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d.m.v. services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. >> i am the representative for the volunteer central. we are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. on a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get t-shirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the different service areas and help them find the different services that they needs. >> one of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and supportive housing is by working with homeless outreach teams. they come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into short-term shelter, and talk about housing-1st policies. we also work very closely with the department of public health to provide a lot of our services. >> we have all types of things
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that volunteers deal do on a day of service. we have folks that help give out lunches in the café, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. >> participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets. we do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. they can bring them into the event as well. we also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. we also have a bag check. you don't have to worry about
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your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. >> we get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didn't know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. >> our next event will be in march, we don't yet have a date set. we typically sap set it six weeks out. the way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. we always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. >> a lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they don't know how they can help, and defence like this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported.
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please stand by please stand by please stand by please stand by >> preston: please stand by please stand by please stand by please stand by >> it's a pleasure and honor and a joy to be part of this celebration. when we do these grand openings, they're celebrations and they are also acknowledge. no one institution can create the affordable housing we see here and so i want to begin by asking mayor breed, thanking you for your support and to share a few words. >> yep. [laughter] that's it. >> all right. >> wow. thank you all so much for being here today and i'm really
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excited about this project. especially because i used to serve on the san francisco redevelopment agency commission and i remember when mission bay was just taking shape in san francisco and the conversations around the housing that we know would be built here and we fought really hard and because of that fight, 30% of all the new housing will go to support families that are low and middle income residents. which brings us here today. 143 units of family housing and senior housing for people who in some cases were displaced long ago. i grew up in the western edition community and there were a lot of mistakes in that community. homes were torn down. promises were made and no
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housing was provided for those people and families. in these 143 units, of affordable housing, we have 10 certificate of preference holders. which is absolutely amazing. [applause] >> when i served on the san francisco board of supervisors, i was excited to help pass legislation to address a real problem around displacement of residents through either owner move-in elections, ellis act evictions and sometimes in the cases of fire. because of that, we are residents who are asking living here who fit the bill and qualifications and now have a space affordable clean, nice, beautiful things place to call home.
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providing affordable housing is not providing a place for people to stay. it's about building a community. it's about supporting a community. making sure there are creditable services that provide resources to the community. i'm excited about a26 va lynn see a and we'll join the ground floor to support young people in this community. this is absolutely amazing and i never get tired of coming to events where we are celebrating housing for families, housing for seniors, housing for people who need it the most. what is even more exciting is the fact that this property, unlike so many properties that we see being developed in san francisco has two and three bedroom apartments. i know that was such, i read the stories from so many of the residents who talked about their challenges and their experiences
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and their need in terms of the displacement but also their need to make sure that they have housing and enough room for their families. and so that's why this project is so exciting. this is really an example of what we need to do to provide affordable housing to families and folks from low and middle incomes in san francisco all over this city. so i am just here to celebrate with all of you and to i guess people have already moved in so we'll do a ribbo ribbon-cuttingy because why not celebrate such an incredible milestone because it means a better life and future for so many families. it means an opportunity to be part of this amazing new community with ucsf and the t-3 line and t third. whatever they call it now. and all of the great amenities that exist right here in mission
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bay. so so much to don falcon for all the work you all continue to do not just be a non-profit developer, but be a community builder. a community builder that sustain communities for years to come and thank you for being here to celebrate this incredible milestone, the architects, the developers, the engineers, all of the people that make this a place we can call home. thank you so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you so much mayor breed. you honor us with your words. please, welcome one of the community residents here, jesus.
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>> i want to share a story that has helped me move forward. 400 in the 1992 olympics in barcelona, a young man was able to win the race and the gold medal. however, at around 250 meeters. >> judge s.l. neal: meeters into the race, he was in pain. while the medics made his way to him he had to decide if he will finish the race in pain or just stay down and give up the race he had trained so hard to win.
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so despite the pain he stood up and began to limp along the track, even though the pain was unbearable he finished the race. his name is deric redman. this is a story that has inspired me to my darkest moments. let me share with you a bit about how my journey began. my name is jesus and i am mexican immigrant. i left my home in mexico in april of 1992 to come to america and seeking for a better life. i came empty handed with only the clothes on my back. however, in may of 1992, my life changed in a second. i was hit by a train while on my way to seattle, washington to work in the fishing industry. it was around midnight so they didn't find me until the next morning around 7:00 a.m. they took me to highland hospital in oakland where they told me i will never be able to walk again and i was going to be
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paralyzed. i spent two years recovering at highland and at the facility. not knowing what was in store for me in the future. when i was discharged, my eyes were open to my new reality. i realized i was homeless, no skills related to work because of my disability. i was all by myself, no family or friends. eventually i was connected with a booster program that helped me get a stable housing unit. my mental health however didn't get better. i was living by myself and feeling isolated, depressed and hopeless. i also tuned to people for support. i ended up using alcohol and drugs to cope with my depression to help my life and my time living alone. fortunately, with the social work program, i was referred to
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626 mission bay housing and this great organization. here i am blessed to have a apartment to share with my mom and dad which allows me to have a family support system that i needed to be able to focus on my goals and recovery. my social workers has also been tremendous men doesltremendousl. it's never too late to obtain an education and be a member of the society. now i'm beginning to dream again. currently i have returned to community college and take classes in hopes of becoming an architect. my hope is to build shelters and for those facing homelessness in the city of san francisco. because of the support and safe housing i'm able to focus on giving back to the beautiful city that has given me a lot. my current goal is to volunteer at the local ucsf children's
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hospital at 826 valencia next door. i want to thank my church and pastor, social worker, parents and my whole family for always believing in me, even through my darkest episodes of life. remember, when the darkest hour comes to you it's because a light bright of a new dawn is approaching. when the storm is hitting the hardest it's because the clouds are approaching. don't give up. finish the race. [applause] >> thank you so much, jesus. every person in this room is here because of you and people like you. thank you. please, join me in welcoming
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supervisor matt haney. [applause] well, first of all, thank you jesus for those powerful words and thank you to all the residents and all the staff who make it a tremendous place for residents. i want to give a huge thanks to tnbc and to don faulk. i've been supervisor for five months and i've been to two ribbon cuttings and they both have been tndc ribbon cuttings. not only that, both have not been in the tenderloin so i represent the tenderloin. we had one in south of market and one in mission bay and it demonstrates how critical and important housing developer you are and not just in district 6, not just in the tenderloin but through out our city. thank you so much mayor breed. i know you are working hard to make sure we have affordable housing and affordable housing for families. i have the opportunity to serve on the board of education for
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six years and the thing that i heard more than anything when i visited our schools, is that our families and our kids are struggling from housing and stability, if you don't have a safe and stable place to live, it's going to be hard for a young person to achieve in school to be well socially and emotionally and so investing in-housing, especially for families is one of the most important things we can do for the future of our city. i'm so excited that the mission bay community is going to be a place that has a balance of affordability and we have made amount of mistakes in the past when it comes to housing and displacement but when you build a new community, like we have here in mission bay, we have the opportunity to actually get it right. so thank you to ocii, thank you to everybody who has made sure that we have affordability in mission bay and that mission bay is being built through families. right here will be such a hugely important thing to make sure that families can thrive here in mission bay.
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and the last thing i want to say is not only do we have 826 valencia here in this building, we'll have a school across the street. it was one of the last things -- you can clap for a new school. [applause] this will be the very first public school built in san francisco in about 20 years and it's going to be right here in this community in the parking lot. they've gone out for design and architects and all that so it's happening and the funding is there so i can't wait to see when i and down here and we see kids who can walk directly across the street from this building to their school here right in mission bay and a wonderful, beautiful building in a community that is going to be such a fantastic place for families and for all of the residents who get to call this place home. thank you to everybody who made it possible.
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[applause] >> thank you so much supervisor haney for all your support in this work. wells fargo played a crucial role in the development here. please welcome geoff bennett. [applause] >> thank you so much. it's a pleasure to be here. we're thrilled to be part of this wonderful project and congratulations to tnbc and the city and for all those who worked on this project. i was kind of in the trenches with a lot of the details for the loans and i know it was not an easy task. we spent a lot of hours and a lot of conference calls and worked through some challenging issues. i'm looking at colleen who did a lot of work on that and did a terrific job. [laughter] we've had a great relationship
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for 25 years now and done some amazing things together and we always lev working on projects so thank you for having us on this one and just a couple words. we're the construction lender and we're also the low income housing tax credit investors and we'll be a limited partner for 15 years on the project and we provided the equity on the project. other ford able housing a big deal and it's been decades and we take it very seriously and it's a big commitment and i work in a group that does nothing but affordable housing everyday of the week and we're putting up big numbers. i know we should put up bigger numbers but just to give you a sense we have a billion dollars to affordable housing in the bay area that covered about 42 developments and we're finances six new projects here in the city right now. about 400 minute yu 400 million. we got a new one from don
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yesterday. we're hoping to do a lot more in the city and a billion dollars has been committed through 2025 for grants, which is a big deal. we're happy to see that and yes, wore thrilled to be involved in big projects like this. i have been a long-time san francisco residents and i'm a homeowner here and it's just extra special to attend things like this in my backyard. we appreciate the opportunity and we look forward being into a lot more like this. so thank you. >> thank you, jeff. stephanie, please come up. [applause]
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>> i moved here to reunite with my family and immediately i was struck by the level of homelessness in the bay area. in 2016, a series of unfortunate events involving family and friends and a former employer left me and my family scrambling for help. through a patchwork of shelters and social services from as far as richmond, i was introduced to tndc. from that moment, my life changed drastically. our journey from being homeless to being housed was over. having a place has given my son security and stability to perform well in school and consistency for me to complete my degree. 626 mission bay is more than just an apartment building for
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us it's a launch pad to become positive, productive members of society. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much, steph know. yostephanie.you give meaning tod we really appreciate you. i hope you will join me in welcoming colleen ma who was a project manager for 626 mission bay boulevard. [applause] >> i'll try to keep it short. the beautiful building was made possible by all of our amazing partners. from our partners at wells fargo and the federal home loan bank to our architects and studio and our general contractor it's been years in the making to get to finally celebrate the completion of this building. it's pretty wild but i hope you get to look at the
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acknowledgment list but it scratches the surface of people, staff, engineers, women and more who have worked to make this project a reality. and now that the building is complete, i've had the honor of watching my peer, our site staff work there magic. marry ellen and tino who are hiding in the crowd or offices have put in countless late nights and weekends to get this building leased. [applause] >> and they continue to put in the time to keep it running smoothly. clifton, johnathan, jesse and terry have run miles in this half city block of the building. [applause] to make sure this building functions properly. key key and natallia meet tenants where they're at to provide resources and materials. [applause] for some of these tenants, this
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is their very first home and being presented with such a new space and such a new neighborhood like mission bay, can be isolating and terrifying. our site staff have done an amazing job of welcoming the space and to this neighborhood. there are around 150 children in this building and growing. right around move-in time last year at least one small child maybe three feet tall was running around dragging their hot cheetos along our white walls. the reality of having families and children in the building hit me. this is no longer just a construction project but this is becoming a home. the partnerships that built this building and freight this building have transformed it no 143 new homes for families and future generations of san franciscans. it's been an honor to be part of it. [applause] >> thank you, colleen. so they're just a couple of things i want to say in closing.
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i think beta is here. thank you. can you just raise your hands high. so we are so proud and grateful for 826 valencia and we're so proud you decided to come and join us here in mission bay. we have an after school program and we have been working closely with them for a long time and we just appreciate you. thank you. the feeling is mutual. i want to convey. we as an organization are very privileged to be in this center of this kind of work. we are not heroes.
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if anything beer a grateful organization. thank you to all the people. all the institutions, the staff, the residents, everybody who makes this happen. we appreciate you. thank you. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! >> this neighborhood was lived for approximately 22 years. >> yeah, like 21 years. >> 21 years in this neighborhood. >> in the same house. >> we moved into this neighborhood six months after we got married, actually. just about our whole entire married life has been here in excel. >> the owner came to the house and we wanted to sell the house
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and we were like, what? we were scared at first. what are we going to do? where are we going to move into? the kids' school? our jobs? >> my name is maria. i'm a preschool teacher for the san francisco unified school district. >> my name is ronnie and i work in san francisco and i'm a driver from a local electrical company. >> we went through meta first and meta helped us to apply and be ready to get the down payment assistant loan program. that's the program that we used to secure the purchase of our home. it took us a year to get our credit ready to get ready to apply for the loan. >> the whole year we had to wait
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and wait through the process and then when we got the notice, it's like, we were like thinking that. >> when we found out that we were settling down and we were going to get approved and we were going to go forward, it was just a really -- we felt like we could breathe. we have four kids and so to find a place even just to rent for a family of six. and two dogs. >> we were going to actually pay more for rent and to own a house. >> it feels good now to have to move. it feels for our children to stay in the neighborhood that they have grown in. they grew up here and they were born here. they know this neighborhood. they don't know anything outside san francisco. >> we really have it. >> we'd love to say thank you to the mayor's office. they opened a door that we thought was not possible to be opened for us. they allowed us to continue to
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live here. we're raising our family in san francisco and just to be able to continue to be here is the great lesson.
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>> please stand by for closed captioning. >> all right, good morning everyone, the meeting will come to order. thank you. welcome to the june 7th, 2019, special meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am supervisor rafael mandelman, chair of the committee. to my right is vice chair stefani and walton. now, obviously we have some items that have generated significant interest. we have overflow seating in room
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263 and we're trying to set up in the north lake court. so, everyone should be able to watch this and come in and speak on items that are of interest to them. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, thank you mr. chair. make sure you silenced your cell phones. items acted upon today will appear on the june 18th, supervisors agenda. >> thank you, mr. clerk, please call the first item. >> a hearing to consider the issuance of the type 21 off-sale general beer, wine, and distilled spirits of liquor license. >> thank you, is the a.l.u.
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here? maybe we don't have the a.l.u. here. so, we could -- i suppose continue this item later in the agenda. >> if you like to do that, i think the applicant may be here. >> well, we should probably hear from the a.l.u. we could hear from the applicant. all right, let's start with the a captain-- applicant, come on go ahead. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is melanie johns, i'm outside alcohol council to the prime now l.l.c. i have kara, she is with the public policy team at amazon and she will be speaking after me about community engagement. so, first of all i like to start by acknowledging that this p.c.n. application is a little
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bit different than most that probably come before you. the goal with this license application is to add delivery to an existing fulfillment warehouse. it is not to open a grocery store or convenient store, or a similar model that you probably usually see with a type 21 license. the a.b.c. has certain requirements that establish that a type 21 licensee may obtain a brick and mortar presence. our goal is delivery. we work with the a.b.c. to establish a set of standard conditions that would meet our goals of providing delivery services while still meeting the minimum basic requirements for having a retail premises. i understand that the a.l.u. usually starts off and reads the conditions into the record, so you probably don't have those with you, but i can give a brief summary on what those are. the retail premises at this
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storefront, again, this is an existing fulfillment warehouse. the retail premises is 150 to 200-square foot small retail storefront. walking into the storefront, you would not see any alcohol on display and instead you would be provided with a tablet, where you could order alcohol. emotion -- most of the alcohol will be available for delivery. the hour of operations for the retail premises is limited to 50% of the hours that we exercise delivery privileges, so for this particular store, we work with the local community members and came up with early hours of operation. the retail storefront will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily, while delivery will exist as it already exists at this
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facility. so the operations here, we would not be adding any additional employees. we do not expect any increase delivery drivers and instead we expect that people that are already ordering for delivery, for grocery delivery from prime now, that they will be able to add beer, wine, and distilled spirits to their orders. this is not prime now's first license location in california. we currently have six existing facilities, so again we work closely with the a.b.c. and local communities in order to establish these licenses. we're currently operating in sacramento, los angeles, sunnyvale, irvine, and san diego with another license to issue shortly in los angeles. there the time that we've been licensed, we have not had a customer walk into any of these storefronts. we have not had any accusations
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or license violations or condition violations regarding sales to minors or anything of that sort. prime now has proven to be a good licensee with the alcohol and beverage control and making sure those retail premises are small and non-intrusive because the focus is on delivery. i'll turn it over to kara to discuss the community outreach aspect. >> thank you melanie. i will try to be brief. i think you have a packed agenda today. >> would you pull the mic up to your mouth. your name again? >> sorry, kara rucker. i work with amazon and i've been the point of contact with the neighborhood. i appreciate you taking the time to hear from us today. i wanted to touch on our engagement with the neighborhood. we originally sat down with the group in january and since then,
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we have been communicating via e-mail daily. we truly appreciate their willingness to work with us and cultivate what will be a mutually beneficial partnership. we highlighted many opportunities to work with the neighbors and we made great progress to the buildings and surrounding areas. there are additional opportunities for the neighborhood beautification. we appreciate your willingness to let us continue these discussions, both with dna and the green benefit district and work oncoming to the board in the coming weeks to pass forward. >> thank you, i do not see any comments or questions from my colleagues. we still do not have the a.l.u. here. perhaps we will take public comment on this item. is there any public comment on
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this item? then come on up and i'll tell you about some things about public comments. this goes for everybody. speakers will have 2 minutes. we ask that you state your first and last name and speak directly into the microphone. if you prepared a written statement, you can leave it with the committee clerk. no applause or booing is permitted. speakers are encourage to avoid repetition of previous statements. go ahead. >> good afternoon, my name is tim, i'm a union representative with the united commercial workers located here in san francisco. we're a labor union that represents 4,000 members in the food and drug industry. we are in opposition to the issuance of a liquor license at 888 tennessee street to amazon prime now. they have a history of
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mistreatment of their workers and they destroy small businesses around the nation. if a license is granted, it would destroy whatever small businesses are left and the character and vibrancy of this city. it will also affect the employees that we represent in the food and drug administration. we are against of the liquor license. thank you. >> next speaker. >> i want to just follow up with what my colleague has said in regards to online ordering. we actually faced issues on certain delivery online establishments where projects are being left on the doorsteps unattended and it is concerning where you're leaving alcohol and anybody can just come by and pick it up. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> there is always a lot of controversy when alcohol is involved. if alcohol is being abused, it
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is a problem to the addict called an alcoholic. anyone following rules and regulations pertaining to business and the code of ethics and the business professional code and you have a liquor license, you have a constitutional right to distribute alcohol just like anybody else. we had this problem in the tenderloin where people were objecting to liquor distribution of alcohol in the neighborhood because this is contributing to the delinquency of alcohol abuse, and the stores stopped selling small bottles of alcohol because it was littering the community and exacerbating chin alcoholism. the owner of that store has the constitutional right to sell alcohol to people here. just like the people here have the constitutional right to sell
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alcohol. if you're not breaking the rules or constitutional law, you can't be objected. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that like to speak on this item before i close public comments? seeing none, public comments is now closed. we continue to await the a.l.u. what i like to do on this item is continue it later in the meeting, but we'll take it up before we get to the vaping rela related and nicotine related items. >> i believe the petitioner's council presented the a.l.u.'s. i don't have any objection if we move it until later or move forward if it is the will of the chair. >> i think it would be good for us to give the a.l.u. an
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opportunity to show. i mean there is a time constraint on this item and i think it's important that we act on it at this meeting to ensure our 90 days don't expire. i think just to have completeness, and partly because i do not understand why the a.l.u. is not here 20 minutes into our meeting when they said they would be here. i think we should hold up for them and wait for them to get here. i don't want to keep folks waiting for a conversation about e-cigarettes. you're fine either way. so, i think we should continue this to later on in the agenda but before items 5 and 6. is that something we can do? can we do that without objection? great. mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> the resolution supporting
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california state assembly bill number 1076 by phil ting. >> great, thank you mr. clerk. i think we have derek here from supervisor brown's office. >> good morning supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. i will be brief because i know you have a long meeting ahead of you. 1076 will provide relief to advance the goals of restorative justice for an estimated 8 million californians which records hamper them from finding jobs or get into college. 80% of landlords and 60% of colleges screen applicants' criminal records.
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1076 provides relief to several million of californians that have been arrested and never charged or convicted of a crime, but still face the obstacles as those convicted of a crime. what this law will do, it will require the california department of justice to review their criminal justice databases on a weekly bases to recognize people eligible for dismissal or expungement of their records. it will go back to 1973 to find folks eligible for automatic relief. some eligible for relief are those who completed their probation or county jail sentences and others are those with arrest records that did not result in a conviction. under 1076, those records will be removed automatically. it does not apply to folks who have been convicted of violent
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felonies, sexual felonies, or serious felonies. the current law allows folks to petition the court to do this, but only 20% of people do petition the court. it's estimated that many do not do it as an option because they don't know it's an option or they lack the resources. as a result, millions of californians find themselves in paper prison for life after they paid their debt to society. the national institute of justice found that having a cm record reduces a person's chances of getting a job offer by 50%. 75% of people living in paper prisoners say it prevents them from getting a job. under the clearance system, each record system cost the state over $3,500 to process but with this automated system, the cost plummets to just $.04 per record.
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as a city, we said to the world, we must do better in instituting restorative justice. folks who have paid their debts to society or who never owed a debt must be able to access jobs, housing and other opportunities without encountering roadblocks that would be removed if they had the means to do so. i want to thank you for the time to speak on this and i hope you will move this forward with a positive recommendation. >> thank you. doesn't look like we have questions for you so i will open this up to public comments. >> this is a good law and it's a derivative of the infractions of jaywalking tickets, open container, infraction laws,
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tickets are generated for infractions, not a misdemeanor, but infraction. i believe his name is judge hines handed down a court order where all these types of charges are to be dropped in order not to put a burden on the justice center and the people that are ticketed because they're economically disadvantaged and have a hard enough time to survive in the first place. it's tough enough to go through the justice system and then convicted and serve your time and paying a debt to society, let alone when you go through the system, you're innocent and when you get out, you still have this in your background and it's being held against you. so, it's definitely good law and even when it's passed, it's still going to be difficult in order to get established because the harm that's done to an individual. it's a starting point and i think it's an excellent type of law to use, just like the law that was used to get rid of
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unnecessary tickets and putting a burden on the criminal justice system and issuing out bench warrants for a failure to appear for a jaywalking ticket. you should be concentrating on more serious crimes like felonies and serious misdemeanors so i stipulate and i agree with this. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that like to speak on this item? >> hello, good afternoon. i wasn't going to speak on this but it's very timely. i'm co-chair of the african-american council. we're here for the other items coming up. we've been working with restorative justice around this country. one of the things we have been working to prohibit the sale of men that and tobacco products around the country and our proponents say we're criminalizing black and brown men. they said this will be an increase in criminal justice,
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their interactions with police officers. we want cities to be mindful that we're moving ahead with a lot of restorative justice. i'm so proud to see that san francisco expunged the record for cannabis arrests. we as the african-american tobacco control leadership council, we do not do our work in a vacuum. we know the issues facing our community and we're working on these issues as well. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of public that would like to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor walton. >> thank you chair mandelman. i like to lend my support to the resolution. i was just meeting with someone this morning that was acquitted of a crime and still has to deal with some of the stigma around being arrested and things come up that keep him from employment opportunities, even after acquittal. so this is important so that we can eliminate some of those
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barriers that keep people from being able to successfully re-enter society, particularly for folks who have not committed major crimes and this is just another way of eliminating some of those layers that keep them from getting back into society. so, i'm definitely in support of this. >> great, vice chair stefani. >> thank you chair mandelman. i like to thank supervisor brown for bringing this forward and i want to add my name as a co sponsor. the one criminal defense case i took was reducing someone's felony to a misdemeanor. i am in full support of this. >> great. so, supervisor walton would you like to move to forward the board with a positive recommendation. >> yes. >> and we will take that without objection. mr. clerk, can you please call
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our next item. >> item number 3, a public works mutual aid agreement executed among and by various california cities and counties. it requires a city county, or city and county that receives mutual aid that receives mutual aid. >> tell us what's going on. >> thank you for bringing up this item. i'm with san francisco public works government affairs. i'm here to seek your recommendation on this residence lug -- resolution. can i have the presentation. thank you. so the public works mutual aid agreement was established in october 1989 as means for them
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to receive mutual aid quickly following a natural disaster like an earthquake. 19 counties and 155 cities in california have been party to the agreement. a few things about the agreement, assistance in voluntary and participating agencies are under no obligation to provide or complete their own resources. requesting resources are to be reimbursed by fema. in order to request mutual age, an emergency proclamation is required. public works has an important role to play in the event of a disaster or emergency. all city employees are designated as disaster service workers. in the event of an emergency, public works will be responsible for clearing debris, assessing damaged buildings and structures. prompted by the severe fires that have been affecting our
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state in the past several years, our agencies have been in conversations regarding disaster response. while we're not susceptible to the wildfires that affect the states more wooded areas, much of the planning centers on seismic events and associated damage. in the event of a large earthquake, we would like to request aid from nearby jurisdicti jurisdictions. public works would also like to be able to lend assistance. providing assistance to other localities will provide a valuable experience to our employees. i'm joined by our emergency planning manager and we are happy to answer any questions. >> doesn't look like we have questions. so, we will take public comment on this item. are there any members of the public who would like to speak to us on item number 3?
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seeing none, public comment is now closed. vice chair stefani, would you like to move this to the full board with positive recommend. >> so moved. >> great, we will take that without objection. >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call our next item. >> agenda number 4, a hearing on the coordination of data sharing between public safety departments as it relates to crime prevention and investigations. >> all right, now i understand that supervisor yee suggested we continue this item at a later meeting. >> mover's choice. >> before we deal with that, we will take any public comment on this item. seeing none, oh.
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>> even though it's been passed to a later date, there should still be some discussion on this because this is related to the juvenile detention center and by the same response, i want to highlight that juveniles that have been kept in this juvenile detention center, those jail cells are the type of jail cells that are located in a prison and those adolescents should be kept 23 hours a day, falsely imprisoned like that, you're disturbing their mental abilities of their brain and causing them to have a hostile condition against society by treating them like a convicted fill didn't felon at at juvenile age. i wanted to address that when
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you put that back on calendar. >> thank you, are there any other members of the public that like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i want to thank our clerk for bringing to my attention that president yee asked to have this item continued to june 27th. i will move it until june 27th and we can take that without objection. great. all right, well that brings us almost to items 5 and 6, but i said that we would take up item 1 and see that the a.l.u. is still not here. we do have the a.l.u.'s report in our agenda packets and so, i think we can move forward with this item. colleagues? supervisor walton, that's in
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your district. >> i move to not accept the issuance of this license. >> great. so we would direct our clerk to prepare a resolution finding that granting this license would not meet public convenience and necessity and supervisor walton has moved approval of that resolution. >> so it states that it would not be met by the application and you would act affirmatively to recommend that to the board of supervisors? >> yes. >> so that's a move by supervisor walton. we can take that without objection? >> the motion has been made. >> the motion has been made and we're taking it without objection. great. thank you. mr. clerk, please call our next item.
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>> agenda item number 5, an ordinance amending the sale and distribution of tobacco products on city property. >> great. supervisor walton. >> thank you so much supervisor mandelman. item 5, which is 190311, this ordinance amends the health code to prevent the sale of tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes on city property, and what we have here is businesses in the city that operate on city property, that are in the business of harming young people for profit and this will ensure this never happens again on city property. >> great.
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comments? then we will open this item to public comments. are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? >> this is a real serious problem, the tobacco, the e-cigarettes, you have numerous examples of them exploding in people's faces. this is a combustible. that's the first thing, an objection i got and there's been proof of this taking place. there is one attorney that only takes these types of cases because of the e-cigarettes blowing up in people's faces. some of them are exploding in people's pockets and people are running down the street with their pants on fire because they have e-cigarettes. the tip of an e-cigarette contains more nicotine, cancer causing materials and the tip of that than a total pack of a cigarette.
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is that clear? you're contaminating the public and it's predominately being used by youths and adults that think they can kick the habit of smoking cigarette and more tobacco and nicotine that they were in hell by using regular cigarettes. you're dumping a cancer causing activity into the community just like the navy did when they dumped cancer causing materials out at the shipyard that is annihilating people of color, the majority of black people and samoan people, and now there are white people that are catching cancer too. there is no different. the only difference is you have a license to do it but you're getting the same affect by having people exposed to cancer causing materials. you're brainwashing the younger generation with this high-tech device and claiming it's not