all of you are part precisely of these great assets of san francisco. so, i feel really very honored and i want to thank all of you for the contribution of your board and i'm sure that the future of san francisco will continue to be as the most important city in this great country. thank you very much. (applause)

>> thank you, supervisors. and again, thank you to our consul general. godspeed. we have a second commendation today. supervisor breed. >> hello, hello? i have to bend over a little bit. thank you all. today i rise to honor a bay area icon, a bay area legend, a bay area institution, jesus gomez. (applause) >> i grew up listening to the radio, and oftentimes it wasn't

very interesting to listen to. and this is the person that made it interesting to listen to. the stories, the conversations, the excitement about the music, the excitement about the community, the excitement about the work was clearly articulated through tuey's voice. and, so, when many people around the bay area heard that tuey was no longer going to be working at the radio station, you know, people were really sad. people were upset. i know supervisor kim, "but tuey's an institution." we all love him. that's just not a phrase that's constantly used. we love him. we love him for making san francisco and the bay area more interesting, more fun. we love his personality. we love his demeanor. we love his commitment to the community. and we're just really going to miss you. i know you're still going to be

doing work on television with cmc and the california music channel. so, we're still going to see you doing this work. but i wanted to take this opportunity because i know -- i feel like we've taken you for granted. we've taken the ability to turn on the radio in a time of technology and pandora and all these other options. clearly to listen to you in the morning, there are still people listening. they're calling in. they're asking questions and you're solving problems. you're just really keeping a lot of information out there in the bay area. there is still a chance for conversation other than text messages and facebook and the internet. there is actual dialogue that happens on your station. so, i'm just so proud of all the work you've done and how you've made yourself available to so many san franciscans, whether it be [speaker not understood] and giving out toys during the holidays, when you're asked to volunteer in the community, when you're asked to come out and do something to work with young people, you have always said

yes. i don't know a time when you've not even been available to do some amazing work in the community which oftentimes you don't really talk about. people don't talk about just really the private side to your work. you feel committed to san francisco. you feel committed to the bay area. so, any time you're asked to come out, you've always been there for our community. you've always been there for so many people in the bay area. so, i definitely think that it's fitting that you be honored here amongst me and my colleagues at the board of supervisors in san francisco. so, a couple of things i wanted to mention because it's important to know that ever since you were 5 when your mother first requested -- had you requesting songs on the radio, you dedicated your life to bringing music to the city's -- to bringing music to folks and talking about music and it was just really important to you from major hits to local classics. you just always have been a music lover, dedicating

yourself to causes. and as i mentioned, food drives and other things. you're a bay area native activist and icon, an amazing individual and one that is truly not recognized enough. and, so, we wanted to say thank you so much for your commitment to san francisco, your commitment to the bay area. and we know that you'll continue to be actively engaged. we'll still see you at the events. we'll still see you in the community. still see you actively engaged. so, for your commitment to san francisco and the bay area, for your love of san francisco and the bay area, and i won't begin to sing that song, but we used to hear that rings in your head, you know that song. [laughter] >> we want to just say thank you so much for all of your work and your commitment to san francisco and the bay area through radio and through your continued endeavors. >> thank you. (applause)

>> thank you, supervisor breed. we have a couple of more fans here among our midst and i'd like to acknowledge supervisor kim. >> thank you. i just want to thank supervisor breed for bringing chiuy to the board chambers because it's one of the last places i ever expected to see you. but i am so glad to see you here and i'm so glad that you thought to honor chiuy today. i'm a huge fan. i'm a listener, and, you know, i was incredibly sad when i found out on facebook that you would no longer be doing your morning radio show which you have done for 10 years. and as sad as i am that you will no longer be that voice on morning radio, i also know how hard it is to have that type of longevity in radio, in public radio, in music. i just want to thank you. when supervisor breed told me that she was honoring you, i said that you're an institution. a lot of folks in the bay area said that you are also hip-hop. and i just -- i think that your

passion and dedication is amazing to watch, but more than anything, i love how connected you are to the community as a neighborhood. i always see you at events. you're not just on the radio. you go out at night. you go out on the weekend. i hear you don't sleep very much. but i think that's appreciated especially amongst our young people here seeing how dedicated and connected you are. and i'm someone that loves music. i love radio and having someone like you out there is so incredibly important and i look forward to supporting you in your next phase and next phase. and just thank you. you've been a name that i've known for so, so long. everyone talks about you all the time. and i just hope that this next phase is going to be something we can all support you in. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen. >> chiuy, welcome. welcome to the chambers. >> thank you. >> i remember, i think it was a couple weeks ago i got a text

message from kelly tatum saying that you were transitioning and going to be moving on. and i remember just a moment it was like, wow, it was a testament that we're all getting older. >> right. >> and moving forward. i grew up here in san francisco. i certainly grew up listening to you on the radio. and i remember rushing home from school to watch you on cmc. it is really interesting to listen to you kind of grow and develop and talk about you being a father and parenting. i think you've also done a great job of bringing current and relish use to the forefront of people's minds whether in our world i the political world, a ballot issue, but also relating key things that are happening in the entertainment world to young people's lives. taking opportunity to use as an example when people make mistakes, not to demonize them but use it as a teachable

moment, as a true big brother or uncle would do. it's probably very overwhelming for you to have received all the love and add ~ adoration. you can come and volunteer in my office. and continue to help us to steer the city and not just the city, but the greater bay area. so, congratulations. we are very proud of you. you've got a whole community and a whole city, a team of folks that are standing with you beside you, and ready to take that next step with you. so, keep us informed. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor breed. (applause) >> so, before i give chiuy an opportunity to talk, i've only been on the board since january. this is the first time so many folks have been excited about someone coming here to be honored including angela, the clerk of the board. she was excited to see what you look like in person. [laughter] >> so, i just wanted to say,

you know, your energy, your love, your personality is just really what makes us excited about having you here today. so, i just wanted to give you an opportunity to say a few words. >> first of all, thank you. i'm honored. i'm truly blessed and honored and humbled for even being invited here. i consider myself a simple entertainer who likes to shed a little light on not just music, but what's happening in our cities. most of the time that gets lost in translation with the youth and a lot of people forget that the youth are our future. in that case, i feel like i have a duty to be there not just on the radio. they should be able to see me and touch me and catch me at the music festival, at the night club, wherever the people are at that's where i'm at. the people is where i'm at. and it showed once the word got out that i was let go and moved on that, you know, yo, we're not going to be able to hear you. who is going to be our voice? who is going to be the guy? we don't see nobody else out here like we see you out here.

so, i am definitely touched and humbled and appreciative of being honored and just acknowledged because [speaker not understood] we do do from our hearts. we feel like we need to do and we all need to be -- having accolades behind it. i don't publicize a lot of stuff i do because i think my actions speak louder. so, thank you for acknowledging and seeing it. so, i appreciate you. thank you. >> thank you. (applause)

>> thank you, supervisor breed. and thank you to chiuy. with that, colleagues, why don't we now go to our roll call for introductions. madam clerk. >> supervisor cohen, you are first to introduce new item. >> thank you very much, madam clerk and colleagues. it's actually with a heavy heart today that i come to you and ask for you to take a moment to close our board meeting out in the loving memory of a friend of my family but also a friend to the greater san francisco community, a woman by the name of gail bishop. ms. bishop was actually president of an organization called the sisters network which is affiliate, the sisters network which is an affiliate of the sisters network incorporated. it's an african-american breast cancer survivor organization. and i'm sad to say that my friend gail d. bishop was

called home, born april 2nd, 1956, called home september 4, 2013. after a long struggle with breast cancer as with other related cancers, she lost her battle. she leaves behind her a host of family, friends, and entire community to honor and cherish her memory. a little bit about ms. bishop. in the year 2000 she became the founding president of the san francisco chapter of the sisters network incorporated. gail guided her organization with unwaivering strength and at the nash i hadth. as a dedicated educator in the fight against breast cancer and she was a model in her fate unto her last day. gail was a lifelonges are debt of the city and county of san francisco, but specifically bayview hunters point. drawv resident ~ she will be missed. we cherish her legacy and memory. the rest of it i submit.

>> thank you, supervisor kim. (applause) >> supervisor kim. supervisor mar. >> thank you. the first item i have is a request for the budget and legislative office to analyze and give recommendations on our city's bicycle strategy and to fully or more adequately fund it. as many of you know on may 14, following our most recent bike to workday, i and others asked the budget and legislative office to analyze and make recommendations on our city's ambitious yet unfunded bicycle strategy.

this strategy is designed to map how the city will make -- meet its transportation mode share goals with bikes making 20% of all trips by 2020. that's 20% bike trips by the year 2020. and we know, many of us know directly and from our experience that the benefits of biking are healthier communities, less car congestion, more parking actually for those who do drive, less pressure on muni lines already at capacity, healthier commuters and safer families. and as our mta director ed reiskin has pointed out the most cost-effective investment we can make in moving people is in bicycle infrastructure. nevertheless, the city is spending just zero .46% less than 1%, 0.46% of the mta's capital budget on bike improvement. and the recent tragedy in the south of market neighborhood highlighted how the killing of a 24 year old young woman

emilie molek highlighted how thoroughly our major infrastructure improvements are need. and i commend supervisor kim for her leadership on the safety needs in that part of the city. and i also applaud the mta for moving forward immediately on a pilot project to place separated bike lanes on folsom street. but we can't just react to individual situations and piecemeal approaches. i don't want the city to only respond death after death until the system is slowly funded and built. we must be proactive and systemic and deliberate and i don't want to wait until someone in the richmond is killed, for example. and i also want to have this conversation well before the mta comes before us with their next two-year budget. if bicycles are to be part of our transit network, it needs -- they need the same funding political leadership and attention other important parts of our system has. so, today i'm introducing this hearing to request and discuss the finding of the budget and legislative analyst office and have a full correspondization regardinginging how we will

move forward in meeting our goals. i also have an in memoriam for a community leader. i guess i'm going to have to ask to be re-referred. >> certainly, supervisor mar. we will now move to supervisor tang. >> thank you, madam clerk. today i actually just want to request we adjourn our meeting in honor of kevin john mcguire. some of you may know his parents buffy and pat mcguire. if you're not familiar with the name you're probably familiar with the restaurant, several of them that they own here in the sunset district. java beach cafe. unfortunately their son kevin passed away much too young at the age of 9 with a brave battle with a brain tumor and passed away august 4 during our legislative recess. he was appropriately born on valentine's day and filled the world with love and joy and paved the way for his youngest brother's connor and dylan mcguire. he attended the french american

school here in san francisco as well as saint gabe's and was a huge, huge soccer fan. so, i attended his funeral over legislative recess. it was a very touching to see the overwhelming amount of community who came out for kevin. and, so, i just wanted to send my deepest condolances to pat and buffy mcguire. they have contributed so much to this community. i even remember kevin when he was very young came out to help and plant a garden with us under supervisor chiu's office. so, just want to send my best to the mcguire family and request that we adjourn the meeting in his honor today. >> thank you, supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. today i am calling for two hearings. the first relates to staffing and budget at animal care and control and the ability or lack thereof that important agency

to meet its legally required mandates of caring for all animals in need in san francisco, whether they're animals that have been abandoned, animals that are being mistreated, in distress, and making sure that other animals are cared for and hopefully ultimately adopted out. animal care and control is a safety net agency. it doesn't get to pick and choose which animals it takes in. and, so, you have a lot of animals who are difficult to adopt out. yet animal care control's budget appears to be highly inadequate to provide the level of care that we in this animal friendly city expect for animals in need. in addition, the department has very few enforcement officers who are able to go out into the field. whether to respond to claims of

mistreatment or neglected animals or to deal with potentially aggressive animals. we've been seeing more complaints in dog parks from dog owners who state that other dogs are aggressive toward their dogs. animal care control has few resources, but it's really not possible for their agency to stay on top of those complaints and do an effective job monitoring and enforcing. so, the hearing will really take a deep look at animal care and control's budget, its staffing levels, what would be necessary to meet the needs of san francisco and the responsibilities of the department and how we can go about meeting those needs through the budget process. i'm calling the hearing now because rather than doing it in the middle of our typically hectic budget process, i wanted to air these issues very early.

second hearing is a hearing on the state of our light rail vehicles and muni's light rail vehicles. as the mta begins its procurement process for the next generation of light rail vehicles, we have a once in generation opportunity to get it right and i think it's very important for us to take a close look at our current light rail vehicles. what the challenges have been in terms of design, in terms of maintenance, in terms of specific problems with lrvs, to make sure we're all fully informed as mta begins this process. light rail vehicles are critical part of our public transportation system and they need to be good and reliable. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. >> yes, thank you, madam clerk. today i'm introducing an ordinance to improve the quality, oversight, and accountability of our city's

child care facilities fund. the ordinance i'm introducing today will change the planning code to transfer all oversight of the fund in child care development projects that use the fund to the office of early care and education, to offer a seamless approach to ensuring our child care facilities. not only meet the needs of families in the city, but also are consistent with the city-wide plan for early care and education and out of school time. i strongly believe that streamlining the oversight of our child care facilities fund will improve our ability to serve our city's family in the most efficient way and as a strong supporter of the office ability care and education and their division. i am happy to see more responsibilities being shifted to them. i also today would like to adjourn this meeting in honor of evelyn wilson.

evelyn wilson passed away monday morning. i've known evelyn for eight years as a parliamentarian at the board of education for eight years there, and i've known her also in being active in many civic groups for decades. and my memory of her is that she's always been a loving -- excuse me -- and caring person. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor yee. (applause) >> supervisor kim, did you wish to add? >> yes. i also want to add my respects for ms. wilson, someone who

supervisor mar, yee, and actually campos got to work with during her time as parliamentarian for the board of education. she was a regular. she was an institution. she never missed a meeting. i believe she had a perfect attendance record on our board of education. and she was a stalwart. she really believed in service and in serving our city. specifically, san francisco unified school district and, you know, when i got to the board of supervisors i really missed her and her guidance. we can certainly use a parliamentarian here. you need someone who is passionate about [speaker not understood], and so many other processes that sometimes we take for granted. but are really important in making decisions that are important to our city and our municipalities. and i just want to pay my condolances and best wishes to her family.

she lived a wonderful life and she will be greatly missed. >> thank you, supervisor kim. other supervisors who wish to speak about ms. wilson? supervisor mar. >> yeah, i wanted to thank supervisor yee and kim for their comments. evelyn was an amazingly warm person, but she really knew parliamentery procedure like the back of her hand. i also want to thank her so much for supporting democratic women's forum and other community groups as well. it was really an honor to serve with her and to be mentored by her over the years ~. and i know many in the school district and in the schools will really miss her as well as much as i do as well. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor campos. >> i don't know whether anyone can find the words when someone dedicates herself to public service as evelyn wilson did for so many years.

i served as general counsel of this group for a number of years and i remember being at those meetings that ended many times in the wee hours of the morning. evelyn wilson was always there and i don't know if people know, but she really didn't get compensated that much. i think she got maybe like $35 a meeting, and she was there meeting after meeting year after year because she cared about the school district, because she cared about how we educated our kids. and i think it's just remarkable that someone can sort of add that level of service to her community. evelyn wilson, you will be missed and you did an amazing job. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor campos. mr. president, if i may, evelyn wilson was my mentor during the mayoral succession, a subject matter that occurred here at the board. so, she helped me get us

through that as well. >> if i could can. colleagues, if we can do this in memoriam on behalf of the full board. without objection, that should be the case. [gavel] >> madam clerk. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i just have a few comments to make based on the mayor's responses to question time. am i allowed to talk about that today? >> is this on the introduction of new item, supervisor avalos? >> yes. thank you. so, you know, i thought what was significant was not so much the mayor's responses to the question. what was significant was that so many of us were concerned enough about the clean power program that we wanted to ask the question of the mayor about the same program. but in terms of getting a response that was accurate from the mayor, we really did not receive that. i'm holding in my hand here a copy of a resolution that was made by the public utilities commission back in december of 2011.

this is a commission that consisted of all the same members that are currently on the commission according to radika fox of the public utilities commission. one person was absent. that was commissioner cain, but all the rest of the commissioners were present. this is a resolution that approves the shell energy contract. it approves the general manager going into negotiations with the shell energy contract. the mayor said that the shell contract was a sole source contract, but we know that these contracts were contracts for providing clean power to the puc and consumers in san francisco. it was competitively bid. there was a lot of discussion over and over again from the mayor's responses that the board of supervisors had approved by resolution an ordinance a certain energy mix of 95% clean power and only 5% recs. there is nothing in the resolution ordinance that says

that you would have that energy mix and there is actually in this resolution that comes from the puc, there is nothing there either. so, there's no reference to -- it's only anecdotal discussions that we talked about a framework that could be 95% affirmed energy mix with 5% recs. it turns out that the program that we approved at the board was a program we knew about was going to evolve over many, many years. and what we started on day one was not what we were going to have in year 4 or year 10 or year 15 or year 20. eventually we get to be able to have a build out. the mayor also said that we would be providing power from -- shell will be providing power from out of state. actually shell provided the public utilities commission last month with a letter saying that they will be committed to providing power within the state of california using power from hydro and wind power

sources. and, so, we're seeing while there was really good effort from the mayor to be able to respond, provide words to our questions, they weren't necessarily the accurate words. now, i know that the mayor doesn't actually write his responses to us. his staff do that. so, i would think the mayor would be concerned about getting the most accurate information to present to the full board about what he's talking about. that clearly wasn't the case -- wasn't the case today. so, we have a real political problem here in san francisco when it comes to clean power sf. the board of supervisors has approved a policy with many, many really good parts to it that are about how we can move forward on our climate action goals, but we can also make sure we're giving san franciscans a choice about having clean power to run their homes and the mayor's office seems to be blocking that.