absent ones, for approving item number 7. and just the friendly reminder that he is not the first doctor to win a large award. please look up dr. john olnick who used to work at laguna honda hospital. and if my memory is correct, dr. ulrick walked off with far much more money than dr. kerr. i would also like to remind the nine supervisors here that the dead man's curse is still active. the san francisco symphony's reputation has been badly tarnished. and also the american team somehow did not make it to san francisco for the wbc. a lot of my friends would have gone, but no americans, no tickets sold. also, i would like to bring up the subject about why my

district supervisor isn't here today. i sure hope it isn't what they commonly call on the street "influence pedaling." and in regards to that situation regarding abortion, i would like to assure everybody that everybody will be fairly treated, as there will be certain observers from outside california there to make sure everybody is behaving correctly. so, nobody is going to be intimidated by anybody. and i hope this board doesn't try to intimidate speakers like myself. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is valerie schwartz. i live in district 5. i have a very serious ongoing

problem that i have had to come and bring here because i cannot get help from sfpd. i have gone twice to try and file a criminal and civil complaint [speaker not understood] at 850 bryant. at northern station i was told i needed a note from my social worker to file a criminal complaint. she can't do that. then i went to 850 bryant and they told me, well, if your social worker can't do it, have your doctor do it. my doctor cannot do it, it's against hppa. here i've gone through six years of serious, serious malicious harassment. i've had to move four times.

these people who are harassing me have followed me from residence to residence, telling people that i am a murderer, that i have stabbed an infant, it goes on and on. they tell people they are conducting a legal investigation when they are not. and i have written complaint after complaint. and i can't get any help from my management, and i really need some help. i would hope that somebody here can talk to the police department or so that i can file a complaint. i am disabled. i'm going to be 60 years old in a few months and it's wreaking havoc on my health, my well-being and everything. i mean, i am here to beg somebody for some help so i can file a dang complaint.

>> thank you very much. next speaker. [inaudible] beverly [speaker not understood], san francisco domestic violence consortium. but today i'm also here as a proud resident of district 5. i drove past the previous location of planned parenthood every day for nearly 20 years. i saw the kind of intimidation, screaming, yelling, throwing things, threatening people, not only to women entering the center, but their other children that they had with them. it's a public safety issue. it's a shame. san francisco and the world is moving forward. you can feel it. you can feel it. we are not going to tolerate the lgbt community being target and had we're not going to tolerate women and children

being targeted in our city. we are moving forward and i want to thank the board and i certainly want to thank supervisor campos for his leadership. thank you. >> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm peter war field, executive director of library users association. today i'd like to talk in general terms about the technologically brilliant qualities of [speaker not understood] which we generally experience as print on paper, including books. there is the integrity of the text which can't easily be altered, certainly can't be hacked. and the changes, if there are any, would be very noticeable on paper as compared with electronic or online text.

there is accountability generally speaking with book. we know who the author is. we know that there's been some editing and a publishing house putting it out. many online materials are simply not clear as to who the authors or editors or publishers might be. there is the quality of privacy. no one knows what you're reading when you go into a library. nobody certainly knows what page you're on or which entry you're reading. online all of those things can and in many cases are being tracked in minutest detail. there is permanence. one can routinely read a 20, 40, 100 year old book with no problem at all. that might be very difficult with some of the electronic materials. and finally, the universal

accessibility, only the eyes are needed to see and read printed materials. there's no issue of whether you have the right version or whether you've downloaded the proper software. you can just read material that's before you. so, print and especially print on paper is a brilliant technological invention and quality. thanks. >> thanks. next speaker. >> mr. washington, could you speak directly into the microphone? i'm sorry. i wanted to try and focus this frame of network here. but anyway, [speaker not understood] my name is james washington. this little thing that you see here is a little something i put together maybe from 10

years ago. it's depicting the fillmore as i see it in myize. it's called the fill no more. basically it depicts from beginning of urban renewal to what we have right now. one side of this art, it shows the black man had businesses and cars and buildings they owned. and then somehow it turned into what we have now with the urban renewal, big high-rises and most of our blacks are unemployed. but what i am here to say here, first of all, i just wanted to give great honor to my supervisor, queen b london breed doing a wonderful job. i think she's going to do a fantastic job because accountability is one of her [speaker not understood]. but right now in the western addition, we have created problems from the urban renewal redevelopment agency from the old wd. now we have a new -- two knewer agencies replacing the redevelopment agency. ~ newer

on the left-hand side we have the housing authority. so, we are in a scramble here. who is in control here in san francisco? i'm not going to sing today, but i sure want to hear a tune or two. right now i'm so serious because all our people are curious, what's going on here in san francisco? who is in control? and i know ed lee's the mayor, but who is in control? right now the housing authority residence tenants are left unserved because everybody is scrambling together [speaker not understood]. i don't need no permission from any of these commissions. we are going to come together and make sure these residents are represented. my name is [speaker not understood] i can't say no more, but [inaudible]. big problems. >> thanks. next speaker.

good afternoon, commissioners, and i am here for one reason and one reason only. and that is to thank commissioner campos, my commissioner. my name is nancy rock. i am with the democratic women in action, one of two democratic women's organizations here in san francisco. supervisor campos, excuse me, but i want to directly see him particularly. this is a very good -- >> excuse me. if i can ask you to direct your comments. we have a rule of the board chamber to direct comments to the entire board. i will. i really want to say this was a wonderful, respectful and understanding piece of legislation that you have issued i think is not just to protect women, but represents that you respect us. thank you and we hope to work more with you in the future. >> thanks. next speaker. good afternoon, board of

supervisors, ladies and gentlemen in the audience. i must say i'm a bit surprised considering you didn't have [speaker not understood] instead of public comment. but having been said, i'm here today because imperfect mectiontioneded about some -- perplexed about some things in san francisco where i lived a decade. the signs on muni, equality for all, i haven't found that to be the case here in a city that calls itself sanctuary, especially what happened with the residents of park merced and how many of them have lost their homes [speaker not understood] development agreement and i am one of those persons. the other thing i'd like to say, i did read an article in the newspaper about the comments made by the nobel prize winner walek wolenza [speaker not understood]. i haven't heard anything about you making a comment on the alleged comment made by larry

boy kin, the alleged gay icon as some call him on the african-american child that was being molested in the photos. and i say alleged comment because how are they to be true molest is a very [speaker not understood] word. the word that should be used is rape because that's what it really was. and lastly, i would say i haven't heard anything from the mayor whom i've written when commissioner in the department bartholomew murphy made the racial comment calling the people at park merced cry babies. it was made in a meeting december 13, 2011. and i asked the mayor to remove him because he was an embarrassment and i asked commissioner bartholomew murphy to apologize. he denied the he made the comment. it is on the audio and i will deal with that. thank you all very much. good-bye. >> next speaker.

good afternoon, supervisors. budget season is coming up and i'm so glad because it's an issue around services. and particularly speaking [speaker not understood] services. a lot of agencies are coming under -- trying to come under one umbrella. what ends up happening is the services start going to different parts of the city, especially if you start -- if you start an agency and then you may end up having to go to another part of the city. what ends up happening is there is no cultural competency at all. i am a very strong supporter of funding hiv and aids organizations. i'm a gay man. i'm lucky to pass not having [speaker not understood]. so, i feel like if you [speaker not understood], it should be done right.

~ if you're going to fund things, it should be done right, especially if it's five or six things under one um rel a. that way there won't be any wasteful spending. and if one neighborhood doesn't like other neighborhoods to come to that park, maybe they shouldn't get funded. thank you. >> next speaker, please. thank you. my name is carl mcmurdle. i represent run of the taxi groups known as the medallion holder association. i think you saw a protest in front of city hall today. the drivers are upset because the consultant studying the industry is going to recommend that 800 more taxi medallions go out. 120 of them this year, 200 next year and another 480. i think the market could bear those cabs, but only if the city takes some action against illegal operators. we have the companies

pretending to be ride share such as lift and side car. i wanted to put something on the overhead real quickly. i don't know if it's going to show up. anyway, it shows some lift cars with the mustache sitting in front of a hotel, the door man feeding hotel to taxi drivers. drivers are demoralized and their income is way down. what happens is if the state would let a corner market be every three weeks, corner market where the proprietor makes a living, they drive each other out of business. [speaker not understood]. that's why they're so upset. this is a medallion sales and transfer program and the city stands to make $300 million in the next decade from it. there are a thousand people like myself with taxi medallions who can surrender for 200,000, mta can sell it for an extra 100,000 to make 100 million there. the turns out the revenue from

the other 700 or so, 800 issued is another 200 million. i suggest to you that you have to choose between having these illegal operators -- and by the way, it's a violation of public trust. these vehicles are not insured. they're not inspected and we're putting people into them, the city may be in the deep pockets in liabilities of an accident. you're aiding and abeting a crime by not cracking down. i hope you can get a cease and desist from illegal operators. thank you for your time. >> next speaker. hello, my name is christina, [speaker not understood] i'm a staff attorney [speaker not understood]. i'd like to speak on the antimuslim and antiarab advertisements on muni buses in the city. in particular i'd like to thank this body and [speaker not understood] and others who worked to craft the resolution that is going up to the vote.

standing against the [speaker not understood] ads and standing with the arab and muslim communities. since 9/11 the arab middle eastern and south asian community in the city has been subject today pervasive racism and discrimination such as those seen in the muni ads. then i think vulnerable communities in this way in such a public way especially, to never ever be harmless. [speaker not understood] such as those seen on these ads condone and even encourage violence against these communities that are already under a take by so many different sectors of society. [speaker not understood] so heart ened to see the creative approach that the city has taken to confronting these ads by meeting racist speech with subtle speech. and by standing with these vulnerable communities and standing up with san francisco values to say that no [speaker not understood] community will ever have to stand alone in this way, will ever have to get on a bus and see advertisements

putting racist speech in the communities and have to stand alone. they'll know the city is behind them, the board is behind them and every other person who has come out in public support will know they are no longer alone. and i just want to commend everyone who was on that. thank you very much. ~ worked on that >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, public comment is ended. madam clerk, if we could go to our [speaker not understood]. >> items 35 through 36 are being considered by adoption without being considered by a board committee. if a member objects, it can be considered separately. otherwise, a single roll call vote would [speaker not understood]. >> colleagues, would any member like to sever any item? i'd like to sever item 35. trowel call on item 36. >> supervisor tang? aye. >> wiener aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye.

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. there are nine ayes. >> thank you. that resolution is adopted. and madam clerk, could you call item 35? >> item 35 is a resolution standing with muslim and arab communities in the face of anti-arab and anti-muslim bus advertisements. >> thank you. colleagues, last week i introduced this resolution to stand with our muslim and arab communities in the face of antiarab and antimuslim bus advertisements. i want to just take a moment and thank all of the co-sponsors here on the board as well as the 75 organizations who came together on this issue that represent our diverse ethnic community, civil rights, labor, social justice and religious organizations and ask for your support. madam clerk, could you call the roll. >> on item 35, supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye.

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. there are nine ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. colleagues, we have one additional item on our calendar and that is our 3:30 special commendations related to women's history month. why don't i suggest that we recess for the next 10 minutes and reconvene at 3:30. with that, we are in recess. >>please stand by; meeting in recess