Thank you and good afternoon and welcome to the final board of supervisors meeting 2016 on comment tuesday, december 13, 2016, mr. Clerk, call the roll thank you madam president madam chair rosales not present. Supervisor president breed. Supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor campos pardon me supervisor avalos present madam president we have quorum thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Colleagues, any changes to the november 1st, 2016, board of supervisors Meeting Minutes seeing none, moved if i supervisor yee and seconded by supervisor cowen colleagues without objection without objection those Meeting Minutes pass after Public Comment. All right. Now lets go to our next item madam clerk any communications. Two to report on december 8th in receipt of a letter from mayor ed lee of his vote the shortterm rental limit of 60 days and the private right of action the board any choose to override in less than twothirds votes in favor and the thirty day falls on saturday regarding items 48 and 49 in receipt of a letter from mr. Jason chang resigning from the rec and park colleagues and madam clerk go to the next item. Yes. The special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the rescheduled january 24th. Colleagues last week the mayor communicated he will not be available to attend the Board Meeting of today and rescheduled his appearance before the board to january 24th hell take questions f from odd and even supervisors my questions or objections seeing consent agenda. Items 1 discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Resolved. Roll call vote on items supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor kim . On the content. Supervisor mar supervisor peskin there are 10 is. Okay. Those items are finally passed unanimously next item, please. Item 9 was referred without recommendation from the Budget Committee it is an ordinance to appropriate a total of 9 million of transfer tax into fiscal years for the City College Fund to support the students attending the city college and on the controllers reserve in the november 8, 2016, election. Supervisor kim. Thank you supervisor president london breed and thank you to the members of the public who are here today and before we get started if youre here in support of the appropriation to make San Francisco the first city to make this id like for you to arise today. Yeah. clapping. thank you. Thank you i want to shear some words before why the ordinance before us is too important for so many people in this this room in the 20th century our government made a choice determined a Public Education k through 12 was fundamental to our citizenry and a workable nation this is Public Education should be free and universal to everyone in the 20th century in large part because of legislature to make an extensive in Human Capital america became great im the last person to invoke the words of the president elect trump but what that means it make our country great good paying jobs require a dilemma diploma to give americans to climb got middleincome and stay there but in the loss or last thirty years innovation and temp has gone ahead of our Public Education by 20204070 of allamerican jobs require a post Training Certificate or degree and politicians are taking note of that in 2017 president obama to make king free kentucky and others have implemented Free Community college in their state Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigned on a platform that Community College should be free as calls to policymakers it is important we id like to take the opportunity examine and reexamine the tools we consider fundamental to allowing our citizens the best opportunity a fighting chance to be preview members of our society ill make the case to the board of supervisors and to the Mayors Office this should conduct making Community College free ive heard questions one i dont isnt that program tested and why should the founder of facebook go to city college for free if his or her so, so choose why subsidies his education ive heard the question why should we phase this program in and the last question to michael City College Free not required by the language i thought ill address the first yes, if ive put forward an ordinance before the board of supervisors we will now begin to test k through 12 Public Education ill be run out of the room yet why should we subsidies the public go education for the children of the founder of facebook because we believe that k through 12 is a public good one that youll have society benefits from and that we all gain when kids graduate if high school ill state a much more compelling reason why kink should be free i dont believe that a High School Diploma is enough to give individuals the tools and resources to have the opportunities to succeed in San Francisco or in this this country day and werent our president elect trump will not state carrier jobs with requires a High School Diploma, in fact, he doesnt save those jobs regardless of what we said over the last few weeks i want to talk about the the elephant in the room in the policy room of most cities nation wide thats the income and wealthy gap cities nation wide are seeing a rapidly growing gap in San Francisco we have the faster gap according to the berkley institution according our our own Human Services agency data our income gap rivals a thirdworld country and a little bit better than the country of guam the middleincome here in San Francisco is shrinking between 1990 and 2012 those make between one and 50,000 a year choose 45 percent of the population the 340 percent day and meanwhile the percentage making under 25 percentage has grown and love one hundred dollars has grown in 1970 the middleclass anti numbered the middleincome today in the country those living on the poverty line and wealthy outnumber of middleincome none can go we see this on the streets we see when we see tents lined up next to condolences with household making 200 plus thousand dollars a year not luxury the marketrate we see it when we see homeless outing outside of the quarters of goldstein we want to reverse this trend no better way than by investing in our citizens and rays the likelihood of conceding in the bay area and lets not not only increase the chances to making it to middleincome if usual struggling to stay here Higher Education is 0 not a death sentence now the students have the largest student debt it is shameful to raise and family and one day maybe a decent pension we have a legacy in San Francisco of being bold and progressive were one of the first cities to the country that marry gay couples even though it is against the law and universal health care and the first city in the country so is that all workers in San Francisco should make at the minimum 15 an hour by 2018 thats heartbreaking time here in the country for Many Americans who believe in equality trumps rise to make America Great promised discrimination is krish8 hard for many of us to swallow i think your country needs San Francisco more than ever to be the beacon of light and this sth should be investment for all of us and not just some of us and second our responsible grows because were one of the most were one of the wealthiest cities in the word that means we cant only dream up but afford to pay for them many municipalities across the country would love to do this cant afford to fan sisters for their city as we can here today so i argue that Free City College shouldnt be tested and phased in we should make that happen this year because we can i want to address the final question which is are we obligated to dedicate this for city college and a promise to the citizens i want to go over the history of the policy last december at exactly this time i transferred the drafting of an ordinance that increases our real estate luxury transfer tax and called this a share package we should assess those who have proved the most to pay a little bit more to make San Francisco for others if youre fortunate to be one of the few individuals that can sell a building of a home for 5 million or more hard to argue it is based on our sole work the reason property is to softball is because we made the city great that Everyone Wants to live and work getting the value of our property were asking you to sharing back into the city and into the community as we created that zaul to help to make the city for all of us next 4 months drafting this is how we can invest the 44 million that that revenue measure was expected to generate and supplement talking in the community and reaching out the obvious choice given the bodies with the supervisors is Affordable Housing but we passed a 360 million housing bond and labor approached our office instead of subsidizing why not put more money into the san franciscans and labor counsel on 2121 said why not make City College Freeforall san franciscans now as someone that is proud to be the author of the minimum Wage Ordinance by the way, passed 37 percent in 2014 i want to say when we talk about putting more money more than raises the minimum wage freezing minimum wage will not raise people to the middleincome that raised people out of december tuition this is not enough to survive in San Francisco but this is what we do know about city college the average Jobs Available for a graduate of city college here in San Francisco today is 11,000 more if that same individual with just a High School Diploma and so when we talk about what that invested it is truly an investment in helping people change their life circumstances i want to thank again Laborer Council 2121 for bringing this proposal to us today and emphasis everyone in this room were not asking for a handout not asking so for general fund dollars what we did we are proposing new revenue dollars we brought forth and thank you to the 10 members of the board we asked you to make it contrary that was our intention to make those dollars dedicateded to making City College Free we fought we campaigned and door knocked and phone banked for this money and didnt do that to solve the woe the city but make City College Free i keep hearing over and over the mayor is not obligated to make proposition yes not a single wood in the cost that references from the city college but didnt mean the voters didnt provide a mandate to make City College Free first of all by state law we are prktd from dedicating dollars if a real estate transfer tax we were prohibited by law if actually putting that into the language of ordinance and it is true with while there are some voters that read the ordinance before voting ill say the vast majority get their information from the ballot arguments from the official proponent and opposition argument from our newspapers to from our website and from social media the ballot statement are official proenltsd and even the official proponent argument all reference city college every website and political marital and poster referencing Free City College whether the chronicle that opposed it or endorsed it the revenue was designed to make City College Free frankly, i find this child it and a by reason of of political talk i believe that voters voted by someone to tell me the majority of voters when we were not checking off the ballot measures they especially\know that that was intended to make City College Free here today so colleagues mill asking you to do something streertd one to vote for the supplemental appropriation of 9000000 that guarantees that every san franciscan will have an opportunity to go to city college for free their recent Public High School graduates and need additional training or classes or seniors that want to take credit courses to there their skills and asking you after that vote to ask the mayor to do the same and inform appropriate the money that the voters asked to make City College Freer here today lets make San Francisco not justice the first of many things but another first, lets make San Francisco the first city to make City College Free colleagues, i ask for your support i want to thank and recognize many of the folks in the room that made in responsible and the first is 2121 and tim and calling names our laborer counsel the Charter School of ask this and all 7 trustees of the City College Board of trustees the students of university of california, San Francisco it came out to campaign so more students can join you in the fall and united educators and bobby lopez and others fro organizing this today colleagues, i want to take the opportunity for us to have a conversation here today what that means to make San Francisco great and hopefully in our leadership to make that cry great by investing in our people. clapping. thank you, supervisor kim thank you clapping. thank you thank you, everyone and to members of the public i just want to remind you that we have a board rule there are no accountable impressions allowed in the chamber we go know your enthusiastic about Free City College i ask you allow me and my colleagues to have this discussion youll please hold our applause in our interested in the support wave our hand or interested in expressing your december approval thumps down but please allow us to have this conversation. Supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor president london breed. Want to acknowledge commissioner kim weve been talking about this for months i appreciate the spirit of Free City College obviously like to see funded i have concerns about having a one up conversation about the 9 million appropriation i fully support i as i mentioned discussions around new programs in the context of our city budget i say this as the chair of Budget Committee we have to make tough convoys and while i appreciate some of the contempt we dont need to make choices the reality is not true i dont want to support one of appropriations without identified and having come forth with proposals about a plan how to fund it. And it comes to this proposal. We sit here today i dont believe that my children or parents for example, should be attending Free City College courses thats a better use of taxpayers dollars i believe we have as a city weve been meeting that the Mayors Office of budget and not only this shortfall but approximately 4 million were facing over the next two fiscal years if it the the budget we signed and voted for one of my Top Priorities as we talk about rebalboa to address homelessness that to me a fundamental rule of the City Government where our tax dollars should be going as we talk about the veto in november i see voters sent a mandate they want to address homelessness 67 percent of san franciscans vote for that priority and 61 voted for prop w i present the comments and know we have a disagreement but not buy the argument regardless of how many times voters sent a message for additional taxed he does building i want to be clear he hear daily about the need to get people off the streets and to insure were safe in our homes no by supporting this were supporting the request outside of our normal budget were making a conscious decision what i believe and consider to be vital resources and programs that our city most vulnerable dont think we have identified the sources for many of the things to get people off the streets including the forming homeless to be more sufficient look i know the votes are here we believe well be making a mistake that that said i want to acknowledge those very much appreciate our dedication. Thank you, supervisor farrell supervisor yee. Thank you supervisor president london breed ill keep my comments shorter supervisor kim. First of all, supervisor kim if you asked the question why not test k through 12 in the case of San Francisco would be prek through 12 then youll probably be asked to be the secretary of education by donald trump laught