>> supervisor viewer? >> yes, my condolences to the family. i respectfully request to be added to your resolution denouncing the deportation of southeast asians. >> thank you, commissioner, supervisor viewer. >> supervisor ronen? >> thank you so much. i'm just shocked i didn't know about the passing of him. i just wanted to express my profound condolences to natalie, who i know was his pride and joy , and rightfully so because she is absolutely incredible and i just wanted to express my love and support for natalie and her mom, a beautiful family. residents of my food -- of my district. if you'd be so kind to add me to the in memoriam, i would appreciate that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. next up is me.

it's less than 100 days in 2019 and eight people have already lost their lives on our streets. at this right, we are going to have a very high fatality count in 2019. last year, we have more people who lost their lives because of collisions than guns in our city this is not a hypothetical situation. this is deeply personal for me. i am a survivor of a collision, and know what it means to have your entire life and your family 's life ripped apart because of a collision. crashes can be prevented. death and injury can be prevented, but only if we act with urgency that is required to make the changes we need to stop yet another person from being hurt or killed.

no more thoughts and prayers, action is what we need to because every injury, every traffic related fatality is a loved one, is $8 or, a father, a grounds mother, a life partner. if we don't act with urgency, we are saying that it is acceptable to allow these unnecessary tragedies to continue. we just had our vision zero committee meeting last week and we discussed what we have been doing and how we will move forward with our activities of the three east of enforcement, engineer and education. and it was a good presentation, except that again, we are looking at eight people who just passed away. we must do everything possible

to prevent the heartbreak and unspeakable suffering that ensues in the aftermath of every single collision. we have to do better, and we can we know speed is the leading factor for serious injury and death in san francisco. we are more than -- where more than 500 people are seriously injured and more than 20 people lose their lives every year. today i am directing the city attorney's office to draft legislation to address the speed limits citywide with the aim of decreasing the allowable speeds, which we know will save lives. this legislation will also mandate daylighting citywide. for those unfamiliar with daylighting, daylighting is a straightforward improvement that makes everyone in the street easier to see at intersections, especially children. it requires removing visual barriers within a minimum of 10

feet from a crosswalk or intersection. there are real impacts of daylighting, and there is proof that this concept works. in the tenderloin, daylighting intersections resulted in a 14 fewer reported collisions at these intersections. for anyone who says that this would cost as parking spaces, let me respond now, saying life is more critical, lives are more critical than saving a parking space. if you disagree, i challenge you to say to the families of those who have already lost... lost loved ones in collisions. i challenge you to say, i would rather save a parking space then a life.

lastly, this legislation will mandate that critical injuries and severe injuries, not just fatalities are used as a metric for vision zero. i want to thank the coalition for recommending this change as well. in november 2017, sfmta was directed to create a rapid response team to implement traffic calming after a fatality this is critically important, but not enough. rather than waiting for additional injuries or fatalities to act, we have a tremendous amount of data from prior collisions that resulted in serious injuries that we can act on now. sfmta can target improvements at the locations of these collisions. using just 2016 and 2017 data, we would be giving attention to more than 1100 people who have

been severely injured. we cannot wait to make changes that we know can save lives right now. we cannot wait and let our inaction as a safety results in more deaths, in more injuries that are 100% preventable. the rest i submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor brown? >> thank you. san francisco is celebrating its 15th annual small business week may 6 through the 11th this year. small business week concludes the week on may 11th, 2019. we are celebrating shopping and dining in the car doors, and an effort led by san francisco council of district merchants and the office of small business i am pleased to sponsor this year's legislation to authorize

public works to waive the fee is for temporary street space, occupancy permits for 12 merchant corridors totaling 246 blocks, and $70,304 in fees waived. this year marks the 13th year that the board of supervisors has sponsored the ordinance for the temperate street space occupancy permit fee waiver, i want to think public works director and to team at the bureau of street you sound mapping or their continued partnership, and a special thanks to our office of small business executive director. this is one small gesture that the city can take to abide in economic vibrancy of our city's merchant corridors. the merchant corridors that will be included are the balboa merchant association, castro street, clement street, the visitor out merchant association , fillmore street

association, pate street association, ingleside merchants association, inner sunset merchant association, sacramento street merchant association, union street, valencia corridor merchant association, and west portal merchant association. my second item, today i am substituting my legislation requiring brick-and-mortar businesses to accept cash from customers who want to buy food or services. i want to thank my colleagues and cosponsors after talking with my colleagues and business owners, and folks in the community about my cash requirement legislation, i'm substituting the file today to ensure that brick-and-mortar businesses like amazon go can no longer deny goods and services to san franciscans who do not have access to baking services. companies like amazon and nestée

, owner of the blue bottle , are making record profits. for the second year in a row, amazon will not pay federal income taxes on $11 billion in profits. they can afford to hire employees to accept cash or come up with some other solution for accepting cash. recently, a representative from blue bottle coffee center said about the company not accepting cash, we know that cashless can leave some folks behind. that is just not okay. last month, the city of philadelphia passed similar legislation that includes amazon go. amazon said they will not open any stories in philadelphia. but city officials there said they're fine with that. they will not accept city sanctioned inequality, and neither should we. san francisco is a city of the first, but this time where second, that we will -- but we are going to do the right thing to ensure equitable access to our stores and restaurants for

all san franciscans, the rest i submit. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor brown. i would like to be added to your substitute legislation. thank you. >> supervisor fewer? >> submit. >> supervisor haney? >> thank you, madame clerk. thank you for your remarks and your introduction around vision zero and your leadership. i had a couple things i wanted to say about that. before i came into the chamber today, i paid a visit to the sfmta board of directors, and it was following a rally that we had on the steps of a couple hundred people. many of whom were friends, colleagues of tess rothstein who lost her life on howard street a few weeks ago.

i want to thank supervisors brown, ronen, and mandelman for attending the rally at the board meeting. i was very happy to see that they made a motion and approved the expansion of the protected bike lane from third street to sixth street, which was exactly the area where tess was killed, and what i want to say is i want to thank them for that. i also want to call on them to expands that protected bike lane even further. there's really no reason why it shouldn't extend all the way from the embarcadero and down, and it is something we need to complete immediately, as well as the other very high injury corridors set exist in my district, as well as other districts. i want to -- because we have few mechanisms to really push the sfmta to do some of these things that need to be done, i need to

further escalate this call to complete the bike network, which the protected bike lane network which continues to be dangerously and recklessly incomplete. the second thing that i have that i'm introducing today is a resolution to rename gilbert street. since the passing of jeff adachi , a beloved public defender, nearly a month ago, there has been many tributes, memorials, and gatherings to celebrate his life and legacy. one of the things that have come up in these conversations, and i'm sure there would be more, is how to appropriately honor him in a permanent way. one of the ideas that came forward to my office from the public defenders themselves was to honor him by renaming gilbert street. gilbert street is the street

that covers the staff entrance to the public defender's office. it is a street that jeff walked through to get to the hall of justice for decades since he first started at the public defender's office. it was a route that he took every morning to gather his thoughts on to plot his next move against injustice. it is aware he would meet with other public defenders on their way to court where he would chat with colleagues about their days and vent about battles they thought. the loss of our friend and leader almost a month ago has been devastating to all of us. jeff served every city with conviction, on her, and tenacity he served our community and did what did the face of emergent -- diversity. he supported supported popular causes and he firmly believed he was doing what was right because he gave hope and voice to the voiceless. we are proud of his legacy, and

we know it will be remembered forever. that fight lives on in all of us , especially through the attorneys and staff of the public defender's office. they have been very supportive of this potential renaming of gilbert street to jeff adachi way, as well as jeff's family. jeff is an institution and as a symbol of power after people, and renaming this street, this alley that he walked on nearly every working day of the last 30 years is a fitting tribute to his legacy. lastly, i am working with the city attorney on an ordinance that would generate funding for affordable housing by increasing the job charge a housing linkage fee. the job housing linkage fee was started in 1996 and applies to any development project that increases the total amount of any combination of entertainment , hotel, office, research, and development and retail by 25,000 or more gross square feet.

when the city started its first phase of high-rise office expansion from 1979, it recognize the link to have office to velma genovese and offset the impacts of that development gap as long show along with prop m., they had a childcare impact fee and a job housing impact fee. a completed nexis study is required under the mitigation feet act in order to justify impact fees and sets the amounts linkage or allowed to fund services as related to developments. the money collected channels revenue into our housing fund which can be used to develop new affordable housing. the nexis study has not been conducted and completed since 1997. this means that the linkage fee is based on an outdated formula that finds the nexus between large-scale developments and fails to reflect increased amounts for housing in the city, much of what the office is a

development in district six and district three. the formula that we are relying on his 22 years old and uses a lower right that does not take into account higher worker densities we see in the city today. the city has contracted with a consulting company to complete this study, but they have yet to release it. they have been asking a new study be conducted for years and we expect that the study will be released in april, and we want to be ready. the immediate goal of working with the city attorney on this legislation is to make sure that once the nexis and feasibility study are completed, we will have legislation ready for the board to consider that has a more accurate rate that we have more money for the city to invest in affordable housing. the demand for affordable housing is immense, in the city should update this via soon as a study is released. the legislation we are preparing will allow us to move forward. the rest i submit. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor mar? >> submit. >> supervisor peskin? >> i have nothing to submit.

>> supervisor ronen. >> thank you, i have nothing to submit today. i also wanted to join president yee and supervisor stefani and expressing own condolences to the 50 people who lost their lives, and the 30 who are fighting to recover in the hospital in christchurch, new zealand. it was a horrific terrorist massacre, and something that is so awful that i really just wanted to take the time to tell the muslim community here in san francisco that i can't and so many of us love you, that we cherish you, that we celebrate your contributions to the greatness of our city and that we will do, and i will do everything in my power to fight for and ensure that you are safe here in san francisco.

i also just wanted to commence the prime minister for her leadership in this time of crisis. it is incredibly refreshing, to see a leader of a country to change gun-control laws and to comfort a community that is in the morning with sincere love and respect it is a lesson that our own prime minister -- the president could take the prime minister of new zealand. >> thank you, supervisor. >> thank you. today i would like to end in memorial for a long time process or -- professor of philosophy. she was an institution at san francisco state. she was a professor and former chair of the philosophy department at san francisco

state and a nationally recognized advocate for disability rights, disabled by polio as a child, she was a leading advocate for equity for persons with disabilities. on the faculty as -- of s.f. state since 67, she worked to make access and disability services available on california college campuses. in 1980, she was appointed by jimmy carter to serve on the national council for the humanities, the governing board of the national endowment for the humanities as well. she served for 26 years as a treasurer of the american philosophical association, the pacific division, and dr. silvers received the inaugural california faculty association of human rights award in 1989 and served as a senior fulbright scholar in new zealand in 2005. in 2009, she was awarded the quinn price for service to the profession by the a.p.a. in 2013, a price or

philosophical achievement and contribution wi-fi get beta kappa. she received the wing family excellence award for extraordinary achievements in california state university systems. the ground breaking scholarship help to establish disability rights as an important subfield of philosophy. she is regarded as an authority on the medical ethics -- bioethics disability pharaoh, -- theory, social philosophy, a statics, and feminism. as a teacher and mentor, she changed the lives of countless people. she will be deeply missed by her students, colleagues, and the many people she inspired. i just want to add one last, i had the great privilege of meeting her on her door when i was campaigning the very first time for office. she was the very first person to stop what she was doing, go back and get her checkbook and write me a check on the spot. from that point on, was a strong , strong supporter of

someone i turn to often. she will be deeply missed by all those in the community and she was a true leader. thank you. the rest i submit. >> thank you. the board will send us condolences. mr. president, that concludes the introduction of new business >> thank you, colleagues. madame clerk, let's go to public comment at this time. >> at this time, the public may address entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the five your 12th, 2019 board meeting minutes, an item 35 through 39 on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. pursuant to the board's rules, please direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not to individual members or to the audience. speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount to testify. if you have a document to display on the projector, remove it when you would like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> okay. go ahead.

>> yeah, good evening, president yee, madame clerk. all the members of the board of supervisors. my name is ruben, i'm currently an employee of the department of public health, health services, i am also a retiree of the san francisco office. my cell phone number is 415559 5796, for anyone who is interested in my comments. i want to support supervisor walton's efforts to restrain numbers of the sheriff's department from physically injuring and harming inmates in the county jail system. i had the personal experience of being a severely beaten and a safety cell. my offence was trying to enter city hall. i oppose gavin newsom's efforts

to pass on cash. there was a deputy he thought i was not allowed to enter city hall. he came charging down the hallway towards me. i used -- i hope he would stop. he did not stop, and my foot accidentally touched his leg. upon getting up, i noticed his face. i was grabbed in a safety cell, and as they put me to the ground , they said he kicked impaired that deputy made a phone call to the safety cell. i had so much blood through -- falling to my throat i thought i would choke to death. my only thought is my children would hear i had died in a safety cell and with think i must have done something terrible. i was struggling with a chemical

dependency problem, an addiction to crack cocaine. my fear was -- >> thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> sir, your time is up. next speaker. >> supervisors and audience, i will try to be as serious without rhyming this time to make it clear to this board. i think i have started that last week. i am confidently doing this until i get satisfactions on this board. i'm asking for a public hearing. i am trying to get a town hall meeting in my community about the fillmore. first of all, i want to contact and let all of these event coordinators, the jazz festival,

the teams, the sunday streets, there are four events in the fillmore. when i come to the community and have my meeting is, all of those people will be rearranged to the community will be able to enjoy and to be employed, because i am the fillmore corridor invested her. also, i heard supervisors talking about a distant merchants. there is no merchant in the fillmore. i beg to differ. i am sorry to get out here to say this, supervisor, but there is no merchants in the fillmore. it's like there's no c.a.c. or see -- all you have is ace. the fillmore centers need to be checked out. there is a place there, and supervisors all set it. the retail space has been vacant for years, and nobody takes care of it. i want you all to look into that

there is also a big building in the fillmore -- and even fillmore heritage is owned by the city and county. as a matter of fact, it is what you call interest. you may not know that. i want you all to listen. i need a public hearing on the addition, okay? if you don't do that, i'm going across the street to the f.b.i. rad is in our community, and all of them is doing wrong. there is one that is doing pretty good. we need a town hall meeting. we have a special election coming up in november, supervisor. miss baker is not from our community. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> go ahead. >> good afternoon, supervisors. and the executive director of the library users association. i have good news and some not good news. for background, two months ago i came to you when the library was considering fines and fees changes. but what they were doing is the absolute minimum with respect to getting rid of fines, and that is they wanted to get rid of fines going forward only. we have had a campaign of education and alert. we've advocated for years, and others have done as well to have a no fine or the system. [please stand by]

>> president yee: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is wallace lee, and i'm here about seawall 330 and the navigation center proposed for that site. we're just a small number here today, to talk about this, only about 15 people, but we represent over 500 people in this group. we're opposed against the lack of transparency to build the largest navigation center there. the site is bordered by a massive apartment complex and two condo buildings. the neighborhood is densely

populated, and the population has increased by 26% in the last five years. the number of children in the neighborhood -- this is a census tract -- has gone up 50% in the last five years. it's increasingly a place for families with children. [inaudible] >> yes. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here also to talk about the

proposed navigation center. i'm a homeowner at 219 brannan, roughly two blocks from the proposed site. i also own a clean energy company in district six that's created over 5,000 jobs in california. i strongly oppose this proposal. this is not a nimby issue, this is another issue. let me ask you two questions. what will be the cost to our city to locate a navigation center with a documented increase increased drug use, trash, where thousands of people travel to work, where thousands of fans travel to at&t park and soon to chase center, and where they host thousands of tourists

along that iconic walk from at&t to the ferry building? what will be the cost to locate a navigation center in such a densely populated family neighborhood? we have more child care centers in district six than any other districts in the city. this is not, by the way, in the five radius of the proposed center, not a hub of homelessness. we must know the answers to these questions before proceeding further. we do not want to look back and wish that we did know those answers. on the process, i agree, this first proposal was known to the community on march 4. that's just a little over two weeks ago. to say we were blindsided is an understatement. there's been no data on why this center should be located at the -- lot 330 and why the other 99 sites have been eliminated.

our community deserves to see the criteria used. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. my name is william glasgow. i'm a resident at a condo at brannan and delancey, and i echo the comments of the prior two speakers in opposition to the proposed navigation center on the embarcadero. i won't repeat the points they made, but i would focus on unwith. i believe our opposition is not about homelessness or the homeless. we recognize homelessness as a very serious problem for the city, and i think we share great empathy and passion for those that are homeless. and it's not about the not in my back yard syndrome. we live around the corner from the delancey foundation, which houses at least 200 residents who have -- are dealing with

the prior challenge of drug addiction, alcoholism, and criminal activity, and we welcome them in our community because it's in a very controlled manner. so our dissent is about the specific location and how it came to be. it doesn't seem there's been a transparent process. there also hasn't been anything with regard to the cast. i understand the city is for these navigation centers. i'm not going to challenge that, but i think when you evaluate the location, i think you have to cross-reference that with what the costs or challenges will be. i've seen nothing in the public record that that analysis has been made or if it were made,

this site would be the least problematic site to house one of those locations. thank you. >> hello. my name is jean lions. i've lived in south beach for 20ers i can' 20 years. i want to talk about respect. two weeks ago i myself canvassed 18 businesses, none of them knew about it. i'm talking about safeway to walgreens to the american cheese company. we continue as neighbors to let both our other neighbors know as well as the businesses. to think that a 225 bed homeless shelter is going to be down in the embarcadero area, in the seawall area, that includes drug use, pet, partners, and the fact that it's going to be a magnet for other homeless encampments, to think that would not impact the quality of life for the

residents there as well as the businesses. if you have attended the two meetings that happened last week at the port as well as the delancey street gathering, you would have found our neighbors talking about children being tested for h.i.v. because of the needle tricks that they experience while playing, or the neighbor who is a lawyer who is litigating two wrongful death suits because of homeless. i could go on. the other thing is dues. district six already has a navigation center in our area. what about the other districts in the city? i think that this location in terms of its cost-benefit analysis and what it could do for the city for many people who need housing like nurses and firemen and others as well as the types of things we could do with that as well as where we could put it should be considered. thank you. >> supervisors, may i ask for your kind attention, please.

my name is christy scorvano. i live at 38 bryant street, and regarding the navigation center on seawall lot 330, this is directly across from the building that has been my home for the last eight years, and it's 20 yards away from my three-year-old son's bedroom. i'm gravely concerned about the impact it will have on families, particularly my son who i plan to send to san francisco schools. i'm a working mother who you can wi can -- who walks to and from work each other, mostly in the dark. the proposal was sprung on district six with very little notice, and it seems as though public officials are racing to put it through before most of the neighbors in my district know about it. it's clear that this navigation center is being pushed ahead with very dill due diligence on

the people of the neighborhood, and civic leaders are truly neglecting to understand the impact it will have on such a large population of families in the area. over the last eight years, i've observed the number of families in my neighborhood sky rocket, with at least 25 schools and daycare providers within walking distance of the center. if the proposal is approved, my concern is around the increase in the number of people the area will attract, particularly drug dealers, drug users, and sounds from sirens and street sounds, which makes it an unattractive area to raise my child, and we will have to move out of the city. >> i am a resident of the south

beach neighborhood, and i strongly oppose the navigation center or what i would more properly call the megahomeless center. i have grave health and safety concerns about putting a 225-bed homeless center in a densely populated residential area, 10,000 residents, several thousand families with childre children. the mayor and the supervisors are racing to push this forward without any input from the residents of the neighborhood and trampling on our rights. this has only become public as the chronicle broke the story a week ago. the mayor and the city are frankly trying to ignore all the existing health and environmental zoning laws to simply ram this center in south beach and soma, with no regard to health.

i like living in san francisco and its views on a liberal democracy. there needs to be adequate time to assess whether or not there are better places for this. again, we are a densely populated area. there are thousands of small children in soma and south beach. small children are uniquely vulnerable to homeless shelters, many of which are populated by those who have mental health problems, substance abuse problems, and violent parolees. we also have experience with homeless in south beach. a neighbor was the victim of a violent invasion by a homeless person. another neighbor's having their six-month-old toddler being tested for h.i.v. after being tricked by a needle. a -- pricked by a needle.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. good afternoon, everyone. my name is sarah lee, and i'm a community advocate at the asian law caucus, and i am here in support of the resolution that -- [inaudible] >> as some of you may already know, there were four community members that were detained last week at the san francisco i.c.e. building, and i want to up date you all, i.c.e. is required to provide advance notice to those who are currently being redetained. currently, there are 50 cambodyians around the country who were specifically directed to turn themselves in at the san francisco i.c.e. offices.

we look forward to working with supervisors who look forward to working with the asian community, and working with governor newsom to pardon. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, next. i'm here with sarah to support mr. walton regarding our -- this initiative to support southeast asian community. i was a refugee with my family coming to this country when i was a toddler, and many of my community have a similar situation. we came here when we were kids. this is the only country we ever knew. unfortunately, most of us grew up in the neighborhood where there's a lot of trauma, a lot of violence, a lot of poverties and drugs, and we got in trouble when we were kids, and

have been through the system. a lot of us have currently changed our lives, and are working with the community on different levels. what we're finding now is we're continuing to be ripped apart from our families after three generations, and we're still experiencing this now today. i was one of those individuals who got out of prison -- went to prison when i was shoul14, out of prison in my later years, eventually found work as a counselor. i work as an advocate for my community, to provide rehabilitation for prison services to try to change people's lives. i'm also fortunate to working with governor brown, asking the supreme court for a pardon, and it was rejected for the court -- by the court without any explanation. right now, members of the community are still being detained and i'm hoping that

san francisco could help us deal with this -- this really widespread -- i'm going to say for lack of a better word, just pain, continued pain, continued suffering, and will continue to do this for all communities. so we're hoping that we could have some kind of resolution to help our community. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> good afternoon and thank you, and help owe, supervisor haney. i am janet lawson. i really hope we can have a conversation later on. i moved into district six in 1995, when my only neighbors were the pigeons and the rats who ate them. since then, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars both public and private have been poured into the area to make it a premier residential tourist and entertainment district, which is why no one can understand the logic of selecting that particular

parcel to build london town. i've worked in a public -- work for a public affairs firm. i know how community outreach works, and there was none of that there. we've gotten no answers to some very specific questions. the lack of transparency and honest city in all of this has -- honesty has undermined all of this, and it's coming across as nothing more than a trumpian attempt by mayor breed to fulfill her campaign promise at any cost, no matter the cost. it's being forced upon us. it is a very foolish thing to do in this area. this is a tourist center. this doesn't make sense. i'd like to see one in the upper haight or perhaps lowell

heights or maybe even the mission -- the marina, maybe by the presidio. there's a lot of places in the city. there is no logical reason to select this -- this location except for it's actually her ego. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hello. my name's judy dundas, and we've been neighbors of this district since 2008. the city has not communicated with the neighbors adequately on this matter. the first meeting was vague, short on substance and totally inadequate. if the city is intending on building navigation centers in all areas across our district, you must make the following data available for neighbors to support it. the impact of navigation centers on surrounding

neighbors. what is the change in the homeless population before and after? what is the changing crime rate? what is the changing incidents of loitering? what are 200 people going to do during the day who are unemployed and they are homeless? what are they going to do? they have to go somewhere? what do those who use drugs do when they continue to use drugs? what are the percentage that are mentally ill? second, i actually wonder if this is solving a problem for our neighborhood. if you have not walked around in south beach, go there for a couple of hours. i run every day, and walk down to the downtown every day, and i see maybe two homeless people. how is a 200-bed homeless

shelter solving our problem? isn't it going to allow 220 something people to come into our neighborhood? please don't ram this down or throat. please work with us to put a solution that actually helps our neighborhood. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> my name is josh clip. i'm a resident of district ten, attorney. relevant to today, the proud son of a mother who overcame polio to put herself through college, raise four kids, work 40 years as a social worker and now volunteers tirelessly at homeless shelters around san francisco. relative to what i want to speak about today, i am a long time planting leader with friends of the urban forest. i am here today regarding if the board passes a plan of emergency, that the department

of environment be given at least one person in their department who is focused on our urban cap onopy. right now, there is nobody at the department of urban environment to look at that issue. san francisco has the worst urban canopy in the united states. trees aren't the answer to climate change, but we can't do it without them because they filter harmful air particulate, they are a habitat for our increasingly fragile eco system. they make it desirable to walk rather than drive, and they are a necessary part of climate justice. i would urge the board to instruct the department of the environment how an aggressive forestation plan can be implemented to support our common goals. additionally, at supervisor mandelman's suggestion, i have

already created a plan with some cost-free actions that we can take right now and have a few copies of the plan for the board, and i also offer myself as a resource, if that may be helpful. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hello. i've been living in south beach marina apartments for 17 years. i don't need to repeat that, but i strongly oppose the shelter on the parking lot 330 due to the fact that when i'm going up and down the embarcadero where i walk my dog, on any given day, i see about 40 homeless people standing between giants stadium and pier 39. which brings me to the fact that maybe i missed some. out of 225 shelter beds, that means 175 will be imported from

other districts, that they are not here today. they are not from our district at all. why don't you put it in other places? for example, there's a lot of homeless people in civic center. why don't you build it on the lawn in front of city hall? they're here any ways? that's what we were told? or why don't you utilize building in san francisco general hospital and turn it into hospital for mental patients? it would be permanent solution, not just temporary solution. this is not solving anything. this is going to destroy the neighborhood. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is maria papadopolous. i live in the district six, and my family lives two blocks away from the navigation center.

this is the right idea, wrong place. we already have numerous homeless shelters in our district. let the people of district six decide if we want to be the guinea pigs of such a large, unprecedented experiment. clarity. be transparent, don't ram this down our threats. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hi. my name's garrett lerau. i've lived at south beach for 15 years, and my issue here is the density of the homeless centers. what are 200 people going to do during the daytime in this homeless center -- or this navigation center, sorry. there aren't facilities on the street. there's only one kiosk toilet on the embarcadero there. there's the brannan street wharf that has a dozen tables, but that's not going to handle

200 people wandering the streets every day. it just seems way out of proportion for what it should be in our area. people have talked. we feel we're doing our part. maybe you don't feel, but we've got homeless shelters, we've got halfway houses, supportive housing, subsidized apartments. we've worked for 15 years to build a nice neighborhood here, and it works. and i think putting this large a navigation center there is just -- is just too much for the neighborhood. i've got to another meeting this morning, and the women that -- with children in the neighborhood are just -- are going nuts? how are they going to raise kids with this type of influence wandering the neighborhood? those are my thoughts. appreciate your support. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hi. good afternoon. thank you so much.

my name is shawnna heffernan. i am a san francisco native. i've been a nurse for almost a decade, and most of my time i have spent here in the city and in reno and sacramento area. and i thank you so much for your unanimous support of the medicare for all campaign. i know that you know all of the details of why this is logical, and we kind of live in a country where logic is not the basis of our political federal decision making, it seems, but i want to tell you something that maybe you haven't heard from a nursing perspective? which is that i do surgical recovery. so most americans will need not one but two surgeries in their lifetime. the average copayment with insurance is $500 and without can be 5,000, $20,000. most americans don't have $400 in the bank in savings for an emergency. it's someone that everyone

needs and no one can afford. it's absolutely pivotal that we start here in san francisco and send it to the california level and send a strong message to our federal government for a medicare for all system. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is carolyn bowden. i'm also with the california nurses association, national nurses united, and i am here just to thank you so much for your leadership. i was hoping that you could be the second city, but cambridge, massachusetts passed it last night. seattle passed it last night, but i thank you for your consistent leadership on this issue and many other progressive issues and san francisco leads, and you are exemplary in that leadership. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker.

>> my name is john patchner. i'm a san francisco native. i live at 239 brannan street, and i'm sorry, but you're going to hear it one more time. i had the privilege of living in the south beach neighborhood in the mid90's, and there was nothing there then. there was no baseball stadium, there were no condos, there were no restaurants, there were crumbling warehouses, and yes, there were homeless people, but even then, it seemed like a spectacular neighborhood. we, my wife and young son were able to buy a house in another part of the city. there was no housing in that area, and four years ago when we had the opportunity to move back, we did. a lot of work has gone into keeping that to be a splendid neighborhood, and i would -- i would plead with you that as you do your jobs to find a site

for homeless services that -- that you keep in mind for one principle. having worked for an elected official, i know that politics and governance is not always about politics, it's not expediency. i would ask you to do this: do no harm to the neighborhood in fulfilling your obligations to site any homeless center. there is in the hippocratic oath, that provision, do no harm. i plead with you to take that into consideration. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. [applause] >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm a resident of district six, and my wife and i oppose the proposed navigation center on

the seawall lot 330. we acknowledge we have a homeless problem and we want to solve it with kindness and dignity. today, the board approved two legislations that will increase the number of homeless folk in our neighborhood, so we already have a -- we already have too many homeless folk, and somehow, the solution is to add another 225 homeless folk there. it's like what? that's utterly insane. i respectfully urge the board to introduce legislation mandating a public vetting process for all navigation centers in the city. thank you. have a good evening. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hello. my name's mark dragan. i've been a long time resident of south beach for 15 years.

i live 1.5 blocks away, and i'm opposed to the navigation center. i've seen the area turnaround from being a sketchy area to one it is today, where mothers can walk along the street. just yesterday, i saw a toddler learning to walk, trying to walk, and falling down, not worrying about feces or needles on the street. the danger is you're introducing a large navigation center, the largest in the city's history, with no idea what the implications are going to be. there's the potential to turn this area back to what it was 15 years ago. you are the person who stands between the city's wayward action and protecting this community. they're looking to you, supervisor, to keep them free of fear. they're looking to you to keep them safe. you did them no favors by

blindly supporting the navigation center that the may mayor announced without fully undering what -- understanding what it means to the neighborhood, a navigation center this large. you did no favors when you bypassed the normal permitting process for navigation centers. if this community falls back to where it was 20 years ago, it's going to be your political legacy, so i want you to frankly do the job of protecting the neighborhood, and take note of how many people are here. they had to wait 2.5 hours to speak. we waited through a lot of other proceedings. half the people had to leave because they couldn't wait that long, to take that into consideration when you weigh the quality of life of homeless people versus the quality of life of people who are here, who are willing to give up this time. thank you. [applause] >> helsu