offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.

>> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >>we want to try to get them to bereeave with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things.

>> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the dept ld or the rule of this or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing em and giving them some tips and ideas.

>> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses onadult a saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes.

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♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric distri san francisco, the18tstrt corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market.

he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers , at make the food, our st those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> vally creamery speed in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream

kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was arted almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teachehopaiwhe safrancisco unified public

school teachersame and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they cabe included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in muipf tose things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to uild mmuni and we're to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which mor community focused is such a treat. we have these eventeveng and we br p people in group meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on

communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. e'sa wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have alway food. for me, i love that it bri me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someo or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderexce. empower their want to be around

people and all the values and asons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offeringsand her really wide range of places to ow tsht good food is not nly for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have a osocal mission arounbringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different

purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome.

oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪ >> supervisor breed: good afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, june 12, 18. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call]

[roll call] >> clerk: madam president, you have quorum. >> ladi gendlemen, pleas join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> supervisor breed: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: none to report. >> supervisor breed: we're approving meeting minutes from may 8, 2018. is there a motion? moved by supervisor peskin. seconded by . take that without objection? without objection, meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. all right, madam clerk, please call items 1-6 together.

>> clerk: 1-6 revenue bond and appropriation ordinances. item 1, ordinance for issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable bonds b season fran public utilities or p.u.c. in an aggregate principal not to exceed $155 million to finance the costs of various capital projects benefiting the power enterprise, requires nine votes to approve. item 2, issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable water revenue bonds by p.u.c. for a principal amount not to exceed $478 million to finance the costs of water projects benefiting the water enterprise. item 3, ordinance to appropriation $1.2 billion of proceeds fmroev bonds state loan funds or state grant funds wastewater revenue and capacity for p.u.c. wastewater capital improvement program for

fiscal years 2018 and 9 at approximately $707 million. an plang approximately $987 on. million on controller's reserve. item 4, issuance and sale of tax exempt wastewater bonds for a principal amount not to exceed $987 million to finance the costs of wastewater projects. this ruires 8 votes to approve. and items 5 and 6 are appropriation ordinances with 5 appropriating a total of $340 million of cap and trade revenue bonds hetch hetchy, 2018-2019, $141 million. and fiscal years 2019-2020, $200 million and placing $155 million of power bonds, $102 million

water bonds on controller's reserve. and item 6, a total of approximately $483 million of proceeds from revenue bonds, state loan funds, or state grant funds, water revenues and water capacity fees for p.u.c. water enterprise capital improvement program 2018-2019 at $276 million and for fiscal years 2019-2020, $207 million. and reappropriating water capital bond appropriations of $16 million in fiscal years -2019 facing approximately $376 million of revenue bond and state loan funds or grant funds proceeds by project on controller's reserve. >> supervisor breed: seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, on items 1-6, please call the roll. [roll call]

[roll call] >> crk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor breed: those items are adopted unanimously. item 7. >> clerk: ordinance to amehe planning code to increase the transportation fee from $5 to approximately $24 for nonresidential pcts larger than 99,999,000 gross square feet except for sh rket, where the fee would be increased to approximately $21.04 and to affirm the ceqa detnation and make the appropriate findings. >> supervisor breed: colleagues,

can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance finally passed unanimously. >> clerk: item 8 is to determine and prepare the reconstruction, aquisition, strengthening and repaif the embarcadero seawall and related costs necessary and convenient in finding that the estimated cost of $425 million will need t b incurred through bonded indebtedness. >> supervisor breed: please call items 9 and 10 as well. >> clerk: item 9, 10-year expediture plan to increase the seawalld fro $350 million to $425 million to fund phase one of the seawall program. item 10, an ordinance to provide for a special election to be held in the city on tuesday, november 6, 2018, for the

purpose of submitting to the san francisco voters a proposition to incur the following bonded debt of the city and county, $425 million to finance the construction of the embarcadero seawall and other critical infrastructure and other related costs necessary or convenient and inform the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. >> supervisor breed: supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. i want to thank supervisors breed, kim, cohen, yee and sheehy as well as mayor lee, mayor breed, and then mayor farrell for their support for this critical infrastructure bond. you sudden have received a red-lined copy at the port, but just in case, i distributed copies today. i want to thank the port for

working with my office to identify language that will help us to pass this measure in november by codifying the city's commitment to provide seismic upgradeas well as to the embarcadero district, which is federally historic as well as to mitigate traffic to the downtown to the fullest extent possible during what is sure to be a disruptive infrastructure project. the port has been doing, i think, really extraordinary work under the leadership of our port director lane forbes as well as the executive steering committee to guide the seawall program, which you know protects over $100 billion of critical citywide serving utilities and infrastructure from our rising bay. out of the various near term scenarios that are refined and analyzed, i wanted the voters to know the city and port will be

good stewards of the public's funding and select the most financially feasible, least disruptive path forward. it's overall a small piece of the need that we'll have over the next several decades and we need to show the voters that if we're going to continue to come back to them with financing requests that we'll move forward rehabbing the seawall in a way that protectsur historic prisi es with surgical precision. finally, i wanted to announce and celebrate the fact that the port was selected as part o only -- one of six national finalists to receive a coveted federal new start grant, one that will hopefully open the door to millions, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars, in future federal funding down the line and i want to thank the team at the port for shepherding this project and ask that we adopt the amendments and continue them to a committee of the whole next tuesday, june 19.

>> supervisor breed: supervisor peskin made a motion for item 10. is there a second? seconded by yee. supervisorsafai. >> supervisor safai: i wanted to add my name as a sponsor. >> supervisor breed: thank you. colleagues on item 8 and 9, can we take that same house, same call? without objection, those resolutions are adopted unanimously. and on the amendment for item 10 to make amendments and to send it to the board next week as a committee of the whole, can we take that without objection? without object, the amendment passes. and the ordinance as amendment -- we can't take that. so we're going to hear this next week as a committee of the whole at the board ofsupervisors. thank you, supervisor peskin, for making the amendments to find the findings and more outreach in the neighboring areas that will be impacted. with that, madam clerk, let's go to item 11.

>> clerk: item 11 is an ord ordinanorde ordinance to amonday mend the planning code concerning new production and repair, known as p.d.r., to confirm the ceqa determination and appropriate findings. >> supervisor breed: colleagues, we can take item 11 same house, same call? without objection, ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. madam clerk, let's go to roll call for introductions and then we'll interrupt that at 2:30 for our commendations at that time. >> clerk: supervisor tang? >> supervisor tang: submit. >> supervisor breed: submit. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. just one moment, please.

>> supervisor br we can come back to you after the next o >> supervisor cohen: thank you, please rerefer. >> supervisor fewer: submit. >> supervisor kim: submit. >> supervisor peskin: submit. >> supervisor ronen: submit. >> supervisor safai: thank you. we held a hearing a couple of weeks ago on the city's goals for zero waste. and about over a decade ago the idea was that san francisco would achieve zero waste by 2020. it came outew mon a from the department of environment, that that is no

longer attainable. although san francisco is a leader in the entire united states and the world in waste diver5 diversi diversion, we're not achieving that goal and we will not by 2020. it has a price for consumers, for rate payers, to our environment. we held hearing with chair ren -- excuse me, chair sheehy and supervisor ronen and others and the conversation revolved around one of the bigst points that came out was that 60% of what we put in our waste stream is still compostable and recyclable. let me say that again -- 60% of what we put in our trash. a lotf that i really about pl not wanting to put trash in the right spot. over a decade ago, we came up with mandatory recycling and

composting. we went from one stream of waste to three streams of waste. many of you know our janitors in this building now are dealing with not just the black bin also the green and the blue bin and that's how we think about it in san francisco. many of us do our own sortingann our buildings and our largest producers, it came out, it was very, very clear that some of the biggest producers of trash are office buildings and large apartment buildings the legislation that i'm introducing today is an update of what i worked on a decade ago with our janitors union. it said if a large producer of waste, large building, large apartment building, lar ey is producing waste that's not meeting our citywide diversion rate, they would be required to have on-site sorting and we would be doing -- the best place to do waste diversion and sorting is on-site and where it's produced, like we do in o

homes individually and janitors do in their buildings. here we are decade later and still 60% of what we are putting in the trash is compostable or recyclable. they did surveys. they asked people and they said, do you believe in recycling? yes. do you believe in composting? yes. do you believe it's a good policy? yes. do you participate fully? no. so a lot of it is people not wanting to go through the extra work of actually participating. so this legislation today says that for those places, we will have inspeors of the department of environment look at doing audits if there is contamination over a particular percentage, and the department will determine that in their regulations. the department of environment now impose fines on a daily basis of over $1,000. the offenders have the

opportunity within 45 days to come up with a plan and that plan can include hiring what we're calling a zero-was facilitator. that zero-waste facilitator on-site person that will be responsible -- could be a multiple of people -- getting and going through the tras we have that already in many places, the ferry building, for th that go to the giants' ballgames, they have sorters on site. there are places in our environment right now in our city that are wonderful, wonderful participants and they produce very, very little waste at all. so this is asking that in those instances where there is an opportunity, they have an opportunity to correct where there is contamination and during the time of the fines come up with a plan for working the department of environment and others to hire a zero-waste facilitator and we believe this will be an aggressive way to get us to further diversion and protecting our environment. in the coming weeks, we'll have

another piece of legislation that dealt with another area of waste and that's our construction and demolition, but that i will hold for ter.la the rest i submit. >> supervisor breed: thank you. return to supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. good afternoon. many of you know, i represent a food district. by definition, a food distri a section of town where a grocery store doesn't exist and access to healthy food is nonexistent. it's a definition that's also widely used by the federal government. and with that, i'm concerned the difficulty to get viable and good service grocery store in certain parts of not only my district but parts of the city. i'm thinking about the tenderloin. i'm thinking about south of market, where you need access to healthy foods. i'd like to ask the -- i would

like to direct the department heads over at oe reviewnd to assess all possibility solutions to this particular problem and look at both attraction and rention models including but not lited to tax and hiring, credits, and other rebate programs in neighborhoods currently underserved in the city. my goal is to create sustainable grocery stores rooted in the community. i'm asking the oewd t ass different grocery store models that will bring healthy food to low-income residents and nutrition-poor areas, where people have no or extremely limited access to low-cost and healthy foods. madam clerk, the rest i submit. >> supervisor breed: thank you.

>> supervisor sheehy: i have an memoriam for paulo caltageroni, long-time resident of san francisco passed away may 28, 2018. paulo was the father of four sons, including guytano, current captain of mission police station. he was born in 1930 in sicily. fell in love with his wife and emigrated to the united states in search of a better life. they raised a family in north beach and paulo was an executive in the meat and produce industry. he joined many of his old north beach friends at the italian village country club. the rest i would like to submit. >> clerk: thank u, supervisor. supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: i'm

introducing an in memoriam for geraldine washburn, known as ms. washburn to dance students. she taught for 63 years and will be fondly remembered by her students and colleagues. saint brendan's and the teaching community of san francisco lost a dear friend and educator. she's survived by cheryl and geraldine and ian, her nieces and nephew. she will be sad missed. the rest i submit. >> clerk: that concludes the introduction of new business. >> supervisor breed: madam clerk, please rd public comment. >> clerk: at this time, the public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to 2 minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the may 8, 2018, board minutes and items 14-20 on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. public comment is not allowed on an item that's been previously

subject to public comment and pursuant to the board's rules please direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual supervisors and not to audience. speakers using interpretation assistance will be given twice the time. if you want to display a document, clearly state such to sfgtv and remove the document when you want the screen to return to live coverage of the meetg. first speaker, please. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language]

>> ladies and gentlemen, as you know, abdulum. i've been here 33 years a community activist and homeless advocate. today i tried to find out which one who is going to be our new mayor. london or farrell? i have nothing against either one of them. i love both of them. as you see, i know gavin newsom over 25 years and i wish to see

them hearing from me. the city doesn't need any problem for the homeless and need to resolve the problem of the homeless. need housing. need work. and we who have housing, have no problem, have no people sleeping in the streets or the corners of the bridge. tonight, study and try to get my message. one mayor in the city is not enough. i said is thatore and i will repeat that until i am die. we need assistant mayor. assistant mayor work very hard, like anyone else. number one, you put it in the shelter, the manager, the worker. i am eyewitness.

i see the manager. and they see the donation coming to the homeless for themselves. that is very good work for our assistant mayor. t try to understand, we need that and we need to stop anyone to take advantage for the homeless and to steal anythng ta belong to them. mark or london, one of you must hear what i say. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. >> thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> thank you. i'm windship hillier, involuntary outpatient in the city for 10 years. would i like to read to you an article written by steven schwartz and cathy costanzo,

compelling treatment in the community. this is in respect to cywide case management community focus that you fund at a rate of $1 million a week in this city. this was published in volume 20 of loyola of los angeles law review pages 1329 and 1384. "its proponents candidly admit that coerced community care is ed to abrogate the rights of people to refuse treatment. effectiveness depends upon being able to compel those that resist psychiatric interventions, usually psycho tropic medication to follow prescribed amount of . the capacity for the options is irrelevant." i mention this because this is denying people their constitutional rights and you have to make a decision whether

we're going to be governed in this city by laws or by doctors. i would have you note that even doctors among themselvesanno c agree upon who is sick and who is not and sociologists have proven that e among major diagnostic axes psychosis versus personality disorder that the social distance between the patient and the doctor is a considerable factor in how a person is diagnosed with psychosis or not. madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next eaplease. gd afternoon, honorable supervisors. i'm nelson lum, american legion, california. i'm locally the commander of american legion post 384.

it was formed in 1931 as an exclusively chese-american veterans post due to the climate of discrimination a hetime. chinese-american veterans were not welcome to join the post that were in existence at that time. with that as a history, we see the recognition of those that served in world war ii, and i'm talking about the chinese american veterans that served, they should be recognized and ere's an item on your agenda, item 17, that would encourage our congressional leaders to pass a congressional bill that will award the world war ii nese aerican veterans a gold medal. about 18 months ago, members in introduced a resolution, which has gun -- gone all the way up

to the american legion at the national level. at the national level, the american legion has voted in support of such award. i'm here to urge you to approve the resolution before you on item 17 because it's supported by veterans, especially veterans of chinese-american descent. those that served in world war ii, served while being discriminated against, therefore, your support is appreciated and please remember, they earned it. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your service, sir. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, members of the board of supervisor and supervisor president london breed. i'm raymond wong. i'm a u.s. navy retired chief petty officer, served in vietnam. i come before you to respectfully ask for support of

item 17, to support and honor the chinese american world war ii veterans with a congressional gold medal. many of the chinese americans that served in world war ii was not granted cizenship rights, but yet the faithfull ser our country. i would like to cite, as a navy veteran, highest ranking naval officer chinese american that served during world war ii and ateti admiral gordon chung yung. he was a commander of a u.s. navy destroyer and engaged in battle in okinawa. his ship was severely damaged with over 20ties his ship was in danger of sinking and he should abandon ship. he had another group of his crew

to do damage control to keep the ship afloat. as a result of that, he was to admiral an was one of the highest recognized chinese-americans serving for our country. he was the first ranking flag officer of chinese-american descent. i would like to ask hi for your support of this request to a -- for a congressional gold medal. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for you service, sir, and for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is sherman tang. i'm with the chinese american citizens alliance. we speak at the legislation pending in congress right now concerning providing a ressiol gold medal it all the world wore -- world war ii

chinese-american servicemen. they began serving in the civil war. so it was a long history of serving our country for freedom, but they're not beingnize since then due to discrimination. we urge this board to pass the legislation so we can see the award appropriately. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. next speaker, please. >> members of board, i'm roger brandon. i wanted to comment on the record high costs that you were proposi proposing. there are five or six items proposed with a public works cost of $200 million, $340 million, $478 million.

all of these are astonishing costs and the peopl of san francisco did not show much interest in voting for these in the recent election. and i think some people show an interest in leading the city municipal bankruptcy. it's another step we need to take. i object to this. there's an unusual item here, item 3 on today's agenda, proceeds from revenue bonds, wastewater revenues -- >> clerk: sir, i'm pausing your time. that item ha already had public comment in committee, so it's not eligible to be discussed today during public comment. >> well, i appreciate this brief opportunity to object to this massive expediture.

>> clerk: thank you, kindly. >> leading to municipal bankruptcy, a step we don't need to take. >> crk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> members of the board, i'm hubert lee. in reference to item 17 and i'm also here to express my support for honoring the chinese americans of world war ii veterans. so i would like your support. thanks very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. xt speaker, please. >> last night i saw the most amazing movie in the world. the search for the real mt. sinai. it's the greatest discoffee in the millennium. they snuck up there -- it's in saudi arabia. the rocks are burned black, melted. bob cracked the rock.

it's granite inside. they found 12 springs of water. they found the rock that cracked when moses struck it and the muslims are hiding it. this is making millions of dollars a day in tourism. it's amazinut get you coff. last time i was here, can't remember if i told you or the board in san jose, a very interesting story. i was praying and god led me t the house of this lady who has a homosexual -- hate has no home here. hate has no home here. there were two things in my life, that and about 20 years ago i was praying and i had read how many words elijah said. i had a green flannel shirt, no lie, wrapped around my head, because i remember when elijah was in the cave praying and god told him -- what are you doing

here? you went out. he was afraid of jesebell and ran away. because he was saved by grace, god used him and said, look, i want you to annoint theing over israel and to annoint elijah in your room and this bird landed on your head. no lie. it scared the bird as much as we and it squaked and flew out. i'm here to testify. i know it sounds crazy. but if you know when jesus was annointed, you can calculate the sixthrumpet. i made the prediction 30 days before 9/11. i know what i'm talking about. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. >> think about it. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> i came to america when i was 10 years old. that was 1940. gong on.time, the draft was

and at that time, i was only 10 years old. 10 years later, w thehen outbreak of the korean war, i y that i was going to school ll and i played on the playground and at that time, we had lots of young chinese americans, they are going to school and they're being drafted. and some of them after the training, they come back in uniform and how happy they are to serve our country. that was 1940 and '41. and one of the reasons is that time, they're getting $21 a month but lots of people working in chinatown in the laundries and grocery stores.

they were making $30 a month. so they have lots of money to spend. i just wanted to tell you that chinese americans in their teenage years and how happy they are to join the american army and they did a good service. i want to tell something about myself. i don't have time now. [laughter] thank you. huh? oh, okay. i was drafted and trained for 4 months and ended up in fort mason and shipped to japan 20 daysr.af i was in korea. after one year, i got on the ship and come back to fort mason. >> clerk: thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good evening, members of the board. i'm appearing here today because there are three or four parks, one of them is in san francisco and i had a -- we had a meeting with the warriors and none of these stadiums have -- one of the things that you have to understand, all the players are black players. now today there are no black people that own one hot dog stand. and i'm asking the board of supervisors, you know, it's very difficult for y'all to understand. they look at everybody as a minority. my ancestors were slaves in this

country. you have to understand, a lot of people call me and talk to me and ask me, why don't you go down to the board of supervisors and ask them what can they do so a black person can o of these concessions. so i'm here today to ask you, would you look into the fact that not one black person has a concession in none of these parts, the one in san carlo, the one in san francisco and now we will have two and the people with the warriors said that they didn't think that it was important. we think differently and we don't see no movement until we see black people have concessions in one of the parks. >> clerk: thank you. any other members of the public that would like to address the board of supervisors after this last speaker? please step over to your right.

>> tom gilberti. before we leave 50 years ago, i was reading the brothers by david talbert. and i recommend "the devil's chess board." we're lucky to have him as an author. this same cover was on sunday morning, cbs. and they used the photograph and when jane pauley was talking about the book -- she said some authors have tried to misogolize, or whatever that word. i thought the books were well written and objective. if you want a good history of what was happening at that time, little segment of it, it's a good summer read. this is bobby kennedy when he

was running for the senate after his brother was killed. "we cannot expect an african to believe we're on the side of equality and human dignity when his ambassadors are not serbed in our restaurants. we cannot expect countries with lower standard of living that we respect human dignity. we cannot expect nations to join us in combating poverty, when six milon families live in poverty in our country." that was in the '60s. there's a lot of tidbits to go with it. it's a good read. the cry is being taken over by gerrymandering, but suppression of voters. that's an assassination in itself. we have to recognize that our democracy needs to be protected.

we need to prot our democracy here. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your maam president, i yield the floor back to you. >> supervisor breed: thank you. any other members of the public that would like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is now closed. now we will go to our 2:30 special commendations and i will turn the floor over to supervis norman yee. >> supervisor yee: thank you, presidentbrd. not too long ago, i started paying attention to our veterans of world war ii and introduced a resolution that will be heard today. and during that process, i wanted to highlight as much as i could and had a press conference to talk about ittoday. during this process, i wasn't

sure if i would be able to locator have any of these veterans come to this press conference because of their age and i just didn't know any of them personally, except for my father-in-law, who wouldn't be able to come because of his disability. and i was -- so i was told that one of them was going to be there. and he did show up. but to our delight this morning or this afternoon, there were three of the world war ii veterans, chinese americans that showed up. they're in their 90s. and i would love for them upere. and their names are alan yee, dale king and durano wong. they served in different services of the military from

the navy to the army to ther force. and one of the ones that -- and i might have talked about this before, but one of the squadrons was the tigers or flying tigers, as they're sometimes known. and there were many, many, many of the companies that were a single ethnic group. mainly chinese americans. and that's something that people didn't know. chinese americans, 13,000 of them serve in world war ii and there were oy 120,000 chinese americans living in the united states. so 13,000 represented 25% of the male adult population. and they were i t war. so my father-in-law was part of this. and also alan e was part of the flying tiger. so what i would like to do --

i'm just honored thaty' here and could make it. so i will call them up and if you would like to say a word or two and i'm sure that my colleagues here will be very patient with you. u canme u first, dale, and ronald third. okay, alan? alan? so if we have a little patience with him. he's tired. alan, thank you very much for being here. [applause]

>> supervisor yee: dale king, would you like to say a few words? they have a combined age of 280, these three people. >> board of supervisors, i'm delighted to be here today. i'm excited to be here. i urge the supervisors pass the resolution it urge the congress to recognize the chinese who fought in world war ii. we have recognized japanese. have recognized filipino. it's time we recognize the chinese. thank you. [applause]

>> supervisor yee: is colonel wong here? colonel? >> president breed, members of the board of supervisors, my name is ronald wong. i just turned 93 years old. i believe i was the only one that search served in the navy, marines, army and the air force. a total of 34 years in the military. and i'm proud. i urge the board to help pass this resolution to recognizing that chinese-americans served in world war ii. thank you. [applause]

>> supervisor yee: you can see they're very unselfish. this moment is about you three the board of supervisors want to honor you with this honor. thank you for being here. thank you. [ause]