>> okay. wasn't that great? [applause] >> i'm going to welcome amy lozardo back to the stage, but we need you to sing along as loud as you can.

[singing "here comes santa claus"] ["you're a mean one, mr. grinch" playing]

[applause] >> gimme that, and thank you for singing my song. and san francisco, could you pipe down? i'm trying to wallow in self-pity here. >> hold on. you're not santa klaus. >> oh, you wanted him? you guys don't like santa claus, do you? [applause] >> santa claus, boo!

boo! [applause] >> well, what's to like about him? oh, i know. do you like santa claus because he gives you presents? you do? well, i brought you some presents. >> oh, you have presents? >> i do. >> maybe you are santa claus. oh, no. unrecyclable plastic. no. no, you're definitely not santa claus. >> you can say that again. >> well, i have an idea again. >> what? >> if you can just be quiet for a second. hey, kids, i think we can get rid of the grinch if you can do one thing for me.

if we start chanting santa's name, maybe we can get rid of the grinch? >> no. [chanting "santa"] >> ho, ho, ho. >> i think i hear him. >> ho, ho, ho. [chanting "santa"] >> it's santa claus, everybody. >> oh, great. >> there he is. your cheering worked. thanks, kids.

it's santa claus! [applause] >> merry christmas, boys and girls! >> yea! merry christmas, santa! >> is that the grinch? oh, grinch. >> that's my name. say it, don't spray it. >> are you harassing the children? >> well, no, we were just having fun till you got here? >> well, boys and girls, don't worry, grinch, i have something

very special that may change your mind about christmas. >> i doubt it. >> i have something very special. it's a present, because i know when you share presents, you always have a good heart. and i know you have a good heart, too, grinch. >> oh, take that back. >> well, here it is. >> there's nothing you can give me -- >> here you go. >> is that really for me? >> it's a present made by the elves. >> oh, how sweet. >> oh, don't cry, grinchy. >> well, what do you say, grinch? >> oh, oh, i love it.

>> can we all wish everyone a big merry christmas? >> this is one. merry christmas. >> oh, ho, ho. that feels like christmas to me. >> well, i don't have any bear food. what am i going to feed this thing? >> hey, i've got an idea. it looks like you both have really warmed your hearts. i think the grinch has turned a new corner. what do you think, kids? isn't he so sweet, so cute and nice? but santa, i know what really would set this night off. should we light this christmas tree? >> oh, that would be good. boys and girls, are you ready to light the christmas tree? >> that's wonderful. i'm so excited. at this point, san francisco, i would like to welcome to the stage some very special people from the mayor's office who

helped make this entire event possible. so please, join me in welcoming naomi kelly, phil ginsburg, breanna torres, and mayor london breed to the stage. [applause] >> welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all. >> the hon. london breed: hello, everyone. welcome to the front yard of city hall, and happy holidays to each and every one of you. make sure that you come back on december 9, sunday. we're going to be having so much fun. a lot of face painting activities and fun things for the whole family. hi, everybody! are you guys ready to light this christmas tree? >> let's do it, boys and girls.

>> the hon. london breed: have you guys been naughty or nice? okay. presents for everybody. hi, mr. grinch. >> hi, mrs. mayor. >> the hon. london breed: hi, santa. >> hi, mrs. mayor. >> the hon. london breed: i've been good this year. >> don't worry. we have a very special gift for you, too. >> the hon. london breed: all right. come on over, everybody. can you help me count? okay. we're going to start with ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]

>> the hon. london breed: thank you, everyone. happy holidays. >> merry christmas, boys and girls. thank you for coming out today.

. >> president cohen: good afternoon, and welcome to a special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. today is december 18, 2018. thank you all for being with us today. for this important meeting. to the members, begin with attendance, lead the pledge of allegiance, communications and nominate and vote for their president pro-tem. so let's start with the roll call. [roll call vote taken]

we have a quorum. so, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. members of the board please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance was recited] >> thank you all. during the roll call for attendance, those marked not present were president cohen,

supervisor peskin and supervisor tang. my office has received communications asking to be excused from the meeting. a pro-tem officer is appointed by the members, a motion to excuse the members the first order of business. but first, board president malia cohen is among those members not present, pursuant to the rules, clerk calls the meeting to order, and opens the floor for members to make nominations and to vote for their pro-tem. all right. though this appointment would terminate after today's meeting. any member may make a nomination, a second a nice touch and majority vote of the members present. so, if there's one nomination, we'll take the vote. if there are multiple names in nominations, we'll take a different type of a vote. so, are there any members who would like to nominate president

pro-tem? >> yes. >> supervisor yee: i would like to nominate the only outgoing supervisor in the room, that would be supervisor jane kim. >> supervisor yeah has nominated supervisor kim seconded by safai. we'll take a vote on that as supervisor kim as the pro-tem. [roll call vote taken] there are eight ayes. congratulations, madam chair.

>> colleagues, thank you for your confidence in your vote today to allow me to preside over our special board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 18th. more than anything, i want to thank my colleagues for coming in for this special meeting to allow me to be able to vote for this charter amendment to bring this forward to our voters. may i take a motion at this time to excuse president cohen, supervisor peskin and supervisor tang? motion from ronen and second from brown, do that without objection. madam clerk, call today's one and only item. >> clerk: item 1, charter

amendment third draft to establish the free city college fund to defray certain costs of city college students and to require annual appropriations in designate the amounts to the fund, at election to be held november 5, 2019. >> i want to thank the members, primary sponsor, supervisor mandelman, supervisor yeah, ronen, brown, fewer and safai. i did promise a brief meeting, but i did want to make a couple of points before we took a vote on this charter amendment. i just want to recap the journey that we had been on since 2015 when i first introduced a revenue measure to create more equity here in san francisco. we have one of the fastest growing economies to the envy of

cities and states around the nation, yet we also have the fastest growing income gap between the rich and the poor in the nation as well. the great equalizer or one of the great equalizers in our country has always been education, and in the mid 20th century when this country made a very expensive and at the time a very radical decision to fund a free and universal k-12 education system we saw a middle class grow in this country. while that was not the only factor for the growth of the middle class, it was certainly one of them. and during this time we also found a high school diploma was enough to get a middle class job. 30, 40 years later we have seen technology has raced ahead of education, and that by 2020, 70% of all u.s. jobs will require some type of post secondary degree training or certificate. i believe it's our role as elected officials and as government to constantly review and reexamine the social compact

we have with our citizens to provide them a foundation to become successful in our nation and education of course continues to be one of them. in 2015, we started to hear candidates for the democratic party and president talk about tuition-free college, and community members reached out to me in december of 2015 examine what it would mean to use revenue measures for a free city college. over the next four months we worked with our controllers office, ben and his team and in particular, thank jalieal, and my chief of staff, to look at what the investment would look like and found it does not cost that much. with an estimated revenue of between 20 to $44 million through luxury real estate transfer tax we realized we can make san francisco the first city in the nation to make community college free for all of our residents regardless of age, income or any type of

g.p.a. prerequisite and thank my colleagues on the board at that time for supporters a charter amendment with ten votes, i'm sorry, supporting a revenue measure with ten votes that became proposition w, luxury real estate transfer tax, asking those who are doing tremendously well in the real estate economy to invest back in the city to create more equity. the average job available for city college graduate, $11,000 more than the same individual with a high school diploma. l 62% passage in november, able to raise $27 million in just the first year of implementation and able to make city college free that fall of 2017. however, as you know, through that process, we were able to allocate only 6.4 million of the 27 million to this free city program. we wanted the pilot to begin and get our foot in the door and the program has been much more

wildly successful and popular than i think any of us even the strongest advocates have anticipated. we saw a growth that looked to be about 20 to 25% of increase enrollment of san francisco residents and we saw city college adding classes and hiring faculty again. one of my favorite quotes was one of the, one of the faculty members saying that she enjoyed being screamed at by a student for not being able to get to the class because it was full, instead of telling a student that they could not get into the class because it was canceled due to underenrollment. since that time we have gotten so many letters from city college students. including this letter that we received, on behalf of the students of city college, i want to express my gratitude toward the victory of free city college. as a student and as a graduate who continues attending ccsf, the removal of financial barriers has opened greater skills necessary to prepare for the 21st century work force.

i'm a mother of three young children and been working towards a career change in life. obtaining this education is essential and purposing career path that is fulfilling. free city contributes to their talents, and pursue new career paths without going into financial debt. reduced education iniquity and made education accessible for all of our city residents and thank the board for championing free city. it's so important in a city that talks about innovation and disruption, we need to make sure the opportunity is provided for all of our residents. so, colleagues, i just want to thank again our co-sponsors, i want to thank our rules committee for expeditiously allowing this to come before the board. i know this is one of the quickest charter amendments that have come before the board of supervisors but i really do look forward to working with all of you to champion this in the november 2019 election. i want to recognize the college

board of trustees for adopting this charter amendment and recognizing the president, the vice president, and others, and also my former chief of staff, ivy li, the architect behind proposition w. thank the city attorneys for working tirelessly to make sure we could get this done since july, janet and john, and recognize the controller's office, ben rosenfield and his team, michelle and jayliel, will work on this in a different hat without your office and all the data and numbers we would not have been able to move forward with proposition w or the charter amendment before us. and last but not least, i want to thank the free city coalition. i have really enjoyed standing in front of this campaign but this idea came directly from the community and not from any

elected official. it was again members of labor and afc2121 that brought the idea of investing in free city and said this was possible and tremendous amount of research across the country to see what what it would take to make this a successful program in san francisco, examining the tennessee promise, chicago promise, oregon promise, the strengths and pit falls of the program to make sure we would implement a program in san francisco that drew on the strength and also addressed and mitigated some of the challenges they saw, one most importantly, low income students in households did not enroll in free college, we found that books and transportation and child care costs exceeded the cost of tuition and that was also a barrier attending the college, so unique not only tuition free but for the lowest income students enrolling in city college part and full-time,

providing additional stipend to pay for books and other things to be successful in the school. i want to thank afc2121, our president jenny warly, our former president, aleesa, james tracy who worked on it at the partnership, and labor council, connie ford, rita gonzales, and kim paulson. community housing partnership, anokvil rama, and the student solidarity committee co-chairs. among others. any comments or questions you would like to make before our vote on the question? this is really going to be a short meeting. so -- at this time, madam clerk,

please call the roll. >> on the question shall this charter amendment be submitted to the department of elections. [roll call vote taken] >> clerk: there are seven aye and one no, with supervisor stefani in the dissent. >> colleague, ordered and submitted to the november 5, 2019, election. and failed to thank kitty fong for working so hard the last couple of months. madam clerk, general public comment. yes, still doing that for the special board meeting. >> at this time the public may address the board up to two minutes on subject matter items within the board's jurisdiction,

but not on a free city college. first speaker, please. >> city college for free, first of all, i want to point out to you that there's nothing for free. during the budget cuts, two executive females for city college came up here and said it's a good program but we here before the budget today because we are $5 million in debt. so that's proof nothing for free. you just testified you got multi-million dollars of dollars from proposition w, if so, why is city college $5 million in debt per year. you want to continue this program for 20 years, 20 years times 5 million, $100 million that the city is in debt. another example of the situation enjoyed by preferential treatment said the people but not enjoyed by the most vulnerable people. you have lower level institutions of schools in order

to get to the best schools, junior high and elementary schools, and other school institutions, you have to go to school based on the lottery system. whereas city college is for free and no lottery system involved. in fact, i have to speak up for the teachers as well, because the teachers are not getting paid on time, and just this past holiday season, s.f. -- over 200 instructors that did not get paid. and as a result, they received foreclosure notices from the banks, eviction b notice from the apartment owners, and by the same response, some homeless teachers out in the streets, too. and i want to point out another example of differential treatment, because scott wiener and the previous mayor put together a $44 million homeless bond for teachers only to build 100 units and 120 units for homeless teachers only. you have a situation enjoyed by homeless teachers but not enjoyed by nonhomeless teachers.

moreover, another situation where this homeless bond after seven years of living in the building the teachers have to be evicted and start the homeless teacher situation all over again. >> thank you for your comments. just a reminder, general public comment. not comment on free city college for future speakers. >> thank you, thank you. mr. wright is throwing fastballs and they are covering the plate. this issue, this is coming back to bringing our government back home. this is just one government, and this government needs to say well, we have other governments, the federal and the state, and there are budgets there, dropping. littering yemen with bombs, couldn't we get a few more, instead of bombs, schools. i mean, this is across the country. people are not going to have a

lot of money for the programs for the people but yet we need to bring the governments back home and this is a perfect example of it. good luck finding funding for bringing the governments back home. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gilberte. any of the other members in general public comment? >> i would generally like to say thank you very much from a city college person, it was free -- i'm not commenting about the i think this, just saying thank you. it was free for me and i've taught there 39 years and if it had not been free, that would have never happened. i know we are not allowed to clap or sing, so, hey! thank you. >> i think we are allowed to sing. >> thank you. ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ to keep city free, from the bottom of my heart i say thanks to thee ♪ ♪ we have free city college for you and for me ♪

>> thank you. >> thank you, police berg. -- miss berg. >> all right, madam president. >> oh, yeah. i just want to say, i wasn't here last week for all the great accolades that, thank you jane kim for a wonderful eight years. i'm proud to be a district 6 resident and close out as board president, one of the great moments. thanks for pushing universal child care, ban the box, and raising the minimum wage wage, and the other thing we are not supposed to talk about in general public comment. thank you. >> thank you so much, to members of the public. sorry -- flip the page. madam clerk, any further business before us? >> after you close public

comment, madam president, i believe that brings us to the end of our agenda and a year that we will remember. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. thank you so much to mike colleagues for coming in today for a special board meeting. we look forward to seeing everyone in the new year. thank you also to our staff and clerks for organizing this special board meeting for december 18th and for the members of the public for coming. today's special meeting is adjourned.

>> hello, everyone. my name is london .-period-paragraph i am the mayor of the city and county of san francisco -- my name is london breed. i'm the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. i am so excited about today. we made the unofficial ban official. the freedom band, the official band of the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> how exciting is that while i have to tell you, it means a lot to. this band has an amazing history in our city. for two years ago, and you just celebrated your 40 year anniversary, and i was happy to be there in the green room celebrating with you, just how you came together during a

challenging time in our safety. marching in the pride parade in 1978 with the former mayor, harvey milk, who we just celebrated not to be too long ago. the things that you all do to bring things -- bring people together with the sound of music , and your willingness to accept anyone who is willing to play, but, yes, they must practice so they can play the beautiful music that you continue to play for us, and i'm so excited to be here. in fact, one of my first visits to city hall was when i went to benjamin franklin at middle school. i was in the eighth grade advanced band, and i played french horn. i see a french horn right there. and we were dianne feinstein's band. the benjamin franklin middle school band. we played right here in this rotunda at city hall. we played at davie symphony hall

, we played when the san francisco 49ers won the super bowl. we played for their event at the fairmont hotel. let me tell you, i was a piece of work until that first day when i joined band and mr martin made me write lines. my behavior changed after that because i wanted to be a part of something amazing. something that made incredible music and the lesbian gay freedom band make incredible music for all of us to enjoy so we are so happy and proud, and i'm so excited to be here to sign the legislation against an eight hour official unofficial official pick and with that, i would like to introduce the person who authored the legislation, and the legislation that we are going to sign today, that is supervisor rafael mandelman. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. thank you for your work and

thank you for getting us the rotunda today. is that this at this fabulous? normally they put us up -- is into this fabulous squad normally they put us up in the mayor's balcony. i'm super excited that this is my first signing ceremony. i want to acknowledge what an amazing institution our lesbian gay freedom band has been all of these 40 years. we have been celebrating a lot of anniversaries this year and marking that -- bad occasions as well. by the arts in particular have played such an important role for the lgbtq community and the broader san francisco community and getting us through the tragedies of the last 40 years and getting us to the triumph and to better -- to a better place. i am excited we can honor the work that was done by former supervisor and assembly man in having the band twice proclaim

to the official band of san francisco. but this is the first time it is really official and for real, and so that is very exciting for us. i want to also acknowledge tom soprano who has done such amazing work in my office on this. thank you, tom. aaron is over there as well. and also, i want to acknowledge doug whitman. the chair of the board. president of the board, who has been tireless around this, and in all of your work for the community and for the band. thank you doug. [cheers and applause] >> i'm excited also to hear a little bit of music. so i will get out of the way. >> thank you. i know we are not used to politicians speaking that shortly but thank you for your work, supervisor rafael mandelman. and now our great state senator, scott weiner, who has been an

amazing support of this band, and has honored this band over the years, and basically, it he is the person who had been calling it the official badge of san francisco for so long, senator scott weiner. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. i always assumed that you guys were the official band, and i'm really thrilled that supervisor mandelman and the mayor are making it truly official and on paper and permanent. congratulations. i also want to congratulate supervisor mandelman on having -- not just his first public signing, but his first legislation signed into law. congratulations. [applause] >> i too have a traumatic band story. i was in fourth grade when we started to get instruments and start being in band. i wanted to be a clarinet player

but they ran out of clarinets. i had to be a trumpet player and that ended when i got braces. i tried really hard to. but seriously, i wanted to say thank you to the band. as someone who has been in this community for 21 years now, the number of events and celebrations and remembrances that i have been at war where this band has been here adding beautiful music -- that i have been at war where this band has been adding beautiful music. it takes any celebration to the next level. it is ingrained into our d.n.a. that we love music, we love art, thank you for everything that you do, and you will be official congrats. [applause] spewing thank you senator weiner and the man that holds it all together and makes all the magic

happen and continues to lead this incredible organization, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the san francisco lesbian gay freedom band, doug littman. [cheers and applause] >> good morning. this is absolutely the most exciting day in the band's history. what is happening here today is the culmination of 18 months of hard work that involved three mayors and more than a few supervisors, but it is actually the culmination of 40 years of history that began in june 1978 by our founder, john sims, but the one person i believe most responsible for writing this ordinance and seeing it through all the steps needed to be -- to bring us here today with the board of supervisors, is supervisor mandelman thinks that his efforts, you will forever be

linked to the history of this and just as we have an official bird, flour, module, song, and colours, we will forever have an official band. i am a company today by some of my fellow musicians who are able to make us on a midday. thank you all for coming here, including an one member at linda warner who is literally at the sand. can you wave? [applause] >> all of us wanted to witness history first hand as well as provide a bit of music appropriate for the occasion. shortly we will be playing two short pieces both of which, like this band artificial pieces of music. we will play "i left my heart in san francisco "which is the city 's official ballot and then we will play "san francisco" and it is the city's official song.

we were honored that mayor breed to shut up and presented a wonderful certificate of honor from the board and said a few words. among those was when she told us how she had played the french horn as a young woman. this is an instrument or very near and dear to us. our founder played the french horn, as did two of our artistic director -- directors, in addition, our current artistic directors both play the french horn. with this in mind, the photos we are about to take we would like to ask mayor breed if she would like to hold the original french horn that belonged to john sims, our founder. it is right there. >> should i hold it now? >> sure. >> this is a living bit of

musical history that is still being played today by members of the band, and we would be honored if she would hold it. we will not ask her to play it unless she wants to. and we won't formally ask -- there you go. [laughter] >> i need to practice. >> i understand. that is why we won't ask you to play it unless you want to, and we won't formerly -- formally ask her to join our bands but we do rehearse every tuesday night in the twin peaks neighborhood. just saying. since i just heard scott's sad story of his traumatic band experience of not playing the clarinet, i will allow him to hold my clarinet during the photo opportunity, and we can arrange lessons if you'd like. [laughter] >> for supervisor mandelman, i wanted to give him one of these official caps with our name on the front and on the back. it officially says the official

band of san francisco, and i want to offer these caps to everyone up here who would like one. this is the only one we have right now because they are on backorder but we thought you should have one. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much for coming. this is a bit of history. i hope you remember it as much as we do. thank you. [applause] >> okay. now we are in for a treat. i want to make it clear to the new official band, the official unofficial is official now, the band of san francisco that i will be asking you to work harder than you have ever worked before because here in san francisco there are numerous celebrations and events and we will always need the official band of san francisco to be there how exciting is this?

>> before they play at the official band of san francisco, let's make it official by signing the legislation. [cheers and applause]

[applause] >> okay, ladies and gentlemen, the official band of san francisco, the san francisco lesbian gay freedom band! [cheers and applause] [♪]

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[♪] [applause] >> let's give them a big hand, the san francisco lesbian gay band. [♪] -

>> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the

kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so

strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in

it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

. >> happy holidays, san francisco. hundreds of festive lights are illuminating san francisco streets using 100% greenhouse gas free hydroelectric power. this year, the city is celebrating 100 years of providing this power from hetch hetchy system which powers muni, our schools and libraries, street lights, san francisco international airport, city government buildings, private developments, and more. look for holiday bell lights along third street, and illuminated snowflakes on market street. the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works welcome all to enjoy the magic of the

>> all right, everybody. we're going to call the meeting to order tonight. welcome to the tuesday, december 18, 2018 commission meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. my name is ben bleiman, and i'm the commission president. if you are a member of the public, you can fill out speaker cards or you can just come up when i ask for comment. we do ask that everybody turns off their cell phones or put them on silent, including staff. thank you to sfgovtv for sharing this meeting and we'll start with the roll call.