addition to thousands of wounded . and missing and missing journalists, journalists, speaker time has elapsed. thank you. hi. i'm a constituent 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. i think it's ridiculous. we understand everyone here 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. it's not untrue to say that more people, especially in my age, are realizing the importance of local politics. so all due respect, if you want to keep

your jobs, you will vote for this 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've heard so many stories of hope coming 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 listening. i 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 do. 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. the mics 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 our demands. i 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 resolution as is, with 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 killings and the silencing 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 francisco state university. we're an organization 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 attacking women, 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 do the 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 for ceasefire. and while they 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 in their 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 history of resistance in their classrooms and they have the right to come home to palestine without the fear of violence and bombing from the israel state. i call on you to vote for the ceasefire 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 migrant non 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 historical revisionism 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 abuse in their schools. 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 time has elapsed. 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 ancestors 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 solidarity and say 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 and a community committed to actualizing health equity,

healing and reproduce of freedom. but we can't stand for reproductive health while ignoring the violence against the palestinian people. over 9000 children have been murdered in palestine in. this is more 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, we urge our city 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. this is the middle ground. 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 children and babies wouldn'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 ceasefire would mean we are going backwards. just remember, we are the voters that keep you in power. to date, i have not seen one physically violent pro palestinian protest speaker. time has elapsed. 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 favor of 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 idea of a permanent, 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 event, my bulletins 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, meaning that they are 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 resident of 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 international, we are demanding this board of supervisors to vote yes on a cease fire with

the resolution written as is and no amendments. i am here because i feel guilty for being alive to have running water when children have been starved for weeks to have the privilege of scrolling past videos of families stuck under the 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 with injuries and due to starvation, as each day this genocide goes on, to trust our representatives is to know that they 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 communities that find haven here in san francisco. speaker time has lapsed on the right hand side of history. yes. kefar salam

alaikum, michael rupert, district nine. let's just get down to business. this is what a queer gazan looks like. i lost contact with him probably two weeks ago. 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 recognize the power of your office, 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 message 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 if you believe this speaker time has elapsed. 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, protesting in every way that 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 died since october 7th. but i don't think we collectively have enough hands over here, nor the rose petals to represent those that have been around 23 people dead, including 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 motion put forth by 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 proposed resolution is extremely well written. it echoes calls by the american public health association, the largest public health association in the world, for a ceasefire for extending humanitarian aid and for freeing

all the hostages. it also echoes a similar call 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 time has elapsed. hello. my name is doctor robert gould. i live in district seven. i'm also to my family, including my great grandparents and many of the rest of my family perished from the nazis. i'm here today. um, i'm president of san francisco bay physicians for social response. ability in support of the initial, uh,

resolution one without amendments. 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 resident and voter. my jewish values lead me to call for an immediate and

lasting ceasefire. the path towards 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 learned that no one spoke out for the jews to stop the holocaust. the public is here today. speak out and our government needs to listen and 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 resolutions. this would set a precedent for our 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 deflect focus away 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 voice 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 recording, and voters will remember. thank you. yes. hello,

supervisors. thank you for listening, and i appreciate i saw some of you standing. i'm i appreciate i saw some of 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 therapist. i actually want to speak 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 tired, the 100 times a day. my wife and i are able to meet these simple needs. we are imagining and feeling the pain of 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. speaker time has 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 to a massacre as in the gaza concentration camp. i'm here to add my voice to that of thousands who, for the last three months have demonstrated 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 minimum that we can do. it is our moral obligation. this resolution must be passed for the sake of our palestinian community, for the sake of all justice minded people and for the sake of humanity, free palestine, self-determination for the palestinian people. yes. hello my name is kirsten 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 the struggle of the palestinian people is our struggle, 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. san franciscans are sharp. 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 like food, schools, health 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 sf district seven. i strongly urge you to pass the ceasefire resolution that was introduced. by supervisor preston. no

amendments. sf must stand for life humanitarian 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 for me, does 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. it 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 heart and soul and 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 came to this 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 person without rights or citizenship. it's 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 cease fire, rather, he is urging to condemn the acts of hamas where there is no vote other than no on a resolution that doesn't unequivocally condemn hamas and call for their removal. no no, no. where is the jewish palestinian population? in 1948, the year the israel was founded

totaled approximately 150,000 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 grandparents and my father were victims of war, and i can tell you that the effect of war and the trauma of war does not go away easily, because

both my myself and my siblings have felt that effect. please pass this resolution motion without any amendments. the people of gaza are depending on you. thank you. good afternoon, my name is j connor b ortega and while i'm here, not as 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 fire. when the idf eliminates hamas and this conflict ends, any city, any politician, any support for even those bused in

who stood with hamas will have their names written down as anti-semites. anti-semites on the tapestry of history and in elections. i 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 of your appreciation or disagreement. to the matter. thank you. hello. my name is doctor oscar echevarria. i live in district 11. i 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 genocide being funded by our tax dollars, not only butchering children and families in their homes and on the street, but depriving our very own communities of sustenance. false and inflammatory, racially 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 families of the israeli hostages themselves, who are holding the netanyahu government responsible for prioritizing the destruction of palestine. over a hostage exchange. it completely 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 gap between

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. this time last year i started taking arabic so i can communicate with my partner's family. i got paired up with asma, who lives in gaza, and for an hour each week i would video chat with her to learn arabic. on october ninth, i received a text from her apologizing for having to cancel our lesson because of an explosion from the israeli military. she 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, i wait nervously to 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, maiming and continued murdering 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 us. 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 as a public 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 idf. with no functional health care system and an unending siege, palestinians are experiencing a significant

increase in infectious diseases, contamination of air, water and food due to bombs and due to the intentional destruction by the idf of water infrastructure, among others. even in the most basic of needs is a miracle for palestinians every single day. hospitals are operating under disaster triage and if it if it if disaster triage was bad in times of war, 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 tired of coming here 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 to you about the 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 for a resolution 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 health nonprofit in san 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 how well 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 this resolution without any 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 elias 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 matter. 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 understand exactly 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. they wouldn't let this 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, they. my name is 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 the original resolution 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 of palestinians. please listen to the majority of your constituents. who are asking you to pass the resolution. as is. many 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's like to be targeted, our 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 also why we condone the terrorism 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 the 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. i'm a district one voter in support here for the original resolution with no amendments. uh, so it is quite the time to be a seeing feeling, 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 dead. for this reason, i was 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. i understand that as 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 either. uh so, uh, it is truly the bare minimum that, as elected officials, for 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 support 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 targeted by the apartheid regime 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 of their operations to 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 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, regardless of district lines, 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 vote and. i will remember whether my supervisor melgar, stood idly by while our taxpayer dollars funded genocide , or whether she heeded the international call for a ceasefire. history will smile

upon those of you who take the bold call for ceasefire. and to those still considering voting 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 netanyahu is not restrained, the whole region will go up in flames. please be bold. take action before we are all buried beneath the rubble. this kind of stuff 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 quick to dismiss and condemn the acts of hamas. the same group where 85%

of them are orphans and direct products of the occupation. since october 7th, there 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 not wage a struggle against the jews because they are jewish, but wages a struggle against the zionists that occupy palestine, where there is occupation, there will be resistance every atrocious act that the opposition highlights on october 7t 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 returned with no organs. 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 rights day 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 san francisco stands against 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 possible with our tax dollars. so that means we the people you all represent, have the power to end genocide in in gaza. please stand with the people of your city for the children of gaza and all of the palestinian 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 your 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 ceasefire, but it is 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 about 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 yes on the cease fire resolution as is, with no amendments. let us begin the process of repentance and teshuva. return meaning by owning up to the fact that we are abetting a genocide in gaza. never again means. now, if i can leave you with one thing, it is that 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 treating this like a debate and playing coy about making public statements. us and israel are jointly committing genocide against palestinians. 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 and phd from. ninth district.

i'm here because 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 president biden to the 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 streets 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 for enduring 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 kellman. i'm in d one. i am pleading that you pass the ceasefire resolution without racist amendments. i'm actually embarrassed to be here again. um, it just seems so obvious what we need. and, you know, a lot of us would like to think that we're morally good. however, you know, during, um, i have to go back to history is like in germany. we'd like to think that we would have been 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 providing all the weapons that they're using and all the funding. it's like the secret

war that we're fighting with other people's lives. um, i. i was standing in line, been in line for about over four hours, and i was thirsty, and i just it hit me, i 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 is charlie shammas. i'm 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 alongside my grandparents, 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 always believed that solidarity, justice and peace must reign over war apart, right and genocide. if you were alive today, he would never sanction 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 eyes when this is a city known for taking action for social and racial justice? i am ashamed of you all for your complicity in allowing 93 days of genocide, 93 days of family bloodlines being 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 the start, it specifically called for an end to anti-semitism as well as islamophobia. if you're afraid of being seen as backing extremists, then 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. is. in my 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, we know what genocide 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 not asking you to change foreign policy. we are asking you to represent. us and our collective duty to oppose 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 in the outer sunset district for i gave a public comment in support of dean preston ceasefire resolution on december 5th, asking that it be voted on urgently and in its original form. i'm here again to emphasize that this basic ceasefire resolution be voted on on its in its 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 campaign. now, a month later, there are over. 30,000 people killed, over 12,000 children. if you don't act, you are complicit. these petals represent the martyred blood and cease fire. now free palestine and the occupation. hi, my name is fatma and i'm a middle school student waking up and going to school. being. able to learn a curriculum, seeing my friends may as well be a dream compared to palestine, which has officially ended the school year 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 at 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 hospital bed. it's a dream. knowing that i use pens to draw and make 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 dreams. and futures, just like 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, as

you've heard, as an immigration 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, recognizing palestinian 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, uh,

board of supervisors for allowing us to speak on this issue. uh, i was also here in early december, and i am not in enthused that we have 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 amendments. this is just 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 also know, see 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 your phone right now. 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 policy is genocidal and will lead to him losing the election. we, as your constituents and donors, will remember how you vote 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 right side of history. my name is sami. i'm a palestinian voter in district nine with muslim, christian and jewish grandparents. the ceasefire resolution is not complicated and 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 or gutting it via amendments that leave it meaningless is controversial. all the small pro genocide fringe group that is opposed to the resolution is welcome to their disturbing 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 amendment. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is carolyn goosen, and i'm here 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 the ceasefire

resolution 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 defender, i stand against state violence and oppression and systems that violate civil and human rights, and i urge our u.s. leaders, including our san francisco leaders, to join the 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 and 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 peace. 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 our neighbors here in san francisco. 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 introduced on december 5th,

the death 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 filed genocide proceedings against israel at 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. israel is starving gaza 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 here as refugees. armenians fleeing turkey sometime around 1915. so 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 to the very hospital where 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 by the idf. 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 because they have seen what that looks like firsthand, they know what apartheid is and they are against it, which is why all of us are against it. and you have to hold up that san francisco

legacy. good afternoon motherfuckers. my name is jordan . my pronouns are she her, they 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 many palestinians who are physically 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. in fact, the only 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. pink wash your dorsey, lick my cotton and choke on it. i yield my time. fuck you. good afternoon. 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. i am a 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 hope 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, my name is francisco da costa. i say from the river to the sea. free palace. stein and i say to you, that right there is where we have the war memorial theater in 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 for 75 years. so this mickey mouse stuff that you all are doing here goes nowhere. if you really have your heart in the right place, 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 month or more. i 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. we are 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 to 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. last night i was called a right wing murderer for doing nothing but being jewish. i do not feel safe here. also. so as a jew, 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 city funding 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 american who's from an orthodox christian family. i am a native

san franciscan born and raised here, and i'm a constituent in district four. i support the 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 fabric of san francisco 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 properties, 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 vots, and it is your duty to represent our concerns, to be 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, according to the israeli human rights organization hamoked. among those being held are dozens of women and scores of children waiting without trial, and many on the 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 100 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 pass without delay and without supervisor 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, my mother is jewish and my father is muslim, which makes me both jewish and muslim. and for me, there's no conflict. i'm not pulled between different allegiances because this situation is very simple. it is a very simple question of standing for human rights. anyone, regardless of their

affinities or their belongings, should be able to have the humanity to recognize that genocide and ethnic cleansing are wrong. i ask. 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 in san francisco? all 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 when you go home tonight 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 courage and the conscience to pass this resolution. the. hello, supervisor. my name is wheeler freeman and i'm a constituent of district eight and a 30 year resident of san francisco and the bay area. i speak as a black, biracial and indigenous american in full support of this resolution with no war or political semantics amendments. i've heard voices speak of

unprovoked attacks by hamas. however, we all know the history. prior to october 7th, this did not start with hamas, and with the discovery of and knowledge of new facts and contributions to the deaths 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 be up for debate, 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 you, you came to a memorial and you tried to use the death of one of our fellows and twist it into a

political ploy. shame on you. you need to make this right. i want to read a few quotes. the children are always ours. every single one of them. all over the globe. 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 terrified at the moral apathy. uh, angela davis, who graduates from my alma mater, brandeis university, says palestine is a moral litmus test for the world. this is a moral 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, where your values stand, and, uh, thank you so much. hi. thank you, supervisors, for listening to us. my name is stacy, and i'm a

30 year resident of district five and a small business owner here to urge you to support dean preston's, um, initial. of fully without any amendments. we have to use the political power that we have here. i have walked precincts in d5 for 30 years since matt gonzales was running for that seat. and i know, as you all do, that the voters in this city way beyond the 68% nationally, support a permanent cease fire 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 cease fire resolution. and thank you to dean preston and everyone who is letting democracy happen here. you. are 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 from congress. i believe 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 taught? when we're lucky, i think we learn about the these atrocities that happen in the past. and i'm sure each of 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 how could the people in charge 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, um, taking 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 fire resolution with no amendments. since i've been here last december, i think 10,000 plus people have died. um, i'm just here 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 the rest of the 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 stepped 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 any amendments. we are witnessing a genocide, and it's our responsibility to be a part of ending it all. major human rights organizations, the un and vast majority of countries across the globe have done so. it would be really a shame if this board stood 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

resident of district eight. i was really pleased to be at the vigil we had the other night in norway valley at the town square . i 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 cared that were 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 only thing. so please vote 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. and this afternoon. sometimes as an arab american, it feels like i am not always accepted in

america. and when i went 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 up for democracy and truth . this was an overwhelming majority to pass this resolution as is, with no amendments. do your job as elected officials, public servants. to be vessels of 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 success. hi. my name is gilbert, and all i can

say is, uh, stop the occupation. stop the genocide. cease fire now! free palestine, do the right thing. it's justice. and that's what we want. and that's what everyone wants. look into your hearts. do the right thing. free palestine ceasefire now. hi 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 experiencing homelessness in the tenderloin and in san francisco. general, i'm here to urge the board of supervisors to vote yes on the ceasefire resolution tomorrow without any amendments that will water down what is already a bare minimum resolution. california sends hundreds of millions of dollars to israel every year for the israeli state to commit genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid against the

palestinian people. while the youth i work with here in san francisco are struggling to get basic needs like food, housing 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 mohammed. 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 for itself. you have heard from the overwhelming majority on the support for a ceasefire against genocide. and from your constituents. if you'd . like to vote with your constituents, we suggest and urge and demand that you vote to adopt a ceasefire resolution without amendments. when there's a genocide happening, your reaction should not be we need

to amend the calls to end that genocide. your response should be we need to end a genocide immediately when there are now 10,000 children murdered. 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 aid to israel. we have to stop the war on the people of this world. truly tens of dollars are going to war. who is that benefiting? its benefit? benefit the war profiteers. when people in san francisco are dying on the street, can't get health care, and this is going on. this is a

crime against humanity. and it's not just in palestine. it's right here in san francisco. when you look at 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. what the 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 people here and the working people in palestine. thank you. yeah. are there any other members of the public who would like to make public 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 this in consideration of some of our colleagues who gave important feedback over the holidays to bring more balance to a

resolution that some of us believe is insufficient, insufficiently balanced. currently, um, i do want to remind everyone the amendments that have been moved are additive. they are not watering down. they're adding content and context to provide more balance. um as amended, this resolution would still support a sustained ceasefire in gaza. no reasonable 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 moderate or non-controversial. simply because its supporters say it is . likewise, amendments intended to bring more balance to what i and others view as an 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 us to hear from people. 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 san franciscans, that the disagreements we express over things, that we feel deeply. we don't make those with whom we disagree, bad people. but i want to state one thing clearly. um, i'm not alone in believing that our silence on facts about a terrorist attack, which so shocked the conscience, would be unacceptable for a board of supervisors resolution and it would be unworthy of the city of saint francis. i also want to address represents motions that were made here today that the new york times has retracted its reporting of december 28th in

its a two month investigation on a story that was called screams without words how hamas wept and used sexual violence. on october seventh, i have heard that it was retracted here. i have heard that it was retracted in private conversations. i checked the new 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 may disagree, i think there 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 side of

history. that's the wrong side of history. i think it's important to adopt these amendments. i will support a sustained ceasefire 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 of us at the board of supervisors was, um, agree. and support vice chair walton. thank you. chair dorsey. and first, i want to just start off by saying that i am truly sorry for anyone who has suffered loss in the region, uh, who has lost loved ones. my 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 for hearing from everyone, i think is very important. uh i also do want to say that on november 17th, uh, i supported a cease fire via petition to president biden. even. before this resolution was, was introduced. uh, i want to just read a little . buet one paragraph from that resolution calling for president biden, vice president harris, and members of congress to call for a ceasefire. and this was signed by other local and state elected officials here in california. and also members of several communities. but it says, dear president biden, vice president harris and members of congress, we write to you, in this time of escalating

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 of 1200 men, women and children on october 7th. the impact that this attack had on a jewish people already on edge from increased anti semitism and a long history of trauma cannot be overstated. we watched with equal horror as israel responded by cutting off food, water and fuel to the entire population of gaza and continue to watch as over at the time, 12,000 men, women and children have been killed under an indiscriminate

and overwhelming bombing campaign. the humanitarian crisis that is the impact of this response is compounded by the increase islamophobia and long history of trauma cannot be overstated, and we watch in horror the rise in anti-semitism and 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 effects of racism. um, and i

100% also agree with supervisor safai when he states that if anyone walks away feeling like they lost or won, then we may be falling short at our attempt to garner peace through our resolution. but i also know that we 100% have to do something and . i really, really just want to state that as we move forward, the 100% focus should be about condemning hate, should be about bringing people together, should be about asking to return hostages. it should be about asking for humanitarian aid, and most certainly to make sure that all violence is stopped. and i would just end with this as we move forward. either way, all amendments should be weighed in

by the full board of supervisors, and not just by this committee. supervisor preston, 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. uh, the time, uh, 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 is an unprecedented i think, amount of public comment turnout. um, and, uh, emails. people coming in were here, 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 laid out, which was to call for ceasefire, uh, humanitarian aid, um, release of all hostages and condemn hate. i mean, that that is the, um, that's what the original resolution does. um, and i want to talk a little bit about the content and, and, and amendments here. so so, um. the the language of this resolution and, and this was not easy to do. right. but we endeavored to do this in conjunction with and talking with all stakeholders before introducing it. it was

designed to underscore our shared humanity and bring people together in defense of human life. in contrast to the amendments that chair dorsey is proposing, our resolution intentionally did not call. for one side or the other to surrender or to have this board purport to decide, instead of the israeli or palestinian people, what long terme solutions and political structure are appropriate in the region. often we did not include that it was beyond the scope of this resolution. we were seeking the ground that we could hopefully all agree on as many of the public commenters have spoken to, which is a ceasefire, humanitarian aid, the release of all hostages. our resolution has been pending over a month. the only request. for amendments that we received before friday. a few days ago was supervisor

melgar, who originally asked that we withdraw reference to a particular federal bill, which we honored and took that out prior to introducing the resolution and the supervisor, engardio, 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 was clear to me 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 of what i can only describe as one sided amendments

and shifting goalposts. i want to address the claim that our original resolution was one sided because that was a talking point. very unfortunate and an and i would say cynically spread by some. i had so many people who originally said, why are you doing a one sided resolution? and then we said, have you read it? they said, no, and we sent them the resolution 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 the resolution. so i wano want to be clear on on what we're talking about, about when we say one sided, if someone

believes our resolution is one sided. i am still waiting for them to point to what is one sided 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 than in a cease fire resolution in to call for the surrender of one side right. i it's just that that is one can believe in the surrender of one side. i don't people can have that view. people can articulate articulate that view. but that is by definition a one sided amendment and an amendment that will not bring people together. so i just it it is an advocacy amendment. for one particular side. um, but

it is not not an attempt to find common ground or to make a resolution more balanced. so we believe that the amendments that i have circulated to the committee are consistent with the good faith feedback that we've 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 resolution. in and address the concerns raised and focusing. on the things that supervisor 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 through from our colleagues and the public. um, and it is concerning to have this flurry of amendments emerge since since friday, um, the so i'm going. to and with apologies 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 of describe them in opening comments, but i will go ahead since you're poised to decide what amendments, if any, to adopt here today. i'm going to go through 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 i am about to read are 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 through them now, um, at, at page one,

line seven, uh, where it says all human life is precious. and the targeting of add the word or indiscriminate killing of. and then that's followed by civilians, uh, at line. ten and 11. um changing wounded, thousands more in the region to 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 in line on page one. still 22 starting in 22 at adding the following language after reference to the un general assembly resolution. uh quote. and on december 12, 2023, adopted. that's the un adopted with a large majority, a resolution demanding an end quote, immediate humanitarian cease fire. the, quote, immediate at un conditional release of all hostages. and humanitarian aid, adding a whereas paragraph f on line page two, line three that states whereas various international human rights and humanitarian

organizations have similarly called for an immediate permanent cease fire release of all hostages and humanity, an aid. adding at page two, line 232 a new whereas. 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. on page. 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 least 1200 israeli people on october seventh, 2023. further the resolve that the san francisco board of supervisor condemns the netanyahu regime's attacks, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of palestinian civilians in gaza and further resolved that the san francisco board of supervisors urges the international community to work with palestinian and israeli people to find a just and lasting peace and to conduct a full investigation of the conduct of all parties in this conflict and hold all parties and individuals. who have overseen or engaged in war crimes and international human rights violations, accountable. those are are the amendments we have proposed and. and requested that the committee adopt. that if the committee decides to either adopt those or to not

either. either way, let me be clear that 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. to val doing some 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 amendments, as i said, that have previously previously been distributed to the committee. i would urge the committee either

to adopt those and move this forward with recommendation or to leave the resolution as is. again, these amendments or an attempt, a good faith attempt by our office, by many advocates for this ceasefire resolution to find some common ground and lay these things out in ways that that would hopefully be be more inclusive if they're not received in that way. um, then we understand and are perfectly happy to remain with the original language of 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. chair dorsey, i'm still 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 you to have communication with your fellow committee members. um although i believe you can send information in advance if it's your proposal and you just can't get back and forth through the chair to the city attorney, is that correct? that deputy city attorney ann pearson, that is correct. it's not a brown act violation to provide a final copy of amendments that will be introduced, so long as there's no discussion of them. okay. thank you. and again, i listen, uh, this this has been a difficult transition 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 our body take action on, um, we do have planned recesses and, and we've been on break, but i know, um, every single one of us has taken calls, has met with people, has listened, has tried to be as as accessible as we can in, um, over the break. but this

was the first available opportunity. to have this conversation today. um, just flipping through what i see supervisor dorsey has put forward, 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 common ground, um, of what has been proposed. and, um, i am a believer in constant communication. i'm a believer in trying to get to resolution and consensus. and, and i agree with what supervisor walton said today. i think 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 i think that there needs 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 wish. um, that we send this to the full board, um, and have the final have the final round of amendment, uh, there at the full board. that would be my wish. um, and 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, an agreement, i will 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's a that's a big 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 i think we're i think we're close. 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 with whom i was working, i think it was no one's intention to be working in bad faith. i think this was something that over the holidays, um, in addition to this being a holiday season, many of us were watching day to day. what was playing out in the region. i'm wondering, i think hoping when this was introduced that we might be in a better place. when we finally took this up, um, the other thing obviously, was also one of the having a major news organization like the new york times do the factual, um, story that it did that for many of 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 to people. i have worked with this, um, that i would ask the rules committee to consider these amendments and i'm going to 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 quick question for city 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 is made.

um and i'd like to do that before answering. generally motions are taken in the order that they're made. 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, to see what 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 the motion to, uh, accept, uh, chair dorsey's, uh, amendments. vice chair walton. no walton. no supervisor. sapphire. sapphire. no. chair. dorsey. a dorsey. i the motion.

fails with chair. dorsey voting. i and vice 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 can continue. the conversation over the next 24 hours as a committee report, and i think it already 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 supervisor. sapphire. sapphire i chair. dorsey dorsey. no. the motion passes with the

chair. dorsey voting no on the matter . thank you. um, this is so this goes to the full board with, uh, without recommendation on a 2 to 0 vote? yes the matter will 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 and closed today. 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 completes the agenda for today.

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