diverse population of students. on behalf of the students and over 50 residents who live the there, i wish to let the record show that our community takes issue with the process for how our street name is being y anged, and we are opposed to me changing without a process being put in place. the reason for why the street name is being changed is dishonest. more importantly, the voting proces was arbitrary, unfair and biased towards the city college. arbitrary in that waiting was unevenly distributed among stakeholder groups. unfair in that our supervisor failed to explain the process and did next to nothing to inform riordan and inform residents about where the process was taking place. no explanation of the weighting was given. this process was biased towards city college because their representatives were the only

ones who knew the details of the process of march 2nd information fromel gather resints and ity college representatives. when i asked if they knew about the process or how to vote, not a single one of the nine of 17 residents present knew how to vote. this is a serious error in process. i asked the board of supervisors to have some oversight over these matters that violate the rights of the city citizens to a fair voting process. i have 11 of 17 letters signed by residents rejecting the changing of the name of phelan avenue. that is a majority of 40% of the overall voting weighting according to the process. with my vote against, on behalf of the high school which constitutes ten%, that makes 50% opposed to the renaming and i plead with you to route vies the voting process with oversight. [applause]

>> afternoon. my name is bonnie wight and i live at 326 phelan avenue. the only meeting that we were invited to was a meeting of the renaming committee. my husband and i went to that meeting to oppose the name change. we were told flatly it wasa done deal because phelan was a racist. i agree that racism and hate have no place here, but the objective at that meeting was to choose a name and frida kahlo way it was already number 1 on the list. our street was named after the first irish immigrant that came to san francisco and became a prosperous and wealthy businessman during the gold rush. phelan avenue dead ends into james flat avenue. he was a contemporary of the older phelan so it was no mistake that there streets are together. james phelan had a son named james who was born and raised in san francisco and graduated from law school and became a

businessman, and then he was elected mayor of san francisco i1897. this is the phelan that advocated excluding immigrants from some politically adversarial countries. ayor an worked to clean up the corruption that had worked to clean up city hall. he was a strong advocate of pub healh and he was the president of the red cross and he is responsible for securing the water rights for all time. history is full of good and bad invents but is the history that makes our city what it is to frida kahlo and her husband were members of the mexican communist party and she was a feminist and an inteationally recognized artist. she spent some time in san francisco and other american cities but she reportedly disliked american society and found americans boring. our history is full of good and bad and we do not tolerate racism and hatred. abolishing the name phelan from our street is erasing history

and perpetuating hate. phelan avenue is named after an irish immigrant, not a racist. we urge you to recommit tonam g ou [applause] >> thank you. i will call somewhere name so you can start lining up. come on up. >> good afternoon supervisors. we love the name of phelan. i think there is no reason to rename and. frida kahlo is a member of a

mexican communist party. [ indiscernible ]

[applause] >> good afternoon supervisors. i teach at city college of san francisco and i am faculty in the trauma prevention and recovery certificate and appreciate frida kahlo's role in bringing a complex examination of trauma in herart to the four. also as a bisexual woman, i am moved by the idea of having a city, a street named for such a visible, early out? or by women. her connection to san francisco was significant in starting in 1930 and in 1940 as the pan american unity mural was painted by her husband, who she remarried in san francisco, diego rivera.

and participated in the community here. i can say that san francisco feels a connection to her you just have to walk around to see frida kahlo on a t-shirt, on a bag, painted on a pair of sneakers. san francisco loves her. san francisco it has been an international city who has honoured the struggle against oppression in many parts of the world. we have streets named for a polish leader of solidarity, and for the filipino dish filipino revolutionary. the san francisco values which we are sometimes mocked for our our values. and very different than those of phelan. he supported the chinese exclusion act and other racist policies. i would be delighted to take the frida kahlo way to the diego rivera mural and to free city colleg toan the neighbor -- neighborhood of the phelan residents.

>> good afternoon. i am speaking in favour of the resolution. i teach, currently at city college. to change the name to frida kahlo way is to take local action with a groan international movement. linking with those working to increase representation of women in ic office and public pl an, linking to those standing up for peace and humanity against heightened zeno phobia and racism. [please standby for captioner switch]

itch] most of them, likely, were men of their time. presumably, most of them were imperfect in some ways. but this particular street is named after a particularly imperfect person. whether or not we are talking about the father or the son, we are talking about a family and we're talking about a mayor who got his father's name on a street. i'm not proud to work on that street. and i really want to recommend supervisor norman yee for having the wherewithal to say

we don't want this street name in our neighborhood. and i know that is potentially an unpopular decision, but he was very clear that we didn't want this kind of anti-asian racism memorialized and honored in the district. and i have a lot of respect for that. what we don't have in this city and in this nation are a whole lot of streets that are named after women, after women of color, after mexicans, after artists, after disabled folks, after sousti je warriors, after bisexual folks, after feminist icons. this is an opportunity to do this. frida kahlo, though she was not a long time san francisco resident, i believe she and diego rivera were married in this very building. and san francisco had a mark on

her diego rivera were married this very building. and san francisco had a mark on her art. thank you. [applause] i introduce students to frida kahlo every semester. a tudent who is the president of our associated student's council spoke at the press conference when supervisor norman yee announced that frida kahlo way had the most votes. as a middle eastern student, he said phelan would have been no friend to my people. he loved that frida kahlo spoke for the indigenous people and for all poor people and against

those that have exploited them. to me, it is also a romantic story. because the mural of diego rive the le of frida kahlo's life, as you've heard today, will be installed in the performing arts education center to be built on that street. i'm going to end with two qu fros local newspapers, opinion pieces. the first is from the crusader. a high school student newspaper. let june 11th be the day we take another important step on a path to a just society based on the principle of inclusion.

it celebrates creativity and compassion. thank you so much. [applause] my name isertwhite. i'm a resident of phelan avenue and i'm an instructor at city college. with that in mind, i see both points of view. with that in mind also, i want to stress that the greatest impact of the name change is going to be on the residents of phelan avenue. the individuals that have homes tave to deal with thame change. and we will not accept it, one. number two, what june has ked for and what the residents are

asking for is that the biographies of the phelan's and whoever the name change go to, they make public record accessible to everyone that is involved in making the decisions about the name change. so that the facts are evident. it's evident that phelan avenue was named notfter who is being deflamed here, it was named after his father. do not blame the parents for the sins of their children. thank you. [applause] good afternoon. frida kahlo, the artist, lived with a lot of pain, a lot of physical and emotional pain.

and through that pain, she was able to -- the pain of an artist, pain of a human being, through the pain she was able to convey the beauty of what it is to be human in all its imperfection. if you want to know the val of a place, look at who the streets and the monuments are named after. in theames wordsldwin, and i think it's befitting that frida kahlo is honored in this way. to quote the words of james baldwin, he said, "only an artist can tell and only artists have told, since we have heard of man, what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet to survive it. what it is like to die or to have somebody die. what it's like to fear death, what it's like to fear. what it's likeo lovend what

it's like to be glad. hymns don't do this, churches really can't dohis. the trouble is only the artists d oany t artists alone can do it." thank you. thank you. [applause] any other public comments at this moment? seeing none, supervisor kim, would you like to close public comments at this time, we will close public comment for itember four. let me make a coule remarks here. rst of all, did you want to make -- okay, when i called you didn't stand up. can we open it back up? we have to take a motion to reconvene or tno upub comment again. can we do that without objection? we can do that without objection. great, thank you. my name's paul fitzpatrick.

i live on phelan avenue for 30 years. i'm opposing the name changing. one of the things i was thinking about was the irish immigrant that phelan was. the chinese immigrants. wellhe chinese and the irish worked a lot together to build this country and the railroad. for them to be fighting over this and to want to change because of that, i don't feel that's appropriate. also, i'm a student at city college for the last ten years. and this lady's saying everybody agrees that they're agst to vote for frida, the name, which is not true. there is no vote there for the students to vote for this. i'm tay inreent for that. thank you for listening. thank you. [applause] i think there's no more public comments, supervisor kim. so public comment will now truly be closed for item number

four. thank you very much. once again, i want to thank the public for coming here. i truly want to acknowledge that for those living on phelan, it wille an inconvenience. although we're gonna try our best to mitigates much of that as possible. i want to say that this whole process, when we started 3-4 years ago. we started looking at the unity plaza on ocean and phelan. and there was a community attempt to go through a process and choose a name. they eventually chose unity plaza. an then they created the bus loop there, which mta kept on calling it phelan loop.

and at that point, the community at large sort of pointed out what the phe name represented. mta agreed and eventually lled it the ocean avenue loop. this process for me was several years old. and it came up again, it popped up again mainly because of what the usf students were able to point out. and i said you know something, if usf will be brave enough to take this on, then i should step up myself. you know, hist is histo and nobs i trying to sweep history under the rug. in fact, the gentleman that came up and talked about we should make this one big

learning moment, if i didn't bring this up, we wouldn't have this discussion, so it is a learning moment. i appreciate th people that actually participated in the renaming, even though it was set up for a short time. and again, i have no pathway, there was no official process. basically, the process is i submit a resolution to change the name. that's all i had to do. instead, i want today give some input from the community at the time. in fact, i really had no particular name i wanted to name it. when the committee met, we game up with five names and i thought they were pretty good suggestions. thelma johnson street was one. the native americans that were living around that area at the

time before people took -- the western world sort of took it over. i suggested a personal favorite of mine. somebody suggested freedom way. and then frida kahlo was the fifth name that was put out there. they said we've been thinking

about this for a while and this is what we've come up with. let's just do it that way. if you -- i just want to put it out there and make sure everyone knows we're doing this. and whether the issue of somebody saying it's a business issue, i have no idea. at least that was not my intent. my intent is very clear. i've been clear all along. and i'm sorry that my outrea to the school, i it with the principal will -- there early on. we invited the school to be part of the renaming council and there was no response, so i didn't know what to make of it. as i was talking to the president on the phone one day,

i tried to explain that. it's one thing for meo just invite. i can't force anybody to come to the table. i kept on asking, why are they passing this out. and it's part of their history.

it's part of the history of the association next door to phelan. eventually, at a meeting, i was able to bring it up a and talk about it. say, why did we have this. people tried to say don't worry, that was back then. you don't have to worry about it now. i said, why are you passing this out? i was very persistent because my kids were at the age where they're gonna ask questions. i don't want to sit here and say i did nothing to prevent this. eventually, some of the people that were -- didn't want to be inconvenienced, they were saying it's gonna cost us money. fin finally, a young lawyer stands

up and says i'll do it for free. and then they kept on objecting. only after that, people claiming inconvenience and so forth, that i was able to get them to change the language to reflect the values of the day 30 years ago. again, i acknowledge that there's gonna be inconvenience. i try to do my best to lay out a process for us to have some input, having really no template to go on.

i will work with the community and try to help you as much as possib possible. that's my commitment. hopefully you will understand what my intentions are. and that it's not a at business issue. i have no idea what's that about. it's not about trying to say chinese fighting. nobody said chinese fighting the irish. i'm sorry, that's a little bizarre to me. i'll just leave it at there. thank you. thank you, supervisor yee. i'd like to add my name as a co-sponsor to this item. and you know, i think the

dialogue that we heard today really resembles the national dialogue around the removal of the confederate statues. aboutingov the statue in ba front of the main library. there's a whole dialogue about remembering our history. but i think the mayor of new orleans really hit it on the nail when he said that we must distinguish remembrance and reverence of history. and when we name streets and put monuments of names, it is not just remembering the history.

it is part of what is the making of this nati we still live with the consequences of those decisions, the pain that followed. and to remember that during this time, the chinese excln ac was more than just the chinese exclusion act. and the statement of keeping california white and san francisco white was a lot more than just a statement. there were deaths, there was terror,

it's very clear that this name would be name d -- both are part of a history that was particularly involved in instonati racism. they were particularly involved in acting and codifying and behaving in an extremely exclusive and racist way toward a segment of our population that has bn an important part of our hi so this is not the scrubbing of history, this is actually righting history that should never have taken place in the first place. i mean, i personally believe if

not for that political connection, the street might never have been named for the father. he might have been a philanthropist and might have been involved in other things. but at the end of the day, that is what we do. cities evolve, they're constantly owing, constantly reflecting and constantly making positive change. i see this as a positive change. i appreciate your leadership on this and would love to be added as a sponsor as well. thank you. and so we have a motion on the floor. motion on the floor, do we have a second that? i second that wholeheartedly. we have a second and a wholehrted mne do that without objection. i want to thank the members of the public for coming out to speak on this item. madam clerk, any other items before this board? there's no further business. meeting is adjourned. thank you very much. we closed public comment, there's no public comment once we close it.

>> hi, i'm lawrence corn field. welcome to building san francisco. we have a special series, stay safe. we're looking at earthquake issues. and today we're going to be talking with a residential building owner about what residential building oand tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. ♪ ♪

>> we're here t this wonderful spur exhibit on mission street in san francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. thanks for joining me, george. and george has for a long time owned residential property here in san francisco. and we nt to talk about apartment buildings and what the owner's responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. and let's start by talking a little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and then maybe after an earthquake. >> , the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because that's going to be key to protecting them in the event of a quake. >> and renters insurance, there are two kinds of insurance. renters insurance coffers damage to goods and content and so forth. earthquake insurance is a separate policy you get after

you get renters insurance through the california earthquake authority, very inexpensive. and it helps owners and it helps tenants because it gives relocation costs and it pays their rent. this is a huge impact on building owners. >> it's huge, it really is. you know, a lot of owners don't realize that, you know, when there is an eartheir money is going totop. how are they going to pay their mortgages, how are they going to pay their other bills, how are they going to live? >> what else can property owners do in residential rental housing before an earthquake? >> well, the first thing you want to do is get your property assessed. find out what the geology is at your site. get an expert in to look at structural and nonstructural losses. the structural losses, a lot of times, aren't going to be that bad if you prepare. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. get in there and get your property assessed and figure it out. >> so, what is a nonstructural issue might cause losses?

>> well, you know, pipes, for instance. pipes will whip around during an earthquake. and if they're anchored in more numerous locations, that whipping won't cause a breakage that will cause a flood. >> i've heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. >> it is. that's one of the big things. a lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. but all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. >> who do you call when you want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done? >> the structural engineering community is great. we have the structural engineers association of northern california right here in san francisco. they're a wealth of information and resources. >> what kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do?

>> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of t building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank u so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us is wderful exhibit. d thanyou for joining us

>> supervisor breed: good afternoon. pervisors meetingor tuesday, june 12, 2018. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call]