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

>> ladies and gentlemen, we're back from our closed session. colleagues could have a motion not to disclose what we discussed in the closed session. seconded by supervisor mar. without objection the motion passes not to disclose the information. and with that, madam clerk, why don't we go to our adoption calendar. >> items 24-27 are consideration for immediate adoption and a role call may adopt these and if a member object, it could be ruled separately. >> supervisor reed, do you want us to server these items. >> yes, 24.

>> on the balance, madam clerk, call the role. >> items 25-26, >> cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor avalos. >> aye. >> supervisor breed. >> aye. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor chiu. >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. the motions approved. item 24. that's urging the slate legislature to pass amendment and overturn recruitment to state higher education. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you, colleagues. i had small clerical amendments to the resolution. it was passed out

to you all earlier today. the change clarify the minority enrollment figures and i've given copies to the clerks so you have should them. thank you for your support. when i introduced it last week, we were at the end of our rope and tired but i appreciate your support in moving this forward. with that, i'll ask for support for the item. thank you. >> president chiu. supervise campos. >> i just want to make a couple of points of why i think it's important for us to be clear about our support for affirmative action. the reality that san francisco has always led the way on a number of issues when it comes

to civil rights, and i think that to the extent that there are legal questions about what is admissible and i think the case law considers consideration of race here, and that it is important that san francisco be at the forefront of pushing the envelope when it comes to insuring equal opportunity for everyone. and we have done that on a number of issues and we have done that when it comes to protecting our statute and done that with same sex marriage, but we haven't been afraid to push the envelope and saying this is the right thing to do because we want to protect people's rights and i think it is one of those cases where i do believe that san francisco has an obligation to be clear about what were we stand and to make sure we don't buy into the discourse that

equal opportunity translates to discrimination. you cannot address the long history of discrimination that has been a fact of life in this country without taking affirmative steps to remedy that. that's what this piece of -- what this resolution does and unfortunately, i think some have bought into the device way in which the right wing has talked about affirmative action and has bought into this idea that affirmative action somehow means quoto which is far from the truth. the more problematic this becomes which is why i think this is important that this resolution, the way it was rin making it clear and puts the city on the record on this important issue. >> thank you. president chiu. >> thank you mr. chair. i want to take a moment and thank you

president breed and i join in support of this resolution. i've supported affirmative action for my entire life and these are policies that have helped all of our diverse community. in 1996 i was on the committee working to defend affirmative action against the author of prop 209 and like supervisor kim, i worked for the civil right law that fights -- >> we know it helped diversify our work schools and work opportunities and benefited all of our communities. while speaker perez decided to take time to build more consensus, i agree we should move forward with an amendment to reverse prop 209 with regard to higher education. opponents sta 5 tried to acquaint this measure s

with affirmative quo toes. and it's not about quo toes which i don't think any of us have supported and the state states that quo toes are unconstitutional. we need to bring people together on this issue, to educate our communities that diversity for all helps us all. we simultaneously need to have a conversation about how to deliver on the broader problem on the higher education for our diverse community. as we move forward, we have to work together to build support for what will be a challenging conversation. >> thank you, supervisor breed. >> thank you. i appreciate your comments, president chiu, and supervisor campos. as you know this is extremely important and the problem i have with affirmative

action is even the mention of quota. it's clear -- i outlined that in the resolution and that was upheld in the court system and at that time it was made clear that quota and affirmative action are two different things and i think you're right, we need to bring our communities together and make it clear because this is really challenging. there are universities that are truly what i would not consider diverse. one of the comments mentioned to me by the person who is in charge of the gospel choir at uc davis, they're diverse and mostly african americans but still a very diverse fun experience for all of us and now there's, i think, one

african american in the gospel choir at uc davis. that shows us that there's a real problem in our university systems and it's important that we take a strong stance because san francisco has always led the way with regard of diversity. when we think about our history and the civil rights movement and the doors that african americans has opened for other minorities. the fights we've had with housing and the school district and the consent decree and all of these things have made it better not just for african americans. it has made it better for other minority groups and it has made it better for our city. when we have these discussions around affirmative action and being inclusive, it can't began with a divide and