speak again. speaker, please. you have two minutes. >> i've jerry chan and have been driving since 1974 and i think i have a solution to solve all this. you can buy back the medallion from the city but it would take me 45 minutes to an hour to finish my solution. i willing to talk to either one of you individual whatever time you have and every time i bring this up these people want to kill me, okay. all the cab driver want to kill me every time i bring it up and i need more time. if i can schedule a time with you, either one individually or all together i would solve the problem. uber, lyft, buy back, everything. >> mr. goebel would you mind taking the gentleman's

information? next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is roberto martinez. i bought a medallion for $250,000. i work more than 12 hours a day. i start at 8:00. sometimes i get home after 11:00. i don't see my family because i have to make they'll payments. i pay more than $3,000 to the company and now we have' check and i have one to 15 to make the payments. i'm behind because no customers. the problem is all the solutions is not -- we have a lot of competition. too many. even sometimes i cannot go through. the busiest day for us at the wharf they come plenty, friday,

saturday sometimes go home very upset because we don't make money. too many of them. you should do something to reduce them and believe me, we have a pretty bad situation. i hope you can help us with something. thank you so much. have a great day. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is mohammad tirti and i'm driving one of the three med medallions and it's not a free medallion. it's my life's work. i paid 15 years call it $250,000 the first 14 years. i paid. it was not for sale. so please don't separate us from

each other and believe the job done properly. it's very difficult these days for everybody who buy it and get it free. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm the last one i'll make it fast. i'm ebron and i bought it for $250,000 and i don't want to take your time to hear the same story but always my kids they ask me, if something happens to them what happens to the $250,000 do we have to pay them. can you ask the sfmta, if i have a stroke today what happens to the medallion. what will happen to my family and kids? it's a shame when you sit and talk about the income in the

city for $50,000, $60,000 a year. do you know how much they pay in rent with two kids. i have an a daughter 19, she will study medical can you tell me how i can support her and a son 18? sfmta, when people go rob a bank they think the way out not in. can you tell sfmta do they have a plan b? after this year they come ask the driver what we can do? we wait 17 years. i wait 17 years and i wait to 50. sfmta what will happen to me if something happens to me? the bank will take the medallion and i have all [indiscernible]. i bet a million dollars you're not because they cannot support

you. i live in fairfield. it takes me two hours to come here. it takes me another two and a half hours to commute. another $1500 a month. mr. lazar, knows when he sold his business there is no business. sfmta have a lot of things they can do. [bell ringing] >> supervisor: thank you very much. commissioner pollock, we've called all the cards. thank you very much. public comment is now closed. any questions, comments? >> i have a couple additional

questions for ms. trin. can you explain the payments that the medallion holders make to the cab companies. i don't understand that. >> there are a couple different ways to run a medallion and one is called gas and gauge and that is you are the medallion holder and you hand over your medallion to the company to run and they run it for you. that's one way and the second way is where you are an affiliate. you run the medallion as a small business owner. you affiliate -- you're required to affiliate with a color scheme and pay for dispatch service for the colors and run thur medallion under that color scheme. it depends on the package you get. sometimes it's the vehicle insurance, the dispatch, the colors, there's a package the

medallion holder will buy from the color scheme and dispatch service. >> so the holders of the $125,000 or $250,000 medallion, the post-k is that what you call them? >> that's a different group. it's super complicated and fraught. >> >> supervisor: they have to pay for whatever they have their payment on the lone -- loan and in addition pay the color scheme and whatever's left over is their wage? >> correct. and the purchase medallion holders typically run as affiliates and have all the costs you just mentioned. >> so that's -- and you've taken all that into account when you've estimate the $38,000 a year annual earning? >> correct. and the full details are in the report.

i'm happy to send it over, the pfp report and did a full analysis and were on site and talked to the various stakeholder groups and accounted for the cost of the medallion, yes. >> we will be continuing to look into this. i will just say that first -- i don't have any more questions, thank you and thanks for being the messenger today but to the workers i will just say thank you so much for coming out and sharing all this information and the stories. it's outrageous. i know many of you have come to the board of supervisors meetings and waited a long time to get our attention on these issues. i do believe the entire way in which the sfmta has handled taxi drivers is outrageous. there's been so many mistakes along the way. it's hard to even begin to talk

about. there's a lot of information to take in and understand how this works. in general, i am not -- i understand where the two groups are coming from and the fact that are being pitted against each other, especially by this propos proposal from the sfmta around the airport. i will be looking into whether our not our powers to regulate t.n.c.s are greater in the than the rest of san francisco and the board of supervisors is limited and this is a huge call out to our state delegation and assembly member wang and chu, you have to give us that power. not only have we done wrong as a

city by the taxi industry and the many workers that are suffering so tremendously in this industry and this is personal for me. my dad was a taxi driver before i was born actually and then he drove a super shuttle for a while so it's in my blood the taxi driver ethos and i know how dangerous and difficult this job is and what a service it provides to the city but we need to the power to regulate t.n.c.s and if there's a possibility over time to buyback the medallions, i don't know yet. we have more research and a deeper delve into the situation to understand that. i also know that what would not only solve this situation with the value of the medallions and

many other issues in our city, safety, congestion, a number of things as if the board of supervisors had the power to regulate the t.n.c.s. so this say call-out to our -- is a call-out to our state regulation, if you don't want to regulate them yourself, let us do it and we'd be happy to do so. in the meantime, i'm hoping we might have additional strategies we can employ at the airports to make sure that taxi drivers of all medallion types get some leg up to be able to give those rides at the airport which i know is such -- really the only part left of the industry that's at all profitable. i'll just end by saying before passing it over to my colleague that i really appreciate mr. brooks' comments about the taxi system being a public

agency and drivers being public workers. i went to spain over the legislative break and i arrived at the end of a multi-day taxi strike where the entire country's taxi drivers struck for days. not a single one of them worked. shut down that public transportation -- well, it is a public transportation system. they are employees of the cities. what struck me was the solidarity of the workers to one another. we got into really long conversations with all of our taxi drivers while we were there about the fight they have against the t.n.c.s in spain and it was so different because there was so much solidarity among all the taxi drivers whereas i see you being split

apart. i would really encourage to you stick together in this fight because you've got such a monster to fight on the outside, these large corporations dumping money into politicians' campaigns to get them on their side. you have to stick together. don't let them separate you in this struggle. [off mic] >> supervisor: i know but i'm telling you already have a big uphill battle as it is and when you go against each other it makes it harder so that's a call out i have to you. i know supervisor fewer and i spoke about this and it's not something we'll turn a blind eye to but continue to work on this to get justice for you all. i just wanted to -- i learned so

much today. i appreciate your time. and the education you've given me and we're going to continue to work on this issue so thank you so much. >> just to echo commissioner roanen's comments, a huge thanks to workers who came out today to give us an education and thank you for your presentation and the education on different types of medallions. i mentioned on the outset of public comment that i am a customer of taxi drivers and primarily use taxis and the bus for transportation and so it was a realization that even being a

customer doesn't protect drivers. there are so many more layers purchasing the medallion and their monthly payment, payments to color schemes. these are things i didn't understand in the landscape of what it means to be a driver in the city and so that's been an education for me and just sort of knowing the ways that i knew to support fell short. i thank you for that. i am interested in speaking with mr. goebel and having you talk to us about what the jurisdictional boundaries are on how lasco could begin to address this situation. we understand that not only do the board of supervisors have no jurisdiction in areas that sfmta

does, that this body of lafco would merely only be to influence. something that could come before the board of supervisors and also to be a sounding board but i think if lafco were a sounding board for the taxi drivers, you would feel failed in that sense because we don't have the power to make a change at sfmta. so it's not fair to say we can help in the ways that i think need to happen but what we can do is take the schaller report and other items and begin to look at ways in which lafco could further study the issue. i really struggle with how we

could. i struggle with our budget, which is severely constricted and with staff time and so i just want to invite mr. goebel to advise us and perhaps today is not the day, but if you have a sense of what lafco could do. >> commissioner, thank you. yes, i've been talking about potentially doing a survey of the purchase medallion holders to get more data on them and understand the demographics but i think you're correct in that we are limited in our authority, however, you can direct me to conduct the study on any aspect of the sfmta's directions to go to the board of supervisors if

you so choose. >> would that require you to submit a supplemental budget request? >> i think i would need to identify funding for it, but if you so desire we could hire a consultant and i could work with agencies to identify funding but i personally in my role with clean power s.f. and emerging mobility services i would not have the capacity to take on a big load. >> commissioner: thank you. >> commissioner: so in close ig want to thank everyone for coming out today. i know you took out a day from driving to come out a couple hours. i think we all learned a lot. thank you ms. turin for educating us and i still don't feel like i understand it fully. i just want to say the san

francisco board of supervisors has very little power over the sfmta. we can vote to budget up or down. that's all we can do. i, myself, have gone before the sfmta commission which is unusual. usually supervisors do not go before the sfmta commission but i did in this budget cycle ask them to do something to address the issue for taxi drivers and when the vote to approve the budget of m.t.a. came forward i voted no on their budget because of this very reason. i think clearly this is separ e separating you as taxi drier -- drivers are suffering and some are suffering more, those that bought their medallions for $250,000 or $150,000 are

suffering but the whole industry is suffering as a whole. there is a culprit and we can point fingers to city but it's t.n.c.s also and i echo what supervisor ronen said is i know it's hard but i hope you will stay united because i think working class folks need to stay united in san francisco. i said we don't have much jurisdiction over this. i think we can have further conversation. i feel like this has opened up a whole bunch of questions. like, i am wondering who are the people -- i mean, we have heard that the medallion holders and taxi drivers are financially challenged. are the taxi companies

financially challenged, i'm wondering, are they still make profit? so all these questions come into play. so i want to thank my colleagues for having this brought forward also to hear this and i think that we will have to continue this conversation but i just want to thank everyone for coming out today and some of the stories i think my colleagues will agree with me are somewhat heartbreaking and it is very frustrating, quite frankly, that our hands are tied on what we can do. thank you so much today for coming out and sharing your stories and we don't have an action item on this but i think we will continue this for further discussion. so madame clerk, i would like to make a motion to continue item number 4 on the agenda until the next meeting. >> clerk: we still need to take

public comment though. >> commissioner: i'm sorry. >> clerk: i'll call the item first. you're on item six. would you like me to call item four. >> commissioner: yes. >> clerk: an update and presentation on emerging services emergency labor draft scope. >> commissioner: is there public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i make a motion to continue this item until the next meeting. >> clerk: and we need a second. >> commissioner: without objection. please call item number five. >> clerk: item five is authorization for the executive officer to issue a rerequest for proposals for and not to speed $5,000 to support a contract for labor service of emerging emergency services contract workers. >> commissioner: please, quietly if you're having a conversation please leave the room. we're conducting a meeting here.

thank you. >> commissioner: i believe mr. global has a 30-second explanation. >> this would authorize know issue an r.f.f. on a survey on emergi emerging mobility services and this would authorize the funds for that. >> commissioner: thank you very much. is there any comment from our s? -- our colleagues? commissioner pollock. >> mr. goebel, to begin the work -- i know we're continuing item number four. could we still approve the issue

or authorize you to issue the r.p.f. and we can have an update with item four and update on the r.f.p. on the next meeting? >> that would be fine. and this will take up the bulk of the funds of about $62,000 and leave us with a balance of $7,000. i do anticipate it's possible the cost for this survey will rise but i can't really say until we receive some proposals in and i'll have a better idea then but this authorization today will get us rolling. >> commissioner: thank you very much. >> commissioner: i have one more question have you considered an r.f.q. instead of r.f.p. to cut down on responses? >> what i was planning on doing with your approval is doing an

informal process so that i solicit three or more bids on this. that will be a little quicker than the formal process. >> great, thank you. >> any other comments? this opens public comment? any public comment on item number five? >> thank you, mark brugberg again. i was looking at the materials here and i noticed there was a potential survey instrument which i take to be a draft but i had a couple of comments on that because there seems to be a concern for the workers who work for these companies. a little ironic i think given the fact of what we have in san francisco which is a living wage and minimum wage and prevailing wage and for cab drivers we have a starvation wage. then there seems to be a lot of

concern about the working conditions of t.n.c. drivers but there is an exploitation going on there i do believe. i wanted to make a couple suggestions. some of these questions, how many hours do you work a week? well, i think you might want to know how many hours some of these people work a day. what are the housing arrangements and how many are sleeping in parking lots? these are safety issues. how much are they earning at this job and if they're working for multiple companies, you want to know that. there's a whole bunch of questions i think are not on the list that need to be asked so thank you for that. >> commissioner: thank you very much.

again, this is item number five. please come forward. >> sorry, i was confused because i thought we were talking about the working conditions and what you can do about t.n.c.s and everything. is that not so? >> commissioner: i'm sorry we're on the authorization for the executive author to request a proposal to fund and support a contract for a labor survey studying the emerging mobility services contract workers. >> okay. i noticed a peculiar thing about what happens to t.n.c. workers. if you go to 24-hour fitness which i do quite frequently, they're full at so many times of

the day and half the night of people who come for a shower and a shave and then go back to sleep in their cars. now, this is completely and utterly illegal and it's not a question of the war of us against them or anything else. this is a problem because according to the county transportation board there are approximately 45,000 t.n.c.s at one time or another work in the city. the vast majority of these people are commuting long distances to come into the city. they do not live in the city because they can't afford to live in the city and park their

vehicles and they go into the parking lot of 24-hour fitness or whatever. >> commissioner: thank you very much. >> and they're sleeping in their cars and they need to wash. they need to shave, they need to do all those things. and nobody is taking any account of their hours. i'm a regular person who speaks at the c.p.u.c. and i was, in fact, a party member and resigned from that because it's futile. if you haven't got a bag full of money, you won't do anything with a p.u.c. but the p.u.c. have never increased their enforcement personnel from 35 people for the

entire state. yet, there are 150,000 t.n.c.s approximately but they don't even keep count [bell ringing] . >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i want to take a note of the potential survey questions you offered. >> i hadn't planned to speak on this but i sent a copy of the two of you and the five-minute video the nbc affiliate in sacramento did and maybe you can look at and that it's for everyone else's education that certain people who are criminals have advertised in chat rooms and websites you can rent out their lyft and uber account which is entirely illegal. so what the story showed was that these people who rented it

and don't have the money to go straight to their bank account and substituted pictures of their own cars and photographer so someone comes out of a bar for example, in eastbound -- in eastbou under the influence and the person hasn't not only been fingerprint order a background check at all. when they looked into it it was a guy who was totally innocent and his identity had been stolen and this seems to be common and seems the dmv seems to be playing jurisdictional dodgeball. if you're going to do a study, it seems like the people driving in the system aren't in the system or registered so i don't know how you will get statistics when you don't know who the

people are driving the cars. >> commissioner: thank you very much. public comment is now closed. would someone like to make a motion to authorize our executive officer? >> a motion to authorize our executive officer to issue an r.p.f. not to exceed $65,000 for this contract on emerging mobility service contract workers. >> commissioner: thank you very much. we can take that without objection. thank you very much. please read item number seven. >> clerk: item seven is authorization to expend $145,000 in funds for the executive officer to attend the 2018 conference. >> commissioner: i think it's

explanatory. any public comments? public comment is closed and i make the motion to pass to attend the conference. >> i need a second. >> commissioner: thank you very much. could you please read item eight. >> cler >> clerk: item eight is orders to not to exceed the amount of $5,000 for -- >> commissioner: i think this is mainly for our possible interns and supplies? >> exactly, madame chair. currently they don't have authority to sign purchase orders without approval from the commission. this would grant me some spending authority so i don't have to come back to the commission with every request

and not to exceed $5,000 subject to available funds and approval by the chair. there's a resolution attached to this which i have which say final line the executive officer will exercise the authority with approval from the chair and be it further resolved the executive order shall provide an annual report outlining the contract and purchase orders. >> commissioner: thank you very much. colleagues, any comments or questions? >> i have a quick question. it's not to exceed the amount of $5,000 for each purchase order so we're not capping you at $5,000 for the year.

>> that's correct. >> commissioner: i make a motion to authorize the executive officer to approve contract and purchase orders for professional services and equipment and supplies not to squeeze t -- exceed the amount of $5,000. >> seconded. >> commissioner: i think we can take that without objection. thank you very much. we are going to lose quorum very quickly so mr. goebel would you mind if we did a two-minute item number 10? great. >> clerk: it's executive officer's report introduction of interns mark bautista and leah tru and a meeting scheduled for 2019. >> thank you. mark had to leave because he had to go to class. mark bautista is our new intern and senior at s.f. state studying mechanical engineering with a minor in electrical

engineering and has done course work and i'm impressed with his enthusiasm and i'm already learning a lot from him and will help us plan what the next steps will be on clean pour -- power s.f. she's worked at the network and worked at the annual winter fest. she has extensive history in fund and in data analysis and i'm thrilled to have her join our team in room 409.

so the last item i have is just to a reminder we need to set our meeting schedule for 2019. i sent you and your staff some suggested dates. i will be bringing that for your approval at the next meeting. >> commissioner: thank you very much. colleagues do you have anything today. welcome leah and mark and thank you for your service. thank you. we look forward to working with you. thank you very much. public comments? >> welcome to the interns and just a request, to mr. goebel, if you could make sure mr. bautista is looped in to conversation the advocates around clean power s.f. to make sure we're on the same page since he's advising you. that would be great, thanks.

>> commissioner: new very much. next speaker, please. >> i'll give you background and history of the cab history. >> commissioner: that's the next item on general public comment. >> this is? >> commissioner: this is the executive officer's report. any other public comment on item 10? seeing none. we're closed for public comment. please call item 11. no action was taken on item 10. 11 is public comment. now, please, sir. >> i love these formalities. i'm michael spain and started in '71 as a driver. in 1977 the biggest cab company yellow cab company collapsed and i with 200 people bought it and

began to run it as a co-op. we had to drive to pay the note because we bought the company. so everyone before 1977 bought their taxi cabs either the way we did or from anyone who had a cab and want to sell it and get out of the business. in 1978 there was a sponsored bill before the voters and passed. it was passed in 1978 and for 40 years it would lock the industry into no sales. you couldn't sell or buy and everyone was frozen in time though the cabs became more valuable over time because of inflation and because the city inflates certain items faster than others.

and they tried to reverse the bad things that happened under prop k. that's why we have this situation today. what i'm going to say now is basically blasphemy in the industry. we heard a lot of t.n.c. and jumping on them. the big revolution has been the t.n.c.s. they've changed transportation drastically. as they cheap and the greatest thing to happen to san francisco in at least 100 years. and i stand to lose if this thing passes because i'm part of the pre-ks but i tried to get the industry to change -- [bell ringing] [off mic]

>> commissioner: thank you very much. any other public comment? >> i understand you're under a time constraint. i can come back at another meeting if that helps. would that be better? okay. thank you. >> commissioner: no, no, no. >> i didn't want to infringe on anybody's other appointments. i'm looking at the commission. i was barely aware of its existence before this came up and it seems to be a commission without portfolio that can delve into all kinds of things like a minister without portfolio in a foreign government. i see that you have this study that's going to be done on labor and t.n.c.s and there's another area of t.n.c. operations that

desperately needs looking into and that has to do with the safety of the public and the consumer protection of the public. there are a number of items under this i don't think are being addressed. certainly the c.p.u.c. is not addressing them. i spoke before about hours and shifts these workers are working, about their sleeping arrangements, about where they're coming from, how many hours they're putting on the road before they actually go to work. the kind of driving. years ago the police did a survey and found a disproportionate number were being committed by t.n.c. drivers and how many accident they committing or involved in? what's the danger to the public

from that and what about the counterfeit identity and most are driving without improper insurance. their personal insurance policies don't allow them to drive personally. this is an area perhaps the commission could enter in -- [bell ringing] >> commissioner: thank you, next speaker, please. > >> i wanted to talk about the same issues on the question of insurance. because i go to the c.p.u.c. meetings quite reg air will, they have -- regularly, they have a hands-off position. they don't keep any kind of a

database. i mean, they don't know who is driving. they don't know when they're driving and the biggest problem is they don't know when they're insured or not. now, one of these problems is the way t.n.c.s are set up is there are more vehicles available then there are rides and that's why you get rides more quickly. the only times that's not true is when they have these surge pricing etcetera. now, one of the things that happens is that these drivers are using business cards. they give these to passengers

and say, oh, any time you want to cab, call me. at that point, they are 100% uninsured of anything and driving entirely illegally. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> carlo maron, thank you for listening. i think uber will probably be here for a while so it's not a sustainable model that won't work in the long run. i think the original investors and there's some very powerful ones the families of qatar and goldman sachs are looking for someone to take them off the hook for the mistake they made. it's jurisdictional dodgeball and they acknowledged they

lacked enforcement capacity -- if a lyft driver runs a red light they won't say we have to wait for a state inspector. this is a suggestion on thinning out lyft and uber in san francisco. there's 45,000 cars, supposedly, if we can get it to 25,000 and the people who prefer this service in the next few years can get a right in three minutes than one minute and we'd have less traffic and the drivers of lyft, uber and taxis would make more money and help the medallions too and would the vehicle code to require a

commercial plate. 100% of the cars don't have commercial plates. it underpins the fact they're committing insurance fraud and it doesn't eliminate the fact that t.n.c.s have liability insurance but allows predatory pricing by dodging overhead and millions of dollars are hitting general fund at the hospital because the insurance carriers avoid the policy once the fraud -- [bell ringing] >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello again. i'd like to thank you for your voice of unity. i would like to stay united but it's difficult under these circumstances. we do have a major issue with the loans from the credit union no longer holding the medallion as collateral and it's cause huge problem and part of the division too is when it came

from going from prop k to prop a and forced us to lose our spots on the list i waited 16 years and nobody cried for us. they were ready to throw us under the bus and make us buy. money rules the energy and we mentioned lowe, ting and wiener and they're huge advocates of the t.n.c.s. it's almost impossible to support us though i'd appreciate their support. you go on twitter and everything they do and say is a big lobby for the t.n.c.s. it's very difficult. we're in a very extremely difficult situation and that's pretty much all i can say at this point and thank you for listening to us. >> commissioner: thank you very much. mr. brooks.

>> thank you aaron brooks, californ californians for energy choice and under the structure you've been discussing and i would urge they include studying environmental impacts in the same way jobs are outsourced overseas because countries have lower environmental standards. these jobs are being outsourced to the ride hail companies because they have lower environmental standards. that's one of the factors and because they play their employees jerk wages the way amazon does so that needs to be factors in because it's part of the economic equation the way the workers are paid and treat and how the ride hail companies get away with this and are under cutting the taxis. then i'll speak to the next item to save you time, future agenda

items. i would definitely urge you and the executive officer, since you're meeting every two months to meet every month if you can but since you're meeting every two months right now to definitely put the local clean power s.f. build-out on the next agenda because i'm hearing through the grapevine the s.f.p.u.c. will make a request to the board of supervisors for funding to do a build-out study. i don't think the s.f.p.u.c. is the right fit for that and would be better the commission that's been driving the push for a local build-out and the board of supervisors were to lead the charge on that and request the funding for alafco because it has the capacity to be forward thinking about clean energy whereas the s.f.p.u.c. has to be more conservative and that study should come through alafco and

should be on the next agenda so the ball gets rolling. [bell ringing] >> commissioner: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. please read the next item. >> clerk: item 12, future agenda items? any public comment? no. public comment is now closed. do we have any other business. >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> commissioner: thank you very much. we're adjourned.

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housing. my sister, she's in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my

team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be

okay. >> good afternoon everyone. on the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: i'm really excited to be here with some of our city's most incredible leaders. members of the board of supervisors, and including the person who has led the efforts for each and every one of us that brought us here to this day thank you so much. [applause] for farm too loan, survivors of sexual harassment and assault of how to navigate through tangled web of city departments and resources as they fight for justice and accountability. but thanks to the leadership of everyone here,