than 30,000 dead. in addition to thousands of wounded .sts, journalists speaker time has elapsed. thank you and i'm an educator. i'm in full support of the original resolution. and i think that anyone who is actually aware of what a 100 year old apartheid means would not even complicate, would not even bring this derailment. ihere understands why the us is continuing to aid this genocide. you understand, my little sisters and brothers understand. and i promise that my students will understand say that more people, especially in my age, are realizing the importance of local politics. so all due respect, if you want to resolution. i refuse to condemn the military branch of hamas. i refuse to condemn the children of apartheid and a

century of violence. so many people had died. i'v from martyrs just days before they're murdered. and i don't understand. you can do more. please do this. mr. safire. i know you're still. urge you to vote with your heart. do dorsey, you. you should be ashamed i hope you hate yourself for bringing those resolutions. the amendments up. i really hope you d. speaker time has elapsed. but before before the next speaker. there's a lot of people in the room that have just come in here for the first time. you cannot address your comments to any of us. it has to be directed to the entire body and please refrain from clapping it slows the process down. people have been waiting for hours to speak. you can do this with your hands and if you don't like something, you can do a thumbs down. try to remain respectful. thank you.

on. please proceed. my name is asia. i'm a worker and resident of district 11, the excelsior district of san francisco. coming from a community that is made up of black and brown working class folks, migrant and immigrant groups that are the backbone of this city. we are begging you to please listen to want to emphasize that this should not be complicated. this is not complex . this is simply the zionist state of israel committing genocide of the palestinian people. and we must do all we can to reach a permanent ceasefire every time a brave palestinian journalist shares photos and videos of the explicit violence and dead human bodies, how could it not sit horribly with you that our tax dollars are funding the weapons to continue taking human lives? so please hear us. the people of san francisco stand with palestine and look to the board to truly represent us and to vote yes on the ceasefire resoluth no added amendment amendments, the lives of palestinians cannot afford neutrality. gaza cannot wait. cease fire now. thank you. my

name is nicole and i'm a barista in the excelsior neighborhood and a member of anakbayan city college of sf. i'm asking you all to support the ceasefire resolution. i do not support these racist amendments being proposed on this resolution. growing up in a city with a working class filipino immigrant household, i know all too well the violence displayed and forced migration. my family has had to experience coming to this country due to political repression and economic turmoil. let us use our platform to address similar conditions in palestine. it's honestly shameful that you all haven't made a decision sooner. we only see the rise in killingsing of media coverage on what's happening on the ground. we have such a big influence in this country, so let us do right and get one step closer to stopping the genocide in palestine. philippines immigrants and students will continue to rise against the unjust killings and displacement of palestine from palestine to the philippines. stop the us war

machine. yeah. good afternoon supervisors. my name is megan. i work in d11 in the excelsior and i'm a part of gabriela at san francianization fighting for the rights and welfare of women and children in the philippines. for the past few months, our organization has been showing out in solidarity for palestine and continuing to connect our shared struggles. is really forces continue to train armed forces in the philippines on the best ways to suppress activists and kill civilians and this continues to be supported directly through us aid and us intervention in there. is this misinformation that continues to be spread that palestinian people are targeting and trans people and children. but the reality be that we continue to see is that it is israel who has killed thousands of palestinian men, women, queer people and children. over 9000 children. and they are actively training countries that you're constituents are from, like the philippines on how to doíg same. this is not a nuanced and nuanced issue. this is a

humanitarian issue. this is a matter of whether you are against an active genocide. i am urging you to vote in support of the cease fire resolution, as is tomorrow with no racist amendments and to stand on the right side of history. hi my name is shara urquiza and i'm a resident in district ten and work in district 11. in october i got to witness youth leaders from balboa high school who led a student walkout in october in support of palestine. in already calling received positive support from their fellow youth and staff members from their high school, they received death threats and harm from zionists and they were left vulnerable after the student led action. they were a lack of response from the district and the board of education committee to make sure that they are safe ir own school. we cannot let this continue. we must protect the rights of the youths to protest and advocate for their freedom for their homeland. they have the right to learn about their rich culture and his of resistance in their classrooms and to come home to palestine without the fear of violence and bombing from the israel state. i call onfire

tomorrow as is, and with no amendments, and exercise your leadership for your people here in sf. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is trina born and raised in d9, d111 and now d10 resident. i work at a filipino miant no profit and i'm repping filipinos in support of the already centrist ceasefire resolution. as it stands, without amendments. as we approach one of the largest foreign wars of aggression against an indigenous arab group of people in my lifetime since the early 2000, i urge you to think about what the reso will mean to millions of survivors of genocide who never got justice in congo sudan, haiti the philippines yemen, iraq, south africa and many more. the reason why so many immigrants today of this city offer their lives willingly for gaza is because, unlike the opposition, we are too familiar with indiscriminate bombing terror tagging and his in our home countries and neglect like host countries like the us who funded war and economic turmoil in our home countries in the first place. and because of this we are not idiotic to conflate

genocide with self-defense. our san francisco high school youth have been subjected to verbal physical death threats from grown zionist adults for supporting the rights of free speech to defend themselves. speaker time has elapsed outside this morning with the like minded woman attacking us, housing. and baby palestinian young boy. they have no right to do this. they were going to be talking about planting behavior is because speaker now. okay okay. hi there. my name is joel lopez and i'm a chicano barista out in the excelsior area. i stand before you today to ask y'all to pass the ceasefire resolution as is without amendment. um, seeing palestine experienced genocide and colonization breaks my heart and my ancestorsq souls. please be a servant to the will of the people instead to the will of

money. um, from mexico to palestine, we stand in dasoli ceasefire now. thank you. thank you. hi my name is emma choo murphy, and i am an ob gyn physician working here at san francisco general hospital. i stand here to support this critical resolution with our amendment. we need a ceasefire now. i moved to the city to join a long legacy andcommunity committed to actualizing health equity healing and reproduce of freedom. but we can't stand for reproductive health while ignoring palestinian people. over 9000 children have been murdered in palestine in. this is moresd than seven times the number of children who were born in our public hospital last year. opposing genocide is the simple and clear decision in this moment to join the conscious world and calling for an immediate ceasefire and to support the resolution as it is written, without amendments that dehumanize the palestinian people. cease fire now. thank

you. my name is ryan maher and i frequent the bay area in order to achieve true peace and alleviate islamophobia and anti-semitism, we must vote on a permanent ceasefire resolution as is no amendments. thisund. lebanon and syria are now getting dragged into this, and we don't need violence to spread. voting for ceasefire ensures san francisco did its best ceasefire and also humanitarian aid wouldn't have to struggle to get into the masses in gaza ceasefire now. so childrenuldn't need amputations without anesthesia. ceasefire now to put a stop to israel's killing machine. does the death toll of 23,000 palestinians have to keep rising to stop anti-semitism using violence and genocide on one side to achieve peace? san francisco is known for its progressiveness. it is intertwined with liberation. san francisco is the example, not

voting for a ceasefireoing backwards. just remember, we are the voters that keep you in power. to date, i have not seen one physically violent pro palestinian protestker. time has elapsed.d< and 2003. thank you and thank you for all the brilliance that has been expressed today. my name is karen malina mcgowan. i'm an ordained minister with the church for the fellowship of all peoples and i am definitely definitely in fa how could i even be in favor of. i mean, i demanding feeling in my heart the need for a ceasefire without any any kinds of amendments to the strength of the ide permanent ceasefire. um aren't 30,000? i believe it's . hit that number by now. aren't they enough, or do we have to keep on killing thing? um, i would actually suggest that

biden be impeached for his complicity in genocide in any even would be first and apart. right? and end settlements and end administrative detention. we talk about releasing the hostages. and do you realize how many more hostages we have in israeli prisons who are not getting good treatment at all, whereas we evidently are treating the hostages? we what do i say? we the speaker time has elapsed. the hostages that are demanded. and concerned for us. i think, may be the time, but not for those who are held hostage not even charged and actionscript and speaker time has elapsed. blessings to all of you. ceasefire now and attorney. thank you so. my name is

alejandro palacios. i am a student at san francisco state and a resi district eight. i urge you to reject any amendments made by extremists and racist calls to increase violence, welfare and genocide. these amendments undermine the overwhelming popular demand for a ceasefire. continue the dangerous and violent dehumanization of palestinians and to further fuel the war against the people of gaza. this resolution, as it originally introduced, reflects the most moderate and broad based consensus of public opinion across the political spectrum. this committee has said that it is not your place to speak to foreign policy. many of these amendments do just that. they are an overstep of your duty. your job is to protect your citizens and the overwhelming majority that have called you for a ceasefire. thank you. free palestine, free palestine, free palestine. hello, my name is sawera and i'm

a resident of district eight and a san francisco state student. as a youth activist and representative of human rights organization amnesty this board of supervisors to vote yes on a cease fire with the resolution written as is and no amendments. i am here because being alive to have running water when children have been starved for weeks to have the privilege of scrolling past videos of families stuck rubble for days, i'm here today to speak for those who cannot. opposing genocide should not be controversial. it is not complicated. it is not about hamas. it is about standing on the side of human rights as 22,000 people have been massacred in 93 days, and more will wi)tth injuries and due to starvation, as each day this genocide goes on, to trust our representatives is to know that thz ey speak up for the identities and cultures that make up this city to trust that you're doing the work to protect us, to protect our families here and abroad to protect our underrepresented communitieshere in san francisco. speaker time has

lapsed on the right hand side of history. yes. kefar salam alaikum, michael rupert district nine. let's justetdown to business. this is what a queer gazan looks like. i lost contact with himago. i don't know if he's still alive. you do have the ability in your hands to do something that if you don't recognizece, you don't belong in that office. it is incumbent on you to lean on the administration to stop the administration from putting itself further into war crimes. it will come out and it is incumbent on you and i want to send a message8é to any aspiring political jerkoffs who think they're going to come in and do the wrong thing, because it is this this is a matter of life and death. these folks depend on our ability to make the right decision, and i look to you for leadership. please support this without amendment

if you have to. if you have to parse this down, don't pat yourself on the back because we're already months late. these amendments are shameful. and iflieve this speaker time has elapsed.h hello supervisors my name is mahesh chen and a resident of sf district five. firstly, i'd like to start by thanking again my district supervisor, dean preston and supervisor hillary ronen for the courage they've shown against all odds for introducing a resolution demanding a permanent ceasefire. the supervisors i urge you to vote for a permanent ceasefire as it is without any amendment. listen to your district constituents here and the ones who have written you, emailed you called your office. people are begging. they are crying. they are requesting, demanding, protegst they can place humanity over everything. san francisco has been a beacon of hope for many oppressed. you can pass the resolution and show them that

san francisco still is a beacon of hope. lastly a kind woman has been giving rose petals representing the blood of innocent palestinians who have diedce october 7th. but i don't think we collectively have enough hands over here, nor the rose petals to represent those that have 10,000 children and more free palestine. thank you very much. good afternoon supervisors. my name is adrian and i'm a resident of district two and a retired nurse. i worked in africa when the world was silent during the rwandan genocide. i ask that you vote to pass the resolution supervisors preston and ronen without amendments. over 9000 identified children have been murdered that they and they will never grow up, laugh or run. i ask that you not stand by and watch your inaction. or if you add racist and amendments is being complicit in genocide. how many more palestinian children,

women and men will die because of your inaction? please pass this resolution as it is. listen to the global call for permanent ceasefire. fire, cease fire now and the israeli occupation. yeah . hello. and thank you for your forbearance in listening to this massive call for passing the support. for the resolution for a ceasefire. as it is, i'm patrice sutton and i have been a resident of san francisco's district. eight since 1982. and i'm a public health worker. i'm retired from ucsf and i wanted to just say that the proposedtion is extremely well written. it echoes calls by the american public health association, the largest public heíalth association in the world for a ceasefire for extending humanitarian aid and for freeing all the hostages. it also by the peace

caucus in affiliation with the american public health association for a similar ceasefire. so public health really stands behind. and what you're the resolution says, and as it is written now, it's also critical for our federal officials and local to let our federal officials know that local governments oppose. speaker. hello. my name is doctor robert gould. i live in district seven. i'm also to my family, including my great gran of the rest of my family perished from the nazis. i'm here today. um, i'm president of san francisco. ability in support of the initial, uh, resolution one without amendm. the language of the resolution echoes the, uh beliefs and positions of

national physicians for social responsibility, as well as the international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war, who are horrified by the continued slaughter of innocent civilians the targeting of health workers and health facilities and the other extremely worrisome. actions such as the targeting of journalists. it's so we support this resolution in its original intent. uh, we call for cease fire and also to, uh, halt the spread for regional war that could. my name is laura saunders, and i am a d6 jewish values lead me to call for an immediate and lasting ceasefire. the pathrds peace and security for palestinians and israelis, as well as for those here in our community that are facing increased anti-semitism and islamophobia. the genocide

happening in gaza must be stopped. but a political solution is needed, not a military one. the jcrc does not speak for me. growing up, i learnedwv that no one spoke out for the jews to stop the holocaust. the public is here today. speak out and our government stop sending weapons and money to support the genocide in gaza. san francisco should be joining other bay area city councils that have signed. ceasefire resolutionsr city, state and country to prioritize human life. it couldn't be more simple innocent civilians, women. and children, grandmothers and grandfathers have been. and are being slaughtered by the

thousand. but detractors are desperate to from this disturbing fact. it's not complicated. we cannot in good conscience permit this to occur. this resolution is reasonable, as originally written and is the bare minimum action that we as a city can take. let our great cities voicep join the rising chorus. to say this s must stop the killing of innocents is intolerable. if you have hesitations or reservations about this resolution, then search your heart and ask the mirror what kind of human being you want to be, because the world is watching. history is remember. thank you. yes.ej hello supervisors. thank you for listening, and i appreciate i saw some of you standing. i'm i appreciate i saw some you standing a moment ago and kind of stretching. i'm an occupational therapist so i know how difficult it can be to sit for hours. um, my name is

bonnie dundee. i've been in san francisco for 24 years. i'm in district eight, and i don't want to speak to you today as an occupational t to you today as a parent. um my son calls his other mom, emy, which is arabic for mother gaza is present in our home every day when our son asks for a snack, which is frequently when he asks for water, when he's the 100 times a day. my wife and i are able to meet these simple needs. we areof parents in gaza who are not only living under a barrage of bombs but are being systematically and intentionally deprived of their basic human resources. this is funded by our tax dollars lapsed. external. all right. my name is don massumi, and i'm a lifelong

resident of district one and also a member of richmond district rising. i am the son of us concentration camp survivors except they were not subjected the gaza concentration camp. i'm here to add my voice to that of thousands who, for the last three months have to demand a halt to the genocide . and i call on this committee to enable a vote on this resolution as it is written and without any further amendment that would twist its message. the massacre of 22,000 palestinians and the forced display basement of almost 2 million can only be described as an ethnic cleansing. we cannot afford to stand by and allow this to happen. the call for a ceasefire is the absolute that we can do. it is our moral obligation. this resolution must be passed for the sake ofúq our palestinian community, for the sake of all justice minded people and for the sake of humanity, free palestine, for the palestinian people. yes.

hello alqueza. i'm a filipina illustrator living in district one. i'm here to urge you all to support this very moderate call for a ceasefire in gaza. without amendments, it's clear that san franciscans understand the interconnectedness between the dire state of local affairs and general societal imperialist forces abroad. we know thggle too. we know the idf supports american police departments, immigration enforcement and oppressive forces like them all over the world. we see the connections between the colonizers dependance on endless wars the climate catastrophe, and the prison industrial complex surpassing anyone opposing them. . we don't agree with our taxes funding, racist overfunded death dealing institutions like the idf or sfpd. we know colonizers like the us and israel must reckon with our bloody history for humanity to collectively heal. we know our taxes should be funding life affirming causes liketh care, green energy and housing for all. honestly, the board should be thanking. us for spelling it out so clearly for you. oppose

genocide and apartheid free all political prisoners and the israeli occupation. good. afternoon. my name is steve leads a long time resident of strongly urge you to pass the ceasefire resolution that was introduced. by supervisor preston. no amendments. sf must values for justice as. it has so many times in the past. as an anti-zionist jew with family killed in the holocaust. my parents and grandparents taught me to care for all people, not just our own. as a jew, the jcrc doesn't speak it? or nor does it speak for many thousands of jews throughout the bay area. as a jew, i am sickened by the killing of over 25,000 civilians, including 10,000 children, since october by the state of israel that claims to represent the jewish people. does not represent me, and i am horrified by israel's action and

those of its us supporters, not in my name again, no amendments passed this humanitarian resolution as introduced. cease fire now! long live palestine. thank you. where is the current proposed resolution begins with the words that all human life is precious. there is no human being with a beating hea an ounce of intelligence that wouldn't agree with the fact that the tears of a palestinian mother and an israeli one who loses a child are indistinguishable. whereas i ca country as a refugee and i'm forever grateful for it, for taking me and my family in. i understand what it's like to be a displaced not something you ever forget. whereas on october 6th, there was a cease fire in gaza where as on october 7th, israel was attacked by a terrorist organization hamas, whereas nowhere does supervisor dorsey state that he doesn't support a, he is urging to

condemn the acts of hamas where there is no vote other than no on a resolution that doesn't uneq call for their removal. no no, no. where is the jewish palestinian population? in 1948 the year the israel was founded totaled approximately people. as of january first 2024, this number has increased to 17 fold, to a total of over 2.5 million people. those numbers don't include the 2 million arabs that live in israel and comprise a total. monaco and i am a resident of district eight here in san francisco. so it is asked why why san francisco has to take up this issue. that's. because if we as a city, if we as a state if we as a nation, if we as the world do not stand up against this war and genocide, then there's going to be a very dark

stain on our humanity. my paternal grandparentsy i can tell you that the effect of war and the trauma of war does not go away easily, because both myself and my siblings have felt that effect. please pass this resolution motion without any gaza are depending on you. thank you. good afternoon my name is j connor b ortega and while i'm her a candidate, but i am here as a concerned resident supervisor preston has chosen not to recognize. how this conflict began, which was an anti-semitic terrorist organization raped and murdered. innocent people and launched an attack on israel on october 7th. now that hamas is losing and the idf is closing in, the anti-semite are demanding, demanding a cease t idf

eliminates hamas and this conflict ends, any city, any politician, any support for even those bused in hamas will have theinames written down as anti-semites. anti-semites on the tapestry of history and stand with israel. i stand with our president. kill this resolution in its entirety. thank you and have a great day. you i like to remind the audience. i'd like to remind the audience to, um. we are not pleased to not provide audio agreement or disagreement. it just hands, thumbs up or, uh nonverbal cues ofrtion or disagreement. to the matter. thank you. hello. my name is doctor oscar echevarria. i live in dist am a resident physician that cares for the people of san francisco

at sf general. and i'm here today to call on supervisor ash-shafi'i and all the board members to vote yes to the ceasefire resolution. as is without amendments. as a family physician in san francisco, i bear witness to the harms of policy failures on the bodies and lives of its people, many of whom are unrecognized refugee from other genocides that we failed to stop as a as a self-described passionate advocate for children and working families, surely you cannot stand with the ongoing genocidedollars, not only butchering children and families in their homes and on the street, but depriving our very own communities of su insensitive amendments like those of supervisor dorsey respectfully have no place here today on behalf of the people of district 11 and san francisco, i implore you to support the cease fire resolution as is. thank you . hi my name is samer. i'm a

resident of district eight. i hope after everything you've heard today that it's clear that supervisors dorothys good faith try to incorporate the feelings of sf constituents into this amendment have fallen tragically short. in addition to being deeply divisive and racially insensitive, it's just embarrassingly incorrect in more ways than i have time to address. but among other things, it references a new york times story whose primary witness has called it inaccurate and misleading. it takes a bizarre and unnecessary stand on a two state solution. even though a recent zogby poll has shown that 70% of israeli citizens favor a one state solution. so why opine on this? it erases the statements of the famñnilies of the israeli hostages themselves who are holding the netanyahu government responsible for prioritizing the destruction of palestine. over a hostage exchange. ignores and discounts the violence in the west bank, where there is no hamas but nearly 400 palestinians have been killed. and worst of all, the language is absurdly, embarrassingly one sided. everyone has watched israel murder 1% of the entire population of gaza without killing a single hamas commander, or bringing home any hostages. the scale of this atrocity is not a gween intent and actions. it's what

the un secretary general called a graveyard for children. thank you. hi, my name is kate and i live in district five. i'm a tech worker working out of district three. tg arabic so i can communicate with my partner's family. i got paired up with asma, who lives in gaza and for an hour7w inth i received a text from her apologizing for having to cancel our lesson because of an explosion from said, no electricity, no water, no internet. i'm sorry, i can't come to the lesson since since then, like many of us here check in and hear back from her in our most recent text from last week, she wrote, we're waiting for the moment of ceasefire announcement , but i don't know what they're waiting for. they're destroying my beautiful gaza. what are you waiting for? we are responsible for the bombing, of asma's community in gaza. i because i'm a taxpayer here and responsible for the destruction of gaza, as

are you. there's no. need to wait any further. every death since we were last here on december fifth, that's on ?/. that's on everyone of us here and that's on you. speaker time has elapsed. hello my name is swati rassam, and i'm here as a resident of the bay area for almost ten years and environmental health worker and a former employee of ucsf's, obgyn department since october seventh, a health care in gaza has been routinely under attack with the number of hospitals dwindling from 36 to 8. none of these hospitals are fully functioning and all are over capacity to support the tens of thousands and climbing palestinian civilians who have been severely maimed and injured by the idfem and an unending siege palignificant increasectious diseases, contamination of air, water and food due to bombs and due to the intentional of water infrastructure, among others. even in the most

basic of needs is a miracle for palestinianshospitals are operating under disaster triage and if it if it if disaster triage wwar, it is even worse for the dozens who have been experiencing a siege for over a decade due to the israeli control of goods, including medical supplies. i'm calling on you as a public speaker. time has elapsed. my name is fejat. i'm in support of the cease fire with no amendments. we're over three months in and i'm honestly sick and tirre to keep talking about the same thing over and over. we should be mourning the loss of our families lost, but instead we're here again to talk same things that have been happening in gaza and if you want amendments in this, in this resolution, why don't you put amendments for the ending the occupation of palestine or condoning the israeli apartheid regime, or the imprisonment of minor palestinians without any trial? this is just, you know a

way to try to get us to just waste our time to keep coming here. you need to call to call for a cease fire with no amendments. it's free palestine. yeah. hello. my name is simone and i live in district one. i worked at a mental healt francisco, and i'm in full support of the resolution. with no amendments and a permanent cease fire, i worked directly with san francisco residents that live with mental health conditions and ptsd, and i have firsthand experience with trauma and its devastating impact on our community. because of this i know that there's no such thing as recovery or mental health care in gaza. the trauma that palestinians are experiencing is ongoing and won't end until we stop sending money to israel. it doesn't matter i or any mental health care worker does their job. this genocide is the problem and is a us citizen. my tax dollars are the problem. please pass amendments. and i want to add on to the last point. i'm taking time off work

to come in and ask for you to pass this resolution and i would much rather spend that time serving our community. thanks for listening. my name is eliasjy wells. i'm a born and raised in san francisco in north beach and i'm also a substitute teacher and things like that. however, doesn't really matte let me put it to you like this. okay, this whole conflict in gaza you say, who started it? what? what's the justification or whatever? these people are not dumb. the people who orchestrated the whole thing. you have to be an f student in history not to undersy what's going on here. it's a nine over 11 situation. is it? we all know who the aggressor is. these. they're not that stupid just happen. they people need excuses like this to, uh what you call it. um uh, mobilize. mobilize situations to their in their favor. um um, so

basically, and you guys aren't f students either, so you are way too sophisticated to not understand exactly what's going on here. what is it, 20 to 1? is that the ratio is not even 10 to 1. it's like 20 plus to one. you understand what this is about? you're not dumb. you know. exactly. it's. and like everybody else said, this isn't complicated either. you know what i mean? and um, t. mys lh. i'm a brown non-binary, trans queer techie, a d6 voter. my fiance is jewish and i'm a survivor of rape. i urge you to pass carefully concocted by your two jewish colleagues. every second we debate about nuances hundreds of palestinian civilians are killed and displaced, block out the propaganda and the weaponization of jews, queers and survivors in order to justify the genocide listen to the majority of your

constituents. who are asking youmany of us are calling for a cease fire. are jewish queer people of color. we marginalized groups of people are all palestinians. we know what it'sr truth histories to be manipulated are people to be dehumanized. and our lives up for debate. we obviously condone terrorism of all kinds, which is wrrorism enacted by the israeli government. terrorism is defined by the unlawful use of violence intimidation, especially against civilians in the pursuit of political aims. that is exactly what t israeli government has been doing for the past two and a half months, not to mention the last 75 years without the racist amendments. cease fire now. yeah. hi, my name is isaac ndments. uh, so it is quite the time to be a seeing fi3eeling, thinking listening american. right now being able to watch the murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in real time on my

smartphone, while knowing that my tax dollars are what's making it possible. it is truly mind boggling to me that i'm supposed to just carry on with life as usual, knowing that entire bloodlines are being wiped out thanks to my taxes. if i didn't think it never truly existed for the people, i'd say american democracy was deawas glad to see this resolution in produced by an individual. but then this body effectively said they were fine with the death of thousands more by declining to vote local politicians, you might think you have more pertinent matters to discuss, but from my perspective , i haven't seen any real progress on any of those eitr. uh so, uh, it is truly the bare minimum that you to echo the voices of the people we say. hi. my name is brett fox d5. i'm a licensed primary care practitioner, and i urge you to sutor the resolution without amendments in the name of those

who have been massacred including health care workers in gaza. and for those who can't speak for fear of being t of israel, i remind you, israel's war crimes against the palestinian people have been denounced by a majority of the un and human rights organizations. and they will be brought to the hague to face the icj for said crimes. this week. israel is also engaging in brinkmanship, escalating the scale ofn theirto a regional level which risks a much greater war uh, involving major world powers and more of our direct funding. our taxpaying citizens and voters are saying no to funding!j israel's war crimes. our administration's unwavering support for israel and the crimes they commit with impunity will drag us into another war abroad with no positive outcomes. we must support this resolution as it is written every day, it is delayed as a leap towards war with devastating consequences for our country, our allies and countless innocent civilian. listen to the majority of all your constituents, regar and vote in support of this resolution. thank you. my name is yonatan

greenberg. i'm a jewish israeli born in jerusalem and a resident of district seven. i'm here to testify in favor of the ceasefire resolution with no amendments. i votand. i will remember whether my supervisor melgar, stood idly by while our taxpayer dollars funded genocide , or whether she h the international call for a ceasefire. history will smile upon those of you who take the bold call for ceasefire. and to th against the resolution, if for whatever backwards reason, you care only about the lives of jewish israelis, know that this genocidal war endangers them as well, the israeli government's barbaric assault of the last three months is throwing kerosene on the powder keg of the middle east. if restrained, the whole region will go up in flames. please be bold. take action before we are all buried beneath the rubble. this kinduff cannot be contained and it feeds the cycle of violence. and don't be so sure that we will stay safe, cease fire now! no amendments.

my name is javeria azeem and i'm a bay area resident. biotech worker. i am calling for this amendment to pass as it is written with no amendments. everyone is very quiemn the acts of hamas. the same group where 85% of them are orphans and direct products of the occupation are 25,000 children that have been orphaned. i would also like to clear up the false deception of hamas's charter calling for the expulsion of jewish individuals as the 2017 document of their general principle and policies clearly states, hamas does n uggle against t jews because they are jewish, but wages a struggle against the zionists that occupy palestine where there is occupation every atrocious act that the opposition highlights on october 7th is a fraction of what the palestinians suffrage has been in the past 75 years, just out a couple of weeks ago on december

26th 80 palestinian bodies were returneds. it has been 93 days, over 50, over 52,000 palestinians are injured. hello, my name is m.b. and i work in district 11. in san francisco. i'm here to support this critical common sense ceasefire resolution as it is written with no amendments. san francisco proudly celebrated international human ri this past december, displaying signs and flags around the city. i believe the city wants to stand on the right side of history and wants to send a message that genocide. none of us here today want to sit around and allow palestinians to be further dehumanized, nor can we continue to allow the apartheid state of israel to continue to murder and murder thousands more. palestine aliens than they already have. the genocide in gaza is only possiblehars. so that means we the people you all represent have the pow gaza. please stand with the people of your city for the children of gaza andpalestinian people in gaza, as well as all palestinians outside

of palestine who are suffering and witnessing their families and friends being unjustly killed. please listen to your assistants and pass this resolution for a permanent cease fire in gaza. now, thank you. so you can stop playing candy crush on you phone, because you only have about a half hour left. uh, my name is laura cohen. i have lived in san francisco for 13 years, and i currently live in the tenderloin and 20 some years ago, i had a bat mitzvah. so i am more or less qualified to tell you that it is not anti-semitic to call for a ce anti-semitic to use jewish faith , culture, and the history of persecution to bomb hospitals and murder children by the thousands. so i personally absolve you from any anti-semitic accusations like that mustachioed idiot earlier that calling for a cease fire with no amendments may garner you true. it's the bare minimum you can do if you're worried about what president biden or what terrorists might think of this declaration of a ceasefire. well, i can assure you they don't give a shit. no israeli soldiers are going to stop murdering babies because of san

francisco's board of supervisors adding amendments out hamas. but you will be seen as cowards. pass it or be seen as genocide apologists. i yield my time. my name is allison. i'm an anti-zionist jew and a hospital medical interpreter for the limits to providing high quality health care in gaza are being set by israel and by the united states. you have a role to play in forcing israel to end its siege of gaza by doing your part doing the right thing voting yth resolution as is, with no amendments. let us begin the process of repentance and teshuva. return meaning by owning up the fact that we are abetting a genocide in gaza. never again means. now, if i can leave you with one thing, it isat anti-zionism is not the same thing as anti-semitism. permanent cease fire. now thank you. hello, i'm alex, i'm a

queer, anti-zionist jew and a voter in district one. there's been over 9000 children killed and hundreds of thousands of people are starving right now. and some of you all are debate and playing coy about making public statements. us and israel are jointly committing genocideians. i think in your heart of hearts, you all know that even if you just started tuning in recently there's a long road to healing. coming out of 75 years of occupation. the first step must be an immediate and permanent ceasefire. passing this resolution right now matters because it needs no racist goofy amendments. 9000 children are dead enough. hello. my name is dina and i'm a sociologist phd from. ninth district.se it's a minimum

to do for gaza. the minimum to do for my palestinian san francisco daughter who wants when she was in third grade, the teacher asked her what she's doing for the break. summer break. she said, i'm going to palestine. and the teacher asked her, where is that? and she said, i'm going to visit my family in jerusalem. and the teacher made her stand up and say three times, i'm going to israel. and that's why i'm here. and after 16 years living in san francisco, i'm here to say that i'm not only seeing san. francisco voting for the ceasefire, but i'm also visualizing san francisco taking court for the war crimes he's committing. thank you. yeah. hello. my name is simone manganelli. i'm a voter in district eight. please vote for the ceasefire resolution, as is with no racism, racist amendments. i'm tired. week after week. we have

been protests for palestine. week after week we have been calling for a ceasefire on social media in the str with our friends and family. week after week. we have been emailing you and our other elected leaders are you listening? i'm so tired of this. i come to public comment because it's important to speak out against the genocide. i have come to speak out in the past against a ballooning police budget, which should be redirected to better things. a symptom of our terrible foreign and domestic policy. i come to speak out for more public services like public health and public transit, but it seems futile. do you even listen? but if i am tired, imagine how tired palestinians are of being bombed endlessly and relentlessly for months on end, and f endurixing an occupation for almost a century of having entire families erased from the earth. so i am here once again in support of palestinians, asking you to support the ceasefire resolution with no amendments. if you do not, we will vote you out in november. thank you.

welcome back. hi. my name is zoe i am pleading that you pass the ceasefire resolution without racist amendments. i'm actually embaseas, it just seems so obvious what we need. and, you know, a lot of us would like to think that we're mr, know, during, um, i have to go back to history is like in germany. we'd like to think that we would have the one that would have protected our jewish neighbors or fought against the nazis. well right now, playing out live is we are responsible for what this genocide happening in gaza to the point where we're even worse than israel, israel right now, because we're the ones pviding all the weapons that they're using and all the funding. it's like the secret war that we're fighting with othe. i was standing in line, been in line for about over four hours

and i was thirsty and i just was like, oh, my god these children don't have access . yes. speaker time has elapsed. i have to just say that the board of supervisors for you. okay. supervisors. my name ism here to support the resolution as is without any divisive amendments. i'm a proud resident of district 11, where i live with my family and three kids. but my roots are in north africa and west asia. my father was born and raised in cairo, egypt. my father alon, my aunts and uncles were rounded up, forcibly detained at and exiled, deported from egypt because in addition to being arab, there were also jewish. my father's exile eventually brought him to san francisco but despite having been stripped of his homeland, he eved that solidarity justice and peace must reign over war apart, right and

genocide. if you were alive today, the bullets and bombs that are being waged in gaza. we're all horrified at seeing entire generations losing their lives and dignity. the bombs in gaza will never lead to a peace. a ceasefire must be the first step. and i'm here on behalf of my father and my entire family to urge you to support this resolution as is, without any further amendments. thank you. my. name is jay arietta picciotto. i am an artist, raised and presently residing in district seven in favor of the resolution without any amendments. i'm a first generation san francisco native. my mother and our family moved here from the philippines to this city. not for me to live on the very soil that condones the harm of the land of my ancestry and all occupied lands under us imperialism. madam san francisco, known for being a city for its people, a city with a vast history of political movements and human rights activism that paved the way for beacon for people to believe in

a beautiful world again, this city i am so proud to call my hometown this city that raised. me. what will open your hearts and eyesng action for social and racial justice? i am ashamed of you all for your complicity in allowing 93 days of genocide, 93 days of erased. the daily dozens of videos and images i've seen of children bleeding and missing limbs. why are you standing on the wrong side of history? when we, the voters have the power over you we demand a permanent ceasefire. now we demand an end to the occupation. good afternoon. my name is andy gillis. i live in district eight, and i urge the committee to adopt this resolution. as written with no amendments. uh, i'll say what i'll say again what i said a month ago. i wish i didn't have to be here again. uh, to quote a

sign at a recent protest in support of gaza, who the f word votes against a ceasefire. shame on you. if you don't support a ceasefire resolution and why has it taken you so long? you know, very well this isn't a resolution in support of hamas that from tically called for an end to anti-semitism as well as islamophobia. if you're afraid of ben stop siding with the ultra right wing netanyahu government and its well documented war crimes and genocide. please provide the world and your constituents with what we're waiting for. the progressive, humane. humanity is not meant to be. thank you. good afternoon. my name is fern ebeling. i live in vote in district seven. i am a second generation san franciscan in san francisco. ismy dna. i'm a

retired nurse. i worked at san francisco general hospital for 34.5 years. i. know what san francisco can do to protect the vulnerable. who is more vulnerable right now than gazans as health care workers looks like. it is reprehensible that san francisco hasn't condemned this genocide. publicly to speak your language of politics. your jobs are at risk. just look at how biden's low ratings have plummeted even further since october seventh. all of us here vote. we are n asking you to change foreign policy. we are asking you to represent. us and our collective racism, hate and violence in all its forms. adopt this resolution as. hi, my name

is celia. i'm a voting resident and co-owner of a small business for i gave a public comment in support of dean preston ceasefire resolution on december 5th, asking that it be voted in its original form. i'm here again to emphasize that this basic ceasefire resolution be voted on original form and not with any of dorsey's racist and divisive amendments. i again want to highlight that through this moment, american voters are awakening to the reality that the rest of the world knows very well that the root causes of this genocide, among others, currently ongoing, are driven by western imperialism and the us war machine. on december 5th, when i was here last there were over 20,000 people killed in gaza by the israeli genocide. now, a month later there are over. 30,000 people killed over are complicit. these petals represent the martyred blood and cease fire. now free palestine

and the occupation. hi, my name is fatma and going to school. being. able to learn a curriculum, seeing my friends may as well be a dream compared to palestine which has due to the fact that the children in palestine have been murdered and it's no longer safe to go to a school that may as well be bombed any moment. it's a dream knowing that my baby sister is safe and can play with stuffed toys instead of being worried every moment that she could be murdered on a doodles of anime characters rather than writing my name, family, and address down on my own body. 23,000 palestinians have been killed in the past three months, 7000 being children. kids like me. i also want you to remember that these are not just numbers, a casualty, a consequence of someone's actions. these are lives they were lives of people. kids with toys and friends or adults with children. families spouses, jobs, people with dreamsike everyone else in this room.

thank you very much. good afternoon. my name is mta ahmed. i'm a registered voter and i work in san francisco. i'm calling on you to pass a resolution in its original form demanding a ceasefire now is not controversial or complicated,n attorney, i have heard from dozens of palestinian families who are scared for their lives and the lives of their family members in gaza, knowing any day could be their last because of what our own president has called indiscriminate bombing of gaza. this resolution recognizes the humanity of palestinians. we must. also acknowledge that our tax dollars make this genocide possible in that silence is not an option. this resolution. is your voice reflecting all of our voices, all of the voices you have heard commenting here and chanting in the streets, recogniz humanity is also a critical step in ending anti-arab and muslim hate

and rising violence in san francisco. so we need you to pass this resolution to speak out in stand on the right side of human rights and the right side of history. thank you. uh just like to thank this, uhak on this issue. uh i was also here in early december, and i am not in to be here yet again to explain this issue but there's plenty of people to explain it. so you have no excuse to feign ignorance or apathy in this situation anymore. i urge you to pass this resolution without any disingenuous bad faith like a microcosm of what happened in the un when the us voted against a ceasefire, and for what? to add amendments to condemn hamas. hamas is responsible for this violence, and the israeli government, because they have basically gone down this path of

war without any conception of the good of the people and as government officials, you should alsoee this as the only way that we're going to get peace in the future, because this is going to lead to regional war and i don't know, we'll sell a lot of arms and you know, dumb bombs so we could continue destroying. but no one benefits from that. and we don't support it. so i urge you to vote your conscience. my name is yasmin. i'm a health care worker in the bay and a palestinian. i'm here to demand the permanent ceasefire resolution is put forward to a vote with no racist amendments. we are currently witnessing a genocide that has been ongoing for the past 75 years. what is happening is not complicated. the white supremacy settler state of israel is murdering palestinians, dorsey shame on you. on. um you're succumbing

to pressures from racist lobbying groups. the resolution as is, is the bare minimum that gaza needs. biden is not an adequate moral compass. biden's approval ratings have plummeted since october seventh and is trailing trump in presidential polls. biden's and will lead to him losing the election. we, as your constituents and donors, will remember how you votey[ today and tomorrow. a permanent ceasefire resolution is needed immediately. if you believe that all human life is precious you have the opportunity. to stand on the. my nozame is sami. i'm a palestinian voter in district nine with muslim, christian and jewish grandparents. the ceasefire resolution is not complicatednd not controversial and should be passed without amendments in the face of genocide, calling for an unconditional ceasefire is the minimum. you should do to affirm

the value and dignity of all human life. you have an opportunity and a choice to represent your values. jews and the diverse voices from all across san francisco by supporting the resolution, as is rejecting the resolution orave it meaningless is controversial. all the small pro genocide fringe group that is opposed to the resolution is views, but they can't condescend to me about what makes my people safe. if it's 2024, the racist and paternalistic rhetoric has no place in a peace loving society, and unfortunately, the proposed amendments reflect these dehumanized narratives, gutting the resolution is essentially a vote for genocide and i do not believe these are your values and without . good afternoon supervisors. my name is carolyn goosen, and i'm as a district eight resident, a mother, a member of the lgbt

community and a city worker to urge you all to please vote in favor of thelution as originally drafted . i'm also proud to be here. represent urging our elected our elected public defender menorah jew, who asked me to also share his support for the resolution as originally drafted . per public defender. rajoo quote, as a public defend i stand against state violence and oppression and systems that violate civil and human rights, and i urge our u.s. leaders, he international community in seeking immediate and long terme solutions, ending military aggression, calling for a ceasefire and allowing for the return of people to their homes. my heart goes out to people suffering due to the loss of palestinian and israeli lives. othering, especially by leaders, is at the root of violence and oppression, and we must stand against it. end quote. thank you, supervisors preston and2t ronen, for introducing this. and please, supervisors, vote yes on the original resolution. so that we as a city can demand.

good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sydney simpson. i'm here as. a registered nurse, a parent and an advocate for pea. the ripple effects of war extend far beyond the casualties. and i want to remind you that some of the refugees of this war will become will you be proud of your work here today when they are your constituents? i want to encourage you all to be brave in this moment. as a nurse with deep uncondition commitment to the health and prosperity of all people, i beg that you recommend the resolution as is and prioritize humanity over politics. thank you. salam alaikum everybody. i'm moussa from kera, the council on american islamic relations, and we urge you to vote yes on the ceasefire resolution with no amendments. when the resolution was introd toll was at 20,000.

since then, the number of palestinians killed by israel in gaza has soared over 30,000 including 10,000 plus children. will it take 10,000 more for you to take a moral stand on the israeli war on gaza is a textbook case of genocide in south africa, has fil the un's international court of justice. there are dozens of pages demonstrating genocidal intent by israel in the icj filing. its estimated that 25% of gaza's population could die within the next year as a result of israel's blockade and bombardment. recent polling shows that 68% of all americans and over 80% of democrats support an immediate cease fire in gaza. this is not a divisive. call. this is a call for basic humanity and dignity. dignity, a holocaust is happening before our eyes. yet the world remains silent. palestinians are not numbers. they are human beings with hopes and dreams. please vote yes on the resolution with no amendments. thank you. my name is marilyn emerson. my grand parents came. armenians fleeing

turkey sometime so um, there is history of genocide in my family background . since when? in the history of humanity has genocide ever been justified? there is no equation. you you supervisors, you know the right thing to do. thank you . so supervisors, my name is charles lewis. i am a born san franciscan, which means i can walk todq i was born. i am a black man, which means my blackness was tried to be weaponized by the jcrc earlier today. and i am a

journalist, which means i dig up facts and can refute everything that they try to put out, such as the fact that when this infamous new york times article came out, it was real. journalists who were able to refute all of it that very afternoon and also reported how when hostages were released from hamas, they did not critically criticize hamas. they criticized benjamin netanyahu, who and it was hostages released who were shot. now we have heard from two different kinds of south africans. there's one who used his apartheid money to buy twitter and spew real anti-semitism on a daily basis. whereas the majority of south africans are against the genocide happening have seen what that looks like firsthand, they know what apartheid is and they are against it, which is why all of us are you have to hold up that san francisco legacy. good afternoon motherfuckers. my name is jordan

. my prono them. you haven't run my clock yet and i'm at d5 voter. as a disability rights activist i say ceasefire right fucking now. no racist amendments. there are llmanyly disabled and mentally traumatized by israel's atrocities. and even if i was a jew in israel, i'd be in jail for being too disabled to serve in the rape apologists, idf and unable to get health care because i'm unable to fucking work. you work for the people you don't work for the zion nazi baby killing, bitch ass motherfuckers at the jcrc who cry wolf about anti-semitism. when we say free gaza. difference between fucking nazi germany and israel is that israel uses white phosphorus to burn people to death instead of ovens. we millennials and gen z hate collective punishment. bullshit and i can't wait for all you boomers for bibi to fucking get media like the dinosaurs up yours. pinksey, lick my cotton and choke on it. i yield my time. fuck you. goodafternoon. i presented in these

chambers dozens of times over a nearly 20 year career in this building. until today, i've never been booed. had people put their hands behind my head to signal their distaste for what i am saying, i've never been shouted at or interrupted at this microphone. as you've seen repeatedly today, this behavior is designed to intimidate people . i am not scared proud jew who wouldn't be alive today without the existence of the state of israel. i believe in israel's right to defend itself i've mourned every day since october 7th for the young people raped and murdered while dancing , for people savagely murdered in their kibbutzim, and for the hundreds taken hostage and tortured. i don't claim to know how to achieve peace in the middle east. i peace will come, but i won't allow anyone here to pretend that calls for the eradication of israel are calls for peace. i am yisrael hai, up against the most

militarized border in the world. why does idf choose hey, hey. hey, mis francisco da costa. i say from the river to the sea. free palacec and i say to you, that right there is where we have the war memorial theater inbm november of 1945, the united nations charter was signed and. i say to you, one of resolution is far superior. we're far more powerful, have been passed by the united nations to tell israel and the israeli defense force us to stop harming the palestinians, which they have done 75 years. so this

mickey mouse stuff that you all are doing here goes nowhere. if you really havelace, then you can take anybody to a better place. you have failed. thank you very much. i know it sucks for you guys to sit here this long listening to people who are angry with you for good reason when gaza can't wait. and we've been here a know you might feel like this is a losing issue. either way this is a losing issue. even with all their big toys, they can't do anything but kill innocent people and it looks terrible and we feel it. we're watching it on our phones. we are all losing and yet to lose so much. in the era of wealth hoarding, inequality and climate change, we've already lost so much in this era. in the culture of san francisco, no one has lost more than the people in gaza. and here we are.e the people of san francisco. you know how unusual it is for this many

people to be here. you know, we care enough that we will never forget. i'm yet another queer jewish person who has experienced sexual assault begging you to not use these experiences against us and treat us like pawns to justify the way our tax money is being used kill 30,000 people in gaza. nothing could justify the true terror and the us and israel are colluding. and please pass this without the offensive amendments. this just creates further bad faith for people with our government, local and national governments failing. you have the power to show the people you are listening. otherwise we will vote you out in eternal disgrace. shame on the amendment and anyone voting no. cease fire! now end the occupation. my name is ilana. i am a 24 year. i am a 24 year voter and resident in district eight. i own a business and pay city and county taxes. i am jewish and you have put a target on my back by bringing this to the table in the first place. laste a right wing murderer for doing nothing but being jewish. i do not feel safe here. also i care for all people. but first and foremost, i care for my fellow san franciscans. i'm i am for the end of this war, but not for this resolution. let me

explain why i'm ashamed that all of you for wasting my tax dollars, as all of you when you should be focusing on cleaning up our our police, dealing with homeless and drug crisis. please stop wasting my taxes and throw this out. thank you. who i agree. hi my name is brenda and i'm a palestinian erican an orthodox christian family. i am a native san franciscan born and raised here, and i'm a constituent in district four. i cease fire resolution without any amendments. this is a genocide. this is not a war. it needs to be treated as such. we are in a state of emergency. my father's family became refugees in 1948 and have been for decades. my family is a part of the community. my grandfather on my mom's side served in the us military in the first world war. since. 1940, we have owned a

wide range of businesses from corner stores to cafes to propertiesxf all in san francisco. palestinians in this city are doctors engineers lawyers, city workers and educators. we are your neighbors. myself i've been in business and a business owner in this city for over 30 years, as well as my brother and my cousins and a lot of my friends. we are your constituents. we are your voters, and it is your duty to represent our concerns, to beq7 on the right side of history. hello everyone. my name is doctor saba nafisi and i'm a scientist working in biotech, living in district ten the bay view very proud to be a bayview resident. i want to talk about israel's unjust imprisonment of palestinians. i'm quoting an npr article from the end of november. as of november 1st, israeli authorities held nearly 7000 palestinians from the occupied territories in detention for alleged security offenses human rights organization hamoked. among those being held are dozens of women and scores of children waiting without trial assumptions

of being future security issues regarding hamas. in 2009, avner cohen a former israeli official, told the wall street journal hamas to migrate regret is israel's creation. i want to remind everyone here that what the palestinians are facing right now is a continuation of a 100ff year war on palestine, led by the zionists outdated dreams of colonization of a land and ethnic cleansing of a people. please let this resolution passrvisor dorsey's racist and factually incorrect amendments. and i want to say i'm really proud to, um, uh, proud of dean preston. hello. my name is nasim nobari. i'm a resident of district six. i'm here to urge you to pass the cease fire resolution. as it is and my

father is muslim, which makes me both jewish and muslim. and for me, there's no conflict. i'm notk-ed between different allegiances because this situation is very simple. it is a very simple question of standing for human rights4:. anyone, regardless of their affinities or their belongings should be able to have the humanity to recognize that genocide and. each of you to move beyond personal affinities, biases, prejudice, political considerations to find your humanity and integrity, and to stand for human rights, oppose the genocide, cease fire now. hello. my name is nora. i'm a first generation queer tejana and i'm a proud resident of the mission district. district nine. thank you, supervisor preston and ronen for co-sponsoring this resolution. i'm a part of health care workers for palestine bay area. i'm also a clinical librarian for the sf general

hospital library. gaza's hospital system is completely destroyed, and i. think about this every day when i walk into the hospital. what if this happened here of us would have nowhere to go. when you pause for your moments of silence, visualize this supervisor walton and the board. you've witnessed firsthand the effects of long time residents being pushed out of their homes to losing childhood friends, to violence and incarceration. palestinians have faced the same since 1948. as a library it's my duty to educate you all, and i recommend all of you to watch the documentary 1948. it's a freely available online. it's just the tip of the iceberg in understanding this brutal history. educate yourselves and have the courageth conscience to pass this resolution. the. hello supervisor. my name is wheeler freeman and i'm a constituent of district eight and a 30 bay area. i speak as a black, biracial and indigenous american in full support of this

resolution with no war or amendments. i've heard voices speak of unprovoked attacks by hamas. however, we all know the history. prior did not start with hamas and with the discovery of and knowledge of new facts and contributions to on october 7th, we must reject these amendments and focus on what is at hand. and this is the end of the genocide against palestinians and a permanent cease fire. human lives should never be up for debate. human humanity should never for debate. but here we are again, and i was here december 5th. vote yes with no amendments. thank you. hi supervisors. matt sherman, dean preston, um, great to see you all. matt, last time i saw y a memorial and you tried to use the death of one of our fellows and twist it into a

political ploy. shame to make this right. i want to read a few quotes. the children are always ours. every single one of them. all over the obe. and i'm beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. that's james baldwin. uh, he also says i'm terrifiedmoral apathy. uh, angela davis who graduates from my alma mater, brandeis university, says palestine is a moral litmus test for the world. litmus test for san francisco. we are voting, uh, six supervisors in or out this upcoming election. we got, uh many propositions. the mayor da we are watching and, um this is one of the things that is going to define, you know, where your morality stands, wheregv your values stand, and, uh, thank you so much. you supervisors, for listening to us. my name is stacy, and i'm a 30 year resident of district five and a small to urge you to support

dean preston's, um, initial. of fully without any amendments. we have power that we have here. i have walked precincts in d5 for 30 years since matt gonzales was running for that. and i know, as you all do that the voters in this city way beyond the 68% nationally, support resolution. the only people benefiting from this war have names and their raytheon general dynamics leonardo lockheed martin. and they are not the constituents of this district. we urge you to support unconditional once again, this fire resolution. and thank you to dean preston and everyone who is letting democracy happen here. youre the elected officials that we have access to. i call joe biden every day since this war started, and yet it is still going on. and he did not get permission in democracy and. hi my name is kaizen. i

live in district six on folsom street. i'm asking to urge you to support the cease fire resolution. um, when then history is we learn about the these atrocities that happen in the past. and i'm you on the rules committee have had this experience of looking back at terrible things that happened in the past, that we have some distance from, and thinking hge have done this and let this happen in other places? and i think i just urge you to think about how, when the history is written about this, how whether you want to be someone who was supporting acts of evil or whether you want to be, umtaking a stand, standing up bravely and, um, opposing what is a genocide happening in front of us. good afternoon. board members. my name is brilliant,

and i am not a resident of sf. i'm a former resident. i come here from the dublin pleasanton area and i'm here to ask you to vote yes for a cease fetion with no amendments. since i've been here last december, i think 10,000 plus people have died to amplify the voices of the palestinian people. the journalists, and then those among us here right now. so this issue is absolutely an issue that collects, uh, connects women's rights. it's about race. it's about colourism. um, it's a humanitarian issue. health care workers are dying. kids are dying. um and this city has the opportunity, just like oakland, to set a precedent for bay area. so i hope this will urge the world to have a cease fire now. thank you. hi, there. um, hi. supervisor dorsey supervisor walton sapphire, who i know stepp

out, and supervisor preston, my name is steph. i'm a resident of d1 and i'm here to urge you to vote for the ceasefire resolution without. we are witnessing a genocide, and it's our responsibility to be a part of ending it all. major human rights, the un and vast majority of countries across the globe have done so. it would be really a shame if by as a genocide was happening and didn't speak out because it was too complicated. thank you for hearing me. ceasefire now. my name is martha hubert. i'm a was really pleased to be at the vigil we had the other night in norway valley at was ashamed that raphael mandelman wasn't there, but it was a lovely sight seeing hundreds. of my neighbors that i didn't even know

caring and uh, i just can't understand why this is even a question people are dying. what do we have to do to end this? the ceasefire is the for the ceasefire and thank you. dean preston. my name is sonia. i'm a bay area resident. thank you all so much for your attention this morning. sometimes as an arab american, it feels like i am not always accepted in america to the first protest to call for a ceasefire, i. i really looked around at my colleagues and my peers and america, and i saw everybody out there, every religion, every race, every background every. socioeconomic class, every single person was out. please stand with america and un american values. please stand overwhelming majority to pass this resolution as is, with no amendments. do your job as elected oblic servants.

to be vessels ofi the american voices. we have stood here today overwhelmed asking you to pass this to please bring us relief. and tomorrow we will celebrate your victory. we celebrate you and celebrate your succj. hi. my name is gilbert, and all i can say is, uh, sp the occupation. stop the genocide. cease fire now! free palestine, do the ri. it's justice. and that's what we want. and that's what everyone wants. look into do the right thing. free palestine ceasefire now. hiun my. my name is murong yao and i'm a resident of north beach in san francisco and a social worker for transitional aged youth e in the tenderloin and in san francisco. general, i'm here the board

of supervisors to vote yes on the ceasefire lution. california sends hundredssrael every year for the israeli state to commit genocide ethnic cleansing palestinian i work with here in san francisco are struggling to get basic needs like foodusing and medical care as again ceasefire is the bare minimum and you must vote yes to this resolution tomorrow without amendments. and as it is, thank you. good afternoon, supervisors . thanks so much for hearing us out. my name is mohammedlu. i'm a palestinian. um i'm also an advocate that has worked in the city on criminal justice reform issues. our presence today speaks from the overwhelming majority on the support for a ceasefire against genocidents. if you'd like to vote with your constituents, we suggest and urge and demand that you

adopt a ceasefire resolution without amendments. when there's a genocide happening, your reaction should not be we need to amend(1ls to end that response should be wee immediately when there are now 10,000 childmu. you have heard today outside of this meeting, you've received 30,000 letters of support for the resolution. as is. so i thank you for listening to us. and i thank supervisor preston for bringing this. thank you. i'm steve zeltzer. i produce work week on cpu and pacific as capitalism, race and democracy. uh, my union the pacific media workers guild, is supporting the ceasefire. but a ceasefire is not enough. ceasefire is not enough. we have to stop us military and economic to stop the war on the people of this world. truly tens of dollars are going to war. who is that benefiting? its b profiteers. when people in san francisco are dying on the street can't get health care and this is going on

crime against humanity. and it's not just in palestine. it's right here in san francisco. the streets that is where it's at. we can't even take care of health care in this country. and they have national health care in israel. hell is going on? what is going on in this country? we have to change our priorities and we really need a working class party that will stand up for the working peoplestine. thank you. yeah. are there any other members of the publicpublic comment on this item? i do not see any additional speakers. thank you, mr. clerk. public comment on this item is now closed and colleagues, i'm going to move the amendments. i read into the record earlier. um, i do want to do some of our colleagues who gave important feedback over the holidays to bring more balance to a resobelieve is insufficient, insufficiently balanced. currently, um, i do want to remind everyone the amendments have

been moved are additive. they are not watering down. they're adding content and context to provide more balance. um resolution would still support a sustained ceasefire in gaza"areasonable minds can disagree, and i want to reiterate my appreciation to the supervisor, preston and supervisor ronen for an underlying resolution that is less divisive than many others. a resolution, however, can't be rendered unifying or non-controversial. simply because its supporters say it is . likewise, amendments intended to bring more balance to what i unacceptably imbalanced resolution aren't divisive just because opponents. say that the truth is nothing about this conflict or this resolution was ever going to be unifying, there is enormous pain on both sides. and i know that many of my colleagues have been it has been

emotional for many of ushe. um, but it's important, i think, that i hope this is true of colleagues, but i would ask that it's true of all sanhat the disagreements we express over things that we feel deeply. we don't make those with whom we disagree bad people state one thing clearly. um i'm not alone in believing that our about a terrorist attacke conscience, would be unacceptable for a board of supervisors resolution and it would be unworthy of the city oò1j saint francis. i also want to address represents motions that were made here today that the new york times has retracted its reporting ofbe 28th in its a two month investigation on a story that was called screams without words how hamas wept and used sexual violence.seventh, i have heard that it was retracted here. i have heard that it was retracted in private york times to look for corrections or retraction. i

found no evidence that that was true. i also did my due diligence personally and reached out to a new york times editor to ask about the stories status. the new york times stands by its reporting. the eyes of history are on us here too and i know that this is something that wherever we agree, you know, whatever we was some agreement on that. but. i'm not comfortable if denialism about gender based violence that will forever burnish october 7th into the history books is viewed as being on the right the wrong side of history. i think it's important to adopt these amendments. i will support a resolution, but not if silence, silence or denialism about october 7th atrocities are part of it. and i'd ask for your support for amendments that bring more balance and further context to this resolution, which, at least for some opervisors was um, agree. and support vice chair walton. thank

you. chair dorsey off by saying that i am truly sorry for anyone who has suffered loss in the region, uh, whot prayers are with you and your families and i am really hoping for peace. one day. i also want to thank everyone who came and spoke this morning and into the afternoon. um, because i know that this is something that everyone is passionate about and this space that was provided today hearing from everyone, i think is very important. uh i also do want to say thatnouh i supported a cease fire via petition to president biden. even.efore this resolution was, was introduced just read a little . buet one paragrnt biden, vice president harris, and members of congress to call for a ceasefire. by other local and

state elected officials here in california. and also members of several it says, dear president biden, vice president harris andngress, we write to you, in violence, tension and division, to urge you to use all the authority and power of your office to facilitate a long terme ceasefire and end the ongoing violence in israel palestine by conditioning the future us funding on a genuine path to peace. we watched with horror the violence unleashed by hamas, the horrific killings 1200 men, women and children on october 7th. the impact that this attack had on a jewish people alr on edge from increased anti semitism and a long history of trauma cannot be overstated. we watched withhorror as israel responded by cutting off food, water and fuel to the entire populationatch

as over at the time 12,000 men, women and children have been ki an indiscriminate and overwhelming bombing campaign. the humanitarian crisis that is the impact of this responsee increase islamophobia and long history of trauma cannot be overstated, and we watch in horror the rised islamophobia in the united states as our communities become increasingly divided. i just wanted to put that in the record , because definitely believe in a ceasefire uh, also do want to condemn all forms of hate whether it be anti-palestine, an anti-semitic. islamophobic and you know, as a black man i'm 100% know what it's like to be discriminated against, what it's like to be hated, what it is like to have to deal with the

and i 100% also agree with supervisor safai when he states that if anyone like they lost or won, then we may be falling short at our attempt to garner peace i also know that we 100% have to do something and . i really, really just want to state that as we move forward the about condemning hate, should be about bringing people together, should be about asking to return ho. it should be about askingxor humanitarian aid, and most certainly to make sure that is stopped. and i would just end with this as we move forward. either wayd be weighed in by the full board of supervisors, and not just by this committee, thank you, chair

dorsey. um vice chair walton and , uh, supervisor safai. so uh, and thank you for again for calendaring this and for, um, the hearing from everyone. i really want to thank everyone who came out to speak today. um, and join my colleagues in extending our condolences to everyone who's lost family, friends and loved ones. um i think that as, um, i believe supervisor safai noted earlier, this, amount of public comment turnout. um, and uh, emails what, five, five or 5.5 hours later? um wrapping up uh, public comment. and i think that, um, speaks to how strongly people feel about us moving

forward with the ceasefire resolution. i want to say that our resolution does. i think exactly what. what supervisor walton las to call for ceasefire uh, humanitarian aid, um, release of all hostages and condemn hate. i mean, that that is the, um the original resolution does. um, and i want to talk a lit and, and amendments here. so so, um. the the language of this resolution and and th we endeavored to do this in conjunction with and talking with all stakeholders beforeng it. it was designed to underscore our shared humanity and bring people together in defense of human life to the amendments that chair dorsey is proposing, our resolution intentionally did not callsurrender or to have this board purport to decide, instead of the israeli or palestinian people, what long termecv

solutions and political structure are appropriate in the region. often we did not include atbeyond the scope of this resolution. we were seeking the ground that we could hopefully all of the public commenters have spoken to, which is a ceasefire humanitarian aid, the release of all. our resolution has been pending over a month. the only request. for amendments that weriday. a few days ago was supervisor melgar, who originally asked that we withdraw reference to a particular, which we honored and took that out prior to introducing the resolution and the supervisor, enrdio, who requested language more strongly condemning hamas's attack, which, as i'll explain we in corporated into amends. it's balanced amendments that we have proposed. and supervisor

engardio also suggested a call for regime change on all sides and we did not include that, um, because it that that was beyond the scope of this resolution and would actually lead to loss of support for this resolution because of differing views on that issue. since friday, we've received a series o only describe as one sided amendments and shifting goalposts. i want to address the: our original resolution was one sided because that was a talking point. very unfortunate and an cynically spread by some. i had so'my said, why are you doing a one sided resolution? and then we said, have you read it? they said, no, an sd we and they read it and they said oh, we're pleasantly surprised. we actually thought you had written a resolution that fill in the blank that, you know, and. all a

lot of the things that we've heard from opponents that are not in. so i want to be very clear on that. i also want to be clear on on what we're talking aboutwhen we say one sided, if someone believes our resolution is one sided. i am still waiting for them to point about it. and with all due respect, and again we've had good conversations with with with supervisor dorsey with chair dorsey, i, i cannot think of a more one sided amendment i a cease fire resolution in to call for the surrender of one side right it's just that that is one can believe in the surrenderside. i don't people can have that view. people can articulate articulate that view. but that is by definition and an amendment that will not

bring people together. so i just it it is an advocacy amendment. for one particular side. um, bu not not an attempt to find common ground or to make a so believe that the amendments that i have circulated to the committee are consistent with the good faith feedbacke received from a lot of critics of the resolution as well as a lot of supporters and all the engagement, while keeping this as a balanced no, not one sided resol. in and address the concerns raised and focusing. on the things thator walton uh, identified as the purposes of what should be the purposes of the resolution. and we've invited suggestions the whole way through, the whole way througand the public. um, and it is concerning to have this flurry of amendments emerge sincee, um, the so i'm going. to and with apologiesi0 for the time it will take, but it has been

requested and thank you supervisor safai. i think the suggestion that we outline them, i outlined them, uh, in terms ofribe them in opening comments but i will go ahead since you're poised to decide what amendments, if any, to adopt here today. them, uh, quickly as i can here. um, in terms of what the specific amendments would be, i want to emphasize, um, we are comfortable with the resolution as drafted and moving it forward in that way. the amendments that ire amendments that address and incorporate some of the criticisms and some of the suggestions. while not betraying . the fundamentals of the resolution. and from our conversation with so many advocates and supporters of the resolution, would maintain in their support while addressing uh, some of the concerns raised. so i will i will read, at at page one line seven, uh, where it says all human life is prerd or indiscriminate killing of. and

then that's followed by civilians, uh, at line. ten and 11. um changing wounded, thousands wounded, uh, tens of thousands more in the region at lines 12 to 13, change. the 1.7. the. the 1.7 million palestinians displaced since october 7th. updating that number to 1.9 million palestinians displaced the at lines. 16 to 17. um amending the number of remaining israeli hostages in gaza. from 137 to 129. again, these are for accuracy and our updates. and again a reminder that the resolution specifically calls for the release of all hostages. in addition to ceasefire and human an aid on page

one. still 22 starting in 22 at adding the following to the un general assembly resolution. uh quote. and on december 12,. that's the un adopted with a large majority, a resolution dwhanding an end quote, immediate humanitari e at un conditional release of all hostages. and humanitarian aid, adding a whereas paragraph f on line page two, line human rights and humanitarian organizations have similarly called for an immediate permanent cease fire release of and humanity, an aid. adding at page two line 232 a new. clause that says whereas on on december 9th, 2023, the united states vetoed a

resolution in the united nations security council which called for an immediate humanity cease fire and has since continued to refuse to support it to refuse support for any resolutions calling for a cease fire.pa. three. adding. three resolved clauses starting. at page three. line 21 for further resolved, that the san francisco board of supervisors condemns hamas's attack on israeli civilians, resulting. in the deaths of at lle on 2023. further the resolve that the san francisco board of supervisor condemns the netanyahu the deaths of tens of thousands of palestinian civilians in gaza and further resolved that the safrancisco board of supervisors urges the international community to work with palestinian and israeli

people to find a just and@qand to conduct a full investigation of the conduct of all parties in this conflict and hold all parties and individualsoverseen or engaged in war crimes and international human rights violations, accountable. those are are the amendments we have prosemé and. and requested that the committee adopt$rhe committee decides to either adopt those or to not either. either way, let me be our office has remained open to good faith conversations about balanced it amendments that add an explain in objective ways. um, the the impact on people's lives. we we've we've been open to that but we are not receptive of.ome lives over others . we are not receptive to

talking in detail about the death of some people, but not in detail about the death of other people. that is not that is not a balanced resolution. and it is. it is also a recipe for dividing people. it is the opposite of the purposes of this resolution. so thank you for the time to, to lay out those amve previously previously been distributed to the committee. i would urge the committee either to adopt those and move this to leave the resolution as is. again, these amendments or an attempt, a good faith attempt by our office, by ma for this ceasefire resolution to find some common ground and lay these things out in ways that that would hopefully if they're not received in that way. um then we understand and are perfectly happy to remain with the original language the resolution. thank you. thank you, supervisor preston. um supervisor. safai, thank you. thank you, uh, supervisor preston, for going through your

proposed amendment and. going through yours. i i just got these just for the record. i just got these amendments. um from supervisor dorsey at 930 this morning. uh that's when they were sent to the committee members. and as he said earlier, our part of the rules of brown act, when you're on a committee, do not allow youave communication with your fellow committee members. um although i believe you can sendformation in advance if it's your proposal and you just can't get back and forth through the chair to the city attorney, is uty city attorney ann pearson, that is correct. it's not a brown act violation to provide a final copy of amendments that willoduced, so long as there's no discussion of them. okay. thank you. and again, i listen, uh, this this has been a to have this conversation. um, and i know it's been difficult for a lot of the families and a lot of the folks that want to see ourp5 um,

we do have planned recesses and, and we've been on break, but i know um, every single one of us has takenmet with people, has listened, has tried to be as as accessible as we can in, um, over the break. bu available opportunity. to have this conversation today. um, just flipping through what i seeard, um, and not getting into the specificity of some of the things that are talked about. but there is there's there seems to still be a lot of what has been proposed. and, um, i am a believer in constant a believer in trying to get to resolution and consensus. and, and i agree with what supervisor walton this is. something that, you know listen , i believe in, just for the record, i believe that there will be an amended final

version. um, and that there needs2l to be more work done to that. i don't think that's going to happen today. and i and i agree with what supervisor walton said. um, this is something that should have the full weight and investment from the entire board of supervisors. so it would be my wis um, that we send this to the full board um, and have the÷i final have the final round of amendment, uh, there at the full board. that would be again i, i do think between now and tomorrow so we can continue to have conversations and hopefully we can get a little closer to the, um say, just for everyone that's listening, i think the conversation has shifted away from should there be a resolution and a request for a ceasefire and what that final ceasefire resolution should take. and i think that'si0 step. and again, i know that there's a lot of people that want us to do more and want us to move quicker but i think that's a big step. and . that's that's my personal belief and i hope that we can do that.

um, within the next 24 hours. great thank you. supervisor sophie. i don't know if how close we are but i will be hopeful. and i do want to, um address, you know, whether it is something where i wanted to. i know with the colleagues working, i think it was no one's intention to be working in bad faith. i think this was something that over theo this being a holiday season, many of us were watching day to day. what was playing out in the region. i'm wondering, i thinkng when this was introduced that we might be in a better place. when we finally took this up, um, the o tof the having a major news organization like the new york times do the factual, um, story that it did us on the board felt was relevant and important. um i think. okay so there is a

motion on the floor. i made a commitment worked with this, um, that i would ask the rules committee to consider these amendments and i'm going ask for a roll call on that motion. there is a motion. uh, we do not need a second at the committee level with only three members. just. just a attorney. um i believe supervisor sapphire moved that we send this to the full board. um do we need to address supervisor. chair dorsey's amendment motion first? and did he ever make a real motion before supervisor sapphire? i can city attorney me. deputy city attorney anne pearson. i would have to consult with the clerk, who i think takes better notes of when a motion and i'd like to do that before answering. generally motions are taken in the order. um,

correct. i believe supervisor dorsey stated his intention to make this motion, and i would have to want to confirm with the clerk um tot he thinks as to the order in which they were made. i think it's worth it. yes, i believe that, uh, chair dorsey did make a motion before the discussion started. thank you. okay. uh, we'd like to take a vote on the motion, please. yes, on theotion to, uh, accept, uh, chair dorsey's, uh amendments. vice chair walton. no. sapphire. . no. chair. dorsey. a dorsey. i the motion. fails with chair. dorsey chair walton and supervisor sapphire voting no. okay thank you, mr. clerk. thank you, mr. chair. as i was trying to say, i believe that this conversation should be taken up at the full board. i do believe there are going to be amendments. i think we're very

close. i think in the spirit of good faith would have been better to just send this. and that's the motion that i'm making to the full board without recommendations, so we. the conversation over the next 24 hours as a committee report, and i think it is, is listed as a committee report. yes. so your motion is to refer the matter without recommendation as a committee report. yes yes. um on that motion, vice chair walton, i. walton, i sapphire. sapphire i chair. dorsey dorsey. no. the motion passes with the chair. dorsey voting no. thank you. um, this is so this

goes to the full board with, uh without recommendation on a 2 to 0 vote? yes theteat be referred to the full board as a committee report without recommendation. as a committee report. and i just would like to note to the public that public comment was accepted andtoday. and the board of supervisors will not be accepting additional public comment on this item at the january 9th meeting, which is tomorrow. okay. thanks. thank you, mr. clerk. do we have any other any further business? yep do we have any further business? we are adjourned. um, that completeswe are adjourned. thanks.

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dollars and cents part. he was right. >> back in 1947 when they voted that i'm surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. that was the headline. that was the demise of the cable cars. >> (indiscernibe along and sa no. she was the first one to say we're going to fight city hall. ey started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. are we the cable cars or not? head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely they got. this is just a bunch -- the city came out and said basically, 3-1 if'm mistaken we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. and literately if it no cable cars. people saw something back then that we see today that you can't get rid of a beautiful andasn't a

historical monument at the time and now it is and it was part of san francisco. yeah we had freight back then. we don't haveanymore. this is the number one tourist attraction in san francisco. it's historic and the only national moving monument in the city of san francisco did keep the cable car so it's a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of san francisco. and obviously everyone knows san francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles werea8 cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of san francisco, but thank god it didn't. >> how soon has the city changed? the diverse of cable cars -- first came to cable car, sand easyy barn was the

have three or four being a grip person. fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire >> i want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. we have wonderful women -- come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies these ladies, this is what it's about. continuing to empower willa johnson is and i've been at cable car for 13 years. i came to san francisco when i was five years old. and that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a chris rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didn't ride again until i worked here. i wd for a while and i wanted a change. some people don't do that but i started with the mta

of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. it was a general sign up and that's when you can go to different divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. there were a few ladies that were over atr here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a different division and ar it. i do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i alsohal] the 19 i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of aeb cable exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of

a cable car to actually grip and opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to some people say i wouldn't make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor a thing i did was to come to this division. it's a good division. and i likeable cars. i do. >> tapped into the general feeling that san francisco tend to have of this is ours it's special it's unique. economically and you know a rationale sense does it make sense? not really. but from here, if you think from e if you think from here yeah. and it turns out she was right. so.... and i'm her. very grateful. [laughter]

>> three,two one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] >> did i that -- i did that on purpose so i wouldn't. >> here we are responsible to oversee the drinking water distribution system. in san francisco changes in the fire code requ anyone doing representtro fit to the home to get a new fire service this caused the need for new services to spike. we used to do 200 a year. now we are up to 600.

>> if you are building a ne protection. you have to make application to the water department for that. if you go through the process we come out and install the new line and the new fire line. >> the project got kicked off by two of our a steve and eric. they recognized the need improving this process. they pulled together the project anhe team members and asked me to lead the effort. >> on c cd there is permit and no parking signs and installing the service having water caught at the check off and pave. >> it is a lengthy application process with manual tracking. for construction because we communicate with ccd we have to stay in touch with ccd to inform the customer for updates.re was three

separate visits to activate the fire service. water quali gate manment and then gate man would go back. now the gate man goes one-time one visit and it >> we dissected the process and looked for ways to streamline the process and use technology a the experience smoother and what we are building is an online portal for customers to apply without downtown and they can get updates. >> with the online application everything is there. it is with tracking to communicate with the customer without having to take notes. >> we want to tell you and you are on step three or four. >> we streamlined the process. we knocked it down to 65 the goal is half of that. from the time you make application to put the check on the table to the time we pave the see we want it down to

30-days. >> i am proud of the team for the work to get together to understand each other's work solutions. i really wanted the rest of the the time and deliberation and thought so they could get the recognition that they deserve.8e' .org.

if you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the also send your written comments via us postal service to our office in city hall. that's one doctor carlton b goodlett place, room 244, san francisco, california 94102. hey and due to the observance of martin luther king, holiday items acted upon today are expected on the board of supervisors agenda of january 23rd unless otherwise stated. madam chair, thank you, mr. clerk. and before we call to remind everyone that, um, the format of this, uh, committee

hearing, we have budget and legislative analyst reports for three items on today's agenda. uh, for those items, we will have the department presentation first, followed by t legislative analyst report. then we will take committee questions, then public comment. mr. clerk, please call item number item number one is an ordinance authorizing the police department to expend grant funds received from the board of state and community corrections, organiz r to procure equipment and services without competitive bidding under the administrative code. madam chair. thankkcl. uh as a reminder, this conversation is, uh, really just, uh, to make sure that we, uh, do all the due diligence. yes. um, i just want to be clear that this grant has already moved forward. we have accepted and expanded the grant uh tion grant program. and but we want to be we want to make sure th we, uh, give the explicit, uh, waiver for the

competitive procurement requirements under the administrative code so that we can accept without doubt. uh, so with that we have san francisco police department here. thank you. good morning. committeeors. my name is deanna oliveros, and i'm the director of policy and public affairs. and i just want to thank, uh budget chairn work that we've had in the last couple of weeks. and we've worked really closely together to make sure that we're obviously complying with some of the city the waiver is very explicit in this a&e. and in the future we'll continue working closely together to e obligations for the city. aside from that, just a quick reminder to the committee, uh, this a&e is coupled with our policy related to our automatic license plate reading revision. that policy has already passed out. uh, and so this accept and expense so that we can continue moving forward with the actual procurement and the purchasing of flock cameras so that we can end up inajor corridors in the city and county of san francisco. and i'm here for to answer any

questions. i'm also accompanied by our former, um, cfo patrick liang, in case you have any budget specific questions as well. congratulations on, uh patrick on your new gig. uh supervisorçñ. thank you so much. uh, chair chan. uh, thank you, miss oliveros. um, so, you know i realized already approved the grant before i joined it. um, and this is about the competitive procurement requirements. um, i do have a question about how this will all all work out. i mean, much of the attention has been on the downtown core. that is ourfor tourism. um so i am specifically interested, as you know, in stonetown, which is in my district, uh, which are the first exit off of the 280 freeway from the airport, where we have seen a lot of break ins and retail theft. um, and that in contrast to westfield, is a very successful mall, and we want to keep it that way. so i am just worried it. um, the neighborhoods, you know, and

how we will hopefully benefit in our, our neighbors will not the competitive bidding process being more effective, but also you know, the grant itself i know some of my other colleagues who represent areas not downtown are also interested in this as well. yes. thank you. supervisor. so if i understand correctl of our commitment is what you're requesting. uh, and, and process . absolutely. uh, so stonestown in that area of is that right now we're really focused on, given some of the recent incidents and ongoing incidents, as you've described in terms of the grant grant installment process? yes. so the grant itself allows us to purchase 400 cameras, roughly. we're looking at probably distributing around ten cameras per district, supervisory district, and we're looking at making sure that all the major highways are covered. going to allow us to be able to install cameras in the areas that you're describing, and specifically around the stonestown corridors around 19th avenue. so that is one of the

places right now that we're looking at more intentionally. we have a crime strategy analysis that's coupled with this process. once we get approved, we're moving forward with two analysts that are going to be looking at hotspots to ensure that any other additional , aside from major highways and major streets, are covered as well. and so our goal is to cover the entire city with this grant, just simply because you cannot just cover one part of the city and not cover the other, meaning we cannot just go to for example, union square and not really look at th other parts of the city. right? which is sort of the big elephant in the room. and the question that usually comes up in order for unionñy square or westfield or stonestown to really ensure the public safety of those surroundings, we have to look at a citywide approach for this installation, which is why we went for such a large hopefully with these resources that do not exhaust the general fund, we'll be able to make sure that we have the resources to cover the entire city. thank you. and i don't see any name on thecomments

ons now invite members of the public who have joined us today and who wish to speak on this item to line up, to spend all speakers will have two minutes to speak. madam chair, we have no speakers seeing no public comments. public comment is now closed. c would like to make the motion to move this item. uh to full board with recommendation action. and with that, a roll call, please. and on that motion to forward to the full board with a positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman a mandelman i member. melgar i chair. chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. the motion passes and please call item number two. yes. item number two is a resolution retroactive authorizing the san francisco public library to accept and expand a grant not to exceed amount 375,000 from the andrew w mellon foundation to support the jail and reentry services program for the performance period of october 2023 through december 31st 2024. madam chair, thank you, mr. clerk. and, uh, we have

have janine austin from jail and reentry service librarian from the san francisco public library . hi. k i pulling up my slide. i'm jeannie austin. i'm one of the principal investigators on the existing expanding information access for incarcerated people. grant and i'm going to be talking a little bit about some of we've done. and some additional funding that we've been offered from the mellon foundation. so our initial grant period was two years, beginningjanuary of 2022. we received and were able to accept $2 million from the mellon foundation in order to create abust set of resources to support libraries that serve people who are incarcerated or people who are in the process of reentry. given our ongoing work andk continue to do, we've been offered an additional amount of funding for $375,000 from the mellon foundation. and we're also working american library association as

a sub grantee on this grant. so far, we've been able to fulfill most of what we plan grant application we have created a public resource. it's a map that shows where libraries are providing library services for people who are incarcerated. we've the united states to convene our first convening in 2022. there were around 5055 people. our most recent, there were 90 librarians that serve people who are incarcerated or in the process of reentry. and those have also always featured people who are formerly incarcerated, speaking about th needs. we've brought together a training series of about ten videos is captioned both in english, and were captioningáítrate different types of library services that are available for people who are incarcerated, or people in reentry. and we've also rpapers related to technology, general library services, and to promote models for doing these services as it might be useful to know heret while it might, you might have an assumption that these services exist nationwide, they're actually fairly rare and so the impact of this grant is very meaningful as far as we've

been supporting new services coming together for the with the american library association. we've also worked on updating the standards for library services fwho. the last time that those were published was in 1992. so they're severely outdated. they'll be published this year and distributed for free to at least 100 partners who are interested or are currently providing library services inside of jails or prisons or juvenile d. some of our continuing efforts build off of the momentum that we've already established with this grant. we plan to bring95 before the american library associations annual conference, which will be in california. we're continuing our research on library new services that are coming up, what models exist and publication review. we're also updating our map continuous beginning to create an archive that helps us to see how this impact has influenced the growth of new services, and how services are coming on. a of our grant reporting. we're also promoting the training series that i mentioned already, and we have an advisory committee that

consists of formerly incarcerated people or people who have been providing information to incarcerated people that we plan to continue to sustain through the end of library association, our subgrantee, is working on building digital literacy resources for people who have been impacted by incarceration incarcerated, they don't have access to technology. so there's a huge need for more information about how libraries can utilize their existing resources toort people when they're getting out. we've already seen a major impact of this project. our professional networks ever been before. we have an ongoing communication with partners all across the united states. we know that there are. the training series, which is freely available online and available through the american library association's continuing education platform, um, is getting a ton of views. many librarians are getting certificates and we constantly hear from librarians across the country that their work. so thank you for your considering and for listening to my presentation. um

i look forward tonyue have. thank you. i do see, i do have a couple questions and but i do see part of it. it's already included in the presentation, whicing the travel, um, for the conference. um and so that was originally that i was trying to have a better undan the conferences are about. so i appreciate you included in the presentati you did actually submit a statement about why is retroactive, but could you just a little bit on the record ? um, during the hearing, uh why this was actually a retroact yes, we were invited to submit for this additional funding in july of last year. and mellon's process so we want to keep a continuity between the grant that we've already had in order to sustain our activities, because we don't want period . and so, because this one, it's the required date, it's october 1st. and wheneceive the grant? on september 22nd. but then now you just coming into the board for, for i think

we, we put in the when did we put this on. do you remember mike. iief financial officer for the san francisco public library. i don't recall exactly when we put this in to the to the initial process, b all the documentation together. and with the holidays and everything, this was the first really meeting that we could make giv t wthe september um, start date uh, where we originally received the information, as you know it's two weeks is a v amount of time for us to be able to turn around a packet to you all and go through the analysis with the controller's office and everyone elsealendaithin two weeks. so we always knew we were going to have to enter into retroactive, um, we would have liked to have this sooner,x2urse. um but we really hustled and got it as quickly as we could. looks like you. i mean, i mean according to the letter that you submitted, i'm i, you know that you you got the notice on september 22nd. looks like you had the required start date for the program on october 1st, which i assum you already

started because you don't want it to. you actually have a you it's a previous grant that you already receive and you're trying to do a continuing programing and but then it looks like you actually got the controller's approval on october 17th, and you submit it to the mayor's office for review and approval o third. okay yeah. um, okay. thank you, i appreciate it. um to, uhal accept and expand grants you know, which is coming to the to the city. i don't see any other questions. uh, it's always good to just be able to not to do it too. too long or too late. uh, in terms of retroactive city, uh you. um, madam. madam chair, i this i'm, um, just so impressed by this work. i it's one of the things i like about this committee is seeing the good stuff that the city and county does. and i want to thankng after this money. and programing it. and i would like to be added as a co sponsor. thank you. thank you. and with that, let's go to

public comment.. the public who have joined us today and wish to comment on on this item. um, now is your opportunity to line up and step up to the lectern, we have no speakers. thank you. seeing no public comments. public comment is now closed. colleagues, i would like to move this item to positive recommendation. and with that a roll call. please and on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive i mandelman i member melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. the motion passes mr. clerk, please call item number three. item number three is a resolution retroactive authorizing the department of children, yout and their families to accept and expand the grant in the amount of 1 million from the united states department of justice office of justice programsassistance for participate in the program entitled stop school violence program for the period of october 2nd, 2026. the funds will enhance the current san francisco school crisis support coordination project to improve

san franciscodi. school climate. madam chair, thank you. and we have jasmine dawson, uh, deputy director of city and community partnership from the departmenthildren, youth and families here. thank you. great. thank you so much. good morning. uh, supervisor chan mendelman and supervis. uh, my name is jasmine dawson. as i mentioned earlier, i'm actually director of city and community partnerships with the department of children, youth and their families. i am here to present the resolution to retroactively authorize our department to accept and expand a grant in the amount ofn united states department of justice. ojp bureau of justice assistance stop school violence program grant forxc t second, 2023 through october 1st, 2026. as stated in our packet, this is retrecause we were awarded the grant on september 28th. only four days before the grant start date of october 2nd,all the necessary review processes for this accept and expand, we are expecting we're questing

this for this resolution to be retroactiveay grant period. today, i will present briefly on the grant and our plan use of funds and will be joined today by my colleagues and youth and their families. our cfo, heidi burbidge, and also here, florence, um, mess. your name? corteza. i should know that i know florence. um joined here today and so the next slide please a submitted and won this grant to continue our partnership with sfusd. and several other partners to work initiative. this initiative helps improve school climate by providing students with the tools they need to recognize and respond, and help prevent acts of violence. um, these grant funds will support our growing infrastructure to support with the coordination plan and to purchase database to help us track on campus incidents and follow up in real time so that it ministers can access or have access to information and will provide more technical assistance and training for sfusd school staff, jp juvenile

probation departmentatn8 a partners covering such topics topics as positive youth development, mindfulness, conflict mediation interviewing, restorative justice and restorative practices. also roca rewire cognitive behavioral therapy which a seven skill help young people, um, learn and practice life saving skills. and we will. lastly weill plan to hire two staff at that will be placed at sfusd to assist in on site violence prevention in coordination between and our school violence interrupters , which are our community based partners. as well as juvenile probation departmentnk you. and so t award, the breakdown is it's again for our um"h, will support in the following areas of hiring a manager and a coordinator at the school districts. they will us, oh, we also have to pay for funds that are part of the application. we have to travel to their annual conferencese these funds to build out our

social media campaign. we recognize that there's a strong connection to social media, and it's been usedidents on and off campus. and we will use grant funds to make multiple approaches to address these issues. um with the school district on a psa public service announcement campaign to spread peace and unity. we'll also be using fu media task force that will include youth and city leaders. um, that will help us with real time monitoring, dashboards and searches of websites to monitor. we will also plan to hire for 20 social media monitors, um, that we hope to kick off in the summer, and then also to a contract to develop a trhat will also allow us to track and use and collect data that is, both ferpa and hipaa comply giant and done in. um, this slide here is a listing of our multien we present it to you all. um last year the committee did ask about

the composition of the role of our partners on the initiative. and he of those roles. in addition to our weekly coordination calls and trainings, we meet frequently throughout the year to continue the structure of our program and model. some of our core building blocks of these teams are listed here core team, our violence interrupters that are based at the schools um, our ucsf wraparound partners at the san francisco general hospital as well as juvenile probation department, and then also to our technical assistance providers. and then on this slide here, um, shows our goals and objectives. um, stop. grant is using is used to initiative. and we're aimed at accomplishing these goals and objectives here. decrease conflicts involving students on or off campus, timely response to on campus school incidents. upon notification, and being able to deploy apprportive resources to students and families that are impacted. um, we hope to

increase students connection to supportive resources and serviceso students forming lifelong bonds and trusted relationships with the caring adult and mentor. and then also to increase proportion with effective coordinated responses and strengthen our partnerships across um, uh, dcf, sfusd and our cbo partners. and let's see there, uh, i'll keep going to the next slide. uh, here this slide here shows our our current and ongoing priorities. these points highlight current activities. um, dcf sfusd and cbo staff are working through to achieve our goals and objectives . we laid out in the previous slide, um, at a previous hearing, weon around what these funds are being used to do. these are the current activities in motion , supported by the extended grant that were between um and just lifting up a couple of data points between march 2022tember 2023. our school violence interrupters reported conducting

approximately 143 conflict mediations and a !tions. most of those interventions were related to de-escalating and resolving student fights, shootings, and threats. um, these or interactions. numerous conflicts require intensive and ongoing support, such as daily check ins , family support, and wraparound 30 cbo community based organization referrals initiated to grow our network to supportive ofs for youth involved with conflicts. we're also focusing heavily on developing the core structures for growing and sustaining this work lastly, i want to end with, uh, the voices of some of our young people, um, in this last slide, we did some groundwork in planning for our social media, um, efforts that we know were coming. and we did some foc middle school and high school students and asked them to define what safety means to them. and here are some of the comments that they made. uh, lifting up again. um, it was a six focus groups. and over

70 students and, and um, yeah. and to continue to engage them as we build out the social media campaign work that we're going to get started using this grant funds and that's the end ofy presentation. and i'm happy to take questions. thank you. supervisor melgar. thank you so much. uh chair chan and thank you, miss dawson for the thorough presentation at. congratulations and this is really great. um, i do have some questions. as you and i have talked about this issue, as it pertains to our young people. um, so the, the the school violence interrupters. that's something that you guys have been working on for quite some time. and it's really great thing that gives me a little bit of worry about all this is that it's very response focused. we're respondingto social media to respond to anything. and while i understand that we want to concentrate on the kids who are, um, my worry is that all kids are

struggling after the pandemic. i feel like there's is, um, like a who have, uh, you know, sort of come of age on zoom. um, and, and, uh, have lacked a lotthe socialization to learn about o set boundaries, conflict resolution. uh, last year we had a hearing on, umn our public schools. and we heard a lot, particularly from girls. but also you know, boys in a lot of folks who, um, you know uh, talked about, uh, you know conflict resolution and consent a lot just sort of missing. so i am wondering, um, if there is an opportunity to sort of, uhio focused and work with the school district perhaps with some of these resources or perhaps, you know by expanding thi more, uh like peer support, uh, have a overall curriculum that can be rolled out to everyone

and supported by some of the staff. if, uh, that is about conflict resolution on gender violence, ow all of these things that are more preventative than responding to, uh, you know violence. yes, absolutely. i totally agree. you remember the pain points we experienced in the last couple of years particularly last year? um, and so, yeah that you're youone of the things that we've been working with the school district on is this infrastructure doesn't just have to apply for young people who have weapons, guns on campus . this can apply for a number, a number of ways. and the way that we're learning through this structure is, you know, the value of partnership, the value of, as you mentioned, empowering young people. we definitely want to make sure that we integrate that component, those components, the peer to peer to support is very importabut we and we also to i want to lift up that. we want to also leverage the many of our community based organizations that will be a part of our newp cycle. we are really being intentional about how important it is to have these structured partnerships in place with the school district so that we can, you know, learn from this.vention,

because really, all of what we need to do is around prevention. it shouldn't just be the intervention and the back end when that's too late. but so not to belabor the in what you presented in terms of the goals and then the structure, is any of this money going to be used on pre ? well, i would saynacviti that for the supports for the staff that are going to be coming in to be the sfusdthink what we're going to try to do is braid some of the work that's already happening on the school campus, which is why we wanted them to be sfusd position able to connect with the resources that already exist on the school campus so that we're not creating things exterior to and so my hope is that we can build towards that and make sure that that it points back to the prevention. and then again brayden, all of the resources that already sit on the school side, thank you. and i just want to say that, um, for us in the district one, you recently had an incident about, you know discovery of gun on students. um what i'm really hoping is get to that

point to identify students bringing weapon to campus, particularly guns, um's very alarming. before we even get into that point, it's to really hope that there is communications. and i see during your presentation, you sort of just like what do we do in terms of i think that definitely social media is an element and aspect of it, but what is i and teachers and community especially those who provide after school support, um, to be to coordinate some kind of communications, uh, among ourselves before, before that, that even happens. and thatto the presentation you mentioned about off campus campus communications. um, could you just elaborate just a little bit onah. i think this is a part where we really want to build out the public service announcement campaign. we wanted to have multiple components. that also includes how we engage to give tips to parents, how we give young people signs to be able to know, notice when things

tell. there are already systems in place with the school district but as you all know, with young people, they really tend to tell more to the people theyj÷ trust. and so that's why it's important that these roles, um, are there to capture and catch that information. also to i want to lift up thatbo the school ce interrupters also do work with parents. so when yoeople get into these incidents, there are moments where there's parent support. that's given through the based organization partners. but we need to do a lot more, um just things for parents to know. just to look out for with their young person on top of the messaging that we need to do in terms of blanketing the city. yeah. i mean, i think that the reality is that thank you for saying to do more of that work. um, what i would really like to see, um, not at this moment, but for your return to report back this programplementation of it is that to tell us very specifically what the infrastructure looks like, meaning, um, in my office actually working on, you know convening a communication tree, so to speak, that is

district one. clearly, you know, for parents, teachers and, and, and us and facilitate, uh, with along with community is it that we c about incidents that are not violent incidents, but high riskk that is where we need to identify high risk. uh individuals, high risk and teetering, that could lead to a violent incident. and i think that that is the question that i have that lack an infrastructure for, um, i shouldn't say we lack infrastructure for how do we scale up with the existing infrastructureha these types of grant funding, which is i assume is really the goal, how do we scale up and expand the existing infrastructure is what i like to hear. um, and that could be including what are the regular checks in? and, you know, um really lack. and i want to say, um, it's probably also i don't want to put it on

everyone as his , uh, has us a robust connection and network for a long time, but i think the pandemic sort ofé4k those things that have been building momentum, and that it's hard when people are not meeting in person. whende meeting, were not in meeting persons, including teachers and parents. so i really would love to see that resume in terms of communication channels. abso. vice chair mandelman. uh, thank you, chair chan. and, uh, again, this is important work. i um, have been concerned in a number of my constituents have been concerned , um, about incidents of violence that havela p middle schools. um, in in the district, which is shocking and disturbing in its intensity and in i'm glad to see, uh, you trying to address this. so i would like to be added as a co-sponsor for this as well. okay thank you. meet you. please so both, um

vice chair mandelman and supervisor melgar are now added as a co-sponsor for this item. thank you. we look forward to seeing you again. great. thank you. thank you. to public comment . yes, madam chair we now invite members of the public who joined us today who wish to address this committee regarding this item to ple lectern. madam chair, we have no speakers seeing, no public comments. public comment is now closed. colleagues would to move this item to full board with recommendation roll call. please and on that motion to forward to the full board with a chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes.es. uh mr. clark, please, uh, call item number four. yes item number four is a resolution to retroactively authorizing the department on the status of women to accept an expanded grant increase in the amount of approximately 156,000, for a of approximate 306,000 from the blue shield. california foundation for a one

year grant period from april 1st, 2024. for the, uh, for the leveraging collaboratives to end domestic violence program. madam chair, thanu.yo on the status of women here. hi. good morning. uh, nazneen. radon foster i'm a senior program manager f on the status of women. uh, good morning madam chair. supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar, i'm here today to request your support for an accept for the blue shield of california foundations. leveraging collaborative moves to end domestic violence. grant you have all the background and materials in some high level details. on september 23rd, the board of supervisors passed resolution numberore 3 on the status of women to accept and expand a grant from the blue shield of california in the amount of 150,000. this new in the amount of grant funds for a new total of 305,000 850,000. since 2019, the of women has been engaged with the blue shield of california foundation's grant program, leveraging collaboratives to end domestic

violence established the san francisco healing roots collaborative, a joint effort of our department women inc. and young community developers. the grant april 1st of 2023 to march 31st of 2024. the delay in presenting this accept and expand resolution to you was administrati we mentioned previously, the project at the healing roots collaborative. in this iteration of the grant cycle is to create the healing roots podcast. leveraging collaboratives to end domestic violence initiative is based entirely on the concept of collaborate between governmental and to address the root causes of domestic violence and sexual violence and to bring awareness to prevention and intervention effo$q in funding from this grant will go towards the compensation of our nonprofit partners, as well as the funding of departmental staff engaged within the project . again, i request your support of this. accept and expand resolution and happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you for your time that, um, majority of this. so we're looking at total $305,000. that's correct. um

roughly. and then seeing that about $42,000 going to staffing and then the rest i $135,000, roughly g partners, which is what you just listed. yes great. thank you. and then i do reme for you did actually include this grant in your budget at um during the budget hearing june 2023. that's great. thank you. uh, i don't see any other name on the roster. let's go to public comments on this item. thank you for all your work. yes. members of the public who have joined us today and wish to speak on this item. now is your opportunity to step up to the lectern. if you want to provetioommittee. madam chair, we have no speakers. great seeing, no public comments. public comment is now closed. vice chairman, domain co sponsor. thank you. sounds good. thank you. and with that um, let's move this item to full board with recommendation and a roll call please. and on theyá m the full board with a positive recommendation vice chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i chair chan passes,

mr. clark, i sorry, i jan, i and the motion passes. um. and with that item number five. yes item number five is an ordinance appropriating 1.4 million from the issuance of treasury island infrastructure and revitalizationn2 in financing district for rfd series 2023. b tax increment revenue bonds to the affordable housing project in the mayor's office of housing and community development, and placing these amounts on controllers reserve in fiscal madam chair thank you. and this one has budget and legislative analyst report. so let's go to the department presentation which is the treasure island development authority. thank you. thank you. good morning supervisors. jamie querubin, finance manager with the treasure island development authority. uh, before you for your review and recommendation is an ordinance approving creating 1.54 million in tax increment revenue bond proceeds from the treasure island infrastructure and revitalization financing

district, or the irs. fd. i do not have a foay, but as a reminder to this committee, tida and the controller's office of public finance presented a related item to budget and finance in december of last year to approve the issuance and sale of these erfde bonds. subsequent to final appl ervisors, the city priced and closed the erfde bonds in the end of december for. so this is a trailing piece of legislation re bond sale, which appropriates the finalthe erfde bonds. um it's my understandingce the appropriation amount from the esmated amount of 1.54 million to the actual sale. of $1,350,239. and we agree with that recommendation. um, as required bying plan, the erfde bond proceeds will be used for pre-development costs on a 100, 150 unit affordable housing project located on treasure island, called parcel ik 4.3

which is planned to start 2026 for completion in 2028. um, cindy heavens, senior project manager at mosi, is present to answer any questions related to the affordable housing project and minguo from the controller's office of public finance is here to answer any questions related to . good morning, supervisors. nick menard from the budget legislative analyst's office appropriation ordinance that would appropriate $1.54 million of treasure island bond proceeds. these are tax increment revenue bonds that were approved by the board in december. and this money will be used to partially fund a $4.5 that will be provided to john stewart company and catholic charities for the development of a parcel on treasure. right now, the design includes 150 affordable housing units and a child care center at that site. re these bond funds will be from property taxes

generated within have a recommendation tot appropriation. to 1.1 $1,350,239, which is the actual, um, amount in this account, and recommend approval of this ordinance, as amended. thank you. um i don't have any questions, but my assumption is that, um, that, uh, treasure island, uh, development auth, uh, agreeable to the amendments to reflect the uh, amount that is recommended by the budget and legislative analyst. we do agree with the recommendation. thank you. and so with that let's go to public comment on this item. yes. members of the public who have joined comment on this item. now is your opportunity to line up next to those curtains. if you wish to address this committee. madam chair, we have no speakers. thank closed. uh, i'm glad to have both vice chair mendelman and supervisor melgar, who are actually our chair vr on county transportation authority, are here and looking at this and evaluating this

project, knowing that we still have the toll for treasure island,f to discuss and figure out . so very exciting, very exciting things to make sure that people who live on the island have access transportation and ways to get in and get out. um, and so with that, and i'd like to move this itoard recommendation and a roll call, please. um, excuse me madam chair, are we first like to amend according to the budget and legislative anal amended item to the full board with recommendation. and with that, a roll call please. and on that motion to, uh, to reduce the appropriated amount from approximately 1.5 to 1.3 and, and to forwardt ordinance to the full board with positive recommendation, as amended. uh, vice chair mandelman mandelman i member. melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. and the motion passes. with that let's go to item number six. yes item number approving the director of public works

declaration of emergency. under the administrative code to replace chiller boiler and in associated repair and upgrades at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, located ate. estimated to cost in excess of 250,000 and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental you. all i can say is that i want to start off to say, um thank goodness no one was hurt. uh, from appreciate you coming before us today. i know that we tried to schedule this item before we went on legislative recess, but i appreciate the dep d required in order for us to process this. um, so the floor anod morning, madam chair. members of the committee. mr. clark. uh, i'm gabriel lim senior architect with the public bu of architecture. uh, my esteemed colleague here, jason zook, is an executive project manager from the department of&ublic health at zfg. uh, with that, we are here

to request approval to approve the emergency declaratierberg san francisco general hospital to allow for the construction for the zfg building to chiller boiler project. um, our presentation include one a request for approval. risks and vulnerabilities, and three status and progress far as for a request for approval, we are seeking board of supervisors approval for amend code section 6.60 d for the chiller, boiler and cooling tower replacement project in 2016, department of health opened a new inpatient acute care h 25 on the xfg campus. the former acute care building, building five, currently. units in seven b, seven c and one b, and a skilled nursing unit inmany outpatient clinics and services. additionally building five

houses the materials and central supply for the campusces. building five also houses critical inpatient services, including the clinical laboratory, linen and the kitchen that serves the inpatient units in building 25. building three houses the pathology lab, which services all services on campus. far as risks and vulnerabilities and absence of adequate cooling during high heat days could result in the suspension of serious effects to inpatient acute care services and possibly require relocation of inpatient beds from building additionally dfe has acquired provisional mobile cooling equipment as a stopgap measure. however this is a temp be unable to meet cooling demand on high heat days. you can kind of see the on the right showing the current temporary cooling tower as

installed outside building two. uh dfe has secured an actively working in partnership with san francisco public works on a project to replace the cooling towers and chillers on campus. however infrastructure failure requires a dramatic acceleration of this project to protect the health and safetystaff and visitors on campus. the cooling tower is to building five and building three by a series of cooling towers located adjacent to the power plant and chillers inn september 6th, 2023. the cooling towers unexpectedly and catastrophically failed. subsequentlyfoot 72 pound, 75 pound fan blades into the air. these blades damaged safety fencing, causing some debris to landparking areas. thankfully, no injuries or had occurred. the cooling towers are unrepairable and remain inoperable'izjyntil a replacement project is completed. as far a

, public works declared an emergency at the request of dph and continues to address project needs. project is out to with bid prices due on on january 19th, 2024, with the anticipate for construction to start in marchcess is usually utilizing the best value process due to the complexity and critical nature of the proje that public works will coordinate with dfe on the subsequent awards for the emergency project. to recap our request is to approve the emergency declaration for zuckerberg san francisco general hospital ande construction for the csfg building to chiller boiler and cooling tower project in order to for dfe to ptients, staff and visitors on campus. we are in agreement with bla who are recommending approval of this item. thank you for your time and consideration

on this request. thank you. item six is a resolution that approves the public works emergency declaration. declaration reted to the cooling tower and chillers. uh, failure at general hospital. um this infrastructure has been planned to be replaced since 2011. um, there's been $26 million of general fund money allocated to the p. um, and then in 2020, the board approved $34.7 million of certificate of participation debtor thi project. and at that time, the expected the project was expected to be complete in 2023, but h yet. it's now expected to start in march 2024 and then finish in 2026. um, the reason for thstaff, is , um, delays from pg and e and obtaining electricity connection and a back and forth with the state, which has a regulator that regulates changes to

hospital facilities. um and then just longer than expected design work. so this what thisncdeclaration does is waives procurement requirements for, um obtaining construction contracts as outlined in administrative code. it also waives other contracting requirements and chapters 12, a, b, c and 14 b. uh. we detailed of the project on page ten of our report, which are fully funded by the previously approved general fund. uh, money. uh, and the certificate of participation debt, which would be issued next year. we recommend approval of itemixk you. i think this is a question more for the city attorney. and then then for really the looking at this is telling us that, you know thank you for the budget and legislative analysis saying that let's approve this.es sense. um, but we're also looking at, uh, through the report, it details the cost of it is m

uh, close to almost $47 million. and just both the soft costs and construction and everything else. um in terms of legislation itself and we had these conversation before about um, these emergency declaration section 6.6. is that/é here in the legislation, we're saying the cost inchnically that is what, um the emergency declaration requires. as soon as you have something in r nature that you then have to come to the board as soon as it's exceeding $250,000 we have in the past in these, um, legislation, you kn we say exceeds or not exceeds when we understand and identify the cause for example, you know, in the past we have say not to exceed 2 million for an elevator repair in portsmouth square. and here we are stating that it's that this repair is actually in excess of $250,000. while we do have the report budget and legislative analyst report saying that along with

with public works and department of public health say÷ayoe going to look at this cost of it and the repair it's going to cost us roughly almost $47 million. so/ i'm jtrus to understand. so once we approve this in the events that the cost of repair that is, you you know, above this $47 million of estimates, that is before us today. wh to it like? what what what do we do from there and on out? like, does it come back to the board for approval or have the emergency declaration excess of. $250,000 or not? you know, exceeds $250,000, then so they don't need to come back. deputy um, chair chan mandate here is to give kind of an up or down approval on whether an emergency exists of this, um, this expenditure is,

is appropriate or this work is appropriate chapter six requires it's there's no cap imposed if the board approves this going forward without the chapter six requirements. so i don't think there's any trigger for the project to come back to the board to reauthorize this. yeah. so i just want to put that colleagues, once we approve this emergency repair and rightlmost $747 million. if this exceeds $47 million, then that means the departme of public works and department of public health will not be returning before us. for more of it. and then again, you know, the waiver, the emergency uh, waiver for administrative code section 6.6 is it also means that i do believe it's also because that's what the emergency declaration is. so um, i just going to questith this, um, cost estimate and knowing that it's because we

have what i would consider as a deferredwh um, and therefore, like here we are, you know, it's i'm again like i said earlier, i'm so glad no one was hurt. it soundsere blaze or, you know flying around. luckily, we have a public like we have a safety fencing that, um, that so help me understand you know, the cost estimates at this time before us we are we going to hold true to the $47 million of repair question, madam chair. um we have taken every, um, due diligence in orderpride for accurate cost estimate and provide for budgeting based on what our professional services cons have provided. um we will get a more accurate figure, uh, based upon the as, umyi, i know, jason, if you

have any comments on that, sure. jason zook, executive project manager, zuckerberg, we've we've we've done several professional cost estimates. we're confident that we'll stay within within buwi. that the longer it takes, obviously escalation i his costs to projects. so by approving this emergency declaration we can save 6 to 8 months off the total duration of the project so thatefinitely helps us keep us within budget. okay. um, i, i just want to not not because of this particularoject i have, uh, you know, express my concerns around the waiver, emergency declaration. not not because of this, uh, emergency particular emergency declaration. i think it is on on me. is< he said that before that we will we will figure out a way to amend administrative code.

um 6.6 to figure out the events that a project exceeds, um, again, you know, in its cost estimates, uh, we bring them back for, for reevaluation action. um and i think we need to we need to sor, like what is the threshold between when an emergency declaration, when they actually ed? uh, for further evaluation. when it, when it comes to contract and contract expenses, um, especially given that by nature it's going to waive all the procurement, um in contract and so do we allow this indefinitely in the events that it exceeds the original estimates. thank you. uh, i appreciate everyone being here today. um a conversation to be continued. thank you. uh withgo to public comments on this item. yes. we invite members of the public who've joined us today this committee regarding this item to please line up now. madam chair, we have no speaker. thank you.

seeing no public commentspublic comment is now closed and colleagues with that, i am going to, if i may um, suggest that we move this, uh, with because um, this is i while i understand that we need to make this, uh we need this money for repair, i do not know where will this be now that once just be us. if in the event that this continue to go on beyond. $47 million. um, i, i would like to have the opportunity to explain why we wouldn't recommend these type of emergency declaration without being included in the approval. uh with that, a roll call please. andht, solution to the full board without recommendation. vice chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar chan i we have three eyes. thank you. and the motion passes. and with that, i would like to call item number seven

and eight togeth items. uh seven and eight. uh, item seven is a resolution retroactive authorizing the department of building inspection to ptacce grant in the amount of 100,000 from the california energy commission for participation in the california automated permit processing program and for costs associat adoption and maintenance of solar plus, uh, an online automated solartteriod of september 1st, 2023 through may 31st 2027, and item number eight is an ordinance amending suspend the annual registration requirement and registration fee for the vacant or abandoned commercial storefronts through december 31st, 2024, and affirming the planning department's determination under sequa. madam chair, thank you. and today we have carl nishida here from manager from the department of building inspection. but before we move any further, i just want to say that i believe the mayor's office, alon building inspection, have requested for item number eight to be continued. so the call chair until we figure this out and

esfeci gen suspension, we want to continue this as part of the budget conversation. so i just want to go to item number seven for the presentation. thank you, chair chan. good morning, chair chan, vice chair mandelman and supervisor melgar i'm carl nfairs manager for the department of building inspection. today sb is seeking approval of a retroactive accept and expend grantergy commission for participation in the california automated permit processing program for you in 2022 california lawmakers passed senate bill 379, the solar access act, authored by senator scott wiener, whichequires most california cities and counties to adopt an automated online permitting platform for standard residential, solar and storage systems year. actually, the department of building inspection chose to adopt solar a-plus, an online application developed by the national renewable energy laboratory. solar plus automates and standardizes the processes for simple residential storage asks the

contractor a series of questio solar system's design is up to code. it then runs annd plan check, and then for compliant systems automatically issues a permit so that the installation can begin. solar a-plus application is permanently available to customers on dbis website as of october 1st, 2023. it will he ime and money, reduce our staff workload, helping san francisco with our goal of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2025 anenergy or sorry electricity by 2025, and renewable energy by 2040. it hassostep in dubai's ongoing efforts to modernize our operations and make our permitting process more customer friendly. dbe has issued about 50 solar permits from solar a-plus, including a pilot program that was launched last sp energy commission has agreed to fund dbe in the amount of $100,000 for the costs associated directly with the adoptif sor. a-plus,

the cec grant funding will support ongoing staff training and education specific to the solar um, as well as equipment that supported the adoption and platform maintenance. this is a retroactive resolutionsothat. dbe submitted our grant application to the cec on february 9th of 2023. we received notification of thee did require us to finalize the grant agreement and signed by have itned by both cec and dbe by june 30th of 2023 to ensure that the funding that was approved in the state budget in yearavailable. so upon receiving the award agreement, dbe prepared the grant package and submitted that to oice review and approval. in september. over there, the comptroller's office requested some corrections to the resolution and supporting documents andwe submitted the revised resolution to the mayor's office for their review in october, and it was submitted to the board on october 31st. so again todval of the retroactive accept and expend grant. i

appreciate your time. happy to answer any questions. thanks thank you, vice chair. madam um, thank you, madam chair. um, the board of supervisors passes lots of resolutions urging lots of things and theyofor into the ether and we wonder whether anything is going to come of them. but in this case um, we actually passed a resolution that i and that i believe supervisor melgar co-sponsored back at the time um, in support of sb 3 hefurtments to move swiftly and implement implementing automated solar permitting platforms and reducing permit review time for solar energy and battery storage systems. and at the time, we worked with some of the same folks who were doing the advocacy in sacramento about thisor(z wiener. um, spur. nick josefowitz was was taking lead on that at the time. the california solar and storage asso california. jacob bintliff, who was then in my office, did a lot on this, and it's exciting to see the departmenvi forward and even more exciting to see you getting state funding

to do it. so um, bravo. that's great. i'm excited. and i added as a co-sponsor . thank you. and that's a very enthusiastic co-sponsor. and with that, i don't, uh, let's seven and on the continuance of item eight. yes. members of the public have joined us today and wish to speak on both items. uh seven and or eight uh, to let them know if you wish madam chair, we have no speakers seeing no public comments. public comment is now closed. and, colleagues, i would like to make the motion to continue t item seven to full board with recommendation. and with that a roll call. please and on that motion, uh to forward item seven to the full board with a positive recommendation. and to continue item eight. i'm sair, madam chair, to call the chair. yes, indeed. very well. my apologies, vice chair. mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three

eyes. thank you. and the motion passes and with that please call item number nine. item number7i nine is a resolution app number 48 to the treasure island land. andst es the treasure island development authority and the united states navy to extend the terms for one year to commence december 1st, 2023, for a to of november 19th, 1998 through november 30th, 2024. and to authorize the treasure island director to execute and enter into amendments, uh, to the lease that are that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to intent of this resolution. madam chair, thank you. and we have treasure island development uh, chair chan and members of the committee. my name is peter somerville with treasure island development authority staff. uh in front of master lease for managed for land and structures on treasure island between the authority and the navy. the amendment is to extend the terms for o y to december one

2023 and continuing to november 30th 2024. we acknowledge the request is for retroactive approval, which is not ideal the navy was delayed in issuing the amendment to tighter, resulting in the tide aboard not being able to approve the amendment until its november submission for the board of time next year, we certainly seek to bring that before the committee priorum, the need for retroactive approval. um, the amendment extends the terms for one year on the same terms and conditions. are associated with this amendment. it is an annual amendment that the board sees, uh, tighter requests, approval of the item i am available to answer any questions that the committee might have. thank you. we have this lease since 19th november 1998. that i the beginning. terme. yeah. um in the title, the amendment is for one year. the leases are amended on an annual basisuh november 30th. so i believe the title of the amendment indicates the entire terms of the lease going back to 1998. but this amendmenth and then, um,

could you just elaborate just a little bit more? why do we need to have this o

leasing portfolio and also included in this master lease premises is the perimeter path along the northern end of the and biking path. so tida does make use of the facilities and premises under this lease on a regular basis. and intention to continue, uh you know, to lease this lease the spaces all three spaces and that whenever for uh, a long if if granted a longer time, we will negotiate for a longer time , uh, contingent on approval. we would certainly be open to a longer terms for this lease. that is a question that we ask the navy every year. perhaps they'll change their mindfu itu÷q also obviously be a point where all these properties will transfer through that formal process. this is the last master have with the navy. so we do expect this lease to sunset. i don't want to specify the timing. that's probably a better answer for bob to give. but, yes, this lease does have a does have a sunset. eventually okay. good to know. thank you. that's that's what i'm trying to get at

appreciate it. with that. let's go to public comment on this item. yes, madam chair, uh members of the public who have joined us today wish totem. now's your opportunity to step to the lectern if you wish to chair, we have no speakers seeing no public comments. public comment is nowx9 i would like to move this item to full board with recommendations and with that roll call please. uh apologies, madam chair. we were um, i did distribute, uh, a proposed amendment, um, from title to basically add retroactive language, uh, as this a december 1st, 2023. understood. would like to, um, resend the previous motion and would like to maked the legislation to insert and the terme retro active throughout the legislative to reflect its retroactivity. um, and that would like to send the amended version to the full board with recommendation and with that a roll call, please. and on that motion uh, to amend the resolution to add retroactive language that

resolution to the full board with the positive vice chair mandelman middleman i member melgar i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. and the motion passes. and with that, please mr. clerk, call our actually last item on the agenda. uh item number ten, item number ten is a resolution retroactively authorizing the recreationtm accept and expend a grant from the california state coastal conservancy for a total for a terme effective upon execution of t december 31st, 2024. in the amount of 5.1 million for the pment approv agreement. approving the recording of a deed restriction that prohibits residential use and commercial u as sensitive on the property in perpetuity, and authorizing the recreation and park department to enter into amendments or modifications do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of this project or the, thank you. um we have tony moran from, uh, capital

grants manager from recreation department. good morning. um, good morning chairperson chan and committee members melgaard and mandelman on behalf of the i'm here to request your recommendation to the board of supervisors to authorize a resolution. retro and park department to accept and expend a grant from the california state coastal conservancy in the amount $5.1 million for the 900 ns redevelopment project. uh, the legislation also retro retroactively approves the associated grant agreementoves the recording of a deed restriction that will prohibit residential use and commercial uses, defined as sensitive on the property authorizes a recreation and park department to enter into amendments and modifications to the grant agreement that do not materially i or liabilities of the city. the 900 and redevelopment project is the second phase of the india basin waterfronitiative, a partnership among the trust of public land. the san francisco

parks alliance, a philip randolph point community, and the department. the initiative endeavors to build a park that is both spectacular and crucial health of san francisco's southeast communities, which have historically been underserved. the state coastal conservancy grant will suppo two of the initiative the construction of a new park at the 900 ennis property, which is owned by the city and under . that phase two was initiated in september of 2022. it's currently in construction, and the completion is anticipated for this summer, with um in summer of 2024. this property was previously a brownfielfield and is now being transformed into a world class park that will provide new public access to the shoreline and waterfront recreation for grant funded elements, um that were initiated in november 2023 are fun conservancy grant. these uh grant elements are consistent with the coastal conservancy's

uh strategic pland for that reason the department proposes to request reimbursement for those expenditures. as ofg 2023. also um, the grant agreement was executed on december 28th, 2023. and thesem two actions are the reasons this legislation is retroactive. as part of phase one of the india , the 900in property was mediated. the remediation work was completed in august of 2022 under a series of federal and a grant from the environmental protection agency which requires that the city record a deed restrictionerty um certain uses of the site. this epa grant was approved by the board of supervisors on via resolution number 396 dash 19 i per the epa agreement, um prohibited from the property include a hospital for humans, a public or private school for persons less

than 18 years center for children or any permanently occupied habitation on the site other than those used for industrial purposes. you since this property is currently parkland, it's already protected as open space. butup these types of deed restrictions are generally required for sites h remediated or redeveloped. if there is any potential for contamination and the purpose is to protect public health will also also authorize the department to enter into amendments or modifications to the agreement that do not materially the obligations of liability or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the project or this resolution. that concludes my presentation and i am available to answer questions. thank you. i don't think we appreciate the support and expand grant from the state's, uh for this project. look forward to seeing it complete. um, and let's go public comments on this item. yes, madam chair, members of the public who have joined us today

uh, in wish to speak on this item. now is our opportunityand address this committee and provide public comment. madam chair, we have no speakers. thank you. seeing no public comments, public comment is now clo move this item to full board with recommendation. and with that a roll call. please and on that motion to forward this resolutionboard with a positive recommendation vice chair mandelman amendment i member melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. and with that and mr. clerk, do we have any other business before us today madam chair, that concludes our business. the meeting is adjourned.

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>> (music). >> the ferry building one of most famous that as many of thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the

gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that rest and repairhips but at any given time three hundred peopb+le in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay andwoods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san

francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at thefeburr>m5 picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry ond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grander competition to hire an architecture and choose

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