earthquake and fire. the eatery was made famous by playing a small role in "the maltese falcon." he turned over the operation of the restaurant to his son and my friend, john. he continued to frequent the wood-panel dining room, greeting them with "john's grill -- nothing but the best." sidna died in 2009. in addition to his son, john, gus is survived by his son lionell, douaughters christine and a special thanks to dora escobar and irma izari. for those of you interested in celebrating his life, services

will be 10:30, august 7, in san francisco. the family prefers in lieu of flowers, make a contribution to the san francisco firefighters toys program.

>> 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]

>> hi.g adjourned] my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. in our seven mile by seven mile city, we have over 210,000 properties and close to 90% of

their are residential like the homes you and i live in, so you might ask, how can we possibly value all these properties? well, to better understand our work, we need to explain the state's proposition 13 law. in 1978, california voters passed proposition 13. under prop 13, we value your property at market value when you first buy it. every year after, that value goes up by the c.p.i. or the california consumer price index. but if the c.p.i. is more than 2%, prop 13 caps the increase at 2%. we'll walk-through the maximum increases prop 13 would allow. let's take a home with initial value of $400,000. in the second year your assessed value grows by a maximum of 2%, growing from $400,000 to $408,000. in year three, that $408,000 is increased by 2% to roughly

$416,000. every year, the value grows by the maximum rate of 2%, and that is called your prop 13 value. keep in mind as time goes by your prop 13 value may not be the same as market rate. what do we mean by that? let's say over the last ten years, home prices in san francisco have gone every roughly 10% every year. despite that, your prop 13 value is capped at 2% growth creating a difference between your market value and prop 13 value. know that the value recessed when there's a change in ownership. a change in ownership means that the property has a new zoner. maybe through a -- new owner. maybe through a sale, a gift or adding or dropping names through title. at that time the home will be assessed a new market rate. that value becomes a new starting point for the property. just like before, the growth continues to be limited at 2%

until the next transfer happens. remember, the new owners are responsible for paying taxes at the new level from the first day that they own it. value might also be added when construction happens on your property. that would be another instance when growth in your value might exceed 2%. here, we would add the value of construction on top of your existing prop 13 value. every july, we'll let you know what your assessed value is by sending you a letter called a notice of assessed value. you can use that information to estimate your property taxes early. please note that a separate office called the treasurer tax collector's office will send you a letter in october and they're responsible 230r collections. for more information, visit our website, >> hello! is it afternoon yet? yes. [laughter] you know, the hours just go by so fast now. my name's london breed, i'm the mayor of the city and county of

san francisco, and i am excited to be joined by so many amazing people to talk about something that so important. -- that is so important. in july, san francisco became the first country in the -- became the first city in the nation to stop charging administrative fees to people who are exiting jail and the criminal justice system. >> whew! [applause] and i was really proud to sponsor this legislation when i was president of the board of supervisors. the public defender was working so hard with the committee of folks to come up with a way to address this issue and i want to thank him for his tireless leaderships on pushing to reform the criminal justice system. [applause] but we didn't stop there.

today we are proud to announce that we have taken this even a step further. people have been charged these fees for years and a lot of the debt has built up. this burden has been bearing down on thousands of families across our city. [motorcycle engine] today we are announcing that we are eliminating this debt. $32.7 million of debt! [applause] again, thanks to the advocacy of our public defender jeff hadachi and the d.a.'s office. this debt is owed by over 21,000 people. in our community, an average amount of $1500 per person. i want to make sure everyone knows how important this is. a lot of people don't know what

happens when people are released from jail or exit the criminal justice system. they are charged thousands of dollars in fees. fees only meant to recupe costs for our city and our county and our courts. but we know the reality. the fees pile up, thousands of dollars in debt and drive people into the underground economies and make it harder for them to re-enter and be successful in their communities. i saw this time and time again when i was the executive director of the african american art and culture complex. we believed in the second chance. we opened the doors to opportunity. and i saw how hard many of these employees work after paying their debt to society and receiving a second chance. they wanted to make a fresh start and they grew discouraged when they started to see their paycheck garnished and their bank accounts levied. we also know these fees are not

an efficient way to raise revenues for our city. charging people fees who simply cannot afford to pay them is not the way to balance our books. the collection rate for some of these fees is only 9%. there is something wrong with a fee when the collection rate is only 9%. it's important to remember that people paying these fees have faced other consequences. they've spent time in jail. they are paying fines. the job of these fees to recover the costs are additional layer of punishment. and they failed to do the job. so, we need to be more fair, we need to be more just. we need to reevaluate how we do business. i want to thank the people who are a part of making that important legislation a reality. and i couldn't have imagined that we were able to build such

an amazing coalition of people from all parts of the city family as well as many nonprofit organizations and community members. thank you to our treasure, jose ciceros. thank you. [applause] thank you to the public defender -- [applause] our district attorney, our sheriff who immediately, when i introduced the legislation, stopped assessing the fines and fees. the san francisco public adult probation department karen fletcher -- [applause] and i also like to thank the amazing organizations that are here today that came together to make this happen. so many people, so much time. these fees are not what san francisco is about and i am proud that we are first in the nation to end this practice.

these reforms started in san francisco but i know they won't end here. other counties are contacting us about what they can do to move this forward. and now i'd like to turn this over to our treasurer, jose cicneros who helped make this possible. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. it's a great day for financial justice in san francisco! [applause] >> yeah! let's hear it! almost two years ago, i launched the financial justice project and began speaking with local community members who were raising the alarm about the impact fines, fees and tickets were having on low-income people and on communities of color. i was moved by the stories of how a single fine, a single fee or a ticket could keep a family trapped in sieblgs of poverty if they could not afford to pay it. our financial justice project convened a task force of

community advocates and government leaders to see how we could right-size these fines and fees. through this process, we learned that our city was charging thousands of dollars of fees to people exiting the criminal justice system at the exact moment they were trying to get back on their feet. these fees piled on thousands of dollars of debt on our city's most vulnerable residents and prevented people from successfully doing things like getting a job, getting a place to live and doing all the things they needed to do to get back on their feet. they often trapped people in debt they could not escape. so i'm the city's debt collector and i believe the collection rates on these fees that were simply as low as 9% on some probation fees were too low because simply people could not afford to pay it. our city leaders came together and because they saw these fees were high paying to the people

and low gain for government. mayor breed, when you passed this legislation last month and our partners at the district attorney and public defenders office took a step further, we went a step further and asked the court to eliminate all the debt hanging over familis from the fees that were charged in the past. as the mayor said today, we are proud to announce that the court has eliminated $32 million in debt from 21,000 people in this community. [applause] this is debt that we never would have collected but has been keeping families trapped in poverty. today represents what our city can do when we work together. this would not have happened without the leadership of our mayor, mayor breed, the district attorney, our adult probation chief fletcher and sheriff hennessy and countless others who made today happen. but honestly these reforms would not have happened without

many community groups and organizations that opened our eyes to why it is so important for our city to move these reforms forward. so i'd like to thank the community housing partnership -- [applause] leo services for prisoners with children -- [applause] the lawyers committee for civil rights. the san francisco human rights commission. the coalition on homelessness. [applause] the young women's freedom center. [applause] our friends at the san francisco foundation and the walter and elyse haas fund and tipping point communities. our friends at policy link and the california reinvestment coalition. [applause] the east bay community law center. [applause] the ella baker center.

the insight center for community development. [applause] united playas. university of california-berkeley public advocacy center. and the university of california hastings. [applause] i want to personally also acknowledge the amazing leadership of my colleague anne dryer who commands the financial justice project. [applause] i think everyone, as you see here, knows anne and can appreciate how instrumental her leadership has been to securing this win today. thank you for your compassion, for your tenacity and your inability to take "no" for an answer. [laughter] now i'd like to turn it over to jeff hadachi who has been another key leader in this effort. jeff? [applause] >> thank you. on the day before thanksgiving, i was working at the front desk.

my staff leaves early and so i was working the front desk. [laughter] a young man named joseph came in. and he was holding a paycheck stub in his hand. and i asked him what help he needed and he said look at my paycheck. he says every paycheck, $200 is taken out to pay these fines and fees. he was only making $800 every two weeks. he told me i have two children. i'm a single father. i have the sole responsibility of taking care of them and i can't feed my kids because of this. broke my heart. at about that time, we had already started an initiative to change the way that san francisco collects fines and fees. we weren't sure at that point what was going to result. it was a very ambitious idea and i wish i could take credit for it, but james tracy from the community housing partnership came to me -- [cheering]

[applause] and he said we're going to wipe out fines and fees. i'm like are you crazy? who are we going to get to agree to that? so we started meeting and fortunately at that time, jose and his staff had already begun looking at this issue and issued a report and we decided to try to focus on fines and fees and we thought how are we going to get the board of supervise source and the mayor to agree to this. and so we brought it to then president of the board and supervisor london breed. and she didn't ask for a report. she didn't ask for a hearing. she just said we're going to make this happen. she got it right away. she understood how these fines and fees crushed families. crushed individuals who are trying to turn their life around like joseph and destabilize communities.

you know, even though when you get a call from our treasurer, it's usually not good news, he got it right away, too. so we were able to go to sheriff hennessy, d.a. gacon and probation chief fletcher and they all agreed. so, that was very important. and it sends an important message. you have to remember that san francisco is a place where ban the box first started. [applause] that initiative within two years went statewide. and this week, there is a bill in the federal government that's going to be introduced in congress. so we can do the same thing here. there's now an initiative to bring this statewide. and to bring this nationwide. there are people suffering all over this country. because they are charged with these fines and fees and mind you these have nothing to do in

most cases with the conviction itself. we're not talking about restitution or paying back money for property damage or injury. that's still required under the law. most of the things are for like court fees, for courtroom construction, things that are not related at all to the criminal conviction. the time for reform is now. we're seeing the pieces of reform happen. this is huge. but you really need to hear it from somebody who has experienced it, who knows the impact and i'm very pleased to introduce marie vandergrif. mary? [applause] >> good afternoon. my name is mary vandergrif. i am assistant lobby supervisor for community housing partnership. this law fruili affected my life. i, too, have a past. i'm a single mother who is just trying to make it financially

and worrying about these court fines and fees made it hard to sleep at night. i was always wondering when my cheque was going to be garnished when i was trying to be successful in my life. today i no longer have to worry. this law was passed. we have a brilliant amount of people working on it and we all came together and did this. so i think everybody who worked on this project -- thank everybody who worked on this project and i'm thankful to everybody behind me who has affected and eliminated these fees for them. thank you. have a nice day. [applause] >> thank you very much for coming out. again, we still need to continue to suffer. this only gets rid of about half of the fines and fees. the others are imposed by the state. >> [inaudible]. >> yep. that's what we'll do. thank you for being here and you can ask any questions of the speakers after the press conference. >> thank you. [applause]

>> this neighborhood was lived for approximately 22 years. >> yeah, like 21 years. >> 21 years in this neighborhood. >> in the same house. >> we moved into this neighborhood six months after we got married, actually. just about our whole entire married life has been here in excel. >> the owner came to the house and we wanted to sell the house and we were like, what? we were scared at first. what are we going to do? where are we going to move into? the kids' school? our jobs? >> my name is maria. i'm a preschool teacher for the san francisco unified school district. >> my name is ronnie and i work

in san francisco and i'm a driver from a local electrical company. >> we went through meta first and meta helped us to apply and be ready to get the down payment assistant loan program. that's the program that we used to secure the purchase of our home. it took us a year to get our credit ready to get ready to apply for the loan. >> the whole year we had to wait and wait through the process and then when we got the notice, it's like, we were like thinking that. >> when we found out that we were settling down and we were going to get approved and we were going to go forward, it was just a really -- we felt like we could breathe. we have four kids and so to find a place even just to rent for a family of six. and two dogs.

>> we were going to actually pay more for rent and to own a house. >> it feels good now to have to move. it feels for our children to stay in the neighborhood that they have grown in. they grew up here and they were born here. they know this neighborhood. they don't know anything outside san francisco. >> we really have it. >> we'd love to say thank you to the mayor's office. they opened a door that we thought was not possible to be opened for us. they allowed us to continue to live here. we're raising our family in san francisco and just to be able to continue to be here is the great lesson.

>> will call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: the second item on the agenda is the minuting of the meeting of august 7, 2018.