have an uber passenger in the back seat. many of us in the taxi industry participated in the cpuc's rule making proceedings, and we urged them over and over again, we warned them time after time about the gaps in insurance and it fell on deaf ears. and, so, i hold uber responsible. i hold the cpu crushtion responsible. and i think there is some responsibility on the part of the city because you could have nipped this in the bud before these companies had any car of authority when they were operating without any responsibility, any authority whatsoever from anybody. so, there's a lot of responsibility to go around and i hope at this late date that something can be done about it. thank you. >> next speakers.

i'm providing [speaker not understood]. >> sorry, if you could speak into one microphone. we can only have one -- i'm providing assistance from the overhead. >> sfgov-tv? thank you. go a hid. my uncle [speaker not understood] who was hit by the [speaker not understood] truck on december 20th. i'm really hoping that the city of san francisco will take it and improve their pedestrian safety. the man in the picture wasn't just a uncle to me. he played a really big part in

my life. he was more like a parent. and when i got that news december 20th at 5 o'clock when i received the phone calling, my whole worldcom pleatly fell apart because christmas morning, the last 23 years on my birthday, he never missed a day ~. when i woke up christmas morning on my birthday seeing he wasn't going to be there, and he didn't come and put a tree up, i was really hurt. so, i hope that you guys could really improve your safety so that another family won't have to suffer a loss like the yazi family did this year because becoming into this new year, its wasn't a happy new year's. it was a sad one, and he meant a lot to us.

>> thank you for those words. next speaker. david louis, co-chair mental health board. happy new year, supervisors. the death of donald yazi also affected me. he was my neighbor. he was my neighbor since 2009. for five years, we were not friends, we were neighbors. we were friends as neighbors. he he would pass me, he would smile. he he would say hello. for five years his warmth brought a little joy to my life. his loss -- again, brought profound sadness to me. i want to thank the supervisors, all the supervisors who mentioned pedestrian safety as an issue. i commend supervisor campos, his upcoming hearing. i hope to attend that. and supervisor kim for her support for the family. you know, this death of donald

yazi was entirely preventable. this was a preventable accident. avalos mentioned new york city's goal of zero fatalities in 2021. we can do that here, one small change that could have prevented donald yazi's death would be to require recology a company with not a good history lately, a second driver on the trucks. you have large trucks, especially in the tenderloin where i live, where donald lived, trying to back up a hill, this truck was trying to move on a hill with one driver, 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