[ applause ] >> supervisor mar. speaker: thank you. i will not repeat all the thanks but i did want to acknowledge the courage of supervisor david campos for standing with health equity coalition for many years to make sure that this was going to come about. appreciative of some of the compromises that was made and it's going to make it easier for the small businesses to adjust, but i think without supervisor's campos courage following in the footsteps of tom and a strong and broad coalition of labor and community united that we wouldn't be here passing this legislation today. i wanted to say that the fight is not over for health equity and stronger universal health care system in our city and in this country but this puts us one step closer towards that number and i'm appreciative of the hard work from hillary to supervisor campos's office to

make sure we're continuing to move forward in our city and not step backwards but i appreciate the coalition for standing strong and i'll be happy to cast a vote and be a co-sponsor of this today as well. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. ten years after the healthy implementations, we anticipate a loophole that none of the stakeholder and parties in the room when they originally negotiated the launch of healthy san francisco in 2006 had anticipated. i supported this ordinance in 2011 and convinced after talking to workers back in 2006. this was an unintended consequence and loophole discovered to prevent all employers from paying. a mandate that everyone supported

back in 2007. it's great to be back here two years later with the legislation that is going to work for all parties and while i would have supported closing the loophole this year, i recognize the real need of businesses, whether we'd like it or not to adjust a complete closure of this loophole and all the work that went into this to make sure we came to a unanimous vote. i want to recognize campos for pushing this issue over and over again and it was the right position to be in and she's been the -- i really want to thank supervisor breed and supervisor farrell for their work on making sure that we can get to a place that we had closed the loophole, but do it in a way that would work for businesses. you know, today is a really big day for workers but for

employers today. we announced with support, the strongest and most progressive minimum wage proposal in the country ten years later, and what this means for our city and it's not just for workers but for employers is we're going to have higher retention of our workers. we're going to have a happier and healthier work force with a little extra money in a pocket in a city that is expensive and this money is going to get pumped back into the economy. this money is going to go back into the economy back into our small business and into so much of the economy that's happening here in san francisco, but finally of course, this means a stronger work force in san francisco. you know when we had this debate two years ago, there was a lot concern about whether we would lose jobs from this proposal, but it's not about the job loss or even job creation, it's about the type of jobs that we're creating which is

why i supported this closure in the first place. we can't just talk about what it means to create jobs and lose jobs, we have to talk about what it means to create high quality jobs that allow people to live here here in san francisco, to have health care and to be able to thrive here with their families and that's what ordinances suppose as raising the minimum wage and closing the loophole is going to do. she spoke for the coalition for their economy at the press conference today on the minimum wage ballot measure and she recognized the workers but also the movement around the country. whether it's an ordinance in san francisco and bringing sick paydays and bringing universal health care. all of this is apart of a larger movement and i'm proud that san francisco is on the forefront and we have elected

leaders who share this vision in supporting everyone in san francisco. so congratulations, this is a long time coming and to everyone that has been involved. >> thank you, president chiu. speaker: thank you mr. chair. -- thank you mr. chiu. i'm happy to support the version of legislation that we have today. i also want to congratulate supervisor campos and finding compromises and the real concerns of the department of public health. i also want to thank supervisor breed for her amendments to phase in this process over the last couple of years. we knew that immediate immediate implementation would result in layoff ons s and i want to thank you

and her. our board of supervisor was moving forward this measure but minimum wage ethics are formed and moving forward the license fee. when we reflect the diversity of our city and we come together, and when we hammer out consensus, we deliver results. i'm proud of the board and i look forward to moving this and other measures forward. >> supervisor avalos. >> i think everything has been said that has to be said, but i want to congratulate supervisor campos for his work in bringing this together. i want to thank farrell and supervisor breed for your work as well, and most of all, i want to thank and appreciate the patience of many workers, labor groups and community advocates who have been fighting for this measure all these years. i was staffing the chair

of the budget committee when the health care security ordinance was -- when it gets way to the board of supervisors back in 2006 and it took many, many months to put this together, negotiations with the mayor's office and the board of supervisors at that time, and it shows what an incredible work this was to put together. it's what we need right now, but we really need in this country is universal health care and i look forward to one day having that. [ applause ]. >> campos, thank you for your leadership on this and your work over the years to make it happen. >> thank you. supervisor campos. >> thank you very much, mr. president. i do want to just add some

personal comments but i do want to make a former motion to amend the ordinance along the lines that was -- that were circulated and i don't know if it's possible to get two seconds, but maybe supervisor farrell and supervisor breed -- supervisor campos has made a motion. >> colleagues can we take those without objection. without objection, that should be the case. >> i want to reflect sort of how we got to this point and it has been a very difficult issue and i think that for me when we lost this battle a couple of years ago and had a loophole that we always believed remained open, it's a

very painful experience. it was a very difficult experience, and one of the things that kept me going and that i know kept the coalition going was the fact that we kept hearing from workers who had the courage, the nerve to continue to speak out and share their stories, even though it was not easy for them to do that and many times risk or at least having the real fear of retaliation, and people have asked me, what has changed and i think in some respects, the affordable crisis that we are facing provides a new perspective for us as a board. but, on a very personal note, want to take this opportunity to thank supervisor farrell, to thank supervisor

breed, because i think that one of the key teaches is we had two supervisors that perhaps when it comes to me were not algs -- were not always on the same political page, and it took a long time to really understand the complexity of this issue, to not only know and understand the intra-- intra camacho sees of the law, but how it impacts people. and as a legislator, i learned something new everyday and i just, on a very personal note, i want to thank supervisor farrell supervisor breed for taking the time to do that because i think that made a really big difference. i'm glad that other people were

thanked, for supervisor breed, thank you for the [inaudible]. but i want to close with a more personal note of gratitude and everyone knows about the road of helen. but i particularly want to acknowledge an individual who has been from my perspective, intrumental -- instrumental to get to go this point, the amazing paul kumar who has just provided from a great deal of clarity, a great deal of guidance and a level headedness that was truly needed. and so it's a very great day as supervisor

kim said not only for workers but businesses in san francisco, and let's close this loophole. thank you. >> thank you supervisor. with that, colleagues can we take this item same house, same call. without objection, this ordinance has passed on the first read as amended. [ applause ] >> with that colleagues, let's

go to general public comment. >> the public may comment up to two minutes on the following items on the jurisdiction and the mayor is in appearance and whether to go into closed sessions. the adoption with that reference to committee calendar. note that public comment is not allowed on those items that been subject to a public comment by a board committee. please direct your remarks to the bore as a whole and not to the supervisors or the audience and those using translation will be allowed twice the time to speak. if you need -- please remove the document when returning to live document.

>> we've had public commons on those, and let's hear from our first speaker. >> i'm peter, executive director of library users association. the mayor's struggle against the homeless and against the poor is coming to the library. on june 19, there's a previously scheduled plan to change the rules of behavior. and the library is taking average to create not only increased penalties but to add new rules that were not asked for by the mayor and to increasingly make the library a club for don'ters. -- club for

donors.

>> i have a video. >> from rubber, those little black pellets, that are used in chrome -- that are used in art ificial and soccer fields. [inaudible] she does wonder if it's the field and the crumb rubber in it. she points out goal keepers spend a lot of time right here on the ground, diving for balls, blocking shots and

ingesting these dots. >> i lived in this stuff. i was in it for hours. i wonder could that have been the cause. >> [inaudible] i don't know what it is, but i think there's something in those black dots. >> goal keeper was diagnosed with non hodkins. her daughter, austin everett died a year-and-a-half ago. by the time she lost her second battle to cancer, june was raising questions about the use of crumb rubber on soccer fieldings. >> i feel there is a strong correlation with the tur. . >> in 2008 did not include chemicals or other toxic metals

beyond led. tires do contain metals and chemicals that have been ruled too toxic. the average athletic field uses 27,000 tires. former goalie, who has twice beaten cancer, have been keeping his own list. we're talking about 27 players with cancer. >> it's keep i. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. i have some pictures here. i live in district six and they're doing a street paving on gary street, which is a main thorough fair. this is what the street looks like as they're putting the tarps down for where the heavy

vehicles are traveling. this is what it looked like before they put the red tarps down. here's another picture what it looks like, the cracks in the street in the bus zone. these red tarps that they're putting down. if you can look at the crack, they're laying the flat tarp over it and the cracks are pushing through. here's the disturbing one. this is what you putting down for the cracks. as you can see the crack is there, they're getting ready to lay the tarp over it. mayor lee has come out as you were speaking on line 29. it's $40 million. see where this money is going? this is going through all of san francisco and it doesn't look good. someone need to talk to the supervisor that's paving the roads.

there's six guys working. don't make sense that one of them can't speak up and say what's going on. the whole street needs to be redone and repaved and lay the tarps down. >> good afternoon. this is something a little bit different. why is hollywood afraid of this man? an american legend and musical icon, who 60 years after his death is still remembered by most of us for his music. he wrote and sang about humanity, sadness, hopes and dreams and their everyday lives in rural americans to urban american and had dozens of hits. thousands of records from

ballrooms to country churches and yet hollywood, who likes to think of itself as the center of american culture, still ignores this american legend. other than making a cheap grade b movie, a short time map to his death, which is no longer in circulation. yet they haven't missed a beat when it comes to murder and mayhem. on second thought, maybe we shouldn't encourage them into making a block buster movie about this american. look at what they did with the hank williams movie. they took all the magic out of that legend. and by the way, he could sing and had a voice. thank you for listening. >> i'd like to put this up on

sfgov tv. >> i would like to talk about the articles in sacramento b about how dangerous this new bridge is. on the other hand i'd like to talk about salvation. now, jesus said, fear them not speaking to his disciples, the christians. there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed and hid that shall not be known, but i tell you in darkness that light in which you hear in the ear,

that preach upon the house tops and fear not them which killed the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body and hell are not too spare a sold for a penny. in one of them shall not fall on the ground without your father, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. fear yee not therefore, you're of more value than many sparrows, whosoever shall confess me before men. him, i shall confess also before my father. [inaudible] him, will i also deny before my father which is in heaven. think not that i have come to send peace on earth. i came not to send peace, but a swortd. sword. not the type of sword ma

mohammed brings. a man's foes should be they of his own household. he that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you mr. president, members of the [inaudible] present. my name is christopher doll, i live in soma. i rise to continue my auto bigraphical kech. sketch. i was in politics, i was actually quite socialable in spite of being seriously overweight. when i graduated i weighed 260 pounds, that's 90 pounds more than my 172 of yesterday. claremont was a good school, still is. it managed to offer a class in

art appreciation, an overview of art over time. i certainly achieved impact of great works of art and still feel a small despair that i could never execute anything like that. as a final we each gave a lecture on some area of interest. my own offering was on the naked male form in egyptian, greek and roman sculpture, the many pictures. i was doing my personal analytical best to figure out why i was interested at all in the naked male forms, whether in marble or in flesh because as a student manager i handed out towels to the wrestling team. it took me a while, but i eventually got there. i would draw your attention in this month of pride and this anniversary month of [inaudible] and all the others who might share his opinions. he saw fit to expose those

defects when he characterized white people as to privileged to be able to understand the effects of discrimination without explanation, given the explanation of obviously anti died right alongside the jews, this was transparently [inaudible]. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is milo and i'm past president of san francisco beautiful. , here today to thank the board for continuing the item regarding proposed legal settlement in the matter of contest promotions, here to formally register our objection, or opposition to reaching settlement as proposed with contest promotions. we'll leave in the record a

letter from our attorney that outlines our objections. to reach such a settlement would be an act beyond the board of supervisors' legal power. the board of supervisors cannot in a series of voter approved propositions, all of which ban new or additional billboards, general advertising signs in the city. the transparent purpose of the proposed settlement agreement is to evade the city laws banning new billboards. laws that were created through direct democracy and specifically -- and i know you've been patient in listening to this lecture time and again, but not once but four times, our voters have said no new billboards in san francisco. it would violate proposition g, which prohibits any new billboards on private property. also in the record there was a letter that was sent from one

sign operator, kevin hicks of diverse media displays. this was sent to city attorney, herrera stating whatever privileges contest promotions may obtain through this agreement, they'll expect the same. we're saying this proposed settlement will own open up a flood gate of similar lawsuits, not put the matter to rest. in the record i'm placing articles from the san francisco chronicle, one dated august 31, 2011. ad push may be awkward for mayor lee -- thank you very much for your time. if i may leave this with the clerk's office. >> yes, the deputy will be there to pick it up in just a moment. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, president chiu and members of the board

of supervisors. i was hoping that i wouldn't be speaking, but after hearing mr. hanky speak i thought i'd stand up. that litigation was fought like heck by the city attorney for five years and then entered into settlement negotiations, which took about a year-and-a-half and finally you have the city attorney and the planning department recommending that settlement. i'm sure they'll be talking to you about the merits and answering your questions. i'll be here and outside. i don't know what the propriety is of asking me questions, but i'd invite you to call my office and we'll be glad to answer. the time has come to settle the case. it will not open the flood gates. we wrote a letter to you last week in response to the letter you received from the attorney commenting on san francisco's

sign law and i don't need to put anything more in the record. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> stand by, please. i stayed up late last night. my name's charles. >> please speak into the microphone directly. >> i was down here earlier today trying to make this work. i just load my two minute video on -- didn't work earlier. i was assured by mr. ken that it would work when i came back. it's not working so i may have to come back or wing it. it's a two minute film that i uc