Yield my time. You. Lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello caller, are you with us . Ladies and gentlemen of the board, good evening. I stand before you today to discuss a issue that effects each and every resident of our community. The state of our Public Transit system. As our cities grow, so does the need for reliable efficient and sustainable transit network. Lets talk about accessible. Currently many areas are under served by Public Transit forcing to rely on personal vehicles. This not exacerbates transferic but also limits opportunity for those who cannot afford a car. We must expand our bus and train routes to reach these areas and offer more frequent service, especially during peak hours. Secondly, affordability is a concern. High fares discourage from using Public Transit. I propose we explore options for subsidized fares for low income families, student, senior and most importantly immigrants. We need to purchase as many cattle cars a we can andback to home land to run can we cut that caller off, please . Can we hear from our next caller, please . Caller, are you with us . Welcome, caller. Perhaps that is unattended line. Next call. Welcome caller. Are you with us . Good afternoon. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Welcome. How much time do we get . Setting the timer for two minutes. Okay. Thank you. Good afternoon board of supervisors. Gilbert, district 8. I want to show my support for supervisor dean preston and his legislation to have no turn on left and hopefully no turn on right neither. He is a transit first supervisor that supports transit riders and transit in the city and we need his support for this legislation. I hope other supervisors will follow along so that [indiscernible] safe in the city. Muni only cares about fare hikes and service cuts. We need a Transit System that works and not a dysfunction at muni. Also, disappointed that billion airs like elon musk are putting bounties on supervisor heads and [indiscernible] interfere with our elections. This is what happens when billion airs and million airs run rampant in the city and have control over code and now corporations are writing their own traffic codes in the city. We need a city that works for transit for everybody. Not the super rich. Thank you. Thank you gilbert for your comments. Lets hear from our next caller, please. Welcome. Supervisors, yes, hello, mr. Decosta, please continue. It is a little confusing today. Okay. You have heard that the mothers ask you all for help because their children have been killed. You have heard the taxi drivers plead their case. What i see more and more when i listen to you all is that you have no empathy. Have some empathy on those who are suffering. Thats all i got to tell you all in the two minutes you have given me. This city has lost its conscious. Have empathy on those who ask for help. Thank you very much. Thank you mr. Decosta for your comments. Alright. Lets go to our next caller, please. Yeah, hello. Hope im coming through. How long do i have . Two minutes. Okay. Good. General comment. I can talk about whatever . Generally, yes. Ill start your timer now. Good. This is within the purview of your group because i will talk about the double standard and discrimination used against white people. Also talking about your algebra on discussion. I think it is important we teach math early because these kids are learning math way too slow to be competitive. It is bad enough that they are livering in that city filled with these type of influences like the people who have been calling. I guess you can say words likebut you cant say the yiddish word for circle which is [indiscernible] and somebody said that and you cut them off. This is the reason why the jews were called that is because when they came into ellis island they put a x on their hand. Hold an second, please. What i talk about is discrimination against white people well go to the next caller. Welcome. Hello, my name is bandy, a Public School parent and sorry is the comments people have had to hear but it doesnt surprise me this is coming from our proponents as 8 grade algebra. Our kidsi am a parent of a middle school child and i see the curriculum. Sfusd revamped the courses so kids are learning algebra in kindergarten and i wish that you supervisors would talk to supervisor walton who had experience working in our Public Schools and also 8 years as a board of education and as the president. This has been a very successful curriculum for our students, a lot of schools around the United States want to copy it, and we dont need to take the district back. This is essentially a segregationest policy which seg greats many of our children with learning disabilities into different classes instead of learning side by side with their peers. This has againi really appreciate all the work from our teachers and think this is disrespectful of math teachers, many have seen the benefits. I dont see any teachers here and think this is so disrespectful to create the legislation without our Math Department involved. This is just a many examples we have seen of teachers disrespected in the United States. We saw this with the recall and if you care about numbers we had teachers who because of the superintendent chosen by our prorecall school board, we have teachers who have not even gotten paid because we have unfortunately an administration that not for the last year and a half been able to figure out their pay roll. I dont really think that our prorecall folks are the people to look to when it comes to matters of education. Thank you for your comments. Lets go to our next caller, please. Hey community. San francisco. Lets run through the numbers here. Last month there were 84 fentanyl overdoses. Approximately 3500 plus deaths since 2017. More then 911. More then the 06 earthquake and more then u. S. Military loss in afghanistan. 2023, there has been 40 homicide, 165 rapes, over 2,000 robberies, over 1700 assaults and 5,000 over 5,000 Motor Vehicle threfts so this is a concerning issue. [indiscernible] scared to confront these matters. The Supreme Court ruled about [indiscernible] through the Second Amendment so the state of california due for many lawsuits with the recent legislation and people should not be grand standing on the [indiscernible] ronan is always grandstanding, saying these 4 people. It has been going on 6, 7 years now so nobody did anything about it and nobody was bouncing off the walls back then. You cant [indiscernible] fix it now. Just give your keys. With regards to algebra, anything and everything could be learned online. Kids can go to little einstein. In the 5 grade they can learn algebra online. Internet offers a wealth of learning for languages, spanish, and any language you wish to learn. Finally, with regards to the upcoming election, no should be grand standing again on all their issues that they have outstanding. We hear so much grand standing and quite frankly dan [indiscernible] should be mayor tomorrow. [indiscernible] she wants welfare recipients to have drug testing. That should begin with her and the whole board. All is a lot of really really lets hear from our next caller, please. Hello. Good afternoon. This is barry toronto, calling because i had a experience the other night that raised issues that ought to be addressed sooner then later. I picked up a couple in a taxi from the opera house and took Market Street down and as we were passing 7 and market, they asked me were appalled what they say there at 7 and market. The outdoor fencing operation going on and hundreds of people gathered for whatever reason. It is not a good image for San Francisco. And then, we see stories about people whositeps are stolen and brought to San Francisco for selling other people who would sell to other people. There is a law that says possession of stolen items is against the law, but the problem is why isnt it being enforced . The camera equipment was told there was athat the 300 blog of leavenworth is a major fencing operation but why dont do they anything about it and let it stand . Yes, there are tents and some of the people [indiscernible] but there is also criminal activity going on under those tents. Why it is not important issue and why is that allowed to become the image of San Francisco . Tourism is down. Businesses that rely on tourism are having to go out of business or take less money or become impover rshed including the taxi industry which relies on the tourism industry, especially the people working the airport. There isnt as much business at the airport. I beg of you to work with the police or urge the police to do something about these criminal activities going on in the streets and still have compassion for the homeless. Some may be criminals. Thank you very much for your time and i appreciate you taking this one seriously, otherwise San Francisco will continue to be in decline, especially as a tourist thank you for your comments. We have 5 callers who are line up, but if you want to speak you should press star 3. There are two callers in the queue and will take the last group to the end. Lets hear from our next caller. Welcome caller. Can you hear me . Yes. My name is [indiscernible] and just wanted to touch on the topic of reparations since i heard a few people bring that up earlier. I just dont feel like right [indiscernible] should have to pay reparations when [indiscernible] next caller, please. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Okay. I just wanted to address that as well. The environmentlets be clear, i fought to have unlimited remote Public Comment. I will be introducing a change to the board rules. It isthis will be done. Aint going to happen in this chambers in this city, it is over. Next speaker, you are going to be one of the last remote public speakers we will have. Go ahead. Mr. President , that was the last caller in the queue. Public comment is closed. Madam clerk, if you please prepare that change to the board rules and if you would read the adoption without Committee Reference calendar. Noted mr. President. Item 2728 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. Unanimous vote is reeured for resolution on First Reading today. Any supervisor may require a resolution on First Reading to go to committee. Supervisor walton. Please sever item 28. Item 27, same house same call, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please read item 28. Item 28, this is a resolution to accept the final San Francisco reparations plan of the African AmericanReparations Advisory Committee. Thank you. Colleagues and public, i want to reiterate my thanks, including allies, my team in district 10 office and all of you for the dedicated work on achieving reparations here in San Francisco. This resolution to approve the final reparations plan from the African AmericanReparations Advisory Committee further solidifys commitment to reparations. As we work to get office of reparation up and running our commitment to this work is imperative. Thank cosponsors supervisor ronan, preston, peskin, chan, mandelman, melgar, safai and dorsey. Thank you. Supervisor melgar. Thank you president peskin. I just are wanted to say thank you to the Reparations Committee for all their hard work, but also just taking so much abuse and toxicity for doing a really good job and doing exactly what we asked them to. I also want to say particularly thanks to my colleague supervisor walton for his grace and elegance through this process and his leadership. Through what has proven to be an unacceptable level of just viteral over accepting a report of something that we asked a group of citizens to do on their volunteer time unpaid. I wanted towe are talking about math, a lot this meeting, i want to do a little math because i have gotten a lot of emails and correspondence about this resolution. I just want to remind us going back into San Francisco history in 1957 San Francisco was able to woo the giants from new york to go into the new stadium, and their star Center Fielder willie mays and wife started looking for a house in my district, district 7 and they put a offer down on a house that was 75 mara loma drive which is in sherwood forest, and [indiscernible] there was tremendous pressure put on the owner of that house to not sell to a negro family. It was front page paper. Mayor christopher got involved and tried to get folks to calm down. He offered a bedroom in his house for willie mays family, which they turned down and they eventually found a house, but if you do the math, that house was listed in 1957 for 37 thousand. That is how much a house cost then. That house today on zil low between 2. 7 and 3. 12 million. That is how much the house is worth. Had that family been able to purchase that house they would have paid it off in around 1978 if they got a 30 year mortgage, which means that for 6 decades that family would have either had no mortgage or been accruing rental income from that house. You do the math of what that opportunity denied by the Structural Racism in our city in our city, not going back to anywhere farther then 1957 then you can see how we can arrive to a number like what was in the report, which was only one of the many many recommendations, but for whatever reason the one people fixated on. For that, i wholeheartedly support this resolution and thank the efforts and it is only the First Step Towards a very long road of apologies and reparations which we as a city owe our black community. Thank you. Thank you supervisor melgar. Supervisor stefani. I want to make sure im added as a cosponsor. Shall be noted. On the resolution, same house same call, the resolution is adopted and that brings us to conclusion of our agenda. Madam clerk, would you please read the in memoria . Today meelting is adjourned in memory of is the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor president peskin, for the late mr. Oden schreder. On bemalf of supervisor walton, raynard hillis and francis ho. We are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] and also had an effect. You have been a mentor to many of us in the department, and it extends even past this department. They would always at the me this, johanna a told me this. Whatever you do in your future endeavor, i hope that you will stay in touch with us. Thank you for your contribution for this city and for the environment. Thank you for everything you have done for this city and for the [ applause ] thank you. Thank you all. Thanks for those wonderful words. Im really touched by what you have said and its a good thing i have my notes. First, can i have more than three minutes . Yeah. [ laughter ] its a first time i have been on this side before this body. Serving on the San FranciscoEnvironment Commission for all of these years has been an extraordinary experience for me. Im grateful to all the mayors who appointed and reappointed me from mayor brown to mayor breed. Im grateful to the commission secretary, monica fish, Anthony Valdes and kyle with whom i have worked over the years. With infinite patience, monica taught me how to have a policy Committee Meeting that was in compliance with San Franciscos complicated rules with great good humor anthony kept me on track for a couple of years, and with kyle help solve all of those myriad technological problems for the commission and the policy Committee Even before the pandemic. Im grateful to all the Commission Members with whom i have served over the years including becky evans who is here and whose seat i took. You all have made significant and unique contributions to the work of the commission and the department and it was an absolute pleasure for me to serve alongside of you. Im grateful to the executive directors who i got to work with and learn from over the years. Gerald blumenfield and betty and kyle. When the department was still relatively new and much smaller than it is now, jared put the department on the map, literally in San Francisco and way beyond with his bold ideas and unwavering determination to bring them to light. Debbie created a culture of excellence and collaboration across the department and forged strong and effective bonds across city agencies facilitating the huge number of substantive accomplishments during her tenure. And tyrone, he inherited a department in turmoil and quickly and effectively moved to raise staff morale and then succeed to get significant funds from the city for the first time ever, not once, but twice. What truly exceptional leaders these people have been and what a privilege its been for me to have a ringside seat as i watched the department grow and mature and change under their leadership. Last but by no means least, im grateful to the department. The dedicated talented, committed and very able people from my time on the commission have worked so tirelessly and so hard for me and for the city of San Francisco and their hard work dealing with issues across california and the nation and the lead of the world. The accomplishments over the years i have served on this commission is awe inspiring and the host of landmark measures like the plastic water bottles, the pharmaceuticals legislation and cnd ordinance and amendments and Climate Change to name just a few. As many of you have heard me say many times, all of us who live and work in this city are so lucky that we have everyone in the Department Working on our behal