never took no or too busy for an answer. Not from a politician, not from a member of our citizenry. She was just remarkable. And for those of you who knew her, she was both the conscience of this building and truly one of its unsung heroes. And thank you p. J. , ill give you a few highlights. She sparred with willie brown at his tuesday press conferences, generating countless kcbs reports from city hall that drove p. J. Crazy. And while conducting a live interview during a hotly contested Election Night she famously got right up on a table with mayor brown, who had jumped on the same table and was screaming and dancing as the numbers came in and continued the interview. I do believe that it was over the the 49ers ballpark, which all went down the drain. And her dog tanner, which many of us knew, that she brought to city hall every day, even though then city administrator bill lee tried to banish that dog from city hall, was actually and im not making this up eventually given a press pass by mayor brown. When mayor newsome came around she always began her questions with, well, mayor newsome, thats all well and good, and then would just nail him with a bunch of sharp and insightful and tough questions and, you know, then he became governor. When the olympic torch was secreted through the city and nobody and that would be literally nobody, and i was the president of the board at the time knew where it was. Not mayor newsome, and the route was changed, Barbara Taylor, who rarely left city hall because she was always with her dog, tanner, flew out of the building and chased the torch down and actually found it. Whether dealing with politicians, special interests, regular people, or dealing with no offense p. R. Flacks who got their com comeuppance, barbara had a no bullshit meter and could not be spun. She taught and counseled her fellow colleagues about kindness, and while keeping her integrity as a journalist and never taking cheap shots, she taught other people who came into the press corp about the power of the press in ways that were profoundly meaningful. And most of those folks learned those lessons, a few of them didnt. And at some point i might even reveal the name of the Chronicle Reporter who did not take her lessons. Her journalist colleagues have described her as tenacious, professional, and most importantly, as so human. And barbara was a longtime resident of the castro district, with a sprawling and dedicated group of friends. She got in a car accident about a year and a half ago and would not let me visit her, but i want to salute Rachel Gordon and those who visited her after that car accident. She is survived by her adoring husband, mark naper and her stepchildren, and as we are perhaps our hearts go out to mark. He has lost a partner and a best friend. And the City Attorney requested to be add to this in memoriam. Id like to be add to and the to the resolution. Clerk okay. Clerks office will make that happen. President yee i would like to see it come to the full board. Thank you. Clerk okay. Supervisor peskin im not done with dead people, mr. President. Clerk okay president yee lets go. Supervisor peskin diane deprama, who i knew who was a poet laureate of San Francisco, born in 1934, passed away on sunday at the age of 86, a poet, writer, activist, remarkable human being, pioneering women and leading feminist voice of the beat generation. Diane bridged and transcended generations in her journey to live and to tell her poetry and authentic life. Born in brooklyn, she began writing early in her childhood and eventually the smartest people drop out of college moved to grenwich village and there became involved with the beats in the early 1960s. She came to San Francisco, i think at the age when i was 4 years old, and she lived here mostly of the remainder of her life, except for a few times when she went other places. She got involved with the diggers, if any of you folks remember that history, a group of anticapitalist activists who handed out free food in the community. She wrote more than 40 books of poetry and a memoir that dealt with politics, community, love, and sex. And at the press conference where she was named the fifth poet laureate of the city and county of San Francisco about 11 years ago she told the crowd that her deepest service was to poetry and to humans. She was a true visionary, totally a rebel, and the sort of which i think that many of us hope that will take root in this community after the pandemic. And she is survived by her five children, jean, dominique, and alex, tara and rudy. I have one piece of Public Policy to submit, which is a request for the City Attorney to draft an ordinance that would subject the Community Benefit districts and our one Business Improvement district to the same Good Government standards that the city departments and other public offices exist under. Earlier this year it came to light that the security cameras owned and operated by the union square b. I. D. Add allegedly, air quotes, this to the actively surveill the peaceful protesters. And i dont think we need to point fingers at those allegations, but i think that we should as supervisor ronen did in her capacity as a commissioner of the transportation authority, have the alter ego of San Francisco and one b. I. D. To live under our own local laws. So im going to ask the City Attorney to draft that. And with that, mr. President , i am done. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor preston. Supervisor preston submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen im sorry. I submit. Clerk okay. Supervisor safai. Supervisor safai submit. Clerk okay. Thank you. And supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, we have all seen the recent reporting in the chronicle outlining californias struggle with drug addiction and, quite frankly, we do not have to read it in the chronicle, we see it every day on the streets. And the citys failure to address this problem effectively. According to an article, between january 1august 3 , 468 people died of an overdose in San Francisco. That means this year alone we have lost nearly two people to drug overdoses on our streets every single day. Those suffering on our streets are someones son or daughter, father, or mother or partner, or brother or sister. They are suffering from the disease of addiction, a disease so cunning and baffling and powerful that it takes some to depths of despair that are unfathomable to many. Addictions does not discriminate and no one is immune. Those sufferin suffering on ours and in danger of overdose are dying in record numbers due to the type of drugs out there, the easy availability of those drugs, and the lack of paths towards recovery. The consequence of addiction can be seen all over San Francisco. This is clearly apparent in our parks, our sidewalks and our alley ways. And children and families have to navigate around those suffering on our streets. We hear about needles all the time. Small Business Owners struggling to keep their shops open amid covid19 need to contend with the effects of the drug epidemic and not just during this pandemic. This issue is personal for me too. My brother has long struggled with addiction. I have talked about that before and several members of my family, and i have seen firsthand the tremendous pain that the disease of addiction afflicts on those who are suffering from it and their families and everyone around them. My mom is also a nurse who worked in and ran a Recovery Center in merced and i have seen firsthand what recovery can do for people. Overdose is an acutely human problem and so its disappointing that San Francisco has not found a way to confront it. And with the condition on our street and indeed, the human toll of this disease worsens, we have got to figure this out. And we have to do better. Over the past year, i have been working with the Reentry Division of the Adult Probation Department, the services center, also known as casck, and our residents in recover tow chart a path forward. In 2018, the entry Entry Division of the Adult Probation Department in partnership with the senior exoffender program and ucfs citywide launched San Franciscos first ever recovery summit. A forum to discuss the addiction realities and the recovery challenges in San Francisco. What has become clear to me is that for many who have suffered from addiction, in addition to Harm Reduction strategies, abstinencebased treatment, which includes 12step programs and therapeutic communities and faithbased programs and behavioral modification programs all need to be considered when addressing addictions. On thursday, october 22nd, the Summit Working Group prohibited their findings to the reentry council. Which is comprised of 24 members, including 12 city departments and the Mayors Office and the board of supervisors and the seven formally incarcerated individuals and the state and federal probation. And they heard from 20 participants in the working group that shared their experience with addiction and shared their recovery. At the conclusion of the presentation, the Council Voted unanimously to support the working groups treatment and addiction responses to the city and county of San Francisco. Today i am calling for a hearing where we will receive reports from the recovery Summit Working Group, the department of Public Health and more to ensure that San Francisco makes a full spectrum of Treatment Options available. We will also hear from those who are in recovery, what worked for them and how to learn from their experience. I have heard Success Stories from all across our city, and we must listen to those with experience with addiction as we try to address this crisis. People that cant imagine living life without their drug of choice should have the opportunity to hear from others who once felt that same way but were able to get clean and sober. We need to know all of the options to address their addictions. Many people in their addiction dont want to continue to hurt themselves. They dont want to continue to hurt their family. They dont want to continue to hurt others. But they have no way out. If we do not show them what is possible. Right now there are thousands of people in San Francis