submit. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you madam clerk. i wanted to wish everybody well for the week of the young child. this is a week in which nationally we celebrate the young child, and for those who are planning to walk to work on friday and want to get some exercise before that to make sure that you can make the walk, i would invite all of you to join us in front of city hall steps here on poke on thursday joining over 400 people from zero -- they'll advocate for quality services that they're participating and many are on the list to get into programs

especially those who are low income. like i said, if you want to practice walking and having a bunch of little kids around you, please join us. also on sunday, if anybody is available, we're going to be recognizing over 200 people from the early education care field and that's sunday. >> thank you supervisor yee. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you madam clerk. i have a hearing on police of forces. it involves officer involved shooting on barrel hill. a young person who i knew named alice and he was 28 years old. there was

use of force, one on camera by a resident. a member of the public showing a police officer taking his hand off his night stick, making a fist and then punching someone. you couldn't see who was on the ground, being held on ground by three police officers. it shows that this happens from time to time and there's a great deal of work we need to have to have an effective police program and build trust between members of the public and the police department. it was really surprising because these events were people who were victims where people i knew and it makes me feel how wide spread the problem can be. fundamental to our policing effort is

making sure there's real trust that can be developed and these incidents erode that trust. police mounted cameras are some of the fastest innovations -- growing innovations in law enforcement, and there are major cities around the country that are implementing body cameras, new york, los angeles, denver, indianapolis, san diego and new orleans. this practice is gaining support both among law enforcement and police watch dog groups as well. many police support these cameras because they can help protect police officers against false accusations, watch dog groups support police body cameras because they can reduce incidents of police misconduct. the aclu support it because it allows the public monitoring of the government instead of the other way around. in rialto california, they worked with cambridge to do a study of

the effectiveness on officer camera. the use of force has decreased by 59 percent when the body cameras in space. the complaints decreased by 85 percent. just to commute with chief today, he says he's working to equip plain clothed officer 85 percent. just to commute with chief today, he says he's working to equip plain clothed officer with cameras, but he says funding it is cost prohibitive. i'm calling for a hearing to review this issue. and in addition to the police department, i'm requesting that the controller help with conducting a cost benefit analysis to compare the cost of the cameras with potential savings from reduced citizens complaints and the lawsuits. i'm requesting to have funding that might come

from homeland security. the last inquiry will go to the police department and dem and exploring mounting police are body cameras and a cost analysis. the intent to make sure that we can actually have a type of police enforcement that's going to build trust between the police officer and community. the events that have happened recently have erode that trust. things that are happening in the mission district where i've been attending that a family of arito and a peaceful events and there's threats that the police department and the police officers association say they're receiving from anonymous people that's related to the community that is angered by the incident of police -- of the officer

involved shooting. it's important that we find tools and measures that can actually reverse the trend of distrust that's happening, i believe, these could be the use of body police cameras can help and i want to see if we can explore that through our police department and the controllers office. thank you colleagues. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you very much. >> thank you madam clerk. i have a couple of items. the first item is a resolution that i'm introducing declaring april to be immigrant family month here in san francisco. i want to thank supervisor avalos, kim, tang, and mar for their co-sponsorship. as we know immigrant families play a continued role in shaping the neighborhood's history, economy, culture and politics. the presence of these families is what makes

our city so unique and vibrant. 36 percent of san francisco's population is foreign born and 54 ers about of san francisco's children have at least one immigrant parent. to provide context in terms of what's happening to immigrants out there, unfortunately april of this year, this month, the obama administration will hit the 2 million mark in deportations which is actually pretty staggering number and higher than what the prior president certainly can claim in terms of the number of deportations. as a city that has historically been a beacon for citizens rights, we need to show the vitality of

the immigrants. ask -- and this celebrates the immigrants. in april, the immigration and ss island has gathered immigrants and diverse immigrants. this event will take place april 15th and we want to thank ssf island and the coordinate anett wong for organizing the event. i want to take the opportunity to talk about something that we will be introducing in the next week or so. we have been working with the san francisco heritage in the mayor's office to develop a resolution to designate lower 24th street as a cultural district. this

is an effort that will be the first step in protecting the latino businesses and cultural institutions that enrich the contributions that our immigrants have made to this city. the last and brief item i have is to ask -- to close the meeting in the memory of john jack casey. i know that supervisor kim is joining me in this -- in the memorial. he's the husband and father of the amazing family. he leaves behind his three children, kathleen, dennis, and michael whom we know as mike casey. the president of local two and the labor council. jack casey

leaves behind his wife barbara. in 1975 when public employees in the central valley won the right to collectively bargain, jack casey organized tens of thousands of those employees that worked for the schools, including bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and other non factuality workers. he organized them into a union. his wife barbara was a union stewart for the california employee association and it's clear that they both left a very important mark on their children because we are all aware of the amazing work that their son mike has done and continues to do as the local two. as president of the labor council, so i would ask that we adjourn the meeting in the memory of jack casey today. thank you.

>> thank you supervisor campos. >> mr. president that concludes role for business. >> why don't we go to general public comment. >> the public may comment up to two minutes on items within the subject matter including item 23 whether the board should into closed session. in addition to the items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. police note public comment is not allowed on those items that have been subject to public comment by a board committee. direct to the board as a whole and not to individual members. those using translation systems will be allowed more time. remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> let's hear from the first speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm peter, executive director of

library user's association. we'd like to ask you to hold a hearing on library priorities and practices and policies and finances. last week, this board, you, made a historically disaster decision about the library approving without any questions, funding for a new and untested program whose impact is to destroy immediate patron impact to bound magazines. you through your privatization and the library began work on this project in december 2013. four months prior to your approval. now, let's look at the library funds. the libraries budget in the last available

year for the public library data service which is a statistical report from the public library association, that expenditure was triple, three times the average library serving a similar number of people. 92 million verses 30 million. the libraries reserved, that's unexpended money allocated to them basically through the set asides in the preservation funds and that stands at $18 million plus. the library doesn't need the friends of the san francisco public library for which this project is the next big fundraising thing. instead the friends who have kept more than 90 percent of what they have raised in the years of 2000 to 2013, they need the library. and for them, this is their big

opportunity for fundraising. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. i have a viewing. when the giants come to town, it's bye bye baby. when the giants come to town, it's bye bye baby. but when the giants come to town, bye bye baby. [singing]. i'm a lucky city fellow and i got to tell you that my city is kind of wild and free. because love grows in this city

i go and know and nobody knows like me. [singing]. i know you're going to do swell and your property, you're going to have to sell it, and you'll make some money and you'll get the city key, because love grows in the city, i go and know and even they know. is it something about this city divine, and you make it through shine. remember give it the city dime and you're lucky guys and fellows, girls and fellows, and i got to tell you, that you're city's kind of wild

and free. because love grows in the city we know and we're going to make it happen wait and see. >> i have a picture for public viewing. sfgtv. >> good afternoon supervisors and president chiu. i'm here on behalf of myself. i'm a resident at 909 gary at the heartland. there's seniors, 70 percent of the building is seniors. they came there broke, hungry and homeless. now they're convenient, the elevator has been down since march 4th. we're into april 8th. i'm here

asking for all supervisors to use their powers along with the mayor of the city of san francisco to have these tenants compensated $16.50 per day sense the elevator has been down. the building inspector has stepped in. they have a hearing coming up on april 10th. they have dinged the building unsafe and a public nuisance. they are considering it on april 10th. i don't know which way it's going to go. if it go the right way, that's fine. if it go the right way, it's going to be a major displacement. so i'm calling on all supervisors and the mayor of city of san francisco to use his powers to see that -- these tenants are compensated for the

inconvenience. you have tenants in wheelchairs that hasn't been out of their room since march 4th. they haven't been able to meet their doctors appointed or do their laundry. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is lanette. we're here in support of the resolution that supervisor campos mentioned a minute ago for immigration month and i want to give those a chance to introduce themselves. >> good afternoon. my name is [inaudible]. >> good afternoon, supervisor being e -- good afternoon supervisors and i'm maria. >> good afternoon, and i'm with the national source center. >> good afternoon, my name is

terry valan with the filipino center. >> we want to offer your gratitude for introducing the development. we have been around since 2006 and we're funded by the city of san francisco to provide low housing for those in san francisco. we have provided services to over 20,000 san francisco resident in the last 20 years. as supervisor campos, immigrants has been a rich part of san francisco's history and we are here to support the resolution to commemorate immigrant family month and to recognize the culture of food and art and music, but also to the contributions of political advocacy in the shaping of the politics of san francisco and also the

y -- economy of our city. there has been contributions, there's a lot of issues facing immigrant problems. you've talked about underemployment and all these things impact us a great deal, so we urge the passage of this resolution as a way to recognize and celebrate our history as a city and also to remind us that we as a city are committed to immigrant families so thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you very much mr. president. my name is christopher and i live at 6th and howard. i rise to comment on last week's climate

report from the united nations. reporters and analyst characterized this report as or the consequences as horrible and horrendous. i think it's pacifying. within 50 years, billions of people will die prematurely if we don't fix this problem permanently within 20 years. the reality is that no solutions offered by any one else will do anything more than slow the rate of growth of carbon up load. they would never bring that rate of growth to zero much less deal with the over load we've already got. and they would need everyone to get a new house, a new car, and new power plant and new air planes. that's a lot of new stuff. it just won't happen. the reality is the most comfortable solution is more

trees, all you need from more trees is fresh water and all you need for more fresh water is more carbon free energy. remember, free energy, free water, new trees and if i could get the overhead, please. this will fit as i didn't get it last week. thank you very much mr. president. >> tom gillburg. i had a prolog. for 25 years one of the precious drops that i've had in the ability to slide out of this chair onto a mat and have the enjoyment of a major blessing of dropping into a pool outdoors, and playing in

water for an hour and ten to an hour and 20 minutes. it has kept me healthy. wonderful. what's happened last fall, early fall in september was i was in the pool and i was not -- nothing was happening. i know you didn't get beyond the warm upstage. after 40 minutes i was out of the pool. that evening on the news, it was despair the air day, so i didn't bother going. then what happened in the prolog is 72 towns men started construction and what happened at construction is 7:00 a.m. in the morning to 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 at night, the noise and you close your doors and it keeps the dust out. and i had two

broken legs and the dead bolt of that had a tennis elbow and shoulder that's still suffering. then the winter came with the drought. but the winter also came in the first time in 40 years of my living here with 30 plus days of spare the air. and i have a reference point from that episode in the pool. what happens this are is despair the air is bad air. and it's bad for bicycle riders and joggers and high school kids running up and down playing basketball. renovation and heating is going to be important in thissy -- city and we need to function that. they can be made quietly. and we need to -- we have to live smart and

with that said, i'm looking forward to being back again. thank you. >> if i was to say to you tomorrow it's going to rain, it would be a 50/50 percent chance it would happen. if i said it's going to rain at 9:00 a.m., that would be impossible. if i said it's going to rain at 9:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 that's a proficiency. when we deal with proficiency concerns the lord jesus christ and his crucifixion and resurrection, these are written down not just a day before it happened, but hundreds of years before it happened. jesus said we go to jerusalem and those written

concerned by the son of man and he gave eight different details written down hundreds of years before it occurred by the profits about his crucifixion. one, he'll be delivered to the gentiles. two, he'll be mocked ask three, spitted on. discouraged and put to death and rise again the third day. as christ spoke before the high priest, we have the veil ripped away in isiah chapter. jesus spoke through isiah. let us stand together. who is my adversity. satan's name is -- when soloman prayed

that the wicked is condemned. when he was caught committed adulty, he was guilty. most people aren't guilt of adultry or guilty of murder, but in the sight of god -- >> are there any other members who wish to speak on public comment. public comment is closed. members let's go to our closed session item. >> madam clerk. >> item 23 is the board is on closed session with the mayor's office and human resources regarding negotiations with labor unions regarding city employees.

>> do we have a motion? >> we have a motion. let me take -- make sure there's no public comment on whether we should go to closed session. seeing none, why don't we go into closed session and do that without objection.