>> president breslin: all right, we are back in session. item number 18, please. >> item 18 is action a time. vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion held in closed session. president breslin? >> president breslin: do i have a motion? >> vice president follansbee: i move we do not disclose any of our discussion relative to the closed session. >> second. >> president breslin: . all those in favor? >> aye. >> president breslin: any opposed? it is unanimous. item number 19 please. >> clerk: item 19 just devote to erect any or all discussion held in closed session regarding anticipated litigation, san francisco administrative code 67.12. >> president breslin: ok. i will need a motion on this too >> vice president follansbee: i move that we do not disclose any of the discussion held in closed session regarding anticipated litigation item.

>> second. >> president breslin: ok. it has been moved and seconded. all those in favor? >> aye. >> president breslin: any opposed? it is unanimous. now we have item number 20. >> clerk: eight and 20, action item, possible report on action taken in closed session, governmental code 54957.185. >> president breslin: do i have a motion on this one? >> vice president follansbee: i move that we do not report on any action taken in closed session. >> second. >> president breslin: ok. all those in favor? >> aye. >> president breslin: all those opposed? it is unanimous. item number 21, please. >> clerk: item 29 is action item, possible report on action taken in closed session regarding anticipated litigation

>> president breslin: i need a motion on this item. >> vice president follansbee: i move wheat not report on discussion or actions taken in closed session regarding anticipated litigation. >> second. >> president breslin: all those in favor? >> aye. >> president breslin: no one opposing. we are finished with that. >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> president breslin: everyone is in favor of that. >> let's get out of dodge -- dodge. i

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>> good morning. i'm president of speak, with you is sunset action project action committee. we are active in a wide range of issues. neighborhood issues. speak is excited to be a cosponsor of this event much i'm also the -- i'm also the vie president of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. another cosponsor of this event, speak is a charter member of the coalition. the coalition has been active in citywide issues for over 40 years. on behalf of the coalition's president, welcome to the district four candidate forum. in 2002, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution.

the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. in 1920, as women won the right to vote, the league of women voters was founded by terry chapman capp. on behalf of speak and the coalition for san francisco neighborhood, i would like to express our appreciation to the league of women voters for 98 years of advocacy. [applause] >> i would also like to thank st. ignatius for hosting this eve event. working with st. ignatius and speak has been an honor. i would like to thank the candidates for making the commitment to be here today, and finally, i would like to

thank our neighbors, family, friends, district merchants and many others who have made the commitment to be here today. thank you. [applause] >> hello, everybody. good morning. welcome to the candidate forum for the board of supervisors district four san francisco. i am the president of the league of women voters in san francisco. we are a nonpartisan but political organization that is dedicated to promoting active and informed participation in government. the league works to ensure that all voters have access to nonpartisan unbiased information. we put on free forums such as this, we produce a proand conguide, and we partner with sfgovtv to produce educational segments to discuss candidates' platforms. the league never supports or

opposes candidates, but we do take positions on issues. our website is lwvsf.org. i want to thank sfgovtv for being here today and recording this forum. i am now very pleased to introduce maxine anderson who will be the moderator today. maxine was raised in should i can you goy illinois and -- chicago illinois and attended university there. she worked in the chicago area before transitioning toisk san francisco. she continued to work in the insurance industry until she had the opportunity to manage claim functions for the city of oakland. she retired after working in the city of san francisco city attorney's office and became very involved with the league of women voters of san francisco. she previously serviced as the chair of our advocacy committee

and participated in the creation of another organization, san francisco chair ffor democracy, where she serves as chair for two terms. we are proud to welcome maxine anderson. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. these lights are really bright up here. again, thank you so much for being here today. today, you will be hearing from the candidates to represent district four on the san francisco board of supervisors. the candidates will have a chance to present their views of -- on issues affecting the city and your district and to answer your questions about those issues. to submit questions for the candidates, look for a

volunteer -- i can't see you, but i know you're out there. we will be collecting index cards. i wish to remind you of our ground rules -- [inaudible] >> oh, i'm sorry. i thought i was loud enough. you want me to start over or can i go from here? [inaudible] >> i want to remind you of our ground rules here. no literature, campaign signs or buttons may be distributed or posted inside this meeting room. this is a totally nonpartisan event. candidates and their supporters are expected to be respectful of other candidates and the audience and to help maintain quiet during the forum. candidates are asked to make no personal attacks on other individuals. here are the procedures for the forum. each candidate will have one minute to answer questions you

in the audience submit, as well as questions that have been submitted in advance. all candidates will answer each question. any rebuttals may be included in the candidate's closing statement, which will be one minute. the timekeepers -- excuse me -- in the first row, could you hold up your hands and your cards -- will hold up yellow cards to signify to the candidate that they have 15 seconds remaining and will hold up a red card when it's time to stop. every aspect of the forum will be equally fair to all candidates. you have many important decisions to make on november 6. today's forum will give you an opportunity to be heard. now let's begin. thank you -- first of all say thank you to the candidates who stood up to hope to represent

you in your district. they are thank yous to luann besan, adam kim, gordon an mcmar, trevor mcneil, mike murphy, tuan win, and art tom for attending today's forum. okay. so we're going to start off -- we're going to begin, i guess the best way to put it. so i have the questions here -- again, please, if you have questions that you want to ask, please write them down and give them to the volunteers who will be up and down the aisles, looking for your questions. so the first question, did you hear that part about fill out the card and give it to the volunteers? thank you. i'm going to get this right, but it's early saturday morning. okay.

we're going to start off with miss basan, and the questions will be asked in alphabetical order. the first question, over the last five years, in your opinion, have elected officials moved the city in the right direction or the wrong direction, and why do you feel the way you feel? >> my opinion is that the city officials -- [inaudible] >> thank you. my opinion is that the city officials have not moved our city in the right direction at all. i think that they have moved the city to a disastrous precipice. we are bordering on chaos. why? we don't need drug injection sites. we don't need an increase in the needle exchange program.

we know that san francisco is handing out 400,000 needles a month but only getting back 150,000 used needles. these policies are not good for san francisco. in addition, the focus on increasing housing density and building along transit corridors is, again, misguided. >> thank you. and mr. kim? >> all right. i will also say that we haven't exactly been moving in the right direction. there have definitely been good advances made by certain supervisors and certain city agencies, but the fact is that we still have a crisis of homelessness and affordable

housing, and we just keep giving away tax incentives to large corporations, and it's hurting the people. that's not a sustainable model. eventually we're just going to become a city for the super rich, and we'll have this giant wealth gap that all our marginalized community will be alienated and unable to live in the city that's alienated them. >> thank you very much. mr. mar. >> well, i think we all know that over the past decade, actually, our city's been going through a pretty unprecedented tech driven economic development boom, and that's created a lot of exciting benefits and brought a lot to the city, but it's also created

a lot of big challenges, i think as adam and luann had engs mentioned. i feel like -- had mentioned. i feel like our city leaders haven't done a good job of addressing that, particularly building housing that's affordable for working families and everyone that can't afford market rate housing in the city. also there's the growing homeless -- homeless population and crisis that hasn't been addressed in a good way, and also there are other crime issues, like property crime. i think there are issues that affect us out here in the sunset district that we need stronger leadership to address in boulder and more strategic ways. >> thank you very much. mr. mcneil? >> i would definitely agree that we do need stronger leadership. the affordablity crisis, the crisis on our streets, and the ongoing flight and difficulties

that san francisco faces make it clear that the last five years have not worked. however, i do also think that it's clear -- maybe not for lack of trying. our leadership does have innovate tiff ideas. our leadership does standup to donald trump's agenda. our leadership does try their best, but they're focusing on the minute by minute problems. they're pulling bodies out without going upstream to see what the problem is. that's why i'm run are for district four supervisor, really thinking what can we do long-term, not just to manage homelessness, but to end homelessness? what can we do long-term not just to prevent displacement, but have a city where families thrive, and have a city where people can afford to live? >> thank you very much. mr. murphy? >> yeah. san francisco's a boom-bust town, as many of you know.

we're in tech v. 2 at this point. this has been the most signatu significant contributor to many of the issues the city faces at this time. we'll play dog whistle politics all day long, where you know it's the big corporation cabal that responds to city hall. the stats are clear, 60,000 people in, 50,000 people out. this is from our planning department, every year. this is extremely disruptive to our communities. we need stable, strong communities and strong leadership in those communities that comes from outside of the tech-real estate cabal in order to fight the problems that we have here. evictions and displacements citywide, we've lost many neighbors and friends. thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. win?

>> yes. we're very much fighting for the soul of the city. it's unattack, and it's unattack by the tech sec -- under attack, and it's under attack by the tech sector and the tech community. san francisco is a divided city in so many different ways, not to mention the issues that we deal with specifically just to the sunset district. you're having large developers come in, and there isn't enough market rate housing out there. the tech community is polarizing. there isn't enough diversefied field out there. our artists and musicians, they can't afford to live here anymore. and kbiet honestly, we don't have any long-term plan, and that's unfortunate. my friends, whether they're older or younger, they're living paycheck to paycheck, and we have a moderate and progressive division going on in city hall. i plan to change that as an

independent democrat, a leader that the sunset deserves. >> thank you very much. and mr. tom? >> thank you. in the last five years and even in the last ten years, we have not been going in the right direction. that's witnessed by more families leaving san francisco and as pieople alluded to, we want to have a long-term solution, not just a quick knee jerk reaction. on the issue of homelessness, it's not just san francisco's problem. we cannot solve it without looking at the rest of the region and the rest of the state. we're putting it too much on the backs of homeowners paying property taxes, and we have to share that with other parts of the region. we want to see families stay here in the sunset and the park side, so we need to switch or emphasis on services that the families out here need? preschool, after school, senior

care, these are things that we need here in the neighborhood. i want to see muni improved so that we can rely on our public transportation and public safety increased so that people feel safe in their homes and neighborhoods. thank you. >> thank you very much. and the next question, we're going to go to housing because that's an issue that's, as you know, is always talked about in the city of san francisco. and so i'm going to condense these two questions into one, starting with mr. kim. it's how do you feel about building more density housing, and what is your view on homeowners renting out inlaw units? do you think current policies help at all on that? >> all right. so housing density, i don't believe in building for the sake of building. we're not going to building our way out of the affordability

crisis, and we need to assess each site individually to find out how the community feels about the particular development and how it will serve the community. in terms of inlaws and other, you know, a.d.u.s, i feel there is some streamlining that could occur. right now, because we're kind of packed to the gills with housing with that, and we can't develop more without destroying existing property, it's important to find a way for homeowners to increase what housing is available, given what they have on hand. >> thank you very much. mr. mar? >> my wife and i moved to the sunset district and bought our home 13 years ago to raise our daughter, and i think like most

of our neighbors, we value the sort of quiet almost suburban feel out here in the sunset district. but also, you know, i think we all recognize that we need to expand housing, especially for working families and for everyone that -- that the current housing market doesn't serve in our city. i do think there's ways for us to do that in the sunset district that is appropriate for the character of our neighborhood. i think it's replicating the e educator housing model is a good strategy. i do support expanding inlaw units and accessory dwelling units in a careful way that would mitigate excessive traffic congestion and parking congestion in our neighborhood. but i do want to say i think the biggest issue right now and the threat to the west side is the growing call by big developers and other forces to upzone the sunset and build

high-rise luxury housing out here, and i would standup to that very much. >> thank you very much. thank you. mr. mcneil? >> so on my phone, i've got a little -- [inaudible] >> sure. i carry around a photo of my home 80 years ago when it didn't exist. it was a sand dune. i'm really glad somebody built it. i want to build more housing in a way that preserves neighborhood character but also invites more people. when i was born in san francisco, the population has grown 4300 on average every year, boom or bust, and i'm partly responsible for that because i've got three kids under four. i'm part of creating more san franciscans, so when i think about this issue about density, i think about neighborhood character, but i also think about the decision to build the home that i'm raising my family in 80 years ago. i'm thinking about it in terms

of where are my children going to life? how is san francisco going to grow in a way that is inclusionary, protect the people that are already here, and become a city that we can love and live in? >> thank you very much. mr. murphy? >> i wish to provide an an he c can -- anec decide dodote to t crisis kool-aid. this is gentrification at its base. when you take people who have spent their lives, generations, perhaps, in a particular area, making that area livable for them, and replace them with people who make more money, of course it fills the city's coffers, but it does nothing except destroy communities.

what i would propose is in terms of density is building along -- building along -- strictly along the train routes in the sunset to four stories, which is the current zoning code. it's greed that fixes us from the homes that we've already built, and we should avoid that sort of thing. >> thank you very much. mr. win? >> yeah. we have to keep housing affordable in the sunset district. in particular, young families conditioned afford to live out here anymore. they try to live out here, start a family, and you end up single, because you can't raise a family, you have to raise dogs and walk them, right? but supply heavily outweighs demand in san francisco, and if you live in sunset district, you realize that homes are henry dozier and rosseau homes.

they're cookie cutter homes, and you can't do that. you have to look at zoning and market rate housing. i do agree that you should build responsibly in merchant and traffic corridors with the input of residents, but i also opposed sb 827, which scott wiener proposed, and that is to build more than five stories, and i don't think that is the answer in the sunset district. >> thank you very much. mr. tom? >> i think that of course everyone wants more housing. there are some workable solutions to that, besides just increasing density because when we increase density, we have to say what kind of density. i'd like to see more two and three bedroom homes rather than the studios and the one bedrooms that the developers have been talking about, because this is a family neighborhood. i'd al l