>> same house, same call without objection adopted nutritionally. >> item 20, motion to confirm the re-appointments of nadia sesay and alwaysone lee to the redevelopment successor agency oversight board. >> same house, same call without objection, the motion is approved unanimously. [ gavel ] >> next item. >> item 21, motion to repaint candace wong to the child-care planning and advisory council term ending march 19, 2018. >> supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam president, colleagues. i want to thank candace wong for not only sitting here patiently throughout this meeting, but for sitting patiently and serving the cpac for the last dozen years. i think i presided over her original appointment. she grew up in district 3 and her work to obtain expansion of child-care facilities has been exemplary. i'm delighted that she is

willing to continue to advocate for early childhood providers and the clients and families that they serve. so i commend candace for doing it and commend her to all of you. thank you, ms. wong. >> thank you. supervisor yee. >> i also want to lend good words to candace wong. she is somebody that i know very, very well. her and i actually worked in the same organization for many years as we built and grew the organization to serve not only the chinatown and tenderloin community, but beyond that and citywide and she knows a lot about early childhood education and just a perfect person to be part of the cpac. i am really glad she is willing to continue serving on it, because it's very time-consuming. i hope you all support her. >> thank you. colleagues can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, the motion

is approved unanimously. [ gavel ] >> item 22. >> item 22 is a motion appointing priti rane, residency requirement waved to the food certificate to affect. >> same house same cout, approved unanimousingly. let's go to roll call for introduction. >> supervisor campos is first to introduce new business. >> thank you, very much, madam clerk. colleagues recently there have been a variety of food and worker safety, as well as racial and gender complaints levied against taylor farms specific. in addition region 32 of the national labor relations board has found credible evidence of flarely 60 serious violations of law involving threats, intimidation, and the termination of taylor farm workers for exercising their fundamental right to seek

union representation. given these disturbing practices of taylor farms specific i'm calling to a hearing to inquire whether the city and county of san francisco -- if they do source products from this company, i want you to know that i -- i want to know what alternative sources we may have in terms of purchasing these products? please include this hearing any items purchased directly or indirectly through other suppliers, if necessary prior to this hearing, we want to know whether vendors that may be sourcing products through taylor farms are doing any business with the city? i am requesting this hearing be assigned to the public safety and neighborhood services committee. we as san franciscans have a

long history of making sure that we stand up against this kind of injustice and this hearing is about ensuring that we're not dooing business with any kind of company that engages in that kind of unfair and illegal activity. the second item say follow-up item to an ordinance that i introduced a couple of weeks ago. i introduced an ordinance declaring a state of emergency on the issue of homelessness. colleagues today i'm introducing legislation that follows up on that issue. homeless people in the city and county of san francisco are suffering. the residents of city and county of san francisco including residents of my district, district 9, are bearing the bureaued, the brunt of this crisis. we believe that we have reached a state of emergency in the city around the issue of homelessness. and today, i'm introducing

an ordinance that calls and outlines a time line for opening of additional navigational centers. this legislation takes the next step. of the ordinance that i'm introducing requires that the executive branch of this government build six additional navigation centers within the next 12 months. the first three of these centers must be built within the next four months. and i want to thank supervisors avalos and mar for their co-sponsorship of this item. as many of you know the navigation center that first opened and the only center that remains open in the city was opened by my office working with the hope office and the mayor's office in march of last year. that navigation center has been a success and a model for addressing the encampments that have been springing up throughout the

city. the time to expand a model that has worked is now. my legislation requiring the city to build navigation centers calls upon the city to use proven, effective and humane methods to specifically address the proliferation of street encampments throughout the city. this is a critical step -- we wanted to make sure we were careful to define what a " navigation center" looks like and it's defined in the legislation based on what we have seen works "navigation centers are temporary, low-barrier to entry shelters that through case management, and social service programs aid in moving homeless people off the streets, out of encampments and into permanent housing or

transitional housing that eventually leads to permanent housing." these navigation centers offer comprehensive health, mental health and other services to homeless people including case management, social service programs, and the integration of other relevant city services. in my legislation i specify one of these centers shall be a managed alcohol shelter that will allow residents to consume alcohol within the facility, and will provide those residents other relevant -- provide those residents with alcohol treatment and supportive shelter services. the legislation will also call that one of the navigation centers focus on the needs of transitional-age youth, age 18-29; who experience long-term street homelessness. additionally, it calls that one of the navigation

centers explore the possibility of placing a safe injection site, a successful public health model that is used in other countries, and actually 66 cities around the world. a supervised injection site would allow residents to engage in medically-supervised drug use within that facility and would provide those residents with detoxification and substance-abuse treatment services. navigation centers are temporary facilities. my legislation specifis that once opened, navigation centers shall operate on a specific site for no more than two years without the approval an extension by resolution of the board of supervisors. this legislation and this is very important, also requires community input, a community process. whereby after identifiesing a site where a navigation

center could be located, but before opening that navigation center, the city administrator, and the member the board of supervisors who represents the district where the nav navigation be placed seek community input. it also specifis that the city shall give priority to new and vacant sites owned or controlled by the city and county of san francisco and second priorities go to sites controlled or owns by the county that could feasibly be converted to a navigation center and third priority goes property own by non-city public agencies that could belesed or acquired by the city. the legislation requires that the city administrator and the mayor's office of hope provide the board with an implementation and funding plan for navigation centers within 30 days after passage

of ordinance. and finally, the legislation requires that the office of hope, the city administrator and the mayor's office of housing present the board of supervisors with a housing exit plan within three months of a center, of a navigation center opening. this ensures regular turnover of those residents. this housing exit plan shall include stable housing options, include, but not limited to sro beds, public housing and below market housing. this housing exit plan may include transational or temporary housing, but should be part of a long-term housing strategy. colleagues, we have a crisis in our hands and the executive branch of this government is not able or

willing to respond to what is happening as a crisis, then it is the responsibility of our legislative branch and for us as members of this branch to intervene. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. colleagues, today, ia long with president breed am introducing in memoriam to commemorate and celebrate the passing of one of our city's great pioneers, mr. walton flynn. for those who may not know walton flynn was san francisco's first african-american commissioner appointed in 1970. and served longer -- he served longer than any other commissioner in san francisco's history. mr. flynn served on various bodies governing muni for over 30 years. and it's under his tenure he led efforts to increase

diversion at sfmta and includes hiring the first african-american director. he helped establish the minority and disadvantaged business enterprise program. he improved muni services to the african-american, as well as another communities of color and helped to shape muni's capital program that includes the restoration of our historic cable cars and construction of our subway system that we use today. he also worked to establish the very popular paratransit system program, that many of our seniors depend on every day. mr. flynn was one of the first african-americans appointed to the public utilities commission. mr. flynn was recognized by the naacp legal defense fund, elected into the american public transportation association hall of fame, and has received numerous awards and commendations from the

national organization of architects and san francisco black chamber of commerce. some of us forget the time in the city when it was acceptable if employer were not inclusive and a time which city jobs were rarely filled by african-americans and people of color. we have come a long way, but there is still work that needs to be done and also let's remember that we owe mr. flynn, because he made it only for city contracts to be awardsed to people of color, and small business owners. mr. flynn is one of the individuals who helped to change the narrative for many people in this city. we sit in this board's chamber every week and debate the merit of a proposal contract and our city's openness and tolerance to all communities, but it's because of people like mr. flynn that we have those conversations.

now without the dedication and leadership of individuals like mr. flynn, san francisco would not be the inclusionive, diverse city that we all love and celebrate today. his commitment and dedication to the city and to public service is unmatched. and with that, he will truly be missed. so colleges i would likes to close this board meeting in the honor of legacy he leaves behind. madam president, if it's possible, we could close the board meeting out in memory of mr. flynn. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> i want to speak a moment to the residents of district 10, particularly the community in the chamber today and at home, possibly watching this broadcast. many of you have brought to

my attention concerns that you had about a story that nbc 11 recently ran march 10th talking about a whistle-blower toxic chemicals on the ground in bayview hunter's point neighborhood and to let you know that i have reached out to the epa, dph, as well as the california department of publication health and tech tetra to investigate the allegations that i take very seriously and proceed down the path to get down to where the truth and to recognize mr. charlie walker for taking time to share with me many of the conversations he has had personally with constituents. madam president, the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor kim

>> i submit. >> supervisor mar. >> representing faculty the university system, 26,000 faculty. if they do not receive their demands of minor salary increase for two-years' of this contract the california faculty association has been negotiating with csu chancellor timothy white for two years. i know how serious this is as a former california faculty association member and teacher at sf state for 16 years. faculty working conditions are student-learning conditions and i will repeat that, faculty working conditions are student-learning conditions. the average faculty member earns $45,000 a year. the average faculty member of csu system earns $45,000 a

year. this is because the majority are temporary low -- temporary low-wage lecturers like i was the csu faculty have not received significant salary increasings in nearly a decade. i remember at sf state when i statute in 2006, 11% salary increase was canceled by management. in 2009 faculty were furloughed, resulting in 9.3% pay cut. the $5 billion csu budget statewide was increased by an additional $216 million. also faculty and staff believe that the money is there for the 5% increase that they have requested more than governor brown or president obama. so i urge support for that resolution when it comes up.

also, i wanted to close the meeting in memoriam for jane kim from balboa sushi house on balboa and 5th avenue. it was a restaurant i went to around the corner from the inner richmond for years. chef james kim with his wife annie kim ran an extremely popular little tiny restaurant on balboa and 5th. it felt like home with plants and arts and children's art all over the place. a lot of people that have written their condolences online, commonly mentioned the warmth that they felt and how annie and chef james kim made them feel their their family. the balboa sushi house is known as a unique place, but it's the couple's radiant personalities that maybe

everyone, include meg feel welcome w. chef james kim passing balboa sushi house will close its doors unfortunately and leaving us with warm memories of a truly unique space. we send our appreciation to chef kim and the balboa sushi house for the last two decades -ades' of serving the community and our condolences and thanks to annie kim and her family. i wanted to give a special thank you to sarah from the sf blog for sharing the sad news and allowing people to post amazing memories of a great community institution. the rest i will submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk and colleagues. i can't think of a more fitting day, the day we honored our office of labor standards enforcement and ms. donna levitt to be introducing the resolution that i'm about to introduce. i want to thank the many

co-sponsors, supervisors avalos, breed, campos, kim, mar, tang and wiener. this morning, at 7:30 i had the privilege of joining some of our brothers and sisters from the teamsters joint council 7 in an action on market street to promote honest, fair and just labor conditions for the 80 drivers employed by bowers transportation which recently based their operations out of my district in the northeast corner of san francisco. it is also owner fitting that this is the approximate one-year anniversary of the enactment of supervisor wiener's resolution 96-15 which urged the san francisco municipal transportation agency to adopt broad labor harmony requirements as a condition of the sfmta's commuter shuttle program process. today we are not here to argue about the commuter shuttle program. today we are actually here to stand with the working men

and women of san francisco, fighting for the right to unionize, receive representation in an increasing difficult job market and to receive a decent rate of pay, and decent benefits. the resolution that we are introducing urges the sfmta and it's board of directors to deny the commuter shuttle program permit application submitted by bauers transportation until such time that bauers demonstrated full compliance with the labor harmony provisions in supervisor wiener's resolution 96-15. i note that many if not all of the other commuter shuttles have honored the house of labor, whether it is google, or facebook. but i do want to call cisco

and zinga. and finally to associate myself with the comments of supervisor cohen, i knew welton flynn very, very well. he was an exemplary public servant. i knew him in his capacity as a member of the mta commission. i know that if this resolution is passed by this board, welton flynn would have been the first person to stand up for the working men and women in the team sters and i will submit the rest. >> thank you. supervisor peskin. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. today is day international water day, a day of international observation to talk about water-related issues and water challenges that we face not just in california, but in many parts of the world for this precious resource. in that spirit, today i'm

introducing legislation to help issue think how we can conserve water by requiring water submetering to be installed in all residential multi-unit buildings instead of doing what we have always done which is to have one unit for the entire building. so that individual occupants have no idea how much water they are using. i want to thank jeff in my office for his work to move this legislationing forward. currently, colleagues we treat water very differently than electricity, which is individually metered. a single water bill goes to the entire building. it is either just absorbs by an hoa or landlord and building residents never see a bill, never know how much water they are that using and never have any incentive to use less water. by contrast, when you think about how electricity is

treated, typically, a tenant or a condo owner will receive an individual electricity bill. so you know, if you are overusing electricity, your bill is going to be higher and you can have an incentive and information so that you can conserve. so we have developed the system that we treat waters as an infinity resource and electricity as a scarce resource. water is scarce. it's scarce in california. it's scarce in many places, but particularly here and despite the rain we have had recently, we're still in a drought and we do have a structural water shortage. we need to give people all the tools that they need to conserve water. by allowing -- by requiring each units to have a separate meter, they know how many much they are using and have incentives to conserve. this will apply to all buildings with two or more residential units.

the legislation sets clear rules and regulations for how property owners or hoas will be allowed to bill residences for water. the legislation contains strong protections for the rights of tenants, including establishing fair and transparent billing procedures and setting clear rules around liabilities when there are leaks or other service issues, and providing the right to appeal any disputes about meter-reading the san diego passed the submeter ordinance in 2010. for years there have been attempts to get this passed at the state-level and i was prepared to introduce this legislation a year-ago and held off because we were informed it was very likely state would pass legislation. but once again, the state legislature failed to do so and now we're moving forward locally at san francisco. we have taken aggressive action at the board of supervisors to address our water shortage. last yeah, year, colleagues

thank you for passing resolution that i authored to make san francisco the first city in the country to require water recycling in new construction this. legislation will continue that effort by keeping san francisco in the vanguard of smart and progressive water practices and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today, i am going to be introducing legislation that will be part of a series of policies to encourage more family-friendly housing in san francisco. over the past year i have been working with the planning department on developing a white paper and design guidelines for on what family-friendly housing could look like? this has been a very robust and exciting discussion which

we are having, while studying what is working in other cities in the bay area, nationwide and internationally? we have to have a serious conversation now about what type of city we want to become? already we have sad distinction of being thecy with the least number of children in my major city percentagewise. however, that trends is reversing in bustling neighbors. the question is will we be able to keep the families here? we are seeing families with children getting priced out or displaced and for those who can afford to live here couldn't find san francisco a place to thrive. i'm going to give you a perfect example of this.

personal example. one of my daughters is going to have a baby soon. yes, i'm going to be a granddad soon. unfortunately she is not able to live in the city. she can't find anything. she can't find anything affordable and i'm really sad to see that and what we need then is to be much more aggressive about family housing. i recognize that there are a lot of factors that play into a family's decision to live somewhere by schools, transportation, to safety. however, i do realize that how we are designing and planning our city can play a major role in that decision. we are envisioning building a city with family of childrens of all ages, a city to make housing more family-friendly by design. in the coming several months, we will be working to change

policies on zoning, to promote family-friendly housing and engineering to focus on needs of families with children. we are also looking at policy changes for developers to incentivize building more housing designed for families at all income-levels. to encourage more family housing. one of the issues that developers brought to my attention, the current mix in certain neighborhood plans was not conducive to building larger units with two and three bedrooms. therefore, i am including a new option to allow for more flexibility to incentivize the building of more larger units. this is a small step towards a larger discussion to really change the culture of san francisco. i'm hoping in the near-future, i will be bringing up legislation that will talk about minimum size for family units.

things, like, what kind of elements we like to see when we build buildings that are really considered family-friendly? so i look forward to working with many of you to move this forward. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor yee. >> i have to say one more thing. i would like to -- this is in regards to supervisor peskin's resolution. he named off a bunch of people that are co-authoring and i read it more carefully and i would like to be listed as a co-author also. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i thought it was another avalos. >> i thought i heard campos [hra*-ufpt/]. >> it's been seven years and a few months in office now and lately it occurs to me

what a long, strange trip it's been, to serve on the board of supervisors. case in point is the many years i have spent working on getting place of jerry garcia plaques on mission street and now we have an ordinance before us that would add two sites to the city's official map of commemorative street plaques and they be will be in the excelsior district, jerry garcia's home that he grew up as a child and teenager and i couldn't think of a better time to do it in my last year in office. and so this is something that these plaques will be very welcomed by people in district 11, who take a lot of pride in the history of jerry garcia's presentation in the excelsior neighborhood and we see it as the start of other plaques to commemorate or great history.

and legislation to move forward with the commemorative plaque in the excelsior district. the next item is an update to the due process for all ordinance in the sanctuary city policy. last year, with the way that immigration was politicalized, especially after the tragic kate steenley killing -- accidental killing by kate steenley. and last year the board of supervisors had passed a resolution that was setting forward we do not want to see any diminishment or lessening of our sanctuary city policies and today i'm introducing an ordinance that would clarify what our policies will be, setting the due process for our ordinance as the standard for how

local law enforcement will communicate with federal immigration officials. this legislation will affect both due process for all and sanctuary city policy and will be seamless how these policies will be implemented. overall, we want to make sure that local law enforcement is not taking part in the deportation business that is a federal/civil effort, not one that our local law enforcement should be involved in at the great detriment of trust between our communitis and law enforcement. the rest i will submit. >> thank you, supervisor avalos and i apologize, i should have called on you first. >> thank you. not a problem, madam clerk. colleagues, today i would like to adjourn our meeting in memory of two individuals. one is a community member in district 5, and the other a national leader.

miss claudette brown was born may 12th, 1949 and raised in the western addition neighborhood and she passed away sunday, march 13th with her grandson deanthony jones helding her hand. not only was she very well-educated academically, but also street smart and very clever. her children and grandchildren inherited her strong work ethic and leadership skills. she was also art artisticalally talented and enjoyed writing poetry. her friendliness and kindsness and her family is a tribute to her beauty of her heart and soul. her inspiring presence will deeply be missed by though who had the privilege of knowing her. the second person i would like to adjourn the meeting on behalf is, along with

supervisor cohen, is mr. percy pinkey. a state president of the black american political association of california, and he passed away last friday. mr. pinkney was born macomb,mississippi. he began his career as a social worker, specializing in gang intervention and diversion programs for san francisco's youth. in 1975 he served as special assistant for governor brown and before joining senator

feinstein. mr. pinkney was a loyal friend, family member, distinguished leader and fierce advocate for social justice worldwide and his friendship was a special gift that touched the hearts of many lives and changed california for the better. he had an impact on every person he met, his contributions, his smile, his general spirit and loyalty will be sorely missed. he has joined his son percy pinkney and survived by his family. colleagues without objection, i would like to adjourn the meeting on behalf of the entire board of supervisors in mr. pinkney's honor. without objection, we will

do that on behalf of the entire board. [ gavel ] and madam clerk, the rest i submit. >> thank you, madam president. and now supervisor campos. >> thank you. my apologies. i misheard the name earlier. i simply ask that to my colleagues if we can adjourn the meeting on behalf of the entire board in memory of the tragedy that happened in brussels and in memory of those folks on behalf of the whole board. >> thank you, colleagues can we do that without objection in without objection, the meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the entire board. >> thank you, supervisor campos and madam president that concludes the introduction of new business. >> at this time, madam

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on the board of dance and a parent of one of these lovely young ladies. i spoke at the budget and finance committee last week with the fund being admered [speaker not understood] dance mission is located at 24th and mission. we're in an historical building. our landlord is basically refusing to play ball with us. he will not give us more than a one-year lease. it's gone up by $44,000 in last two years. he is unwilling and we have made an offer to buy the building and is he just

basically freezing us out. we're looking at new options, which would be sad for us, for the community and for the history of dance mission. i want to thank the board of supervisors for all of your past support, and i hope that we'll have your continued support and we have brownies to pass out to you. >> thank you very much. anybody else want to make any comments? please come forward. i'm going let a couple of girls introduce themselves and say what dance mission mean s to them. >> starting with malia. >> my name is -- -- my name is malia. i like dance mission because you can just dance and have fun. >> thank you >> thank you. >> hi. i love dance mission a lot, and it would be very sad if

we had to move out of the mission. so hopefully we don't have to. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i just want to say as a mother, and as a former high school teacher of 25 years, this program is crucial for our neighborhoods's mission and thank you to supervisors campos and avalos and supervisor jane kim. it was improved the neighborhood and provides opportunities for people like my daughter, who walks directly from her school, from buena vista to the program and participates and not only dance, but empowerment training and are involved in many socially relevant issues. we apologize that you can't eat the brownies in the room. we brought cookies for the audience, which i'm told we can't pass out. sorry, audience. >> you can't pass them out if they are cannabis cookies.

>> no, sorry -- >> we do hope that you will help us in keeping the building there. it's a huge and vital part of the neighborhood community, and the youth, it motivates them to do well in school. it gives them positive things to do. and yes, paying $44,000 more than we did two years is a huge hindrance to staying in our neighborhood. so we welcome every help you can, and i just have to bring my daughter here, who because of dance mission, come on drina, they is now going to soda next year, school of the arts and that is one thing that dance mission did, transforming people's lives and allowing them to become social activists and active in the community. thank you ! thank you. [ applause ] is there anyone who hasn't had an opportunity to speak from dance mission that would like to make public comment at this time? well, thank you very much for the

brownies. they are very good. and i forgot you are not supposed to eat them in the chambers, but i don't see any of my colleagues stopping themselves. [ laughter ] next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm amazed being here today to notice all of the awards and everything that were handed out. i don't know if any of you members of the board of supervisors are aware of flint, michigan, where black people are being poisoned by lead in the water? well, in case you don't know it, in bayview-hunters point we have had had several deaths and we have been complaining for the last ten years. on nbc, on the advice of some friends of mine, did an exposee, and one of the white contractors said that they intentionally spread it

nuclear waste in the community where black people live out in bayview-hunters point. that accounts for why the large amount of miscarriages, colon cancer, prostate cancer and all of the things that are going on, but it's happening to black people, america is totally dumb to it and don't know anything about it. how can you all have a television and look at it and don't know what is happening in bayview hunter's point in the naval shipyard, where the contractor said and admitted on television, that they spread this stuff in our community where black people live. this is the same thing that hitler did. this is the same thing that was done in flint, michigan and now it's in san francisco and the board of supervisors

gave the contract to the contractor who received $310 million -- this is all on public television and public information. what we are here today to say to you, we want that job stopped until there is an investigation, change the contractor, do whatever you got to do. but that is an inordinate amount of black people -- >> thank you, mr. walker. next speaker, please. >> i just wanted to say that i'm one of the mothers of the four boys that were killed january 9th, 2015.

this has torn my family completely down. my granddaughter grows up without a father. because of this i can't see my granddaughter. because of this, it's broken up my family. it's broken up my home. my son -- i have one other son who is underaged has received threat from the same boys that have killed my son, and it's not unnoticed by the police department. people are seeing it and telling me there is nothing that they can do. they are seeing the threats. they see the boys. they know who killed my son. i know who killed my son. i know the reward is out there. i think it's not being pursued as heavily as it could be, because people think my son didn't matter. but my son mattered to me. what i want san francisco to know is that there are four

killers still out there. four serial killers. what you need to know is not only do my son's life mattered, but the other three boys' lives mattered also and you need to know your city has four killers run around and they are going to continue to do this, because san francisco has told them it's okay that they can do this and they can get away with it. i ask that you guys pursue, pursue, pursue, the money to get these boys off the street. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is vivian ellis and i'm here with sala, not just to speak of the crime, but i need to say this it's necessary. san francisco has lost its

integrity. you remember twilight zone? that is what san francisco reminds me of. i have worked with the youth and seniors and they steal from me and steal my business plans and yes, i'm upset. my son would have been 40 years old this year and he wrote some poems that are anointed that is really keeping me going. i'm still going and still teaching the youth and working with the seniors at george davis senior center place. but i'm tired of the thieves in bayview and i'm not speaking of any particular color. they just steal and expect us to be normal. this is something that you guys don't know. there is a lot of youth out there that are angry from losing their parents and their loved ones. so when it hits downtown, than what do you say?

do we have a statue that says oh, this person was notorious, so we're note going to recognize them? i don't understand. i'm really confused, but can say by the grace of god i'm still here, but i'm tired of people stealing my paperwork, when they come to apply for different grants, i'm tires tired of it and i want to know if anything can give me a solution for my own community? i have been in bayview-hunters point for 62 years and there is no solution and a lot of work that needs to get done. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> over here, please. my name is sala chandler. over here, please. this is my son, in october,

with willie brown's daughter shaking her hand and former mayor willie brown's mentorship program. as i mentioned before he was in the star-rise program and chosen by san francisco city college and written a letter, an essay -- baltimore flies in april 24th to interview me and a couple of the other mothers. this story will be traveling all over the nation from the chicago times, new york times and l.a. times, this is an issue that should have been addressed many years ago. you are running off the slogan "black lives matter." it's unfortunate that these children's cases, the majority have been unsolved

and you are giving plaques to another nationalities and praising them and the abandonment of these mothers, you don't know the grief and pain, you know? i hear, and you give awards and you acknowledge so-called leaders, but [ inaudible ] not one mother to stand. you know, you are playing games. we really need some leaders that care enough about these mothers to the point that you call and check on them. i'm grieving, but i call and check on these mothers, because it's like you have died on the inside. we don't have any wrap-around programs. we're hurting. [ inaudible ]

>> thank you, sala. >> as dr. espinola jackson has asked me to carry on the torch. thank you for the reward, but i know that this is just the beginning. >> thank you. thank you very much for being here. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm ken johnson. i'm in support of the ladies, the mothers who lost their children, and i think you guys really need to put that money to work, put the reward there. because my car was broken into right across the street from the police station on filmore street.

they have cameras up there and they tell me that the cameras don't work. across the street from that park is a police station and they have got cameras there that don't work. a few guys got killed, so it might be these killers might be in the police department. so you don't know. and also, i want to support what mr. walker was saying about hunters point. i saw the article, i mean the program on the news. he is right. now the city gave the contractor $300 million to clean up the shipyard, and here you have one of the workers saying that they dumped the stuff -- you know, they took clean dirt from one place and put it where the dirty dirt was. so i mean, it seems like you should have some sort of compliance officers or somebody that lives in

hunters point, who could be affected by that to be part of the clean-up? because with the jobs, black people are having a hard time in san francisco. so i really want the board to really pay attention to even your own newscast, look at it and you will find out a lot of stuff, if you don't know it already. but we got to do something. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, i think public comment should be held right at the beginning. so that the people speak and leave, because you are all boring, i repeat you are all boring. i heard one supervisor say when charlie walker was saying whatever he was saying, that you know, oh, you know, i look into it. let me tell you, taking over

$310 million, but over $850 million has been spent on the shipyard. and we're talking about plutonum and cesium and the supervisor doesn't get it on shipyard or pier 70, which is contaminated lands. it's pathetic seeing ignorant people that are not educated on issues. having said that, i do what i can to help those mothers, and to help others who are victims, because of crime. in fact,, at my big office at executive park, i turn over my whole office to the street violence intervention program, so this city could do something. this city talks a lot, much like the supervisors and if

you read my blog, the supervisors, they mo who they represent, but the ones who are political hos and pimps know who they are, because i named them. and they are in in chamber and they better represent, because people are fed up. we came here on friday. we visited two supervisors, none of them were there. you have to be there doing the people's work. if you cannot do the people's work, step down. i'm giving you 12 seconds back of the two minutes you gave me to speak. [ applause ] . >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> [speaker not understood] therefore, one can be a hero -- establishes [speaker not understood] makings of people,

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>> thank you,. next speaker, please. >> madam president, before the next speaker, i will remind the audience there is no applause in support or if you are not interested in hearing further about an item, you may use your supportive fingers, please? >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, president breed and supervisors.

you might get too hungry for easter dinner at 8:00, your anticipating that easter's going to be great. and you'd like that chocolate easter basket, and it's really chocolate cramped -- that is why the easter bunny, that is why easter bun is a champ! here comes city peter cottontail, hopping down the city hall bunny trail, hipitiy hop, easter's on its way. maybe if you are have good, he'll bring lots of easter-eggs your way. well,

you know what? for some, affordable housing you found a new place to dwelling in a city hotel. you wish you had affordable housing and you can hardly wait, but if you don't have funding, it's going to be too late. you are like the housing guys -- -- some easter baskets may be larger, and some easter baskets may be small and remember give lots of things in the basket, make it really tall. go ask city alice and she'll know and you'll have lots of

easter dinner and it's great, and you are gaining weight -- go ask city alice - [speaker not understood] >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors. with easter soon approaching, i am here to deliver a message to you all, in this room and in tvland, from our heavenly father who stated open thy mouth and i will speak for you. i'm appealing to all members of the clergy to do the same this easter sunday while giving your service and please be sure to speak on the rapid and senseless killings taking place in america by citizens and peace officers. you can make an impact. these killedings are desensitive eyesing our society. easter is a golden opportunity to bring the topic to the light of day, as it is a special day, when the entire world shows up to worship.

i am asking the san francisco city government, dedicate this easter weekend as a day of remembrance for all of the young teens and peace officers who have lost their lives to violence and handguns. i propose that the government sounds the city alarm and let the bells toll at 10:00 a.m. to mark this event. i am also asking that all caring and concerned citizens send prompts to clergy to speak about gun violence. let's us fall down to our knees and lift our face for the rising sun, oh, lord have mercy on me, let us break break together on our knees. it ain't no harm in getting together. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is andrew king. i am a native here, san

francisco. my reason for being here is unfortunately it's not a good reason -- i work for the city and county of san francisco for 27 years. unfortunately i had to retire, due to a serious health condition. i was very blessed to be able to purchase some properties here in the city. but i have a strong concern of unsolved homicides. i am a firm believer that all lives do matter. i believe we were created all by god. black lives matter also. and something is not right for people -- for the young men to get killed, and unsolved homicides. it's like you can come to the

city of san francisco or the city of oakland, and if you want to get away with murder, you can do it. we don't know -- who is killing her children? some say the police, say some seas black-on-black crime, but whoever it is, it has to stop. i know sala, very good friend of hers and have known her for some time and known her son. and i can't believe he is gone. four young men killed in a car and still there is no answer to who killed these men? i don't think no one has the right to take any life, no matter black, white, asian, whatever race you may be. but something is wrong in this community when you have

unsolved homicides. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> michael fisher is my name and i want to reiterate what charlie walker was talk baton rouge i talking about and saying that the killing is very bad in san francisco, and it has to stop. along with people shooting each other, we have people putting poison in the ground. we need you to really, really pay attention to what is gone on and now that you are abreast of it, we were told some of you didn't know about it and you know about it now. we would ask that you really pay attention and think about it on your way back home or before you leave here today and walk out the front door to think about it. it was on tv not too long

ago and said he was paid to do it. that is bad. killing is bad. so just think about it and kind of work with us. i'm a member of the blue-ribbon coalition, blue -- thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i agree with what charlie walker was saying about the contamination at bayview-hunters point and also a member of the blue-ribbon coalition. and i want you to know it's not just the contamination that we have to worry about, but we have young black men not getting jobs. i go to the sites and see hundreds of men working there and maybe one, two older black men working on their way to retirement. it's not equaling out a balance. the older ones that are being retired and those replacing them are not black and

something needs to be done about that. that is all i have to say about that. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is gary bauers with bauers transportation and to thank the board for the time you have given me. i started as a single limousine 20 years ago and over the years i have built a company with strong support of wonderful employees who i consider my family. i have spent vast majority of time with them in the city of san francisco and i have been a great tenant for san francisco and port of san francisco since 1996 for over 20 years. supervisors, may be aware of the many challenges that face business owners in san francisco, particularly those with employee/s workers that are not high-tech employees. payroll taxes and other costs make it challenging to stay in san francisco. most of my competitors are not in the city of san francisco and not invested

in the city in the way i have. and continue to do. in august and september of last year, the teamsters asked us -- we agreed to let the teamsters come in and have them vote or keep it wait we have done for 27 years. after weeks' of meetings with the teamsters and chauffeurs to make the case on their situation, on september 30th, the secret ballot and election with chauffeurs, only 25 of the 79-80 chauffeurs voted to bring in the teamsters as they are very clear and still very clear on the chauffeurs voted and choose not to have the teamsters represent them. it's employees respects and

decisions. we have had decisions -- we have had discussion and conversations with the teamsters and will continue have conversations >> madame president, the speaker's time has concluded. >> thank you and feel free to submit your comments to the entire board. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, bart gleason with the teamster's union and following up on what you just heard. i want to appreciate supervisor peskin coming out today, and putting that resolution, and as well, everybody on the board; who has lent their ear to the situation. they have been engaged in an organizing campaign, the likes of which none of us

have seen certainly in decades around here and really something that is reflective of less enlightened parts of the world. it includes termination of drivers for union organizing, which started in october of '14 and continues today. the erection of a company union, that took us months to fight, and indeed, the election that mr. bauers referred to which was held in august to this day, the national labor relations board still refuses to certify because of the egregious conduct that took place all through the that campaign. i would tell you that what we have witnessed is a a business model that says anything goes and the rules don't apply to me. i hate to tell you unfortunately this business model soon enough will spill into the streets of san francisco to the bus stops and other painted passenger zones that these shuttle buss are pulling into.

we don't ask anything of this company that the other responsible operators have agreed to. but unfortunately, again, we're confronted with the business model that is toxic and oppressive to the driver and frankly a subsidy for substandard work and we'll continue to report on the progress with this company for the next coming months thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors. doug block, representing 12,000 teamsters in the city and county of san francisco including those in the audience. i'm so proud of this city today. whether it was honoring donna levitt, whether it was supervisor campos talking about the organizing e

campaign of 900 workers at taylor farms or those in front of bauers buses with supervisor peskin or labor harmony by supervisor wiener. this is all about labor justice and i find it ironic of the hundreds of shuttle bus drivers that have organized with the teamsters and joined the middle-class through strong contracts the one fighting the strongest is the home-grown company that we just heard from. if anything, in my opinion, that should be the one outfront, because it has enjoyed work here, that is very san francisco. from sales force to outside lands to bay to brakers,

bauers is part of the san francisco institutions and as such we feel they should up hold labor standards as well. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> did you just cut in line, ace? >> [ laughter ]. >> just kidding with you. >> madam clerk, please start his time over. >> i want to give honor to my sisters here. hi jazz. i know she didn't want me to say it. item talking about the feel no more -- yeah. you know i'm talking about the feel no more. yeah. i'm talking about about the feel, feel, feel oh, lord, i

can't feel it no more. yeah. i'm talking about the feel no more -- can you hear me queen bee? >> yes. >> i'm talking about the feel no more, yeah. listen, i have got about a minute. i just wanted to say i came last week to let everybody know that i retired from community activist and now i'm an entrepreneur and filmore ambassador and will try to bring stability with the help and endorsement of my queen. because i know it's election-year and she is going to need boots out there and i'm getting ready to put all the problems into a capsule to have a solution to the pollution. we need some legislation to make it happen, queen bee. i'm just tickled black that i'm in the filmore and have opportunity to bring a

marvin gay review this year. i need the support of the legislators, oecd, mayor's office of neighborhoods and all of the different agencies over one little property, one little property. and i have been trying my best to find out how do i get in? i want to do a marvin gay review and have my insurance and everything and yours truly -- so y'all just stay tuned. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening/good afternoon. my name isloranda smith. my oldest brother, donald smith -- i don't know if can i can put his picture

here? sfgovtv, please there is >> so this is my oldest brother. he worked for the san francisco housing authority as an inspector in section 8 housing primarily in the bayview-hunters point area. he died of cancer. his cancer metasized all over his body and i'm asking that the people consider cleaning up the shipyard here in hunters point. shut it down. the people who live there now, let them find another place to live until this is cleaned up. i also had the privilege of having another family here, the family of chris carpenter, who is going to use my venue to have their repath this coming friday. they are coming up behind me. i'm just asking you -- he was one of the

whistle-blowers at the shipyard and to have pray for his family, as well as mine. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> first i would like to thank the board of supervisors for adjourning the meeting last week in my husband's christopher carpenter's honor. in 2006, he work as a laborer in the bayview-hunters point shipyard yawn chris would often come home and explain about the unsafe working conditions at shipyard. chris strongly felt they were not putting his safety or any of the other workers' safety as i priority. chris would express to me how he was trained to protection his gear, complete suit and respirator and daily were not given complete protective way. on one occasion we went to hotel and chris bought his

own recipiate respirator. chris continues to express his fears about working on the ship yards with hazardous conditions. we just purchased a home and one day chris noticed that duster was blowing and monitor and poles were not sounding. he asked the worker who was using the backhoe to stop digging while he found the foreman to ask him to water the ground as trained to do so before he continued digging. the supervisor was upset that chris, a regular worker was questioning him about his work, digging and asking him to follow protocol. chris stopped working at lenoir, but the itching continued and after silver visits to dermatologiologists and biopsies showed nothing he was diagnosised with t-cell lymphoma at stage iv

that started on the outside of his skin and worked in. my husband felt a long hard battle for two years and six months after being diagnosed. sunday march 6th at 2015, at city of hope in los angeles. i watched the family members -- and blood pressure and oxygen-levels come down [ inaudible ] >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> yes, my name is pamela

-- national council jewish women, also a friend and family member -- i have been lucky enough to been with chris carpenter and loranda. i live in daly city and we had a fundraiser and members came from bayview who all will different forms of the cancer. i witnessed this as all age groups and i calleds abc news and able to get chris' story on the news, because it didn't seem like anybody was listening. i know some of you supervisors really care about this. you have the political power. there is an environmental committee that meets once a month. cancer doesn't wait once a month. we have loranda smith's aunt and uncle who have cancer and i call on all of you, because supervisor cohen, while she wants to do the right thing, she needs everyone in this

room to support her and use legislative power and elected official policy to come forward to the state lovell as i know is monitored by mark leno and others. we have to do something like they are doing in flint,michigan, because it's unacceptable and as a survivor of cancer, it doesn't matter who you are and what your background is, watching this, it could have been avoided. we can avoid more and do the right thing. stop the development and get the systematic part and clean it up and maybe it won't work, but maybe it will. these lives matter, all lives matter and chris carpenter and loranda smith and her family matter, as well as all of these in bay view. join together with the policy power to step up and have the courage. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> yes. my name is james glover.

this morning the stuff that happened in brussels is going to happen in san francisco, because people keep overlooking the disenfranchised people. that is where radicals -- that is where you find their people among the disenfranchised. for the last couple of years i have been pushing this business proposition to hire 700 people. but i always get these looks. you know, it's like can he do it? i have got somebody working with me, but the thing is it's a systematic problem in the system. because you constantly overlooking people -- supervisor campos with the navigation center. it's cool to have a navigation center, but while you are navigating that

center to get to a room, you still don't have a job. so the navigation, you are just going through the motions i have sent a few of you emails to show that i do -- i could hire 700 people off the streets and nobody said well, i wonder if he can really do that? nobody, not one of you has just came and said, can you really do that? how can you do it? right? you don't ask. because i don't talk the business lecture time; right? i don't have all of the catch words that the little tech words that people use to get people's attention and let them know they have got something. so i'm going to leave my card. thank you. >> thank you.

next speaker, please. >> yesterday's i was on the show on kf ax and my call was deleted from the show and to talk to you about it to some degree. i mentioned a poor woman by the name of cathy o'brien who wrote the book called "transformation of america and access denied for reasons ever national security." there is sex trafficking happening all over. on my tv shirt with alex jones interviewing senate decamp and i know as a christian, god on the day of the judgment, all the secrets are going to be open. really, all of the secrets are going to be opened. i would like to talk today also about luke chapter 13. i was listening on february 12th to rc sprouls on

renewing your mind on providence and evil and talked -- let me put it this way and this is not a personal threat, because i asked this to people individually and on the streets. so don't be afraid and hopefully you know me and wouldn't do anything bad. what would you say if i asked you did you thank god that every time a cop drives by that he doesn't turn on the siren, pull you over and shoot you dead than a hammer for your sins? you would say you thanked god for that today and if you asked the question, every time you walk under a bottleding that didn't kill you pore your sins, did you thank god for that? if you read the chapter of luke, these people came to christ and tomb him about the tragedy and jesus responded, do you think they were more evil than anybody else?

nay, unless you repent, you will likewise perish. the perspective everybody ought to have, really, because this is what god says, jesus says this -- two minutes. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tom gilberty. last week our starting point, hand picked mayor and went into my perceptions of the cog in the political machine and power -- -- glorified cheerleader for anything corporate, uber, nfl, corporate buses. and then associated with pay-to-play better than the mafia.

and the only contributions i'm aware of is the willie brown article in the chronicle before the election about how a hotel -- he watched the developers go downstairs and supposedly contribute $1.2 million. but that must have been to a super pac fund and not to mayor lee. and the other contribution i'm kind of aware is the fda taping lee's aknowledging taking $20,000 from the fbi. after being professionally laundered. anyway, mayor lee is very presidential. he reminds me of reagan, reagan fired flight controllers, and muni drivers after they got $0.25 had to pay $25 to park in a muni yard for their shift. white house solar panels came down under president reagan

and mayor lee didn't sign clear until pg&e and puc bad press. [speaker not understood] trickle down to the poor. we need a new direction. thank you. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that would like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ] madam clerk, can we go to the without reference to committee items please. >> items 25-30, are being considered for adoption without committee reference.

roll call vote may enact these athletes and in a member objects to have these considered separate life. >> supervisor cohen. >> i would like to sever item 27. >> supervisor tang. >> item 25. >> all right, well, supervisor yee? >> >> supervisor mar? >> sever item 26, please. >> 26 and what else? >> 29. >> i guess we'll go one at time. 25 gleiz. >> 25 is an resolution to urge governor jerry brown to declare a state of emergency on hotel th to help coordinate region and state wd responses to the growing crisis and provide supplemental state assistance to cities and counties to provide needed supportive services. >> supervisor cohen, is

this your item? >> supervisor tang. >> supervisor tang. >> i would like to defer to the author first to speak. >> all right. supervisor -- you have all of these names up here. hold on. supervisor kim. >> thank you, president breed. two weeks ago i introduced a resolution calling on our governor to declare a state of meth to help cities and counties throughout california to decrease homelessness. this is a crisis that has been years in the making, a little over 30 years with many contributing factors, including changes to prixs that fund affordable housing, including seeing 50% reduction in funding for hud, in the '90s and '80s, et cetera. today california home to 21% of the entire nation's homeless population, which numbers at 600,000, roughly.

and jurisdictions around the states have already mobilized to address this problem, including the city of los angeles. and through supervisor campos, here in san francisco, in requestinganes from the governor, i'm asking the state to recognize that this is not a problem just in area urban cities such as san francisco and l.a., but it is an issue that crosses city and county lines. in san francisco alone, we have -- while the vast majority of individuals become homeless in the city, still close to 30% of our homeless population becomes homeless outside of the city and response can oalleviate suffering -- we know counties in california that do note have a 365-day shelter system and where are these individuals left to go, but in the cities that provide these services and shelters. my resolution calls on the state to work with local governments on a coordinated

response to include both short-term and long-term solutions. because we know this is issue is not local and the solution must be regional and statewide. to look at an inventory of surplus public properties. making these available for standing up shelters designed specifically for communities of need, including individuals identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, esbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning and finally in the long-term, investing in solutions that we all know can end homelessness and that is an immediate investment in affordable housing. so that municipalities can put shovels in the ground on affordable housing projects that have been in the pipeline. and, in fact at our

association of bay area governments meeting we discussed a regional housing trust fund to help production of affordable housing in the bay area region. part of that is looking at the universe of all affordable housing projects that are in the pipeline, and just need gap funding in order to put shovels in the ground. i have one such project in my district that has been entitled and gone through the community process. and environmental review. and literally is just -- and has gotten some state and federal funding and just waiting for gap funding of $17-18 million to finally build this project. we should be expediting projects to quickly house people and not let my district stand alone in a homeless emergency occuring throughout the state. it's not just rising in san

francisco, but rising in city of los angeles and quite frankly throughout the country in austin, new york and hawai'i. we know that housing is the crisis and to recognize my colleagues co-sponsors to the resolution currently supervisors cohen, campos, peskin, mar and los avalos, thank you for your support. supervisor wiener thank you madam president. i think it's important for us to view homelessness and many parts of our housing crisis and mental illness and substance-abuse as a statewide issue and not just limited to one city or one region. so calling on the state to do more is important. there is one whereas clause

in this resolution however that i think goes beyond that. it's whereas clause starting page 1 line 22. going to page 2, line 2. which criticizes the city of san francisco or criticizing recent efforts to "remove the homeless through sweeps." and we know that in san francisco we recently had a real challenge along and around division street with ten encampments and the city ultimately address with a strong effort to transition people into shelter, into housing. so i distributed an amendment that removes that whereas clause and replaces with language stating the following "whereas city of san francisco correctly declared the tent encampment on division street a public health hazard and correctly

removed the division street encampment, since that encampment was unsafe, unhealthy and unsanitary for the occupants, as well as surrounding neighbors and whereas tents are not a viable housing policy, and it should be the policy of the city and county of san francisco to transition people living in tents from those tents into shelter, and housing." so that is my first amendment. and the second amendment is regarding the resolved clause, first one talking about surplus public property. which we of course unanimously placed surplus property ordinance on the ballot that the voters passed and i supported and included an exemption for parks and neighborhood open space. i would just ask that on page 3, line 3, after "properties

statewide." we include "except for parks and neighborhood open space." so those are my two amendments separate amendments that i would like to offer. >> supervisor wiener is that a motion? >> two separate motions. >> two separate motions. >> okay. >> so we have a second on those two motions. second each motion. both motions by supervisor cohen. supervisor tang. >> thank you. i also did want to acknowledge supervisor kim and really trying to bring this attention to the state-level. i think they certainly have not been doing -- at state-level not, as much as what san franciscans have been pushing to in dealing with the homeless issue. the only reason why i'm not supporting this particular resolution and my comments really are also aligned in terms of the local declaration that has been proposed as well; is that i don't feel it's actually changing what we are able to do at a local-level. so again, it does not go to say

that i don't think homelessness is not an incredibly important issue that we need to work on and have been working on, but to make a declaration of emergency should be for the natural disaster emergency situations, reserving that right for that. but also, just trying to acknowledge that we have done so much in san francisco. there is more that we can do. so that is really my comments around today's resolution. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you acting chair. i just wanted to express as the author of this resolution that i do not support the first motion to amend. i think there is a disagreement amongst board about city-authorized sweeps and certainly agree that tent encampment is not a viable housing policy, we also need to ensure that we have

places to put these residents and frankly families. there are families in those tents under division street. if we don't have shelters for these residents and families to simply sweep them only moves these residents to your doorsteps and that is exactly what happened when the city did the sweep on division street a couple of weeks ago. i got many emails soon after the sweeps because residents had been moved away from underneath division street, straight into the doorsteps of many of our residents. and so moving the "problem" around, does not get rid of homelessness, but merely shifts it to a different corner. while i would like to make sure that no one has to sleep in their tents under division, i don't support declaring that sweeps are

appropriate policy. if you cannot support the whereas clause as currently exists in the resolution that you simply vote against the resolution. the ebteding amendment i do believe that open space and parks are not considered "surplus property." but to make it clearer is important, i can accept that motion to amend in the resolution. >> >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you. a couple of thoughts. first i want to recognize the work that the san francisco interfaith council has done here in san francisco. they have been on the frontline as service providers, well-before this board stepped into action. the interfaith council was instrumental in helping get the first navigation center up off the ground, and operational. so i just wanted to take a moment to recognize that leadership. the second thing, i want to

push back on some of the comment that supervisor tang mentioned, voicing the main reason she would not be supporting this measure because it's not changing anything on the local-level and i want to push-back that sometimes change is not great in sweeping. you may not see the manifest ations of change immediately and certain routes will change a perception and i think when you have a different attude or changing thought or perception, that, in fact, is change and the kind of change in thinking and focus that we need to be seeing in order to see change manifest itself. there needs to be a change in conversation sew that is the reason why i'm supporting this measure. i'm also interested in supporting the amendment that supervisor wiener is proposing, because i do believe that people have a place to go and that we have opened up locations. during the first days of the sweep around division, folks

were just -- were dispersed. and there was a misconception there was no place for them to go, but there is certainly pier 80 is opened and not quite at capacity at least not to the best of my knowledge as of right now as i am making these statements. not quite at capacity and therefore, there is room to get people off of the streets so we can triage them and get of connect them to services and figure out a long-term plan. with that i will also say there should also be an effort to move the rvs that are also occupying the streets, and moving several those vehicles to also to pier 80 which also has capacity and i don't know if anyone has taken a moment to visit the site. i would encourage you to take a look at the site, encourage you to also actively engage in the conversations that we're having citywide to

create navigation centers in each one of our districts. each one of our districts need to shoulder the responsibility of this housing crisis. thank you. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you. first of all, i want to say that i really appreciate any of any colleagues' efforts to address this issue in one form another and certainly, especially appreciate supervisor kim's efforts for this resolution. however, there is a piece of this where it's a little bit troublesome for myself; that is seems like this resolution, although it's a resolution can translate to the state having too much authority over local jurisdictions, and i really prefer us to make our own

decisions locally about what we should be using our land for? so today, i will not be able to support this particular resolution. >> supervisor peskin? >> thank you, mr. chairman. through the chair to supervisor wiener, this is a recital -- and i don't want to try to mediate between you and supervisor kim, but as an individual who has been on division street in the last four days, and been notice surrounding neighborhood in the last four days i believe this recital is an accurate state of events. since the tents have been removed from division street

they have been dispersed in the neighborhood and you need only go two blocks in either direction to see tents on sidewalks where they were not previously before. so i think this is just a statement of fact; perhaps the two of you could negotiate this here in public, which wouldn't hurt my feelings. the only thing in the second in your recital is a kind of statement of opinion, which is the word "correctly." but it is a fact that the city of san francisco declared the tent encampment on division street, done by executive branch of government a public health hazard and remove those tents. that is a statement of fact. i think the previous recital is a statement of fact. as to the third one, that is an issue of policy, but i think that supervisor kim's first statement is a fact.

>> thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor campos. >> thank madam president. i simply note on the removal of the language that supervisor kim has in the resolution i think along the lines of what supervisor peskin was saying, i'm not sure what the problem is with the language that is here? if you actually look at -- there is an article that sf weekly did following the sweeps of folks from division street and in that article it's very clear that while indeed housing may have been provided for some of the people removed from division, that a lot of people who were removed from division were

not actually given a place to go. and that, in fact, they were simply pushed over to some of the smaller streets. so i just don't think that it is accurate to say what is here. so i will be voting against the first amendment, because of that. >> first amendment to this legislation, not the first amendment itself. >> thank you for that clarity, supervisor campos. [ laughter ] supervisor wiener. >> i just first of all want to reiterate what supervisor -- thank you -- what supervisor cohen said, and actually when i was on a forum speaking with sam dodge and jennifer freeden bach a

few weeks ago and supervisor was kind enough to call in and it's not accurate to suggest there was nowhere for people to go. think our office of hope and human services agency have done really not to mention interfaith council and all of the these amazing cbos that we have have done heroic work in trying to transition people off the streets out of tents into shelters. so i appreciate the comments, but i think that the amendment is appropriate. and i think we should vote on them. >> okay. i don't see any other names on the roster. but i'm trying to take a moment to read the amendment. no other comments? okay. just a second. so your motion was to strike

this particular line out of supervisor kim's resolution and to secondly add the two whereas clauses? >> correct. the paper is the one motion and the other motion is the one that supervisor kim, i believe accepted. >> okay. i just need to ask supervisor kim a question, because it was my understanding specifically in the resolution that you have whereas recent efforts to remove the homeless through sweeps without providing viable options for both emergency shelter and permanent shelter -- so it was my understanding that an option for an emergency shelter was offered in this particular case. can you clarify with that because i'm really uncertain about that? >> yes. there has been a lot of

discussion whether pier 80 was really a viable option for many of the individuals in encampment? i think there were multiple perspectives even from the mayor's office, the mayor's office sam dodge, who is now the interim director of hope himself came and stateded at a hearing at budget committee pier 80 wasn't effective space because they didn't have bathrooms and showers and no good public transit to that location and frankly, just cold and austere and not very welcoming environment and not a place he really wanted to continue to use as a permanent shelter site without some significant, i think, improvements to that site. that is why the mayor's office has been examining other options for navigation center. but it was an option that was out there. i'm not sure if we had enough spot s available at pier 80 for all the tents that we

saw on division street. i think everyone in this chamber agrees that we don't want to see any of our residents sleeping in tents under freeways, but also agree sweeping them just moves them to certain of different corners and against the regulations developed by the interagency council on homelessness. as to the amendments that supervisor wiener has put forward, this is my first time seeing them. if i had an opportunity perhaps yesterday or even this morning, perhaps we could have worked out a compromise on this language. i'm seeing it for the first time today after this hour. so i just cannot support this language at this time. and frankly, we veted this resolution with many different stakeholders and i would be afraid to make these changes without going back to the stakeholders again, to talk about tent encampments which is frankly, a very controversial issue, in our

homeless advocate community. >> to go back to my concern, the only thing i would say, yes "viable" could be left to interpretation. so "viable options." that is kind of really hard to define specifically without understanding or -- i mean, my understanding the shelter did have rest rooms which were port-a-potties at the location. and i'm not 100% certain about the shower situation, but there were restrooms. and then i think the concern i have about the whereas clause for supervisor wiener's is "whereas tents are not a viable housing policy," and i don't know if i necessarily agree with that and wanted to put that on the table. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you. i just wanted to speak to -- from questions that you raised,

president breed. at the time of the sweep it was approximately happening about one week after pier 80 opens. and it was also during the same -- just a few days prior to that, i visited the pier 80 site myself and my staff. and they had completed the bathrooms, as well as the showers, president breed. so. >> that was before the sweep? >> yes. >> okay. >> it was before the sweep. i agree with you. i think by definition of what "viable" "viable is a relative term and one thing that i think we're in agreement with is what is "unviable and undesirable," to allow people to languish in the cold on the streets in a tent. that is not a viable option. to get people out of the elements and this is a multi-layered approach and

i'm a co-sponsor and i too haven't had an opportunity to fully digest supervisor wiener's amendments up until just now reading them just like supervisor kim. these amendments are actually very simple. there is like, four sentences, two whereas clauses. one is four sentences and the other has three lines and the other is four lines. so it's not that complicated and i feel like it's more a declarative statement about the encampments that were on division that are no longer on division. >> okay. >> thanks. >> thank you. supervisor wiener, no comments? shoot, this is tough. >> not really. not really, supervisor. >> all right. supervisor tang. >> can i just suggest that perhaps for supervisor wiener's first set of amendments he proposed that we remove the word

"correctly." and that it is then even more factual, i guess. >> excuse me, one second supervisor wein. wiener, can you please explain, supervisor tang? ? >> the word "correctly" was used twice in there and i'm just proposing that perhaps we strike the word "correctly." okay >> supervisor wiener. >> the wording of this is very intentional and i think it's clear. it's not factual, but actually a criticism of what our city agencies did in terms of the transition from away from the tent encampment on division street. it's very clear. so this is a statement that the city was correct to do that; that

allowing tent encampments to proliferate is not okay and not humane and the city was correct to do that. so that was i have intentional and i think appropriate. >> supervisor avalos. >> i kind of see that as not a factual statement, but if we were to say that whereas the city of san francisco may have or may have not correctly declared the tent encampment on division street a public health hazard, and may have or may have not correctly removed division street, then i think it would be kind of factual. >> thank you for making this evening more complicated than it already is, supervisor avalos. supervisor wiener. >> you know, i think -- i think there are people who have different opinions. there are people who have

definitely advocated that we should have let the tents just stay, and that the city was wrong to remove the tents. i don't agree with that. i think what the city did was correct. it was the right way to proceed in terms of not allowing what was growing into an unsafe and unhealthy situation both for the tent occupants and for the surrounding neighborhoods by not allowing that to continue and providing notice, declaring it a health hazard and transitioning people, whether it's to pier 80 or elsewhere, that that was the correct thing to do. so that, i think, this is an appropriate whereas clause. and i think we should go on record and say that, because it was the correct thing to do. >> supervisor wiener, is it necessary to have the two -- i know you said it's deliberate. but i find the two "correctlies" unnecessary, because the whereas makes the

point clearly. so is it necessary? i'm just asking if it's something that could possibly be removed based on what supervisor tang suggested? >> well, i think people can think whatever they want. i put in this there because i personally and i think a lot of people believe that the city was correct not to allow the tent encampment to continue to be there, and to proliferate and to grow and that the city was correct to take action. i think this board should go on record, agreeing, that the city was correct to take action and to transition people from the tents. >> but the whereas basically make that clear without necessarily adding "correctly" in it, from my perspective, i guess. >> if you remove the word "correctly," then it's not saying that the city was correct to do that. and i understand why people who want to remove this, who may -- some people may disagree with what the city did and if you disagree with what the city did, then i totally understand why you

would want to remove those words. in one agrees it was the correct thing to do, to remove the tents from division street, those words should be in there, we should say that the city was correct in doing this. >> madam president? >> call the roll. >> i make a motion to call the roll. we need two seconds for that >> and eight votes >> second. >> two seconds. >> second by supervisor cohen. forget it, call the roll on the amendment to strike the first line which would be the first whereas clause. only the motion to strike that completely, call the roll. >> and motion to replace with -- >> i thought there were two separate amendments. >> the paper is one motion. the separate motion is the surplus property section that supervisor kim, i believe, has agreed to.

this is one amendment to strike and replace. >> oh, okay. thank you. all right, call the roll on the first amendment. >> page 1 line 22 striking that paragraph and replaysing with those two paragraphs from the piece of paper submitted by supervisor wein and second by supervisor cohen, supervisor breed? >> >> i'm still thinking about it. i will say that i don't agree with the amendment. so i'm torn right now.