no back-up camera. the driver couldn't see behind them. this was recklessness. this driver is at fault. and i've heard even more horrible things. the truck backed out over him and went the other way again, striking him twice. unbelievable, unbelievable. if this truck had a second driver, this wouldn't have happened. this may be something you have to institute through legislation, through rule change for recology. this company has struck and killed a bicyclist and injured someone else. so, i hope knobv. ~ [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. i have graphics. good afternoon -- hello -- president chiu and supervisors. i want to say happy birthday to my father who worked 32 years ago at central shop, central shops, and this last weekend at thunder valley, elvis presley would be 79 tomorrow if he was

still alive -- if he's still alive. ♪ why city men say only city fools rush in but i can help san francisco fall in city love with you sail, can you afford this day we will let you in if we can't help falling in city love with you like the hetch hetchy flows surely to the ocean sea city how it goes merrily, some things are meant to be take my city hand take my city, whole city life, too for we, president chiu, can can

[speaker not understood] can't help fall in city love with you >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is charles [speaker not understood]. i'm here on behalf of lester cab company. [speaker not understood] ellis and polk new year's eve what completely unregulated. the vehicle had no identifying marks and noncommercial plates. so, if the driver had not volunteered to the police that he was in uber service, no one would even know that there was a commercial vehicle involved in that fatality. note also please that there is no regulation to prevent that driver from going to work today with a different commercial

ride service. that's a clear danger to the public and you cannot count on a california public utilities commission to protect the public from that danger. with the cpuc absec and with those of these vehicles on our streets, this board really ought to convene a hearing intended to close the loophole that allows commercial for-hire vehicleses to provide taxi-like service with no effective regulation. ~ absence thank you. >> next speaker. hello, my name is dale [speaker not understood], i wanted to come and express my support for the resolution around drug pricing that board president chiu introduced. let you know i'm looking forward to a larger discussion at a committee hearing. also wanted to thank

supervisors kim, wiener and campos for your continued support. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. my name is orlando chavez. i'm from the oasis clinic in oakland [speaker not understood] and i'm here to speak on the issue of fair pricing for the new drug [speaker not understood]. i just left a meeting where people were for the first time had access to this drug. some of them have been waiting for decades for treatment. there were tear in the room because this is going to be a paradigm shift for people getting treated for [speaker not understood]. there were also people in the room that were denied treatment because of the pricing disparity between [speaker not understood] which is priced at a thousand dollars a pill, $84,000 for a treatment course versus some older treatments that cost 15 or $20,000.

when we look back over the history of the hiv epidemic, we know that every advance was made in drug treatment was followed by a pricing battle. and the tension here is between whether it is health care for people, not profit, or whether -- are you beholden to 'community stakeholders or public health department, protecting the public health or are we putting profits ahead of people? because people have died based on decisions that are made in this room today so, therefore, i would like to encourage support for david chiu's resolution. and i thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is jesse brooks and i'm a health advocate. i'm a person that lives with hiv and aids and i'm also

co-infected with hep-c. so, i also was instrumental in helping proposition d get passed and i'm happy that got passed. i want to thank you, supervisors, for your support. as the last speaker just talked about, this is an exciting time for hep-c disease. right now they're about to release drugs that -- two drugs that can actually cure the virus, and that has been not happening. there's been this harsh treatment that only like 30% of people were cleared. with this new drug, 90% of people can get cleared. hepatitis c affects 150 million people globally and here in the u.s. 3.2 million americans suffer with the disease and those are just people that get diagnosed. a lot do not know that they have the disease. so, again, these two drugs can

clear 90% of patients. it's an exciting time. but the question is who will cover them? because they're going to cost $90,000 together for a 12-weeks course which can guarantee most people that i know low-income will not receive this drug. i just came from the same support group and what they propose is to insurance company making these people go through the harsh first regimen first which will put their life in danger and then offering the new drug. so, we need to work with the supervisors, the city to get the city to get control and regulate lower drug prices at these pharmaceutical companies. they are greedy and getting rich and people are dying and suffering. [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

i have a material -- >> excuse me, sir, if you can speak into the microphone. i have materials for the overhead projector. my name is [speaker not understood]. i'm a citizen in san francisco for more than 30 years. i live in supervisor yee's district. i gave out a package of materials raising questions about the emergency water supply for san francisco. starting in 2006 there was a plan to paint hydrants with little blue dots. it's fallen into disrepair, a lot of the hydrants have been painted over. and now even this map has disappeared from the san francisco puc's website and there is no reference to this program any more. so, i'd like to ask have they terminated the potable water hydrant program? if so, why? if they've not terminated it, why have the map and brochure disappeared from the puc website? and if they have terminated the portable water hydrant program, what's the aloe all

teshverctiontionv emergency drinking water plan for san francisco? perhaps a topic for the gao committee ~. that would be supervisors, tang, chiu, and breed since the earthquake in 1989 and we need to focus again on preparedness. and finally a couple quick comments. i'm sympathetic to the taxi drivers. and if you want to encourage pedestrian safety, maybe instead of those signs with big bugs at the zoo and this arts show at the museum of fine arts, you might have signs, slow down pedestrians on 19th avenue and slope. and if you can have a community benefit agreement for yahoo!, maybe a board on the freeway that says slow down pedestrian. mr. president, members of the [speaker not understood], my name is christopher doll. i live at 10 11 howard street

and i rise to comment on member mar's food stamp challenge. i must note i did personally offer to guide mr. mar in his challenge. he did not take advantage of my personal experience, actually living on $33 a week for [speaker not understood]. mr. mar mentioned that he was -- felt hungry in evenings and was fatigued. and hunger is usually solved with a little herbal tea. the fatigue needs to be addressed to his health care system because it is perfectly adequate in terms of calories and fiber and nutrition and vitamins and all the rest of it. people find really boring, i'll grant you that, but it is healthy. i did want to also note that in the -- 1971, that's when i first arrived, there were about 750,000 people living in the

city of san francisco. there are now 1 million as of this past week. i saw that number in some board. do you think any part of that population has something to do with the number of pedestrians being killed? and/or the number of evictions happening? i have to say that i -- nobody with a pink mustache, i'm not sure what this -- i am a proud pedestrian and i will [speaker not understood] everybody else because of that. thank you all very much. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. thank you, good afternoon, supervisors. i come today wearing two hats. my name is beverly up ton. i'm the executive director of the san francisco domestic violence consortium. i'm also coming as a citizen of san francisco who is an ellis act eviction ~ in the middle of an ellis act eviction. i'd like to thank you all for your leadership. i'd like to thank supervisor jane kim and everybody else

that signed onto the mid-market work supervisor chiu is doing to help augment their budgets, many very lifesaving nonprofits are in the area and they need the support and really appreciate t. there needs to be more support as you can see the city needs more services every day. as a member of the growing group of residents in the middle of ellis act evictions, i will say that i'll keep my comments brief today, but i'm hoping that you can hear from somebody that was with us last time we were here who was afraid that she was going to be ellis acted and she has been. she was in the mission, very active in her community, helps to run the mission community garden and, so, they've added 8 more families to the rolls of those who are involved in ellis act eviction. so, i'm hoping that you'll be able to hear from her today. this resolution i know is coming up this afternoon. i think it has been discussed so i'm not sure where i am procedurally. it's so well meaning and so

well needed, but we are going to need really firm leadership. we need oversight. we need a moratorium, and we need the ellis act overturned at the statewide level. we can do t. you can do it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. ~ hi, everyone. i'm the woman she was just talking about. i was here about six weeks ago talking about the threat of eviction, ellis eviction, and now i have it. i'm in the loop. its was never a pleasant loop to be in. in my block, eight families received ellis act on the 29th in two buildings. eight families have been impacted by the same landlord. when i attended an attorneys meeting yesterday, she sent a little blurb out to those who were attending about what's going to transpire, to have only one person per household.

and i thought oh, the poor woman, she does president want to hear a lot of blah. but that was president why. there were so many people turned up. she was representing so many people from just this one fellow, this one landlord, that they couldn't have -- more than one per household couldn't fit in the room. she had a great big room. so, that's what's happening in my neighborhood. it's really a terrifying thing. i also thank you for the work you've been doing. i know you're sympathetic to this issue. we do have to have a moratorium because there is no place to go. it would be different if there was kind of a substandard place you weren't really keen on, but you could go there, right. no, it doesn't exist. so, i'm hoping for that moratorium. thank you very much for listening. >> next speaker.

hello, my name is jackie nuru and i am -- live next door to beverly up ton, my friend of 25 years. we both have been living there for 25 years. i, too, want to thank you all so much for what you're doing in support of changing the ellis act as best you can. i understand it's a city -- i mean, a state law and, so, there are only so many things that can happen. it is a very sad day for me to hear about lata as we practice buddhism together and i see her many times a week in ply home. we have another person getting evicted is sad. we need to call for a moratorium on the ellis act. the ellis was created to help financially struggling landlords who wanted to do an owner move in or go out of business for other financial reasons. but that's not what's happening. landlords are cashing in and that includes ours.

you can continue to profit from the three commercial units below us. if he can get us out, he can rent our units out as offices or sell the units as tics or otherwise just deliver it empty and sell the building, or worse, knock it down and build a high-rise or sell it to a developer who would do so. we live in what should be a historic building [speaker not understood]. what will become of us, our friends, of this historic housing? we need a moratorium on the state ellis act. the city can call for this and fight for the rights of the citizens much like it did in allowing gay marriage, even though the state said that wasn't supposed to be. [speaker not understood] made into offices or ti chis for years would help. requiring percentage of the sale price of ellis buildings or units to be paid to bmr housing fund or sf land trust.

certainly oversight, making sure that landlords are suffering -- thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is james glory. ~ glowver. [speaker not understood]. we put in green flooring. i'm not a public speaker so i'm going to make this short. we got a proposal, i'm sure some of y'all have seen it. we can hire 500 people straight off the streets, whatever, all right. in our business we have training by march the first [speaker not understood]. so, somebody will be speaking for me at the upcoming meeting thursday at the mid-market citizens committee, whatever you call it. but i just wanted to introduce myself. thank you.

>> public speaker, please. hi, my name is [speaker not understood]. >> if you could pull the microphone closer to you. sure, hi, my name is belinda [speaker not understood]. i'm a member of the yazi family. speaking on behalf of donald yazi, what a way to start the new year. donald will be missed very dearly. he's only the brother of three and one sister. we just lost our mother a year and a half ago and now we have to deal with this. i hope the city of san francisco will do something about the pedestrian safety and people who are negligent about what they're doing to be held responsible. thank you for listening.

>> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jackie bryson. i was your last speaker for your last meeting in december of 2013. i apprised you of the fact that there is a problem where 12 l violations is concerned. i told you as much as i could tell you before my two minutes were up. i was not able to tell you what i would have said then. i'm going to do it now. that tenderloin neighborhood development corporation, which is one of the three -- not one, not two, but three nonprofits i'm having investigated by [speaker not understood] program for 12 l violations. appears i have to use -- [speaker not understood]

appears to me to be in the habit of engaging in making false statements written, and maya kulycky personal favorite, under penalty of perjury. when i filed the whistle morers complaint with the whistle blowers program and i can't go into dee tatexv about it because it's very, very secret. i raised the issue of my exercising one of the rights i had as a member of the public, which is to file a complaint with the mayor's office of housing because they are supposed to develop making sure that the -- some of the 12 l requirements are kept. when i filed the complaint, i had a problem with the mayor's office of housing. well, what do you do when the investigator needs to be investigated? i'm saying you come to the board of supervisors and say, there needs to be a hearing regarding the mayor's office of housing and investigation of 12

l violations. my complaint was regarding tnbc and things were fabricated. >> next speaker. supervisors, mr. president, my name is otto duffy, resident of a nearby neighborhood here. you know, if the only problems in the city were people scraping their kneecaps or something mild like that, we wouldn't be spending $20 million to support this edifice here. [speaker not understood]. all our long-term problems in our cities, we have for

generations have had problems. that's what you're there for. so, that's how we should start the new year. let's address something. i have a couple of frustrations. one, i don't know what this body -- you say something is really [speaker not understood] unachievable goal like zero pedestrian does, i don't know what this institution is really capable of, you know, creating that, making that happen. i think you should aim for some more achievable goal, although it's good to aim for the horizon. trauma in general over many generations in america has been decreasing. if you look at the amount of trauma that's from [speaker not understood] vehicles it's four times higher than other vehicles. [speaker not understood]. my frustration is taking things and looking them up and singularly and making a big deal like let's look at crime

or let's look at pedestrian safety and not really, if you actually look at this body as a whole, what it's been doing, it's really moving away from the holistic wide approaches that would actually solve the problem. that's my frustration. >> thank you. final public comment, please step up. i guess i will start with the noise. i am appreciative there is going to be a hearing regarding the noise. i think we need to also consider by starting with just the understanding of where some of the noise is coming from, such as water hammer and the lack of proper insulation and the proper plumbing, some of the plumbing in the houses aren't even -- i mean they're not like up to proper code.

you're supposed to have ventilation to deal with the pressure. so, one of the problems that i've had. okay, now i'm going to move on to the homeless hearing. i'm appreciative that's going to be happening as well. i think we need to -- i think we need to hold our service providers a little bit more accountable and we need to hold some of our committees a little bit more accountable in that we start to monitor what they're doing because the [speaker not understood] committee has to come and submit their reports. i think the s-r-o task force and the local homeless coordinating board should be coming and submitting their reports to the rules committee or whatever committee is willing to accept them. i also think we need to hear the voice of the homeless more. i think the voice of the

homeless especially the ones who have [speaker not understood] regarding the issues, have been ignored. i see mark farrell, an information request and i sent him an invitation to speak with him ~. i mean, i haven't got anything back. i'm pretty well knowledgeable what the issues and i think his hearing is going to be very incomplete -- not very incomplete, but partially incomplete without the voice of me and some of the other people who have been advocating for homeless issues for five years. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you please call the [speaker not understood] calendar? >> items 8 through 12 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote to enact these items. if a member objects, a matter may be removed and considered separately. >> thank you. president chiu, item 8, please.

>> madam clerk, can you call the roll [speaker not understood]? yes, so, can we take items 9 through 12 without objection? thank you. [gavel] >> item 8 is a resolution supporting amendments to state law to return local control over to the ellis act to prevent the speculation and abuse of no-fault evictions. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. first i want to take a moment and thank all the members of the public that came to speak out on this resolution to support amendments to our california state law around the ellis act. you have told us some very heart felt stories about what we know is going on way too often in our city. we are in the midst of an affordability crisis. we have seen a sky rocketing rate of evictions and i certainly know as tenants i think we all know that this is something we need to address

now and we have to do better at it as a city and as a state. as one of the members of the public mentioned, the ellis act was designed to provide some relief to long-time property owners that were looking to get out of the business. and what we've seen in recent years and certainly recent months is too many real estate speculators who are purchasing properties, evicting our san franciscan residents and flipping those properties for profits. colleagues, i ask you to support this resolution and join supervisors campos, kohl cohen and mayor lee in calling for state reform for state haze in this law ~ to return to local control here in san francisco over the ellis act to prevent the speculation and abuse of these rules. and we need to work together because this is going to be a difficult task at the state capital, but we need to come together as a city and get this done. so, with that, colleagues, i ask for your support. >> supervisor campos.

>> thank you. thank you very much, mr. chair. i want to echo the comment of president chiu and i also want to thank mayor lee for being a part of this coalition. it was actually unprecedented in recent history to see this level of commitment on all sides of the political spectrum in san francisco moving to sacramento as a united front saying we need to change this. and i think that if there is any possibility that something could happen at the state level in terms of changing the ellis act, the only way it's going to happen is through a united front. so, i'm very proud to be a part of that. that said, i do want to follow-up on something that was said by one of the speakers and i want to thank the speakers for coming out. i think that as we try to make changes in sacramento that we

also should not be afraid to push the envelope here in san francisco in making sure that we do everything we can to protect tenants and to protect people who have pep their lives living in san francisco dedicated themselves to making this city a better city and are now being pushed out. and the same way i agree that we had pushed the envelope on areas like same-sex marriage. and when we were not afraid to do something that had not been done before, i think that this crisis calls for that kind of outside the box, you know, we're not afraid to do something different thinking. san francisco has a long history of leading the way, of pushing the envelope. and if we're going to make that change in sacramento, we have to make sure that we push ourselves locally. and, so, i want to thank the speakers because i think that

so long as those stories continue to be heard, this issue is not going to go away. so, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor campos and president chiu. and also co-sponsor supervisor cohen and the mayor's office, the mayor as well. so, colleagues, can we pass this without objection? thank you. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read our in memoriams for today? he >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late bishop otis charles and mr. paul williams. and at the request of supervisor kim, avalos, president chiu, and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, for the late mr. [speaker not understood], mr. donald yazi, ms. sophia lou, mr. eng, and ms. isabelle [speaker not understood]. >> madam clerk, is there any more business in front of the body?