and richmond funneled. i want to make sure we're working as a team in this city to have a real strong approach ~ to supporting children and families in the years to come. i look forward to working with you, colleague, and looking for your leadership in helping to make this happen. i think it's a joint effort that i want to be involved in, but i want to make sure we're working, bringing community together with our work here, our offices and with the administration and the foundation community as well to have a great stake in how we can improve the overall system for children, youth, and families in san francisco. and in particular, i want to acknowledge the work that many of my colleagues have already done in the children youth and family arena. in particular, eric mar and of course supervisor yee who has been in the field for decades. and i want to acknowledge his expertise and work closely with him as we move forward to making sure we can do re-authorization in a way that's going to be unique and really expand a way to provide children and families as an experience here in san

francisco. and the rest i'll submit. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam clerk. i want to thank supervisor wiener for doing an in memoriam for stu smith. you know, i got a call yesterday the same way that supervisor wiener and his office got a call from stu's friends. it was stu's wish before he he died that he could marry his long-time partner david. and i woke up this morning, having talked to -- to -- to his friends about being on call to rush to where stu was this morning to marry him. and, of course, to wake up to the news that stu did not make it through the night.

anyway, i think it's just a reminder that we can't take things for granted. i know that we were not able to officiate that wedding, but as far as i'm concerned stu and david have always been a unit and will always be spouses for life. i have a couple of items, and the first item is an item that we have been working on for quite sometime and i want to thank hillary ronan of my office for all the work that she has done and i want to thank the number of women's organizations that have been working on this issue with us for the last few months. i am also very grateful to my

colleagues who have co-sponsored this resolution. supervisors tackverctiontion, farrell, wiener, mar, avalos, and president chiu. it is a resolution that highlights the importance of women, girls, and transgender women's health. we say that we actually had worked to make this resolution a possibility last month. but because of the timing of some of the changes with affordable care act, we were not able to do that. and, so, we are mindful that february is a very special month, a month, it's black history month. and in this spirit, we also want to focus on the disparities to health access that disproportionately impacts women of color and african-american women in particular. african-american residents in

san francisco unfortunately face an alarming difference in health compared to other ethnic groups, including the fact that prenatal death rates among african-american residents is a staggering 5 time higher than that of other ethnic groups. and through this resolution we want to highlight the importance of ensuring access to health care for women, girl, and transgender women. and the timing of this is important because the affordable care act is about to go into implementation and there is a very clear and approaching deadline of march 31st. and, so, it's really important for us to make sure that between now and the time that that deadline comes that we sign up as many women, girls, and transgender women into the affordable care act. and it's going to take the

effort of the entire city family, not only government, but community-based organizations and all of us as residents of san francisco to make sure that we do not leave a single woman, a single girl behind. the second thing this resolution does is that it acknowledges the importance of health coverage to women's health and encourages all women, girls, and transgender women in san francisco to sign up for the insurance that is provided through cover california for the expanded medi-cal program. and to urge them to please not wait. and if that if you're not eligible for any of those programs, luckily we live in san francisco and thank you, tom ammiano, we have healthy san francisco that will cover many of the women, girls, and transgender women who will be left out of the federal program. the third item that this resolution does is it puts san

francisco, and specifically the board of supervisors, on record as supporting the women's health protection act of 2013 which will protect a woman's right to choose and the ability to determine for themselves when to bear a child and pregnancy. as much as we are proud of the work that we have done in san francisco, there is a sad fact that there have been a number of laws in other parts of the country -- 68 laws -- restricting access to abortion in 2013 alone, and the state of california was actually the only one of the 50 states that actually expanded abortion access, unfortunately, and the remaining 4 states the right to that access was limited. and we also declare this month

women, girls, and transgender women's health month in san francisco for the purpose of enrolling as many women as we possibly can in health care. the next item that i have is an item that deals with the construction of a very important project, which is the sutter cpmc cathedral hill project. and i know that i in my district have received a number of inquiries about the status of the project and it's one of those projects where we're very proud of the work that was done at the board of supervisors with the mayor's office, with the help of lou girardo to get us to a settlement of that, of the differences in that project. and i just am calling for a hearing simply to provide the public, including my constituents a status report on where the project is. and i want to thank supervisor

farrell, supervisor mar for their co-sponsorship. now, finally, let me say that i'm very proud to introduce an ordinance that deals with the very important issue of displacement. today i'm introducing legislation that will directly give tenants in the city and county of san francisco some protections in the unfortunate event that they face eviction under the ellis act. what this resolution does is that consistent with the case law that has recognized the right and the responsibility of jurisdictions to help tenants who are evicted stay in the city, this legislation gives tenants in san francisco who are evicted under the ellis act the chance to continue to live in our city. the reality is that under the

current existing law a tenant can receive no more than 50 to $100 in the event of an ellis act eviction, and the total for a unit -- for one unit cannot be more than 15,000. anyone who knows the state of affairs of the rental market in san francisco knows that $5,000 is simply not enough to allow these tenants to be able to stay in this city. and while it is true that we collectively not only on the board of supervisors, but working with the mayor's office -- mayor's office are working to reform the ellis act in sacramento, and that's an important piece of this strategy. as that work continues, there will still be many san franciscans who will be displaced so we have to do something at the local level to ensure that they don't have to

wait for the state to finally tweak the ellis act the right way. in the meantime, we need to make sure that we help these residents stay in san francisco. as of june 2013, the city-wide median rental rate was $3,314. that's according to zillow.com. the median home prices in san francisco has recently topped $1 million, and the average listing price for san francisco homes for sale on trulia was $1.6 million for the week ending january 15th. on top of these figures, 42.9% of san franciscans are rent burdened meaning that they pay 30% or more of their income on rent. and, in fact, in some parts of the city, on the east side of this city, the percentage of their rent burden is even worse. you have 57% of residents in

these parts -- in this part of the city, including the bayview, visitacion valley, that are rent burdened, and 54% of residents in the financial district which include soma, potrero hill, mission, but also meet the rent burden definition. it is urgent that we act today to help evicted tenants to continue to live in our city, and more specifically what this piece of legislation does is that it follows the example of what happens at the federal level when the federal government engages in eminent domain. the analysis of what is paid by the federal government looks at the market, and in this case we believe that consistent with the case law, if the objective is to do whatever we can to mitigate -- to mitigate displacements and how tenants stay in san francisco, it makes sense that the calculation of relocation costs be based on an

analysis of the market. i am grateful to the controller's office for their help, their technical support in making sure that we get to the right calculation. i also want to thank the san francisco apartment association, which even though we have our differences of opinion, have provided input on this legislation. and we look forward to continuing to work with them as the legislation moves forward through committee. and i also want to thank my colleagues, supervisor jane kim, supervisor john avalos, and supervisor eric mar for their co-sponsorship of this legislation. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor campos. president chiu. >> thank you, colleagues. first of all, i want to just take a moment and thank our colleagues who have been working on the big soda measure for all of your very productive work, and particularly in coming together.

supervisor mar, wiener, cohen and avalos. i think it is so important that we come together in our efforts to turn around childhood obesity and diabetes and i'm happy to be a co-sponsor of that measure. i have one measure today i'm introducing in resolution to join to go to call opposing action, violence against women. next friday val untines day 1 billion rising for justice in our city. as we have done in past years, next friday we will come together in civic center plaza. the organizers this year have teamed up with the bar association of san francisco, rda's office and the department on the status of women to put together the first ever free legal clinic targeting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault to help those in need. and i do hope you might be able to join next weekationv events and do everything locally and end all forms of violence against women. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim.

>> thank you. i just want to add my co-sponsorship and support to supervisor campos's tenant relocation assistance payment legislation. i'm really excited this is moving forward and i just want to thank supervisor campos's office for working on this legislation. over the last year our office has been fielding so many calls and hearing from residents, many who grew up here in san francisco that are fearful of losing their home or have been served eviction notices. but are often most stunned when they see the relocation payment fee that they are offered under our local ordinance. and realizing that it's barely enough to move and even find a comparable unit for even a month here in san francisco. and, so, it's great to see that out of many of discussions that have been coming out of the neighborhood tenant convention, most recently the one in the south of market and the tenderloin which we both attended, that this was a theme that often emerged from our tenants, which is landlords have the right to evict us.

how can we find a comparable place to live given this is a relocation fee and it's so out of touch with what the current rental prices are and the current cost of moving? so, looking forward to the discussion on this. this is just another strategy amongst many in terms of how we look towards stabilizing our residents in our city. also wanted to chime in with supervisor avalos, really looking forward to the longer and greater discussion with supervisor yee on the re-authorization of the children's fund and pete the public education enrichment fund which we may have going jointly to the ballot in november. these funds are so poderthv in supporting our public schools and after school programs and pre-k. it is amazing the city always supported this ~. as we look to expand and to really refine the details on that, looking forward to working with these two supervisors on that re-authorization. and finally, i just wanted to

express my condolances to the family and partner for stu smith who is actually a district 6 resident. i actually had not had a chance to meet him until i door knocked on his door in south beach, and that was when i first came in touch with him. despite the fact that he had spent many years working on behalf of our community, volunteering for so many of our organizationses as a community leader, and as that super volunteer ~ he immediately brought me into his home, talked to me about so many of the important issues around health, hiv, and an aging in place. and i learned so much from him during that time. when i joined the board, got the opportunity to continue to work with him on the issue that he is so passionate about, so sad about his loss, his great loss for our city and community, and again wanted to express my condolances and add my name to his in memoriam and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor mar asked to be re-referred.

>> thank you. i just wanted to first say that i left out a few thank yous for the introduction of the unified soda tax measure by six of us on the board of supervisors. i wanted to thank our staff for spending so much time around the clock. i'm not only peter from my staff, but jeff from supervisor wiener's office who has been so wonderful to work with. jeremy from supervisor avalos's office that has been working on this for over a year, maybe a year and a half. and yoyo chen from supervisor ma lely a cohen's office. but we are fortunate to have such great staff ~ to help with crafting a very tricky measure to hopefully place on the november ballot. i also wanted to say that the advice from the number of nonprofits has been really instrumental not only the shape up s.f. coalition both supervisor wiener and i recently visited and they had their kickoff last week for

their bill board and bus campaign on sugary drinks, but also the department of public health staff, university of california san francisco, ucsf, san francisco health improvement partnership, especially arial vargas who has been a great community asset in building broader alliances, especially in low-income communities. and i also just wanted to say on the national level besides ucsf the center for science and the public interest, the california center for public health advocacy, harold goldstein and others, and roberta friedman and kelly from the yale rec center for food policy and obesity have been really great advisors. i also wanted to say on supervisor avalos's introduction to hearing on the children's fund i hope i can be added as a co-sponsor as well. and i know that from your work with coleman and margaret's efforts over now 23 years ago with the original prop j which

i was strongly supported in the richmond district from 1991 when norman yee led the campaign for the re-authorization, i believe in 2000, right, norman? that it's been a community-based effort. so, my hope is that dcyf, the school district, the mayor's office really join together with the grassroots community coalition that's been working on that. and for the prop h or the public enrichment public education enrichment fund or piece propses to tom ammiano for his vision on that one ten years ago and that also needs more transparencies as the community coalition around schools and children and families organizationses need to be centrally involved. so, i'm looking forward to that dialogue as well. >> thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor mar. before we go to supervisor cohen, we'll go to supervisor yee. >> thank you, madam -- thank you, madam clerk, for allowing me to speak again.

i also would like to co-sponsor with supervisor avalos the hearing on the children's [speaker not understood] piece. like supervisor kim and supervisor mar, we all have been working on these issues for a very long, long time. and for myself, it's been decades of working around these issues. and i'm very passionate about these issues. there's been several efforts and many discussions around these two initiatives in the last year or so, and if we're going to consolidate or start having one point of view, we need to pull the discussions together as soon as possible in a very transparent way. so, i'm very happy to be able to, if i can, co-sponsor with supervisor avalos to do this hearing.

at this point, it's -- will be crucial that whatever decisions we make not everybody is going to be fully behind this because it's too big of an issue to -- for us to not have a thorough discussion. the other thing i wanted to mention, i've been notified and also supervisor tang with both of us, we were discussing this earlier that once again another pedestrian was killed today. so, it happens to be actually in district 4 and one block from my district. at some point supervisor tang and i will be asking for a hearing to discuss that intersection. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor cohen.

>> thank you very much. first, everyone, i just want to say happy black history month to you. it's a wonderful time of the year and we get together and we celebrate the art and the culture and the richness of the african-american community. i recently read an article in the chronicle that really gave me a heavy heart. it talked about how here in save some time black history month isn't as celebrated as it should be. so, i just wanted to take a moment and acknowledge that supervisor breed is going to be leading the board meeting in a few weeks acknowledging black history month. a great many activities that are free and open to the public, and if you're interested you can contact my office or supervisor breed's office and we're happy to share information with you. there are many things to discuss today. first, i also want to acknowledge supervisor mar and scott, supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and just collectively the amount of time and energy that we have put

into bringing a critical ballot measure to you, to the people of san francisco for consideration. and, you know, it's going to be a lot of discussion around it for many months and i hope that you will listen with a open ear and more importantly an open heart and begin to ask yourselves some critical questions because from my perspective, the reason i'm supporting this initiative, it gets down -- it's a life or death decision. when you look at the numbers as to who is being adversely affected by the target or affected by the targeted advertisement from the sugar beverage, it is largely the african-american community and there are many, many studies here, the study right here, sugar sweetened beverages and incidents of type 2 diabetes in african-american women. the studies go on and on. with that said, i also want to acknowledge that supervisor campos introduced a piece, a

resolution acknowledging -- what is it, february as women's health month. and this is really interesting. at first i have to be honest you with, i took offense to it because i thought my goodness february is black history month and now this is exactly what people are talking about when they live in san francisco of african-american descent and still constantly under attack, under appreciated and just not acknowledged. and that was my initial -- my initial response. the second thing that i thought about was, here's an opportunity to bridge two very, very important and critical topics together and talk about the health about women. so, i'm happy to be a part of women's history and health month. i also would like to make an announcement that black hiv and aids awareness day is going to be february 7th. for more information please contact my office. it's going to be at 6:00 p.m.

in front of city hall. there is going to be a public address. if you're able and around and interested please come out and hear about the advocacy and more importantly the work that needs to continue to be done. i also learned about stu's untimely death this morning. ironically on facebook. and i got to know stu on the campaign trail. this was an incredible man. this was just a giant. my heart goes out to dave, his partner. with that said, i also like to submit one more in memoriam for a gentleman who was also a giant here in san francisco. his name was willie payne. willie hunter pain was born december 19, 1924, he passed away january 29th of this year at the tender age of 89. he he was surrounded by loving family. he was the husband of the late ruby lee payne and the father of janet thomas beverly [speaker not understood].

he was the loving grandfather of five and the great grandfather of two. and he's survived by the large extended family filled with grandchildren, nieces and nephews. but more importantly willie served his country in united states air force during world war ii and worked with the city and county of san francisco as a municipal railway bus operator for over 25 years, 25 years he dedicated his life. so, his going home service is going to be thursday, february 6th from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at duke and sarah mortuary. the address is 500 westlake avenue. he will be having a funeral on friday, february 7th at 11:00 a.m. at providence baptist church in the bayview. that address is 1601 mckennan. madam clerk and mr. president, the rest i submit. thank you for your time. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam clerk.

briefly, i forgot to mention something about the ordinance regarding tenant relocation assistance. and it's something actually that supervisor kim alluded to and talked about in her presentation. as you know, tenants advocates and the tenant community in san francisco has been holding a number of conventions throughout the city in different neighborhoods which conventions will be culminating with a city-wide convention that will take place this saturday, february 8th. and what i want to note is that one of the ideas that has been a recurring theme at each one of these neighborhood conventions is the issue of enhancing increasing tenant relocation. i know supervisor kim talked about the south of market tenderloin convention. i know, for instance, we were both [speaker not understood] and i know in the castro tenant convention there were dozens of ideas that were put forward.

the most popular was actually the idea of increasing relocation costs. and i think the reason for its popularity is the fact that it is really the most immediate thing. [speaker not understood] we need to change the ellis act. in the meantime unless we make it so that relocation costs are sufficient for people to live in san francisco, you're not going to have a lot of people remain in san francisco who are being evicted. and i forgot to thank the tenant advocates who have been working with my office on this piece of legislation, including the tenants shallv union, casa justa and the housing rights committee and there are so many others. and the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk, for rereferring me. i did neglect to thank a couple people. i agree with supervisor mar that this would not have been possible getting us this far without our legislative aides

and jeff kreton in my office has been a yeoman's work in helping to move us forward with peter lauderborn and yoyo chen. our aides make us look good and do just incredible work so i'm very grateful to jeff in my office. i also want to thank the deputy city attorney, carol brewer who did phenomenal work putting this legislation together. we have done some very innovative things in this legislation, including language to make sure that the money generated for health and nutrition, physical activity programs funds new additional programs and isn't used to backfill existing money. and, so, carol and her colleagues -- my former colleagues in the city attorney's office -- did some very creative thinking around this legislation. i'm very appreciative for that. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. all of those items will be appropriately referred and, mr. president, that concludes roll call for introductions. >> thank you.

colleagues, we have one 2:30 special commendation i'd like to acknowledge supervisor kim and thank you for your patience as well as the patience of your honoree. >> i'd like to thank the patience of our honoree today. our office was brainstorming. we thought it's really good as i mentioned before to put a face behind the legislation. and when i mentioned individuals that were going to benefit from the passage of fair chance act, i thought it was good to honor folks that already before this legislation passed [speaker not understood], already put in place and employment practices here in our city. in particular in district 6. i wanted to bring up two businesses that have been role models that we would get advice and support from throughout this process that have been banning the box previously already because they believe in giving a fair chance to all individuals who want to work and are qualified to work. first i want to bring up brian king who represents the winery on treasure island