the night. i think we have done a pretty good job in our small part trying to help things on that corner. we wash the sidewalks, pick up the trash and generate a good little bit of foot traffic. so -- one of the tougher corners in the city still, but we are definitely making a go of it. so -- >> supervisor ronen: i want to say you picked the perfect two supervisors because we share valencia street, and love glamorama. >> they are great folks. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. ok. thanks. so now i will call for any members of the public who want to address us, and i believe mr. nolte, are you speaking on this item? >> hello, mark nolte.

can i have the overhead projector? so, i, first i wanted to point out when the applicant originally applied for a liquor license, one of the things they have to do is post the date of posting, and this picture was taken. you can see it's blank, which means that, well, when somebody walks by, don't know when the 30 days are up to protest or at least send in a letter of support or something. the next issue is i know rafael is new to the, being the chair and on the committee, but i've had to kind of encourage all new members over the years that there is a thing that you have to, applicants need to do, similar to what the -- what the entertainment commission does, it's in your packet i handed you

is do meaningful outreach when there is an alcohol license of some kind coming in. adopting a similar kind of roles because the fact that we have many community groups in the tenderloin and in district 6 and we have five different police districts and because of that, that means we have half of the police districts in our boundaries. and so makes it very hard to oversee how many liquor licenses and entertainment permits and stuff that come into our community and we like to see them all on the same playing field. so, we are not against this license, we are just prying to educate the decision makers how to best be suitable for our community. thank you very much.

>> jordan linger, i'm partners with pete. very excited, thank you for hearing our presenttation today. we took over the bar like pete said about two years ago. it was a 21 club before that for a very, very, very long time. part of the reason we took it over was in working with tenderloin police department, that was notified or designated as a pretty hot block, for better lack of terms and wanted to have someone in there that was a good operator. we operate different spaces around the city and want to take the space next to us to be able to activate it in another more professional, better way. so, i appreciate the gentleman up before us. we did do a significant amount of outreach when we first bought the bar. let the neighborhood know, did community outreach, but when we did the expansion we did not do as much, we got pretty good

overwhelming positive impact or positive feedback when we first bought the bar. so, thank you again. >> supervisor ronen: assuming the date was just an oversight. >> my guess is it got fixed -- abc is pretty on top of that stuff. so i remember, a number of these things that we post, so i remember abc saying hey, guys, you forgot to put the date on so took it down and our 30 days restarted after that, so, we have been kind of in this process now for a few months. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: any other members of the public who want to address this item? if not -- comments are closed. >> supervisor ronen: i did check in with supervisor kim who is the supervisor of the district and she is supportive of this license, so i would like to make a motion to send this item for, with positive recommendation. >> drafted as a resolution

recommending the public convenience necessity will be served. >> supervisor ronen: exactly. >> supervisor mandelman: that would be great and take that without objection. thank you. >> clerk: hearing to consider the premise to premise transfer of a type-21 off sale general beer, wine and distilled liquor license to giovanni specialties llc, doing business as gy have a n italian specialties. >> sergeant george again. report for giovanni italian specialties. if approved, type-21 would allow to sell off sale beer, wine and distilled. 0 letters of support, and 0

letters of opposition. considered in a high saturation area. central station has no opposition. approve with the following recommended conditions. number one, sales of alcohol beverages permitted between the hours of 10 and 8:00 p.m. daily. number two, no distilled spirits shall be sold in bottles or containers of less than 600 m.l.s. and number three, petitioner shall actively monitor the area under their control and an effort to prevent loitering of persons on any property adjacent to the licensed premise as depicted in the most recent certified abc257. it should be noted the applicant has agreed with the above listed recommended conditions. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. applicant here?

>> how are you? i own several restaurants in san francisco, tony's pizza, cappo's, slice houses and employ about 150 employees in san francisco currently. i have a small retail shop i just opened call giovanni's, and a small area is dedicated to beer, wine and liquor. the store itself is only open 'til 7:00, but allowed 8:00 when i spoke to law law enforcement. this is really important to me having this license, as you know, a lot of businesses in san francisco have been hurting, especially in north beach, and this is a small part of my business but it's a very important part. so, hopefully you can accept this today. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. any members of the public who want to address this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed.

and the matter is before us. >> supervisor ronen: happy to make a motion to prepare resolution to affirm that this license meets the public necessity and convenience. >> supervisor mandelman: great. is that what you need? excellent. very good. then we'll take that without objection. thank you. congratulations. and mr. clerk. please call our third item. >> clerk: agenda item three, hearing to consider the issue as of type-42 on sale beer and wine public premises license to lay brothers, llc, doing business as fig and thistle. located at 69-14th street. >> officer patrick maki, and you have a p.c.n. report for fig and thistle bottle shop. a applied for a type-42 license,

and it would allow on sale beer and wine. 0 letters of protest, one letter of support. they are in a low crime area, census 203, high saturation area. northern station has no opposition to the license, and a.l.u. approves with the following recommended conditions. number one, signs shall be posted at a conspicuous space at the entrances or exits of the premises on the form, dated 5-31-18, state the following. no alcoholic beverages beyond this point. said sign no less than seven inches by 11 inches in size and contain lettering no less than one inch in height, and also noted the applicant has agreed with the above listed recommended conditions. >> supervisor mandelman: applicant is here.

>> good morning, supervisors. introduce myself, newy lay, my partner, angel davis and i obviously are here for this reason, and want to just tell a little about ourselves. the space we are opening in was my grandmother and my aunt's deli for 40 years, been there a long time. she still lives upstairs and actually angel lives next to her. we opened fig and thistle about five years ago here in hays valley and would like to open another one. thank you very much for your time, appreciate it. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. are there any members of the public who would like to address this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i will say that i have met with the applicant. but based on presentation from the department and what we have

heard today i do believe this would be a positive addition, an area that desperately needs more active uses on the ground floor. i know the applicants have been through quite a lot with the city and i am eager to see them move forward. i would entertain a motion to find that this is, that this application meets public and is in the public, is for the public convenience and necessity. >> supervisor ronen: agreed. without objection. >> supervisor mandelman: take it as a motion from supervisor and vice chair ronen, and then we'll take that without objection and congratulations. good luck. open soon. >> supervisor mandelman: mr. clerk. >> clerk: ordinance amending the police code to require law enforcement officials to provide either a verbal warning or a

written warning rather than having to provide a written warning prior to issuing a dispersal order to ensure access to reproductive health care facility. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. thank you so much, i just wanted to give a little history about this legislation, since it's something that i've been working on for about eight years now as the former legislative aide for former district 9 supervisor. in 2013, after continuous, really disturbing protests outside planned parenthood, which is is in district 9, then supervisor campos created legislation for a 25-foot buffer zone around the clinic where protestors were not allowed to enter. that legislation was very successful. it really struck the right

balance between allowing the protestors to exercise their first amendment right to express their opinion, while allowing women to access essential health care without undue harassment and interference. it worked quite well until very unfortunately and very disturbingly in 2014 the supreme court ruled in the horrible infamous case, mccullough, in massachusetts, the supreme court struck down that law and so we quickly met with the city attorney's office and had to amend our law, again unfortunately, which we had not had to do that. and what we did at that point is that instead of prohibiting any action within that 25-foot buffer zone, we prohibited

harassing or following women or any patient within that 25-foot buffer zone, and that law passed at the very end of 2014, and has been in effect since. i will say it's not as effective as the original law, but at least it provides some freedom from harassment in that area. fast forward to today, when the -- when d.p.w. did the valencia street streetscaping project in front of planned parenthood, they had resurfaced the street and erased the demarcation of the 25-foot buffer zone and somehow the signs came down. we started receiving again complaints from neighbors about it and quickly learned about that, that that factor, and decided you know, this is a good chance to re-meet to discuss how

things are going, and figured out that tline was no longer present and the signs were down, and had an opportunity to talk with the police captain who let us know that unlike any other area of the police code, this law for unknown reasons required a written warning instead of just a verbal warning. and so that's what we are doing today. we are revising the legislation to take out the requirement of a written warning and allow police officers to enforce the ordinance with only a verbal warning. i think this is -- it's really important because frankly what happens is the protestors almost play a cat and mouse game with the police and you know, enter the zone, harass women who police are not present, and then the minute they see the police,

behave themselves and follow the law. we need the police to be nimble so the minute they witness a violation of the law, that they are able to enforce it and that extra step of requiring a written warning, not required in any other area of the police code does not make sense. i'm introducing a simple ordinance today and making a little amendment to make it even clearer, that that makes it clear that the police need only make a verbal, not a written warning. i will say that this legislation is very timely, given president trump's hostility towards women and our ability to control our own reproductive health, and the increasingly hostile supreme court towards women's right to choose. protestors have become

emboldened in san francisco and i will say that while we have always had protests in front of planned parenthood, they have become bigger, more aggressive. you know, we used to have the 40 days of prayer once a year, now we have it twice a year. there was even an abortion holocaust survivors conference held in san francisco, that was incredibly upsetting to many of us, and aside from the usual violent images of bloody and mangled fetus and screaming lies like abortion causes cancer, which is absolutely scientifically not true, the protestors become more aggressive, grabbing on to the gate in back of planned parenthood and shaking it. you know, following women getting very close and screaming, and you know, i can't tell you how upsetting that is. most women go to planned

parenthood not for abortion but to get reproductive health care, for cancer screenings, breast exams, get birth control, but sometimes women are at one of the most difficult times in their entire life when they choose to get an abortion, and to be subjected to that type of violent screaming and harassment is really traumatic. so, you know, we are really happy to have the law on the books, and to make sure that the police can enforce it to the best of their ability, and hope that this will pass unanimously out of committee and at the board of supervisors. and before i open it up to public comment and ask if my colleague has any comments, i wanted to mention that sofia navaro and naima from planned

parenthood are here, and we have another from the police to fill in if there are any questions. any questions or comments? >> supervisor mandelman: i don't have questions. we can hear from sophia. >> supervisor ronen: open up public comment. >> supervisor mandelman: let's open public comments. >> you mentioned everything that i was going to mention. good morning. sophia, v.p. of government relations for planned parenthood in northern california. and here to say thank you, thank you supervisor ronen for all the work that you have done to push this forward. i mean, as you know and you have mentioned it in your speech right now, we currently have patients that come into our health centers and constantly get verbally harassed and we just feel it's unacceptable and we demand, we demand better for our community and our patients.

they deserve a space they can come in, feel safe and get the care that they need and that they rightfully seek. so, i'll keep it brief, as mentioned. but thank you so much. we are in support of this proposed amendment and look forward to continuing to work with your office and captain hart, amazing as well. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. public comment? then we will close public comments. and i will entertain a motion to recommend the item for approval. >> supervisor ronen: motion to amend the ordinance to delete the words written or, we have it there, on line six of page two. i make that motion. >> supervisor mandelman: take that without objection. >> supervisor ronen: and then i make a motion to send the

amended ordinance forward with positive recommendation. >> supervisor mandelman: as well. great. thank you. thank you, vice chair ronen. any other items on the agenda? >> clerk: no further business. >> supervisor mandelman: fantastic. then we are adjourned. thank you. women's network for

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>> 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 and we had beaut

housing, like 990. and i want to thank especially the residents who supported us from day one, some of the seniors are no longer with us, but they supported us. i want to thank, of course, the housing authority, mayor's office. you partnered the dream with mayor lee back then. any way, i'm not going to talk too much in the beginning except this: please appreciate these moments, when the community residents, mayor's office, housing authority, and h.u.d. can get along for once to get something done. so put your hands together,

celebrate this moment. appreciate it. michael jackson said this is it, this is it, this is the moment. but we need the mayor -- oh, before the mayor, there's a video of someone did of coming home. emma, how do you dim the lights? all right. a little commercial break. all right. here we go. appreciate. okay. coming home, look at this. public housing residents coming home happy, okay? happy. so while they're setting up, we're going to do the ribbon cutting a little earlier. some people have to go, and we're going to acknowledge everyone, and the tenant's going to speak after the ribbon cutting. got it? so stick around. okay. >> so just a little bit of background while we're waiting

for the video. so emma marie chang is our film maker. our residents and planning staff worked with emma to document the stories of eight residents. [applause] >> -- as they relocated to 11 different locations around the city. so roll the tape. >> here we go. i hope there's sound, too. [naubl video] [inaudible video]

>> she will be speaking later. we call her grandma precious.

first one back, right, emma? was she the first one back? my god, it doesn't get much better than that. come on. coming home, that's why we're here. [applause] >> and i'm here your video will be a national model. and trump might not look at it, but somebody -- i mean, this is -- you've got to celebrate this moment. and now, we're coming home so that mayor breed can bring it home right now. let's welcome the mayor of san francisco, london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i am so excited to be here today to witness the incredible remodel of 92 units with 100 seniors and disabled folks who live here. there's a new home. "coming home" is an appropriate

title for the video because sadly, i know what it's like to live in public housing and public housing where the conditions are horrible. over 20 years my grandmother raised me in plaza east public housing, and the roaches, the pipes that are busted, the bathrooms that are messed up, the mold, the frustration, the violence that i experienced, you never forget that. and so when i had an opportunity to be on the board of supervisors and work with mayor lee, and i went and i spoke with him about my priorities, at the time, olson lee was the director of the mayor office of housing, i asked the mayor to do more. because what we had discovered was we had over $250 million of deferred maintenance with a $10 million annual budget. how were we going to change public housing for the better for the residents of san

francisco? and so i am so excited to be here today because we are doing something different with public housing, we are changing the face of public housing by changing the way it looks, the way it feels, for the people that live here. we are making a difference. we are finally seeing the fruits of our labor in less time than it typically takes the bureaucracy to get it together. and so i'm so glad to be mayor at a time when we have these openings, when we have these residences, that you are living in safe and humane conditions. nothing is more important to me as mayor to make sure that the experiences that i had growing up, living in public housing with my grandmother, are not the same experiences of san franciscans today.

so we are in a better place, and we are in a better place because so many people stepped up to address this issue. i worked with olson lee when he was with the mayor's office of housing and ed lee, and so many people who fought for r.a.d., while others tried to stop r.a.d. i didn't want the conditions of public housing to continue to persist. and i want to thank the san francisco housing authority, who helped to lead this particular effort. and i want to thank our community partner because it is a partnership that gets us to a place like this. thank you, reverend fong and chinatown community development for not only taking on the responsibility of helping to manage this property, but doing it with love, making sure that you work with the residents so that they understood that they were derchfinitely going to be coming back, that you tried to

find locations for them that were convenient for them so that their routines were not knocked out of whack. in plaza east, those units were torn down and only 200 were rebuilt, and many weren't coming back. we're changing that. we're changing how we displace residents -- well, not displace. excuse me. that's not the best word. how we make sure when we're remodelling these properties that we do it in a way that allows the residents to live comfortably until the work is done so that they know they're coming home, so that they know that this is being done on their behalf and not someone else's. that is the difference of what this program has done to thousands of properties all over the city. we will continue down this path as long as we have great

partners like chinatown community development, other partners like bank of america, merri merrill lynch, who helped finance this project, the residents, the community, and so many who helped realize this dream of rehabilitating if you believe housing in san francisco. 92 units at 990 pacific avenue is just the tip of the iceberg. we still have a lot of units to go, and in san francisco we're going to get the job done for residents of public housing. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> all right. she brought it home, but i want some noise especially because sometimes it gets not acknowledged, the staff of chinatown c.d.c. and board

members. wave your hands, jump up and down. i can't name you because we don't have no time. i don't know, man, i love this guy. he causes trouble a lot, but that's normal. sometimes, i, too, but you know, he's home grown, part of chinatown north beach collaboratives in so many different ways, our own supervisor, the one and only, the bearded guy, supervisor aaron peskin, come on. you be nice today, though, right? this is a happy occasion. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, reverend fong. i think today is actually proof positive that r.a.d. is actually pretty dang rad. let me start with just some words of profound thanks. starting with mayor ed lee who had this vision and really went

to the right person in the right department, and that is our recently retired head of the mayor's office of housing, olson lee, who had the vision that we could take that vision of h.u.d. and section 8 and plow it into this. let me name one name in particular, and that is cathy lamb who pioneered this with such love. we know the mistakes governments are capable of making. mayor breed spoke to that legacy of distrust, of broken promises. that did not happen here. all of those 103 residents who unfortunate temporarily had to leave the seismically unsafe building, all of them taken care of with love, each and every day, their needs taken

care of. thank you to cathy and her team for that. thank you to the mayor's office of housing and everybody who brought them back on schedule. and let me thank the tenant's association. this was done as a collaborative project. it was not top down government, telling people how it was going to be, it was done in close collaboration, democratically, in the best sense of the word, with the tenant's association. the person who presided over the tenant's association, dorothy ramsey, who i knew and loved did not live to see this day, but i want to invoke her memory, along with ed lee's, and i want to thank the president of the association, susanna. you have cantonese speakers, russian speakers, all living in

harmy, harmony, so i want to thank the tenant's association. in addition to merrill lynch, the bank of america has made an unprecedented investment not only in this $65 million project, but in our project citywide. this is over $2 billion in capital, and this project is just the tip of the iceberg. there is just down the street in chinatown hundreds of more units that are being subjected to the same loving treatment and rehabilitation in the pings where the board of supervisors with jane kim and the entire complement back when london breed was president has bestowed every bit of capital that we can get our hands on.

i was worried this project could kill c.c.d.c., and if it did not kill it, it would emerge stronger. you have emerged stronger. congratulations. [applause] >> supervisor peskin: i would like susanna from the tenant's association to come up and get an award from the board of supervisors, as well as cathy lamb. i know you are humble, i know you hate the spotlight, but you have no choice in this matter, miss lamb. come on up here. [applause] >> cathy lamb, your moment has come, cathy. >> supervisor peskin: and miss tau, who is the president of the tenant's association, i want to acknowledge and thank, as well.

[applause] >> it's priceless. don't worry, we got you covered. jane, you want to say a few words? where's supervisor jane kim? and then, we're going to get together for a photo, and then the ribbon cutting, and then we'll follow with a thanks to all the people who contributed. [applause] >> supervisor kim: thank you, reverend fong, my former boss. i always have the honor of being sort o