>> this evening and welcome to the redistricting task force meeting. i ask all guests and members of the public to please take a seat and we will get started.

madam clerk, please call to order and roll-call. vice chair lam, present, member lee, present, member malara, present member pilpel, present, member tidwell. we need a motion to excuse chair mcdonall. second. before we get started in moving forward, i wanted to thank all of you for joining us this evening. we are now embarking in our final weeks of the san francisco

local redistricting process. we have spent the last several months in the district, we have held 50 minute -- 15 meetings in the community getting testimony and, and around neighborhoods an,. . i would like to say we may need to adjust some of our agenda items due to two of our task force members running behind. i propose we move straight into an agenda item #34 mapping. -- number three for mapping. we will go straight into taking public comment and and put -- input.

i invite individuals who will be giving public comment to please stand in line appear -- up here to my right, you're left. -- to my right, your left. if you could leave your speaker cards here, we will be sure to pick those up for public record. since there are a number of speakers, i would encourage you to take a seat and that we we can com -- that way we can --

you may be standing for a while. feel free to take a seat and we will bring the next group up. >> please do not block the door. >> we will take two minutes public testimony. >> [inaudible]

[inaudible] vice-chair lam: thank you. >> if have to -- i have to get the mic. vice-chair lam: i want to say welcome to our audience on sf gov. ok. >> good evening, commissioners. please bear with me because when i start talking, my voice disappears. i have lived in the district, life and enjoy this neighborhood very much. my family settled here and was

emigrating from europe. i am a member of the liberal association. and -- neighborhood association. this is an old, established neighborhood and we are currently -- in two districts, nine in 10. if -- nine and 10. we would be better fit in district 9 with other already established and family oriented and close-knit neighborhoods like bernal and mission. i want to keep the board in one district only. we currently are working on the unification that is a bridge between us, bernal heights, and the mission. the only thing separating us is highway 280. i realize the downtown area and the bayview have so much happening with redesigning and

transformation that we would not be considered in the same category. however, in the last 10 years, our neighborhood has had the attention they deserve and we what to stay on the -- we want to stay on the drawing board as the neighborhood to watch for upgrading and beautification. the news continues to put the [inaudible] or the excelsior. again, i want to say we have a better cultural and personal relationship with district 9. thank you. >> good evening. it is excellent to see all the members of the task force once again. i would like to commend the task force on doing what i think is an incredible job on taking in

so much different and averse input from sometimes conflicting community interest and i think you have reflected those interests disks -- extremely well. in the map of 2212. in particular i would like to commend you for ensuring that sea cliff is kept whole and the part of the district 2. furthermore i would like to reiterate as a district aide to president, i live in mission delores in chattanooga street. i am concerned if it moves into district 9, not only will that lead to an exceptional -- unacceptably high population, it would leave district 8 somewhat, especially my area in the castro which is comprised of moot --

mostly renters. the inclusion of the corridor is extremely important. furthermore, i would like to echo the concerns of the speaker before me. if we are moving all the portal into district 10 it would offset the hard work that task force has accomplished. this would be a disservice to the community groups that have come forward. at multiple meetings and expressed their concern that is so well reflected in this current map. thank you. vice-chair lam: thank you. next speaker. >> these individuals here wanted to ask if they could use their time jointly to present a video that is queued up. vice-chair lam: i did get that

earlier request. we are requesting that each speaker have two minutes and at the two-minute mark we will stop the video where is that and pick up for the next speaker to introduce themselves and continue playing the video. >> i lived in the portal for over 20 years. we're going to introduce a video that was put together by a few of our neighbors to stress their point.

[inaudible] not like other neighborhoods. [inaudible] over on to the west side, pretty

much the cambridge. that is the crest of the hill. it is like a valley. >> you still have time. >> the benefit to everyone. vice-chair lam: i will tell you honestly. we feel devided. we have two different supervisors. >> we are one family and to separate as is unconscionable. >> to 80 is the boundary. it is away from the burdo area. -- 280 is the boundary. it is away from the bernal area. vice-chair lam: if you could introduce yourself. >> i live in district 10.

>> ok. to get it back? >> eight lanes of freeway that acts like a castle, by keeping us apart. i have no business to go there. >> this is the center. even some from the hunters point. >> that whole area

[unintelligible] . get used to all the friends we have here in 10. >> portal belongs in district 10. it belongs with the bayview and visitation valley. it does not have a place and it has not. we have had no voice in district 9. >> i like the neighborhood. >> i am in district 10. i had already submitted this earlier on but i wanted to get this into the record. this is some community letters as well as petitions from the

community. i am a 25-year resident and i am a former president of the -- as well as the district 10 council. i urge you to respect the wishes of our community and keep the portal undivided and within the boundaries of district 10. your predecessors on the 2002 task force curry-demus our community when we were -- task force damaged our community when we were split down the middle. they separated from the remainder of district 9 by a physical barrier as well as barriers in our demographics and our socio-economic status. that left a large segment of our community voiceless for the last 10 years. the prior commission failed to follow the federal voting act equal protection clause guidelines by weakening of the electoral voice of racial minorities in our community when

a large portion of the largely or 50% asian community was partitioned away from that communities and it was shared nearly identical demographic composition. that commission harmed the electoral voice of the southeast trinity's of visitation valley and hunters point when it failed to maintain a balance propensity within district and to insure the electoral voices of anyone racial and language minority is not suppressed. the effect of having potrero hill with its higher voter turnout gives it an unfair advantage in supervisory elections. >> your time is up. sorry. >> thank you. hoda i>> i just found out abouts proposal to make this significant change today. i'm not sure when that was first

brought to you but it seems i have been -- to some meetings and this is the first i heard of it. it seems to have come in at the last minute. to me as a resident of bayview hunters point it does not make a lot of sense which is why -- i am wondering why it came in at the last minute and considering the amount of work that you have done. it looks to me like moving the portal into district 10 will put you back at square one in terms of trying to make the numbers work and going back and having to redraw the lines to have worked so hard on. and i love the bayview. i love the portal. as a resident of bayview, they do not seem like the same to neighborhoods to me. that is my own personal opinion after living there for 10 years. i identify myself as a baby -- bayview hunters point resident. when i go downtown i take the

tea. i am waiting for the new library to be built which will be great and if there are community meetings i am interested in, they're in the bayview so that is where i am coming from. that is where my community of interest lies. the geographical barriers of the freeways to me create -- it seems odd to me to try and overcome those geographic barriers that have been there for years by making their movement -- that is all i want to say. >> i live and work in district 6 and i have some specific feedback tonight about what you have done in the current plan to district 6. there has been a lot of public feedback from folks who live in the tenderloin who want the district building to remain at

post street. we are talking about a lot of people. what the task force has tried to do is to compromise and to try to keep some of these blocks with post street as the northern boundary. we appreciate that. however you failed to go one extra block west and you should -- because there are some important to underline properties that are currently being restricted in the district 3 under this plan. i am speaking about the lee roy presidents which is and sro. at the first meeting you had, one of the first speakers was a tenant who lives there and has done organizing work on behalf of district 6 and does not appreciate the idea of being moved into district 3. he is at the district 6 budget town hall meeting over at tenderloin elementary. i would ask the task force make some revisions on the jury post

line if it is not possible to take -- make post of boundary, to push it one block west so that we get of these the block on post between leavenworth and hide -- hyde. i see that we are tr to keep moe of the mission than anticipated. if you only can tweak it a couple more blocks further south, you'd be able to keep some of the largest sro is in san francisco. i am talking about the mission hotel at 520 south van ness on south van ness between 16th and 17th and between south van ness and mission. and the all-star at 2791 16th st. which is at 16th and folsom. vice-chair lam: the time is up. thank you. the speaker.

>> i do want to thank you, you have done a marvelous job. i'm here to talk about one specific census block. since bought 3001 to confirm it has no population so it is possible. i want to spend my time is telling you the story of the neighborhood and how hard we of worked. i am in that area. i was starting to speak with uc- berkeley a couple of years ago tried to convince someone it would be a good idea to take walls that were tagged in part on them. after getting a letter signed and -- uc-berkeley said ok. we started painting in 2010 and we continue to this day. over 30 artists have worked free. it is a community driven

projects. the time, talent and energy of the artists who have grown up in the lower heat. and in many cases grown famous. 55 laguna is on haight street. it is the main artery for the lower and upper hate. the majority who have been fighting for the community have been from district 5. vice-chair lam: i am sorry. >> the task force is splitting the main thoroughfare. we fought this for gary -- kir geary. it could be this area was ceded to the five. even the district 5 supervisor is challenged to spend time here. given that the district 8

supervisor does not spend time or energy in the lower heat and the laguna is located in the lower heat, 55 a good and should be in district 5. there is splitting the census block and i urge you to consider that if that is the only thing. otherwise keep 55 in district 5. vice-chair lam: thank you. >> i am a lower haight president and i would like to address that area. in addition, our community is made of merchants and neighbors. we are one of the unique neighborhood associations that comprise both. part of our merchant district is on fillmore street. it primarily is on haight street but it goes south on fillmore down to herman. again, for that reason, i would request that the border be moved

south from where it is now which is splitting the area on haight street and push it down to herman. and include 55 lead and a. thank you. vice-chair lam: thank you, next speaker. >> hello, folks. i am not going to be here to remind you of the connections between potrero hill and the rest of district 10. i believe you have studied that early over the past eight, nine, 10 months. i amharic -- i am here to read a letter. from the former executive said -- director. i am a resident of 627 woolsey street. we have lived here for six years. in the fall, she will