time to respond. it's a deep concern of president yee. he accompany med to the place of business. we held a joint press conference with the chief and our insistence is to try to make structural changes. we believe the changes are moving forward but intend to have a hearing on the matter and get to the bottom of what the deficiencies might be. i will allow president yee if he would like later his opportunity to speak on this as well. we do this in partnership and i thank you for your support. the rest i submit. >> clerk: supervisor stefani. >> thank you, madame clerk. colleagues, i'm calling for a hearing on the gary parker gas line explosion with my colleagues supervisor fewer to conduct a full review of the incident including actions an event leading up to the event of

the situation on site and coordination of the response and the role of each entity and requesting pg&e and verizon and others to report. we were in a budget and finance committee and were alerted to a fire on the border of our districts, and my district. we then learned a gas line exploded resulting in a three-alarm fire at gary and parker in district 2. the incident spanned three hours from the time the gas line broke and the area was declared a safe site to begin recovery efforts. videos of the incident are harrowing at the height of the flames reaching three stories

putting a lot of people in fear and danger. four structures were impacted. many residents were displaced and we're working to help them now. the beloved hong kong lounge on the corner of park and gary was very damaged. the people were heroic in getting all the patrons out. not a single person was injured. nobody died. people were saying this is such a miracle. i talked to the chief and it's a miracle nobody was hurt. i'd like to extend my condolences to the victims of the fire. while no one was hurt, many residents have experienced devastating losses because of the incident. we're in close contact with them and my priority is to ensure those affected receive resources to help them get back on their feet. i also want to commend our first responders and other city employees who prevented a strategy.

the department of emergency management, sfpd, puc, dbi, human services agency and the office of workforce development have played pivotal roles in responding to the emergency and i want to thank them for their work and how everybody responded at the scene. many are still at hard work investigating and learning lessons from the event. i plan to hold a special commendation to those and those at the hong kong lounge and those who stepped up and helped everyone in addition to the red cross. while city agencies conducted a thorough response there are still items i find alarming. the incident highlights how lucky we are it occur with the

conditions of february 6. if it were a warmer, dryer day it would have been worse. if there were stronger winds it could have been worse. so many possibilities could have put it gravely out of hand putting everyone at risk including the firefighters who comb combatted the fire for two and a half hours. it's critical we investigate what happened through when the gas was finally shut off and contained. we're calling for a hearing to conduct a full review of the incident including actions and events leading up to the execution of the construction on site, the cause of the gas line break, notification and coordination and examination of each entities in response to the incident. we request pg and e, verizon and the puc, dbi and public works to report to the hearing.

we want to understand every piece of the process for safety standards and regulations in place from how public jobs are advertised, contracted and awarded. we want to ensure contractors conducting work in our streets maintain standards and if we need further rules to ensure safety, we need to put those rules in place. furthermore, we want to understand pg&es process and role as well. what is their interaction if any with the contractors and subcontractors and what precautions. put in place and were the gas lines marked an what was the response to the fire and tickets. and we need to take learning

experiences. so many team were worried about earth quick country and what were to happen if we had more than one gas line break and more than our share of firefighters trying to fight two or three or four gas line breaks. it's terrifying and we need to understand what precautions are in place so it never happens again. i'd like to turn it over to supervisor fewer for more comments. >> thank you to the fire department. we're reminded how miraculous it

is there were no injuries given the building now red and yellow tagged. my heart goes out to the businesses that have been displaced including hong kong lounge number two. they have provided critical services to young people with nearly three inches of water in the basement and looking for new office space to continue their work. a deep thank you to the red cross and dem, dbi and for working continuously to provide support and assistance to our neighborhood and for the rapid response to the employee workforce for resource. and joining supervisor stefani for a top to bottom review including up to the permitting

of the construction activity and it's critical we have a discussion and figure how to present any similar devastating incident from happening again in the city. thank you. >> clerk: supervisor walton. >> first colleague a hearing to inquire why the san francisco sheriff's department conducts its own investigations against claims on officers in the jailed and in general which lacks an oversight body in light of recent reports of guards

mistreating inmates and i'm including the district attorney to report on data of reported claims and how these claims were addressed. as we now on friday, february 1, the san francisco district attorney dismissed the case of those who were encouraging glat glad iater fights in the jail and the san francisco office became aware of the events in 2015 when a few inmate stepped forwa forward with their stories of inmatd mate -- inmates were

pitted against each other for bets. and we need to investigate claims and wole call for a hearing to discuss what has happened in several of these cases and these incident. also we're calling a hearing to inquire the status of illegal dumping in district 10 and the department of public works efforts in curbing illegal dumping. in january 2019 alone district 10 received 3,098 requests for street and sidewalk cleaning make 41% of our 3-1-1 called and in march of 2011 we looked into a committee with the board of supervisors. dpw identified the scope of the problems and resources devoted

to the effort and strategies in other localities and plans to reduce the activity. eight years later we still have a major problem in the district and other areas of the city. we'll call for a hearing to discuss some the plans in the future to address illegal dumping as well. the rest i yield. >> clerk: president yee. >> commissioner: i wanted to add to supervisor safai's comment in the language barrier in emergency response. it's an issue that recurs every so often and i'm glad we're having a hearing on this because we have to get to the bottom of this. the committee would feel comfortable enough to report

things when they find out no one comes for four hours is unacceptable. when i was at the bakery, the customers told me a month or so before that, one of the workers got robbed but it was never reported and i asked why, they said they didn't know who to talk to. we have to do a better job in the city and it's not working for everybody. hopefully the rest of my colleagues will join me in finding different ways to improve the system. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president.

supervisor brown. >> thank you, president yee and adam clerk. with supervisor walton, peskin, safai and ronin, i'm introducing legislation requiring brick and mortar business to accept cash. a no-cash sign is a not-welcome sign for many who don't have access to banking services. the unbanked are all around us. they're young people who don't qualify for credit cards, seniors and low-income folks on fixed incomes or prefer to use cash. they are the poor immigrants african americans, latinex, asian pacific islanders and folks with concerns about privacy. the future may be cashless, but denying the ability to use cash as a payment today means

excluding too many people. basic industries providing s and services have an obligation to be inclusive and accessible to everyone. as a society, we're the beginning

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preliminary report that the department is preparing at the request of mayor breed. many colleagues on this board are strongly committed to the development of a green new deal and i believe local build on our own renewable energy resources are critical as part of that plan. the rest i submit. >> clerk: supervisor haney. >> thank you, madame clerk. i have a few issues i'll introduce today. one is good news. the announcement of a settlement since 2013 the tenants at 1049 market street have been under the threat of eviction after an attempt to convert them to commercial office space. their eviction was widely publicized and would have been the largest evict in the history of san francisco. since then the property owners have been engaged in lawsuits with the city. while many original tenants have

left and many have state and fought and there's a settlement to allow the tenants to stay. i want to thank the tenants for leading their efforts and the association and housing rights committee and the property owners for coming to the table and the mayor's office and the san francisco superior court for guiding the parties through months of settlement negotiation and the city attorney's office. it will allow the tenants to remain in the building. also introducing two resolutions today. one resolution in support of state senate bill 233 introduced by senator scott winger. this will provide protection for sex workers reporting crimes and changes to protocol preventing law enforcement from using

condoms as a probable cause for arrest. this is a policy we've had in san francisco for some time thanks to the work of organizations like st. james infirmary and the department of the stats of women and human rights commission. we hope it will be a policy that will expand statewide and provide important protections to a group of individuals at a high risk to be victims of violate crime. the second resolution is for a 20-year-old music festival called the how weird street fair which will be the 20th year at the intersection of second and howard. the resolution allows for the festival to do sidewalk closures to have a small admission free for security measures and celebrates the contributions of the festival to our community. lastly, i'm introduce hearing to

address open-air drug dealing in the tender in to and soma market and it's no secret to the thousands of the residents that blocks from here heroin, meth, fentanyl, cocaine and cox -- oxycontin are dealt and kids witness dozens of drug deals every day. every day people recovering from addiction are invited to relapse. it's no secret it's a situation that would not be it witolerate anywhere else. the only secret is what the city's plan is to address the crisis. a group of mothers told me how they feared for their children,

how people deal drugs at all hours of the day and night around the open spaces that exist in the tenderloin for children and said their kids can't step outside without being offered drugs and how they won't always be there to intervene. they asked me what the city is doing to protect their children and want to be part of the solution. they're not alone. the people most fed up and impact and most afraid are the people who live in the communities. last week i went to a memorial for a young man who died from an overdose. he was 27 years old and recently obtained housing on ellis. with san francisco's housing stock increasingly in the tenderloin and soma these are homes to low-income families and many exiting incarceration and

to have them live in an environment where drugs are in the open is counterproductive. this is not just a public safety crisis but public health crisis. most people are aware much of the desperation on the veets -- vets vets -- vets -- streets is linked to drug abuse. and there's sentences for drug dealing without investment in rehabilitation is a failure. this has devastated families and cost millions of dollars. the war on drugs and catch and release methods have not solved the problem. we also know doing nothing is not an option. there is a false assumption we have to lock up the street-level

dealers or do something. that thinking has left us paralyzed. we must find actionable solutions that address the issues based on evidence and proven best practices. what is clear is we cannot stand by and accept the status quo. it's a complicated problem and widespread change can take time but strategies can work we've seen societies form in the 300 block of ellis and eddie. they involve businesses an residents coming together to bring a community-driven approach to the safety concerns. we've also seen efforts to replace street-level dealing and enhance visibility and lighting and family-friendly activities and businesses. we have seen programs like safe passage make a visible difference. initiates like law enforcement division are yielding results in

getting individuals out of the drug trade and we have seen more effective policing strategies. these are all great programs and initiatives but we have to do more. we have to involve interdepartmental collaboration and have well paying jobs so drug dealing not the most accessible form of survival and the city must ensure health and safety neighborhoods for all residents including those in the tenderloin and soma and mid market. i'm calling for a hearing on open-air drug dealing and inviting the department of public health and workforce development and public defender and district attorney and pre

-- probation and the department do work on this issue. i hope it will lead to ideas and collaboration and sustained commitment to permanently alter the status quo. the rest i commit. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman. >> submit. >> clerk: mr. president, seeing no other names on the roster that concludes the introduction of new business. >> commissioner: let's go to the next item. >> clerk: we welcome public comment on the mayoral appearance on the january 8, 2019 board meeting minutes and items 32 through 35 on the without reference to committee calendar. direct your remarks to the board as a whole. >> thank you. >> clerk: one moment pleased. if you'd like to display a document on the overhead projector remove it when you want to return to live coverage of the meeting.

>> commissioner: hold on a second, madame clerk. if you're not finished complete your thought. >> clerk: if you need interpretation assistance you get twice the amount of time to testify. mr. goodman, you can begin. >> my honorable norman yee president of the board of supervisors honorable angela padilla. honored members of the san francisco board of supervisors, my name is david goodman. i'm a descendant of the chef rabbi of [indiscernible] and the favorite good in of sam goodman the chicago kid. i come forward to you unfortunately to report criminal activity by the staff of the

board where i've been living the last few years. i have been tolerating daily insults, respect and quietly waiting my time for this day. i live at the golden residential care home. it's owned by antonia magalay. she has a caretaker she calls linda. care homes is supposed to be where older people many times with a mental disability are supposed to be cared for. instead linda chases people with a butcher knife. i've reported it and we have

grounds for a brandishing case. we have a witness. i'm at 415, 555-5796 is anyone is interested in looking into the case. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next, speaker please. >> interview: i have roses for valentine's day. can i give it myself. thank you, god bless you. >> commissioner: go ahead. >> clerk: mr. decosta, you can begin. >> i'm watching. board of supervisors, it's very interesting, you know.

coming to city hall and listening to the deliberations from one to the other. first from the san francisco authority and then the commission and then the board. you line up to go to a shelter

and people get a chair to sit down all night long. this is where the united nations was formed, san francisco. i'll ask supervisors, if you go to a shelter and heard the mayor talk on both sides of her mouth about providing a thousand whatever but if you go to a shelter today and they provide you a chair to sit on the chair all night long, is that right? do you show any humanity? is someone going to look at me? this say -- is a fact. you wait in the rain like one supervisor said, and you get a chair to sit down all not long. that's why they come to city

hall to get shelter. we spend an inordinate time in our rest rooms and all over the city. anyone can talk the talk but when we give shelter to a human being specially for the night, let us give that human being a bed. if not -- [chime] >> clerk: thank you, m mr. decosta. >> commissioner: next speaker, please. >> i'm lavette arnold and born and raised here 58 years. i'm having issues. i'm disabled but also i have

health problems. i came here years early talking to a lot of you guys. a lot of your faces are new here. i have constantly said something. i'm born and raised here. this is my home. i was born in a hadn't hospital here and my son died at 21 here and for people to say get out because i didn't want to do sexual favors and my rent went from $788 and i was only getting $888 this sis unreal. they say america's for everybody but this is my home. this is where i came out of my mother's womb and it's sad nobody's doing anything and section 8 is terrible but i'm talking about my issues. i'm a mother, great grandmother

and i don't have to have sex with somebody in the housing authority to stay there. i've been there 18 years. three years i went from to hud and everybody to make a compliant. nobody has done nothing. enough is enough. i would like to live in my home though my home now is a three-bedroom, i used to have a three-bedroom certificate but i only have a two-bedroom now but is it fair? is it over? please. i'm born here. i want to live here for the rest of my life. i want to die here too. this is my home. somebody needs to check the section 8 with the corrupt stuff they're doing in there. take that, please. somebody needs to stand up and go through this section 8 office and find out the crooked [bleep] they're doing. >> commissioner: next speaker,

please. >> christopher reeves was asked what he would like to do after and he said stand up and not fall down. after listening to a planning member discuss a parking regulation in a new building after the planning commissioner said i don't know if i'm more confused now or before.

and i felt the same way. he could remark about it. another time, airbnb in the same room was given permission to have no rules and regulations. and they said you just gave a moratorium on rules and you can't give the mission a moratorium on gentrification. i remarked i was in favor of a pause and new direction. it would have helped the titanic and last week i remarked about global climate change and the whole world is on the titanic. global climate change is chaos and when the currents are not the currents in the ocean anymore, how do we fix this? when we look at the news in the

morning and evening and see a string of traffic on the freeway spewing invisible poison while the lyft and uber cars spewing their poison on the street, we need to change. these are simple and big changes we need do. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. >> you can say this say coincidence and i did public comment as it went off and quoting a remark the high priestess made and the whole nation perish not. and it was actually a prophecy. he had no idea what he was saying. it was a prophecy it is spe

expedient for us jesus should die for us or we'll all perish. god is going to come back. it's not going to be much longer. i think about pelosi and she locks her door. she's such a liar and the democrats are being exposed. she wouldn't even stand up when the president was talking about stopping sex trafficking. won't even stand up. there's coming a day of judgment and it's not going to be very etch -- much longer. three days ago god said vengeance is mine. now of course that wasn't three and a half days ago, was it? it was 3,500 years ago but it was three and a half days ago on the peter scale and there's the mystery in the bible called the

mystery of god how judgment day will be in three and a half years. i wonder what that means. well, passover will be from the jubilee and every jew ought to be a christian it narrows down the year they would die and every gentile should abe christian too. i think god will raise the dead on passover april 20th. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> i'm currently a resident of the tenderloin. when i first came to san francisco 35 years ago i remember hollywood billiards and the tenderloin was a vibrant neighborhood and it was skidding before that and we have spent millions and poured into the

tenderloin and what they get in response is skid row. we don't need to pour more money into it. all the shelters is why i wouldn't blame other neighborhoods. same thing will happen to those neighborhoods. europe had urban squatting like in cope en copenhagen and throwing the money at the problem isn't the solution. we can open up to squatter cities or empty buildings. it will be better than we have now and people will do drugs one way or another. what we're doing now doesn't seem to be working. i would recommend instead of if we turned the money back to the taxpayers it would flow the

system in a more actual way and public policy has put people on the streets and i think we should let the private sector do it because they have shelters where we are basically subsidizing drug addiction. >> clerk: are there any other members of the public to address the board during general public comment? this is your opportunity? >> nobody talks about the fact that tenderloin is probably one of the largest places for people to treat things like mersa or things not able to be treated by antibiotics. we're the second densest city in

the united states and for people who don't have access to antibiotics the tenderloin is where you'd go to treat those situations. from the beginning of the marijuana movement and with hiv and what not to what made it legal today. this is not a joke. people would not have limbs if it wasn't for the tenderloin. it's not a joke and people talk about open-air drug markets being contained you're not talking about safe inhalation and injection sites which provide a place for people to treat things from ibfs to god knows what other ailments exist. even if it's just smoking herb, it's something legal and part of

our society and treats things. again, this is a problem that's existed since 2002 in the city. it's not a joke. when you talk about removing these things. [chime] >> clerk: thank you, sir. >> commissioner: any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. madame clerk call for adoption of the reference calendar item 32 to 35. >> clerk: items 32 to 53 -- 35 a

unanimous vote is needed for first reading and a supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee? >> commissioner: would any of my colleagues like to sever any items? seeing none, could we take same house, same call. without objection -- >> clerk: supervisor fewer is not present. >> commissioner: roll call, please. >> clerk: supervisor mar, aye. supervisor peskin, aye. supervisor ronin, aye. supervisor safai, aye. supervisor stefani, aye. supervisor walton, aye. supervisor yee, aye. supervisor brown, aye.

supervisor fewer, aye. supervisor haney, aye. supervisor mandelman, aye. there are 11 ayes. >> commissioner: the resolutions are adopted unanimously. madame clerk please read in mer ore yums. >> clerk: it will be adjourned in the following individual on behalf of supervisor mar for the late kim harmonni. >> commissioner: that brings us to the end of our agenda. madame clerk, is there any other business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> commissioner: thank you everyone, happy valentine's day and we'll see you back tuesday february 26 adds -- as there's no meeting february 19 in honor of president's day. until then, this meeting is jvrned.

>> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental

laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a

better water quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today.

[gavel]. >> chair peskin: good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, february 11, 2019. i am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin.