patient excellence in patient delivery, we need to consider all of the options. every time we go to h.r. asking, where is the black doctors squat there ain't any. you are telling me that in this whole nation, we have black medical programs in the united states and we can't pull not one , two, or three african-american doctors? no nurses? that is ridiculous. we owe it to our patients. we owe it to our african-american residents of the city to provide the necessary people that they need to get help. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is john. i'm 81 years old. i am born and raised in san francisco, as were my four kids and five grandkids. i worked 35 years in the san francisco waterfront. i am a three year marine corps. i am in living in a castro hotel

at the corner of stockton and vallejo and i have been there 15 years. i heard the mayor said that she is pushing for affordable housing when she was dead against it one proposition c. came out. proposition c. was my last hope for affordable housing. i would like to talk a little bit about homelessness on -- i am a 37 year member of alcoholics anonymous. for three nights a week, we go into the shelter at fifth and bryant street. we bring a.a. meetings in there peerk i want to tell you the conditions are horrible. the people in there, a lot of them are working people and they can't afford to work and live outside of san francisco as i can't afford. if you will build shelters, you have to build more than one. is a hundred 50 or 200 people waiting on the doorstep to get in and they end up in doorways all over town. i live in north beach and they're all over north beach,

columbus avenue, union, stockton , they are not dressed like homeless people. they are working people with bags and suits on. so things are pretty tough. thank you for your time. >> to the president, i will remind the public this is about the african-american work force hiring and retention. this is not general public comment. >> thank you board of supervisors. this is not all about black people. it is the people who serve the san francisco. it happens to be there are more black being discriminated than other races. i am asian, i am chinese, i am bilingual. we have been in so many cases other than african-american. i just want this to be noted. my name is alan. i am a behave health commission for public health. i train people how to behave. that is my job. i am a bargaining team member, along with many people here

today. we are leaders for the union. as you know, we have 30,000 public employees. they have more than 50% of them. we had approximately 60% people representing different departments. as a public employee, i have been helping many investigations and we have addressed many cases with human resources and my department of public health resources. we see the ongoing pattern on people. for example, earlier, many people address african-americans, the population has been shrinking. the think just think about what you do for the people. there is one thing that we say over and over. the one thing that you can do. put it in legislation. reverse evaluation that all

workers evaluate management staff. that each department and supervisors, adaptable holds them accountable. right now, they only have one way. the supervisors and managers evaluate all employees, but not themselves, and vice versa. that is why you are putting the public at risk. risk of all those lawsuits that you had been paying every month. those are our public dollars. there could be more housing for teachers. >> thank you for your comments. >> good afternoon. thank you for holding this hearing. my name is mary. i am a registered nurse with the department of public health where i have worked for many different positions. i want to say in the 31 years, i have worked with seven african-american registered nurses as my colleagues. and i left san francisco general

i still work in the department of public health and the primary care clinic. i left san francisco general ten years ago for multiple reasons, but one of them was because the environment had become so punitive and there were so many disciplined -- disciplinary actions being taken against workers because of systems issues and because of cracks in the system. but one particular person would be blamed. if you add implicit bias or explicit bias to that, you can imagine who is being disciplined i want to second what mrs. rutherford said. this issue cannot be under emphasized. it has been -- it has had a huge impact on people. our l vn positions have been eliminated from the department of public health. i'm sure that affected a disproportionate number of black nurses and our cma is ready scaled down to pcas. patient care assistance you are absolutely wonderful and can

work just as hard as any registered nurse. and i have to question the standardization across the board of what managers allow their workers to get a part-time schedule to go back to school. what i want to tell you is that all of the nurse managers at san francisco general are required to get a masters degree and had classes brought to the campus to make it easier for them. what about everybody else who deserves an education and deserves to be promoted to positions that get paid what i get paid, and all of my patients deserve to see people who look like them. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> hello. thank you for having me. i am from local 393. actually, i have been analysing the whole situation. these people need to be compensated for posttraumatic

stress disorder. and it is a security issue too because the h.r. department, what happened in my department, when i reported, the department turned on me. so now i wish i would have been recording every phone call, or videotaping every event so that i could actually have solid evidence of the manipulation that goes on. going back to history, who here knows who knows about nelson mandela? not this government. don't expect to achieve much from this government, unless good people step up and have integrity. but, to make a difference. i'm proud of every single person here that showed up. and i love you all. and i hope you all get the

posttraumatic stress disorder treatment you deserve. one hundred. and to mayor breed, she does need to communicate with the governor now that she is in possession. in regards to base's point, in rebuilding san francisco, in a more african inclusive way. i'm talking about new buildings built by african-american hands or at least projects led by african-americans. programs led by african-americans and why people get that white people getting to work under african-americans and so on and so on. thank you all. god bless america. [applause] the real america. not the america that donald trump talks about. [laughter] >> thank you.

>> good evening board of supervisors. thank you for hearing george holding this hearing and think of her a supervisor can for scheduling this first hearing. i have lived in san francisco since i was ten years old and san francisco was about 13% black. that is a shameful 3%. it is not the city i once loved. i have been a city worker since 2013 and i have witnessed firsthand how my black colleagues are bypassed for promotions. i have served clients who are clearly not getting the effective and meaningful service they deserve from the staff promoted and giving those vital jobs. not only is this an employee probe of problem, this is impacting the vulnerable san franciscans we are supposed to serve. my agency acts more like it is a career ladder a stepping stone for employees rather than an agency to provide vital services my union is clearly demonstrating the facts to demonstrate the systemic racism that is occurring. this is a city that constantly is condoning the use of the n-word.

there is no way this is acceptable. not only do the racist get away with it, their victims are retaliated against. are a city is paying out lawsuits rather than doing what is right in the first place. finally, there is the g. a. r. e. inequity initiative which my agency treats like a joke. they handpicked people for the committee. they are creating h.r. staff responsible for unjustly firing black employees and they do not reach out to recruit qualified committed participants. they are going through the motions, but they are not serious about making changes that we need to make. as someone who cares about equity and as someone who lives my life seeking it, i find it very offensive that they made no effort to reach out to anybody and only handpicked people. i hope you are watching this and you know that some agencies just treat it like a game. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> at evening caring my name is norman. i am one of the lucky

third-generation native san franciscans. i still live in the western tradition since 1964. although i may not appear african-american to today i hope you heard and felt the pain and suffering of my brothers and sisters in this room and throughout the city. i am currently the chapter president of the san francisco asian pacific american labor alliance, also known as apollo. we tend to address issues when we see injustice. just like rodney king. remember that one? if he smelled smoke in this room you would start investigating, possibly if there was a fire. after the hearing today and to the previous one, i think the fire alarms are going off like crazy and it is up to you to do

the next action. please do the right thing here i will leave you with a native american proverb that i truly believe in. we will always be remembered by the chocks we leave. that means, do the right thing. do the right thing the first time. take leadership thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is karen pierce. i'm a native san franciscan. i am a resident homeowner in bayview hunter's point. i have raised my kids in the city, and i am an employee of the san francisco department of public health. i spoke at the september hearing , and i just want to reemphasize the main points that

i made. that is that the health departments is in crisis. and the way it is manifesting most is in the health of the people we serve. if you look at the statistics on african-american and black health in the city and county of san francisco, you will see that there has not been any progress and in many instances, things are getting worse. we don't need ptsd. we are in constant attack. we need your support to change it. this is not necessarily a reflection solely on the existing leadership. this culture has been built over more than the 20 years that i have been working with the department. we cannot expect the people who are now in leadership to step right up and make a change.

but we need you to make sure that the department takes a look at who is in leadership, brings to the forefront to those of us who really have ideas and know how to address these things who are willing to step up and to really want to see a change. remember, the health of our clients is the date that you need to look at to determine whether or not the department of public health is doing what they should be doing. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is daniel. i am a field rep for general hospital. i didn't prepare anything to read, but i can -- i wanted to speak for a minute about my own experiences with being a field rep within the city and county of san francisco. some of the things that i have witnessed myself and just some

points, first of all, obviously, we live in a white supremacist country, and the city is not -- it is no exception. the second thing that i am seeing is that at the hospital, there is a ton of authoritarian managers that disciplined people just for the sake of dispute -- disciplining people. and people that you are seeing here, those are the people that we represent that are being disciplined disproportionately. the third thing that is contributing to all of this is you have an h.r. department that seems like its main goal is simply to support managers, no matter what. ninety-nine% of my grievances are denied. does that mean that 99% of the issues that we are bringing up our false? and not true? you should probably take a look at your h.r. department and see why people are getting disciplined so much and why they

are denying all our grievances. i don't have anything else to say. >> hello. my name is john. i'm from d.p.h. i am the chapter vice president. i would like to say first, thank you for acknowledging our efforts to be present. it is my day off. i would rather be home with my kids. i don't know if i am mistaken, but i believe that one of the formats for this meeting today was to have supervisors present and for questions to be asked. i was excited to hear that. it sounds like we are moving in the direction of accountability. i don't see any supervisors here

not any from the pharmacy department where i work at s.f. general. discussions have begun to talk about measured efforts to address data sampling. i see others beginning to talk about uniform disciplinary accords. i like what the dialogue is becoming. more and more, i hear words like equity, they talk about promotional opportunities. i hope they lead to discussions and audits around financial -- financial stewardship his. i see ms. miss callahan discussing different labor contracts as they relate to unions and their members. i think when we talk about d.p.h. and issues around d.p.h. services, we are talking about the care of people, which should include your labor staff.

you are supposed to care about those people too because those are the ones that are providing services to your patients and to your population. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. thank you. my name is julian. i'm a new resident. i want to say how grateful i feel to be here. san francisco is a very cool place. they have the ingredients to be the coolest place in the country i feel fortunate to be of a mixed heritage and having come from a school that -- we put emphasis on diversity and it is so important. i want to think about a symbol we embrace here, which is the rainbow. it doesn't just need to be for orientation. you can be for everything. the rainbow is beautiful because it has all the colours and we

need to make sure to retain that because the more diversity we have, that means food, music, learning, also we learned something from the mi too movement. something so awful that just because it doesn't affect you directly, that we at least believe that there is some sort of injustice happening and we can improve a lot of people's lives that way. i want to say that compared to our administration in d.c., we have a golden opportunity to be the opposite force of love. even geographically, we are on the other side of the country. we have ocean all around us. there is no reason we can't be the greatest place on earth. all we need is love, as we say. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. my name is matthew.

i work for sft agent for the switchboard communications. i want to start by saying i want to personally thank brenda and daniel as well as ingrid and john for their support. if it wasn't for them giving me the courage to be heard today, i wouldn't be here. i am very nervous. it is hard to speak. i'm here to speak on the discrimination that i've witnessed and especially personally in my department itself. i have spoken to management and angela, in looking for support in fixing our department and improving our department. unfortunately, they haven't really heard me. i have been trying to speak to greg chase so i can be heard. there's a lot of hostile environments. our department is in desperate need of some fixing and the people from the outside looking in to improve the environment and to bring and rebuild the team that is in there peerk

there is false accusations and false reports that i have witnessed against my colleagues, and is as well as me as a male. i am here today to speak so does not happen to the next person. i i haven't personally accused of things that i did not commit. i look for support in the beginning when i have been going through bullying because there is a lot of bullying in our department from labor relations. i have not got the support or felt needed. just as daniel said earlier, and spoken about the percentage of them. at what point is it not our fault? when do they take accountability , management, of fixing the problem in addressing the real issues? it is about equal fairness and equal opportunity, it is not about the association and relationships that management has with certain employers. they need -- someone needs to looking our department and give equal opportunities and equal fairness to everybody. it reflects upon everybody.

>> good evening. i'm the executive director of local 21. i want to thank you for having this hearing. we are here and supports, in strong support of our brothers and sisters. we stand united against racism in the city and county of san francisco, and we are appalled at the numbers we saw today and have seen over time. and what our members have witnessed happen. when you look at -- when you go up the career ladder in the city and county of san francisco, there is a very serious problem with the lack of diversity and that is in many job classifications. not just in the 10-1 job class but the local 21 job classifications. i think i want to reiterate here that that is not acceptable in the city and county of san francisco and it's great to have

hearings. is important to have hearings that shed light on something but it is more important to do action. we want to see action and justice served here. the last action here is a serious problem and needs to be fixed. it needs to be fixed now. that is our simple message from local 21. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am with 10-1. i work with the office of the chief medical examiner. want to call attention to the fact we heard a lot from big workplaces and i hope the small departments are not able to avoid scrutiny in this process because this is going on in every department. it goes on at the office of the medical examiner examiner and with the public defender. i know a lot about and i hear a lot about it in other departments. so general services agency which does h.r. for the medical examiner and a lot of other small departments was not here presenting today. it would have been nice. it is a big department.

might take away from my time speaking right now is the small departments seem to be slipping through the cracks of this process. i hope that is not the case. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. >> madam president, i appreciate you are holding this hearing. my time around the sun, i have seen a lot of policies and such that have relied more heavily on black folks and other people. that is a reality. as we go through this, i hope we don't forget that there are a lot of other reasons why people of color are being displaced in the city. they go to planning department issues that we have been doing for a long time and our failure to have cost containment on our housing and other issues like that. >> thank you for your comments. >> you -- i'm with united public workers for action. this is the second hearing. we have heard the same report

from the director of human resources that she is working on its. i think people have to be accountable. that is part of what your job is and the mayor's job. when somebody is causing -- costing the city $70 million in settlements to workers who have been illegally discriminated against, their lawyers and the city's lawyers, who will pay the cost of that? who is accountable? you voted on those settlements. those that were here. you voted on settlements. was there a question made about -- where those managers and executives held accountable for illegally acting against its he workers, public workers? that question has never been asked. there is a national systemic attack on african-american workers and public service -- in public service jobs. it is going on throughout the country. it is not just san francisco. we are purging african-american workers from their jobs in public cities. part of that period has to do with outsourcing consultants and

privatization, which is going on right here in san francisco. [applause] it is going on in san francisco. you are outsourcing jobs of the civil service commission. the human resources director outsourcing millions of dollars of jobs. many of the workers who are doing those jobs, not only are they not union, they are not living wage. sixteen dollars an hour for doing public service jobs. is that something we are proud of in san francisco? they're doing jobs, public jobs and are paid slave wages. that has to end. this hearing is addressing fundamental issues which go beyond san francisco. it has to be a national campaign against racism. against discrimination, against outsourcing and privatization which dominates cities and counties in san francisco which the state government and federal government. lastly, gavin newsom was responsible for a racist attack on a bus driver union and san francisco because they refused to take concessions. that has to end as well.

>> thank you for your comments. >> thank you. all right are there any other members of the public who would like to comment at this time? seeing none, this hearing has now been heard and filed. thank you, very much. we have heard many heavy stories and i am grateful for your time. colleagues, thank you very much for listening. supervisor yee? >> yeah, i want to thank supervisor kim for bringing this issue up originally and for the rest who have carried this forward. i think, i want to also thank the public for coming out for this. >> supervisor caught ladies and gentlemen. we still have business. we still have business. we are still in session. supervisor yee has the floor. >> again. i want to thank the public for

coming out and testifying, and i believe that this issue -- the combination of the data, and the combination of the testimonies really makes this a very strong case where we need to pay attention, and address this issue full force. i just want to remind you of a situation in utah. i was on the fellowship. i was there for a few months. i looked at some issues there, and because of the data, it was hard for me to get it because h.r. would not give it to me until i fooled them and said the governor's deputy wanted it, and the give it to meet within two hours.

i looked at the data with implicit bias that i saw. this was c.b.s., the state c.p.s. department. i saw that in looking at the kids that were taken away from their homes, at every step, there was biases. at the end of the day, i saw that the children of color were not placed back in their homes anymore. they were basically adopted. so i question, what was going on with this? it looks like the staff training didn't have any cultural training. the staff leadership did not reflect the population at all. i asked the university, what is going on here? why are you just training non people of color to be in leadership, and they said we can only pick from a pool. so they already have their bachelor his.

my point there is we have to look at all of these issues. it is not simple. it could be solved. when you look at leadership, and where people come in, and you look at the data, and it shows that it was 70 5% of the workforce was at the bottom and, where are they in the middle and at the top? there is opportunity is to move up the ladder in some cases. there's opportunities that it is difficult without training or additional education. we need to create pathways. a lot of us already in this room have talked about issues like this with our younger people and saying, where is the apprenticeship programs that will provide a pathway for these younger people? we need to look at the bigger picture, which is where is the pathway for the adults in this

in terms of growing the leadership of all the diverse groups that we have in this city i am glad that mayor breed has come up with some game plan. i think it is a start. i don't think it is aggressive enough. we have to look beyond what we could do in our department his. we have to talk to our institutions of higher learning and say what the heck are they doing? in helping our people within the city to grow this type of leadership that we need. so again, i am just babbling because it is one of these issues where i feel like it is real important, but i am a little frustrated that we haven't really addressed this issue, especially when this issue has been brought up over and over again. >> thank you. thank you very much. it is good to hear your voice weighing in on this issue.

supervisor fewer? >> i just wanted to say that listening to the testimony of the workers, i just think we also, s. institutions can do what we can, but the idea that we have such a small black population, an idea that they are not our neighbors, that they are not people that we see in our everyday lives around in restaurants, and as friends, and us people who live next to us and our children's friends, and because there is such a small black population, i think it really ads to it to the bias. but also the unknowing and the unfamiliarity with people. that's why i think that in the office -- and office of racial equity needs to look at other things besides just about the workplace and the upward mobility of our block employees. i think that we need to really look at san francisco as a city

and we are truly an inclusive city. it means that we will see black people in all parts of our lives when i go to restaurants, i look and i notice. when i'm on the bus, i look and i notice. when they are not part of your everyday life and friends or people that we have close relationships with or people that we love in our lives that are black, i think that what we are missing out on is such a rich experience. but also the opportunity to actually have a workplace where people know people charge as individuals. and in this country, where the rhetoric is so racist, and the media is so racist and our number 45 is so racist, i think that it only ads to our challenge to tackle this problem again, i want to say we need an actual office that compiles this

data and analyse as it and gives us the recommendations and helps us analyse our own policies that we are forming as a legislative body, and whether or not this ads to the outmigration of black folks, or does it help to heal us? thanks. >> thank you supervisor fewer. supervisor mandelman? thank you president cohen for having us do this hearing today. hearing the testimony, i was reminded of a young man who reached out to me shortly after my election in june. he is probably twice a start of his career with the city. he is in his twenties. he is a young white man but he reached out to me because he had heard so many stories from coworkers, african americans african-americans in particular, about the city and county of san francisco not -- about the city and county of san francisco being an inhospitable place for african-american people to work.

i was troubled by that. i remain troubled by that. it was surprising, but i guess it was also not surprising because i think we are all painfully aware of the tremendous inequalities in this city. and painfully aware that that inequality is particularly acute as it affects african-americans. so i think, obviously we need to try harder. i am grateful to supervisor fewer for an actual proposal. i am looking forward to working with the local 21 and the other unions that represent the city employees, as well as the mayor and my colleagues on the board to try and get us to a place. thank you. >> thank you.

are there any other discussions? okay. we will keep moving forward. madame clerk, we have heard this item. it has been filed. i think we will return to item 14. >> just for the record, you will reconvene as the board of supervisors? >> yes. >> we will return to item 14. we will take action on item 14, 16, 17, and 18. i don't know if there's any last-minute remarks, but i think we are ready to make a motion and put these items to bed. >> thank you so much. i am glad that we have clarified the process. i would like to take a vote on items 14 through 18 with item 15 as amended. >> thank you very much. supervisor kim has made a motion is there a second? supervised -- seconded by supervisor fewer.

can we take this without objection? unanimously. thank you. item is passed. >> just for the record, item 15 was reverted back to a first reading as amended. >> that is correct. >> okay. >> so, madame clerk, what is next on the agenda? >> item 19. >> item 19. yes. could you please call item 19? >> item 19 is a resolution to retroactively approve a modification to this super bay hangar lease between american airlines and the city to extend the term by four years and eight months from november 1st, 2018 through june 30th 2023 to increase the initial base rent to approximately 6 million with rent increases adjusted annually by the consumer price index and to reduce the premises by recapture of land and plot 40 at the san francisco international airport. >> thank you. supervisor kim, is your name on

for item 19? okay great spear colleagues, can we take this same house same call without objection? this resolution is adopted. madame clerk, please call the next item. >> item 20 is a resolution to approve a modification of the professional services agreement for an airport contract, the escalator and electric walk maintenance service between the elevator corporation in the city to increase the contract term by six months from january 1st 2019 through june 30th, 2019 and to increase the contract amount by $2.5 million for a new not to exceed $19.5 million contract. >> can we take the same house and call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. item 21, please. >> it is a resolution to approve the issuance of tax-exempt obligations by the california statewide community development authority in an amount not to exceed $100 million to finance student housing facilities to be owned and/or operated by n.c.c. cooper street l.l.c., or an

affiliate to benefit the california college of the arts. >> same house, same call quote without objection. this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 22 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the department authorize the department of public health to accept and expend any hundred thousand dollars grant from the substance abuse and mental health services for a comprehensive early intervention services program for youth and youth adult clinical high risk for a 20 year budget period of september 30th, 2018 through september 29th 2020. >> same house, same call? excellent. without objection. this resolution is adopted. >> item 23 is a resolution to authorize the issuance, sale and delivery of multifamily housing, revenue bonds of 50.6 million to finance the construction of a 127 unit multifamily rental housing project known -- on 2060

folsom street. >> same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. could you please call us item 24 and 25 together. >> we have two auto resolutions that retroactively approve two grants for item 24, a second amendment to the agreement between the city and community housing partnership for navigation center operations and services. the grants term is extended by three years through december 31 st, 2021 for $11 million for a grant amount of approximately $21.7 million and for item 25, a retroactive approval. the first and second amendments to the grant agreement between the city and episcopal community services for a lease for supportive housing, property management and services. we are extending the term for 20 years to 2020 and to increase a grant amount by approximately $14 million for $40.3 million. >> r.h. thank you. can we take these items same house same call?

excellent. without objection, these resolutions are adopted. next item. >> it is a resolution to approve the issuance of revenue bonds or a loan by the california municipal finance authority for $21 million to refinance a portion of certain outstanding debt obligations that originally finance and refinance the acquisition of 1453 mission street within the city. >> thank you. same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 27 is an authorization to offer as a general manager of the public utilities commission to enter --dash enter into a republic -- revocable license with this license with jared sullivan for new streetlight facilities on the parcel block number 2916, lot number 15, and in rock columns and rockaway avenue and laguna honda boulevard with no license fee. >> can we take the same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. twenty-eight. >> item 28 is a resolution to determine the promised

apprentice transfer of a type 48 on sale general public premises liquor license to angry officer inc. during businesses tonic located at 895 co. street will serve the public convenience. >> and we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this is adopted. next item. >> supervisor kim is up for roll call for introductions. >> thank you. >> thank you. earlier today, we heard from mayor breeden and president cohen about the 40th anniversary of the assassinations, and i'm hoping we will be able to make it to castro and market for the annual vigil. i did just want to say a couple of words about these two extraordinary men, george ms. miss goñi and harvey milk. san francisco had a leader who believed in giving voices to our neighborhoods and empowering the neighbors of the neighborhoods. women, labor, and in the lgbtq community.

communities had been historically excluded by power and gave us a seat at the table. in 1977, harvey milk became the first lgbt person elected in california and one of us in the handful of it the entire country as i mentioned earlier today at the event we had over on the mayor touch a balcony, milk said his election created two -- opportunities for folks across the country living in homophobic places. they could either move to san francisco, or they could stay where they were and fight. and of course, they have done both. i think, i want to acknowledge the 150 out lgbtq people who are elected across the country just a couple of weeks ago two positions ranging from school board, to governor, to united states senator. it is a tremendous honor for me to serve in this seat that was harvey milk's, and as senator weiner commented today, milk recognized it was important to

have good allies but also important to have good queer people in office. we have, thanks to his trailblazing path, we have folks like harry britt, and others who have all followed on this board. i want to acknowledge them, and of course, milk and ms. miss goñi. earlier today during the mayoral question time, i asked the mayor about the neighborhood impacts arising from our city's de facto practice of children hundreds of in house individuals. many of whom are suffering from mental health and substance disorders and outdoor public spaces in district eight. today, i am calling for a hearing on what appears to be the city's de facto policy of sheltering thousands of homeless people in residential

neighborhoods city wide. i want to recognize the tremendous work being done to manage homelessness in our city. without a network of service providers and programs, we are focused on homelessness and our heroic efforts by police, firefighters and emts and amazing stuff in our public health and public works departments, and indeed our entire city bureaucracy, not to mention the compassionate advocates and neighbors who deal with the impacts of the crisis firsthand every day. conditions on our streets would undoubtedly be of much worse. despite all their efforts, the status quo remain stubbornly unacceptable. since august, i have been

convening monthly meetings between the leadership, city departments tasked with addressing homelessness and neighborhood leaders from the most impacted parts of my district. the result of these meetings has been what i believe to be genuinely increased efforts by d.p.w., d.b.h., sfpd, the department of homelessness and supportive housing, and others to resolve the encampment situation around the park and to identify and address the needs of those in need of health treatments in the castro. i've seen the efforts first-hand myself. i have seen d.p.w. come out and clean up after a night touch up mess and dolores park. i have seen sfpd start new foot patrols in partnership with the homeless outreach -- outreach team and i have seen d.b.h. at the castro safeway parking lots that resulted in 12 navigational center placements. yet despite the use and too many other worthy efforts to describe , my constituent's e-mail call my office daily to tell me that things are as bad and in many cases, worse than ever. i do not believe they are wrong. we are responding to the symptoms, but we struggle to find an effective response to the underlying disease. given all the work that has occurred in my district and in the city over these last months and years and the seeming lack of differences it is making on our streets, or at least streets in district eight, and in some of the other neighborhoods presented on this board, i am left to ask why the disconnect?

nearly everyone in san francisco has an opinion about what's wrong. some folks will tell you and i agree with this that we are not investing enough in permanent supportive housing. others will tell you and i agree with this as well, we need to direct far more resources into drug treatment. it is time to make good on san francisco's decadal pledge to provide treatment on demand. some folks will tell you the problem is our city is unwilling to enforce laws. a beat officer may tell a horror story about an individual only to have the case dropped by the district attorney. a d.a. may explain the challenges involved in securing the infrastructure from a san francisco jury or an appropriate sentence from a judge. some will tell you that the problem is that our laws are designed to protect vulnerable people from being inappropriately stripped of their liberty prevent us from intervening in the lives of those who cannot care for themselves. we have plenty of anecdotes and armchair analysis. but what we need is a strategy, an overall plan to dramatically and measurably reduce the number of people sheltering in our

neighborhoods and to get the sickest and most vulnerable and most challenging street folks into care. whether or not they are able to recognize they need it. five months into this job, i do not doubt the will of the city to solve these problems, i believe that our mayor knows we must and we have a wealth of talent and resources deployed towards a solution. but having studied the program diligently and working on it with my staff every single day since i took office, i also remain unclear on what exactly we need to change to make progress that san franciscans can see, feel, and lift their progress that will and the international reputation as an urban dystopia. it will keep us from giving up on san francisco peer progress that will show the rest of the country how to effectively address one of our greatest urban challenges and national change of our time. as a city's first line of response for our neighbors and small businesses, as a legislative body tasked with approving the budget and as the local leaders best situated to lobby for necessary changes at the regional state and national

levels, we need answers on what we can and need to do to end this unspoken policy of our city to use our neighborhoods as shelters and open air mental institutions. colleagues, i hope to use his hearing to find solutions we can work on together. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor peskin? >> thank you. most of my legislation i will submit. i would like to introduce the request of the city attorney's office to revisit the policy on the acceptance of gifts in exchange for naming rights and specifically to outline the procedure as to how we would go about removing the zuckerberg name from the san francisco general hospital. over the past couple of weeks, 80 outlets have reported on the latest in a string of scandalous issues confronting facebook and its leadership. the most recent one being facebook's hiring of a notorious

p.r. firm to spread malicious and frankly anti- somatic attacks against george soros, which is directly from the playbook of the toxic right wing conspiracy theory groups, many of which, ironically flourish on the facebook form. this latest revelation follows the cambridge scandal earlier this year when it was revealed that private information was being used to fundamentally undermine our system of democracy. that scandal was the impetus behind the privacy first policy which was put on the ballot unanimously by this board and was passed by the voters overwhelmingly on november 6th it follows a report in the new york times from earlier this year that facebook itself was tinkering with users' emotions in their own bizarre feed experiment which spawned protest by workers at san francisco general hospital. it cannot be considered normal for corporations to hire political consultancy firms to

perform opposition research on their critics. it is not normal for private entities to use that information to spread, and in this case, anti- somatic conspiracy theories on platforms that they control. it is not normal for mark zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg to refuse to accept responsibility and to publicly distance themselves from acts that they have personally instigated. in fact, i think it is abhorrent you cannot be normal for the city to put a price tag on the branding of institutions and spaces that fundamentally belong to the citizens of this city. as a matter of fact, while he and his partner dips into $75 million in exchange for these naming rights, it was the people of the city and county of san francisco that funded more than ten times that amount to be at a 900 million-dollar bond in 2008 that was supported by virtually every institution in the city. the republican party of san

francisco, the democratic party of san francisco, to rebuild to the acute care hospital and trauma centre at san francisco general. this also gets to a larger issue about the true cost of corporate charity. and what message does it send when we are willing to grant our public facilities in exchange for a one-time donation while the entities behind those donations turn around and oppose even the most modest taxes which when allocated to our fund, give the citizens of san francisco and to this board the oversight on how those funds are spent? i really want the city to reassess the value of giving up these naming rights, and the message distends relative to our role as stewards of the public trust. more than naming rights, this is about the integrity of institutions and spaces that are overwhelmingly funded by public money and taxpayer dollars. i want to thank city attorney dennis herrera for his commitment to helping us remove the name zuckerberg from that san francisco institution.

the rest i will submit. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor ronen? >> while. i like that. that was impressive. i was just looking around at all my colleagues' faces and there were a lot of smiles. a very interesting, mr peskin, we see what happens when you go to cuba. colleagues, a couple things. first, i was thinking of introducing a resolution, but really, what is the point? we have introduce only resolutions that just get ignored. so i will just simply say that the right to seek asylum in another country is a cherished right that is respected by nations, the world over. it is meant to provide safety when people are fleeing violence and persecution and harm.

it is something that was in place that would have protected my family when they were seeking protection from concentration camps in europe. and it should be a rights that we continue to cherish and holds dear and protect here in our country. the fact that we are instead tear gassing mothers and children fleeing violence on our border is discussing, and i could not let today's meeting and without saying something about it. secondly, i am introducing today an unofficial request to our budget and legislative analyst to collect data related to what we all experienced the last couple of weeks with the crisis of our air quality. i want to start out by saying that i think this new

environmental crisis is a new one. i don't think that any of us could have anticipated what we, as a city had to deal with on such an emergency level. and i think we did a pretty good job as a city as evidenced by the fact that the hospital visits and e.m.s. calls for emergency services were not any higher than they normally are. that is pretty extraordinary given the fact that we were breathing for two weeks hazardous air, and at one point, incredibly unhealthy air. however. because this is now a crisis that we have had to deal with a couple of times, and it looks like it very horribly might be something we might have to deal with in the future, i think we need to look at and examine what we dealt with over the past few weeks and see what we can be better prepared for next time around. hopefully there won't be a next

time. but like earthquakes and flooding, we have to be prepared for the worst. i want to make sure that we do that. we have to understand that this was the most significant public safety emergency that we have had in san francisco since the earthquake. while it was the deadliest wildfire in california's history that devastated the county, the local air quality registered unhealthy to dangerous levels of particle pollution for more than ten days. children, elderly and the sick were particularly at risk, as were thousands of adults who remained exposed through work or everyday activities. i don't know if or when we will fully understand the cumulative effects of the day after day, after day, after day of bad air. the public schools remained open during the orange and right just read period, with direction to keep windows closed for the level of protection this offers an older building with leaky windows and no ventilation is unclear.

on november 16th when the particle concentration reached the unimaginable level of purple , unhealthy for everybody. schools were closed and students were directed to stay at home. more than 18% of the school students and 21% of high school students already have asthma. there is no way to guess whether or not the air quality in their homes where they were told to seek shelter were safe that day. this was a test of our emergency systems that we rely on to help us in the face of natural and climate change caused disasters. whether or not this is, as governor brown was quoted as saying, the new abnormal, we can expect san francisco will experience a repeat of this high exposure to dangerous smoke from wildfires. we owe it to residents and two children and to our elders to be ready. the request that i am submitting to the b.l.a. is to gather information so we can potentially pass legislation requiring us to be better

prepared to. first, i am requesting that the cause -- they cost out the per unit cost of m. 95 respirator masks to fit adults and children , and the aggregate cost to purchase two of these masks for every child enrolled in san francisco unified school district school districts. myself and my friends, you couldn't get a kid's mask anywhere except for online, and it took several days to receive those in the mail. they were not available hardly anywhere in san francisco. the adult masks were more available. it took me an entire day hustling everyone i knew to get 700 masks for the striking workers at the hotel sue had been outside for ten days. if it took elected officials who actually serve on the air quality management district an entire day to hustle 700 masks,

12,000 workers were on strike 24 hours a day, that said something about how unprepared we were for the people that didn't have the luxury to stay home and indoors. i also want to find out what the per unit in aggregate cost is to provide portable hepa air filtration units for every classroom in sfusd. what i have found out through conversations with parents with kids with asthma and heart conditions is that when they were lucky enough to get the last air filter, this was a friend from bed bath & beyond that cost $500 and was lucky enough to put a $500 charge on the credit card, and took it home and put it on. the inside level in their home where all windows and doors have been close to the entire two weeks was over 250 particles. very similar to what the air quality was outside. my husband kind of created a makeshift air filter with a fan,

and one of those heat filters. in four days, it was completely black inside of our home despite the fact we kept all windows and doors closed. if we are really not keeping people safe inside, then maybe we should at least have our kids protected during the school day in their classrooms by having these filters available, a so we don't have to cancel school last minute and parents hustling to find childcare or take off work, but be, because we don't know the air quality is any better in their homes than it is at their school. lets provide all our children a break while they are in their classrooms to breathe clean air if that is the least that we can do. i also want a current inventory of the hvac air filtration system in sfusd schools and city recreation centres. and an estimated cost to install those and larger spaces at each