on adoption without deference to committee calendar. public comment is not allowed when the subject has already had public comment. direct the remarks to the committee as a whole. if you would like to display your document, please just place it under the projection and remove it when you would like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. first speaker, please. >> good after innooafternoon. as governing body of this great city, whose duty it is to fulfill the will of the people, it's important to pass a resolution to abolish i.c.e. let's be clear in our intention, the city and county of san francisco is a sanctuary city. the state of california is as well a sanctuary state. and i.c.e. has committed the most heinous crimes imaginable

by putting children in cages on cold cement floors, telling them not to touch each other and drugging them if they don't obey. i.c.e. has created a climate of intimidation that threaten the people in our city. the people have spoken and you, too, have spoken loud and clear and publicly. let us declare that we don't recognize their power nor do they have any jurisdiction here and we demand that they must disband immediately. all employees of i.c.e. that disavow themselves the purpose of i.c.e. will be assisted obtaining work by the trade unions. i.c.e. is an acronym for illegal corporate exploitation. this government will track down all corporations who have crossed borders and exploited the work force and countries they've invaded. on july 10, 2018, san francisco

stands by its commitment to sanctuary and demand that i.c.e. shut down all its operations and the state of california revoke the licenses of corporations violating the rights of humans. this great city has a destiny to fulfill in leading the world. l.a. is working on a similar resolution. it's a template to get the job done with expediency. do not get distracted. if we don't care about the children, we've lost our moral compass and our future. abolish i.c.e. now. [applause] >> president cohen: next speaker. >> it is important that we have accurate sources of news, that's why i rec tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingram as well

as that guy in texas, alex jones, he's another accurate source of news. the real reason the president is hated by the bushes and the real reason why our president is hated by the obamas and the clintons -- well, i will not throw obama in there, because he's a gay guy and probably married to a transgender that's what joan rivers said before she died. we have our first gay president and michelle is transgender. that's what joan rivers said. i'm not saying he's -- i really believe that the reason the president is hated is he's nod a pedophile. i've worn this sign for a long time. look up the interview alex jones had with john decamp. there's a guy named roger stone, who is an excellent, excellent

author. bush sr. is in it. and we would like to talk about the most misunderstood verse of scripture and it's in matthew 7. jesus said, judge not that you be not judged. everyone knows that jesus said, judge not but you be not judged, but they don't know that the statement is given in context with other words to prove that what jesus meant, walk the talk, practice what you preach, don't be a hypocrit. in romance -- romans 2 said the same thing. if you are not doing the same things, then you are not a hypocrit and jesus was not a hypocrit. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. i'm curtis tool, district 4, with the public bank s.f. coalition. s.f. taxpayers' money are being held at banks that are involved in the process of separating families. i ask to abolish i.c.e. and urging the treasurer to divest from banks that invest inries prisons and detention centers. it's time not just to talk the talk, but walk the walk, and fight back on the playing field that corporations care about. i applaud all of you that went and marched at the sanctuary city rally, but what good is it if taxpayer money is being used to invest. it's bringing a knife to a knife

fight and not a spoon. we understand a public bank cannot -- we have a public bank that's for a charter that's rooted, that has prohibitions against detention centers. and we understand this will not happen tomorrow, but it can happen in four or five years, but it requires an all-hands-on-deck attitude. i will draw comparison to the golden state warriors. the reason they're so great and the champions, because they're a selfless team and pass to whoever it's open. one day it's klay, one day it's steph, one day it's k.d. pass the ball to whoever is open and, yeah, if you are going to be involved in s.f. politics for the next five years, you can either lead, embrace this, or get out the way, because this public bank movement is happening with or without you. if our federal government cannot break up the big banks, our city will have to do it for them.

>> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm bob gordon, resident of church street. last year malia cohen took a bold step, fighting tobacco companies. along with the african-american tobacco control council, ucsf, and every single supervisor, malia cohen introduced an ordinance that would end the sale of candy-flavored tobacco products, cigars, cigarettes, candy-flavored nicotine, things that lure our young people to a life of addiction, largely leading to heart and stroke. supervisor cohen, we're thankful for your readership. that ordinance passed.

but r.j. reynolds and others gathered signatures to try to overturn the ordinance by forcing it to referendum. greatfully this past june 5 with the support of every single supervisor, nearly 100 community groups and the mayor, 68% of voters said, yes, to proposition e, ending the sale of candy-flavored tobacco. today on item 27, the board is expected to take action to declare the june 5 results. the landmark ordinance will take effect on july 20. please, supervisors, insist that our san francisco department of health immediately inform retailers that they must remove candy-flavored tobacco products. the whole nation is watching it see san francisco's swift

implementation of this ordinance. thank you so much. [applause] >> clerk: thank you for your comments. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm christian williams. i'm an s.f. resident, district 6, heart disease survivor and advocate for the american heart association, seeking to end youth smoking forever. i was a menthol smoker and it nearly cost me my life to lung and heart disease. i wanted to thank the board of supervisors for your unanimous vote to ban the sale of flavored tobacco including menthol. i volunteered on the campaign, at president of press conferences and sharing my story with voters across the city. i'm thrilled that the people of san francisco agreed with you and passed prop e by an overwhelming majority on june 5. i look forward to a strong implementation of the ordinance so we can see the rates of youth

smoking continue to plummet. join me in punishing for a swift implementation of prop e. thank you so much. [applause] >> clerk: before the next speaker, i will just let the individuals in the public gallery know that we have a board rule against audible signs of support. we do appreciate your support, but use your supportive hands or fingers. much appreciated. thank you, kindly. next speak, please. >> good afternoon. i'm a long-time advocate for health and wellness for san francisco families. thank you for the unanimous vote last year on the ordinance to end the sale of flavored tobacco products in san francisco, including menthol. thank you particularly, supervisor malia cohen, for championing this cause. i'm thrilled that the people of

san francisco agree with you and passed proposition e by overwhelming margin on june 5. you have taken a stand keeping the tobacco industry away from the children of san francisco. i'm a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. we look forward to a strong implementation at this ordinance. the country is watching. we look forward to seeing the rates of youth tobacco use continue to plummet after this ordinance takes effect. this policy will start saving lives as soon as the implementation begins. let's get to work. thank you so very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm a long time bay area

resident who an immigrant parent. i'm here to echo some of the ideas wroe avenue heard today and demand that the board of supervisors pass a resolution to end the contract with i.c.e. we're supposed to be a sanctuary city and how can we stay such if we're processing detainees and deportations here. as human beings, i'm sure many of us are horrified at the condition of the detention centers being utilized to terrorize immigrant families. we're familiar with the images of starving, dehydrated, traumatized children forced to sleep standing up in cages. we've heard the anguish of children and parents separated from each other, not knowing when they will be together again. people compare it to concentrate camps and i will not stop making the connection until we end the assault on brown and black immigrant communities. our country has a history of

legally establishing concentration camps to punish and exterminate non-white people. hitler himself said that he based his death camps off our camps in the u.s. to enslave indigenous people. we had prison camps for japanese-americans. and we need to reckon with our ugly history and take a stand. it's our past. we must not let it be our present and our future. you have the power to uphold the values that you claim to have and that i've heard you speak on. those protecting and uplifting communities of color. [applause] >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am a resident of the bay area.

and i'm here to echo some of the things said by some previous speakers. this country from its beginning has not been kind to the indigenous people of the land the actions of the current administration has been one of the most atrocious demonstrations of intolerance in a long time. we must come together to say no to the im prisonment of immigrants and indigenous people. we must abolish i.c.e. it said that the board of supervisors and to the needs of san francisco on the webpage. people are calling for the abolishment of i.c.e. and yet it continues. it seems to be untrue when san francisco has declared itself sanctuary status and folks are being detained, taken away. i demand san francisco take action against i.c.e. it's a shame on san francisco

for condoning the police raid. i watched as my comrades were shot with rubber bullets i sat in a circle, arms linked as rubber bullet guns were pointed at us at close range, which can be fatal. i was arrested for voicing an outcry for help and safety of people who are supposed to be protecting the city. for that, i say shame. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is ryan. i'm a district 6 resident for six years. i don't think we need to convince the board of supervisors the cruelties of i.c.e. and deportation practices of our country. i want to paint a quick picture for you. there are people that feel like we have to take action to stop the practices. we formed a community. we made food for each other.

we had a library. we shared each other's feelings. we have been sharing snacks with the community. we've been bringing in people that don't have homes or feel like they have sanctuary and are often harassed by the city to have a safe space. we built a garden. i want to express how painful it was to one night have people yelling at us that the cops are coming. we ran around. we tried to make sure the kids and anybody that didn't want to risk arrest or violence got out of the camp. i believe we've got everybody out. we had cops rolling in on all ends. they have conditions. i'm not sure if they are bullet rounds, but our friends were shot at. they ripped our community apart. they tore the tents.

and they ripped us apart one by one and dragged us off. i hope you know we feel pain and trauma right now for a city that claims to be a sanctuary city, we don't feel like -- you support the violence of i.c.e. and we have i.c.e. right there, only deportation property that is allowed to operate and you are using sfpd against us when we were trying to stop that. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for providing that information. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm mica. i'm born and raised in san francisco, district 1, richmond. i would like to echo everything that the other speakers have said about the police brutality in the city as well as against

the occupy i.c.e. occupation and about abolishing i.c.e. in general. what i experienced during the raid is that the city of san francisco cares more about opposing wiz as usual than the family and kids being incarcerated and processed in the i.c.e. facility downtown. that is terrible. that means that we live in a place that cares more about unholding this system than the human hurt by it. we all verbally at leefrt say is the liberal bastion of the u.s. i think you have power to make difference decisions. you have power to change the way that police act, to demilitarize them. they have power to take away the ability to ruin peaceful

process. you have the power to support occupations and to support the aboli abolishment of i.c.e. this is within our power and i don't know why you are not doing more. thank you for listening. >> clerk: thank you for sharing your thoughts. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm jackie, d-4 resident, public bank coalition. we put out the call for people to come out and ask that you support the call to abolish i.c.e. and that way, support actual actions, charter amendment. we're here again, divestment, divest from prisons and pipelines. we know the solution is a public bank those voices speak softly, but do you hear the pain?

your silence speaks volumes. it's a sanctuary city, apparently, but we have the largest i.c.e. headquarters in our region. this occupy i.c.e.-s.f., group of small, committed individuals of different races and backgrounds, we have successfully halted deportations for a week and then what? only to be betrayed by our local police department, who is supposed to not collaborate with i.c.e. to send kids, families, torn apart back to dangerous conditions in their homes that they're fleeing from. that is on you. it's on you. let us do our part and nonviolently civilly disobedient. and pass policies for further deportation, and prevent a flow of money going into the prisons and stop completely mass

incarceration. this is doable, but right now, we don't have the political will. i see a very big lack of political will that goes all the way it our treasurer. i'm telling you now, we'll be here for the next how many years to divest our money and put it back in our community. affordable housing, student debt, especially for low-income, immigrant communities. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm not here on police reform issues, although i was in the past quite often. i do want to commend you for voting against joe marshall being reinstated as police commissioner. >> clerk: i will pause your time quickly. that item has had its public comment in committee, so you are not able to speak on that matter today. >> let me move on. i'm here as the owner of a small

remodelling business in san francisco that does mostly kitchens and bathrooms and trying to get into the accessory dwelling business. there's a huge potential to help solve our housing crisis and that's why the board passed legislation to promote them. supervisors peskin and weiner, who don't always agree, did the heavy lifting, but as mayor-elect breed said repeatedly in her campaign, the reality is far less than the hopes. the number she referenced at the residential builders association meeting i attended was in the low 200s of a.d.u.s being built. why? as an s.f.-based remodelling contractor, i've had no big jobs

yet. i outlined the that challenges and what i think are some of the solutions in a proposal that i will put in front of you in a program called s.f. builds to build a.d.u. units annually. as a contractor, i know this can be done and i hope you will consider my proposal, which i will leave with you and turning into an op-ed for the "cron" or "examiner" and helpfully getting published. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i represent medallion holders. and today is a very important day for you supervisors and our new mayor. and i am asking you to cooperate with silicon valley and the city

to find a way first of resolving the problem of all these medallions that are suing the city. and actually, it's very simple. you have to revitalize the taxi industry because you, yourselves have said, less than a year ago, that this city will have 40% elderly population within the next 20 years. they're not going to get into autonomous vehicles. you need taxis and i have a suggestion for your autonomous vehicles. they, in the city, should being declared as taxis and if they were induced to buy the huge amount of taxi medallions or possibly lease them, you would

start by solving the problem. i would remind you of one thing that struck me living in the bay area. many years ago, g.m., firestone tire and, i believe, chevron, were convicted of conspiracy by closing down a public transportation system that used to run in the east bay and in los angeles and over the bay bridge and everything. the key route. just think about who is running the businesses now. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i will do this for london breed. my name is a-c-e. little special. i know you are back there, london. listen to this. (♪)

♪ i don't remember what day it was ♪ ♪ i don't remember even know what time it was ♪ ♪ all i know is that we're from the same community ♪ ♪ and all my dreams come true ♪ i'll be watching over you ♪ every day's a new day ♪ in love with you i'm not in love with her that way, y'all. ♪ when day is a new day when i'm walking down city hall ♪ ♪ i see your lips and i agree with what comes out of it ♪ ♪ i'll be spending time with you ♪ ♪ oh i love you more today than yesterday ♪ but not as much as tomorrow

♪ but not as much as tomorrow history, y'all. ♪ i love you more today than yesterday ♪ ♪ but not half as much as tomorrow ♪ lord have mercy, y'all. anyway, i wanted to dedicate that and congratulate ms. cohen. you the queen up there in city hall. we have another princess. ♪ i love you more today than yesterday ♪ yesterday you were a supervisor. today you a supervisor, but tomorrow, you -- >> clerk: thank you, mr. washington. mr. washington, find a way to address the board as a whole. next speaker, please.

>> hello. my name is richard girling. i've lived in the city for over 40 years. [laughter] can't get that against my time. >> clerk: i will start your time now. please proceed. >> i taught economics for 30 years. and ms. cohen was one of my students. it's my pleasure to be with you and thank you for taking the time. my question is, who do you trust your money with? as an individual, i'm very careful with my money. i don't bank with big banks with unethical practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis, prefer, to keep my money in safer, local banks. i don't take crazy risks with my money. i don't pay huge fees to my

financial advisor. my family's money is available for re newable energy and housing for the elderly. as a long-time san francisco resident, i want to make my city do the same. big banks like bank of america with the lion's share of the city's deposits cannot be trusted to handle our money ethically or responsibly. they invest in the worst industries, prisons, gun manufacturers, fossil fuel companies. bank of america leads the banking industry in fines. since 2008, it topped the list at $76 billion, guilty of mortgage abuses, consumer protection operations, price fixing and fraud and yet we continue to bank with them.

they gamble with other people's mind and their executives rob us blind. brian moynihan took home $21.8 million in 2017. 250 times the wages of his employees.

>> as a result, you've got a 27 billion-dollar class action lawsuit filed. why is continued construction and announcements in the public on the news, talking about new housing being built at treasure island, when you have a radioactive material all over the place? where a black skin coloured female testified how to up your friends died and two more people died in the same building complex where the soil is located. by the statement response packet is also evident and it explained 35 people have died out there from a radio active contamination. one black skin coloured mail came to your office and verified how he had talked with radioactive surgeries on his stomach or stomach and came to you said that you slammed the door in his face. i will address the whole board because all of you are involved in it. and about the racial inequality, on the hearing that is coming up

on the 18th, you look at this statistic here on traffic surg surges, on the rise of racial profiling. as you can see, 19% of the traffic stops is applied to black people kahco cake wheat we only make up about three% of the population. nine% is latinos. two% is for white people and white people make up the majority of the population in the city. on the other two% if the other nationality, and asians is only 1.6%. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> hello, i won't say much. can i bring up something on the

screen for info? >> supervisor cohen: yes. s.f. guv t.v., please. >> i wanted to come out tonight and have some free tacos and have some food, i mean, some music and community, but that is not what i am here for. i'm here to ask us to commit to being an actual sanctuary city. because i got, you know, friends, neighbors, family, folks who i ride to the bus with who are terrified because this e city has not done enough to keep ice out. when i hear stories about ice agents going to s.f. states, people saying that ice agents are going into classrooms, to talk to teachers about where this student is and this adds that and teachers are having to physically say no, you are not welcome here, the city is not doing enough to be an actual sanctuary city. that was word of mouth. i do not have any documents to prove it, but i am just saying

that is word on the street. now, also, i am asking for you all to admonish the sfpd for the occupied ice rate. if the san francisco police department does not cooperate with ice, i don't see why it wouldn't be a problem to allow us to peacefully demonstrate a community vigil for folks that are being separated from their kids and for the kids themselv themselves. also, i would like to see that san francisco ends relationships with banks that financed private prisons. that profit from the family separation. that is bank of america, u.s. bank, union bank, san francisco is not doing enough to protect it's residents -- residents. i think that's all i have to say. seriously, sorry about that, london. i talked to her outside the room but she did not want to talk to me about this. >> supervisor cohen: please address your comments to the

board as a whole. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> recently i heard there was 4200 religions in the world. i know something about 20 while. judeo, christian, paradise, and then bummed. god could have created a solution by having a couple of t.v. screens, a universal remo remote, world cup continuations. the thrill of a victory. the agony of defeat. a couple of delis across the street in a recliner. man would have been very happy. my team, in a where -- are very

well played game that was played fairly, lost today. the balance of a ball affects lives and families for the rest of their lives. and what we do here back we try to affect lives fairly too. we want as many people to thrive and succeed as we can in a healthy community. we have a new mayor. we have a new board president. how about if we had the most dynamic committees created. not to repress people, but to promote and recognize good ideas. what is happening? how to promote a healthy continuous city we citibank could be one of them. what we did to the taxi industry

could be another one. getting the police on our side, and us being on their side would be another direction that we would like to go. caging kids is definitely not. so we have to recognize our talents and move forward. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am a longtime resident of district one at a long time teacher at city college. i just want to lend my voice to our need to take bolder steps in showing what it really means to be a sanctuary city. it happened to one of my neighbors they were one of the young people that was arrested. and one of my students hasn't come back to class for a few days after she told me she couldn't sleep.

i know it won't be easy, but we are going to have to take stronger and bolder steps to show what it really means. i don't think it's appropriate to have the ice courts here in our city. i don't believe it's appropriate to have -- i know this will take a lot of time to figure out, we cannot have our police department supporting ice activities. usually, i have seen our san francisco police behave very well around all kinds of demonstrations. but there have been a couple of times, i don't know what the difference is, that it has been highly inappropriate and it worries me for our young people. and young people are standing up everywhere around this horrific separation of families and children. i consider mine a refugee. i feel like i am lucky that i landed in san francisco where i have a board of supervisors who

will show up at these marches. it is not happening where i came from. i am counting on us to show the rest of the country what it means to take more courageous and bold steps to show what it means to be a sanctuary city. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> afternoon. i would like to reaffirm what everybody has said about the san francisco public bank and all the good we can do with financing various issues. students can refinance their student loans. i'm not proud to say i am still paying one off on my student loans. i think we could get a much lower rate. also, i think since l.a. has already done this, we can't let this pass us by. we can do much better. that is at. thanks. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> a black man is walking up the street with his girlfriend. eight white transgender rudely bumps into the black man. instead of offering the courtesy of an apology, the transgender man, in defence of her actions, includes the word maker and referring to the black man. a fight breaks out and the transgender is beat up. the police arrest the black man and his girlfriend on a hate crime charge. they are sentenced to nine months on a bogus hate crime charge. the moral of this story, you can be a rude, racist white man in a

dress and you are protected by san francisco at the expense of black people. this is not right. and i think that the board of supervisors should be ashamed of themselves for having this notice that i said to you two or three weeks ago go unanswered. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am with the san franciscans for police accountability. i came to speak about the marshall reappointment. i want to thank you. i urged with thos. i urge with those two vacancies. the two police commissioners you recently appointed are excelle excellent. that is the dynamic that we want on the police commission. people who are really paying

attention and holding the police commission accountable. we had the 272 recommendations. i am on the biased work group. i can tell you there is so much work left to be done. police -- the police commission is the only effective oversight. it is a very, very important role. i also want to speak about my brothers and sisters from the dsa. and in support of abolished ice. and for san francisco to really walk at stalk. if we are a sanctuary city, and why do we have an armed gang of trump supporters, a.k.a., the san francisco police department running our streets and killing latino immigrants with impunity create this is a contradiction. i urge you to look at the election of alexandria cortez as our inspiration. what she said is that if you are in an assured democratic seat, then you should be at the

forefront. we should be at the cutting edge doing everything we can. we have all the money. we have all the brains. we have all these tech companies in san francisco. we are the most economically polarized, the widest disparity of employment between black and white people of any city in america. this is unacceptable. lastly, i want norman yee's commission on what size sfpd should be to be created. we need to shrink sfpd down and create something totally different that is appropriate to the needs of our city. there is no way to solve this problem with that the current sfpd. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next week -- next speaker, please. >> hello. i sent you an e-mail in the middle of the night. i was trying to put a speech together. the topic is the need for the city to decide quickly what kind of taxi medallion system they

want going forward. the lawsuit that the federal credit union filed against sfmta is inextricably tied into this decision. the lawsuit alleges breach of contract, bad faith, and malicious malicious -- malicious misrepresentation. the union had counted on the city having a transportation code amendment as a promise, but on november 15th 2016, they went through that amendment to allow corporations to buy up to 50 medallions each to create a money pool that could to pay off the credit union for damages so far and to let people, including the six people who come up to you and plead for mercy to get off the hook for their medallions. there are half a dozen new york city cab drivers who bought medallions who committed suicide.

it is an extremely serious problem. i do think we can reduce the numbers. i believe aaron peskin will have something to put in fee on. and we have proof of commercial insurance. if you could get half of these vehicles off the road, major corporations would buy medallions. is a better way to handle the lawsuit and hopefully marry -- mayor elect breed can meet with other officials to make this happen. i do want to applaud the board president for setting a hearing on july 30th to discuss this issue and that is all i can say now. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i would like to say first in response to recent comments that the police department, like all police departments, at least in this country, are far more likely to defend in a biased manner any white person against any black person that they are in contact with. regardless of that person's

address or their gender and regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth. that is not what i prepared to speak today. i will speak about that now. this is my first ever speaking public comment. excuse me if i reach for my phone. i was part work -- part of the occupy s.f. encampment for seven days. i was there when the police threatened us with the violence. on behalf of the deplorable terrorist organization ice. i was there when they terrorize and brutalize the community of resistance the people had formed to attempt to resist the violence and trauma perpetuated by ice. i was there for all of this in the city. my home city in which i live for 18 years and still spend much of my life and energy. in a state which claims to be a sanctuary state, the only thing this city is century to a state of violence, oppression and political corruption. you can change that. the people demand you honor our

commitment to a welcoming sanctuary and a long overdue reprieve from state to violence, oppression and political corruption. we demand you do everything in your power to end the support of ice and -- direct or indirect. we want you to implement programs to assist employees who renounce them and disavow themselves. we admonish you stop the police force with their tactics against the people's resistance to ice and restrained them from action and refrain them from prosecuting those involved in nonviolent civil disobedience in resistance. this movement is happening whether you join it or not. the sooner you join it, the fewer will die if your children will be terrorized and traumatized. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. the library, and its process for acquiring a very privacy threatening technology has not been open. and public with respect to what it would do and how it would presumably, according to its claim, make this a notch privacy threatening technology. as i've said before to you and others, the aclu of northern california and the electronic frontier foundation have written to -- rich into the library this was a very bad idea and they continue to oppose it as they did about 14 years ago when the supervisors rejected funding for rfid two years in a row. i was very happy to hear, initially on the first meetings of the budget and financ finance up with respect to the budget of

the library that there was considerable opposition. there was an examiner article. one of the supervisor said i don't want my daughter trapped -- tract and another one said she agreed with that. a third supervisor was asking, is this really a need to, or just a want. and then there was a mysterious reversal with no explanation as to why. and i have tried to find out, specifically what were the things that may have changed minds and have been unable to find out we even the most radically an in favourable f. ds rfid say that open discussion is essential. the document of the library sites says the most critical aspect of both the council's technology principles and so on

and set the library should engage in a thoroughly open and transparent examination. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. thank you. next speaker, please. welcome back to the chamber, oh, madame, please go right ahead. >> hello. most people in the city know me as a sunshine. i am here to give a face to the proposal that supervisor -- that supervisors raised today. i am currently in a battle to save my own. thirteen years ago, i moved into a two unit building in mission terrace. i have lived there, i have been a tenant and in good standing, and a very public person in this city. there is people that come here that recognize me for years to come. i may not be here anymore. i have landlords who live on top

of the hill in woodside that inherited this building 70 years ago. that -- they want to that rent board with me on june 28th and said the majority of the 70 years it has been rented as a two unit building. the children are now in charge. they are trying to maximize their profits. they took the stove and the fridge out of the unit. they didn't take it very far. they put it in a detached gara garage. a detached garage that stands in the yard of the property. they are now claiming that they capped the gap. there is no birth -- building permit, although they said they got one. there was none. we spoke with the department of building planning. there was no permit. we have to wait another 12 and a

half weeks after waiting already 10-12 weeks for the hearing, to find out if we will prevail. when my attorney tried to raise the issue of, is this a way of trying to fault evict me? >> supervisor cohen: thank you. we have a rule that everyone gets the same amount of time to testify during public comment. i am sure that either one of my staff or a member of the board staff would love to continue to work with you on this. thank you, kindly. could one of my staff member obtain her number. thank you. welcome back to the chamber. >> president cohen and mayor

elect breed, congratulation on your election. former colleagues, i am here to thank you on your work on creating the missile bank. i am serving on their task force and been serving for maybe four or five months. we have made a lot of headway. i think it is important to talk about history today. the public bank idea came out of the occupied movement that happened in 2011. we had occupation happening at the reserve bank and we had protest at wells fargo and bank of america. we had a long occupation at the justin herman plaza on the embarcadero. we also occupied homes. we occupied for -- foreclosed homes in the bayview and occupied homes in excelsior and occupied three corners of where we had every major bank in the excelsior on mission and ocean avenue. our bank task force came out and we wanted to make sure the voice of people who are talking about how the banks got bailed out back but we got sold out, we are

going to prevail and we could make sure that we had something in the works that would build equity for infrastructure for our communities and we could deal with student loan debt and deal with foreclosed properties and deal with the small businesses that don't get access to support from the city government. that we can do that with the public bank. all of that came out of a great movement. the occupied movement. it has been really alarming this week to see that the resistance that we all purport to support was taken out. the occupy i.c.e. encampment was taken out this week. and we actually have a right to do what we did in 2011. to provide bathrooms and showers and food for these folks and not just take them out in the middle of the night with the police department. that is not the way -- we are part of the resistance against the federal government and show the trump administration that we don't want to separate our families and provide a zero

tolerance policy that is running amok with immigrants across the country. we can do better. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. on monday morning i was shot five times with rubber bullets by the san francisco police. while i was participating in a peaceful assembly in solidarity with immigrants demanding that we stop cooperating with i.c.e. we need to admonish the police department for using violence against people who are simply demanding that we step up and do what we promised to do as a city. and not cooperate and be a sanctuary city. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. i've been hearing a lot about the recent election and history and legacy and i would like to

make a point that that moment is here right now. that moment where we can set our history as our new mayor and as the new board, it has been great. so, we really need to step up. the city of richmond, they have a contract with i.c.e. i hope you read that story this morning. we can do that. we still have them add richmond gets rid of them? art weed that liberal bastion? aren't we the place that stands up for rights? we were talking about legacy and history but we are still on the wrong side of it. we are in that building and we were preventing them from doing the things that you were supposed to prevent. the police should be helping as. not hurting asked. if we are doing what we say we are supposed to do, then we would -- you would be right there with us. this isn't a question of, you know, what is it, stability politics, or anything like that.

this is something that is happening right now and the ability to do something about it. the fact that we still do business as a city with banks that fund private prisons and we still do business with people who profit from these child separations. it is not right. so along with, in solidarity with the people here, i demand, and we demand that we end processing of detainees here in the city. we and the cooperation with i.c.e. like we said we would. we admonish the police department, for their violence against a peaceful demonstration and we end business with banks that are literally profiting off of prisons, off of prison slavery and separating children and putting them in cages. you are doing business with them. i hope you are paying attention. the rest of the country is and the rest of the world as. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello.

i am a lifelong san francisco resident of mr e.'s district and second-generation san francisco public school teacher. and i want to say that we are not doing enough as a community, but specifically, the board of supervisors and the people who run the city are not doing enough to live up to the title of sanctuary city. i spent a lot of time at abolish i.c.e. but that was not my first time in that building. as a schoolteacher of a population of students, of varying backgrounds and legal statuses, i have had to be at that building a lot. often times they try to deport my students in the middle of the school year for various reasons. it does not feel like i am living or working in a sanctuary city. they don't even bring my students to the courtroom anymore. instead, what they do is they have them on cameras from some ghastly prison. so that it is san francisco and

that is what it looks like right now to do work in san francisco and try to help children learn and grow and have a chance at a life. and i don't want to spend my time in that building getting harassed by security guards in their. i don't want to be their. but i have to because i care about my kids. and of the young and courageous and old people who are out at occupy ice s.f. to serve way better than to have the sfpd come out and harass them and brutalize them. it is your duty as the leaders of this city to rein in sfpd. those mad dogs. to get them under control and say, altogether, we want the abolition of i.c.e. and the divestment from the deportation machine. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jesse fernandez. i'm a community organizer and part of the coalition for a

municipal bank. i want to admonish the violence perpetuated against the action and the occupation in front of the i.c.e. office. we need to be supporting on the ground efforts that complement what we purport to do in the city. that is to develop the sanctuary city and protect and value immigrant families. in addition to that, i want to call on the city to divest from the investments that we make that are contributing to exploit native and extractive uses across the country. one, not only separating families, but two exacerbating the impacts of fossil fuels here and abroad. these are -- the world is looking to us as leaders. in september, the governor jerry brown will be hosting the global climate action summit in san francisco. this is an opportunity to make a shift in the way the money is spent on the way we are making investments and the way that we