the majority of the shootings. >> sir, you cannot comment on the task force at this time, i'm sorry. >> that this task force be filled with members of the community. >> sir, i'm sorry, you can't comment on the task force. i'm sorry. >> okay. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, madame president and board of supervisors. my name is pastor from the western edition -- i'm just here's a member of the san francisco black and brown organization alliance. we're aligning our communities. we have young men, young women that are dieing in the streets from bayview-hunters point to the western edition, tenderloin , we have got the western edition. it's touched everybody.

lake view omi is completely wiped out of black people, period. everybody is ended up in the tenderloin and we're getting pushed out of tenderloin. we sit right next door to the marina district. right over the hill. so we just thank you for hearing us. as an organization, we're pulling together, it's not about individualizing but it's about all of us coming together, just like we have all of the supervisors together. we're all coming together as organizations and as people of color to stand for righteousness and injustice. but we need help. we need the city and county of san francisco to include the community. to finally include the community. the western edition was the

first redevelopment act of wiping out the african-american community and we're still as a community not represented. so finally if we can band together against violence, we know all of this stuff came from economics and redevelopment wiped it out. so if we could just come together somehow and make this organization/alliance with our city and county, that is what we want to do. thank you. thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is sue vaughn, i'm the chair of the sf group of the sierra club, but i'm here speaking on my own. supervisors, a pandora's box of problem for muni and other public transit agency and statewide could be opened unless we all act fast. a republican assemblyman from southern california has introduced ab 61 to amend the state vehicle code 2250.5 which prohibits all, but common

carriers, muni and other public transportation agencies, buss from operating in public bus stops. this bill quite simply is an attempt to circumvent environmental review. and the tech companies to mitigate their impacts. apple's 4th quarter profits were greater -- and other tech companies with similarly wealthy. and environmentally review would assess the impacts of these buss from everything ranging from safety pedestrian and bicycle safety and infrastructure impacts to evictions and hyperinflation of housing prices. these companies can afford to mitigate for their impacts. why is a republican assemblyman from southern california introducing legislation to

privatize our bus stops. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please >> hello everyone, i'm paulette brown and i would like to use the overhead. i'm here kernighan my son and i'm not here to bash anyone. i'm an advocate and i'm out there all the time trying to bring just for my child and other children. we ran an organization [speaker not understood] and i just wanted to say about all the unsolved murders, including my son's case. my son's case is still is closed case -- it's not closed, but it's not solved and i'm concerned about that as a mother. it's been eight years since my son was murdered. you know, i am taking responsibility as a parent, you know? as i would say if my son hadn't

been out there causing problems, there is no way i would have watched my son die. there is no way i would have watched my son go identity and shoot someone else. sometimes the parents got to take responsibility and tell on their children, if they are doing something wrong. in this snitch culture that is going on it needs to stop and we need to open our mouth, because our silence is killing our children and we need to do something about that. i carry my pictures with me and these are all unsolved murders of young men that have been going on for years and years, and all of these are unsolved, including my son's. i also have a picture -- i tell people that they don't want to stand over their son's casket, this is all i have to remember my son. this is all i have to remember my son. and the next thing that keeps me fighting is my son laying on

the gurney, dead, 30 rounds of bullets left in my son. this is for me to remember the rest of my life and i'm willing to get out there and stand and help anybody. that is what we need to do. thank you. >> thank you, miss brown. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, president london breed and board of supervisors, i just want to say thank you supervisor breed and other board members who have been on the front line of this issue and including our chief greg suhr, who has been with us since the beginning of these homicides that have taken place. my name is madie scott and i'm the executive director for human nation and president for the brady campaign, san

francisco chapter and chapter leader. i'm very angry, very angry to the response to the homicides that have plagued our whole city. it has affected everybody here in san francisco. as a mother who lost a son 17 years ago, it just brings back memoris for me and my family and for the community and for 13 young men of color, where the majority of these deaths happened in district 10 and in the filmore district. we should by outraged. we should be outraged and angry that this has occurred in our city of hearts. a city that represents hearts while all of our hearts are broken here in the city because of this recent rash of homicides and violence. we can do better. we elected you all to support us on a journey to have a safer and better san francisco. the mayor's response to this is an atrocity. he has not reached out to anyone or said anything about

these homicides or even said anything in sympathy towards the families. we will take this to our attorney general harris if we have to and we're you encouraging everybody to write a letter to here. we're going to take it all the way to the capitol and if necessary to the president. so we hope that the board hears us and takes action on this item. >> thank you, miss scott, next speaker, please. >> tom gilbertey, spare the air is spare our lungs. we need our ventilation systems upgraded constantly.

you never thought that a 65-degree in january and february could be as dangerous as it is. bathrooms. it's time, muni opens up, bart opens up the bathrooms on market street. time has come. muni needs toing to and bart needs to clean up the elevators and take a ride at civic center and street elevator at powell. next 26 years at south beach apartments within a five years there, a pattern kind of grew and people lived for two to three years and left. i have seen a lot of people leave. in all of that time i'm only corresponding with one person, overhead, please. rodney fong. he was the butcher at the

bayside village market and i would say it's two, three years and he would laugh and said two years and i built the clientele and they were gone, two years. he was terribly frustrated. we're not building rental-rate [speaker not understood] it's just not a healthy two, three years these people have to go, because they are paying a huge amount of rent, and they can find cheaper digs somewhere else, farther away. we don't create a healthy community. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm jackie stanford. i am an educator, and with

expertise in race and community race in school and society. i just would like to support my friends and family in the community as we raise our voice about the trauma in our community and to remind us of the words of simon who said in mississippi, schoolchildren are sitting in jail and now people are dying in the streets, and she asks the question, why can't you see it? why can't you feel it? i don't know. i don't know. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public who would like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank everyone for coming out. we are here. we hear you. and we will be with you throughout this situation. the

community is in my heart and in my prayer and we'll continue to work with you to resolve these issues for our community. thank you for coming out. madame clerk, can you please read the doption without committee reference? >> items 29 through 36 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference, single roll call vote may enact these items if a member objects a matter may be removed and considered senatorly. >> supervisor mar? >> thank you, item 29. >> okay. >> roll call vote on the remaining items. >> on items 30-36, supervisor campos? >> campos aye. >> supervisor christiansen? >> aye. >> supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor farrell? >> aye. >> supervisor kim? >> aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> supervisor tang? >> aye. >> supervisor wiener? >> aye. >> supervisor yee?

>> aye. >> supervisor avalos. >> aye. >> supervisor breed? >> aye. >> there are eleven ayes. >> okay. these items are adopted unanimously. madame clerk, can you please read item 29. >> item 29 is a resolution to urge the california state legislature to amend state law for youth fare-evasion. >> supervisor mar. >> colleagues i ask for a week for this item. the commission ended in strong support of this resolution. the youth commission chair michael lee stated the criminalization of youth for fare-evasion was among the youth commission's primary concern. props to supervisor david campos, and other groups for advancing that major expansion

of our public muni system. this resolution supports decriminalization of youth fare -evasion. the law allowed for other infractions to be handled administratively and not criminally. so the decriminalization of youth fare-evasion, the option to replace fines for community service. but youth were exempted from this change, and this resolution urges the state government to decriminalize these infractions. following the amazing grassroots campaign to bring free muni to san francisco, the current law is completely out of step with our valued and this resolution urges us to be consistent. it doesn't mean that youth who break the rule and are ineligible, it would be handled

administrative like a parking ticket and not in the justice system. i urge strong support for this policy. thank you. >> not seeing any other names on the roster, can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted >> madame clerk, can you please read the in memoriam. >> yes, today's meeting would be adjourned in meming of the following individuals on behalf of supervisor campos for the late mr. meay, mr. alfonso and mr. maraiso and on behalf of supervisor wiener and supervisor campos for the late mr. ed edward cookie dough robert bell. >> this brings us to the end of our agenda. madame clerk, is there any further business before us? >> madame president, that concludes our business for today. >> seeing none, we're adjourned. thank you. [ gavel ].

>> so i want to wish everyone a good morning and thank you all for being out here we'll get this started some very important people has something to say about this tunnel project finally opening my name is vince a commissioner with the public utilities commission i'm proud to be here it's exciting just a

moment agree we saw the waters coming down the tunnel we're standing 80 years ago we began it deliver precious resources to the customers we serve open this very location awe as accompanied 25 years ago we had one of the biggest quarters in modern times this is a semireminder of how important it is to invest ♪ infrastructure to make sure we are prepared with protocols in place i want to give a shout out to my partners in labor many lopez and san mateo building trade and the engineers in the house the work you've done at the project managers the things

you've done exceptional and an >> inspiring momentum the water is coming in and the next speaker will have a little bit more to say about the water he has a background it education and transportation and really knowledgeable he is an attorney went to arthur dong college and one of the most important leadership in salting dave the president of the board. >> welcome everyone to setting san mateo county it is my privilege to celebrate this incredible accomplishment san mateo couldn't hearsay been pivotal to the water supply back to 1952 when a dam was constructed across the creek and create a water entry nor the city of san francisco and, of course, san francisco and the puc has been critical to the

couldn't the san mateo we're the beneficiaries of the remarkable hetch hetchy system which was first brought water here 80 years ago that in and of itself was a remarkable piece of engineering a gravity system over $155 million and serves tremendously well, for 80 years but today is an open tun time to talk about the upgrades that have occurred and celebrate the accomplishment of the molestation that tunnel as was mentioned the trying anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake and we read in the paper the u s is seeing movement in the soils and the geography it suggests another quarter could come sometime soon so this work is done ahead of that it is

not often that you know government can get ahead of that problem it could have he'll seen an earthquake and seen an off water supply but thanks to the foresight of the puc the investments have been made at that strengthen the system to when the earthquake is caring we'll be better off the peninsula is a tremendous beneficiary of the upgrades as and mentioned we receive all of our water from the hetch hetchy system as well the alamed in santa clara couldn't county we're talking about a benefit to after all us so, i say my thanks to all of the people to the self-puc and the contractors labor and others who have seen their water bills

go up sometimes, we is having maybe a little bit disgruntled but the outcomes of the investment they'll be proud and celebrate with us again my pleasure to welcome to the san mateo county for this historical event. >> our next speaker is a yack of all trades yesterday touring our meeting he continued to make sure that the san francisco giants were in a position to win that game i know that harlan kelly makes sure he shares the credit i see members of his team here for me it's an honor to be working with those folks including andy moraine we're

going lucky to have harlan kelly managing this entire system (clapping.) so good morning, everybody. so can you imagine in 1906 we had a major earthquake and the city of san francisco broke down this was the impetus of our water system a startup and 1934 was the day that the city engineer actually designed and built this system and at a later date this system in operation right here 80 years ago so 25 years ago we had another ground shaking event was the loma prieta earthquake in 1989 that was the impetus our our water system program 83 projects $86 million we are investing a main backbone of our system is

the tunnel an amazing system the ferries tunnel that is built under the bay most people thought it was the bay tube but it is the actual tunnel under the bay it was amazing you know, i had the opportunity to go down and witness the actual correction that was being done it is like a factory underneath the bay it was just to expressive how the contractor our design team and the management how we all worked together to finish this project under budget it's significant i'm here to sing praise to everyone the one that thing that people don't recognition when we talk about water infrastructure it is also buried invisible so if we look at a dam or you look at streets and bridges you

actually see that infrastructure is failing but when you look at buried pipe and tunneled you don't see that condition so when we actually bring this in operation i want to everyone to remember we deliver water underneath the bay my job as 1yrd or general manager we're invested money it maybe invisible but vital to deliver you water the source of everyone's existence i want to thank the team the team that was put together because it was amazing the first when he landmark the options we were thinking about putting a pipeline where the existing pipeline we were looking that but wanted to make sure we put something in place that was ritualistic to earthquakes we of time the funnel was the best option and want to minimize the

virginia and the tunnel was also the best option it was more expensive by our with twhoerl customers think this is the best option i want to thank everybody i'm excited i here the water flowing thank you very much. >> thank you very much harlan i want to give a shout out to betsy she works with the public utilities commission and she helped to set this whole thing up and just handed me more notes about construction numbers i want to thank betsy for all the work today. >> it's important to note especially i come out of a labor union for the workers we were confronted with one of the biggest recreations in 2008 when this project was getting

jump started the numbers were more 60 percent of the half million dollars were performed by people in if the bay area and the apprenticeship hours were built by residents of san mateo county it's about doing the work but making sure the community gets an opportunity to perform those functions in our industry and get health care and pensions and everyone else this was a triple bottom line effort the next speaker is the chairwoman of i scombrietd spending time with her i think some of our board members are here i want to welcome ruben and marty and john weeds they're on nicole's board nicole please come up to the

front. >> well commissioner courtney and timing hines and harlan cell thank you for inviting me here i'm happy and revved to see it water come through thirty this area 12 years ago we only mingled this this is a great day the 4.5 million residents and the corporations that my agency represents truly building that this is a project that will sure the emptying emptying supplies in the future this is an expensive project but critical for each one of them their water supplied risk to the community it e community from the 80-year-old pipeline no longer exist we say the first every

tunnel underneath the bay and not only is this an expressive job with the team meeting their deadlines and exceeding many but $29 million under budget i want to say there's another projects on the water system program that remains to be completed we look forward to our work with the puc as we see these move forward this is completely reliable in the event of an earthquake including the new dam in our work with the puc we're proud of the fact the $4.7 million is one hundred percent ratepayer funded our communities seen the cost increases in our builds and yet stand here today and see the benefit i look forward to the work on the water improvement program and on behalf of

everyone say thank you to the team for their completion of the job thank you (clapping.) if you haven't had an opportunity really do take this opportunity to look at the work of the men and women and the law workers and the electricians they take care of the ground we have a dprauth go on they replaced the state of the art the applicant and went with a water conservatism so diverse users a chance the message for mayor ed lee the santa fe san francisco baifr is stronger and more resilient because of the tunnel this mask achievement makes us you fortunate we're

able to complete f it i want to thank you for all being here please give users a retained ofyourselves a retained of would you all rise please for the pledge