pantry in richmond, we have two, but they want to announce that thanksgiving food pantry event is being organized for thursday, thanksgiving at 2:30 p.m. and it is located at 741-30th avenue, preregistration is required and you can kault 750-8554 for more detail, i'm supporting small businesses for small business saturday on november 30, the day after black friday, it's to support small businesses, a day to celebrate and support how the small businesses are the backbone of our economy and haul that they do for our communities, it's sponsored by the u.s. small business administration, if you want more information, shop smaum.com is the information. i'll be out on klem meant street and also in the outer balboa area throughout the day, but there's a lot of activity

in our small business corridors as well, shop small and support our small businesses. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener? thank you, supervisor, supervisor yee? >> thank you, madam clerk, i'm introducing a resolution to urge the california department of education to reconsider its recent decision to change the way that child care resource and referral program divides the service areas in san francisco. in san francisco, we have diversity in languages, cultures and the two service providers in san francisco, children's council and children services have both served the entire city of san francisco for 40 years and have worked out the best system for this. a system that is culturally sensitive. we are deeply concerned that changing the service area to divide the service area by zip

codes will create inefficiency to families and to children seeking services. we want to ensure that no one is turned away for living in a different zip code if they choose one service provider over another. therefore, this resolution today is to call on the california department of education to keep the current determination of the service areas so that we can continue having efficient access for all of our children and families and i want to thank supervisor far more co-sponsoring this resolution. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor yee? supervisor avalos? thank you, supervisor avalos. seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes roll call for introductions >> >> why don't we now go to general public comment? >> at this time, the public may comment generally for up to 2 minutes for items within the subject matter jurisdiction

within the board, and items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. please note that public comment is not allowed on items which have already had public comment at a board committee and please direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual supervisors nor to the audience. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount time to testify, and if you want a document to be displayed please indicate such. >> thank you, let's hear from our first speaker. er >> don't give many of the friends of the library, the system encourages public comment and most of the safeguards of democracy em powers the public citizen, dehumanization, i attempt to

counter this by acknowledging by birthday. i am 67 today, 67 is not a major birthday, but you don't need to be [inaudible] to figure out that if yesterday was the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's funeral, i turned 17 after the day of his funeral, he said my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. after that, he said my fellow citizens of the world, ask not what america can do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man. finally, whether you are citizens of america or the world, ask us -- ask of us the same standards of strength and sacrifice that we should ask of you with the good conscious our only sure award and history are final judge of our deeds, i may have been a naive kid but i wasn't the only one who

believed it. in those days, there were ideas that our freedom was dependent upon the freedom of others, they were working for a better world for our children, everyone was entitled to justice, that we owed something to our communities that had given us so much. that there was an enlightened self-interest that was better than simple greed. now we have a city hall family smart enough to lie for each other. now we have david chiu having us arrested. now the lies don't matter because only money matters. in fact, it's been a rough 50 years and the lies cost more than the money. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. >> if you want to pull the mic. a little closer to you. >> sure. >> perfect, thank you.

>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the board, my name is [inaudible] aluciano, and also with me are some of my co-workers of at&t ballpark, i've worked concessions at the giants games since 1976. in 1993, volume servers which is now known as center plate took over the concessions from harry and stephen. we all went to the union but we didn't have job security in our contract language. in order to keep our jobs, we all had to agree to take a $4 an hour wage cut. it's taken 20 years for us to get back to that rate that we had there before. we want to make sure that the situation never happens again by winning job security language in this contract. the workers have been loyal to

the giants and the company and we want them to be loyal to us. please support us in the struggle by signing the pledge to boycott center plate until we get a fair contract. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, good afternoon. thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. my name's patricia ramirez and i'm -- i worked as a cook for center plate for 14 years. i've been working really hard to win a fair contract by organizing by co-workers and myself are going to center plate customers almost every week. i'm 65 yearser -- years old and i would love to be able to

retire when i'm 66 but my finances are so bad that i would probably have to work until i'm 70, one of the thing i'm feting for in this contract is to improve our pension benefits so that like me, i can retire with security and dignity. i hope you will support me and my co-workers by pledging to honor our boycott. thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is robert mccall, this is my 26th season at the giants game, i started work at candle stick park, i've been a member of local 2 when i started working at a busboy at the san francisco hilton. on november 10, i was working a

49ers game when my foot started swelling up, i finally went to the hospital and the doctor told me if i had waited one more day, they would have had to amputate my foot, instead i'm just taking antibiotics and i'm nearly chilled. if i didn't have my health benefit, i would have lost my foot, i want to a contract that maintains our health benefits. please support us by joining the boycott of [inaudible] at at&t park, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i was sitting because i can't stand. good morning, -- well, good afternoon, louise vaughn, and i'm here mainly for my church, i go to church in bayview and now they put a building where we park, i had to pay $100

dlauz i accidentally parked in the driveway. there's so many driveways where they cut into where they put that new apartment building there on 3rd and oak dale until you can hardly see it, they're not clearly marked and it's costing us money, in the middle of our services, they come in and tell us to move our car even though it's a huge sidewalk and there is people all over this city that's on sundays that park, have special parking all over the city where they double park or they made preparations for them to park on this street area and now they put meters all around, so we have to come by and feed the meter, we can't stand and serve the lord, and most of the black people in this city has been evicted by this city just like i was, so i want to ask y'all, when you think about housing,

think about very low-income housing because a lot of people have been discriminated against that could not finish their jobs and e with have to also talk about the discrimination that's been happening over the years and no one's been paying attention on jobs, that's why so many people don't have jobs so we have a lot of things to talk about but i will be coming back because now my grand dauktder is 16 and i have plenty of time. thank you. and i do support the giants also, what they're trying to do. >> good afternoon. my name is anthony wonder burger and i have worked at the giants ballpark for a little over 3 yearess, i started as a cook and now i work as a bartender in the new goth em club, i was born into a white collar family that had a very

strong belief in unions and under that belief, with the promise of fair wages and fair treatment, i went into food service in this community, and i'm here today to ask jou all to sign the pledge for the boycott against center plate. i actually have -- i live in reolinda now, i live in san mateo now, but due to the lack of improved contract conditions, i have been forced to move as it's just become unaffordable to live in this area. it takes me about two hours to get to my job at at&t park but i still continue to do so, myself and my family, we need those benefits. and, you know, i do understand the importance of elevating everyone, you know, from the ground up, you know, that's

just kind of the trickle down just doesn't work. you just start from the bottom, and i'm fighting for a fair contract with center plates because i feed to keep my family benefits for my wife and my two daughters and to win job security and a wage increase. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is marine nans and i've worked in concessions at at&t park now for 16 and a half years, i have been been raised and born in san francisco into a union family and i'm now 78 years old. i didn't start lookbacker work at the ballpark until after i retired of my clear job in san francisco state university as part aof the financial aid, i worked in the loan department of san francisco state for

almost 25 years where i retired from and i had to go back to work to supplement my income because i accept support members in my family that should be out and about on their own which includes a great granddaughter now of 17, i'm applying for a contract not for myself because i am retired but for the next generation that includes my son who also works at the ballpark. i want to make sure these people keep their jobs and remain in good jobs. please support us by joining to our boy cut of center place, thank you. >> linda chaplain from the land use committee. i know many of you are concerned about affordable housing, and there was a conditional use appeal of

larkin that they voted to change as an emergency measure and they decided to -- the fact that the project for [inaudible] instead of the tndc project which we pontbacker wanted and we felt it was the best sites for senior housing which would have put in 56 units of fixed housing, which could have provided community facilities for a neighborhood that has no community center, no senior seiner, no library or police station with a public room, no place for social activities whatsoever. we used to do it in that charge. we couldn't get your attention when we were trying to file the appeal. it's a neighborhood where you would never baibltd get 20% of the neighborhoods because it is a neighborhood of chinese family properties, most of them don't live there and many of them just don't get involved and the ones that did get

involved, one of them sent me a list of the supervisors she wanted me to contact to have the five sponsors, she said these would be people who westbound sympathetic to seniors and minorities and she felt campos and kim and mar and cohen and yee and she forgot avalos, and then there were the three at least who grew up here and whose wonderful schools were beaten by washington pretty often and there's supervisor wiener would's concerned about efficiency units and in this case we would have double density studios or one bedrooms and 30% of the buildings were not going to be used for cars, for 60 thousand dollars to a neighborhood association, that was the alternative. >> thank, -- thanks, next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is douglas chef, for the record, do any of the supervisors remember that o.j. simpson played football at galileo, secondly, i would like to say, i have a dream, i really have a dream, i have a dream that harvey milk will come back to life and say what took so long to get justice for my fellow dead gay men, it's amazing how harvey milk is such a revered figure but yet someone just so similar to harvey is completely ignored, no justice for 13 years, so in my opinion, if you're going the say harvey milk is a great man, then you ought to follow the same example and say we're going to check out joe

sevalosmen, every gay man is equal, so if you respect one, you better respect the next gay one, the gay man's curse is continued on for the warriors, three recent injuries and hopefully no more, when think hear about the curse, they're not going the want to come back to san francisco, and lastly, i would like to welcome the people sitting in the back queues, being a crime fetter, i would like to tell them the god honest truth, this building is very impressive but realistically, public corruption exists in every city, so since you are young and you have your career ahead of you, i would encourage you the fiekt public corruption and let's put it this way, many people in the fbi are getting old and we could sure use some new blood because let's put it this way, the only time we're going to end public corruption is to stamp it out one person at a time.

thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. president chiu, fellow board members, madam clerk, my name is lawrence flores, the americas cup came and went, obviously we had a lot of labor issues, a lot of challenges but with that, what we need to do is move forward. we need to move forward and make the next event a positive one. and i'm speaking to the one of the super bowl, of sponsoring the super bowl here in the bay area. that's what's important, moving forward on a positive note, learning from our mistakes of what happened. and with that, i'm happy to report that last friday, the

america's cup event authority issued a check to the office of labor standard enforcement of 404 thousand dollars to be paid to the workers that performed the work at phase 1 of the america's cup. that is a significant amount, that is like an early merry christmas to the workers because time and time again, it's all about the workers and even the workers behind me. that was a huge success and it finally happened. and i do want to thank the office of labor standard enforcement, donna le v*it, mary berzoto, that was information provided by carp there's local 22, but i want to thank this board for standing behind them, but also standing with san francisco residents of

job opportunities here in san francisco, but most of all, i want to thank supervisor bulldog avalos who's very vocal on the workers, in support of the workers time and time again and thank you supervisor, and thank you all and i wish you all a happy thanksgiving and don't eat

>> i would like to ask a quick question, mr. casey, how can we support these workers? >> right now, what we're asking for is elected leaders and

other civic leaders to endorse the boycott of center plate and food and beverage at the ballpark. >> i have a question. >> supervisor cohen? >> thank you. so, what i heard from a lot of the workers, boycott, to me, that means if i'm at the ballpark, don't buy food, it's as simple as that? >> it's that simple but there's a lofted of eventess, a big part of center plate's income comes from catering events, and so they have all kinds of events, you know, not just during the games but during the off season and when the games aren't being played, so we're asking people to boycott those catered events as well. >> this also includes candle stick? >> no, we're not boy contending -- boycotting the food at

candle stick. >> center plate is also -- the contracts with candle stick, it would be contracted within the new stadium, so in my opinion, if we're looking at a larger issue about workers, we're talking about, yes, they may not be in the city and county of san francisco but maybe going down to santa clara county. >> they've been rewarded with that, but there is a responsibility, absolutely, for center plate to do this but we think that the responsibility goes beyond that because these are jobs that unfortunately are very low wage and it's not only center plate that is ignoring the responsibilities we're focusing on, the giants won two world series in four years and our members have not had a wage increase in four years during that entire time which in our view is quite unconscionable. >> thank you very much.

>> thank you, mr. casey, next speaker. >> thank you, mr. president. members of the bore, my name is christopher ball, i live at 1011 howard street, i wanted to bring your attention to -- i thought somebody would get that. the bicycle coalition has offered for your perusal on the website and i want to -- please note that 50 feet is the probable elevation of the whole impact of greenland melting. we can fix this, we know how much coal, oil and gas is burnt

and so how much c02 we put into the atmosphere. we know how much c02 plants can pull down from the atmosphere and sequester. all we need to do is supply sufficient fresh water to enough empty desert to grow new plants so pull down all that carbon that we spew out. we don't have to make anybody drive funny little cars or anything. technological innovation has given us a taolt, carbon nano fill to cheaply filter from fresh water and find energy-free d free for the capture in hydrothermal venting, police cal intervention will enable california to have developments in all its economic ability,

will warrant carbon download into plant material, we also fund the development of robotics. >> thanks, next speaker. >> thank you very much. supervisors, south beach marina apartment, we don't get the show over there, so we don't see what's going on here. i would like to celebrate life, celebrate workers, celebrate a conversation, so keeping on the same page of all the things i've kind of picked up or some of the things i've picked up

since i've been kindling here, keeping us on the same page, 706 mission, the building wasn't high enough, we need a waiver from regulation, planning department, it's okay, board, a, okay, washington, we can't make enough profit, we can't maximize. change of code, planters, no problem, board, hey, a, okay. later down closer to here a little thing or protrel avenue, a remodeled business that never made any noise now makes noise and a group came over here and said, hey, time out, what's going on here, why do we have constant noise in our homes and the terror of an emergency generator to kind of keep machines calm and make our homes inhospitable. everything's okay, planters, no problem here, live with it.

a gal in a wheelchair, you know, that still sticks. there should be some way to fix that, you know, and these people keep coming and they say, we need a hiccup fix, so thank you, let's get working on that one. it could be a call at the st. francis asterisk gets stamped on this, we can change this. so, all of that besides a thank f nice breeze just came by. i like the vote, i like no on b and c and if that coalition could come along here. thank you. happy thanksgiving. >> next speaker. >> last week, we learned that the testimony of jesus was the spirit of prophesy, revelation 1910 and i quoted a vers