steven has worked for dispatch and has consistently demonstrated extraordinary skills in the in life- threatening police calls in a manner and a skill that befits the entire profession, and on behalf of the board, i want to congratulate you for all of the work that you do, and i want to also congratulate all of the men and women at d.e.m. for all of the work they do every day. thank you very much. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, president chiu, and i think you, the board of supervisors, for this honor. it is great to be here to share this with my co-workers at the department of emergency management. ross taylor joins me today, and also my sister julie goldman and

my brother-in-law dennis joins me from minnesota. several people from work to join me, including director lisa and the operations manager cecile. i have been a dispatcher for 11 years. i became a dispatcher after a career in information systems with pacific bell, because i needed a second career that was relevant to real life and because i wanted the challenge of having to function in real time. i did answer this particularly difficult 911 call in 2010. the caller did say she was visiting san francisco to speak at a symposium and that she had just call home, as president chiu stated. her three-year-old son had entered the phone and said that his daddy was lying on the floor

in the closet. i launched a call from there, notifying baltimore e.m.s., with my exceptional manager to contact a neighbor as well as to contact a colleague in the hotel. i believe that contacting the colleague was particularly important. president chiu: by the way, stephen. could you pull the microphone so that the entire san francisco public can hear you? thank you. >> sorry about that. i asked my mgr. janice to contact a neighbor as well as a colleague in the hotel. i believe that contacting the colleague was particularly important. no one should be told of a loved one's death and then be alone. i stayed with my caller because i sensed what was coming. this call was an ultimate challenge, and my training served me well that day.

hillary clinton has famously quoted, it takes a village to raise a child. it also takes a roomful of dispatchers to create another dispatcher. finally, they all joined in in one way or another to help mold the trainee into the dispatcher that they need to become. two of my own trainers are present today. one dispatcher encouraged me, giving me the courage to do this job. a retired dispatcher, kathy webb, was a call taking diaz, because she understands the human heart. kathy gave me a very high standard to live up to. i accept this award on behalf of all of the dispatchers in san francisco who train so selflessly. i also accept in memory of my friend, cheryl, and in memory of

my beloved colleague and classmate, a dispatcher francine widely. again, thank you. [applause] i am so pleased to meet you.

president chiu: colleagues, why do we now not move to general public comment? madam clerk? clerk calvillo: now is the time for the public to make, , without reference to the committee calendar. please note that public, is not allowed on those items which already been subject to public comment by a board committee. speakers seeking translation assistance will be about twice the time to testify, and if a member of the public would like to have a document displayed on the overhead projector, please states and remove the document when it should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> first speaker, please. >> [speaking foreign language]

san francisco [speaking foreign language] mayor ed lee [speaking foreign language] jane kimi [speaking foreign language]

ladies and gentlemen, as you know my name, i am here to be talking face to face with our mayor when he finishes his meeting with you. i asked him, and i tell him i am going to give him a copy. what i want, what i need. as you know, i lived at 990 volcker street. it has been built by your power, by your actions, for the disabled, of which i am one of them. the building, the owner is not good.

the smoke. outside the building, we have no place for an ambulance to take me when i have heart problems. you can see. that was the morning. that was the night. ladies and gentlemen, i would like to ask jane kim, to tell her that people have asked me to talk to rare and everyone of you that if you have the courage to see the messy mix, i have no place for the ambulance when they come to take me to save my life with other people. that is your problem. and that ask the gentleman behind the counter there, mr. campos. you are an attorney. i offer you to coming, and i offer you to visit us.

you and the rest of our supervisors. please, open your eyes. enough is enough. bank. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. stop the corporate rate -- rape of the public library. do not give money to the friends of the public library or accept money from them. this was to be completed in 2010. as has been observed many times, the claims were all lives, -- lies, and the promises were broken. the voters were told that the friends of the library would raise 15.1% of the total. the program now has a projected budget of $196.50 million. in january of this year, the branch reports showed the

friends had an extended 1.1 million or 5%, but that figure was 25% library preservation funds, and the fence -- france had only spent 870,000. this year, a budget report showed 7.6 million added in one month. the library administration claims that $5.10 million is from the friends. in fact, figures from the department of all works show the friends of only an expanded $3.60 million, and the controllers figure showed only $728,000 were expended. during the same period, they submitted to the state attorney general but the friends had income of $35.70 million in the same period and spent $6.10 million on executive salaries, not total salaries, executive salaries. the city does not review the forms submitted to the attorney

general because the friends have no agreement with the city. the so-called philanthropists have no accountability, because lack of accountability is what they get for their money. there is not even a whisper of accountability, because the voters have been cheated. and is not really about the money. the allies cost more. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i was here last week, and is very rare that i come twice in one week. at the board of supervisors. supervisors, we have reached a point where some of you are working with the ethics commission to curtail public comment. they are watching very carefully. those of you who are innocent can smile, but those of you who are involved in this be aware.

they are watching you very, very carefully. now, you have the board rules, which are fine, but remember, the brown act supersedes the board rules. i wish somebody was in that chair, but he is not there. today, the successor for the san francisco redevelopment agency. and the comptroller is here. there has been an audit where some information will be sent for the department of finance so that we will get a response back. we can proceed with affordable housing. i have been at home listening very attentively to all of the homeless people who come here,

pleading for some holistic plan, and that is not happening. we have over 8000 homeless on the streets of san francisco. we also need to protect everybody. this immigration and terrorist stuff that is spreading around, we need to pay very careful attention to it. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> thank you. i will be using the over it. i am with the library association, executive director. last year at the sunshine task force, the government watchdog, there were two complaints that the arts commission had unlawfully denied the public the right at some of their meetings and had obstructed efforts by our group to understand records,

to get records were related. that was a unanimous vote, and it also determined that supervisor david campos violated law by unlawfully redacting information from a file of related correspondence that we sought and obtained. the city's official watchdog group not only found that the file was on lawfully redacted, but it also found that the file had been turned over to library users association late and not as prescribed by law. actually, it was 10 times later a man what should have been provided. as far as we are concerned, that represents, unfortunately, -- that gives way to our contention that the so-called community

process that supervisor campos set up ostensibly to resolve a dispute over the mural state was, in fact, a secretive process that fundamentally excluded the public. in addition, the attempt to understand how the process worked by reviewing these documents was obstructed by supervisor campos, with massive reductions from the file that he gave us after making us wait for a response 10 times longer than permitted by law. i hope that the supervisor and all of the supervisors will follow the law with respect to sunshine requirements. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is eugene gordon jr.. a scientific fact of nature is

energy base. to believe in religion as a supernatural god, the very pronunciation is evidence from and material base, meaning religions god has no other evidence of its being than merely being told so. history knows the facts. unscientific material pronounced blogs, with a self being passive to social culture, a means of exchange for labor production of basic needs would undo a bone structure. military militancy being of said, where clergy, representation of a supernatural god is to exploit and an exploiter and a revolution to

love one and another in a children of god. nation's material -- natures materials science awaits. >> next speaker, please. >> supervisors. good afternoon. for the record, my name is emile lawrence. i bring up an issue out of two issues that i have today before me. one is that last week, dr. david chu cut me off. there is going to be a trial. i bring that up because this is a public forum, even though some of the public speakers from the public at large may be singing, dancing, or giving you some

philosophical treatise, they have a right to stated under the brown act, without interruptions from the president or any other supervisor as long as they are not breaking the law. i submit my 10 to 12 copies with you to the ethics commission. secondly, going back to 2006, when mr. gavin newsom -- i will get that for you -- but to me from the taxi commission director's job and put an attorney in place when a specific role requested an analyst from the civil service system. i started checking and did database background checks. i did it on her. i submitted a dossier. she was bumped later by mr. gavin newsom. she was the only one. four years ago, i found out that mr. gavin newsom had picked him

and you approved him after he paid a $1.10 million sexual- harassment suit, and secondly, he was accused of investment by the fbi in atlanta for $75,000. i have before you another case of how the mta is hiring investigators that have been accused of crimes such as felonies to investigate the taxi business. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, and thank you to all of you who stayed around for public comment. i just want to respond to a couple of things that i heard. on item 36, i was talking about banks are going to lend, and so people cannot own homes. well, hardly anybody can own a home in san francisco these

days. i would be surprised if all of the board of supervisors owned a home in san francisco flat out. maybe dianne feinstein can own a home, but i cannot, and my friends cannot, and a lot of us are renting. another aspect of the issue beyond foreclosures that came up and other comments is in the 2006 u.s. census, there was around 32,000 vacant housing units in san francisco, which means presumably there is more that are unregistered, all of this while we have, as someone said, we have 7000 or 8000, it depends on who you ask, homeless people in the city, and people are dying literally on the streets while other people are keeping these homes. beyond the foreclosure crisis, beyond what is happening to the middle class is what is happening to the rest of us.

capitalism is the real crisis, and it is an impressive system, and these problems with housing are not going to be resolved until the dissolution of capitalism. also, a supervisor mar, you were thinking a lot of people, but you did not think one group for their cameras help since 1992, and they are making use of vacant housing, and i would encourage everybody on this body to support that in to support efforts such as the sf commune. john avalos, jane kim. others. before the election, i went really invite you down to check out what we are doing. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. and by the way, ♪ you make me

feel like dancing you make me feel like city dancing seven nights, city lights, dance the night away ♪ if you want to dance, come down to channel 13. i'm going to have graphics and a second. thanks, mayor lee, for visiting, and after all, ♪ two out of three mayors ain't bad now, do not be sad, because two mayors out of three ain't bad ♪ and, why not ♪ lanham be there in your morning let him be there in your city nights

let him change those that are wrong and made them ripe let him wander through this city wonderland that we all do share all i asked you is to let it be there ♪ and -- ♪ he is a hero and will fight for your sitting he will be the hero that you are looking for he will live forever, making it better, that we made a city better than it was ever before ♪ and -- that is it. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is

allison marshall, and i am addressing item 43. i am in favor of permitting strollers on muni vehicles, and i would just like to do a small demonstration on how difficult it is to get on a bus when you have a stroller. you have to plan ahead. you have to know when the bus is coming, because you have to take your child out of the stroller, a diaper bag on your shoulder, you take the child out of the stroller and put it here, maybe wearing 25 to 35 pounds on the side. you have to fold up the stroller with one hand and your foot, and hopefully you do it in one action, and then the bus is there, and you have to climb up on the bus, and you cannot hold on to anything because both hands are full. you also have to take your clipper card, and which hand do

you use? this backhand with a stroller. somehow you have to get on with this. and then you have to find a seat. there may be a seat, or there may not be a seat. you have your diaper bag behind you. you cannot really sit on the seat. you have your baby on your lap. you have your stroller here. people are tripping over the stroller. but your neighbors are not very happy because there is not room for them either, and this is just a demonstration of what it is like to get on a bus and to be on a bus with a stroller. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, president, members of the board. my name is sophie heyward, and i am here representing myself and our family. i have taken time off of work in

order to speak in support of item 43 also allowing strollers on the muni. as you know, child care is a huge obstacle to tackle. we have shared care for our daughter, and spends a day with a nanny and her daughter. the three of them go venturing all over the city, by foot and by muni, and with two toddlers and one adult, to have one in a carrier and the other placed into a light weight stroller. on a few occasions, the driver has enforced the no open strollers world, and as the previous speaker was announcing, she has to fold the stroller while trying to hold on to two kids and get her corporate card, and then she growls the girls on two seats if there are any available. it is a huge mess, and it slows

the process for everybody. clarifying that toddlers may remain in strollers, albeit with the wheels locked and belted in, that costs nothing to implement. this is the low hanging fruit. and while this will not -- it will facilitate mobility, particular for passengers travelling with more than one child at a time, which is my future in a couple of weeks. this acknowledges part of what makes the city attractive, convenient access to public transportation. thanks. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is shona. i am with the medical canada's task force, and i am just here to thank the city family to pay for speaking so eloquently to the memory of one who will be

terribly missed by all of the advocates. it is really difficult to lose someone so, so young. thank you. thank you, supervisor. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is -- i am with -- and i am urging you to support item 43 and allow open strollers on muni. president chiu: if you could speak a little closer to the microphone? thank you. >> i also take my child. as you heard from the previous speakers, it is difficult to get on the unit with a stroller and to pay your fair share safely. i do think there is precedent. i came back from a trip to london. they do allow open strollers.

it is much larger than san francisco. it really did facilitate our exploration of the city as tourists. it is a perfectly safe alternative as long as the child is strapped in and the stroller is locked. of course, i do also urge you at a future point in time to look at the signage that you have as well. they have very nice signs in the united kingdom that provide priority seating to not only disabled people. they have an image of a person with a cane. a woman who is pregnant, and also an individual carrying a child. i think that is also something you might want to consider for a future board meeting to facilitate a child-friendly public transit. >> good afternoon.