san francisco. i'm particularly encouraged of what last thursday's announcement can mean for our low-income and vulnerable populations in san francisco, housed in our public units. once the details of the pilot are released i want to make sure our city is on record supporting the project and we're doing everything possible to pursue these for san francisco residents in our own city. i want to thank our respective departments for working on this issue with me and getting prepared for the multi-family pace rollout and rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. >> supervisor kim, you submitted, correct? supervisor mar. >> thank you. colleagues, i would like to announce this thursday, february 5th at 6:00 p.m. at the cliff house, i'm helping to facilitate with the national parks service a discussion on the future of ocean beach. the tradition of ocean beach bonfires. this is an important meeting that we are asking community members, the national park

service and others for suggestions on how we can collectively support continuing the bonfires, but also as a city and national park service ensure that the environment is protected as well. and that there is good maintenance and clean up, but also public safety as well. bonfires have provided free and accessible recreation activities enjoyed by generations of families and students, surfers and so many others. the tradition has been going on for over 125 years in our city. i think one of the key areas in my district is called kelly's cove, where surfers gathered and it's basically part of our san francisco history, part of ocean beach history and that is at ocean beach at the foot of balboa and cabralo. the tradition of bonfires has been allowed to continue by the national park service, concentrating an area for bonfire use that is close to

the beach chalet at the foot of fulton in an area that is just north of lincoln boulevard. over the years reasonable steps have been take to mitigate the bonfires. when pits were installed in 2007, they successfully moved the bonfires from along the beach to a concentrated area along fulton street at the great highway. importantly this kept fires away from environmentally sensitive areas like the snowy area and other areas that the national park service has been trying to protect. so it's made also clean-ups a lot easier to concentrate in key areas. this is an example of a guideline that improves everyone's experience at ocean beach. now the national park service though, which manages ocean beach is considering new regulations following a pilot they conducted last year, last summer. and i strongly encourage everyone that uses and enjoys ocean beach to attend and share their thoughts and suggestions about how to best manage this

treasured landmark. this thursday february 5th 6:00 am the cliff house the national park service and myself are hosting this meeting. if you have questions, the national park service can be reached at 56 1-4700 or call my office at 554-7410. also some of you may have heard and i know that supervisor kim has called for a hearing on the scandal and potential embezzlement of funds from finance authority for non-profits and former employee of that fan connected with the association of bay area governments. his name is clark howitz. i have part of the association of bay area governments and would like to call supervisor kim for calling for a major hearing so we can hear all the details. i know there is litigation going on.

even though i'm on the association of bay area governments administrative committee, which met last night, i have been prevented from participating in different suggestions of settlements, but i know from public comments from the association of bay area governments and the financial authority for non-profits that the full amount of the funds will be returned to san francisco as soon as possible out of the finance authority for non-profits reserves, i believe. also, my understanding is there will be some type of independent audit that the association of bay area governments will be strongly supporting as well. for facts, i think some of you know that this employee of the financial authority for non-profits may have embezzled approximately $1.3 million of funds that were supposed to be designated for the soma stabilization fund for infrastructure, streets and parks in the south of market

neighborhood. leaders from south of market testified. my hope is with our hearing and also the work within abag and finance authority for non-profit that san francisco will be made whole and especially the neighborhoods that need the funds. the south of market neighborhood as well. thank you. the rest of a will submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> supervisor wiener. >> >> thank you madame clerk, along with supervisor campos and presenting legislation that is groundbreaking and the very first of its kind to put protection in place for lgbt seniors living in facilities

where really they are particularly vulnerable, because they rely on others for necessary care and service, may no longer enjoy the privacy of having their own home or even their own room and may or may not have adult children or others who can really look out for them. the legislation will make it illegal in various ways to discriminate against residents in these facilities based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, hiv status. colleagues as you will recall in 2012, we called for the creation of a task force to really analyze and report on issues facing san francisco's aging lgbt population. we appointed as a board, 15 people to serve on the lgbt task force. over the next 18 months this task force performed amazing work and they were asked to and did come up with a detailed

plan about what the most pressing needs for the estimated 25,000 lgbt older adults living in san francisco. in march of 2014, the task force issued a report entitled "lgbt aging at the golden gate san francisco policy issues and recommendations." the task force found that lgbt seniors faced discrimination and mistreatment in long-term care facilities. not all long-term care facilities. there are such facilitis that do a terrific job with the lgbt community, but there are issues here and elsewhere. lgbt seniors are particularly vulnerable due to life-long experiences, marginalization that place them at greater risk of isolation, homelessness et cetera. staff at times lack the protocol for dealing with our seniors. while there are state laws

mandating non-discrimination, there is not clear determination what to do to not discriminate against lgbt seniors. so we're providing that clarification by enumerating what is alegal and not legal. the legislation will amend the police code to prohibit discrimination against residents in long-term care facilities based on sexual orientation, gender identity and hiv status. to appoint a liaison undergoing training and allows requests by

two residents to share a room, and forbids involuntariry room reassignment based on someone's complaint against gender identity. it requires access to appropriate medical care specific to an lgbt resident's needs. it requires that residents be allowed to use restroom s available to other residents of the same gender identity. is there are others and in addition hrc will be publishing a manual to assist facilitis in complying with the new law and third, penaltis for violations the legislation. this legislation, colleagues, is designed not only to protect our lgbt seniors who are residing in long-term care facilities, but to give them

the tools that they need to advocate for themselves and their family members. colleagues, i know that supervisor campos and i both look forward to a robust public discussion on this important topic and i look forward to your support. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. >> thank you madame clerk. i want to say that last year, as you recall, the board of supervisors supported the policy of vision zero; which is to end pedestrian fatalities and today colleague issues would like to introduce an ordinance amending the transportation code to prohibit drivers of tour buss from narrating while driving. as you know, on october 23rd, last year, we had a tragic accident in front of city hall,

where miss priscilla moretta was hit by a motorized tour vehicle and died from her injuries and have seen 17 other pedestrian fatalities taking place in 2014. the total is a reduction from the year before, which was 21. so we're moving in the right direction and this ordinance that i would like to introduce is just going to be another tool to make sure that we get to our vision for 2024. as you know, distracted drivers provide danger. according to the california traffic safety survey, in 2013, 36% of californians surveyed

thought that talking while driving posed the biggest safety problems on california roadways. and nearly 70% of california drivers surveyed said that they had been hit or nearly hit by a driver who was talking or texting. a tour bus driver, who is narrating a tour while driving is likely to be speaking to the bus passengers en masse during the vast majority of time during the tour. further, the job of driving a tour bus is an important and is more complex than driving an automobile and thus the safety problems that are created by talking while driving, the tour bus driver in addition to attending to their driving dutis is providing narration to passengers. i have concluded that providing

narration will reduce distracted driving and advance traffic safety by reducing the injuris and accidents caused by distracted driver. i would like to thank supervisor kim and supervisor avalos for joining and hope colleagues will consider adding your names to the ordinance. rest i the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor yee. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i have a hearing that i did last year the hiring plan for the nurses in the san francisco general trauma center. last year i visited the center and i saw that many nurses were doing work above and beyond their call of duty. often working more than one job in their work, because they

were so understaffed and many were working overtime hours. when it really comes to ensuring safety of people that are facing trauma and having well-rested nurses is a big part of that. we had a hearing -- the hearing we held in june, during the budget process, and at that time we were told there was a hiring program in place and that the department of public health would be able it to reduce what was a one-year wait for someone applying for a job to receiving a job down to about 3 months. i'm hearing that that wait is now been increased to almost a year again. and we want to look into whether that is actually the case or not and department of public health to present how their plans are going forward and how they are reducing the amount of time it takes to hire nurses. i noel know we'll be starting our new general hospital

building. i want to thank supervisor cohen for cohen for co-sponsoring this. >> thank you, that clouds ands roll call. >> thank you, madame clerk could you please call public comment. >> at this time the public may comment generally up to two minutes on items within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the board. please note that public comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to public comment at a board committee. pursuant to board rule 3 [#4*-/].22, please direct your remarks to the boards a whole and not to individual supervisors, nor to the audience. speakers using translation or

interpretative assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. if you would like to display a document on the overhead projecter, please communicate that to sfgtv. >> first speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. president breed, that sounds good, president breed. congratulations. i just have three simple things i want to share. i had the opportunity to go out the other night on the homeless count, some of the supervisors here -- supervisor farrell, supervisor kim and some of the other supervisors were there. i have always wondered with that count and i always had a little suspicion about the

numbers and now i have seen exactly how it was done, my numbers are sure different from your numbers. i don't know how we're going to do this. are we just out there? i mean, your numbers are nowhere near my numbers. so maybe sometime i will be able to talk to some people about it. i'm on the local coordinating board and i do have a dog in this race. so i will be coming around to you to talk to about that count. the second thing that i want to talk about is you have done a wonderful job of eliminating the fare for low-income youth. you have recently done a great job on eliminating the muni fare to low-income seniors, but the people i represent is the low-income homeless, which is almost an oxymoron. where are we on that? a lot of time we're able to get shelter beds and at the end, we go to glide and request that they go to providence and they tend not to go, because they have to

fight the fare-evasion system and make make us the next group. supervisor cohen brought up finding out which groups in the city are represented in jobs and all we have to do is walk around the government building and we can find out who is underrepresented? we have done this before and we want to know what is next step once we find out who is underrepresented in the city? >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> next speaker, please. >> the last time i was here, i miserably failed in trying to explain something. so -- not the last time, but last year, last time. so let's try again and we'll put this up, if we may and i will expand that.

how do get this bigger? can somebody help me here? i need some help. how do we get this bigger, council president. it's up on the screen already. >> okay. now this is really frustrating. 1 minute, 18 seconds. each one of these circles, my fingers are on represent 70 years' of time, the first being 70 years in the exile from when the temple was destroyed to the year 36, when the 70 weeks' prophecy and daniel ended. it's strange that god says that there will be 3 and a half years more until christ returns. that is obviously a spiritual

number. it's not realtime. it's a spiritual number. and it can't be properly understood unless we really understand the 70 weeks' prophecy in daniels which gives us 69 sevens until jesus would be baptized and jesus is killed in the midst of the cycle, which was the 470th year. if you don't get that, you won't get the fact it's very strange. this is exactly 11 jubilees -- >> thank you your time is up.

>> hi i am the mother ofyalani, who was assassinated on january 9th. just want to testify, get prepared to my son, who had called me and said that he was cashing his check on his half an hour lunch break from benihanas and he and his colleague walked to geary and fillmore and the check cashing place was closed and asked for a ride from one of his friends he was raised with in the fillmore area. he got into the car and didn't know that the car was stolen and someone said they paid $25 for it and next thing you knew, my son was executived with the three others in the car. i received a phone call from

sergeant sanders who said my son wasn't in a gang, said he didn't have a criminal record. they had to use his thumb print and said he didn't have a gun and most of all he had on his benihana work uniform, a nice shirt and pants and dress shoes. my son was in school, in the star project, with willie brown, that was his mentor. here is a picture of it to show that my son was very, very brilliant. here is the pictures here. and that is willie brown's daughter. my son, he was with willie

brown that day. this is a state of emergency >> your time is up and we can only provide two minutes. if the next speaker can finish -- thank you. >> we are requesting for a state of emergency in the city and county of san francisco. >> we have to move to the next speaker. >> i apologize we cannot do it that way. >> i'm from the fillmore community. i have been going through the same problems almost 15 , 17 years. i have been going through this stuff with these murders. i have been to over 40 something funerals, and i lost

many, many, many friends, family and this is a big one right here. we lost four youth african-american boys, to gun violence. and this is something that happens in third world countries. people getting slaughtered in their cars like this. we need you guys to come together, so we can get a solution for our children from getting murdered. they have been murdered, they are getting slaughtered in the san francisco streets. these children don't have a chance. they barely can get a job here. it's hard for them. i have seen youngsters trying to get job and putting in applications and it's hard. some may have felonies on their records and everybody turns their back on them. so we need you guys to come and make a solution for our youngsters, for your youth. because our percentage of black people is not that much in san francisco. we're a small percentage. and we're losing out, big.

this is our future. this is going to be the next supervisor, the next mayor that is getting killed in the streets. like she saidyalani was a working young boy. he was working at benihanas and he got slaughtered. it's a waste of life. so we need you guys to come and put something together for our youth. all these houses and all this other stuff, man, it's about life right now and we need somebody to stand up for our people, for our children. i have been to 40 something funerals and i can guarantee you someone in the army hasn't lost that many people in the the army and we have lost all of these people. do something for our people. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> as my brother spoke, we grew up and see a whole lot in the filmore district.

on the outside looking in, it's a great place, which it is. it gave me a lot of essence, but overall, seeing these murders happen daily and every week is ludicrous. dealing with how great a city, a metropolitan city san francisco is and how big it is and how many resources come through san francisco and the bay area overall, it's ridiculous. you know, as my brother stated these youngsters may get felonies at 18, and you know, a lot of times things happen as youngsters, you know? and we mature. i was a young guy at one point and i have matured to become the man i am now. with that being said, if the creator didn't have mercy on all of ourselves, where would we be? with that being said, these youngsters may get a felony, and then they are written off, you know? they are written off and a lot of them have changed their mind or changed their attitude. but the system hasn't changed.

or we're not accepting them anymore or they are looked down on. all we can do is do our part without a budget. as i stated before, there is a lot in san francisco that goes on, and it's a lot that can be handed over to the youngsters and handed over to the young adults. a lot of programs. i knewyalani, he was a family member of mine. and this is a very tragic event to see someone innocent go down this way. and you knowyalani's mother has been an advocate and outreach person for 30 years before her son was involved in any of this. we're here not just for one person, but we're here for life over all. we're here for life for the ones who live now. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi. my name is princess and i'm

running for president, 2016. and i'm begging and i'm asking and pleading and praying that the world will hear our cry, our children are being murdered. there is rape, there are robberies there is chaos in the streets. our children's body parts are being stolen and taken out of our children and these murders are happening from the top and we have to address it from the top. we need our cry to be heard. here are these moms, we're out here and we're doing the best that we can with our children. these children are innocent and we just want everybody to hear it, princess for president, 2016 and i'm here on behalf of my sister sala. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> it's not showing the pictures, are we doing something wrong. >> we'll ask sfgtv to get

those up. >> i think it's important that the city and county of san francisco call for an emergency, 32% of the homicide is a statistic that is skewed beyond belief. we need to come to the table with intent to stop this and it could start in san francisco with a state of an emergency that says we no longer tolerate these homicides of young african-american males. this is all part of a global white supremacy operation that we need to address and we need to deal with, perhaps start with intention. just bring your heart to the table, and tend to stop it and that will be a good beginning. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, i am the sister and friend and family members of a lot of these brothers dying in

the community. >> i guess she has been listening to the news that she can't really focus on that or pay too much attention, because as you know all the news media gets their story from -- you know, i don't know where. >> he say/she say basically. >> exactly okay. so what i will say is that your brother and i just told your mom, that your brother is not gang-related and has no criminal record, you know? and we know that. we're doing our work that he was a good person, okay? and that had just left from work and i guess he called one of his friends for a ride. >> yeah. >> and i don't know if it was to go home or cash a check, but he got a fried ride from