in. madam clerk. >> yes, mr. president. roll call for introductions? >> yes. >> supervisor stephanie, you're first up to introduce new business. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i would like to close today's meeting in memory of barack otabi at the lillian school. he passed away after an accident swimming off the beach. he was a promising young man and i know his academic talents would have taken him far and he was a beloved member of the community and they reel from this loss. but modernly, he was the kind of man he was growing into. by all accounts, he was a kind and energetic leader, a positive thoughtful and sensitive young man and it's a loss he will no longer be able to share his gifts with this world. his success in san francisco is

a testament of the bravery of his parents who are immigrants from ethiopia. i know there are not any words take away the pain but i want to extend my deepest condolences to his family. his loss will be felt for years and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor walton. >> thank you. >> supervisor yi. >> yes, i would like to close today's meeting in memory of johanna frugui. she was the first person with a disability to attend the public school system in her native greece. she was really a trail-blazer from the start. she's a graduate of cal berkley

and pursued advocacy work at the well institute on disability. the pacific ada centre and the city of sacramento before joining the office 13 years ago. in this time, joanna played a leading role in ensuring that san francisco's implementation of the americans with disabilities act was consistent with our city's progressive values. as a dedicated employee and as a woman with a disability, joanne thashe wasa strong believer thrh education and training. her worked helped to ensure san francisco moves closer to inclusion and through social participation of all deaf and disabled people. joanna developed the city's first ever ada coordinator's

training academy and was equally passionate about employment, transportation and disaster planning for people with disabilities. most recently, joanna's personal testimony about what it is like to be working professional, be a working professional and a mother with disability helped to move sb1376. the transportation network company accessibility for all acts from an idea to a signed piece of legislation in 2018. thussethus says ensuring demand transportation if the near future, just as non-wheelchair users do now. most of us, though, joanna's love for her family and kids were central to her life. she is survived by her husband,

mike, and their children melina, malcolm and renica, as well as her brother, sister and parents. she taught them the values that she lived by, that disability, equity and culture must be continually recognized and never separated from race and class. and that the voices of people with disabilities must always be heard. her unique style and approach and her humor will never be forgotten. there will be a community gathering and celebration of joanna's memory on thursday, june 27, at 4:00 p.m. at the asian art museum on the second floor. the rest i submit. >> thank you, mr. president. >> supervisor brown. >> yes, thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i am introducing a resolution today for the reorganization of the violence against women act of 2019.

thank you to supervisor stephanie ronansupervisors fory. this is a bill for domestic assault, dating violence and stalking. the new version includes meaningful improvements to victim's survivors protection, including expanding domestic violence and for transgender individuals in housing and protections in prison. this became law in 1994, but must be renewed by congress every few years. it is passed out of the u.s. house of representatives and awaits consideration by the u.s. senate. gender-based violence continues to be a major issue in san francisco. i highly encourage everyone to read the most recent family violence in san francisco report

released by the san francisco department on the status of women. recently, there are over 3,300 domestic violent cases reported to the san francisco police department and more than 17,000 shelter beds, nights provide to victims and survivors and also 22,000 domestic crisis calls to 9-1-1 and community-based service providers. we need congress to make it a priority to reauthorize this bull, stopping domestic and sexual violence and protecting victims must be our country's priority. this is common sense legislation that deserves our support to protect women, transgender, people from all forms of violence. the rest i submit. >> soup store fuer. >> we refer, please. >> supervisor hain earthquakes. y. >> submit.

>> supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam clerk. a memorium and hearing request. i'm going to ask we ajourn our meeting in michael lip. he was born in new york city and earned a bachelor's degree and continued on to earn a masters at hunter college. while living in asuego. he lived in grenitch village and was at the rights for lgbtq. he began a career in social work that would span a half a century and was a psychotherapist and successfully advocated for ordinances and dsm regarding

mental health. he dedicated his career working as a social worker where he focused on developmental dis-ain'ts andisabilities. they were married twice, including in 2008, when the same-sex marriage was overturned and lake michael passed away lat month. for his 30 years in service to the city of san francisco, he bill be greatly missed and never forgotten. secondly, colleagues, today i am introducing a request for a hearingon the current state of worker rights in the gig economy. our city is the epicentre of the global tech economy and foster the the growth of some of that industry's biggest giants, including uber and lyft.

public policy has been throw so response and gig companies have reached that inaction. until now. as you are likely aware last spring the california supreme court issued a landmark ruling clarifying the test by employers to determine whether a worker is an independent consider or inder employee. that springens worker's classification standards that may result in many gig workers securing an employee status. this is significant implications for the business model so many gig companies rely on, a model based on maneuvering around labor laws with basic protection and benefits like healthcare,

workers compensation, paid parental leave and minimum wage. by classifying gig workers as independent contractors, the gig employers deprive gig workers of the federal and state labor laws, excluding workers from a right to form a union and this dynamic partly explains the unprecedented growth of gig companies and helps to explain why that has not been shared in that prosperity. in addition to court, state house and city halls are recognisedding the strong public policy rationale for minimum standards for gig worners. workers. last december, assembly bill 5 was introduced, expanding it to protect gig workers under all provisions under the labor code. they will have its first hearing in the state senate next month. colleagues, i expect that you will all agree that san francisco should be a part of

this conversation. our failure to effectively regulate gig work disproportionately affects low income people and it's more common in african americans and among whites. and more common among young adults than any other age group. gig workers chase high volume markets. offer workers come from around the bay area and as far as bakersfield or further. while a majority of these workers are doing this part-time, many are getting part-time jobs from below-minimum wage jobs to barely make ends week. the recent strike made headlines with workers sleeping in cars often just to cover the expenses of the cars they bought to drive

for the app. a lackment clear policy leaves many confused with drivers reporting they don't know how much they earn. and without sufficient pay or employer-provided benefits, many gig workers rely on public resources like food pantries and free health clinics. a 2018 study of tnc drivers in los angelos found 1-5 drivers rely on some form of public assistance. this is an issue that deserves san francisco's attention, specifically while the state legislation is contemplating change in our local gig economy. i look forward to discussing each of these issues at this hearing and would like to thank labor partners to bringing this forward including sciu 1021, the ww teamsters, jobs for justice, the gig worker's rights if rising and i want to think my cosponsor supervisor marr,

working on employment justice issues long before he joined this board and i believe we'll have a few things to say in a moment about this and i want to thank cosponsors, supervisor peskin, fuer, walton and brown and the rest i submit. >> thank you. soup storsupervisor marr. >> thank you for introducing the hearing on gig worker rights. i'm proud to cosponsor it and did want to offer brief remarks. fundamentally, the issue is about inequality, about unequal protections for workers in emerging industries and unequal pay and treatment for a growing and increasingly vulnerable workforce. the growth of gig workers has been fueled by a new technology and innovation. it offers new twists on old problems of economic injustice. technology and innovations should act in service to society

but we see our working class and regulations wholly disrupted by the gig economy, often to the benefit of a few in harm to many. let's be clear, organized labor built our middle class and fault for hard-won rights for working people and rights under threat for gig workers classifications denying tens of thousands of people the basic rights and protections. as new companies enjoy wealth and success, we new ensure the workers responsible for that success are treated fairly, transportly and equitablably and with this hearing, we'll take a long, har work at this pressing issue. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk. as i mentioned during my roll call last week, today is the last day for members of this body to submit something by

signatures to the ballot and i'll be hearing from a number of my colleagues but i wanted to thank three former presidents of the school board, who we've all worked collaborativety over the last several weeks and included the stakeholders when we talk about educator housing, namely the united educators of san francisco, as well as the council of community housing organizations in foraging a proposal that would dramatically expand affordable housing opportunities for educators by rezoning all lots over 10,000 square feet, removing the need for special authorization for those, rezoning public land that isn't parkisn't to allow for hoo open up several thousand more parcels for this kind of

affordable housing development, waiving density restriction and allowing planning code modifications to make 100% housing easier to build, creating an educator housing pilot programme and making an initial $20 million investment and streamlining educator housing projects with some of the same provisions that we all or many of us on the board at that time voted for with regard to 100% of affordable housing. i will leave the rest to my colleagues but i think it was a food collaborative effort and look forward to dialogues within this board of supervisors, for it will be scheduled for a public hearing, as well as with the executive branch of government and the rest i will submit. >> supervisor ronn. an. >> there playing supervisors who would like to speak to that. >> thank you, thank you president yi and madam clerk.

yes, colleagues and thank you supervisor peskin, i am pleased to be a sponsor of the affordable homes act. i think it incorporates exactly what we need to help expedite housing. as someone for generations of a family who have been educated through san francisco public schools, my husband and i are also graduates of city college of san francisco, i know firsthand how important educators in our public system is for san francisco and this actually helps to steamline the building of affordable housing for educators and also looks not only at public lands but private lands, too, that affordable housing can be built on. this goes farther than what the mayor was proposing in her

charter. this captures zoning so that it will permit 100% affordable housing on lots of 10,000 square feet for more. those places that have existing housing on them. this is part, i think, of a larger package that the board has been working on. we have voted as a board to dedicate funds to the building of 100% affordable housing and set aside money for it and now, what we need -- and we have categorized a special category for educator funding and we are putting $20 million into that and now, what we have before us is an opportunity to wrap it all together in a plan that includes the streamlining, it includes the rezone ang nozoning and nowe money and dedication. what we need now is the will to do it. and i think what you're seeing

here put forth is absolutely that. i wanted to say that what is great about this of affordable homes for educators and families, it doesn't tie your hands. this is not a charter amendment but a pilot programme. we have to tweak it and we have the flexibility to do so. we don't have to go back and submit another ballot. what this does is allow toss make changes as we see how this progresses and to make sure and ensure that the way we have designed this is actually meeting the targeted folks that we are building this for. so i look forward to your support. not only now but also at the ballot and now i believe my cosponsor and expresident of the board of education, as i was also, would like to make a few

comments about this. >> supervisor hainy. >> thank you, president yi and the board of education. there are few of us around here. thank you soup storthank you fon this as well as the hard work from your staff. this is a very important piece of legislation. i was reflect on it and reading over it and i truly do believe that it's one of the most sweeping, comprehensive in san francisco. this creates opportunities for housing in ways we have never seen before. many of us serving as school members worked hard to make sure this is possible and hopefully we have one project moving forward and this will create the opportunity for many, many hundreds of units which is what

we know we need. this was drafted in close partnership with our treatments and city college faculty. it's very important that if we say we're building educator housing we'ring to this with them and for them and they'll have access at all levels of income. this is an important part of this initiative. we know there are far too many parts of our city that do not allow for affordable housing to be built so this addressing zone physician addressing inaddresse. my colleagues will be impacted with the thousands of parcels available for affordable housing but this is real leadership in

terms of making it possible for affordable housing to built, to be funded, for the zoning to happen and to be built quicker. we're doing the streamlining in addition to the rezone. so all of these things will make huge changes to making it possible for more affordable housing to be built, teacher housing to be built, city, college, faculty and staff and educators of all types and i'm just excited to have worked with you all on this, as well as working with affordable housing developers, educators and other stakeholders who have gotten us to this point to put this forward and i hope it's something we can pass. as supervisor fuer said, really see through to make sure we get this housing built. >> supervisor peskin? other speakers? >> i relinquish the floor. >> then next up is supervisor

ronen. >> today i'm introducing along with cosponsors marr and walton a resolution in support of the red stone labour temple and ongoing struggle to keep the building for the community. the road ston red stone in the e mission was built with the san francisco labor council in 1914 and for more than 50 years served as the epicentre in the city. this history is celebrated in the murals that cover the lobby in the first floor and painted in the mid1990s. including the book binder in the 1920s and the birth of organizing along chinese garment workers, emporium workers strike and more. over the years, the building as use transitioned to being a interfor community and huma homo nonprofits, cultural groups and

artists. it is timely to note today as we celebrate lgbtq pride thats that think was the first public site of the ba gay and lesbian site. in 2004, in recognition of the rich history, the red stone was designated as san francisco's city landmark. today, among those who call this their home are ella parstinas, legacy businesses and performance after venue, the international indian treaty council and united taxi cab workers. but like so much we value in san francisco, the building is now up for sale, for investors looking for high rent tech offices. the tenants have banded together as the temple association to fight back, to refuse this placement and push forward their

vision of the red stone is for organizing and services that respect and support the mission. for several years they worked tirelessly and to their credit, there's a purchasing pending. they're committed to finding support to allow this dream to be realized and not about to give up and their persistence that gives me hope. my resolution calls on the san francisco board of supervisors to support the efforts of the community to pre-certainly the road-stonred stone label temple. i hope you will support me to save the road ston red stone ant i submit. >> thank you.

sousupervisor safye. >> thank you. maybe not as exciting but think trees are extremely important to this city and we and the voters went to the ballot a couple of years ago to ensure that at a minimum, we would have the resources set aside for maintaining the urban can know d i did a little bit of experimenting and thank you, we have to date planted 1500 trees in my district. we will plant another 500 next year, which will bring the total number to 2,000. without those trees, however, our urban canopy would have decreased by almost 2,000 trees city-wide. so in i in this years' budget, there's a replacement of 4,000 trees that need to come down but

with the ordinance of today, we're asking that any street tree that is removed, it will have to be replaced within 120 days. we take into consideration the condition of the street, we take into consideration the underground utility. we have sat with and talked with the department of public works and talked with the folks in the bureau of urban forestry by believe it's tame to dedicate our time to urban canopy. we nee need to plant 100,000 trs to be in the proper environment. (please stand by).

>> if you are utilizing interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and to display documents on the overhead projector. just place it underneath the projector, mention it, then remove it when you like the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> members of the board, my name is amos brown, im senior pastor of third baptist church and president of the san francisco branch. the national association of the branch for coloured people and a former member of this body. i wish to say happy pride month to you.

i give you this greeting against a backdrop, one of george bernard shaw most eloquent quotes. when he said, the worst sin for our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be in different to them. that is the essence of inhumanity, end of quote. now i do not make these comments to be insulting, but still a truth. human beings can make oversights , but we do say, to air is human, but to give his divine.

i would like to invite all of you to go and see the last black man in san francisco. it is very chilling. but on this -- on this day in which we stand before this body, and i applauded the gay community. i was one of the first preachers to stand up against proposition eight. and other mentions for gay rights. but for us to acknowledge that community, and unfortunately, i did not hear of any measure. >> finish your sentence. >> around june, nothing was said that was indifference on the part of this body. this is the 400th year of the acknowledgement of the slave trade.

we in san francisco can do better than that. >> thank you. >> i ask you, just a minute, i ask you to not be in different to these young men who are standing here, who fled with district five and our supervisor of the district to make sure that the african-american heritage building stays in the hands of that community. i was on that board when the late sue bierman initiated a measure to give the asian community their own library for a dollar, and i supported her. what is good for the goose is good for the gander. >> thank you. >> we hope that this -- >> thank you, reverend brown --

[indiscernible] >> all right. next speaker, please. [applause] >> i am a longtime resident of san francisco. it is unfortunate that way only get -- we are asked if it is something that is already ours. we are out here and we have been out here in this community struggling and fighting, and now it is getting down to the nitty-gritty. we are still up here talking

about stuff that we are already entitled to. there's too much politics going on, you know, you have taken out what's important to us, and you are not even looking to the simple things. i am here standing with my brother. i am at a loss. i don't understand it. they should have been back up there at that center. my daughter just got her master his. we wanted to celebrate at a place. that building was a big part of us. [please stand by]

>> we are celebrating the lgbtq community and i appreciate you saying that. i am here today basically to speak -- i want you guys to support us, and that is what i'm here to speak on today. i remember when i was born -- i was at filbert in high school. syndic -- to go demaio shut down the whole school and had a celebration. we did this for chinese new year , the same thing.

we went to the celebration performances. i knew for black history month that it would be lit, we have a whole month. the whole month went by and nothing happened. i asked a faculty member, i said , what were you guys do for black history month? they said, that is for you and your people. so i just want to see the same kind of extension towards other communities as we see towards african-american -- towards african communities. also with some of our school district. he helped found the san francisco unified school district. i want to see a celebration of our people across the city. that is why i'm here today to

speak on a citywide black agenda i would like to support you all as well for making the city better. unite the city. >> thank you. next speaker. [applause]. >> before the next speaker begins, i will remind the good people in the audience that this is a rules-based organization and the rules say no clapping. we allowed you to klopfer reverend brown, but -- we would -- we allowed you to clap for reverend brown, but if you'd like to show your support, just shake your hand. >> we really should mourn the lgbt key -- lgbtq not being celebrated. we can't make wrong right just by giving people words -- awards surely judgement day is near. it is now 8,490 days from the 40 th jubilee from christ. how long am i waiting? i don't know, but i'm counting

for them. it is very, very near. you know what bothers me the most, there is a guy who is from the naacp. he is lost, he is going to hell. anyone who says homosexuality is good is celebrated. there's lots of fake christians and he is one of them. but i actually am saved. the thing is, what bothers me is a christian says it is hateful to point out what god says is wrong. leviticus says thou shall not hate done brother, but they'll shall rebuke thy neighbor and not allow him to sing when it comes to talking about don't avenge your brother, love your neighbor as yourself. and you are saying i am hating people, but in reality, god says you are being loving. you should also be forthright. speak the truth and love.

homosexuality is always wrong. if one gets saved, then they are forgiven, they are justified, they are sanctified. and they no longer continue in their pack during of wickedness, whatever it was, whether they were homosexual, and adulterer, a fornicator, there are many seen -- since, but surely judgement day is coming. and all the fake christians are going right to hell with all of the rest of the loss. jesus said -- i don't have time to quote it, but i hope you read it. john 645. >> next speaker, please. >> i would like to see you practice what you preach when you say 100% affordable housing

for all incomes for the teachers let's see you do that for the nonteachers. that is an example of the treatment. teachers is not the only population here. is that clear? you talk about affordable housing. this technique you are using, peskin is talking about 40%, that means that everyone who has an income that is low 40% of the a.m.i. is a plaintiff in the housing discrimination lawsuit. you discriminate, you price fix it again. my topic here today is about the san francisco police officers and other officers. i'm pointing out that police officer suicide is that more than 164-2018. having risen for a third straight year. it has tripled in the year 2018. is that clear? suicide among serving law enforcement happens every 17 hours at a rate among the violence -- it is sharply

increasing. i want to point out to you that i have watched two hearings pertaining to the redevelopment agency. you say there are rules and regulations, this one here pertains to low income, and 15% are coming out of the god damn mayor's office of housing is supposed to be for low income to low income people. [indiscernible] >> affordable housing at 144 units, $56 million in 87 units and $57 million. i want two of those floors, which is six stories, to be for reability of police officers, veterans, and people that are homeless that are suicidal. i want another section to be for the homeless people to take care of the homeless problem --

[applause] >> next speaker, please. >> carl magnolia. thank you for the land use committee taxi hearing last week sfmta refuses to admit the medallion sales program is defunct because language in the contract with the credit union triggers major financial consequences were it to do so. in general, i agree with supervisor sandra fewer's suggestion to blow up the medallion system. but for card medallion holders who have invested their entire career $250,000 to payments of taxi medallions, individual medallion holders might be viewed as a necessary middleman component. the year 2020 bond measures

needed to come and see the medallion holders adequately. [indiscernible] >> separately, aaron peskin's charter amendment, which assigned chart -- taxi jurisdiction to the empty has a clause affording m.t.a. exclusive authority over taxi related functions. and highly suspect opinion, the city's board of appeals has rolled up a luminary authority language in it means that no taxi permit holder has any due process appeal rights. also, m.t.a. appeals that prop k. had the attention to -- [indiscernible] -- this interpretation is dangerous and violates americans for disability act. the san francisco taxi coalition asks this board to sponsor

simple housekeeping amendments for prop a of 2007, on the november knowledge to specify due process and disability rights. unfortunately, i have been put in charge of making that happen, so in the next week or two, i will call around to a few supervisors and hopefully we can find a sponsor to lead the effort. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i too m. a medallion holder, although i don't want to be one. but you see, when the m.t.a. took over, it had a policy that instead of us retiring with our medallions, we would be able to sell them to new taxi drivers, but something happened. they had a budget shortfall so they created 400 new medallions.

this is an approximate figure. i believe it was 400 and something and something. by doing so, we lost the ability to sell our medallions. now this wouldn't matter, but the m.t.a. now tells us at least half the proposition k. medallion holders are actually too old. i am 80. so what do we do? we don't drive, and they say, well, we have a rule that says after three years you have to give up your medallion, but this was brought about by the fraud of the m.t.a., which has a similar attitude now to the people they sold the medallions to. they directly compete against them by releasing out the

medallions of people who have defaulted and are renting these out. it is crazy. >> next speaker, please. >> all right. ready? my name is dane johnston. a peace sign, a trash. i have been in paper headlines -- [indiscernible] >> people out there watching, you have to free yourself. these people are going to help the homeless, but they have started. we will -- they said we will get rid of the homeless. we will put so many negative stories in the paper. that is what they have been doing. that is where their salvation is at. don't believe that they will help people. i will go back.

[indiscernible] >> i will tell you what. you will be right beside me on the highway. i will tell you what, in 1994, the media scapegoated the homeless people saying all the trash was the homeless people's, they did not mention 50,000 gay sex people every month. i can prove it happened. drugs, condoms, sex from the gay people, maybe maybe some homeless people. that is the first time they have escaped. the second time, here is a second time. i will sell you down the river now. here's the thing. when you get rid of the homeless people, what will you say about the cockroaches and all the rats that live inside of buildings that have nothing to do with homeless people. they will say, those aren't rats , those are big cats. we are, levelers here. don't believe it.

stop hating people. four days i went without food. none of you gave me a bread stick, not one of you. people on death row and animals get bread and you make sure they get bread every day. it takes away your humanity -- >> thank you. next speaker. >> i am a career cabdriver and he medallion holders since early 2009. as you may already know, the medallion sales program was masterminded by gavin newsom and carried out by late mayor lee. in january 2013, years after the program was first approved, and seven months before the cpuc had

given t.n.c.'s any legitimacy, ed lee praised the ridesharing companies in his state of city address and proclaimed july 13 th live today in san francisco. and as lieutenant governor in 2014, gavin newsom urged the california legislature not to stifle innovation by heavily regulating t.n.c. the positions taken by lee and newsom to promote and facilitate unfair competition, at the same time the city profited from medallion sales was sleazy, immoral, unethical, and very costly and illegal. may i have the projector, please this is a letter that the m.t.a.

sent to a fellow cabdriver, who in 2013 believed in the m.t.a.'s promise of a future medallion market. even though the taxi industry is the real victim here, the credit union is there -- is in the claim against the m.t.a. if the law firm steps forward to represent the taxi industry on a contingency basis, we could file a lawsuit against the m.t.a. as well. as i said to supervisors on the land use and transportation committee for having a hearing on this matter, i urge all of you -- >> good evening, supervisors. my name is michiana, i am the government relations manager for kaiser permanente. we have officially had the opportunity with supervisor

moore and other offices as the board considers approving a resolution in support of senate bill -- in support of a senate bill. it is targeted solea kaiser permanente. the current law acknowledges our unique financial and clinically integrated model and reflects how we budget and forecast to meet the needs of our patients to support the well-being of our employees. in its current form, it is no such structure, and there are many benefits to our model. kaiser permanente is committed to transparency, which is the aim of this bill. as we have shared, we are currently in negotiations with the bill's authors and sponsors and we have made great strides towards consensus, just this week, we agreed to an amendment that is reflected in the current bill text and is the basis for your resolution. for these reasons, we feel any action is premature. we are hopeful the board recognizes our ongoing efforts

and we will consider tabling or continuing this item. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i stand to speak with my colleague. my name is dr. shannon, i am a pediatrician at kaiser permanente where i have been seeing patients for 18 years. i wanted to clarify that senate bill 343, that we are not exempt from reporting requirements and that the accommodations were made just to reflect our unique model. a different structure is allowing for that regional reporting, and we stand by this truly integrated model that a lot of the country is looking to try and emulate as the rest of the country is trying to move towards value-based care, which we really are the model for. as my colleague mentioned, we stand by transparency and we have been working with senators and the authors to move forward to make sure that all of our

needs are met as we are moving to this. we accept the need that we need to modernize some of the recordings, but we still want to make sure that we can do the right thing, and it is this group, as well as the state that feels that we need to make differences about the way we are reporting, so we want to make sure the understanding is there about the cost. it is those costs that aren't really truly necessary because we value making sure that the costs, we are maximizing our resources. the resources are our patient's dollars that we want to make sure we are maximizing the most efficient use. i stand and ask you to table your vote for a couple of weeks for a very -- we are very close. all voices are on this. then we can stand together and all stand in support of a really good resolution and legislation. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i am currently an employee with the san francisco housing authority, and as you all know, the housing authority is going through transition right near -- right now. that transition will have impact on the 200 plus employees that are currently working to help resolve the homeless issues here in the city. we have a body of very dedicated employees who are continuing to do the work that is necessary to provide housing, however, with the upcoming transition of basically 90% or more of the staff that will be laid off, and we are, i am hearing from the different unions that are there that they feel that the negotiation process for severance packages, of course, nobody wants to have a severance package. there are very few folks in that position to be able to take

advantage of a severance package most folks are looking for another opportunity to continue in the housing area, or within the city, or at least to try and find some other gainful employment. we are about ready to have another 200 plus employees that are currently dedicated to the city, adding to the problem. now, while we do realize that everybody has to do what they need to do in order to survive, and nobody is entitled to a handout, we really would appreciate support in trying to help these hard-working individuals find gainful employment somewhere in this city, in the system, sister agencies, whatever you can do to bring the parties to be to negotiate in good faith. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, everybody.

>> pull the microphone close. thank you. >> hello, everybody. i am a kaiser worker. we are here for the appeal. we want to help and establish the cost. we are here to support today's resolution. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am an employee of the san francisco housing authority. i have been here for 25 years. as you know, the housing authority is privatizing the entire agency, and we know what that means for black and brown people. i am a resident of san francisco , i live in the western edition. miss brown, i would appreciate your support. i need you guys to assist us in this transition. we need city employment. the majority of our employees are black and brown people. we have the highest level of african-american managers at the san francisco housing authority. i ask myself, why are we being

chosen for contract out? we want to make sure that, you know, the city helps us with employment. the mayor made a promise to ensure that we all are employed after the housing authority. negotiations are not going well. that is not happening. i am appealing to you. i do not want to be the last black person in san francisco. i live in a co-op, one of the oldest co-ops in san francisco. i have history here. my coworkers have history. i am appealing to you guys. introduced a resolution to save the san francisco housing authority. if we do not have money from them right now, if the budgets are being shortened, what makes you think that a privatization of an organization can come in and manage it any better? we have been standard for three years. we are working hard. think about that, asked the mayor the hard questions. how much will this cost the city to come in and privatize this organization? just remember that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> happy pride.

i'm going to also support the woman who spoke about privatizing housing. i was a tenant at mercy housing. before mercy housing took over, i was living there eight years, but after they took over, because of my gender identity, i lost my housing, and i'm concerned about the privatizing of housing because we are losing our civil rights. we are losing our ability to file a complaint internally. the mayor's office of housing does have an eviction prevention program, but you have mercy housing too cozy, and we are losing our rights, and