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longer-term homelessness. the coalition on homelessness where sxhaurlz leadership it gave us a better research but especially to supervisor farrell's leadership as well thank you >> thank you a role call vote. >> on that motion supervisor tang. no. supervisor yee. supervisor wiener. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. there are 10 i's and one no. the motion is passed. and with that colleagues, we
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still have 4, 3:00 p.m. special orders with the agreements as well as with regards to the 738 mission will be continued and the other two will occur i want to go to our 330 special orders to the asian pacific islander i know we have a lot of folks in the chamber we have an overflow room that our deputy sheriff's can point you, too why not get started. welcome to our board of supervisors celebration of apa heritage month every i do not really we have a tradition of honoring leadership in our 11 district as we celebrate the one hundred and 8 asian pacific islander diversity and our
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city's present and future i want to acknowledge the co-chair the apa heritage mocha you make a few words is claudine here. if not why not go to our presentations colleagues just to mix it up go in refers order commissioner dooley's will be first and supervisor cowen from district and then and down to district one with supervisor mar. so supervisor avalos. >> thank you president chiu. would like to call up paul and cocoa law from the bakery.
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>> so my honoree is from the geneva bakery they've they've been offering exceptional cakes in the excelsior a fact that anyone who had a slice of the birthday cake a few months ago can attest to. it was a great chinese bakery they offer freshly baked warm buns and like pinning apple and others. i'm not only honoring geneva bakery are you but paul and cocoa are generous to our schools their korgz many
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community events and donate many baked goods to communicate events that's a community hub not only a line but it is filed with people socially over a cup of coffee in the morning or afternoon. it's the kind of business we hope to foster and i'm prude inform offer for the asian pacific islander heritage month. thank you >> (clapping) >> say a few words. >> anything t is good thank you
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(clapping.) >> thank you supervisor avalos like to acknowledge supervisor cowen. thank you very much mr. president, this is a wonderful time of the year we get to acknowledge all the rich culture dings and the culture of the asian pacific islander people of san francisco. i want to specifically call out and acknowledge a wonderful man by the name of john. (yelling). john (clapping) his been a usage to me we say we were friends and he works tireless also to bring peace to
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the southeast part of the city he makes sure there is funding for the organizations on s front line worked tirelessly with the police department and community members and it's outreach is so far beyond the community it's a privilege to honor you john you're an incredible man and family man, i'm excited and humbled but it's amazing to see you john has to leave us today he has a network of feeding people without food he going goes to places and hands out food in alice griffith and on hunters view all across the south eastern neighborhoods this
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is a gift from god he's amazing (clapping) and this is a gentleman i wish i could give you more than a certificate of honor i wish i could give you a check a metal or the other holiday in our name but please accept this small token of your works in the i did not get outreach and in appreciation for the community in the southeast the sfoiveng board of supervisors hereby sends our best wishes to you in honoring of asian pacific islander pacific american heritage month >> thank you. (clapping.) >> wow. after that.
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thank you. i'm humbled i'm honored. i want to give praise and glory first and also i want to pay my respects to those asian pacific islander americans that have laid the foundation for folks like myself to stand upon i want to pay that respect. as far as work it's not a one-man team there's a lot of of us in the room and some out in the neighborhood and also want to make sure that food returns get their credit as well as they're the folks that get us food the team packages it and gives it out there's a lot of us that did the work i've honored
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(clapping) i want to say one thing we can use a vehicle to distribute that food >> got it (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor cowen and our next presentation will be from our district 9 supervisor campos. >> you thank you very much mr. president, and again, i want to say congratulations to all the incredible honorees it's incredible those people being recognized in every single
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district it's my honor to add another person to that list as we celebrate asian pacific islander heritage month if we can ask the amazing person to come up. (yelling) (clapping.) gainer this is one of the proudest moments to reck you today he was raised in san francisco and grew up between left turn and hunters vail and the mission he's the eldest of the brothers she's joined by her parent and children she credits
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her parents for inspiring her to be involved in the community her grandmother helped with the dance. she got wrapped up in the street life in the early teens but 15 she got involved with rap the real alternative program and got out of the gang life and being mentored by a variety of adults that helped her to get leadership capacities. she moved to care for her grandmother since moving there she's been a resident that effective addresses the turf violations in that community the fact that violence is take place
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between passion, prejudice and latinos and african-americans from various housing developments over the turf disputes. people told beganer that bringing peace to this dwelling would be impossible but she refused not to listen is he refused to moved. she's now taking her advocacy to another level pro bono over the last of months she's working to bring together law enforcement and good times together to work on public safety and the dwellings and bringing much needed programs to the young people and again pro bono free of charge. because of the relationships that beganer has developed a lot of the youth and elderly and the old shop folks sfort support her
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work the source the problems recognition how much gainer is important the kids can go to garfield park without being shot and those folks who were feeling like they were in prison they can go out past 6:00 p.m. arrest the nonprofit leaders tell us it gainer brings people together to better serve the community she's truly a bridge between the city our community organizations and the dwellings and we're grateful for the roll she's placed she's indeed saved lives she's organizing the ferries asian pacific islander non-violence
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conference on june 3rd through the 13 for the purpose of expiring young people in the asian pacific islander to address violence. this is the first time that a convention about took place for all the workshops and other services will be run by asian pacific islanders themselves (clapping.) gainer wants to use this to raise up and expire asian pacific islander i did not know people who survive from the disproportion at violence and incarceration and drop-out rates and rates of suicide she wants to bring them together with positive role models that are doing positive things and gainer there's no better role model than you. so thank you gainer and i want
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to acknowledge your parents your 3 sisters and you're amazing son austin who is here so with that on behalf of the board of supervisors and on behalf of district 9 not only at the dwellings but thank you gainer for being such an amazing individual (clapping.) thank you bye i'm kidding (laughter) >> it's such an honor to be here. and no better person than to speak about me than campos and supervisor avalos too. first of all, i want to thank
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god without him all things that are happening and have happened are not possible and i'd like to the work that we do the so funny i've told carolyn i'm going to be super nerve you do know there's other people being recognized or the it's not a gainer day. yeah, so but this work wouldn't have been possible as well as without you guys support supervisor avalos i could sit there and fight and talk about this i do so because you guys have any back and especially the community. as well as i mean if you look at this we have the whole mission, we have i was like i thought they were going to march up
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here. i have so many people to thank my parents and we come from a community family john and i are related sometimes (laughter) one of my favorite uncles my mom's baby brother and we all work in different agencies but i could see my grandmother and the work was in our community so keeping the heritage of asian pacific islanders it's funny i'm obey recognized from the mission that's praurment female so some folks are asking where are you getting awards from the mission district i've been telling you
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i'm salmon the whole time. the work that has the movement that's been happening in the dwellings and all around the city is due to the real cv o that are willing to come out and fight and advocate and work they're hard it because nonprofit it's called nonprofit for a reason. so without all the support and everyone working together and the conversation this ward is for everyone we have valerie besides my family this award is for all of them and our kids in the back from u p say hi (clapping) i've seen f d it and ah m f and
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my boss lady sf pd i'm missing so many people those are all the transmittal allergies it's he meaning everyone over 40. (laughter) so i'm not there yet. and but all respects go to all of you, you guys pave this road for us and i'll do my best the reason i didn't want this award i have to work harder baig because i know you guys are watching me at the end of the day it's for this kids i have often and i want to have him grow and have opportunities without you guys and the support my cousins and sisters brothers did someonecy brother and my mom
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and dad and my favorite usage. i love you i'm still going to put you up driver's license supervisor campos i don't know how to do this without you >> thank you gainer we love you (clapping.) i'm sorry can i announce there's something i forget the violence conference the asian pacific islanders there's been a movement the journey with wilson and recovery services and i can't forget my patsy she's back there we went through the mental wellness program and it's super awesome and melissa who's the chair i'm just the co-chair we really want your support money wise too
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(clapping.) >> supervisor campos (clapping) thank you and congratulations gainer why not go to district 8 supervisor wiener. thank you mr. president, i'll wait for the room to clear a little bit. okay. thank you mr. president, and thank you, colleagues. and today, i'm going to be honoring zone winning one of our residents coming up and bring
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the kids with you (clapping) (yellin (yelling). so i know many of us know zoning she was born and raised in is a gone and come to the u.s. in 1975 at 11 after ref her bachelors degree from down south she came to the bay area for more than 8 years she's been in the office mental health the recorder and business private property revenue generating 40
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percent of the revenue. as a recorder she oversaw two addictions in the office exciting business units leading 40 civil serve personnel. she's stepped in to take on a variety of the nearly decade in the office and 200 in 2345067 he was the departments overseer of personnel and i g operations. she was the acting assessor recorder when phil tang went off the to state assembly until carman chiu was appointed as the new assessor. it was competently if i did in 2008, and 2013 when we resumed i guess twice the matters of quality in san francisco and in
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california providing phenomenal support to the first phil thanking and then carman chiu and started issuing marriage licenses over the weekend we have the fear of san francisco when we get marriage equality someone is going to step up and take it away so thank you for acting quickly. and zone also in addition to our work she served as the san francisco director to john burton and served in the clinton mischievous working at the department of housing authority and, of course, our own roberta. zone has worked for elective and
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other places including john burton and willie brown and some of the really more the shireer members of our political family. i got to know zone when i came to san francisco as a 27-year-old gay man and got involved that the nonexistent lgbt center and zone was one of the persons who helped to build the center and she really helped to get it off the ground and made sure it was a reality. zoning is married to her wife kathy they've been together for 18 years i see kathy back there videotaping and they have two daughters at the lectern and
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live down the street from me in the castro and have been long term residents. so zero i want to say from can carmen chiu she regretted she couldn't be here but it's been a honor to work with you over the years and look forward to many more years of the same so congratulations (clapping.) thank you supervisor wiener i want to thank you for the opportunity to say i'm honored to be in district 8 honor reand i'm proud to be a constituent of yours my name is my family and i appreciate what you do and work on issues that matter to the district simple things like
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coming to our neighborhood community meetings to talk about issues that are important to negotiating, you know, with all the stakeholders in the city and make sure that the castro construction project it's not it's minimized so we have the activities in june to legislation you've introduced effecting the ellis act or the miles act we had a chance to work together on the miles act it's a great honor and professionally i've been grateful for our support over the years i want to acknowledge my wife of 18 years kathy and our two doss that are to be told had to leave school a little bit earlier and happy to be here
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with mom but i have lifelong friends and people who really did all the work in the assessors reported office i want to make sure i acknowledge them all of my colleagues and friends please just raise your hand (clapping) and to the city and county have been able to generate money for your much needed services i thank you and it's such an honor
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