something pointed out operation ply, internally, staff knows that mission delores park receives high rates of graffiti. talking about how can we apply policies to combat graffiti in areas such as this hot spot in the southerning area of the city? how can we take the data and make it operational? we often see high levels of graffiti in skate parks. you'll see the same distribution list and you can identify the lowest scoring on graffiti are in fact skate parks. due to time, i'll touch on cleanliness. it's one of the widest spreads of distribution. there is a big range from 33% up to 100%. we wanted to highlight some of the troubles that for example, our lowest scoring park, embarcadero plaza, deals with

not just high volume tourists and then also workers during lunch time, high homeless population. using the data to look forward how to improve cleanliness, focussing on those three areas would be a good choice. great, so i know you want more information. so you're in luck. there is an annual report, which was recently released, that has all the data, map for each feature. highest and lowest. we have a case study of the lowest scoring park. a lot of rich information there. and quarterly we updated website which is the sf parks score wiebely account and that will show up to date information at

the park and feature level. a lot of information out there. we are open for questions. if you have any. >> president buell: let's do commission questions first. commissioner low. >> commissioner low: i think what this data, it does give us feedback as to a sense of where we can guide and invest our resources. certainly the northern part of the city, with the exceptings of port smith square, embarcadero plaza, the turk hyde mini park, the southeast quadrant is really the opportunity for us to really invest our resources. it bears out from what we've sensed and this data really supports that. it does show, though, that year over year there was a 1%

increase from 2015-2016. but 2016 to 2017, there was 2% jump and i was wonni wondering you had comments of why we had the 2% jump as opposed to the annual 1%. >> i'll trying to tackle that. there is a couple of factors in my mind. first of all, these are measurements that are taken in points in time. and there are mix of data collected about park futures, deferred maintenance that doesn't move very much. and things like cleanliness that moves a lot. and can vary on the day that the evaluation occurs, which is why we do it four times. but still. so you're going to see movement there. i was interested to see the drop in restroom scores from 15 to 16 and i'm trying to think what that may be, although it was a

drop of pun point. i think prop b is working. i think the planning we're doing, the focus on equity and while we still have work to do, if you go back to taylor's presentation, you'll see that $5 of capital investment for every one dollar is invested in the equity zone parks. we're making those investments. we see alice chalmers on the list, we just completed tennis court and basketball court renovations and it's on the playground list. so we're using all of the data to make investments and we have a year or so under our belt. resurfacing, attacking some of the deferred maintenance issues that we're capable of attacking. and that's helping. the other thing we did was we made a staffing decision at some of the parks in the southern part of the city where we

created extra gardener complex, which covers parks in the southeast. we made staffing decisions as well. we don't have the resources to pull everything from one part of the city to put it to the other. we measure carefully acreage, the challenges associated with different property. when they make the staffing allocation decisions, we did have the ability to create this extra complex, so we were able to give some of our more challenging parks, our staff in some of our more challenging park areas, fewer parks to manage which has happened. and with more investment, we'll continue to do that. >> now with the new software data from the controller's office, how do those two

interplay in future planning? >> again, commissioner mcdonnell asked how are you going to make decisions on what projects you tackle. so prop b, we've committed to put aside -- you're going to hear in in january and february -- $15 million a year we're reserving for deferred maintenance. that comes before you, it's for things likes court resurfacing, field, irrigation, boilers, different sorts of things. we're being much more careful -- we will look at the condition of those features based on data from the controller's office and this capital asset data. i would say that as an aside, the challenge for the park maintenance structure, park

maintenance core structure, it is a mix of cleanliness and deferred maintenance features. what the life cycle system does, is really just capital asset classes and their condition. then we're able to make comparisons between parks in underserved neighborhoods and city-wide. we're already doing this, but we're formalizing a process to look at all three data sources to make prioritization decisions about investment. i think that's how we do it. bond planning will include -- actually if you remember the playground task force, it was a mix of the criteria that you looked at, was a mix of controller park maintenance data on the playground, then the presence of pressure treated

lumber. so that criteria, and you looked at high youth density, low-income neighborhoods. so in a sense that was a little bit of a precursor for using all of the three systems for making prioritization decisions. >> so somehow it's brought together -- >> there is a little bit of overlap quite frankly, but maybe a little more -- maybe a smidgen more subjectivity to be honest, in the park evaluation process, because there are moments in time. the capital process has a lot of sophisticated background how long is this access supposed to last from engineering perspective? and then you have where is it located? and then that gets to the heart of the equity issues we're facing. >> president buell: commissioner mcdonnell. >> commissioner mcdonnell: i always look forward to this perform, it's telling in terms

of opportunity for celebration, the aggregate growth is fantastic, and continued concern. in particular, the park scores in terms of -- the optics of this map are telling. in that, it certainly more data is better. but i guess a concern i have, particularly when you go to the equity zones and comparison of equity and non-equity on the range that is true -- painfully true in the equity zones versus the non, that at the risk of being -- at the risk of being controversial, do we need more data to tell us where to focus? i would argue we don't.

because at some point, we know what we know and we know enough to know where we need to be focusing our resources. i get the political context. i get the challenges, general manager pointed out in terms of you can't pick things up and move them physically or otherwise to other places. but it would seem to me that the conversation, whether it's the geobond conversation, capital asset conversation, should start with, here's where we focus. and there are other things we'll do by necessity, safety, et cetera, but here's where we're going to start. i would hope as we again go through this process, that will be the leading mantra, because it seems we have in the past at least, backed into, as opposed starting, we're going to focus in these areas, these ways and other things we'll do, they'll be by exception. the one question i have is it's

a small question, you ended if you want more data, it's online. it wasn't clear if that was rpd online, or controllers online? >> controller online. anywhere. >> let me offer a smidgen of context on that. i know we're out of time. the more data, the more we're unlayering the onion. five years ago, the bottom half of the city was red. red, like 60-70% red. and 85% and above is considered under this model to be a well-maintained park. and we have now -- we're getting there. we still have work to do. and you tie that with the equity metrics, where we're able to monitor the level of investment we're making in the underserved has neighborhoods, whether it's bay view, ex-sellsier, and the

other neighborhoods that have scored lower. we're going to continue to reap that. your points are extremely well taken, but i think you're actually starting to see the fruit of that strategy long before there was this data. >> president buell: commissioner harrison. >> commissioner harrison: ornamental beds, was it the absence or they were not kept well? >> a park is never punished for a feature that the park doesn't contain. it's only what is at the park that is not maintained. >> you talk about ornamental bed, what is that? >> it's a piece of landscape that has planting. it's not necessarily a box, but it could be. if you look in a different neighborhood playground, center beds might be considered around

port smith for example, the beds that align sort of the kearney and stockton around the perimeter of that park. we have a mix of landscapes. we have lawn, we have -- >> so the ornamental bed. >> lawn is different, but where we're actually planting plants and arranging beds, we consider those ornamental beds. >> using port smith as example, that is a problem. that area. considering that, and then getting to the equity like the commissioner mentioned, i notice in the previous report you had trained -- are they new gardeners or current staffs trained? >> they were trained bay friendly practices, which is heightened level of ecology and sustainable ecology. am i saying that correct?

>> were they current staffing? >> yes. >> it's just part of the ongoing training and workforce development. there is a standard called bay friendly practices which focuses on sustainable planting pallets and how to use our existing soil conditions, our existing water challenges, to maximize the ecology of what we plant and take care of. >> excellent. also, in that, what are the staffing levels like compared to the north side of san francisco and the equity zones? are the staffing levels equal to that? >> commissioner, thank you for the question. the staff is pretty equitably districted. there was -- distributed. there was several issues pointed to. so many of the lower scoring parks are a result of deferred

maintenance that has not been accomplished. that drags down the scores. but to your question, our complexes are pretty much equally staffed. what we have done and phil mentioned it before, is that reorganizing the work down in the bay view, mclaren, crocker, that's where we created the additional complex. and we looked at our supervisory structure and moved two high performing supervisors, reassigned them down there to further motivate and organize the staff. and so -- and all of those decisions were based from last year's report. that drove this. >> i would ask one more staffing change, which is relevant to you, commissioner, we have created a southern complex of

apprentices. we're locating apprentices at crocker and in golden gate park and moving them around, but we do use our apprentice workforce in the parks that are lower scoring in an effort to bolster staffing as well. >> you did mention by reducing the number of areas an individual might have to take care is also an improvement and i congratulate you on all of this, but i'd like to see, i think, it would be important to have more staffing, gardening around and i would hope those with these apprentices would be promoted to full gardener at some point. >> thank you. >> i have one quick question. i found just as one example, the graffiti distribution map to be interesting and wondered do you share the information and try to correlate it with other departments that have tangential

issues around the things you're discovering here? >> there is actually a graffiti task force that is city-wide and we definitely participated in it all the time. we have a lot of conversation between the painter shop and sfpd in context of the graffiti task force, so we try to get more information and get together. >> i guess where i was headed and this is not the time or place to go deep in this, but there has got to be good information here that can be correlated to income distribution and employment levels and all these things and then you look at the issues we're facing, because it seems while it might not be our charge to stop graffiti, it might be interesting to learn about the incentives to create it. with that, i don't see any other

commission comments, maybe public comment? >> clerk: any public comment on this item? being none, that is closed. item 12, general public comment. at this time, members of the public who are not able to address the commission on item 4 may address the commission on items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the rec and park commission and that do not appear on the agenda. >> welcome city and everybody watching me on tv access, because i created this channel. the history will be told. i'm here to tell and ask this com commission because of the recent article in "examiner" and i'm going to get on the editor of the examiner tt, because it's fake news, opportunity news. it was some kind of conspiracy,

because how in the hell -- i hope that's not a bad word, i done said it -- how is the hell the "examiner" supposed to be established paper here in the city is going to let an article get out like that right after the headlining of the legend of ed lee. it was perfectly placed so people reading about ed lee, they turn the next page, oh, renaming it after justin herman to ed lee. not as long as i'm alive it won't be. and whoever did that is not about the community, it's about a conspiracy. i wouldn't be surprised if silly willy did it. silly willy is just a name i use in my book. see, i'm a writer, therefore i can use character names. i won't use the real name, but you know who i'm talking about, because that's going come out in the series called places, places all part of my cases. over 20 years people say, he

ain't even seen a picture i took. if i took another picture, i got enough to fill this whole wall of things going down. you know what is going down? the black population is going down in this town. by the city, by the bay. hey, i'm saying this because i'm happy, but i should be cussing the hell out the city and the community what they've been doing, but they'd have city hall sheriffs coming out. sometimes i rhyme, it come out naturally, because my name is a-c-e, i have authority in the community, i'm the go-to person for the black news, i'm coming back to city hall, you all, back by popular demand, not because i'm black, but back by popular demand. conversations about racism and all that. before the late ed lee, they were getting ready to line that

up, when ed lee got into office in 2011, i got a picture. i had the black media. everybody came but the sun reporter, i wonder why. when i come out here, i'm talking about black, white, all the main pressures in sight. i have to name names and i put a spin on it and name them the name i think. so let's go back, you read the article. i'm telling you that you all need to tell whoever joined me to tell the examiner tt i need a full page add to rebuttal that. they didn't say anything about black community. second of all, they didn't have no right -- along with the conspiracy. >> president buell: thank you. >> you're welcome. >> clerk: anybody else who would like to make general comment? seeing none, this item is closed. commissioners, item 13, commissioner matters. as a reminder this is to allow

commissioners to raise issues that belief the commission should address at future meetings, but there will be no discussion at this time. >> president buell: i see none. >> clerk: any public comment? public comment is closed. item 14. new business ascend setting. >> president buell: i see none. >> clerk: public comment. >> i would like this sit down with mr. ginz berg to talk about the minnie park in fillmore. i read you donated $300,000 to revitalize, but you don't have to answer, we'll a talk offscreen. i want to know, i want a full report on every park. what is going on, dollar signs. need that by the end of year so i can do the report.

my name is ace, i'm on the case. i got a report on all the department heads. she got the same name, because she knows me. and when she was a little girl, she came here, raised in the project. i was born and raised in the projects. so ace is saying, my family we outside the projects. my mother came here from the south. worked in the shipyards. we had to struggle from the fillmore. i couldn't find a dam job. i'm a contractor. back in 1986. all the agents had all the jobs, contractors. they can't speak english, so i had to go down to the hutch and they started the redevelopment. i got no -- don't stop me. >> president buell: well, you're wandering off the -- >> this is public comment, if i want to say, you're not supposed to stop me. i'm going to leave anyway,

because i'm getting upset. i want a reprise from your director on what is going on in every park and i want the mini park i want to know where that money is going to. supposed to be going toward -- i don't know what -- building up to tear it down, you and i both know that's going to be housing in the future. you know it. it's going to be housing in the cultural center. my name is ace, dammit, you ain't heard so much until i head back to city hall. i ain't going to be here forever. no one can replace ace on the case. see as community, a, s service, and i hooked up with the prize. this is going to be something from my family once i'm gone. from my great granddaughters

they might want to pick it up. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: communications? public comment? seeing none this item is closed. >> we didn't have the opportunity to hear, as we have fort last few years, our elf. >> what is going on? >> last month. >> elf came last month. >> i was not here? i missed her. >> you sing for us. ♪ have yourself a merry little christmas ♪ ♪ let your hearts be light ♪ from now on our troubles will be out of sight ♪ have yourself a merry little christmas ♪

♪ make the yuletide gay ♪ from now on our troubles will be miles away ♪ ♪ here we are as in olden days ♪ happy golden days of your ♪ faithful friends who are dear to us ♪ ♪ gather near to us once more ♪ through the years we all will be together ♪ ♪ if the fate allows ♪ hang a shining star on upon the highest bough ♪

♪ so have yourself a merry little christmas now ♪ [applause] >> clerk: with that, item 16, adjournment. >> i'd like to move for adjournment and thank you commissioner mcdonnell for the beautiful song. merry christmas, everybody. >> in memory of the nicest guy i know, ed lee. >> second? all those in favor. thank you, all, and happy holidays. [ ♪ ] .

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me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody i'm susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast

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places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were

woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to

france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard

i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong

>> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913.

in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world.

he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak

is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard and never replanted. if you look up at the seceiling you would believe that's hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today..

>> good afternoon, the commission commissioner will please come to order and the secretary will call. >> as noted on the agenda the december 5th meeting did not have a quorum so there are no minutes but there are minutes

from the november 21st meeting because they weren't approved december 5th. >> right so the minutes before you foray approval a motion is in order. >> i heard a motion and is there a second. >> second. >> ok, are there corrections to the minutes of november 21st? >> not seeing any we're prepared for the vote all those in favour , please a aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed. the mints have been approved. please next item. >> item 3 is the directour's report. >> as you know our mayor ed lee passed away last tuesday morning at san francisco general hospital and we're really fortunate our hospital was a real important part of this process for the mayor and i also want you to know that we all

focused on the work we have to do but also about his passing in grieving as you know, we have a new acting mayor and so we are continuing to do work we need to do and meeting with acting mayor yesterday and we're moving ahead on all of the initiatives that we started. i also just want you to know that i think the process of how the new mayor will be elected is still in play and all of you will know as well in terms of that but today we have an acting mayor and we are working with herren sureing the health department continues to do its work. we are happy to announce today that the appointment of dr. bob

as our deputy director of health and she actually will be replacing me at 3:00 because i have a department head meeting across the street so she'll be sitting in my heat. that is why we have deputy directors. [laughter] >> the president did sign a two- week top gap measure and we're still in the process of understanding exactly where the budget is going and also the agreement on the tax bill reconciliation will take another couple days due to conflict within the the senate roll so we'll hear about that shortly and we will provide the commission update of what that means for us and on december 4tf supervisorors vote today approve our epi contract and that was really important for us and as

you know we're spending $270 million on a new epi contract for our e.h.r. and we're very happy to move up forward ahead of implication of that new project and i'll leave the report at that if there's any other questions? >> on her report please. commissioner chung. >> thank you director. one question that i have in regarding the budget with the new development that it's still kind of not completely verified about the words that like the -- they would not be able to use they would like to propose that budget so how would that effect our budget? >> did you see the words?

>> yes. like the words and and ebc about the words they cannot use in the budgetary process so how would that effect our budget? >> we want to be clear so we haven't seen that in operations yet but one of those words that i know one is transgender so we still have not our transgender community and how we would want to respond to that. >> interview: i appreciate that

and also it's about how to communicate back to our con at this time -- constituents in the local level so maybe that can be something that we discuss in the next meeting. >> absolutely. we can also talk about the programs that we do have for transgender communities where i would think that might be the most impacted could be in our h.i.v. and aids work and as you know, we have millions of dollars we have back filled in general funds so if we have to transfer those activities that are specifically for populations being impacted by this language and i believe we can do that so we will definitely bring that back to you and get more information as we have and it takes time for them to impact with us the changes and we have been fortunate to have enough

general funds we can ensure to provide a continue to provide to the transgender community without the federalment involve ment in that. >> thank you. >> i took the director's comments in the care giving to the mayor during his time at general and it would be appropriate we send a letter of thanks for the service the hospital did provide during that very difficult period of time to the entire staff there for the work they did. so, not seeing any objects i'll have our secretary present a letter to thank the staff fort care they gave to the mayor at that time.

thank you and you can convey that to the staff. >> any other questions? we will move onto the next item lease. >> month public comments for that item, we can move on to item 4 general public comments i have not received any requests and we can move on to item 5, item 5 is the consent calender and if you recall at the beginning of the meeting i mentions the december 5th did not have a quorum and this was scheduled on that agenda so it was never approved and today you can do that. michelle rugels is here to answer any questions and i'll nighted the finance and committee did meet and discuss this and recommend all of the items foray approval. >> do you want to report on the items you are presenting at the consent calender? >> so my apologies and i was out

of the country when that meeting took place and the commissioners stepped in to chair the meeting. >> commissioner -- >> let me go and review there are six contracts or five contracts of very large dollar value but they've all been pre budgeted and um see one, two, three, four contracts for $9.9 million each these are contracts with the the deloitte consulting and nordic consulting for project manager related to the e.h.r. they were put out for a public bid and we felt that the contracts were appropriate within scope and would defer on time with appropriate deliverable measurable outcomes and i think there were penalties

if they weren't delivered in time. so that is part of the e.h.r. project and we had reviewed those and proved some. the one that came on up with golden gate neuro imaging it was a $1.85 million contract and my recollection was it was a single -source contract and this group has been offering monitor ing for neuro surgical procedures for quite a while it's a case-based rate and builds through medical and even though there was no out of way single source we felt that the staff had done due diligence in this contract. this contract also did not have lbe to it but because they're the only game in town with regards to neuro imaging so this is -- and the last one enterprise content management that's an e.h.r. contract which i cannot remember the details,

maybe margarie could come on up and talk about the contract. we talked about it. i remember the other one. >> michelle rugel, i don't remember either. [laughter] i know it was approved by the quorum. i don't have anymore details, sorry, to provide them than what is on here so if you are prefer ing to get more details before you make your decision i can go back down the call. >> i see greg in line but the nordic consulting is several companies that we'll use for project management for the e.h. r. and -- >> ok, i remember it's the overflow contracts so in case anything cannot fit in to the deloitte contract in timely manner it set up providers that

would come in on ad hoc contractual basis so mix the men 's program and implement any of the consulting needs that we have. >> that's exactly correct. the contracts here are we will use some of this authority but part of the approach is to give ourselves flexibility so that when we're in the midst of the project we will have the ability to hire resources quickly and we won't need to enter in to new contract processes which if we go that route that time could set us back on our schedule and end up costing us more in burnt resources so you are exactly correct there's a little bit of a overflow capacity that gives us flexibility to adapt while we're in mid-flight on the project. >> thank you. if i can just ask in terms of

all of the e.h.r. contracts, these are all within that framework and we have already i guess ageed or thought would be our costs. >> yes, absolutely, so we've got and we're going to look at it a little bit more this afternoon where we are in our current budgeting but we got a projection for what we expect to spend on a variety of third party software and consulting solutions that go along with epic and also on the project management category and so these contracts will give us the ability to bring resources on but we're putting the process in place that we will manage the expenditures against the contract and the budget for the e.h.r. project so we'll have catagories of spending and controls around those catagories of spending that the project team along with my office will

be managing to keep expenses within budget. >> ok, thank you. >> questions from the commission ? otherwise it is before us and on the consent calender. commissioner bernal was there so just to say one of us knew what we were doing. [laughter] >> ok,. >> you recovered that very well. >> i see no extractions so we'll proceed to vote and the contract report i guess was just a policy , is that right? >> that is being asked. >> right, well it needed to be approved. we approved it at a committee level but there was no commission meeting last month so we needed to put it on. >> ok, so seeing no extractions all those in favor of the consent calender say aye. >> all those opposed. good. the consent calender has been approved and we'll move forward

to the next item please. >> item 6 is a resolution horn of edwin mally. >> so item 6 is before you and the officers ask we placed a resolution in recognition of the work the mayor had actually done on behalf of this department as one who has actually served under a number of mayors i can personally say that this mayor had been probably the mayor who had the most support for the departments of policys and the departments' direction as he looked at how it effected the residents of san francisco and i think as we went through the

number of years while he was mayor our ability to work with the mayor's office and with our programs, with the director at the lead was one of the most productive that i have seen over 28 years. and i think that therefore the vice president and i have thought it would be fitting to bring a resolution to commend him and to recognize that this was true. the public ceremonys on sunday recognized his great skills in bringing the city together and in moving it forward and spoke of many of his accomplishments and unfortunately, it didn't have the same recognition for the support he had given to us in the public-health department and i think that the resolution

helps' numerous eight the number of things that he also supported which brought an increase quality of life to the residents here and continued to serve as a model for a moving towards responding to the disparitys some of our population were facing and so we have before you a resolution for your adoption and we would then forward to the family. is there a motion. >> i make a motion to accept this resolution as well as a motion if we could, either the director or maybe baba to read this in to the record for members on television that may be watching. >> dr. chow i'm happy if you take that lead. >> surely. ok, if there's a second then we'll ask, ok, and the director

wish to read that in to the record? >> ok. i will. we're ed lee was the first asian american to serve as mayor of san francisco he was the first appointed by the board of supervisorers in november 20, 2011 and re-elected twice and mayor lee was raised in public housing in washington and moved to the bay area to attend law school in berkley in 1978. where as, mayor lee devoted his early career to advocating for affordable housing, rights of immigrants, and rights of rent ers through his work at the san francisco asian law caucus. where as ed lee had a long and productive career working for the city and county of san francisco including executive district or of the san francisco human rights commission and director of city purchasing, director of public works and the city administrator. where as mayor lee was strong supporter of the san