this legislation here now. i also want to thank supervisor fewer and chelsea who i worked with closely at the beginning of this legislation. however, it has no accountability. it has no account ability. we will process. three reports of 55 years and black folks are still in the same position. in fact, in appreciating the work that has gone into it you don't need this office because everything is supposed to go to the human rights commission anyway. in 19464 iin 1946 . >> the speaker's time has expired.

thank you. thank you. >> next speaker, please. thank you. ms. jones. thank you, ms. jones. next speaker, please. >> you know we can't tell you what we have been through. that is an example of it. you know what i mean? >> thanthankthanthank you, mr. . >> i will read additional names. jessica malina, lewis dillon, amanda, ron, kevin and eddy.

next speaker. >> am the youth organizer for the coleman advocates. i would like to echo everything the previous speaker said there is a racial disparity between the blacks and white could you tell uster parts and asian counterparts. in light of that i would like to say in each one of us there is a piece of humaneness which orchestrates crisis. if we are to keep it from establishing a false hierarchy we must recognize that any attack is an attack against all of us. we recognize our interests are not served by the systems we support. thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisor. i am an organizer with sf rising. we are here to support this proposed legislation. thank you for introducing this legislation. as an organizer and educator at city college, we recognize that racial equity is driving much of our work in education and building electoral power in the city. recently we have seen native communities ask for removal of a mural. we have seen a black youth killed in the mission. we need this office to monitor how we are addressing the issues that communities of color face including intimidation and discrimination. thank you for introducing this.

how excellent you are monitoring this and monitoring hiring practices. we hope that will be it. >> chair mar: next speaker. >> good afternoon. department of public health human resources director. i want to say that the department supports anything that moves us towards racial justice in the city and our department. i appreciate the work you have done to get this accomplished. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisor. i am with bright line defense in support of this initiative. the fact there are offices of racial equity in cities across the country shows san francisco can do better to address the injustices communities face every day. we recognize this is not a

definite solution, this is a step? the right direction. requiring action plans would be crucial to ensuring the city departments are accountable. thank you for having this important hearing today. >> hello. i am calalo. i am a youth leader. i believe did office of racial equity should be passed by the board to help with unjustice toward people of color. we will pro actively protect people of color instead of acting retro actively. racism still exists. with the help of this project, we can hold those in power accountable.

thank you. >> i am jessica mallena. i am a youth leader. i support the office of racial equity because of my educational work experience, and i have witnessed the racial disparities that still exist. the creation of this office will help close the racial opportunity gap in education and that is very important. i believe we need to make that change. thank you. >> i will read additional names. barbara, wanda, wanda slaughter,

alexis, king, claudia. >> i am kevin bogus political director at the children and youth. we are glad to see creation of the offers of racial equity in the human rights commission. our work centers around bringing racial equity to the schools and making sure the schools are equitable. we hope this is something the board will grow upon and figure out how to address racial equity in the city. looking beyond the things you have direct control over and figuring how to impact the school district in the region to bring equity to the people who have been displaced from san francisco but still have roots here. thank you.

>> i would like to thank the supervisors for their time. >> good afternoon. i am barbara. i am the director of community investments for the san francisco arts commission. i want to lend support for the creation of the office and applaud the effort. i am a member of the local american community and this is essential to ensure our data is fully represented. i have been at meetings with other city departments that referred to me as nonliving culture. i have been told our numbers are option too few to matter. we are number 10 in the nation for missing indigenous women.

i look forward to working with and supporting the launch of this office. thank you. >> we have a draft action plan. we aim to have the first phase by the end of this year and the second by next year after we do community engagement. we have been doing this for the last few years. this will give us more teeth to move pro actively by integrating into the projects or noticing and hiring practices. it is a long road to correct

disparities but we are grateful that this will henr help the woe are doing. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am bailey. i work for the district attorney office. while working there my co-worker called me a scary nigger. i am going to say what they called me a scary nigger. after being called that i was harassed daily. i asked for a copy of the report calling me a scary nigger. they retaliated me against my retaliation. after being called a scary

nigger and filing the complaint they harassed me. after my press conference this is what your city hr put on the news. we acknowledge the n word one comment is not sufficient to create an abusive work environment. i will tell you wha how i was treated. that is exactly how i was treated. mr. callahan sent me a letter and wouldn't investigate. i am out of a job now. i was hoping they approve my retirement disability. i suffer with sharp pains. >> chair mar: speaker's time has concluded. next speaker, please.

next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am wanda slaughter. each time i come here today we only get a minute. the two minutes would never convey the unfair treatment and incidents that i deal with sine the 1990s. i don't know what is going to happen. >> they are not doing what they should be doing. what are you going to do about them? what they are going to do to the communities. you work with me back in the days you know. you know how i was.

i was a good employee. the intimidation and all of the everything that took place. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> race equity is not god's work to establish quota systems for the pity of non-white people it is about balancing the quote take system of whiteness, it was a system developed and contrived through racially biased laws and practices and policies for white men initially and white people overall.

some examples are the system in 1619 through 177 to provide a white man with 50-acres of land. homestead acts from 1862 to 1976 that allowed white men and women to complete applications and receive allotments of 160-acres of public land. 320-acres land through the homestead act. >> next speaker, please. >> 640-acres land. 270-acres of land was provided. it was for free because of the race. >> to institute white only

causes that didymia federal loan guarantees for black people. this set up red lining in the 1960s which these worked in concert until 1977 under the reinvestment act to advance the advantages for the white race. >> next speaker, please. >> the law of 1664 was that all negroes would serve hard labor for life. the casua killing lack would noa

felony under the presumption that one would not intentionally destroy their own property.

>> do you want to use the balance of your 30 seconds? we will start the clock over. >> last year our commission adopted a resolution codifying the commitment and establishing the racial equity initiative. we look forward to continuing to grow with other city agencies

under the leadership. thank you. >> good afternoon, i am jessie, the program manager for community united. i want to urge selection process for the staffers be transparent and above all else accountable to actual people. excited about the legislation. i want to say for example around density we can think about the analysis this might contribute to the impact of property values that go up and contribute to displacement of highly vulnerable working class community language access that limit th the representation that bind us to the development and dignified housing on the lottery system. thank you.

>> chair mar: next speaker, please. >> greetings, supervisors. i want to give a very thankful thank you and hug to supervisor brown to bring this forward. i am a san francisco native representing the fillmore community. as you all know, i don't need to say any more. inning the levels of the racial disparities, please understand i am here on behalf of the san francisco festival which is imperative and the san francisco black film festival. in terms of this office and in terms of the conversations and the fire that is needed to continue to educate and to bring forward the truthfulness of what is going on, it is more than

necessary. it is imperative. let's continue to get the work done and i will say once again accountability. let's go. >> chair mar: thank you. >> i am the co-director of the black film festival. as a 10 year resident accompanying her husband to san francisco i proud lerepresent the black film festival. i don't know if you are familiar with the work that my mother-in-law did in the fillmore community i am proud to continue that work not only in the festival every year and the time that we spend individually as community leaders. it is about time for us to realize who we are, sisters. as leaders in the community i am

proud to stand her. did you have something to say? >> i want to thank you. i was happy to hear about the legislation. i will support it 100%. hopefully we can get the work done we need for equality of san francisco. >> chair mar: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor. i am rodney chin, you grew up in chinatown and growing up in chinatown, we experienced a lot of institutional racism. now that i am grown older and moved to weather addition i don't see a change in racial institution in the western addition. i am executive director of a nonprofit and i am here to support the office of racial

equity. i encourage you to move forward with this and not put words and policies into effect but let's have oversight on the policies and words. thank you. >> chair mar: one final speaker card. if there is anybody else in the public that wishes to comment on this item, please come forward. next speaker, please. >> thank you. i am jessie baker. i am a business owner in san francisco here to support the creation of the office of racial equity. on an interpersonal level and structure level, racism is real and we need things such as the offers of racial equity in order to address this problem on a structural level. thank you for pushing this legislation through.

>> hello. i am a fillmore kid, and i want to say i will echo what everyone else is saying. i would like to see the percentage amount of time putting on paper so there is a legal backing for people in offers in the position for the people affected to have something to say to make sure their voices aren't not heard and to hold that accountability. thank you. >> i am georgia. i am the president of the american legion across the street on behalf of the fillmore center. i am a new business owner, a new san francisco resident. i am excited what you are doing

today. i was invited on behalf of the fillmore. i look forward to seeing what you bring to the table. i am excited to know you are representing us and i am counting on you for accountability. thank you. >> i am andrew. i work with film can. we are in support of this office. i want to share the filipino american community has a long history in the city and is not new to racism. we were targets of discrimination since the 1900s. we were banned in the restaurants with no filipinos allowed signs to being called little brown monkeys. during the 20s and 30s there were about 20,000 of us. we were relocated to other parts of the city. we would like to thank the

supervisors for their leadership for this legislation. we urge you to pass this. thank you. >> chair mar: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am judy young executive director of the national center of excellent in women's health and co-director of the black women's health. i am to speak in support of initiative. i want to encourage you to pass the legislation and i want to echo the sentiments about accountability making sure those running the effort have the authority to do their job and the accountability. your efforts to make sure everyone is accountability will help us to run our initiative. thank you. >> thank you.

arnold townsend. real quick. you only got a minute. i support the legislation and what i want to talk about is that one minute. you all need to stop that. i remember when supervisors would have to take a break and dinner break. i know that is inconvenience, but if anyone is going to be inconvenienced, it shouldn't be the people it should be the servants of the peopl people who should be inconvenienced. i would not be foolish enough to say anything important about racism in one minute. and then to cut people off mid sentence only speaks to the frustration that people of color feel living in a racist society. it ex asser bases it, increases it. you need to it would be better to bring us to say everybody

support it stand up and everybody that doesn't sit down and you can go home and take care of your business. >> my given name is patricia and farrell. i have a legal name. i don't know what to think. my parents in 1948 were the first interracial couple to be married in the san francisco county history if not the united states. he was negro, she was a white woman. i haven't heard anyone say anything about inter race, there are many people who don't know their races. there needs to be education on all sides. everybody has been separate for whatever race that they represent. i put decline to state. i want to say i know the group

of people in the 1940s who came to san francisco because it was different and they wanted to enter. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am victoria stafford. while our ons is excited to see the city take a long overdue step. the creation of the office would not be a beginning a continuation of work towards racial justice present for generations. do not let this let you lose momentum and i urge you to take the lead from the community from the voices you have heard today. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am here representing the office of economic and work force development. i was in the coal heard three

years ago. thank you human rights for your leadership. thank you, supervisors, for considering the ordinance. this is important work to be in place a long time ago. i think or i will say the charge to the legislator to make the decision from a place that is often disconnected from people of color and the issues they face. i will charge you to have deference to the people and people who are your staff who are actually working on the ground with people of color who see first hand the racism and discrimination they face on a daily basis. i think supervisors you should take the training to understand the veracity of racism.

the partnership with the community and the legislators. >> chair mar: thank you. any other members of the public who wish to speak? please step forward. >> an old friend of mine set on the board of the central bank. provided me the policies of state. government supporters and detractors of the industry and the general public compete for limited resources in spite of the rhetoric to the contrary. those city employees complaining before the budget finance committee a few weeks ago regarding a proposed policy of job elimination through attrition at the city housing authority were directing the comments to budget finance chair fewer as he was not only the

prime mover of the targeted cuts disproportionately affecting black americans the funds from $3 million to $1 million. the budget chair as well recently blocked. >> supervisor fewer: any more speakers during public comment? public comment is closed. now, i want to invite ms. campbell from the budget office to provide a brief economic impact presentation. >> good afternoon. the main thing i would report on the difference in what is said today is that the legislation does require a minimum of five staff for the office of racial equity. there were four positions that were introduced to the budget before the board of supervisors. three in 1920 and one in 2021.

there would be one position requested by the human rights commission for the 2021 budget. we consider approval for the board of supervisors. >> chair mar: colleagues, any additional comments or questions? supervisor brown? >> commissioner brown: thank you. i want to thank everyone for coming today and your time. i know the one minute is hard. we could be here for hours talking about this. i just also want to say this legislation isn't perfect. it is something that we are going to have to work on. i have to say, you know, from my years as legislative aid here and working on affordable housing and now as supervisor, the action that we take to

address the racial equity in policy or funding priorities is really a gut feeling when we would do it. we would say this needs funded, this policy needs to be passed. a lot of times we didn't have the data to say is this really working. i think that was frustration for all of us doing this work. it was frustrating. the things we thought were great and would make a difference did not. i feel it is really important this offers of racial equity that they can actually shine the light and really get in deep and find out what do we need to do as policymakers and when we are doing the budgets? they are going to do that with the community, the larger community is actually going to be helping with this. it is not a few people that talk to us as policymakers.

this will be a larger community process which i think is really important when we move forward because it is the community, you, that are really going to guide a lot of this work. i just want to thank both supervisor few errand mayor breed because when we were looking at budget and really fighting for these positions to put into human rights commission, it was one of those times where everybody came forward to say, yes, this is important. this is probably some of the most important legislation that we could do. i just really appreciate everybody coming. let's get the data to make the best decisions we can and policy and funding and also accountability. i herd that. i heard that. we have to make sure that is on the front of the list as we move forward.

let's get this work done. thank you. >> supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chair. i want to thank everyone for sharing your opinions with us today. we heard about account ability. hearing after hearing, report after report nothing had been done. it was imperative to take the first step. this is a concrete step in the right direction. i want to thank the members of the committee for the special meeting. i want to thank supervisor mar for holding this hearing. it is a special meeting. i want to apologize for the one minute. i know it is short. i have been on the other side of the podium as a community organizer for many years. we were going to lose quorum we felt imperative to do the one minute. our apologies. supervisor brown and i are

temporary stewards of the city and county of san francisco. this work will go on after we are not here. we depend on you who showed up today who want accountability. it is not just going to be on us or on the office of hrc. it is on all of us not to forget this and to work on it. we feel like with this office we have laid a foundation for that work. without it we felt as though any testimony you give could not have the teeth unless we had this foundation of this office. let's work hard to make it successful. i hope my colleagues pass it unanimously to show they also agree it is time in the city and county of san francisco that we address racial disparities in a very concrete way and also look to this office to give us recommendations on closing this

gap to make everyone successful in san francisco. thank you for joining us today and thank you for holding this hearing. i greatly appreciate it. >> i want to say in the meantime as we work towards this, what are you going to do? >> chair mar: public comment has concluded for this item. we can continue this discussion. >> can you sit down with black workers to tell us how you are going to make us whole? >> chair mar: is there a motion for this item. supervisor brown. >> commissioner brown: let me just move forward. we have subsequent amendments. i have the motion to continue this. i want to do that.

i am going to -- we can talk. i definitely. can i just finish? this is rule of order. what we are going to do for the amendments. >> we all have a copy and i think that our colleagues know that the underlying portion or amendments. there are quite a few amendments here. i believe they are substantive. it must be continued. >> is there a motion to accept the amendments? is that the motion?

>> accept the amendments. >> so moved. can we continue this item to the next meeting? >> governmengovernment audits ad oversights meets july 18th. >> can we continue this to july 18th? >> so moved. >> thank you so much. >> mr. clerk, please call item number two. >> item twoard nance to prohibit city funded travel to statessen accounted laws that prohibit abortion and city contracting with companies headquartered in states enacting such laws or work to be performed in such states making technical

amendments regarding this ban which apply to the existing ban on city funded travel based on sexual orientation. mr. chair. >> chair mar: can everyone please take the conversation to the hallway we are moving to item two. supervisor brown. >> commissioner brown: thank you, colleagues. i am pleased to limit the city and county of san francisco from contracting in and restricting city funded travel to states that pass abortion bans. i want to thank 10 co-sponsors for support. i hope we can take a meaningful stand against states rolling back access to abortion care. i want to thank the city administrator, planned parenthood and department of status of women for collaboration. this is drafted in the spirit of

chapter x ordinance article one of chapter 12a places a ban on city funded travel and city contracts with states passing anti-lgbt laws. i am grateful for the leaders for paving the way. today we are adding a second article to the existing code chapter to expand existing ordinance to states that waged war on the constitutional protected rights to an abortion. article two of chapter 12x will mandate no sponsoring or reimburse meant to city fund travel to any staten acing a law for abortion prior to viability. no contracts to require the dent of status to women to device a list of abortion covered states and submit the list to the city

administrator and city attorneys every six months. it require the controller generates an economic impact report of this article in three years. lastly, as a reminder to everyone, chapter 12x including waivers for emergency services, sole source contracts, no qualified bidders, public health and safety and bulk purchasing and grant agreements. the article we are discussing today does the same. i would like to call up two presenters to provide more context to the legislation. first is elizabeth mu nan, policy and project director on the status of women. you have three minutes. >> thank you, supervisors. abortion is a basic part every productive healthcaretr healthc.

the access to save legal abortions coincided with significant increases in education and wage gains. since january state legislators across the country enacted 60 new abortion restrictions, 26 would ban abortions in all or some cases. i want to be clear these do not limit women's freedom they put people who can get pregnant lives at stake. they make abortions more dangerous when they are restricted people may seek unsafe ways to end pregnancy. every year 47,000 women in the world unnecessarily die from complications related to abortion. u.s. has the highest mortality rate of any developed nation and these states have higher rates

of maternal and infant mortality compared to the nation. we applaud supervisor brown for continuing the san francisco legacy saying we will not spend dollars where people's lives and economic security are threatened. we worked with her office and her aid to help develop this legislation and prioritize the rights and bodily autonomy of women and intersex people in the country. the department on the status of women welcome this policy by identifying states with the abortion laws and making the suggestions regularly. we have identified 20 states thatten abilitied a ban -- enacted a ban. it adds an additional 11 states. in accordance with the landmark ordinance to commit the city to

ensure the women's social and political equality the commission support this to make real our commitment to the right to abortion. thank you. >> i would like to call up laura babb from planned parenthood. >> hi. i am with planned parenthood. i want to thank the staff and supporters as well as all of you. we have seen a rash extreme abortion babbs sweep the country to bring a challenge to the supreme court to make abortion inaccessible. judicial fights have begun around the country. over states limiting safe legal abortion prior to viability of the fetus. this is not just an attack in missouri and georgia. it is on