linda and jesse from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed copies of documents to be presented should be provided to the clerk. items on today's agenda will be in the next meeting, unless otherwise noted. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. mad being clerk, what is the next item? >> clerk: item 2. >> supervisor fewer: okay. i believe we have a presentation from ruby harris from the mayor's office of housing and community

development. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is ruby harris. i'm the small sites manager for the mayor's office of housing and community development. i'm here to request $5 million be released to support the acquisition and rehabilitation of the gran oriente filipino hotel by mission housing development corporation. gran oriente filipino is a 24 unit sro property with a ground floor community room located at 106 south park in the south of market neighborhood. $4.5 million of the funds will be used to being awire the site, and the additional $500,000 will be used for soft and hard costs related to the project used to enhance the health and safety of existing residents. there will be affordability restrictions for the life of the property. this in coordination with mhjc and community organizations, mo 4 cd will seek to preserve this

as a cultural asset. the acquisition of gran oriente filipino will result in both permanent affordability and the preservation of this cultural site. i am available for questions, along with michael from mission housing. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, any questions? yes, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: i have a question just generally about the small sites program because when i saw this, the first thing i thought was this is wonderful. i think this is amazing that we're g we're going to stablize this housing. but this normal? i think there's probably certain requirements within the soma stablization fund, but in general, do we often use general funds to buy sro's. >> we are including the fund to include sro acquisition. >> have you done it before? >> we have not yet. >> so this is the first time.

>> no. we have another sro in the pipeline that we're working on writing at this time with another nonprofit organization. >> supervisor safai: how do you define small sites? >> five to 25 units anywhere in the city. >> supervisor safai: got it. under 25. that was my only question. i think this is wonderful. i just wanted to know if you guys are being wired sro's in the past as part of the small sites program. >> yep. thank you. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. supervisor stefani, do you have any comments? >> no. >> supervisor fewer: so you said you are going to be naming the gran oriente filipino in the filipino cultural heritage district. yes that's correct. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. we have a representative from supervisor kim's office?

>> yes. we would like to thank the soma filipinos for all their great work with collaborating with community groups to help save the gran oriente filipino. thank you very much for your department's leadership on this. insuranc assurances -- we would like to know if the site will be transferred to a filline owe property owner in the future and designating it a landmark. we look forward to it becoming an official landmark, important for the filipino cultural heritage district and just as an architectural icon in south park neighborhood. i understand the cac voted unanimously to support fadf's proposed language that mission housing is committed to working toward the filipino community

towards this end, so this is a very nice project and a very nice building, and we'd like to give our full support. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have a report from the budget legislative analyst. >> yes. the board of supervisors placed $10 million in soma community stablization funds on budget and finance reserve pending identification of these sites for the small sites program. mission budget was awarded $5 million. on page eight of our report, we detail the expenditures of the $5 million which includes 4.5 million for the acquisition of gran oriente filipino, and that concludes my presentation. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. are there any members of the

public who wish to speak on this item? please come forward. you have two minutes. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is bernadette see, and i'm the project sponsor for soma filipino's. our organization began back in the year 2000 in trying to establish the importance of some of our cultural assets in the filipino community south of market. in doing so by 2009, we were able to submit a support for a specific list of cultural assets, one of which was the gran oriente filipino. a few years ago it was under risk of being sold and the affordability restrictions being -- not being guaranteed. so i wanted to read about -- i wanted to thank the planning department for allowing us to move forward with the landmarking of this property, and i wanted to share with you

some of the important historical pieces related to the gran oriente filipino hotel. so the gran oriente filipino masonic lodge was the most prominent filipino organization in the 1930's, and the organization helped filipino cultural identity take root in san francisco during a time period of repeated attempts to restriction filipino immigration, employment and housing. the masons were new active philanthropists, and it is symbolizes the struggles of the filipinos in the san francisco area. they pooled their money together and bought that property in 1946 for $6,000. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other public comment -- seeing none -- oh, please come

on up. >> michael from mission housing. senior project developer. just wanted to add that as an organization we're very happy to be able to partner with such great community organizations. i know we see ourselves really as a steward for that property, so you know, eventually, we would love to be able to turn it over to kind of the rightful owners of the property, so thank you very much for the opportunity. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisor. my name is rachel, and i'm the arts and culture coordinator for soma filipinos, and i just want to speak of the importance of the gran oriente filipino in our community. it's been in the soma for almost 100 years, and it was a reflection of the self-determination and the resi resiliency of the filipino

community, being able to own property when it was not a viable situation for our elders, so being able to keep this historic site available to our communities for future generations to come so that we can show visitors from all around the world during ethno towers our place in soma is very meaningful to us, so thank you for your cooperation in that. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. it's raining outside. my name is mario demira. i work with the soma residential district, and i'm a resident of district of soma. i think the historic preservation and being able to acquire this site is really important as a comprehensive and unique strategy for addressing displacement of the filipino community, but i think working families in general in

san francisco, so we really support this project moving forward. you know, i just want to say, i didn't grow up here. i've been in the city for 15 years, but as someone who grew up in the midwest, as a filipino who grew up in the midwest, the bay area has always symbolized as a bastion for filipino community. i used to work in worker's rights advocacy work at the filipino rights community center, and i used to work with low wage workers who were facing all types of exploitation. as an example of the legacy that gran oriente filipino and the people that built that place and what it means to the community and what it means to the filipino community in general here in the bay area and in san francisco, a lot of our clients who experienced wage theft from other parts of

the country and needed to get away would always turn to san francisco, and they came here because they knew that the community was here, and they could be supported and that there were -- just a vibrant community where they could get away kind of from the shadows of exploitation that they were experiencing in other parts of the country. so i just wanted to add that anecdote to show how important it is for saving cultural i didn't cons around the community. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> good morning. carol arredondes. a lot has been said about the gran oriente filipino, but i really want to thank this opportunity to thathis -- take this opportunity to thank the city. you know, a few months ago, we could have lost the site to the highest bidder. that was real for our

community, and i want to thank the mayor's office of housing and economic development, and you all for working with the filipino community that the tenants will be protected, as well as to rablth and bring in new tenants as soon as possible. we're still in a housing crisis, and there's 20 units there ready to be filled, and these funds are going to make sure that it happens. i want to say that it's a very fitting use for the soma stablization funds. it's a finite amount of funds, but a few years ago the city came together to establish these funds for these uses. as we have a new central soma area booming ahead of us, i think it's a great collaboration to show that we can establish real concrete measures when we up zone, when we redevelop an area, so we

appreciate you for having that kind of foresight division, and lastly looking forward to working with all of you on the cultural legislation coming forward next month. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. is there anymore public comment? seeing none, public comment is close does. colleagues, there a motion on this item? >> i make a motion to authorize the resolution. >> supervisor fewer: madam clarke, can you call the item. okay. i believe that we have adam kra fr -- cray. >> i'm the bond program manager

for the mayor's office of housing and community development, and i'm here to present a bond issuance resolution to fund the acquisition of dorothy day community apartments. this is a 100 unit affordable housing project in the midmarket corridor. the transaction's fundamentals have not changed since the project was presented to this committee last may. the issuance is still a conduit financing. 90% of the units will still serve families earning no more than 60% of area median income while the balance will continue to serve femalelies earning no more than 50% of area median income, and finally, no families will be displaced as all of the families will have a right to return. in terms of what has changed the developer has secured volume cap from the california debt limit allocation committee. the developer and the city have identified a financing team

including a lender and equity investor. the funding team has met several times and developed the -- [ inaudible ] >> as for a timeline, the financing team's on track to close this transaction next month and rehabilitation is expected to be complete within a year of closing. on behalf of the project sponsor, mercy housing california and the mayor's office of housing and community development, i'd like to thank you for your consideration here today and look forward to your continued support for this project. with that, i'll conclude the staff report and answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. colleagues, any questions? seeing none, thank you, mr. cray. i believe we have moses from supervisor kim's office. >> yes. including our support for this project in that the acquisition

and rehabilitation is actually quite efficient. if you do a breakdown on the budget and a perunit cost, that's around $450,000, and it's a large building, so that actually breaks down to about $602 persquare foot, which is really efficient for acquisition and rehabilitation for a building, so we enthusiastically lend our support for this. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, is there a motion on this item? >> yes. i'd like to move this to the full board with a full recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: yes. we can do that without objection. madam clerk, can you please call item four. >> clerk: -- providing 51 units of supportive housing for initial term of ten years with an annual base monthly rent of

39,000. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have noelle young here with supervisor kim's office. >> good morning. noelle young from supervisor kim's office here to speak on her behalf. our office is particularly excited about this building being utilized, being that it's been vacant for the last ten years or more. our office has very much appreciated the mayor's office for their sponsorship of this legislation, and the opportunity to coordinate with them and the department of homelessness and supportive housing to expand the city's supportive housing portfolio by an additional 50 units. thank you so much for your time. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. and i believe that we have emily cohen here from department of homelessness and supportive housing. >> good morning, supervisors. i have a brief overview of the projects for you today and i'm joined by director john updike from real estate department who

can give you more information on the details of the lease. as you all know, san francisco is facing a crisis of homelessness in our community. on any given night there are approximately 7500 people experiencing homelessness in our community, with about 4500 of those people sleeping unsheltered. as you know, the board of supervisors recently passed an emergency ordinance to help expedite the process of bringing more projects on-line to address this crisis need. hsh oversees approximately 7400 units of supportive housing that how's approximately 10,000 formerly homeless people in san francisco. supportive housing has on-site support services designed to support our most vulnerable residents in long-term housing. since 2004, hsh and the city

has rehoused over 14,000 people in supportive housing. we do this through a couple different models. obviously new build of permanent supportive housing, as well as master lease of existing buildings. this is a great opportunity for us to expand permanent supportive housing in our community. again, this was designed for people experiencing chronic homelessness with the highest barriers to housing stability and the highest service needs. i'm going to ask john to join me up here to explain a little bit more about the lease, and then, i can talk more about the program design. >> thank you, emily. john updike, director of real estate. good morning. so negotiations for this began unbelievable back in 2015. here we are, finally, with the deal, and we're really pleased to have this transaction before the board. this is a ten year lease. takes us through 2028 plus two

five year options for renew als. those would be for the greater of 95% of market rent, and we estimate a commencement date of may 1, so that's when rent would commence. we think the punch list for minor tenant improvement work will be done by then. the price on this is $468,000 a year. that's about $765 perunit. it increases annually at a percentage of cpi, 60% of cpi bracketed, not less than 2%, not more than 6% annually. there is about 2100 square feet of ground floor commercial space, operation support space and basement space that's included in the rent. as the budget and legislative analyst's report will note, we did have an appraisal on this, and it does indicate we are substantially under the rate as established in the appraisal.

technically, an appraisal is not required under the code, but we felt it prudent, given the size of the transaction to have that none theless. the city would be responsible for services, utilities operation and maintenance. we're estimating that at approximately 1.7 mil i don't remember peryear, and landlord would be responsible for maintenance, insurance and repair of systems. we could terminate this lease at any point during the term with 210 days notice, so usually, that has a cost associated with it. we really didn't see that translated into the rate. so we're pleased to have a lot of flexibility with this. it could be long-term, short-term. gives the department the ultimate choice, and back to emily. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> so the mle as part of the 1,000% project that mayor leigh

initiated back in december or november . it is currently a vacant sro building and it has 51 units in the building. the case management and services that will be on-site will include care coordination, social engagement, linkages to services, and the great ground floor space will really enable us to have a thriving community environment at the site and to provide these indepth social services that residents need in order to stablize. in terms of the community process leading up to this, we send out a letter to residents and neighbors, we held a community meeting on march 7th, and we did door to door business outreach in the neighborhood. generally, the neighborhood was incredibly supportive of the project. it's been vacant for a long-term, and neighbors were pleased to see a plan to activate the space, and i'm happy to take any questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. colleagues, any questions? let's hear from the budget legislative analyst. thank you. >> yes. the board with the proofing a

five year master lease for the -- excuse me, a ten year master lease with the option to extend, this could go up to 20 years. the initial rent is 468,000, and as mr. updike said, this is determined to be below market rate. the board approved legislation in february that would allow a noncompetitive process for operate -- selecting an operator for the hotel. the department has not yet selected one, but there is the estimate of about 1.75 million peryear in operating costs. these are city general fund costs. if you look on page 14 of our report, we summarize the total cost over the first 14 years of the -- or excuse me, the first ten years of the lease which would be about 25.7 million to the city, and we're available for questions if you have any. we do recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are there any speakers from the public that would like to comment on this item? please come up to the podium.

>> good morning. jordan davis. i would like to speak in support of this, the project. with so much homelessness in this city, it's good to say that a vacant hotel is being converted into housing for people like myself. however, this is only the tip of the iceberg and goes to much bigger issues as there are a lot of sro units that are being kept vacant within the city. over 1,000 at last count, and there is a great need for deeply affordable housing. i currently sit on the city's single occupancy task force, and sadly, we have not taken on the issue of vacant units. it used to be that private sro's could be used by those on disability, but times have changed, and i'm glad to see that the city is leasing this hotel to provide places for the homelessness. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please.

>> good morning, chambers. my name is daile seymour. i'm a 33 year resident of the city of san francisco. i just recently moved, but i lived in the tenderloin for 33 long, long cold, rainy years. so -- and i have two businesses very close to this -- to this building, i couldn't think of a more appropriate day to bring this matter up to the city. if you've been outside on the way here this morning, it's cold, it's rainy, it's miserable. and you may say well, i just walked in, and it wasn't that miserable. you didn't spend 24 hours in it. i'd like to correct in this where it says it's housing 51 people. in the tenderloin, we tend to do an airbnb without rooms. in other words anyone that has a room in the tenderloin generally allows someone who's

outside to sleep on their floor, so we're actually dealing with one and then two individuals who will be served by this master lease. so i think it's appropriate for us to move on and get this legislation passed and hopefully this may attract moreland lords like the wonderful land lower that we are in negotiations with to open their doors. there are a lot of opportunities in the tenderloin south of market and chinatown for us to open our doors. they've been closed too long. this is our opportunity to act. >> supervisor fewer: thank you sir. are there any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can i have a motion on this item? >> supervisor safai: make a motion to send this to the -- to approve this lease. >> supervisor fewer: great. so we can take that without objection. thank you very much. are we ready to go to item number one? are we prepared? negotiation great. mad being clerk, would you please call item number one.

>> yes. resolution retroactively authorizing the port of san francisco to accept an expanded grant award in the amount of approximately 1 million from the department of u.s. homeland security for the replacement of the police department marine time dock and to upgrade the audio system. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have katey puccioni. >> my name is megan wallace. >> supervisor fewer: oh, megan, from the port of san francisco. >> yes. i'm the finance and procurement manager with the port. it turns out rainy days on broadway and polk street are not quick routes here. so today i'm here to seek your approval for a resolution to expand and accept a grant from the grant's support security program in the amount of 1.4 million. this includes 1,059,000 in grant funding, and a 353,000

local match. the existing dock is in extreme disrepair. it lacks physical security and so this -- this work will make sure that expensive and vulnerable equipment is protected from the public. and i do want to note that the police department and the port are working very closely on this project together. additionally, we have an $82,000 project to install new equipment in the port's department operation center which is really an essential place in the event of an emergency or a large disaster in the city. the equipment is currently over 20 years old, and really needs to be repaired. so our 353,000 of local match is going to be able to leverage significant federal dollars.

i do want to note that 250,000 of the match was appropriated in the police department's budget in the current fiscal year, 17-18, and 103,000 is from the port. so thank you for your consideration. i actually am accompanied by ken, the homeland security program director at the port. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. any questions from my colleagues? seeing none, i believe we have a report from the budget legislative analyst. >> yes. this is a $1 million grant from fema. the matching fund requirement of 250,000 is from the police department and 103,000 is from the port. these funds have been previously approved by the board in their 17-18 budget, and we recommend approval. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are there any members of the public who wish to 13 on this

item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. can i please have a motion on this item? >> i move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. we can do that without objection. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, can you please call item eight. >> motion to move to name san francisco international airport terminal one after former supervisor harvey milk. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i believe supervisor hillary ronen will be joining us soon, but i believe -- why don't we hear from the budget legislative analyst now. >> this legislation would amend the administrative code to name terminal one at the airport after our former supervisor harvey milk. the recommendation was made by the facility naming advisory committee that was established by the board of supervisors.

the funds to -- the cost of the renaming in terms of the signing is about $335,000. this is actually within the airport's existing budget for signage for the renovation of terminal one, and we recommend approval because it is the recommendation of the facility's naming committee. >> supervisor fewer: oh, and here supervisor ronen is joining us now. [ inaudible ] >> supervisor fewer: oh, so sorry.

so supervisor ronen, do you have some comments? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i'm so sorry. there was some confusion in calling this item out of order, so thank you, madam chair. if i could have the chair's permission, i would like to call up former supervisor david campos, who really is the heart and soul behind this legislation, and before i make comments, i would love if he had an opportunity to make opening remarks. >> supervisor fewer: that would be great. i would love to hear from former supervisor david campos. >> thank you very much madam chair, supervisors. supervisor ronen, supervisor stefani, supervisor fewer, supervisor safai. thank you very much. i'm not used to being on this

side of the podium, so you look good up there. so i guess -- let me say that this has been quite a journey for me. when we first proposed naming the entire airport a few years back, i think that it was a learning opportunity for me because i think in my own naive way, i didn't fully understand the politics behind naming a landmark like an airport and didn't fully realize that one of the things that made harvey unique was the fact that he challenged the status quo and that many of the people who were challenged in that status quo when he was here are still around. and i think that made it -- naming the entire airport very challenging. and so i think what you have

here is an effort on the part of then the late mayor ed lee and myself to really come to an understanding, a compromise that made sense for the city. something that allowed the recognition of harvey milk and what he has grown to represent for not just san francisco but the country and the world, but at the same time that balance some of the different views that people had. and i think that the naming of a terminal is something that makes a great deal of sense. and let me just say why harvey milk and why naming a terminal at the airport. when you really look at the history of san francisco and the people that from come out of san francisco politics including the people that have come out of this chamber, i don't think you're going to find someone, including mayors

of the city that have had a greater impact, not only on san francisco, but the country and the world than harvey milk. he wasn't actually technically the first openly day person to be elected, but he was the first openly day person to be elected to a legislative body in san francisco. and harvey because of that has meant a great deal not just to the lgbtq community but to any community that is struggling for equality in different parts of the world. you go to different parts of the world and harvey milk is a symbol of equality, a symbol not only for lgbtq people but for anyone who struggles. and that's the thing about harvey milk -- i didn't know harvey milk, but if you talked

to the people that knew him, he always talked about the intersection between different people, and you could not be fighting for lgbtq rights unless you were fighting for the rights of women, of people of color, of immigrants, and that intersectionality goes to the core of who he really was. and so honoring someone like that is so important, especially in the age of donald trump and what donald trump has grown to represent. and the airport becomes, in many respects, an important symbol because it is the day waday -- gateway to the city, and thousands of people are already going to go through terminal one. and the idea as they come in that they're going to see harvey's name, and not just his name, but learn about harvey

milk, and that is a powerful thing. i will close about this about the lgbtq community. i don't think that people fully understand that as far as this community has come, there are still many challenges that this community faces. and one of the negative things about marriage equality is that in the eyes of many people, including members of the lgbtq community itself, there is a sense that, you know, we have already arrived, that we have already achieved what we needed to achieve, and so why is there a need to do something like this, when the reality is that there's still a lot of challenges that remain for this community. last year was the deadliest year for members of the lgbtq community. 52 people were killed in this country because of their -- because they are lgbtq. many of them were people of color, many of them were members of the transgender community. the fact is that we still have

a ways to go. and in san francisco, there is a complaceancy that comes, and we as members of this community are guilty of that complaceancy. and i hope that in remembering harvey, we will remember that it's taken a great deal of sackri identification, ultimate sacrifice like harvey made to get to this point. my hope is that that will motivate us to learn more about our history but inspire us to be more engaged in the fight for equality, and that fight continues. so i was to thank supervisor 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 multipl