that worsened because the public -- postponed care. given these challenges, it is more critical the transgendered community not be excluded from our health care system. corporate america is moving forward as well. more than 200 large companies in the u.s. provide equal access to health care for transgendered employees and human rights campaign and -- in its corporate equality index requires that an employer provide transgendered health benefits 100%. since healthy san francisco was adopted, a hardy crew of folks have worked tirelessly for years to remove the innocent exclusion for certain procedures medically necessary.

this has been a collaborative process for folks in the community with the transgendered law center. with the department of public health and the human rights commission, teresa sparks and the commission itself. i was proud to work with the community and the department to move us toward the finish line and we expect that the department of public health will remove the exclusion this summer. this will help us beyond -- be on the way to ensure we're providing all health care that is medically necessary for the transgendered community. i am proud to be honoring all of you today. your work is going to benefit so many people who in this community and we know that when

san francisco takes a step, that and support gerberding around the world and others follow. when you look back 10 or 11 years ago when the legislation passed and it made news around the world about how lucky san francisco was, all the sudden, at&t and these other large fortune 500 companies are doing the same thing. buenos aires is doing the same thing. i am proud to honor you today. thank you for your work. >> i am the member of the health council which was convened by project health. on behalf of my colleagues, i would like to express my gratitude to supervisors scott

wiener, the san francisco board of supervisors, the san francisco human rights commission, and the department of public health for reaching this consensus and approving this resolution. we have been working on this together for two years and i want to thank you in the other city agencies for working with us. the removal of the exclusion of medically necessary transition related care from healthy san francisco will constitute the ending of a longstanding barrier to the health and well- being of many transgendered san franciscans. exclusions' like this one have been one of the many ways in which transgendered women and men have been pushed to the margins of society and forced to live in desperation. denied the equal treatment we all hold precious. pervasive employment discrimination and the resulting lack of health insurance coverage has driven many transgendered san franciscans to

seek needed medical care from healthy san francisco. with the passage of this resolution, hopefully in the near future, it will be provided. cigna began research has shown that the provision of this much needed care will result in reductions in suicide alex, substance abuse, hiv infection, mental health problems, and will contribute to the improvement in the socio- economic status of transgendered people. reducing social costs for everyone, ultimately. i think the board of supervisors for passing this resolution and helping bring my transgendered sisters and brothers back into the fold of a compassionate and civil society. thank you. [applause]

president chiu: thank you. supervisor marc, you have a 30th anniversary resolution for toy boat, do you have a combination related to that? supervisor mar: i do not have a commendation. president chiu: why don't we go

back to general comment. and here from our next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. god bless you and god bless the city and county of san francisco. i want to touch on the affordable housing. san francisco needs affordable housing. how about assisted living for people with disabilities and senior citizens? ok, just something to think about. my main issue is to talk about the 89 muni bus that is to run to look at our hospital. it no longer runs on the weekend. i was a patient in laguna honda

hospital. i cannot tell you how much my life improved when i would see my family and friends and loved ones who would come up and give me inspiration to get out of the hospital. so, supervisors, i am asking you to give these people a chance who are living in laguna honda hospital by re-establishing the 89 bus on the weekend because look at how that offers a service on a weekday. on the weekend, most people are off on the weekend. moms and grandmas and grandchild ren can see their loved ones and see that they're being taken care of. it is a matter of life and death that we get this 89 bus, the 89

muni running from forestville to laguna honda hospital again. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors and president chiu. does this work? president chiu: we can hear it. ♪ i look around me and i see it is so ♪ ♪ some people want to fill the city with city blousons -- love songs ♪ ♪ what's wrong with that? ♪ ♪ i would like to help you with your problem ♪

♪ it's like a flower ♪ ♪ it's coming up on the flower ♪ and i notice the beatles are -- revisited are coming to the city. ♪ the city loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ i saw it yesterday, you know it is up to you ♪ ♪ you know you should be glad ♪ ♪ wooooo ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ president chiu: thank you.

next speaker. >> my name is eugene gordon, jr. news meeting has -- when did frg has eight begin this use and who gave them permission to build? that was put to the u.s. attorney, san francisco california, approximately april 2012. receptionist taking my telephone number and address for reply. same reading over telephone to japanese consoles. answer was japan as sovereign nation after world war ii, 1952 was able to assemble nuclear

reactors. that statement also implicates enriched uranium. 2012 imperialists allied nations, and there are also nations which build nuclear reactors, questions iran's intent to build nuclear reactors, hoping for prove to fried as if in actuality, enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. printed in the union of socialist republics, following a storm in the debates, violent clashes throughout the country on march 26, 1958, has a law authorizing west germany -- march 26, 1958, answer sovereignty to build nuclear reactors, questions if nuclear

weapons were built. frg government, their inspiration a one-nation germany, european union, 2012 -- [bell rings] supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, honorable board of supervisors. i much appreciate and love my supervisor, david campos. i do not know whether to cheer of because you made me put away my speech.

i feel free to communicate with you. you promise to listen, and you have, i think. thank you so much. i think that you are put in a very tenuous position with sheriff' -- sheriff mirkarimi. it looks very bad, and you are going to have to make a judgment on that. i was hoping back -- that this board would take up some type of hearing to get the answer is because you are expecting the communicate -- the community to get them for you.

i am very glad, very grateful. thank you to the center for what they did. and remember about the share -- sheriff mirkarimi issue. what happens in san francisco goes to other countries. the victim should be here. thank you so much. supervisor chiu: thank you so much. next speaker. >> i am the founder and spokesman for the 30-year-old coit depression

preservationists. we believe that the coit tower should be a depression-era preservation site and must attain museum status. most people kind of think the coit collection already is a museum. it is not. i do not think that any city in america -- by the way, made it a national historic site. within a national historic site, i do not think that this kind of fine art and statement should be run by our gardners. it is my personal opinion they have been negligent and disrespectful. as americans, i believe we need to show this collection great respect, which involves removing

rec and park and putting anybody else in there. you would have to be an art historian to understand the murals. there is one hobo there. when a quarter of our population was hopeless in 1936. the reason why i stand here today is because only the mayor and the sprout board are the only people, the only bodies in this county that can save coit. if you thought about it, over 30 years, i have never found anybody that argues with me. it is about to become a restaurant. naturally, i am doing an environmental impact report shows what happens when you deep-fried oysters and it sticks into the fresco.

>> thank you. >> greetings, everyone. the land use committee has adopted -- is working on a very fine ordinance that has to do with student housing, and i like it very much, most of it. i especially liked the part where conversions of existing housing interested in housing is prohibited. there is one exception that i would like to speak to you about, and that exception is in section 317b1ii. it allows conversions it -- if it is in a convert, monastery, or similar religious building. the part this is similar religious order facility makes it too broad. i believe that the intent of the

ordinance is to limit the conversions, but by putting in the word similar, it broadens it. in fact, the planning commission had adopted something that would say that the word similar should be deleted. another word that is very broadening is the word facility. i would like for it to be "house." i have attached part of the ordinance, but i heard there was a 150-word limit, so i'll just give you this. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: thank you. a speaker. >> good afternoon. gender issues are sensitive. gender issues are confusing. anyone who tells you differently is lying. it is to san francisco's credit that it has been willing to open the door to the most modern thinking and progressive thinking about gender, and it is to that goal that i would like

to contribute. during prior week, when only had to walk one block to meet a cheerleader who was not a cop, and the former fastball pitcher who was twirling a parasol -- one only had to walk one block to meet a cheerleader who was now a cop. i could easily be talking about men in the city, and that should be to san francisco's credit. today, when you approve this long, sought after inclusion of transgendered people, you approved a new program, and i believe there may be some unforeseen consequences of that action, and i would like to call your attention to them. it regards the likelihood that there will be more people seeking transgendered operations because we know that they are expensive, and this has been a

great burden. but when the numbers increase, what will happen to the housing that has been provided in the city? it has to do with the mixing of women and transgendered people during the early stages of their transition, and i would like to talk to you about that again another time when there is ample room. thank you. supervisor chiu: thanks. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. i am really happy to be here. i have been working with supervisor avalos on this resolution to have this week declared aka week in san francisco. the sunday, i went to the moscow center, and i learned a lot

about this organization. this organization of women -- they teach girls how to be ladies and how to be successful in life. they have the mosconi center for the whole week, which is historic because no other black organization has had the mosconi center for a whole week. they have been doing workshops in the different communities, inspiring young people to be the best they can and spending money all over the place. the mayor spoke and said that they had spent over $13 million already. i want to show us that san francisco loves them because they have blessed us with their presence and with their funds, so i would like for my supervisor to speak on behalf of

them if you would. ok, and, folks, being a aka, if i know about it when i was raising my daughter, i would have made sure that she went to college to become a aka. all of the ladies remind you of supervisor cohen with her finesse and with her ladyness. it is really a wonderful organization, and i hope that everyone would push and agree with me and my supervisor. supervisor chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is nancy cross, and i am going to speak on a matter

that i believe was a originally intended for this week's agenda but due to circumstances in the clerk's office, it will be on next week's agenda. the reason i'm talking now instead of them is because -- i think it is not quite right for at least this item that it not be subject next week to public input. the basis for that is that public comment says four items which have not been considered by a board committee and excluding items which have been considered by a board committee, and i understand that the item of my concern, which involves a very large sum of money -- namely, $35,000,000.699175 --

$35,699,175. i do go to the public health committee and then to the board, but said committees are not publicly -- the public is not informed. the fact that there is a book in the library on a certain floor that it open to a certain page, you can see it is the item of the said committee, but it does not give you the substance is not sufficient to induce public to come, and the public did not come, so i am asking you to alert to this. i would like to see you say the public can speak on this. it is a huge amount of money.

[bell rings] supervisor chiu: thank you very much. thank you very much. >> [inaudible] supervisor chiu: thank you very much, ma'am. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am executive director of library users association. there is a train of plan destruction of a mural coming down the track, and library users along with many others ask you and the mayor to stop it. this mural is the bernal heights

branch library mural. i am going to be using some projecting, please. this mural has been up since 1980 to 1982 when a community process put it up, headed by arch williams, who was also a member of the haight-ashbury muralists. words are in spanish and english from songs on two sides. on the right side of the front are featured three pyramids -- a mexican pyramid, an egyptian pyramid, and the transamerica pyramid, with images of the united nations, children on the globe, and so on. the site features working women and hands clasped in friendship

as well as a hot rod that the kids particularly wanted included. on the back wall is a history of the neighborhood, starting with native americans. all of this is scheduled for destruction october 1, and replacement by a very sanitized, bland product, which i am showing here. just whorl's and swirls on the left. nothing on the right front, and on the side, bits and pieces reminiscent. they should not happen, and we ask you to help sort it out along with the mayor. thank you. >> supervisors, i am glad that most of you are in your chairs. that is some way of respecting the public. having said back -- that, we had

a very interesting meeting yesterday at the ethics commission. i could not be there, but i watched it. i think it is time for one of you to have a charter amendment that deals with official misconduct. you can get it for people at home. the charter amendment is available online. section 15, 1 05, more less, did you all the details about official misconduct that some of you all have noticed. i call it notice of violation, being more environmentalist. anyway, some advocates, and some of them are here -- they spoke,

and the ethics commission, as usual, agreed if 50 or 60 cases are sent to them, and they just notice one case, and they throw the other cases in the waste paper boxes. is this ok for san francisco? i ask you all to make the charter amendment so that of millet -- we can really zero in on those so-called representatives who are naughty. notice of violations who do not represent good san franciscans. they pretend to represent good san franciscans. i hope you do that. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: thank you. next ke