mayors across the nation committed to achieving 100% renewable energy. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and part of that includes expanding our cleanpowersf program, a program that already over 100,000 residents of san francisco are enrolled in. i worked really hard as president of the board of supervisors so that we could have this as a real sustainable option here in the city, and i won't back down to protecting it when we have to deal with some of the challenges that some of you know we are facing now to address it. as an example of that commitment, today, we are starting construction on the city's newest and largest array of rooftop solar panels right here in moscone center. so that's why we're here today, and thank you to the san francisco public works and the san francisco public utilities commission for collaborating with us on this project.

and so we're going to be featuring these panels that basically will make this a more sustainable building. and the last commitment that i want to talk about is green bonds. we need to encourage our financial sector to invest in our sustainable infrastructure. certified green bonds are issued to finance projects that improve our overall climate resilience. for example, foertifying our seawall. thanks to the public utilities work and our controller, our city is the second largest municipality in the nation in issuing green bonds. and so today --

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: today, i'm committing that we will issue even more of these bonds and continue to make more of the necessary investments for the future livelihood of the prosperity of our city. next week, san francisco will be at the epic of a summit where cities will be here from around the world to advocate for a sustainable future. we are at the forefront of a global action movement, and we will continue to push for strong environmental protections in this city no matter what happens in the white house. so join us in making a commitment to the city and to our planet. there will be hundreds of events throughout san francisco that you all can participate in. and in fact, on september 13, it will be officially green thursday in the city and county of san francisco, with free -- go bikes for the public to use

and free programs in the places in moscone. all of us can play a key role in keeping our country and our world clean and green, and this is a perfect opportunity for san francisco to come together and really show the world what we've done throughout the year and what we're capable of doing, and how we will continue to lead the way in environmental efforts. we are ready, we are excited, and i can't wait until this summit descends on san francisco. we'll be seeing people biking all over the city, riding muni, spending more time in our parks and green spaces and looking for ways that we can take the kind of action we need to all over the world to address what we know are significant issues. let's daeal with the challenge that exist in our city and our world today, but let's never forget we have to leave this

planet better than we found it and that's going to take a lot of work from each and every one of us. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> fabulous. i'm energyized, i'm ready, and i hope you are, as well. san francisco's leadership is not a new or recent development. in fact, over a century ago, the sierra club was founded right here in our city. today, they remain one of the nation's most active and influential environmental advocacy organizations, and i'm honored and pleased, and i hope you will join in help me welcoming michael brun, the executive director of the sierra club. >> thank you, debbie, thank you, mayor breed. hi, everybody. i'm michael brun, the executive director of the sierra club, as

you just heard. now most people, most people, when they think of fighting climate change, they see it as something that we've simply got to do, something that we've got to do. they see raging wildfires, they see extreme weather events happening here in california and across the country. they see the droughts, they see extreme and severe life threatening water shortages affecting millions of people around the world, endangered species around the world. they see the political unrest that comes from that. they see the tragic loss of life or of property. they see this, and they feel an obligation. here in california, we see the same obligation. we make a pledge to take

action, but we see a lot more. we see fighting climate change not just as something we've got to do, we see fighting climate change as something that we need to do. we see fighting cloiimate chan not just as an obligation, but an opportunity. we see fighting climate change as an opportunity to cut the air pollution that makes our families sick. we see fighting climate change as an opportunity to cut the water pollution that turns pure drinking water into a health hazard. we see fighting climate change as an opportunity to increase the amount of jobs that are offered as an opportunity, we see fighting climate change as an opportunity to address income inequality, to address

racial disparities, to take a hard look at exactly what kind of society do we want to become, and exactly how we get there. this is what it's like. this is what it means to be living here in the bay area, to be working and living here in san francisco. san francisco was one of the first cities to make a commitment to 100% clean energy, but i'm really proud and excited to be here with y mayor breed and other leaders from the city to talk about accelerating that commitment. how do we turn words and ideas and principles and commitments and values into that? how do we use one set of solutions to solve multiple problems? what we know here in san francisco is we can look at how do we take tangible steps to move away from all fossil

fuels? how do we move away from buildings and buses and pipelines and use it to transition away from fossil fuels towards clean energy and cut the pollution that's making us sick and create the jobs that we all need? i'm excited to be here right now on the eve of a global climate action summit to be helping to announce and to celebrate a series of thoughtful, progressive, ambitious, and even daring actions that we desperately need across the city, across the state, and across the country, not just to increase the amount of prosperity that we need here in the city, but to show leaders all around the world that we can do this. we can make dramatic progress in a short period of time, and all it takes, all it takes is

leadership, is confidence, a belief that we can solve some of our biggest problems. and the commitment to work through political challenges to over come cynicism, to over come despair, and bus by bus, building by building, street by street, and eventually city by city and state by state, we will have the clean energy future that we deserve. i wanted to end just by celebrating mayor breed, relatively new in office, she felt comfortable enough to come up here and talk trash to all of you. she has agreed not just to help host the global action summit, not just to highlight the steps that we're taking here in this city, but she's also agreed to join mayors across the country and indeed around the world to promote the steps that the city

issic at thatting and to convene leaders from all -- is taking and to convene leader frz all around the world to join this. she's joining the mayors of salt lake city, utah, and san diego. she's joining the mayor of columbia, south carolina. she's cosharing an effort to inspire other cities and other companies and other school districts and other states and other countries to go to 100% clean energy. when we stand here in two years, in ten years, we won't just be talking about what we need to do, we're going to be talking about what we've done, how we all came together, how we worked together to transcend political divides, to transcend a spirit that we really can solve our problems. and we're going to be providing a record of what this

generation has done, facing the biggest existential threat that this generation has faced, and we're going to say its 's done. so thank you, mayor breed. >> thank you, michael brun. yes, it takes leadership and courage. i would say the mayor and i are joined up here with people of leadership and great courage. san francisco is lucky to have its own clean energy and utility. we are lucky to have the cleanest municipal energy fleet in the country. when you look at them half of them come from buildings, half of them come from transportation. when i look up here at ed reiskin, and mohamed knnuru, im

lucky to have them up here. it takes huge amounts of courage, and let's give them a hand for theirs. i also want to say if you haven't signed up for cleanpowersf yet, i don't think harlan will let you leave until you do. it's not enough to sign up, it's supergreen. thank you. yes, 100% renewable. easy to do, and renters can do it, too. so we've got a couple other people i want to call out because they are near and dear to leadership and courage in our city, and that are our three members of the commitment on the environment who are here today. we have commissioner lisa oyos, and commissioner verme, and eddie. so finally, we have in san francisco some of the most

energy and resource buildings in the world, and the moscone expansion where we are standing today and what we're listening to in the background is a great example of green building standards in practice. so how fitting is it that the world will be coming to talk about climate here in moscone next week. and i want to thank mohamed nuru and edgar lopez and their entire team for their partnership and leadership in designing, planning, constructing some of san francisco's greenest buildings and for their commitment to achieving the city's climate goals. so please join me in welcoming mohamed nuru, the director of public works. [applause] >> thank you, debbie, thank you, mayor breed. we're here today at moscone center for a reason. this convention facility showcases san francisco's commitment to environmental

stewardship in building design. the moscone expansion project is scheduled for completion of december of this year and is aiming for lead platinum certification. [applause] >> it would be the highest lead certified convention center in the nation. we are adding 792 solar panels to the rooftop of this building. once complete, moscone center will house the largest solar convention rooftop array in san francisco, producing 969 megawatts of electricity a year. when up and running, the solar will generate up to 20% of the energy this building needs. the remaining will be powered by hetchy power, ensuring that all the trade shows and conventions that are hosted here, such as the global climate summit, are powered by

clean electricity. [applause] >> in addition, the convention center was designed for efficiency, from harvesting daylight to capturing more than 12 million gallons rain water, foundation groundwater and condensation annually that would otherwise be going into our waste water system. it will be used to irrigate the landscape around this facility, it'll be used for the toilets and will be also used by public works to helping clean the surrounding streets. isn't that a great use and reuse of water? this is a great example. [applause] >> so moscone center is just one of san francisco's environmental initiatives, from demanding smart building design to strategically reducing energy use and emissions, cities and states can be

leaders in the battle against global warming. today i want to thank you for coming to this beautiful facility, and this will conclude the press speaking part of it, and we have tours right after this to take people upstairs to see some of the solar panel and some of the designs that have been put into this convention facility. thank you all, and thank you all for coming. [applause]

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about

us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was

about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she

would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to

conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like

this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that

there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it never

>> hi, everybody. welcome to healthright 360 where we provide substance abuse disorder treatment, primary medical care, dental care, services to help people access housing, employment services, education services; basically everything that our clients need to help get well and help get better, do better, and be better in their life. and hopefully, at some point, they're able to offer an overdose prevention service here, otherwise known as supervised injection facility. we think it makes sense. it makes sense for a couple of reasons. one, people who overdose and die never have a chance of recovering, never have a chance

of reuniting with their families, and having a better life. and two because there's a lot of research that supports it, that it helps people to link to care and improve their health out comes. so because i work in this field, i talk a lot about this, and i get a lot of questions about these services. and the questions that are directed to me are often about aren't we enabling people who are using these services? aren't we enabling addiction? to this i say, absolutely not. people who live on the streets and are publicly injecting drugs, those people live in a great deal of pain and misery, and pain and misery and shame do not lead people to health or recovery. they keep people unwell, keep people where they're at. it's really hope that brings people to health and recovery, hope and a belief in a positive

different future, and if a person can't have it for themselves, somebody else has it for them. and i know this not because of the work i do and i've done it for the past 30 years, i know it from experience. i am a former heroin user, and i got clean through haight-ashbury health right programs over 30 years. i came to haight-ashbury neighborhood did etox like nin times, and welcomed every time with love and compassion and support. so on the tenth time, i thought, i can't do this anymore. there was someone there who i trusted, who i built a relationship with, said maybe it's time to try something else, and because i trusted them, i did. i went onto one of health right

360's programs. it was because i trusted them that i believed in what they had to say, and i went on, and i've been drug free for the past 33 years. so it's really hope that brings people to health. it's hope, not shame, and it's what these supervised injection facilities will offer, hope and health to those who live on the margins. i'm really excited to have incredible courageous elected osms and policy advocates behind me who have really stepped up in the face of a national epidemic, an opioid overdose epidemic is a public health crisis, and these folks have had the courage to bring legislation to the forefront that would help address this issue in ab 186. so i'd first like to welcome

the author of the bill, assembly member susan egmon. when i went into recovery, one of the things, i went back to school, and i went to graduate school, and i got a master's in social work. i might be a little biased when i say that social workers make the best policy makers. so i'd like to bring her up to talk a little bit about it. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for having us in this great facility. so i'm susan egmon. i am a social worker by training, a politician by accident, like most of us are, i think. but there comes a time when you work with people for years on the streets in recovery in different parts of their lives. unless we have policy in place that actually allow people to

rise to their full potential then we're not doing our full job. i'd like to specifically thank one of my staff members, logan hess, who was a champion of this bill all the way through x it probably wouldn't have been possible -- through, and it probably wouldn't have been possible without him. shortly after i got out of the military, i worked in substance abuse. i saw the epidemic go from heroin to crack cocaine to methamphetamine back to opioids. during that time what i learneds and as becoming a professor of social work is this issue around relationship. i could teach my students all i wanted about different theories about what works, what doesn't, but the most basic thing what we can do is to connect with someone on a human level and treat them with dignity and respect. and that is the whole idea behind the safe injection sites. i think when we look around, and we tell stories about who

we are as a society, when we talk about who we are as a people, as a country, as a state, i think we think about the fabric of who makes up that. is it journalists? is it politicians? is it rich and famous? it's all that more, but it's the people who walk by us on the streets. have we tried enough? do we judge, do we offer hope, what do we do? so i think this bill comes on the back of that, of really understanding that we have a crisis, and seeing the evolution of people's willingness, i think, to think outside the box and try different things. we have long been a law and order kind of society, and i think we realize now that we need to work a little bit more towards humanity. we introduced this bill three years ago and i couldn't even get a vote in the first committee. again, when we started the bill, it was much broader to say let's go statewide. last year, we came back and

said let's just try nine counties. when we came back, it was one city, one brave city, san francisco who was willing to try this. recognizing again that people who live on the street, addicts, are part of the fabric of our culture. they are going to be part of what we tell ourselves in 20 and 30 and 40 years, so it's really incumbent to use all of the resources we have to treat people with compassion, to keep them alive one more die. everybody out there, they all have a family. they all have family members who have been waiting for this call, and hopefully that call will be they got into treatment. i couldn't have done this without a great team behind me, and i'd like to introduce a tenacious -- i'd like to introduce my friend and one of the coauthors of this bill, senator scott wiener.

[applause] >> thank you, susan. and i try to be tenacious, but susan egmon is the definition of tenacious. i still don't know how susan was able to get this out of the assembly not once but twice, two different votes. i wasn't 100% confident but she was able to do it. then we almost hit a wall in the senate. we did hit a wall and had to park the bill for a year, but we were able to make the case. we had a great team effort. the two of us also, senator ricardo lara, we made the case and got it out of the senate, and it's on the governor's desk, and this is really exciting. i want to thank healthright 360 and sfgov for hosting us here today. this is one of our amazing, amazing organizations.

i'm proud to represent san francisco for many years but one of the reasons near the top is this is truly a public health town. this is a city, a community that believes deeply in the power of health care and the power of progressive, forward looking public health approaches, and we're not scared to push the envelope on public health policy, even if we are ahead -- even if we're ahead of other cities, even if the federal government threatens us with criminal prosecution, such as that ridiculous new york times op ed that rod rosenstein crawled out of his cave to publish. we did it with needle exchange decades ago because we were experiencing the height of the aids h.i.v. epidemic years ago, and if the federal government was going to stick its head in

the sand, we were going to do it here. we did it with medical cannabis. these are all situations where we were being threatened by the federal government, but we persevered. guess what? medical cannabis is being embraced even in republican states, so yet again despite threats from our federal government, we are going to move forward here in san francisco and show the rest of the state and show the rest of the country that this can be done. we know from every other city and country, australia, canada, europe, every other place that does this has succeeded. safe injection sites lower crime rates, get people into recovery. this is where we should be going, and i'm just so proud of the legislature for doing this.

we are urging our great friend, governor brown, to sign ab 86. the governor has spoken to me repeatedly about the syringe and the public injection crisis that we have here in san francisco. he's seen it with his own eyes. this is a governor who believes in progressive alternatives to incarceration. he understands that the war on drugs failed, that drug addiction is not a criminal issue, it's a health issue, and we have to take a public health approach to addressing it. and of course, what we did in the legislature was simply giving permission to say, understand state law, it's legal. but nothing happens without local leadership, and we are so lucky here in san francisco to have a mayor and to have a board of supervisors who are solidly behind this idea. and it's now my honor to introduce and bring up our

great mayor, someone who i have known about 15 years now, back to when we were both little political babies. and i think we are now both thankfully in a position where we can work on these issues. and she just -- not that many mayors would take office, and the first thing she would push is a safe injection site. but other things haven't worked. we have to address this if we're going to tackle the drug issue on our streets, so i want to thank her for her position on this, and introduce mayor london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you for opening up the doors of health rite 360 and allowing us to hold this event here and all that you do for san francisco. i remember when healthright 360 was actually walden house, and i spent a lot of time helping

people in my community and family members get into treatment at walden house. and i do really appreciate the approach to focusing on health and trying to get people healthy. and that's why the name is so fitting, healthright 360. i remember when you changed the name, and i kept calling it walden house, but now, i'm calling it what it needs to be called, and that is healthright 360, getting the health of citizens here in san francisco who sadly struggle with drug addiction health -- healthy. and i want to thank our leaders in sacramento, including evsus egmon and scott wiener or their consistenty -- for their consistency in pushing something that's going to help us make a better place in san francisco. i would get complaints about the number of needles on the

street, about the number of people shooting up on the streets. and in certain instances, some programs and other folks would be out there, talking to individuals, trying to get them help, trying to get them support, and sadly, it hasn't worked. what we've been doing in san francisco and i think in many places hasn't worked. i was basically not complete sold on safe injection sites initially until laura thomas over here from drug policy alliance kept bugging me and bugging me and bugging me to get to vancouver to see exactly what it entails and look at the data and how it's actually been effective. and i was very surprised at how impressed i was with not only the numbers but the facility. zero overdoses in those facilities. over 3500 people refer today detox who have not come back

through their system, the compassion of the people who worked there. and it just made all the difference to the people that i spoke to that wanted to get clean and sober. they knew they had a place to go, and had people that supported them and respected them, and would help them when they needed the help. such a major difference in terms of the before and after photos, the look, the conversations. this is something that i know will make a difference. what we're doing right now isn't working, and i know it makes people uncomfortable. it makes me uncomfortable, but i feel like here in san francisco, we have to be willing to try new things. just because we don't want to see people shooting up, and we don't want to see the needles on the street doesn't mean it's going to disappear without us taking action to get to a better place here in our city. so it's going to take a lot of work, and this is one tool that is going to be so significant in helping us here in san

francisco with state laws that get in the way of real progress. and so i want to thank our leaders in sacramento and i also would like to thank david chiu for his work and his support because this narrowly made it through the assembly and the senate, and we are so grateful for their work. and we are here today to encourage our governor, jerry brown, to sign this legislation. this is really going to make such a huge difference, and it gets us one step closer to the reality of a real site here in san francisco, something that we are long overdue to try, something that we had the will and people want to see happen, but we just don't have all the tools necessary to get to a better place. so here we are today, and i am so looking forward to making sure that as soon as we are able, we will open a site here in our city, and we know we have some amazing partners,

that we will continue to work with. but more importantly, we want to make sure we protect our great organizations, as well. with that, i'd like to introduce assembly member david chiu who has been just an incredible leader in sacramento on this issue as well as others that have impacted our city. assembly man david chiu. >> thank you, madam mayor, and let me thank all the health advocates here for your vision and your courage and your tenacity. and i want to thank you for hosting us, and i want to welcome susan egmon to san francisco and thank her as has been mentioned before for her courage. i was the first san francisco le legislature to cast a vote.

as a former prosecutor, i had some initial questions about this policy. it is initially counter intuitive until you stop to think about it. and before that vote, i actually pulled down many of the studies that i have heard about of vancouver, of sydney, from canada, australia, and europe, that showed demonstrably that show the health data, the health facts show that we have to do this. as a senate housing committee, we all know that our housing crisis are exacerbated because of individuals that are addicted to drugs. we need to try new things. as i said on the assembly floor this past week, people are dieing on the streets of our state, on the streets of our city. we have to be willing to innovate, but innovate with facts, and ini receipt with science. i also want to thank the

courage of my colleague, senator wiener, who has been tenacious in leading her colleagues along. and i also want to thank london breed. she risked on the campaign trail this moving forward. and the courage of san francisco in moving forward this important and dare i say this historic idea. this is a historic moment. if governor brown signs this bill, we will be able to move forward with an innovation that is rooted in science and accoufacts. it was not along ago when an abortion, medical marijuana, and needle exchange were considered illegal in the state of california, and we are here making history to say that public health schwinhould win, science and facts should win.

it is my hope that the rest of the country will follow in bringing true dignity and true health care to those who desperately need it. with that, it's my pleasure to bring up one of the earliest advocates for this policy, laura thomas is the executive director for the drug policy alliance. miss thomas. >> thank you. it's an honor to be here in healthright 360. you know, its predecessor walden house, people are important to me. and now i owe them a huge debt. it's been amazing to have the treatment providers across california working with us on

this legislation to be able to push back on the myths and misperceptions that leads people out of drug use. i'm laura thomas of the drug health alliance. we're one of the project sponsors of this bill, along with several others. together, we did the groundwork for this campaign, but we relied so heavily on the leaders, the leadership and the tenacity that you've already heard about. and the reason that we're working on this, the reason that we've been pushing for supervised consumption service is at the most basic level, they save lives. they are people that may not be saved, they are people that may

not be reached otherwise. we deserve better. san francisco deserves better. we deserve clean, healthy environments. everyone does, whether it's people that use drugs or those of us who have homes to go to where we may consume our substances, our glass of whiskey in peace. and so this is a new idea for us here in san francisco, but it is not a new idea. you've heard the research referenced. there are now well over 120 of these sites around the world. they've been in place for 30 years, and the first one started in 1986 in bern, switzerland. so we have a wealth of information and experience to rely on as we move forward here in san francisco. but in order for this to happen, we need the governor to sign this bill, and we need to standup to a trump

administration that is doing a lot of saber rattling and threatening us. this is par for the course with this administration, and i am grateful to live here in san francisco where we -- whether it's about the environment, it's about same sex marriage, it's about immigration, it's about access to medical marijuana or it's about supervised consumption services. our leadership, our population, the people who live here will push forward to do the right thing. so i'm grateful to live here in san francisco. i'm looking forward to many of these sites opening around the city. i'm excited to figure out what kinds of models and locations will work best for us, and i look forward to being able to provide people who use drugs in san francisco with better options. you know, these sites work for everyone. if you live in a neighborhood that has -- where you're seeing

needles discarded on the streets and people injecting, then your neighborhood is probably a good location for one of these sites. if you're not seeing that, then your neighborhood is not a good location for one of these sites, but i think everyone understands that people who are injecting on the street, that they're doing that because that is their last resort. they don't want to be injecting on the street, they don't want to be injecting in public where children may see very

brief. when senator ween iener told m about this event, i wanted to be here. we know that the situation in san francisco on our streets are intolerable, it's intolerable for people who are dieing, it's intolerable for people who are finding needles on our streets in the city.

we know the war on drugs has failed, and although people in washington might want to try to pursue that war, they are not giving us what we need to cleanup our streets and get help for the folks who need it. i'm so proud as a san franciscan that we have such tremendous leadership from our mayor and our state leadership and state assembly. i'm so proud of the california that assembly woman egmon has provided such leadership around this. i'm hoping that san francisco will move forward with implementation and can demonstrate that it works as a pilot and then it will be something that other cities in california can benefit from. so thank you very much. [applause] >> okay. that concludes the press conference. if there are any questions, we're happy to take them or separately. yes. >> if the governor does actually sign this, how long

will it take to actually get them up and running? >> madam mayor? >> the hon. london breed: so we are having some challenges as you know with federal law and making sure that if the governor signs this, we have all the tools that we need on the state and local level, we need to make sure that the people who are going to be working at these sites are going to be protected, so we're just trying to address this particular layer of challenges, but we're ready to go. we're ready to go, we're ready to move forward. we have a lot of support, and we're hopeful that we can get one opened sooner rather than later, but i can't give you a specific time just yet. >> a lot of people are concerned about taxpayer money going towards this. >> the hon. london breed: so we have identified some resources to help assist in the funding for this site, and it is -- at this time, it will probably not necessarily come from our city's budget. >> okay.

thank you very much. >> yeah, sir, i have a question for assembly woman egmon. could you talk about -- [inaudible] >> actually, didn't pass as a statewide thing. we had it statewide three years ago when we first started. [inaudible] >> in -- in u.s. or in california? >> outside of san francisco. there were some other counties. >> not within california. that was not what we were able to get across the final. it was just san francisco, right? it went from statewide to nine counties to one county, so that's -- it's called a compromise in passing legislation. >> okay. of course we hope that after we do this pilot, we can show the rest of the state how it's done. thank you very much, everyone. >> thank you. [applause]

>> good evening and welcome to the august 15th, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. the board president will be the presiding officer tonight. he is joined by commissioner lazarus, commissioner honda, vice president swig, and bobby wilson will arrive later this evening. to my left as a deputy city attorney who will provide the board with legal advice this evening. at the controls is our legal assistant. i am julie rosenberg. the board's executive director. will be joined by representatives from that city departments that have cases before the board this evening. the acting a zoning administrator will be representing the zoning admission. we expect senior building insprs