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recorded this captures the other to 90 percent of the incidents that occur. the bottom line we in san francisco need to get in technology up as soon as possible in ass areas. i hope my colleagues today as this matter males or females o moves will ask pg&e to work with the police department to complete the plan expansion by allowing the st. pd to put this on pg&e poles without a charge. this will allow the full and immediate implementation of this very important tool that law enforcement needs to keep our neighborhoods safe. when i look at the amount of money, money that have been made by our local utility given the long history that this utility has had and the fact that so
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many of our rate pairs have contributed to make this a profitable entrepreneurs we hope they will take the step of letting law enforcement use the property without a charge >> the second item is a memoriam and i'm joined today by my colleague supervisor wiener in this of arresting take care i would like to adjourn this meeting with the memoriam of arresting it is your francis a performer drag artist and friend passed away on august 25th of this year. best known for his queen performs as patsy kline is expanded from san francisco to london to tokyo. his performs included
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performances in classic films like virtual and las vegas in space he moved to the bay area in 1978 was a boon to the culture of san francisco his 4 years of straining were followed by years of performs that truly enriched our community arturo was a leading figure in shifting toward the irony and culture that was sophisticated and outrage it epitomize misses queen and a half like steel magnolias and the musical. arturo was a regular performance in the shows between 1995 and 2012 he embarked on tours of the country and the world every
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summer. somehow arturo after doing everything i've talked about he lived and worked in japan helping to nurture and usually in japanese drag culture and acting as an outstanding representative of san francisco's talents and values. throughout the years arturo touched lives both inside and outside the queer community he can't be fulfill quantify if i had but quite frankly the outgoing of support from drag and other artists and citizens from every walk of life his life continues in the 17 noise and nephews and the chosen family
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and friends around the world a public memorial for arturo on september 22nd at the castro theater he'll be honored by his family, friends and community. the last item is a difficult one a memoriam for right away sunshine williams. i'd like to thank you for the opportunity to honor the life of rashawn he was a special young man an outstanding young man who was tragically killed on september 2nd of this year. an exceptionally bright 14-year-old rashawn had big dreams and he, in fact, was well on his way to chief of police those dreams. after earning exceptional grades
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at boston he was accepted to sacred heart school on an academic scholarship he joined the football team and was thrilled to be playing for that school. those who knew ray shane described him as bright and motivated and kind and the thing about rashawns family it's a large family that truly impacted and improved the lives of so many people in our community. he would often baby-sit his younger sister while working hard to maintains e maintain his
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grade of 4.0. one of the things you can do as a supervisor so to hear and see the life of a young person is taken at an early stage it's deeply upsetting to me to see the pain of rashawns family but to everyone 90 in our community. rashawn was a kid that stood for everything that a young person should stand for its tragic and citizen less that his bright promise will not be realized. rashawn was stabbed by another young person at fulsome and 26th street and he died subsequentially that evening
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from that establishing >> as we celebrate his life we recognize and solemnly take note of the loss of his future not only for himself, for his family but for his entire community. given what this young person had done in 14 years you can only imagine what he is capable of. this violence weeks ago heavily in our hearts the loss of rashawn's life and our loss of security the impact this death has had on all his friends and schools like boston and skakd heart no words to express and describe that. we know that rashawn will not be
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forgotten his spirit will lift us up and the best thing to remember and honor his life so confront and to end violence in our communities. we hold rashawns life in our hearts and take strength in his america memory and the one thing i have to say i don't know how his mother and family can find the courage to say this but they want rashawns memento be honored by remembering the kind side hits commitment to life and his commitment and love for others. the funeral will be this thursday at st. marys cathedral and the burial at holy cross the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor campos
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president chiu. >> thank you colleagues, i have two memoriams for today, i want to recognize the passing of vav have an the visiony broadcasting industry and a philanthropist she died in her home at 93 she was the eldest of three children went to up-to-the-minute missouri ma college she taught preschool in california and at a disabled children's home and married carl they had one son lincoln. in 1996 she started k s f tv for the diversity for the asian community k c s f was the first to protect focus on ethnic programming at the time the
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station was formed asian-americans may that 5 percent of our bay area and today, the tv markets population is close to 25 percent. over the years the television station began adding live news casts in cantonese she will a be remembered as a mroift she has a program that focuses on primer education in japan and the system of caring for elderly ♪ sweden and the culture exchange between american and vietnam film production pr production i want to acknowledge her son and on the on behalf of 71 i want to offer our condolences she'll be
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missed dealer dearly. i want to recognize the passing of a beloved resident in chinatown and a father to the community leaders discoloring i didn't he was born in 1908 in china the 3rd of four sons. the father was a person in our country in 1986 convincing arrived on angle eyed and studied for his interrogation examines i joined his father in our country in 19 thirty he become a resident of our city and rented and prashtd a
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vegetable stand and his wife joined him with a seeing factory in chinatown she they were blessed with many children and great grandchildren. on behalf of the city of san francisco and supervisor mar and supervisor wiener i'd like to offer our condolences to his family and friends he'll be missed dearly. colleagues, i have two resolutions to oppose is lazy salt on women's constitutional right to choose sex selective bands are band on the basis of sex those will band the doctors and require the doctors and nurses to report women to
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authorities on abortion. the your best estimate for the abundance have been cloaked with anti asian rhetoric they have dorpgsdz to kill baby girls and chipping away at the right to which i see those bans are spreading across the country 21 states have proposed this ban and it's pass in 8 states in may it was introduced in the california state assembly. given our population of 38 percent of united airlines and given no city or state has given a position today, i'm oefb a resolution so san francisco, california be the first. i want to thank your co-sponsors supervisor tang, supervisor kim, supervisor london breed and cohen and take a moment and
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thank the two dozen organizations and health organizations that came together around the issues. this rhetoric advocating the messages h have been stereotypes and are indenturing offensive o those are laws that will have real impact for women. women of color in 8 states can be scrutinized in ways this is are racial precisely we're a city that stands for the right to choose colleagues, i ask for your support. the last item i'm introducing is a resolution to support proposition 47 which reduce penalties for most number one serious and non-violent drug crimes. felons will be knocked down to
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misdemeanors we know that study show those are crimes that doesn't need extensive crime penalties time in prison. this is a measure that's been calculated to save hundreds of millions by reducing the courts caseload it's estimate that 10 thousand inmates are eligible for reinsensitive and given our prisons overcrowding we can do better. the measure will direct the savings 65 percent to drug treatment and 25 percent for school programs for at risk youth. and let me note that dangers criminals are not eligible sex
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offered will not be eligible. i want to take a momentum and george gascon and the the rest i'll submit >> thank you president chiu and supervisor farrell. >> thank you mr. clerk today, i'm introducing an ordinance thank you co-sponsor supervisor avalos that manages the fleet vehicle. the legislation will create new car sharing vehicles rather than city owned vehicles and mandate the reduction of our non-essential passenger vehicles by 25 percent and track the mileage in our city fleet and mandates the realtime tracking
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system to replace the city's outdated clipboard and lastly the city administrator have a pool of vehicles that could be targeted for fleet reduction it is targeting roughly the 12 hundred vehicles and again, our passenger vehicles and light trucks we've learned from other jurisdictions and this legislation is not different we look at chicago and new york city. in chicago for example, they've had a similar program in place for 3 years. in those 3 years they've found approximately $7 million in addition cost savings their flex fleet with zip car is 25 krernt per mile cheaper and have been able to cut 3 hundred vehicles
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off their fleet those are cost savings that other municipalities are experiencing >> i think the benefits for our city are 3 fold the first cost savings and other municipalities create partnerships for city fleet services for out right owning their vehicles and the second is greater efficiency within our city government with up to date technology the fleet will track the uncle and make us make better discussions regarding our fleet and lastly the environmental benefits with the reduction of our city fleet we'll be lowering our carbon floopt as well i think weigh arrest meantime we have cost savings and create for efficiency within our city government and reduce our carbon
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feet we should look at those i want to thank members of the city as well as from the city attorney's office and my staff for working on this legislation. i look forward to the upcoming protective and thank you supervisor avalos for your co-sponsorship >> thank you supervisor farrell supervisor kim. >> i'd love to add my name to have hearing request it's with deep sadness i'm going to add my memoriam. on august 29th youth leader before awe shall think passes away while on summer break from college most of you met him i was attending the academy and returning to my office as as
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interim. a competitive program that places people in interning for city hall offices. he was known by his bright smile and the oldest child of 6 and 12 grandchildren i remember the day that he came to our office for the going back job interview i knew immediately shyness would not be his challenge he looked for every free moment when i didn't have time 90 in my office to run into my office and was curious to run for office to serve and represent his community. awe shunt demonstrated things
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one scholarships and applied to trips to african. at his memoriam service i heard from principle and mentor and family his chemical and physics teacher talked about how he took classes in high school to prepare never miss an occupant opportunity to ask more questions. he wrote a thank you card to his principle when he graduated i remember the day they came to our office so excited he got into the university because another colleague supervisor cowen also attend he felt like he was on his way he would 20 years. and we're all reminder of that testimony after testimony this past friday awe shawn needed the support and awe shawn struggled
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to chief the feats despite his circumstances and college he faced more challenges including isolation whether the challenges to buy books or pay his cell phone bills or fly to school. his family supported him in every way they could and he knew they skakd so he could attend college as his life reflected on what it included young people even the ones we believe are conceding what did it mean to build entity for the next generation his family are starting a scholarship fund for
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children who may face other challenges like discrimination they don't want other kids to struggle if you're not motivated i'll end this story by sharing one that his friend that traveled to african. his friend talked about the day they landed in africa is he this to champion their dollars on the way to the office a young mother with who kids hugging her legs asking for money awe shane gave some of his hard-earned dollars to the mother his friend asked him she was tripping, i.e., said i know what it feels like and what it is like.
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audition is preceded in death by his grandfather and great grandmother and his mother is here today is accept the accumulation on behalf of the board of supervisors for his 5 siblings and stepping stepfather and stepsister and his mentors along with his 11 first cousins and expended family and firstborns. i'd like to ask the board of supervisors to expend the opportunity of the privilege of the floor for his motto accept the accomodation >> colleagues without objection can we extend the privilege of floor we'll take that without objection. that's the case. >> good afternoon. my name is ms. hernandez the mother of awe shawn. i just wanted you to read i all
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about a mothers wish. a child is the most precious gift especially, when a child has been placed on a list of gift children like my son an exceptional young man that faced many of lives hurdles the minute of his passing i thought any god there will be month more he needed help. i immediately set out things in motion by asking the administrator to help me set up a memoriam foundation he was full of district a young man, i felt his motion mission was incomplete who am i to judge he was an atheist he once i said
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when i go i want to for you to release those off a ship by putting my acres into the ocean he said mom you're the best. that's what i would have done for my son in i had the means. his scholarship will aba charity of the treasurer and winery for the scholarship memoriam in his name >> if i can be referred. >> thank you supervisor kim. supervisor mar >> thank you. i just have one item a significant effort in the bayview hunters point neighborhood it connects up a
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number of different communities learning about the african-american community in the bayview but especially the chinese-american stremg industry in our san francisco bay area region that's an important arts educational historic project called chinese whispers helps to bring historians and chinese-americans along with the arts as well. the chinese whispers is a organization led and working with organization i'll be joining them on saturday at 12:30 for lunch and with supervisor cohen and the bayview historical society and many residents of the bayview to learn the history of the chinese
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and on that work the shij industries there used to be two dozen shij camps and villages they were pushed out or burnt-out by the anti chiropractors in the late 19 hundred the chinese with his percent linked up richard where it started last week and this saturday it finished up in marin county from 2 to 5 where people see a replica of a 19th century it is a beautiful boat it will be in bayview hunters point at the park there is a 42 foot
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shingle boat to 1910 with a beautiful construction and the replica is amazingly done and children and families are welcome to participate again lunch is at 12:30 before people can view the boat and hear about the history of the bayview one hundred community i think those kinds of projects are important as the asian studies teacher we learn about the past and future and how communities used to tliefrt in the economy but in communities like richard and the bayview hunters point area in san francisco. lastly you can get more information about this event on renée youngest r e.com and
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through the park as well. the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor mar. supervisor avalos requests to be referred >> thank you. i just have another a mroirm to add for mr. james rich. mr. james rich passed away an august 31st after a lifetime of research when he became the 71 first black power house operate our. some colleagues remember the local hirings ordinance in 2010 we heard about his story the beloved embody mothd dr. espanola jackson. he cut short it's college education to serve
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