really important that the workers do not see any loss in take-home pay. just want to put that out there that my "no" vote includes that comment. >> thank you supervisor avalos. supervisor kim. >> i just want to say i do appreciate all the answers and response from sf-mta. i just want to concur with supervisor avalos and cohen. i'm still not convinced. i'm not saying i'm against it 100%. i actually could see how it's useful and how armed services is a deterrent. i just don't see feel like i have all the needs* to vote the contract moving forward today. in general for our taxpayer dollars to make sure we're spending it the best we can and to make sure everyone is safe doing that. i'm confident moving forward we'll have this conversation. but in weeks time as sf mta did as best they could response to all these questions. i just don't think industry standards

means it's necessary or that it makes us safer. but it i'm not saying it doesn't make us safer either. i just wish we had more options in terms of non-lethal options. and we explored daytime versus nighttime. i get the nighttime obviously. that off the bat i understood immediately. i just wish we had time to explore less guns on the street and other non-lethal options. we weren't able to do that in this time. i appreciate they get more training than was initially presented to us last week. firing range is different from a moving target in a very busy city. i would like to understand that a little more as we move forward. but i certainly think safety is a top issue for our employees. if we look at safety, we have to look at our bus drivers, because they're the ones where we have a history of demonstration of attacks and assaults on our bus drivers. we haven't seen it yet with our fare collectors. this is where the

questions come up -- if our goal is really ut most safety for our* what are we doing with our bus drivers where we do have demonstrable assaults with our drivers. i think this is an ongoing dialogue. i won't be able to support the contract today. i am appreciative that this will continue. >> seeing no other names on the roster, mad 8 clerk can you please call the roll. >> on item nigh 19 -- supervisor breed aye -- campos -- no. chris 10 sen ksh aye. cohen -- no. far l -- aye. kim -- no. mar -- aye. tang -- aye. weern -- aye.* ye -- aye. avalos -- no. >> there are seven ie's and four no's* with

supervisor campos, kim, avalos with the dissent. >> this resolution is adopted. mad 78 clerk, can you call the next item. >> 20 -- resolution to adopt the city's 5-year plan for fiscal years 15-20. >> madam clerk. >> breed -- aye. >> can i make a comment? >> oh, sorry about that. take it back. supervisor mar. sorry i missed your name on the roster. >> that's okay. this is on the financial plan. actually, i'm sorry. i wanted to speak on item 21 -- sorry about that. >> okay. can you call the roll please madam clerk. >> on item 20, madam president? >> supervisor breed -- aye. campos -- aye. chris 10 zen -- aye. cohen -- aye. far l -- aye. kim -- aye. mar -- aye. tang

-- aye. wiener -- aye. ye -- aye. avalos -- aye. there are 11 aye's. >> this resolution is adopted unanimously. next item please. >> item 21 is a resolution to adopt the city's 5-year information and communication technology plan for fiscal years 2016 through 2020. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. i first wanted to thank our city's chief information officer miguel and the quake committee for the great presentations they've given and their ambition for a 5-year communications technology plan. i wanted to also acknowledge the great work of our budget and legislative analyst office that last week revealed a major report showing the huge gaping and potentially widening digital divide that exists within our city especially for low-income neighborhoods -- seniors, the homework gap for many

low-income kids at home that are not part of the high-speed internet revolution that's sweeping across this world. i think some important concerns that i have about our 5-year plan were raised at the budget and finance committee recently as we heard talk about the findings of the report from the budget analyst. i wanted to say that well over 100,000 san franciscans do not have internet access. and the fcc has recently upped the definition of what high speed to the home access is. and i think it's way more than 100,000 people given the numbers from a survey done by the controllers office. and 50,000 people in san francisco still use the -- some might call it archaic dial-up -- which is really really slow. you can't access audio or vid yul like many others can*. the new york times editorialized and we reiterated what our budget analyst found in the study that was done that local governments

really must play a critical role in increasing broadband so nobody is left behind -- especially low-income communities. i want to thank assemblyman am yeah know* task force for digital inclusion that advocated not only for not leaving anybody behind in the digital highway but also for the potential of a municipal fiber network like chattanooga, tennessee and 100 other jurisdictions around this country. i think the 5-year technology plan is really a good vision, but it's not adequately addressing digital inclusion -- and that we bridge the digital divide as strongly as we can and leave nobody behind. i look forward to working with mr. gamino and other stakeholders that ensures our digital divide and struggles for digital inclusion as strongly as we can. i think a divide that includes

creative and strongest solutions should support digital inclusion in our city and action plan as well like we had in 2007 and few years ago. so i look forward to coordinating my efforts with supervisor mark far l who's* also been active in this looking at financing fur expanding our city's broadband network* and to facility these goals i directed the city attorney to form a digital inclusion task force so we can ensure senior organizations and low-income groups can have a say as our city develops information technology plan for the future. >> thank you supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> thuch madam president.* so i'll be supporting this today. but there are two items i want to raise. and expand the access to broadband, a really critical component is that the city actually have the

infrastructure in place to do that. and i'll be honest that i think the city is falling behind. and i don't think our city government has done what it needs to do. so we are in the process in san francisco of digging up almost every city street in the city. we are accelerating our road resurfacing, replacing our sewer system, our water mains. pg&e is doing an enormous amount of natural gas line work. we're doing all of this. and our city departments are not laying conduits in the street before they close it back up to be able to expand our existing municipal fiber network. it's -- i've never understood why this isn't happening. i hear excuses, but it's not rocket science. and it should have been happening for many many years. last year then-supervisor david chew authored legislation* that i cosponsored and we

headed unanimously to require that our city department with some exceptions, lay conduit as their opening and closing* streets.* we learned that the budget committee that despite the fact that law has been on the books -- for i believe at least six months if not more -- maybe eight months -- not one inch of conduit has been laid. not one inch of conduit has been laid. dt has been formulating protocols. i don't know to me those protocols don't need to be complicated. it's not rocket science. protocols apparently are going to be done next month. and then they will go into departmental review. well, we've all seen that movie before. i have no idea how long that's going to take. i could see it taking years if other examples are any indication. and there will be objection after objection from departments. and meanwhile we'll be repaving miles and miles and miles

of road that we could have been laying conduit in. so i've asked the city attorney to draft legislation to basically remove all departmental discretion overlaying conduit and to amend, i believe, what would be the excavation code to mandate, "if you're digging up the street, you shall lay conduit." i'm hoping we don't even have to introduce that legislation. i'm hoping all departments can work together and move this forward so we start laying conduit knew. not in a year*. not in five years. not one block per year. but actually start getting it done. we are seeing enormous missed opportunity, and we need to fix this. instructor: i also want to say that we are* expanding free wifi access in public spaces. i don't think it's where it needs to be. the wifi access particularly in on market street is particularly bad. if we're going to try to give people access, we have to have the infrastructure that

actually supports that access. i will be supporting it today, but i think these are significant infrastructure challenges that the city has not adequately addressed. >> thank you supervisor wiener. supervisor campos. >> thank you. i don't want to belabor the point. but i do think that one of the things that struck me about the issue of the digital divide that exists is the timidity with which the city is addressing that issue. and i want to thank supervisor mar for raising the issues he's raised. and i know that there's going to be work that's going to be done. in the near future on that issue.* i know that supervisor far l has actually done work around this as well. and i think that supervisor wiener noted is also very important. so i think that's progress. but, you know, what struck me and has struck me about this is

that we tout ourselves as being a city that is, you know, technology-driven, and yet, when it comes to the digital divide, we are lagging behind many cities. and it's interesting, because san francisco the last few years has rolled out the red carpet for these tech corporate giants. and i wonder "where are they in this picture?" you know, the tech chamber of commerce as is it city touts all the things it's done for san francisco. well, what has it done to close the digital divide? i have yet to hear anything about what they've done on this issue. and the fact that i haven't heard anything tells me they probably have done very little. mr. con way is not shy to talk about all the things he has. so i think that has to be a 2-way street. i think the city has to do more, but i also think that

these corporate partners should do more as well. we certainly have gone out of our way to provide financial benefits to a lot of these companies -- a lot of these corporations -- and yet, it doesn't seem that we're really getting much, and certainly in this area, san francisco -- the heart of silicon valley -- is lagging behind places like chattanooga nn where they have made investments that far outpace anything we're doing here. >> thank you supervisor campos. supervisor chris 10 zen. >> i just wanted to point out that if we said "yes" to google ten years ago, we wouldn't be having this discussion. >> thank you supervisor christensen. colleagues, can we take this item -- same house same call? without objection this

resolution is adopted unanimously. mad l clerk, can you call the next item please. >> item 22 is a resolution to adopt the city's 10-year capitalization plan for fiscal years 2020-2025. >> campos -- i will be supporting this item, but i want to be very clear that -- and there's nothing in the document that's before us that actually addresses this issue. but i just don't want any ambiguity in the record. that i think that there's still many questions to be answered about one specific item within the capital plan. and that's whether or not to replace county jails 3 and 4 in the hall of justice. i think that there is strong evidence against the need for a new jail. given the decrease in the

jail population and the -- in fact, sf community based interventions like pre-trial diversion, and other alternatives to incarceration. and i hope that it's clear that by supporting this capital plan, it doesn't mean that we are committing ourselves to the re-build of a new jail. i know that supervisor kim has been doing a lot of work on this issue, and we'll pull to the hearing that she will be holding on that issue. >> thank you supervisor campos. and i agree with you as well. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. and along the same lines, i'm voting in favor of the capital plan today as a guideline, but not as a mandate -- not setting in stone what is in here. i think it provides a general direction for us to go. specifically, i have concerns

about the jail, probably other projects as well. also looking at the rollout of our go bonds that we have that are mentioned in the capital plan and the relation to the deposed housing bond that's looking to go to the november ballot. and i think there's room for a larger bond that i want to consider. and i don't think that's necessarily considered in the capital plan. but i think it's one that we should continue to consider as we move closer to the end of june. >> thank you supervisor avalos. supervisor wiener. >> i thank you. just as we all -- as i did in the last item -- i criticized some of our city agencies for slow progress, i think we also need to acknowledge the positive. i just want to say -- just as a reminder of what incredible progress we've made having a 10-year capital plan. and if we think back to what it was like before we had the capital plan,

it's just really night and day. and the fact we now have this methodical catalog of all the city's capital needs with a plan for, a path forward for meeting those needs* is just tremendous. so we're actually planning bonds years in advance. that it's done according to a schedule. that under this plan we've seen the completion of our library renovations -- more and more park renovations, roads, transportation, health and so on and so forth. so i really want to commend the capital planning committee and its staff and all the departments who've helped make this successful. i also want to particularly thank both the poc and the mayor's office and the planning committee for taking* to heart the dialogue around strlgts. street lights are moving around the plan. invest in street light system and it's so many challenges. i

want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who's made that possible. as i mention as a committee we always have to look at the horizon. our water crisis really i think compels us to be looking aggressively at water reuse, water recycling, infrastructure, and how that plays into our park system and watering and cleaning our parks plazas and public spaces as well as our city buildings. and so, i hope that the capital planning committee will take a hard look at how we move forward much more aggressively towards all sorts of water reuse in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor ye. >> thank you. i also want to commend the capital plan committee. when you look at the overall plan for the ten years and it gets readjusted every so often, i'm glad we're doing this, especially with the bond measures we're doing this logically and not trying to fight over things every single year. i know they

couldn't really take into consideration too much with the school districts, school bonds, but it seems like at least because of our good relationship between the city and the school district that there are discussions. maybe one of these days we can incorporate all of that. for me, i would be supporting this. it's a good plan. it's basically gives us some guidance in terms of where we want to go from here to -- in the next three years. not everything in there will be done i suppose, but at least it gives us guidance. and one of the things that we need to have a discussion on -- i agree with several of my colleagues in regards to the jails -- we've had discussions on this already. and there's been discussions of where it started and the reduction of how many beds and needs and so forth. i think we're ready to tackle once and

for all -- we need to have as a board a discussion around what the needs are. is this going to improve the conditions for those that need to be here in san francisco jailed. compared to what the conditions are, what i've seen down in san bruno. but i'll be supporting this. >> thank you. supervisor tang. >> thank you. i just wanted to quickly just share a little bit about the discussion that we had in budget committee on this item. of course, i do want to applaud our city for actually embarking upon a 10-year capital plan for many years. and we are at the end of our first 10-year cycle. in terms of the specific conversations regarding again specific proposals such as the jail. i did mention that in the past we have actually -- despite passing a capital plan, we have actually changed and swapped out certain projects we intended to have. for example, we had initially wanted new acc animal control building

in the past. we are now carrying that out with public health bonds. we cycled in transportation bond last year. we are now newly adding in housing bond. and we hope to eventually see whether we can cycle a housing bond regularly through our capital plan going forward. and so, i think that they're -- the plan really identifies needs, and there's still room to make changes. and i think it's really good supervisor kim is holding a specific hearing on the jail and the specifics of that. we also heard that there will be further analysis done in terms of the number of beds that have been proposed. potentially been changing what they have currently proposed as part of it. so i do feel comfortable approving the plan given that overall it's not just about that one project -- the jail -- but there's so many other things we've identified needs for. >> thank you. thank you, colleagues. i appreciate all of your comments. and as the representative of the board on the capital planning committee, i too have brought

the board's voice to this committee opinion and again, i want to reiterate this is just a plan. there's still a process in place. i too have concerns about the jail and a few other things in the project. but i think overall having a road map makes a huge difference when we're making decisions about how we protect our public access in the future and how we make decisions about building things that we need in order to move it forward as a city. so with that colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. and at this time we are going to -- it's past 2:30. and we will have 2, 230 comment daitions. so i will start with* supervisor far l who has a commendation today followed by supervisor eric mar. >> thank you, madam president. so colleagues today i have the great pleasure to honor a gentleman that many of us have worked

with in the past. amazing contributions to our city, our stit and our country, research in his work for public advocacy and health.* so i'd like to ask dr. ma to the podium. just to give his background -- it's exhausting how decorated he is. he's a graduate of harvard medical school. completed his residency at ucsf. health policy studies. dr. ma also served our country. he joined the u.s. army medical corps. served for nine years. left after being rank of captain. his work has led to a series of publications in the new england journal of medicine, jma, wall street journal among other things. was recognized with the pearlman award of* journals. his current research focuses on

reducing the impact of smoking on cervical outcomes. associate director of surgery. clinical practice and serves as chair at the university of california office for tobacco research related programs scientific advisory committee. he's nominated at the... where he served as chair. he's a member of the american heart association board of directors as well as san francisco medical society. he's also immediate past president of american chapter of college surgeons. quite an amazing long list. in particular, i have the opportunity i know many of us have worked with dr. ma in the past. i want to bring -- recognize him today in particular as we're voting on legislation that i offered that a number of my colleagues have co-sponsored regarding chewing tobacco. i want to recognize you certainly on this occasion today, but for all of

your incredible hard work. so thank you on behalf of all of san francisco, all of our residents, for your hard work in the area of health. thank you very much. >> [applause]. >> thank you. president breed and members of the board of supervisors. good afternoon. i'd like to thank supervisor far l for this recognition. which is wonderful to share with supervisors in their decades long effort. san francisco medical society which have both endorsed this important legislation to end the use of smokeless tobacco at at&t ballpark and on athletic ball fields across san francisco. i applaud the vision of supervisor far l and his six co-authors -- tang, cohen, mar, wiener, avalos -- to introduce this important legislation to protect the health of our baseball heros and their young fans. i'd like to thank each of you in advance for

voting "aye" shortedly. pioneering tobacco legislation that becomes a model for the rest of the nation such as clean indoor air laws, prohibiting the sales of tobacco products, pharmacies, advocate -- and most le cently the electronic cigarette legislation championed by supervisor mar. i believe the action about smokeless tobacco e pitter miezs the great things* government can achieve. players union to achieve their own self-stated public health goal. this will have worldwide and national significance. i look forward to mayor lee signing this landmark bill into law shortly which will be a key win for the wonderful city of san francisco. thank you. >> applause]. >> *.

>> congratulations dr. ma. next we have up supervisor eric mar. >> thank you. i did also want to give a shoutout to dr. john ma. when we had our sf campaign that was led by supervisor cohen, wiener, avalos and i. as we honored people he was a true champion for children's health and to address the diabetes epidemic here in san francisco but throughout the country as well. it's my honor on the day before earth day to honor three amazing organizers and activists from san francisco foundation. and i'd like to ask if the chair brian dow could come forward. and the campaign co-chairs for rap which is called "rise above plastic."

eva and shannon. come forward. i'd like to say the san francisco sur fighter are amazing. it's a grass roots force in san francisco but also throughout the country to create stewards for the environment, to protect the ocean, and to create a more sustainable future. but i was struck in going to their meetings how fun and engaging they are, how creativity and resourcefulness are really encouraged. it's just a great culture of organization that's trying to help not only the west side sunset richmond but throughout the city. rise above plastic is a sur fighter foundation national campaign with the aim of reducing plastic pollution worldwide through creative community solutions. i like how they involve kids and communities and parents to really approach small businesses to get them to be more sustainable and to look at plastic straws as one of the polluting impacts on the ocean and our

communities. the rise above plastic campaign in san francisco is connected with others. but i know san francisco is like the model campaign chapter. locally the rap campaign is supported by the san francisco board of supervisors policies like our plastic bag ban thanks so much to sfer ross karimi and others* for championing that. thank you to newsom and chew and i did* work on plastic bottle. but also many community based organizations including sur fighter foundation. those initiatives connected with the rap campaign and others helped san francisco get out in front globally to reduce plastic waste that washes up on our beafs and shores and* gyres kind of areas of the world as well. last sunday i was also really honored to be there with 400 volunteers on ocean beach to clean up after

some of the bonfires had ended. but just people celebrate. i'll just say sur fighter foundation has been doing heroic work cleaning up ocean beach over and over again every year. and i'm impressed by their ability to mobilize so many people and to do it in such a fun way as well. and i was also shocked and horrified about -- by how many straws, cigarette butts, little plastic stuff that i could pick up in a short amount of time like many others did and that basically tons and pounds of garbage left on the ocean beach and how many people that you mobilize to really clean it up. we need to do so much more. but we also need a culture of leave no trace and protecting the environment that is so important that sur fighter foundation promotes in its campaigns. i also wanted to say san francisco's rise above plastic program continues to look for ways to reduce plastic pollution. and they've turned their attent