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.

>> good morning and thank you for being here. today has been a long time coming and it is certainly a cause for celebration.

i'm glad to see so much support for our animals. we are joined today by some of our adoption partners, including sonoma reptile rescue, wonder dog, mutts ville, pause, as well as our largest partner, the san francisco spca. [applause] >> it takes a village to care for the 10,000 animals we taken every year, so we all worked closely together to save as many as we can, also joining us are our coworkers from across the city who help the shelter function. we are animal experts, so we are very dependent on our counterparts at city hall who keep us on the straight and narrow and pitch in from everything from accounting, to human resources, to legal advice , building management, everything else that keeps the shelter afloat.

nearly all of the walks and cuddles our animals receive every day come courtesy of our volunteers, who last year, devoted 27,000 hours of time to our shelter. [cheers and applause] >> we couldn't survive without them. we also have a very special group of volunteers, the board of friends of acc works tirelessly to develop partnerships between the shelters, the community, the business community, and helps raise funds to help support our efforts. last but not least, there is the a.c.c. staff, you every day take in stray pets, injured wildlife abused animals, and heal them as best they can. [applause]

>> in addition to animals, our team helps many people in the city, often on the saddest days of their lives as they look for a lost pet or grieve for a companion who has just died. today, we are breaking ground on a new home for all of the city's animals and the people who love them. we will no longer have a building that works against quality care. each animal will have some place to stretch. we will have forever outdoor play stations which means that bunnies will no longer have to share with the dogs. [laughter]. >> which is no fun for anyone, especially the bunnies. we will have ventilation systems that help fight the spread of disease, we will have isolation rooms so we no longer have to house nervous birds with sick

cats. as we approach the department's 40 it -- 30th anniversary, we can anticipate moving into a shelter worthy of the city of st. francis. the building would not have big -- become a reality without the efforts of many, including the board of supervisors, city administrator naomi kelly, the architects, engineers, and project managers at the department of public works who probably redesigned this building three times, sfmta, who agreed to trade buildings with us, and first and foremost, our mayor, please welcome, maryland and breed -- please welcome mayor london breed. [applause]. >> thank you, virginia, and thank you all for being here. believe it or not, i owned a lot of cats a long time ago. kitty one, kitty two, kitty three, kitty four, kitty five,

and jojo. it is something special about animals, and this is why we are all here today. we definitely get really attached to our pets, and honestly, i cry when my grandmother -- i cried when my grandmother wouldn't take -- wouldn't let me take kitty five to college. i think about our shared experiences of how animals make us feel, the love, the comfort, the excitement, and especially when you teach them new tricks, but we also know there are a number of challenges in our city sometimes, if an owner passes away, they have a pet, and there is no place for that pet to go. sometimes when we see animals that are stray and out on our streets, and they are injured, we have to make sure that they have a place to go, and animal care and control has been that place for over 30 years here in the city and county of san francisco, and in fact, because of the work and the support, and

the fundraising from the friends of the animal care and control, the ability to have so many incredible volunteers, and additional resources is why people care about making sure that we have a better facility so that we can accommodate so many animals, so many requests, and do what we know we can do better, and that is take care of animals here in san francisco when they can't take care of themselves. [applause] >> part of building a resilient city is making sure that our assets are seismically safe, and we know that the current building at 15th and harrison is efficient. it is cramped, and it may not survive the next earthquake, and we know it is not a matter of if there will be an earthquake in san francisco, it is a matter of when. when you look all around the country at the number of disasters that occur, and how

pets have been separated from owners, and what happens during that time, it is important that we are not concerned about the structure, that we are able to do the work, that people know that there animal, if found, will be brought to animal care and control, because we will have a seismically sound facility so the employees, the amazing staff of animal care and control can focus on doing their job and not necessarily on whether or not the rueful cave in. that is what this is about, and i want to thank everyone for being here today, but i also want to think the person who spearheaded this entire project and was really aggressive on the board of supervisors with ensuring that we invested the dollars necessary to get this project done sooner rather than later. supervisor, former supervisor katy tang. [cheers and applause]

>> who went on -- during her time on the board of supervisors , she would always, especially during the holidays, bring in a lot of cats, and i would go in there and be tempted to adopt, and then i would think , okay, i have to be able to feed the cat every day, can i feed the cat every day, but helps with adoption, helps with advocacy for animals in san francisco, and thank you for your really steadfast commitment on supporting this project, and now in two and a half years when you come back to cut the ribbon, you will see the fruits of your labor with all of the incredible people here today. thank you supervisor tang. and thank you to naomi kelly -- kelly, thank you to mohammed knew rue, and all the people who have played a critical role in making this project happen, but a special thanks to the community, to the volunteers who

have spent over 30,000 hours taking care of over 10,000 animals year after year after year, and the friends who continue to raise money, and raise awareness for this amazing project. this will be an absolute incredible facility, and i just wanted to acknowledge our new fire chief, janine nicholson, thank you so much for being here as well. [applause] >> please know that we are increasing the capacities of the fire marshal does not have to shut down the new space. we will have plenty of room and places for people to be. thank you everyone for being here today and your support for this amazing project. [applause] >> i almost forgot, also i forgot to thank the leader of animal care and control, thank you so much, virginia, for your hard work and your commitment. [cheers and applause]

>> and your steadfast leadership [applause]. >> and at this time, i want to bring forth our city administrator naomi kelly. [applause]. >> good morning. our mayor and director of a.c.c. , virginia don who basically said it all. this project is so important. it was one of the first projects i worked on when i became city administrator in 2012. i instantly realized when i went on a right along with one of the animal care control officers that a.c.c., the staff, the volunteers, they are all of the unsung heroes of the city. is the mayor mentioned, as virginia mentioned, animal care and control is truly first responders when it comes to getting animals off the streets, and then they have communicable -- communicable diseases, you don't hear about these diseases going from pets to humans, because they do great work. when there is an emergency, they're the ones making sure

folks are evacuating in a safe way, especially if you have many people who are pet lovers, and they don't want to leave without their pets. they have emergency plans around that. when their incidents with police and fire, and their people and buildings you don't want to leave because animals are there, or they are -- that are homeless encampments, and folks want to leave without their animals. animal care and control is there as the mayor mentioned, they are moving from just down the street , so they will still be in proximity with other animal agencies, and they're moving right here to build a building that is seismically safe. this is important to our capital plan because we are looking at all of our seismic safety of all of the building and as a reminder, the capital plan is a fiscally constrained document that looks at all of our infrastructure in a way that we prioritize what is seismically safe, what is sustainable, what will help with our city to make it vibrant and resilient.

i want to thank, as the mayor did katy tang, and your leadership on this. public works director, virginia donohue, and ed risk in from the sfmta. i also want to give a special thanks to our friends at a.c.c. who are doing so much and making sure we raise funds for behavior and training, foster program support, medical emergency fund, rabies and microchip supplies, marketing and outreach, food supplies, rescue partner grants, senior cat, baby cat supplements , and much more, and also the furniture fixtures and equipment center going into this building. i want to thank the board treasurer, volunteer dianne davis and christopher davis, a board member christina -- christina kizer, and dr. sue wong. your generosity extends past the groundbreaking in this official

opening. with that, i would also -- one last thing, i need to give a special thank you to park construction. they are the contractors working with public works on this. and in phase one, they have awarded -- contracted 24 business enterprises in the amount of $12.5 million, that is 33% of the contracting cost. [applause] >> of those who are working on this project, 149 workers are from san francisco, so thank you with that, i would like to introduce the former supervisor, animal care and control champion , katy tang. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. as i was telling some people here today, the only thing that will take me out of retirement from attending press conferences is something to do with animals. i am so excited to be here and

explain a little bit about how i got involved with animal care and control, and really wanting to see this facility rebuilt. aside from the fact that i grew up with a mother who was a vegetarian, at one point in our life, my dad said, i want a dog, and we were shocked that he all of a sudden in his life, in his early fifties or so wanted a dog , and so we went to animal care and control every weekend for four months straight to search for the perfect dog for him. in that process, i saw the facility first-hand at a.c.c., and it was heartbreaking to me, and then of course, working in the city took additional tours and learned that there's not enough space for animals being quarantined when some of them have diseases or illnesses. i mean i saw that animals had to be strapped to some of the banisters as they are doing intake, the elevator, i mean, don't even talk about that.

just the conditions that the employees had to work in where animals need to get x-rays as well, and there was improper shielding of the radiation in those rooms, so it is not just about the animals, but all the people who work at animal care and control and those conditions i think the conditions are really sad, and i'm so excited that we are standing here today to hopefully, and a very short amount of time, you will have a new building. but also the other thing, even to this day, a lot of people when i talk to them, they actually don't know that we, as a city, have an animal shelter. they are familiar with the different organizations and nonprofits that help with animals, but a lot of them -- you all know because you were all here, many of you don't know i think it is really important that in a city where we have an estimated more dogs and cats and other animals than we do children, that we really do have a world-class facility for them and their families. lastly, i will say that a.c.c. and the staff there, you do all

that work, and you take in the animals that other organizations , or whatnot, might not be able to take in. you take exotic animals, you take the wild strays, you also, yourself have to handle those that get killed on our streets, so you handle so much, and you are really deserving of a world-class facility. i'm excited to be here today, and thank you to every single person and department that made this happen. i'm looking forward to the ribbon-cutting. [applause] >> and of course, i have to introduce the next person who doesn't really need introduction , mohammed nuru. [applause]. >> thank you. it is always great to see you. i hope you are enjoying your life outside of city hall. i know that is how important this project is to you, and i'm so glad you're able to be here with us today. good morning, everyone.

i serve as your public works director, and just like everyone else, i'm very happy to be here today, even with the wet weather , seeing how many people are out here shows as how important this project is to so many people and of course, the animals. today is an exciting day for our city, and an exciting day for san francisco animal care and control. we are celebrating the start of unique project, and it brings me great pleasure and joy that public works will be overseeing the design and construction of the project. it is not every day in san francisco that a modern structure more then a century ago. that is what is happening right here. the new animal care and control facility. the new shelter will be built with the original brick warehouse behind me, the building was constructed in 1893

and served as the original market street railway corporation. it is eligible for listings on the state national registry and historic basins. it served as a maintenance facility for the sfmta overhead lines. the reuse of the building will be an elegant nod to the city's pass that serves the needs of the 21st century san francisco that historic brick face and wooden frame windows will remain intact, while the interior will be transformed into a state-of-the-art, multilevel facility billed to serve the needs of san francisco for many years to come. as mayor breeden said, we must think about the future of san francisco today, and there's no better way to do so by investing in capital improvements to our infrastructure. public works is proud to be working with clark construction and the many people who will be working on the projects.

thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. we are going to do the ceremonial gravel shovel thing, and then we are done. there is tons of delicious food that clark brought that is right outside, food and drinks, and we hope you all stay around for a bit and enjoy each other. >> five, four, three, two, one! [cheers and applause] >> there we g

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