>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

i want to welcome you back to the october 23rd, 2018, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, call the roll for attendance. [roll call taken] >> president cohen: ladies and gentlemen, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, any communications? >> clerk: none to report today. >> president cohen: i'm sorry, i still cannot hear out of my receiver. >> clerk: none to report today. >> president cohen: approving the minutes from the september 18, 2018, full board meeting. is there a motion to approve the minutes? motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor kim. take this without objection, all right. without objection, meeting minutes are approved after public comment. madam clerk, consent agenda. >> items 1 through 11 on consent, considered routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president cohen: on the question, shall these items be passed, please call the roll.

[roll call vote taken] >> president cohen: items are passed unanimously. all right. madam clerk, the regular agenda to unfinished business. call item 12. >> clerk: ordinance creating the city and county of san francisco infrastructure and revitalization refinancing district hoedown yards.

>> president cohen: same house, same call. ordinance is finally passed. through 20. excuse me, 13 through 15. >> clerk: related to the india basin, and commercial open space elements to reflect the india basin mixed use project, and 14, amending the planning code to establish the special use district and amending the zoning map, height districts and add the india basin special use district. and item 15, ordinance amending the development agreement between the city and county of san francisco and india basin investment l.l.c. for the project with various public benefits, including 25% of affordable housing, 11 acres of parks and open space. approving a public trust exchange agreement and approving

specific development impact fees. >> president cohen: same house, same call, all right. without objection, ordinances are finally passed. next item. >> change the callfications for members of the shelter monitoring committee, create stagger terms for members, sunset date for the committee and allow shelters that contract with the city to provide clients with clean blankets if clean sheets are unavailable. >> president cohen: colleagues, same house, same call. ordinance is finally passed. >> item 17, ordinance amending the administrative business and tax regulations environment fire, health, police and transportation codes. >> president cohen: ordinance is passed. next item. >> 18, ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the cannabis oversight committee, advise the board and mayor implementation of city

laws and regulations relating to cannabis. >> supervisor fewer: at our last meeting i regretfully did not acknowledge the hard work of my legislative aide, ian frigosi, taking the lead on this, months and months and months of diligent work and thank you to him and i look forward to your support. >> thank you, same house, same call, all right. without objection, this ordinance is finally passed. next item. >> clerk: 18, ordinance amended in committee with a new title, amends the health code to revise regulation of massage practitioners, establishment, alcohol services and sole practitioners, criminal history information, eliminating temporary permits, administrative process for appeal, authorizing denial of permit to applicant convicted of

anything to prostitution, unless the victim was a victim of human trafficking, establishing reinspection fee, imposition of an lien for violation, certain violations to be a public nuisance and discontinuing the acceptance of applications january 1, 2019. >> supervisor tang: a few questions that came up right before the meeting, and so as such, i'm happy to answer questions from anyone as well as the department of public health. i will ask to continue this item for one week. >> motion to continue the item for one week, seconded by supervisor yee. without objection, deal with this matter in one week time. >> to october 30, 2018. >> clerk: item number 20, ordinance amending the ordinance number 1061 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to change

the official width of certain locations, and to eliminate and reduce portions of the official sidewalk fronting and making appropriate findings. >> president cohen: thank you. colleagues, take this, same house, same call. without objection, passed on the first reading. >> clerk: 21, ordinance to interaction agreements with pg&e at operations facility for burton high school and delegating authority to various departments to enter into interconnection agreements for solar projects with pg&e. >> president cohen: same house, same call. without objection, this ordinance is passed on the first reading. >> clerk: item number 22, ordinance ordering the summary street vacation, new sidewalks michigan street, property

transfers, authorizing official acts in connection with the ordinance and making appropriate findings. >> president cohen: same house, same call, without objection, this ordinance is passed on the first reading. next item. >> clerk: 23, resolution declaring the intention of the supervisors to vacation of streets and easements in the sunnydale hope s.f. project site and setting a date to sit as a committee of the whole january 19, 2019. >> president cohen: i have some brief remarks i wanted to offer on item 23. this is a resolution that memori memori memorializes to vacate streets in the sunnydale hope s.f. site. this body approved the revitalization project in the interchange of 2016. in short, the street vacation will allow the city to build the first phase of this development

which includes the construction of new streets and utility infrastructure as well as 167 units at 100% a.m.i., 100% of affordable housing. so, this construction i'm excited to say is going to start may of 2019. more broadly, this legislation will help us to realign the streets into a regular grid, to create a more well connected community and to build the much-needed public housing replacement units and of course, the much-needed affordable housing. this resolution allows for clark and public works to post public notices and set a hearing date for the ordinance. a committee of the whole on

january 15, 2019. i want to also assure my colleagues that none of these streets will be privatized. and that all the new streets will be returned to the city's jurisdiction per the approved development agreement. are there any other questions? all right. colleagues, take this item same house, same call. all right. without objection, this resolution is adopted. >> clerk: item number 24, resolution urging bart to add a bus node at 24th street bart station during the seismic retrofit. >> president cohen: same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted. next item. >> clerk: number 25, ordinance amending the building, housing fire and administrative codes to require the installation of a new fire safety system or the improvement or upgrade of an existing system current code requirements in a residential

building of three or more dwelling units, amending the rent ordinance to prohibit landlords from increasing the cost and make appropriate findings. >> president cohen: adopted. >> clerk: 26, ordinance amending the administratestive code to conform to the passage of proposition c, loans to finance acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing. >> president cohen: adopted. >> clerk: item 27, ordinance amending the administrative code to exempt from the fiscal feasibility capital improvement projects under the jurisdiction of the municipal transportation agency, support increase or improvement in municipal railway service. >> president cohen: sir, you have to reserve your comments for public comment. the clerk can answer your question. colleagues, take this item same how, same call.

without objection, this ordinance is passed on the first reading. >> clerk: 28, motion reappointing tony parks, and marcus dancer to the mental health board. >> president cohen: motion is approved. >> clerk: 29, motion reappointing daniel hlad and john elberling. >> president cohen: take this, same house, same call. seeing no objection, we'll take this without objection. this motion is approved. >> clerk: 30, appointing joanna powell, to the children youth and families oversight and advisory committee.

>> president cohen: all right, colleagues. this is for appointment to seat number 11. there are currently four vacancies. supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: thank you, i just had a question on this candidate, and only brought up to me today. apologies for not bringing it up sooner. my understanding they serve on the board of one of the charter schools and i had questions about this candidate. i'm not sure anyone can answer the questions, i would like to make a motion to continue while i learn more about this candidate. >> president cohen: supervisor kim has made a motion to continue this item. supervisor peskin seconded this motion. supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: so, i guess went through the rules committee and i think we vetted and we asked about the fact that she was on the board of a charter

school, so, is there a simple question, maybe i can answer? >> sure, as you know, supervisor yee, we served on the school board together, i support charter schools but not as a broad category. there are good charter schools and bad charter schools, edison has had teachers walking out and a for profit charter school. and we have nonprofit charter schools that do an incredible job, a good job of teaching our students. but edison was a cause of concern for the school board during its time, not just because they cut corners on ed indicating children, causing their teachers to revolt, because they wanted to save money in order to bring back a profit to their investors. but a number of other concerns cited with edison.

i don't know if a lot of the issues have been resolved, if it's a for profit charter school, but i would not support a candidate to the oversight and advisory board that sits on a for profit charter school. >> supervisor yee: i'll answer what i can without defending anything. i think what you are describing happened when you were on the school board, and when you left, things changed a little bit for the edison school. unionized the teachers, so they did a lot of things that were, that was consistent to what we did as unified school district. when i asked her about that relationship, there was a pattern of her wanting to volunteer for just about anything, you know, so she just, her answer was she just wanted to be involved and that was, you know, offered to her to be

involved with that. and then if that were the only thing she had going, i would say, i would question it. but she seemed to also have been involved with other children-related issues, so i felt pretty comfortable about that. and the fact that she also reached out to dcyf and asked some questions about what their issues are and so forth. and the fact that she tried, she attended a meeting, swayed me personally to, to not weigh that charter school piece as much as i would have. >> president cohen: thank you. to supervisor yee. i, too, have some concerns about one of the candidates and in particular upon the interview with my staff member, seemed to have very little knowledge about the programs and largely the needs that are going on in southeast in school district

ten. there is something that concerned me and that was that, fiscal year 16-17, 10,386 youth between 5-17 served in district ten. 29% of them were african americans, 32 were latino, and when asked questions about equity and service to these particular constituencies, the answer was not sufficient. so i hope you will support myself and supervisor kim in the request for a motion to continue this item for one more week. this is an appointment to the seat 11 currently there are four vacancies, appointment to the children, youth and their family oversight and advisory committee. no secret the children and youth of southeast in san francisco are disproportionately serviced by this commission, and i would like further time to vet the candidates. supervisor yee.

>> supervisor yee: so, i -- it was not objection, just trying to answer what i thought i could answer and satisfy maybe her question, but i'm ok with continuing. >> president cohen: thank you for the clarification. so reiterate, a motion made to continue to one week's time and i think that i need a date certain. clerk, when one week will be. >> clerk: october 30th, 2018. >> president cohen: all right. so, supervisor kim has made a motion to continue this item, one week's time to the next meeting, 2018. seconded by supervisor peskin, and take this without objection, colleagues? thank you, without objection this item is continued. madam clerk. >> clerk: jump to committee reports. items 33 and 34, considered by

the budget and finance committee at a regular meeting on thursday, october 18, 2018, and committee reports. 33, resolution authorizing the sheriff's department to contract with airmark services november 1, 2018, through october 31, 2023, not to exceed 20 million, with two one-year options to extend. >> president cohen: please call the roll. >> clerk: on item 33. [roll call vote taken]

>> president cohen: without objection, adopted. item 34. >> clerk: item 34, resolution to authorizing the issuance and sale by the peninsula corridor joint powers corridor, farebox revenue bonds, not to exceed 62 million, existing credit facility for aggregate principal amount not to exceed 150 million, and not to exceed 170 million and additional credit facility, aggregate principal amount not to exceed 30 million. >> president cohen: colleagues, same house, same call. all right. without objection, this resolution is adopted. item 35, please. item 35 was continued in committee yesterday and is not before the board today.

following item. >> clerk: the next, roll call for introductions. >> president cohen: supervisor brown. >> clerk: supervisor cohen. supervisor fewer. supervisor kim. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor peskin: i'm in the wake of last evening's fire at the golden gateway apartments asking, i'll do a letter of inquiry to the fire department relative to high rises that date from that era, in this case 1965, that do not have sprinkler systems and ask to give us a host of options to reduce fire in those types of buildings. >> clerk: thank you.

ronen. >> supervisor ronen: two items and one in memorial. start with a hearing, a motion calling a hearing of the committee as a whole to discuss the marriott hotel workers strike. as my colleagues all know, 2300 workers at marriott hotels on strike nearly three weeks. walked off the job alongside thousands and the country, oakland, honolulu, detroit and boston. i knew going on strike was one of the hardest decisions anyone can make, to risk your income, face up to your employer like that, is an exceptional moment in anybody's life. when thousands of our fellow san francisco walk out on strike, something is not working in the city. and a sure sign people are trying to do something about it. here in city hall we find ourselves frustrated in tackling the biggest problems our society

faces. marriott workers strike is a reminder that real change often starts with ordinary groups of people outside the corridors of government. reminder that income, inequality and the crisis it causes from housing to health care will be tackled by determined organized groups of people with or without the help of their elected representative. now the hospitality industry is a cornerstone of san francisco's economy. it drives almost $10 billion a year in spending, and tens of thousands of jobs. this strike goes to the heart of that economy. it raises questions about what kind of jobs it will support in the coming years. these are questions i think the board needs to hear firsthand about. therefore, i'm calling for a hearing on the strike. and introducing a motion to have the hearing heard at a committee of a whole as mentioned so the entire board of supervisors can hear system about the strike,

its causes and setbacks. this strike touches on every subject that every one of our committees deals with, and i understand a similar committee of the whole hearing during the hotel lockout of 2004 played an important role in bringing that dispute to a resolution. i hope not only workers themselves will am could, but marriott executives as well. and ask that you all join me in convening a meeting on this important subject. myself and my staff will walk around and try to coordinate schedules on this matter, which i understand we can do without a violation as long as it's just discussing scheduling. so, looking forward to hearing from us shortly. the second item that i'm introducing today, introducing in anticipation of, i should say in hope of proposition 10 on the november ballot passes.

legislation that would put a stop to one of the most agregious and brutal practices of our rent ordinance and protect tenants at the most vulnerable points in their lives. three weeks ago the board passed a resolution in support of 10 to repeal an act, significant constraints on cities and counties act. certainly give san francisco an opening to look carefully at updating rent regulations, and what units are covered by rent control. our discussion prior to passing the resolution signalled some of the issues will need to be hashed out if it passes. right now the well funded opposition is pouring money into a campaign to spread lies and fears. some of the nation's largest rental corporations have pushed $60 million to defeat the measure. tenants in nonrent controlled homes across the statement are receiving preemptive rent hikes and eviction notices from landlords who say they will

reconsider but only if proposition 10 fails to pass. i look forward to reaching sensible solutions after the election. i'm introducing a change we can and must implement immediately on passage of proposition 10. fixed one that we can all easily agree needs to happen. as costa hawkins is currently written, landlords could raise the rent on rent controlled apartment when the original occupant no longer lives there. s.f. ordinance is drafted to mirror that. so, any family who were not original occupants, no matter how long they lived in the home are completely unprotected. who knows whether it was intended to be as broad as it is, but this particular section has and continues to have disastrous effects. in 2010, judd bell moved in with

his partner to share the studio she lived since 1995. when she died in december of 2017, he was hit with a massive rent hike, seven times when he and wiki had been paying. sadly the story is not unique. more, mr. b. lived with his partner of 35 years in a flat in the castro. weeks after his partner died, the landlord was going to raise the rent 300%. and miss k. had huge increases after her husband died and another was evicted and homeless because he could not pay the rent after his partner of 20 years passed away. list goes on and on and on. very real stories point out the utter ugliness of the rental market. we know there are good landlords out there and many are speaking out, but it's being controlled by companies only interested in maximizing their profits. on us to make sure we legislate protection. what my legislation does

specifically is amend our rent ordinance to extend the protections on rent control units to spouses and family members after a loved one is gone. introducing this now so the minute costa hawkins is repealed, to give surviving family members immediate relief, members seeking the relief today in the city. our hands are tied and why we need the repeal of costa hawkins to be successful so the change to the pragmatic and sensible solution to the most heartless and brutal practices can be enacted. i want to thank you supervisors kim and brown for co-sponsoring this measure and note that supervisor kim first brought up this issue when she was telling the heartbreaking story of her dear friend that is facing exactly this situation right now. and finally, i would ask that we adjourn the board in memory of alice laget sangore, passed an i

way in senegal on september 30th at the age of 95. alice was the mother of marco, an essential member of the mission community. his restaurant and multi-cultural dance club is well-known to many of you, and center of the arts for more than 20 years. lady alice was born on july 1, 1923, in the south of france in nice. she helped her son develop the vision for the village, and inviting ambience and artists who designed the restaurant's black dancing woman logo. she could be found regularly in her host's chair at the restaurant, spreading her contagious smile and warm hospitality. as a young woman she worked as a nurse in france and met her future husband when he was recovering from an injury at a local hospital. they got married and moved to

senegal, six children, including marco, the youngest. her time in senegal appreciated bright colors and lively rhythms of africa. her parents were devout christian and part of the resistance during the nazi occupation of france. offering protection to many jews and dissidents. alice's religious fervor was a central part of her life and the morality in her children, especially the honesty, compassion and faithfulness. buried in her home village in france on october 13th, surrounded by children, grandchildren and friends. alice's loving presence will be missed but memory lives on. thank you. >> president cohen: 2:30, special recognitions. >> clerk: i believe we have 12:30 from supervisor kim.

>> president cohen: 150th anniversary. >> i would like to bring up the executive director of gloria chance, along with her vice president selena su, and volunteer mark sodenman. are they in the chamber? i know they are here. >> president cohen: we'll go check the overflow room to bring them in.

>> thank you for your patience in waiting, for the staff and volunteers to come, the chamber is all full today and so they were in the overflow room. but i did want to just be able to take this moment at the board of supervisors to be able to recognize gamoon women's residence. achieved 150th year anniversary of serving our great city and county. [applause] founded in 1868, and long history reflects ever-changing needs and developments of our asian immigrant community, along with our woman community here in the san francisco area. gamoon was first created as a ministry by women. the methodist episcopal church

and through the asian women's resource center and residence hall attempted to address many of the issues that women and children were facing here in the san francisco bay area. located in the heart of chinatown, primarily served our chinatown community but open to anyone in the community regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, identification or religion. the building is on a site that had to be rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and continues to be a safe and affordable haven for women and children in transition, either facing domestic violence or homelessness on our streets. as we reflect on the achievements of this incredible organization, under your leadership, gloria, and you have served for 30 years as executive director in and itself extraordinary as well. only fitting we express our gratitude to the women that have made these services possible here in our community, long

before we even understood the term domestic violence, or had even named violence against women as an issue in our community and our country and certainly across the world. and i think that the importance of providing services to this issue and naming this issue is more important than ever and even as we continue to identify this as creating havoc in our communities and our families, we still have leaders in our country, in our country and throughout the world that deny this even occurs to women and children throughout the world. this year does mark your 150th anniversary of providing the safe haven and really being a champion and leader on the frontier of this very important issue. and thank you so much for being a lead advocate for women of color, long before the #me too movement even took place.

for those of you not as familiar with the services, they provide double and single occupancy rooms and house up to 30 women at a time. average age of the present resident is about 53 years old and the average length is nine months. many come from different countries in asia and different parts of the u.s. 80% of the residents are battered spouses who seek refuge have abusive homes. and also need a place to stabilize so they don't have to stay on our streets. also offer parent development programs, parenting services, grandparent support groups, summer school programs, as well as piano classes, very asian, and children art classes. i want to thank you so much for the incredible work that you do, and also knowing how difficult this work is, and the longevity

of your staff just really speaks to your dedication and commitment. we just really appreciate this has been a long standing community-based organization here in san francisco. congratulations on your 150th year. and before i hand things over to you, miss tang, several of my colleagues would like to add their words as well. >> supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: thank you, president cohen, and thank you supervisor kim for highlighting what this organization has done over the 150 years, and i personally have known this organization, worked with them about a third of that time. it's 50 years, right? about 50 years. and i can't say that, say enough about the women's center, and

what i have seen over the 50 years is the growth. what they did before was remarkable. and when they made the decision to rename or add the name asian women resource center it was a way to tell the public that yes, this is what we do, yes, we care about our women that are getting battered, and that they are going to be up front and willing to help them. and the, basically the community embraced the whole organization in terms of what they were trying to do, so, the organization itself is a powerhouse. when it comes to these issues. not only in chinatown, but all of san francisco. and at some point they even took on early education and parenting classes, that was in the 50 years i have known them.

so, i'm actually kind of proud to see an organization that was already such a big part of the community grow so substantially over the years. congratulations, i would love to have my name as part of honoring them, too. >> president cohen: thank you. supervisor yee. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. in addition to all the words that supervisors kim and yee have said, i want to thank gloria and gamoon for the incredible work you have done keeping the community together as we have all been going through the long drawn out torture of the central subway and you have been looking out, not only for your normal clientele who you have done a great job for for 150 years, but students at gordon j.lau and business people across the street, thank you for having all aspects of the community in mind at all times. thank you, gloria. >> supervisor fewer: so sorry, i

just also wanted to voice my congratulations to you. i first got associated with gamoon in 2001, and i know of your good works and we have a family resource center in our neighborhood, too. congratulations and thank you so much. >> i want to add my voice, gloria, and to the team up here. just want to say thank you to the gamoon women's residency, 150 years is an incredible milestone and it's borne out of faith and it's borne out of service and that commitment of service has kept you anchored in san francisco for 150 years. it's quite an accomplishment, and salute you and say thank you. thank you for your service. at this time i want to invite you to say a couple words, please. thank you. >> hello. i am selena su, the vice president of the board of directors at gamoon, and on

behalf of the staff and the entire board of directors, we wanted to thank you for this opportunity. now, usually gloria is here asking for money and more money, but today we just wanted to take this time to let you know how appreciative we are of your recognition and contributions and support. without your constant support, our work will simply not be possible and i wanted to especially thank supervisor kim and all the kind words among the board members and we truly appreciate it. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you, congratulations. [applause]

>> president cohen: congratulations again, thank you. madam clerk, continue with roll call for introductions. >> clerk: next up, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: added as a co-sponsor for the hearing of the committee of the whole on the hotel workers strike. other than that, the rest i submit.

>> supervisor tang: thank you. today submitting a package of contracts for technology improvements for both the treasurer's office and important to replace antiquated systems largely responsible for the city's largest source of revenue, and introducing resignation to make permanent some control to help bring more small businesses to 4 and 11, and previously a pilot program two years, but seeing how much of our merchant corridors are struggling and a lots of vacancies, i want to make it a permanent control. with that i submit. >> supervisor yee: submit. >> president cohen: concludes our roll call for introductions. madam clerk. it's not quite 3:00 yet. shall we go to public comment?

yes. at this time, the public may now address the entire board of supervisors up to two minutes on the subject jurisdiction of the board, items 38 through 41 without reference to public calendar. public comment is not allowed, pursuant to the rules, direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors and not to the audience. speakers using interpretation assisstants will be allowed twice the amount of time. if you would like to display your document on the overhead projector, state such to sfgovtv. >> president cohen: please continue. >> san francisco owes oakland an apology. when the city of santa clara stole the 49ers away from the city, it began with a letter to look at some property.

city and state officials connected to san francisco had a fit. but their wimpy attempts to keep the 49ers here all failed. then the late mayor ed lee sent a letter to the warriors inviting them to look at some land. if we didn't like what was done to us, why are we doing the same to someone else? we owe oakland an apology. it is disingenuious to stick to the argument the warriors were here first, when you consider the fact how did the warriors leave san francisco? in 1971, it was a letter by mayor joseph aliota, reneging on a bond issue to build the

warriors a san francisco arena. i believe a business should be able to go wherever it can to make the most of its profit. when the late mayor ed lee sent a tweet to the restaurant chain chic-fil-a, warning them not to try coming to san francisco, it states that there is always something bigger than profit. san francisco owes oakland an apology. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> last week i got caught off guard when i made an appearance at a hearing pertaining to employees who died on the job after having applications filled out for a contract. and this time i want to spend my time highlighting the fact that

there's a female by the name of lilliana presalgado, a copy and picture of her, please, here is a picture of her. this is a hispanic latino mexican female who busted through the glass ceiling of construction plumber's trade predominantly controlled by males. she lost her life on the job. she has a 2 or 3-year-old toddler and asking for her mother and her grandfather is telling her that her mother's in heaven and as a result the toddler is asking can she go to heaven, too, in order to see her mother. by the same response, that hearing that i was caught off guard was called on the grounds that demonstrations from three different departments are supposed to demonstrate what they do in order to vet a

contractor to make sure that past experiences like this doesn't take place. there's another individual by the name of rick rickets who, too, lost his life on the job and by the same response mr. rickets lost his job at the twin peaks construction job site. the hearing that took place shows how these three departments that was at the hearing failed to submit information about fatalities that took place on the job site. this question here that was asked, did they have any fatalities on the job, they answered no. when the truth of the matter is they did have a fatality on their job past experiences. and by the same response, three -- >> clerk: next speaker.

>> supervisors, we are in the year 2018. and if you look at what's happening to this very corrupt city, it may not come as a surprise to you but comes to the hard working constituents when we see too much of request money, dirty money, being used to represent a certain segment of the population of san francisco. we don't come here to sit here for 3, 4 hours to speak for two minutes. at one time we were given three minutes. but we have to come here to look you in the eye so that a person like me who has a blog can address the issues and you cannot say that i have not looked you in the eye or you have not heard what i'm saying.

so, what i'm saying is, we want representatives, we want representatives who have their heart in the right place so that they can do the right thing. but again and again, when we review the documents at the ethics commission, we see that the representatives are going into that pool of money that we call dirty money. so what are we going to do about this? we, the people, can only pray for you but what are you going to do? what is your commitment going to be? now? we have you passing our legislation after take money from the developers. that shouldn't happen. you should recuse yourself. thank you very much.

>> clerk: next speaker. >> hello, board of supervisors. we are pharmacy students from ucsf and advocate for legislation that would mandate the indication of use of prescription drug labels. what is indication of use, what a patient is using a medication for, and we believe that by adding that information on a prescription drug label patient adherence will improve. as pharmacy students, we learn exactly what the medication does and how it works, and we can only imagine the confusion that our patients get when they receive their medication without knowing how the drug works, how, like why it's even used, or anything like that. so, that can explain why over time they decide not to take the medication. so, as a future health care provider, i could having indication of use it would be beneficial because drugs have

many use, it would allows us to know if it is appropriate or changed for the patient. furthermore, greatly reduce medication rates and bottom line saves on health care costs, it could decrease risk of preventable hospitalization. thank you for your time. >> good evening, madam president, colleagues of san francisco board of supervisors. leland francois, industrial park on behalf of the united nations association of oakland emergency shelter project. i've been bombarding your offices with documents over the years and over the months suggesting that our united nations, our 73rd anniversary is not as bright as it should be in the city and county of san francisco. we have a serious problem of homelessness. i have taken it upon myself as a

volunteer over the years to study the outreach efforts of the united nations, known as habitat, started in the early 1970s. problem arose from the fact that the original international sister community friendship exchange program organized by nairobi, kenya, africa. that's how the sister community of, historic community of nairobi, california was formed, today known as east palo alto. unfortunately it fell prey to redevelopment. what my intent here is to report on you two areas, or four areas aim placing an emphasis on to rectify the problem. first of all, reestablish international friendship ties with our colleagues in nairobi, emergency housing throughout the

bay area. and secondly, bike trucks to mobilize ourselves through surveys and intense problems throughout the entire bay area. amateur radio operators from here to san jose, and organize volunteers to help coordinate the relief effort, and get some of the folks off the streets prior to the stormy weather season that's being predicted. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i'm here to talk about how we can improve item 19. advocate for sex workers homeless persons -- >> clerk: the speaker's time, this matter has been heard in committee and you cannot speak on it. >> thank you. >> clerk: next speaker.

>> hello, board of supervisors. third year pharmacy school students at ucsf and we wanted to advocate for sb-320, mandate medical abortion resources at campuses. this was previously vetoed by governor brown because send there were abortion centers 5 to 7 miles from cam bus, but we know how far away that can be. as both a young woman and a student at a riggous graduate school, we feel it's important to make the resources more accessible to students. it's difficult to go to a doctor's appointment or dentist as a student. especially considering limited hours the clinics are to them. and many of my friends go to work right after school, and it

is also important to improve access to the resources in this turbulent administration. thank you for listening to our concern. >> good afternoon, supervisors. mark grubber with the san francisco taxi workers alliance. and i want to thank you the supervisors who weighed in with the m.t.a. against their terrible plan to ban most cabs from the airport. on the same day that that plan was approved in most of its elements, the airport commission passed a rule that is going to forbid taxi drivers from conducting free speech activities in the taxi lots. this has been going on for decades. i started driving a cabin 1983, and ever since that cab drivers

have had the right to hand out materials, collect signatures on petitions and then so forth in the taxi lots. we always get a permit from the airport to do that. we follow their rules, and it just makes no sense that they would, you know, stifle this free expression at this point, except for the presumptions that they are doing it in concert with the m.t.a. to quiet taxi drivers' voices, to impede organizing at a very, very critical point for our industry. the taxi lots at s.f.o. are the only common ground that taxi drivers have to meet together, to talk, they typically spend an hour, three hours there, they have always had, you know, a free access to go around the taxi lots and it's just totally absurd that they are now

prohibiting us from doing that. and airport representative after i raised this objection at the commission said we could do this at one of the picnic tables in the lots. well, there are 400 cab drivers in the lots at any given time, and maybe three at a picnic table. it makes no sense. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> i'm here to advocate your support for s.b.1426 and bills like it, support the expansion of the scope of practice for pharmacists. allowing them to furnish patients with drugs and devices that patients would otherwise seek primary care physician to receive. pharmacists are medication experts can decrease the burden on physicians to prescribe commonly used medications, providing physicians more time

with patients to make many other important clinical decisions, and highly populated san francisco, increasing access to care in this manner can only benefit our communities. thank you. >> clerk: any other members of the public that would like to speak in general public comment? >> tom gilbert, usually i come and i have two tissues in my pocket, i never use them, i find them coming out of the dryer with the clothes. last year i used two tissues in 45 minutes and i went to the board of supervisors office searching for more and used them up, and went to the clerk of the board for more tissues, this is -- this is runny nose season. if we could have boxes of tissues in every room behind a

closed door in the city would be great. world series is happening right now, usually on the team in the world series there is a pitcher throwing fastballs, just control, striking everybody out. we are lucky to have michael wright on the side of the podium, this side of the fence throwing items and issues at this board and throwing strikes all the time. i'm glad to be behind him. i second almost everything he is saying. i attended the audit and oversight committee about earthquake tall buildings and the safety and i'm still not sure what the city is going to look like after the big-big one. 1989 was the big-little one, or the little-big one. i don't know what the streets are going to look like. i would like the fire department to raise the issue what the city will look like. also at that meetingy