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 us, mentored many of us.

and i learned a lot about leadership from ted's style. we have a lot of a naziing and brilliant leaders in our city and i think i might say many of them frustrate us every day. we agree with them, but they might drive us nuts. ted was not one of them. he was an unbelievably kind, gentle and decent soul. and in a city political environmental, he exemplified humility, humbleness. he was gentle while he was fierce. and i think it's really hard to imagine the tenants world and progressive politics in san francisco without ted gul acson. and i know many of us, we are celebrating our giants this month. but i think we also know that we are all mourning for and celebrating a true giant for

tenants and for san francisco who is an incredible champion for san franciscans. so, ted gul acson, rest in peace. and, colleague, i ask that we adjourn on behalf of the full board for ted gul acson, if we could do that without objection. [gavel] >> supervisor yee? >> just really quickly. my colleagues on the board, i probably knew him the lease ~ least. that's why i was hesitant to say anything. for the short time i knew him, i admire his style. i didn't always agree with everything, but one thing i have to say about him is that -- and i can't say this about too many people -- he's one that

when you ask for things, it's what i call authentic ask for authentic lead, and that's what i think of him as. thank you. >> thank you very much, supervisor yee. we'll move on to supervisor breed. >> thank you. colleagues, today i have just one item. i'm introducing a resolution asking my colleagues to support the rank and file member -- men and women of the san francisco fire department. as i've discussed many times in these chambers including with the mayor, we are in the mid of an ambulance crisis in our city that is jeopardizing public safety. the fire department is out of compliance with its own state

mandated exclusive operating area. response time in july and august were 50% longer than its own standards call for. we are still on a daily basis forcing people in emergency situations to wait because the fire department literally does not have an ambulance available to send to them. all of this is happening in spite of the fact that the fire department's budget has increased by over $63 million. that's 22.4% in the last five years, and the board ha approved funding for 16 new ambulances which the department still has not purchased. and i know that the mayor's response to my question today said that they have been purchased and they are on the way, but in fact not a payment has been issued and a purchase order is still pending. this is why on september 22nd the united employee groups of san francisco's fire department, including those representing the asian, black,

hispanic, lgbt and female firefighters and paramedics, unanimously voted to express a crises of confidence in the fire department leadership and urged the mayor to immediately relieve the chief -- relieve the fire chief. and it is why on october 1st the fire chief's association, those chiefs whom the current chief have given the promotions to announced that it stood with the you nightved employee group, echoing their crises of competence specifically calling for the replacement of their current chief. colin powell said it best about leadership. the day soldiers stop bringing you their problem is the day you have stopped leading they have. they have either lost confidence that you

but for whatever reason the owner of these two hotels, chesapeake lodging trust, is refusing to grant these workers the fair treatment even though it is very much the norm in san francisco's hotel industry. ~ ~ in june of this year, some workers anna flores, edwin lopez, both long term la meridian san francisco workers, as well as representatives of the workers committee actually went to chicago and spoke to the chairman of the chesapeake lodging trust. they presented him with a public petition that what signed by the majority of the coworkers asking chesapeake to honor their request for a fair process.

because the request for card check knewtrithv seems to be falling on deaf ears, these workers are at a dead end. so, i am proud today to introduce a resolution that actually supports the workers in the very difficult step that they have taken where they have actually called for the boycotting of their own hotels, even though that means they're going to lo tips, hours, and other personal sacrifices that they're going to have to make. but they have reached a point where they have no other option. my resolution supports that call for a boycott and it says the following. that it states that the board of supervisors, that we express our full support for the worker demand, a fair process to

decide for them self-whether or not to unionize. that we the board of supervisors call upon customers of la meridia and the hyatt fisherman's wharf going forward to respect the workers' call for a boycott of these two properties ~. that the board of supervisors calls on all departments and employees of the city and county of san francisco to boycott the services provided by la meridan and the hyatt fisherman's wharf and the board of supervisors calls on s.f. travel to advise and alert incoming tourists and conventioneer of the boycott of la meridan and hyatt fisherman's wharf. they cannot get away with treating workers, probably in most parts of the country, and they are certainly not going to get away with treating workers this way in san francisco. the rest i submit. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor campos. president chiu.

>> thank you. colleagues, i first want to start by joining supervisor kim in the in memoriam for cecilia limb. as she mentioned, our city, we had gone for ~ almost four years without a domestic violence homicide and in the last few months we have had four. and if you read the account of what happened to ms. lam, there are many aspects of it that sound eerily like what happened to claire joyce [speaker not understood] ~ some 14 years ago tomorrow. i think, colleagues, we all know that am i tempango's death is what spurred our city to move forward on so many ~ new policies when it comes to domestic violence. but i do hope that with ms. lam's tragedy we will continue to renew ourselves to this work. colleagues, i have two items related to the environmental that i'm introducing today. first, i'm introducing legislation to keep unwanted, unused drugs out of our public

waterways and off our streets. improper drug disposal ha been a real dangerous environmental and public health and public safety issue. we all know expired medication lying around the house can end up in the hands of children, accidentally ingested by seniors or pets, or used in suicides. the more accidental drug overdoses he that occur every year from prescription medications from heroin and cocaine combined. while wastewater treatments have been effective at removing solids and harmful bacteria, they are not designed to filter pharmaceutical chemicals. and medicineses that are flushed down the drain or the toilet that or that leach from landfills in our waterways cause irreversible dabbling to our ecosystem and our bay. to our colleagues who were around in 2010, you may remember we first considered an ordinance in this area ~. but when our colleagues in alameda county were sued by the pharmaceutical industry for similar ordinance, san

francisco decided to put our efforts on hold. in the meantime, san francisco's department of the environment launched our city's voluntary drug take back program. and i worked with the department of the environment and the pharmaceutical industry to secure funding for the pilot program. but unfortunately over the last 2-1/2 years, over 40% of our small pilot program has been funded by the industry. this program has been remarkably successful literally taking 18 tons of unwanted drugs off the streets and out of the sewer of our city. we are here and i'm actually introducing this today because two weeks ago the 9th circuit court of appeals upheld alameda's ordinance affirming the ability of local governments to acquire medicine manufacturers to provide for the collection and disposal of medicine. this ruling gives our city the ability to take our pilot program, make it permanent and expand it to meet our real needs.

the ordinance would require drug producers to participate in the product search of program to collect, handle and dispose of unwanted drugs. it would require drug producer to pay all administrative costs and fees, require them to adequately promote their stewardship plans, and also require that the drugs collected be dispoed at a permanent hazardous waste site. at this moment there are only 13 independent drugstores that have sites in the city and we hope that the over 100 pharmacies in san francisco and wherever you buy medication you should be able to dispose of expired medication. i look forward to having a conversation about this ordinance. i am also introducing an ordinance today to move san francisco's leadership forward in the area of solar. in 2008 san francisco launched go solar s.f. we received $65 million of private investment, the headquartering of major solar leaders in our city, and over 120 jobs for low-income diverse

residents who otherwise have faced employment barriers. our city has seen firsthand the benefits of solar energy, keeping housing affordable, increasing property values, creating jobs and promoting environmental justice. the question today is how we expand this and sustain our efforts as we aspire to reach a greenhouse gas free electrical system by 2030. my resolution lays out a vision for 2020, what we look forward to is a solo vision 2020, a road map of how we get there with three components. first, to pro poe the permanent funding of our go solar incentive program, after the previous program expires in 2018. second, the solar vision establishes a 50 megawatt solar panel goal for our city with at least two megawatts for tenant occupied residences every year. third, the resolution supports a requirement that the roofs of new developments be sustainable.

that solar panels and rooftop gardens be installed on all-new construction or substantial retrofits where feasible and for the department of the environment to convene [speaker not understood]. solar vision 2020 will help san francisco uphold our city's reputation as a leader in the solar movement and i want to take a moment and thank the san francisco department of the environment, its executive director debby raphael, its commission president josh arce as well as leader from the solar industry jeannine coter from [speaker not understood]. i want to thank representatives from labor from the nonprofit community as well as advocates for our solar community here in san francisco. the last item i have i'm introducing a resolution, unfortunately to again condemn antiarab and antimuslim bus advertisements. you may remember two years ago there was a series of these bus advertisements that were placed on our buses and this board condemned those advertisements. we then saw a round of

anti-israel bus advertisement and i know a majority of this body condemned those ads as well. unfortunate tali this past week there was another round and i ask that, colleagues, we reiterate our condemnation of these anti-arab and antimu limb bus advertisements and stand with our san francisco muslim and arab communities. the rest of my item i will submit ~. >> thank you, mr. president. that concludes roll call for the introduction of new business. >> why don't we now go to general public comment. >> at this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including the policy discussion between the mayor and the board, item on the adoption without reference to committee calendar, and the closed session the subject matter of item 30. please note public comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to public comment at a board committee. 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