>> president yee: okay. let's get started. good afternoon and welcome to the january 15, 2019 meeting

of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam secretary, would you please call roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [ro [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president yee: thank you, very much. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]

>> president yee: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: i have none to report, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, today, we are approving the minutes from the november 13, 2018 and the november 27, 2018 board meetings. are there any changes to these minutes -- meeting minutes? seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? i see motion from supervisor safai and seconded by supervisor stefani. can we take this without any

objections? so the minutes approved after -- is there any public comments on this item? >> clerk: mr. president, the minutes will be approved after general public comment. >> president yee: okay. thank you. madam clerk, would you please call the 2:00 special order. >> clerk: for item one, we welcome the honorable mayor london n. breed to hold a special discussion representing districts one through four, however, only the supervisor representing district four submitted a topic. the topic was not submitted timely which requires a submission by 12 noon the wednesday prior to the mayor's appearance. given that the district four supervisor would not be eligible to ask another question until april, i encouraged and accepted the

topic for today's agenda, utilizing a lesser board rule which allows the clerk to change the days of the week for the efficient flow of the processes during holiday periods. admitting this topic was my error, however, to remedy this, i understand mayor breed has reached out to supervisor mar's office and has agreed to answer the question despite the fact that the mayor is not obligated to respond an improper submittal. and finally, if mayor breed does choose to answer this question today, her doing so does not create a precedence for late topics, we will continue to refuse them as we always have. the mayor, if she is ready, may begin the session by addressing the board initially for up to five minutes.

>> president yee: okay. before we do that, i want to personally welcome madam mayor. mayor breed, do you have any opening remarks? >> the hon. london breed: thank you, president yee, and again, a congratulations to your presidency and a congratulations to the new members of the board of supervisors. i want to take this opportunity to reiterate my commitment to working with all of you to address our city's most challenging problems, which include housing and homelessness. by now, you are aware of my commitment to build 1,000 shelter beds and prioritize housing and homeless services, and that is what i would like to do, supported through the windfall money so that we can help get people the care in the shelter that we need. today, i'm introducing two ordinances with supervisors brown, walton, haney, and mandelman to streamline our ability as a city to respond to our homelessness crisis to

making it easier to locate service providers and construct shelter. approximately 58% of our homeless population is unsheltered, and we have over 1,000 people on the wait list for adult emergency shelters. these shelter crisis ordinances speed up contracting for construction of homelessness shelters, contracting for homeless services, and relax the requirements that shelters secure a conditional use authorization from the planning commission in specific zoning districts. as a board member, we passed the shelter crisis ordinance in 2018, but it was specific and expires in march. our shelter crisis, as we know, is far from being over. the new shelter crisis ordinance would remain in effect for five years or until we see a 30% reduction in homelessness as measured by the point-in-time count. i also want to take this time to thank assembly member phil ting. one of the two ordinances that

i'm introducing today opts us into this a.b. 932, which allows san francisco to utilize an expedited approval process for homeless shelters during a period where we're declaring a local -- where we declared a local shelter crisis. this bill allows us to substitute an approval memo by relevant departments for an official building permit. it saves us permit dollars, which can be used for providing services. taken together, these ordinances, with the eraf proposal can help us how's 300 of our unhoused neighbors through shelters and housing beds. that is in ad to the 900 new units of affordable housing, the rehab of over 1,000 units of affordable housing and 86 mental health stablization beds. i think we all can agree that homelessness and the lack of affordable housing in san francisco demands an emergency response, and i look forward to

working with all of you to continue to build on what we know we need to do to address this issue. i also want to assure residents that pg&e's bankruptcy declaration will not impact their power service. people will still have complete access to power in their homes, their businesses, and throughout our city. i've directed the san francisco public utilities commission to study any short-term and long-term impacts that this will have on our city as pg&e goes through their bankruptcy proceedings, and what options we might have in moving forward to ensure that the people of san francisco will continue to have power. the sfpuc will report back within three months with a preliminary report. i'm working closely with the city attorney's office, as well, on addressing these issues which will include findings of the state of our current electrical network, a feasibility study on different

options, and possible outcomes in any state level legislation and any regulatory work we need to do. options could include purchasing pg&e equipment. the voters approved prop a in november which allows us to deliver clean power. cleanpowersf will continue to operate as normal, and we are working every single day to enroll new customers. we want to deliver clean, safe, reliable energy in san francisco, and with that, supervisors, i thank you for the opportunity to provide those remarks and look forward to answering your questions. >> president yee: thank you, mayor breed. madam clerk, could you please call the first topic. >> clerk: yes. the topic submitted by district

representative supervisor mar is the fiscal budget for 2019-2020. >> great. well, first of all, thank you, mayor breed for your commitment to homelessness, and your willingness to answer the question. our job is to work together to pass a budget that reflects these values in the best interests of the residents and communities we serve. as a board, this is the single most important item we vote on. the people who elected me as supervisor have entrusted me to represent their needs, and my highest priority in office is to promote transparency, engage communities in the decisions that impact them, and expand opportunities for public input across all areas of our work, including passing the city's multibillion-dollar budget.

i've seen this firsthand as a community advocate, working with dozens of community and labor organizations to ensure that resources are prioritized for the city's most vulnerable populations through the city budget process. with a limited window of time and limited resources, community members struggle for a seat at the table and an opportunity to express their priorities which often only occur during the add-back process, if at all, when most of the budget had already been set. in 2017, the coalition that i worked with put forward recommendations to reform the city's budget process to expand public input and promote equity, and over the past year, some improvements were made through the leadership of former budget and finance committee chair cohen and the policy hearings held by the committee last spring. still, there is more we can do at every single stop -- every single step to include,

empower, and engage the public, and in doing so, to ensure our priorities represent the needs of our communities. between now and the release of the mayor's budget for fiscal year 19-2020, what specific concrete opportunities will members of the public have to provide meaningful input on the priorities, and how will these be expanded from prior years. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. >> president yee: mayor breed, you may respond to the opening question. >> the hon. london breed: thank you for your question. through the president, i look forward to sharing exactly what i'd like to do as it relates to the budget process, which we all know as you mentioned, can sometimes play itself out through the add-back project, through my experience, it's usually the people that have the loudest voices and understand how to advocate that

end up getting the support and services, and far too many of our residents continue to get left behind. my directive to departments in this upcoming budgets is to focus on accountability and equitiable outiums, despite who is available to advocate for resources. i'm committed to ensuring we're getting the most out of every dollar, and we want to provide meaningful opportunities for our residents to participate in this process, as well. since this will be my first opportunity to lead the budget process as mayor, i'm really looking forward to working with all of you through those various options. input from all community members is vital to informing and shaping the budget process, and we must have a broad variety of opportunities for residents to engage with this process to ensure that it does reflect diverse communities. to that effect, departments and commissions will be sharing and soliciting feedback and proposals from proposed budgets over the next month, until they

are due in my office on february 21. my office will then engage and in -- engage in targeted meetings through the the spring in san francisco. this outreach will be a robust output community-based process, similar to what i did when soliciting feedback on suggestions around eraf funding. it involved going directly to members of these community, people who live in places throughout san francisco to understand what their priorities are and make the right investments. additionally, my staff will meet with community-based organizations and coalitions to gather meaningful feedback on budget priorities. as you know, the board will also have an immense opportunity for public input in the budget process. i look forward to collaborating with you on this particular effort. >> president yee: okay. supervisor mar, you may know ask a follow-up question

directly related to the opening question if you have one. >> supervisor mar: thank you so much for the response, mayor breed. i really like the comments that you're committed toic at thatting steps in the budget outreach and the priorities, and that seems like that's going to be a significant step forward in improvement in expanding public input opportunities from the prior years, so i look forward to working with you and all of my colleagues here on the board in ensuring that the budget that we adopt this year is the best possible budget for all communities in san francisco. thank you. >> president yee: okay. with no follow-up question, mayor breed may now ask a question of -- to supervisor mar or to any other supervisor in attendance pertaining to the same topic but not necessarily related to the previous questions. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, president yee. i think i understood that, but

i just wanted to reiterate that i am basically going to be looking to members of the board of supervisors to assist in the process to get feedback from members of their opportunity and again, not just typical business as usual. there are so many residents in san francisco who work really hard and may not have the time to come to city hall to advocate for the resources of their community, people who are depending on us to make good decisions on how we invest the billions of dollars that we have in our budget, and i want to make sure that their voices are at the table, too, so i'm looking forward to suggestions that you have, people that you may want our office to reach out to in advance of this process, meetings that you may want to hold in your various communities to hear directly from all of the people that we represent throughout our city, and thank you so much, again, for having me here today,

president yee, and members of the board of supervisors. >> president yee: okay, then, with no follow-up question, this concludes the formal policy discussions. thank you, mayor breed for joining us today. this matter has been discussed and is now filed. madam clerk, i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor walton until his arrival. is there a second? second by supervisor peskin, and without any objection, then, this motion passes. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, before we proceed with our regular business, i would like to take this opportunity to share the 2019 board committee

assignments. first, i want to say thank you for entrusting me with this duty as the president. i took this appointment very seriously and made it a point to meet with each of you individually, so here are the committee assignments so that the public will know what they are. for -- for the public safety and neighborhood services committee, supervisor rafael mandelman will be the chair, supervisor kathrin stefani will be vice chair. supervisor walton will be a member. for the budget committee, the three-member committee will be supervisor fewer as chair, supervisor stefani as vice chair, supervisor mandelman as member. and to join ron at the committee -- the five-member

committee will be supervisor ronen and myself. for the government audit and oversight committee, i have supervisor mar as chair, supervisor brown as vice chair, supervisor peskin as member. and for the rules committee, i have supervisor ronen as chair, supervisor walton as vice chair, supervisor mar as member. and to run off the last committee, the land use and transportation committee, i have supervisor peskin as chair, supervisor safai as vice chair, and supervisor haney as member. so those are the committee assignments, and in the future, i am looking forward to possibly bringing back the joint committee with the school district and possibly asking community college trustees to join in that committee.

so stay tuned for that one. hopefully that will happen soon. okay. madam clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 2 through 10 are on consent. these rites are considered to be routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president yee: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the consent agenda? supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: yes. item nine, please. >> president yee: okay. madam clerk, please call the roll on items two through eight and item ten. [roll call]

>> clerk: there are ten ayes. >> president yee: okay. these items are finally passed unanimously. supervis [ gavel ]. >> president yee: supervisor stefani, the floor is yours for item nines. >> supervisor stefani: colleagues, on behalf of the county attorney's office, you have amendments in front of you. they are technical. they would just adjust the reporting schedule for departments and remove the duplicate report. deputy city attorney jon givner can answer any questions you may have, but i ask to move the amendments. >> president yee: okay. before we take any action, i wanted to make sure madam clerk will read the item for item

nine. >> clerk: item nine is an administrative ordinance to require city employees to complete harassment training annually, department of human resources to post the training and complaint information on their website and for there to be reports from d.h.r. and the city attorney and to recommend that the civil service commission adopting a rule requiring d.h.r. to accept complaints of harassment, discrimination or retaliation for up to one year after the date of the alleged incident. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, we have a motion on the floor. do we have a second? seconded by supervisor ronen. can we take this item amended, same house, same call. >> clerk: mr. president, we'll take the amendment first. >> president yee: can we take this item as amended, or do i need to say -- >> clerk: you'll just -- without objection on the

amendment, and then, we'll take the item as amended. >> president yee: okay. without any any objection to the amendment, seeing none, then, we will take this item as amended, same house, same call. without objection, this item passes on first reading unanimously as amended. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, let's go to unfinished business calendar. >> clerk: item 11 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by the city against the philadelphia indemnity insurance company for 760,000. this lawsuit involves a dispute over whether the city is covered under the terms of a commercial liability insurance policy. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this ordinance is finally passed. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 12 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to prohibit landlords of single-family homes and condominiums covered by existing eviction controls from circumventing eviction

controls through rent increases and to clarify that a rent increase intended to defraud, intimidate or coerce the tenant into vacating the unit may qualify as tenant harassment. >> president yee: okay, colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 13 is an administrative ordinance to require that local candidates file their candidacy the same date that they file their intention to solicit campaign contributions. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this same -- oh, i see. roll call, please. [roll call]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: so this ordinance is finally passed. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call items 14 and 15 together. >> clerk: item 14 is an ordinance to retroactively waive the banner fee under public works code of the public worked kosewicz for up to 200 banners that were placed on city utility poles by the alzheimer's association on november 8, 2018 to publicize the walk to end alzheimer's campaign, and item 15 is an ordinance to authorize the installation of up to 34 banners on city-owned utility poles by a.p.a. family support

services at various locations on joule 17 through 19, 2019 and to waive the fees associated with these banners. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take these items same house, same call? without objection, these ordinances are passed on first reading. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the next item. [agenda item read] >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take this item, same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, would you please call items 17 through 22. >> clerk: items 17 through 22 are being called together. here are six resolutions to approve leases with the san francisco airport and various

entities. item 17 approves the terminal 1 food and beverage concession lease between the city and bun mee, l.l.c., with a minimum annual guarantee or a mag of 365,000 for the first year of the lease. item 18 approves a concession lease between s.f.p. america and the city for a $365,000 mag for the first year of the lease. item 19 approves a food and bev ranch concession lease number three between amy's kitchen restaurant operation company, l.l.c. and the city for a $475,000 mag for the first year of the lease. item 20 approves the terminal 1 food beverage concession lease number four between paradies lagardere, with a $600,000 mag for the first year of the lease. item 21 approves a concession lease number five between tastes on the fly, l.l.c. and

the city and approximate $310,000 mag for the first year of the lease, and item 22 approves a lease number six between soaring food group and the city for a $485,000 mag for the first year of the lease. each of these six contracts are for a ten-year term with one two-year options to extend. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, with can he take these items same house, same call? without objection, these resolutions are adopted. [ gavel ]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 23 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the department of the environment to accept and expend a $4.5 million grant from the california air resources board and zero, near zero emissions facilities program to coordinate demonstration of medium and electric and heavy duty truck to coordinate trade in

california's central valley. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this, same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted. [ gavel ] [please stand by]

>> item 28 authorizes a technology purchase agreement with central computers inc. item 29 authorizes a contract for technology purchases with cct technologies inc. doing business as computer land of silicon valley. item 30 authorizes a contract agreement with converge one inc.

item 31, he told -- to a technology purchase agreement with cornerstone technology partners. item 32, authorizes the contract agreement for technology purchases with dpp technology inc. item 33 authorizes a contract agreement with dynamic systems. item 34 authorized as a contract agreement with technology purchases with endpoint technology sales l.l.c. item 35 authorizes a contract agreement for technology purchases with intervention systems l.l.c. item 36 authorizes a contract agreement with presidio network. item 37 authorizes a contract agreement with robert half international inc. item 38 authorizes a contract agreement for technology purchases with slalom l.l.c. item 39 authorizes a technology contract with a soft net solutions inc.

item 40 authorizes a contract agreement with steller services inc. item 31 authorizes a contract agreement for technology purchases with nguyen soft inc. doing businesses variety. item 42 authorizes a contract agreement with worldwide technology. item 43 authorizes a contract agreement with x. tech joint venture. item 44 authorized as a contract agreement for technology purchases with zones inc. all 19 contracts are far an initial three year term for december 31st, 2021, two what when your options to extend. >> okay. i see that i have someone on the roster. supervisor peskin, would you like to comment on one of these items are several of the items cost. >> thank you president yee. these 19 technology marketplace contracts that are before us seemed to have been properly put before us pursuant to an r.f.p.

they seem to be reasonable as needed contracts, but i was interested in understanding, pursuant to what criteria and specifically what performance criteria they can be extended for the two additional one-year terms, they are not subject to approval for the extensions by this board of supervisors because they do not meet the ten year threshold that gives us review authority under section 9.118, subsection b. of the charter. i wanted to ask the budget and legislative analyst if you are aware of what criteria, and if not, maybe we can ask the department what criteria would be used to extend those contracts for the additional two one-year terms. >> through this charity supervisor peskin, i'm not able to speak at this moment to what criteria the department may use. the office of -- contacted

administration for extending these terms. they are not subject to board of supervisor approval. they will be approving the extensions today proactively. i do want to say that these are as needed contracts that city departments purchased from -- there are rules in the administrative code about the departments being required to get competitive proposals from the 19 vendors that are being proved today, if they are purchasing between 10,000 and 2.5 million in terms of i.t. purposed -- purchases. there are some roles in play. our experience with the prior marketplace contracts, which departments purchased heavily from certain vendors and almost not at all from other vendors, i don't know if that speaks to the performance of those contracts, but we do know that the departments do not equally purchase these contractors. >> thank you. is there someone here from d2 --

d.t. who maybe able to answer that? >> is somebody here? come on up. >> good afternoon supervisors. i am with the office of contract administration. as relates to the contracts, as they do expire after the third year, you are right there is not a defined process by which we will review and evaluate and at what point would we renew those contracts, but i can tell you as far as awarding the contracts and amending them later, as a separate evaluation process for these contracts, they are as needed contracts. as each and every opportunity comes about, there is a separate

and competitive process behind that. for example, over the course of the first three years, each time there is an opportunity, the firms and the pool would bid for that opportunity, or have, as a lower bid and will win. i think as i am trying to say to answer your question, it as a natural process by which the firm --dash we will amend all the contracts at the end of the third year, but at the same time , does not mean that all the firms will receive the same amounts under the contract. >> okay. do you have a follow-up question >> if i may, to the president and the office of contract administration, what you're telling me is we are approving 19 vendors to be eligible to complete over specific pieces of work.

>> write. >> thank you for that clarification. >> because as of right now, there is not a defined scope of work. we will not know that until the department his approach as an say i want to do x. y. and z-letter, that we will then take that scope of work and put it out to bid within the firms. for example, if they want oracle , we have a category of firms that have prequalified with this pool to provide oracle if you want this other product, we will go to that category. and for each and every opportunity, we will bid those out. >> thank you for that clarification. >> okay. any other questions? colleagues, can we take these items same house same call? without objections, these resolutions are adopted. it is past 2:30 pm and i would like to move to our special order for 2:30 pm. recognition of accommodations.

>> there are two members who have commendations. supervisor mandelman and supervisor peskin. >> okay. supervisor mandelman, would you like to go ahead and make your presentation? >> i went. thank you. today we will honour harry britt , everyone. [applause] i am going to say some nice things about you now, harry. at this past november, we march the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the supervisor harvey milk, and mary george ms. miss tony. today we honour a living legend. someone who helped guide our city through that difficult time and for more than a decade led the fight for lgbtq equality and social and economic justice on

this board. that person his former supervisor harry britt, appointed to the board of supervisors by senator dianne feinstein for two years ago this month. she did not know quite what she was bargaining for in the deal. harry grew up in port arthur texas and attended duke university in the late 1950s before continuing to the park and school of theology in dallas and pursuing doctoral studies in philosophy and religion at the university of chicago. while at chicago, he completed his ordination of the methodist minister and served as a pastor for two at chicago congregations in chicago, he was introduced toward politics and the civil rights efforts of martin luther king jr., cementing his commitment from social justice and grassroots politics. harry is a committed atheist, but anyone who has heard him speak, yep, anyone who has heard him speak can recognize the pastor he was trained to be.

in 1972, he made his way to san francisco, and do so many did during that time, ones here, he began to fully understand and embrace a gay culture and his own sexuality. on one of his first nights out in the city, he visited the black cat bar where he was moved by the performance of a legendary drag queen. they were the first openly gay person to run for office in the united states when he ran for the board of supervisors in 1961 , saving the way for harry, harvey and the generations of queer candidates and elected officials who followed. by 1975, harry was a castro regular, and discovered a small camera shot that frequently hosted debates between gay activists, would be politicos, neighbourhood pundits, in the shop's owner, harvey milk. harry became one of harvey's closest friends and most impressive political protéges. he served as a gay community liaison to the prop 13 campaign and helped organize the san

francisco gay democratic club. today known as the harvey milk lgbtq democratic club. after harry was appointed in 1979 to fill out the remainder of milk's term, he went on to win his own elections in 1979, 1980, 1984, and in 1988, and served as a president of the board of supervisors from 1989 to 1990. i recall being an intern at that time when he occupied now president e.e.'s office in the corner. as a young and not in touch with my own sexuality at all, fairly homophobic high school students, i was very concerned walking by harry's office in the hallways about what might happen to me, and what was going on in that office. during his time on the board, he was a champion and pioneer for lgbtq equality. in 1982, introduced the first of

its kind domestic partnership legislation which was passed by the board of supervisors by vetoed by mayor feinstein. but harry and his allies never gave up, and in 1989, the depressed -- domestic partnership legislation was signed into law. a citizen's initiative repealed his law, but here at -- but he and the queer community he led came back undaunted and successfully reinstated domestic partnerships in san francisco by passing another valid initiative , proposition -- proposition k. in 1990. he never stopped bending the arc of history towards justice. he was the only openly gay elected official in city hall at the onset of the h.i.v. aids epidemic, leading and advocating for the gay community during those darkest of days. at that time, san francisco was ground zero for the international public health crisis and harry courageously fought for resources and political support, even as friends died around him.

harry, as harvey did before him, believed in coalition politics and worked with labour and communities of colour to fight for the righteous causes of the time. in addition to his work on lgbtq issues, he also championed the rent control, vacancy control, police reform, and a host of other issues. it is impossible to adequately expect -- to express what his leadership is meant to our city and the tremendous impact he has had on the queer community in progressive politics over the last four decades. he was a moral compass of this board of supervisors during his time on the body and was the backbone of our local progressive movement during some of its most trying movements. it is a tremendous honour and privilege to me to welcome him back to the board chamber today for two years after he first joined the body. it is also an honour to be joined by so many of his friends and former staffers who are here as well. so many folks who did work with harry went on to do

extraordinary things in the city , in the state, country and in the world. i think -- sharon johnson is here, i also see tim wolf who went on to be the first queer trustee on the san francisco board -- of city college of san francisco. it's amazing to have these good folks here. i also want to thank joe in my office he has been working relentlessly to organize for this day. thank you for making it happen caps on to brad to a stake in such good care of harry and is such a good friend. thank you so much for all you are doing. on behalf of the board of supervisors, it is my privilege to thank you for all that you have accomplished over your lifetime of service, harry britt everyone. [applause]

>> before supervisor brett will be up here to say a few words, i would like to say that i welcome supervisor john alamo his -- alamos who is in the chambers. i also want to say welcome back. it is not that often that we have a legend that steps into this chamber. i am honoured to have you here today, especially since this is my first day being the board president, and to try and follow your leadership after 30 years to when you were sitting in this

identical seat. before you speak, i would like to invite -- there are other supervisors who would also like to speak. by the way, supervisor mandelman , i would like to put my name in that resolution. supervisor peskin? >> thank you president yi -- yee nineteen years ago when they suggested i run for supervisor at the dawn or rebirth of district elections, and he talked me into it, his first suggestion was i called harry britt for advice. i called harry and harry said, first of all, i do not leave district five. you have to come over there. i went over there and was absolutely enthralled. he was talking as a preacher, as a professor, and i sat there for

an hour and left and realized that when i left, i had forgot to ask for his endorsement. [laughter] >> harry has continued to have that spell over me from making us a vote against the m.t.a.'s well 18 years ago, to starting investing in hybrid and zero emission buses. you name it, he has been there and continues to be a guiding light to me and has taught me some of the most important things. it was harry who told me years ago, two things, they number 1, when i told him that campaigning was just such a hellish thing, he said to me, which was not really encouraging, if you get elected, it is actually worse. [laughter] >> and the second thing he told me was it's not your enemies you have to worry about in this business, it is your friends. thank you harry, for all of that wisdom, and thank you for all of your service.

i love you. >> thank you. supervisor ronan? >> i also just wanted to pay tribute to supervisor brett, and tell you that this button is like one of the best gifts i've gotten in note long time. having a little piece of history that i get to carry with me. i just want to thank you, not only for the years of service that you provided to the city, but the inspiration that you continue to provide to supervisors today like me who are here to fight for communities that have been marginalized and oppressed in our society, and to do so with passion and with honesty, and with bigger. that brand of politics has been absent from it -- for a long time in san francisco, and in your tradition, and the tradition of harvey milk, it is time to get it back. it is time for some brutal honesty in these halls like you

used to bring all the time when you served here, and i just want to thank you for continuing to provide so much inspiration decades later to currently sue very -- serving supervisors like myself. thank you so much for everything >> okay, now i would like to ask a legend of this chamber to come on up, supervisor brett. if you would like to say a few words. [applause] >> wow. i don't even know if i can do this. this is a wonderful room. this is a beautiful group of people. thank you. my thoughts at this moment are about harvey, without harvey,

there is no me. there is that spirit of reaching down and reaching up, of pulling people apart and putting it together. of crying, praying, and yelling, it is made harvey harvey. i would not be me without him, and our city would not be what it is without him, and it is that finding of greatness in places where you are not supposed to find it, that discovery that you don't have to be in heaven to have a heavenly experience, that the person next to you may have just been that same old person and has a history, and has dreams, and can offer you love when you need it, and can chew you out when you

need it, and lead you when you need it. i hate crying in front of people [laughter] >> i usually do it by myself. [laughter] >> but it has been astonishing to me growing up as a career in texas, and becoming methodist preacher, that wasn't me. that was a huge effort to get through to my death somehow, and to come to this incredible safety, and to find here a spirit of caring and helping people out, and loving people, and appreciating the beauty of each moment that i find here as i have found nowhere else. i feel incredibly, incredibly blessed to have known you, and

to have known all of those other people. take care of our people. i know you will because they make you do it, they come to you and they have a problem and you respond and you feel good, and another one comes, and another one, and another one. i do not want to make a speech here but just to say that you have given me this building, these people, mayor feinstein, you have given me a new start in life. not in the sense of going on to do something, but in a sense of feeling more deeply who i am and who you are, and what we are here together to do. it has been, as most of you know , a very boring boring time sometime, and a very angry time other times. i think dianne feinstein wonders what the heck she did when she appointed me to the board of supervisors, and diane, i am

partly now what you made me. i am a person that you have somehow managed to look past all the obvious problems and see something good in me, and give me a chance to be something. without diane i know my life would never have taken the beautiful course that i am feeling i am on right now. i never would have met you and your predecessors, and all of those people who bother us on the phone all the time because they just don't know who else to call. i am grateful to you, i am wiser , i am awfully glad i don't have to come to any more meetings, but i love you. please believe when you are at the end of your service in this city you will feel what i feel, this incredible gratitude almost to the people that you don't like.

it has been an incredible experience for me just knowing harvey milk, feeling that queer pride in that sense of responsibility and the determination that the way the world looks is not the way the world is. we can bring out reality realities that are fulfilling and splendid and marvellous that made harvey a prophet and a dreamer and a visionary and a person who gets things done. i can never fill those shoes. pick very few people could -- very few people could, but to walk in the presence of greatness, and to touch the garment of a healer changed me, and i hope you experience -- experience you are having on this board is changing you as i know it is giving you a better sense of your own possibility,

of your own importance, of your own ability to really change this city and make it different. it is a wonderful place, but if only -- it is only wonderful when it's changing. it is only wonderful when history is speaking through san francisco and say no, do it this way, and i like to think we do that a lot. the last thing i ever want to do is have -- give a long speech before the board of supervisors, i am the biggest complainer about listening about long speeches at the board of supervisors so i will shut up now. i love this institution. i love the history i have been a part of, and i wish for all of you a joyous experience at city hall, and the satisfaction of knowing you are in a position to be very, very, very important people. not in newspapers and on the television, but in the lives of human beings that depends upon you. thank you very much. [applause]

>> supervisor, i would like to, if you would like to join us inside the inner chamber for a photo, and if other supervisors would like to join, that would be very welcomed.

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>> we have one more commendation , and i would like to invite supervisor peskin.

>> three -- thank you president and colleagues. it is my distinct pleasure and honour to recognize this individual. this is renee dunn martin. please come up to the podium. [applause] >> after over two decades of service to the port of san francisco and the people of the city and county of san francisco , and one of the toughest, most underappreciated jobs, as the head spokesperson for the port of san francisco where she has truly and absolutely been able to communicate the port's mission toan