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community members and old will join us this saturday to celebrate the juneteenth festival. the other festival is the haig street festival. which is next sunday j une 14th. i said this weekend, my apology from 11:00 to 5:30. it's another street fair we have. i wanted to highlight those two particular events. it's the 38th annual street fair. we have an amazing history in our community. i hope some of you will take time out of your schedules to come to our neighborhoods and celebrate with us. thank you and the rest i submit. >> thank you president breed. supervisor farrell. >> thank you madam clerk. last november our auditor complete one of the most comprehensive reports in support of housing portfolio that served the homeless here in san francisco.
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the city services partnered to identify the type of services and supportive housing utilized. how client's needs may change and whether the services are supporting client transitions to other housing. report also noted they had a difficult time collecting the data needed to access the percentage of housing client on public benefits to give -- some of the data didn't exist or wasn't tracked. from the data they got their hands on, over 250 adults could qualify for inhome support services but country countrily receive the benefit. public benefits simply help people secure their most basic needs in our society. they provide a source of income whether it's ssi, support services that help people get connected and find employment, help them secure food through
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cal fresh or supportive services. public benefits also help the city's resources stretch further in san francisco and become more efficient because of the support from federal and state governments. today i'm introducing straightforward legislation that will help maximize enrollment public benefits to help them get on a path towards self-sufficiency. it will also require more thorough outreach in case management from the providers by
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having them development the times and methods to encourage them to enroll in the maximum public benefits. in the annual report the providers must provide information regarding the following. the percentage of clients enrolled in all the public benefits for which they are entitled. the percentage of clients applying for the benefits. a full summary of the reasonable efforts made to help the client enroll in all the public benefits. if the clients are not enrolled in maximum public benefits, an explanation as to why a higher percentage of clients are not enroll. for hsa, the ordinance mandates that the agency creates -- they must share the work sheet
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publicly on the website. additionally, hsa will be required to conduct two already more -- or more audits. we as a board approve unanimously, this law will first help the city collect more accurate and appropriate data to better understand which clients in supportive house running utilizing public benefits and to what extent. public benefits help secure the most vulnerable in our communities and get them on a path towards self-sufficiency. they provide most basic needs. this legislation will help more seniors and families get their bents they need and deserve by creating a process and requirement to ensure they're not losing out on benefits they qualify for.
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>> thank you supervisor farrell and supervisor kim. >> thank you madam clerk. i wanted to announce and invite folks this saturday to the second of our series of movie night. we will be watching jurassic park. eencourage you to -- we encourage you to come out with your families and bring blankets. this will begin this saturday 6:00. its on folsom street between 6:00 and 7:00. this is part of our effort to help activate our parks here. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor kim. seeing no other names on the roster. madam president, that concludes roll call for the introduction of new business. >> can you read public comment. >> the public may comment for up to two items on items on the jurisdiction of the board to include the policy discussion between the mayor and the board.
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the minutes and the items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. items 49 through 51. public comment is not allowed on items that very subject to public comment at a board committee. direct remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual supervisors and nor to the audience. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to receive. if you like your document to be displayed,#eñ?ñ?ñ?coíómd9h« w éa)íwm2@# such to sfg tv and remove the document when the screen return to live comp of -- coverage of the meeting. >> good afternoon board of supervisors i'm peter warfield executive director of library user association. i want to bring up the fact that the saná?ñ francisco public library is betraying the public in a variety of ways:ñ?ñ?ñu[á srv7x]óáñq>-jñ=
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rw?pcv-+ú i like to talk about is damaging access by the public and surveillance of patrons. we ask the board of supervisors to hold hearings and to closely question the library's budget with respect to these sorts of issues and remind you that the library's budge currently is i highest of libraries in each category of service and triple the average of libraries in north america serving half a million to one million people according to public library data service records. when the libraries new teen center opens next week on june 18th, you and the public need to know that this was done by destruction of more than half of the library's easy access to magazines. the literacy and learning center was part of that project,
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completely decimated the entire west side of the library magazines and this was what it looked like the day before they tore out the shelving. all those magazines on the west wing facing city hall taken away and put in brooks hall with you have to wait a day to get them. this is a cost of the learning and literacy center and it's related teen center. there's also commons which unfortunately i've talked about before and which the library has installed as its new catalog. that has series issues of patron -- >> thank you. next speaker please. >> thank you president breed and
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other victims. my name is christopher. i like to comment on my landlord and expand on my theme of managerial negligence.
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randy shaw is the chief thief of the half time club. half time work, double time pay. i get a lot of crankier than usual. thank you president breed. >> thank you very much. next speaker please.
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>> united states is the most fascist corrupted country in the world. to die on that -- this is only the day when they evict. here seeking 11 supervisors from this community. you're so much barbarianlike government of the united states. you're sitting here, jewish supervisor, black supervisor how could you allow the 85 years person like your grandfather your father to die on this date and nothing you do.
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i pray on torah, bible, that you should be punish for what you do. you evict 85 years old a person on this date. >> next speaker please. >> my name is rubin david goodman. i'm mental health consumer. i like to report to you an example of the conditions in state license board within the city and county of san francisco. i'm a resident of golden residential care home which is located 166 foote avenue. the minimum requirement for board and care facility operator is to provide a bed and a shared
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room and free meals per day. on friday evening, i informed the caretaker that i was going to a meeting. i would return by 8:00 p.m. please save me dinner. i returned at 8:00 p.m. and i waited because usually i'll return this person is noncommunicative. when she did not put the dinner on the table. i said linda what about dinner. she shrugged and said no. i proceeded to the telephone which is located in the hallway where everyone can hear your conversation and called the number of the office. left a message for isaac tagger who is the ombudsman and was not provided with the dinner. after that, linda the caretaker got up, went to the kitchen
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inunlocked the cabinet and there was dinner. what kind of human being denies a mental health consumer their dinner when in fact the dinner is there? would have left it in the cabinet for the food to spoil. this is just one example of the kind of conditions these are state licensed but i believe the san francisco board of supervisors should take some responsibility to ensure -- >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> my name is nancy jacobson. i want to thank the president and board of supervisors especially supervisors avalos and mar for cosponsor the resolution in support of sb128,
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the end of life option bill. i want to thank francis, supervisor avalos's aid for her help in bring this important resolution before you. as you know the state senate passed this bill last week and in the process, there was an extensive debate. i don't know if you had a chance to view the video. there were many people who spoke passionately for and against the bill. there are 30 million people in california and there are at least that many stories to tell about people who have suffered endlessly in this process and friends and family who have watched them. i just one of those 30 million people. i have survived cancer three
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times and i had no doubt that it will get me in the end. i was born here in san francisco. i want to die here in san francisco. i do punt want to -- i do not want to move to oregon. i beg you please to support this resolution and tell the rest of california that we are compassionate. thank you very much >> next speaker please. >> thank you supervisors. i'm robert liner, speaking as an individual and as a physician as a patient and as a patient in a lawsuit seeking the same that are being sought by senate bill 128. it's interesting to note the last word before the vote was taken in the senate was spoken by senator walk was one of the authors of the senate bill. quoting the california medical
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association to the effect that even the best care sometimes is insufficient to prevent the suffering that might be unbearable from some patients. it's a sea change to have seen that quotation because the california medical association used to oppose aid and dying. san francisco tend to lead the way. we've done that with other civil rights issues like marriage equality and here you have a chance to show the san francisco can lead the way by helping the passage of senate bill 128. no one is going to be dying -- there won't be more people dying as a result of aid and dying
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being legalized that are already dying. there will be less suffer. already there's nothing new about physician aid and dying. it's been so some extent something done with secrecy. one of the great things in oregon over the last 18 years is that the aid and dying has been open, the conversations have been improved about this end of life issues. physicians have gotten more training pain management has been better and parents dying at home better. >> thank you very much next speaker. >> my name is dorian cutter . i thank you for the opportunity of sharing my story with regards to the end of life assembly by 128. my adult son recently died of a brain tumor. towards the end he was no
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longer able to speak or walk. was physically fit enough that it could have taken several weeks before his life would end. consequently he chose to refuse food and water in order to hasten his death. it was difficult for him and for his family. it's for this reason that i support this end of life option act and hope that you will also support it. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon eye name is jean amos. i want to thank supervisor avalos for introducing this resolution. there are five other states that have had it. the entire country, canada just passed this end of life option bill as a universal law of the
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country. former supervisor mark gave a really beautiful speech. a lovely speech talking about the years in the '80s when friends from hiv were dying and they had no options. it was pretty miserable. that was one of the reasons that he wanted to support this was to give peace to people who are facing a terminal and very unpleasant ending. your support would be really wonderful to show that san francisco is behind this legislation. it is so supported by the citizens of california. also most medical doctors have been shown. i would appreciate it if you do pass this resolution. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please.
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>> good afternoon, i read a lot of hank william material. in case you wanted to know, hank williams sang a lot of about suffering and pain because he believe if you spread the awareness of human suffering out enough, somehow it helps. he himself, was born with an incurable very painful spinal defect called spinal bifida. he died at the and of 29. mostly from taking what he felt what's helpful in relieving that pain. thank you for listening. >> thank you. next speaker please.
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>> tom. thank you. closing out transportation. corporate, private buses stopping at muny. need to be all accessible. they need to pick up muny riders also.
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i mentioned this before. all transportation workers muny, bart, san mateo. everybody in that work, all the workers they're losing their right to strike. they should have a right to holiday. they report to work. they open up the gates. they close the boxes. people ride free. i believe that's going to be one way to help mitigate problems with workers and the corporate
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structure of things. thank you. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public who like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment it closed. madam clark, can you read the adoption without reference committee item. s. >> seeing a roll call vote. if a member objects an item maybe severed and considered separately. >> supervisor weiner. >> item 50. >> okay. remaining item madam clerk please call the roll. >> supervisor mar, supervisor tang supervisor weiner, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos, supervisor breed, supervisor campos supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen,
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supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, there are 11 ayes. >> those items are adopted unanimously. clerk can you read item number 50. >> item 50 is a resolution to oppose california state assembly bill 57 suffered by assembly member clerk which will limit san francisco ability to regulate wireless telecommunication facilities. >> supervisor weiner. >> thank you madam president. i want to thank supervisors christensen, tang and farrell for cosponsoring this resolution. ab57 is a bill that would significantly undermine san francisco's local control across california over sighting decisions for wireless telecommunications facilities. in san francisco we embrace the
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idea that we need to improve and allow our telecommunications firms to improve access, internet access, wireless access for our residents. that requires infrastructure work. we also know that we need to make sure that this equipment when locations are being determined, we do so in a thoughtful way, consistent with the needs of our neighborhood, consistent with our various policies here in san francisco. we work through that. i think we do a pretty good job. unfortunately ab57 would dramatically undermine our ability to exercise that local decision-making process. it would require that these decisions be made within a very short period of time which would either result in automatic approval of a lot of inappropriate sites or would require planning department to start mass rejecting these
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applications which would result in a very chaotic situation and a lot of litigation. it's not the right approach. the good thing is growing coalition of cities in california has been forming to oppose or seek significant amendments to ab57. i believe just today, the los angeles wanted to vote on record opposing ab57. we definitely in good company. i want to make a minor amendment to one of the results clauses page 3 line 8, there are discussions going on about amendments to ab57 to make it more much palpable to cities and towns in california. i would like to add at the end of that resolve clause, when the resolve clause, resolve that the city urges the california legislature not approve or the
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governor of california to veto ab57 to insert, unless amended to maintain meaning and local control over the review of wts facility. i move that amendment. >> supervisor weiner has made a motion to amend. seconded by supervisor tang. can we take that without objection? the amendment passes without objection. supervisor weiner. >> colleges i ask your support. >> supervisor tang? >> thank you, i do want to thank supervisor weiner and omar from the planning department. he's been helping us track this issue. we already do have limited ability to have a say when it comes to sole of these antennas in our city. we're hearing from neighbors and complaints about whether they're on these wooden poles we do believe there are ways that we can make the design a lot
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better, that we can find rooftop facilities or other ways to not only allow for the service but also work within the means of the neighbors so that it is acceptable to them. i am very support i have -- support of -- supportive of this. >> thank you supervisor tang. colleagues, can we take item number 50 as amended? without objection, this resolution is adopted as amended unanimously. next item. >> mad tam president, there are no memoriams. >> colleges, that brings us to the end of the agenda today. is there any further business before us? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned thank you everyone. ......
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>> good morning today is june 8 2015, welcome to the rules committee i'm supervisor farrell's i'm not join by supervisor cowen and shortly by supervisor tang our clerk is alisa miller please have noichlt. >> completed speaker cards and documents to