approved. it is now 2:30. i would like to recognize our district 9 colleague supervisor campos. >> thank you very much, mr. president, it is my honor to honor today a very special member of our community and if i may ask him to please come on up. can you please come to the podium. i know that there are a number of people that are here in honor of dido. i have known him from even before my time in the board of supervisors. the first time i met him, i was on the san francisco police

commission. he brought to me a case involving a family, an immigrant family that had been defrauded in terms of, they were taking advantage of when they purchased their home and their home was basically taken over by the banks and dido alerted us to that issue and because of that work eventually an individual that had defrauded dozens of people in the latino community was eventually charged and put away because of that. that's the kind of person that dido is. it's hard to imagine the commission economic development agency where dido has worked so long doing it's work without dido. i know he's not going away. that he will continue to be involved in the community. it has been an honor to work with you. i want to thank you

for all the services to this community. on behalf of the board, i want to give you this certificate of honor to you for educating and organizing the residents and the mission for their rights and pushing forward policies that strengthen the community and fighting for economic justice. thank you, you make san francisco a better place for all of us. thank you, dido. >> i know my colleagues want to add some things. >> thank you. dido has been an integral part of our office since he started. i wanted to thank you for being an organizer and advocate. i know how well loved you are amongst our small businesses. dido actually took me door knocking in the rain and sun. it just

went to show how hard he worked in the neighborhood to south africa -- serve our family and residents and how he's committed on improving the mission in san francisco. especially as meta ramps up to work in the community. i'm looking forward to supporting campos and we'll certainly be sad to no longer see you in that house. thank you for your support that you have given to us and thank you for participating in our retreats. thanks for giving us really great advice. thank you. >> supervisor avalos? >> hi, dido, thank you for your services in san francisco. we

have heard a lot from you on how to support immigrant businesses in excel soir, and the mission district. are you still going to be in san francisco? >> yes. >> thank you, supervisor campos, avalos, and board of supervisors to be representative to new ideas to make the city more inclusive for everyone. i had to say this you for the direct services who is putting a face on and helping our community to be dealing with many different issues. i have a new job with the community financial center. we'll be working with youth and the project of new economic rights for all. we'll be here advocating with you and dealing with san francisco and the mission district. thank you. >> [ applause ]

>> thank you, supervisors. let's go to our next accommodation. supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues today i'm proud to recognize a long time business owner and leader in our district neighborhood. mr. richard wu. some know about the child seats and, cribs and

strollers. i don't know what we are going to do without him. after being in a business of many years to many in the neighborhoods know this has helped to transform the neighborhood. we are going to miss richard and city kids after 25 years of service to our neighborhood. richard wu is a native of san francisco who started city kids in november of 1988. i'm not sure if supervisor ferrel knows this, he lived a couple blocks away. i used to live on second avenue and walked by and he set up my daughters crib and i thank him

for being on the spot and a really warm business in our neighborhood. he also dedicates city kids, it's dedicated to providing consumers to making intelligent choices when they see baby equipment. i think richard has been proudest of his efforts in supporting child safety and especially in automobiles. richard has really spent a lot of time with car seat give a ways with many families in the city. he has taught parenting classes and promoted many classes in san francisco in the school of family business. he served on the merchants as a leader, vice-president and leader from 2000-2010. i'm hoping we are

honor richard for providing service for 25 years. >> thank you, mr. wu. >> i would like to acknowledge supervisor ferrel. >> i want to thank supervisor mar for this. i live a few blocks away. when my wife and i went there and seen the closing sign there, we were heartbroken. we bought our cribs and baby seats there. we were at your store quite a bit. >> i didn't tow you from the parking lot? >> exactly. anyway, i remember visiting there when i was a kid as well. it's such a staple in the neighborhood. you have been able to e equip the parents with all we need from the store. thank you for providing

that service. >> thank you. i want to thank you for inviting me here today and proud of the fact that we've been able to survive for 25 years in san francisco. it's a tough thing to do with the price of rent and the cost of doing business in this city. it has been a very good successful run and hopefully i will be able to consult with whatever new business comes in around town that does the same thing we do to continue that trend. >> thank you, supervisors. i would like now to recognize our district colleague, supervisor

scott wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. i don't do v many of these special commendations. when i do it's always for a very very special person in the district. today i want to honor someone who on my behalf and also on behalf of president chiu and i imagine will be on behalf of the whole board, someone who has been a terrific leader in the city. that is champsey. i think i assume everyone has worked with in his capacity in 10 years at walk sf. she has done an amazing job over the years and elevating the organization, elevating the critical issue in our pedestrian safety in our city. she has been a long time

volunteer and board member. i believe when there was a gap in executive director, she stepped in and ran the organization as a volunteer. and, you know, we know that pedestrian safety is in incredibly important in or city but it's an issue that for a long time got a lot of lip service in the city. a lot of city talked about it a lot but not a lot was happening. she really played such a critical role in really helping transform walk sf to incredible organization that it is today. she's also a constituent of mine and in addition to being a great pedestrian advocate has been a great neighborhood advocate. really played a very productive role in helping us navigate through dolores park renovation of the design process. that was a very

challenging process and she's there every step of the way helping organize, helping make sure that all prospective representative in the process and i'm very appreciative for that. so it is my great honor to honor you today as you step away from the walk sf board after a decade. and, so, i also of course, today, we also have a surprise commendation. i want to also call elizabeth stem, the director of walk sf. as you know, did it surprise you? good. you like surprises. that no one can do it alone and elizabeth came on a number of years ago to be executive director of walk sf to relive

of his interim position and elizabeth you took on, i know we are losing you, you are going on to start your family. you have done such a tremendous job to continue the path forward for walk sf. what i really respect about you is that in addition to being a tenacious advocate for pedestrian safety, you really understand that you can't just view any mode of transportation in a vacuum. that for pedestrians to be safe, to have great streets to walk on, you also have to have great public transportation, you also have to have a bicycleable city and also have to have safety for vehicle travel. i have seen time and time again that your willingness to get involved in all sorts of interesting transit issues, that may not be

directly about pedestrian safety but support pedestrian safety and that kind of broad thinking and transportation is really critical. so it's a great honor to honor you today and i don't know if president chiu, you want to add anything. >> thank you, supervisor wiener, first of all let me say, my staff and i have said we should honor you and he beat us to the punch. we are happy in joining others in thanking you. pedestrian safety is one of the biggest challenges that we have. while we know that most of our san franciscans walk, it's something we take for granted. the fact of the matter is that the two of you have in unique ways advocated an incredible position in the last few years to make more head way than we've had in many

years to come. since the first board of supervisors and i still remember when you speak and the authority when it comes to policy, i want to thank you for that and i hope that we'll find other places for to you serve in our city. elizabeth, i know you have a different kind of a future and look forward to you and your child walking safer streets in san francisco. you have been strong and passionate and yet also being sophisticated and dealing with the challenges that we face from a policy standpoint. from me and from many of us, we are going to miss your respective leadership at walk sf, but i have a feeling that you are not going to be walking too far. with that we have a couple other colleagues that want to say a few words. i think there is a radio or something that is

on? >> great. perfect. thank you. if i can ask supervisor kim if you have a few words to say? >> thank you, my first board meeting, i called for two hearings. one was on bed bugs and the second was on pedestrian safety. during my year of campaigning. one of the issues that kept coming over were public safety issues. as you know it's a walk throughout our district. it's not just district residents, it's many people that work and shop. you are the first people that were here when i came to work for office. i remember the data and reports and plans that have been worked on and put on the shelf and stung and shocked that we had these ideas. simply

for slowing down the speed zone and something that would be with unanimous support even though we had come up with this plan few years before i came into office. i just want to thank you for so many reasons. one for advocating and making our neighborhoods safer. i see some of our resident leaders here that you worked with and our former president of our southeast mission bay neighborhood and some have talked about friends that they know about friends that have been hit or killed on the streets. i remember them saying that vehicles are like weapons and we have to understand that impact they have as drivers. i'm someone who has walked solely used walking as a means for transportation. i grew up in new york city. i didn't get a drivers license into my 20s. i didn't ride a bicycle until a

2 years ago. so walking was my main point of transportation. i value pedestrian and also want to ensure their safety. thank you for your work and you made your work easy for us to implement. i really look forward to working with both of you. and you have been doing this as a volunteer and i feel so bad when i couldn't participate and walk to work and you reminded me that i was the only supervisor that did it a few years ago. elizabeth, we look forward to working with you and look forward to this next stage in your life. >> supervisor yee? >> yeah, i just want to echo my colleagues comments. i really haven't had much of a chance to work with both of you. i have had some opportunities on the school board and so forth, but i realize that just because elizabeth you are not going to

leave. it's just part of who you are and as we all know whether you drive a car, ride a bicycle, take public transportation, we all end up being pedestrians. as everybody and my colleagues know pedestrian safety is really important to me and i take it to my district and i'm still hoping to get my plan within the next month or so so that we can roll things out. much of my interest was really supported and motivated by both of you. thank you very much for all that you have done. >> and supervisor mar? >> i just wanted to add that the leadership from elizabeth and the safe routes to school and so many changes. i met walk

sf advocate with the masonic every time over 5 years ago in working to help build coalitions that are representative and have a really and deserving point of their history. i'm hoping that we continue to work together on many issues and that we get more people active in making our streets more complete and safe for people. thank you very much for your great work on behalf of our city as well. >> a couple more. supervisor campos? >> thank you mr. president, i don't want to repeat all that has been said. i just want to say that you have definitely made me a better policy maker, you have educated me on issues around pedestrian safety. you have really saved people's lives because of the work you do. thank you very much. >> supervisor avalos? >> thank you. i really

appreciate your work in the city. to repeat everything else everyone said here. you have saved lives in this city and you have maybe a better policy maker as well. i look forward to working together in the future. thank you. >> and with that, why don't we turn it over to our honorees. >> thank you, i'm deeply humbled by all of your words. thank you very much. when i first started with walk san francisco, people asked me what's motivating you to do this? i said walking is what everybody does but nobody cares about. i certainly cannot say that it is something that nobody cares about. even amongst all of you, many of you participated in walk to work days, you called for hearings, you've pushed for improvements

in your districts. about a month or two ago you passed legislation that basically said that we need to elevate pedestrian issues to where they should be. that they can't be subservient to other issues. i want to thank you deeply for that. there are a few people that i would like to thank. i really don't feel like i could have done this without them. some long time board members. steinberger, katie who now works for the mayor's office. i want to thank some of the other advocates, lee an and with the bicycle coalition, tom king at livable city and finally i want to thank elizabeth for the great work that she's done. one of our first initiatives was to make safe school zones around all of our schools, 50 miles an hour zones for safety for children to be able to walk to school. at this time i didn't

know she had an alterior motive, but now we do. i think it's an important thing to state that children do get hit by cars at a disproportionate rate. we love to talk about how to too keep families in san francisco and it's important to recognize a very important issue in that. with that i say thank you. >> i was surprised. thank you so much. it's been a real pleasure to work with each of you on each of your districts and citywide. it's been really exciting to have safer school zones, to have our city be the first one to have 50 miles an hour speeds around 181 schools. so far beyond any other city and we get calls about that and i hope that we can get more of california to do that. i really appreciate all of your advocacy

on the mayor's pedestrian strategy and making sure that that really happens. we really fixed the streets for safer walking because i do intend to be walking a lot probably with a stroller. thank you so much. thanks to all the volunteers as well. manish as pablly one of the longeest term for volunteers. thank you. >> [ applause ] our last commendation for

the day by supervisor avalos. >> thank you mr. chiu. i would like to call cynthia munoz who is the chair of the committee. i represent a district that is 50 percent from my district come from another country. san francisco is 35 percent. we come from all over the world, from asia, africa, middle east, russia, ireland, latin america and we have great diversity from where we come from, but we

also have very similar needs. one of our greatest needs is having a strong unified voice around asserting our rights as people in the united states and the san francisco immigrant rights defense committee plays a strong role in that. locally and actually at the federal level as well. they have been part of our work around an insuring that we have done comprehensive and insurance reform and it's a progress and it would have not been done without the work and to make sure the community has a strong voice to assert new policy moving forward. today is a great day in terms of what we are doing in san francisco. we are going to be introducing our due process for our ordinance for today and that's based on organizing work by the san francisco rights committee. i want to say thank you and give you a commendation that is worthy of your great work in

organizing. we have the strongest if not the strongest policy in the country. that is about the work going on, not just for months and perhaps years in the making. that is the consolidation of power that creates change. i want to say thank you for all your great work. the defense committee is joined by several, many organizations, i will name them. cynthia munoz is wearing the t-shirt, mujeres united, the california policy center. also the immigrant rights defense committee does a lot of work of building a stronger base of community support. just today we had a great press

conference that is mostly organizeded by domestic violence consortium. women speaking out about and that was part of the great organizing that they have done with the defense committee. i want to say thank you for being at this momentous occasion. in the next few months we'll pass this on the great work that you have done. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> before you speak, i know there are a number of us that want to say a few words. i would first like to also thank supervisor avalos for acknowledging the incredible work that you and your colleagues are doing. as the son of immigrants, as someone who service in a board where a majority are sons and daughters and grand sons and grand

daughters that knows how important this is for building this city, we are in the forefront of making us profound and ensuring that our immigrants have a right full seat at the table and that our families are respected in where other states and other parts of the country do not. this is part of your amazing activism and mading ideas like many of us are sponsoring today. we want to make sure that we are truly immigrants, the part of who we are, the heart of our city. thank you for your work. i also want to acknowledge supervisor cohen who has a few words to say. >> thank you, mr. president, supervisor avalos, thank you for your leadership, i want to say thank you to you and every member in this chamber who is

hearing my voice today. thank you for all the people who have an organization, who are very out front and vocal for this important cause and also those who do not attend the rallies but also have their way of enter taining the status quo. this is an important piece of legislation that we are passing. this is a great day for all of us and for all the warriors that are out there that continue to lift the immigrant voice and give voice inform a cause that sometimes has gone unacknowledged and unvalidated. today is an in incredibly victorious day. we are going to claim victory on this. we are going