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Supervisor mar . How important is it that diversity be on this committee . Absolutely. The majority of the veterans i serve are veterans of color, low income, disabled, housing and food insecure, Substance Abuse experience, and what im here to say if youre going to put a white dude on the panel, im the one you want. [laughter] since coming back from the military, like, you could find me when were protesting on the streets of oakland. Im eyeball to eyeball with the police. Im standing between the police and the community, inviting the tear gas and rubber bullets on me to buffer between the Viol...

15 years trying to wake youth up. Im going to talk about sam if thats ok. I currently, today, have youth on my caseload from sunny dale and the towers. And from the point and from oak dale and double rock and eddy rock, mack block, the chop, and all who hate each other. Neighborhoods who may hate each other but from my personal experience with these, every last one of them knows and respects and trusts sam. And from my conversations with sam, he knows and loves everyone of them. Imagine when a guy like this could do without being confined through the chains of our archaic system so thats all i...

Disparities that exist in the Africanamerican Community. Later on down the line, when gavin newsom served as mayor, he agreed to work with us and create a task force which produced a report that really highlighted the challenges that continue to persist in the Africanamerican Community despite changes, despite investments, the same problems that we are talking about today, were problems that were highlighted, yet there werent significant changes made. In growing up in San Francisco, i cant help but wonder, where did we go wrong . What worried the mistakes that we made, and how are we going to ...

Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 30th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my right is rules Committee Vice chair Shamann Walton and seated to my left is rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. We are joined by supervisor aaron peskin. Our clerk is linda wong, filling in for victor young. And id also like to thank jesse larson and Kalina Mendoza at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Ms. Clerk, do you have announcements . Clerk please make sure to silence cell phones. Complete th...

And your passion means a great deal and your wisdom means more. I guess the question is a request that i might have. I am confused how if we are embarking on this truly aspirational effort to identify the 4,000 homeless in San Francisco and concentration of 250 how when we find and identify them we can give them the best conveyor car best ce and service. We need to place them where they need to be placed. It seems that will not be successful that we havent analyzed the need. [please stand by] the first thing that i would say is that ive been mightily impressed how this department operates in c...