group of people that can do this. it is a new, you can do this because all of you who are up here have some of those characteristics that we are looking for in a good mayor. we need a mayor to do that. considered a mere allow poor people to get jobs. consider that kind of mayor. considered a mere touch consider the mayor who will help those who don't have money. we want to thank you for all the support you have given the community.

thank you, and i hope that you'll consider this today and in the future as you make your decision. president buell: thank ult. next speaker -- president buell: >> thank you. next speaker. >> thak you for allowing me this opportunity. i am the founder of inner city adolescents network and the

liaison to the council of youth for the american bar association. let me thank supervisor mirkarimi. but i'm here this evening to ask for consideration for a mayor who is going to support the leadership who will support our value resources and i deem our youth in this city and counties of san francisco to be one of our most valuable resources. many of our youth are dropping out of school because of they don't have the support at home. they are getting involved in violent acts and coming into our legal system. i'm asking that we get leadership here in the mayor's office that is going to support

after-school programs, that is going to support youth job and youth development. so i ask this evening that whoever you're going to have step into the position of interim mayor, that that person really be sensitive to the needs of our youth today. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is susan and i want to -- and i'd like to state that the interim mayor should be somebody who is honest, who is nondiscriminatory and keeps the welfare of the senior citizens in mind when they're passing legislation. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. i would remind folks again, this is public comments on whether or not we should sit as

a committee as a hold to hold a public hearing on taking nominations in appointing a successor mayor in the event of a vacancy in the office of the mayor. next speaker, please. >> i'm yolanda salazar. good afternoon, supervisors i've been a longtime resident here of san francisco. we need a mayor that is honest and trustworthy and connected with the seniors. sometimes we are ignored sometimes. we do need some help in our neighborhood. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm here to make a message. i think i can do it in 10 minutes -- i mean, two minutes, to tell you about my interpretation of city hall and who's in control right here in san francisco, ok?

i'd like to know who's in control here in san francisco. here at city hall. ♪ i want to know ♪ who's in control ♪ here we go ♪ oonch i asked the mayor ooh, yeah, but he didn't care ♪ you know why ♪ he's out the door ♪ he's tiptoeing up to sacramento ♪ woo! hey board of supervisors some of y'all are just a bunch of liars ♪ woo now you're going to pick the mayor, the board of supervisors, don't get offended. ♪ and then we go into the redevelopment. ♪ oh the redevelopment ♪ i'm going to have to sue and make a settlement ooh ooh the

housing authority they just keep on ignoring me ♪ ooh ooh though he reminds the commission you better listen to me it ain't no mystery just check your history ♪ and everybody just do this. hey, just look around. blacks are leaving town hey. what's going down? blacks are leaving down. where's willy brown? blacks are leaving. i guess i'm going to have to talk together now, jerry brown, yeah, yeah. you know what, this is the second time around. and i bet you hear me and really know what's going down. i want to know who's in control right here in san francisco, who's in control. president chiu: thank you very much. >> that is a big question, y'all. y'all do your thing. president chiu: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> hello, my name is mia white the coordinator at the brunel heights. we're not really endorsing any candidates, of course. but as far as qualities, we would like to have someone that has the greater good of the people of san francisco in mind and not just business owners or property owners. also, somebody that's very conscious about a need for a sustainable environment, so our future generations have something to look forward to. and also, a candidate that is -- prioritizes equity. like in the budget process for public education as well as the endorsing strong committee values. there's a lot of committee groups out here that are doing a lot of work. for you guys to be aware of them and to back what they're doing. ultimately it's going to be the people of san francisco that are actually implementing changes for the city and creating the city that we want. so to be very aware of what the people want is what we're looking for.

thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is ilid and i'm an excelsior resident. i also wanted to tell you that i work with youth. i know they're not old enough to vote, however, their voices still should be heard. so i have copies for you where they signed a letter of all the things that they want from the new mayor. aside from all the things that we want, the qualities like being fair and just being aware of all the issues that's going on in our neighborhood and our communities. so i have 11 copies here for you guys to take a look at. and one of them that they're really strongly -- and i'm definitely -- all of us are strongly prioritizing or would like the new mayor to prioritize is to build a network of community-based after-school programs, so our youth can get off the streets, into community-based programs and back to school and on track

for developing productive young adults, which is what we're here for. so just keep that all in mind and i'm definitely confident that you guys will make a good choice. thank you. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is elizabeth ortega. and i'm here to represent the many youth and as a community organizer the many people that i've met throughout the city who often tell me about the qualities that they want to see in a mayor. and i'm here to let you know, like i've done many times before, the kinds of mayor representation that we want to see in this city is a mayor who's accessible, who has consensus building and who works on bringing the community together, not dividing them. and especially this during the city budget process. we're looking for a mayor that's extremely open to the process and is honest about the process and makes it public, so that we are able to communicate that with everyone that we run into who care about the city,

because they want to have a voice in the process that happens here at city hall. they want to have it before, during the process and after. they don't want to come in here when the budget has already been cut and they're having to come in here to tell their story over and over again about what the budget cuts will mean to them, to their families and to this community. so we're hoping that this new mayor, whoever it is, will make sure that they listen throughout the entire term that they're there. thank you. [applause] president chiu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is [inaudible] . in keeping with what was before, i support you all as a whole in selecting the right

mayor. we have a youth that is coming up and you have the seniors who have spent all of their days working and would like to work, ok? on the other hand, what was put forward today by supervisor john avalos i support 100%. i am ready to come out and show what i have, because in doing so you will bring the youngsters off the street, learn a trade that will show

them success. so do the right thing in selecting a proper mayor. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is jonathan meade i'm speaking on behalf of local 1021. i wanted to make reference to a document that was dropped off at all your offices, i think, this morning. it's called san francisco for all. it's a community labor platform that sort of outlines a lot of the different values that several different community groups and unions think are important. as you guys take this appointment process into consideration. we met last night and endorsed this platform and we hope that you will endorse it as well. and, you know, i think you guys have done just such a tremendous job under incredibly difficult circumstances, and now this is one of your greatest challenges coming up ahead of you in a very short

period of time, and i hope that you can find a way to be creative and compromising at the same time and figure out a way to get an appointment done in the next two or three weeks, whatever the time frame is, because that's the -- it's a very important action that's going to take place that's going to preserve sort of the progressive agenda and the progressive policies that you guys have fought so hard for up to this point. and we can't take anything for granted going into the future in terms of the difficulties we're going to be facing and you're going to be facing. and i think if you guys can come up with a good choice for mayor, that would really be helpful. thanks. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> president chiu, you're asking us whether we think this body should pick the next mayor, and i say yes, absolutely. the duly elected powers that god put here and a special

election also would cost a lot of money. and i would like to say that i think john avalos should be recommended for mayor, because he license to kpfa. kpfa -- no, really, it's very fair. there's a lot of things i disagree with on kpfa, but if he listens -- i'm going to tell you something. last year i learned about this third building that fell. kpfa is the radio station, 94.1, that convinced the guy that i heard, who's an architect here, richard gauge, he was explaining this to me, and i said, whoa, you know. he was convinced by a guy named david ray griffin on kpfa. he now has this huge organization that is calling for a real 9/11 investigation. so we do want someone that's fair. and you seem like a fair fellow listening to him. i would also like to say that if you don't consider him -- i don't know what the residency requirement is for the mayor, if he has to be here for such

an amount of time, but my first one even above john avalos is a former judge named roy moore. he's known as the 10 commandment judge. you'd have to ship him in for alabama and he'd have to be here for seven days -- i don't know how long you have to be here in order to fill the requirement for whoever the mayor has to be, which, of course, we know he has to be a resident for some amount of time. but these dirtbags in the aclu got rid of judge roy moore. you know why? because he put the 10 commandments -- this is his crime, ok? these comey dirtbags from the aclu got rid of judge roy moore because he had a minister of the gospel pray for him to help him be a good judge and because he had the 10 commandments. do you know what a great city this would be if we had the 10 commantments? mayor newsom wouldn't be rolling in the sheets with mrs. what's-her-name, right? president chiu: thank you. next speaker.

[speaking foreign language] >> hi. i'm here because i support a mayor that fights for the rights of workers and immigrants that are responsible here in san francisco. [speaking foreign language] >> because we have rights to education. [speaking foreign language] >> because we are workers here in san francisco and we're fighting for our rights. thank you. >> thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john osake executive director of jcyc. i'm here today basically to urge you to select an interim

mayor who will prioritize our nonprofit sector here in san francisco. last year many of you joined us, as jcyc celebrated our 40th anniversary. and i have to say that that was a really bittersweet time for our agency, because although we were very happy about celebrating 40 years of serving this community, we had to celebrate knowing that we were going to take in excess of $1 million reduction in city funding to our organization. that reduction resulted in decreased services to supervisor avalos' district, to supervisor maxwell's district and almost eliminated some of the services we provide in president chiu's district and i frankly find that unacceptable. i'm basically here today to make a plea that i don't want to be here again in april, and i really don't want to be here again in june. i'm hoping that a mayor -- an

interim mayor will find a solution now -- between now and april to figure out how to sustain the nonprofit services that not only i provide, but when there's unrest amongst our young people and within our neighborhoods, all of you ask for. so many times i've been approached to deliver services to young people that need them, and frankly it is disconcerting that we have to go through this exercise of seeing these massive cuts to the services that we all find essential and then go through a budget process that may or may not restore them at the back end. i'm asking you to find a mayor who will find a solution before we have to go through that process, so that i don't have to be back here begging for the services that we all need here in san francisco. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for allowing me to speak.

my name is jamel patterson. i also represent the united council of human services, and i feel like it's my duty as a citizen of san francisco to give you my opinion who should be the next mayor. and it should be somebody who understands the fabric of the city. when i look at the bicycle program, i look at that as something that brings different parts of the community together. i'd like my community to take part of that more. there's one thing about the last two mayors. pros and cons. you could say good or bad about either one of them. both of them had ideas and they were upbeat, and that's what people need. and also, both of them came to my mother's funeral. her name was barbara brown. she founded the united council of women's services. so we need a mayor that understands the people and understands the young sung heroes of the community. cxfc and i'm the tie between the younger generation and the

older generation because i'm, you know, in my 30's, early 30's. and i'd like to say god bless you all and support the ideas of the new up-and-coming leaders. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. eric brooks here representing the grass-roots organization, our city. we have about 4,000 supporters in san francisco, almost all of whom vote. i'm here to definitely urge you to move as quickly as possible and to have as extensive hearings as possible today and possibly next week for appointing a new mayor. we've already talked about budget and economics. we need the mayor to be chosen as soon as possible so that they've got time -- that person has time to prepare for this stuff. you've all received, i believe, a four-page platform that's

been put together by a very large group of activists from around the city. that platform needs to be discussed so that all the candidates and all the people voting on the candidates know what we expect of a mayor. just for me to kind of speak in for what you can imagine will be my part in that platform, and that's clean energy. it's absolutely critical for that reason that we appoint a mayor as soon as possible. every week there are new reports about melting ice caps. our own sierra mountains are going to have less snowmelt soon and that directly affects our local community and the communities we serve with water during the summer. so clean energy is vital. it's vital that san francisco, which california is waiting to take the lead, and then california, which the united states is waiting to take the lead and the natures then takes the lead because we have led

global warming and will change what's happening in cancun right now. and as far as who, we're not going to name specific names today, but i will tell you that you need look no further than the san francisco local agency formation commission, where there are four supervisors who have a deep understanding on what needs to be done to move forward. clean energy, that's the pool you should look at. you need look no further. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is richard hanlon. i'll be brief. could you turn up the heat? president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is christopher koch. it is a little chilly in here, but i think we'll be all right. i'm with the collision --

coalition of community organizations spanning a pretty good breadth of the city around a set of values and principles that we think are very important for the new mayor to uphold and follow. and we've prepared a very basic set of principle guides here that we've distributed to every member of the board of supervisors and we'll be following up on this in more detail down the road. i just want to leave you with the introduction of our statement, which says that as san francisco prepares for a new mayor, amideon going recession and the near $400 million protected deficit, dozens of organizations from across the city have created the platform below which we'll detail further as a guide for the new mayor's priority. we represent an array of city residents, community-based nonprofits and service providers united in our commitment for san francisco that works for all san

franciscoans. we wants a positive vision for the city's future, based on historic san francisco values of exclusiveness, compassion and opportunity. the platform below reflects our vision for a city and a new mayor that unites, rather than divides city residents and communities. we know there are a lot of names being tossed around right now. what we want to emphasize, again, is the values that we think are important that involve inclusiveness and a city for all and a long-term vision and a mayor that will bring long-term solutions to the city that are sustainable economically and environmentally. there's a fuller document here that gets into issues of affordable housing, you know, more sustainable land use for public good and certainly the local hiring initiatives that supervisor avalos brought forward. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi, supervisors.

thanks for the opportunity to comment today. i'm also a member of the community in labor and other folks, group -- the diverse group of community-based organizations that's been thinking about some of the values -- not only policy ideas, but values that we would like to see in the new mayor. we were hoping that our document, the document that chris had alluded to earlier, can really be something that can help bring us together as a city rather than divide us, because we feel that the city -- when some of us suffer, we all suffer, and if all of us can do well, then the city as a whole benefits. so we -- we're excited to share this platform with you and we're excited that we have the opportunity for the dialogue about what we're looking for in a mayor is going to happen in

this room amongst you with us here. and with that, i'll just say that as someone who's done a lot of work advocating on the budget, advocating for fairness for folks who have very little, i'm very happy that we can look at some of the bigger-picture issues together as we decide about how to move forward as a city. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i come to cheer on this moment, you know. i ran into the mayor yesterday at sixth and market, and he did say diversity, and that's what i think the next mayor needs to deal with all sectors of diversity. san francisco is known for diversity. but the next mayor will be a caregiver mayor, as we know, everyone's been saying, and we

need to remind the next person that becomes mayor, like the president said today, if you are going to lead the north star for all people it is time to get someone who can work among all three branches, that means the board of supervisors, the mayor's office and the people. just to let you know important, 32 years ago we was going through jonestown. world aids was coming out. and the next mayor needs to build a vision they'll never forget. remember constantly. we have hate crimes against gays and lesbians. in this city we should have a zero tolerance. we hope that one day we can have a gay or lesbian mayor for san francisco, you know, to lead. but right now it's all about you all and the people coming forth to bring -- this is a great moment for us to really be able to elect the next

person. so right now where it's cold -- it's snowing out front, y'all, in front of the city hall. that's why it's cold. there's a lot of snow out there. so i'm here to say -- people have asked me who i'm for mayor. i ran in 1989. i was probably the first black mayoral candidate in this city. i got eight votes. but you know what, more than anything it's time that san francisco not only just have two tales of the city, but have a tale. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. my name is willy ratcliff. i'm a young contractor. and i published a san francisco newspaper. i think we did a milestone today in doing some of the things that need to be done here in san francisco. but we certainly need to step up and get ay