subject to approval by any other officer, employee, board or commission of his or her employed body. it goes on and there is a different part. and employees outside employment activity or enterprise may be prohibited if it involves the performance of an act other than his or her capacity as a local agency officer or employee, which may later be subject to directly or indirectly to the control inspection review, audit and enforcement of any other officer or employee or agency by which he or she is employed. it seems what is implied is because of the nature of the work, there may be conflict there. >> i have not reviewed that part of the code. i am not an attorney.

i would need to review that more closely and come to my own decision. i was not aware that could be a possible impediment. >> deputy city attorney? i don't know if you were following, i am questioning whether the nature of his business, with there be a conflict of interest in serving on the rent board,. >> deputy city attorney john given her. i have not spoken directly with the appointee. i don't know anymore about his business other than what i have read in the pocket and the discussion today. i can't stay, with any certainty , i am not sure what code section you are reading,

supervisor yee, it sounded related to the statement of incompatible activities that the ethics commission has adopted. every city department, board and commission has a statement of incompatible activities which is basically a conflict of interest law that applies only to that department or commissioner board the rent board has a statement of incompatible activities and among other things, is generally described outside activities that are incompatible with service on the rent board. i have not analysed this particular situation. i don't know enough about the facts. i'm happy to do that before -- following this meeting. >> what i am citing as a

california government code, 1126 >> right. section 1126 is not a self-executing conflict law. but several years after 1126 was adopted at the state level, the voters adopted a local law that required the ethics commission to create the statements of incompatible activity. there are about 35 of them right now in the city. they are all available on the ethics commission trash out website. there is a statement for the city attorney's office in a statement of activity for the board of supervisors in a statement for the rent board. generally, the statement of income possible incompatible activities as they could not engage with an activity that impair your ability to do your official job.

by way of example, the city attorney attorney's statement of activity is prohibited -- prohibiting me as one of the attorneys to advise the department of elections from contributing to any local candidate or office in san francisco. the rent board's statement of incompatible activity has a general statement about materially impairing an outside activity that impairs your duties. it also has a couple of specific restrictions. no officer or employee, which would include a member of the rent board may receive a fee or any other enumeration for information or advice about pending rent board cases. and no officer or employee may receive a fee or other renumeration for scheduling a hearing or decision in a rent board case or appeal.

i do not know enough about this particular business, but happy to discuss after this hearing and ultimately the decision about whether an activity violates a statement of incompatible activities is in the discretion of the ethics commission. >> i appreciate your explanation >> i'm a little concerned. it seems that in terms of the knowledge base, as a person that would go to the rent board, you have the knowledge. i'm not questioning that. what i am questioning is is a -- duchess or a grey area where there is a conflict or not? i would like to get more clarification at some point. >> once again. i am not an attorney. i can't really interpret the code, but from his comments, i don't see what i'm doing is

using my expertise to bring a case and file a petition at the rent board on behalf of a client is being much different than what an attorney would do in representing a client in helping them through a mediation or to even file a petition, which some attorneys do as part of their work for their clients, and two of our four land florid commissioners are attorneys and i know that several tenant commissioners are also attorneys and it seems that from my experience and experienced -- attending the recent meetings and one this year, the static practice is they recuse themselves from cases in which they are involved. and the nonvoting will step in to participate in those cases and i would think that would be very much the same situation for me, where if a crate -- case that i have brought for a client before the rent board, if it were on appeal and being hurt by the commission, i would then recuse myself from that decision

and let the other commissioners debate it. >> we will come back to questions after we open it up for public comment. thank you. if you just wait you will come back you can come back up. >> good evening. i am the executive director of rebuilding together san francisco. we do home repairs for income qualified families, seniors and people with disabilities so they can continue to live safely in their own homes. jj has been on our board for just about six years now. he has volunteered with us for a number of years prior to that and i am here to support his

nomination to the rent stabilization board. i think in my time working with jj, he has presented himself as someone who really cares about keeping san franciscans in their homes and really looking at ways that we can sustain and provide stable housing for both renters and homeowners in san francisco through the home repair program. he has been a really great champion for our work over the last six years and i think that he is really committed to san francisco and keeping people in their homes in san francisco. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. i am a san francisco landlord. i set as a rent board commissioner for 17 years. i've had a good bit of experience and how the process works. i am here to support the nomination and the appointment of jj as the rent board commissioner. you will be a fantastic

commissioner. he is experienced, he is committed, he is involved in a number of community activities and supervisor yee's questions, if you checked with the rent board staff, you will find that over the years, a well-established practice for the dealing with conflicts of interest for all the commissioners of the board. you may be interested to know that all four of the tenant commissioners at the san francisco rent board are attorneys. many of them practice in front of the rent board or practice representing tenants san francisco and there is an established practice that if there is a case at the rent board that comes up in appeal, that they or their firm was involved in, they recuse themselves. as i am sure you will agree, what is gravy for the goose is gravy for the gander. if this policy applies to tenant commissioners, it should also

equally apply to landlord commissioners and it does. i don't see that as an impediment to mr panzer being nominated to this position. he is willing, ready and able to serve and i would urge you to pass out his nomination. thank you. >> good evening, supervisors. i am with this san francisco apartment association. i'm here to speak in support of panzer as a landlord commissioner on the rent board. i have known jj for probably 15 years and i think he will do an outstanding job representing small and large landlords in the city of san francisco. i also agree with mr murphy's statement about the rent board and how it functions. being front of that body for over 25 years, i find that commissioners from time to time, have to recuse themselves as items that they are related to before the body and they operate in an ethical and fair manner from any judge everything that i can see.

thank you for your time and please pass his commission appointment to the full board. >> good late afternoon, supervisors. my name is rosa maria. i am the program manager for the tenderloin health and clinics enforcement program. i have been there for about the last five years. i am also a tenderloin resident for heart the last five years and this is my last week in the tenderloin. over the last five years, our program has assisted in council tenants and understanding various kinds of rent increases due to rent passes that landlords file. we also have seen the negative and burdensome impacts of these increases on tenants and

therefore i am here today as tenants and enclosing my starch including myself. we have a few concerns on the appointment. this is not due to him being a landlord are running a property management company. is rather to the proponent of his business that prepares and assist landlords with filing a variety of rent increase pass-through his. he has a direct financial stake in decisions that he was tasked to adjudicate over. we believe this is a huge concern to consider when evaluating his appointment, and i know we have talked about him recusing himself. these are concerns that i would like to bring forward to today. this is all due respect to mr panzer. thank you. >> thank you. last speaker. >> good evening.

i am from the affordable housing alliance. representing tenants for all of these years, we believe that one of the most important jobs for us is to protect the integrity of the rent board, along with that,, we found ourselves working with landlord loops on aspects of that from time to time. we thought the rent board should not be elected. we thought it a compass endorsed the composition shouldn't change i don't have a problem with mr panzer. i'm not personally familiar with him, but i do think that someone needs to look out for him and make sure that the incompatible activities law is not something that he is being set up to be in violation of. the wording in the state law, at first blush would seem to appear , on the local policies are just implementing that. this is not a conflict of

interest analysis. it is a different kind of analysis. but the heart of the matter is, if you are engaged in a business providing a service with a direct result of that service are reviewed by the commission which you are on, that is viewed as an incompatible activity and i am treading gingerly here because historically, the landlord his advocacy groups have selected their candidates and they have selected there is. i think that is helping the integrity of the board. i would just caution everyone that they should do the analysis , and it sounds like mr panzer was not alerted to this by the mayor's office, i think he may well have to give up that business to be on this. i would recommend that it be looked at sooner rather than later. you probably should have been looked at earlier. it is awkward to bring it up in this setting. but i think the nature of his business and the exact wording

of the state law and the rent board, and is not just the supervision -- >> hello. good evening. i am a staff member of the san francisco apartment association. i want to speak in favour of the appointment of jj. i also manage the same program that rosa maria mentioned. the code enforcement outreach program. i have done so for about eight years. we try to make sure maintenance requests are made in rental buildings. i have to say i have never had a case in a real management company building. i think that speaks to the way in which they manage their properties. the other thing i wanted to mention --

>> will try to make sure maintenance requests are made, in rental buildings. i have to say i have never had a case and a real management company building. i think that speaks to the way in which they manage their properties. the other thing i wanted to mention, the rent board commission does not deny or approve pass-through his. that is not what the rent board does. please consider that further. >> good evening. i'm here with the coalition for better housing. we certainly support the nomination and the approval of

mr panzer to the rent board. one thing that is confusing me is as was discussed before, mr panzer's job is to help property owners obey the law. his job is to help them to do what's right and he does this very well. it is not for them to get away with something. this to make sure that they do cross their teas and stop their eyes. he is very good at that. you can tell by how the people have spoken about his nature, that he is somebody who cares about san franciscans and that he cares about the city and cares about this process. so we cannot enter into this with an idea that somehow jj won't be cognizant of being recused in those instances where he would be. and i would point out again that

the rent board commissioners, many of whom, on both sides of the aisle are attorneys, do the exact same thing. that they help their tenants or their clients to meet the latter of the law or to make sure they get what they need at the rent board. i really don't understand this conflict as it's been discussed. because it seems to me that if that was the case, there would be no rent board. by reason, the rent board has two tenants, two landlord his representatives, and the neutral , which is the person who listens to both sides after the argument and often decides that. i think we need to be careful about not making jj a lightning rod for people's discussions on

pass-through his. that is not his job. his job is to help landlords obey the law. thank you.

>> the question we should explore is the details of his business. >> supervisor yee, do you have an additional question? >> my line is question is nothing personal. i hope you understand that. and just so that -- i'm look at these documents and i'm not -- a lot of it is i'm an attorney. this raises some questions for

me. i read from the california one. this is from the statement of incompatible activities from the residential rent board itself. i don't know if you are familiar with that one. there's a paragraph there that triggers my concern. no employee may engage in outside activity regardless of whether the activity is compensated, that is subject to the control inspection and review audit or enforcement of the department. in addition to any activity permitted pursuant to the sub section c, nothing in this subsection prohibits the following activities. appearing before ones' own department or commission or on behalf of ones self. filing or otherwise pursuing claims against the city on his own behalf. running for city elective office or making a public records disclosure pursuing of the

sunshine ordinance. unless noted in this section or b, an advance written determination sunday sub sections c concludes that such activities are not incompatible and the following activities are expressly prohibited by this section and i could keep on reading. this goes on like that. i think you seem to understand the laws. i don't wanted to hold up this process but statement, at the i want to have a discussion or have the city attorney look at this issue before this item comes to the full board. i would like to make a motion to send this out of committee with no recommendation to the full board. >> before that, supervisor stephanie had a comment. you want to move on that motion?

she had a comment. is that ok? >> rescind the motion. >> amend it to either -- the motion would need to be amended to either a paragraph or reject. >> it's approve or reject? >> yes. >> before we move on that can supervisor stefani. i mean i'm happy to look into this further but number one, i failed to see the conflict. i find his comments pervasive in terms of not deciding on these issues. if you were to have a case in which you were involved, and you might be able to then enrich yourself, based on a decision you might make, then my understanding would be you would absolutely probably recuse yourself and i just don't

seem -- i don't know where the conflict is. it just seems to me if there were a client of his that were to come before the rent board, it would be obvious. because he engages in this type of activity doesn't necessarily mean, as a landlord, he would actually be someone that could not sit on the rent board. i'm happy to look into it further. for me, at the outset, i don't see the problem. >> thank you for those comments. i guess what i'm asking is just to send it out of committee with no recommendation. people can get -- i'd like to get more information. it doesn't mean i won't support it at the end of the day. >> i think that's fair and these are valid questions. i appreciate you bringing them up. i think we certainly always want to avoid any conflict of interest. what i heard from deputy city attorney is they're going to investigate and if it were to come out, this would be a direct conflict, then essentially we

would have to -- if it's at the board, we would then -- what would happen at the board? we would reject or withdraw the nomination? >> ultimately -- the board's only option, the only action the board can formally take to reject would be a motion to reject the nomination requiring eight votes. anything else and mr. panzer's appointment stands. after meeting with mr. panze r and from the mayor's office, i can report back to the board on december 4th or 11th, whatever day this item comes back to the board. >> it needs two readings? >> just one. the law that we're discussing

and that supervisor yee is mentioning, the statement of incompatible activities, doesn't prohibit mr. panzer from serving on the rent board. the question is, whether, if he serves on the rent board and also engages in a business, that may be incompatible with his rent board duties, could he potentially face fines from the ethic's commission? and so that is -- considering whether he may have that type of conflict, we will discuss it with mr. panzer and the board can make a choice. >> i guess what i'm saying -- you are going to let us know one way or the other. no? >> i will let you know what our analysis is. >> that's what i mean, your analysis, you will give an a recommendation, right? so in that recommendation it says we believe he will be ok,

then we would proceed. if you say we believe there's a strong potential for fines coming from the ethic's commission based on inco inpat , he could withdraw his application. >> all of those are options. >> ok. who would have thought the last item of the day would be so complicated. so you are fine with sending it forward and we wait on the recommendations from the city attorney? that's ok? ok. so i think the options that we have in front of us is either approve or reject. we make a motion to -- >> i did. >> make a motion to approve and send it to the full board. >> i believe the motion would be to amend the motion to delete the word reject from the motion and refer it to the board of supervisors with recommendation

or without? >> without. >> refer that motion to the board without recommendations. >> with a motion is to forward it to the full board without recommendation. >> as we often do. can we do that? >> yes. we'll amend it to remove the word rejecting and we'll ford i- forward it to the full board without recommendations pending the city's attorney advice. >> without objection. thank you mr. panzer. anymore items before us today? >> one moment. that completes the agenda for today.

>> the hon. london breed: hello, everyone. good afternoon, and thank you so much for being here today. if anyone wants to come down to the front, there are a number of seats where you can join us. i called my aunt today, and i was about four years old about 40 years ago -- oh, did i just tell my age? and i wanted to get an idea for what was going on during that time. and my aunt said, you know, my grandmother, who raised me, she said ms. brown, who was tough as nails, she never, ever, ever cried. i don't remember seeing her cry when she was a young person,

but when she was sad, there was a look on her face. and my aunt remembers her saying on that fateful day, first jonestown, and now this. how much more can our city bear? and we all know that during that challenging time when we lost two amazing leaders in our city, mayor moscone and supervisor milk, it was a really tough time in 1978. it was a tough time because of jonestown and the loss of over 900 san franciscans, and then, to lose our leaders soon after that. and we as a city, we came together. we came together to support one another, we came together to encourage one another, and what came out of that tragedy was

two amazing legacies. two individuals who represented hope for so many people. and many may not be aware, the younger generation now may not be aware how significant it was to have harvey milk, who was the first lgbt member of the board of supervisors and then elected in the state of california. many were not aware of how amazing it was to have george moscone become mayor, someone who not only talked about inclusiveness, but who somehow made the kind of appointments that just weren't happening here in the city of san francisco, to appoint african members, to appoint women, to appoint members of the lgbt community to positions was

significant at that time. they paved the way for so many of the leaders that you see standing here, representing diverse backgrounds, leading san francisco and leading the state of california. we -- today, we take what we know was a sad time in our history, and we celebrate, and we honor their legacy, and their commitment, and what they represent for inclusiveness, for resilience, for over come -- overcoming the odds and celebrating disadvantages in a place like san francisco. what we hope to do today in honoring their legacy is really a call to action for not only the leaders of the san francisco community but for all

of us to continue to work harder, to strive for inclusion, to make better policy decisions, to continue to be good to one another, even during times of difficulties and disagreements. we are better because we have leaders who have showed us the way of how to work together and how to be inclusive, and we were so fortunate to have had them as a part of our incredible history here in san francisco, and their legacy, despite what has happened in the past, their legacy will live on for generations to come. and i want to thank members of the mayor moscone's family, jonathan, is here today, and he will be speaking shortly, as well, as well as friends and family of harvey's family, including his nephew, stewart,

and his cousin. what we hope to continue to do, what i hope that we will continue to honor their legacy by opening the doors for the next generation to be a part of this incredible city in the same capacity that they have tried to do as leaders of san francisco 40 years ago. so thank you all for being here today. welcome to city hall, and at this time, i'd like to introduce a member of the board of supervisors who represents the community that harvey milk represented who will continue to carry on his legacy and make

those tough decisions. ladies and gentlemen, welcome supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, mayor breed, and thank you so much for allowing us to have this space for this event. i do want to invite everyone to the candlelight individual the that happens tonight and has happened every year for 40 years at castro and market, but for the 40th anniversary, we felt it was important to do something at city hall a little special. i want to thank tom timprano in my office. i want to thank tom for everything he did. he's in an elected position in my office. and senator scott wiener. i do want to thank everyone for coming to acknowledge this, and

i want to thank mathy athew an kira who made special efforts for this event. as we mark the 40th anniversary in what must have been one of the darkest days in san francisco's history, i hope you will join all of us in celebrate the tremendous lives and lasting legacy of two of this city's greatest leaders. throughout history, san francisco has shown a tenacity to be able to rebuild time and time again, stronger than before. we are a phoenix, rising from the ashes. the legacy that george mass coney and harvey milk left behind is a better san francisco, a city that's defined by its economic values, its diversity and inclusion.

mayor breed described empowering leaders from neighborhood, women, people of color, and lgbt. moscone's embrace of diversity in san francisco city government has endured, and today, our city is led by a strong african american woman mayor -- yes, that's worthy of applause. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: we are the city that leads the resistance and a board of supervisors that is majority female who is led by a president who is another strong african american woman, and that also -- and there she is. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: malia cohen, everyone, and hillary

ronen, and we do have assembly man david chiu. and it's aaron peskin from district three, thank you, and kathr kathrin stefani, and carmen chu, and joanne hayes-white is here, and. >> president cohen: we now have a coquorum. >> supervisor mandelman: we know have a quorum, and we're in violation of the brown act, and we're now going to jail. in 1978, harvey milk said his election would give people two new options. move to san francisco was one or stay and fight, and they did both. and a few weeks ago, we had this great, wonderful blue wave that we're all still sort of basking in. but part of that blue wave was

150 out lgbtq people who were elected to positions around this country and that is worthy of some applause. i -- we're all revealing our ages here. i was five years old when harvey milk and george moscone were killed. i don't remember that moment, but i learned about them as i grew older, and learned about them at a time before i knew i was a day man. but i became -- i was proud of them as a san franciscan, and so before i even knew to be proud of myself, i was proud of these two men and what they had done. it's a tremendous honor to hold the same seat on the board of supervisors that harvey milk held, and i know that i know not only him but the entire succession of lgbtq people that have served so strongly on that board, tom am i don't knowy,

susan leal, mark katz, david campos, scat wiener, cristina olagui, and jeff sheehy -- applause for them all. but even more for the countless activists upon whose shoulders they stood. the work these heros did following harvey's death through krifg rights struggles and battling an epidemic that would take many of them from us far too early created opportunities for young people that did not exist when i was born in 1973. of course we are reminded daily that we cannot take that progress for granted. i'm keenly aware that i'm the only lgbtq person on the board of supervisors, marking the first time in decades that our representation on this body is that low. i'm also keenly aware that there is tremendous prejudice

facing our community and its more vulnerable members emanating from washington, d.c., but even right in san francisco, here as in the rest of the country, the transgender community continues to face disproportionate and unacceptably high levels of violence, unemployment and homelessness. one-third of our homeless population identifies as lgbtq and half the people living on the streets are queer. as lgbtq continue to be priced out of neighborhood like soma, and the tenderloin, it alienates our power and takes them from the communities and neighborhoods that can support them. fortunately, harvey milk and george moscone left us with a road map, one uniting the lgbtq communities, fighting like hell, and never giving up until

we win. so thank you, harvey and george. can we have -- [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: you know, thank you, alex randall. thank you for supporting your gay sister. now i think we were going to hear from mayor brown -- he's here. he's arrived. there's a wonderful documentary that was just -- that's recently come out about george moscone and his life, and it is amazing to think of these two men at hastings, young before they had accomplished all that they would. but -- hello. but mayor brown is speaking after me. i'm introducing you. i'm out of the way. [inaudible]

[laughte [laughter]. >> mayor breed, and other local elected officials that are here, it was so many years ago that things happened in this city hall that should not happen in any city hall, if not any public building in this nation. two sterling examples of people who have been elected to public office, who earned the election by demonstrating in every fashion how their existence stood out as a mark and a guideline for the future, an optimistic future for

everybody. unfortunately, their lives were shortened. this city will never be the same because we always are forced to remember, are forced to recall that dreadful day when a former elected official did something so despicable, so destructive to so many, so destructive to so many families for which they could never be forgiven. thank you, mayor breed, aaron peskin, for reminding me that on this occasion, each of us ought to pause as i suspect before you do when you say a

prayer at night. it causes you to remember something significant. each of us should recall forever so that our conduct never again in any fashion causes anybody under any circumstance to do what was done and to whom it was done. my friend, george moscone, a student at hastings school of law, a fellow janitor of that facility became a mayor of this city. he was really the forerunner to almost everything that has happened in this city since his election, including the election of the first black woman as mayor of this city,

and for sure, the first black man who was ever mayor of this city. george moscone's politics inspired all of us. george moscone's politics led all of us. when i heard the word progressive, it wasn't used to describe george moscone, but i can assure you, every single thing that has happened under the name of progressives came out of the heart and soul of what george moscone really stood for and demonstrated in his capacity as the mayor of this city. harvey milk, and in all the things that people say now about how credibly mature this nation has become with reference to choices that people may or whom they may

love, harvey milk, the symbol of all that was achieved in this day and age on that question. and so when we as a city pause, we really should pause and frankly rejoice, two great people gave their lives to the -- so the rest of us could live in greater freedoms. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, mayor brown, for those inspiring words. and with that, i'd like to introduce jonathan moscone, the son of mayor george moscone. >> hi. last time i was up here speaking, i got married to my husband, darryl carbonaro's

around here somewhere, and willie brown made it possible. 40 years ago, san francisco lost its mayor, george moscone, and we lost our father. you know while i somewhat keep ourselves in the public eye, our family has remained private, opting instead to remember my dad, my mom's husband, as exactly that, dad and husband. we haven't forgotten who -- what he did for this state and this city, but he's the man who taught yus pedro and took us t the movies and to the theater, and whom we didn't see enough of when he was alive and whom he we'd give anything just to see again. five years ago on this very

date, i spoke, as i'm speaking now, and i vowed that our family would never again mourn in public the death of our father. instead, we'd celebrate only his life. that life, which lasted 49 years, zero months, and three days, but who's counting, far outweighs the instance of the flash of time that took him away from us, from all of us. so when i was asked to speak today, of course i said yes because i love to speak. but on this anniversary of that one flash of an instant, i really said that i wouldn't want to if we don't pledge to not mourn the past, but instead look to the legacy of the future.

the death of my dad and of harvey is not tragedy, but as opportunity. when i look at willie brown, mayor breed, and honey mahogany, i see the best of our past, our present, and our future. the honor paid to my father is more than a mere honor. his legacy lives in the continued fight to bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice, and in the struggle to ensure that our city keeps its promise of inclusion and opportunity for all of its people. i am grateful to rafael mandelman and tom temprano, and everyone in their office and everyone at city hall who made today possible and who along with so many community leaders fight for an equitiable future

where regardless of race, gender identity, culture, class or aspiration can thrive. that's san francisco, and i believe my dad would have felt the same. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much, jonathan. we truly appreciate the work that you continue to do in your father's honor by supporting and advocating so fiercely for the arts community, and we know that he would have been proud. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: next, i'd like to bring up an incredible person who is well known and well respected all over the country for his work in advocacy, and what he has represented in terms of

carrying on the legacy of harvey milk. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome cleve jones. [applause] >> well, first of all, mayor, i want to thank you for inviting us here today. several of us from the lgbtq community spent yesterday, a significant amount of time on the picket line at the marriott marquis. and i know that all of the workers there are extremely grateful of your support in this struggle which is i believe entering the 55th day of the workers on strike against this very powerful corporation. i think that was an appropriate way to honor the work of harvey milk and george moscone, two men who unds the importance of fighting for the people, and for all the immigrant born, gray and straight, black,

brown, and white, that was what harvey and george stood for. i've been looking through the photographs and the news coverage, and i'm overwhelmed with memory of your father. just the incredible joy and charisma. as someone who was 64 years old and arrived in this city when it was still a felony to sleep with the person that you love the most, i want to thank you again, willie brown, for your work with george moscone to decriminalize us. and people forget, and sometimes i say to young people, you know, it used to be it was a crime just to be gay. and they say you're kp exaggerating. and i say there were two men, willie brown, and george moscone, and because of them, we no longer went to prison for loving people of the same sex.

so thank you. [applause] >> now, you know, when i met harvey, i was just this idiot street kid, and he got me to cut my hair and go to city college, and i enrolled in the film department, and i made a little super 8 movie. remember super 8, and he took me aside and said you have no talent at all. you need to change your major, and so i enrolled in the police science department at san francisco state, and got an internship working for harvey, and that was part of the deal. he said you go back to school, and i'll bring you back to city hall. i said you better get elected first. you lost several times. danny nicoletto went through several of those campaigns with harvey. danny, i'm glad you're here. but he brought me in, and i was

here 40 years ago. i was here because annie kronenberg had to go to seattle to be with her family, and i wanted to show harvey that i was going to be diligent. i got here, and it turns out i left a file in my apartment that he wanted. and he was annoyed, and he sent me back to castro street. i was crestfallen, and he said it's okay. i just need the file. i went and stopped at the local cafe that was being picketed by people from local 22. i was waiting inform are a bus, and somebody leaned out the window and says cleve, somebody shot the mayor. i couldn't imagine who would want to harm george moscone. i got a taxi, and i got in on the vanness side. i ran up stairs, and it's been reconfigured since the earthquake. i had a key to the passage from

the chambers in. i just ran in shouting harvey, harvey, and turned the corner and saw his feet sticking out into the hallway. you know, he only had one pair of dress shoes, an old pair of secondhand wingtips. i was only 24. i'd never seen a dead person before. it was so who ahorrifying, andi could think to myself was it's all over now. how could we move forward? he was such a leader, he was so important in my life. and we're trapped, and they're moving out the bodies, and all ai can think of is it's over, it's over, it's over. then, the sun went down, and people began to gather on castro street, like we're going to do tonight, and we lit our candles, and we marched down, and many of you were here, and we filled this entire plaza with the light of our candles,

and i knew right there i was wrong. it was not over, it was just beginning. and harvey's and george's legacy continues. we see it in the faces of the city that represent us in city government today, we see it in the resistance to donald trump and everything that he represents. it's not over. those two men taught us how to fight, love each other, depeid fend each other -- defend each other, and hold onto what makes this city so special. i stood up on that balcony and watched as this entire city filed through this lobby here and showed how much they love those men and it's amazing how we can still love them today and be so grateful for what they gave us. so thank you for allowing me to be here again, mayor breed.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: wow. thank you so much. very powerful. and now, ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce someone who has been an incredible at r incredible advocate for harvey milk in san francisco and all over the country, his nephew, stewart milk. >> thank you. [applause] >> this is a very difficult day. i haven't talked a lot about what the loss of harvey meant to me, and i do want to share that he was the only person in my life who accepted me, who i could say anything to, and he

found some brilliance in that. so it is a very difficult day for me from a personal perspective. i didn't have the relationship with my father that i did with harvey. i didn't have the relationship in my life with anyone. when i told my mother that i felt different, she said you'll outgrow that. harvey said that's brilliant. and for a 12-year-old in a homophobe environment on long island, to be asked what happened today that was different that made you feel different from everyone else, i said i don't want to talk about it. he said that's amazing. think about the power that that gives you, yourself r your difference, the fact that you see things difference. he wrote in a book that he gave me, you and your districtness is the medicine that will heal the work,n