>> future boards 20, 30, and 40 years from now are going to look and say what did san francisco do in 2018. >> thank you for your comments. >> peter warfield executive director of library user's

association. outside is a typical day. outside some are suffering with 100-degree plus temperatures. not so cool is fact that today was the day for you to approve $3.4 million for the public library to install a very privacy-threatening, radio frequency adaptation technology, $3.4 million. you have done this despite the serious privacy threats coming from use of rfid and implications for our diverse community as it is referred to. there has been no public discussion about this here and there's been no pub lis discussion about the details of

why some supervisors have flatly reversed themselves on this issue. the aclu, the american civil liberties union have written a letter which i have provided you which strongly has opposed, as they have for many, many years, more than ten years, and yet the supervisors have quiet approve this unfortunate, and, for some people may become a disastrous installation. i hope that you will think about that and oppose. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is

karen fleshman. i come here tonight as a mom, as a mentor, and as a community member. if young black women can't be safe in the bay area, where can they be safe. i ask that this body recognize that it is racism that is killing our young people and to work tirelessly to end racism. white people, public officials, new comers to san francisco like myself, tech professionals,

ending racism is on us. we must change ourselves and our relationshipst and our spears of influence and use our influences and hire people of color, stop applying our brilliant to developing some stupid app, and apply it to creating a safe community. supervisors, more police officers will not keep our young people safe. more police officers will lead to more oscar grants, more mario woods, i please with you, do not hire 200 new officers. create the commission supervisor yee called for to study what size police force we need in san francisco. if 50% of our calls are for people in mental health distress, sfpd is not the answer, we need a core of mediators without guns in our

community who can deescalate, work with mentally ill people. this is your responsibility. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, can i have the projection, please. my name the the super girl of san francisco and i am here to talk about nia wilson. i am here because we have been called to action to do something about black lives and brown lives who have been taken by hatred and racism. i, as a person who has lighter

skin, is considered caucasian and white is here to speak out. the murder of nia wilson, may she rest in peace, the power she was denied is unspeakable. it cannot be met with silence. there is a funeral service in oakland on august 3 at 11:00 a.m., and i would ask all of you to attend that service, and furthermore, god has put it on my heart to do something important. i have created something called the unity group. we are going to hold a kneel, stand, and salute to honor the memory of nia wilson being murdered by hate. i will kneel, stand, and salute

because her life cannot be silenced and i'm going to go there with other people, and i am inviting you on august 3 to attend the oakland athletics game on friday night at 6:05:00 p.m. we are going to have candles and a vigil and we will be inside and outside of the stadium. i ask all of you now to come with me in solidarity to tell the media, the radio, social media, don't let her life go unsong and don't let hatred continue to thrive. >> thank you for your comments. >> hello. hello, everyone. my name is roderick coleman, a

vetran of the united states army and i just over came abusing drugs in the tenderloin districts. i came here to let you know that i am in a program called fresh start. it is a program that helps the vet to get help to heal internally inside and has helped me get my life back in order. we would like for someone other than supervisor tang to come and visit our facility. we have a long waiting list after a lot of veterans have heard how this program has helped a lot of veterans, and we would like your support to come out and pay us a visit. we set up a booth for mary breed

when she was doing her campaign and we are giving back in ways that we have been taught to give back, and i feel great to know today that i got my life back in order. supervisor tang, we hope to see you. we have a surprise for you, so we are looking forward to seeing you and your information is with your interns. thank you for your time. i just wanted to share this information with you all. >> my name is amanda, and i live in san francisco and work for the american lung association and am part of the coalition san francisco kid versus big tobacco. i wanted to thank you for passing the ordinance that will end the sale of tobacco

products. as you know it was voted on june 5, and 67% of voters saying yes to proposition e. our coalition has been working to learn more about the implementation of proposition e. this ordinance is set to dpw into effect on july 20, yet from our understanding, there isn't a set timeframe for implementation, so i'm here to let you know about that, and so-to-sato say that we are hoping for switch implementation. >> tom gilber gilberte, the

clinic i have been going to is shut down. for our police department, i want them to retire safe, healthy, and happy, which is a hard thing to do. their own alcoholism rate and divorce rate is real high. recruits from san francisco, i would like that to be a priority. also the rookies after they have graduated training, i would like to see them involved with a team of ten-year veterans that have never fire add bullet, so it becomes a three-person team, and one of those are always without a gun. you can be a good policeman without a gun. we would like to lighten up their belt and if it's for a month, item 65 good.

it could be cool to be a policeman. we need to stop shooting things at people. we want the police on our side and we want to be on their side. our democracy right now, how would you compare it to our global climate? are we as polluted as the skies are? in guatemala from iran, panama, chile, haiti, we have involved ourselves with governments who voted to be represented by their people and we didn't like that and inflicted our dictators on that. here in san francisco -- could they be a drug pusher. wells fargo, they made billions and paid $1 million back in fines. all for greed? [bell ringing]

thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is tony and i just wanted to say that prop e is pretty heavy on what it accomplishes. the plague was ended during the renaissance with the combination of nicotine and menthol. we have a lot of parasites around the world right now that have become a lot strong ter since antibiotics were introduced in our foods in the '90e90s and people don't realize that it was a whole way to deliver thing like parasites to the body. no one talks about how things get inside of them and how things were designed to keep that out of you, so removing

that from our shelves in the options of things that work for different people's bodies is a serious health consequence that people don't often think of. a form of tobacco that is used and still is used to keep bugs away. it is great at getting bed bugs away from your bed, very scary parasites that affect the housing industry rely on things like nicotine and menthol. in addition to prop e and the issues created by that, the 24% tax on cannabis has thrown the cannabis commune into array. you have so many different strains used for various purposes from adhd to hormone-like situations, that

you would use something like cortisone for are not accessible because of that tax. the u.k. has had am huge problem with gamma rays and how that has affected the breakdown of cannabis. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> good evening president cohen, and ladies and gentlemen of the board. since this body is apparently of the opinion that there is no constitutionally significant difference between involuntary medication with antipsychotic medication of outpatient citizen of this city and county and involuntary antipsychotic information of a inmate within a prison. i would like to read you accounts of antipsychotic

medication of a patient in context. the first, speaking truth to power published in volume 20 of the new england journal pages 301-302. indiscernible. once the inmate fails to arrive at the medication line, the nurse or doctor proceeds to this or her cell and an exchange ensues in which the inmate refuses to come out of his cell. at this point a special tactical unit is notified and the unit is locked down and a special team complete with visors and command codes arrives to extract the prisoner from his cell. they forcibly place him against the wall where the medication is

administered by injection. [bell ringing] the second is in washington versus harper. indiscernible. forcing psychotropics also produced -- oh, i am out of time madame clerk. >> thank you for your comments. >> supervisor cohen: thank you is there any other public comment? >> i am requesting information from the rules committee i have am trying to figure out when will the rules committee have a hearing or whatever they do regarding the shelter monitoring committees quarterly report.

i guess my other situation is, the protections in the shelters systems are so weak over the past two to three years of me actually going to a shelter. i has been excessively abused and i am at the point with my situation with the shelters, that i would not recommend going to the shelter system and i have been a victim of violence between staff and the clients and it seems like nobody is trying to do anything to make any of these things better. i mean, i believe i have been to the local homeless coordinating board and the shelter monitoring committee, and it seems like there is no political wheel to make these shelters safe from the violence that i have received. it also seemed like there has been excessive and numerous

contract violations and policy and procedure violations, and it seems like it gets swept under the rug like nobody is caring whether or not the contracts are being followed. [bell ringing] i am at the point where i believe the local homeless board is overtly and maliciously bigoted against the homeless. it just seems like they are just -- i have lost any and all faith in the local coordinating homeless board to do anything but protect the service providers. >> thank you for your comments. >> supervisor cohen: any other members of the public that would like to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. thank you.

madame clerk. i believe the next item is item 69. would you please call it. >> item 69 is a resolution to support california state proposition 10, the affordable housing act on the november 6, 2018 ballot. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor tang. >> supervisor tang: , i was asking if we could sever item 69. >> of course. >> and we have just called it madame president. >> supervisor cohen: i know. >> supervisor tang: i was just asking if we could continue this given recess. >> supervisor cohen: madame clerk when is the next board meeting? >> clerk: september 4.

>> supervisor cohen: septembese. i would like to acknowledge the house has changed. madame clerk do we need a role call vote? >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> supervisor mandelman: i have a question. >. what is the reason to continue it. >> supervisor tang: she doesn't need one. >> supervisor peskin: if i may, matters on the adopt with that committee reference calendar except for motions, resolutions require a unanimous vote. if there is not, it goes to committee, so a continuance is a polite way to then have a vote at the next meeting, but that requires eight votes. aye. [laughter] >> thank you you. [roll call]

there are 10ayes. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next item please. clerk io time 70. [ reading item 70] >> supervisor peskin: thank you madame president and i want to thank the clerk for preparing the appropriate amendments before everybody and i would like to move them and add one more, which is based on our earlier action today where in the t. n. c. gross receipts tax

wasn't submitted to the ballot and i would like to strike the words online 22 to page 23 at line eight and then adopt the other amendments as presented by the clerk. >> supervisor cohen: i would like to modify the language. it should read cannabis business tax. >> clerk: which page? >> supervisor cohen: i believe it is on page -- it starts on page three madame clerk. i am looking for the exact line. i am looking at the amendments you circulated for us, so amendment e, it just says

initiative ordinance cannabis tax. i have want to change it to cannabis business tax. >> i believe it does in the legislation. >> supervisor cohen: that is right i just wanted to make sure we were consistent. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor peskin made a motion, is there a second. second bysym by supervisor fewer. can we take the amendments without objection? we can take the amendments without exception. the motions are amended. without objection the motion is approved as amended. madame clerk, is there any other business? >> clerk: yes, today's meeting willing adjourn on behalf of the late ms. mercedes rouis, for the

late phillip scott ryan, and for the late mr. gus constantinutus. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. i want to bring to your attention by legislative aid britney, today is her last day and she is going on maternity leave, and she and her husband are expecting their first child. she has been a delight to spar with intellectually. we haven't seen eye-to-eye on a few things but for the most part have enjoyed each other and i want to thank her for her thoughtfulness and incredible

ability to give shade. she was the most impeccable dressed woman in my office. if you see her between now and the next five minutes, please thank her. britney, i wanted to say thank you on behalf of the city of san francisco for your time and also for your talent. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] [meeting adjourned]

[applause]journed] >> the hon. london breed: hi, everybody. i am so excited to be here today to sign my first budget as mayor. thank you all for joining us today. today's budget is really a team effort. it involved so many of you here who made this possible coming

together to put together what is going to be, i think, one of the best budgets to implement what we know are our priorities so we can see change on our streets here in san francisco every day. i'd like to thank our board president, malia cohen, who's here today to lead the budget process along with members of the budget and committee, supervisor stefani, supervisor fewer, and supervisor yee. and i'd also like to thank members of the board of supervisors who are here today. supervisor mandelman, supervisor brown, supervisor satisfy tang, a safai, and supervisor tang, and all the budget and legislative analysts who will be fighting me, and the director of the mayor's budget office, kelly

ki kirkpoint rick. yes, you can give all those people a hand. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: you know, these are really challenging times for our nation, and we have a federal administration pursuing an agenda that threatens our core values and dismantles programs for people that we know that need them the most. but this is not the first time that san francisco has faced threats from the federal government and sadly won't be the last. now more than ever our city must respond by protecting our values, protecting our residents and making smart investments for the future of our city. this budget is a clear reflection of our priorities, a clear demonstration of how we will invest our process perin making sure that there is equity and inclusion.

and we are happy to be here today at bishop swain community house because my top priority as mayor is homelessness. we need to get people out of tents, off the streets and into the care and shelters that they need. and bishop swain, a permanent -- we'll just let that go by. we're going to ban helicopters in the city. this will be a permanent housing site for formerly homeless individuals does exactly what we want to see happen in our city. i met earlier with some residents here, and it is clear that our problem with homelessness is not intractable. budget investments like the ones we are making today change people's lives. michael, who i met here, was homeless for three years, sleeping in his van, living on

the streets, sleeping in golden gate park after he lost his job of 14 years. he is now housed and living a great life. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: brenda is here today, as well. -- oh, brenda, is it okay? i better not tell your age. homeless for four years before being connected to bishop swain by the sanctuary, a 24 hour shelter in the south of market neighborhood, these two examples are what happens when we provide a safe environment and permanent, supportive housing where we can make real progress. and the budget includes $60 million in new funding for critical homeless services and programs which will include 430

new permanent supportive housing units over the next two years. now we know it's not enough to get people indoors. once they get the care and the assistance they need, we are committed to providing permanent, affordable housing and doing more to make sure we ensure housing in our city. $4.4 million will go to operate a navigation center specifically for transitional age youth -- that's young people between the ages of 18 and 24. $12 million is allocated to expand rapid rehousing programs for youths and adults, and $2 million will go towards creating two access points to families and residents struggling with homelessness. additionally, this budget will fund four new navigation center facilities, including one that specifically works with women and expecting mothers.

these navigation centers go beyond the traditional shelters in offering intensive counseling and services to help people break the cycle of addiction, poverty and homelessness. we're investing $6 million to create a dedicated street medicine team, a first in the nation program, to bring treatment directly to people suffering with addiction on our streets. finally, we know the best way to fight homelessness is to keep people housed in the first place. this past election, voters approved proposition f, which provides a right to counsel for tenants who face eviction, and i'm proud that this board and this mayor is investing

$5.8 million to fund this program. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: additionally, we are reviewing our -- renewing our commitment to creating and preserving affordable housing by investing more than $800 million to construct and preserve over 3,000 units of affordable housing. while we work to help our homeless population into care and shelter, it is clear that the daily conditions on our streets are unacceptable. i'm committed to cleaning up our city. i want people in san francisco, when they walk out the door, to feel the difference when they step outside. this will take a focused, sustained effort, and we're making the investments to make this happen. in addition to the $67 million that we are currently spending on street cleaning, $13 million in new funding over the next two years will go to fund comprehensive efforts that will help make a difference.

44 new neighborhood cleaners, split across all of the districts here in the city so that no provider is upset about getting their fair share. we are opening five new pit stops, and we're expanding the hours so people have rest rooms to use rather than using our streets for that purpose. and we are expanding our efforts in cleaning up needles. that is going to be so important to the cleanliness of our streets and the quality of life. i also recently announced that we are going to be investing another $725,000 for the fix-it team. these are really neighborhood-driven project that's can help make the neighborhood better based on feedback from community members. this is all a part of making our community safe and making our communities clean. this budget includes a strategic plan that will deploy 250 new officers on our streets.

over the next two years, you will see more foot patrols throughout the city and additional officers will be added to help address violent crime and property crime. this budget also includes $1.7 million in funding to implement the 272 reforms recommended to our city by obama's department of justice. and we are adding, because supervisor president cohen is making us do this because of her leadership around police accountability, another $1.5 million to create four new positions at the department of police accountability. when i was on the board of supervisors, one of my proudest accomplishments was helping address our ambulance crises. but today, there are still emergency response issues we know we need to tackle. we're adding personnel resources to the 911 emergency

dispatch center to ensure that san franciscans get the immediate help they need, especially when there's an emergency. we're investing $1.5 million in funding for the fire department to staff a medical assistance response team to quickly respond to medical service calls in the tenderloin areas where we know there is a high call volume for those services. all of these investments equal one thing: positive change for yo our residents, and i am optimistic that we are going to be able to make these changes together. when you walk the streets, you will feel the difference from our neighborhood cleaning group, our mental health and homelessness investments meaning better and quicker response to people who are in crises on our street. this budget investment means more police officers in our neighborhood, more beat trained

with 21 century policing. and our significant spending on affordable housing reinforces my commitment to affordable housing in san francisco. this budget represents our values for a safer, cleaner, more equitiable city. i keep saying this. we all want to make a difference. i love this amazing city. many of us who work for the city and these nonprofits, we know how hard it is to get our city to a better place. we want to do that. we want to focus on making san francisco, and these dollars, invested right are the first steps to help us get to that better place, and i am excited to be signing this budget, and i'm going to be even more excited when i see this money being put to work on the streets of san francisco so that each and every san franciscan can feel the

difference for a cleaner, safer, and more beautiful city. with that, i'd like to turn it over to the president of the board who is also the finance chair for this budget, supervisor malia cohen. [applause] >> president cohen: thank you. hi, everyone. what city would we be in if there were not the occasional hecklers. you heard the remarks from the mayor. she talked about how the budget was going to be spent, and i want to spend a couple minutes talk about the process that we went through that brought us to where we are today. first of all, this is an $11 billion budget. it's a reflection of the city of st. francis, a city that we

both grew up in. this budget is supporting the city's most vulnerable with passion and dignity and also helps us solve some of problems that we are facing. it's the result of a robust, transparent, and inclusive process with an open and often vigorous discussion around our priorities. what i'm most proud of are the investments reducing homelessness, and i want to acknowledge our guests here. thank you for allowing us in your home today. and i also want to call out that we are champions of public safety for all citizens, and we are also committed to making sure that our streets and our parks are clean, that they are safe, and i'm proud of our commitment to serve the residents of all of san francisco. so some of you may remember previous budget processes as being bruising, yes? no?

yes, says ben rosenfeld. bruising and somehow contentious and somehow would draw the ugliness not out of only department heads, not only out of elected officials, but also our advocates. i'm just being honest here. the mayor talks about how she was excited to be signing our first budget, i'm excited to be signing my last budget. now i'm grateful that i was given the opportunity to chair the budget and finance committee, and it truly has opened my eyes on the entire internal workings of local government, but also, many things were revealed to me last year that i set out to correct this year, one of which is how we evaluate the departments that are making requests. and for what reason are we not more policy driven? so my goal, along with my legislative team, headed up by sophia kitler, our goal was to

take out the politics of the budget process and really infuse the policy access of how we are driving our budget. and i think we created a budget that was more transparent, that created robust, in depth, and thoughtful policy conversations that helped shape why we do what we do. i mean, in essence, we're all public servants. most of us took an oath to be here, but we are serving because we believe in the work that we're doing. we believe that we are given an opportunity to help people and have a -- to help them have a positive impact on their live, and we cannot ever lose that focus. and sometimes, it gets lost, so what we set out to do was to have a stronger, more transparent and more democratic process. we wanted to make sure that we are funding our greatest needs and investing in the most effective programs. you see this is a unique process because if you recall, the budget actually starts in september. many people don't know that, but the process starts in september, and last september,

it started with ed lee. he gave a directive to his department heads, he gave some rules on some constraints, on where -- and where the budget priorities should be, and then, by december, department heads have an idea on where they're going. they submit this budget -- excuse me. to ed lee has his hands on this budget. and then, you may recall, he had an untimely death. and so then we were placed in a chaotic state. mayor farrell made the presentation on june 1 on the budget. he had his fingerprints on this budget. so now we are going to be celebrating signing of abudget that has the fingerprints of our mayor london breed. that is a moment in our history. we need to celebrate this because we are resilient. we are resilient, and we didn't do it alone. there are certain parameters that people like kelly kirkpatrick and ben rosenfeld

helped put into place. what we did was we took an entire comprehensive list of requests from all across the city, $140 million that my colleagues had, that departments had, that advocates had. instead of making this list secret, we made it public. we put it on the website and we made it available to everyone. and i think that helped demystify the process for process. what we also did, we had long, multidepartmental meeting to understand not only what we had funded in previous years but also how we are doing in those areas. are we, as a city and are we as a department, meeting our mark? or are we continuously throwing money out there, trying and hoping to meet our mark? so we introduced some metrics that we're going to be implementing -- i hope, in the

future. i will not be here, so i'm going to look at my colleagues to do that, to make sure we are doing a good job to fund programs that are solid and help us solve major problems that we have identified, such as homelessness, such as the cleanliness of the streets. we use this as a framework to evaluate the budget's proposed budget, and so we were asking critical questions such as how do these investments make further the priorities of the department? are the investments missing anything? as we know, the june budget season has always been a chaotic time where the community benefit organizations and frankly those front line people that are working directly on the ground have come to the budget to ask for additional funding. i'm proud to say nothing was cut. the list of budget that the mayor presented to you is an expansion of good things.

i at this point would be remiss if i did not think carmen chiu, the assessor recorder who was instrumental in bringing in the funds so we could have the benefit of spending it. this has been an iterative process. i would like to just call out the committee, the budget and finance committee, the vice chair sandy fewer, supervisor yee, supervisor stefani. i also want to recognize supervisor sheehy because he had a significant role in shaping this as well. jon givner, our deputy city attorney giving fantastic advice. i say a fantastic sparring partner when you spar with him, and ben rosenfeld, who has been our rock. he gives solid and sound advice. and kelly kirkpatrick, a wonderful woman who stepped up

in the absence of melissa whitehouse and has now been donned the queen of the budget -- budget team. i also want to recognize harvey rose because harvey rose is a critical entity in the process of the budget because he takes out the politics, and he just goes straight to the numbers and goes straight to the crux of the issue, and he squeezes, sometimes bloods comes out of this process, but he squeezes dollars and cents that allows us to begin the discussion on how we can add to the budget priorities laid out by the mayor's office. so harvey rose, thank you, you have been fantastic, the consummate professional, and i want to thank your entire team. and of course the clerk of the board, linda wong. as you know, the clerks run the machine. they run the committee. they start on time -- well, relatively on time, but the notes are there, and i would not be able to do my job if i

did not have the outstanding help of linda wong. so folks, i hope you will enjoy this moment. i'm excited to stand next to mayor breed to sign her first, my last, budget, and i just want to say congratulations to all the department heads that participate in this process, that come before the budget and finance committee, and they plead their case. i've tried to make the process fun and thoughtful and most importantly informative, and with that, i thank you. malia cohen. >> the hon. london breed: the last point i want to make as we sign this budget, i want us all to remember that we know that there's a lot of work to do. and the work that we do every single day can be the difference between someone's life and whether or not they make it. and that's why when you go out there, and you spend this money, make sure you remember that everything that you do for the city, it matters.

it matters for people like michael, it matters for people who are here in this location where we are today, and so let's make every dollar count, let's make every dollar matter for the lives of so many san franciscans, and i want to make sure, again, that we walk out the doors and we feel the difference for a better san francisco. now let's sign this budget. [applause]

>> the hon. london breed: all right. are we ready? >> president cohen: thank you. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. and

>> president tan: welcome to the tuesday, august 7, meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. i'm bryant tan, commission president. we have a very small quorum for the time being, but before we do a roll call, a few housekeeping items. one, if you are a member of the public and would like to speak when i call for public comment, please fill out a public comment card or come up during that item. second, if you have a cell phone or something that makes a lot of noise, please turn