i strongly oppose naming the station after rose pak. chinatown is a name that represents the chinese people and the chinese people who have settled down in america. chinatown represents the past, the present, and the future. i hope everyone can support this name chinatown station. thank you.

[clerk speaking foreign language] >> yeah. so good evening, board of supervisors. my name's cathy zhang. i live in district 9, near chinatown, and we just came from the m.t.a. board meeting, and what i show you is the overflow room. you see that's early in the day, so there are a lot of red t-shirts, but they are gone just after maybe 30 minutes or one hour. you know why? let me tell you. so the board of directors told me, you know, they will never just bring a determined mind to hear an issue, they always have an open mind because that's what our representatives are supposed to do.

so let's step back and to think about it. who would be hurt if we don't name the subway station after rose pak? nobody, really, seriously, right? but who would be hurt if it's named after rose pak? many people, as you have heard all afternoon. so it's a very simple equation to solve, actually, right? but why it's become such a big issue, such a big deal? why some supervisors so determined, you know, really? we don't have the real answer, but what we think is it is because some people is trying to benefit politically with a known agenda. so if the supervisor or official thinks by naming this, he's going to get more votes from chinatown, he's miscalculating because it's not a popular thing in chinatown,

chinese community at large, actually. if he or she think can benefit from the power of chinese communist party, just like rose pak did, f.b.i. is waiting there, okay? so if the board of supervisors would really wanted to commemorrate the chinese community -- >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is kylie. i want to ask who is rose pak? based on all evidence, she just is a chinese communist party spy. and what she did was just persecuted a lot of kind americans and a lot of kind chinese in america.

they all include many in san francisco. so she totally did things if go against americans' freedoms. but i wanted to ask mr. peskin, i wanted to ask you why your support -- >> clerk: please direct your comments to the board as a whole. don't single anyone out. >> okay. why just support a person who goes against american spirit? so i think you all are making history. so i don't want you to become a history --

[inaudible] >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisor. my name is andrea. i want to say something. on may 14, during the board of supervisors meeting, supervisor peskin admitted that rose pak was a complex person, but then, he stated that rose pak contributed to the chinese subway station and should be commemorated. i think that's overstated. hitler built railroads and fridays in germany, including the world's first highway system, the autobahn. if you want to name the subway station after rose pak, it would be like naming a jewish community center after hitler or his first official.

i'm here to oppose the naming of the chinese subway station for rose pak because she undermined the fundamental values of america. i'm opposed because she will bring permanent shame to the city. [please stand by]

>> good evening. i want to share one thing. we come here. we express our feelings to protect america's value, freedom, really, because we think america is a great country. everyone here, you are working very hard. lead work together for our community. we're making our community beautiful. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. public comment is now closed seeing no other public comments. lead movlet's move on to, madam,

items 27-33. >> these items were introduced without reference to committee, a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first reading today. any supervisor may require a reading go to committee. >> item 31, please. >> i would like to sever item 28, this is supervisor walton and any other items? supervisor ronan. >> 27.

>> motion passes for all these items. >> budgets in using excess education, revenue, augmentation. >> supervisor ronan. >> at a previous meeting, i introduced cooperative living opportunities for people with mental illness. this model, which is a noninsubstitutional communal based households with case

management has been effective for long-term stability for people with severe mental illness and substance abuse. as we come together for mental health crisis, i'm hopeful you will join me in supporting this legislation. along with the ordinance, i introduced this resolution to jump start this programme without delay but now that the mayor has presented our budget, it's no longer timely and i will make a motion to table it, but i am looking forward to continuing to work with colleagues on the budget committee and all of you to include funding for the fiscal years 2019-2020 to this endeavor. with that, i make a motion to table item 27. >> motion made, seconded by supervisor peskin. can we take that same house, same call? then item is tabled. supervisor walton, i believe

with 28. >> item 28 is a resolution to support california state senate bill 38 authored by jerry hill to restrict sales of ecigarettes and all flavoured tobacco use by youth. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you. actually i want to table this item as well as 37 and the bill is now considered dead and state senator jerry hill announced he had it withdrawn because of a variety of amendments that were tacked on at the last minutes to this legislation and the original intent was to prohibit tobacco flavours with fruit, candy and other flavours to entice being sold in stores and new amendments will create unnecessary, harmful exemptions.

>> seconded by supervisor ronan, without any objection and this motion passes. ma'am dmadam clerk, 31. >> the municipal transportation agency to name the chinatown station, the chinatown rose p absoluter k station. >> i would like to expound on this issue that we've heard from the public for the last couple of weeks. i would like thank them for the way they conducted themselves,

unlike where an early member where someone behaved in a less dignified fashion. so i want to thank you for petitioning this government in a way that is appropriate and your comments are heart-felt. i want to thank all of you colleagues as i did in the past for spending your evening hours over an issue that as a matter of policy i'm not a big fan of. i'm not a fan of naming things and with a few exceptions, i've assiduously tried to stay away from that. as a total non-secuetor, i would like to say the buddha was born

in lambini, sorry for that. i'm not a big fan of the policy and behaviour of the people's republic of china this was at the full board of supervisors on facial recognition technology wherein i cited the pic's treatment of the weaker people in western china and how facial recognition technology was used to abuse that population. i knew rose pak. as i said today on the steps of city hall, i had a complicated relationship with rose pak and several of you cited that

comment. we were friends at times. we were enemies at times. i think it was actually rather remarkable that somebody like me who is truly independent, absolutely independent of the prc. i was independent of rose pak, would find my way to believe that she should be honored with her name on something in the city and county of san francisco. i said today briefly on the steps of city hall that i thought that rose pak joined the legions of a few rare names that many people do not know. a woman named wana brionus who was an early settler before it became the city of san francisco.

she was a remarkably courageous and brilliant woman who could not read or write, who actually took her husband to court for spousal abuse. she managed do that and she went all the wait to the california state supreme court in the year 1840 and she won that case. i associate rose pak with the memory of mary ellen pleasant, an african-american woman who came to the city and county of san francisco. she was a woman who actually worked to stop the slave trade in the united states of america and came to san francisco and file a lawsuit in the year 1866, wherein long before a different rose, rosa parks, she sued to

stop black women from being ejected from public transportation in the city and county of san francisco. both of these individuals went down as remarkably controversial as characters in san francisco history. i knew rose pak. i did not get along with rose pak all of the time but her attention to the needs of the chinese american population, not only in chinatown but across the city and county of san francisco were remarkable. the fact that ed lee became the mayor for san francisco for which rose and i parted ways, was something that rose was remarkably important in that. the fact that chinese americans and asian americans populated the command staff and ultimately

fred lau became the police chief, i acknowledge these truth. the chinese population of coming of age, as powerful contenders in the city and county of san francisco was enabled in part through the work of miss pak. i'm not doing geopolitics -- >> excuse me? >> excuse me? supervisor peskin. supervisor peskin. >> the reason i say my mandarin-speaking friends because the constituents i serve

are cant -- >> to the members of the fallon gong organization, you preach the notion of tolerance. and i ask you to consider tolerating bachlon today. she was a profoundly important player in the city and county of san francisco. i would like to express my profound disappointment in the deadlock vote at the san francisco municipal transportation authority where my constituents, our

constituents, spent their time today. i would like to express my disappointment with commissioners eakin, brinkman and rupky for not understanding the fine grain nature of the city and county of san francisco, from not understanding who are extents constituents are, but i will not leave this alone and colleagues, i apologize to you, for this will continue. and with that, i commend this resolution to all of you. i thank almost every single one of you who have affixed your names to this instrument and i ask for your support. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. let me say a few words here. i actually grew up in -- i was born and raised and grew up in chinatown. i worked most of my adult life

in chinatown in organizations to try to make things better for our children and families there. and in many ways, my road to community work started almost the same time as rose pak, when she started our activism in chinatown. we were both from but didn't cross paths. so i don't know her as deeply as others, but i know her by reputation and so i can tell you what i saw from afar. and maybe sometimes not so afar. what i saw was that -- there were a lot of commentstt get into what's going on in different nations. this is san francisco. this is where i care about what

happens. but for what i saw, because it was nonprofits, in different nonprofits, what i saw was a lot of professionals, chinese american professionals that started volunteering. there was a period where hasn't of them, lawyers, doctors, they started volunteering to be on boards of nonprofits, to lend professional skills. the common denominator when i spoke to many of them -- and i'm not talking five or six of them -- but literally 40 or 50 people. the common denominator was they always said that rose pak encouraged them to volunteer. to help out the community. and i think the other thing that i saw, that was very impressive that supervisor peskin mentioned

was the whole police encouragement of not only having more chinese american wants to e morphpolice officers but they sp there and please represent our community by going up the ranks so that when some of us and the children, when they look at the police department, they see representation there. so i saw -- it's not just fred lao -- what was the woman, heather fong and so, i saw a lot of that. a central tunnel subway would not have been built without the force of rosa in this case. she was find pushing it, going to meetings and urging the

community to support it to bring back the traffic we used to have in terms of people visiting visg chinatown in an easier way than stockton street.

at some point i saw that rosa was pushing and urging people to run for things and you know, whether she helped them with other things, from what i saw was -- a lot of us that didn't want to run for it. she didn't have to urge me, but a lot of people in the chinese american community would make great leaders, but they don't run. and she encouraged them and testament was from a lot of

mayors. i remember they would ask for some advice. i never did, but what i recognised, a lot of people did. and because of all of these things and again, this is from my vantage point of seeing who has done what in my community, i am very supportive of having that -- is it metro station -- be named chinatown rose pa connection. k. are you still speaking supervisor peskin? >> no, i'm done. >> so madam checker clerk, roll. >> on item number 31?

pai(roll call). >> are 11 ayes. >> so the resolution? >> this resolution has passed unanimously. >> madam clerk, is there anything else? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in the memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf o of the municipal beach employees whose lives were taken on may 31st, by who's lives will always be remembered. >> any other further business before us today. >> that concludes our business

today. >> we are adjourned.

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[♪] >> good morning, let's get this press conference started. hi, everyone, i'm mary of the city and county and san francisco, and also resident. welcome to the lower hate, everybody. i am here with sorrow who is the owner of café international, which is really an important legacy business that really holds this community together, and your supervisor, vallie brown. [applause] >> you know, this café is one of the small businesses around our city that are more than just a small business. they are spaces for our neighbors together across close-knit communities, they are where young people get their first job opportunities, and they are an important part of our workforce.

as i said, they are where zahra, the owner of were of café international, and in immigrant who can create new opportunities for themselves and countless employees. well we know that small businesses in san francisco employ more than 350,000 people, and make up 95% of our businesses, and generates millions of dollars for our economy, what i love most about our small businesses is the opportunities that they create for the people. the opportunity to grow a community, grow our skills, and grow our people -- our future. from here in my home district of the western addition, lower hate neighborhood, out to the

excelsior. we have hosted roundtable meetings with small business forms to provide faces -- spaces were businesses can talk about their concerns and their challenges. today, i am so excited to announce that we are working to make it easier for small businesses to not only survive in san francisco, but to thrive in san francisco. that is what today's announcement is all about. is not just for people to open and run their businesses, but for people to find employment at small businesses and for small business owners and employees to have a seat at the table where we are having -- making the decisions about our budget investments. first, let's take a step back and think about what it means to start a small business in san francisco. i hear from people all the time what a great idea and new innovation they want to do. then they are confronted with bureaucracy at city hall.

it is such an incredible challenge. san francisco has loan programs in place that help people through our office of economic and workforce development. we have issued more than 20 million dollars with 90 4% repayment rate, which is incredible. these loans have estimated to create 1300 jobs. this includes our revolving loan fund, the fund provides low interest loans with flexible terms and support for small businesses that help to keep them stable and to help them grow. with my proposed budget, we are adding an additional $1 million to this incredible program. this funding will support city sponsored small business loans that will help more small businesses to get out and run and create more job opportunities. finally a small businesses grow

and thrive, sometimes they need key improvements. one like we were able to do right here at café international , which is now a.d.a. accessible, and i'm so excited about that. even though people have always found a way to get in there and get their coffee and their snacks regardless of the barriers that existed, but heck, why not make it easier. so part of our investment will include new things like awnings and doors and windows, and upgrades to interiors, new equipment, or improvements to me businesses a.d.a. compliant so that people with disabilities can access those businesses easily. through our invest in neighborhoods and the s.f. sign program, we have business -- we help businesses cover some of the costs to make these upgrades because when our businesses shine, our communities shine. that is why i am committed to providing an additional and this year's budget $2 million this is

with specific focus is in the excelsior, the bayview, the lower fillmore, and right here on the street. we know that when we make the small business investments that our community succeeds. let's say, you open a business and you go through the registration process and many of your small business owners have told me of these experiences and only to have the doors shut in your face because of what you did or didn't have, and you're told you will have to pay hundreds of dollars for a permit or a fee that you didn't even know existed if you are a small business owner, right -- raise your hand if you have encountered that. exactly. if those registers -- for a permit for the fire department, for who knows what else and i

want to be clear that these fees that the city charges is not intended to make doing business in san francisco harder, but we know that that is something that we need to address, so i was really determined with what i heard from small businesses to eliminate all city fees, but my staff wouldn't let me do it. so instead, until we can basically do the report, do some more investigation, determine what is needed, in the meantime, i'm allocating in this year's budget, $2 million in funding for relief for small businesses for refunds for some of those fees that we know are challenging for people to do business. with our proposal, we estimate that more than 8,000 businesses,

almost 9,000 businesses will qualify from some sort of reimbursement for certain fees that have really impacted our small businesses, and it may seem like a small amount, but it will make a difference in our ability to allow small businesses to have the kind of support that they truly deserve, until we can eliminate the fees. when i think back, growing up in san francisco, i remember the small businesses. i still go to the same drycleaners that i have been going to since i could even afford a dry cleaner, i am still going to the same nail shop and the person who does my hair, my same dentist since i have had teeth. and when i think about san francisco, what i want to protect is what makes us a special and diverse city. it is our neighborhood. it is our small businesses, it is like knowing you can go to zara and she can basically give you advice on how to take care

of your kids, how to discipline your kids, how to take care of your mom and give you a cup of coffee at the same time. this is what this is about and protecting businesses are so important we are also going to invest an additional $4 million in grants for small businesses. grants to provide additional support for small business and nonprofit that want to relocate in places where we have a number of vacant storefronts. because we know that is another challenge that exists in our communities where you know that there are vacant storefronts and there is difficulty in accessing those storefronts. we have to do more, as i said, to make the kinds of investment that not only provide, you know, the support and get rid of the layers of bureaucracy, but we also have to provide the financial investments that are going to help businesses get into business, but also stay in

business. these are some of the largest investments ever made in this city to support our small business community, and we still know that there's more work that we can do to better improve what is happening in san francisco, especially when we make decisions, when we make policy decisions, and unfortunately sometimes, we lose a small business because of his bad policy decisions. as we work through the bureaucracy, as we work through making the kinds of changes that are going to make things better for small businesses, this is a first step towards demonstrating that we are committed to supporting our small business community, and we are here to receive feedback in other ways in which these programs are working and making a difference in your communities, and of course, there is still more that we know we need to do, but this is the beginning of what i think is a bright and prosperous future for our small businesses

in san francisco, and i want to thank all of you for being here today. and someone who has been an incredible small business champion on the board of supervisors, who is working on legislation around vacancy controls, who is working on making sure that we have opportunities to have more legacy businesses, and funding for those legacy businesses, which is equally important, is a committed former resident, but now living in another part of d5 , but you all remember her, because she used to pick up trash in front of your businesses, that is why we know, and we love vallie brown because of her commitment to the residents of district five. ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, vallie brown. [applause]. >> thank you. i really appreciate everything you were doing, giving the funding forward so we can actually address these issues. i guess you i will have to

legislate things to get that done, but i really feel that in these times when small businesses are struggling, the city needs to step up and do better. we need to make sure that streamlining, when people get in , trying to open their businesses, it doesn't take them a year and a half to pay rent and open a business if they want to have a couple of businesses able to go into one bigger space , that should be easy for them. we need to make it easy. in these times are we have amazon and all the other home deliveries, we need to make it easy for businesses to not only survive, but to prosper. this was personal for me because i lived in the lower hate for 20 years. it is my heart. i have to join you -- tell you, at café international, over 15

years ago, and the patio, that is where we started the first neighborhood association. we also started the first merchant's association. we argued about how many trees should we plant, and how many bar crawls should we have to get those money -- the money to plant the trees. all of this, the merchants were there, the merchants came forward with the residents, and said, your priorities are our priorities. the whole foods across the street, that is the original whole foods, everybody. there we are. yes, mike's barbershop has been there since the sixties, zara and café international, 27 years , has she been serving coffee to the neighbors, giving them advice, and also listening to their issues, and ricky records, two jacks, from 20 years plus. i mean this is the kind of

businesses that we want and that we crave. when i say to my friend, let's meet for coffee or dinner, i don't say, come to my house, i say let's meet in the corridors. they are the extension of our living room. they are an extension of our home. when we go out, i want to be somewhere when i feel like i am at home. where i can talk to mike at the barbershop or others. i can't imagine not being able to go out my front door and go to a store that i love, or a café that i love and then i can meet my friends, so i am here today to say, all of a sudden, we weave ourselves in the fabrics of these neighborhoods, and we need to be -- we need to support our merchant corridors because they are part of our home. i know you are nervous, but i told her, just pretend she is

behind the counter, giving advice, and speak from the heart i want to thank everyone here today, and i, as your supervisor , will be working on creative ways, legislating them, to make it easier for merchants, and to make sure our corridor thrives. thank you. i will introduce her. because she has given me advice many times. and even though i moved, i still come in here, and after a busy day, i sit there and say, tell me what is real. i will have few tell her what is real right now, and your beautiful café, after the renovation, it is amazing. i want you to come up and tell it from the heart. thank you.

>> thank you, mayor breed and supervisor brown for the introduction and for coming to café international for this very important announcement. through the mayor and supervisor vallie brown in the office of economic and workforce development, café international, we have received a lot of money. our beautiful interior and exterior, with has a san francisco shine. café international is not only a community hub. with the health and support in the city and the mayor, we continue to serve our community and keep it healthy and vibrant. mayor breed, thank you. supervisor vallie brown, thank you for all your support.

these two people saved the café. thank you. and thank you everybody, and come and get coffee. [applause] >> now we will have comments from mario who is the president of the district council of merchants. >> good afternoon, everybody. mayor breed, thank you very much for having me speak here, and supervisor vallie brown, thank you for all you have done for this neighborhood. this is kind of my stomping grounds when i was younger, and i'm proud to say that as president of the council of district merchants, it is a member of the council as well as upper. the council stands to represent those who are underrepresented, as the mayor has said earlier, small businesses have been struggling. that doesn't mean we're down and out. we are not looking for a handout , but we do need to help

out. when times are tough, community -- communities need to get together. i commend the mayor for having that roundtable that you had a few weeks ago. she gathered many of us businesspeople together and she hurried as speak, not only did she hear us, but she listened. not only did she give our complaints and concerns, bed we told her what things we contributed to the community as a small business merchants. it is a symbiotic relationship. small businesses would not be there without the neighbors and the customers. we pretty much defined the neighborhood. most of us adopt our names based on our commercial corridor. it is something that is precious to us, it is unique to us, and if it is anything else other than that, then we become a suburb. then we are no longer a unique city called san francisco, which is one of the most desirable cities in the world. i would also like to say that i commend the mayor for not just listening to our needs, but

responding to them. when it comes to the shine program, when it comes to the revolving funds, and also the assistance with fees, sincerely, mayor brown, i thank you, because we were heard. it was a gesture. i hope it was just a start, and i hope if you need any help with that legislation, i've got your back on that, too, but the fact that we were heard, the fact that someone acknowledged that there is a problem, maybe we need a little bit of help, it goes a long way. i am one of those people that said, it is necessary, but also after that dialogue, we need some action, and we need follow-up. it is, it is a symbiotic relationship. we all grow together, we all sleep together, but it is important that we are heard and now we look forward to working together, not one-sided versus the other, but as one team holding hands and walking through this process together

because it does take a village. on that note, i laughed when i heard of her story because i too am an immigrant. i beat her here by about 25 years, and i've acclimated quite well, but i walked up and i started chatting with her, and she started chatting with me in arabic. or arabic was much better than mine, but what got to me is when the mayor mentioned that you came over there and she started to give advice, because 35 years ago, that was my mom and her little corner grocery store. should be sitting there giving these guys advice on how to run their marriages, their households, and a couple of them were esteemed attorneys and appointed judges on the federal court circuit, so it was kind of funny to see where some of our leaders know where to get the best advice. on that note, thank you very much. thank you for having me, and a look i look forward to working with you. thank you. >> thank you for being here. i also want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the

new head of the san francisco chamber of commerce, rodney phone, thank you for joining us here today, because it has to be about protecting and supporting our small business communities so we are all working together to do that. now that we are wrapping this up , a couple of things, get your food and your coffee from café international before you go back to work. if you need a haircut, mike will take care of you across the street. if you need groceries, you can go to whole foods, which is a local grocery owned place, and you will take care of their needs. everything you need before you go back to work, or you go home, it's right here in this neighborhood, at these incredible small businesses, usually staffed by the people who actually owned them and work day in and day out to take care of the people of this community. again, that is why we have to take care of them and make the right investment in our small businesses all over the city and county of san francisco so they cannot only survive, they can thrive, and we can be the city

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