>> we will call to order the task force from san francisco. -- the redistricting taskforce from san francisco. we appreciate everyone's engagement with the process inside and outside the room. [roll call] >> we have a quorum. >> approval of minutes for march

17 and march 22, respectively. with the customary ha grammatical changes, do we have public comment on the minutes? moving to item number three, discussion and possible action on mapping. we will welcome the comments in just a few moments, followed by discussion and changes, revisions to the current draft. in just a moment, i will call names for the side of lists. i have another on the table here. if you have not signed up, please do so. the way we can have you for public comment. it is limited to two minutes. there is a timer that at the 30

second mark will hear a bing. that means you have 30 seconds to begin to conclude your thoughts. at the end of the two minutes you will hear a louder noise to me your time is up. if you don't stop, i will begin to think you openly which will be your final notice to stop and sit down. thank you in advance for your cooperation. we have the number of people that want to offer comments, so we want to be respectful. please sign up if you haven't and we will proceed down the list. the first of five speakers will be willa -- supervisors avalos, ferrell, olague and more. >> good evening, i'm supervisor john avalos.

i want to congratulate you on exploiting public comment so well. i have never done that as well as you have. i want to say thank you for your work on the task force. it is a very difficult job, and the one to appreciate your work on sticking to principles about not moving the district in a dramatic way and keeping neighborhoods hold of the best of our ability. i think it is really important. i did have a concern about changes in district 11. there was a no. part.

a lot of people co-lead the excelsior district, we call at glen park. it was an effort to say it was south glen park neighborhood, but it was nothing like that. it was only a few streets. i would like the task force to consider that as an option for keeping the neighborhood a whole. it also resembles district 11 more ethnically than district 8. and so it has a very high latino population. it more resembles the other parts of district 11. that is able to move back into the district and be more harmonious. that would be very helpful in keeping the neighborhood goal.

>> hello, i am from district 5. i wanted to speak about the area near the panhandle are rows of street. there are several e-mail that i received this morning from members and residents of that area that were very alarmed to find that they were no longer in the district after being in the district for 20 years or so. when i spoke about the lower pay, they came up and constituents raised with me because of the involvement and that the district supervisor before me, as a member of the planning commission, in the development, the project at 55 lagoon of. the supervisor was conflicted and not able to participate.

we are fine at remaining in a, but we would be happy with it coming to five. we feel that those interests will be responded to regardless of where is. there are other precincts that were added that were part of district eight for 10 years. we're concerned that we are sacrificing some of the precincts of the panhandle have been part of district 8 and an area of interest. and that entire area. i think that we would rather see those remain and not have precincts that what have been part of the district for 10 years, men and sacrifice those districts. you will hear from a lot of the residents that are here.

thank you for allowing us to speak. >> my name is reverend will scott, who at the corner of lyons street. i want to thank you for keeping the north panhandle together as part of district 5. recipients on easter sunday celebrated the eighty ninth year in san francisco. the congregation members have been part of district 5 over the years. one of the education and family advocates was a new center. we of congregations in the african-american and caribbean experience. we have come to see ourselves in the twenty first century as a church in the north panhandle for the north panhandle. we certainly wish to keep this dynamic neighborhood to get there. our neighbors are coming together to help us establish a center for focus on the arts,

and the community. it provides summer enrichment programs for young children growing up in the housing project of the western division. you have probably heard that we have concerts', and we held a successful benefit beyond the blaze for fire victims. we recently participated in a vigil for a homicide victim. i want to thank you for keeping the north panhandle together hold remaining connected to the historic district 5. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> following her, we will have -- [reading names]

>> in thank you for the opportunity to speak and i serve as the neighborhood association. it has 117 years of a stand- alone community. it was called sunnyside way. it has a long history and a community that is very perverse, many are not connected with technology. we have the neighborhood that kind of approach.

-- there was a significanthere n right outside the sunnyside. it is the oceans circular monterey, and i am sure you will not be able to follow that. this is a very hard process. when i read that you have had 30 meetings and nine different maps, i want to thank you for the hard work you have put in to make this happen. it is really important as we build cohesion. >> hold on, it was jamie would occur first. -- whitaker first.

>> i live on harrison street. i'd pass the third district 6 neighbor that i would come here and praised the changes to the map, i think south of market and more or less the tenderloin hall is intact. please leave it as is. we are very happy. from my personal view, if there needs to be some cutting, perhaps less. to the extent that district six can stay the same way, it would be wonderful. a police to the folks i know are very happy.

>> i want to thank this task force for the hard work they have done throughout this process. the northern district 5 area, we appreciate the task force as well as keeping intact the elementary school and keeping that within the district 3 boundaries. i want you to revisit the issue and look at the number of public comments to of this process.

>> i am of the neighborhood association. i have lived it for the last 18 years, and organized in existence as a neighborhood coalition. the northern panhandle strongly opposes the break-in into the two different districts. we have worked hard with the 22 years and worked with elected officials. he revealed that dividing the neighborhood in half will displace the community and create more barriers for us. it has a successful track record in working well with the supervisors past and present. it will be much more difficult,

we feel it creates with the city, an increased number of -- but we strongly are leaving of this industry, and we appreciate your hard work and keeping us together. >> thank you, sir. mary, sharon, thdoug, gary. >> thank you for inviting us here. can you hear me now? i appreciate this being open public comment.

i have been a resident of the panhandle for five years. we spend time here, the children's playground, the community garden, it is a pointed interest. i feel that i am a renter, i take public transportation, all of that i feel like i have my values with district 5 and then the district we will be merged with. the suggestion will be to have the district be part of the district won the if that needs to be done and leave district 5 as is. >> my name is mary, and i am a resident of the street between -- the place that is now supposed to be going to district

1. i have to say that all of our interests in the community belong to the panhandle area. we have had a lot of relationships with the neighborhood group to the east of us. we patrolled the streets to try to fight drugs. we have fought for a farmer's market. we have worked with the police and we have worked to clean up the panhandle on a monthly basis. we are a community of interest with the district 5, so please do not split us. >> i live between masonic and

ashbury. this is my first year living there, and i am on the board that is an organization. now it's seems i am in the richmond district. the length between goes back much longer than 30 years. this started with the freeway fight in the '60s. there has been a natural link and a lot of political links between those two areas of the city for many years. i shop there, the post offices there, the police officer is there. i have been focused on those issues, so i really know that the monday night decision will be reversed and that i am back in district 5, because i feel

that is where my home is. >> i am the president of the panhandle residents organization. by any criteria, our area north of the panhandle and bounded by the sonic is part of the panhandle. socially, we are a community of interest. our organizations work within the networks of the other organizations around us. we work to clean up with the panhandle. we work on issues regarding public safety. we have had many meetings in common. it was only a few blocks away from us. that is where the neighborhood

meetings are that involve the whole area. we have not only this common social interest, we have a geographical interests all along the panhandle. the economy of interest is that we are a majority of renters. there seems to be a slight majority of homeowners. we are 10% asian. i think that we delude the asian population there and make it less likely that they will be able to elect another asian candidate. on old maps of the city, we are included as part of the ash burry street.

you talked out in the last few days, so that the neighborhood had no notice of it. you're doing it again at the last minute. >> just before you speak, following him will be -- [reading names] >> my wife and i purchased our house on the east side, this is

about three blocks south that are going to be out of district 8. that is the neighborhood, and we feel like it will isolate us from both staying in district 9 and, isolating from the neighbors to the south into the west. into the east, we are a long ways from the neighbors. our request is that if we could include the little island for families and homes, and moving them over to district 8, it makes a lot more sense than leaving them over in district 9. we already struggle with the barrier that is greatly improved. maybe we don't want to isolate ourselves further. if we can consider including that block from within the

district 8 changes, we think it would be a great benefit for our little corner of the neighborhood there. >> if i can ask the folks understanding not to block the door, thank you. >> taskforce members, how are you? did i mention to the consultants and the i actually printed out of the matter from my computer this afternoon? the description for what we had talked about on monday night is actually correct. i wanted to try and end up with everyone else. kudos to what you have done. i did this 10 years ago, this husband -- we have nothing else to do.

you guys have been great. not to pack your bags or anything, but it has been of pleasure. secondly, for what you have done, you can always correct me. thank you very much. three of my board members -- i received many phone calls today from people saying that we want to be in district 11. we have to vote at the palace and on the other side of the hill. i will make one more comment the supervisor had made. they basically stated on the

other side, what you had done going into that, they were comfortable. i am not here to speak about david cooper, but we have had meetings on it. >> a long time -- i literally lived on the border. right in the middle of my street is the city. i wanted to say thank you very much for including chicago. we met with a number of members. they're very happy about that.

thank you for your service. >> i wanted to say thank you for keeping chicago as part of district 11. >> i would like to thank you for putting it all back in district 5 and to keep all of you -- we built a strong, vibrant, and cohesive community. one of the most critical partners to build a more thriving and resilient community, that is the episcopal church. as they mentioned, it has

traditionally been an african- american church that was founded 89 years ago and gave the episcopal african-americans the church of their own. ballot has transformed into a melting pot of races and backgrounds that reflects the character. we're continually called upon to be a case of comfort and caring. just last week, showing solidarity and support from the community reading. the place where everyone matters makes it one of the most precious community resources. it is reminding all of us what it is like to be underappreciated, underrepresented, and underutilized.