not be a citizen of this country. during his sentencing, during his imprisonment, my father and mother who were very poor, were unable to get him a good lawyer, therefore the long sentence, overly long, drove across the country. my father died of a heart attack. one could say he died of heart break to go and see his son. he never saw his son again. over the ten years he was imprisoned, my mother lost her job, lost all of her retirement. i spent thousands of dollars bringing myself, my son, my husband, my whole family out to visit my brother between two to three times a year in the south of this country. [ bell rings ]. >> it's a long journey for families. i saw a lot of broken families. i empathized with all the families, all the women, all the children, all the hiss and

wives, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, of people who are incarcerated, it is a long, long time and we need to give every single person the right to full citizenship under the law and the right to vote as soon as we possibly can. everybody who has served their sentence needs the right. thank you very much. [ bell rings ]. >> chair ronen: next speaker. >> good morning. my name is michael sevadra. i'm also formerly incarcerated. i spent 19.5 years in prison. i'm now a pathway to law school student and also i work and pay taxes. however, i can't vote and i think it's very important for me to be reintegrated back into the community to have that right and also to represent my community because my community is being marginalized as well and their voice as well as mine need to be heard. so i urge you to pass this.

thank you. >> good morning, good afternoon, my name is wendy click. i work for hospitality house but also represent myself. i'm formerly incarcerated. the sentence i carried, i had to be on parole for five years. if it wasn't for the dorothy nones and joe wilsons, i never would have thought about voting. after my five years, this past november was the first time i was able to vote. i brought 34 people who have never voted here to city hall. we did a walk to windy and that was so liberating for me because it wasn't for all of us or none of us who gave that pamphlet out to vote, i wouldn't have had all 34 folks here. i'm going to continue this, but now at hospitality house, we have people, six with a life sentence. we are reaching out to the

communities to say let's get out and vote. so i support this, hospitality house supports this, and we all would love for this to pass. thank you. >> good morning, my name is michael mendosa, and i'm the policy director with the anti-recidivism coalition. we are in strong support of this resolution. we want to thank supervisor haney for his leadership and believe that democracy needs everybody. thank you. >> my name is kelly savage. i work for the california coalition of women prisoners with all or none and several others. as formerly incarcerated individual, i understand that no matter what choices we made then, today we're at jeopardy every single day we don't have an opportunity to vote. our safety is at risk. we're not afforded the same

opportunities as everyone else. if we're harmed in the community, the da may or may not decide if they want to prosecute that person that harms us because we're not full citizens until that parole is over. that is unacceptable. we're here paying rent, we're here paying taxing, we're here paying every other bill everyone else pays. with this vote, it will give us one more opportunity to get one more step towards that citizenship we deserve just as well as everybody else. once again, as others have talked about, it's not about negating the crime itself, it's about who we are today because we earn the right to be here. thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i just wanted to thank everyone

for coming out and your incredibly compelling testimony. i could not be more proud to be a co-sponsor of this measure, this item. the fact is, and many of you expressed this very articulately and clearly, that in this country there has been systemic efforts to prevent black people from voting for ever, since slavery, whether it's, you know, violence in lynching, whether it's literacy tests, whether it's the requirement of i.d. cards, i mean, every tactic that you can -- that any system could think of to prevent african-americans from voting has been tried, and this is the latest effort of that. and we must work tirelessly until we eliminate all of these

barriers to anyone. now, not only african-american folks, but latino folks and anyone incarcerated, but primarily people of color are disenfranchised and their vote is taken away over the most important decisions of them and their families and about as wrong as wrong can be. we're going to change that law here in california. this is the first step in getting there, and i'm very, very excited to be passing this resolution in our city. thank you so much for all your work. supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair ronen. first, i want to thank everybody who came out to speak today and who came out to the rally, and of course supervisor haney and all sponsors in support of aca-6. it's really like darcy none said

earlier when he talked about the fact when you take away someone's right to vote, you're actually taking it away from their children, you're taking it away from their grandchildren, and you're creating a generational way of keeping voice out of the political system and out of the system where people make decisions. of course that's unfortunate, that generational silence, but we also have to stop using the law to try to keep people from being able to re-engage into society. trying to use the law or mistakes and lessons that people have learned to keep them from being successful and positive pieces of society. we do understand that a big part of being productive is actually having the right to vote and we notice singling out people of color, we know what the data shows and demonstrates in terms of who is incarcerated, who is

formerly incarcerated, who has a voice and doesn't get the right to vote. the last thing i will say from a common-sense standpoint, we understand that people are more productive when they have a voice and opportunity to re-engage, and the more additional obstacles we put in front of people, the harder it is for them to be successful and re-engage in society. anecdotally, friends and family who've been incarcerated and never had someone come home for the most part and say the first thing i want to do is go out and create another crime. they want another job to make income and they need family and friends a positive support system. when you put obstacle and obstacle and obstacle on top of all of the other things that weigh in when someone is trying

to re-engage in society, it makes it worse and taking away the right to vote is another form of that obstacle. i want to thank you all for being here and of course i want to thank our votes at the state for pushing aca-6 forward. this is only one step in terms of the changes we really need to make to make sure people can positively re-engage in society. this is a very important step. thank you, supervisor haney and colleagues. >> supervisor mar: thank you. yeah, i also wanted to, first of all, thank supervisor haney for bringing this resolution forward. thank you to all the state legislators who have co-sponsored and thanks to all the advocates who spoke today and at the rally and especially the formerly incarcerated and returning community members for all of your dedication and focus on this issue and in the broader

issues of restorative justice. yeah, as my colleagues have stated, is another important step that i think we can take as a state in the state of california in terms of racial and restorative justice. as elected officials, we know or understand as well as everyone that elections matter and every vote matters and i think the voice and the vote of community members who are on parole are incredibly important to bring forward right now in all of our elections, local, state, and especially the federal elections coming up in 2020. so again, i'm -- thanks to everyone for all your work on this issue. i look forward to not just moving this resolution forward, but supporting all the work

y'all are doing on these important issues. >> i also want to thank everybody who came out today and especially the returning citizens, returning community members, who have been leading this fight for a long time and got us to this point where we have got the opportunity to put this on the ballot that can really address this. it's going to take all of us to get this passed. there's going to be fear-mongering and misinformation. we have to make sure the governor signs it on his desk and it goes to the ballot. we know in this building, sometimes people don't want things on the ballot and this has to go on the ballot. what florida has shown is that we can win when we're united and when we correct the misinformation. particularly, we're going to talk about democracy and we're going to talk about rights, and that's the right framing, but also the current situation is damaging to public safety, that when you exclude people after they've been released from

prison and you continue to isolate them and marginalize them, that's what causes -- that doesn't only not serve public safety, it doesn't enhance the public safety in any way. so we're going to fight that misinformation as well. i want to thank everybody who's been on the front lines of this. i joined for the march with wendy and that's where i voted. actually, when i was elected, that's the time that i voted and was very proud for your leadership and this is a frisk issue, this is an important issue for our community. so we need to see it through and be on the front lines and follow the lead of our formerly incarcerated returning community members as you all lead this fight and we join you. thank you to my co-authors, all three of you, and to the committee for considering this. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. so we -- i will make a motion to

send this item forward with positive recommendations. >> amended. >> chair ronen: sorry. i will make a motion to accept the amendments that supervisor haney submitted without objection those amendments pass. then i will make a motion to send this item forward with positive recommendation without objection. that motion passes. thanks so much for everyone's advocacy. congratulations. [ applause ]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, can you please read item number 4. >> clerk: item number 4 is a resolution urging the office of small business to convene a small business economic mitigation working group to outline economic mitigation measures in support of san francisco small business retailers affected by ordinance no. 122-19 and requesting the office of the controller to provide an economic impact report for ordinance no. 122-19 and an updated report for ordinance no. 140-17.

>> chair ronen: supervisor walton, would you like to make introductory remarks? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much. supervisor fewer and i are putting forward this resolution to let everyone know we are serious about supporting our small businesses here in san francisco. i have said before that small businesses are the backbone of a lot of our communities here in the city. we want our small businesses to thrive and we need to put policies in place that will help small businesses succeed here in san francisco. we sat down with the small business commission and several small business advocates to work on this resolution to convene a small business economic mitigation working group. the goal is to mitigate negative impacts on our small businesses due to recent legislation, but also to legislation that could be harmful to small businesses in general. so this resolution will support

the small business commission convening that committee to work together on strategies and policies that will help small businesses thrive even due to certain legislation. >> chair ronen: fantastic. no other opening comments? if there's any member of the public who would wish to speak on this item, please come forward. >> good morning, chair ronen, vice-chair walton, supervisor mar, dominika dalton. thank you so much for hearing this today, and on behalf of the small business commission, i would like to extend thanks and appreciate to supervisors walton and fewer in them introducing this legislation in an especially timely and swift manner. the commissioners are especially grateful to supervisor walton to listening to their feedback and to emerging feedback and

following up on the commitment made to a strategy to implement economic mitigation measures for our most vulnerable businesses who may have been affected by recent legislation. we're confident this effort will lead to sustainable positive outcomes for our small businesses and we're gratefully appreciative of your consideration of this item. thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item? mr. wright, please come forward. >> small businesses, now the city has been short-changing small businesses, and i -- generally that's not my target because i focus in on the most vulnerable people, but when you do something that's right in front of my eyesight, because of me not being an unconscionable person i have to speak up. you have been giving preferential treatment to

multi-billion-dollar companies not letting them pay payroll taxes, whereas small businesses you charge them payroll taxes. as a result their clientele is not as big as the multi-billion companies, twitter, and other companies and a biotech company and the business is always booming, but small businesses end up going out of business and then you penalize the owner because plywood is being put in front of the window where the small business is located and you want to charge them. so you owe them. that's difference of treatment. it's a violation of business code of professional ethics. you've got a situation enjoyed by multi-billion-dollar companies is not enjoyed by smaller companies. that's preferential treatment. one company carrier that came in

and claimed taxes, state taxes, union dues, pesca denied them from being treated like twitter and gave a poor excuse, said, look, because you're paying union dues doesn't mean you should be exempt from paying payroll taxes. how come you don't use that philosophy with twitter and all the other high-tech companies and one biotech company? they've got multi -- [ bell rings ]. >> chair ronen: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. i would love to add myself as a co-sponsor of this measure, and i'm happy to make the motion to refer this to the full board as a committee report. >> thank you. i second that. i just want to thank dominica

for her work and support through this process. we still have much more work to do together, but thank you for coming out this morning. >> i would like to be added as a co-sponsor as well. thank you so much for all your work on this, supervisor walton. >> chair ronen: without objection, this item moves forward with a committee report with positive recommendation unanimously. [ gavel ]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, can you read item number 5. >> clerk: item number 5 is the ordinance amending the administrative code to establish uniform procedures for the administration of city loans and grants for the acquisition, development, construction rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing, authorize the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute certain local or grant agreements for affordable housing. >> chair ronen: thank you. we are happy to have the director of mohcd in her last

week on the job. >> we've got to keep things moving to the bitter end. >> chair ronen: thanks for being here. >> thank you. thank you very much for this hearing and for considering our request to establish protocols for the mayor's office of housing and community development loans approval process. let's see if we could get the -- there we go. hold on one second. okay. great. just to provide a little framework, the city charter requires that all loans that are over $10 million or longer 10

million in term receive a board of supervisors approval. in addition, we request board approval for any acquisitions or leases of real property, per the admin code, as well as jurisdictional transfers of real property. we take land dedications from our developers to the board for approval that comes through the planning code. if we get any funds for our developments from the state department of housing and community development, that requires board approval, as does every tax-exempt bond issuance. we've used tax-exempt bonds on 98% of new construction projects. so there are many board approvals that apply to all our projects. we are requesting delegated authority for three types of

loans, and i will speak in more detail about the rationale for this request in the next slides. the first is for loans that are less than $10 million, but have longer than ten-year terms. we are also asking for delegated authority for our local operating subsidy program grant agreements and for emergency loans that exceed $10 million. what will not change is that any substantial rehab or new construction project will require board approval. any loan that's over $10 million will be bringing to the board. and our loan -- our local operating subsidy grants, those require annual appropriations approvals from the board. so we'll be before you for that program every single year. in addition, we will continue to be applying our long-term deidre

strikss, our long-term affordability covenants and our appliance with all the regulatory frameworks that we work within, including state, local, and federal regulations. with respect to the delegated authority, the request to have this for loans under $10 million primarily applies to two kinds of loans. one is a small-sized program and one is the down-payment assistance program. in our down-payment assistance loan program, we are talking -- let me go back a slide. our borrowers are conducting this work for anti-displacement reasons to keep people in their homes, they're out there on the market. the board process takes four to five extra weeks. so we would really be put at a disadvantage. okay. and we do have some great examples of where that process would have caused us to actually lose the properties.

with respect to the down-payment assistance loans, we are under obligation to protect the privacy of our clients. and so to get a down-payment assistance loan you must provide your personal finance information. so it's very sensitive information and we want to make sure we continue to protect those borrowers. also, our borrowers would not be able to compete in the marketplace. again, the local operating subsidy program comes before you annually. it's a program with strong support from all corridors. so to not have this delegated authority would essentially duplicate the work of the board approvals, which you have the -- you see at budget time every year. finally, this is quite rare, the emergency loan delegation request, but we do want to be prepared if there were an instance of a building condition that could cause harm to tenants or cause them to lose their

homes. so we're asking that if there's an emergency and we demonstrate that there is a risk to life or a loss of the housing and we have documented that the building owner has exhausted all other funding sources, we want to make sure that we can make those loans and preserve the housing and protect people. we would, of course, give you notification prior to the loan, ten days' advance notice, and the controller would weigh in to make sure we have the appropriate funds to do that. and that is really it. i'm happy to answer any questions, and again, thank you for your consideration. >> chair ronen: any questions? supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thanks. i just had a few questions about the -- yeah, this -- i really appreciate the presentation and for the small sites acquisition

program and the down-payment assistance loan program, i was just wondering like how many -- like, how many projects or financing sort of requests come before -- currently come before the board for these on an annual basis roughly? >> we have preserved about 200 small sites units, and we ha have -- the vast majority have been direct financing from the city. some cases there has been bridge financing. we had been operating under the delegated authority as just a historical fact, and then last year the board asked us to take

another look at how our loan approvals process goes with the city attorney's office and the controller's office, and this is why we're here to clarify that, in fact, we want to make sure that we're bringing before the board what should be done by the terms of the city charter, but there are some instances like small sites that -- where the four to five weeks in additional time would be very problematic. so we have -- and i do have my colleague here -- we have multiple properties that are coming up that we want to be able to act fast in the marketplace and so i don't have the exact number, but i could get my colleague to advise. >> i just had another question. have there been examples where we have lost opportunities because of the need to come before the board for approval, either for the small sites

program or the down-payment assistance program? >> jonah lee from the mayor's office housing development. so answer your first question about the number of projects that have come through requesting board approval, we've now brought two groups of small sites projects, approximately ten projects, and the vast majority of those have been conversions of permanent financing, so where a bridge lender provided the acquisition financing and the city's financing was coming in as a take-out financing source. and to your second question in terms of transactions that might have otherwise been lost if we had to go through the board approval process. you know, 80% of all the small site acquisitions that we've done to date have been with the city operating under this delegated approval, and where we

were able to close in less than 100 days and it's our opinion that had those projects had to go through a different approval process that was not expedited, they either would not have been able to get under contract or we certainly would not have been able to close under the required timeline. what we're seeing in the market today is that -- excuse me, sellers are requiring 90 to 100 days as a closing timeline, and that's just not feasible with the additional time required to go through the board process. >> thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you. any other questions? no. great. i'd now like to open up this item to public comment. mr. wright, go ahead and come right up. >> the mayor's office on housing and board of supervisors too. you've got a tendency of always

talking about 100% affordable housing. i'd like to scrutinize each and every one of these grants, these loans, because i know from corporate law experience that those grants and those loans got protection clauses in there saying that you are not supposed to be involved in any kind of activity that discriminates against people who you are claiming that you're helping with this loan, and you've been doing this on each and every loan from the state and the feds that ever comes through the city of san francisco and i'm furious. you say 100% affordable housing, but yet the most vulnerable people are not included in the housing opportunity and over 90% of them have a combination of both mental and physical disability. so you're in violation of the american disabilities act too.

every time you set the requirement in order to be a tenant in a building and fill out an application, you set the lowest income below the income of the most vulnerable people that is homeless out in the street who you claim you want to help. it's disgusting. you've got emergency homeless housing situation on your hands. you meet all the requirements -- [ bell rings ]. >> -- in order to sustain let us call price gouging and price fixing, where you deliberately set the price in order to be a tenant in the building at a minimum of 80% of ami. i confronted you partly on that one time before. you gave me a poor excuse. who are you hiring to clean the building? the secret service? that's why you've got so many people homeless and on the street. [ bell rings ]. >> chair ronen: thank you. is there any other member of the

public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. if there's no other comments, i think that this law makes sense. i do think that if we're not able to close quickly on these properties that we will lose them that's a fair request you're making and i'm supportive of this. if i can make a motion to send this item forward as a committee report with positive recommendati recommendation. i'm looking to my colleagues if that is okay. that passes unanimously. ordinance authorizing the

controller to modify the ballot question regarding the proposed general obligation bond ordinance for the november 5, 2019, ballot (board of supervisors file no. 190495) to incur $600,000,000 of bonded indebtedness to finance the construction, development, acquisition, improvement, rehabilitation, preservation, and repair of affordable housing improvements, and related costs necessary or convenient for the foregoing purposes. >> chair ronen: thank you. we have sophia kitler from the mayor's office. >> thank you, supervisors. the mayor, mayor breed and president nee had introduced this to allow the controller to take advantage of senate bill 268, which would change -- it changes how we think about the ballot question and what the requirements for the ballot question are, particularly with regards making the tax rates explicit for rcd's bonds. this ordinance had allowed us to take advantage of what that might be, should it pass at the state level, specifically for

the affordable housing bonds. i'm pleased to say f 268 is moving through the senate, but not applicable to the november ballot. it will not apply to affordable housing bond. while i believe we will be back for the easter bonds, we respectfully ask that the committee table this item. thank you so much. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. open this up for public comment. any member of the public who would like to speak. mr. wright, come on up. >> this is just a continuation of my overall demonstration. you talk about 100% affordable housing. this is a $600 million bond and it's supposed to be targeted for senior citizens in order to make sure they have permanent housing. you've got re-development rules that's in the city charter that says 15% of all apartment building complexes that comes

through the mayor's office on housing is supposed to be for very low and low income and moderate income bracket people and then you come up with a $600 million bond in order to get the type of housing for the people who i've been demonstrating for years under this rule 702 pertaining to redevelopment and housing opportunities, 15% of all buildings is supposed to be for very low and low-income bracket people. if you're to follow your own rules and regulations, you wouldn't have this type of problem and you wouldn't need this bond because those people would be included in the housing opportunity and you wouldn't have this problem in the first place. for example, 15% of the total amount of apartment buildings at mission is 1,500 units. if you follow the rules and resolutions that is in that big bank of information, 15% of

1,500 means 225 of those apartments is supposed to be for very low and low and moderate-income bracket people. the giants price fix and make the lowest income in order to be attended in that apartment complex in mission rot at about 38,000, $42,000 a year and it's only 2% of the overall pie that you advertised and you make it look like people can afford to live in the building and they can't. you're liable and i'm going to hold you to it. [ bell rings ]. >> chair ronen: thank you. would any member of the public like to speak? seeing none, it is closed. i'm happy to make a motion to file this item. without objection, that motion passes. >> to recommend. >> chair ronen: or table, sorry, not file, table the item. >> sorry. >> chair ronen: i make a motion to table the item. >> the motion is to table the

matter. >> chair ronen: that's right, and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, is there any more items? >> clerk: that completes the agenda. >> chair ronen: then the meeting is adjourned. thank you. [adjournment]

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going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so

this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration

as well as immigrants (fireworks) later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give >> the hon. london breed: good morning, everyone. i'm london breed, and i'm the

mayor of san francisco, and i'm so excited to be here with you today to talk about what we are doing to provide more affordable housing to the residents of san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: when i first became mayor last year, i noticed that in the capital plan for the city and county of san francisco, there were no plans for affordable housing, and that was not okay. we made changes, we made adjustments, and we started off with a $300 million affordable housing bond, and that $300 million has turned into $600 million, the largest affordable housing bond in the history of this city. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: without raising property taxes. we did this in a collaborative way. we did this with the leadership of the president of the board

of supervisors, norman yee. we did this with our community partners, including four amazing people who led the community working group consisting of so many stakeholders. folks from labor were at the table. people from the community were at the table. folks from the housing community, from public housing, from all sectors of the community from this city because when we know we need to do something this big, we need to come together. and yes, it was not easy, but i want to thank everyone because the people at the table were open-minded, provided feedback, fought for what they believe in, and now we are here united to make sure that the voters pat this bond in november

november. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much to the folks who led this effort, including myrna melgar, tamika moss, malcolm young, and annie chung. because we knew how much money we had, but we also had to make sure that we provided the resources for the things that we needed the most. and as someone who grew up in public housing in this city, there was no way that i was going to allow an affordable housing bond to happen without providing the kind of support that would help residents of public housing, and i want to thank all of you for being unwaivering in your public support for delivering public housing in san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: this affordable housing bond has something for everyone, including our seniors. and president yee was such a

true advocate, not because he's a senior himself, but because -- [laughter]. >> the hon. london breed: i thought you were proud of that, president yee? >> president yee: i am. >> the hon. london breed: but let me tell you, no one does salsa like president yee. but he knew it was important, that fact. you knee it was important that we do good investments, and that's what we're doing with this bond. in addition to providing senior support, we'll be providing housing for our teachers, for down payment assistance, so there's something for everyone. it was a compromise. and again, i want to thank all those on the working group who came together to help make this

possible. but you know what? there's also a need to make sure that these affordable housing units that preservation and the rehabilitation of affordable housing are done with our brothers and sisters of labor. and so i want to thank the labor community, including the leadership of larry mazzola, jr. who sat at the table to make sure that labor was an important part of this effort. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: so many amazing people, so much incredible work and time went into this effort. thank you to president yee again and all the members of the board of supervisors who are very supportive of this affordable housing bond. as i said, this is the largest affordable housing bond in the history of the city without raising property taxes, and so now, the real work begins. once the board passes this bond and places it on the ballot for november, we're going to be looking to all of you and the

voters of san francisco to make sure that we pass this ballot measure. we need at least two thirds of the votes of san franciscans, and so we're going to be working out there and stomping and doing everything we can to get it done, and i'm going to be counting on each and every one of you. thank you all so much for being here today, and now i want to turn the mic over to my partner in this amazing effort, president of the board of supervisors, norman yee. [applause] >> president yee: thank you very much, mayor breed. this has truly been a partnership. it's almost like a model where we start with another end, and another end, we talked to everybody we could talk to, we figured it out. what is the collaboration that we need? what are the elements that we need? how do we serve all the people in san francisco?