he bravely volunteered to return to active duty. and while on assignment in germany, he met his wife, harriet, who he was married to for 64 years. mr. cohen was a lover of model railroads, world history, good friends, and good food. he was a loving man, survived by his wife, harriet, daughters, son, and daughter-in-law, and grandsons. mr. cohen was dearly loved and took great care of his family. he served his country honorably and will be truly missed the second in memoriam i have is for dennis o'sullivan, who is -- who passed away unexpectedly last week on february 18.

a native san franciscan and first generation irish-american. mr. o'sullivan was a creative businessman. he started his own towing company and then was a retail clerk, at lucky stores the past 30 years. known for his smile, love of the outdoors and harley davidsons. he will be missed by his friends and family here and in ireland. colleagues, my third and final in memoriam is for someone who i'm sure everyone on this board knows and loved dearly, ms. sharon hewitt. i know my colleagues will probably want to say a few words about sharon. i've pretty much known sharon my

entire life. we called her aunty and others called her grandma. she was someone who was a devoted mother, grandmother, and even a devoted great-grandmother, a mentor, teacher, activist. someone who cared about people and cared about the city deeply. she was a founder and executive director of the community leadership academy and emergency response project, clear. this program helped youth and their families directly affected by violence in their neighborhood. she did everything she could to encourage young people to pursue higher education and get involved in shaping their community for the better. when i was struggling with a decision of whether to go away to spellman college or u.c. davis, she basically pointed a finger in my chest and told me,

i better go to u.c. davis. and that's just sharon. that's her personality. she didn't discuss the options. she told you what to do. and she was forceful. i remember one time when we had this big argument about something in the community and we were yelling and screaming and people thought we were about to come to blows. we were fighting and fussing and i was so mad and she was so mad. and she walked away and i walked away. and she said, come here and give me a hug. and i just gave her a hug. what do you do after someone like sharon, who, again, is so passionate and cares so much and so deeply, someone who basically wears her heart on her sleeves and loves people and loves her community. she's someone that i argued with on a regular basis.

someone who i hugged on a regular basis. someone who was an absolute jewel in our community and she led by example. she didn't hesitate, whether you asked her or not, to share her advice and her wisdom about just her life and her struggles and things she went through because what was most important is trying to help change and save lives and she didn't want people to go through some of the challenges that she went through. it was that love, along with her tireless advocacy and fierce dedication to san francisco and its communities that would shape so many lives of our future leaders and current leaders 1 san francisco. she cared about everyone around her. she challenged everyone around her. and ofrt oftentimes would push envelope and make people

uncomfortable, uncomfortable in feeling that everything was okay when there was so much that needed to be done. she was loved by so many and she will be truly missed. and i know supervisor cohen, supervisor safai and supervisor kim join me in this memoriam. so i would like to acknowledge -- well, supervisor yee, so maybe perhaps on the entire board, we can do it without objection and adjourn the meeting in her recommend my. supervisor kim? supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: thank you, president breed, for your words about ms. hewitt. i think you probably said it best, better than i can. your description of her is spot-on. she pulls no punches and so over the years, when i was running my

organization, i was able to have the opportunity to work with sharon on a few projects. whatever project she put her mind to, it would be successful. i remember getting to know her, i said, we have centers in certain areas and a couple of end centers in the tenderloin in which we have mixed cultural families. and i went to her and said, you know something, i really want to open up a center in which i could serve not only the chinese americans there, but also the african-americans and trying to bring groups together. because to me, the best way to start it is at early ages in

preschool. and i said, i don't know where to start with that. i know i could get the resources to help the families, but i don't have a center. and what she did was not something that i was expecting. i said, i know how to do this. let's go to the housing authority. and let's build something. i said, okay. i'll find the money. we'll build it. and i told her, i'm not too sure about working with the housing authority at the time. she said, don't worry. i trusted her and lo and behold, after 1 1/2 years, we were able to build a center there for about 80 kids. so that's her legacy from my memory. that she was just a wonderful mentor. she was my mentor also.

>> supervisor breed: thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: thank you. i wanted to share a few words about sharon hewitt, who many of us called mama hewitt or grandpa hewitt. [please stand by]

>> it was really difficult to watch sharon take on so much, so much pain and hurt and guilt for every single baby of hers that she lost, and so really embrace so mappy different families. london talked about sharon yelling and screaming and cursing, and i've definitely been the target of that, as well. and she never let you know if you didn't commit to bringing

contributions and holiday gifts to all of her families at clear every holiday season. sometimes i used to dread her phone calls because i knew she would just yell for a very long time. but at the end of every single call, like president breed said, she always told you that she loved you, and that she knew you would deliver, and she was proud to live in the city. sharon eventually moved in the tenderloin, and she switched gears, and she basically became a community grandmother to all of our filipino arab american, muslim american, latino families, and i saw a few weeks ago and visited her. ve she signed one of my forms, and she was in top form. she had just gotten out of the

hospital, and she was sick. she knew there was not much time left, but she was still telling people what to do. which families needed which vegetables from the roof top garden that she tended. she continued to run so many events in the tenderloin neighborhood, making sure that all the organizers and families were in sync, building for stores in the tenderloin and converting them from liquor stores. i had actually called her fwo weeks ago because she was my first choice to be an honoree for black history month in february . i called her a few times, and she said you really need to honor the next generation. she's like, we've done our work. i'm hoping you can really honor someone in the next generation, that she didn't need the accolades. i really miss sharon. i really miss you. i just want to thank you so much for being a role model.

losing you and rose pack in the last two years has been hard. you taught young women how important it was to speak up, and to fight book, and to fight hard. i just want to thank you for agitating for a better scity every single day, and literally giving your body and all to our communities. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor peskin? skbl i think all of the supervisors have said all of the profound things about sharon, but we had the same birthday. she would call me year in and year out, call and wish me a happy birthday. the rest of the year, you would never know when she would call, because she was watching from afar. when you would mess up, she would call and let you know in no uncertain terms.

when i was chair of the san francisco democratic party, she realized i was going to have a vacancy, before i realize it, and she would tell me who i was going to appoint to that spot, and i would just do it. thank you, sharon. we'll miss her terribly. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. >> thank you, president breed for me to have an opportunity to thank publicly sharon's contributions. i've had a chance over the last week to reflect on all the money gifts that she's given me personally, as well as what she's given personally to the city and county of san francisco. she was an incredible woman, truly a force to be reckoned with, and i also personally want to express my thanks inform heto her family, who have suffered a great loss. i know she loved district six, but i think it's safe to say a

lot of her heart was in sunnyvale. it was ground zero of her work really started, and i recall when i was just a candidate, late nights, coaching me. she was not a morning person, and would keep you on the telephone for hours into the evenings, coaching, mentoring, chastising, all of the above, of what it meant to be in service and how to change your language, and how when you change language, you change your thinking, and to move away from the i and move more into the collective we, and so there are many elevelessons that i'v learned and i'm truly grateful for the tremendous amount of opportunity i had from here. i want to let dede know that we will continue to support her children and grandchildren throughout this ordeal. want to honor her ex-husband,

chet, who has also suffered a profound loss. this is a profound transition that we're in, when you think about the sudden loss of life of rose pack, of mayor lee, and now of sharon hewitt. this is a tremendous transition time from the old guard to the new guard, and i would implore my colleagues here and the colleagues that are out in the field and on the front line in the resistance to remember and to lean onto those teachings that our elders have given us. thank you. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor cohen, and each and every one of you for adjourning the meeting in sharon's honor. dede, you are loved, and we will be there for you. and also, i just want to let everyone know, the funeral service will be this coming monday at 11:00 at third

baptist church. yes. so the last item i have is i just wanted to invite everyone out to celebrate the end of black history month. yes, i know it went by really fast, and here we are. tomorrow's the last day, and every year, supervisor cohen and i, we host a black history month celebration in the rotunda. it will begin at 5:30. it will go until 9:30. there will be performances and speeches and food from african american restaurants here in san francisco. it's just a way to invite the community in to city hall and celebrate the rich history and culture of the african american community here in the city and county of san francisco, and you all are invited. at the very much. the rest i submit. >> thank you, madam president. given that it is 3:08, madam

president. >> okay. >> did you want to call the special order at 3:00 p.m. or keep going with roll call? >> so we're going to finish up roll call and come back to our 3:00 p.m. special order. >> thank you, madam president. supervisor cohen? >> thank you very much. i have an inmemoriam i'd like to offer on behalf of my very good friend kimberly smith who just recently lost her father. mr. howard eugene smith, age 78 years old of yucca valley passed away peacefully in his home, and he passed away of natural causes on february 28, 2018. he was a graduate from edison high school in fresno. he lived an incredible life. he spent many years working as a professional musician. he went back to school and obtained a nursing degree from mount san antonio college which

was located in walnut, cleveland. he obtained a bachelor of chiropractic from cleveland college, and he ran his business as a chiropractic doctor for over 23 years. howard lived an accomplished life with interests and talents from being a guitarist who played on occasion with artists like james brown and ike and tina turner. he was a motorcycle aficionado and often took apart and rebuilt his harley davidson bikes from the ground up. he was preceded in his by his mother, mother, wife, brother and sister. he's survived by a whole host of family members: children, his children, many cousins, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. six great -- grandchildren and five great grandchildren. his services will be held at

11:00 a.m. at community baptist church in fresno, california. this is in loving memory of howard eugene smith. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor fewer? spie supervisor kim? >> theank you. i also have an inmemoriam and that is jessica smith. she was an accomplished artist, an accomplished pianist, who live index rincon hill for the last 25 years. she attended the berkeley college of music in boston, receiving a bachelor's degree and performance art. she's a classically trained concert pianist who knew how to play bach by heart, and she

recorded for a and m records. she moved to hollywood in 1980 as new wave, goth, and punk and synth pop was starting. while she was a contemporary with cyndi la u9d per -- lauper and gwen stefani, neil young wrote a song about her, an unknown urban legend in 1992, where he wrote somewhere on a long highway, she rides a harley davidson, her lock hair flying in the wind. she appeared in many magazines and was featured in a coffee

table book, chicks on bikes, and starred under her stage name, goth girl in a discovery channel movie, motorcycle women, and she wrote the sound track to that movie. she was the founder of devil dolls, the first female motorcycle club in the country in 1999, and she had a profound influence in her community. she did not feel that she did politics, but she did culture. while she lived in rincon hills, she became an environmental activist at the neighborhood, fighting to save trees in the city, and in this endeavor, she was often successful in working with our office in rec and parks in a major redesign of a $3.5 million pocket park, which was directly across the street from her residence. her profound influence on modern culture, women, musician style will endure and far outlast us, and i want to recognize matthew steen, the partner she leaves behind, and her family.

the rest i smith. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor he is pin? >> thank you. madam clerk, colleagues, today i'm asking for a motion to convene a committee of the whole between the board of supervisors and the san francisco ethics commission on april 3rd in order to consider and with any luck, finally adopt the sweeping reform to our council member paampaign f conflict of interest codes. i don't believe the circumstances have ever been more pressing for us to do this than now. for the past two years, the ethics commission has pursued broad finance reform to regulate independ dent super pacs, and other conflict of interest issues pertaining to developers and city contractors. on february 16, the ethics took the step to pass the torch to the board of supervisors and now it is our job to finally pass these reforms.

while third party soft money pours into unregulated campaigns, we have an opportunity to shed light on that hidden economy and to enhance the public's trust in the work that we do in this building and in these chambers. i look forward to this discussion and to collaborating with our ethics commission to passing the sweeping rebuttal to unrestricted campaign financing since the supreme court's decision, citizens united. this morning at the transportation board meeting, i announced your support, a tax to meet the city's growing need. there are things we can be doing to impose if equity at the local tax. i've been working with the city attorney because san francisco's now in a situation where we are catching up to the common sense tax structures that many states and localities

have already imposed as a result in the changes in behavior. with the growing population and impacts to match, san francisco is constantly searching for a revenue tool that is equitiable. this would be a general tax for the november november ballot, and i look forward to working with each of you in the days and weeks ahead to strengthen it. in addition, i'm introducing a resolution urging our state legislation to introduce a law allowing san francisco to impose a fee to pay for the structure, our city streets, which are badly in neat of improvement. finally, i have several in memoria that i would like to submit and ask the board meeting to be adjourned. first for sigfried hessie, a remarkable attorney who graduated from bolt hall in

1950, and was instrumental in defending that the -- the 800 individuals that the california university system brought in the free speech movement. my condolences to his widow, sarah, his son, eric, his daughter, andrea, his daughter, renata, and his daughter, ca carla. i'd like to adjourn the meeting in memory of -- [ inaudible ] next village, the movement that was taking care of folks ageing in place. she will be sorely missed. very courageous woman, and my condolences to her husband

harvey and a community who misses her. finally, certainly, not least, my friend of some 20 years, norman tyler larson passed away peacefully in the presence of his family last week, on february 20th. he was a fourth generation san franciscan who unlike the previous two individuals that we are -- that i'm adjourning for, was not a lefty. he -- he was a remarkable person who really kind of reached across lines. i -- in the late 1990's, was trying to preserve the columbo building and didn't know what i was doing and wrote an article in the first examiner, and he somehow managed to find my phone number and asked if ecocontribute that cause, and he helped us through the effort to save the columbo, number 1 columbus avenue, which has since been restored.

and i want to thank him for that. he had a zztop white beard, and in 198 0, bought 557 haight an ashbury, that corner where the grateful dead were photographed in that s e -- picture. in 2006, asked the supervisor to landmark as the doolen-larson residents and storefront landmark in 253, which later in 2011, he got registered on the national registry of historic places. he was a proud day guy who took me on my first day bar crawl in 2000 when i was running for supervisor, which was funny because i was a lefty, and he was a proud conservative.

my condolences to cisteve, christine, amy, lucille, emma, and claire, ed olson and marilyn olson, and stay tuned for a large celebration of life honoring norm hopefully to occur during the spring. i just want to say he was an incredible historic preservationist, and donations can be made in his honor to san francisco heritage, of which he was a proud member for many decades. and i will submit the rest. >> thank you, supervisor ronen? >> the first is a resolution of the case janus versus afsme.

groups supporting the antiunion side include americans for prosperity foundation, and the american legislative exchange council, known as alec. clearly, this move is part of the trump agenda's overall and part of a right wing strategy that is seeking to use the amendment as a weapon against government protections. the case follows a similar case that the supreme court heard calls fr e drichs versus california conservative association. when late justice scalia passed away, the vote was left at a tie. we now expect that the new supreme court justice, neil

gorsuch will deliver the win. so what's exactly at stake in this case? this case could decimate unions by greatly reducing the dues that you know downs collect, severely limiting protections. according to the bureau of labor stratsticks, union membership has been steadily declining and has lost 2.9 million members since 1983. organized probusiness efforted have expedited the decline of unions. janus is part of this assault. this is a critical moment in our labor movement, and i believe we need to take action in san francisco now to forestall the impact of a negative decision. this resolution affirms that the city and county of san francisco supports of freedom of all city employees to exercise their voice and dignity on their job in joining together in strong unions. it also urges the mayor and

department of human resources to engage in good faith discussions with the city's union, to implement a gold card memory bes membership. it would provide annual membership commitments, and city labor contracts would ensure adequate release times for union rank and file leaders to communicate to members and nonmembers the implications of a negative janus members, and to encourage membership to their city colleagues and employees. it is time for us to stand in solidarity with our unions. i want to thank local 21, suif 1021 for partnering with my office on this resolution. i will be asking the department of human resources about this during our up coming closed session, and i'd also like to thank my cosponsors of this

resolution for their support. secondly, i also have an in memoriam today for a woman named alice. i'm very filled with sadness over the fact that alice passed away this past saturday. she was a 65-year-old homeless woman who had been living on the sidewalk in front of the burger king at 16th and mission for at least the past three years. she died saturday at 11:45 p.m. at st. francis hospital. according to the floor nurse at st. francis, her final hours were peaceful, but she sadly did pass alone. i never would have gotten to know alice if i hadn't been working to clean the b.a.r.t. plaza every week with b.a.r.t. commission director. we -- whether it was raining or

freezing or a beautiful day, alice was always sitting in a chair in front of the burger king, knitting surrounded by her belongings, a big suitcase, overflowing with her possessions. we called her alice, but we learned later her name was alicia gonzalez and that she was born in the philippines and had a dual citizenship in the united states and philippines. i alerted a volunteer to my office about alice's situation, and she eventually became a daily visitor to alices place on the sidewalk, hoping to persuade her to take the offers of shelter by various city agencies. there were several nights alice insisted on staying out in the pouring rain evening on thanksgiving. finally on a morning in december, alice was even more

sulliv vulnerable because her shopping cart with all her belongings had been stolen the night before. after a day long effort by multiple agencies in the city, she finally took our pleads to go inside and started at a drop-in center. then, she finally allowed medical workers to assess her, and unfortunately was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and accepted supportive housing at a mission district sro. there she was followed by a primary transition team, a primary care doctor, and visited by ann who reported back to me almost daily with his condition. alice retained her dignity and strong will toward the very end. she had a very likeable personality. she was feisty. she was a person who had dreams, plans, preferences, needs, perconnection and so much more. her tragic story teaches us that we have many ways to

improve in this city in terms of our system of care, and that's something i will continue to work on, holding her close in my heart and mind as i do so. i also want to thank heather knight for recording on her compelling case. it meant a lot to me to look at the paper this morning and see her face on the front page of the bay area section, and the fact that so many of us were going to acknowledge her existence, her story, her life, and her passing. i also want to acknowledge and thank ann gallagher in our office, who made sure that alice's last months were spent with dignity in a warm bed and receiving quality medical care, but most importantly, that she had someone by her side every day who she considered a friend and in fact called ann her best friend. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor safai. >> i just have a couple brief

remarks. first, i want to commend supervisor stefani for leading on the italian heritage day resolution, working with supervisor cohen, supervisor peskin. we have a rich tradition in my district of many, many proud italian americans. they are the every day working people. they're the front lines of this city's workforce. they are the descendants of many of the people named in this great city, helped to build this city, so thank you for leading on that. i also just want to add a couple of words to sharon hewitt's passing. sharon was actually one of the very first people i met on my first day of work at the housing authority. we battled every day. some of you might not believe, but i might have rubbed sharon the wrong way a few times, and she let me know about it every step of the way, but one of the proudest things i was involved in with her and president breed and i had this in common was we

were both trying to build a recording studio. i was building a recording studio in sunni -- sunnyvale, and president breed was building another one at the same time. she went out of her way to prove how tough she was, and she went out of her way to prove it on a daily basis. but once you won her over, she was your mentor for life. i was proud to have been -- worked with her on the front lines out in sunnydale with daily gun shots and people diing. she was a front line person, and she had no fear. she would get in the biggest and strongest person's face, and she would also be the most gentle person in the same breath. the last way i remembered her is after she started to clear, she started this angels

program, where during the holidays, she would ask you to come in and she would pair you up with a family that did not have the means to buy presents for their children. and when i was out campaigning this last time to be elected to this office, i bumped into the person that she paired me up with. and the woman was standing there on the corner with me out in front of the balboa b.a.r.t. station, and she said it was so good that sharon was able to connect us. my daughter still talks about that to this day. so sharon truly was an angel in this city, and dedicated and as supervisor kim said, truly gave her life, and you could see her begin to wither because how much she internalized all the different things she was involved in. she was a warrior, she was a leader, and she was someone that i considered a friend, and i'm proud to consider myself her mentee.

i'm proud to be adjourning this meeting in her honor. the rest, i submit. >> thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor cohen, you asked to be rerefered. >> thank you. so colleagues, i have two other pieces of legislation that i'd like to discuss. [please stand by for captioner switch]

the last few months to come to a settlement and agreement leading to the appellant's dropping or withdrawing this appeal. i know we have to hear public comment on this item, but after we do so, i will be making a motion on 36, 37, 38. >> thank you, supervisor kim. with that, i would like to open this item up to public comment.

this is not general public comment. it's on the item before us, the appeal. it has been withdrawn. is there anyone who would like to make public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor kim. >> i would like to make motion. >> supervisor kim has made a motion, seconded by supervisor peskin. without objection, the motion passes unanimously. madam clerk, let's go to general public comment. >> thank you, madam president. the public may address the board of supervisors. item 39, whether or not you

believe the board should continue into closed session on the labor. public comment will not be allowed when an item has previously been subject to public comment. pursuant to the board rules, please direct your comments to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors, and not to the audience. if you're using interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if you're interested in displays a document on the overhead projector, state that. remove the document when you would like to screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> thank you. before this begins, sir, there were three people in line. i'm not asking you to leave. in the future, if you could be considerate of those who are already lined up before you move to the podium. thank you very much. first speaker.

>> i ask for your resignations. you eve violated your oaths of office. you swore to defend the constitution against all enaemis foreign and domestic. a joint project of the san francisco campus. $100 million per year. citywide -- performing involuntary medical and surgical procedures upon residents of this city and county. it is able to do this only by depriving its patients of life and liberty. citywide also denies freedom of participation and freedom of association. citywide perpetrates unreasonable searches and seizures in violation of u.s. constitution 4.

citywide deprives its patients a right to jury trials guaranteed by u.s. constitution amendment 7. citywide cruel and unusual punishment. citywide deprives its patients of purposeful security and integrity by amendment 9. citywide offers -- denies equal patients equal treatment of law. you're knowledgeable of these violations yet you do nothing to prevent them. therefore you have violated your oath of office. i ask for your resignation. back to you, madam clerk. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> and thank you. before the next speaker begins, if there are any members of the public who are in line who have issues for standing for long

periods of time, please feel free to move forward to the front. next speaker, please. >> yes. i'm here to complain about the difference of treatment. i'm real upset with each and every one of you. each and every time you have a housing opportunity, you claim that you're an equal opportunity housing organization. this is the big bank of information of instructions that is supposed to be followed by you pertaining to each and every apartment building complex that's being built and brand new in the city. specifically the buildings that are being built in the mission bay and mission area. for example, this mission rock building, the instructions in this big bank of information says all in detail as follows, that the community development law section 33413, 15% of all

new complexes developed should be available and affordable housing for very low and low and moderate incomes. viewer, can you please show this document. that information comes from this section of the big bank of information i just presented to you. and it's not being followed. 15% of 1,500 apartment units, which is the amount of units that's at mission rocks, means that 225 apartments are supposed to be for low income and very low income people. as a result, you disregard that information and perform price-fixing. the lowest income available in that unit starts at $36,300.

it's only at 2%, whereas you have three incomes at 121,000, 96,000 a year. >> thank you for your comment, sir. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm peter warfield, executive director of library users association. i've been talking to you last

year about the libraries intention to get privacy threatening radio frequency identification technology, rifd. well, february 1st came, and the library commission approved funding $3.5 million for an implementation. unfortunately, it represents, as far as i can tell, the city librarian final poison pill present to our city. i ask you to do what you did 13 years ago and 12 years ago when the library commission likewise forwarded this in their budget, and that was you rejected the funding for rfid. and i hope that you will do that again this year. some interesting notes at the library commission. when more than one person complained about rfid's toxicity to patron privacy, the staff gave two reasons why they

asserted. there is no threat to the public. they said, first of all, the library's databases are unhackable. unhackable. knowing what we know about library databases and other databases, that is a pretty far-fetched claim. in addition, it doesn't take hacking into the database to raise and to make privacy threats. and the other reason was that they said it has only a 30-inch range. well, that may be true for certain commercial applications, but not for all. and even show, there's no need to get that close. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. my name is john fitch. sometimes our eyes are too wide open. if the legal link in the chain

had been followed that was already set place by the founding fathers as to how the city would be governed in the event of the sudden death of a mayor, would ms. breed be an active mary, why wasn't she giving a choice in maintaining and being the active mayor or remaining being the board president. you didn't let her decide for herself. she was the only one allowed to make that decision, whether she wanted to do one or the other. members of the board did that for her. when you did that, you broke the link in the legal chain that was already established by our founding fathers which could turn into expo facto because the interim mayor was a legal link in the chain. the interim mayor was no part of being qualified.

what qualifications did the interim mayor possess to put him in position where he could be considered to be interim mayor? why was he so important? for whatever reason, the reason was they wanted their own people who they could control. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is denny leonard. i wanted to say that i have had a great experience with the italian american community. i'm from an indian tribe in oregon. a gentleman named joe travelo in italy. we did a debate on italian television. we had never met and became lifelong friends. he and his wife and my wife and i had many meals together. in that time, in 1992, the san

francisco foundation decided to change the parade from columbus day to italian american. now we have a new program, and i think that all of us together have spent so much time with many italian-american people at the cafe and around the north beach area, that it is important for us to understand that we are now in 1992 to 2018, a much more connected people. we should celebrate that among ourselves. i would like to say that norman yee, when he stated that it's time for us to recognize each other and to ms. cohen to take the courage to bring that to us. let us make that possible, what we have not had for many years, a celebration for our cultures. maybe we need a cultural minister or a cultural cabinet here in san francisco to celebrate all of us together. so i hope we can work toward that end.

thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i would like to ask supervisor cohen to come up here and open this up, please, to any particular page. >> sir, your time is ticking. >> okay. i won't read from it. that's a province do. at 6:32 a.m. during the blue moon that we haven't had since president andrew jackson, the president called michael savage. he called him at his home on his cell phone. yesterday i heard that he's actually thinking about putting his hat in the ring against feinstein. i pray this will take place. i'm telling you what. i really want to see that debate. that was a very rare occurrence. another rare occurrence -- but that could have been planned, a psychological warfare against the democrats, you know, which

would be a wise move. anyway, but you can't plan a total solar eclipse from coast to coast. when did that happen? 1776. when jesus was asked about the end of the world, many times there's a double application to prophecies, but i'm surprised we're still here. for the last 13 days, i'm surprised, but something bigger than the blue moon, something bigger than the total coast-to-coast eclipse last year, is what did happen 8,013 days ago. 6,013 days from 9/11 and 3,000 days from what i'm convinced is the actual beginning of the last trump. there's not eight trumpets. there's seven. the culmination of the third row is the seven vials.

he's coming back soon. it's going to be judgment day. it really is. if you don't know jesus christ, there's no hope. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is george wooding. i'm the president of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. i'm here to talk about sb827 from state senator scott weiner. he introduced several new amendments, so my testimony will not be the testimony i was going to originally present. i just want to mention, first off, you should consider the

residential infrastructure which his legislation will cause and how the city is so unprepared for it. secondarily, i want to talk about the destruction of the single family homes in the residential neighborhoods. and now in closing, i would like to read our resolved resolution for 827. resolve the coalition for san franciscoen neighborhoods, cssn, land use committee urges all members of this organization and anybody else agreeing with this resolution to communicate to the state legislature for the district in which he/she resides to oppose sb827. be further resolved, the

california state senate assembly to oppose sba27. finally resolved that the board of supervisor's resolution of february 13th, 2018, which may or may not change now. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is paul weber. i'm a north beach resident and a delegate to the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. i'm here to urge you to adopt a pendi pending resolution to oppose sb27. we received an avalanche of amendments to the bill, which we have not had an opportunity to look at. on a quick reading, however, it appears that the most critical ones were not changed. i will comment on