amazing youth organizing advocacy and leadership of the youth leadership institute and vietnamese youth development center, many of the young people that i've worked with for several years to develop this legislation. ~ and i so, this legislation will help us alleviate the problem of having an over concentration of tobacco outlets in low-income areas, especially communities of color and communities with a large number of young people. some of our eastern districts have a disproportionate concentration of tobacco permits compared to other neighborhoods. for example, in district 6, supervisor kim's district which includes the tenderloin and south of market neighborhoods, there is approximately 270 tobacco permits compared to only 37 permits in the inner sunset district, for example. i want to thank supervisor jane kim and scott wiener for coauthoring this and we're hoping other colleagues will join us as well. for over two years now the tobacco youth reduction force campaign of the youth

leadership institute and other grassroots organizations have done great research door to door, door knocking and advocacy. i wanted to acknowledge not only our former youth commissioner louisa c [speaker not understood] from the south of market area but also amanda from the sunset, malaysia funders, some of you may have seen advocating on different issues from the bayview hunters point area. many of them kind of were from various high schools but also city college, san francisco state as they were advocating and organizing for this piece of legislation. i wanted to also say that this ordinance specifically would amend the health code to include a cap on the number of allowable tobacco permits in each of the city's 11 supervisorial districts. while no existing permit will be taken away, a new permit would only be allowed in a district after the number of permits in that district has over time reached a cap of 45 permits. in addition, new permits have to be located at least 500 feet

away from a school and 500 feet away from an existing tobacco retailer so a preventing easy access to young people, also preventing the clustering that many people have been seeing of other types of businesses as well. in order for business owners interested in selling their businesses or who have been in business owners for over 7 years, there will be a one-time exemption and it's been written into this ordinance to allow a new business to come into that same location and sell tobacco. i'd also like to thank the arab american grocers association and other mom and pop small business leaders, but arab american grocers are a consortium over small business owners in san francisco for their ongoing input which has resulted in a much better piece of legislation than when we started several years ago. and i look forward to support from other colleagues as well. also, please join me this coming friday, i know supervisor chiu has worked on food day over the past few

years with the center for science and the public interest. but this coming friday we're recognizing again a national celebration of -- and a movement toward more healthy and affordable and sustainable food. it's a challenge to the existing food system which is unsustainable in many of the nonprofit and community based groups opinion, created by the center for science and public interest and driven by diverse coalition of food movement leaders, food dairy inspire americans to change their diet and food policies. every october 24th, thousands of events all over the country bring americans together to celebrate and enjoy real food and a push for improved food policies. last year the third annual celebration featured about 5,000 events in all of the 50 states. this coming friday and thursday i'll give you some sampling of the san francisco events, the bay area dietetic association is hosting a food day film night on thursday night this coming thursday from 6:30 to

9:00 at the red poppy art house, 2690 folsom street. hunger for justice, a spotlight on the south and a feature film, what's organic about organic. and there will be a post screening group discussion and light snacks. at the children's council in san francisco they'll have a crunchy or a healthy apple team that will lead a taste testing of real food so that they could see if people can tell what super processed versus what's real. they will also encourage people to learn how healthy eating can lower your health costs and supporting sustainable and organic farm and how that contributes to the health of our community. the event takes place on friday from 12:00 to 2:00 on church street. also a number of restaurants and grocery stores are really celebrating food day from restaurants like mixed greens to radius to the plant to witch

craft, epic road house and water bar and many others. these are all establishments that are important for me to mention was they've been certified by the u.s. health fair food council ushfc for serving healthy sustainable food. food day is an opportunity to think of food system more broadly and to think about what we put in our bodies as well every day. food day is a chance to celebrate what our food system does right and to take action to address the pressing food issues that we face. for example, poor diets cause widespread obesity, diabetes and other diet related disease he. millions of americans struggle with food insecurity and hunger every day. in fact, about one in four san francisco an are at risk of food insecurity, according to our budget analyst. also vital food safety and antihunger programs are constantly under attack in washington from snack perhaps to other programs. and many food and farm workers -- food system worker and farm

workers [speaker not understood] animal welfare is often ignored. a recent study from ucsf has over the past few days found a new link between sugar sweetened soda consumption and cell aging. i think the researchers [speaker not understood] from ucsf show if you drink a 20 ounce coke every day it will limit your life by about 4.6 years. and they scientifically have looked at a sample of people over a many year period, but i'm hoping that that study gets us to think about not only what we eat but what we're drinking and putting into our body and how it advances the aging process to take 4.6 years off your life, for example. for more information on food day you can go to www.food day.org. i wanted to just give a shout out to one of my favorite authors, anna la pay the daughter of fran is more la pay, founder of joseph colin of food first in the east bay.

adam moore la pays diet for a hot planet is one of the books that i'm consuming right now as i think about food day. she gives a very easy example of 7 principles for a climate friendly diet. so, when i think of eating that hamburger and i do have those urges, i think in my mind, it's almost like driving a hummer. i think [speaker not understood] talks about how climate change is driven a lot by what we put on the end of our fork or what we drink in our bodies as well. so, she calls it fork power and we need to have new ways of eating from going to the farmers market and community building aspects of it to even thinking about the climate prices beginning at the end of our fork. and that in her book and her suggestions she gives a lot of great suggestionses what individuals can do, but also what we can do on a system change approach as well. lastly, halloween is not this week, but next week, but in the

richmond district there is a bunch of different scary and spooky activities you and your families can take advantage of. the ymca on friday has -- the richmond ymca ha our halloween celebration from 5:30 to 8:30. also the supernatural halloween party at the academy of sciences in golden gate park in district 1 is happening from 5:00 to 9:00 on friday. this coming sunday join us at the clement street community farmers market for the kids costume parade at 11:00 a.m., support the merchants, but there will be a sing along, and toy parade, free scoops of ice cream and sponsored by the clement street merchants association. and lastly, on sunday the many haunts of the richmond district neighborhood center, our neighborhood center in the richmond on 30th avenue on balboa is having a haunted house in a neighborhood tradition and families and

children can come join the fun. there is a costume contest at 2:30 as well. the rest i'll submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i'm introducing several items today. first of all, several [speaker not understood] contracts and i always like to mention thea because i think it's a really important thing. for many years san francisco always mills act program, mills act of course is a state law that allows local governments to enter into contract with owners of historic properties to provide a property tax rebate in exchange for the property owner agreeing to a maintenance plan to restore and maintain the historic integrity of the building. basically to say we're not just going to dictate if you own a historic home you have to keep it in shape. we're going to actually partner with you to give you incentive to do that. and the mills act for a long

time was not fully implemented in san francisco. almost no small homeowners participated in the program because it was too expensive, lengthy, difficult and unpredictable. a few years ago i authored legislation which, colleague, we passed unanimously to make it much simpler and straightforward to engage in the mills act process for small homeowners. and since then we've seen a number of contracts move forward. i am today introducing several contracts from my district from the newly formed [speaker not understood] historic district. so, it's always exciting to see thea contracts move forward. in addition, today i'm introducing a resolution to put us on record in favor of moving firmly towards open source voting in san francisco. ~ these free and fair elections are a cornerstone of our democracy. we need to continue to push for more transparency, more

security, and more accurate election results. so, this resolution will move us toward the creation of free open source voting systems for elections in san francisco. open source voting means that the technology used to administer electionses is publicly available, allowing for greater accountability and transparency. our current system, private vendor holding proprietary software that is unavailable for public review, limits public accountability and oversight. the goal is to have certified and freely sharable voting technology which will enhance the quality, security, and availability of voting systems. it will increase security and sharable code can be viewed publicly. if there are flaws in the system, people can view them and people can flag them and make sure that they get fixed. and having a sharable code will reduce costs. other than an initial investment to create the code, the only ongoing expense for

counties will be hardware and counties can use off the shelf computers, tablets and printers. they'll no longer have to rely on expensive proprietary private licensing contracts with vendors. currently california spends more than $100 million a year to run elections a rate of $10 per ballot cast. the state has begun to pave the way for us to move towards open source. last year state senator alex padilla introduce and had passed through the legislature senate bill 360 which provides the regulatory relief necessary for open voting sis tempt: decembers. ~ systems. in the wake of this, the california association of voting officials, or cogl, this organization what formed to push for sharable open source voting systems. cavo ha the support of 16 other california counties ~ as well as organizations like the equal justice society and the national organization of women.

the resolution i'm introducing today will request that san francisco become a member of cavo and join efforts to make open source voting a reality. thank you, madam clerk. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. a couple items for introduction. one, the first one is related to our efforts around climate change, which is actually one of the most serious issues that face the world if not the most serious issue that faces the world this century. today i'm introducing an ordinance for gas stations to post labels on gas pumps to [speaker not understood]. this is an initiative created by 350 bay area. they are calling it beyond the pump. the berkeley city council is also considering requiring these label. we continue to work on

collective solutions to climate change like promoting transit and cleanpowersf, we can also encourage people to take individual action. putting information labels on gas nozzles would remind each of us that we contribute to climate change by putting that responsibility literally right in the palm of our hands. san francisco has established aggressive greenhouse gas emission limits. the department of the environmental has conducted an inventory of emission in the city and designed a climate action strategy that gives us a road map to meeting or our emission reduction mandates. the 2010 inventory of greenhouse gas emissions found that cars and trucks emitted 2.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide which account for 40% of all san francisco's emissions. in order to meet our greenhouse gas emission reduction mandates, the climate action strategy says we need to reduce emission from cars and trucks by 38%. the information label in draft

form because which still need to refine the language would state, the u.s. environmental protection agency, the epa has determined that a typical passenger vehicle burning one gallon of fuel produces an average of almost 20 pounds of tail pipe carbon dioxide which the epa has determined is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change. this is a message from the city and county of san francisco to learn about san francisco's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, go to www.sf climate.org. as you can see, that is a very long message, so, we have a lot of work to do to reduce that down. but the content of this message has the language that would be found to make it legally viable. this is a pretty startling fact, though, about what one gallon of greenhouse gas produces, that one gallon of gas produces, it produces 20 pounds of carbon dioxide.

a single pound of carbon dioxide would fill a 2-1/2 foot diameter balloon. but if we want to make it into more san francisco terms, we could say that a single pound of carbon dioxide would fill a 2-1/2 foot diameter yoga ball. imagine your car emitting 20 yoga balls of carbon dioxide for every gallon of gas, 20 yoga balls. that's a lot of yoga balls and that's a big volume of gas that's being put out by one gallon of gas. imagine all the gallons of gas that are burned in san francisco and you can see our sky filled with yoga balls. filling your car with 10 gallons of gas equals 300 yoga balls of carbon dioxide. the label would be attached to either the hose or the pump or on top of the pump or it could be a combination of a label on the hole itself that you would see in the palm of your hand to more information that would be

on the pump itself. but these are the things we can be working out before we get into committee. as we go through the legislative process, we will look at making sure that the public and [speaker not understood] will be informed of this process as we go forward. we will closely work with the city attorney to make sure this message is legally defensible. it is clearly factual and it is definitely noncontroversial. climate change is real and co2 is a contributing factor for climate change. my next item that i'll be submitting is an in memoriam for ted gulagson who passed away last week, very ~ surprising many people who have been struck by his passing. and i welcome colleagues who also want to make comments during my introduction after i read this introduction. this is an introduction that was written by i believe bobby coleman wrote a draft for it

and joseph smook who have had long-time relationship with the tenants union. last week we lost a beloved friend, an inspirational organizer of the city's tenants when ted gulacson passed unexpectedly. ted is survived by his sister sandra gul acson gaol by, stepdaughter, nieces and nephews and former partner sheila and dog who ted took in when he wandered up to his door. originally from massachusetts ted moved to san francisco in the 1908s and started working for the tenants union in 1988. for 26 years ted gul acson led the san francisco tenants union and was a key figure ~ in the city's tenant movement creating a successful legacy of accomplishments. a word of ted's passing became public as one of ted's passing became public ~ friends shared grief, memories and inspiration.

and there has been a common theme in all of their reflections. ted was a fearless and powerful activist who never hesitated to draw a line in the sand and stick to his principles. he was someone who both led militant and direct action in the streets and also actively participated in crafting and moving legislation at city hall and at the ballot box. he was also very good at helping to build coalitionses. despite his political four and his prowess, he was one of the most down to earth approachable humble people there was and was one of those rare advocates that did not leave a trail of enemies in his wake. ted was a tireless champion for tenants, poor people, and the working class in the face of victory and defeat, and he was a source of strength for many others to keep fighting. one of the strongest recurring images people have -- seem to have of ted was a positive

attitude, approaching our common struggles with a smile. he fathered a passion and a love for san francisco and the people who live here. thousands of tenants are still in their homes because of ted. as we express our sadness over his passing and the changing city, had i work has also provided us with hope. his organizing work of the tenants union ha created a strong independent of well trained collective. thanks to ted's mentor ship, there are many more activists to carry on his legacy to be as independent, positive, and as brave as he what. to keep a fighter, to keep fighting to make fundamental justice a reality. and during that fight and journey we must remember to enjoy our lives as he did, loving the giants, riding his bike everywhere, loving falcor and eating all the doughnuts and chocolates on our way.

ted gul acson, present e. ~ >> thank you, supervisor. >> i welcome other colleagues who wanted to make comments to do so now during my intro. >> supervisor campos. >> i, when i heard about what happened to ted, i think my reaction was like a reaction of just about everyone that i've spoken to about this. i just could not believe it. i think that there are things about a place and there are things and people about san francisco that without those things and without those people, you can't imagine a place being the place that it is. and i think that of the many individuals that i have gotten to know over the years and that i have interacted with, not

only as a supervisor, but even before that, ted is one of those icon i can people that you simply do not think and cannot think and imagine san francisco without him. and, so, i don't know, to be honest, how you think of san francisco without ted gul acson being a part of it. but i guess the thing that i can say is that i guess in a way he will always be, he will always be a part of san francisco. and i cannot for the life of me think about any issue involving tenants and housing without thinking about what ted gul acson thinks, and you have to catch yourself because you always think of calling ted and asking ted about some issue. and i think it's only fitting

that today as we're honoring his life that we had a piece of legislation that he, that he came up with, that he helped us draft that we worked on. a natural thing about ted above everything else, he was so understated. he what so humble, but ultimately he was about the work. and, so, i think that the only thing that i think i can do to honor him and to honor what he was about is to simply continue to do the work. ted gul acson, present e. >> thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor kim. >> over the last couple of

years we've lost many who have been organizers and leaders for our city. there are a couple that rise above that are clearly giants here in san francisco, and giants are individuals that have a commitment so unquestioned, you never wonder if they're going to be there tomorrow. in fact, i never, ever thought about a day in san francisco without ted gul acson. it wasn't until i got the news that i realize that i actually took that for granted. i never thought that there would be a movement without ted and i never thought there would be a san francisco without ted. and even when, you know, because there are so many of us, even when we argue and disagree, there is so much respect and love that we all have for one another because we know where each other's hearts and our commitments lie. and the loss of these giants

each time is incredibly heart breaking whether the passing of [speaker not understood], ted gul acson joins this group of san francisco icons whose commitment and heart was never questioned. but i have to say i feel so incredibly fortunate as someone who what younger here in san francisco, that we all got to spend time with all of these amazing individuals and that we have this generation. and i will call them elders. we have this generation of elders who are so intelligent, whose knowledge of the history of san francisco is unmatched, who are scrappy, creative, know the planning code inside and out, know every arbitrary and esoteric part of san francisco's administrative code and they continue to lead and advise and guide this movement and so many of us that want to continue that work either as

organizers, as activists or a policy makers, and they are a rock, so stable, that are just there every day. and i hope, i hope that in our generation that we have the same individuals that will be that way. because the generation before us really rejected everything, promotion, money, other cities. there could have been so many thing, but they always stayed every day to continue this work and they never ever tire of it. but most of all, i know that ted ha mentored so many people in this movement and there are so few individuals that lead without taking up space. often to be a leader, you talk a lot and you express a lot of your opinions and you make it really well known, and you take up a lot of space. and ted, ted what a leader without doing that. and i'm really, really going to miss him both as a role model

for so many and leadership and mentorship. and as supervisor david campos eloquently said the only way to honor ted is to dedicate our work to you and to commit to continuing it with the same fervor that you did. rest in peace, present e, ted gul acson. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor mar. >> thank you. i wanted to thank supervisor avalos for reading that great statement and the tenants union for also posting on the website remembering ted gul acson, an open letter from the san francisco tenants union, ted gul acson university of activists. i'll remember ted's, what i call grassroots humility, very similar to bill furrow, erica, jesse, and many others that have passed fairly recently [speaker not understood]. i always will remember how ted

was very clear for movements to know your enemy and to identify them or it, but also not to be afraid to develop tactical alliance at times and to build a movement from those alliances. condolances to sheila sexton and the family [speaker not understood] and everyone around ted that helped make him what a great person he was. i really hate how the mainstream press has characterized the progressive movement and ted's work and i would hope that people build the university of activists and broader alliance with other organizations as well. i know theretion' a lot of folks from ace that are here today and home defenders, but i think of the tradition of fighters for our neighborhoods and communities ted gul acson stands above us all in many ways. i like how he never sugar

coated things in his language and knowing him for decade in the work that he's done, he never got enough acknowledgment i think of what he built over time. but my hope is that we continue after november 4th to really acknowledge him in the best possible way. and i wanted to say that in the tenants union statement they say here's what we encouraged to best honor ted. his family will leave a memorial after the election which we hope you all attend and for now over the next two weeks we will stay focused on winning prop g and our other campaigns as was ted's wish. i'm not advocating for political stuff right now. mr. givner, i'm reading from the tenants union website. while maintaining with full vigor our daily counseling services and political advocacy

for tenants, we can then celebrate ted's life with the greatest pride and his family will soon be announcing the details of the public memorial service. please save a prospective date of sunday november 16, subject to change. the tenants union will also be hosting open houses and mobilization so please stay tuned for those announcements. with the closure of the san francisco bay guardian newspaper, we know it's crucial to keep our electoral practiceses and political activities strong, independent, honest and reliable. please rest assured that we are all fully prepared for that, too. thank you. ~ well. >> thank you, supervisor mar. president chiu. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, thank you for your beautiful word about ted gul acson. there is so much that can be said about ted ~. he was one of the very first progressive activists that i met in our city probably about 15 years ago and he was someone who i know taught all of