helping to make that help. in 2016, espn named them the sports humanitarian team of the year. i want to thank them for their incredible contributions to our city over the last 65 years. we look forward to so many morsel operations in the years to come and especially this year given it is an even year. we are proud at this time to offer you to comment. thank you. >> thank you. i like your glasses, by the way. gamer. i love coming to this building. it has a lot of unbelievable memories for all of us in this giants organization, standing there in front of city hall during the parades. in this room especially because you can feel the history and the strength of the city of san francisco, and it's powerful. we are an organization that's been around 60 years in this city. it has been a great relationship and the support we receive from the city is something that

amazes me, and i stand here today representing all the people that have worked in our organization, the folks in the front office that have directed and lead our organization and all of the players that have worn the uniform that says san francisco across their chest. it is a great honor for all of us to represent this city. we feel the weight and the responsibility of this city when we stand on those base lines that are introduced every year to start a new season. it allows us to say and say it loudly, to anybody who'll listen, we are the giants. we are san francisco. we will always be san francisco. to the board of supervisors and to the mayor of san francisco, we say thank you for your recognition. thank you.

[ applause ] >> thank you all for being here and congratulations again and special shoutout to jack for your work with our styrofoam ban and working with the ballpark to address those particular issues. it is no surprise that you all have been chosen as an environmental leader in a number of things that you've done at the stadium as well. so i just want to say thank you for working with my office and the city on that particular issue. congratulations again and thank you for your service.

okay. with that, we have the next commendation for the day. it will be given by supervisor fewer. >> thank you very much president breed. it is my pleasure today to commend karen shane and karen, can you come on up? i've had the pleasure working closely with her as the member of the re-entry council. she has a long history of working on criminal justice issues, beginning in 1976 when she began visiting women prisoners in 1976 as a participant in a women's prisoner project at the university of california santa cruz. she has provided legal services leading the organization and supervising an effort to provide counsel to survivors of intimate partner battery. she went on to the women's foundation of california where she developed and led the

foundation's criminal justice and county policy work to change california's alliance on incarceration. beginning in 2014, karen joined the re-entry division of the san francisco probation department, and as re-entry apology planner, she was respond for the community corrections partnership. in her role, karen consistently worked to improve outcomes for justice involved people in san francisco and beyond. beyond the regular meetings, she convenessed, karen helped to implement san francisco's reinvestment initiative resulting in documentation of racial disproportionallity in the criminal justice system and a call for action. she helped to achieve the gold of the re-entry counsel through

active support of criminal justice reform bills including bill reform, silva saysments mitigation, expanded protections through ban the box, expungement relief and strengthening pretrial services. during her time with the city and county, karen received an award from the san francisco human rights commission and the end of trenches award from the senior offenders project. i've been impressed with her skill and her transition will be a loss to the re-entry counsel and her route to change the system and existing racial disparities. that says, the lawyers committee for civil rights is definitely gaining an asset. karen, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, i want to thank you for your strong moral compass to always do the right thing. for those who are most in need. your commitment to human and civil rights, your warm women coming and friendly smile and

equally as warm perso personalid your generous personality that continues to give us and make us a more just society. i will miss working with you and i hope to work with you on future projects as i know you will continue doing your good works. thank you so much, karen. [ applause ] >> so thank you so much to you, supervisor fewer and the entire board, including president breed. i have really learned so much while i've been, would go for the -- working for the city of san francisco. it's difficult to make change in city government. i've met so many people since i've been here in all of the city departments who are truly committed to making this city a great place to live and work for everyone. it's been a tremendous challenge, and i've watched real change makers work hard to make change work for everyone. but this is an uphill battle. as we watch out migration of

african-americans continue in unprecedented numbers as we see children fewer and fewer children attending public schools in the city as we watch the number of our homeless neighbors increasing, as we see the number of people with serious mental health issues unable to find the help they need, we are in danger of losing the battle for this city. so while i'm deeply thankful for the kem endation -- commendation and feel represent for the people you represent, i'm also troubled. i started working here because i wanted to see what it was like to work from the inside, to work on needed changes from a different perspective. i'm proud of the work that we've done together, particularly in deepening the discussion about racial disproportionallity in our criminal justice system. we need to move from understanding the problem to actually making solutions and implementing them. so the last time i was in this room to receive an award, it was from the human rights commission. i was excited to receive it, but

it suddenly became an extremely humbling experience. many of my coawardis were killed by san francisco police officers. they refused their awards saying they didn't want an award. they wanted justice. san francisco is yet to provide that justice. with conversations about providing tasers to police officers and broadening the armed scope of our probation department, we're not moving towards real solutions, but opting for the appearance of safety while putting our most vulnerable residences in harm's way. i moved here in 1972 seeking and finding greater diversity and inclusion. we seem to have lost our way. i look to all of you to help us get on a path that honors all of us. so thank you, i really am honored, and i have to be who i am. so thanks.

[ applause ] >> thank you for your words and your service. we will have our last commendation for the day. it will be given by supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam president. last but not least on the occasion of his last day of being in his 80s, tomorrow is his 90s birthday, my friend ernie who has been part of the north beach and san francisco scene for many, many decades. loved by one and all in the neighborhood, his story is

linked with the city and county of san francisco through journalism, through the jazz scene, where he partied with the likes of duke ellington and others. every aspect of ernie is north beat from his love of food and culture and understanding the intertwined communities of chinatown and north beach and expressing it so elegantly in three books, one of which will be launched tomorrow evening at original joe's on the occasion of ernie's 90th birthday. his first book which you could buy at the butcher on the corner, little city meats is where i think i bought that book, which he did a number of years ago, sketches from a north beach journal which features a series of profiles of the larger the life characters dating back

from the california gold rush all the way to the present day. the second book, which i had the pleasure, i think, of writing a little foreword to, san francisco appetites and afterthoughts in search of the good life by the golden gate articles, music, arts, old builds, and lifestyle of the city. as i said, tomorrow, stops along the royal road, adventures from a lifetime of travel, paying tributes to his family who is here. i got to read that copy when i was on vacation last year and even showed ernie where a couple of typos were. and it pays tributes to writers who have inspired him to hop around the globe, recounting improbable and really incredible

tales as he traveled. congratulations ernie for all of your work and for being -- making the scene what it is. controlled substance, ernie. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> i missed one thing, which is -- and this is to supervisor stefani. we share something, which is all three of us have a column in the marina times every month. >> yes. i guess that's true. thank you, supervisor peskin. i really appreciate your good thoughts, your good words. thank you to all of the supervisors. i do appreciate this very, very much. becoming 90 has sneaked up on me. one day i was 65, and the next day i was 90 years old. it just seemed like it happened overnight. my wife likes to say, the older

you get, the better you get. then she adds, unless you are a banana. i guess i am a banana. so i want to thank all of you for your attention here today and for your good wishes. i hope that we can repeat this for many years to come. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> congratulations, ernie, and thank you so much for being here today. >> thank you very much.

>> okay, ladies and gentlemen, that concludes or commendations for the day. we will return to our regular agenda. we left off with our roll call for introductions. madam clerk. >> thank you. supervisor ronen. supervisor safai. >> i don't have anything really to submit. i just wanted to added as a coresponse or to the land swap that supervisor peskin introduced today with the flower mart. >> it's done. supervisor sheehy. >> submit. >> supervisor tang. >> submit. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you. colleagues, today i am introducing a resolution in anticipation for the

asian-pacific american heritage month in may. given the anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric and policies emanating from washington, d.c. which has lead to increased acts of intolerance against immigrant communities, there has been an increased effort from communities to remove names from public statues in places which honor figures who espouse racism. there has also been an increased movement both nationally and globally to recognize women's historical contributions and the role in current professional and public settings. we have successfully -- we have been successful at the local level in doing many of these things. for example, supervisor cohen's legislation to rename columbus day to indigenous people's day. supervisor peskin's legislation

to remove herman's name from the plaza. students from the university of san francisco renamed the campus building from hall to toler; after a an african-american. not only have they removed the names, we must know our history in order to not repeat the mistakes of our past. this is why i am introducing a resolution to name phelan to frida way and remove the other name. james dphelan served as a mayor

and senator. he supported the chinese exclusion act of 1882, an immigrant act of 1924, which basically -- and the chinese and japanese immigration from entered erg the united states. he ran his senate campaign on the cheap california white and save our state from aggression. he also supported legislation to make interracial marriages illegal. a state name is named after his father. the mayor's anti-immigration policies smears his father's name. san francisco is a city which prides itself on values of inclusion, tolerance, and respect for multicultural diversity. we will not tolerate exclusion, racism in our communities.

let's reflect our values to make san francisco a better place to live. i look forward to your support. the rest i submit. >> thank you. president breed. >> thank you. colleagues, today i'm introducing legislation that supports senate bill 1045 authored by senators scott wiener and henry stern. it creates a conservatorship program that will provide housing and wraparound services to care for the most vulnerable residents in our state and our city. those who are chronically homeless suffering from severe mental illness and struggling with substance addiction. conservatorship is provided for people who are disabled and cannot care for themselves. the state has two

conservatorship programs, one that is designed for individuals who are unable to care for themselves due to mental illness and one for individuals who are unable to care for themselves due to physical health issues, cognitive impairment, or elder abuse. unfortunately, these existing programs don't provide san francisco the flexibility or the tools we need to help some of the most difficult to serve individuals who are dying on our streets. sadly, the conditions are worsening every single day. according to our last homeless count and survey, 31% of our homeless population is chronically homeless. this top lation is struggling -- population is struggling with severe health conditions. 65% of chronically homeless individuals property struggling with alcohol or drug addiction. 63% reported suffering from a psychiatric or emotional

condition. and 45% reported suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. the most at risk subset of this population, approximately 338 individuals, are accessing the most emergency services. this is the group sb1045 is designed to help. you can't walk anywhere within a half-mile radius of even city hall without seeing someone who is clearly in distress or suffering from serious addiction challenges. if i were on the streets without shelter and then a mental state that inhibited me from taking care of myself, i would want someone to intervene. i would want medical attention, housing, and stability. but just because these individuals are difficult to serve doesn't mean we simply give up. it is not humane to allow those who are chronically homeless and

severely mentally ill or grappling with addiction to wither away on our streets. we know the status quo is not workingment attempting to serve the needs of our chronically homeless population who suffer from the most severe mental illness and addiction through emergency room visits, interactions with law enforcement, temporary social services, and incarceration is costing the city hundreds of millions of dollars every year with no means of ending this cycle. the combined cost of these repeated services are significantly higher than providing stable housing and supportive services. we have proven that with the opening of the richardson apartments located in my district. 120 individuals who receive complete wraparound services in a safe, affordable place to call home. we must do the hard work and the

creative thinking it takes to get the most at risk individuals off our streets, to get them housed, healthy, and stabilized for the long-term. i'm tired of hearing we can't do anything about it or our hands are tied because if there's a will, there's a way. sb1045 is one way to help us deal with the mental health homelessness and substance abuse crisis in san francisco. as it stands today, we have no way to conserve the most at risk individuals. struggling with chronic homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse challenges. in a supportive housing environment with wraparound services, as i said, the richardson apartments is a perfect example of how it could work. this bill also provides us with another tool in order to address those issues. sb1045 creates a conservatorship

provides housing with supportive services. under the bill, the department of public health, the sheriff's department and general hospital can recommend that a person is conserved who is chronically homeless and suffering from serious mental illness or substance abuse disorder, which results in frequent visits to the emergency room, attention by police under a 5150 hold or frequent psychiatric evaluations. if approved by a judge, the individual would then be compelled to stay in supportive housing and receive wraparound services for up to one year with the opportunity to petition every month for review. this bill will give san francisco more tools to actually make a difference for those we see who are suffering on our streets every day with the most acute mental health and substance abuse issues. sb1045 is currently moving

through the senate committee process and it passed. i'm committed to introducing the local legislation to enact this bill. the rest i submit. >> thank you, madam president. seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> okay. madam clerk, let's go to public comment. >> at this time, it is the public's opportunity to address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the march 6th, 2018 board meeting minutes and items 49 through 58 on the adoption. public comment is not allowed when an item has been previously subject to public comment at a board committee. [ stand by ]