>> good afternoon, everybody an welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, may 24th, 2016. madam clerk, can you please call the roll. >> thank you ma dem president. supervisor avalos, present. president breed present. campos present. cohen present. supervisor farrell, farrell not president. supervisor kim present.

supervisor mar present. supervisor peskin. present,. >> present. supervisor tang. tang present. supervisor weiner. present. supervisor yee. president. supervisor farrell, prept. automatic members are present. >> can you please join us for the pledge of a geedges. [recitation of the pledge of allegiance] thank you. are there any chaimgs to the april 19th or the april 20th special budget and finance meeting minutes? seen none. there is a motion? colleagues can we take that

without objection? the meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. >> one through four comprise the agenda. an eye tomorrow may be removed and considered separately. >> seeing no names on the roster. madam cleerk, please call the roll. >> one through four, supervisor weiner. aye company supervisor weiner aye. supervisor avalos, aye. >> supervisor breed. aye. iewp visor breed aye. iewp visor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, mar aye. supervisor peskin, aye, tang aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those items are approved

unanimously. madam clerk, please read the next item. >> item five is it an ard nans to allow departments to procure contracts threw a best val iew process with bid discounts applicable to price and to get performance and creation of a database. >> call the vote. >> weiner aye, supervisor eafl he's, no. breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye. >farrell aye. kim aye. mar, aye. peskin aye. supervisor tang. aye. 10 ayes and one know with supervisor avalos in the dissent. >> next aye testimony. >> item six for $4.1 million in

revenues and deappropriate [inaudible] for non-personnel services and appropriate rating $4.7 million to overtime in the sheriff's department. fire department, public health department. public utilities commission and police department operating budgets in order to support the department's increases in overtime. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you madam president. i voted on this last week and i intend to no on it this week as well. i did want to mention some concerns i had, one issues i had with this last week is i felt that the board of supervisors had not practiced its budget short as effectively as we generally should. especially when it came to the police salaries. we had $8 million left over that

was moved in this ordinance being moved from police salaries to cover overtime that was used for the super bowl. i think we should be much more effective in how we do a budget review. this year, and i did have a conversation with the chair of the budget committee today, based on the requests from the controllers office, according to the chair of budget committee, that our budget process has been bumped up a week ahead of schedule. and that gives harvey rose less time to be able to do his analysis of the budget and without that analysis, we're ham strung. i have a concern again for a next budget psyche that will starts next moppett. are we going to have the ability to scrutinize this budget the way we need to to avoid the problems all over again? i'm concerned based on request from the controller that the

budget committee following we may not be able to do that. today again, i'm voting no. >> thank you supervisor avalos. supervisor farrell. >> i'd like to divide the file and have a separate vote on fire d.e.m. and sheriff. >> okay. roll call on the initial separated file as suggested by supervisor farrell. avalos. >> fire, d.e.m. and sheriff, i add d.u.c. to that as well. to include the d.u.c. >> fire,. d.e.m. and p.u.c.? okay, so we're going to vote on that particular part of the divided file first and then we'll take a second vote on the remaining file. madam clerk on the divided file which initially includes fire,

d.e.m. sheriff's department and p.u.c. please call the roll. >> our minutes from last tuesday's division was dphuc and the [inaudible] without the fire department. >> can you repeat that. >> original division from last week was dpheuc and sheriff without the fire department. >> madam president -- >> supervisor farrell. >> for clarification purposes last week we had three separated out. pyre, d.e.m. and sheriff and a dphsfud and puc. what supervisor avalos is suggesting that we not have a 3-3 vote. that we lock together four of them. on second reading, that is fine. we'll have a first vote, if point. fire, d.e.m. and sheriff and add

p.u.c. to that. >> so just for clarification, there is no requirement for second reading. >> yes, the entire ordinance must pass on second reading fire requires eight votes. the rest require six votes. the division from last week doesn't have to match up with the division of this week. >> thank you for that clarification. >> our first vote on the divided fire with will be for the fire department, d.e. member of the k. sheriff and p.u.c. madam cleerk please call the role. >> weiner aye. yee aye, avalos aye. breed aye. campos aye. cohen aye. farrell aye. kim aye.

mar aye, peskin aye. tang aye. there are 11 ayes. >> okay, the ordinance finally passes unanimously. on the second part of the divided file, please call the roll. >> supervisor weiner aye. yee aye. avalos no. breed aye. campos know. cohen no. farrell aye. kim no. supervisor mar aye. peskin no. supervisor tang aye. there are six ayes and five noh avalos kim peskin in the descent. >> ma. >> clerk: item seven and eight

are two leases between the city and bank of america for automated teller machines for item 7 with a 365,000 minimum annual guarantee for the first year of the lease and a five year term and item 8 is the lease for automated teller machines with a 250,000 minimum annual guarantee. five year term with a two year option to extend. >> supervisor campos. >> this is not an easy one in the sense that ideally, i personally don't want to have anything to do with any company that is headquartered in north carolina. i do know this institution has actually gone out of its way to fus push back on the practices of that state. in recognition of that, i will be supporting this.

but i would ask bank of america and any other company that is headquartered in north carolina that if we fail to change the mind of this state and this government that they did seriously consider coming out of that state and moving on to different state headquartered, their offices somewhere else. city of san francisco being one is one possibility. for that reason, i will be supporting this today. >> supervisor cohen. >> madam president, i need to ask that i make a motion to rescind item six. i voted incorrectly. >> so supervisor cohen has made a motion to rescind the vote on the split file of the second vote for item number six. is there a second?

second. can we take at that without exception. >> i did not catch the second on that. >> supervisor farrell. all right, for item seven and eight since we called those items together, we'll finish the vote with that and go back to the second part of the split file that we rescinded the vote for. clerk, please call the roll for items seven and eight. >> weiner aye. yee aye. avalos no. breed aye. campos aye. cohen aye. farrell aye. kim no. mar aye, peskin no. peskin no. supervisor tang aye. eight ayes and three knows. >nos.

>> those are adopted. on the item number six, the second part of the split file of the vote that we rescinded, madam clerk, please call the roll. >> this is for dch and ffdp. weiner aye. yee aye. avalos. >> pd and dh no. >> breed aye. campos no. cohen yes. farrell aye. kim no, mar aye. peskin no. peskin no. supervisor tang aye. there are seven ayes and four

knows. avalos, kim and peskin in descent. >> item nine is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to prohibit the use of city funds or resources to assist in the enforcement of immigration law except for individuals that are convicted of a violent felony. >> avalos. >> i'd like to refer this to later in the agenda. >> we'll refer to later in the agenda. >> madam clerk, items 10 through 14. >> five resolution resolutions that declare of intent of city to reimpurse from multifamily housing rev if knew bonds. in the following amounts for item 10. resolution in the amount not to exceed $76 million for 171 loehr street and sunnydale avenue. a re liewtion not to exceed

$479 million for 158 -- 1500 through 1508 avenue. 13 in the amount not to exceed $111 million for 54 mccallister street -- mcallister street and not to exceed $20 million more the knox sro. >> vote. >> item 10 through 14. supervisor weiner. weiner aye. supervisor yee aye. avalos aye. breed aye. campos aye. cohen aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. peskin aye. tang aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolutions are adopted

unanimously. madam clerk, please read item 15. >> ordinance to amend the police code to prohibit any person from keeping an ire arm within any residents unless that's locked in a container or disabled with a trigger lot. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you. i appreciate your hearing this item today and voting on it and for my colleagues at committee. gun violence is a large issue not only here but across the country. one of the factors is the unsafe storage of firearms. i believe earlier this year or last year a recent study found that over 1.6 million children and youth under 18 were living in homes withed and unlocked firearms. can and they knew the low cautions of their parents' firearms. it's into the just children and

youth at risk, they're also susceptible to theft during home invases. over 80,000 firearms are stolen a year in burglars and 57% are used in crimes. that's why i want this to close the loophole to ensure that all arms are kept in a locked container or secured by a you trigger lock. i want to recognize supervisor cohen as well for her work in this area. this is not in response to something that happened on the streets of san francisco but i do not want to wait for a tragedy to enact this legislation. this proposal itself mandates all firearms not just handguns be be properly stored and have the proper trigger locks. in order to encourage risk of

lost or stolen firearms, a person that would file would not be subject to prosecution under my proposal. this continues to be a top priority for everyone inside of city hall and we owe it to our families and children to be aggressive as possible to promote public safety especially in the home. we have the opportunity to be one of the the strongest gun safety cities in north america and continue to be at the leadership of these types of legislation and opportunities. i do want to thank a number of piano. first jeff from my office and the professionals at the law center for all their work on this issue. they do a loot of work in our country and are sphwrx. i want to acknowledge their leadership in this. >> thank you. and madam clerk, please add me as a exoa sponsor.

supervisor campos. >> i want to be added as a cosponsor. the key here it to shak make sure we spread the word and make sure that firearms are kept safely in their home and i'm proud of the fact that we continue to lead the way around the issue of gun safety here in san francisco. thank you again supervisor farrell. >> thank you. and madam clerk, can we take item 15 without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. item 16, please. >> item 16 is an ordinance to designate 35 to 45 onendagga avenue also known as the hospital and health center as a landmark. >> supervisor avalos. >> i'm delighted to bring this forward to landmark these two buildings for historic landmark

preservation list. these are would sites, two hospitals one was an emergency hospital part of the system that was built in the 1930s during the depression. it was a system in place for about 40 years. until it was shut down in the 1970s. interesting about the history here, is that the -- when d.p.h. decided to shut down the site, workers and residents occupied the space to keep the healthcare continuing for residents in that part of town. they held it for a month. within the building you can see graffiti held behind during at that occupation of the building. there are other many, many historical parts of the stild building. architecturally they're amazing in terms of spanish architect. architecture. and there is the health at home building.

there are two murals by bernard zakheim. we found two frescoes partially covered by paint. more recently in the past five years in the lealt and home building. and we're going to be landmarking this building. whatever happens in the future, these historical remnant can remain. colleagues, i encourage your support. also, this measure has big support from my district in particular the new mission terrace improvement association which had filed for the historic preservation resolution. so, colleagues, i encourage your support. thank you. >> thank you supervisor avalos. colleagues item 16 without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. madam clerk, please read item 17. >> clerk: to amend the health

code to protect the public water system by replacing obsolete requirements consistent with current state and federal drinking water laws. >> without objection, the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. please read items 18 through 20 together. >> items 18 through 20 with three resolutions to authorize the issuances to licenses for the following locations to ensure that the alcohol beverage control. item 18 is a type 18 premises license to frank leclerc for gaiten restaurant. 21 is a general license to howard goh located at 5900 third street. item 20 to issue a type 20 off-sale beer and wine license

to surinder singh doing business at 7-eleven on mission street. >> without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. please read item 21. >> resolution to urge governor jerry brown to declare a state of emergency to this growing crises and provide state assistance to the cities and counties to provide needed support and services. >> colleagues, can we take this item? >> madam president,. >> item 21 weiner aye, yee no. afl yoas aye. breed aye. campos aye. cohen aye. farrell aye. kim aye.

mar aye. peskin aye. tang no. there are nine ayes and two knows yee and tang in i the dissent. >> the resolution is adopted. item 22 please. >> 22 is an ordinance to exempt the california state university of fresno foundation from the chapter 12 access ordinance to facilitate the agencies entering into a contract with the foundation for training services required for child welfare staff and foster parents. supervisor weiner aye. yee aye. avalos aye. breed aye. campos aye. cohen aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. peskin aye.

tang aye. tang aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. item 23, please. >> a motion to reappoint anne-marie fortier and nicole bunny math use rosenberg to the commission of animal control and welfare. >> can we take this item. without objection the motion is approved unanimously. all right, let's skip over the 3:00 and 33:00 p.m. especially items and -- 3:30 p.m. and go to special items. >> supervisor yee. >> i'd like to be rereferred. >> supervisor avalos. >> we can't all rerefer. >> are you guys ready for roll call for introduction?

okay. >> president breed. >> rerefer, please. >> campos. great, i'll take it. thank you. the first item is an item i know a number of people have talked about. but i want to give credit for credit is due by thanking former assembly man tom enono. he's been thinking about this for more than 10 years. he's been working tirelessly to bring people across the aisle to bring needed change in different aspects of government. you think a lot of the structural changes that made government function bet railroad because of tosm and his work.

for the last six months, a blem bli member anonoeo. s have what been working with labor unions and non-profits to draft the legislation i'm about to introduce which is the creation of an office of public advocate here in san francisco. the office of public advocate is a complaint and whistle-blower department empowered to fight for san francisco residents here in city hall for the purpose of getting better results for those residents. now more than ever, the public is yearning for accountability and transparency here in government. whether it's around police accountability, homelessness, housing, you name the issue. i want to thank my cosponsors of this charter amendment supervisor mar, supervisor avalos, supervisor kim and i look forward to adding to that list. this charter amendment makes

three major changes. when it comes to the office. and the responsibilities. i want to thank the city attorney's office and tom owen in particular for all his great work in putting this proposal together. first, this office would be a constituent services agency. on an individual level, the public advocate takes complaints, and makes it sure that members of the public are treated fairly by their local government. if you get a parking ticket as an example because they start sweeping streets, and you complain because you point out rightly so that you actually were not there at the time that would have made you liable for the ticket. if you complain to the sfmta,

chances are you're not going to get your complaint answer. on the systemic level, the public advocate would investigate on going patterns and problems to address whatever the issue is whether it's an effectiveness, ineptitude. waste, corruption you name it. the second function is to respond to something that i think is very much at the forefront of what is happening here in san diego. -- in san francisco in that is what is happening with our police department. the second disappoint that is an important part of this proposal responds to the preliminary findings by the panel created by the district attorney and specifically does that by bringing the office of citizens complaints under the public advocate. currently, you have a situation

where you have the mayor's office that overseas the san francisco police department. at the same time, the mayor's office also overseas the office of business complaints. the idea that the occ which is supposed to provide independent oversight to the police department ultimately reports to the same individual from our perspective from a government and best practice standpoint, ebl that change is needed. this charter amendment would bring the offices of citizen's complaints and gift public advocate the authority to appoint the head of occ. the third piece is to enhance the advocacy for workers to make the public advocate, an advocate for workers by bringing the office of labor standards enforcement under the public advocate. the office ever economic and workforce development and labor

standards and enforcement are both under the mayor's office. one agency is tasked with bringing in as much big business as possible and we've seen that. at the same time, you have another agency that also reports to the mayor's office whose job is actually to provide oversight into investigate and regulate those businesses. there is an inherent conflict. that's what this charter amendment addresses as well. i'm excited that the public advocate is also an omed buts person. whaed but -- om bud's person. and it's led to millions of dollars in of savings in these governments in just the first two years of office of the current publicked zero cat in nepublic advocate.

her office saved 170 million. because they focused on reviewing contracts because of the good work that went directly though that city. she also recouped $2 million from the state of new york, money owed to the city and because of the work of the public advocate, this su surfaced. this charter amendment is about this administration, mayor lee, it's not about this board of supervisors or any of the members, it's about checks and balances about making sure the system functions as well as it possible can function. in the current system, i believe we lack a high level of accountability for certain departments that many major cities have demonstrated that in

fact having a public advocate is good government, it's about transparency, it's about accountability. we believe that we need this office in san francisco and look forward to making the case in november. the second item is very difficult one any time there is a death and this is in memoriam for a special person, a young person. in memoriam for leighen reuben medina. leighen reuben medina passed way this morning of may 22nd in his home in elk grove california. he is survived by his mother who is a former member of the san francisco human rights commission. who is also a past executive

director to the mission economic development agency. he is also the father -- the son of jose medina who is a former member of the san francisco board of supervisors. former member of caltrans and one of the founders of [inaudible] leon reuben medina is followed by his mothe brother. leon worked for fair employment and equal opportunity and rights in the public and non-public sector. he fought for labor rights. before working for 13 years with the state of california at the occupational safety and health appeals board department of fair employment and housing. the department of fish and wildlife and most recently the

department of business oversight. he was not afraid to take on his employers or to openly speak truth to power if that could further the rights of people. leighen was a san francisco native born at st. luke's hospital in my district here in the mission. he grew up in the mission, pou portala. he attended st. pauls and hillcrest elementary and graduated from lowell high school. he went on to uc la where he earned his b.a. in history and law school where he learned his juryis doctorate degree. he overcame so much since developing epilepsy in high school but never compromised his

values and condition and imparted additional wisdom to his friends and family who loved them so dearly and wish he could still be with them. he was 45 years old. my age. for those who want to attend his memorial, it's this sunday. at 1:00 p.m. actually sunday 1:00 p.m. june fifth east lawn and elk grove. mass is monday june 6th at good catholic church in elk grove. we know this a difficult time for this family and our thoughts are with leon and his entire family and i ask we close the meeting today in his memory. the rest i submit. >> thank you. madam president. >> ready to be referred back to. first off, colleagues, i want to thank supervisor campos for

introducing the charter for public advocate and i am a big supporter oaf the work of the public advocate. that the public zero cat will be able do. we have a lot of enforcement, bodies and agencies within the city and county of san francisco. i have always felt that many of them didn't have the -- need toed to carry out their work. time and time again we've been saying that they are hamstrung often by politics by competing political interests. we want to make sure that these agencies can be as strong as they can be to support workers in the case of olfc and support people who have cases of police misconduct or police brutality here in san francisco. with the police department and office of citizen's complaints, we have to have a more robust

occ that can handle the crisis of confidence that many communities in san francisco have towards the police department. this the lowest i've ever seen it and it means we have to restructure our agencies and institutions here in san francisco to make sure that they can hold accountable the police department and also be a place where the public can get a sense of confidence in the enforcement bodies and investigate tri bodies helping them with their cases. i am honored to support the public advocate. it's important that occ has a director that is appointed by the public advocate rather than by the mayor through the police department which gives the kind of independence that the public advocate, or occ needs to have to really be able to do its work and the public can have confidence in that agency to be

successful in representing their cases. and so, just want to put in a word for that. charter amendment will be wending its way through the board of supervisors here in the next couple of months but it has my full support in moving forward. today i'm also introducing a charter amendment that is related to new revenue that will be supporting transportation develops homeless services. this amendment will be aligned with what appears to be .75 cents sales tax and that sales tax is a tax that would apply to everyone, but in san francisco, we have a big part of our sales tax revenue that comes from business-to-business transactions paying for up to half of what the total revenue on the sales tax will be. the tax measure, as i said, will

fund transportation as well as homeless services. on the transportation side. i've been pushing for a number of years based on the t2030 process to look at how to make long term improvements especially around capital to our transportation programs and capital programs in san francisco. and part of that process, i've been working with many community stake holders especially teak holders who have a stake in affordability and equity and in robust transit service that will get to the outlying neighborhoods and neighborhoods that are more low income where a lot of people of color live.d8. based on the work of the past four years on getting that discussion around equity, the m.t.a. made a lot of strides forward in building an equity

framework for how they make decision on funding and how they make decisions on theirero their lines and we're building in language into our transportation charter amendment that will accompany the sales tax to ensure there is equity and affordability in there. we also know and appearance on the daily, our homelessness crisis here in san francisco. and we've just -- the mayor's office to his credit has restructured homeless services under a particular office that will be headed by jeff kazinski. and we have a very comprehensive system, but coordination is going to be key. one of the things that is lacking in terms of how we can help the hardest to serve people on our streets is to react to homelessness. this tax measure will bring the revenue up to $50 million to be

applied a year for helping create those exits to homelessness and certify services that will address homelessness in san francisco. this measure, we haven't gone the full breadth of cosponsors, but it has the input allowing great input from supervisor wiebeer and his office from supervisor farrell and his office from the mayor's office from the mta and transportation authority, mayor's office as well. we are a trying to make sure that we can have the type of investment that is going to hit the huge needs we have around building our transportation system for the 21st century as well as addressing our huge, huge problems with homelessness to make sure that we're making strides and real concerted effort to bring people off the streets and into secure housing in san francisco. >> thank you supervisor avalos

and back to supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. colleagues, i'm excited today to be introducing some legislation that we'll be bringing to voters in november. i'm excited because i'd like to -- it reminds me many times i spent with my grandmother who instilled upon me the importance of taking care of our seniors. i'm introducing along with cosponsors of supervisor mar, yee, campos and avalos in an important measure for november's ballot. we're drug the first of its kind in san francisco history. our senior population is growing and it's growing rapidly. did you know by the time 2030 rolls around, we'll expect to see a population grow by over a hundred thousand people. the dignity fund will allow our

growing senior population, our veterans. disabled and those with chronic diseases including hiv-aids to age in place with dignity by helping to stabilize funding that allows the populations to age in their homes, not only their homes but communities. each year during the budget system, our seniors and advocates have to come to fight over pennies to make sure they haveugh money for the budget for basic services as home-delivered meals and in-home support services. we're creating a dedicated and predictable funding stream beyond what our department aging and adult services already receives each year and looking to put a stop to the fight around the budget season. many of our seniors in san francisco are living in fixed incomes that don't meet the rapidly growing cost of living here in san francisco. what the dignity fund will do is that it will create additional funding of at least $30 million

that will help off-set some of the cost of growing older so the seniors can remain their homes and communities much longer. the dignity fund will provide financial support for in-home care service provisions. housing modifications. home-delivered meals a pped groceries. adult healthcare services. conditional housing and more importantly protections and financial assistance against eviction and homelessness. that's incredible. this is just a short list of the services that will allow our seniors to age in place. our seniors helped build this miraculous city. our veterans fought for our freedom. we have seen jers that were adults in the 1980s that contracted hiv-aids and other chronic diseases. i think it's time for us to stand up and be a champion for them today. we must treat our elders with respect and dignity especially as they get on in their years.

it's what they deserve. i feel this is the morally right thing do for our city and city's future. i do hope to have more cosponsorship with my other colleagues. thank you. >> thank you supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. >> thank you. colleagues, i have one item today. an ordinance regarding dpw permit reform. it's not a shock to anyone that our construction industry is booming in our city and the sheer amount of construction has a effect on the quality of life. residents are frustrated by the volume of scarce neighborhood parking faces taken away. the frustration are on permanent situations that are taken up when construction is not being done on a project site. we're told of and investigating

an issue in district two where a parking space has been reserved for a nonexistent construction projects for 13 years. given these issues, i teamed up with dpw and dbi to do the following first dictate that the duration of a street space occupationy for permanent construction cannot be longer than our building code allows for the work. adds more review before permanent extension and directs the director not to grant it unless there is on going work on the sietd. this proposal would giver in discretion to the dpw director. under this proposal, the directorrer may deny the extension. in addition the proposal would give the director the discretion to revoke any street occupationy

per myth mitt if he or she feels an inconvenience will be reserved by revoking the permit. residents will be able to a appeal. it's intended to free up limited parking spaces and not curtail residential construction. it will only apply to residential, urban mixed use or commercial transit districts as defined in the planning code. lastly this would apply retroactively so we the city can proactively address those that have quality of life issues in our neighborhoods. i believe this is a very simple, especially some of the other items that are coming forward today. but straightforward piece of legislation that will have a positive impact into our neighborhoods. i want to thank dpw and dbif working closely with my office that stems from one particular project site in my district that

i think we can work across our city. i want to thank jerry and john. bill strong as well as my staff. the rest i submit. >> supervisor farl, thank you. supervisor kim. >> >> thank you madam clerk. san francisco as we often talk about here this chamber is experience being unprecedented change driven by a rapidly growing economic growth and wealth here in our city one that is envied by cities around the country and one that lous us to boast 3% unemployment rate here in san francisco yesterday. however, with this change, we're experiencing the fastest-growing income gap in the country. according to our own data, our human services agency, one rivaled only countries like rwanda. for too many families, this

displacement comes in the form of eviction. in recent poll commissioned by toddco this past week, it shows that 7 a% of san franciscans are concerned that the rent is too high and 10% is concerned that rent is too high. only 4% stated it's not a concern or certaining. we are seeing that we're becoming a city that is rapidly becoming unaffordable with record levels of evictions an rent here in our city. there is a pervasive sense that we're losing the city we once loved along with the community one person at a time from friends, parishioners. businesses to teachers nurses and artists. nimmune to the wave of displacement sweeping our bay area. but we can do more to address the tremendous anxiety with regards to our future. i'm proud to stand here with many members of the colleagues to fight for more affordable housing to work to protect our

business legacies to fight to increase our minimum wage to 15 $15 and hour here in san francisco and fight for the strongest tenant protections here in the country. there is much more do and that is why today i'm introducing a package f package of legislation for city stability in growing the middle class and that is in education. specifically in community college. i have a propose that will i announced last month that we'll make city college free for all san francisco residents. i also promised to introduce a proposal in order to generate the revenue that will allow us to do so. we know that community college is often the institution that allows our working class to rise in the middle class and there are barriers to attending community college today. in fact, it is the california promise that higher education be free here in the state of

california. in fact, community college was once free here in the state of california until 1983. where we can work to make that a reality again here in san francisco. my proposal today, a mansion tax that i had first talked about last december. it's a real estate transfer tax that we increase by a quarter percent for tax paid on building and luxury homes on and condos that sale for more than 5 million,, 10 ml and $25 million. we can't stop people from creating a market for luxury homes. but we can ask those that contribute to the market to pay a little bit more to protect the san francisco, the city we love here. in fact, if we nas measure, in november, we'll become the first city in the country to make city college free for all of our

residents regardless of age, income or any type of gpa prerequisites. this measure will jen rit more than doubling the amount of money we need to make city college free today. we're looking an examining at a proposal to also serve students that are qualify for free city college by looking at an educational stipend for books, transportation and potentially child care as well because we know that tuition is not the only barrier to attending higher education. in fact, books are far more expensive these days than the fees are in and of themselves. we believe there will be money remaining leftover to work on other initiatives to make our city more affordable to all. i want to thank and acknowledge our controller's office who has been working with us over the last six months to craft a proposal that would work where we're doing a slight increase in our real estate transfer task

asking a small investment from those who are able to afford large and expensive buildings and homes in san francisco to help keep san francisco affordable for all. i want to acknowledge afp 2121, the faculty at city college alyssa messer along with chance letter lam and city college board of trustees bringt davala and john rizzo and radioing my colleagues who have been strong supporters from the beginning. supervisors peskin, mar, campos and avalos. free city college is just one of the way that we can work to protect san francisco for san franciscoens. we hope you'll join us in november to fight to make this a reality. i look forward to november 8th that we can announce san francisco will be the first in the nation to make community

college free for all our residents put us at the forefront of building more equity and affordability here in this country. the rest i split. >> thank you. supervisor mar. >> thank you. colleagues, i wanted to first say that i'm applauding our senior and disability advocate organization the dignity fund owe lition for working for several years with supervisor croween, supervisor ye and avalos and campos in putting forward what i spheel an historic piece of legislation that when passed by voters in november will make sure that our city can claim being an aging friendly city for the future. some of you know that supervisor yee is probably the lone senior on our body. i will be a senior in a couple of years as well. and i think it's not just the 200,000 seniors and people with

disabilities that we're talking about represented by the coalition before us, but it's also the baby boomer generation that supervisor yee and i are a part of that will be rapidly becoming seniors. over the next 20 to 30 years we'll add a hundred thousand seniors by 2030. by 20 oo, we'll be 40% of san francisco's population and we're not keeping up with the funding levels of our senior and disabled population in our city. with the guidance of our brass roots coalition. we've learned where the gaps are. the dignity fund coalition will make history in november as we begin the process not only to pass this measure, but to really lift up our senior and disabled organizations especially from low income communities throughout the city so we'll have dignity and respect for all. i want to thank the coalition

along with the allies on the board of supervisors pushing this measure. my mother is 91 years old. she has dementia and lives in an assisted living facility. we have many aging in place programs that we as the board of supervisors funded over the years but we need many more of these types of organizations and programs so that seniors not only like my mom, like supervisor cohen's dad or grandparent that she mentioned but they deserve to be able to age and live in their homes and in their communities with dignity. my hope is that we'll pass this measure and san francisco could make history as the first city perhaps in the nation that responds to our rapid growing senior boomer population with an adequate funding stream of resources that we call the san francisco dignity fund. i also wanted to applaud supervisor kim and the free city college coalition for the city college funding measure and ma matching tax as well that i'm

proud to cosponsor. to add a point to supervisor campos and form ar assembly man amanone call in san francisco. i think for the occ and police accountability, it's important for an om bud om bud's program but for workers and hundreds of thousands oaf people in the think sti that are workers. we need and an advocate for borks in san francisco. the office of standards needs to be an independent enforcement agency. under the mayor and city administrator, i don't believe that it is. i think this public advocate position helps to ensure that we have good government and checks and balance system. i recently called with a number of labor organizations including jobs for justice and others for moving the enforcement out from under the mayor's office to either the city attorney's

office or a newly-created public advocate's office created in order to have the independence. i think this charter amendment led by supervisor campos with ammianoo and our commission will achieve this. for the ofc and labor standards. it's critical our workers have an independent office to ensure that wages and wage step to ours and worker protections we built in are protect. i a flawed supervisor campos. this is a good government measure with good checks and balances that will save money and increase accountability for our city. i hope what voters in november will support a public advocate for san francisco. also, i have a couple of quick announcements. first of all, join me on saturday we're unveiling yet another mural in the richmond district. i and my office are advocating

for public art and more murals whether it's on pea body elementary or argon elementary, to a new one coming up or the two brand new murals at the ocean beach safeway complicting playland at the beach and ocean beach is a treasure. the new mural is on complemen complement -- clemant street. ace plumbing or standard plumbing or ace hardware. we'll be unveiling a brand new mural on saturday from 4:00 to 6:00 in front of ace hardware on third and clement. i wanted to thank cynthia hughey and michael busk for really helping our office achieve not only the funding, but the

selection and implementation of this amazing mural. there is a new character in the mural called "foggy" it will be an icon of clement and the richmond district. thank you to the artist jason jaigal for the incredible mural with lots of great characters. it reminds me of richard scary storybooks. this marks district one movie night. bundle up with blankets and sleeping bags. we'll be watching "finding nemo" we'll gather at 7:00 and as the sun goes down we'll thank the merchants, ymca, san francisco rec and park department for collaborating with me and my office to make it happen. joins at rossi playground at sunset for great movies.

lastly, jackie chan center of help for elderly on 22nd and geary is celebrating 20 years of serving seniors and low income and immigrants. they've served the low income residents in our district and surrounding areas. props to jackie chan for supporting the center over the years. we're celebrating the anniversary on n two weeks at noon. join us for lunch for the seniors. for more information, selfhelpelderly.org. i want to thank leon modine that i've known for 20 years and his family. i want to say i met leon 20 years ago when he was a young law students and was appreciative of his

thoughtfulness, his warmth, how much he gave to the community in how he looked at life. thank you to gabriel medina and family for bringing leon's passing to our attention. i wanted to say when community leaders like leon pass on, i think it's important that as g gabriel today, we can't forget them. gabriel wrote in a posting after leon passed, i love you leon and i'm glad you have everlasting peace. through your friends, i'm discovering who you are so genuinely pained and i'm glad you lived a life where others admired your heart. condolences to leon medina medina and his family. i want to be added as

cosponsor. >> thank you. supervisor peskin. >> first i want to grasm late our colleague supervisor cohen on her recent nuptials and witch her the best on her new life. congratulations supervisor cohen. there is quite an uproar in the last 24 hours with respect to recreation parks department proposed loor park pilot program. this is not an isolated incident. it's not okay and it's not been okay for quite a while. when the oversight body has made recommendations isn't even apprised of what the department is doing or the rationale behind it, i think we have a problem. when policy calls are made on an ad hoc basis depending on what

backlash is happening and what neighborhood is sphrugling to get access to their own public open space, i think we have a problem. i want to add my name as a cosponsor to supervisor kim's resolution and hearing request and i think it's time we make some system attic changes and ensure that this kind of stuff does not happen again. as a former employee of the trust republic land and a long time parks and open space advocate, i find it troubling we've even considered piloting a proposal to charge the general public to enjoy the grass in the park. this park, by the way, is the same one that city taxpayers just laid out $20 million to renovate. we all have the right to enjoy the city's precious open space and recollect rate without having every square foot and every blade of grass privatized, micromanaged and monetized.

today i'm asking the city attorney to draft amendments to article 7 of the park code expressly restricting picnic permitting of public open space including our public lick meadows, lawns, natural areas and every blessed piece of public grass within our jurisdiction. this legislation will ban the yo issuance of picnic permits including park bonds and with the exception of capital improvements. there will be a limited picnic issued for those that have structural facilities. also today, i am drug a charter amendment for all of your consideration which i think is long overdue. it's something this body in years past saz well as good government advocates have been talking about for some time.

we have some critical core city offices who do very important work with little to no oversight. i believe the public deserves to have transparent processes in place that ensure that your public dollars and policies are administered in appropriate, transparent ways. i'm drug a charter amendment that establish establishes a housing development to oversee the economic workforce development and our department of real estate with limited oversight authority. recently resubmitted an inquiry to the oches of economic and workforce development regarding their grant process and request specific sets of criteria to utilize how to determine how they structure their rfp process. after reviewing their responses, it is quite clear to me that more transparency is needed with respect to the allocation

process can. according to the neighborhoods grant program in fiscal year 2014/201550% of the budget was for capacity building neighborhood organizations a total of $3 million. in the current fiscal year, that rose to 47%. in the same category to the tune much $3.8 million. this is a lot of money that generates a lot of consternation among neighborhood organizations that is pickup trucked against each other in a fight for funding. i don't think that's good government. we've heard a tremendous amount of concern around the lack of oversight with respect to the mayor's office of housing community development. these departments, by the way, collectively are worth well north of a hundred million dollars. we have commissions for every other important city department and nothing to help create a good system of checks and balances for these core offices

and functions. the mayor's office has requested funding for 64 positions in the budget. 124 total positions if off-budget positions are included. in the office -- in the office of housing and community development. and an additional 101 positions in the office of economic and workforce development. to put that in perspective, the last time i was on the board of supervisors when willie brown left office, that department was s shrunk to 0 ftd. that's a lot of growth. i look ford to discussion and debate as this makes its way hopefully to the ballot. i thank to thank you for your unanimous massage of resolution 25223. many of you have -- 2522. many of you have seen that awr governor is moving to deford

affordable housing and give an as of right privilege for those in exchange for modest housing commitments well below our local standards here in san francisco. in the midst of this housing crisis that continues to impact thousands of san franciscans and californians. governor brown released his budget on friday and allocated a grand total of nothing in new housing funds. he opposed the $1.3 billion assembly affordable heable housing plan by our david chu keeping money in the rainy day fund and putting forth an as you ever right development plan that would have applied to every project in san francisco and is in essence a give way to developers. especially concerning is the provision that market rate projects with 10% inclusionary and 20% affordability in other areas be given a complete pass on local development and

planning controls. ld i'm introducing a resolution today building on our unanimous approval with regard to the ab 2522 resolution and asking our state legislative delegation to oppose the government's as of right trailing bill. i wancht to thank the supervises for their cosponsorship and ask for your support as we work to ensure san francisco's local planning powers and contributions to affordable housing and overall pipeline do not go unacknowledged or cut off at the knees. >> thank you. supervisor tang. >> i'm introducing an ordinance here to amend our addmin coat to help new mothers returning to work. we ask that our department of human resources develop a formal lactation policy for our city departments. i warchght to thank cohen breed,

oval owes yee if you want to agree. to allow mothers to breast feed their children when they return to work and provide a place to express milk during their work day. there are laws on the bookings, but they're not. our city policy will go beyond the cree requirements and around it will allow allowing nursing mothers for breast feeding time. requiring city departments to establish a process for nursing mothers to request breaks for lactation. calling for departments to provide a place for lactation consistent with state and federal guidelines and a with a door that can be locked with one electrical outlet. a chair, adequate lighting. ability to partition the room for mowlt many mothers and

refrigerator, sink and hospital grade breast pump. lactation rooms will be required to be identified with signage. and we are also requiring that if the city builds any new city buildings or office space that the city department must cult with dhr to make sure there is sufficient space to use as a lactation room. this policy will be distributed to all new employees and all employees who have requested parental leave and ask that dhr request a web taij to have materials for lactation and breast feeding. so, you might ask why we're doing this policy. we have quite a few women who work in our city workforce but also in our private sector as well. in fact, there are 40% of our permanent full-time employees in the city and county of san francisco who are women and 66% of part time employees are

women. and women who work for our city, they're not just working at their defining. they are engineers out in the field. they are train operators. gardeners, police officers and firefighters. many are also mothers. if you ask any of them if they continue to breast feed and pump milk when they return to work, you would hear a variety of stores like i pumped at my desk or between meetings. i pumped in a bathroom because there there was no other accommodation. our lactation policy is not just trying to address the ability for mothers to be able to express milk, but there are many health benefits to children and mothers. breast milk contains antibodies that protect children from illnesses including ear infections respiratory infections asthma, obesity and diabetes and reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

it can prevent postpartum depression. cancers. type ii diabetes and it's readily affordable and accessible. when new mothers breast feed for the first six months of a child's life and maintain it to the end of first year, only 16% women exclusively breast feed for 6 months after birth. only 10% of mother whose work full-time are breast feeding their baby after six months. so in order for mothers to feel supported and empowered to continue to provide breast milk employers must create an environment to facilitate a mother's need to express milk. i want to thank supervisor cohen my colleague here who recently encouraged us to convert a restroom into our first lactation room on the second floor. now that brings us to two lactation facilities in city

hall. this was done just in time before one of my aids came back from maternity leave. now i see every day how much this room benefits my sphaf and she is able to continue working and go down the hall a minute away to be able to provide breast milk for her new baby. i want to thank ashley summers who shortly after giving birth to her child gave birth to the idea of this legislation. i hope our city will continue to be a model city for family friendly workplace policies. lastly, i'm going to submit a substitute legislation to fire safety legislation that i introduced many, many months ago. just to strengthen and enchance what we're requiring of our apartment managers and landlords for better fire safety. ten again, this has been pending

in committee already and we're submitting substitute legislation to strengthen our requirements. with that, i submit. >> thank you supervisor tang. supervisor weiner. >> thank you very much. i have in memoriam for larry mitchell that i'm going to defer to my honor of mitchell's ice cream during maul sma small business week presentation. i'm introducing a resolution today to declare june 8th 2016 team edna day in honor of memory edna flores lagoonta. she was a fireless advocate against hiv-aids and worked on the public policy vad cocat and governmental affairs based on hiv-aids issue. she was a 13-time participate and fundraiser for the

california a.i.d.s. right and a.i.d.s. life stiekal alc. she also served as touching thousands with her spirit and smile. tragically, edna lost her life on june 8th 2014 riding in alc 2014. team edna consisting of riders as a fund raising team for alc 2015 honor her memory and spread awareness ofiv of hiv-aids. i introduce that resolution today. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor weiner. supervisor yee. >> thank you. first ever all, i'd like to thank you -- thank supervisor mar to point out that i'm only senior here.

something that i kept a secret for a long time. i'm really happier to a co-author also in the dignity fund we talked about earlier. several of my colleagues mentioned. it's something that i realize even before i became a supervisor that something was lacking in the city as i watched my own parents age and aunt age and being the caregiver for all three of them in different parts of their lives, there are things that weren't happening for them. i thought it was me that wasn't able to access services for them. but once i became a supervisor, i realized even within my own district where you have over nearly 25% of the population as seniors, there was only one seen jer service out -- senior

service there was only one and when i added a second out there, it was immediately full to capacity. so it didn't take long when there is a service that people actually will find it and seek it out. and -- so when we talk about the growing senior population, and possibly not being able to serve them in the future, i don't think for me, it's not about the future, it's about right now. there is a lack of services. for the last few budget cycles now, some of the strongest groups that have v come in to ask for budget help from from the seniors and people with disability. every year, i realize, we don't have that? so we need to do something about that. again, i'm going to be a strong supporter of making sure that i ask all my constituents to support this notion of a dignity fund. and i also want to thank supervisor kim for introducing

the transfer tax proposal to allow for students to get the funding to allow for students to attend city college for free. it's something that has -- something i grew up with. it was free at one time. and people were able to go to work, go for college, buy their books and so forth. now you go to work and still can't afford it because of the cost of living. what we're finding out. i hear from different individuals that graduate from our high schools and i'm not going to college. i ask them why, and they can't afford it. thank you for doing that. supervisor kim and also, acknowledging, it's not just about the tuition, it's about other costs associated with going to college including if you're a young parent, that you

need early care and education to make sure that your child, preschooler and infant is really being taken care of. now what i'd like to do is the mta budget has been growing over the years. just hearing today in terms of the introduction of the different proposals that we're talking about, potentially, the budgets can go up further and one of the things that we haven't been able to do is try to get more accountability in terms of what is going on out there in terms of changes. schizophrenia are comin. -- constituents are coming to me saying why isn't mta doing this or that? i feel i have no voice being appointed by the board of supervisors. so today i'm cruing a charter

amendment by changing the appointment process and allowing for more oversight of the budget. i recognize there are many attempts in the past that changed the way appointments were made to alter the a proiment process or add additional layers of oversight that were deemed far too reaching. i believe that the city amendment i am introducing today is not over-reaching or reactional. i am proposing that the sfmta point of directors be appointe ed by a split process from the mayor and board of supervisors. here we will have a majority of the appointments made by the mayor and remaining three made by the board of supervisors.

currently the board ever supervisors is unable to alter the sfmta built and requires seven votes for rejection. i wanted to bring the approval/rejection process to be uniform with other departments that will only require a simple majority vote or rejection. if they reject the budget, the board wb required to make a set of findings that the sfmta board of directors would respond to when a revised budget is submitted. again, this is not unusual with other departments. and the board of directors will continue to retain the charter and oversee the municipal transportation agency and establish its own budget. i acknowledge the public's desire to have transportation department that is independent and a-political.

i also hear the cry from many, many people for a need for future accountability and oversight. i'd like to thank supervisor kim, peskin and cam foes for cosponsoring this charter amendment. >> thawn. supervisor cohen. >> thank you everyone. another piece of legislation i want to share with you that i think you'll be interested in hearing about. it's a ballot initiative that would change the structure for the office of citizen's complaint. there is no secret there is currently a deficit in the confidence of law enforcement. 23409 just here but across the country. one of the things you hear consistently is a need and desire for transparency. san francisco is not against. this the ballot measure will seek to allow the people of san francisco to weigh in.

this november. it creates a more independent and autonomy for the office of citizen's complaint by create ago i new authority for the department to perform regular auditing of police departments handling on use of force misconduct. there is initiative now proposition d. one of the criticisms i heard was that it had no teeth. this initiative is in response to that criticism. think the critics will find it has the teeth and strength and oversight that people are looking to see. although the name of occ doesn't drive the function of the department, this particular charter amendment will change the name of the officer citizen's complaint to the department of independent police oversight. we've learned of the preliminary reporting from the blue ribbon nation reviewed the sfpd as well as the district attorney's office and occ. one of the findings was there is

no regular auditing function of the police department. so, this moves the occ from districtly being a complaint-driven department to being a more proactive department. we all have seen how much can go wrong in an unfortunate and short period of time. this ballot measure seeks to correct that. i hope to have everyone's support and i look forward to the on going discussion. thank you. >> thank you supervisor cohen. madam president. >> thank you madam clerk. today i want to acknowledge an amazing woman in our community. yesterday eileen clark hernandez celebrated her 90th birthday and i wanted to take this opportunity to honor her and recognize her work as a local and national activist. miss hernandez was born in brooklyn in 1926 and excelled in

school and attended howard university. she was drawn into politics. in 1951, she took an organizational job with the west coast divisional job to begin a life-long battle against discrimination in all its forms. she became the first woman to be appointed to the united states equal employment opportunity commission in 1964. then in 1966, she cofounded the national organization for women, the largest grassroots organization in the country that focuses on advocatin advocating for women's lights, lgbt rights and racial justice. years later she became the organization's second priz and led the women's strike for equality on august 26th, 1970. here in san francisco she founded and became president of the consulting firm hernandez and consultants where she led,

facilitated and concerned for ending racism. after the fourth women's dmorches beijing in 1995, miss hernandez who is a cofunder of women's action alliance of over 600 organizations in the state. those are just a few of her accomplishments and i would need a lot more time to talk about everything she's done. but miss hernandez moved to los angeles last year so she could be supported by her brother and her family. i hope that she will see today's broadcast and know that we appreciate her, we thank her for pushing for equality. for everyone and we hope that she lives a long, healthy, and prosperous life. we want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for her is he service. the rest i submit. >> it will is now 33:0 3:33.

>> just in time. i would like to ask members of the public to make room for our special ones entering the -- honoraries making it into our chamber. this is small business week and we'll do a number of commendations for small business week. we'll wait until everyone gets in and gets settled. if there are members of the public waiting on a item. we'll do small business commendations. it will take us anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour. your item will not be discussed nal time. again, if you could please make room for our small business award o honoraries. we'll appreciate that.

colleagues, it's time for our 3:30 special commendation for small business week. small businesses are the backbone of our economy. many are owned by generations of san franciscans and many of those businesses bring our community together. this week is a time for the city and county of san francisco to honor the contribution and achievements of san francisco small business owners. i would like to welcome at this time the president of the small business commission mark dwight to provide opening remarks. mr. dwight, thank you for being here. >> thank you. good afternoon supervisors. as supervisor breed mentions i'm mark dwight president of the small business commission. and i'm a small business owner here in san francisco. it is an honor to be here today to help recognize the

contribution of small businesses as e as part of small business week 2016. small business week is a collaboration among our city government specifically the office of economic and workforce development and the office of small business. the san francisco chamber of commerce and the federal small business administration. i'd like to acknowledge the small business administration district director mark quinn. my fellow commissioners steve adams, irene yee ryley. kathleen duly. paul sar caiz yum and marianne zakunis and karen colombo of the chamber of commerce. san francisco launched small business week last night with nearly a thousand attending. this year's theme is celebrate small businesses tapping into opportunities. san francisco fosters a unique

entrepreneurial environment. as i tell my colleagues, if you can tap into tourism and tech, you might have a business proposition. the city has nearly 85,000 small businesses with a hundred or less employees. they are dog walkers. child care providers. marketing consultants. mobile food operators.íîc manufacturers, massage practitioners. lawyers, architects, accountants. florists designers and many others. joining small businesses this year are short term rentals and drivers for transportation network companies. the assistance center at city hall is here to support and guide small businesses that comprise 09s more of all businesses in san francisco. the sbac as it is known along with invest in neighborhoods deliver a range of services including 1-on- 1-on-1 assistance in multiple languages

overview for multiple considerations for starting a business and customized checklists for license requirements for doing business in the city and county of sphwrx. in 2015 the office assisted nearly 3,000 business complients. first the second quarter they 800 complients. it appears that new business starts are alive and well here in san francisco. the business portal team is presently working on streamlining materials to assist owners in navigating the process for starting a business including on line permit applications customizeable foarlsd save forms on line and custom checklists. thank you all supervisors for your support in these efforts. small businesses are the backbone of our neighborhood corridors providing for the needs and residents alike. they strife when the city

strug -- they thrive when the city thrives and struggle when the city struggles. affordability impacts not only residents, but small business owners as well. competition for commercial space rising rents, displacement and shrinking profit margins are the realities of today as small business owners in san francisco. the office of smiewl business are thankful for the many close partnerships they have developed with members of the board of supervisors and the mayor's office. this will allow to us mitigate small business challenges. supervisors, thawnch for your support of last year's $6.7 million budget. i think that's b. a billion dollars budget. this allowed us to tap into a network of services from the office of small businesses and invest in neighborhoods programs. the city's hosting of the the small business development

center. these programs are essential to ensuring small businesses star start, stay and grow in san francisco. i want to highlight a few key legislative accomplishments that were achieved together along with the input of small businesses from supervisor tang's legislation to access compliance to our businesses providing all gender restrooms and taking one more step in achieving the zero waste goal with the reduction of poly stiernine products. business products. we thank you for your support in establishing the program manager commission. the commission looks forward to building the prej registry and highlighting the thousands of businesses crucial to san francisco's list tri and legacy and entrepreneurial spisht. spirit. today focuses on businesses you have chosen for recognition. you've nominated a range of wonderful businesses integral to

our city. they bring viefersity, vibrancy and goods and services to the neighborhood ever san diego. there arof neighborhoods offer san francisco. let me thank them for haul they do to the city and visitors to our city and recognize that they represent the continuation of the american dream. the board ever supervisors is a signature event. it provides a rare opportunity to accept away from desks, counters and kitchens allowing us the chance to recognize them for their hard work and central importance in sa san francisco's economy and to be recognized not only here but among their peers to show up. thank you for the special opportunity to show appreciation for the honoraries.

we look forward to our continued collaboration to nurture, elevate and retain san francisco's small businesses. >> thank you. and thank you for being here today. colleagues, before we begin, waint to remind my colleagues that you have a total of five minutes for each of your commendations. so please try and keep your remarks brief so that your honoraries have an opportunity to speak and with that, we'll be following the order of roll call beginning with supervisor scott wiener. which i'm excited that he's honoring mitchell's ice cream and i hope they brought tasty treats with them today. >> she stole my thunder. so colleagues today, i have the privilege of honoring as you heard, an amazing san francisco

institution, mitchell's ice cream as honorary for small business week and we have with us here today linda and brian mitchell. as you know, colleagues, i hope you've all been there. mitchell's ice cream is a truly amazing place for anyone who loves ice cream. featuring 4 40 flavors. 16% burt fat. it's been a neighborhood favorite for over 60 years now. it's not just a landmark in our district, but for all of san francisco. of course, as we learn and our condolences in larry mitchell's passing may 12, it's a huge loss for the family and city. i know he was involved in the business until close to the end. this was his baby in so many

ways. he's a hero in tumorrer terms of actually being able to run a business successfully for a very, very long time. a business that is as vibrant and vital as it was 50 years ago. we'll miss him and sincere condolences. the business we are going to adjourn the board meeting today in his memory. we want to make sure we're sending good energy from city hall to the family and to -- he's looking down on us i know. larry was a third generation san franciscan. came from a family of hard-working entrepreneurs. hay father ran a dairy in diamond heights back when it was not the residential neighborhood it is today and taught himself how to make ice cream at a young

age. he met his future wife claire in 1948. just a few years later, he along with his brother jack cofounded mitchell's ice cream. in the early 1960s, larry began experimenting with new flavors to expand upon the traditional vanilla, chocolate and strawberry palt o pallet with flavors such as mango and yams and afte avocado. to make sure they stay on the cutting edge. larry bought out jack's share of the business in the 1980s and managing the day-to-day operation unless two years ago. remembered by his family and colleagues as an unassuming handy man. he left behind a legacy continued today by linda and brian with us today and he's survived by his beloved wife claire and his daughter teresa as well.

so congratulations and welcome to the board ever supervisors. if you want to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you. i wish they had told us we were supposed to bring ice cream. i would have brought gallons and gallons. oh, gosh! >> don't worry, i'll stop by. >> just ask for me. thank you. this ward is bittersweet for my sister and i. as you know, our father and founder passed on may 12 lt. we told him about it. he knew about it. he was thrilled. he had a big smile on his face. he was very proud to win it and certainly he would be here to accept it if he could have. this award is a lasting tribute to a man who along with his brother had eye vision and that vision was to make a good ice

cream. and in turn, have people enjoy it which they have. something so simple that it's really provided so many fond memories. to everybody that's come. thousands of people that have come. he was so proud when people would tell him, many, many people that will the first place they'd come after picking up relatives at the airport was to get a cone at mitchells before they went home. that was something to be proud of. so, we thank you very much. we are a honored and i know he's smiling down from heaven right now. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you again, and congratulations. we're so grateful to your father for the business that he ran for over 50 years in the great city and county of san francisco. it's made a lot of people smile. he will be dearly missed and thank you for being here today with us. with that, supervisor yee from district seven. >> thank you, president breed.

i want to congratulations the mitchell's institution. i've only had 40 years of eating ice cream there. i missed out on 20 others. i am proud to honor nancy and michael, owners of one of the last family owned gas stations in my districts. it's twin peaks auto care on portola drive. i keep seeing you. last week you came here for the legacy business and then when my office hosted the small business summit in district seven, michael was there. that's the type of people you guys are. you're constantly involved with the community. they've owned the station for over 30 years, since 1985.

is it is the only station serving the midtown ter yas diamond heights miralomaa forest hills neighborhoods for over one to three miles in any direction. small businesses are the heart of san francisco's economy. my on r -- my honorary is the heart and soul of the twin peak's neighborhoods. you don't think of gas stations as a place where people go and see each other and talk to each other. it's almost like there is a coul coffee shop there. i see people coming there and chatting to each other. it's great place and what i call a community gem. last fall when their lease was at risk, of expiring, it's a testament of the type of support they have. hundreds of community members called and e-mailed my office

and drafted petitions to support the savings of twin peaks auto care kidd personally listened to numerous support stories of the community role and what it played in providing customized service. because of this commitment to the community, i'm so glad my office was able to work with the dppt of real estate and extend their lease so that they could continue to serve our community for another five years. and have an option to extend their lease for another five years. because of this extension, only because of this extension today that i can actually be able to honor the valuable community small business of twin peaks auto care. thank you very much for coming. [applause]

>> thank you very much supervisor yee and supervisors in the office of small business. it's an honor for us to receive this. we love our city and love our community. just being recognized is of utmost importance. to small businesses like ourselves, it gives us the extra umph going. you have a bigger, wider community not just your neighborhood but other people as well. thank you very much.

>> thank you and congratulations again. with that. i'd like to acknowledge the supervisor from district 11. supervisor john avalos. >> i'm here to honor george and ed nazra as well as gary tonly. for small business week i'm honoring two businesses in my district. the last two familia family owned pharmacies. central drugstore and daniel's pharmacy. this is ed and george nazra from daniel's pharmacy. jerry tonellie couldn't be here today.

central drug has been at the same location at mission and santa rosa in 1928 with them taking over in 1965. injury continues to run the operation there. teed he's the head pharmacist. central drug is known for their friendly atmosphere and customer service. they're more than a legacy business. they're a community business. the same can be said for the business here today, daniel's pharmacy. family-owned and operated, daniel's has been serving the community on geneva avenue in london since 1950. ed and george nazra who are here today have built a reputation for excellent public service. they're part of the good neighbor network ad should be called the great neighborhood pharmacy. they have everything you need to

manage your health from wheelchairs to beds to orthopedic products. they provides personalized attention and take care of their customers from packing medication bu by dose to delivery. of this a store, bill payment center. you can even reload your clipper card here. ed takes community service seriously and his staff have a reputation for being efficient, professional and very compassionate. they also support the community at large. they maintain a beautiful store and have installed sidewalk gardens which help soften and beautify a busy corridor. i hope they continue to serve the area for many years dom. just recently across the street, the nazras bought a property that was blighted where ther

there were all kinds of illis it activity going -- illicit opportunity. i -- eu8is it activities going on there. both central drug and daniel's pharmacy has survived where there are two walgreens pharmacies close by. half a block away from daniels is a wahl greens an--walgreens. the strength is so strong that the fear of the walgreens take them out has been unsubstantiated. a block away is another walgreens and the central drug has been able to survive there. the good pharmacy network is alive and strong based on your

efforts and connectedness to the community. i want to thank this is small business month to celebrate your store and work in the community. if you have any words, please share. >> supervisor avalos, we appreciate you and recommending us. we have been a family-run business. my brothers and sister, it's still family-run. i want to thank all of you supervisors for recognizing the independence throughout the city. for the cornerstone of how comerk merk cas built. small independent. thank you very much and thank to the board. [applause]

[applause] >> congratulations again. okay. it's now my turn. i'm excited to honor mr. david zimmerman who is from the inner sunset neighborhood and he owns black [inaudible] which i'm sure many of you hide out from time to time. he's the owner of blackthorn sports bar that provides a prime location to enjoy sporting events and cheer on many of our bay area teams. it hosts trivia night, karaoke and a pool league every wook.

it's a wonderful place to hang out and showcase your flents. david is a native san franciscan. his father is a retired judge of northern california. his mother was deputy public defender here in the city of -- county of san francisco. grace. public service seems to clearly run in his family. for the past four years david has served as president of the inner sunset merchants association. he's been working hard with the community to create a green benefits district for the inner sunset which will provide additional resources to maintain and improve parks. sidewalks and open space? the neighborhood. david works with the inner sunset park neighbors. each year to put together the inner sunset sundays, a series of big block parties where neighbors can meet oach each other and enjoy each other's

company. it's one of my favorite events and last time we enjoyed inner sunset sundays, supervisor katy tang joined us as well. on top of that, he is a member of the ucsf community advisory group where he serves as access point for public and advises the university on common concerns. david is a wonderful leader in the community and i'm proud to know him as a friend and recognize him here today as the honorary for district five for small business week. congratulations david. and thank you so much. >> thank you so much for the honor, president breed. thank you to the board for taking your time to honor these small business owners that work so hard and spend so much time and effort to preserve their communities and chemo them

unique and vibrant. i wasm want to thank the board. as a native san franciscan some of my cherished memories were spent in cliff's variety and small businesses. i want to thank you all for your work and london bride's office for working with the inner sunset parks and neighbors and merchants. with all the issues that came before us. for all of that, i thank you and thank you for this honor and accommodation.

>> all right, getting back to the rest of our honoraries, we have an additional list of folks. here today, and we are going to move to supervisor campos. >> thank you. one of -- even though mimpal's ice oo cream is in district eight. those of us who live in district nine, we consider it part of the community. next, i am honor add and proud to call upon a group of folks from good life grocery, they can come up. anyone who knows anything about vernal heights knows the

important role that good life place. this is in vernal heights. good life first opened in supervisor cohen's district in 1974. then in 1976 it was taken over. and they have a been running it ever since. in 1991, good life opened on courtland avenue here in vernal heights. if you knew -- if you saw what vernal looked and courtland looked at the time, you wouldn't recognize it. can there were hardly any stores on that block. and i think it's probably fair to say the neighborhood was blighted at the time. good life certainly brought traffic, it activated that corridor and quite frankly is

widely credited with turning courtland into what it is today. it wouldn't be the vibrant place that it is without the good life. i'm proud to note that the good life is an employee-owned business. currently employees own 30% of the shares of the company. i know that they're working to get to being 100 percent employee owned. there are currently 35 employee owners at the good life. workers become -- vested in the company after working there two and a half years. many of the employees have been with the company more than 10 years. you can see them here. in fact, in addition to karen and lester, there are 10 good life owners who are here. and i want to make sure i mention that because when we honor the ownership, we honor them.