>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am here to speak on supporting the resolution. i am born and raised in the u.s. and my family always celebrated a lot of the korean ceremonies and rituals -- rituals. that is because of my grandmother. we would only get together because of her, because it was a connection to our homeland. she is 100 now, and many in her generation are passing on. we always celebrated this in our

homes. without the validation of schools, without the validation of cities, so particularly with the next generation coming up, they won't have a connection to our grandparents who are from this place. it will be really great to see the city really support this. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is sarah. last saturday, may 28-year-old daughter who was born and raised in the bay area, for the first time she experienced it. she brought so many of her friends and she said, mom, i have such a hard time explaining to my friends about this ritual, but it just happened right there i would like to continue this tradition where she could be proud to be korean-american as well as share her traditions to others. thank you so much for supporting this, supervisor stefani, and i

hope you will support us. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a senior at lowell high school and i have been a san francisco native and i wish to speak in favor of the resolution for the past 17 years of my life , my father has worked in korean history and many korean other services. when i was younger, i never understood why he was doing this having volunteered the festival, i can understand why it's so important for him. we need to carry on their traditions, especially for those of us never had the opportunity to experience living in korea. passing the -- this resolution will help the next generation very on with korean traditions, region that leaves the country. i would like to thank the board and recognize supervisor stefani in recognizing the solution.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors. my name is lena and i am the executive director of the korean-american community foundation of san francisco. we are a philanthropic organization. we are a very young organization , five years old, but we have just repeated approximately $1.1 million to the korean american community to address some of the vital needs that we have, including domestic violence, mental health, senior care, and youth empowerment. we have one of the highest rates of suicide amongst the korean americans, and right now, in san francisco and in the bay area, there is no domestic violence language specific service, so these are some of the issues that we are addressing as a community, but i come here today not as an executive director, but as another korean-american. i came here when i was about four years old and i was an immigrant at that time. since then, i have grown and

experience the korean-american experience in the u.s. i am one of 80,000 korean americans in the bay area, 90,000, actually, about 500,000 korean americans in california and 1.7 million korean-american people in the united states. so i come here as a korean-american requesting that you supports this day and i feel like it's not only just for the korean-american community, but really it is an opportunity to celebrate the diversity in this city, as well as the diversity in the bay area. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. mining is gordon khan and i am a san francisco native and a resident of district seven. i'm also the former board chairman for the green center.

i wish to speak in favor of the resolution, which, by the way, will not negatively impact the budget of the city. if anything, it will be another source of revenue, one thing to look at. for the past 20 years, since i moved to san francisco, i have worked to share korean culture and history through korean adoptees like myself, families that are adopted from korea, which will -- for which there are well over 100, and many non koreans in the area. it has not been easy coordinating the community. passing this resolution will not make it easier but will help the next generation not only understand the disparity in health and wealth of koreans in the area, but carry on the teaching and sharing of korean cultures and traditions in the bay area. a region that leads the community -- leads the country, if not the world in ethnic community outreach. i would like to thank the board for recognizing -- and recognizing supervisor stefani for recognizing this solution

and thinking andrew mullen. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. i run a small business in the city. i did a workshop at the event. it was amazing. his only people showed so much interest and had so much fun. at the event i said, why haven't we had this kind of day event sooner. i hope to see this korean day continue to next year. thank you so much for your support. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i represent media in san francisco. the u.s. census bureau reports 1.7 million koreans live in america.

half a million live in california. 80,000 people live in san francisco. i know by heart that is severely undercounted. the state of alaska claims that there are only 4,000 koreans living in alaska. more than half people are uncounted. i know by heart that is more. there are even more gaps in california and in san francisco. i would urge you to pass this resolution so that we can mobilize and make sure that every korean is counted. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is dawn. you may notice that i am not korean, nor is my wife, nor are my children, with both my children speak fluent korean and were given a gift by the city of

san francisco to receive a by literate education in korean in our city. last friday at the school, we celebrated, and every child, regardless of their race, religion, or heritage or culture , had an opportunity to celebrate this wonderful, traditional holiday, eating korean food, singing on korean songs, and as a san franciscan who celebrates our cultural diversity, of course, we support this resolution. this will spread an opportunity for other children in the city to be exposed to this rich culture and heritage. we support it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board board. my name is drew.

i served as someone appointed to the youth commission and i serve as a chancellor. i spoke here last week, talking about my distant relative who is the first diplomat to the united states. we had the festival on september 14th, and 5,000 people came, twice the number that we had expected, and this is a first step in getting the korean community, the culture, to get interwoven with the fabric that is the diverse and beautiful fabric of san francisco. you saw here that there are many children who came to speak, or tried to speak, and as a san francisco native, i want to say that i grew up without a korean community, i grew up without knowing anyone who was

korean-american besides my family. i was surrounded by other folk and i grew up with the cherry awesome festival and the chinese new year parade, and doing this has given me an opportunity to serve the community i never knew i want to these kids to grow up, and i want these kids to look towards the future in the years to come to see the number of 5,000 to become 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, and become something that is huge and important in san francisco so that they never have to feel the same way that i did when i grew up. thank you so much, supervisor stefani, for introducing the resolution and thank you for considering this. >> thank you for your comments. and. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors, it is nice to see you guys. i know it supervisor haney is working on no cars in the tenderloin. i do back that, but we also have

to remember that we have a lot of elderly, handicapped people in san francisco and you have to allow taxis to go pick them up. the other day i saw someone getting harassed by a rideshare driver. i should have filled it and sent it to all of you guys. why can't we put cameras in the front of their vehicles? if we start enforcing the rules, the rules will not be broken. don't forget who bailed out san francisco in time of need. don't let our egos get in the way of our decisions that we will make in the future and don't, for god sake, please do not let the sfmta make anymore decisions regarding the san francisco taxicabs. they are destroying us. i will say that the taxi detail is doing a good job, that they are understand. if you go to any of the taxi stand, they are filled with cars , then we honked, they get out and yell, then we have

altercations. don't shut us out. you know how we feel. we deserve some compensation here. i believe you guys should issue us a chance for a medallion when the time comes. we have put in a lot of time, a lot of suffering. don't delay us anymore, please. please do not delay us anymore and don't come me we don't deserve it. what i do want you guys to do is do the right thing. do what san francisco is built on. people and sacrifice and humanity and love. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon.

san francisco is very sympathetic. [indiscernible] they grabbed our money, bought buses, and never considered us. they treated us as if we were there slaves. how many taxi medallion holders died with a heart attack? you don't know. you never helped them with money you help to your homeless. you go to people's homes, hug them, no one cares about us. rideshare is bent on destroying the taxi business. there is no doubt the taxi business has not destroyed as completely as long as rideshare exists, the taxi business can't recover. the city projected to isolate us

with 50,000 rideshare charity medallions that they have given to rideshare companies, we have become billionaires. we are any deficits. you can your rideshare but give us our money back. you can leave our medallions to cab companies. don't ingest -- inject us with a b. five. we do not support it and it doesn't benefit to us. we never asked for it. the sfmta wants us to walk off these medallions. we did not get these medallions and charity. we paid for these medallions. we paid our whole lives and savings. we want you to approach the sfmta for our money -- >> thank you.

your time is concluded, thank you. [indiscernible] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i appreciate mr. sherman. everything he said, i stand up for him. it is true. we are a bunch of people, like myself. i have worked for 30 years. the city promise was never, never stand up for these promises. these -- these have to be issues this san francisco city or the m.t.a., they are not going to to

ask for health, where do we have to go? i have to go with my own hands? do not put us through these situations. [indiscernible] we are a bunch of good americans we pay our dues. like me, 66 years is my age, i want to be retired. my brother, my friend,. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] this business is never coming back for us. most of our people is over age.

we cannot continue like that. i swear on my mother, i did not get even one fair. i come in here, i am really upset so much. please get to the bottom of this situation. i love you guys, i ask you guys to help. put together your minds, go check with the m.t.a. and get the money back. i love you guys. good. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello, everybody. i am a cabdriver. i go around the city begging for my life. i had a stroke and i cannot drive like before.

the sfmta promised to us when we are unable to drive anymore that we can get that money back, but they don't want to take the medallion back. i don't want to get in trouble or somebody else in trouble for no reason. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is david smith. i am a purchase medallion holder the one thing i wanted to bring to your attention today is that the san francisco taxi workers alliance and the medallion holders association does not speak for us. i just want you to keep that in mind and your discussions with each other and m.t.a. i understand you need to take, you know, take input from all

vested parties in the industry, and that is understandable, but do know they do not represent us one, because the taxi workers alliance has conflict of interest, at least for us. their leadership our prop k. and cab company owners or ownership. they have or have had in the past, and of course, the medallion's holder association was the group of medallion holders mostly that lobbied against us forgetting our purchased medallions. obviously we don't appreciate that. so we obviously don't want -- we want to separate ourselves from that. we have plenty of people. you know the guys here. we could bring more people if you want. if you want to hear from other people besides us. nothing against the earned medallion holders. my father is one, just to let you know. i'm not coming out of left field

with anger and hostility. this affects me in many ways. another thing i want to keep in mind is that when it comes to dealing with the medallion situation, that was still get priority to sell if we sell, if we are able to sell. by the way, no one has bottom italian in over three years. if no one has bought and it medallion, it does not exist. it is only existing by name. it is dead. and it. give us our money back and give us our nontransferable medallions as agreed to in the contract with the credit union and sfmta. >> thank you for your comments. >> good afternoon, everybody. i am here again for the same issue, the medallions, because it is not working anymore because we cannot find anybody to work for us and there's no

value left in the medallion whatsoever because uber has taken over, which is okay, but we really want you to take responsibility and get us out of that. this is nothing but a nightmare for not just the drivers, but all their families. it is a nightmare. we are really looking forward to see that. take the responsibility and get us out from there so we can just pay the money to the banks and leave something because this thing is not going to work out. you can drive free without medallion for $250,000. why are you stupid to work -- by a medallion to work for the city i wish that we would pay attention to this and say the medallion value is zero. please get us out because that thing is lost and we are suffering really badly financially and mentally and physically. god bless you, thank you so much

>> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening, everybody, the same issue, cabdriver. the medallions is a big burden on our shoulders. i would like to tell you that our study expense, either we drive or not. it is $2,300. the bank is fine because they paid two to $50,000, but what if the companies are charging us $1,400? will you please exempt us from those cab companies so, if you can alleviate our burden from 2,000, $21,100 so we can survive and live in the market and we still can serve the people of san francisco. the very best as if you can buy

back. if it is not possible right now, or you are still working on, or the time is going by, if you can alleviate us of our paint to exempt -- [indiscernible] that will help us a lot. i hope you will consider this option as well that we can create our independent cabs that we don't have to pay to the cab companies. that would be a great help for us. >> before you speak, are there any other members of the public would like to address the board during general public comment? this is our last speaker.

>> sorry for the delay, thank you. the overhead, please. i wanted to end last week, but i ran out of time, so supervisor brown and president yee -- overhead, please. there's one thing about a chevrolet van that is better because we can drive across the u.s.a. in your chevrolet and is the greatest land on earth. [indiscernible] >> i picked up this and then in 1974 and i drove it until 1988. around the country. it was great. the van ness -- the beach

parking lot off rose street. the overhead, we will stay with it a little bit more as a struggle. it is hard to reach back. thank you for holding the microphone. these are all 25 million-dollar chips. this was everything that was given to the tax break through the -- to the rich folks. this is a 25 billion-dollar chip they're supposed to be a raise for the federal employees but trump said no, they don't get it , we have to balance the budget. trump showed us, by taking a few million dollars away from the defence budget that he wants, he can build a rusty wall with it. how about the democrats taking a

few million dollars from the defence budget and giving it a billion to each city in this country, and help what we need here? that is it. thank you. i ran out of time again. sorry. >> thank you for holding the microphone. mr. president, i will let you make the last call. >> thank you. seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. madame clerk, please call the before adoption without committee agenda. items 21 through 24. [reading items] >> would any of my colleagues

like to sever any items? seeing none, madame clerk, let's see, why don't i just say same house, same call? with no objection -- >> mr. president, apologies, we do need a roll call. >> okay. that is correct. roll call, please. >> on items 21 through 24,. [roll call] there are 11 aye. >> the resolutions are adopted on the motion is approved unanimously. please read the in memoriam his, if any. >> i have not report. >> colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda.

is there any further business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >> san francisco and oakland are challenging each other in a battle for the bay.

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san francisco department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. we know that we don't have all the answers. we need to support our local champions, our local community

to find creative solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. >> zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. the grant program is a grant program specifically for nonprofits in san francisco to divert material from landfill. it's important to find the san francisco produce market because there's a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. >> san francisco produce market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. i think it's a basic human right

to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. it's a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, we've donated over 1 million pounds of produce to our community partners, and that's resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which we're very proud of. >> carolyn at the san francisco produce market texts with old produce that's available. the produce is always excellent. we get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and it's important to me to feel

good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. it's helping people. that's what it's really about, and i really enjoy that. >> the work at the produce market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than . >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to

go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment.

i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126

square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and

they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has

been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food

comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that

the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling thattoday >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a

position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a

program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give

back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the

monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also.

>> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand

restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a lot t adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the

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a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant we'll make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of san francisco and a vibrant community. >> mayor breed: all right, everyone. hi, how are you? today is a really great day and

i just, first of all, i want to say thank you to all the commissioner commissioners, board members, and the folks that we are going to be swearing in today for your service to the city and county of san francisco. i'm london breed. i'm the mayor of san francisco. [ cheering and applause ]. >> mayor breed: really excited always and proud to swear-in commissioners to serve either in roles that they have previously served in or to swear-in some new commissioners. i remember the first i was sworn in the san francisco redevelopment agency commission. in fact, it took a while before i got adjusted to understanding that i would be a part of a commission that has had really in some ways in the past a devastating impact on the community that i was born and raised in. to have the opportunity to serve

and to help direct policy in order to make the kind of change that would move the agency in the right direction was really an honor. so today, as you get sworn in to these new roles or returning roles, just know that we appreciate your service, but it's also an incredible honor to help shape the future of san francisco through the policy decisions that you all will make. so with that, i want everyone to please stand that i'm swearing in today and raise your right hand. here's the thing. we've got a lot of people. so you're going to state your name at the same time and you're also going to state your commission at the same time. i would normally go through and point at everyone, but i know we got a lot of family and friends and folks who are really excited to be here today.

so we want to get on with the festivities. again, thank you for your service and let's get on with the show. all right, everyone. are we ready? >> yes. >> mayor breed: are you sure? >> yes. >> mayor breed: okay. i, state your name. solemnly swear that i will solemnly support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that i take this obligation freely. without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i

will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i am about to enter. and during such time as i serve, member of ... for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. >> mayor breed: again, i just want to say thank you for your service, for your commitment to the city. again, i just would like to reiterate which i know knishka has reiterated in the course of the conversations she had with you, attendance is very important to me. so showing up and being present and being actively engaged is

critical to the success of the work that we know we need to do to move san francisco in the right direction. i truly appreciate all that you're going to bring to the table to make our city one of the best anywhere. thank you all so much, and i'll turn it over to knishka at this time. [ cheering and applause ] [♪]

>> welcome to pricidia middle school. i am emma dunbar and i had the enormous privilege to be the principal in this community. thank you all for joining us. [ cheering and applause ]. >> i want to give a very warm welcome to my students, to our staff, to elected officials, board members, mayor appliappli and our trusted partners at sales force. i couldn't be happier to host you all on this yard just opened for our new school year after four years in the making. it is a prime example of what