today's meeting in memory meetingrobert pender. -- in memory of robert pender. he was a tenant at parkmerced for 40-plus years, a tremendous advocate for the community throughout san francisco. in fact, the majority of his advocacy was probably for tenants outside of parkmerced. in no way to that comment be meant to take away from his advocacy work for his friends and neighbors and residents of parkmerced, whom he was 100% committed to, but robert was truly a great man. no question over the last 12 years working with the residents of district 7, robert and i came across each other quite a bit. many times on opposite sides, but on the rare occasion on the same side, but the thing with robert that i always appreciated -- it did not matter if we

disagreed. we always be engaged with the next issue. he was absolutely one of those rare people who have the ability to disagree while still being agreeable. he was a true gentleman. a former city employee as well. he worked for the municipal railway. that was his career. he worked for me -- muni throughout his career and got into the advocacy world policy retirement. his is a name that will be missed, but not forgotten. just over a year ago, we had a ceremony. even with the reconstruction, redeveloped out at parkmerced, that area remains and will always be known as robert pender place. his legacy will live on in perpetuity, and in the hearts and minds of everyone that advocated with him. >> thank you. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you.

i just have a quick item. i have a hearing request on the reported recommendations that were issued by the voting systems task force that completed its work very recently, and we, i think, should hear directly from them on what the recommendations are. i am asking that this operation be referred to the city operations and neighborhood services committee. the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. supervisor farrell supervisor farrell: farrell thank you -- supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you. a couple of quick items today. for those of us on the board, and i know many of us have young families in the city, and i know i am not alone in saying that a time of my friends and

colleagues have left the city. one thing strikes me is we have a ton of data, but it is in different places, and this hearing will call for those groups to come together to talk about the issue and try to understand it a lot better, and going forward, enacting policies to stem the flight. second, an in memoriam as well. i would like to adjourn in memory of evelyn warner, a neighbor of mine, a friend -- the mother of a neighbor of mine, a friend of mine. she was a fourth generation san franciscan and proud graduate of convent and dominican college, and she was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years and survived by her brother and four children and will be sorely missed. my thoughts go out to rich and his entire family. >> thank you. supervisor kim. supervisor kim: thank you. many of you in the public have been following some of the

recent shootings that occurred on market and sixth street in district 6 of the past two weeks. just wanted to give a quick update to my colleagues and the public. thursday, june 9, there was a shooting on sixth street and market in the morning. it seriously injured one of our residents, a 43-year-old man, who was hit by a stray bullet and was an unintended victim. he did recover, and we have been in contact with his family to see how we can continue to support them. the family support specialist at the south of market child-care center reached out to our office to request that we gather a community meeting to help develop some solutions in terms of how we address the issue of public safety in our neighborhood. last thursday, with the committee, we were able to successfully convene a meeting. we have over 100 residents and service providers between fifth and eighth street, out. it was a really amazing turn out, very diverse from condo

home owners to tenants and youth service providers. we got some really great ideas out of that meeting, including establishing the substation on 63 as quickly as possible between market and mission, something redevelopment has been working on, and increasing for patrol. increasing positive activities in the south of market and 10 area. there are also ideas of enforcing, having liver stores patrol the area in front of their stores and other ways that the neighborhood can get involved in safety organizations. over the weekend, as you heard, before pride parade on saturday evening at roughly 6:00 p.m., five people were injured do the shooting. two were seriously injured. i want to thank the captain from tenderloin precinct for rushing down.

he was at an event onset -- at st. francis with his wife and was called in because the captain was not in san francisco at the time. even though it was not his precinct area, he came quickly to address the issue and talk to the media. we are exponentially grateful to him for being such a community- oriented police officer and captain and encouraging more foot patrol in the tenderloin. in many cases, we have seen the activity on market street because he has been so active in the neighborhood. one thing i want to emphasize about district 6 is it is a highly engaged community where more positive things are happening than - peer but of course, issues of violence and garner a lot of media attention -- and more positive things happen and -- than negative. there are a lot of things we have to address, not just more police on the streets. i also wanted to lay out some of its coming up in the future that

our community will try to rally around. this friday, we are doing is sent off to one of our baseball teams from betsy carmichael elementary school, that is going to arizona to represent san francisco. and if you can make an out, we want to celebrate the positive things happening in our neighborhood. second, we are planning silence the violence event in august. a march from betsy carmichael to city hall. thank you very much. >> thank you. supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. i had a few things appear first, i am introducing a resolution related to the mta and specifically the work rule reforms that we have been promised and are anticipating. as we all know, in november last year, the voters are were lonely past prop g, which required collective bargaining, including

for wages. after several months of bargaining, today, the board approved a three-year contract between the transit workers union and the mta. now that the contract has been formalized, it is critical that we track the implementation of the work rule changes to insure that these efficiencies and savings occur. muni service has been in everyone's life in the city, and in the limitation is critical, and we cannot just assume it is going to happen. we need to monitor it and hold mta accountable. the resolution will -- is requesting that the m.t.a. board require periodic reporting of the status of implementation of the work rules and corresponding savings that have been achieved,

and that report would then be forwarded regularly to the board of supervisors so that we can monitor the work will implementation. i am also calling for a hearing to follow up on a church several months ago. we conducted the hearing, and the mta provided us with a number of ideas for improving service. i would like to hear from mta, and the public would like to hear about the status of those improvements. specifically, i want an tsa and recon park also to be there to talk about the right of way through the lowest part. anyone who has seen the muni right of way through dolores park knows that it is in bad shape, to say the least. there is graffiti. there's all sorts of other blights that happened there. to be honest, mta has not done a great job of maintaining that area and has not done a good job cooperating with rec and park to

make sure the area is clean and safe. i want them to be there and i want new jersey to report on what it is due to improve the park and how it will be working with iraq in part to cooperate. i also want to note that on saturday night in the castro, we have our annual pinks saturday party. last year, there were shootings at the party. we made an extra effort this year to improve security, and it was -- although there are always incidents, there were no major incidents, no major violence, and despite a huge crowd -- i want to congratulate and thank the sisters of perpetual indulgence organized the event and did a great job and enhanced security as well as the police department, adult probation, and juvenile probation for working closely with the sisters to make sure it was safe.

finally, an in memoriam for gene harris, who passed away as 66 years old. ms. harris spent decades on the front line of democratic party and lgbt politics. he built a statewide, non- partisan, lgbt political advocacy organization in california and nevada. she got her start as a field organizer. she was chief of staff to supervisor harry britt. she then served in sacramento. she is survived by her partner, and their children, her granddaughter, his siblings, and her mother, who just celebrated

her 90th birthday. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor avalos wanted to be re-referred. supervisor avalos: 90. in response to supervisor farrell's hearing request, i would like to partner with him. i like the idea of how we can sustain families in san of francisco, and want to make sure there is part of the frame work around that to look at what is working and how families choose to stay in the city. in my experience, i know a lot of families with young children, even elementary school and middle school kids, who want to make it a go here in san francisco. i think the reason why families stay is such an important thing to consider. if we lose children in the city, we are losing a big part of what makes san francisco so great, so i am very alarmed about declining families with young

children in the city. i think and approach that looks also at the assets that are here and the resources that keep families here, that families aspire to stay in the city is well worth considering as well. i thank supervisor farrell for the hearing and look forward to working with you on it. >> thank you appear that concludes roll-call for introductions. -- thank you. that concludes will call for introductions. supervisor chiu: why don't we go to public comment? >> speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly states such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

stop the corporate rape of the public library. privatization of our public assets goes hand-in-hand with the degradation of our democratic principles and undermining traditions of open government and public participation. the one depends upon the other. the grifters who are ripping off the public cannot pretend to be benefactors and aristocrats. without secrecy and contempt for the public. abuse of the public is what makes it work. the library commission has become the most egregious sunshine by later in san francisco because they got their positions by suppressing accountability and democracy. that is what corp. -- one donors get for their money. the sunshine task force found a violation to be so egregious that was a willful violation of the requirements of the sunshine ordinance. after being referred to the

ethics commission, a report was issued, i like acting, and quietly required of all public officials. violator was reelected president of the library commission because this is the mandate of privatization. the victim of treatment was not me, but it could have been anyone. has become typical of the contempt for democracy as we become grateful slaves rather than citizens. please send letters to the ethics commission or come to the meeting of monday, june 11. you know very well the forces of abuse that are unleashed by allowing private forces to raise private money with no accountability. the damage to our society is immeasurable, and the changes to our city are unsustainable. we all belong in san francisco. thank you.

supervisor chiu: next speaker. >> it has been two years and 26 days since i learned the truth about 9/11 being an inside job. since then, i have basically no respect for 90% of the conservative talk-show hosts that i used to listen to. nevertheless, i remember falwell said it was a judgment by god for the homosexuals. now, of course, he is in heaven. you probably think he is in hell, but he is in heaven. i believe he now understands that 9/11 was the sixth trumpet. jesus called it the abomination of desolation, and daniel did, too, that would happen in the so-called 1290 days peer the apostle john that wrote the book of revelation called it the sixth trumpet, and that would plate -- take place not in 1290 days, but in the so-called 12 63.5. in order for me to build my case, i would need an hour, and i do not have that, obviously, and you are not going to grant that to me.

i mentioned -- i mean, you mentioned several times in this brief meeting how you want to support the lgbt, and i think about the kings and what they did and how they deported the homosexuals in israel, and joseph but still fell far short of the requirement of what the mosaic code said to do. god said that the kings were to write their own copy of the bible so they would strictly follow the orders given by the almighty. king josiah did not support them. he tore their houses down. but the law of moses said they were strictly to follow and read every day of their lives so they would not be proud and so they would know would execute. on that list were not only adulterers, murderers, and scrapers, but homosexuals. it is not only those folks that go to hell. the best of men or the worst of men, according to jesus. it says do not kill, and if you

kill, you are in danger judgment, but i say if you are angry with your brother without a cause, you are in danger of judgment, so everybody is a murderer. everybody is a liar, thief, adulterer, murderer. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. executive director of library users association. on june 16, the library commission held a meeting, at which it heard library claims that an elimination of printed notices to pages regarding over dos and reserves would save $100,000 per year. the very next day, library users association made an immediate disclosure request to see what

the library might have in any way of information to support that statement. we have not yet received a single scrap of paper that relates to that request, which is now well over a week old, and the library, which has been a repeat offender, with respect to sunshine rules and laws, is now appearing to do it again, so that they can protect their claims without having to substantiate them. these are claims that they not only made at the library commission but had made to the supervisors and to the budget analysts and anyone -- the mayor, for example -- who is getting the library's budget. we also on that day and on monday the 20th requested information about budget information given to the mayor for the current proposed budget, and have gotten nothing with respect to that. also, changes from the prior year, and nothing with respect to that. we believe that is because the

library is claiming that it has certain priorities and certain ways of expectations about outcomes, which it is simply unwilling to substantiate with any kind of information or documentation, and i can certainly tell you that they had a very nice story time, which was a fiction presentation at the budget and finance committee. thanks very much. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. here is a picture of a filipino performer, a good one. says he is a tough act to follow. that is what they say about me. that is a good picture, too. just wanted to say -- ♪ hey, board of supervisors,

women and men play some good items for me i ain't sleepy, and there ain't no city i'm going to i don't want the budget to go away and then bring it back today cast your budget bell our way, and promise the city budget will not go under and hey, board of supervisors, women and men make it happen today cast your spell our way and do not let the budget go on and they rarely will do -- mayor lee will do hiws turn and a city that does everything a time to be the assessor a time to be the administrative

time to be the board president time to be mayor time to be board of supervisors time to be board of supervisor'' aide it is not too late to everything in the city would do everything time to be the share of time to be the share of guard -- sheriff guard ♪ supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board president and members of the board. i am a member of the human circle for the sole support group. we are survivors of homicide and advocates for those who are suffering from criminal

activity. i am here to speak on behalf of a family right now. i am not at liberty to give their names because of the perpetrators not being caught yet. the family recently just suffered a serious illness -- i mean, a serious incident where a man was shot. he did survive. family right now is in need of housing right now. the emergency housing. they are dealing with the victim services, and because of the budget cuts to victim services, the family has not been placed in emergency housing as we speak. i am here to say to the board, if you know of any resources or any city properties that perhaps could be developed or turned into safe housing for families who suffer, you know, from violent crimes, the they're

looking for such a place. we are dealing with quite a few families who live in san francisco, who worked in san francisco, and when this happens to them, they have to go back to the neighborhood where the actual crime took place, and that is what is happening with this family. they are in serious jeopardy for their lives because they have to return to the scene where the crime took place. so i am here advocating on behalf of those going through this, and ask the board to look into this. there is a lot of vacant school buildings, a lot of vacancies that the city owns that perhaps they could occupy for temporary housing for emergency housing for these reasons. the family right now is really hurting. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> help is on the way. i am running for mayor of san francisco. supervisor chiu: excuse me,

ma'am? >> i wish to address the issue of children's education. with that regard, i advocate the people by the greatest gifts i give my children. as a book of parenting from the heart as well as nonviolent communication. these books and themselves consent things around. i want things to be saved. i want things to be fair. in a worlds of art -- the words of archbishop desmond tutu, a person who is open to others, affirming of others does not feel threatened that others are able and good for e and she is properly should that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater role and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. in this city, victims are victimized on a regular basis. there is no place that people are taken who are like myself on a regular basis be up at the library. disabled people cannot use the bathroom. the people who have their jobs

-- no, you cannot come in. i am not going to watch your car. you're just annihilated. then you are victimized at the next stop. with the paramedics. no cameras. violence by the paramedics. violence in the hospital. it does not matter. it is not happening to you. but it is happening to you. we are part, and we stand together. we have to use our resources properly. the people of this city our resources. the money given to us, throwing it down the toilet. it is unacceptable. it is un-american. it is astounding that the fabrics of the community of falling apart. there are new grass roots that are developing. there was the school house. there are wonderful, brilliant things to be engaged with and to be supported and rewarded. supervisor chiu: thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in

general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. colleagues, there are no adoption without committee reference items. we have four minutes before our 3:00 special orders. why don't i suggest that we recess for four minutes, and we will start promptly at 3:00?