children and teenagers. and we've seen the injustice of the nra backed stand your ground laws in over 22 states that have those laws on the books. and we need people like robin to continue to fight for us, fight for our families, and we all deserve to live in communities free from gun violence and the fear of that for our children as well. robin, i really want to thank you for all of your efforts on behalf of san francisco families, but for representativing our city on the national stage to really tell people what we stand for, but also fighting for a value and an issue that he we all care about and have talked about for so long. and thank you for being just an awesome district 2 resident. so, thank you for being here. (applause) >> thank you, mark. and thank you so much to the board of supervisors for having this day to recognize women in our community. it's really inspiring to hear the stories of what women are

doing in our community who take on so many difficult issues and so many issues that require the hope and faithfulness [speaker not understood]. there are problems that aren't going to be solved overnight. they're issues that we have to be commit today change over time and what that means and what that takes. it is a very challenging issue to deal with on the national level. 30,000 people are killed, 100,000 shot every year in this country, and almost nothing is being done. but one of the things that helps me to be able to do it and to keep the faith is getting to work with city councils like this one. having the opportunity to work with courageous leaders who aren't intimidated by the threats of special interests who have done cutting edge work to address this problem. we've worked with the board of supervisors in the past to introduce really innovative legislation that then has led the way to innovative legislation in the state of california and california has really created a model of what is possible when there is political will and there is courage in the political arena.

and gun violence in california has dropped by 56% in the last 20 years that we have been doing this work. so, that's a really hopeful thing to realize and something that really keeps us going even when we hit against all those obstacles. obviously it's still not enough because people are dying every day and when sandy hook happened i think we all for a moment had to stop and realize what's really at stake here. i have a seven-year old so for me it really always has been personal, and became even more personal. i certainly am not giving up and i know that this courageous group of legislators is not going to give up. and i think inevitably over time this is a problem that does have solutionses and we know what those solutions are and we're absolutely committed to making that [speaker not understood] and doing the work. i'm grateful every day i live in this city so when i go to washington and it's difficult and painful, i can come back here where it is a very different reality and where we can talk about those solutions in a really honest and open and

i think rational way. so, thank you so much for this honor. thank you for honoring the women in this city and just thank you for being a city that we can be really proud of on this issue. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor farrell. and our last presentation, certainly not the least, from our district 1 colleague from

the richmond, supervisor mar. (applause) >> thank you, chair. nancy fisher rodriguez, the chair of the [speaker not understood] and dr. emilie [speaker not understood] and the whole commission and the staff for bringing this to us every year. as i struggled with a number of other district 1 richmond district leader and my staff to come up with an honoree, i'll just say i thought about the history of international women's day, march 8 every year, that's coming up on saturday, and the month that's culling that we will be celebrating this whole month, i tried to think of somebody that represented the history of the 105 years celebrating the struggle of women garment workers in new york city in honoring them, but also organizing as a key vehicle for social change. our honoree kind of represents that. as a father, i thought about my

struggle on understanding my daughters inequality as a woman and as a girl and a female in society. i think my honoree or our honoree really represents helping men and boys understand power and how to disrupt patterns of inequality and sexism. and she represents the best of teaching and engaging people for that. i also thought of all the women's organizations and caucuses that emerged from [speaker not understood] committee, organizations like [speaker not understood] or the chinese progressive association which i learned about international women's day or we used to call it international working women's day in the '80s. and i think my honoree represents supporting building up organizations and caucuses of women and alliances with general organizations in challenging institutional secondism. i want to say she is an amazing

example of a leader from the richmond district. she is the co-chair of jobs with justice s.f., she is also the co-chair of the women caucus in the california faculty association and the president of the california faculty association at san francisco state, and a tremendous leader that works behind the scenes in many ways to really empower women, students, and others in educational struggles throughout the state and in our city. she grew up in the boston area. you might hear that in her slight accent and she's here today with her husband rick claymore and friends from the outer richmond, karen mcnulty and others. she moved to the bear after college about the same time i did in the early '80s. ~ she's lived in the richmond for 30 years, and she's been a mom of a great daughter

gabriella as well. [speaker not understood]. i draw strength and lessons from her by often watching her work. we first met in the '90s when we struggled to transform a college called new collectv to be more representative of the work force and lectures and teachers he and students as well and community ~. but i've seen how in the classroom at san francisco state in her classes where she is an expert in health equity, medical anthropology, human sexuality, and new social movements but she's really great at teaching students, men and women becoming empowered to make change in our communities. as the president of the california faculty association, she's always been so supporting of nurturing a new generation of leaders from the bottom up. lectures like us often learn in a power structure where the tenured professor has power. she has always built a union and community labor allianceses

that address power inequalities to make sure our organizations are empowering everyone. she is a registered nurse and i should call her dr. tully because she received her ph.d. from ucsf berkeley in anthropology as well. (applause) >> she uses the best [speaker not understood] and empowering education to really give people the tools to change history and change their condition. she teaches courses on social justice, gender sexuality, race, racism, and [speaker not understood], social class, latin america and solidarity with people around the world and feminist anthropology. she's a long-time builder of organizations, not only the women's caucus in the california faculty association at the state level, but also of the alliance for humane technology, the rt green sun for labor culture and history and she's also i think one of the most significant voices of an emerging voice of women within our san francisco labor

council as well. she co-chairs the executive [speaker not understood] of justice and mentors young people at san francisco state and throughout the state every day. it's my honor celebrating international women's day, but also kind of our honorees for making women making history ceremony. sheila tully. (applause) >> thank you all again, everyone, for this award. it's really an honor. i wanted to tell you -- i love san francisco. i came to san francisco on vacation and i went home and told my parents that i was moving there as soon as i could save up enough money. i'm the oldest of 8 in an irish catholic family and we don't move across the country after your vacation. [laughter] >> but i did. and when i got here, one of the things i learned was you had to

make a new family here in san francisco. and i tried to do that through all of my work. i loved the richmond district also where i lived for 30 years. 2-1/2 years ago, the week my daughter graduated from school of the arts, we were served an eviction notice in an owner move-in eviction. it was the worst day of my life. it ranks right up there with the day my father died. it was devastating. we were lucky that we found a place in the inner richmond, but we pay $900 more a month and i don't make -- i didn't get a raise for five years. what's -- and i remember as we walked up and down the stairs carrying 30 years of mostly junk, i remember thinking of all the precinct walking, of all the neighborhood meetings, of all the pizza nights that we had on 35th avenue and i remember thinking, none of that

matters. nothing that i value matters because all that matters is that you have enough money to buy a house and to have some security. and i just want to thank this board for the work that you're doing around the housing crisis, but i want to implore you to do more and to work faster. (applause) >> we have a great place. i love the inner richmond, but i don't have a neighborhood. it took me 30 years to make that neighborhood and i probably don't have 30 more years left to make a new one. so, please, this crisis is really, really serious and my students are commuting from merced, from modesto, from sacramento, and they come to san francisco state to be in san francisco. so, it has a huge, huge impact across the city. i'm so honored to be here and i'm really honored to live in san francisco. thank you.

[cheering and applauding] (applause) >> thank you, supervisor mar. that concludes our commendations for today. but i'd like to recognize dr. emilie ross from the department

on the status of women to make some closing remarks. >> thank you very much, president chiu. many thanks to the supervisors and to the hon he res for that amazing presentation. ~ i was especially pleased this year you recognized sandy, long-time mentor of mine who introduced me to the status on the commission of women and to [speaker not understood] who taught me everything i know about being a department head. i want to recognize my staff, associate director carol sako who really worked very hard with your legislative aids to make today happen. she was here earlier, but i really want to recognize her. before closing, i wanted to share with you some very exciting news. as you know, in 1998 san francisco became the first city in the world to enact a local ordinance reflecting the principles of the u.n. convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, an international bill of rights for women. that the u.s. has not yet ratified and is the only industrialized country not to

do so. so, this landmark ordinance was made possible by a group of san francisco women who attended the fourth u.n. world conference on women in beijing in 1995. so, believe it or not, next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the beijing conference. so, to commemorate the beijing platform for action, san francisco has been asked to serve as the peer leader to launch cities for ceda a national campaign to promote ceda. the campaign will be formally launched next week in new york at meetings related to the u.n. commission on the status of women. president nancy kirchner rodriguez, [speaker not understood] and i will be in new york for that launch. you will be hearing more about this campaign in the coming months. at this time i'd like to invite the honorees, their families and friends and eventually the supervisors to join us at a reception in the mayor's conference room. there the mayor's office and the district attorney will

recognize their honorees and the commission on the status of women will present all of the honorees with women's history month resolutions. thank you so much. (applause) >> thank you very much. what i'd like to do, colleagues, is to take a two-minute recess to give the room an opportunity to clear. unfortunately we still have a lot more business 500s to be done. so, if i could ask folks to leave quietly and we will start up in about two minutes. [gavel]

>> tuesday, march 4, 2014. thank you very much, madam clerk. why don't we now go to general

public comment. >> at this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including item 30, whether or not the board should enter into closed session with the labor negotiators and on the immediate adoption calendar. please note that public comment is not allowed on those item which have already been subject to public comment by a board committee. 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 of time to testify and if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector please clearly state such to sfgov-tv and remove the goctiontion youthv ~ document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> thank you. the first speaker, if i could ask the deputy to close the outer doors, that would be much appreciated. if we could ask the deputy

sheriffs if you're able to close the front door, that would be great. okay, why don't we get started. first speaker. thank you, mr. president. members of the [speaker not understood], my name is christopher doll. i live on howard street about sea level plus 40 feet. i rise to continue my comments on balance on personal balance on the balance between calories and sweat. the american economy is facing the steepest and deepest fiscal cliff ever. we are going to have to pay for the american obesity epidemic. we do face bankruptcy dealing with this, with or without president obama's health care initiative. we still have a lot of work to do. the health trends are not slipping the right way, and how

do we he change this? we can do it the american way. ~ we can pay good money for it. we can offer financial rewards directly to individuals for achieving simple fitness goals. the assumption being that if the individual can achieve these goals, they are reducing their burden on the health care system. goals like holding a plank. it's a yoga move. climbing two flights of stairs, walking 200 meters in a given length of time. these rewards would be small, possibly no more than $400 per year per person, totaling a mere $12 billion of national level. funds not awarded would be supplemental health insurance for all. funds rewarded -- awarded to adults would be available immediately and funds awarded

to children would be invested in u.s. index funds and released at age 18 to the recipient providing all healthy children with a nice little stake for their future and thank you very much, mr. president. >> thank you very much. let's hear from our next speaker. thank you so much, board of supervisors. thats was actually a wonderful and inspiring event that just happened in terms of honoring some of our local heroes. i think many of us forget that we each have a hero in us and to understand these stories and people coming from -- having just been ordinary people who are compelled into action, it's really, really inspiring. very briefly i want to say my name is madelein [speaker not understood]. i founded folks for polk one year ago this month. in the face of some very, very nasty -- very nasty vitriole

around polk street initiative. i'm very pleased to say there has been wonderful progress. but as of the other day it's become horribly apparent that some of the people who did stop the progress on polk street are still very active and still sabre rattling. i sustained a hip fracture while cycling in a protected bike lane and continue to visit some of the merchants that i know. and one of them became very nasty he called me some things that were extraordinarily inappropriate and mesoganistic. he leaned toward me and threatened to knock me over. this is still very much present and it's very much in the conversation what happens with our street initiatives, polk being one emblematic example. i want to urge the board to stay strong in the face of these people. we've had the pleasure of

actually bringing on board all the majority who have found common cause, the rare majority in the corner being chinese americans and others who are not usually heard in these debates, and they stand four square in favor of progress and the best for the future. i urge again all the board members to stand strong when they receive what's called push back. i call it uncivil discourse. and we have to just be advocates for the future in our city. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. supervisors, good afternoon. i welcome this opportunity to speak here to an empty room. i'm going to put you back into

a reality check here. san francisco is a fine city to live in. if you got a fat paycheck from city hall or you're a young engineer. for the rest of us like taxi drivers, the taxi business is collapsing under you. buildings are burning down, companies are going bankrupt while you sit here and tell us it's not your problem. you've over regulated the industry or you left the sfmta do it. no taxi driver that i know of lives in san francisco. he can't afford to live here. i bring that to you. in the past 24 to 36 months, while the uber take over, you've done absolutely nothing. we have one dead victim. we mostly likely have more to

come. but i tell you this emphatically, the taxi business in san francisco is in a state of collapse because the income is collapsing per driver. 5 to 7,000 drivers in this city aren't making enough to pay their bills. i leave you at that and the letter that i dropped off to the board of supervisors clerk letting you know that there's only one solution to this problem, and that's the san francisco taxi director's post. i thank you for your time. >> thanks. next speaker. sir, do you need some assistance?

if you could please speak into the microphone so we can hear you. i don't know, i'll ask our clerk to assist you and let's get going right now. no video and no audio, sfgov-tv. i'm inspired by the stories i heard today. i read with bewilderment [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] devices unregulated by federal authorities. because of the secondhand smoke electronic cigarettes would be banned in places which include city parks. what is perplexing is that supervisor mar and co-sponsor supervisor avalos are leading advocates for introducing [speaker not understood] rubber

particulates in synthetic fuels in san francisco parks. hundreds of tons of particles that even manufacturers and suppliers acknowledge over 20% is material that the state of california is determined cause cancer. the styrene butadine [speaker not understood]. i support the supervisor's position of protecting the welfare of children in the public, also enthusiastically support the work of advocacy groups like america scores which has made the wise commitment of only using synthetic turf which will not pose a risk to children's health. unfortunately the styrene butte a dine installation currently under construction without any opposition from this body pose a very real public health risk. later today when you discuss the repercussion of sugar sweetened beverages and gambling awareness resolution, it would be worthwhile to keep in mind the gray gamble the

city is taking in when it continues unabated with styrene butte a dane [speaker not understood] projects. projects whose current glaring lack of transparency [speaker not understood] time in the process of being adjudicated in the superior courts of california. it's not too late to speak up before users of these deals become symptomatic. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. good afternoon, board of supervisors. i'm here to speak on behalf of placing a name of former mayor and govern james rolph on the san francisco oakland's bay bridge. i have a headline here from february 25, 1932, yerba buena [speaker not understood] bay bridge given to rolph with ceremony. the article reads, into the hands of governor rolph, [speaker not understood] granting the state of california authority to erect

complete and operate the great bridge over yerba buena island. i accept this in the name of the people of california, the governor said, as very [speaker not understood] commander of the 12th naval district handed over [speaker not understood]. this is a memorable day the governor pointed out. it marks an epic [speaker not understood] in the san francisco harbor. this [speaker not understood] bay bridge region more closely together and work to the mutual benefit of all. [speaker not understood] and brings new hope and confidence in our state. and, of course, that was at the time of the great depression when hope and confidence was somewhat lacking in those days. it was a tremendously morale boosting event. this was not the beginning of the bridge, it was the permission to build the bridge. and it was granted by the navy as to the federal government because the navy had always

been opposed to having a bridge [speaker not understood] took a lot of effort to get this done. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. and let me ask if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment, please step up. you can if youth up on the projector. i realize that i'm not compelled to be here. you probably would rather i'm not here. but there is a scripture where jesus mentioned that you would be brought before governors and kings for his name's sake and they will turn to you for a testimony against them. and not to worry about what you're going to say because it will be given in that hour what to speak. your father will speak through you. and today i believe the lord would have me talk about a young man that came to christ, the rich young ruler and he knelt down before him. he ran to him and he knelt down before him and he said, what