acquire abm unit, this is an two a legal offense. i repeat, there was never a community meeting and on this issue. ask of the and individuals. you will see for yourselves, most, if not all of them, want chinatown only. i want you to know, mta had a meeting and all of the merchants that i surveyed, rose her hand and said chinatown only. a lot of them work seven days a week, they don't have time to come to this meeting. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you for making it to speak for chinatown. i've been living in chinatown for 30 years. [inaudible]

for everybody, it is easy to understand it. if they come to chinatown, they see that chinatown station. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i want to show you guys a video about the chinatown station. i want to show you guys a video about it. [♪ music playing ]

>> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm here to air the video given by a merchant, from easy

travel. he cannot come to this meeting, he was too busy. >> i support chinatown station. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> i am here on behalf of the owner of the chinatown hair salon. he cannot come today. [video playing] i support chinatown station only because it represents all chinese. this is what i want to say. >> thank you. >> this video is also from chinatown.

the owner could not be here. i am glad to play for her. [video playing] >> next speaker, please.

>> hello board of supervisors. today i am here to speak on behalf of of eight chinatown business owners. like thousands of san francisco residents against -- most of them cannot be here today because i have to take care of their own business. i bring their letters here, and let their voice to be heard and let supervisors to stop push rose pack naming. as you can see the letters written by workshop owners. crown plaza hotel managing partner, and the fortune cookie owner. [inaudible]

all of these owners do not want chinatown station attached to rose pack. first, rose pack had an f.b.i. file on her because she committed illegal actions to acquiring a bmr unit. second, she has defied a judge's order. also, she had intimidated many and made threats. a lot of people have lived in her fear for many years. please listen to the public's voice, please do not push naming after rose pack. -- rose pak next speaker,

please. >> good afternoon everyone. i am from the good content printing shop. [video playing] [speaking native language] i'm a business owner in chinatown. we wish chinatown to be known all over the world. i don't know why naming it rose

pak, we just want to name to be chinatown. [video playing] [speaking native language] if you talk about the history of rose pak, you cover your ears. whenever she opens up her mouth that is all dirty work. how can we name the station after her name? i represent good content contained shop. >> thank you.

>> good evening board of supervisors. i am the owner of a chinatown restaurant. i support the name chinatown station only. [inaudible] just go to chinatown station i go one block, and find my restaurant. a lot of people come from mexico, china, and they say let's go to china -- chinatown station instead of saying -- [inaudible] i own a restaurant and i am off chinatown station. it is easy, it is a symbol.

you go to chinatown, go to chinatown station. simple. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. we are against rose pak. she had a bad name. we do not want her name on it. thank you. >> good afternoon everybody. i am playing this radio from chinatown, chinese medicine doctor. [video playing]

thank you. >> good afternoon. i come from san francisco. i come to your meeting, a lot of my friends, they support

chinatown station. now, i show you a video of one of them. [video playing] >> excuse me, sir. you are not allowed to translate a video, the speaker's time is allotted for the speaker themselves. if that individual would like to translate the video, she is more than welcome to. but this is not your time to speak. >> next speaker, please.

[speaking native language] >> my english is not very good. sorry. [speaking native language] >> she is the owner of a trading company, i does not have time to come up here. they asked me to come here to play this video for him.

[video playing]

everybody says no rose pak. i hope every supervisor to think about why. nobody likes it. chinatown only. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is alan, i live in on bernal heights. i just want to share with you what we went through the last couple of days. we know how the merchants feel about that, and the resident which had persuaded to come forth. very difficult. if they walk away, they have to find a replacement. it is very difficult. they really want to do it. they want to speak out. they ask us to record their word, then play it here. in front of me, this stat,

10,300 names collected by july 15. we will send the clerk the online version of that. all of them are residents of san francisco. you can check them, you can audit them. it has a phone number, or address, or both. i want you to know, this is not an ongoing issue. just a small portion of the people do not like this idea. chinatown businesses, many many people do not like this idea. please think it over. do not do the wrong thing. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> today at 3:37 p.m., i

understand stefani is the one, the supervisor over here. okay. let's go back to, you are always decayed it as i told you before, where's your compassion? [inaudible] i am telling you rose pak is not deserved to put her name over there, because she was gang

related. >> if you want the truth, come to me. [inaudible] don't let her spirits influence you all. be a well-educated supervisor chinatown is the proper name. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> your time is concluded, sir. your time is concluded, sir. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon fellow american citizens. my name is kathleen wells, i am an entrepreneur and i am the american government. i exercise my united states constitution rights, and all other rights. i have a copy of the united states constitution with bill of rights in my possession right now. i exercise my right to collect

my funds, and i demand my funds from a united states constitutional demand. in the amount of $8,250,000, $5 billion on the 110 trillion purchasing power scientifically. an executive branches of our government, during years tran11-2016 and with this government body on july 16, 2019. i demand that the city of san francisco provide a recent auditing report, accompanied with bank statements on account numbers being used by the city. the last time i gave a public comment, i was talking about what has happened with the federal reserve, and its dictatorial practices and how it has caused the current homelessness problem, which i see. you know, i have lived here from 1985-1996. i moved to new york city, that i move back recently in in january of 2019, i am completely shocked

at how many homeless american citizens there are in your streets. it is unacceptable. expert authority, thomas jefferson wrote to albert gallatin, "if the american people ever allow central banks to control, then the inflation and deflation and manipulations will deprive the people of their property, until their children wake-up homeless, on the continent their fathers conquered". my background is american monetary history, and policy, and the constitution of light. i will be happy to help thank you very much for your attention. >> next speaker, please. [singing] single ♪ ♪ america, america, i want my money back.

[laughter] people are telling their genealogy today. i say yeah,, warehouse local six. i was in that union for a couple of years. >> next speaker, please. step up, please. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i am from the medallion holders, not the union, but one of the medallion holders. we do support chinatown, and like the u.s. speaker said, there is a lot of homelessness and by san francisco city, not helping the taxi drivers they are basically trying to create more homeless people. please be kind to all of the

taxi medallion buyers, and please buy those medallions back and give the money back to those medallion buyers so they can rebuild their lives. also, all of the time and money they have lost, san francisco said he basically owes them for their loss of income. i would suggest to please by all of the medallions back, and also refund the loss of income that they have incurred on them, because san francisco is supporting uber and lyft. they are driving and making money on the city of san francisco streets. please help the medallion buyers. thank you.

>> i have not seen a homeless person today, for the first time in memory. regarding the need waste program. good money is chasing bad litter in the win. i'm facilitating a dirty habit. you do not hand out cigarettes, you should not have a purely toxic program. given the recent spate of public fumes that have ended in tragic fatalities, i am imagining you are, as i am, against senseless acts of violence. i believe it is worth supporting the roll of media in general which far too often repeat grotesque mischaracterization, outright melissa lies and inflammatory rhetoric. immigrant families are being kidnapped, separated and taken to concentration camps, where women are told to drink water from toilets, children are

locked in cages, left to sleep on cold hard concrete and said to be dying in the immigration authorities custody with u.s. border agents being vilified as fascist and nazis. unfortunately, such slander has vulgar attempts to my emotional manipulation or the commonplace tactics of character disordered individuals and borderline personalities. it comes as no surprise, given the reckless insight to violence , with the wolf tickets sold, dog whistles blown respectively. eventually a misguided lone wolf does show up and allegedly armed in front of an emigration facility, rifle in hand, attempting to detonate a propane tank, having set nearby cars and buildings of flame. is it any wonder, when uniform mexican soldiers enter the u.s. illegally, and disarm a national guardsmen, at gunpoint, as a

very likely, wrongly imagined they are avenging -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mr. president i will add, before the next speaker. any other members of the public that would like to address the board during general public comment, step up to your right hand side. otherwise this will be the last speaker. >> business in chinatown for 50 years, after hearing naming the station either chinatown or rose pak, my opinion, since i've been here for 50 years, do not name it after anyone. leave the station as chinatown. like i said, rose is a great person and the present, but in the past she has a dark side. i am here 50 years, and we don't choose. thank you.

>> thank you. that will conclude our public comments for today. madame clerk, please call for adoption of our committee agenda items 61-65. . >> clerk: introduced for adoption without reference to committee, unanimous vote is required for resolutions today right alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. . >> supervisor yee: would any of my colleagues like to sever any items? >> 62. >> 61. >> i just want to make sure i'm added as a cosponsor to 52 -- 62. . >> supervisor yee: and, 65. okay.

>> 63, 64. . >> supervisor yee: i think we need to take roll call. i see somebody missing. supervisor haney, are you around . >> clerk: item 63 and 64, supervisor haney. i'm sorry, mr. president we need a roll call. go ahead. [roll call] [please stand by]

. ease stand by] >> >> supervisor mandelman: -- to implement ab 1784, so i'd like to make a motion to add that language. >> president yee: okay. there's a motion to amend. is there a second? seconded by supervisor peskin. if there's no objection, then we'll take these amendments outlined. [gavel]. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this item, same house, same call, as amended? seeing no objection, then, this resolution passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: number 62. >> clerk: 62 is a resolution to support the rights of san francisco veterinary specialists. >> president yee: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i am so proud to have the cosponsorship of every single

colleague on this board. thank you so much for standing by these workers. as i stated last week, sfvs is owned by v.c.a., a company that owns 800 animal hospital. in 2018, v.c.a. was purchased by mars, the candy company. the next step is for the company and union to negotiate a contract. that started 14 months ago, but unfortunately has resulted in delays, not a contract. colleagues, bypassing this resolution unanimously, we are sending a strong message to mars-v.c.a. and san francisco

veterinary specialists that we expect them to honor the law and do right by their employee. they need to know that san francisco is a strong union town that will always fight for justice. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? okay. with no objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: number 65? >> clerk: 65 is an authorization to written ballot arguments for submittal to the voters for the 2019 consolidated municipal election. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, the amendments to the motion have been distributed to authorize preparation of ballot arguments for the november 2019 election

as follows. number one, president yee to write the proponent argument for the charter amendment regarding the disability and ageing services commission and department. number two, mayor breed to write the proponent argument for the g.o. bond regarding affordable housing. number three, mayor breed to write the proponent argument for the initiative ordinance regarding the tax on net rider fares. number four, supervisor fewer to write the proponent argument for the initiative regarding the affordable homes for educators. number five, supervisor mar to write the proponent argument for the initiative ordinance regarding prohibitions on campaign distributions. number six, supervisor walton to write the opponent argument

for the petition initiative ordinance on vapor products. can i have a motion for -- on these amendments? motion by supervisor walton, and seconded by supervisor fewer. then, without objection, these amendments are adopted. [gavel]. >> president yee: on the resolution, can we take this item, same house, same call as amended? without objection, this amendment is approved unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, let's go back to item 60 which was scheduled pursuant to motion m-19. >> clerk: this is where public comment to enter into closed session was taken for the board

to convene in closed session for the purpose of receiving advise or conferring with the city attorney in a case which pacific gas and electric is an adverse party. >> president yee: okay. we've already had public comment on that, and we'll go into closed session. [inaudible] >> president yee: members of the public, we ask that you exit the chambers and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them. we will open

. >> president yee: okay. we are back in open session. may i have a motion that the board finds that it is in the best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session deliberations. motion made by supervisor ronen, seconded by supervisor mandelman. then without any objection we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. madam clerk, please read the in memoriams. >> clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the of the following loved individuals, motion made a supervisor walton by the late mr. walton, sr., and on behalf of clifford benjamin henry, on

behalf of supervisor brown on behalf of the late hannah sigri, and on behalf of supervisor stefani, on behalf of the victims of the gilroy shooting. >> president yee: colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes this session. >> president yee: this is our last meeting before our recess session. have a great summer, and we are done with the agenda. [gavel] .

>> good morning. so i'm mary ellen carol, the executive director at the department of management. welcome. we're here to talk about the 911 which is so going to help us from a technology perspective to bring our 911 system to what we call next gen, next generation. so i've been the director here for a year, and it's just amazing how much we are able to accomplish, but with technology that is literally decades behind. we're so grateful to leadership, of our mayor and our governor, to help us to bring forward this

funding that honestly is going to help us come to technology that most people in their day-to-day lives in their personal technology have above what 911 is. this is going to make our call-taking more efficient and honestly it's going to save lives, which is really the bottom line and why we're here. thank you so much and i'll hand it over to our mayor. >> mayor breed: thank you so much for being here today. i want to add to what mary ellen said about what we need to do to take our emergency response system to the next level. nowadays it's not just about making phone calls. people are text messages and delivering messages in a lot of different ways. so it is time that our systems reflect the changes in technology. so ab 911 is just an incredible step forward that will provide us with the resources necessary to improve our system throughout

the entire state of california. i want to thank our governor for signing the legislation and his leadership and vision on moving us forward to the 21st century, because we know that when someone reaches out and they are in a situation of an emergency, that they clearly need help and we need to have a better response system. i'm sure many of you remember years ago when people -- when cellphones just began -- well, that was a long time ago, but cellphones first became a thing and how people would use cellphones in some instances to call 911, but they would be transitioned to another county and there was some difficulty in communication and how we provided emergency response to get to that location. so things have definitely gotten better since then, but there is so much that we can do to make it even better. having the funding necessary to

invest in new technologies so that text messaging and all the things we do now to communicate are used in a way to address any situation, whether there is a wild fire or a heat advisory or all of those different challenges that sadly we've had to endure, we want to be prepared, we want to respond in a timely manner, and we are ready to move forward in making those investments to do just that. i want to introduce at this time our governor, who has again been a leader in this effort and on new technologies and used to have my job as mayor. welcome home to our governor. >> thank you, mayor. thank you all for being here. it is nice to be back. this is my first day on the job as mayor was in this building when i convened what we called at the time the disaster council.

i was, i guess in looking back, overly anxious during my time as mayor we would experience a major earthquake. thankfully we did not. i maintain that anxiety as your governor. that anxiety was only heightened after ridgecrest. it's been heightened certainly after the last two wildfire seasons as well. as i've navigated this state and learned more about our 911 system, it goes without saying it's only reinforced that anxiety. the 911 system as we know it today was established in 1973. the technology is outdated. the technology lazily can be referred to as analog technology. it predates the internet, as the mayor suggested, it predates smartphones. 80% of the activity that occurs around a call center is smartphone based not landline based, though we have a system to finance our call centers that

predates this new technology. we're overly relying on burdening landlines and as a consequence we have not been able to modernize our system and we've been disproportionately burdening those holding on to that technology, tend to be people on fixed income and seniors. we've been fortunate. there's been efforts over the last few years to update our system that have fallen short. we were successful this year in pushing through our budget and ultimately in this what we call trailer bill to get to the point where today we can formally announce that by the end of this month we have identified the vendors and we will be moving forward with updating not only the state lay of the 911 system, moving from analog to digital but our four major regions that define this state. there are about 437 other call

centers like this, 438 in the state of california, which is an extraordinary number. the reality is they don't have the technology, they don't have the tools to connect. they don't have the capacity to re-direct call volume if something goes wrong or there's a surge in that volume. it is self-evident to anyone in san francisco if there's a major earthquake, the surge volume here will simply overwhelm this call center. our ability once this new technology is deployed will allow the call volume, as an example, potentially to be redirected to sacramento, redirected to eureka, redirected to l.a., wherever the capacity will allow. that's what this technology does. it has a geospatial component. it allows for a substantial amount of bells and whistles.

i can get into that and ask our executive director of this and i can ask the o.e.s. director to fill in the blanks, but it allows us to meet the challenges and the needs of a multiplicity of issues that we face when it comes to mercy planning in the state. this is a big deal. i appreciate the reference that this is about lives because quite literally this is going to save lives. i'm proud of the legislature including the by partisans. final word on this topic, there is a fee attached. i know that generates headlines. we are still among the lowest in the nation in terms of that new fee that's been established. i think that's a nice and important thing to point out. usually we're one of the highest in areas. this is where we're among the lowest.

so i know there was some anxiety related to that, but i hope that assuages some of those concerns. this, by the way, in closing, has been part, this announcement today, part of our week of announcements around emergency preparedness and planning. yesterday i was up with governor schwartzeneggar. we were talking about some of the work we're doing on vegetation management, prescribed burns, making sure we're more resilient in 200 communities across this state. we're stepping up our game and getting more ready for emergency planning and preparedness. more than $1 billion has been spent to make sure california is more resilient and prepared than ever. i'm grateful for the support we

received up and down the state. i'm grateful for the mayor's leadership in this space. she was on the fire commission leading these efforts for many, many years and as conversant as any mayor in the state of the needs and desires not only of her constituents, but as it relates to the need to update these technologies and recognizes she can't do it alone. the state needs to do their part and we're honored to now be doing our part in this space. we're grateful for that. we're also grateful for you being here and happy to answer any questions on topic. then we are happy for any questions for mayor breed off topic. any questions on this subject? >> reporter: >> question: i was just wondering what you observed in your tour today? >> to be honest with you, a lot of familiarity, and i think that goes to the reality.

we were talking to the o.e.s. director and asked how does this compare and contrast to other call centers up and down the state. it is put in the top tier, but that bar is not as high as it can be. at the end of the day that capacity is limited because of resources. our new fee will generate $175 million a year. it will allow the services to go in around october. we'll start implementing these new tools and technology up and down the state. that's what was missing, that state support. this will allow -- you know better than i -- the capacity to do things you are losing sleep over currently and do it in the next few months. this is going to move pretty quickly. august 20th we're going to identify these vendors.

and as soon as october, right, we're going to start seeing the application of this promise and promotion. anybody? i'm going to hang out more in san francisco. >> [ indiscernible ] -- >> i shouldn't say that. she never speaks anyway. >> i actually sleep pretty well because i compartmentalize as well. as an example, one of the technologies that we all use every day to grab an uber and your uber can find you in a moment or even ordering a pizza, that kind of technology for us when calls come in has not been available to us until really the last few months. and after extensive effort to work with third party vendors who are helping to kind of pull this data together. a lot of it has to do with the state of our technology, which makes it a lot harder.

moving from this analog to a more digital level is going to make that technology much more accessible to us, so that we can use that type of quick information that you use to catch a ride or to get your lunch to get help to you, whether it's law enforcement or a medical response or fire. so it just speaks to the ability to have access to this kind of technology much quicker. we alone would have been able to go to. secondly, this is probably just as important, this will provide us with a lot more resiliency and redundancy. the governor explained a little bit and mayor breed about how this allows us to have more mutual assistance between other jurisdictions and their 911 centers because we don't have to put everything in a suitcase and walk across the street. we'll be able to flip a switch and work out so that if we have

an earthquake or a potential power outage that's extensive, we very quickly will be overwhelmed at our center. so this allows us to go to other jurisdictions who can pick up and get those calls and make sure help is getting to people when they need it in the time they need it. >> you mentioned the fee. what is the fee and who pays it? >> it's going to be one flat fee across the board. we have multiple fees right now. $0.33. we are authorized to go higher. we are very confident that we will not need to go to what is authorized, which is closer to $0.80. $0.33 puts us on the lower tier. current landline users are paying $0.50. that will use to $0.33.

a disproportionate amount of smartphone use is text and data, not voice. so we have a system that's collapsing in terms of its funding capacity, and that's why we have been struggling to get this up in sacramento. fortunately we were able to get it in the budget. we had a few supporters from north state that experienced the ravages of mother nature's fury as it relates to the campfire, and i think that really truly brought home this reality and need. so i just want to acknowledge them because they did something within that party that often is not done when encouraged to do the right thing despite the political consequences. i couldn't be more proud of those two individuals as well as the others in the legislature who supported this.

the first day in the nation since 1973 that mandated 911. we have lost our leadership a bit. we're now going to reassert our leadership. 27 million people use this system. we have 1.4 i think just here in san francisco. you drop even for a minute the calls, that literally puts lives at risk. so it is not, again, an exaggeration at all. this is a life-saving fee that will go a long way to making california more resilient, more capable in emergency environment to do justification to it, that is to have someone to answer the phone in an emergency 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> [ indiscernible ] --

>> those companies are competing for these contracts, so all of this is in collaboration and partnership with those companies. we'll see. i don't know who will wind up winning these business, but there's some well-known brands in the state that are competing. i don't know if you want to talk more about the deeper collaboration with cellphone companies or maybe just flesh out other attributes of this system very, very briefly. >> sure. >> thank you. >> in regards to the cellphones, what this will do is harden that 911 connection from our community member on the street, whether you're using a cellphone, your office phone, your home phone. that connection through your provider, that's up to that vendor to be able to harden their infrastructure. but once it recognizes that you have a 911 call, we're going to create redundancy and resiliency in the network so it can get to our local dispatch center.

that's what our job is, to make sure that 911 call is received, routed to the appropriate peace app as quickly as possible. we believe it can be done in 3 seconds from the time you hit 911 to the time the dispatcher receives the call. >> full disclosure these things will take a few years. they don't just happen overnight. by december 2022 it should be fully operational.

>> we'll take roll. (roll call). >> i would like to welcome commissioner latiff ray ang commissioner ambrose is under the weather and not able join us. public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda?