in 2015, the city did not have the data we have today which clearly demonstrates that heart trouble and heart attacks are serious hazards for firefighters and police officers and are more often than not a direct result of their condition under their -- that they work under. i want to thank my colleagues, safai, stefani, walton, and yee. i also have an inmemory -- in memoriam for wayne woods, or as we called him, speedy. wayne was a long-term community activist in the western

addition. he loved his community, and he was well loved in return. speedy got his name because of his outstanding track skills. speedy was a viet nam war veteran, and during his time in viet nam, he experienced tragedies that profoundly changed him. when he returned to san francisco, he worked on organizing and strategizing for the betterment of black life. he helped organized a strike at san francisco state university. this strike aimed to address racist policies and procedures and the pay of faculty on campus. because of speedy's activism, it led to the first pay equality program in the country.

he also oversaw community efforts to develop low-income housing and preserve black home ownership during the time of redevelopment. he guided the development of the 100% owned and operated victoria square complex located at sutter and fillmore streets. he also helped save many victorian homes owned by african americans, and because of this, many of the african americans were able to stay in their homes. at the bright young age of 24, he ran for a position on the board of supervisors. speedy had a huge heart and a great sense of humor, and he really loved his family and community. he leaves behind many loved

ones. speedy, we will miss you, and thank you for your amazing service to the western addition-fillmore communities. and there's two events that are happening this week in the western edition fillmore that speedy was always there and involved. one is the san francisco black film festival that starts on wednesday, june 12, and goes through sunday, the 16. and the 16th year of june tetee juneteenth, and it's on sunday at 6:00 p.m. i hope everybody goes. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor fewer? thank you. supervisor haney?

>> supervisor haney: thank you. i want to thank my colleagues, supervisors ronen, walton, mar, brown, and yee for supporting our efforts and vision to provide universal mental health care for all. i also want to thank all of the community members, experts, and leaders in the substance use and mental health field that have assisted us with this legislation. there would be a surtax on c.e.o.s, and tax on the company's gross receipts is estimated to generate $100 million annually to fund the overhaul of san francisco's mental health and substance use treatment systems, estimated at $70 million in new annual costs.

this is based on a similar program that has been implemented in portland, oregon. similar resolutions have been considered in several states. there's also a history of funding mental health services through progressive taxation. prop 63, the mental health services act of 2004, was funded through a 1% income tax on personal income tax in excess of $1 million. corporations recently received a massive windfall under the trump administration's tax reforms which slashed the tax bracket from 34% to 21%. large corporations in california were able to keep an extra estimated $13 billion to $17 billion a year. this is a fair measure tax, asking companies that are making some of the highest profits to give a little bit

more to get people with mental illness off the streets and into care. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. it has been nearly a quarter century since the city of san francisco to demand treatment on policy.

[please stand by]. >> supervisor mandelman: more than a decade later, in 2008, voters passed proposition t, reiterating the city's commitment to the policy and requiring the department of health to submit an annual report to this board assessing demand for substance use treatment and requiring that the city budget include follow-upping to -- funding to fund the plan. for years, a hardy and irrepressible group of experts have pushed the city to make investments in behavioral health services and treatment, and finally with this mayor and this board, the city may finally be hearing the call.

last year's d.p.h. budget finally increased funding for substance use treatment to $81.5 million, and the mayor's proposed budget for 2019-20 increases that to $89.6 million, which amounts to a 20% increase over twoers i can't. earlier this year, the mayor and this board added 100 new treatment beds, and the mayor's budget includes 100 more, the most significant increase in a generation. many of us on this board have done deep work on where and how to improve our treatment system.

i i believe we all bear a deep commitment to fix mental health systems and the community in which they live. as we move forward with new initiatives, it's important to understand where we've been. if you want to deliver on the treatment of efficacy on demand, support the sobriety of those successfully completing treatment and reduce harm to those who do not in the communities in which they live, there are no easy shortcuts, we need to come to the table together, do the work, understand why and how we haven't been successful, and identify opportunities for success. with a new director of public health and a new director of public health reform, a meth task force taking a deep dive on the particular challenges of meth addiction, and a mayor and board singularly focused on mental health and substance abuse, this moment presents a

unique opportunity to do that work. i want to extend a sincere thank you to the incredible folks on the treatment on demand coalition who have been working tirelessly on this issue for many years and who have been partnering with my office and supervisor stefani's office for bringing this forward. i want to thank my legislature aide -- legislative aide for her work on this, and i believe that supervisor stefani wants to say a few words on this. >> clerk: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i am pleased to join supervisor mandelman on this. these are issues that i am personally connected to in many different ways. i've seen firsthand how they impact individuals and families, and i am personally committed to working to create policy that helps those with addiction who need our help. san francisco first passed a resolution to address the desperate need of substance

abuse treatment almost 25 years ago. treatment on demand was followed by a dramatic increase in funding and still the program fell short of its goal. as we continue to grasp the ongoing mental health and substance abuse crisis in our city, i think it's important that we take stock of all of our resources and all that we are currently doing, including what we are doing well and what we are doing not so well. we need a better understanding of why, despite our best efforts, overdose deaths are at historic highs. this is why i'm pleased that mayor breed introduced dr. bland as the city's first advocate and as we continue to work to improve our city's response to the mental health and substance abuse crisis we face, i believe it is

incredibly important to bring everyone to the table on what services we are offering and how we can improve. we must not just bring together the mental health community and working in those departments, but those if recovery and what worked for them. i want to thank again the treatment on demand coalition for their thoughtfulness on this subject. too often, we talk about what is happening on the streets and what we are doing wrong, but we don't look at what is working. we so often hear about the addicts on the streets that are taxing our systems, but rarely do we hear about the people who are in recovery, leading productive lives, and staying sober. addiction is a mysterious disease. some people don't understand that it's a disease and can't understand why a person can't just have one glass of wine or it happen just using heroin. when i was thinking about these talking points, lady gaga came

to my mind, and i thought, am i really going to say lady gaga at the board of supervisors. she said something about the oscars, and she was talking about the movie, "a star is born" where bradley cooper was obviously someone suffering from substance abuse. she said, you know, we've got to take care of each other. if you see somebody that's hurting, don't look away. and if you're hurting, even though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and tell somebody. i say that because when people are ready, they need someplace to go. if you don't understand addiction, you don't realize that it takes a long time for people to get ready, if they ever do. it is so extremely difficult for people to admit that a life

without alcohol would be okay, that a life without drugs would be okay. people don't think they can live without their drug of choice, and we have to be able to provide a place where they know, when they are ready, that we will provide that for them. so i am pleased with supervisor mandelman to call for a hearing for treatment on demand, understanding the current resources and what is working, and what is critical in reaching the populations we haven't yet been able to serve. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor mandelman. that concludes your introduction. >> supervisor mandelman: the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: thank you, colleagues. today i'm introducing senate bill 343. thank you to supervisors peskin, brown, and haney for cosponsoring the resolution.

s.b. 343 would require health care rate and data disclosure across the financial industry in the expectation that this will fully inform health care purchasing decisions by businesses, companies, and consumers. s.b. 343 eliminates provision in health insurance rate filing requirements that permit kaiser to report medical trend in a different form than other health plans. currently, kaiser's plans is 40% of the california insurance market, and not having that data means that other institutions, employers, workers, and consumers are disadvantaged in this data held by kaiser. s.b. 343 is currently backed by

many groups, and i look forward to adding our city's support. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: madam clerk, colleagues, i rise not to introduce a piece of legislation. i'll submit my legislation, and i do want to do an in memoriam, but i wanted to address an issue that's been percolating in various conversations around the board, something that we all and the mayor genuinely care about, which is providing the path to affordable housing. and there are many ways to reach that goal, but i am most concerned in doing something that is in thoughtful collaboration where we can adjust over time and fix mistakes and perfect programs

and legislations and will ultimately be good for the best public policy that we can collectively come up with. without undermining the checks and balances that are enshrined in our constitution which i think we should be very careful with -- i am concerned -- and i say that with all due respect to our mayor -- in tinkering with the charter. we've before through this before, and i think in 2012, our colleagues made a mistake by putting that in the charter where it could not be increased in good times and decreased in bad times. in 2018, i teamed up with supervisor kim, and we went to the ballot, and we removed that. but by the time the voters

voted to remove over 1,000 sites of on-site inclusionary housing, and a lot of -- we all voted or many of us who were on the board voted to stream line

100 -- [inaudible] >> supervisor peskin: -- was declared to be infeasible because the mayor's office of housing, with the best of intents, doesn't want to invest in that small a site, and because what we all hear relative to the projects that we bring along, which is that there's no money. and i think that is why we're having a conversation about a $600 million affordable housing bond. resources do matter, funding d does matter, and i think we all hear that funding is one of the primary if not the primary issue. as i said, we're not only committed to an affordable housing bond, but i think many of us are committed to including a special category for educator housing. and i differentiate that from

teacher housing because when i say educator housing, that includes paraprofessional housing, and actually a huge part of the san francisco workforce that makes significantly less money. when you look at the money that former school board member, our colleague, sandra fewer, reminded me of today, 50% of new teachers leave the sfusd within five years because they can't afford to live here. so affordability levels do matter, and who we're building for does matter. there's a reason the proposed charter separates 100% affordable housing from teacher housing, and i want to come up with a definition that has a broader a.m.i. span and

includes the paraprofessionals. the mayor said she would like the government to be flexible and effective, which i think is counter to locking these things in the charter. then, there's no ability to fix things. i think i've been clear about that, and i don't want to do ballot box fixing. it generally comes back to bite us. it is the season, it is the official ordinance season, it is the charter season, and it is the season of intrigue, and next friday is the last day for four members of this body or the mayor, with her signature, to put something on the ballot. when i was a supervisor, that was crazy intrigue. nobody knew who was going to drop in what into the hopper at 4:59. i worked to create the system

that we have now, where you have to have at least some public hearings, and i think it's made the process a lot better. but what i fundamentally believe, whether we're the board or the mayor is to get the job done in these chambers as collaboratively as possible. i think the ballot is the court of last resort. yeah, if you want to change the charter, that's where you have to go, but i prefer to get the job done here by ordinance, having said that, the discussions that i've heard recently is that mayor breed is considering putting something on the ballot. maybe some of you know what it is. i have not been consulted. i don't know what it is, but if it is around streamlining educator housing, i think we can do that here at the board. having said that, i've been to

this rodeo before. as a matter of fact, when we got into the intricate details of getting out of the charter -- in the ensuing weeks and months, we were actually able to withdraw our initiatives so that neither one of them went on the ballot, and we all got together, supervisor safai, supervisor kim, then-board president london breed, and we actually worked it out, and we came up with an ordinance that passed 11-0 and is the law of the land now. so to that end, i am publicly suggesting that the big-tent collaborative approach is better. having said that, i am working on a ballot measure that i

think will enjoy the support of not less than three and not more than four of my colleagues in the coming week if for no other reason than to create a place holder so that we can have that negotiation and hopefully end up with neither initiative ordinance on the ballot, without the charter amendment on the ballot, and with us doing the best public policy at this board, hopefully by unanimous vote. finally, i would like to adjourn this meeting in the memory of hope wiseman eisenberg, who was a lifelong teacher in the san francisco unified school district and my neighbor and a lovely person that i had coffee with at the same cafe for the last 30 years. she retired only to pass away way too soon, and my

condolences to her husband, who many of us know, neil eisenberg, who once ran for city attorney, and the rest, i will submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor peskin. sorry for your loss. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you. today, i'm proposing a resolution to honor virginia ramos, fondly known as the tamale lady. her legacy lives on, and ensures that she is forever held in san francisco's memory. she was born on june 23, 1953, in mexico. virginia emigrated to san francisco with her seven children to escape a life of poverty and abuse and to give them a new life. she sold her homemade tamales

in the mission district using an old family recipe. she became an institution not just due to her tamales, but to her caring attitude. she touched the hearts of countless residents by taking time to speak with them and hear their woes, often giving candid advice and always offering warm hugs. this has been a labor of love together with a wonderful group of people who are committed to keeping her spirit alive. cecil, monica, zamir, dunphora, are wonderful supporters. it's also been an honor to work

with virginia's daughter. the tamale lady contributed to her community, and serving the best tamales that could be found on the streets of san francisco. it's my honor to submit this resolution in her memory, and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor ronen. supervisor safai? okay. thank you. supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you. i would like to close today's meeting in memory of quentin

r riggins who passed away last nig night. by all accounts, he was a kind and energetic leader, he was a positive, thoughtful and sensitive man. it's a loss that he will no longer be able to share his talents with the world. my condolences go out to his parents as they go through what will be the most painful time of their lives. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor stefani. i am sorry for your loss. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you. sululagi was a long-time activist in san francisco. as an original member of the mission rebels, who fought

street violence in urban neighborhoods, sulu worked hard across all communities to stop senseless violence. he lost his own son in 1984 to a drive-by shooting after playing basketball with his church. a park in district 9 is named after his son because that's where he learned to play basketball. as a former executive director for the samoan community center, sulu worked to bring 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