direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors nor to the audience. and if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when you'd like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> let's hear from our first speaker. good evening, supervisors. i'm peter wolf, executive director of library users association. the loss of ted gul acson, as all of you who spoke about it mentioned is a very sad and very serious loss. and i'm glad to say that i can agree with all the word of all the supervisors who spoke about him. i always thought that part of his charm was his modesty and he was typically known as the secretary or some such lesser position at the tenants union. i haven't been mentioned specifically as an item, but we also have lost the san francisco bay guardian, which put out its last edition last

week and has been basically killed off by the owners, while certainly we did not agree with them all the time, there is a great loss in having the loss of that voice and newspaper in general. i wanted to talk about the last time i spoke with you, the last couple of times, i spoke about [speaker not understood] magazine's september he edition which featured [speaker not understood] on the cover and recapped all of the things that we've learned about the invasive surveillance that goes on by our government and suggested that the supervisors should have -- be concerned that every department including itself review what the implication are for the citizens of san francisco. we call on the supervisors to require reviews by all city

departments, including especially the library which has not done such a review to review the privacy threats to citizens and to provide full disclosure of the relatively newly revealed threats. thank you. >> thank you. and they went into capernaum and straight way on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue and taught. they were astonished because he taught them as one that had authority. there was a man in the synagogue a man with an unclean spirit and he cried out saying let us alone, what have we do to do with thea, jesus of nas russ? have you come to destroy us? he said, yes, i've come to destroy you ~. we have a problem in houston. the mayor is saying the

christian ministers of the gospel have to submit under threat of, what do they call it, contempt of court, their sermons. know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of god? be not deceived, neither foreign caters, nor idol at therxes, nor adulterers, nor aloe if hevth nat nor abusers of them self-with man kind nor thieves, nor could have tuesday, nor drunkkard, nor revialer nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of doed. and such were san francisco some of you. but you are washed and sank it tide in the name of jesus. to be sank if i identified is to be set apart from your sin. god gives you the ability to be good after you get saved. now, when you're in dark with your significant other, don't tell me you don't know what you're doing is wrong.

it's wicked. it's evil. and your conscience bears witness with that because you're made in god's aim beingv. all of us are made in god's image. on judgment day -- i was talking to one of the most beautiful women i've ever seen in my life, i was trying to convince her to wear this shirt. this is the most incredible story, nbc will not publish because nbc does not investigate [inaudible]. >> thank you. good evening, supervisors. i have been complying information in regards to acts of violence in san francisco as a whole. however, i'd like to draw your attention to one district in particular for this forum, district 10. when willie brown served as mayor, no significant change [speaker not understood] or gang violence.

to quote tony kelly, [speaker not understood] and gang violence under gavin newsom's reign was essentially a rerun of events that occurred during had i predecessor. many victimized citizens in our poverty stricken communities count on supervisors to perform miraculous acts. i'd like to know, how many ineffective initiatives introduced by tony kelly were passed, stamped and dated? i cannot state the same for supervisor malia cohen. she is a beacon of hope for the city of san francisco. ms. cohen has brought many relevant social issues to the forefront. rapid use of firearms and gang related violence restricted solely to san francisco, these are problems endemic to our society. ms. cohen and other outstanding supervisors who debtv on straight sound leadership and wisdom beyond her years. she and other county civil leaders like her represent the

voice of reason and a ray of hope for all americans. sadly, there's individuals at stations of influence who rather than promoting good will and harmony think to create divisiveness and dissonance. such as an example of this -- that of editor and chief of bayview newspaper, am i mary radcliffe. in a recent editorial, ms. radcliffe suggested african-americans must be of a particular social [speaker not understood] class and must have specific qualifications to be deemed worldly. >> thank you. great to see you, walter. great to be back, supervisor mar, and supervisors. ♪ it's not unusual to campaign and do your speech lines it's not unusual to want a city dime

if you should ever want to see the city really shine it's not unusual, it happens every day by the city by the bay you'll find it happens every day every time it's not unusual to be mad with any city one it's not unusual to be sad with anyone but if you ever find that your city's jobs change like you do it's not unusual but all the votes have gone to you woe woe woe woe woe and the city votes go to you supervisors, you chiu ♪ and it's sad, it's a tragedy when the bay guardian has gone away by the bay, it's going away

the bay guardian's going away hey it's a tragedy when the bay guardian's going, going, going, it's going away and it's so bad, so sad to say it's going away, hey thank you. >> sfgtv, the speaker is trying to utilize the computer. about artificial turf. >> actually threaded car and truck tires contain all the same chemicals found in most tires. the national agency for cancer research [speaker not understood] four carcinogens. >> they get in your mouth and you wouldn't think about it. >> [speaker not understood] at age 21 she was diagnosed

withhodgkins lymphoma. the former goaly is on griffin's list, name the soccer players who have developed different kinds of cancer. ann ka, 18 years old, [speaker not understood], 15. arthur everett died he at the age of 25 from nonhodgkins lymphoma. >> i would have them in my ears. i would have them everywhere, in my hair. >> last year she was diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma. >> played soccer since she what 4 and diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma at age 16. now battling leukemia. i feel sick to my stomachtificial turf can have so many chemicals. >> the medical practice is [speaker not understood]. hodgkins lymphoma stage 4. >> we end up ingesting the

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thank you, next speaker. hello, supervisor. my name is [speaker not understood]. this is my first time contributing to some public forum. thank you for listening. i'm here to share my story and it represents many others who look to you to hold our concerns close to your heart as you fight the battle with public office. [speaker not understood] 11 years ago with my husband who what offered a scholarship to attend graduate school. finding work in the arts was a challenge but we made it work. and felt supported by the vibrant arts community here. i was honored to be included in bay area now at yerba buena center for the arts in 2005.

i am focused [speaker not understood] market street program. i worked with patients at laguna honda hospital to make scrubs and linens featuring artwork. my husband and i are fortunate, we are not being evicted. [speaker not understood] all of us in our 30s. but here's the thing. as i approach my late 30s i can no longer ward off the nagging questions. if we decide to have kid can we afford to raise them here? what if we do lose our place? will we be able to find affordable housing? will the arts continue to thrive here? in what form? i feel the answers to these questions is no. there is a change inevitable and it's tempting to focus blame on industry worker a they are ostentatiously chauffeured through the city with tinted windows. [speaker not understood]. it seems to me that greed has

taken over. [speaker not understood]. and we need you our representatives to stand up for us against the interests of the few. san francisco feels like home more than any other place i've lived but it's getting hard to breathe here. i hope not to have to leave, but i'm planning my exit. if you value the contributions of artists, that artists make to the quality of life in san francisco, consider me [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. good afternoon. my name is dorian maxwell. i want to talk about how this board needs to audit the planning commission. they really need to audit the planning commission because san francisco infrastructure has changed dramatically over the years. it's no longer looking like the

place for tourism and things. now it's a melting pot for corporations. this municipality one time was a municipality is now corporatized. what now needs to happen is before any new legislation pass for the sfmta to fund muni, it needs to be an audit of the business practice of the sfmta human resource department as well as the operations of the sfmta. this is a criminal organization that was approved in 1999 by the voters and it's criminal. they extort money from the public, the riders, park -- people who use the parking spaces, and they need to go to

jail. and it's time that this board stand up and take a stance on the corruption that goes on in the planning department as well as the sfmta. it will be imperative that many of you are up for reelection this term, the even number district supervisors are up for reelection. give us a christmas gift. send the people that run the planning commission to jail as well as the people that run muni. send them to jail. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is trisha foe l man. i'm a s.f. resident, giants fan and voter in district 5. i moved here 16 years ago. 16 years ago i behave a victim of domestic violence. under armour. ~.

at that timist the city had my back. the s.f.p.d. who arrested my spouse, the ada who worked with me for appropriate justice, law makers made sure there was zero tolerance for abuse, i'm no longer sure the city has my back. i'm having trouble recognizing the place i love so much. now i'm all for sharing economy, i'm a driver for ride sharing company and i have most of the apps on my smart phone. but these companies don't want to share and what's worse thea billionaire bullies are funding campaign ads exploiting people like me to reward politician who vote their way. instead of contributing money to domestic violence cause he and shelters they have contributed $725,000 to smear campaigns. i called in to kqed for a recent debate to ask for these ads to stop and ask that these ad were ignored. inmy mailbox has been polluted [speaker not understood]. otherv been over when he hadv by men and women reaching out

to me who share their stories. they feel the same as i do. this issue is reuniting us, [speaker not understood] friend of social justice. i'm asking city leadership to speak up and speak out with us. and make this a city that will have the backs of dough he mess tick violence survivors and not use us for political gain. october is domestic violence awareness month and i would like some acknowledge of that. thank you. >> thank you. my name is mary joe musni. has anyone in your life been hurting you or abusing you? this is a question i have asked literally thousands of times in my life so far, 49 years of being a registered nurse in san francisco. the last 37 in maternal child health. this became a more personal issue about 12 years ago when one of my daughters became a

victim. obviously she suffered, let me mention another victim. at the time one of my granddaughters was three. she witnessed this. if she has her last memory of her father, it is of her father beating her mother until the police came. she is now 15, on full scholarship at a college prep school, excelling in latin, becoming conversational in manned trim.

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good night, my name is hilda p/e re. i'm a survivor of domestic violence. tonight i want to give my opinion on this topic. i consider that domestic violence should not be used as a theme for political campaigns. i feel that people should play clean and they don't understand the suffering and the pain that domestic violence survivors go through, the suffering that goes with the children. and in my opinion, this is not something that should be used for political campaigns. if you need to win votes, do it in a clean way. thank you. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is maria [speaker not understood]. and i ask the question, money, is it the root of all evil?

reckless, irresponsible use of money can be pretty distasteful and harmful. my mom always said just because someone has money did you not mean they have taste. i grew up in a poor household. she said to us that, again, if you have money, you should try to do good with that money. but that's not always the case. she also said to us, dignity is not attributed to wealth. so, i used to wonder, why would she say they'd things? she struggled to feed us but she also struggled to give us spirit and to keep our spirit alive. ~ these things i am standling here tonight to say a lot of the campaign literature that i have seen is

entirely too gratuitous, meaning uncalled for, lacking of good reason, unwarranted as in gratuitous violence. supervisors, we all know that on tv they actually have a content rating system to give you warnings when there's too much violence, there's poor taste, there's poor lang warren buffettv. i wonder if that's where we're headed in regards to campaign literature. i think we can do better r. we're supposed to be about promoting democracy, not turning people off. we're supposed to be about promoting healthy and safe communities. we can use money in a better way. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. supervisors, i'd like to direct my comments to the president of the board. unfortunately he is not there. but domestic violence, i want

to say, is not just a women's issue. domestic violence is a societal issue. it's a children's issue, it's a man's issue. it hurts everyone. i know this, there has been domestic violence in my family. it affected my parents, it affected my siblings, ask it has affected our children. now, i know in san francisco there are wonderful services that deal with this. wonderful services that are shelters, that are counselors, and these services are needed and these services lack the proper funding to continually expand. we were told today that four women have died of domestic violence in the past period of time, four is too many. we need more resource he to combat this, to educate and to provide a safe environmental. i have one suggestion. for the persons who are funding the leaflets that are coming

into my mailbox, i thought it was half a million dollars. i'm learning it's $750,000 are going to create these fliers that bring up domestic violence in a vicious, deceitful, lying way to promote one candidate over another. they are disgraceful. they are exploitive and they need to stop. i am asking that they stop. san francisco is better than this. we dee he serve better. we have politics. we deserve to move forward. i'm asking that these fliers stop. they trigger the wrong emotions in people and they are painful and they hurt us personally. thank you. >> thank you. i'd like to ask the public to speak to this body as a whole, not to individual members of the board. thank you. my name is tammy brian. thank you, supervisors, for being here to listen to the

public. i don't have a lot to add, but i am a survivor of domestic violence. it was a horrible thing i went through years ago. i do not like seeing [speaker not understood]. they were not here when we needed them. now that they're coming out with all this money, these are resource he that would be much better invested in services. so, i just really want to support my friend and colleagues and also denounce billionaires trying to buy an election with dirty deceitful tactics and exploiting our pain and what our went through. it affects people for years to come and it's just not right. thank you. [speaker not understood]. you know, when this started happening in the primary, i was really upset about it and -- >> ms. schiavo, can i say we're

urging people not to speak about political campaigns. you can speak about the general issue of domestic violence or generally issues that relate to elections, but not the specific campaign, okay? okay. >> and through the chair, ms. shah schiavo, we paused your time. ~ thank you. so, when it started happening i was really upset about it and started talking to a lot of other women about it and i was shocked, really, to see how many people this really impacts, people around me every day that i've known for years. are survivors of domestic violence. and this is not something to play with. these images, survivor here today, other survivor that could not be here, and the stories that i've heard from people are about this being a trigger when they get these mailers in the mail that people have been having nightmare for

months going back to seeing their mothers beaten, that this is incredibly painful for people and the excuse of being in a tight political race is unacceptable. it's inexcusable and it need to stop. this is something where these tech billionaires, spending $725,000 just to exploit this issue until just last weekend they chose one other item to talk about, where have they been on domestic violence? never, never have they ever been involved in domestic violence. they've never been there on this issue and they choose to spend $725,000 -- imagine what they could do in this city on political mailers and ads -- >> ms. schiavo, you're crossing the line now.

i'm sorry, [speaker not understood]. you know, the test of integrity is when you are in hot water how you behave and this tells a lot. i think it tells a lot and we deserve more in san francisco and we hope leaders in this room will stand up and join the voices of women who are standing up to say enough is enough. this has to stop. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. please come forward, the next speaker. yeah, hi, i'm jamie brooks and i'm from beyond the campaign and i want to thank john avalos for introducing our item, putting greenhouse gas diskale you're labels on gas pumps in the city. as you may know, we have been working in the city of berkeley and we are two votes away from an ordinance in the city of berkeley.

and i just want to say a couple item about our ordinance. the first thing is we think that the everyday product consumer use with this greenhouse gas danger who have an obvious disclosure. if a bottle of aspirin has -- helps disclosure, we think that something that is this dangerous to human health and welfare should also have a disclosure. and then on a mitigation strategy component of this campaign, it's about connecting consumption with the problems. it's not about raising awareness. consumer, we don't need more awareness. we need to connect consumers' personal use of energy to the larger problem of greenhouse gases he. so, that's the strategy and using the information at the point of sale is the key component. >> thank you. next speaker.

top of the third, 3-0, go giants. thank you for being so patient, supervisors. eddie [speaker not understood] with defense project. i'll be very brief. here to speak in support of solar resolutions introduced by president chiu. it hits on three key points, that by-line ha always believed in. first, the idea of fighting climate change, that is absolutely necessary especially as we put solar in low-income communities for homes like dr. espinola jackson. it also puts an aspirational goal of 50 megawatts which is very important to set as a city-wide goal to encourage further solar development in the future. second is the idea of jobs, making sure that we can continue to create local jobs for solar installation companies like luminalt, asian neighborhood design through their training class and through a number of other programs that are designed to connect local communities to green jobs. and third and finally, the idea of local economic investment for a thriving solar industry that exists in the form of companies like sun run, solar city.