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ronen for continuing this -- this push, this effort. i'm really grateful to the fact that we are here, and i want to urge the board to move this forward. i know that mayor farrell is supportive of this, and what a great statement that in this day and age, san francisco can honor a man who has symbolized everything that san francisco is about. so with that, i want to thank you for the opportunity. and i know that we have other members of the public. i also want to thank supervisor sheehy who's also a supporter of this, but you're going to hear from a number of people in our community for whom this is a very important step. and again, supervisor ronen, thank you, and to your staff -- i see carolyn -- for continuing to push this forward. and to all the people who have worked to make this happen. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. and thank you, supervisor
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campos for giving me the opportunity to continue this work. colleagues, i am so excited to be here today presenting the item before you. when i was working as a legislative aide for david campos, he came to up with the idea of naming the entire airport after harvey milk, and all of us thought it was a great idea, so exciting. and we felt that all of san francisco would be with us, and with the lgbtq community. of course as david explained, it didn't quite work out that way. four years later, after much work and compromise, the airport's facilities naming committee has finally voted to name terminal number one after
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harvey milk. and first, i just wanted to thank all of my queer legislative aides, some of us worked for david campos and now work for me, especially nate aldi, a past president of the harvey milk club, carolyn guzman, a past president of the harvey milk club. and i also want to thank supervisor sheehy who i know is trying to get here for his cosponsorship of this legislation. during the time, and david didn't talk about this, so i'm going to talk about a little, when supervisor campos first introduced this legislation at the board, our office was literally flooded with calls from around the country. david was receiving almost daily death threats and threats of violence. and every few minutes, we would receive a call, calling harvey
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a pervert, a pedophile, and someone who deserved to be killed. many of those calls were from right here in the bay area. it was a turning point for me. i saw how clearly we have to go, and how much anger and hate still exists in our community against lgbtq people. here in the united states, queer and trans people are subjected to shocking levels of violence, trans women especially. trans women of color fade extraordinary danger with brutal and unsolved murders happening almost monthly. as david mentioned, 2017 was the deadliest year on record for lgbtq americans according to the national report released by the new york city antiviolence project. there was an 86% increase in the murders of trans people and
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hiv positive people in the united states. nearly 70% of lgbt people right here in san francisco report having experienced physical violence. 48% report being victimed of sexual violence, and 81% report being harassed simply for being queer or trans, for being who they are. this is completely outrageous and requires further action to change what we consider culturally acceptable as a city and as a society. we here's what personally gives me hope. while david received so much vitriol for choosing to support harvey milk, he also received a tremendous amount of support. people shared with him how meaningful it would be to fry fry -- fly in san francisco and have the first thing you see harvey milk's name. how to be able to tell so many
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young people who are still in the closet there is a place where you are loved, where you will wants and where you will have a future. that's what harvey milk terminal will do, give kids hope. we have an opportunity to rename sfo's terminal after harvey milk, and it could not come at a better time. terminal one is currently undergoing renovations. harvey milk signage and building signs will toting roughly $357,000 which will be incorporated into the renovation that the airport has already budgeted for the terminal. the arts commission is charged with overseeing all public art including at sfo, but i have an amendment today that i'm going to pass out today to my colleagues that will formalize that role and ensure that we get the arts commission's
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expertise and over sight throughout the design and planning process so that harvey milk's legacy and life is felt in a meaningful way. i've been in conversation with the director of sfo to ensure that sufficient space is devoted to art focusing on the legacy of harvey milk. the director is committed to working with the airport arts steering committee which involves art commissioners, airport commissioners and staff to look at whether all remaining art purchases can be pieced th pieces that honor the life of harvey milk. once the art commission has approved the plan, the plans will be shared with the bull full board of supervisors and the mayor. i am compelled to put in these extra -- or to amend legislation precisely because the airport's commission has
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opposed this legislation and opposed naming terminal one after harvey milk. i obviously could not disagree with them more, and because of that, i want to make sure that the arts commission has a primary role of ensuring that this legislation isn't just a symbolic passage by the board but that it's integrated into the art and the design of the airport at every stage. and i really appreciate the airport commissioner for working with me to also ensure that this happens. through today's vote, we have a chance to make history. this is about doing our part to create a welcoming city for queer and trans people, where we do not tolerate violence, where we work every day to ensure that our community is able to thrive. let us start with harvey, with these major airport renovations already in process, now is the right time to honor our former
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supervisor and day rights legend, harvey milk. thank you so much to everyone who has supported this idea. special thank you to david campos who originated this idea, and thank you to all the incredible lgbtq community leaders who have come out to speak today in favor of this legislation. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, any questions? let's take some public comment now. i have some speaker cards. i'll call them out. roma, jordan, alex, ryan, and kirk, and i see former senator mark leno in the audience, and mr. -- senator, would you like to give public comment? thank you. >> madam chair, committee members, such deference. i'm very honored. thank you very much. to supervisor ronen and the
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cosponsors of the legislation, and of course to supervisor campos for bringing this issue forward and for your taking it so very, very seriously. i just want to share with you one story i hope will touch your heart and move the legislation forward. when i was in the state legislature, we had a queer youth advocacy day every year, and we brought young people, young lgbtq folks to sacramento to be trained and lobby and have an opportunity to meet their legislators for the very first time, and to tell their stories and to talk about the need for putting in place statutes to protect civil rights of all people. and i remember one young girl, she was about 16 years of age, self-identified as lesbian, and she told me that because the only other gay or lesbian person she knew in her life was her mother, and that because her mother was drug addicted,
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she could not envision any other life for herself that went beyond her mother's limitations, and then through her lobbying training, and her three days in sacramento, for the first time in her life, she heard about harvey milk. and because of that experience, she left sacramento a few days later, believing she could do everything and anything, that she could reach any hope, dream or aspiration. that was the power of just learning about the fact of harvey milk's life. well, she inspired me to author legislation to create harvey milk day in california. every may 22nd, it is now law. the governor of california must declare that day harvey milk day. and then, we went further and wrote the fair, accurate, inclusive and education act.
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that's anachroanymo acronym fo education act, recognizing the contributions of all into our social studies curriculum in our public school system. and i tell you this only because a little bit of ethnology not just for our queer kids, but for our straight counterparts, so that everyone can come to understand the importance, the depth of knowing the very fact of the broad and diverse complexity of the natural order. so that's what you are doing here today. it's so very, very important. you are literally changing lives and changing the quality of lives -- and first and foremost, you are perpetuating and celebrating harvey's message that you've got to give them hope. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank
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you, senator. i think i called the list of speakers. please come on up. hi, roma. yes. i'd love to hear from you. >> thank you. my name's roma guy, and today, i'm representing myself. so i'm just really happy about today, and i really honor the struggle and the fact that we had to face such opposition, former supervisor campos, and for the current board of supervisors, especially supervisor ronen leading and keeping this effort on stage. so obviously, i really support this. and you know, i'm old enough to have a -- many stories about harvey milk, but i -- you know, i just want you to know in the
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short period of time i have up here i can't do all of it, but i just want you to know that i was a little bit older than a teenager, and jeff sheehy was a teenager. and as supervisor campos said, you know, he didn't have the opportunity to meet, but now, you're bringing that great honor to us, and thank you again. and the same thing for our former senator, mark. that really, what you have done is very precious for us. but i want to say one thing about what harvey was. the fact that he was willing to ask our community to come out wherever you are and take that risk for both the joy and the pain that it rendered for us, because it did, including his own death premature, so i think that's an important memory for those of us who still struggle as we expand our community
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through identity because it is a high risk. and i think that is 's a very important part of why we're honoring this leader who left us way too early. the second thing is that -- [ inaudible ] foob r. >> supervisor ronen: miss guy, i would really like to know the second thing you were going to say. >> -- being a strong advocate, and being an advocate myself, i looked at what he was doing, and he not only said, come out, come out, wherever you are, but we are coming out because we want to be part and parcel of problem solving at the city level, at the state level, and at the national level. no matter where it takes us, we are good human people.
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we do not want to be incarcerated, we do not want to be hated, we want our lives. and we are going to be part of our lives in the larger community, however long it takes. and you can say -- you can say will lesbian, bi, trans, queer, but we are getting bigger and bigger. and one day, it will be who are we as people, and harvey will be a part of that memory. and we want that terminal. we wanted more, but we'll take the terminal and go on. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning. jordan davis again. i think this is a proud day in this city's history, and i don't think i can say much more about the naming of terminal one after harvey milk, except thank you, supervisor ronen, for this. except naming things after
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transgender women of color. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm happy to be here today, and thank you for your time. first of all, i'd like to echo all the sentiments before me, and i'd like to say that i think the renaming of terminal one in honor of supervisor milk is the embodiment of san francisco values and what we stand for, our shared history, how far we've come, but also how much farther we have to go during these times. as someone who grew up in this area and learned of supervisor milk at a young age, i was inspired by his hopes and his courage and his movement building, and i think it's so important to teach others about the work that he had done, nationally and internationally, and i think the way to do this
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is by naming this terminal, and i hope anden courage you to all be in favor of this legislation, and today is a good day, so thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is allen baird. i have lived in the castro, which is now called district eight, for 86 years now. harvey milk and myself met together in 1973 when he opened up his camera shop on castro street. he became friends with my wife and myself, and that friendship lasted until the day he was murdered and taken away from us. i want to talk about 1996, when activist tom ammiano worked very hard along with other people to change the name of douglas school, the school i went to as a kid. i was only five years old when
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my mother walked me in there. it was called douglas school, named after a captain douglas. tom ammiano got a lot of support from people. of course in the audience the day that we spoke there at everett junior high school, he explained there's plenty of bigots in the audience. there were some of them there to speak there, but it passed, and thanks to tom ammiano and the people that worked in there on that day. those kids there now -- i live across the street from the school, they're so appreciative of everything that's been done there, and they're taught right from wrong. these kids are terrific, and they totally support the community, the day community, and every that lives in this community.
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i vote, naturally, for -- to change the name of the airport in the name of harvey milk. he would be so grateful for you to change that name because that name doesn't belong there. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors. alex walker, and i first want you to know i'm appearing here on my own time. i was a member of the airport naming advisory committee that met last year, i was appointed to that committee on my 28th birthday, a little over four years ago now, and we got to meeting last year under the wonderful leadership of john martin, and we took in presentations from the airport, and we deliberated, and we felt like terminal one was a great opportunity with the work going onto make this something organic and integrated into the design. i really want to thank
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supervisor ronen for taking the baton from supervisor campos with whom i worked on the milk sfo when i was on the board of the harvey milk democratic club. i was appointed to the board of the facilities naming committee four years ago, so i think it's a really fantastic opportunity if you pass this through, and then, the board passes this through to really work on cementing a great legacy for harvey, and with the arts commission, i hope there will be work going on with people in this room who knew harvey, and people that are not in this room that knew harvey, to make something we can really be proud of. when we were working to choose the new design, but also, it has gates that can be used for international arrivals, so there will be opportunities beyond the international arrivals in terminal one, possibly. that was communicated to airport staff, so there'll be people coming in internationally who will be able to see the exhibits about harvey. so just, i think back to myself
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as a 23-year-old kid, getting out of college when prop 8 passed, being so down about the world, but seeing the movie about harvey milk. it's so great to see we've come to this point today, and i'm looking forward to working with the people on the area arts commission. i can't wait to be there with you all when it comes time to be opened, and thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, but i'd like to call up city college trustee raphael mandarin to speak. next speaker, please. thank you sk. >> hello. my name is kirk lynn, and i've been living in this wonderful city for almost 15 years now, and i'm sorry, but i'm a little up yet at wh
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upset at what i had heard, that an airport commissioner can hold up legislation for this long, that it had to go through three different board of supervisors. that is insane. that is completely insane and should never -- one person should never hold up lem legislation that has already been voted on multiple times. pass this now. do not delay, and let's try to make sure that a four-year delay does not happen again for naming an airport, for naming a terminal, for naming a bridge, given the fact that we have the willie brown bridge when he's still alive, and that took less than six months? really? so four years, that's insane. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. city college trustee rapha
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raphael mandolin. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you so much, supervisor ronen and supervisor sheehy for bringing this forward. i stand here as a former board member of the lgbt democratic club, the first lgbt democratic club in the country, and an elected official in one of the thousands lgbt elected officials who have been able to pursue higher office, following in harvey's foot steps. this is such an overdue moment as folks have said. thank you supervisor campos for starting us down this path so many years ago. i was just looking over the hope speech and thinking about the kids from san antonio and iowa and altoona, and who had
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the two options of out or suicide, and who had the option of moving to san francisco, which so many did or staying where they were and fighting. and for so many people, those are still the choices. we want to give people hope, having folks across the country and across the world going through that terminal and remembering harvey's legacy and taking hope from that will be so inspirational, and so thank you so much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. okay. please, next speaker. thank you. >> my name is ruth landy. i live in beautiful bernal heights in district nine, so i first have to admit to a deep and intimate relationship with sfo. for 25 years, i lived and worked away from the city, and each summer i'd fly back and visit family and friends, and my heart would sore flying in over the golden gate or the salt flats, the fog cresting
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over the coastal range. there's no doubt that my attachment to the bay city deepened with each flight into sfo. i was an inspiring film maker when mayor moscone and harvey milk were shot dead on that fateful day. it's one of those days like 9/11 that will forever be etched in my psyche. i'm here to speak in favor of the renaming of the terminal. 40 years later, his stature has only grown. i love the city and i've been stunned to see since i returned eight years ago the degree to which inequality has been taking hold and how not only our skyline but our city is increasingly associated and branded with technology and wealth, and we are that city, but we're much more than that. to the city leaders, i ask, dow
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recognize the extraordinary opportunity that you have at no cost to reinforce san francisco's brand as proudly tolerant and diverse, harvey milk's city, and do you have the courage to identify yourself with his message and to make history? i hope the answer to these questions is yes. symbolism matters, especially today. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisors, for hearing this item today. i wanted to especially thank my supervisor, supervisor ronen, for carrying on the hard work of my former supervisor, supervisor campos in bringing this forward. i remember a rally for years ago standing on the steps of city hall with our milk sfo signs and, you know, i am a excited -- we've finally gotten somewhere thanks to your
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leadership, so thank both of you. we name things after politicians all the time. i hope that you supervisors someday have a school or a rec center or something here in the city or your districts named after you. but i think that this is -- this is a pretty unique moment. this is a unique opportunity to name a piece of our city that is truly a gateway to us from the world after an elected official who means something to lgbtq people and marginalized folks around the globe. it's an opportunity at a time when our country and our world seems increasingly dark and increasingly hopeless, to make the gateway of our city -- frankly, to make it the beacon of hope that harvey spoke about during his life and that so many people in this world have carried on the message of since his passing. it really means something to
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welcome young queer kids, to welcome immigrants, well come folks who don't feel they have a place anywhere else in this world to san francisco under harvey milk's name, so i hope that you will support this, and we get it done quickly, because we need a little bit of hope right now in san francisco and around this country, so thank you, supervisors. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. let me call the rest of these cards. rebecca, gwen, hiya, nick. >> my name is rebecca ralph. i want to start by thanking supervisor's ronen and sheehy for bringing this forward today and to really acknowledge the leadership of former supervisor david campos for raising this as an idea several years ago. one of the things coming later in the speaker cue, all of those who came before me,
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underscore, ditto. i think people have spoken very eloquently about the ongoing needs of the lgbt community here, both people who live here and people who continue to come here seeking a place of safety, a place where they can live their full, authentic lives. what i do want to say -- we've also touched on the concept of hope. hope in this country is more important than ever. one of the things that we see as young people growing up in isolation, seniors moving back into isolation, they don't see people who reflect who they are, they don't see positive role models. i think immigrants are living in fear of deportation, people are living in fear of violence. our community is living in fear of discrimination. i think there are too many people who continue to live their lives in fear, and we're only continuing to see that
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move backwards in this country. i think san francisco continues to be a beacon of hope, i think we continue to be a beacon of progressive values that progressive people in this country hold so dear. i think renaming the terminal one in our airport in our city is appropriate, and continue to honor the legacy and continue to state the san francisco values of hope, of fairness, of respect for all people, so thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> hello. my naem is nick large. i am a graduate student studies public affairs at the university of san francisco and i'm working on my thesis that involved lgbt landmarks and political power. i also happen to work at the former location of harvey milk's former camera. i'm here to ask you to rename the sfo terminal after harvey
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milk. i moved here to san francisco seven years ago because i saw the city as a beacon of tolerance. the symbolic value of the city, it dramatically altered the course of my life and for that, i am grateful, but i want this city to move from tolerance into acceptance. memorization can be a powellful tool, and i think we should use it as such. the airport can become more than a place, more than the sum of its materiality. it can become a symbol that brings us together and invites feelings of comfort and belonging as we fly in from all over the world. it can make sure that we always remember that the lgbt civil rights movement was and is a struggle and fought by a coalition of alliances. in a world of political unrest, memorization can also be an act
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of subversion. as someone who works in harvey milk's former castro camera store, i've heard the powerful meaning of his story. i've seen people breakdown and cry. and here through the renaming of sfo and this terminal, i think that we can offer a beacon of hope to those who feel like they have none, and i think that power, that beacon has something that's immeasurable, so please, let's rename this terminal. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is heidi 34 ahogany. i'm one of the presidents of the harvey milk democratic club. i want to thank everyone for daring to dream that we could one day honor harvey milk's memory with the renaming of sfo. san francisco has long been a pillar of progress for the
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world. perhaps especially for the lgbtq community. milk's call to queers to come to san francisco is still being heard today, and that call has truly shaped this city that the world has grown to love. it is only right that we name part of sfo, the first place that many visitors set foot in san francisco after one of our most cherished leaders and visionaries and the reason that many of us are here in this room today, harvey milk. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is gwen craig. i'm always proud to say that i'm a former president of the harvey milk lgbt democratic club. and even more, i have the memory of working with harvey milk on his supervisorial
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campaign and on the campaign to beat proposition six in 1978. throughout those campaigns, and throughout his all too short political history in san francisco, his message was that the visibility of lesbians and day men was critically important, and i think today he would have amendmented that to say the visibility of lgbt people. he felt that it was important that if he be elected to the board of supervisors, to this board, that it is important not just for himself and not even just for the lgbt community of san francisco, but that it would send a message to the nation, and, in fact to the whole world, that this city was a beacon of hope, of openness, and opportunity and a city of
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acceptance and welcome. and so today, i believie that s visitors and new residents come back -- or come here through a terminal named for hectare view milk, and know or come to know who he was and what he did and what he represents in the history of our city, that they will know that we are still living up to being the city that he promised we could be. so i strongly urge that you put the name of harvey milk on that terminal. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> good morning, everybody. i'm carolina morales, and i'm here before you today as a resident of district 11 and as a queer latina immigrant who is ae been in san francisco for
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the last 13 years. and i'm really grateful that you are considering this item today, and i hope that you will be voting yes for naming the terminal after harvey milk, thinking of all the laine owe immigrants and immigrants come to the city looking for refuge, going through very severe violence. i served a lot of immigrants who had to endure rain and severe -- severe violence, and they come here really looking for refuge, and having the reminder that being day, that being a leader, that working together across movements and across issues do matter is very, very critical for the vision and the values that the city has. so please, yes to voting on harvey milk airport. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank
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you. >> good morning. moses kuret, a resident of district eight and member of the harvey milk club. i'm also liking to talk about the symbolism of things. you know, this is a symbol. renaming an airport is a symbol. it's an important symbol for san francisco to honor the work and the legacy of harvey milk. so i work in city hall. i have a ritual. every morning i come to work, i walk up the front stairs, and i'm greating t i'm greeting the statty ue of harvey milk. i pat him on the shoulder, and i go to work. i'm following in other people's foot steps, and i hope you consider renaming the airport. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. hello, miss johnson. >> good morning, supervisors. it's an honor to be here.
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first of all, supervisor sheehy is a cosponsor of this memorializing harvey, but i also want to tell you i was a native of district eight. it wasn't district eight them. i grew up in the castro, and so did my mother, father, and grandparents. i had the honor of knowing harvey before he was a supervisor, and he had the camera shop. i had five children, and a single parent, and he understood that kind of discrimination that i experienced and he had a great heart for that. and he encouraged me to become more involved with them, and call the san francisco day democratic club, which he was a president of. through that, i had the great opportunity of meeting bill krautz and gwen craig, and harvey got elected. harvey was billed. harry britt was elected by dianne feinstein, and i joined harry at city hall.
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it's an honor to be joining supervisor sheehy in my own neighborhood since 1969. thank you all for putting this forth. there was no greater man than harvey milk. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. anymore members of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, i believe -- oh, supervisor ronen, did you -- >> supervisor ronen: oh, no, go ahead. >> supervisor fewer: so i believe there is an amendment before us. can we take that amendment without objection? thank you very much. and then, may i have a motion, please. oh, yes. supervisor stefani. >> just quickly, i wanted to thank everybody for coming out today. completely inspired by the remarks. thank you, supervisor campos, senator leno and everybody else that was here. i've always been inspired by harvey milk, by his love, his compassion and humanity. as someone who saw my sister in
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her 20 kaeyears struggle to co out from a small town in a central california family. for harvey to pave the way for my sister to live the life she's living now means so much to me, so i'm honored to vote on this it today. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: i just want to say a few words. i think this is a day that many of us in this chamber will remember. i know this was a struggle for many years. i still don't understand why it's taken as long as it has, but i will say that one of the things that struck me the most -- i mean, there were a lot of things that struck me today that i've been inspired by, but one of the things that really sunk in was the idea that people really do come from all over the united states and all over the world to san
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francisco to begin anew, to have a place where they can feel safe and have a place where they feel like they can be who they truly are, and to have a man who gave his life for that cause to be named on a terminal, and for that to be a symbol and something that they pass under every time they come into that city, every time we come into this city, and every time we -- even if it's someone that's not partaking in that ritual in that part of their life, i think that's how important it is. and i think this is such an important day. i want to thank supervisor campos for initiating that, supervisor ronen for carrying the torch on, and senator leno for his leadership in dedicating his career for so many different causes that helped advance us to this day,
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and all of you that spoke, all the commissioners and all the activists and all the staff and commissioners that are here that shared your own personal sto story because it is one that we will all remember, and so i thank you. you i thank you for your leadership, and i'm happy to be a part of this day. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i also want to say that san francisco has long been a place that people come to to seek a better life as it was; for my great grand father who came here in the early 1900's, or drawing people who simply want to live the life that they want to live. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: i just wanted to thank call my colleagues for supporting this measure and for everyone who came out to speak today, it was incredibly inspiring and in
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truest tradition, i'm wondering if we could go outside after the vote and take a picture by the bust for our amazing victory. so please join us for the celebrations, as well. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: okay. that's great. so can i have a motion so that he can go celebrate? >> supervisor safai: so would you like to make the motion, supervisor? >> yes. i would like to make a motion to name terminal one after harvey milk and move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: great. we can take this without objection. thank you very much. [applause]. >> supervisor fewer: congratulations, everyone. madam clerk, can you call item number five. >> resolution retroactively --
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[ inaudible ] with hls 2 and 716 sacramento as a landlord for the use by the department of public health for a period of july 1st 2018 through june 30, 2023. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have mr. john updike from the department of real estate. >> good morning again. john updike, director of real estate. this is the item you were all waiting for. it was a very inspirational moment. happy to be here. this was a new lease for 520 sacramento between kearny and grant. it's 9250 square feet on two floors of a three floor building. it houses our chinatown child development center. i do have representatives of
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the department of public health here to talk about the program if you have questions about that program. we've been in this location originally since 1996. current lease expires june 30th of this year. this new lease would be consistent with $51 persquare feet. that is consistent with the appraised value. ownership felt that was a compromised item. they felt the value was higher. we also did pursue for a short while the purchase of this property. that did not come to pass. we could not come to terms with the owner over a purchase. the department is considering moving this location, joining it with other activities located at 1490 mason street, and so this gives them time to really thoughtfully put forward a proposal potentially to relocate, consolidate into a different facility that we own. it does have a renewal option available to it that would be subject further to board approval five years from now. if it's renewed that would be at 95% of fair market rent or 3% over the last year, similar
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so what we talked about on the last item today. any questions, the details of the transaction, happy to answer them. otherwise dph is here for program info if you need it. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have a will you bet legislative analyst report. >> thank you, chair fewer, members of the committee. the proposed resolution would renew a lease for the chinatown child development center for a term of five years with one five year option to extend. as shown in table one on page 17 of our report, the rent would be approximately 472,000 for the first year, with 3% annual raises a year. this is based on the rate of $51 persquare foot. the total cost to the city over the entire period is approximately 2.5 million. as shown in table two on page
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18 of our report, and i am happy to answer any questions. thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor satisfy? >> supervisor safai: there is the opportunity to put funds together to rhenvate and prepare that space. i understand they couldn't do that under the current circumstances, so i would just like to say for the record it would be important for me to dph spent sometime looking at the faezibility to upgrading the location that they actually own so that we're not in this situation in five years asking for another extension. i did express this to the director, as well. i think it's important and something that i feel strongly about when we have assets that we own, we should be accessing and utilizing those. this is an important service provided to the community -- actually. we asked for an audit of all of mental health services provided, and i know we're
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going to have a hearing on that, and i know there will be a piece of that, and this is a wonderful, wonderful program that's provided to this community in language cultural culturally competent, so it's a really important program. but the idea that the city's spending this money continuously on a location that you have an obstinate or unwilling property owner, then, it would be wonderful to have a plan put in place to rhenvate existing space that is nearby and make that available since this is a primary function of dph. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other comments? no? could i have a motion, please. >> supervisor safai: so i guess motion to approve the lease? >> supervisor fewer: great. we can take this without objection. thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please call item six. >> item six, resolution approving the domestic terminal's automated teller
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machine lease between bank of america and the city for a lease of two years with an option to extend and a minimum of 21,000 for the first year of the lease. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i believe we have cathy widener here from the san francisco international airport. >> good morning. cathy widener, san francisco airport. the why the before you seeks a new lease between airport and bank of america for 12 atm machines with a two year option to extend. am i responding to the -- >> supervisor fewer: it is the -- >> i thought i was doing it out of order. it has a minimum annual guaranteed rent of $211,000 or 70% of gross revenues, whichever is greater. the mag is adjusted annually by
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the cpi. under the five year term, the airport expects to collect the minimum annual guarantee rent, and the atm lease is the result of a competitive request for proposal process. the airport set the mag at $150,000 to encourage multiple bids, but at the end of the day, even though there were a number of people who attended the preproposal conference, only bank of america bid on the proposal with a $211,000 mag. the budget analyst has reviewed the lease and recommends approval, and i would be happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, any questions? seeing none, let's hear tfrom the bla. >> the airport has one option to extend the lease for an additional two years. the initial minimum annual guarantee, as the department
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stated is $211,000 and would increase annually by the cpi. the airport anticipates collecting at least 1,055,000 in revenue over the initial period. bampg of america was the loan bidder for this lease, and we recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. are there any members of the public wishing to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do have a motion? >> supervisor safai: motion to approve this lease. >> recommended to the full board. >> supervisor fewer: yes. madam clerk, can you call item seven. >> item seven, item retroactively approval a lease between the united states postal service and the city -- [ inaudible ] through august 31, 2022.
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>> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe + widener has another report for us. >> yes, very glamorous post office lease. cathy widener with the san francisco airport. the item before you seeks a ground lease with the united states postal service for approximately 8.61 acres of land located at the westfield cargo road at the airport with an annual rent of $1.5 million and an initial five year term through august 31, 2022. the airport post office has been located at this location at the airport since 1964 on a noncompetitive basis as a governmental agency that provides a necessary public service to the airport as well as our tenants and the surrounding communities. the u.s. postal service incurs all costs and expenses related to maintaining the facilities and improvements, including
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streets, and parking lots that are in the lease before you. the subject plot 10-s could potentially be included in the airport's future development of a boarding area h, which is a new boarding area extension to the international terminal. the proposed lease terms allows for the flexibility for the airport to develop this site in the future if necessary while maintaining the specialized postal service amenities over the next eight years. the budget analyst has reviewed and recommends approval, and i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any questions by colleagues? no. let's hear from the budget and legislative analyst. >> the proposed resolution would retroactively approve a lease with the u.s. postal confidence in the cargo area. it would be for an initial period of five years with four options to extend five years at the airport's sole discretion.
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the total base rent would be 1.5 million, with an annual increase of 3%. we do recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are there any members -- oh, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: no, go ahead. >> supervisor fewer: are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you. actually when i sat with the legislative analyst yesterday, we had a lot of questions about the idea this airport is planning or talking about planning on doing something with this land within the next eight to ten years but then they're asking for a 25-year lease. i don't feel comfortable approval this, at least today. i think this needs a little bit more work. i think the airport should go back and change the terms of the lease and then come back to this board after if they need additional time after ten
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years. so i'm not in favor of this support, and that was actually part of the conclusion that i had with the bla yesterday. they said that was a part of their concerns, as well. they weren't clear why you were asking for a 25-year lease potentially when they had discussions of doing something with the land. i mean, unless they have an answer for that today, i would ask continue this item and ask the airport to do some more work on this lease. >> supervisor fewer: miss widener, can you please respond? >> absolutely. so my understanding is that the lease that's before you today is for an initial five-year term, and then any options thereafter would be at the discretion of the airport and would come to the board of supervisors for approval. the potential boarding area h is very conceptual at this point. we just are not -- it's not included in our capital plan, it's not included in our airport development plan, so it's very new. this discussion is very new. there's no plans for it, so any
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extension of the term before you, which is for five years, would come back to you as well as the airport commission for approval as we contemplate what we would be doing with this space. so you're not -- we're not asking for you to approve 25 years is my understanding, we're asking you to approve the initial term. >> supervisor safai: well, what i just heard from the bla was at the discretion of the airport, not at the discretion of the board. so i just want to be clear on that. >> supervisor fewer: mr. givner? >> deputy city attorney jon givner. the way the resolution is currently drafted, the board would be taking a single approval action now, and the airport in its discretion could extend the lease awhen the options come up. you could amend it to today to reflect what miss widener is saying, and that would put everybody on the same page. >> supervisor fewer: would you like to do that? >> supervisor safai: yes.
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i'd like to make a motion to amend the resolution to say that -- add the language, at the approval of the board of supervisors, as well. >> supervisor fewer: okay. and then we can take that amendment without objection? thank you very much. seeing no members of the public. >> clerk: madam chair, would you like to recommend this to the full board as amended? >> supervisor fewer: yes, please. >> clerk: is there a motion? >> supervisor fewer: yeah. it's a motion. >> supervisor fewer: yes. >> supervisor safai: yes. motion to approve to send this item to the full board as amended with positive recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, and i think be can take that without objection. madam collect, are there any other items before us today. >> clerk: there are no further items. >> supervisor fewer: therefore, this meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much.
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and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps.
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>> clerk: all right. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to our land use committee meeting, monday, march 19. i'm katy tang, chair of this committee. to my left, ahsha safai, my right, jane kim. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please silence cell phones. and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. items adopted on will appear on april 3 board of supervisors agenda unless
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