>> and just one thing, we are waiting for one of the members of the task force. for those familiar with the process, and at the table as well as complete a speaker form can turn it into our clerk. thank you for that.

>> 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.