the black population is going down. whooo! ♪ but i want to know. ♪ i want to know. ♪ who's in control. ♪ right here in san francisco.

hey, sit down, y'all. you're going to hear what i got to say. ♪ i just thought i'd do that to open you up and loosen you up. i been doing it for what? let's go back in history, chief. chief scott, i am going to tell you things they have not in this history here. you sitting in that seat. only one that's been here is marshall over there. in the history going way back to the shooting and killing. and in 2007 when newsome was here and the force was out of control ill can -- killing us black folks all over here. and she had to resign from the p.l.a. and i know what she had to say. it's racist. you might hear what i want to say. in black history. history. ♪ and black history. hee, hee, we got nothing.

hee. ♪ hee. listen, may ed lee rest in peace. but i'm here to talk about the pimps on the streets. i know a lot of you all can't understand what i am up here talking about, but this is free speech. hold up, captain. i'm in your arena, but you better ask somebody, hey, there's a memo out, chief. and memo eight got a memo and it ain't been opened yet from my do dossier of the city by the bay. and black history, chief. i tell you what they have not. because you come from the same city, right? gascon he was the chief before you, but listen, i got a story to tell. i got three seconds. my name is ace and i'm on the case. whooo! right on time. >> okay.

any other comments, songs, solos, performances? spoken word -- >> related to budget? >> an i got something to say. >> is it on the budget? >> here is what is on the budget. >> you're right. let it go, sister. >> so anyway, i'm talking about my son, even though i am going to do public comment, too, but i'm not going to sing. i don't come here to sing. i mean, if you can listen to him, you can listen to me. my birthday is coming up on the 14th, february 14th, and it is not a good day. 14 is when my son was murdered. i'm still asking for justice for my son, and his murder and his murders to come to -- for him to be arrested. i like to use the overhead. these are the perpetrators that

murdered my son. thomas hannibal, paris moffett, jason thomas, anthony carter, and marcus carter. these guys are still out there running the street, except for one of them. these names are just not pulled out of a hat. these are on any son's case. even mayor gavin newsome said it. they know who killed my son. the police know who killed my son, so when are we going to get justice for my son? when am i going to get help? every year i come here. every wednesday i come here. i look on the board just to see if this place is going to be open today. and if you are not here, i like to where you're going to go. so i can be there. and i'm saying this now and i'm stepping up now because i'm not going to be able to be here next week, so maybe i will speak twice. i still need justice for my son.

he was a 17-year-old boy. murdered in the streets of san francisco where all other murders are p hahhing, and nothing is happening to these people of color. and and i keep saying if i was a white woman or if my son was a white boy, would his case be solved? i still ask that. and i'm not singing about it. i'm not happy about it. this is not about a budget. this is about a mother that's coming here every weekend with my grandchildren asking for justice for her son. i have other grandchildren. yes, i do. but i will never forget this one. i never forget this boy right here. he didn't deserve to die. he didn't deserve to be shot down in the street like a dog, and nobody's doing anything about it. and then when i come here, i get told i only have so many

minutes. i only have this, but you can get up here and you can laugh at everybody else. but when i get up here, i get pushed off. so now from now on i'll just keep talking. what are you going to do? arrest me? i have nothing else. i'm going to keep asking for justice for my son. i'm never going to stop. i need help. i need these posters out there. i will talk in public comment also. >> any other public comment? on or off the budget? hearing none, public comment is now closed. okay. so the motion to i a prove the

budget was made by commissioner melara, seconded by commissioner mazzucco. is that correct, secretary kilshaw? okay. all in favor? any opposed? motion carries. director, you have our approval on the budget. thank you so much for being here. all right. next item, secretary kilshaw. >> item five, discussion and possible action to approve draft revised department general order 3.01. written communication system for purposes of engaging in the meet and confer process with the police officers association. discussion and possible action. >> commissioners, now, we have already discussed at length this particular d.g.o. and its revisions as you will recall. we did not vote on it because it had not been posted the requisite amount of day.

it has now been posted the requisite amount of days, but if there is further comment or xhe on it, i think -- further comment or question on that, that is now. >> i would move to pass the matter based on our prior conversations. >> second. >> okay. moved by commissioner mazzucco. seconded by commissioner marshall. public comment. hopefully on d.g.o. 3.01. oh lord, it better be 3.01. >> what the hell is going on? putting me under arrest for public comment? >> please forgive me. don't arrest me. i can't breathe. come on now. don't do that to me. this is black history month. excuse me, and excuse me. if i'm out of order, excuse me. i am going to two or three -- >> do you have a comment on

dgo3.01? begin now. >> as long as i get a chance for public comment? >> that is next. >> thank you. >> 3.01. hearing none, public comment is now closed. commissioners, it's been moved by mazzucco. seconded by marshall. i'm sorry. commission commission commission commission commission commissioner hirsch has a comment. >> there is a word that bothers me in the document and i want to suggest we change it. on page 6, it says when a bulletin substantially modifies a general order, it goes on and will be submitted to the police commission. i don't like the word substantially. i don't think that is the intent of the charter. a bulletin is not supposed to be able to substantially modify a general order or modify an order at all.

to me if we take the word substantially out and it will come to the commission, and i would prefer that. i don't know what substantially mean, and it is open to abowusa. i would make a motion to amend this document by deleting that word substantially. >> you have to make a motion -- you have to ask the maker of the motion to accept your amendment. >> well, if we're following robert's rules of order, i don't actually. >> what i will do at this point in time is move to amend my motion to eliminate the word substantially as described by commissioner hirsch. that is a very good catch on his part. there should be no modification. i move based on that with that change. >> i will second it again. >> yes. >> all set. you two good? okay. >> we're god. >> all right. and i don't have to go back to public comment now, do i?

okay. all in favor? any opposed? okay. with that modification, d.g.o. 3.01 is approved by this commission and proceeds to the meet and confer process as outlined on the agenda item. next agenda item. >> item six, general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. speakers shall address to the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to department or dpa personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, rather police or dpa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and dpa personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public

comment. please limit your comments to three minutes. >> an actually, this is not a comment, but i will. i came here speaking as an african-american, black, negro, and i am a little upset. slow down. my intentions were good and hopefully you have the power, mr. chairman, to allow me an extra minute. you have the power to do that. no, you can do that. a lot of you are looking over here. and allow me for black history month. i'm going to say something good because i want to let you all be aware i am doing the black month in city hall by the bay so our community knows who is here and who is who in city hall. is that okay with you? see, see, chief, i came up here, two things, to be kind of uplifting because you doing a hell of a good job, boss. and we already know in the paper because i read. it's gone and now the feds is

gone and the state is watching over you all. you dealing with issues here and this sister right here, unsolved case, and dealing with all this stuff, but i am up here something up here. and one, two, three, four, and commend for black history month. i have to waste my time and two minutes is up, but the bottom line is, number one, i would like to file a complaint against this department, chief. because i'm upset now. give me an extra minute. of corruption. racism. and probably don't know what the hell is going on here. marshall and you supposed to be -- i'm coming to your office. i wouldn't be coming up here. then i got to deal with -- i'm a senior. but what your officers have done, chief, and here at city hall. it's a bomb buster. i'm not going to release it yet. this the most scandalous thing

happened to a black man in black history month that the law enforcement are involved with, the police, the sheriffs, public defender. who was else involved in here? all your police department, and gaston, and the scandal, and hold up. it's in the memo. everybody going to want to know what's in that memo. it's going to be the biggest scandal here in the city with the police department on the same day when the state say they going to come and take it away and the feds take it away. the oversight, chief. chief scott, i am going to tell you a thing they have not. the history. you got a brother over there, marshall, you sitting back there. hold up, mother. you going to have to talk, black history month. you been there through the shootings and the experience and i have the pictures of the chiefs there, and sit back and

you sit back like you don't want to be part. you a part of them. hold up. the commissioner, she done switched over here to the sheriff's department trying to defend the sheriff over there. . >> can you please? i'm tired, too. it's done. next. next speaker please. i'll schedule you time at the next meeting. next meeting. you're wasting my time, too. call the sheriffs please. call the sheriff's office, please. get them up here. next speaker please.

can you wait over there? next speaker please. >> marshall, you wouldn't have done that, would you? i know you wouldn't have done that, boss man. >> okay. i just wanted to bring up some more things about my son and show some pictures. i would like to use the overhead again. la last time i brought up these names, and i do want to show these names again. i'm still waiting for my

inspector to call me. i have not heard from him to tell me what's going on with my son's case. he has all these names of the perpetrators that murdered my son. i'm asking for something like this be put on the buses or put at the bus barns or somewhere, wherever when they was murdered and this is something they did before and to happen for not just my son, but all other unsolved homicides, but right now i am here concerning my son. and also i need you to know my son went to school. saint dominick's catholic school. he graduated from there. and went to gateway high. he was a good boy. he wasn't in trouble because i wouldn't allow it.

but all of my protection couldn't save him. everything i did, tuition, school payments, couldn't save h him. so i'm living without a child. my only son. i'm still asking for closure for my only son. the perpetrators are still running the street. i say i forgive them, but i still want justice. i want them to go to jail and think about what they've done. they're walking around and having families. i'm just not fighting for my child. there's other families and mothers and fathers up there that's lost their children, and none of these cases are solved. you got former mayor saying i know who killed your son.

the d.a. know who killed her son. the police know who killed her son. you put this in the paper be u you do not -- paper, but you do nothing about it, so it's a slap in the face to me. i'm bringing this because i want you to see this is what i feel. people ask me, why do you carry those pictures? because i want you to see how i feel. i wouldn't wish this on the perpetrator's mother. this is what i have to deal with. this is life. this is real life. i'm not singing to you. this is real life. so help me. >> further public comment? good evening. >> good evening, commissioners and chief scott. tammy bryant, district five. i just came tonight to just make

a few general comments. i am still really disappointed about the tasers vote. i think this is not a good step to take, and i want to say i have also still been having good incidents or observations with the police officers. i really do see a change in culture. i have seen people being pulled over where they were getting veriage tated and it was -- getting very agitated and a black man and pulled over by the federal building and he was really antagonistic and yet the officers maintained their cool. and i do look at anything a traffic stop or anything because they can always escalate, so i want to commend the chief and police department because i do see the changes. and just again, i just feel that the taser, i know it's a done deal and been voted on, but i just think it wouldn't be necessary as much as you step up the other processes and methodologies that you are implementing. and i also want to make a pitch that i am understanding that we do need some new cars for our officers. and thank you.

>> thank you. further public comment. seeing none, public comment is now closed. ceremony kilshaw, may i have the next line item please. >> item seven is public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below, closed session, including public comment on vote whether to hold item nine in closed session. >> secretary, for my own edification, will we be asserting the attorney-client privilege in closed session? i don't believe so. >> not tonight. >> members of the public, we are about to go into closed session to consider some personnel matters. to do that, we are going to take a vote to whether or not we should do so. and we ask for your comment with regard to whether or not we should go into closed session.

so any public comments on the fact we are about to go into a closed session? seeing none, public comment is now closed. next line item. >> item eight, vote on whether to hold item nine in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10, action. >> i move that we hold the item in closed session. >> second. >> moved by commissioner melara. seconded by commissioner marshall. all in favor? any opposed? thank you, ladies and gentlemen. members of the public, we are ump back on the record in open session and you still have a quorum. >> next line item.

>> vote to elect whether to discussion item 9. code section 67.12 a action. >> i vote not to disclose. >> all in favor. any opposed. all right. that motion carries nondisclosure carries. next line item. >> 11 adjournment. action item. >> all in favor. all right. thank you, members of the commission, we are now adjourne

>> (clapping.) >> in san francisco the medical examiner performs the function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of san francisco from a variety of circumstances in san francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually i'm christopher director for the chief mr. chairman the chief my best testimony a at the hall of justice on 870 drooint street that is dramatically updated and not sufficient for the medical chairman facility i've charles program manager public works should a earthquake of a major are proportion occurs we'll not continue to perform the services or otherwise inhabit the building before the earthquake. >> we're in a facility that was designs for a department

that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed we've had significant problems with storage capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if you're doing a job on a daily basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz we're in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is $65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond approved by the voters and the locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the i'm the executive director we broke ground in november 2015 and that started with the

demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so pile foundation and then with second construction of the new facility. >> one of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and we're having quality to have regular meeting and the variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and i'm a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we need to verify what or what was instead of. >> the building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly we're that's a great question to be on time and budget have the

roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. >> and as you can see we've got a lot of the interior finishes installed. >> in an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. >> not taking into account there was a lot of structural updates made into this building not seen in other construction throughout san francisco or other barriers we have friday morning examiners from 8 to one public comment monday to friday because of air circulation we literally have to shut the doors and so the autopsy is done without staffing being able to come and go or exit the space and literally lock down the autopsy in the new facility we have bio build one door opens

and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as they move in and out of the area. >> in the current facility investigative unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from the current facility and the new facility. >> the planning we have here gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion. >> we're looking forward to have secured parking to minimize

the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. >> we have a new visitors area we're building that is a little bit more friendly to families. >> one thing you may notice in the room no windows there is no natural light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam and see the sky and see natural lights. >> that's one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible. >> we have staff here onsite

we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. >> third of the construction going into the building has been by contributions of small businesses. >> part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the building we'll have a syrup in front of the building and rain guardian. >> the medical examiner's office has been a several if in their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. >> it's a building that the chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few of the.

>> it is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address san francisco as a whole. >> the building will allow is to have greater very much and serve the city and county of san serve the city and county of san francisco and the neighboring - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world-class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. - our 28,000 city and county employees

play an important role in making san francisco what it is today. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. ♪ >> about two years ago now i had my first child. and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll

find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. and this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. she was pumping a couple times a

day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i don't know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. not all returning mothers have the same access, even though there's existing state laws on the issues. >> these moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome -- accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. >> what are legislation?

>> we wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. and the sink is in the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's all right in here. you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers.

>> the new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is

necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in san francisco.

>> if you want more information visit sfdph.org/breastfeedingatwork. ♪ ♪ >> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. ♪ ♪

>> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your words. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. and then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i

realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and

compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our

curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to suppo support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive

attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in this world, that

>> good morning everybody. my name is aaron peskin and it is my privilege to serve as a supervisor representing the third district. for those of you who do not know, i have long served in another capacity as the president of an environmental nonprofit that for the past 20 years has worked to negotiate the purchase of land and water

rights on behalf of native american tribes in the great basin nations in the united states. for those who don't know where that is, the great states of nevada, utah, parts of arizona and oregon. and before that i worked at the trust public land. and i'm happy to lead with london breed, malia cohen, our former supervisor who first championed this issue, in favor of the full divestment from fossil fuels. i want to start by thanking the broad coalition of environmental advocates, public health advocates, clean fuel transportation activists, democratic party officials, grassroots advocates and retirement board members and as of last night, the commission on the environment who have turned

out today to demand that san francisco employee retirement system divest now from fossil fuels and we're getting to labor, we're saving the best for last. and i mean that sincerely and it is in my notes. i want to start by saying that sciu 10-1 has been the wind at our backs. i cannot thank you enough. to the folks from dapo, i cannot thank you enough. we'll hear from all of them. i want to start not with our president, not with our retirement board member but with our former supervisor. we have a lot of great speakers but this started with supervisor john ovolose who first issued the resolution unanimously adopted by the board five years

ago that has not yet be heeded but perhaps with malia cohen's leadership will be heeded today. >> good morning. it's great to be here. but also kind of strange to be here. five years after we had first voted unanimously to call upon sfers to divest from fossil fuels. since that time i'm a retiree of the sitting council of san francisco, so i depend on sfers to respond. what we have done in five years of analysis, we know fossil fuel investments is a bad investment. we're seeing the great volatility of fossil fuels while our sfers overall fund has grown from $19 billion in 2013 to $23 billion in 2018, our fossil fuel portfolio has only stayed

about the same, meaning this is a really poor investment while we see growth elsewhere. we know why it's a bad investment. we are seeing increasingly, the harm that's caused low income communities of color, to cities and towns along the waterfront are suffering from sea level rise, from climate, from dramatic climate events, from hurricanes and typhoons and in california we have our fires. these are all signs that our economy founded on oil and fossil fuel is one that harms life on earth. and it's way past time that we start moving our economy to renewable power, renewable energy generation. we have called upon sfers for five years to do this, take our money out of fossil fuels and put in renewables and they have dragged their feet almost all

the way, like they have the donald trump administration on the board to deny the fact that the world is becoming harmed every day as we continue to invest in fossil fuels. i want to thank supervisor peskin, supervisor london breed and supervisor malia cohen to continue with the work to make sfers do their part to divest and today we'll see if they're going to move this the way they have had to these five years. it's time to divest, divest now, sfers your time is up, thank you. >> thank you. this has been a tough 24-hours in this building, but president breed said something which is profoundly important, that our relationships have to transcend and that number one, it's all about public policy.

and with that, under president breed's leadership, we, again, unanimously adopted last year the same resolution that a different board adopted when john was on the board of supervisors. it is my pleasure to introduce on the same policy page, the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, london breed. >> thank you. hi everybody. i'm happy to join many of our environmental leaders and our community members and members of the board of supervisors and everyone who is here today, who is committed to a cleaner planet for future generations. there are many people to thank, but i want to start by thanking supervisor malia cohen, who is a member of the retirement board who has been leading the fight on this divestment at the retirement board along with

victor macres who is also on the retirement board. thank you both. i want to acknowledge sophie maxwell for her long time work to protect at-risk communities from polluting power plants and i want to thank labor. the members of sciu 10-1 and 350.org for your advocacy and staying on top of the issue and members of the commission of the environment for ongoing advocacy on this measure. san francisco has always been a national and global trail blazer for environmental practices. we have reduced greenhouse gas emissions 28% below 1990 levels, cleaning our air while our population was growing and our economy was booming.

we have launched our clean power program, clean power sf, the single most important thing we can do to combat climate change and i was proud to lead that initiative here on the board of supervisors. with the enrollment of clean power sf, we're well on our way to achieving the 50% renewable target by 2020 and 100% by 2030. goals that even outpace the ambitious goals set by the state of california. and we're providing reliable energy at great prices. through the work of so many community leaders, we closed the last two fossil fuel plants eight years ago in this city. and we are leading the nation in waste reduction and resource recovery thanks to the recycling and composting programs. we are recovering more than 80% of materials from landfill. we are preventing many harmful

products from entering our city at off we were the first in the country to ban plastic bags and through legislation i proudly wrote we have the largest styrofoam plan and drug take back program that has kept more than 24,000 pounds of the bay and landfill. that's what we're doing here in san francisco. san francisco has been at the forefront of so many ground breaking environmental issues and today, our retirement board has a chance to make history. we cannot continue investing in companies that pollute our ea h earth. it's time to divest. it's time to divest. it's time to divest. it's time to divest. and do so, quickly.

washington d.c. may ignore climate change. our president may ignore climate change. but here in san francisco, we are going to put this at the forefront. we're going to make sure that they know we have to make change and we have to make change now. it's not fair to our planet and future generations to come. divest now, do the right thing, let's get this done. thank you for being here today. (applause) >> thank you president london breed and thanks for shouting out sophie maxwell. we had two polluting plants, the hunters point plant that supervisor maxwell led the fight on closing and years later with the incredible work of the city attorney's office, the murrant

plant was closed. as supervisor breed said at the forefront of this, inside the belly of the beast, supervisor cohen has been a star in making sure that we divest. and that vote is happening shortly. she has to go in a closed session at 11:30. supervisor cohen has been leading that fight and god willing, a little after 1:00 p.m. we'll get that vote. it's still on the bubble but i know malia is going to make that happen. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, good morning. first, i want to recognize many people that have brought us to this point today. i don't see jed holtsman, he's been attending the sf retirement

meetings for years. i want to recognize supervisor peskin for bringing this issue to us and lending his voice in the desire to put pressure on the staff to make this vote happen today. and i want to recognize supervisor ovolose, he took an unpopular position early on and i want to appreciate his leadership style, although different from mine. but nonetheless, here we are today. i think it's a testament that you need both moderate and less support to make this happen. it's not a political issue, this is really the right thing to do when we think of the health and wellness of our entire world. i want to recognize the members of siu 10-1 who have spoken in two minute intervals. many i had to cut off because your comments were too long but

it was good to see you all. and the retirees making the most of their retirement time coming out to support. and i want to recognize the number of staff people to help me and educate me on the importance on this movement and how we can continue to move forward and uplift and recognize our indigenous folks who are here that led the way when they were fighting dapo. there are many people whose shoulders i stand on that we need to recognize. the seriousness of the issue we're going to vote on today is not missed on me. we all know fossil fuels emissions are harming our children and health and doing irrepairable damage to our planet. as a city, we cannot build our pensions on the health and wellbeing of our children and future generations. but divestment is not just a moral imperative. this is not just a talking

point, a political issue of the day. as a fiduciary member, we have a responsibility, as fiduciary member of the retirement board, i have to make sure every person can retire with dignity, with assurance that their pension is safe and no one is taking a gamble. the investments in fossil fuel endanger that promise. the board of supervisors has repeatedly demanded that staff implement divestment plan and frankly we have no plan. the "engagement strategy" that has probably had a hand in jed holtsman's hair falling out, i think you would agree that engagement strategy has been very hard to stomach.

the staff has touted the strategy but honestly there's been no accountability. they've had no mandated timeline for any company's responsiveness. i'm getting in the weeds but the retirement board has a process on how they pull back divestments and it's a multi level multi tier response. it's too much pollution. they have not identified an acceptable ratio of returns to emissions. due diligence hasn't been done. the process for evaluating environmental and social risk has been haphazard and inconsistent. as our city continues to pay out money for healthcare and invest in mitigating sea level rise and trying to prevent flooding on our streets, we must put our money where our