desperately that's needed. and lastly, we need a caretaker mayor because we need someone who's going to be accountable to the people. >> thank you so much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors and president and acting mayor breed. my name is brandon romney. i am serving on the san francisco board of berniecrats. i am speaking today on behalf of the democratic process. with the tragic passing of ed lee, our city is in an interesting position, where incumbents have the position to run for mayor in june. i am asking that this board vote for an interim mayor who is not running for the seat.

this will allow the voters the first chance in over a decade to make their own decision on who should represent them. if the board of supervisors can spend over an hour discussing a house in a wealthy neighborhood, they can at least take that much time to discuss the caretaker mayor. >> thank you for your comments. before the next speaker, a gentle reminder, please use your fingers. next speaker, please. >> happy new year's, board of supervisors. my favorite winter holiday is kwanzaa because it's about

unity, and if you could show this. please come out on the 18th, and hopefully, acting mayor breed will be out for this rally, out in front of city hall and supporting rising african american leadership for the fillmore heritage center. secondly, one of the things that ed lee wanted to see accomplished right before his tragic passing was to get 1,000 people off of the street and into the safe, organized spaces, so i have something for you, supervisors. it's called safe organized spaces. we have a working group that is comprised of st. francis homeless's challenge facilitate are. we have downtown streets team, we have concern, we ha have encampment neighbors. and we for a fraction of what the city currently spends on dpw and sfpd could actually have a community integrated

program to support safe integrat integrates -- integrated spaces for a $9 million budget. but acting mayor breed, it's going to be challenging and it's going to be a blessing in some ways to be the incumbent in this race. but let's make sure whoever is the acting mayor, interim mayor is active in an interim budgetary process. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm steve jones with the center for biological diversity. i'm here to speak on the next item of your agenda to oppose offshore drilling and fracking in california. i want to thank supervisor

peskin for his support on this issue, as well as lee hefner for working with our office on this issue. offshore drilling affects coastal communities and our climate. by voting this in, we'd be the 16th community to formally oppose offshore drilling in california, and the global threat it poses and our global stablity. we started this campaign at the center about six months ago, but last week as you know, president trump's put all federal waters for offshore drilling. that's everything. doing all that would -- burning all that would create about 50 gigatons of pollution. that's the equivalent of driving a million cars for a year. this is a crisis, and we're happy to present california as

a unified front to oppose this. people can register their opposition to this plan through the end of february . they can go to endangeredoceans.org to send a comment to the department of the interior, and i also urge everyone to show up and support the public action that's on february 8th in sacramento, the only hearing being held in all of the state of california to allow people to register their -- their support for our coast and their opposition to expanding offshore oil drilling. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors and acting mayor breed. my name is ben becker, cochair of the san francisco berniecrats. you can assume i'm here to request we have an interim mayor who's not running for office. i don't really question the

fact that all of you are working really hard, and i can appreciate that happen it is very difficult to be a city supervisor, especially today. i can appreciate that it's very difficult to be a mayor in the city, considering what our late mayor lee went through. i don't think that it is fair to anybody to ask them to be both board president and mayor at the same time and to have them running for mayor at the same time. so as a request to the people of san francisco and to yourselves, please appoint an interim mayor who is not running for office who can just dedicate themselves to the job for six months. we can clean things up a little bit and move on from there. thank you. >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name's art persico, and i'm a san francisco resident in

district two, and i am so pleased to have the opportunity to address the board of supervisors. it's a great honor. and i really appreciate the attention that you give to your constituents when we do this because some of us had waited hours to be here, to have our little moment of being heard. so i would like to associate my remarks with those who have earlier spoken about the need for a fair process. and i would urge you, even after -- at the end of a long meeting, when it's hard to listen. it takes a super human effort to focus in, but please give us the respect of listening to us when we wait till the end of a meeting and speak. i really do hope you have a fair process. we witnessed, in the past year, the unfortunate effects of an unfair process, when a finger was on the scale, a thumb was on the scale, and the people are tired of it. i think it should start here,

in san francisco, where you do actually have the conscience and the guts to have a fair process. thank you very much. >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is lindy park. i am a resident of city of san francisco, and i am also here with the center for biological diversity. i'm here to support the resolution that's on your agenda today that would ban all ill and gas drilling -- or that would call for a ban to all offshore oil and gas drilling and fracking. and it's very important for the city and for communities all across the country to weigh in and to speak out against

offshore fracking and drilling because as someone just mentioned before, the trump administration is poised to open up almost all of our coastal waters to offshore drilling. and this is something that our oceans and our climate cannot afford. it's simply too dirty and too dangerous. the epa allows 9 billion gallons of frack waste waters and fracking chemicals to be dumped into our oceans every year. those chemicals are toxic to our wildlife and to human health. there have been too many instances where spills have ruined our coast lines, have ruined economies. and finally, our climate cannot

afford more drilling. it can't afford more areas to be opened up to oil and gas development. we're already standing on the edge of a cliff in terms of our climate. we need to be phasing out oil and gas development -- oil and gas development, not opening up new areas for oil and gas development. so i very much appreciate your consideration -- >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is winnie porter. i spent 40 years as a classroom teacher in san francisco public schools, and mr. yee, i don't know if you remember, but we talked together at hawthorne elementary years ago. >> supervisor yee: i do. >> i would like to take this opportunity to take every single supervisor that was respectful, that was seated, and that listened to those of us who were here to talk. as a teacher, i always taught

my children to be respectful and to be attentive listeners. i am shocked at some of the behaviors that i've seen here today, laughing and carrying on, walking around with your coffee cup. i'm appalled. i'm appalled. i would not expect that or allow that from my students, let alone people that i voted for. >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is shaliqua chandler, ambassador sahalaquia chandler. i'm coming up my condolences to former mayor, ed lee. i felt he was a wonderful man, i felt he was a man who truly cared about this community.

however, at the same time i just want to address issues that i do see. my son was murdered november -- january 9, 2015. i want you to know the status of that case. it was just offered with eric flemings, he's now the new judge of san francisco. however what he had to do was give up my son's case and all his other cases, so i was just informed that two months going into trial that now i have no attorney for my son and the four other boys. so unfortunately, katie steinle has been to trial, and one of her family stated that even though the immigrant was being sent back, so millions and millions of dollars are being donated to her fund. here, my son was murdered and

the four boys seven months before hers and we're still pending. no one is really concerned about what we as african american women are going through. my other frent's son was just shot to death by oakland police department. it's been going on and on and on, but see, this is my issue. you know, we have an african american woman what o's in a position to make change. you have voted her in twice as president, and now it's a problem. with dianne feinstein, she helped to seat this president of the board of supervisors, and she was also able to get into the seat of the mayor, so i want to know what is the problem? i have no problem with speaking up concerning the injustices. no one has taken a stand of us mothers being murdered in san francisco and all over -- >> supervisor: thank you for your comments.

thank you, miss aquia. miss aquia, your time is concluded. [ inaudible ] >> supervisor: thank you, miss aquia. miss aquia, we try to give everyone the same amount of time to testify. [ inaudible ] >> supervisor: miss aquia, we appreciate your comments. thank you, miss aquia. thank you for your comments. before otto speaks, are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comment. >> can i get two minutes? >> supervisor: please proceed. >> my name's otto. i live nearby here, and i just got off the buses, and i heard the recording on the bus, please stand clear, the doors are opening. and it seems to me, january is

the month of doors. they let me in the building, and another crazy guy down there, participatory democracy. i would just echo what the lady was saying about offshore drilling and maybe even go a little bit further. i've said this before. if we're about trying to get off a carbon economy, what we're doing in this city in san francisco, it wouldn't look like this. i have to tell you, i lack a vocabulary to even talk about how far off we are. thank you. >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. sir, are you addressing the board for general public comment? >> howdy. i just got back from illinois. what i like about the way this

meeting is ran, the mayor is sitting with the board of supervisors. the mayor isn't hiding out or going across town, so whatever you need to do to amend that, i would appreciate it. we need the mayor with the board of supervisors, to be there with them while they're moving the city somewhere. i guess jeff kozcinsky is talking about his 20 years legislation to build some housing. i mean, do you really expect to put someone in a navigation center for the rest of their lives or just bounce them between navigation center to street? i mean, if the housing isn't there, then, you just build navigation centers for them, and they're going to live in

the navigation center to five -- indefinitely like they are in some of the shelters? some of the shelters, people are staying two years. but i guess considering the healing that's coming up regarding the navigation centers, the navigation centers are literally being sued because they did not -- they're violating the standards of care. the city and county of san francisco has standards of care, and they just -- it seems like the city attorney is trying to fight very hard and excessively to say that they are not liable for the contract or the standards of care. we're going back to that paradigm that people are staying in the tents because when they go to the shelter system, they get abused. the women are phrase of getting rained, so they're refusing to go to the shelter system,

because they get abused. >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. again, if there are any members of the public to address the board in general comment, now is your opportunity. please proceed, sir. >> i'm kevin ortiz, born and raised district 9 resident, current district six resident. i'm just here -- i wasn't actually going to speak, but i'm here in support of a fair democratic process. i would be against what is currently going on right now if this was supervisor kim, this was supervisor ronen. we need to have a fair democratic process that goes along with this. this is not about identity, this is about fair process. right now, san francisco has seven out of ten homeless people that once had a roof over their heads, one of the worst income inequalities in the world. the average latino family in the district making $25,000 a

year, yet we have white people making 150 k a year. we can house all of these people, but we need to have a fair process, and right now there's a lot of trauma that goes on with the residents of san francisco because they don't feel they can trust that democratic process right now. we need to appoint an incident ram mayor and get a legally binding contract with the city and county of san francisco so that way we don't have this caretaker mayor that can actually run in the future, so that's all i'm saying with that. but i really urge the city and county of san francisco to have a fair process. that way, it's unbiased, with the three candidates that are currently running right now, and the city can choose, and the city can feel comfortable with that. thank you for your time. >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. i believe that concludes general public comment. madam president? >> the hon. l. breed: are there any members of the public who would like to comment at this time?

madam clerk, please read the next items on the agenda, and we'll go into closed session. >> the hon. l. breed: role call vote. >> on items 31 and 32, supervisor fewer? aye supervisor kim? a aye. supervisor peskin? aye supervisor sheehy? >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> the hon. l. breed: those items are adopted unanimously. all right. madam clerk, can you please read the closed session item? >> clerk: yes. scheduled pursuant to a motion

approved on october 31st and continued from december 12th, 2017, the board of supervisors has authorized to convene in closed sessions regarding the labor negotiations with the city's open labor contracts. >> the hon. l. breed: colleagues, can i entertain a motion to go into closed session? moved by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor ronen? colleagues, can we do that without objection? without . >> all right, colleagues. madam clerk, it looks like we are back in open session.

okay. >> can we talk? all right, colleagues, we are back in open session. thank you, everyone, for your patience. can i entertain a motion not to disclose our conversation in closed session? >> so moved. >> moved by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor yee. colleagues, can we take that without objection? without objection, the motion passes. madam clerk, please read the inmemeraim. >> clerk: yes. the meeting will be adjourned today on behalf of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor cohen, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late some joe boss. motion made by supervisor breed for the late miss rachel

townsend and mr. shaleem tindall. motion made by supervisor tang and motion peskin for the late mr. jeffrey chin, mr. lynn alcorn, miss jean carlyle, miss milly fishman, and for the late mr. jim moore. >> thank you, madam clerk. this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business on the agenda today? >> clerk: that concludes the agenda for today. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. we are adjourned.