. if existing tenants in many of these buildings were evicted it would be difficult for them to find housing in our current rental market. many would have to leave the city in fact there are many tenants that were scared and are tired and have already moved out of san francisco and finding squeezed roommate situations or looking for jobs in areas they can afford to live. however, the property that got the most attention primarily because it was the largest was ten 49 market and i want to acknowledge the mayor's office in particular who worked closely with our office and

planning to work to find a resolution to the issues that the property owner brought forward that he had to evict the tenants and had profited by accepting their rent check for years and they worked regardless of this work the landlord has decided not to pursue the residential option that the city provided. rent payments that he actually refuses to accept have been put in he in escrow accounts and i recuse myself. i think he is

confused about the work of ee elected representatives and yes i have a clear bias to preserve affordable housing in san francisco. >> further i have little sympathy for property owners that convict tenants because they can now make more money by doing what is legal and i want to thank the city attorney's office for helping to develop legislation that ensured that we as a city are evaluating loss of housing during this time and finally i want to thank the tenants many of whom are actually here today for their courage of coming out to support this legislation which is actually very complicated. it not only affects their lives

but the lives of many others and what these tenants are doing today -- home is often our our sanctuary. i hope that we as a that we as a city that we as a city can play a small role colleagues, i ask for your support of these interim controls today. >> is it my understanding that you are not going to be voting on this item? >> i will be voting on this item. >> okay. can i ask you a question about the legislation? i know that there was some concerns expressed by the by the city attorney's office have you addressed those concerns or will you be making any

amendments to address those concerns? >> we did address many issues through amendments. i just want to say the city attorney has done a really amazing job to ensure we address this is systematic issue and keep tenants in place. >> okay with that that can we take this item? without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> madam clerk, can we go to roll call for introduction? >> yes madam president. supervisor farrell you are first up to introduce new business. >> thank you i'm introducing a resolution urging the national park service to abandon the diss embarkation project and take it away from the golden

gate national recreation area. unfortunately they continued to move ahead despite strong opposition and recently released environmental impact information. >> it will have drastic impacts in the neighborhoods that i represent in district 2 and i believe in the city as well over 1.4 million people visit alcatraz island and fisherman's wharf is very well served by public transportation and other modes and if you contrast this with fort mason the nps is considering a drastically

different landscape than what is currently in place. it would do so by providing a convenient link to hotels shops restaurants and other amenities. if fort mason is not equipped to handle this amount of traffic. this could mean an additional 1.5 million visitors annually in addition to what exists today.

>> the draft eis alternative makes no sense and that's why i'm asking our local leaders to give this back to the city of san francisco with a simple question -- who is impacted more by the ferry service? i would argue that the city is far more impacted than alcatraz island. it clearly impacts our city of san francisco the most the city has to deal with how to prepare for growth. and the nps does not and the city has to provide transportation options and the nps does not. i will do everything in my power to transfer this contract i believe it should be managed by local city government because it directly impacts our

city the most. we can send a strong message to fort mason. >> thank you supervisor farrell . >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. two things first i want to give an update today on the impact of the communities collective support for the five tenderloin families on january 29th only a day after a fire displaced a larger group of residents in the mission district. i just want to recognize -- actually reaching out to one of our district businesses start-up hand up and also project

homeless connect to create an awareness campaign to get many folks involved and i want to mention this fund has now raised 25 thousand $25,000 and these funds will all go go to the families and they have agreed to split it evenly so there's still time to donate either to my facebook page or visit the website where you will find the families. this important dollar will actually go to providing furniture clothes and many of the other things that were completely lost during the fire and i want to recognize boston properties who matched their employee donations and they contributed 9, $250 to the campaign and twitter donated 5 thousand

$5,000 and and once we hit the 20 the $20,000 mark twitter donated another 5 $5,000 to these families. >> finally, i wanted to introduce a resolution supporting campus accountability and safety act. my freshman year of college i got the calls that so many young women fear. my best friend called to tell me she lost her virgin ity at a party a boy she barely knew

raped her she was devastated and didn't know what to do. she blamed herself for not saying no strongly enough or not knowing what to do when it was happening. no one should ever be put in this position. no one should ever feel guilty or blame themselves she decided not to report this. she continued to see this guy on campus and in classrooms and he would make snide remarks to her about this incident waiving his power over her. i was angry. i wanted to call every physically large person i knew. i already knew at this i young age that she would be victimized over and over again and nothing would come of it and later that year i saw a woman i met she was drinking

with her friends when she passed out and a male student found her resting next to a pool of vomit. she came out publicly that she was date raped and accused her perpetrator publicly. i watched as people took her story apart questioning her motives and questioning what the definition of rape is. . he was suspended for a semester but allowed to stay on campus. last fall i attended a let us

a lunch eon an american woman age 18 18 to 24 is at the highest risk of sexual victimization compared to woman of other age groups. if you do not attend college a woman is more likely to be assaulted than if she does attend college. 80 80 percent go unreported and colleges universities reported over 5000 to the department of education and yet not a single investigation in the last 5 years and only ten to 25 percent of students found responsible not accused but actually found responsible were

actually kicked off campus. it is un undeniable that we need to do more. here in san francisco our office has been working with senator gilabrand to brainstorm what we can do here locally and we've learned that san francisco is at the forefront of survivor centered approach in which survivor's take priority and campuses such as u.s. f are considered role models yet when we talk to students they still feel with even our model approaches we can do more to encourage more women to come out and report and

i'm kicking off a series of actions by introducing a resolution today. last year a bipartisan group of senators introduced this legislation aiming to turn the tied on how sexual assaults on college campuses are handled and the legislation failed to pass and the bill has been reintroduced this past month. we can't wait any longer and we can not allow sexual assaults to simply be an accepted part of our higher education experience. students will have a place to confidentially access and work with advisors to have training and. i asked for my

colleague's support and i thank the courageous survivors and you can witness some some of the amazing advocates yourself. >> and i also want to recognize supervisor tang a cosponsor of this resolution and the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor kim so now it is time for our 3:00 p.m. special order so we are going to abandon roll call temporarily in order to honor some pretty amazing women in our city today i'm extremely pleased to welcome you all to the san francisco board of

supervisors chamber for our women's history month celebration which is a time to recognize the efforts of some amazing women in our city's history. women in our communities who are courageous leaders since 1996 the san francisco commission and department on the status of women has recognized the vital role and contributions of woman in our communities so at this time before we begin to recognize some of the amazing women that are here in the audience today, i want to acknowledge emily the executive director welcome to the board of supervisor's chamber. thank you president breed i'm very pleased to be here for women's history month we're here to celebrate and recognize women

in our communities working to improve the lives of all san francisco i san franciscans. it is the 11th consecutive year . the national theme this year is weaving the stories of the women's lives. before we begin i just wanted to share with the board some very exciting news. as you all know san francisco was the first city in the world enacting a local ordinance for all forms of discrimination against best of my women and this was made possible by san francisco bay area woman who attended the 4th u.n. conference on women in bejing in 1995 and

believe it or not this is the 20th anniversary of the conference where hillary clinton famously stated women's rights are human rights. mayor lee helped to launch the campaign together with the first lady last march and charge last march challenged 100 other u.s. cities to join in the campaign. we'll be in new york next week for the status of women meetings and you will hear more about this campaign in the lead up to the u.s. conference of mayor's conference that's going to be held in june that mayor lee is hosting. yesterday they honored 4 truly amazing women.

you will hear more about these women at a reception immediately following the board of supervisor's presentation so after this ceremony we invite everyone to the reception at at the mayor's conference room where the district attorney will recognize his honoree wendy still who will be retiring in just a few weeks. now i'll return the proceedings back to president breed so you can introduce your honor ees. ees. >> thank you very much. if there are any other members here that can not find a seat there's an over flow room. i'd like to make sure you stay

within the chambers so you are in close proximity of the board so at this time i will let the members of the board of the board know that we're going to be going in reverse role call order but i know that the supervisor needs to go first so we're going to start about to start with you and we're going in reverse order today at the board chambers thank you. >> thank you president breed and there's a good reason for having to go first and i have the great honor to celebrate the stories of women's lives and women's history month and as we recognize those who work not only to advance women's rights here in our city and you know through their actions, but today i get to honor someone who has an incredible role not only as an incredible woman in

our city but someone who is educating women in our city so i'd ask you to come to the podium. >> she is the head of the school for girls here in san francisco one of the schools that i've known my entire life and i have many friends who send their children there right now. as i mentioned before, i have never met anyone inside of san francisco who every time i mentioned their name, everyone says isn't she awesome gosh she's the best i can't wait i want my kids to go to school there. just to give you a bit of background on wand a she received her bachelor's and

master's from colombia university and was a former trustee of concord academy. she has been an educator for over 20 years began began in 1990 by teaching third grade in new york and became the the first dean of students and moved to boston and assistant during her 11 years there and now the head of the school for hamlin and we have such amazing teachers but also we have a number of schools that are also part of our same sex education here in san francisco where i grew up and wand a you do such

an amazing job educating the next generation of san francisco women so i want to thank you for all of your hard work it's an honor to have you work. i just want to thank you for being such an amazing person here in our city so congratulations. >> thank you so much. [applause] thank you thank you to supervisor farrell and to everyone assembled here. it's such a joy to wake up in the morning every day and to know what my purpose is here in life and it's a privilege to be able to bring your great joy to the world aedz to the world's great hunger so my joy in life is married to the great hunger in life and for great schools and i'm thrilled to do my part not just in district 2 but in

this entire wonderful city thank you very much for this honor and it's such an honor. thank you. [applause]. >> okay at this time congratulations. we'll recognize supervisor supervisor cohen from district ten. >> thank you very much madam president good afternoon everyone. good afternoon. i want to just take a moment first of all to publicly

acknowledge and thank dr. marase and give public voice to the entire department they are doing great work and not only do we have an opportunity to celebrate and honor women this month but the work is being done day in and day out without celebration and often times without notice so my applause to you and your staff you are doing a fantastic job. thank you very much for that. also want to take a moment and recognize all of of the honorees this afternoon congratulations to you. there are a few that i haven't had an opportunity to work with but look forward to working with you and today we want to recognize recognize and come to

celebrate a woman named kimberly ellis right over here she deserves a standing round of applause this woman is actually the executive director for an organization that educates and trains democratic women to run for public office called emerge california and every single day this woman is honoring the mission of the organization by educating and training women to run for office and shaping the policies and commissions and bodies that have an an affect not only here in california but shaping the face of politics across the entire country by way of background she has been the executive director since 20 20 ten and under her leadership emerge california has greatly expanded its reach, it's effectiveness as well as its

visibility and she's not only educating and training women for commissions but she's also serving on one. she was appointed in 2009 to serve on the community development commission in the city of richmond kal california and it's important to know she is also a wife and mother as well as a caregiver to to a dog a turtle and a goldfish and holds a ba in english and ladies and gentlemen please honor this woman. her name is supervisor supervisor kim berly ellis. >> [applause] i have to add my $0.02 i don't think supervisor cohen you could have picked a better honoree she is a no

nonsense no holds barred when it comes to supporting and encouraging and uplifting women she has been at the forefront of the cause and i just want to say i appreciate all of the work that you consistently do to support women in political office especially because often times we hear the stories of discouragement of well maybe it's not your time or maybe you should do this or that and k imberly is like no you should run for office if you feel you should be in a leadership position go for it and i want to thank you for your encouragement and your continued support of women all over the bay area and i know emerge has expanded its reach throughout the united states and you have been instrumental in that so thank you kim berly for being a really phenomenonal woman. >> [applause] thank you for this honor. i am deeply grateful and humbled and thank

you to the department on the status of women for organizing this celebration and congratulations to my fellow honorees and as i started to think about the significance of this award women's history month and the day and times that we find ourselves in i started to reflect on what it means to me and for for me it's a time to reflect on the past is on the past struggles that women have overcome and to appreciate the immense contributions that women have made and for for me it's a time to personally recommitment myself to the ongoing struggles for true freedoms and equality for women everywhere and for those of you, yes, the struggle is real and continues because even though women make up the majority of the workforce in the in the united states when compared to their