there was unclaimed ups delivery notices. there was a site survey in 2014 where they had to install a carbon monoxide detector, and when they entered, they saw water had evaporated in the toilet bowel. and then the comcast installation in 2016, someone had come to do the installation. i'm reading what's in the court documents. i'm relying that it's very difficult to hear this kind of back and forth between he said, she said, but in any case, i wanted to just at least share that or bring that out to light. i think also what was interesting was the stopping of the meals on wheels deliveries in 2012, as well. so any way, i will defer to other colleagues on their questions or comments. >> president breed: thank you.

supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: thank you. and i'm not sure exactly who to address these questions to, so i'm just going to look at our city attorneys in this case. the distinction that supervisor tang just brought up between a life estate and, i guess being just a pure tenant, could you explain that distinction a little bit for us. >> city attorney's office. i a life estate is the equivalent is or is similar or can be similar to an ownership interest in a property. under tax law, it depends on the length of that life estate. it can ripen into an ownership interest and therefore the property would actually be taxed as if it were a sale. but it's also -- it's sort of a

hybrid. it's a bit like a rental agreement for the rest of your life, and it sounds like it was secured here by a promisary note which would -- it similar to something like a mortgage to pay. >> supervisor kim: but the main difference for the resident of the unit is perhaps how it is treated via our tax regulatory framework. i'm just wondering if it affords you a different set of rights. >> my understanding is that it -- it would change that, which is why i believe that the rent board didn't have -- i don't think they had evidence here that there was an eviction because she wasn't viewed as a tenant for that purpose. but the -- >> supervisor kim: but displacement is also a

consideration. >> excuse me? >> supervisor kim: but displacement is also a consideration. >> yes. what i was going to say is that the planning commission in interpreting the requirements of the subdivision code viewed this as it's a life estate. if it wasn't exactly a rental agreement or a tenancy, it was the equivalent of that. so they had the ability to interpret the subdivision code, the meaning of those terms and what displacement was. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and just one final question, is there some type of definition of residency that either this board or the planning commission is tethered to in today's decision? >> not that i'mweek.

it involves an element of presence and an element of intent. >> supervisor kim: great. thank you so much, mr. givner. those were my questions. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: yes. what's key for me in this issue is the analysis that supervisor kim brings up which is that the subdivision code isn't necessarily tied to tenancy but displacement, and that's where i think the planning commission made the -- or the planning staff made the right decision

and -- in this case. and you know, i don't -- i think that's the correct legal analysis, and i also think it's the correct moral decision in this case. you know, she lived in her home for close to 60 years. you know, we heard all of the testimony, and this -- this profit motive over humanity that's become, like, a monster in our -- in the speculation of our housing market in san francisco is really stark in this case, and i'm not going to be voting in favor of this appeal today. >> president breed: thank you. and i'm seeing no other names on the roster. colleagues, i'll just make my remarks about this particular case, especially since it's in my district. it's really sad that we are

here today to address such a -- a tragic situation here. i had a chance to spend time and get to know miss canada with her niece, iris, and she was an incredibly sweet person. everyone who knew her, even the people who lived in this building, agreed that she was very thoughtful, and she was very kind. she always had something nice to say to people, and you know it's sad that we're here on this occasion. and i remember when i was contacted by tommy mecca who reached out to me because of the court case when miss canada first started going through going to court, and we held a press conference with the housing rights committee and others in her family to bring attention to this matter. the file on this matter, the testimony that has been given

by -- at the planning commission and here at the board of supervisors today reveal a very troubling set of events about this particular property that must be acknowledged for the purpose of making this decision. the property was in fact subject to ellis act evictions in 2002. after years of court battles with iris canada in particular and negotiations back and forth, including myself making personal calls to the sheriff to delay what was i believe to be an eviction, unfortunately, we were unsuccessful. and the sheriff went into her home on february 10, 2017, and executed an eviction notice, removing all of her possessions from her home. and as far as i'm concerned, you can call it eviction, you can call it displacement, but she was removed from her home

and there's no other way that i see this. when the sheriff goes into someone's door, changes the locks and forceablely removes their possessions, that's in essence an eviction. whether a person has a life estate or a tenancy interest, it doesn't matter. sadly, after the eviction took place, iris canada passed away. and when this board adopted reforms to our condo conversion ordinance, it was a priority to ensure that we were not granting the right to convert properties which -- which had recent eviction history. in fact, we took extensive care to ensure that we weren't incentivizing displacements or evictions in our condo conversion laws. the eviction of an elderly tenant along with the incomplete information which was submitted in this application gives me great

concern. what happened to iris is not compassionate, and it's not acceptable in our city. colleagues, given the eviction of miss canada which occurred in this property, i cannot support this application to allow the property owners to convert the condos. to do so would be not just unjust to iris, but it's inconsistent with the spirit and the intent in the language of our condo conversion laws. and so i would like to entertain a motion to approve item 35 and table item 36 and 37. moved by supervisor safai, seconded by supervisor cohen. madam clerk, on the motion, please call the roll. >> clerk: supervisor kim? supervisor peskin? supervisor ronen? supervisor safai? supervisor sheehy? supervisor stefani?

supervisor tang? supervisor yee? supervisor breed? supervisor cohen? supervisor fewer? there are ten ayes and punione with supervisor tang in the dissent. the ayes are approved. >> president breed: madam clerk, let's go to public comment. [applause]. >> clerk: at this time, the public may now address the entire board of supervisors for up to items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the march 20, 2018 board meeting minutes and items 42 through 50 on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. public comment is not allowed when an item has been previously subject to public comment. pursuant to the board's rules, direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members and not to the audience. speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed

twice the amount of time, and if you would like to display a document on the overhead projector, please clearly state such to sfgtv and then indicate when you'd like the screen to resume to live coverage of the meeting. >> president breed: first speaker, please. [ speaking native language ]

. >> 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