communities together through generations. he implemented programs to get kids off the streets and into programs that mentored them to create positive impacts for the community as a whole. sulu was also passionate about justice, and he dedicated his life to bridging the reciprocal relationships between youth and the elderly and working to make change from the inside and out to create peace in our communities. sulu was also a former member of the housing authority commission, the southeast working group, street violence prevention committee, and served as a liaison with former mayor newsom's office. he also worked with sfmta with the muni transit assistance

committee. he will be deeply missed by the city and county of san francisco and the community at large. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor walton. sorry for sulu's passing. mr. president, seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president yee: very good. let's go to item 25. >> clerk: at this time, the public may now address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on the items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, to include the minutes from april 30, 2019, may 7, 2019, and the may 8 special meeting minutes of the budget and finance committee. items 26 through 28 on the adoption without reference to committee calendar are also items you may comment on, but no other items on the agenda may be commented on as they

have already had their public comment satisfied at a committee. direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members and not to the audience, please. if you're using interpretation assistance, you'll be allowed twice the amount of time to testify, and if you'd like to display a document on the overhead projector, just place it on the overhead camera and remove it when you'd like the screen to return to life coverage of the meeting. >> president yee: okay. first speaker, michael? >> i'm going to tell you, you talk about rehabilitation, you want to help the most vulnerable people, i'm going to tell you, the way that you keep doing the same rotation of the same problem over and over and over again, it's been about 45 years since i had a can of beer. i quit drinking by myself without going to a rehabilitation center, but the way that i watched you treat the most economically

disadvantaged people of the city of san god damn francisco, you should be ashamed of yourself. as i demonstrated to you, the best way to treat people in housing is to provide permanent housing for them. i showed you how to get an apartment building complex of 144 units for $56 million and another unit of 1 -- 86 units for $57 million. you could place these units at the locations of your navigation center. now i'm asking you, which technique is the best to take care of the homeless problem in the city and county of san francisco. my technique to get a bigger bang for your god damn buck or what you want to do? those aren't bed, those are the

same type of living conditions that you have when you're under the supervision of the god damn sheriff's department. and about this city college, you talk about it's a good deal, this guy here, this chancellor lied. when he made his demonstration, he said he was $11.5 million in debt. turns out he's $32 million in debt. and you want to do this ten years. ten years times $32 million, that's $320 million in debt. >> president yee: okay. thank you. next speaker. >> on behalf of the coalition for chinatown station only, we're here to express our deep disappointment at your passing the resolution urging m.t.a. to name the chinatown station after rose pak, a divisive and

controversial figure. some of you may have been friends are rose pak and see one side of her. we're only asking that you consider this issue objectively, and that she may have had a much darker side as evidenced by other people's encounters with her, f.b.i. reports, and media reports. we believe naming the chinatown station after rose pak goes against san francisco policy which states that m.t.a. may de deny any ordinance that promotes a particular religious or view or is not in the best interests of the sfmta or its customers. we believe that most san franciscans would agree that naming a public subway station

after such a political power broker is not in the best interests of san francisco or its citizens. people are very disappointed in the board of supervisors june 4 vote. they believe that this resolution has been dividing the community and not uniting it. since the resolution, pak's organizations have been flexing their muscles and threatening less powerful groups in chinatown. it's creating a social disturbance. as representatives of the community, you must think -- >> president yee: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is daniel.

it is not good to name public places after controversial people. not long ago, the city's recreation and park commission voted to remove the name justin hermann from the plaza at embarcadero whose policy shaped a modern san francisco but also wiped out an entire community. according to the news report on november 17, 2017, supervisor aaron peskin introduced a resolution on the opinion that

hermann's legacy -- [inaudible] >> -- that he believed it was time to turn the page on the public, that it was time to turn the page on naming the central subway station after rose pak. creating more conflict, wasting taxpayers' money, and wasting everyone's time. please follow the example that the department of parks and recreation. it's final decision of a committee and won't remember a highly divisive figure.

thank you so much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors. i'm a resident in district 3. i would like to respond to supervisor peskin's comments as well as his aide's comments at the m.t.a. meeting last week. more than 8,000 san franciscans have signed their names on the petition against the rose pak naming proposal, along with more than 400 chinatown merchants. oppositionals who come from the chinatown merchant association, the chinatown neighborhood association, and the chinese consolidated benevolent association which represents 90% of the chinatown family associations among many other

organizations. this organization has deep roots that need to be heard. they represe they represent a large group of community members she directly discriminated against. this is certainly not a religious issue, but we cannot discredit the speerpss and views of a vast group of the san francisco community because of their religious beliefs. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> mr. president, more and more

in these chambers, it's becoming a joke when anybody comes to this podium during public comment, that time is sacrosanct, and if you supervisors want to do your sidebar talk, go outside and talk. don't stand there and disrespect us. so i'm saying this at one time because human beings would come here and speak and we'd get three minutes. now, we get two minutes and we have to watch some people act like fools over there. if you want to join the circus, go ahead and join the circus, but don't have your sidebar talks while the people are speaking. having said that, in our schools today in san francisco, more and more violence. we have children in grade 1

assaulting other children. we have a supervisor who knows about this, but he doesn't do anything about it. we have other serious problems. there are seniors who are homeless or jailed. i want you, supervisors, to go to our jails and see why are our seniors in jail. now you, supervisors, i don't know when you will behave yourselves, but i'm telling you, if you don't want to represent the constituents of san francisco, then step down. let somebody else come and do the good work. representation means serious, being serious, being educated on issues. thank you very much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker.

>> good afternoon. my name is eva lee. i'm speaking on behalf of the chinatown merchant association and myself, a native san franciscan. my family owned at one time 8 stores on grant avenue in the 1960's. our lee family has been blessed and we've given back to our community, thousands, if not millions back to chinatown community. the chinatown community supports the name of the chinatown subway stop to chinatown stop. we concur with the chinatown community that that stop should not be named after rose pak due to her controversial

experiences. many of us have had experiences, including my father, who experienced death threats because of her view on the embarcadero. we realize that rose pak played a significant role in the subway funding, but what about those merchants that supported the funding? shouldn't they be supported, as well? in short, a lot of the chinese community have remained silent because they're scared, but i ask you this. chinatown has been around for 50 years. it's going to be around for 50

years more. we ask that you respect and honor our chinatown community, not by making the chinatown central subway station one person -- >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, honorable president supervisor. my name is peter liu, resident of san francisco. i'm here today against naming new chinatown subway station after rose pak. chinatown has over 100 years of history. everyone knows chinatown. there are so many names that we can honor and recognize, but we should not name any controversial name for this new subway station. we just want to see the new subway station named chinatown. thank you. >> president yee: thank you.

next speaker. >> i am peter, i am the brother from the east, commanding the 40-day construction, by this strawberry full moon, it's been given we're going to be shutdown, it will be shutdown, this bread and circus called sports and all the airports, so thee people, i want to ask, shall we continue fighting amongst ourselves? 5,000 years of religious deception. go ahead and google your noodle, rabbi gabriel cousins to the obscenes. regarding coronaries for firefighters and law enforcement, easy peasy, you go to the daniel's diet, the

biggest, some of the most powerful athletes in prosports are on the daniels diet. forces formulation, formed pharmaceuticals, and an insane spirit that stifles the spirit? you want to fix it with drugs and jail? no. i think it's time that the veterans step up with the students and shutdown this west coast, and your key sign will be when the airports and prosports are shutdown, as they will be. and what about rose pak? why aren't the people here -- why aren't the chinatown people stepping up on behalf of shrimp boy chow? i know who has been bought off. the power's with the strike. pay no mortgages, pay no rents.

some hard-core requestings supporting aaron peskin. no rents for two or three months, and then, you agree to pay 25% of what it was before. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. dear president of the board and the supervisors. we understand supervisor peskin had a very close, personal relationship with rose pak, but that is the perspective of only one individual. the chinatown subway is a public facility, and the best interest of the community need to be the business of naming any public facility. to my knowledge, naming a subway station after any

individual has not been done before in san francisco for numerous reasons, including the division that such a naming would inevitably cause. i would hope you would overturn the president after naming a station after an individual that impacted so many people in a negative way during her time. if even a fraction of these accusations are true, it is enough to rule out rose pak for consideration for such an honor. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, dear supervisors. i just want to continue with the previous speakers. many merchants in chinatown can't leave their stores to come here, but they wanted us to have their thoughts. they're very disappointed with the board of supervisors vote

on june 4. they felt this resolution divides the chinese community even further, rather than creating unities. the proposal to name the subway station against rose pak. it is creating a social disturbance in the chinese community. as representatives of the community, you must think for the overall benefit of the community and weigh the considerable negative impacts that naming the station after rose pak will have. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> president yee and supervisors, my name is michelle linn. i'd like to thank you last tuesday for your time for comments, but i was very disappointed that you passed your resolution to name the

chinatown station after rose pak. to name the chinatown station after rose pak or just chinatown, which one will benefit the community? which one is more productive? which one will cost a lot of taxpayers' money? which one will hurt a lot of people, and which one will hurt nobody? it's very obvious which one will hurt nobody and serve the best interest of the public. the freedom of religion is the cornerstone of the united states. to put rose pak's name on the subway station is kind of totally against the core value of united states, so i urge you, supervisors to rescind this resolution that hurt so many people and hurt the value

that we live on. thank you so much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i don't know you, but i love you. that was virginia's catch phrase. it was also how she lived her life. she was a tamalera that sold tamales in the bars of san francisco. she was an open and nonjudgmental person who took him to provide counseling to her customers, her clients, she called him. i am a documentaryian who wrote a documentary about her, and i compiled a c.d. with 50 songs for her 50th birthday. i used these songs as a sound track for the documentary, "our lady of tamale," which was screened all over the world. the film captures the love that

her people had for her, and found that she found love by selling her tamales. she helped people navigate through personal problems and helped them get off chemicals, and helped them navigate difficult personal times in their lives. this is a way to celebrate the life of a true american success story, a way to spread her story of love and acceptance for all. thanks for helping keep her memory alive. i don't know you, but i love you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. if there's anymore public comments to be made, and you want to make them, please

lineup. >> tom gilberti, last three times, i spoke about policies that needed to be changed, starting with the -- from the 1950 walk softly and carry a big stick and whack whoever. on our freeways right now, we turned them into rivers of poison. just like a human being injecting heroin into their -- into their arm, every day, we commute. we're poisoning, we're doing the same thing to our children, and in the city here, we have these little buzzers, these -- what are they? ride -- rideshare, uber and lyft, is spewing their poison. unregulated, dropped on us, neoliberal policy, we'll break

it and fix it later. we're breaking our climate, disasters. navigation centers, what has happened to those? i -- i agree that housing is probably better, but if you're doing drugs and you're in housing or you're in a navigation center, we don't want you to do it in the neighborhood. safe injection sites, with a doctor, prescribing drugs that are safe, to be used on-site, maybe around the corner from mental health sites that we're trying to find a home for can help reduce the drug situation. on the street, it's a first step. add also a new experiment. if we can get by by doing this

as an experiment with our hospitals, that's great. psilocybin is making news. my 90-year-old mother, i wouldn't mind her taking a little dose of l.s.d. to clear her as she's getting ready to die. this can be part of an experiment again to help the people that are mentally broken and emotionally broken try to find a new home, find some stable and get together. now as far as housing, senior housing and homeless housing, it's dignity housing, and that's what we need to create, as simple as that. thank you for your time. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker.

>> hi. my name is maricela herrera, and i wanted to say thank you for considering my mom, and i appreciate it. my mom was a -- basically, our friend. she made something from nothing, and so i just wanted to share that with you. and when my -- my mom loved everybody. it didn't matter if you had money or not. it didn't matter if you are poor or rich or had good clothes or not. she just shared her love with everyone. one day, i asked her, because she had a t-shirt, and she said she saved lives with tamales. i said how can you save lives with tamales.

she said well, the areas that i go, a lot of people drink, and i say no, sit down. i'll give you some tamales, and she'd put a lot of hot sauce so they'd drink water and stuff. as time went by, she saw love feeding people and helping people because there were a lot of people that loved to see her, and she loved that because she didn't have anyone who loved her as a child. so i just wanted to share that with you. thank you. >> president yee: thank you very much. next speaker. >> honorable president mr. yee, what did you do with -- well any way, she'll be here shortly. honored members of the board of

supervisors -- what do you know, there's aaron? it's my sad duty to report -- there she is -- angela, look. mardi gras beads, no flowers. the business is dead. it's my sad duty to report there exists on the border of chinatown and north beach a dangerous threat to the safety of the united states. i've only been there two months. apparently my being allowed to rent a room had to do with being truskies. my father was a member of the

fourth revolutionary front. i maintained that all -- he maintained that all throughout the mckaercarthy era. being a socialist does not mean not loving your country. john jay ditto santino, he's either a conspiracy dupe. lulu has threatened me and has a drug fiend who's stealing from me. my girlfriend and i, we have many who we love who help us in -- >> president yee: thank you.

[inaudible] >> president yee: thank you very much. so seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call for the -- the for adoption without committee agenda, items 26 through 28. >> clerk: items 26 through 28 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. a unanimous vote is required for resolutioned on first reading -- resolutions on first reading. alternatively, any member may request an item to go to committee. >> president yee: okay, would any of my colleagues like to sever any items? okay. colleagues, seeing none, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, the

adoptions and resolutions are adopted unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please read the in memoryams. >> clerk: on behalf of supervisor stefani for the late clinton wiggins, on behalf of supervisor brown, for the late speedy woods, and on behalf of supervisor mandelman, for the late hope eisenberg. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> president yee: okay. sorry to say, we're adjourned.

as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family

tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps u.s us connects to the

people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they

are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of tim times they don't

represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three

different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to

join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and

brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. the common

my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work

with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone

callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the

toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in

other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only

handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or

things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. whawhat do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the a with the enou- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i

didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show.

>> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for i am doing the right thing for

[gavel] >> good morning. welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, jun. our clerk is mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. quintanilla, could you please call the roll. >> commissioner brown? >> brown present. commissioner haney? haney pre