i want what is mine and my respect what i earned. i gave the city millions of dollars. i need a dollar. i need donations now today. [bell rings] >> clerk: thank you, sir. thank you for your comments. >> yeah, thank you for your comments. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> hello supervisor and esteemed clerk of the board. i am the director of the san francisco youth commission. i want to echo our fabulous commissioner of giving thanks to commissioners yee, tang and sheehy and any who are willing to sponsor the resolution and environmental education and thank you for introducing resolutions on pedestrian safety and incarceration. we have plenty working on issues and spoiler alert, the youth commission will be presenting on all of the issues at the upcoming budget and finance committee hearing hopefully in early may. all of our young people look forward to working with you to

support the ideas and strategies our amazing youth leaders bring forward. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> my name is heather sterner on the board of the league of woman voters of san francisco. i'm here to support the resolution proposed by supervisor fewer. we commend her on the resolution supporting california schools and local community funding act. this initiative to amend prop 13 is supported by every league of women voters in the state of california. we hope that the six of you who have not yet endorsed this will endorse it because as you know, it needs unanimous support. when prop 13 was passed in 1978,

many people warned it would hurt our schools and that has proved to be all too true. by requiring big commercial properties to pay their fair share of property tax, it would be an enormous boon to san francisco schools as well as community projects. so we hope that you will give this your unanimous support. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is [inaudible] i speak on behalf the [inaudible] buyers. taxi business in san francisco is terrible at the taxi industry has been collapsed. interest is no hope this will improve. we have no hope and it is too

late for them to bring business back to us. they look for the baker pay checks. taxi medalon owners are looking to make a living. no one take taxis. like the demand and supply. 700 medallions you say abundant. you can do that and stop the 700 medallions you sold to us. sfmta employees are -- you is cn advise them. give the taxi owners morn any back as soon as possible. we are dying by inches to make

money to pay these medallion payments. we are waiting patiently to get our money [bell rings] >> back from sfmta. today, there is a convention and no one take taxi. we are struggling to get like $10 ride and we didn't get it. everything is captured by ride sharing companies. bring you to your tax did i agenda [bell rings] >> clerk: thank you, sir. thank you for your testimony. >> thank you, sir. sir, thank you. thank you kindly. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon to everybody.

the same issue for the taxi medallion that is been bought from the poor 700 peoples. there are black, latinos, asians, kaw ka caucasian and the there. i have seen that you people are listening here and everything is seems like very good and specifically president breed i would invite you to come to the airport because the taxi drivers cannot afford $6 parking in the parking garage and come over here and seek your help. $3 after 3:00 p.m. and we want you to come all of the board of supervisors to come to the airport and listen and see the miserable life of the taxi drivers who bought their permit for $250,000. and again, black latinos and

hispanic and asian and all kind of peoples. but basically minorities are being crippled. and, it would be if you do not act now then you might have to represent the member ra member . and my humble request is to change the goals and at least come once to the airport and the talk to the peoples directly. [bell rings] >> clerk: instead of listening from the sfmta, you should confront or talk to the drivers face to face at least you can see and hear the reality by yourself. and another thing before i leave, this item number 23, it is a good thing, but it is only a peanut to the mouth of the elephant.

[bell rings] >> clerk: thank you for your comments. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. supervisors. david elliott lewis. i served two terms on the city mental health board. i currently serve on the boards of nami san francisco, the mental health association, community housing partnership, and also work as a trainer for the san francisco police department's crisis intervention team training program. i say this because i know something about our city's behavioral health system and i know something about our state's behavioral health system and i have a lot of concerns about your agenda item 55 coming up to support scott weiner's state bill 1045. we already have laws on the books for conserve atoreships and laws for people who can't care for themselves. to enact additional legislation which strips people of their rights is really troubling. we have a system of care that is

broken. we do not have treatment on demand. we don't have housing on demand. we need housing and treatment and community supports. and, to enact another law that can deprive people of civil rights to address a political need of seeing homeless people on the street is really troubling. and i hope you will not pass this resolution. i know there is support on the board, but i really hope you will -- it will give you pause. again, we have the opsconservatorship laws. we need more community supports and housing for those who can't care for themselves. [bell rings] >> clerk: i hope yo. >> i hope you will continue to support housing and demand and not support laws that take away rights and our liberties. no on sb-1045. thank you foryour time and attention.

>> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is abdul. i'm coming to file the same thing like for the taxi business. taxi business is so bad and unfortunately we are struggling a lot in this matter. and, most taxi drivers are immigrant and just only move here with their family like me. i have four young kids going to the school. two go to the school and my daughter go to the university and one go to the college. please help us to bring our money back from the sfmta. we need that money for our business, for our kids. no more business and if you guys not help us, i think very soon we come in to here with the family and with the wife and wee got a divorce because wife need the money and we do not have the money. and kids need the money and we do not have the money. thank you for your time.

this is serious matter. do not take this lightly because you know, the taxi business is unfair in the city because the 700 medallion sold by the immigrant people and people used to have the medallion free and if we go by the listings and mostly people i'm not talking about anything like that but the thing is when the sfmta a list, mostly immigrant people they sold the medallion to the immigrant peoples and mostly still like 1600 to minus 1700 the people have the free medallions. welches. >> this is unfair business. help us. thank you for your time. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speak please. >> honorable supervisors. i represent the bay area

armenian national committee. on behalf of the san francisco armenian community we thank you very much for consider, the resolution commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the armenian genocide perpetrated by the turkish government. in the first genocide, armenians lost more thanfu than half of te population. 1.5 million living on their historic homeland. after the killings it didn't end. the genocide continued with the complete dispossession of armenian properties, schools, hospitals, churches, businesses, farms, the entire civilization they had built over centuries beginning before the turks arrived and then all imsimpley erased or appropriated by the turkish government. the da it is effects are compod every day in real ways. as a direct result of the

massive government campaign of genocide denial within and beyond the turkish boundaries. denial is the major road block preventing any mod did i come of recovery and reconciliation between the two nations and responsible for the dangerously destabilizing and tense relationship between the two neighboring countries today serving as an ongoing threat to the security of armenia. [bell rings] >> your remembrance will not only serve to honor the victims and educate the public, but it will also be an important stand against hi historical revisionim which leads to the reputation of the saddest chapters of history. we urge the board approval of the resolution as it has commendably done for many years running. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon i 57 am an

organizer with evolve california. i wanted to thank the supervisor for your leadership in introducing the resolution to reform prop 13 and support the schools and communities first act. i want to thank supervisors peskin, sheehy,ee, ronen and kim for cosponsoring this important reform. we need this now more than ever. my wife is a public school teacher here in san francisco. and, i get to see every day just how heartbreaking it is for her to see her students cheated out of the future that they deserve. i see her every weekend we go down to target and buy classroom supplies for her kids and she is in no, no way unique. all of our teachers have to to this every year. and this is in san francisco. we have it better than most is thofthe states. can you imagine what it is like for teachers, for parents, and most of all for students in

other districts around the states who have far less resources than we do? and at this point in time, how can we continue to justify allowing large corporations like chevron to get away with paying pennies on the dollar in property taxes savin saving huns of millions of dollars while the schools are in the bottom 10 in per pupil funding and we have the most overcrowded classrooms in the nations and the rest of us all pairing four fair share. [bell rings] >> we need california so show a better way. i hope you will adopt the resolution. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> i am with evolve california. i want to thank supervisor fewer for introducing the resolution to support the schools and communities first initiatives. i got involved with this campaign two years ago because i felt it wasn't fair that the young students i was mentoring

felt discouraged to learn and stupid when in actuality it is because of the chronic underfunding of our state pub live schools that they were not given enough resources or time to succeed. and, after 40 years it is about time that we reform prop 13 and restore over $800 million every year to our city's schools and communities. no more tax breaks for large corporations. our students deserve better than that. i urge the board to pass this resolution. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is joshua and i am a richmond district resident, student and an intern with the evolve california. i urge you to pass the schools and communities first initiative. my sister is a new special education teacher in california who hasn't start the her position yet and already told

she needs to by supplies for the classroom out of her own pocket which is ridiculous considering the low salaries teachers already make. this will give students and teachers the resources they deseb. it ideserve. it is tame we invest in the students of california. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is susan van kikens. i grew up in michigan a long time ago and as i was probably a teen i knew somehow we all new that california had the best schools in the nation. what has happened, prop 13 came along and things started to change. i came here in 1994 and i have known a lot of young teachers who had to aah pl supply their n classrooms. i'm a supporter of evolve because i want changes in the city. we need to support our children. how can we expect our country to

grow more healthy and more wise if we don't support our children? so please support this resolution. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i'm here in support of the resolution to ry form proposition 13. my name is megan able. i am the organizing director of the tech equity collaborate eastbound. we are a membership organization representing hundreds of tech workers in the bay area who think that the tech driven economy can and should work for everyone. while tech didn't create the underlying issues causing the housing crisis we recognize the fast growth of the industry has contributed to the pushing out of long time residents and vulnerable communities have, we feel that we have a responsibility to use our voicee

to advocate for a policy that will make it possible for everyone who wants to live here to access housing affordably. that is the i'm here today and why the organization supports prop 13 reform. we are excited to be one of the hundreds of grass rots faith and labor room -- grass roots groups. we believe prop 13 is the root of california's housing crisis. we forming the law would generate $10 billion in new funding for the state which would go to local governments to support local service programs including housing. this funding is desperately needed to fund antidisplacement services because we know very well what has happened across the bay without adequate attention being paid to antidisplacement. as members of the tech community we want to be sure that all san franciscoansster the resiliency to ride out the wave and not get washed out by it. it is estimated san francisco

would receive $800 million in funding from prop 13. [bell rings] >> which could be allocated for affordable housing development, antidisplacement services and homeless supports. we ask that you pass the resolution unanimously to show that san francisco is on the leading edge of the progressive tax reform. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is karen roda. i'm a resident of district 4. and i would like to invite any once who hasn't had an opportunity to sign the petition to put the initiative on the ballot to meet me after class. i will be waiting outside. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i currently serve as the president for the san francisco mow flower mart and i want to urge you all to pass the urging

of the property exchange at 2000 m200marin for 639. is the critical for the 50 tenants at the san francisco plow flower market to have a location they can thrive while the new market is being built. so i hope you all support it. i also want to thank supervisors kim and supervisors peskin for helping us to get this exchange. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is otto duffy. i'm a resident of the neighborhood around city hall. i think matt gonzalez was the first person i heard mentioning that corporations never get a bump up in their taxes. the issue that they are bringing up. it isinit is long overdue to che that. i'm also notice something about pedestrian injuries and car

accidents and pedestrian fatalities. some time ago, i noticed that while the vision zero is focusing most of the effort on the dense neighborhood of the tenderloin and the downtown area, the fact that there are more incidents in the area is an artifact of it is just a more dense neighborhood. if you look as a pedestrian walking around on the streets in san francisco, your odds as a pedestrian of getting hit by a car are approximately equal anywhere in the city. and so there probably out to be a little more focus on the other neighborhoods and even in my neighborhood around here, on any given year there is probably about average of a couple hundred, 300, 400 deaths every year, lost years of life and a small fraction of that is actually pedestrian-caused problems with cars. if you wanted to increase life expectancy and quality of life you would be looking more at more housing.

particularly for small units for stepup housing for homeless people which is what all of the con at thiconstituents are compg about and universal healthcare and a single standard of care. that is what you would be focusing on. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> i'm kelly cutler with the coalition of homelessness. the rest of my comrades are in sacramento regarding the bill 1045. and i thought i was getting out of having to go to meetings today. but then apparently not so i'm here. so we are in very strong opposition to it. and basically, it reminds me of like the tent ban. if there is no resources that are available, it just doesn't make sense. it is really facade. and so i'm here to strongly urge

against that. and there is so many people that are service providers that are advocates that are healthcare professionals and so many other fields that are opposing this because it doesn't make sense. that's it. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comment? please proceed. >> thank you, madam clerk. ladies and gentlemen of the board, today we heard about ucsf. warm the coccals of your heart much, i would like to remind you about some facts of which you probably are aware but could bear reminding. about 15 years ago ucsf engaged in a major project of expansion in the mission bay neighborhood of the city. many of the buildings down there, i'm sure you have been down there, are closed to the

public. you might have been allowed to go inside because you presumably have security clearances but i am not. this is a campus that has been dedicated to the medical sciences and yet they are doing classified research at the mission bay campus and this is a new step for them. the old campus has no classified buildings closed to the public. executive order 13-526 of what goes on in that kind of environment. section 1.4, classification categories. information shall not be considered for classification unless its unauthorized disclosure to provide describable damage to the national security? accordance with section 1.2 of the order and pertains to a, military plans, weapons systems or operations. c, foreign government operation. intelligence activities.

[bell rings] >> clerk: methods are. >> foreign relations or foreign activist thes united states. e, scientific techno logical matters. f, united states government programs for safeguarding nuclear materials or facilities. g, vulnerabilities or capabilities of infrastructures. i'm out of time, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. madam president. >> president breed: are there any other members for public comment? they are now closed. read [gavel] >> president breed: read the items for adoption. >> clerk: items 53 -- an a-team may be severed and considered separatory. >> president breed: i will remove item number 55. supervisor yee? supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: i would like to sever item 56.

>> president breed: before we take the vote, madam clerk leaks can we entertain to excuse supervisor peskin? without hundred, supervisor peskin is excused and on the remaining items including 55 and 56 please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: there are ten ayes. >> president breed: adopted unanimously. let's go to item 55. >> clerk: a resolution to support state senate bill 1045

expanding california mental health conservato rship law. severe drug addictions repeated psychiatric committens or excessively frequent use of medical services. >> president breed: i would like to make a motion to continue the item one week to the meeting of april 24, 2018. is there a second? >> seconded by supervisor tang. can we take that without objection. approved. item 56. >> clerk: a resolution to support the california schools and local community funding act and reaffirming the board of supervisors support for a split role reform of proposition 13 this order to close the commercial property tax loophole and restore billions in revenue. >> president breed: supervisor fewer?

>> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. this would support proposition 13 reform which would effectively close the unattendant corporate loophole of prop 13. while the intent is to help homeowners loopholes in the system permitted major commercial and industrial properties to avoid reassessment, a windfall to property owners at the expense of vital public services. as a public school student and parents of three public school students and school board member i have seen the impact prop 13 has had on the ability to fund schools. california schools have gone from some of the best funded in the nation to now being the bottom 10. as a pta president of 12 terms i have raised money through fundraisers of carnivals and bake sales to buy paper, window blinds, pencils and crayons basic necessities that schools should be providing. and also, this prohibits us from being able to serve the neediest

students in the community with the resources they need to make their academic potential. corporations have gotten away with not paying their fair share for 40 years and tax cuts by number 45 compounded the growth inequity. a common sense fix that will generate $10 billion per year for schools and public services across the state. $800 million for san francisco alone. nearly 80% of the revenue will come from just 8% of commercial properties in california worth $5 million or more. long-time commercial property owners will no longer be able to sit on valuable vacant land while paying almost nothing in property taxes and this would help with our vacant store fronts. today, colleagues, i ask for support of the resolution. >> president breed: can we take this item same house, same call without hundred the resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel] it is my understanding we have

one imperative item. >> clerk: yes, madam president. on behalf of supervisor peskin a resolution mending kearney street workshop on its anniversary and proclaiming april 28 to be kearney workshop day in the city and county of san francisco. >> clerk: supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: supervisor peskin had to leave due too a family emergency. i have volunteered and performed at one of their events when i was part of a band and this is commending on the location of the 45th anniversary and declaring april 14, 2018 the can workshop day. it was funded by jump an jim ana and michael chin in 1972 at the ground floor of the international hotel on the last block of keen any street that was part of what was then the historic manila town where many

manong sunday and filipino seniors lived. it was a strugglingle for decades to maintain an sro hotel that has many of our growing senior population filipino community who worked in san francisco for decades. and, was a place of really just amazing activism and hi history where women and the black panthers and asian american activists came to protest before all of the seniors were evicted including the kearney street workshop dragged out by the sheriff. we were able to rebuild the hotel as a site for affordable housing for seniors here in san francisco. it is the triumph and victory, of course, an immense loss that for 40 years this housing did not exist. but amazing that we were able to bring it back and just want to commend kearney street workshop

for their role in the hotel struggle and their continuing work to support emerging asian pacific american artists the last 45 years here in the city and county of san francisco. >> president breed: supervisor kim, are are yo you going to may motions? >> supervisor kim: thank you, president breed. i would like to make a motion to add this to the imperative agenda. >> president breed: and certify that it is purely commendatory and that there is no need to take any further action because it doesn't violate the brown act. >> supervisor kim: yes. >> the board before acting must make motions that it is purely commendatory and also that it came to the attention of the board after the publication of the agenda of today's meeting. >> supervisor kim: the motion to move it forward as imperative item and it is purely

commendatory and i didn't hear. >> and that it came to the attention of the board after the publication of the agenda for today's meeting. >> president breed: okay. so supervisor kim has moved what was said by our deputy city attorney. and is there a second? seconded by supervisor yee. supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: i'm glad this was brought to you our attentio. is slipped my mind also. i was a member of the kearney street workshop in its infant stages in the mid 1970's. being a teacher of arts and crafts type of things and eventually joining their photography sort of unit i guess and she helped publish books and document what was going on around the chinese or the chinatown community. it has been that long.

i didn't realize that. but my goodness. i actually almost forgot i was a member of it. so, i'm glad we are doing this today. >> president breed: thank you. so there is a motion and second. and can we open it up to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take the motion without objection? without objection the motion passes unanimously. on the actual item, same house, same call. without hundred the resolution is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: even behalf of supervisor peskin for the late players ernie bile and mr. steven fong. and for the late miss merial dunaway. and on behalf of supervisor tang

for the late ms sharon balmier. and for the late doris ward former assessor, recorder and president of the board of supervisors and on behalf of president breed and the entire board of supervisors for the late mr. james hennessy. >> president breed: supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: i have a question that has to do with the imperative agenda that is item number 5 of an 56 and i'm not qe procedurally how to. >> president breed: we would need to rescind the vote. >> clerk: the california schools and community funding. >> president breed: i need to rescind the vote to discuss it, supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: really? >> president breed: so you would like to make a motion to rescind the vote. supervisor cohen has made a motion to rescind the vote.

is there a second? seconded. the vote has been rescinded. on the item, supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much for allowing an opportunity. supervisor fewer informed me and i want to make sure i understand this correctly. sorry, ladies. this resolution is there exemption for -- so the reason i'm flagging this when you talk about split rule i'm concerned it adversely affects small business owners and women minority business owners in particular. can you talk to me about the exemption? >> supervisor kim: they would be provided with direct tax relief. they would no long verducci to pay taxes on any of their equipment or fixtures and things like that which they now are assessed by. >> supervisor cohen: okay.

>> 550 employees for less. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. we can continue and make a motion to -- >> president breed: to colleagues, can we take this -- >> supervisor cohen: sorry, one more question. madam clerk, in terms of procedure are we able to send this back to committee to discuss? >> clerk: this item is a resolution and it is the single privilege of a super vicar to send it to committee. >> supervisor cohen: i would like to send it back to discuss a little bit more. >> president breed: so we could either send it to committee or a continuance for one week. >> supervisor cohen: i'm happy with a continuance for one week. >> president breed: supervisor cohen made a motion to continue to april 24,. >> clerk: clerk, madam president. >> president breed: 2018. roll call vote.

>> clerk: supervisor cohen made a motion to continue. a second? >> president breed: seconded by supervisor kim? no. no, supervisor kim does not second. supervisor fewer seconded for a one week tin wans. can we take that without turn? without hundred we will continue one week. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> president breed: thank you. [gavel] >> president breed: so ma madam clerk have you finished reading the in memoriams. >> clerk: yes,. >> president breed: there is no further business before us today. thank you, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned at 5:38 p.m.]

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experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked

hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for

me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

>> good afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, april 17th, 2018. madam clerk, please call the roll. [ roll