attempt by a foreign powers military that we as taxpayers continue to subsidize. this is before us because the attack on brandon has been met with silence by far too many, because the u.s. embassy in the philippines is failing to protect him, because the federal government is failing to acknowledge or to address the systematic human rights abuses under the philippine president duterte that led to this. and, to fran be frank, because y are failing to have the ability to adequately defend brandon or to bring him home. i appreciate the partnership and the assistance that we have received from speaker pelosi's office and senators harris and finestein and i want to be clear that it's insufficient and we are running out of time. we need to bring brandon home. we need to ensure that he receives adequate medical care, care that we here can give him. we've added to the record to

this file a letter from the san francisco health commission supporting this request. and recognizing brandon's mother, louise lee, has been a dedicated staff member at the department of public health for the last 40 years. alongside supervisor haney we have been advocating on this issue for over a month. in that month, community members have come together to raise funds and to send a delegation to the philippines to visit brandon, including supervisor haney and to organize an incredible breadth of grassr509s advocacy, fueled by hope, anger and love. in that month we haven't seen enough from our federal government or national media. in addition to security for brandon, and an investigation, with this resolution we are calling on congress to end u.s. military aid to duterte's regime until the extradition killings and -- and to provide immediate support to bring brandon back to san francisco, away from his

assailants and that he can receive the medical care that he needs and deserve. we call on the conscience of this country to stop subsidizing abuses and violence that have now hit so close to home. so thank you again, everyone, for turning out and not just this afternoon, but so often and in such a powerful way over the past month. and, colleagues, thank you so much for your support on this. >> president yee: okay, supervisor safai? >> i will be brief and i appreciate the speakers who came out today and thank you to the leadership from haney on this. and i think that one of the things to underscore is that a threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. and this young man being a u.s. citizen and being an environmental advocate and being one that wants to fight for justice around the world in his country of, you know, where his mother is from and family is from, i think that it's an important thing. and so i want to thank you to

all of the advocates who came out here today and say that we stand firmly shoulde shoulder-to-shoulder with him and we want to see the speedy return of brandon to the united states. so thank you for all of your hard work on this. >> president yee: supervisor stefani? >> thank you, president yee. i want to thank my colleagues for their passion and relentless courage to speak out and to thank all of those who came out. i'm so sorry for what you're going through. and i wanted to be added. >> president yee: supervisor brown? >> yes, thank you. it's pretty powerful when you come out and you speak about it, friends, family, and advocates. and i would like to also be added to item number 23. thank you. >> president yee: supervisor haney. >> thank you, president yee. i want to thank supervisor mar for your leadership, as well as your staff, edward wright, for

being there for brandon and his family from the beginning. and for preparing this resolution. it's been, you know, humbling to partner with you as well as brandon's friends and family who are here. i want to thank them. i want to thank all of the organizations. i know that brandon was very much a part of san francisco and was raised in and politicized in many of the organizations that are here. the malai movement, and c.p.a. and the league of filipino students. i want to thank you all for fighting for brandon. when i visited him and his family i was able to share with him that you are all fighting for him, that you are sending your love and your solidarity. and he was able to mouth back, thank you. so i wanted to be able to share that with all of you.

and i know that he knows that you're fatin fighting for him. his strength is incredible. i can't imagine the level of resilience and strength that it takes to survive being shot four times, three bullets that are still in his body. eight cardiac arrests. and he will not give up. and so i know that this conversation and it's in this spirit that he sai is leading ho continue to fight. and i know that you are all fighting for him. what we do know is that the work that we're doing to raise attention and to put this on the agenda of our federal representatives and the u.s. embassy is making a difference. they are responding. they weren't before, but they are now. but as supervisor mar said, there's so much more that they can do and we finally got a

response related to how they can do a humanitarian evacuateion and they said something about providing a loan to the family and so this is information that wasn't previously provided. it should have been provided immediately to the family. and because of the attention they're now responding. brandon represents the best of san francisco. he -- his cross cultural and cross national solidarity represents a tradition and a history and a legacy in this city that i think that we should all be very proud of. and the last thing that i want to say is that we -- during our time in the philippines we were able to meet with many of brandon's comrades and his colleagues, indigenous leaders, leaders within manila and in all of them they shared with us that

what happened to brandon should not be viewed as an isolated and random incident. but it's part of a campaign of targeting people who are standing up for environmental rights and for human rights across the philippines. and i think that brandon would want us to connect with what happened to him with what is happening with so many people, especially poor people, especially indigenous people in the philippines. and to say that -- that their stories and their experiences are not going to be silenced and that to the extent that our government is quiet about this, we're going to be louder, we're going to demand that we no longer be complicit by funding such mass murder and political assassination that now has impacted one of our own in brandon lee. so thank you all for your leadership with the passing of this resolution and we have a lot more work to do to make sure

that brandon comes home safely and that this campaign of terror and murder that the philippine government has been responsible for -- that we do everything that we can to end it. thank you for being here. >> president yee: supervisor mandelman. >> 5d aadd me as a co-sponsor. >> president yee: supervisor? >> i asked to be a co-sponsor and if i'm not already on there and i would like to be added. and i wanted to thank everyone so much for coming out today. your love and your fight for brandon and for all of the people of the philippines that are being abused by the government came across so clearly. and we're with you. and just really appreciate all of your work on this issue and your fight for brandon. so, thanks. >> president yee: supervisor walton? >> i would love to be a

co-sponsor. >> president yee: supervisor fewer? >> i just wanted to say thank you for coming out today. and i have already added my name as a co-sponsor and to include me in any of your fundraising efforts. thank you. >> president yee: okay. i also want to add my voice to this, which is to thank the friends and relatives and organizations that came out to support brandon lee. and as you can see we stand in solidarity with the community on this issue. i think -- i believe that everybody has added names as a co-sponsor. and so thank you very much. and right now, madam clerk, i say that we take this item, same house, same call. without objection. then this item passes unanimously. thank you very much.

let's see... madam clerk, read the memorial. >> clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned in the memory of the following beloved individuals... on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late jerry crawly, and on behalf of president yee, for the late lawrence joseph fonk and on behalf of supervisor brown for the late marcia marcela harvey. >> president yee: colleagues that is the end of our agenda. madam clerk, any other further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> president yee: okay, thank you. we are adjourned. (♪)

>> san francisco and oakland are challenging each other in a battle for the bay. >> two cities. >> one bay. >> san francisco versus oakland.

are you ready to get in on the action? >> i'm london breed. >> and i am oakland mayor libby schaff. >> who will have the cleanest city? >> we will protect our bay by making our neighborhoods shine. >> join us on september 21st as a battle for the bay. >> which city has more volunteer spirit? which city can clean more neighborhoods? the city with the most volunteers wins. sign-up to be a bay protector and a neighborhood cleaner. go to battle fo >> hello, everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. [cheers and applause] i am san francisco mayor london breed, and i have to tell you, first of all, when it is hot in san francisco, it is hot in the bayview. [laughter] i mean, really hot. on a regular basis in the bayview, and potrero hill neighborhood and the mission, we

know that those are the hotspots in san francisco. i just came from the sunset and it is hot in the sunset. i knew it was going to be even hotter in the bayview. i'm really excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food, and here is an incredible opportunity to really not only enjoyed the delicious food provided by some amazing vendors , but this is also an opportunity for the community to come together. when i was growing up in san francisco, we had food houses. remember? we could go to somebody's house and buy some nachos or some chicken or some banana pudding, but times have changed. we don't have the grandmothers and the folks who are the ones that were taking care of the community the same way that we do now. things have changed. the community has changed a lot. we know the bayview hunter's point community has a thriving

african-american population here , a community filled with love and excitement, and the need for us to come together for occasions like this. especially because we know that as there is a lot of work that is happening in the bayview hunter's point community, there are a lawsuit -- also a lot of people working in this community , a lot of people living in this community. having amazing food options for and by the people of this communities critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview hunter's point community. i cited eight. [cheers and applause] >> if you're from hunter's point and you don't know harold, you are not from hunter's point. we have sold bowl... [cheers and applause] and we have yes, putting.

with all things sweet. so today is really about making sure that we support them and we support what they are trying to do here for the community. there are a lot of folks who are going to be working on the sewage plants and other projects we just broke ground on one of the public safety buildings that is not too far from here, so i was just thinking to myself, what was that building that we just broke ground on, the forensic building and some other something, the traffic company. thank you. anyway, we were breaking ground over there and i said i wonder where all these workers are going to eat. where are the restaurants? so we have café envy, we have other places here and we want to make sure that, you know, we know that there are places to go to to eat in the bayview hunter

's point, places to hang out in the community and our goal is to do everything we can to make the right investments so that this community continues to thrive. i want to thank all of you for being here today to support these incredible businesses and thank you to harland kelley kelly with the public utilities commission for having the foresight to know that it is not just about rebuilding and investing in our infrastructure and making sure that the communities part of these projects, it is also about investing in other things that play a critical role to support this amazing community. with that, another amazing supporter of the bayview hunter 's point community who used to be your supervisor and is now public utilities commission are, ladies and gentlemen, sophie maxwell. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. what a day. what an amazing day in san francisco. any time it is warm, i mean, i

never get to wear sleeveless clothes. i'm always scared to death because i feel the wind will come up any minute. but i can relax. we can relax and be warm in this beautiful space. i'm really proud to be a commissioner. thank you so much. i thought it, but it is a great thing because the p.u.c. is sponsoring this. these are the kinds of things that san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they're doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. it is a place where we can connect, where we can laugh, where we can talk about issues and politics, and 45 and kentucky and everything else. we can talk here and this is a good thing. we don't have any banks to wait in line anymore. you are in the bank used to talk to people about things, that is gone. walgreens, used to meet people at walgreens, well, that is gone

, and so we have this and this is where we will connect. i want to thank all of you and i want to thank our partners. i want to think people who have a vision, you understand that, yes, while you are building in the programs, while you are building the sewage plant, there were other things. there are other places and people around you, and that these people have come to the conclusion that is part of their responsibility to help us live and thrive in this community. i want to thank the p.u.c. and i want to thank all of those people who helped make this possible. and now i get introduced one of my most favorite people. one of my most favorite people, that is shamann walton because he will make sure that this continues and it will be bigger and better. shamann walton, supervisor shamann walton. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, supervisor maxwell good afternoon, everybody. welcome to bayview, and as our

mayor said, and we always let everyone know, where the sun is always shining in bayview, california. this is an exciting time. is a look around and see a lot of our business owners up and down the third streetcar door, and one of our main focuses is to make sure we have a vibrant corridor where businesses get to thrive, not only for folks in the community, because we want to make sure we have a place to go like supervisor maxwell explained, so we can talk, we can spend time with our families right here in our own community, but we also want to make bayview a destination place. we want folks to come from all over san francisco, from all over the bay area to enjoy the culture, to enjoy the businesses , to enjoy the food that we have right here in our own community. so as we look at our own businesses activating space outside and an atmosphere like this, that is an exciting thing for us. that is something that we should all be celebrating and be

excited about. i want to thank everyone for coming over today and spending time to get to know our business owners who i will introduce in a minute, but i also want to talk about the public, private community partnership. as you know, the sewer system improvement program is coming. there's going to be lots of construction, lots of change in our community, and community benefits were something that we fought hard to make sure happened for our community. working with the p.u.c., working with the joint venture partners, we got the resources to make sure that this space was activated, that our businesses were going to be able to thrive because of all of the opportunities that are on the way to this community, and we want to continue to be supportive of all of that. i want to thank our joint venture partners and thank the p.u.c., i want to thank the office of economic and workforce development, i want to thank larry mcquillan for his hard work on this corridor. [applause] we pushed larry very hard. i want to thank andrea baker

consulting for all of her work on activating this space. [cheers and applause] she has been working hard to make sure that we have places like this in our community. if you look at -- this is really towards the front of the gateway into bayview, and if you continue up the corridor, we have another space like all good pizza. all these places are right here that are community assets and we all have to remember to patronize. i don't want to just see you all here today as we have this opening ceremony, i want to see you supporting harold, supporting nema, supporting? asia on a daily basis, on a weekly basis consistently. that peace is important. we need you here every day and not just for a ribbon-cutting in the grand opening ceremonies. with that said, i do have the pleasure and the honor of introducing the stars of bayview bistro, first will hear from nema romney, a san francisco

native. they have a food truck with a latin twist and then we will hear from harold big h. and then we will hear from mr. johnson, a san francisco native and owner of yes, putting -- putting -- putting -- pudding we want to make it easier for small businesses to thrive in san francisco, especially along the corridor here in district ten. with that said, i want to bring up nema romney. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. i first want to say thank you for coming. out -- i wrote a script, so have patience with me. my name is nema romney, i have been a native of san francisco all my life.

i would first like to thank our mayor for taking out her busy schedule to come down and support us. [applause] in no specific order, i also like to thank the p.u.c., oewd, brown and cobb -- caldwell, black and fitch, salt wash, jacob engineering, and emerson. last but never least, i would like to thank andrea baker and peugeot, without their opportunity a would not be standing here today. [applause] i opened so bull october 27th, 2017 with the joys and dreams of becoming a business owner. i have bounced around san francisco because of the permit process that san francisco has in place. so when andrea reached out to me , i could not resist. my grandmother has lived in -- i

have lived in bayview all my life. have patience. so the decision to be part of bayview was not hard to make at all. we are facing our challenges, but with the support and the help of our community, as well as bayview with big h., i hope we have high hopes that high dreams of how far this space can go. again, i like to thank our mayor , i'm like to thank everyone for coming out, and i see my son back there in the back. love you so much. thank you for coming to support your mom, as well. [cheers and applause] >> hello, everyone. my name is harold. i own big h. barbecue. born and raised in san francisco , bayview. i have been kicking for a long time with my grandfather, my mom , it's been a beautiful thing i want to thank you all for

coming out and supporting us. bayview bistro got me out here and it has been a beautiful thing. getting my foot in the door, trying to move up and go farther places to support my family a little bit better. i wouldn't be able to do it without you all here. miss mayor, thank you so much. i appreciate it. [applause] >> hello. i own a desert business where i create a variety of putting desserts. it all started with banana pudding but has evolved into everything. stop by my booth to learn more about my business. i would like to thank andrea baker for giving me this opportunity to grow my business here. being here will allow me to serve customers, gain more customers and just gain the experience that i need to own

and operate a business. thank you. thank you to the mayor for coming out and supporting, and thank you to bayview for their continued support. [cheers and applause] >> all right. it is time to eat, people. [laughter] it is time to order up the barbecue and the desserts and everything in between. make sure, as was said earlier, that you not only show up today for the opening, but you continue to come back and support these incredible entrepreneurs who are part of the fabric of what makes the bayview hunter's point such a special community in our great city. thank you for being here today. enjoy yourselves. [cheers and applause]

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and

quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants.

there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ]

>> chairman: member mccue? member natuli? >> here. member mills? >> here. >> member patoha? absent. vice chair post? >> here. >> chairwoman: i've got everyone? okay. item number two, opportunity for the public to comme o