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SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 71916 July 22, 2016

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. Colleagues, any colleagues to the june 23r7b 2016 Board Meeting minutes our the june special Budget Committee minutes seeing none, is there a motion to approve motioned by supervisor campos and seconded by before i supervisor tang can we take that without objection . Without objection will pass after Public Comment madam clerk is the next order of business is the special order of mayors appearance before the board by the honorable mayor ed lee there being no questions submitted from supervisors the mayor any address the board up to 5 minutes. Thank you, mr. Mayor for being here. Thank you supervisor president london breed and good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public id like to begin todays question time session with a moment of silence for the brave and fallen officers of baton rouge and to reflect on the senseless violence around the world and to here at home to people in minnesota and to people in louisiana as well please join me in that moment of silence. Snshgs jchlt silence. Ill take a moment to discuss the issues closer to home in the past 5 years weve had before progress on some of the perplexing issues employments and homeless and tax and pension and budget reform we have done this through consensus and common sense Decision Making and setting policies setting politics for better policy and better government and for a better city we have another opportunity now to keep this progress going and you have many decisions to make today supervisors on the budget revenue measures and the structural of our government. Those conversations have tough people have strong opinions and disagreement is healthy with that building is home to 9 service the democratic debates of our times and the products of those debates for the most part for the last 5 years have been good for the city and all the people at the end of the debates we joined in the best interests of San Francisco we have responsibility to do that again on the issues of housing the homeless and making the streets safer and investing in munch ii hope well choose the path that move forward a world and nation and a city too often divided we owe to the residents to come together and act i can you have a long agenda supervisors ill keep my comments short thank you, very much. Excuse me well have order in the chamber or recess the month ago and continue at a later on madam clerk go to the next item also items 1 through 5 content constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests and roll call vote. On the comments agenda one through 5 supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen there are 11 is. Those items are finally passed unanimously next speaker, please. Next item 24r06 29 madam president. Yes. Are called together items 6 and 7 the proposed consolidated budget and an appropriation ordinance for the estimated expenditure for the city and county of San Francisco as of may 2016 and item 7 the proposed annual salary ordinance for the annual budget and an appropriation ordinance for fiscal year june 20172018 and the resolution to approve the budget of the Treasure Island Transportation Authority for the fiscal years 16 through 5 to 6 and the fiscal year 20162017 of the office of Economic Workforce Development and approving the issuance of a bond principle monument not to exceed one and 85 Mental Illness and 10 through 29 the resolutions the company and the departments budget and item 10 the beautification and graffiti fund tax and designating the ceiling for 2016 and 11 for the administrative code to modify the code to maintain the memberships in professional strayed and other organizations and item 12 ordinance for the Planning Department and administrative code to adopt the fee amount for the Planning Department to set the fees for annual adjustment and item 13 the ordinance. Excuse me angela if youre existing the chamber please do so quietly we have business to conduct continuing with item 13 other than ordinance for the administrative codes for the District Attorney neighborhood just fund and authorize of District Attorney to have the disbursement of money for the neighborhood courts Promissory Note Program and all penalties and fines for previously deposited in the support funded in the justice fund item 14 ordinance for the administrative code to expend the authorization of director of health and safety to enter into the contracts for the provision of services to individuals covered through federal programs and item 15 to amend did health care for patient rates provided by the department of Health Please notes it requires 9 votes for the chapter section and item 16 an ordinance for the administrative code to sdriel statutory Adult Programs for the intelligent aid and item 17 ordinances for the fire code for the Fire Department overflow room fee from one and 33 per hour to one and 34. 18 for the administrative code to expose the debit and credit cards item 19 and 20 that concur with the controllers private contractor for a low costs for work by the city and county employees for specific Services Item 21 a resolution designating muni services, llc as the city and county of San Francisco authorized representative in sales and used tax for the examination and krirg with the controllers establishment of the customer price index for 2016 and a adjudicate it by the same rate and if a resolution authorizing the acceptance and expenditure by the department of health for 20162017. Item 24 resolution to retrofitting authorize the department of health to accept and expelled a grant for the San Francisco foundation for the sfoep hope sf and item 25 a resolution authorizing the Human Services to withdraw from the statewide finger imaging for purposes of administering the Adult Program and item 26 to authorize the execution and purchase of a Sale Agreement for Real Properties on 440 turk street for 5 million. Excuse me for members of the public can we please ask the public to enter and exit the chamber quietly we can here were here to conduct business and cant do so if there is a lot of noise so, please exit and entering chamber quietly thank you very much for your corporations. Just 3 more items item 27 to approve the fiscal years 16 through 2018 for the department of homelessness and housing fund for the fourpoint transfer to the general fund from the Municipal Transportation Agency for deputies and overpayment by the city so for parking and violations in the 18 period of between january 1st, 1994, and 2012 and item 29 is a motion to impact a 5 percent cost of living adjustment to the 20162017 contract mainstream for budget and Analyst Services to be effective july 1st, 2016, thank you madam president. Thank you, ann la before we get into a discussion with radishes to the budget im going to call on supervisor avalos in order to do a special accommodation at this time. Thank you supervisor president london breed i appreciate how accommodating this time to do an in memoriam a special in memoriam and supervisor kim last wants to take part in this as well well, id like to call up friends and family of jose dell la cruise come to the podium this is an memorial jose was a young man who i got to know over the years he was actually a Campaign Worker for my Citywide Campaign 2, 3, 42011 and actually going over his bio i realized that he was part of actions that i took part 2003 during the justice for janitor bay area with the marketrate contract in palo alto a march and sfmta students that took place and jose was there at this point this was quite a blow for a lot of people jose was a beautiful soul and really a Strong Community around him people are involved in labor and Community Organizing and were all very confused about really how we lost him ill read the bio jose was born on february 21, 1983, in mexican city and attended sfmta and graduated in 2010 awhile at sfmta organizing around campus labor with the seiu and ultimately was San Francisco it was in San Francisco especially with itself workers and renters and immigrant that came to benefit from his skills and dedication as an organizer and deep commitment to social justice jose was a long term resident an active part of emigrated rights and Labor Movement he served as a organizer with the tenderloin and sro collaborative and other organizations he worked on countless efforts for the city stock campaigns to protect tenants against evictions, he received an award for housing justice from the Harvey Milk Club in 2008, jose ran a no borders came in 2007 that helped the immigrant at the board he worked on the campaign to prevent discriminations against censors and transand moved the needles on the approach to lgbtq politics notedly by organizing the diner in 2008, jose was a person who always reimaged border political and spiritual his vulnerable to shake with those and impressed those who had the privilege of knowing him he had a unique laugh and sense of belonging humor we were his heart on his sleeves and showed up in solidify outlet expect nothing in return jose posed visionary ideas and combotdz both wonder and grace as he went about enacting them he was loved by many friends and community for this and admired for the contributions to his communicated and the many causes he fought for across the city people remember him for the picket lines and city disobedience and his dedication to movement for justice was deepened and embedded in the streets of this city jose was always outspoken of the director for building a more just city today, we stand here and committing commit to keeping his memory and celebrating the intelligent and beautiful soul that was jose we know that jose recent passing has been devastating and comes on the heels of loss of life of queer latins after the Violent Attacks in ordinarily we wish to extend our solidify it to his families from the Palms Spring Police Department a thorough investigation of his passing we extend our solidity to our regret and gratitude to his mother and cable car de la cruz and his friends and the many communities we fought for alongside the family is also looking for support not just in expenses for funerals but for the investigation of jose pga and the family has a go fund me account a www. Go fund me. Com slash jose dot pound i know that commenting has comments she wants to share and a Community Members from joses family and friends here we want to insure they have a chance to make comments as well supervisor kim thank you Supervisor John Avalos for reading the boards word and sending the condolence to the friend we know jose well, i on the one thing that we often say about him is that he was criminally u incredibly bright and smarter or smart and loving people say often they talk about the under representation of the vote in the tenderloin but as someone that is door knocks on many doors i can say that i have not door knocked on a neighborhood that is more knowledgeable about the interworkings the city hall and the divided of the policies before the board at the time of the running it a cohort of residents wellinformed with would when a is at stake locally and policy making and huge part of how that is because of the sro Collaborative Program that organizing program is not just in the tenderloin or the south of market and the chinatown and mission is huge part of justice and important policies here in San Francisco that elevated our communities and fought more Affordable Housing and protection and defense amongst the priorities we see that we fight for every year in the budget process were voting on today jose is one of the main organizers in the institution that worked so hard to increase the universe of residents engaged in how we determine and spend the taxpayer dollars another city hall i think in many ways we dont have words to express the loss i have a hard time building hes not coming back but i want to give my thoughts to his family and mother and brothers so many that worked with him and got to be part of his life we miss you jose and hope to honor and continue your work and leadership and passion but to also really say how important to the family to transit to the good fund to get to the bottom of his disappearance and death but jose thank you for everything you gave to us and continue on in the work. Anyone from the family want to have a couple of words not necessary. Thank you supervisor avalos and supervisor kim you know it is a great tested time with the Diverse Group of folks and testimony to the soul and the ability to brought people together and touched a lot of folks we stand here and grief with yolanda and his family and saddened but remember him and keep his memory alive jose. Madam president if i may be added. Supervisor campos has comments. Just want to be added my name to the in memoriam i honestly dont have the words to say as jose. Thank you supervisor campos. If anyone else wants to speak okay. Thank you. Thank you all so much more being here today clapping. so we have two additional accommodations and at this time id like to recognize supervisor campos thank you madam president it is an honor for me to call upon i dont know if she is here to read the parts terry have you here he want to take advantage to recognize the work that teresa sparks has done as she transitioned from her prior role those the executive director of the Human Rights Commission to the mayors Senior Advisor in other issues from my preserve you look at the work ive served with teresa prior to elected supervisor on the San Francisco Police Commission but the role in advancing the rights and interests not only of all communities but especially the Lgbt Community makes her one of the most important leaders we have as director of the Human Rights Commission shows helped to insure our city tackles the problems with the trained and served often the day of remembrance in the late 90s and the travrns march and past president of the San Francisco positioning and was the ceo of the sex positive shop of vibrations and lead the outreach with respect to various communities and went to kansas state you thought and studied Mechanical Engineering and start up successful and had wastewater and services and alternate fuels and recycle and append two techniques during this time i dont know if i know anyone it ever had a patent so that is very impressive if you look at the accomplishments on a very personal note from me what has impressed me about teresa her personal dedication to the Transgenders Community when you been the communities disfranchised within San Francisco the Transgender Community is at the top of the list it you look at places like the mission you have many disenfranchised people that the transgender within the mission is the target of violence and oppression from other members of that Larger Community ive been proud to be a partner and helping teresas work moved in advancing the interests of Transgender Community and thank you for the opportunity as she transitions into her new role to say on behalf of the thousands of transgender men and women who have bend from her advocacy thank you were now where we need to be and San Francisco as of today is the leading voice when that comes the transgender rights not only in the state but in the nation this is because of teresa sparks thank you teresa thank you for all your hard work. Thank you supervisor campos it is meeting to be honored by this board particularly i think over the seven years in the human right commission and 5 years in the positioning i think ive worked with every one of you and you mean policy is not made by departments made by supervisors and so i need to also thank you i dont want to go through i think i could go through and name you what i worked on with but want to point out that one particular supervisor ive worked with for a much longer i worked with supervisor peskin in one point owe instrumental to have me appointed to the positioning and absent that in tom ammiano efforts i wouldnt have been involved with those activities so certainly thank him for his ongoing support and supervisor campos i have to say has been an ally and friend as long as going back before the positioning and we fought like dogs on the positioni

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