to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are

serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we

treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and

not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's

and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic

outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effecti >> i think it ae's public and private property. i'm against graffiti. >> who can get it out the most who can be noticed the most. >> i i've seen seniors doing graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag -- >> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice

of violation to private property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it.

let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you got it.

>> you know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. you know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. >> the time where it's visible. a lot of people put it on the ground. >> i like when tourists come and say, you do this for your city and you get paid for that? >> we use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining walls. [inaudible]. white on the fire hydrants. fire box red for the fire boxes.

our brown for the pg and e poles. >> we are not painters we do our best. >> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that

form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. >> thank you. >> okay.

>> put the drop cloth. come on around. >> there you go. force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get

especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye.

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chiu: the afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. thank you to sfgovtv further help in televising these weekly meetings. these culpable. supervisor avalos: -- >> supervisor avalos, president. supervisor compos, president. supervisor chu, president. supervisor elsbernd, present. supervisor care -- supervisor kim, present. supervisor mar, present. supervisor olague, president. supervisor wiener, president.

supervisor chiu: ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag, indivisible, but the body and justice for all. -- with liberty and justice for all. supervisor chiu: colleagues, we have our april 17 and 18th board meeting minutes. seconded by supervisor compost, those minutes have been approved. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are none. items one through six comprise the consent agenda and will be acted upon by single roll call vote. unless acted upon by a member. supervisor chiu: colleagues, would you like to sever these items? roll-call vote on items 1 through 6. >> mr. president? aye. supervisor:?

r cohen? [takes role] l] there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: the resolution is adopted. next item? >> an ordinance extending the film rebate program to june 30, 2014, increasing the total amount of available funds up to $2 million. supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor farrell: this extends the film reprogram through june 30, 2014. a quick recap of the history of the program, it dates back to 2006, when reports from the film commission.

since it was created, 135 san francisco residents were employed by this program, bringing in $12.5 million in -- -- wages to san francisco residents. film production spent over $6 million in the city of san francisco on labour, hotel accommodations, supplies and other services. i believe that we mean it -- we need to maintain the critical jobs in the city. there are a number of new jobs coming out, including a new woody allen film that was announced, which would continue to extend the film industry's prominence a little bit in 7 cisco. it would diversify our economy and i hope that this is something that i can get your support on. thank you. supervisor chiu: colleagues, can

we take this same house, same call? or do we need a roll call? san house, same call. next item. >> item #8. ordinance authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $403,000 from the california public utilities commission, through pacific gas and electric company, to study the impact that the replacement of old refrigeration equipment in san francisco businesses would have on energy usage and peak power demand in the city, and amending ordinance no. 146- 11 annual salary ordinance, fy2011-2012 and fy 2012-2013) to class 5640 environmental specialist grant funded position (.25 fte) at the department of the environment. supervisor chiu: same house, same call? this is passed on the first read. item #9. >> item #9. resolution authorizing the lease by t-mobile west corporation of approximately 160 rentable square feet of ground space located at 720 moscow street for the san francisco fire department. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i understand that supervisor avalos lives within 500 feet of this location. can i have a motion to excuse him? seconded by supervisor campos.

another jet -- without objection, his excuse. if we could take the roll call vote on item number nine? >> item #9, roll call vote. [calls the roll] there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: that resolution is adopted. thank you, item 11. >> item number 11. resolution approving an amendment to the contract with apollo health street, inc., for retroactive claiming of aged accounts services to $3,675,000 for an additional four years. supervisor chiu: roll-call vote? >> on item 10, president chu. mr. president, i skipped over

10. item number 11. [roll-call vote] there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: the resolution is adopted. we can take it back to item number 10. >> item number 10. resolution approving an amendment to the contract with addiction, research, and treatment, inc., dba baart, for methadone maintenance services to $26,043,065. supervisor chiu: colleagues, can we do this same outcome -- same house, same call? without objection, adopted. next item. >> item number 12. resolution approving an amendment to the contract with asian american recovery services for fiscal intermediary services to $113,859,922 for an additional four years.

supervisor chiu: colleagues, can we do this same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. item number 13. >> item number 13. resolution approving an amendment to the contract with triage consulting group for retroactive claiming of aged accounts services to $1,823,761 for eight years. supervisor chiu: colleagues, some house, same call? this resolution is adopted. >> item number 14. resolution authorizing the san francisco recreation and parks department to accept and expend a grant administered by the california state parks and recreation department in the amount of $4,000,000 for the project. supervisor chiu: the resolution is adopted, some house, same call. >> item number 15. resolution authorizing the acceptance and expenditure of state transportation development act article 3 funds for various pedestrian and bicycle projects in san francisco in fy2012-2013, totaling $907,824 including $453,912 for the department of public works and $453,912 for the san francisco municipal transportation agency. supervisor chiu: colleagues, house, same call? this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 16. resolution determining that the

premise to premise transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises liquor license from 181 eddy street to 43-6th street (district 6) to mark e. rennie for club omg!, llc, dba club omg!, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the people of the city and county of san francisco, in accordance with section 23958.4 of the california business and professions code, with conditions. supervisor chiu: same house, col. this resolution is adopted. item number 17. >> item number 17. resolution urging the secretary of the navy to christen a ship as the "u.s.s. harvey milk." supervisor chiu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you very much, mr. president. colleagues, before us today is a resolution to support a great honor for one of the most iconic figures in the history of san francisco, as well as the lgbt community. this idea came from the community in san diego. as you probably know by now, supervisor harvey milk was a naval officer who served in korea. this was an important aspect of

his life. i am told by those who know him that he talked about his military service and that, although, like many people, he was against the vietnam war, he remained proud of his military service. if you go to harvey milk plaza, in the muni station there is a series of photos of supervisor milk in various points in his life. one of those photos is a photo of him as an officer in the navy. supervisor milk wore a navy dealt with a master divert bought call. someone sent me pictures -- master diver buckle. someone sent me a picture of him wearing it at his headquarters, on the stump, making speeches. lgbt people have served in the armed forces for many years. our community was hidden in the press in the armed services.

now, because of the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, our community can serve openly and properly. be must support our lgbt soldiers, past and present. i can think of no better way to do that than to name a vessel for a navy officer who went on to become one of the most important lgbt civil rights leaders in history. some have questioned whether a navy vessel should be named for harvey milk, given that harvey milk was for peace. i will note that the navy has named vessels for cesar chavez, edgar members, and samuel barber. hardly pro-war people. there is an enormous amount of support in the community for this. the milk family supports it. harvey milk's family supports doing this. his former legislative aide,

cronin berger, supports this. many lgbt veterans support it. some of them came to committee, including bob [unintelligible] , an extraordinary leader, who served as president of the harvey milk lgbt democratic club. the veterans affairs commission supported it, including its out president, john caldera, as well as the american legion alexander hamilton post 448. i want to note how inspirational it will be for young lgbt sailors at to see harvey milk's name on the side of a neat -- military vessel. harvey used to talk about the kid from altoona, pa., and inspiring young lgbt people to have hope and know that they can succeed in life. many of us oppose war. many of us chose not to pursue military careers.

many lgbt people have made the choice to serve in the military, even when it was illegal and dangerous to do so. i can think of no better way to support those people, to support our community and the many more lgbt young people who will follow in their footsteps than to support the naming of this ship as the u.s.s.r. the milk. thank you. >> thank you. -- supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: like many of us, i have been trying to figure out what harvey milk would have wanted. we decided to do something unique in my office. we got out a week keyboard. -- a oiuiji board. [laughter] it's spelled out a series of letters.

harvey gave us those letters. good riddance, do not ask, do not help. that was quite clear, harvey milk would have been opposed to don't ask, don't tell. i can honestly say that that is one aspect of this resolution that is really valid. the recent experience that gays and lesbians have had in the military is one that is still trouble. there is a person who is in the brig waiting for a trial for treason, bradley manning, who has been a questioning individual of his sexual orientation -- actually, his gender. he is gay. he is one whose experience tells us that we have a lot to do to make the military a better place for people who are gay to serve. to me, naming a naval vessel after harvey milk can help in

that way. can help to get to the point where people who are in the military who are gay are going to be able to serve as the military grapples with how to program what is about making people comfortable with sexual orientation. i actually believe, this is actually a reasonable thing to do, not knowing what he would have wanted, but knowing that we have to move the lever higher for it, in making sure that gays and lesbians can have greater acceptance in the military. i will be supporting this resolution. you know, i think it is also important that from time to time, we engage in these resolutions to discuss matters outside the purview of the board of supervisors, because they have an impact on every day san

franciscans. i want to thank scout leader for bringing this forward. colleagues, i hope that you can support it as well. supervisor chiu: supervisor olague? supervisor olague: i needed to comment on why i will not support this resolution today, to clarify where i am coming from on this. it was challenging to me, because many people that i respect in the community are in favor of this. colleagues on the board. mr. dokendorf. people in the milk family, who felt that he will also be supportive of this type of an honor. at the end of the day, i do believe that there are more appropriate ways to honor someone who, in the last days of

their lives, was opposed to war. and, so, i also have my entire life span against the military industrial complex. i have my own values that i feel are definitely weighing on my decision today. and, so, that being said, ultimately it is a combination of my own values. and how i feel someone like harvey milk should ultimately be honored. i think that sometimes it might be very empowering, because apparently anyone who will be on this ship would be required, obviously, to where it shirt emblazoned