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okay, colleagues, we are going -- at this time, we're going to continue with roll call. madam clerk, please call the next supervisor. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. supervisor ronen will submit? okay. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: will you refer, please. >> clerk: refer. supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: submit. >> clerk: okay. thank you. supervisor tang? >> supervisor tang: submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: thank you. colleagues, today, i'm calling a hearing on our city vetting process of the safety records of our city contractors. over our legislative recess on august 10, one of the workers on the twin peaks telo construction project, patrick wiggetts, tragically died when a beam fell and pinned him underneath the steel beam. no one should have to suffer the death of a loved one
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working on a city contract. we later learned that the city contractor, simick construction had a history of workplace and safety violations, including a violation involving another fatality. in documents obtained by the media, simick checked no when asked, in the past ten years, has the potential bidder or if a joint venture partnership has any member of the partnership been cited or any serious or willful violations by cal-osha, or california occupational health and safety administration? according to the san francisco municipal transportation agency, the contractor represented they met the requirements to prequalify for the bid. although the tunnel work has already been completed, the
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investigation of this incident is ongoing and will take about four to six months. while i am calling for a hearing to investigate safety concerns regarding the evaluation of all the city contractors across all of our city agencies, not only san francisco municipal transportation agency, what i'm finding out is we don't have a safety vetting for city contractors. we must vet our city contractors and ensure that we are contracting with companies that are forthright of their safety record and privatize our safety record and community partners. i will also be a memoryam for
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william. >> president cohen: supervisor, could you add me as a cosponsor to your hearing request on safety. >> supervisor yee: i will. thank you very much. >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk? >> clerk: next is supervisor brown. >> i'm going to propose three resolutions today to -- [inaudible] >> -- the code for america gift will pilot a new approach to audio mated criminal record expungement for eligible convictions under prop 64. the pilot -- [inaudible] >> -- were the least able to afford an attorney in order to access the relief contemplated by the voters. the urban institute gift will fund creation of a justice dashboard to help manage and analyze and share data with key decision makers, the public and
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san francisco sentencing commission to support a reduction in incarceration rates. the governor jaez grant will add over 5 -- governor's grant will add over 500,000 to the fund. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor cohen? >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, do i need to come down -- >> clerk: no. >> president cohen: thank you. so colleagues, today, for roll call introduction, i want to share some exciting news. i'm thrilled to introduce a concept that will continually play out in the dogpatch neighborhood buildout, and that saga. the dogpatch public realm plan, which is an amendment to the general plan, and the reason why we are moving this forward is so that we can continue to build on the moment um we have
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going on in the central waterfront. this plan which was built over the last 18 months, working closely with district ten residents and community groups, is a model for interagency coordination, model for new partnerships and how to serve our residents and our community as it continues to grow. growth projections for the central waterfront could actually see as much as -- see as much as quadrupling housing or it's also estimated to be five times the number of people living in the area. so one of the things that's important to note is that public assets that make a complete neighborhood such as adequate open space, such as safe streets, that they serve both industrial and residential demands, that they have kept -- that they have not kept up with all of the growth that the
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neighborhood is experiencing. the dogpatch public realm plan allows the community to focus resources onic maing sure dogpatch streets, sidewalks, the parks and other open spaces get high quality design and investment as they need. it includes design for complete streets and open spaces, developed in partnerships with the department of public works, with sfmta, and of course rec and parks. i want to thank and acknowledge the five community workshops. there's actually been a dozen of stakeholders group meetings, and a number of surveys that have all come together to produce this plan. in particular, i want to thank the dogpatch neighborhood association, the green benefit district, toes and paws, potrero boosters, potrero dog
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batch boosters association, and a number of other committed individuals, specifically bruce hui, and a few other individuals. i want to also thank robin abad and the planning department for their tremendous work on this lemgs lation over the last several months. i also would like to recognize my legislative aide, sophia kitler who's been instrumental shaping this process. madam clerk, the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you, colleagues. i'm introducing a hearing request to dive into our city's red carpet policies. ist absolutely shocked to hear that red carpet could be used by shuttles and transportation vehicles. as san francisco deals with increasingly congested roadways
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where transit is already congested by private vehicles and t.n.c.'s, the muni needs to be a lane with all of that. quite frankly we do not know how many and what type of vehicles currently item lies the lanes and how they impact service at peak commuter times. while i know that the m.t.a. recently approved phase one of the geary b.r.t., i hope this hearing will be an opportunity to discuss the policy in terms of what should be allowed in red carpet lanes moving forward. we need to understand what effect these private buses have on muni service before moorely giving them access to our public infrastructure. there needs to be a discussion about how to prioritize red lanes as public infrastructure for both public leoned and publicly operated transit. the rest, i submit.
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>> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor kim? okay. supervisor mandelman? >> submit. >> clerk: supervisor safai, you asked to be referred. >> first, i'll ask to adjourn the meeting in memory of one of our long time constituents, velma witt. she went home on august 19, and passed in peace. she was raised in louisiana graduating from dillard university in 1944 and immediately made her way out to san francisco to find work and support the war effort. the city is where she met her husband, cletus, settling down in lakeview, an area of my district, and raising her family. her daughter, beverly, said she
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taught her family hard work and made sure their dreams were fulfilled. she was an active member of the all my neighbors in action for over 30 years and constantly was advocating for peace and improving the overall environment in district 11. she's survived by her daughters, beverly, diane, and son cletus. services were held on friday, the 31, so we just wanted to end in her honor. that's one. second thing i wanted to bring up is something that has been vexing the southern neighborhoods of san francisco for the past eight years. since there's the next gen system, they created a bevy of flights over the southern neighborhoods in san francisco. many of the residents we heard in district 11, excelsior,
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outer mission, bernal heights, bayview-hunters point, over in the sunnyside, over in sunset, all the kind of southern -- twin peaks, have consistently had their homes barrages by airport noise, and this is unrelenting. i was the first member of this body to volunteer to be on the san francisco airport advisory board in eight years. i've sat in hearings where people are virtually losing their mind and their sanity. they come in tears, they come with distress. they come talk about how their children's lives have been disrupted and their peacefulness has been disrupted. and our airport has put aside enough money to possibly insulate and upgrade maybe ten homes in the entire peninsula area. so this is something that needs to be taken more seriously, so
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i'm calling for a hearing. i'd like the san francisco airport commission along with the leadership at the san francisco airport, along with the chair of the san francisco round table, and we've worked diligently with congress woman jackie speier. this is something that's near and dear to her office. we've worked with senator pelosi's office, we've reached out to senator feinstein. it's very easy to think about adjusting flight patterns and spending a tiny bit more money and going up and over san francisco rather than right area. other areas of the bay are impacted by landings, as well. oakland airport has been diverting flights over our city, and so people's -- people's sanity is at stake, as well as their essential quality of life. so i want to have that hearing. i'm calling for that hearing to be done at the land use and transportation committee.
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i'd like it to be a joint hearing with the san francisco airport commission. i'd like them to be invited to participate in this. i'd like it to be open to all the different districts, and i know that supervisor cohen had expressed concern about this. she's heard from her constituents about this. i've heard from constituents of supervisor yee and supervisor tang. any other folks that's been impacted by this. it's mainly the southern and central parts of san francisco. i think i've heard from your constituents, supervisor mandelman. so we want to talk about not just generating income at the airport, but also how we're impacting people's lives, and how we can have a thoughtful conversation about changing these flight patterns in an aggressive way. i know when i met with congress woman superior last week, she said this is one of our highest priorities in dealing with this. secondly, i'm calling for a
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conversation between we drive you and haulcon transportation between folks in the bargaining union and teamsters union. provisions need to be upheld and respected. we heard from media outlets along with talking directly to the bargaining units before even the strike was sanctioned, before a strike was even on the table, these companied have hired scab employees in preparation of driving in exchange of the existing drivers, so we want to see how these existing did shall-the service dis -- the service disruption plan is being respected, and we'd like to see some resolution to this overall dispute and the workers respected. so we'd like this to happen within the next month at the land use and transportation committee, and the rest i
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submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor kim? >> vice president brandon: thank you -- >> supervisor kim: thank you. i have, over my eight years on the board -- [inaudible] >> supervisor kim: this summer, this body is taking on a campaign to review firearm procurement practices throughout all of our jurisdiction to bring together our leveraging and purchasing power to ensure that the future purchases of firearms achieve the maximum benefit to our public taxpayers in terms of public safety. as congress remained grid locked on making our nation safer by enacting gun safety mechanisms and other legislation that would keep our men and women on our street and see also that serve our city and county safer, we have
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gotten very little traction. and so local elected officials are taking things in their own hands by using our leveraging and using our purchasing power to leverage influence over the companies that we actually purchase through in order to make the changes through the private sector. throughout the summer, we have been doing research on how the city and county has opted to do business with different gun dealers for the procurement of our equipment. we have discovered that we purchased firearms made by colt manufacturing and sig sauer for our law enforcement agents through a variety of distributes, all state police equipment, and adams unlimited. throughout the time we have done this research, we have realized that it's actually quite difficult to find how the city and county of san francisco procures its arms, with who we do them for, and we also learn it had none of these
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contracts come before any oversight body, including the board of supervisors, and the fact that we purchase guns not that differently from how we purchase post-it notes. the unfortunate reality is as we purchase the very arms that are causing harm and danger on our streets, the reality is that we as a nation are facing an unprecedented epidemic of gun violence, shootings that claim tens of thousands of lives every year, and so our office is joining local, state and other governmental bodies in the united states from colorado, connecticut, florida, maryland, massachusetts, nevada, new jersey, north carolina, ohio, new york new york, pennsylvania, virginia, washington, and wisconsin to send a letter to those that we purchased from this week and ask the following weeks: what are the companies standards and criteria selecting companies to
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sell firearms. do they have standards in record keeping, employee training, cooperation with law enforcement? how do these companies respond when one of their firearms have been used in a crime? and how do companies respond when gun traces show a pattern of disproportionate crime guns being sold by particular dealers, and will these companies work with us to establish a network of authorized dealers in the u.s. that maintain the highest standards in the following areas: employee training to detect straw buyers, record keeping of inventory and all transactions, security measures to deter gun theft and education of begun buyers regarding safety, storage and safety mechanisms. we also want to work with these companies to undertake efforts to prevent firearms from being
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stolen from distributes, dealers or being conveyed to individuals not legally permitted to own firearms and we're asking these companies to establish a gun repurchase or trade in program that would reduce the number of its products sold secondhand on the internet and through private sales and to also ask what safety products, if any, do these companies include with the guns sold in this country. colleagues, i would love to--we will be distributing this letter to all of the offices this week, and we would love to have you sign onto this national campaign so that san francisco can also participate in holding our gun manufacturers accountable when congress has not. thank you very much, and the rest i'd submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor kim. madam president, see no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president cohen: thank you very much, madam clerk. so let's go back to items 16 through 19. madam clerk, could you call
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items 16 through 19? >> clerk: item 16 through 19 comprise the special order for a public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a final environmental impact report for the proposed central soma plan issued by the planning commission on may 10, 2018. item 17, 18, and 19 are the motions associated with that public hearing. >> president cohen: okay. thank you very much. so colleagues, we have before us today four peaappeals on th environmental impact report for the proposed central soma project which is home, housed in district six. before considering these appeals, i'd like to give district six supervisor, supervisor jane kim, an opportunity to say a few words. >> supervisor kim: thank you, president cohen. i will be asking colleagues today -- i will be making a motion to continue these items to the following week of september 11. we did have a request specifically from one of the
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appellants to as today is the day after labor day, and folks wanted additional time. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. so should we take public comment on these items? i'll take a second on the motion to continue. supervisor yee has made a second on that motion to continue. thank you. so we still need to take public comment at this time as to whether or not we can continue. so if there's any member of the public that would like to come up and speak on items 16 through 19, come on up to the podium. just as a reminder, you'll have two minutes of speak time. you'll hear a soft chime indicating 30 seconds remaining on the balance of your time. welcome, sir, the floor is yours. >> david chiu with the south of market community action network. just wanted to say we're in support of the continuance. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. are there any other speakers? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: i have a motion to continue these -- may
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i have a motion to continue the appeal? made by supervisor kim. and seconded by supervisor tang. thank you. and the board of supervisors will hear this meeting on september 11, 2018. is that correct, supervisor kim? you in agreement with that? okay. thank you. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, let's go to the next special order. >> clerk: items 20 through 23, comprise the 3:00 p.m. special order of hearing of persons interested in a final mitigated hearing declaration under the california environmental qualification act. >> president cohen: colleagues, we've got today an appeal for the proposed declaration. our consideration of appeals involved our analysis of the
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adequacy, the accuracy, and the sufficiency and completeness of the mitigated negative declaration. so without objection, we will proceed as follows. first, we will have up to ten minutes for the appellant to come and to describe the grounds of their appeal. that will be followed by a two-minute -- two minutes for public comment to speakers that are in support of the appeal. up to ten minutes for representatives of the planning department to present their analysis for the mitigated neg declaration, and up to ten minutes for the project sponsor. up to two minutes for public commenters to speak in support of the affirmation of the mitigated negative declaration, and then, of course, finally, the appellant will have up to three minutes for a rebuttal argument. colleagues, if we can move forward without objection. thank you very much. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: all right. this hearing is now open. i'd like to acknowledge
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supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madam president, and i just want to start by congratulating the national park service and the port of san francisco and the city of sausalito for their work to deal with the city of sausalito's concerns. the appeal, i think for some technical reasons, because sausalito wants to reserve their rights pending this board's tula professional of the alcatraz contract as passed by the port commission which will happen hopefully later this month. and also, today i introduced but did not speak to during roll call for introductions that i have introduced a separate piece of labor harmony legislation that will help unintended smooth the stormy seas in this matter. but -- so the appeal is still before us, and i think we'll briefly hear from the
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appellant, but as the chair of the county transportation authority, i can say that we are all committed here in san francisco to working with our sist sisters and brothers over transportation in the county of marin and sausalito, and i'm very happy that the alcatraz contract is moving forward, and i want to congratulate the director of the park and remembers. >> president cohen: all right. seeing no other names of my colleagues on the roster, i'll ask the appellant to come forward and make their presentation. welcome. >> my name is mary wagner, i'm the city attorney for the city of sausalito. i think supervisor peskin summarized our position very well, so i'll be remarkably
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brief. i'll ju we are in a bit of a procedural catch 22 where we can't unconditionally withdraw our appeal because the project agreements aren't final until approved by the board, and the board can't take action on the project agreements until the appeal has been dealt with. that being said, sausalito's mayor is really looking forward to coming to the hearing next week so that she can express the city's appreciation both to the park service, the port commission, and to this board, and the hard work that's been done to get us to this resolution. and with that, i will answer any questions that the board may have, but our concerns have been addressed. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. all right. seeing that there aren't -- seeing that there are no other names on the roster for questions from colleagues, i think we need to open up the public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to come and speak on this item? all right.
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seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. thank you -- i'd like to pivot to the planning department now for their presentation. again, ten minutes. >> good afternoon, president cohen and board members. i'm julie moore, principle environmental planner on the project. the item before you is an appeal of the final mitigated negative declaration which i'll refer to as the ceqa document, prepared for the proposed troz ferry ambarkation project. as you've heard, given sausalito's position, i'm not going to go into great deal in my response. all of the information is summarized in your pact. in summary, sausalito's concern regarding transportation and public safety, there just simply are no significant environmental effects of the
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project, and we believe that the ceqa project description and end project analysis are adequate, and that the appellant fails to provide any substantial evidence that would indicate the proposed project would have a significant impact on the physical environment necessitating the preparation of an e.i.r. reared, the ceqa document provides significant evidence that there would be no substantial environment impacts of the required measures. therefore, preparation of an e.i.r. is not required. for these reasons we recommend that the board uphold the final mitigated declaration, and that concludes my presentation. we'll be available for questions if you have any. >> president cohen: thank you very much. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i would like to move the item for approval and table items 22 and 23. >> president cohen: all right. thank you.
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thank you very much. that was quick and easy. all right. we'll take that motion, and it was seconded by supervisor ronen. colleagues, is there any other discussion? seeing none, without objection, passes. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor peskin: i should also congratulate the port of frisk and miss forbes for their work. congratulations, miss forbes. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. madam clerk, next item? >> clerk: items 24 through 27 kpriez the third special order today for a public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a conditional use authorization for a proposed project at 143 corbett avenue to legalize interior alterations and horton tall additions at the rear building walls, bay window, and decks and the addition of a unit within an existing single-family dwelling. >> president cohen: all right,
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colleagues, we have the project at 143 corbett avenue which is in district eight. before considering this appeal, i'd like to give our supervisor rafael mandelman the opportunity to supervise some comments. >> i and my office have been in contact with the parties. i am hopeful that if we can get these parties into a room together. we may be able, together, we may -- together, we may be able to work out something, so i would ask to continue this until september 22. >> president cohen: okay. before we vote on this, i'll open this up for public comment. is there any public comment? all right. seeing none, public comment is
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closed. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: all right. moving that to the meeting of october 2, 2018. madam clerk, i've lost track of the agenda. >> clerk: public comment. >> president cohen: all right. ladies and gentlemen, it's that favorite time of our agenda where we all come together and listen. is there anyone that would like to come and address this board during general public comment, please step in line. please step to the right of the chamber, to my left. just as a reminder, you'll have two minutes for public comment. you'll hear a soft chime indicating 30 seconds on the balance of your time. mr. jones, welcome, the floor is yours. >> good afternoon, board members. it is my understanding that there's a september 19 hearing -- a committee hearing to address the issue of black city workers and how they're being mistreated. this would not need to happen
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if the san francisco human rights commission was doing its job. i'm sure we all know that the human rights commission was formed in 1964 expressly to help fight discrimination against blacks at the time, and almost 50 years later, it was being head -- directed by teresa sparks, a white transgender. she was sued by thomas willis, a subordinate, and the city settled for $250,000. why did he sue? it was because she discriminated against him simply because he was a black heterosexual male, and i'm saying it is outrageous that we have a human rights commission
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that has -- instead of helping the black community has been indifferent to their issues. i think that it is reprhensible that this teresa sparks was not only not reprimanded for her conduct, but she was promoted three years later before she ultimately retired. this is outrageous treatment of the black community. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is rachel heiden. i'm the executive director of san francisco transit riders. i'm here to invite all of you to participate in san francisco third annual transit riders week. this week is about celebrating
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transit and all of those who ride it and drive it. it's the one week of the year that our organization works together to bring riders and driver's together and thank them for doing the right thing: for keeping or air clean and keeping our community safer. i'm here today to invite all of you to participate in our transit week challenge, which is to pledge to ride transit at least once every day during transit week. i also would like to invite you to participate september 24 and ride along with your constituents, so we'll meet at a location in your district, and we'll meet at the steps of city hall. i want to go ahead and thank -- supervisor brown has already pledged, supervisor mandelman, and supervisor peskin, i've been working with your staff to reserve the steps of city hall. if you are going to participate
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with us this year, i ask that you either sign or scan and return it back to you to me by september 7, and thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. peter dreckmeyer. just want to start off with a quick pop quiz. where does your water come from? hetch hetchy. we did a survey back in the spring, and we found that 75% of san francisco voters could identify hetch hetchy as the source of their water, which only 10% could identify the true source, and that's the tuolomne river. our survey showed a really strong commitment to the environment in san francisco. 93% of san franciscans conserved water during the recent drought. of those 93%, 71% saying it
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plaied a major role. 97% support for san francisco bay, and 97% for protection and restoration of tuolomne river even though people didn't know it was the source of their river. it's a really special water. it drains the northern half of yosemite national park. there's a world class white water run just downstream of yosemite. the upper 83 miles of the tuolomne of wild and scenic as of 1984, and back then, the sfpuc did not support wild and scenic status, but the board of supervisors did, so thank you to your predecessors for that. the tuolomne provides water for 200,000 acres of prime farm lance in stanislaus county. it's a very hard working river. only 20% reaches its confluence with the san joaquin. we are working on the bay delta
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water quality plan. would love your engagement. the board of supervisors in the past has done a lot to support the cause. there is a resolution in 2008 to support moving forward the water system improvement program without diverting more water from the tuolomne, and i'm out of time. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is will henshaw, born and raised in san francisco. i'm a renter, and i want to speak on one as expect of prop 10, vacancy control. i think it's going to be very costly to the city and bad for the tenants in the long run. the city will have to create a new division of the rent board to manage landlord vacancy reporting and control, costly and time-consuming, value of apartment buildings, rent controlled buildings, especially, and residential income property is determined
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by current income and future income, putting have a can'tcy control in place would immediately -- vacancy control in place would immediately reduce the possibility of increasing rents over time, and as rent controlled tenants leave units. reducing property value nz this way would seriously reduce the city's annual tax revenues from the sails of apartments and other residential properties such as single-family homes that don't currently fall under rent control but may under prop 10. i'd ask you to consider berkeley before costa hawkins for rent in place. many landlords ended up charging a number on paper while the vast majority would give preferential selection to tenants who gave them cash under the table. this would put financially
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renters at a greater disadvantage than they already are, and this under the table cash is money that could be taxed by the city in the form of market rents. berkeley's rebtales was in shambled because there's no incentive for landlords to upgrade the units, so you'd be left with a housing supply that is limited as well as decaying. thank you for your time, everyone. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> all right. by now, you know good and well how i am speaking up for other people that's most vulnerable and on the receiving end of discriminatory practices, and also the way i speak up for females. this time, i've got to speak up for females that happens to be the big boss. i'm representing her, speaking up for grounds that she's a target of the u.s. attorney general and the united states federal district. i'm talking about you, breed.
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you've already completed the first set of requirements and elements in order to sustain a rico act corrupt and organized enterprise against yourself and people who's agreeing for you with that safe injection site. you made a press conference and gave an announcement on what you want to do. then, you completed the next step by going to church showing the booth and the location where you're going to have addicts use illegal drugs, narcotic that's called heroin. you further completed that step by using the paraphernalia and the drugs that you are financing to supply for the addict. by doing this, i'm speaking up for you on the grounds that's illegal in violation of federal law. here's the front page of additional information, explaining how you're in violation of the law that took place in 1986, where you're
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running a drug house. this section here explains that you're eligible to be put in a feder feder federal pen for 20 years and you're eligible for $500,000 fine for each individual, and additional $200,000 fine for running a corrupt enterprise. that's called the rico act. i don't want to see you go out like that. as a result i move for you to consult with both city attorneys, gascon and herrera to get a stipulation to advise the document -- [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you, mr. wright. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is mayna young. i'm a long time san francisco resident and a homeowner.
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just wanted to let you know that the two numbers in san francisco for rental market has been going down. the $390,000 units and 400,000 currently in the ken suspect has been increased from 36,000 a couple years ago. the reason why is because the unreasonable rent regulation in san francisco. with the prop 10, i can trust that the liberal politicians here will make sure that more of the rental unitslike taken out of the market. the 1995 legislation help today restore -- helped to restore some unit nz rental. looking at berkeley before 1995, and you'll see a lot of the dilappidated properties.
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we don't want to go back to the way it was, and costa hawkins has been able to help us restore some housing supply. so please say no to prop 10. thanks. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is gloria. i want the supervisor to say no on proposition 10 because the publ publicly owner also need to protest. please say no to proposition 10. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi. good afternoon. my name's winnie, and i'm a small property owner, and i -- i understand, you know, like,
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both sides. before i rent my house out, i didn't feel that way because i wanted to -- i treat them right. i treat them very nicely, and now, the rent regulation is getting worse and worse, and my -- my daughter -- even i gave a place for them to live there for free. they said mom, i want to get my house back. they took it back in february because they don't want it to get touf regulations. and they said i worked so hard to get my house and try to help me out, you know, something. but i want to go out, you work again, and you help me baby-sit. i'm retired already, so i -- also, my son already planned it, this september, going to take his place back because of regulation, because also, the
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same thing, costa hawkins, and it might cause them more headache and more trouble and now, lots of lawsuits. they feel it's not fair, and now punished, we have a place to help ourselves, help the tenant, and we feel like we pay a tax, and right now, we feel that the regulations on the tenant's side, and we don't want to be punished as small property owners. we provide place for tenants, and not every owners are bad. and you know, i hope everyone -- you think about the owners' side, too. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> it's absolutely impossible that man should have written the bible. in the book of leviticus, there's a command by god
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almighty, that they were supposed to let the land rest every seven years. god promised a triple crop to take care of the seventh year, the eighth year, and the ninth year. it's impossible. now, 24there's 47 words that t profit enoch said. behold, the lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed. and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, you talk about what you're interested in, and on judgment day, the basis of
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the judgment will be not only on the words and the motives, but the words that are spoken. i told the officer back there, mark my word, something big time is going to happen april 20. it has been 8,202 days from the end of the times of the gene l gentiles, and the start of the 40th jubilee. 9-11 was the sixth trumpet, and i expect late it's be 6,430-days from 9-11 to judgment day or something really, really big for the kingdom of god. now i think that i should be listened to because as far as i know i'm the only man that can look back at an event that i predicted that actually came to pass. i made this statement 30 -- >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. [please stand by]
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h>> i am small property owner ad so many years, you know, we've been very good relations of all the tenants. since the regulations came out, the crisis on the housing, rental markets, everything. we are thinking of you guys treating us like a communism party. punished those hard-working people and benefit the lazy people. those people, they don't want to work. even if they work that amount, they say they need to pay tax if they don't have the money. they get the housing benefits from the government or the medical. everything. how can we work so hard and be still, you know, forced by those rental laws. those are the ridiculous renter
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regulations. please, save the rental market. no on proposition 10, please. >> president cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is christine pelosi and i'm here on behalf of proposition 10, which gives us an opportunity to take a look at housing as a human right. you've just heard a few things about your constituents. they are lazy and they don't want to work and they are dem onizing homeowners. they're taking away the rights of property owners if they want to pay fair market value for their rentals. so either you think of housing as a human right or you don't. you want local control or you want sacramento to control what we do. either you stand with the men and women of organized labor here the day after labor day, who voted overwhelmingly to endorse proposition 10, with the
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california democratic party, that voted nearly unanimously in july to endorse this, and the many, many, many, renters and property owners who have said, we want local control. we want local decisions to be made. if this proposition passes, and i believe it will pass what's do we know will happen? we'll go to court because that's what happens in america. and we're going to talk about the fair return to the landlord and it's important and obviously it's a concern you should make improvements on your property and have compensation in the form of the rent you are allowed to charge. however, to say that in this day and age, when our increasing homeless population is pushed out due to hir to higher unaffoe rent we shouldn't take a san francisco solution to the problem is to take a tool out of our arsenal.
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i would recommend a yes vote on prop 10 and a very thoughtful conversation about what we can do here locally in san francisco to solve the housing crisis. i do believe, as i hope you do too, that housing is a human right. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i second what that woman said. and i'm 100% behind mayor breed trying to find safe-injection sites somehow someway. the city needs it. let's bring our government back home. 10 years ago i started rolling into this building. the last year of the eastern neighborhood's plan. four or five young adults spoke
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about reducing the amount of alcohol-to-go stores in the area. they spoke very well. better than i will. they got their way. last session here, a month ago all 31st, supervisor peskin represented chinatown saying we don't want anymore dispensaries supervisor safai said the same thing. that's what he was supposed to do. president cohen decided to change her vote. i thought that was a nice day of doing business in this room. last week also, at public comment, a young woman spoke and said she was against hiring 200 police officers. we need crisis intervention teams. i should have said i second her motion. the problem with crisis
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intervention teams is we don't know where to hire them. we have to create them. a diploma may not give that to you. we need natural talent that can talk down or diploma that can talk down people in emotional crisis, mental crisis, whatever. finally, the american legion, for the first time of my life i want to give a shout out, for the first time someone in the veterans in this country stuff a sock in president trump's mouth that made him back. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> thank you. good afternoon president cohen, ladies and gentlemen of the board. my name is win. prior to the inter session, i spoke to you about a supreme court case decided in 1990, washington versus harper. in that carrying as case, as ie majority opinion was set beyond
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harper did not have a due process right to refuse the involuntary administration of antipsychotic medication, because he was a prisoner. and for no other reason. now i'd like to read to you from justice stevenson's decent in that decision. let me remind you, the majority ruled the way it did because a prison is a violent institution and antipsychotic medication was viewed as essential to a controlling that violence. here is what justice stevenson says, forcing psycho tropics on harper also provoked counter productive behavior. e.t., i.d., book eighth, december 16th, 1982. harper's assault on a male nurse and damage to a television were quote in the context of his complaining about the medication side effects. over all, the issue of involuntary medications and side effects is a major issue in his
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management end quote. semi colon, october 7th, 1983, therapists report harper indicated he is going to destroy unit property until the medications are stopped. he has recently destroyed the inmates stereo as an example of this. what the justice is trying to say, antipsychotic medications causes violent behavior, it does not control it. his point has since been born out. to everyone's satisfaction in the mark author risk analysis that showed that in fact, though i think not to a scientific level of certainty. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> before the speaker begins, if there are members of the board whpublicwho would like to addree board, please, lineup. >> good afternoon.
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my name is ma. i live in san francisco. i am a poverty owner. i wanted to talk to everybody now. we are a small property owner. i work very hard. we need to pay the housing property tax -- a lot. right now the houses are needing fixed a lot and it takes a lot. we are working very, very hard. i want to say to the no proposition 10. please. thank you. >> thank you for your comments.
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>> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is wendy wong from san francisco coalition for good neighborhoods. thank you so much supervisor peskin to help the china town to get free marijuana and thank you to the supervisors support. in terms of the housing crisis, supervisor tang is trying to help the mayor to have the assets unit. i understand we have good intention to help housing crisis, especially to release the rental units. especially in inlaw. however, we need to face the root cause why we don't have enough applicants to get these applications. it's not the process. it's the law that is not protecting the landlords. when we are putting the two-room downstairs, it cost $170,000 for a decent unit.
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