. >> supervisor jane kim, congratulations. many of our supervisors agree to agree with you and do their own visits and remove the trash

cans and drug dealer needles. yes, jane kim, you have the right to be with us any time we need you to clean the city. you know why? because most of the supervisors -- most of the homeless, you see they keep coming from other cities. i was eyewitness, they give them $100 and one way ticket to go away. they coming to san francisco. the weakest time when willie brown in office. he hired some homeless guy. his name is george. elied to the mayor, he lied to us, and now we need to clean

our city. you see yesterday, the formal director of dbi coming to san francisco, but i know, i agree with him. he doesn't like to see the garbage and the needle of the drug industry. jane kim, don't worry. i have the key for room 200. we're going to support you, and we will support everyone who have courage to talk over our name. >> clerk: i'm going to pause your name. you are not able to discuss or aloud to campaign politics in this chamber. >> okay. i'm sorry, but i'm very glad to say what i have said. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> tomorrow is 8,070 days from something big time. time will tell if i'm correct.

but i know something big time happened 8,069 days ago, and it was that the first trumpet had to have started the sound, the 40th jubilee of jesus christ. it has now been continuing to sound for 3,069 days. this is what i believe. this much i know. the prophecy in daniel 12 says -- this is the same guy that's known as daniel in the lion's den. he was revealed a chronology to the precise year that the messiah would be killed, and then in the last chapter, he sees these two angels saying how long is it going to be to the end of the word, and one

says it'll be in three and a half years. daniel said, i heard but i didn't understand. it was at that point in time he was told to go his way because those particular words that the world would end in three and a half years were, quote, closed and sealed until the time of the end, when the wives will understand. and then, in revelation chapter 10, it talks about how in the days before the 7th trumpet sounds. it's the judgment days, in the days of the seventh angel, before he sounds, the mystery of god will be finished. that's what daniel heard will be interpreted in real-time. that's what it has to mean. how did somebody predict the sixth trumpet would sound a month before 9/11? they might know something. >> clerk: thank you for your

testimony. >> we sure can establish the two destinies for holy missions. we should engage on holy missions to save our people from pains and difficulties of world tragedies. we need to gather resources for providing relief of existing disasters. we have to come together in delivery of prayers for putting an end to the impending disasters. we are to educate our people with two principles and holy studies for leading in human civilization. we have to pick up models of virtues for our people. we have to take good care of our people for their lively hoods. to govern by virtue with kindness and virtuousness. social leaders should take the

right path of holy mercy for one mission of extension of the true principles under the four c's. [ inaudible ] >> -- fosh t >> -- and true principles, we can unite as having true perfection and true happiness for our people. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, madam president breed and board members. i am the executive director of access of love sf. i come before you today with a broken heart because i am conveying to you the crisis in compassionate care in our city. our city is one of the world's two sanctuary cities for medical cannabis patients. as of january 1st, most

compassion patients, low income patients and patients at our hospices like laguna honda have not been receiving compassionate care. although we did work with supervisor sheehy, which i thank him greatly for him and his staff for allowing our retail dispensaries should they want to, continue their compassion programs, today, i have to tell you we have maybe three that have continued their compassion programs out of nearly 40, 46, i'm not sure. and we went through a series of legislation where everybody got in line and got theirs except for the patients, and the excuse that was given is that we're waiting for the state. that is inaccurate policy. the state law provides for local cities to issue emergency immediate temporary license you

ar ares -- licensures to agencies who serve low income patients. we worked in 2007 to bring forward compassionate care. now we have cities that are leig leagues of us like berkeley, and we have cities in colorado using and earmarking the tax dollars to provide housing, shelter and food and have basically solved their homeless problem. so i stand before you today letting you know -- >> supervisor safai: thank you, ma'am. next speaker. thank you. >> hi. good afternoon, distinguished members of the board of supervisors of san francisco. i've heard a lot of very

important issues discussed this afternoon, and i thank you for considering them. as i said before a few weeks ago, when i was here in this room, in the two or three minutes that we are given and allotted for public comment, one could hardly begin to scratch the surface of what's really going on in this city that we love. and let me mention therefore just this one basic case that you may have not noticed but by working and living here, you would notice that we are approaching and we are verging upon catastrophic traffic paralysis and grid lock, absolutely complete grid lock, the malaise and road rage which accompanies that condition are unparalleled in our history. this city is meant to be what people have described it this afternoon, and i believe you believe that, too. the city is in great denial

about this topic, and they are very happy to let out billions of dollars in contracts for everything else but planning a visionary way toward the future, which is an infrastructure that we can all get around on. we cannot deny the situation as we cannot deny the climate or science. the city, the infrastructure cannot handle what we're doing, and i have been a builder for 30 years, so i have another thing to say, but thank you so much. please consider our roads. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, madam president breed and board members. my name is john martinelli, and i'm a veteran, and i've come to voice my concerns, and others in too much pain to be here today. i've used medical cannabis over 50 years, and i'm a proud

member of access of love sf, an independent community network of san francisco. and i was also compassionate baker for patients until january 1st, as it's illegal for me to do it, and the supplies have just dried up. my main source of compassion is independe independent sb 420 collective, and since only 1% of 1% from able to afford the permit, the largest grower has issued a crisis report. the state law allows local cities to immediately provide temporary permits for groups that service primarily low income people and our organization has been educating sf city hall and enabling -- but no enabling legislation has yet been entered since january

, thousands of sf residents have been in pain, suffering needlessly and for one reason we can't afford. one thing off the -- the thing here is that we hear many times from people on that side of the room, from people this side of the room, we need to speak to the expert first. you're looking at the experts. we come before you over and over again, and you just tell us, you need to talk to somebody else that you consider an expert as -- and we don't know who these people are that you're talking about as experts. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is richard hack. i just want to mention first, we had a memorial for the poet, scholar, and organizer and museum occur -- curator jack smith on sunday.

i was glad to call him one of the six best poets in san francisco over the last 60 years. thank you for your stand against the p.o.a.'s tazer initiative which stems to run around the police commission and proper channels, and also against scott wiener's attempt to override our zoning laws. he is someone who would be better advised to try to overturn the state's ban on commercial rent control than to stab san francisco in the back, but that's the nature of the weasel. it's -- the p.o.a.'s leadership -- no, i'm just going to use plain english here. it's unfortunate. i'm not going to make any excuses. the p.o.a. leadership is notorious towards dirty politics, it's extreme arrogance, denial and

stonewalling. we know there are only a few bad incidents. but we don't know how many millions we spend to depend them, but the murder of mario williams and sean moore, you can read that article in the weekly last year, stemming from an inability to take on responsibility. they think we're different from everybody else in the world 'cause we never do anything wrong. why can't they do something for the community to try to help makeup for this kind of thing? why should the black community and everyone else continue to suffer the cruel consequences of shoddy work -- >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. [ inaudible ] >> supervisor safai: sorry. thank you, sir. thank you. >> hi. i'm a san francisco native, and

a low income disabled medical cannabis patient and i used to be able to participate in compassion programs and product demos and give aways, and now since january 1st, those are all cut off, and the prices have doubled for the stuff that i buy. and it -- the -- there's -- there is legislation in -- in prop 64 that will allow for nonprofits to be exempt from these taxes, and with san francisco being a sanctiksank

sanctuary city, i would ask the board of supervisors to allow for this. and i thank you for considering this. and i guess that's about all. thanks. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> so this is us waiting for fair legalization -- for fair cannabis policy? san francisco, and some of us haven't survived to live to see it yet. this is my cousin who died waiting for fair legalization. in fact he paid $2,000 a month for cannabis to keep himself alive longer than anyone else with his condition, with my help. i had to give him half my check, too. we couldn't do anything fun because we can't have any compassionate care, not as much

as we should have had. i can grow $5,000 worth of cannabis for $10 outdoors. i'm here to represent the people who can't make it. either they ended up dead or they just haven't been able to survive long enough to talk to you about this. so we've sat through hundreds of hours of meeting, committees, boards, you know, street fair booths, struggling to get a civil right to a herb that is our birth right. we didn't legalize this herb so a trumpian stale oligarch could stop us while they get richer off of it. we shouldn't really have to beg for our rights. there's 235 plant compassionate collective gardens. we have proved ourselves that it's -- there's no -- the risk,

there's no risk in that. the real nature is the greed surrounding it. i would like to say the cannabis board is arrive wirif conflicts. i would like to see patient representation on this task force, and no taxes going to the police. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> i've been here coming again and again more than two months, and the previous skeleton that represents exactly the taxi industry, what we are facing right now from the department for $250,000. and we have been requesting again and again to buy back

those medallions. those medallions, in the first place, they are not property of anybody, they are the property of the city of san francisco. sf mta should not do that, but what -- they have done it now, it's time to correct the bad. and taxi industry is a skikind scapegoat for the sf mta. they've never been in surplus or they never break even, and as long the taxi industry demands under the sf mta, they can squeeze enough blood day and night, and we are serving the people of san francisco, disabled, handicapped, senior citizens, all kinds of peoples. and the city provides them the muni, and that ymuni runs on te public funds. why the taxi is being run at

our expense? our humble request is again and again please do something and bring into the agenda and buy back the medallions that the 700 taxi drivers next acks are under that saw. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisor. i'm a taxi driver, 22 years in the city of san francisco. and i bought this medallion from the city of san francisco, $250,000, and uber and lyft, 40,000 cars in the city. they torture us, they're swallowing the business, as everybody knows. and just simple things. just give us the money back.

we don't take from anybody. we're not the law makers. we don't make the law and the rules. you know, it's the same bucket, sf mta, the federal, and the state, everybody's just the same bucket, and we love the community. we love the city of san francisco. i'm a father of five kids. the older is nine, and the youngest is eight months. i deport them to jordan because i don't have money even, my landlord kick me out of my apartment. 22 years, i deserve retirement, and from us, we should get it free. san francisco, they give us $250,000. i stay in the airport waiting two and a half hours, and the uber, th uber and the lyft, they come to myspa my space, and they get a ride, and they don't pay anything.

they don't pay anything. they cause difficulty. there is lots of homelessness in the streets of san francisco. they're other t they're on the streets left and rights, and they use carbon, they use everything, but we're nothing. we see really bad from the city. i am not happy, and my five kids and my wife, they are not happy. >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you sir. next speaker. >> thank you. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm not sure -- i might have misunderstood the instructions, but i really wanted to talk to you about item 42, which is the sb 1045 bill. my name is curtis bradford, so -- so i -- and you know, i

can't honestly say that i'm an expert on this particular bill, so i'm going to defer my opinion about it to the community members who are better informed about the particulars because i think in a bill like this, the devil is really in the details. and so on that basis since they seem better informed, i'm going to trust their information is kraekt, and i correct, and i'm going to say please oppose this bill. but what i really want to talk to you about is reeta. reeta lives in the 100 block of eddie street, since i've lived in the tenderloin, nine years. from my apartment, i can see her block, and i have to hear and see the struggle that she has every day. i mean, she is so traumatized. i listen to her screams, her cries, her hollering. she steps out in the middle of traffic in the middle of the

intersection at eddie and taylor, and stops cars with her body and demand payment. if she does get money, she runs to the dealer, who then robs her or beats her, and she's living barely asubsistance level, her dentures are long gone, lost somewhere. watching of level of her suffering is just unbearable. it's unbearable. she's been arrested numerous times. she's been committed 5150 numerous times -- >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you sir. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. president london breed and

board of supervisors. my name is jason bennett. i'm a -- i've been a proud member of access sf for seven years now. i live with secerebral palsy a live alone for seven years, but as you con june 5th, i will bey next bicycle cycle to raise money for hiv/aids. i have miracle cannabis compassion cannabis, so the hurts and the pains. me and my friends out here,

they're suffering. they're suffering day in and day out. they are homeless, and they can't even get out of bed. and since january the 1st, the compassion ran -- there's nothing, and it's unfair for all these people, for all the big wigs to get it all. where's the compassion? and we're talking about homeless and compassion. we've got to get our access and our community center back in san francisco where it belongs. thank you for your time. have a good day. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is briana varner, and i

live in district six. i'm with access of love, and they have helped me considerably whenever i just didn't have enough money to make it until the 1st or whatever. they've got support groups that -- a couple times a week, and they give you a little compassion, you know? and since this bill has gone in effect, you know, it has -- first off, the bill was not very clear. it was very tricky to the san francisco voters, and it got pushed through any way. there are points that are weak points, and they need to be, like, fixed, because if something's broke, you fix it. well, i'd like to say, like, to make compassion mandatory, and

also speaking from my own experience, i've only been using medical cannabis for a year now. i used to have chronic back problems from being a driver, and i use to have to take all kind of ibuprofen, b.c. powder, and since i've started smoking cannabis, i've not had to worry about passing a drug test since i'm not driving a truck anymore. since i've been doing the medical cannabis, i haven't been able to take all these pharmaceuticals, and i've been doing better. i'm in a loss lt less pain, an use cannabis as my pain management. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, and thank you. i'm known as psychic frank. i'm a proud member of access of love. i was there when shona started this. like shona, i'm just heart

broken, heart broken. it's greed. greed seems to be the topic today, you know? and being a psychic healer, it's -- almost 30 years now, so many souls have passed on these hands, and have seen so many souls leave their crown chakra. so many years ago it was in the rain and the cold, we were there in front of the federal building, getting honks from people. our blood, sweat and tears. many of us are gone. i'll be 70 in a few months, and i suffer a little bit from r.a., and the va, all kinds of hospitals, doctors just gladly give you opioids for that. but no, cannabis works. so any way, this bubble people live in, this money bubble, and they're making money hand over fist over the dead bodies that got them to where they are now. if the -- talking about morally

fit? i mean, all of these people that are making money off of our souls need to get compassion going. needs to get the compassion going. i know peskin over here doesn't watch tv, but i have a show where people stop me all over the street. i always say don't drink, medicate. don't escape. help us. help us, please. help us heal our heart, and i'm here for all the souls who don't have a body anymore but gave a lives not so these guys can pump their sousell their s. in the meanwhile, i've got -- there's never a right time to do the right thing. god bless you all. >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. next speaker. [please stand by for captioner switch]

>> my friend was tortured at the

san francisco airport in san francisco, and i've been working in the city coming on serving the filipino community and we done turn anyone away and to say my friend jerome was tortured inside san francisco's airport, we are here to talk about. it's ridiculous and should not happen anywhere, let alone inside the san francisco airport. jerome was a human rights advocate, we invited him, he spoke to several congressional office, we found on tuesday he was denied entry and supposed to be deported to the philippines. we found he was tortured inside multiple rooms at the san francisco airport. supervisor ronen mentioned a few things, i will threaten to kill you, you have no rights in here. his lawyer from the national lawyers guild denied, and the consulate tried to intervene

after we delegated to them. i cannot believe i'm saying this, and that we have to stop torture from happening inside the san francisco airport. i appreciate the resolution, and we have talked to senator harris's office, senators lee, feinstein, pepelosi are trying to investigation what happened, but they said the city and state investigation would be helpful because they are worried about the political wins in the federal level, but the city and county of san francisco needs to do anything legal and if you you you - you -->> clerk: thank you, sir. >> my name is jennifer, i'm a civil rights attorney and speaking on behalf of the

filipino bar association of northern california, an organization made up of 400 plus legal professionals and law students. also affiliate of the national filipino american lawyers association. i am here to speak to the events that my colleague terry has talked about about human rights advocate and activist that was tortured at s.f.o. the u.s. constitution prohibits detainment based on creed, national origin, and political beliefs. what happened to jerome abba in part, he was detained because of his muslim background because he comes from a region primarily muslim in the philippines and he came here to the united states to speak about human rights abuses under the administration. this is not just a clear violation of just any law, this is a clear violation of the

foundational document of our country and legal system. for the foregoing reasons, what we see here is that a threat to our constitution, a threat to our very democracy, that's why i'm speaking on behalf of a bar association that represents our community and support the resolution that supervisor ronen introduced today. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much, next speaker. >> good afternoon, madam president and supervisors. i'm john glenn, and come here with disappointment and sorrow we are following a win-lose paradigm. some are getting wealthy of cannabis and the least among us are left behind. we have the localities are given the ability to set up compassion programs and we are being deficient in not doing so. a lot of this money that could

go towards rehab, towards people who were victims of toxic chemicals who lion the streets and helping out the poorest and least among us. it's a shame we are following a win-lose paradigm instead of the lead and it's an embarrassment. shanghai is our sister city, i'm ashamed and disappointed, some of the sickest and least wealthy among us are left behind. so, let's follow a win-win paradigm in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> good evening, supervisors. tony robless with senior and disability action. we urge you to oppose senate bill to make it easier to conserve homeless people with mental disabilities in san francisco and l.a., sp1045

because it expands voluntary care in restrictive and combined environment beyond what is allowed in current law. it also proposes a solution that does not meet the sponsor's goals of addressing homelessness and medical care. and also it is dangerously expansive at the expense of individual rights. and does nothing to ensure that these proposed to be conserved under the expansion will be provided with adequate food, housing, clothing or medical and behavioral health care. and finally, it makes homelessness a status that allows for desperate, or d disparity under the law. s.d.a. is among many community organizations in san francisco opposing the bill and allstate wide disability rights organizations also oppose it. it's clearly the, and simply the wrong approach. we need community dialogue to find better solutions that do

not come at the expense of people's rights and dignity. thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> theresa flandrik. what is missing is also a mandate for comprehensive physical and mental examination. there's also no funding in terms of paying for that kind of comprehensive care. there's also no housing. this is so inadequate in terms of actually dealing with the homeless and we know that 70% of the homeless on our streets today had housing three years ago. so, this is not going total deal with the core of the problem. it's one of those multi-headed serpents and i think this is much too premature to say we need to support this bill. it is absolutely inadequate and

i would like to ask that we have a hearing and that you can also hear from a multitude of experts as well as those who are in the field on our streets and what is the financing, because the support of an exam, i'm told in trying to help a woman going through a severe mental crisis, that there was not the funding in that county to pay for a comprehensive exam. so, you will have misdiagnosis, you will have people losing their civil rights and so please let's have a hearing. let's be responsible and not irresponsible in dealing with this. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, coalition on homelessness. acknowledge that yes, indeed, we are neglecting people with severe mental health and behavioral health issues on our streets. severebly neglecting them. i've spent the last month

talking to mental health and substance abuse professionals about s.b.1045. these are all people who spend their days, their breath, sweaters tears, addressing the issues, experts in their own rights. they were not consulted about the development of this bill and they believe it will not work. right now when you have someone who is 5150, there is a specialty trained psychiatrist who does an assessment that figures out whether they meet the criteria or not under this bill, you would have sheriffs, homeless director, a whole slough of different people who do not have the specialized training making assessments, it's incredibly dangerous and broadens the criteria as to when we lock people up who have committed no crimes, adding to harm and gravely disabled addiction, and bizarrely, multiple hospital visits, arrests and even homelessness itself, which is not a trait,

but a state. we know how to solve an address, mental health and substance issues, we do it in the a.d.u.s, supportive co-ops, we don't have enough. this would expand the one area of the system that makes the least amount of sense. it is the most expensive, the least effective, it is a mandate before we have figured out the resources of, and the funding on how we are going to fund it. there is nothing in this bill that requires an offer of voluntary services before taking away civil liberties. also nothing in the bill that ensures once people go through the process they don't just turn back to the streets and that's what the system is doing now. we think it will be more of the same. this would expand -- >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, kelly cutler with the

coalition on homelessness. and you know, analysis of s.b.1045 from the staff of the senate judiciary committee included the following concerns. at this time it seems unclear where exactly the gaps for providing care to the population this bill seeks to target are found within the existing system. does the board of supervisors feel it understands where the gaps in the current system exist and how to address them? and that's really where we need to start this, and it's important to be looking at all the groups opposing this. this is -- we need to be doing about this in the right way, you know. and we learn, we should learn from our past of how not to go about things. for instance, sweeps. just saying. but -- but also we need the resources and we need the

housing, and so just putting out bills without actually really assessing what the bill is just doesn't make sense. so i encourage you to oppose this. >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, laura thomas with the drug policy alliance. wither opposed to senate bill 1045 and would hope that the city would actually oppose it as well. we are very concerned about the precedent this sets when it comes to people who use drugs and moving forward with depriving people of their liberty should come with the very highest bar possible. the language that's written in, we know that people of color are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system and the jails, often as a result of drug offenses. however, that's because the racist war on drugs often targets people of color and putting something into this bill

related to the frequency with which people have been incarcerated related to drug use is likely to further exacerbate the ways in which people of color are harmed and traumatized by drug law enforcement rather than helping to fix these issues. we believe firmly that these issues need to be in the health system and only in the health system. and continuing to put the criminal justice system as a gate keeper and enforcer regarding access to the health care system just does not work. what we know and have learned over and over and over again that the best results come with harm reduction approaches to drug use, come with providing high quality services that are respectful and compassionate. and that mandating or forcing people into treatment for substance use disorder has very

ineffective outcomes compared to providing people with choices and options. so, i would encourage strongly to not follow the failed approaches of years past and instead move forward to harm reduction and quality care for people who use drugs. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> yvonne sheer, i live in millbray. this may ge difficult, bear with me. in 1991, i worked for the city and county of san francisco at the airports commission. first day i was there my supervisor said the only reason you are hired, you were the only one on the list and that's not true. but the abuse i went through every day by her screaming at me, i'm not sure why, caused some problems like the ones, and another was fired because she had a travel agency on the computer system with united and

were helping people. she got fired because of me and the pressure was even greater. i ended up transferring to accounting but i was on many lists, for a year, but i lost my first child because of the stress that i went through, ok. i was not sleeping, and the trauma was so bad, i quit. and because of that, the doctor said that should never happen. i was with the union, i went through every system within the airport, and at this time when i had my child she was very ill because of medicine they had me on and she almost died 11 months old. but i was in a car accident in 2007. accusation was my husband had sex with our daughter, what they brought us to social services with. that destroyed our marriage, my daughter never knew and a lot of my family has passed away and my mom says you were no longer a

member of the family, and 605 hemlock, almost killed me in and i was threatened by diane three days ago, and the police have not done anything. i got attacked this morning, yesterday, i'm sorry, when i was trying to put in on some ointment because of an allergy, she kicked me here in my spine, ok and i got no help. screamed to call 911, and abuse i went through being handcuffed again and said i'm crazy -- >> thank you for your comments. thank you. next speaker, please. thank you, kindly. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, c.w. johnson, i'm here to let you know that we definitely oppose the bill 1045 because of all the points that

you have already heard. no use my repeating the same things. the thing is that california and you supervisors, you are innovators, you are risk takers, you are people to challenge the status quo. what we do here in california reflects on all the states. what we do here is repeat it. and you know that. so, if we put out bad law or we put out something like 1045 without taking a look, really taking a good look at it, it feels like i'm in a mike tyson fight. i came to the restroom and this was back and this was here without me having a chance to have a voice on it. i'm looking for you to step up and say let's take a good look at this thing. we are not knocking it, we know it's a necessity, we know that we have some problems, some issues we need to work on, but i just really don't think this is the way to do it. thank you for your time. and have a good afternoon. >> thank you for your testimony, sir.

next speaker, please. >> hello again, t.j. bossa, speaking as a district three resident and concerned citizen on the case of visiting peace advocate, 25-year-old jerome from the southern philippines, from april 17th to 19, and torture and deportation at s.f.o., received having received a ten-year visa to enter the united states. when i first heard the account of what transpired of being made to strip down, subjected to freezing temperature, deprived of fresh food, religious rights, psychological torture, comparison to guantanamo. i'm shocked this is allowed to trans pire in our city and state that prides in progressive values. i believe jerome was profiled for being an outspoken activist

against the trump and duterte regimes and a muslim filipino man. you know i'm one of the thousands of outraged constituents calling for the strong condemnation for this injustice, and full independent and transparent investigation and urge our congressional representatives to do the same. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening, glen, district 11 resident, and i'm also here to bring attention to the case of jerome abba, the human rights peace advocate who came here to a speaking tour for the worsening climate and human rights in the philippines. he was a muslim man of peace and invited by the united methodist

church network, but he was accused of being a terrorist and went through psychological torture at the airport. held more than 24 hours before being deported back to the philippines. i see this happening all the time, an example of how black and brown people are unjustly profiled and treated. even though it's something that's common it's still shocking every time it comes up in the community. whether our national origin is here or elsewhere, this treatment tells us and gives the sentiment that we don't belong here. but what actually does not belong here is the tyranny, the bigotry, inhumane treatment and not being accountable by c.p.p. i ask you to condemn inhumane practices at c.p.b., and call for independent and transparent

investigation on this matter. >> thank you, kindly. next speaker, please. >> hi, caroline boss, and a resident of san francisco in district two. i want to tell you a story about my mother, her 65th birthday a couple weeks ago, we chatted about her diabetes care, we, i took her to get a mammogram, or took her to the hospital to check out irregular mammogram that she had. she engaged with my 3-month-old daughter and very healthy and amazing state. compare to three years ago when i tried to get her conserved, because she lives with schizophrenia, and i had run out of options. i had called the police multiple times, she'd been 5150ed multiple times, gotten evicted because of her severe psychosis. she had lost 30 pounds, no way to support herself. no food, no family that was

supporting her because we couldn't support her without her taking her drugs. unfortunately, family members like me, this is a story here from many people with severe mental illness, is that we have to at a certain point say no, we can't help you any longer until you take your medication, until you seek help and i'm so happy because i called the police after one of her 5150s, i called the police every hour for 48 hours so when her 72 hour psychiatric hold would expire, they would consider putting her in the psychiatric facility and they did, and her dignity is restored, and it's a sensitive issue, but i want a way to support people like her so i support s.b.1045. thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please.

>> tom gilberti, marijuana taxis, broken people on the street, airport torture, pretty good day at the office, i would say. i shared my first 12 years with a woman who died in 1962, 78 years old. i didn't know her, i kind of recognized her in pictures and newspapers and she was on the tv screens. and then in the decades since, you know, you find out more stories, there's books. one especially resonated, "the american experience." there was a part of her story, eleanor roosevelt's story about what she did one block away with

the, started the birth of the united nations. at the end, every man gave her a standing ovation. she deserves a little statue here, you know, one block east of us. i would like to adopt two cities, counties, sister cities like we talked about here. the two palestinian states, gaza and the west bank, i think san francisco should lead the way. and these are sister, brother, sister, whatever you want to call them, cities. lost rights, they don't have any. it's an apartheid with the strength, if it takes another 50 years, that's 70 years already, 120, it doesn't matter. they'll be gone. i would love to see san

francisco stand up and say we are one with these people. and as far as our government, governments, we need to bring them home. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> thank you, madam clerk. i noticed you have started to refer to the comments, the public comments as testimony. i would just like to remind you that we are not under oath and therefore, it is not testimony, and i would appreciate it if you would respect that distinction. president breed, ladies and gentlemen of the board, winship hillyer, an involuntary psychiatric outpatient in the city. through the policies of the city i have been disabled. in five years i will be homeless. it is because of what you are doing in this chamber that i am here and that i am disabled and

unable to provide for myself and denied welfare. this city provides people with, thought to have mental illness with two choices. treatment or the sidewalk. so don't give me all this crap about preventing homelessness with treatment. you are causing homelessness. this is treatment. homelessness is treatment for refusing treatment. and this is your policy and you know it's true. madam clerk. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. and mr. duffy, before you begin, if there are any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comments, please step up. thank you. please proceed. >> yeah.

i also know rita from our neighborhood, and yeah, she's -- she's some, you know, obviously the world ignores her or allows that to go on. something missing. i don't know if s.b.1045 is the answer, we have to work that out locally. not just her, but we have janet jackson, regularly has the wardrobe malfunctions, pavaroti, the guy, and the tip of the iceberg. so, obviously compassion is the item of the day. you know, i would think somewhere in this city there would be a place we could, some corner where we could grow some hemp, for example, you know. what i was thinking was, madam president, you know, sooner or later this board is going to have to pick a new president, less than a year away, at the

longest. and i just hope that we don't make the mistake that we made a few years ago where we picked somebody who is brand-new in the seat, in the chair, just elected. i hope we pick one of the older, more senior members and you know, to start working, someone who could actually solve some of these problems. for example, the taxi drivers who come in here. i mean, this was an excellent program financing when we really, really needed money we got money from them. but typically in those situations you pay the money back at some point. $5 million a year if we stretch out over ten years, it's like three hours of our city revenue. let's put an offer on the table. that would be something that a board president should be able to do. thank you. >> president breed: any other members of the public who would like to provide public comments, seeing none, public comment is closed. read the items for adoption.

>> items 42 through 50 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. a single roll call road may enact these items. otherwise may be severed and considered separate at this. >> president breed: i'm going to pull item 42. seeing no other names on the roster, madam clerk, remaining items, please call the roll. [roll call vote taken] 11 ayes. >> president breed: those items are adopted unanimously.