the heart and encourage to stand up and speak up. and that's one thing she was not afraid to do she spoke her mind growing up in a time and community and fighting for who she was. she had to make sure that people listened. she make sure that when she spoke people heard. just convoke words from her about herself. i was born in the city of memphis tennessee in that 1958 to a teen mother. i move forward in life to where i am today, i'm a happy 54-year-old female trarndz. i started my transmission from male to to female and i'm the

oldest daughter and big sister to 8 caring loving sisters and a brothers but it's my work as a community organizer is were any heart is. and with the ability to understand legislation and to do community work is just ideal for me and with the ability to speak well, in public is another one of my trademarks. i love it when the winter rains begin so i can set back and read has much as possible. here as at the senior disability action i stand up for my trarnd brothers and sisters by being on the san francisco trans march. >> hi my true feelings about

her. i first met her at the senator group center by open house san francisco. we introduced ourselves then came her. i said to myself oh, no, not another loudmouth person and later i found out you can't tell anything about a person on the first impression. i got to know her, she earned my respect and admiration she had this passion and desire for whatever she was fighting for. he feel a heavy loss for and

lvnlt community. i named her because i knew she wanted it and would be great at it. i knew no one else was going to nominate her arrest i left there knowing she was a fighter and left the task force in great hands and i got to know her when i got involved with trans march. she made it happen. aside what whether or not else she was doing she was a very busy lady. i will miss the burning desire she had to fight help all kinds of people. i'll honor only the people i

amir you're a screaming queen an icon and a devon >> how many other individuals would like to speak for her. why don't i suggest the following could you ask a unanimous consent for this to happen. >> 3450i78 is 1932 kelly. i will tell you something about her, she will be up there looking down on her hoping you vote the right way but she'll spend some of her time organizing in a better place so we'll have better housing and there will be more help for

these who get there when we're older and when we're journeying. and there will not be people looking at down on us because of our race, religion, gender or our choice of gender. shell see to it because she's an organizer and when i die you're still an organizer so thank you lady and take a little bit of time to come down here on tuesday and watch those people (laughter) >> i'm here representing the city of refugee and the city of christ. i met her in 2002 and i'm from memphis also she said you need to get involved we need more

women of color on say front lines so he was tuff when she was marching first year lgbt rights. and i said where do you get all this energy from and she said someone has got to do it. the spirit really does move and she'll be watching by to her rest my sister your another foot so you recalled gone the work is not edify someone is going to take your place >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i want to say thanks to jan for staying with her that night and all the activities. when we first found out it was about a week before she passed. things happened really quickly

and we did our best to reach out to everyone and let them know her health was deteriorating quickly. but it's fair to say that she he

was surround by all of us as she

passed and that there was as jan mentioned a diverse group of folks literally around her be and she she was nonresponsive for the last 48 hours she was crying as she passed and i felt she felt us loving on her and telling her we loved her. and for those who weren't there to feel comfortable rarely are we surround by a loving group. and the doctor said so too . she was so many things >> thank you. next speaker, please as you know i had missed almost a whole decade of city hall politics and i love city hall politics by one thing i can say is she would say you're not going although down there so one thing i'll also remember she said go down there and voice

your opinion and don't let one person make you not want to come to city hall. that's one thing i'll remember to make sure i voice my opinion on different things that are going on in the community and district 6 because if we don't things will pass you by and we will be saying should have, could have would have. >> i'm here representing both the san francisco trans march and the advisory committee. nevertheless, this has been a major loss to our community and i want to thank you supervisors who had kind words to say. it's going to be difficult to fill her shoes and it saddens me

we're phasing difficult times in san francisco for the nonprofit's are sometimes priced out of san francisco unfortunately, i want to respectfully ask you to honor her memory as much as possible by continuing to have a place in the city of san francisco. i hope you will agree with me thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm ms. billy cooper and she was a dear friend of mine. she didn't let any grass grow under her feet. she was a go-getter and she was the one underneath my wings. i'm really going to miss her and

know i'm a carrier on her legacy and be a good person yesterday and tomorrow i'll be a much, much better person because of her >> thank you president. >> excuse me. sir, this is not public comment this is comment around your colleague ms. collins. >> i feel like i know her now (inaudible) i'm sure exactly i

have (inaudible) when we first get to chapter 6 it talks about things like this it says (inaudibl (inaudible). >> excuse me. sir. excuse me. sir, we're speaking individuals are speaking on behalf of many collins so your respect to that and by the way, the board has granted principle to the folks on the floor and given your comments if you could save those comments for general

comment. we have granted the principle of floor to certainty individuals who wish to speak in america of many collins so if you could please respected that we'll have public comments in a little awhile >> thank you you'll have an opportunity to speak later. >> thank you. >> i'm bruce a friend. i did my comments. i had to write the obituary. she was a wonder woman to a cave man like me. we were - i loved this woman. i was there when she transmissions from male a female it took me a week to digest.

i >> i just want to thank the family and friends for coming here today it couldn't have been in city hall in every way in her memory and we did justice to her here in the chambers with all the diverse perspectives and even in her accomodation come to follow that. i'm grateful for her work and life so much good happened. and we're all here to decade her journey that she's started and a thank you very much

(clapping) thank you very much. madam clerk why don't we precede with the regular business of the board and if we could move to items 17 and 18 related to sequa. if we could give a moment for the room to clear. folks are able to take their conversations outside i want to thank everyone for being here. thank you. with that madam clerk why don't you call items 17 and 18 >> there from the land as you and economic committee there's the ordinances charter 31 the equal it act. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman.

colleagues before us today it is a long overdue by about a decade ordinance establishing clear procedures and deadlines and noticing rules for the sequa environment quality act. 10 years the law was changed they could be both appealable to the board of supervisors. however, for any sequa organizations particularly for smaller projects san francisco never got around to codifying the procedures and deadlines for the board of supervisors. when i introduced this legislation last november i was the figure out supervisor to codify the appeal procedures after several others. never before have we gotten this far and now it the time after so

many years to pass this legislation. the lack of clear procedures means in san francisco sequa appeals are like the wide west. we have no defined deadlines for filing appeals. in fact, before piling filing an appeal it's not possible to know whether your appeal is timely or not. we cannot call the planning department and ask because i won't get an answer. you usually need to hire american people lawyer to tell you something that simple. colleagues as you know, we operate under the so-called interim procedures promulgated it's a lengthy and convoluted mobile home of a procedure we need to appeal to the city attorney and now that's to

determine whether or not the appeal is timely. and a significant number of sequa appeals to the boards are untimely and sometimes i've spoken to the city attorney why the explanation is so convoluted that 10 minutes later i can't repeat with the city attorney told me. our inpredict process leads to appeals filed mid construction as opposed to handing appeals before they go into construction. this is government at its worse unpredictable and unknowable by the citizens. last november i introduced legislation to address it problematic legislation. the legislation i introduced did two things first, the clear procedures including a clear

deadline to file an appeal triggered by the first approval the project and second it approved and enhanced public noticing so people will know when to file an appeal if they wish to do so. and a colleagues i'm happy to report it's legislation it does just that that sets a clear prier including a clear deadline and that approves noticing. those key proirgsz were in the legislation then and today. this legislation will approve our process and treat everyone fairly. for both support elders and opponents of the project they'll know when to file and it has padded. and no multiple appeals under

those the significant change has considered. colleagues to get here this legislation has gown through the most extensive process. we had 6 hearing in the land use committee and 3 hearings at the preference commission and 2 hearings and planning commission and 3 round table meetings and many, many smaller meetings with supporters and poernts arrest as a result of this important legislation i made of amendments very positive amendments even before this legislation ever came to the land use committee amendments that were largely focused on the process. this has garden everyday great

support it has been recommended it be approved. the legislation has been endorsed by the bicycle coalition and half a dozen housing organizations and several neighborhood organizations the greenbelt alliance and conspire. organization which understand the volume of a fair, predictable and a fair process. i want to acknowledge and thank our board president. sometimes during the legislation process it's easy only to vote. president chiu was very active in proposing a number of amendments. and those amendments some which will be over and over today will

be around approving our process which has always been a goal of our legislation. i support the maximums but the core of this legislation is the same as it was when i introduced it set a clear deadline triggered by the approval to not have the you want appeals and improve the notice. this hastening tailed an numerous amount of work over a year before i introduced it and a lot of people have poured blood, sweat, and tears. i want to acknowledge my legislative aid who has done numerous work. this is like food trucks a few

weeks ago. my previous legislative i'd she was in my office and we does a lot of the preintroduction work. i want to thank the lady from the city attorney's office. but she's really done a tremendous job and no one knows sequa like elaine. and our environmental officer and she was still the planning department personnel person. i want to thank everyone who put summoning so much time and energy. colleagues this legislation is ready to be passed it's under gone troublesome work and collaboration i urge your support >> thank you mr. chairman and

thank you supervisor wiener. colleagues today, i hope we'll be able to finally make your you may answer the question i didn't process for transparent for all san franciscans. i think we all know that the ordinance is not going to fundamentally change the decision making here in our city nor change our highly engaged political procedure. we is codify the sequa declarations. i don't think this ordnance is going to cause us to stop disagreeing but we'll be much closer to agreeing on key saek ground rules. we've heard this legislation many times and we've made 8 amendments in april and a 9 in

may and colleagues i've circulated to you dozens of changes in the ordinance. now let me state at the most basic level i would be comfortable with supervisor wiener's ordinance and i would vote on it without changes but that being said a number of motion to strike i thought that my office folks go i was hopefully those legislations would be having a consensus measure. i'm not going to go through the entire packet but i'll point out that my staff has copies of the amendment that have been passed out and for any members of the public you can have a one. i'm not going to go through all the details but i'm going to

mention the peefkz. we have an operation system that kicks in and we reviolator back to the practice of not waiting for a approval. we finalize bicyclist and pedestrian safety in the sequa process. we codify exist procedures how the planning department authority to other departments we codify the content for all determinations. i want to thank all the stakeholders. so there's much clearer direction which when a sequa decision t is required. we have provisions of when

online posting is required we have codified the drafting procedures and this crafts a compromise after an appeal. in supervisors wiener's first revision they stopped completely when an appeal was filed and under my legislation it keeps on going forward. this helps to not duplicate the efforts. i've circulated one document that simply has an earlier date. colleagues i do want to join supervisor wiener in thanking a number of folks starting first with supervisor weaning who has

done work frankly over a year before there was any community debate over this issue. i want to thank supervisor wiener by comprising over a number of issues. while i didn't agree on every provision in his original ordinance i do believe in his go government and his patience has been extraordinary and supervisor kim who worked hard to respond to concerns from many organizations around the community that were and the ordinance i'm over and over today reflects her best ideas. i want to join in the thanks to deputy attorney who spent an

incredible amount of time and we're incredibly lucky to have an expert on this case as well as sarah jones. and who's been great to work with. i want to thank emily and i think i've spent more time on this topic more than any topic on this year but the greatest thanks goes to my staff. thank you for all your we understand and evenings are i want to thank all the members of the community coalition the dozens of organizations we've had communicates with and in particular