my name is philip byrd, i was three times a libertarian candidate in this district. i'm blind from hiv/aids and part of that blindness is attributable to lack of government accountability in the sense that the drugs that were clearly available to me in 1992 [speaker not understood] were not legalized by the [speaker not understood] of 1996. and i lost my eyesight. [speaker not understood] police authorities and the feds and the people who invented those drugs were simply going to be subject to fines or imprisonment if they did anything but obey those rules. you also must be accountable. you as supervisors are

accountable above all for our safety and our law. [speaker not understood] you are given tremendous power. you have a police department at your disposal. you have [speaker not understood]. you are accountable to the mayor for that. you are accountable to the district attorney for that. you are accountable to the state government and to the feds for your proper use of that. the president of the ndaa is accountable to nobody. he's already been accountable to the voters and that's it. the constitution provides that understood -- the founders understood it is in the state interest to kill somebody and they have in the constitution a provision called a bill of mark, marqe. i congratulate you and i hope you will urge the congress and the president to use their proper constitutional powers and have the killing done by congress where at least there is some accountability. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. thank you. next speaker.

good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john [speaker not understood] and i represent an african university and kenya school of law. i also am interested in talking about mohammed ibrahim award for 2013 and 2014. i currently reside at providence church at 1601 mc kinnon and previously resided at 5 47 haight street in san francisco. there is an interesting program that's being commended by bevan dufty. our city has secured a million dollars in state funding to expand and improve our shelter system such as the one i'm living in at providence. this bayview shelter requires approval by the city planning commission. there will also be an

opportunity to participate in that process later this year, he he said, and again there will be a public notice. if approved, there will be a competitive bidding process to designate the shelter operator. i was going to offer a name of a church. i know there are many you know here in the city including st. francis of assissi. i would like to offer up saint john's church and mother brown as a parties -- participant for three reasons. one is the brain trust we allow. also the second reason * of course is the teachings of the prophecy by john of jesus christ. and third, an address [speaker not understood] 66 sixth street. i would like to include -- have i run out of time? >> you have 20 seconds left. thank you. you're part of the contract.

god told him to obey its term. you personally and all your prosperity have this continuing responsibility that every male among you shall be circumstance um sized. [speaker not understood] shall be cut off. the foreskin of his penis shall be cut off. >> thank you very much. next speaker. * hello, supervisors. i also would like to thank supervisor chiu for the ndna resolution. and the reason for that, not just thanking him, but also encouraging all the other supervisors to stand behind this resolution. it's very important. this is a city that has "san francisco" values. we should stand up for values that are constitutional, that support individual rights, that are values that we know as a city. and i would encourage all of

you to stand behind supervisor chiu. i would also encourage, if i may, to take this a little further. you know, you are already for the resolution planning to encourage members of congress and that's great. that's a tremendous -- a step in the right direction. but how about also encouraging the members of our state legislation to nullify the whole thing? i mean, we can. by law we can. we could go through the court system and this will take years, but i think the legislative process is there for people like you and me to stand up and say, hey, this is unconstitutional. we don't like it. and i would encourage all of you people here to take up this fight. thank you again, supervisor chiu. we are very he proud of you. >> thank you very much.

(applause) >> next speaker. and if i could remind folks that -- to not express either support with applause or opposition to statements, but you can use your hands to indicate positive support if you like. next speaker. thank you. my name is winston sin, private citizen, generic tea partier. i'd like to commend supervisor chiu also for having the awareness and foresight and the courage, everyone here consider co-sponsoring this resolution. i would have felt that it's needless to say anything about this because on the face of it, isn't it unconstitutional? where is the due process to have anyone without charge,

warrant, any due process, jury trial afforded, access to attorney to be able to be picked up by any federal authorities and be labeled a potential terrorist and so forth. so, anyway, so, i'll keep this short. thanks again. please back the resolution. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good evening, michael lang. thank you, mr. chiu, for the resolution regarding the ndaa. the united nations began here in the city in an earnest effort to call an end to the fighting, or at least to try to promote peace. of course we have the u.n. plaza right outside the door

with the inscription embedded in the concrete advocating an end to the fighting, and an eye toward peace. not a great deal of help is on the way from washington when it comes to our civil liberties. we need to hold the line locally. i urge the supervisors to vote unanimously to pass this resolution of mr. chiu's. we need to hold steady with the bed rock american values of liberty, justice, equality. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. i'm going to keep it really brief. i know it's been a long night and i want to also just say i really enjoyed the commendations today. it was really inspiring. my name is nadia. i'm a legal fellow with the bill of rights committee. i've worked with many organizations here supporting supervisor chiu's resolution. i want to thank all co-sponsors and encourage any other supervisor interested to seib on as a co-sponsor and to

support the resolution. i just wanted to mention that the issued you heard tonight, the resolution is supported by 27 different community organizations * from across the city and from across different communities that's including groups such as the coalition for safe san francisco, council on american islamic relations, chinese progressive alliance, japanese american citizens league, and i'm not going to list them all out again. i want to be brief. * issues and i think all of you have heard enough about why the provisions of the nda are concerning and the resolution from san francisco make sense. i won't stress those points again. difficult want to mention i have 89 letters that have been signed by san francisco residents. these taken at a table at a day of remembrance event that happened last weekend and these are citizens who again are seeing the connection between the kind of indefinite military detention provisions that are included in the ndaa and the experience of japanese americans during the interment in world war ii. so, again, there is a wide variety of support for this

resolution and i'm very much looking forward to a yes vote from all of you. thank you. (applause) hello, my name is alex [speaker not understood] and i really would like to say that i'm so proud to live in a city that dares to tell the national government, no, you will not abuse constitutional law in our city. i am very, very proud of all of you that are signing onto support this law. i would like to offer an international perspective here. as a naturalized citizen in this country, i inherited the history of this country and that involves the good, the bad, and the really, really ugly. and as a political science major and history major, it [speaker not understood] me the interment of the japanese american and the japanese

latino that we did in this country without due process of law. this is the history that i inherit in becoming an american. as an american, i also carry the burden of current events and current laws. and let me tell you where i was during /11. -- 9/11. * i was teaching american political science abroad in asia. and it was very, very difficult to explain to my students what was happening in guantanamo, holding people without the due process of law. coming back to america now for two years, it's amazing that we have to tell the government to

obey the law? there is no debating that. it should be absolute silence in appreciation that we have a law in place already. >> thank you. clam clap (applause) * hello, my name is robin crop, i live in san francisco and i'm a member of the l7 99 coalition that's working hard on this issue. first of all i want to thank you all for the wonderful commendations today. it was so exciting and so wonderful to listen to everyone and what they have done and to watch your appreciation for everyone. so, thank you for that. i want to say that the ndaa has -- the opposition to it has already occurred in two california cities, evidently santa cruz and fairfax. and if san francisco also

passes this resolution against indefinite detention, it will be the 18th city in the country and the largest one. so, it will be very proud if you pass this resolution. we we'd also like to encourage more cities to pass it as well. i consider this a very historic vote. i wanted to tell you all, we also had a press conference outside about it today, which is going on live. for me personally, i went last week to see some film, it was called films of remembrance. last week was the 71st anniversary of fdr's ordering of japanese americans into camps and we got to watch footage of people having to leave their homes, be held in holding areas, be bused to these camps, live in the camps, and also getting out of them. we listened to people say, what is this nonalien business? i'm an american business. they had nothing to do with the bombing of pearl harbor. we also watched a very moving film called the flickr in

eternity. i believe it was about a young man named stanley who was 19 years old and he made a journal about his experience in the camps. they consider him like an anne frank at the time. it was really interesting. he was actually drafted into europe world war ii and was killed over there. they found his journal. they made a film and it's wonderful. and he, to me, -- he was able to tell the experience in the first person and i really want to encourage that more people see that film, a flickr in eternity. that's the human side of this, thank you. (applause) >> thank you. let me ask, are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? okay. seeing none, general public comment is closed. and with that, madam clerk, could you read our adoption calendar? >> items 36 through 37 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call act of these items is [speaker not understood]. can remove the item and consider it separately.

>> thank you. colleagues, would any like to sever items? i'd like to sever item 36. why don't we take a roll call vote on item 37. >> on item 37, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president true? chiu aye? supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 10 ayes. >> item passes. madam clerk, if you can please call the next item. >> item 36 is a resolution opposing the indefinite detention provisions of the national defense authorization act. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of this resolution. as you know, i don't offer -- i don't often offer resolutions that impact federal matters, but when i learned about the

indefinite detention provisions and the national defense authorization act, i frankly was so offended and so surprised at them that i thought it was important that we as a city speak up on this issue. and we will be joining in solidarity states, counties, and municipalities around the country at this moment. i believe we would be the 17th city to support this if that were the case and the will of this body today. the national defense authorization act, the specific provisions that we're talking about, allow our military to arrest and detain american citizens on u.s. soil without a warrant or due process. this would repeat the forced incarceration of the 1940s of 120,000 japanese americans who spent years in interment camps without notices of charges, right to an attorney, or right to a trial. from my perspective and the perspective of many constitutional scholars, these indefinite detention provisions violate fundamental american

legal principles of the presumption of innocence, our fifth amendment right to due process, the sixth amendment right to fair trial, the eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and these provisions would allow activists and journalists to be detained for exercising their first amendment rights to free speech. i want to take a moment and thank the large coalition that has come together to ask us to support this. there are dozens of organizations in the city including the bill of rights defense committee, the coalition for safe san francisco, the asian law caucus, the labor council, the san francisco 99% coalition. i want to thank supervisors avalos, breed, cam pos, kim and mar for their co-sponsorship. from my perspective, i know we have a different perspective today in 2013 than we did in the early 1940s, but i really do believe those who forget history are bound to repeat ti want to make sure we don't forget our history. with that, colleagues, i would ask for your support. (applause) >> thank you.

colleagues, any other comments? madam clerk, can we have roll call on this item? >> on item 36, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? fair ill aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. * supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. (applause) >> colleagues, we do have a couple of imperative items today. the first is one that is offered by supervisor mar. supervisor mar, do you want to discuss it? >> no. >> mr. president, may i read the item? >> sure. [laughter] >> it is a resolution offered by supervisor mar requesting

president barack obama to award posthumously to mr. fred ross senior. >> thank you. supervisor mar has offered the imperative agenda. is there a second to it? seconded by supervisor wiener. is there any public comment on this imperative item? okay. seeing none, this imperative item has the requisite purely commendatory act and brown act finding. and with that, let's take a roll call vote. >> on this item, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution passes. and, colleagues, i have circulated to all of you except

to supervisor chu a resolution commending and honoring her for her distinguished service as a supervisor of the city and county of san francisco in her last day as supervisor. i have a feeling that different colleagues will have things to say, but i think from my perspective, today is a bitter sweet day. we know she is leaving. we know she is not going to go far, and we look forward to her bringing in millions of dollars of property tax revenue so we can figure out how to spend it. but i first want to start by reading some excerpts from this resolution and i want to take a moment and thank her incredible staff, kenny blackstone and soon to be supervisor katie tang with whom we look forward to serving together, who helped to draft what i think is an outstanding resolution. and just a couple points from it. whereas supervisor carmen chu has served the people of the city and county of san francisco with dedication for five years, whereas supervisor

chu was happily crunching numbers and keeping the city fiscally sound as a deputy budget director when she was appointed in september 2007. whereas supervisor chu not only brought her trustical klatch era long with her to the board of supervisors, but also her budget prowess, all of which were of incredible importance as she served four out of her five years on our board's budget and finance committee and i would just add to this surpassing the expectations of her toughest critics. whereas supervisor chu served on the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board, the county transportation authority, abag, health system board member. whereas supervisor chu has always been a class act with a level professionalism that has been unmatched on the board. and whereas supervisor chu appears calm, cool, and collected on the outside, but she has represented her district with fire and determination at every turn. whereas supervisor chu has

broken new ground in district 4 with the nation's largest solar facility, park lets movie night series, working to pro serve the sunset history by bringing the soap box derby racing and larson playground back to the community, she put the cool back in school. [laughter] >> convening many things with our local schools, our school principals and our parent teachers associations. i could go on and on. but, colleague, i think we all know that carmen has been someone who has been an incredible colleague, amazingly hard working, generally even tempered with a very deep knowledge of city government. i just want to take a moment and say there are a couple of less obvious things that i'm going to miss about carmen chu. i'm going to miss the fact that she is the best source of chocolate and french fries at the board of supervisors and i'm sure that some of us will be glad that we won't have a

regular mcdonald's patron in our midst. [laughter] >> i think that we will miss the fact that -- well, actually i'm not sure we'll all miss the fact that carmen rarely breaks with her modern colleagues, except on the critical issue of cat de-clawing. oh, you remember that. i think many of us will miss the fact that she has been so hard working that we were all surprised that today she didn't submit any new legislative proposals and at the last minute she asked me four tough questions about the ndaa which i appreciated. and i will just say for me, one thing i'm not going to miss as you leave is that no one is going to wonder after today if i have a sister on the board of supervisors. [laughter] >> but to just wrap it up, carmen, thank you for your service. you have been a tremendous colleague. we all look forward to working with you and serving with you as co-elected officials and we

wish you all the very, very best. thank you. and with that, does anyone else have any words you'd like to say? supervisor farrell. >> thank you, president chiu. geez, carmen, today is certainly a tough day. i guess one i knew that would come. i think you probably thought it would come, too. many ways i thought it would be better to come two years from now, but i think this is really a great outcome. and i think mayor lee could not have made a better pick in katie. i know we all look forward to working together with you, but really look forward to working personally together with you. you have the respect and admiration of everyone around here, aides, supervisors alike. the mayor couldn't have done a better job. but today i'm also very extremely sad, actually, to be losing carmen here on the board. carmen, you've been not only a

friend, someone certainly we share a lot of political views together, but really been a mentor. and, someone i've looked up to. and i think, you know, to me you're exactly the example of what a supervisor should be. you do your job, take your job very seriously. you're incredibly humble. and you are so authentic and i think you just don't even realize how beloved you are when you're out there in the community. and i've seen it time and time again. people cheer you on and you just have no idea. and, you know, i know this is the right move personally and i'm very excited for you. i'm sad for the rest of us, but i know you're going to do an amazing job as well and take that job as assessor to the next level. so, any ways, i will miss you on tuesday afternoons. i will be down in your office quite a bit. i hope you come up and visit us still. but thanks so much for all you've done last year working

together with you has been an absolute joy. and it wouldn't have been the same two years for me without having you here. congratulations on your new gig. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. supervisor mar. >> thank you. i just wanted to first say welcome to katie tang. and your remarks today were so great that you showed tremendous knowledge and active involvement. so, you're going to be hitting the ground running indefinitely as the district 4 supervisor and it will be wonderful to work with you. and i know many others that i've talked to feel very similarly but it will be great to work with you. my view, carmen as one of the wisest and kindest people that i've had a chance to get to know on this board. she's been a tremendous representative of the sunset and park side districts as others have said, i think you've been one of the fairest people as well chairing the budget committee, always taking time with all of us to break everything down and to give us a process and to take our input and to really do your best to listen and to try to integrate

different ideas that we all brought. so, i think that's what represents tremendous leadership of being fair and really listening to all of us. i think you're going to make a tremendous assessor-recorder as well. but my memory of you will come from the look on your face when we enter your toys on village, your marching band. there is a marching band there and little kids, elders. [laughter] >> but i felt very proud for also being a tucson route. my village wasn't near as grand as yours. the mayor's village was close to mine as well. i remember the look on your face. it just shows you come from tremendous roots. i hope your family is very proud. i'm very proud of you as our new assessor-recorder as well. it's been an honor to serve with you. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. it's -- it is sad and especially it's a one-two punch

with supervisor elsbernd's leaving and now supervisor chu, but she won't be gone very far. although certainly perhaps different approaches at the same time. equally just amazing upstanding people. carmen, i really -- i know i was quoted in the press after your appointment saying that -- i really mean it, that we all -- how shall i say this delicately? we all meet and work with a lot of different kind of people in politics. and sometimes i wish there were more people like you, carmen, one of the most just completely authentic down to earth well adjusted, just real people that you would meet. not just in politics but in any aspect of life. whether you agree or disagree,

just communicating with you, you know you're having a conversation with someone. and you are just so thoughtful about every issue. you can see it just working through in your mind where you're just talking through the pros and the cons and i know that every decision you make is completely thoughtful and even today in the parking garage, one maybe a political advisor might say you're about to run for city-wide office. you don't want to make anyone upset about anything. but you did what you thought was right and i always know that to be the case with you, even when we're not on the same side of an issue. and i also just know in talking with you over recent months about the possibility of the assessor appointment, i could see, even though i think you knew and i knew and we all knew it was the right move for the mayor and for you, that you, as difficult as this job s i know that you truly enjoy it.