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 can be a model for the rest of the nation. i want to encourage us to establish a municipal bank. to that point, i want to say the treasurer who is tossed along with the municipal bank task force should be releasing a report in september, not in november. we don't want to see any delays. we want to see this task force do what it was charged to do in order to establish and increase the investments in the kinds of sustainable, equitable uses that san francisco is all about. too often we are hearing that there is not enough money for

affordable housing. there is not enough money for the small sites acquisition program. small businesses, our vulnerable, cannot afford seismic retrofitting. these are all of the things that municipal banks support us in doing. i want to urge the task force, the treasurer and the board of supervisors to support a municipal bank. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i have lived in san francisco since 1980. i am here in support of getting rid of i.c.e. i've been down at the occupied place this -- last week and i feel really strongly that san francisco is a sanctuary city. we have no business supporting i.c.e. even though i.c.e. e. is the last three letters of police. it is not th poet lights. it should not be. [laughter] that is at. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> hello, i am with the california nurses association. we are here to say we support a public bank for san francisco. we will never have healthy communities when our banks continue to fund corporations that exploit kahco press, pollute and harm our communities. our san francisco city funds are being used to fund mass incarceration and separation of families. our city funds are being used to fund climate change and dirty polluting fossil fuels that harm all of us. our city funds are being used to fund tobacco and firearms. our city funds are being used to target immigrants and communities of color and to oppress those communities. san francisco has an amazing opportunity to divest from the

exploitation and reinvest in a public bank for community and for all of our community needs. this is a great opportunity for the city of san francisco to be a leader. i also want to say that i am very alarmed at the san francisco police being used in occupy s.f. i was down there three times this past week supporting the movement. we are a sanctuary city. i want to remind all of us that we are a sanctuary city. we need to start acting like one and supporting the people that are protesting the crimes against humanity by detaining 3,000 immigrant children that we need to stand up for our communities and fight for our communities. we need to start living our progressive values now. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm the cochair of d.s.a. san francisco. an organization representing over 700 members in san francisco.

i'm also an immigrant. my family left everything behind so we could build a better life here. i know firsthand getting to this country is not easy. that is why i am asking you at this task force to divest from the big banks that profit and enable the terra machine that is i.c.e. we can't call ourselves a sanctuary city and continue to inflict terror upon the people who need us the most. that we can't turn our backs on these immigrants. i thought san francisco was a place where i could build a life and i am just disgusted by the treatment of police that i have seen here. by the way that we have been treating our undocumented neighbors by collaborating with i.c.e. by the way that we are treating peaceful protesters. simply trying to get their voices in. and that they oppose this horrible machine that is destroying everything.

everything that we have. destroying dreams and destroying hopes. so i think it is good. we have a good opportunity to do something to divest out of these banks that cause and profit from all this terror. i'm hoping you will do the right thing for once. by. [laughter] >> supervisor cohen: please keep your comments formal. for the next speaker, i see there is a gentleman in line. if there are any other members of the public would like to address the board during general public comment stepped up to your right. please proceed. >> hello. i'm from the mission. i'm also part of code pink. and also part of occupy s.f. i was here a couple times this week also. very young young people with babies. it was awful what happened. there were a couple dozen tents

they are. they really were stopping deportation. that is what we are here about. that is what we are here about. we are a sanctuary city. i just read, i am from florida data. and in tampa, the muslim community has come out and said, we want those infants from the border. we want to take care of them. why aren't we like that? that is all. i think we have to have more heart. we can't have all of this police brutality and have a messed up street. we have pictures of that street. how beautiful it was with beautiful signage. all wiped out. and brutally wiped out. one kid ended up in the hospital. let's get rid of i.c.e. get rid of it. get rid of homeland security. get rid of it all, ok? >> two. >> supervisor cohen: >> supervisor cohen: thank

you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. president cohen, ladies and gentlemen of the board, i am a voluntary psychiatric outpatient in this city for over a decade. are we to be governed by laws are governed by doctors. that is a question that the supreme court addressed 45 years ago in o'connor versus donaldson. as i was saying, to watch what weeks ago, let me see if i can get through at this time. that decision signified that a psychiatric diagnosis is not a reliable enough criterion on which to base public policy yet you are funding citywide case management community focus for -- of the rate of approximately $1 million per week. that case was decided to be incompatible with the pledge of allegiance with the constitution

of the united states and with the declaration of independence. you are able to get away with it because these patients are outpatients. they are not being held like children of i.c.e. they are being drastically and permanently deprived. >> supervisor cohen: before the next speaker, if there are any members of the public would like to address the board, step up to your right otherwise we will conclude public comment. >> good afternoon. i am a member of d.s.a. and member of the s.f. public bank coalition. i am glad i made it. i'm a little out of breath. i ran here and heard they were making public comment. i want to say, you know, first

of all, we need to abolish i.c.e. we call ourselves a sanctuary city. and it is shameful that this camp was raided the other night like that. and you, as leaders, we can only do so much. we protest and we march and i saw a lot of you out there with the families belong together march. i thank you for that. we can only do so much. you are in a pit special position where you could take, you know, you could do more. first of all, you could pass a resolution to abolish i.c.e. we need a public bank. geo- stocks have risen over 100% since trump has taken office. this is a plan strategy to lock

more people up. by using deposits to leverage loans to these corporations, abuse deposits come largely from cities. from our funds. i.c.e. commits human rights violations and over steps authority and reaches private prison corporations and targets of vulnerable populations. there are electe a elected offis and activists who challenge at. and divert scarce local resources to federal accounts. we call on you to move forward on what you can do. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> given that the mentally ill suffer from diminished capacity is and psychological ability, i ask that the legislative -- the

legislature determines them a protective class and the community. >> supervisor cohen: please speak directly into the microphone for us. >> ok. i was wondering if they can't legislatively be determined as a protected class if they aren't so already. for the purpose of adding, you know, mandatory jail time to sentencing or prosecution of those who pray on the mentally ill by selling them drugs, i believe that amounts to tens of millions of dollars a year actually. so cracked, heroin black methamphetamine, they are not doing the mentally ill any good. if they are a protected class, a mandatory additional jail time -- it would help the morale and police efforts. i would also have -- i studied in sub-saharan africa and eastern europe and in israel.

and in palestine. in my opinion, mexico has an awfully -- has transferred 20% of our population to the u.s. that is from an international relations perspective. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. any other members of the public would like to address the board during general public comment? plea stepped over to your right after this gentleman. >> good afternoon. i will keep this short and sweet. please keep san francisco a sanctuary city. abolish i.c.e. and protect our most vulnerable people. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for your comments. >> supervisor breed: madam clerk, can you read the items on the adoption without committee reference? there is a member of the public would like to speak. come on up. >> hello. i am a boater and a resident of san francisco. i was appalled at the police action against occupy i.c.e. i was appalled i did not see any members of the board of supervisors sitting with occupy

i.c.e. and i'm appalled that a whole bunch of you went to families belong together and when somebody was doing something about it, i did not see you. it literally hurts my heart. i was born here and you are not living and breathing the values of san francisco. remember who you are and remember who we are. >> are there any members of the public would like to comment? please step forward to. seeing non, general public comment is closed at this time. madam clerk, please read the items on the adoption without committee reference calendar. >> clerk: items 25 through 30 are being called. a vote may enact these items today or an item can be severed and considered separately. >> i would like to sell -- sever items 28 and 29. >> supervisor cohen: anyone else? all right. madam clerk, on the balance. items 24-30.

supervisor cohen? [roll call] >> supervisor cohen: there are ten yes. >> supervisor breed: could you please call and read items 28 and 29 together. >> supervisor cohen: item 28 is a resolution to command and honor supervisor london breed for her distinguished service as a supervisor of the city and county of san francisco. at item 29 is a resolution to

command and honor supervisor jeff sheehy for his distinguished service as a supervisor in the city and county of san francisco. >> supervisor breed: thank you. one point of order. the resolution that was on the balance of a calendar, i would like to recall the role and we voted. those resolutions will be adopted and the emotions are approved. thank you. just keeping up with housekeeping, now is a fun time for us to talk about our colleagues that are going to be departing. i will start with supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you supervisor co. in. i want to say a few words about our two departing colleagues. our former president. i want to say, i really have enjoyed serving with you and the work that we have done together and i look forward to working with you in a new capacity as a

mayor. don't forget about us supervisors over here when you go across the hall. to my friend, of many many yea years, i just did the math. i have served with 32 members of the board of supervisors in the 11 and a half years i have been on and off the board. i have started with almost everybody since 2,000 except for david to and julie christianson. i think they are the only people i did not overlap with. i have known jeff since before that. and it really has been an honor and pleasure serving with you on the board of supervisors. i look forward to a continued friendship long after both of us are done with politics. i really enjoyed serving with you. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor kim? 's. >> supervisor kim: share.

supervisor ronan? >> supervisor ronen: i want to publicly congratulate you, mayor breed and art former president of the board of supervisors. congratulations. incredible accomplishments and i also look forward to working with you in this new role. we always haven't seen eye to eye on everything, but i know that you act on what you think is best. and based on your heart. i do too. i look forward to continuing that work together. congratulations. i too hope you don't forget us over on the side of the hall. and to supervisor she he, it has been fun sitting on a committee with you. we both started together and i will miss you so much. i just really grateful for you giving this time to the city of san francisco. i know you serve the city and so

many capacities for so long. it has been a real honor to get to know you. i too look forward to continuing our friendship. i just wanted to thank your amazing husband and daughter who have been sitting through this entire board meeting for sharing your incredible family member with us. it is a huge sacrifice for the whole family. we all know that. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. supervisor kim? supervisor tang? >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. i will just say, i know when you first joined the board of supervisors we talked a lot about how it was very interesting for you to move from being an app on the advocacy side, especially during the budget season, and to become a member of our budget committee here. i hope that was a very interesting and fun experience for you to do that. i also want to shout out to your

family as well. your husband and daughter who i know, this has been quite a journey for them. i hope that at the end of the day, you found that this experience is really rewarding. i know that they are your pride and joy, and everything for you. i hope you will be able to spend more time with them after this term. to my friends and mayor elect, london breed to, you know, i wrote this to you as well, every time i think about your story and everything that you were able to overcome to be in this role and in this position, and what you are about to become tomorrow, it is just so incredibly inspiring, and just to know that someone else who grow up here in san francisco like me who went to public schools, i am already getting emotional. i am just so proud of you and everything that you have been able to accomplish. not just as a supervisor but in your whole entire life. and you are such an inspiration

to so many people. especially so many young girls who can look up to you and thank gosh. i could be mayor of san francisco one day. i look forward to all the incredible things that you will be able to do as the mayor of san francisco and congratulations. >> supervisor breed: thank you supervisors. next is supervisor he. >> supervisor yee: thank you. it has been a real pleasure to get to know you and serve on the board at the same time. i may -- i will really miss having a colleague here that is probably as passionate about senior issues as i am. and now i will have to find someone else who will be as passionate on the board. i will miss that part of you and for the communities that you advocate for, you will be a hard person to replace. good luck in your next endeavo endeavour.

mayor elect breed, you know, two things. two main things. number 1, you are the role model for anybody who has been a lion and will be a future lion. for the rest of you don't know what i am talking about, you are not san franciscan ben. [laughter] but the galileo lions. we both went to the school. i went to the school three generations before london breed. but we are really proud of you. not only as, you know, a lion, but also as somebody else that was born in san francisco. and i have an open invitation

for you to have a regular meeting in my office any time. [laughter] >> supervisor breed: supervisor if you are? spee five i will be very brief. i know it is not an easy job. as we all know. and that, although it is an honor to serve the people of san francisco, thank you so much. i also want to thank your family. thank you so much for sharing him with us and allowing that the people of san francisco can be represented during this time. i know it is challenging, and i just wanted to say thank you for your service. and many, many good wishes to you. and to mayor elect breed, thank you for your leadership on the board as a board president. i have learned from you and i look forward to learning more from you in your new leadership role as the leader of san francisco. thank you and good luck. >> supervisor breed:

>> supervisor safai: , i know that when you came in here on the first day we were all sworn and together. we were all bright eyed and did not know what to expect. i know your family and your daughter has experienced this with you and you spoke from the very beginning and i heard you say that this was a decision you made as a family. i respected that from the beginning and i know you carried that with you the entire time you're on the board and he did it with -- you are distinguished and you had honor. i know your daughter will be proud of the time he served on the board. as well as your partner and the people you touch with as a member of the board of supervisors. i appreciate your time. everything happens for a reason. you will be back in their lives more full-time and i know they will fully appreciate that. president breed, we go way back baby. [laughter] >> supervisor breed: mayor elect breed. >> i'm sorry. cmr ready trying to think about

what i will say. at least i won't invite you to a monthly meeting in my office. [laughter] i'm just kidding. yes, mayor elect breed, we go way back. all i can say is that what i want to share publicly is i truly appreciate the way you embraced me from the first day i came on this board and from the way he opened up your office on the way that you said that you would help me understand this board and what it meant to be a member of the board of supervisors. you have been a strong leader in your time. it is well-deserved. and you have been given a second term. i am so honored to have supported you as our mayor and i look forward to working with you. thank you for the time you have spent here with us. >> supervisor breed: supervisor stephanie? >> supervisor stefani: thank you. i know our time was short together. i wish i had a chance to get to know you better and i want to wish you the best. as you move forward in your next

adventures and thank you it to your family. i know that is the most important thing and it is a family decision to do this job. i just want to wish you the best of luck. like i said, i wish we had more time to serve together. thank you for your service to district eight and the city and county of san francisco. to mayor elect breed, it is no secret that my daughter is obsessed with you. you mean so much to her. i thank you for that. i just, you know, reflecting back the first time i met you, it was my first event and people were saying, you have to meet london breed. you have to meet london breed. when he walked into the kitchen where we were at, in a home, i remember thinking, she has so much confidence she has so much presence. i was so happy to get to know you over the years as a legislative aide to supervisor farrell and get to work with you. and when we did the sandy hook memorial this last december, your words were so moving. and the story that you told and

what you have gone through, and what you bring to the gun violence prevention movement is just so inspiring to me. i was so happy we were able to do that together. i also want to thank you for welcoming me to the chamber in january. you are so gracious and wonderful and helped me. he did not have to do that. i just wanted to say thank you for really welcoming me to this board. your story is nothing short of incredible and i look forward to working with you. i am so excited for you when you are talking at the rosa parks elementary school. i was sitting next to president cohen watching the little girls look up to you. that is so inspirational. you give so much hope to so many little girls and they may pursue a life a public service because of you. that is just so incredible and i cannot wait to see you in what you do as mayor of this wonderful city. thank you.

>> supervisor breed: supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: first to our madam president, mayor elect, breach. it has been a pleasure to work with you. it has been a pleasure to serve under a women president and i look forward to serving under a women mayor here in the city and county of san francisco. i can certainly say that you have probably been one of our more fun board president's here in chambers. and it was a pleasure to work with you on inclusionary housing policy with supervisor peskin and steph ie and to sit on government audit and oversight committees. i look forward to a resolution on many of the issues that we talk about, both in open and closed session under your leadership as mayor. i wanted to speak to you as well. just so you know, your office has specifically asked me to talk a little bit about you.

which i am honored to do today. i will rise for that. and also to thank you for taking on incredibly tough position that we all sit here in chambers to do which is to serve as a member of the san francisco board of supervisors and represent the city that we love. you, jeff, and you have such an intimate history and relationship with the city and our community. there really has been an honor to serve with you. all of you would know his history very well. his political career began long before he had any inkling that one day he would serve as an elected official and run for office. and his activism stretches back for many of you are here to the nineties when you first started canvassing for green peas along side monies of that --dash many of the people we see on the street and also work to elect kathleen brown to the california governor's office. you were the advocate for the

1996 equal benefits ordinance that required companies that worked with the city to provide the same benefits to domestic partners as they did to married couples. you are most known for your legacy as an h.i.v. aids activist. you are public service expands to serve communities within districts that you know have been historically underserved, serving as the h.i.v. aids is our under gavin newsom and advancing the connection between the city and patients who are in dire need of resources. your work to expand getting to zero consortium, is a citywide effort that you founded which helps to -- which seeks to eliminate the number of h.i.v. infections up to zero by 2020. and two years. an ambitious initiative. it has provided countless low income and uninsured residents to access the key medication

that they need that prevents hiv-negative patients from becoming positive. your work has -- has contributed to the continuous and incredible decrease in a new h.i.v. diagnoses. and since 2,006, we have seen a 57% reduction in it new cases reported here in san francisco. i don't think that could have happened without your leadership, your organizing, your advocacy on something we learned here. your persistence. your dogged persistence. you have made history on this board is a first openly hiv-positive official to serve the city and county of san francisco. you use your position to bring a voice to a community that has, and continues to be publicly silenced by government across the globe. on to say that san francisco has had you as a representative, i think truly is a testament to the rest of the world what we can accomplish here. you use your position to bring a voice to a community that has and continues to be publicly

silenced. you have extended harvey milk's legacy by ensuring the hiv-positive community has representation and can stand with the community through any adversity. you have also worked to bring millions of dollars in funding to social services that have supported and uplifted the residents of district eight and our city and fighting for positive resource centres to have a permanent home here in the heart of our city. you have worked to pass legislation that provides shelter beds for individuals who have been discharged from behavioural health facilities and are in need of a place to sleep and recuperate. you have also worked on key legislation spanning to fight chop shops here in san francisco and to clear our sidewalks. it was really an honor to work alongside you as you served on the public safety and neighborhood services committee and as a constant and unyielding advocate for our cities, families, and youth. everyone on this board has

mentioned your amazing family. and as someone who has served and as someone who has worked with a lot of people, of volunteer or working here at city hall, the first person i always write a thank you card to as the partner and to the children. because they are supporting you in doing this incredibly difficult job. but they are also giving up their time. and their connection with you to share you with the rest of the city. i want to acknowledge your husband and your daughter if you are in the audience today. thank you so much for sharing your wonderful husband and father with the rest of the city and county. i have really enjoyed getting to know you and sitting in your living room as well. i think it is so important at this time that we really honor people who are willing to serve. whether we agree or disagree, into such a tough job. you have to, out the baseline,

respect people who are willing to serve. i wanted to end by saying that you have really set a standard in providing for our community during this -- to continually uplift and power. we must strengthen the areas we call home and make them accessible for all. i want to commend you for your work in remodelling efforts for dog parks in district eight that allows hundreds of families to go for walks and spend time with those closest to them. we cannot talk enough about how important it is for us to have ways for our communities to connect in san francisco. it is not a policy, but it brings our city together. finally, i want to wish you off. you still have so much left to give. i'm excited about your next st step, both in your career and in serving our community. you have a lot left to do and we have many, many expectations. i am sure many members of our community depend on you.

i have to say, you know, we probably do not dish -- did not start off on the best wet on the board of supervisors when you were sworn in. i think that one of the things i love about serving on this board are the unexpected friendships that emerge and develop. and i have to say i have a tremendous amount of respect for you. you have taken positions that were incredibly difficult and i have talked to you through a lot of your decision-making processes. to see how firmly you believe in representing and being independent, even inputting, you know, yourself on the line out there for criticisms, for loss of friendship and social connections. to say that you really think this is the right thing to do. it's not an easy thing to do. i have not often see -- seen elected officials take positions as independently as you do. i want to appreciate your willingness to