place, by the time it does, we will be in trouble. we'll face what we faced in 2008, and analysts are saying this is going to happen in years, not decades. so... [inaudible] >> good afternoon. my name's curtis. i'm with the public bank sef coalition. we're a new coalition. i just want to say we're really excited about this? i just want to first commend molly and the treasurer's staff. i think they've done really an amazing job for what they were given? i just think personally, it may actually be good not to focus on specific issues yet and just basic -- focus on the basics of how to create a public bank 'cause the issues could very well change over time. i mean, i totally agree affordable housing is the issue now, but if we put all hands on that, what if it changes in a few years? i think we need to focus now on just how to get a bank going,

and then it can change over time, renewable energy, affordable housing, infrastructure, etcetera. and i think that the main reason we're doing this is because of divestment because public bank is inevitable and we're doing this because sf has always led the way with banning plastic bag, day marriage, and public bank tz. so i think sf can really lay the way in how to do this? i think when you look at what these current wall street banks invest in, bampg of america poured 14 billion into fossil fuels, and the taxpayer. so when you factor in the externalalities, it's too expensive not to do a bank? so yeah, i'm just really excited. i think we need an all hands on deck approach, just like the golden state warriors approach,

pass to whoever's open, but let's get this done. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, curtis. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is trevor martin and a member of the berniecrats and public bank coalition. i would also want to commend everyone on their work on a public bank. thank you everyone at the treesher treasurer's office. i'd like to say i'm glad they've moved past the feasibility question. everyone says it's feasible, but a question of good policy, i don't think there's a question of whether it's good policy. mr. brooks gave you numbers. i'll tell you what's not good policy, investing in funding industries that are killing and brutalizing our communities.

you know, fossil fuel industry and the gun manufacturing industries, and the prison industries. it is good policy to -- to use our money to benefit ourselves and our communities, and i would also just like to say that the solution -- you know, i just want to ensure that the solution is a public bank, a municipal bank. and i'm -- and i'm -- whether -- you know, i understand that's going to take steps to get there, and i don't want everything at once. i understand that, but i want the end outcome to be a public bank. as commissioner pollock said, i've been with the sfd fund apo as billion, after four years, we got to that meeting at sf'ers, and i felt like something was going to happen, and we just came out of there with another plan to make a

plan, and it just infeweriated me. like you said, this should have happened a decade ago. we need to make this happen. we need a public bank. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chairman. next speaker, please. >> thank you, chair fewer and commissioners. chad holtsman, senior policy analyst for 350 bay area but speaking for myself as a language time san franciscans. i want to thank the treasurer and the great staff for the great attitude which i don't always see from city departments. i do think that, i guess the comments by curtis and trevor are worth -- this is kind of focusing on the positive aspects of the bank, potential positive aspects, and i think what we're highlighting is the averted negative aspects of not doing this, which is -- which is also i want to bring into the room, have led the campaign to divest your pension fund from fossil fuels and there is

some movement on that, but getting the city itself to stop spending its money where its mouth isn't would be a great start. really love this rank choice distribution of norms or goals, rather? i just want to highlight as so many used to do qualitative and quantitative data mining, that the three in the middle are for all intents and purposes, the same. you can't really say that 33 and 31 are different, like, in any significant factor? so i happen to be an infrastructure fan, so i'm kind of propg up infrastructure. 2, 3, and 4 are kind of the same, so moving forward, i would hope you would consider them such. going forward, i think more constituencies are better? so i think one thing focusing

on what to start the bank around is that thing bank? and nationwide, i think it's going to get framed as such, and then, the folks who don't want the land to be taken by affordable housing will oppose the bank, whereas the bampg is around two or three things, all of those constituencies can support that. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: so i don't think we have to make an action item on this item. so i am wondering, madam clerk, could you please call items six and seven together? >> clerk: [agenda item read] [agenda item read] >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, my apologies, but i must make a motion to continue these two items due to the time constraints. again, my apologies for being here late, too.

i just have another meeting right after there, so i would like to make a motion to continue these two items until the next meeting of lafco. >> clerk: madam chair, we still need to take public comment, though. >> supervisor fewer: yes, and now i'd like to take public comment on items six and seven. seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, so can we take that motion without objection to continue the item? thank you very much. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, can you please call item eight? [agenda item read] >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any public comment today? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, is there any further items? >> clerk: we still have item number nine, future agenda

items. >> supervisor fewer: okay. we need to open that up. is there any further agenda items? >> eric brooks. since you're in a hurry, i'll make this quick. it is vital that on your next agenda, and i've spoken to brian about this, this you take up legislation that is in sacramento so that we can make some decisions about it, particularly sb -- or ab 813, which unfortunately i recently discovered for some unknown crazy reason cal cca is supporting and that does not make sense. and so we need to have a discussion of this, and i can't highlight enough that loretta lynch who's a former kpafl public utilities commission president, i gave brian her -- california public utilities commission president, i gave brian her e-mail to get herrin put on why ab 813 is so

drastically bad and we need to oppose it. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, is there any other business today? >> clerk: that concludes the business for today. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. the meeting is now adjourned. >> hi. i'm shana longhorn with the san francisco league of women voters. i'm here to discuss proposition c. the city collects a gross receipts tax from many businesses which receive

revenue from the lease of commercial property, such as office buildings, warehouses and retail spaces. the current tax rate ranges from.825% to 3%. businesses with $1 million or less in san francisco are generally exempt from the gross receipt tax. several other businesses are also exempt including some banks, and nonprofits. proposition c would impose an additional gross receipts tax of 1% on the revenues of business received from the lease of warehouse space in the city, and 3.5% on the revenue the business receives on additional leases in the city. it would not apply to revenues received from leases to

businesses engaged in industrial uses, some retail sales of goods and services directly to consumers or arts activities. this additional tax would also not apply to revenues received from certain nonprofit organizations or from government entities. the city would use 15% of funds collected from this general tax for any general purpose. the city would use the remaining 85% of this additional tax for quality early care and education for children from newborns through age five whose parents are very low-income to low-income. quality early care and education for children from newborns to age three whose parents are low to middle-income and do not currently qualify for assistance. programs that support emotional, cognitive for children newborn through five and increased compensation for people who provide care for children from newborn through

early age five. if you vote yes, it means you want to kboes a new gross receipts tax of 1% on revenues a business receives from the lease of warehouse space in the city and 3.5% on revenues the business receives from the lease of commercial spaces in the city to fund quality education for children and other purposes. a no vote means you do not approve this tax. we're joined by lisa rhenner from the san francisco republican party and an opponent of the measure. i'd like to start with miss remmer. why do you believe this proposition is so important. >> just like housing costs, our commercial rents in san francisco will railroad high. and this 3.5% tax will be passed onto the tenant, the

businesses, who will then pass it onto their staff and onto the consumers, us, making the cost of living in san francisco -- the high cost and shortage of child care could be contributed to the administrative costs of opening a child care business. city hall can help working parents by easing regulations and fees, allowing more child care centers to open. what is a crisis is the city budget of $10.2 billion, and the $88 million deficit for this coming year, rising to 800 million in three years. we just paid 77 million for a child care three years ago. in terms of value of child care, well, the u.s. department of health and human services reported the head start benefits have all disappeared by third grade. >> miss buck land, why do you

believe this proposition is so important. >> parents need child care so they can support their families, and children need early care so they can vehemently start their life. child care and early education is expensive, costing $20,000 or more peryear on an after-tax basis. it's often a family's biggest expense after housing. over 50% of san francisco families live in eligible for state child care subsidies. unfortunately there's not enough slots for all families to qualify. every month, there are 2500 children on the waiting list for subsidies in san francisco, two thirds of them infants and toddlers. a third cause is low wages in the child care sector. due to the work of the city's

office of early childhood education, we know what can cost san francisco families. we need to spend 300 to 400 million peryear. >> how will the voters be affected by this 3.5% commercial tax as proposed in proposition c? >> well, i think this tax is actually good for our city. my understanding is that our current commercial rents tax is lower than in other cities, and i believe that helping families pay for child care is a critical need in our city. we hear a lot about the struggles that families are having, particularly struggles paying for housing, but frankly, as i said before, housing -- child care is a bigger expense than housing, and i personally being helping families pay for child care is a housing strategy as well as an economic strategy for our city. when families get help paying for child care, they can work, support their families and are

contributing to the city's economy. and when they get help paying for child care, they also can afford more for housing. >> same question to you, miss rhenner. how will the voters be askd by this proposition specifically by the 3.5% commercial tax. >> the 3.5% commercial tax can immediately get passed onto the tenants or the businesses. your doctor, your dentist, your grocery store, and they could end up cutting employee pay, cutting staff, closing shop, so do we really need more closed storefronts, and mostly it will be passed directly onto consumers, raising the cost of living in san francisco. what we really should be doing is lower the regulations required to open a child care business from head start, with 2400 regulations to be complied with to all of our local zoning and licensing fees.

this 3.5% tax -- and none of it helps homeowner's, just makes the city more expensive. home enners are already paying for the last tax in 2514, 014, just think it's going to make people move away and make the city cost more. >> a second question, which we'll start with you, miss rhenner, what are the advantages or disadvantages to a universal child care program in your view. >> in my view, the benefits of early child care have disappeared by third grade, and the claims of high quality child care are highly exaggerated. there's ten studies that have been cited. only half of them have been used randomized control. only three found positive, long-term results, and these took place 48, 58 years ago,

with treatment groups very small, mostly children. they focused on infants, toddlers, not pre-k and had huge in home family visits which seemed to work out well. the teacher to student ratio was 33 to 66% higher than what students will be getting in the proposed programs, teachers all had bachelors agree and experience in these programs, and moms all had i.q.'s under 85. the treatment wasn't random. the moms stayed at home and dad worked outside of the home. the treatment groups and the control group still only earned under $12,000 a year. they both had approximately 50% arrest rates, yes, 6%, less than a semester more in school, no i.q. differences beyond the differences actually shown among the children. the best results were with the

moms with an i.q. under 70, and the younger moms with less school. the mothers actually in the treatment groups showed the biggest gains in lifetime earnings, even looking at ages 26 to 60, compared looking at the children 21 to 65, the mothers' lifetime earnings were estimated to be twice what the child's were, so yes, teen moms need child care while they finish schools, but we already fund these programs. >> same programs to you, miss lessman. what are the advantages and disadvantages to universal child care programs in your view. >> so i'm not quite sure what, lisa, you've been reading, but the research -- there is a growing body of research that shows the short and long-term benefits of quality child care for families. it's been nobel economyist

james beckman about investing and the out comes in early childhood education, about the need to provide special education and quality education in long-term earnings rates for families, the involvement in your criminal justice system. there's no shortage of studies that show the really important outcomes that come from early quality childhood education. for us, we have a situation in the city where i believe that this is really the key to ensuring that san francisco is a city in which diverse families can thrive. we have -- as i cited before, we have a 50% of san francisco families are living below the self-sufficiency index. it's affecting kids of color. you know, lack of access

affects children of color, and it's really important that we want to -- we want to provide equitiable outcomes for children in san francisco and ensure that all kids are ready to learn when they come into the school district, and we want to make sure that all families can thrive in san francisco. >> thank you, miss beckman. we're now going to start with the closing arguments, and we'll start with you, miss rhenner. >> the 3.5% tax will be passed onto us, the customers through the businesses, and i think that that will make san francisco that much less affordable. again, the child care, the value of child care, the effects dissipated by third grade, except in these totally different, different studies with different groups of people, and they've been highly contested. i've read all of these studies.

testing moms with less than i.q. of 85, that's totally different. again, i do think the teen moms need totally free child care while they finish school, but we already have this. let's not raise the cost of living in san francisco with a tax that just gets passed onto the consumers. >> thank you. miss beckman? >> thank you. i believe prop c is a critical investment in the city's future. it'll raise more than $100 million a year to support early care and education. most of that will provide access to low-income families that are struggling to make ends meet. parents that can't afford to go to work are relying on family, friends, and neighbors, catch as catch can in order to be able to do that, to be able to work. we -- it will also help us increase the wages for our early educators, ensuring we can actually have classrooms

open to serve san francisco's children. prop c will help people pay for care so they can work and support their families and support our economy and long-term benefits for kids. prop c is endorsed by a majority of our san francisco supervisors, the harvey milk democratic club, san francisco labor council, and many others. i hope you'll join me in voting for prop c to ensure that our city is -- remains one in which diverse families can live and thrive. thank you. >> thank you both for your time. we hope that this discussion has been informative. for more information on this or other ballot measures in the june election, please visit the department of elections website at sfelections.org. remember, early voting is available at city hall on may 7, starting at 8:00 a.m., and

if you don't vote early, be sure to vote, starting on may 5th. thank you. . >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000

to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting

trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables

from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the

chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we

repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with

everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that

[♪] >> hi i am a board of supervisors president london greed. i am running for a marriage because we are at a historic moment, an opportunity to change things. i want a chocolate -- truck with the challenges we are facing. housing tech homelessness and public safety. i want to create a city where everyone can succeed to, no matter who you are aware you come from. i was raised by my grandmother in public housing in the west end edition. my family didn't have much but i had a grandmother who loved me and a community that looked out for me. after graduating from facebook, i earned my undergraduate degree from uc davis and went on to earn my masters in public a ministration from u.s. asked.

i returned to the community and to the city that raised me. where i served as executive director of the african-american art and culture complex. i spent a decade focused on saving and changing the lives of young people. having lived here all my life cocked san francisco is more than just a city. it is a place of hope, innovation, and rich diversity. a city where a girl from public housing can one day become mayor. but the city we live in now is not the same san francisco i grew up in. we are in one of the greatest urban economic booms and a sentry. yet right at our doorsteps, thousands battle homelessness and mental illness. our families, teachers, and neighbors are moving out of the city due to the rising housing costs. san francisco it needs and deserves a mayor who will fight and work tirelessly to tackle the biggest crisis our residents are facing. a supervisor, when i heard we had empty public housing units and families waiting for months and our shelters, i worked to

find resources to renovate those units and moved 179 homeless families into permanent and safe housing. as mayor, i will take street behaviour seriously and invest in changes to our mental health system. i am working to reform our conservatorship laws which will allow a court to appoint a guardian for someone who cannot care for themselves. we need these changes to help those we see dying on our streets every day. our most vulnerable who struggle with chronic homelessness, addiction and severe mental illness. we also need to invest in more housing for those exiting homelessness, by building more affordable housing and investing in modular housing which can be built faster and cheaper with a local labour. i also believe in tough love. that if we have an alternative, a shelter bad, or a place in the navigation centre, we cannot continue to allow individuals to sleep intense on our streets. as mayor i will invest in

creating more alternatives but i will also, in long-term tent encampments in my first year in office. because living in our streets is not safe, humane or compassionate. we all know what san francisco is experiencing a housing crisis. since 2010, we have built one unit of housing for every eight jobs, resulting in a skyrocketing housing cost. housing and security is personal and real for me. i've been a renter all my life. when i was in college my grandmother was told our home was being torn down and it was up to us to find a new place to live. as mayor, my plan to reduce our housing shortage includes building at least 5,000 units every year. increasing funding for affordable housing, building affordable housing on underutilized sites around the city, like we will do at the mcdonald's sight. and reforming our city, -- archaic approval process for 100 %, compliant projects. the public safety challenges facing our city are personal for me.

i know what it's like to have your car broken -- cart window broken not once but repeatedly even when you have nothing to steal. i boat legislation to curb heartbreak ends and tourist hotspots and commercial corridors through collaboration with a rental car companies stopping property crime and making sure people feel safe and protected in their own neighbourhood as a top priority of mine. as supervisor, i helped but 400 new police officers on the street including bilingual officers and as mayor i will add 200 more officers to our streets by the end of 2019. our city needs a mayor who will represent all san franciscans. we have a responsibility to everyone. people are depending on asked to work together to attack these challenges, not attack each other. and i am running for mayor because i believe that together, there is no problem we can't solve. with bold and creative leadership. i respectfully ask for your vote

on june 5th. please check out my website. [♪] [♪] >> hello. my name is richie greenberg and i'm running to be your next mayor of san francisco. i was born in queens, new york and i've been a resident of san francisco for 17 years. i'm a married, my wife and i live in the richmond district and i'm a father of an amazing 26 year old daughter starting in university overseas. back in 1989, i earned my california state income tax service license and for nearly 30 years, i've worked in the private sector is a small business advisor and tax consultants. recently, i've become very involved with local politics and last year i was voted into the san francisco gop's official replicant -- republican party committee. a growing number of san franciscans are energized and excited that our city, at long last has a republican in this

june 5th mayor raced making this election a truly two party race. i'm endorsed by the san francisco republican party, in the lgbt republican club and by the small property owners of san francisco. i've earned my reputation and resulting endorsements based on me being the only levelheaded, grounded and respectful leader and candidate for office. with every election cycle, san francisco's voters see the same recycled candidates, the same rhetoric and promises with no real solutions. this is making our city's problems progressively worse year after year. we need better, and i will be better, much better. moreover, the current city hall leadership and nearly all mayoral candidates have shifted so far left that voters are dismayed and in disbelief. the majority of san francisco's voices are now unheard and unrepresented. but i am a great listener and a

great planner for action. it's what i've done in my career for nearly 30 years. city hall cannot operate without checks and balances. it hasn't worked for years and it will not work in the future. i will be the checks and balances. i will stop san francisco from being taken to the brink of catastrophe. so why am i running? while i believe in or -- core values that will guide me as your next mayor. accountability, law and order and uplifting our quality of life. everything from homelessness to car break-ins, to supporting our police officers, to building housing, to fixate community infrastructure and cleaning the streets, to maintaining quality leadership to department city heads. to helping neighbourhood small businesses and so much more. all these issues can and will be addressed by my three core values of accountability, law and order and uplifting our city's quality of life. the under -- other candidates for mayor think a solution to our financial woes is to

continue to tax hard-working residents and add more and more burdens on small business owners and property owners and in a robin hood style. other candidates fundamentally change or want to change, or might i say, destroy our city's west side, a pet just a pending single family homes and changing the neighbourhood character and turn -- turn san francisco into manhattan or hong kong. clearly, i'm against this. don't mess with the west side. overall, our city needs those families and we need our children and we need great education and great teachers to actually prepare students for the best shot at opportunities for the future, whether they are heading to college or to vocational training. we need parking. we need to build housing beyond micro- apartments. we need one, two and three bedroom apartments a house couples and families with children, seniors, the elderly and disabled. on homelessness i view individuals who are sleeping on

the streets and the mentally ill wandering and tattered clothing as a humanitarian disaster. i will probably declare a state of emergency within days of being sworn in as your next mayor. and closing, san francisco needs a leader, not an activist. we need an ambassador, not an embarrassment. i am such a leader and i am such an ambassador. i wish to thank the league of women voters for organizing these candidates and informative videos for you to see and to learn from. please have a look at my campaign website. vote june 5th for a level headed and clear thinking candidate, richie greenberg. god bless san francisco and god bless the united states of america. [♪]

>> hi, i am jane came in over the last rock from on-site talked to san franciscans and every corner of rma didn't there's an amazing city. i've been invited into your living rooms, visited senior centres and visited families and children before and after school. in every way -- everywhere i go i hear the same concern that we are losing our friends, neighbours, and our middle-class. residents are worried that they maybe next to be forced out of the city to has long been known as a sanctuary for all of us. san francisco can and must do better. and people are understandably worried but have also been inspired by our neighbours who are committed to fighting together. for the san francisco we all love. i'm running for mayor of this amazing city to lead that fight for san francisco. and i will make cleaning our streets a top priority. i will double the numbers of street cleaners and public toilets, expanding progress to

higher homeless individuals to help us clean our streets. i will work to strengthen k-12 public education, expand through city college and opportunities by making childcare available at affordable for every family. i will work to accelerate construction of new affordable and middle income housing and i will work to speed up the infrastructure improvements that slow development down and i will make sure that the developers pay their fair share for transit, parks, schools, affordable housing and other services to ensure we build complete neighbourhoods. and i'll expands the mental health and addiction treatment programs for almost residents so we are not just housing them, we are healing them and helping them stay permanently off our streets. and i will upgrade our transportation right now by finding more buses, longer chains, fairies, and protected of bike lanes. while doubling the number of traffic enforcement officers to keep things moving.

as a supervisor, and former member of the san francisco board of education, i've been proud to stand and fight for our city. and i fought and have 13 -- free city college for all of our residents. a 50-dollar minimum wage, record levels of affordable housing and new developments. strong protection for tenants and expanded medical services for homeless residents. and i'm ready to continue fighting again. to fight together for our city so that we can put san francisco on the right path. supporting our working-class communities and regrowing our middle-class. with the right investment, and housing, education, and public transportation. i believe in san francisco. and i know we can be the home to the resistance, investing in our residents again, and standing up to donald trump through our policies and our values. because if san francisco doesn't lead the way, who will?

i hope to earn your vote this june 5th. join me or learn more on my website. thank you. z -- [♪] [♪] >> hello i am mark leno. i have had the great honour to serve san francisco for four years as county supervisor, six years as an assembly member, and eight years as your state senator put together we have accomplished some incredible things for women and families across the city, and throughout the state. i was proud to offer legislation making california the first estatstate in the nation to rair minimum wage to $15 an hour, giving five-point 6 million workers arrays and lifting over 2 million californians out of poverty, including the disproportionately high number

of women who make up the minimum wage earners. when city college was in the depths of it's accreditation crisis, i was able to secure $120 million in stabilization fund going to save city college so that we could live to provide free city today. as mayor, i would like to take that a step further and to duplicate what long beach has done with the long beach promise. for students who complete their aa at city college, san francisco should provide free state so that city college graduates can finish their ba at no cost. as mayor, this would be a top priority. we can call it the san francisco promise. we also know that here in california, we rank 50 out of 50 states in participation of food stamp programs. that's why i offer legislation removing hurdles like requiring fingerprints for eligibility to

assist many more to finally benefit from this critical initiative. i was also privileged to work with a coalition of domestic violence advocates to offer legislation protecting survivors so they can break the residential leashes to make a safe exit from their homes. it is my honour to have authored the bill which will move from all state statutes the term "battered women syndrome." and replace it with "intimate partner battering." the former inferred it was a characteristic of the woman that brought a part of her -- upon her the violence of her partner. this time should never it further victimize the victim. i was also particularly proud to offer the california single-payer unit of dirt -- universal health care bill. not once cast but twice. moving the ball down the field so we can soon provide meaningful health car healthcary

californian. san francisco could also benefit from a universal mental health care thealthcare to address the growing crisis facing so many on our streets today. i'm running for mayor because i'm convinced that it's time for a new direction at city hall. on june 5th, voters will have a clear choice between fundamental change and the status quo. a status quo which is not working for any of us. our crises of homelessness, housing affordability, crime and the conditions of our streets are all out of control. and the only candidate in this race who has released a plan, a detailed plan, to end homelessness by 2020, it is time for city hall to make this a top priority that it is an reject cynicism and finally demand results. as the author of san francisco's affordable housing mandate known as the inclusionary zoning

ordinance, we have built many, many thousands of below market rate units in recent years. but we need to do much more. i will ensure that any new market rate development that receives any public benefit will be required to provide a higher percentage of affordable units. we need to serve our needs at this time of crisis. i'm honoured to have the support of the u.s. senator paris and our stat state comptroller, bete and our sin to be state treasurer and six of the 11 members of the board of supervisors. six of the seven members of the city college board of trustees. the united educators of san francisco. the lgbt democratic club and other clubs. the sierra club and the number 1 endorsement of the san francisco party, the democratic party. it would be my honour to have

your vote on june 5th. [♪] [♪] >> hello everyone. i am amy farah weiss. one san francisco city hospital rolled out shortsighted hospital -- policies that displace hundreds of residents pick in 2011 i joined my neighbour to push back against the chase bank the displaced local businesses on the car door. i realized eight years ago, in an additio, andin addition to ao against displacement, we also needed a strategic yes for inclusive and culturally enriching and sustainable development. i platform is ahead of its time politically. the policies i'm proposing can all be developed and implemented over the next year. no matter who you vote for, as your first, second or third

choice for mayor, please promote my actual initiatives to stabilize and heal our systems,, neighbourhoods and neighbours and crisis. let's talk about homelessness. it's clear that san francisco's next mayor must achieve a significant reduction in the thousands of people living in crisis conditions on our sidewalks. san francisco currently spends $30 million a year on a move along strategy for d.p.w. and sfpdm to shuffle homeless residents from block to block with terrible outcomes. is founder and director of saint francis challenge i have worked with encampment residents, impacted neighbours, business owners, nonprofit and city workers and officials over the last two and a half years to pilot and developed a model that can transition thousands of san francisco's unsheltered residents into safe and organized spaces. news sos transitional villages are administered by nonprofit organizations with a license agreement agreement, health and safety protocols and community benefits on underutilized public

or private land in impacted neighbourhoods. safe organized spaces provide triage, stabilization on the necessary amount of on-site services to support pathways to healing, housing and community integration. when it comes to stabilizing our affordable housing crisis, our next mayor should, number 1, fund rent subsidies and legal right to council for tenant spacing is facing eviction. number 2, create an online registry of rent bird into an un- displaced workers and residents were seeking affordable housing no more than 30 % of the net income. number 3, develop a parcel tax that incentivizes property owners to rent out empty units at a new program that supports property owners with tenant screening management financing for rehab, if they agree to provide affordable housing. number 4, support the financing and development of additional dwelling units for property owners who agree to provide affordable housing. number 5. focus on further streamlining 50

% affordable housing projects by creating new financing mechanisms and a framework for public private partnership with pension funds and developers to finance the low to moderate income housing units. number 6, invest in workforce development programming in the construction field. and number 7 supports the expansion of stable rent by refilling cost. what can our next mayor accomplished in a year to support livable and safe neighbourhoods? instead of investing $34 million to hire 208 police officers clock i is mayor will invest 34 million into unarmed programming that strategically targets the 100 blocks and neighbourhoods with the highest incidence of crime and public safety issues. our next mayor must support environmental justice. and work with elected officials in congress to ensure they maybe adequately remediate that toxic soil at treasure island. our next mayor must initiate a task force to locally regulate buber and left to the extent

possible and create reparations for taxi drivers and develop a locally regulated transit platform that is pro driver and pro passenger and pro environment. our next mayor must make direct links to connect our students and residents to workforce opportunities with the plan to prevent tech boom at displacement three-point oh. san francisco residents, including me, want a mayor will put our 10 billion-dollar budget to good use. i have laid out a set up the liberal -- deliverables and performance metrics to track my performance over the next year. i invite you to build on that framework and use it to track the performance of whoever becomes mayor. visit my website and click on the tracker tool which is also available in spanish and chinese. thank you for listening and please include me on your vote for equities late on june 5th. [♪]

[♪] hello san francisco. my name is ellen lee zhou and i am running for a better san francisco. i am one of the eight mayoral candidates for the special election. i am 49 years old and i have two children in college. i have been married for the last 23 years. my heart is in france and cisco door san francisco for the last 32 years. i am here running for you because i'm sick and tired seeing these problems ongoing and not solved and i am tired. i was nominated by the san francisco collection neighbourhood to run for a bento sample -- better san francisco because i'm tired of seeing corruptions that you see at city hall. i have a couple of platforms that when i am working with you, number 1, i want to set up an anticorruption unit for a government corruptions. we have a lot of corrupted behaviour at city hall and and

department areas that is not accountable and our money is not working at the best level for the best interest for you and the residents, in number 2 i want to tackle and eliminate homeless in san francisco. i learned as a social worker for public health, i have been working for the city and a city government for the last 13 years. i interview many people who are homeless. i find and learn nobody wants to be homeless and everybody wants to live a life with dignity and love and hope and respect. many people are good people and they have survived and have good jobs. they have become talented people before they become homeless but we keep giving them welfare and to give them a place to sleep. as a mayor, i will set regulations, know homeless will be allowed in san francisco streets. that is one thing. we will identify who needs what helped, for example if they are mentally ill we will treat them with mental health issues,

physical health issues and drug addiction. for your information, 60 % of the homeless people, are drug-related. many of the people are on drugs and drug abuse, alcohol abuse or cannabis abuse. how do i know? i worked for the government and i prepare the research and i work and help the people. i interview people. i spoke to many homeless people at a went to work with the safe space community who help them and shelter them and work with them. right now the government spends $6,000 and homeless a month and it is still not working. and now is the time to stop. we want our public people to be at work and be responsible for everybody. number 3 cannot i do not want any criminals coming to our san francisco city. no thank you. get away from our city. i will not shelter any fbi felons and criminals that come to san francisco. we had approximately 2.3 criminals that are undocumented in the united states.

this city used to shelter peop people. the people i want to help our families and children. but the criminals have records and have all these most wanted from the fbi, we won't be giving them shelter when they come in here. i will be protecting all of you by enforcing the laws that we have. right now our laws in their are not not being enforced. as mayor, i am looking for people who are retired in san francisco, who are judges, lawyers, police, public health workers and doctors and nurses to work for me when i am in the office. work for me so we can build voices from every neighbourhood to function effectively and fight off government corruption. we have in wasting so much money and there is a lack of transparency for many of the governmental activities. now is the time, dies. i am a government employee and i

represent so many public employees because i am a un representative and wait here i am. let's do it together. this weight we will get the people who are doing the bad behaviours at city hall, it is time for them to go home. the people are not following the rules on the laws, they should not be working for the government. i and the mayor for you because i am a mayor. i'm nonpartisan and less republican and not democratic. i'm here for you for the people posta's voice and i want to help you to have a quality of life and say no to criminals say no to recreational cannabis and say no to unfair housing. everybody is important. every life matters. every mind matters. i am a city mayor for all the people who are obeying the law and you are willing to work together as one team. once if you, one team and we are one god under one nation. check me out on my website.

and you will see more about my platforms. i want to thank you so much for giving me the time and thank you so much san francisco. [♪ >> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i

want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. >> good afternoon. k