i talked to many seniors every day. and one of the things they say is like, look, i have rent control. but i have -- you know, 50 stairs up to get to my apartment. and i have a hard time managing that. so we have to build the right kind of senior housing, so people can actually have elevators with senior services on site. this is something that we're doing with prop a. but also we have to look at transportation, because a lot of seniors give up cars or, you know, or they actually start using transportation a lot more. we have to make it safe. unless we have safe transportation and it's reliable, muni is reliable, seniors, most of us won't use this, especially seniors. so there's a lot of things that we need to do. and that's what we're pushing for. >> moderator: thank you very much. mr. lam. >> yes. one of my priorities is safety, as i mentioned. and with my intensive infrastructure improvement plan, i want to make sure that

streets, lights and timers are provided near senior centers. i live near two senior centers with no timers. you just sort of just talk across the street. and something bad can happen there, because a senior on their wheelchair could take more time than the average pedestrian. i want to continue the pensions and benefits that seniors receive, given by california and the city and county of san francisco. and i want to make sure that everyday activities, seniors going to buy groceries at the market, or going to the park, i want to make sure they're accessible. that means having senior accusations on transportation. >> moderator: thank you very much. miss o'meara. >> there's one thing that everybody left out. it got me thinking a little while back on the senior issue. like i would like people to hear it and know how you respond.

wellness centers is one thing i associate with seniors. i know this from personal experience, because having lived with my in-laws a little while back -- hold on. i'll be real quick. the wellness center is critical to the well being of seniors, when you have a pool. >> moderator: thank you. >> a gym, a jacuzzi. it's critical condition the affordable housing range. that's something that needs to be implemented. thank you. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. i went out of order. but you had answered already. but thank you for that information. >> thank you. >> moderator: it was spoken about when dealing with seniors that traffic is an issue. crossingthe streets can be an issue. so starting with mr. preston, what is your plan to address traffic problems until district 5? the question being crossing octavia by foot is dangerous. >> yeah.

the streets are incredibly unsafe, despite the vision-zero plan, we're five years in a ten-year plan to eliminate if the -- fatalities for pedestrians. they're not going down. we have a lot of work to do. i'm an everyday muni rider. i have been for the last 26 years. i believe that we need to be investing in public transportation. i think we also need to be standing up to uber and lyft, who have privatized and congested and made our streets far less safe. i've never ordered an uber or lyft in my life. i don't plan to. i object strongly to uber's business plan, which is to take people off of public transportation and put them into private vehicles. they have admitted that that is their business plan in the s.e.c. filings. so i think these things are what are congesting the city. [applause] again if you privatize public transportation and if you can

make a lot of money, privatizing public transportation, you're going to see the results, which is a congested city, that's unsafe for folks who are cyclists and pedestrians. >> moderator: thank you very much. ms. brown. >> well, yes. and i mean one of the things with vision zero is a lot of times we get pushback from neighbors. i mean, that's really truthful. we want to take out a parking space so people can see you on the corner. there's a lot of things to do with vision zero and push forward. we need to really look at not having people turn right on a red light. i think that's something. and then also on if the larger streets, like visadero. that's one of the reasons that a woman -- an 80-year-old woman was killed on the road, someone was trying to rush through the traffic, the two lanes of traffic and hit her while turning left. so these are the things that we

need to do. we need to do those fast. but i think that we are -- the board of supervisors has said we want to push vision zero much faster. and we need to do that. it's not only for pedestrians, because whether you ride a bike, you're a pedestrian. we really need to do this kind of work as fast as possible. >> moderator: thank you very much. mr. lam. >> yes. so i agree. i think for bikes and doctor -- bikers and pedestrians. if you put a sign or a light up, it's going to stay there for over 20 years maybe. and just you have a sign there and you can't turn right. people know. hopefully we reached vision zero some day. and if you want better -- more people riding public transportation, instead of driving, i think we need to incentivize that.

i think we need better transportation and more people will flock towards public transportation. so that means paying muni drivers better, that means instituting the improvements that bart has been making on bart. they're adding new cars and making sure that the public transportation arrives in a timely manner, without it being completely packed with people and rush hour. so improving public transportation will have more people riding public transportation. >> moderator: thank you very much. thank you. ms. o'meara. >> oh, are we just attributing this transportation problem just to the octavia corridor? >> >> moderator: no. traffic problems in general. >> well, i think -- i talked to some of my neighbors last week about this transport situation in the city. and these are -- these are occasions. i understand the need for bikers. i'm a biker myself, et cetera. and that there are changes. one thing i want to share with

you, what my constituency said, who are these people that are hired by city hall, when the person comes from washington, d.c. and what do they know about the streets in san francisco or how they design them. or what kind of outreach is being done by sfmta. some of the, there's not enough consultation or none. in fact, we need to re-examine that by asking the question, if sfmta is the one responsible together with vallie's job as supervisor, then they are not doing their job. they are not -- they're not connecting with the community or advising them. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. okay. again i know or i've heard in watching, if i watch tv all the time i'd hear it constantly about uber and lyft in the city.

the question is how can the board of supervisors influence the planning department and the sfmta to consider the impacts of uber, lyft and the commute buses that go through the city. and ms. brown, it's your question. >> well, we've already had those studies. we know it's a huge impact. we have around 30,000 uber drivers a day in this city. so what we have to do is we have to make sure transportation works. so when i first got into city hall, i called a hearing because muni wasn't working. you stand on carl and cole and people waiting for a bus and you see the time keep going up and up. all of a sudden people pill off and are taking uber and lyft. so if it doesn't work, it's not going to be used. one of the things that the hearing showed was that we're 400 drivers a day short. we spent millions and millions of dollars on buses and trains, but none on the drivers. so one of the things -- and how

can we have reliable muni we don't have operators. one of the things i did was i worked to make sure that the muni operators had a fair contract, they have a fair contract. they just had the first class a few weeks ago with the new contract. and we had 80 people in this class. before it was only like 20 people. because muni wasn't making enough money. we were training the drivers and then they would leave after 18 months to go get a better job somewhere else. so we have to be able to have drivers to have a reliable muni. >> moderator: thank you very much. and mr. lam. >> how about you repeat the question, so that we stay on track here. >> how account board of supervisors influence the planning department and the sfmta to consider the impacts of uber, lyft and commute buses. >> well, i'm sure they do know the effects of uber and lyft. there's obviously proposition going on right now, i believe

it's proposition d or f. i forget. >> we can't hear you. >> okay. okay. i'm against that. uber and lyft was not made for everyday transit. it's not made to go to work and back. it's more made for visitors and people going from point a and point before. uber drivers make about $3,000 a month. uber and lyft drivers make about $3,000 a month, which is not affordable. and eventually they're just going to die out, because $3,000, if you do the math, times 12, that's about less than $30,000. yeah. sorry, i'm not a mathematician here. [laughter] >> me either. okay. okay. so yeah, again improving public transportation. we need more muni drivers. we need to pay them better and make sure their contracts are good. thank you. >> moderator: thank you very much.

ms. o'meara. >> i think that, first of all, i have a problem with the lack of transparency within the sfmta, as well as how supervisor deals with it. i'm going to give you a case in point. in my neighborhood, right on my block, there's a proposed pilot program, which is to take place sometime in the fall, over 18 months. the problem with it is where i live it's a house. a nice house. so where my neighbors, who have owned their houses for 50-something years. now part of that proposal says between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., they will be -- only muni has access to that block. but we have a corner store where an aging gentleman and his wife have run the store for over 40 years. how are they going to park? how are we going to park to drop off our kids or any of that.

and it doesn't make any sense. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. and so i believe that supervisor brown needs to really reassess that program. because it's going to harshly affect my neighbors. >> moderator: thank you very much. mr. preston. >> yeah. i mean, we have heard that 30,000 of these cars at least are on the street. and we've pretty much heard that the incumbent is not planning to do anything about that, other than investing in moony , which we can agree we need to do. i take a pretty different perspective. maybe it's from having tackled some pretty big issues over a 20-year career, that folks say are impossible when we start, last year when we did prop c for homelessness, when we did prop f to tackle the right to counsel and countless other things, where people say, oh you just need to leave the corporations alone and accept what they're doing taking over your streets. what are we electing a supervisor to do if not -- if we all agree there's a problem,

with 30,000 vehicles, let's deal with it. the supervisor will respond you can't regulate the numbers because of state law. ab-5 just passed in the state. uber is going to violate that. the city needs to enforce the law against uber. it reclassifies their independent contractors as employees. the city also can take aim at uber and lyft, the corporations for a business practice that violates our local traffic laws. >> moderator: thank you. thank you. >> let's as a city sue them, get an injunction and force them to geo fence so they don't pick up and drop off in violation of local law. let's do something. [applause] >> moderator: thank you. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much. climate change. another issue that's in the news. we have a bay will batter will probably be rising over the next year. starting with mr. lam, how do

you plan to make san francisco a greener and safety city, in light of climate change? y , okay. my motto is a cleaner and safer san francisco. i'll stick to that. >> moderator: greener. >> keeping our streets clean -- having housing, you know, walking down the streets, i see so much litter and homelessness. and i want to make sure that organizations like downtown, street cleanup or some of these organizations, that are employing people of -- who haven't had opportunity to clean up the street -- to get them jobs, clean up the streets, and keep the environment clean, when it come -- when it comes to climate change, of course, it's all talked about. transportation is the number one thing affecting climate change, because of the carbon dioxide. again the public transportation needs to improve, so that many

more people use public transportation. and that it's not all packed. so there's more cars, less delays. and it's run on a tight schedule. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. ms. o'meara. >> well, i think the carbon emissions definitely impacts our city. and that's probably due to the increased congestion of uber and lift. but there are the ways to regulate that. and also we have companies like google and whatever. i believe they used to pay the city $250,000 to pick up their employees. i think that we should get more money from them than what they currently pay. i definitely think that the carbon emissions impacting climate change has been caused by this avalanche of cars, that

aren't even necessarily residents of the city. >> moderator: thank you very much. mr. preston. >> well, first off, obviously huge supporter of green new deal nationally. and thanks to the democratic socialists who are pushing that forward nationally, i'd like to do a green new deal for san francisco, capturing a similar spirit. huge props to the community activists, who for decades have been fighting for public power. and we're now seeing that we may be on the verge of actually municipalizing p.g.e., as far as electricity goes, which is very exciting. i'm certainly going to support that on the board. i think, you know, regionally and locally the biggest cause of pollution is transportation. so we need to tackle that in a big way. i want to do a november 2020 ballot measure on public transportation. the vision for our public transportation has got to be you can get on anywhere in san francisco and 30 minutes later

arrive at your destination. we need 30-minute trips in san francisco. we need to reverse the decades-long fare hikes. every year it goes up. it's totally unfair to those who ride moony , not forced to pay more and more. we should chop fares in half, taxing the biggest corporations next year and working toward free muni in san francisco in five years. >> moderator: thank you very much. [applause] ms. brown. >> you know, 46% of emissions is actually from large buildings. and i actually legislated that large buildings would have to end by 2024, actually go clean. so clean energy, electric, reusable -- electric, reusable, solar and other things to really make sure that our buildings are clean. 47% are cars. as we said, you know, uber and

lyft, this is regulated by the state. do you think that my colleagues, including aaron peskin, would not go after uber if we could. i mean, this is ridiculous to think that with somebody gets on there, they're going to tackle this. this is actually run by the state p.u.c. i really wish we could really educate people to know what we have to do. we have to make sure muni is reliable. can it be free? look, we already have seniors, disabled, youth that are free. we've also studied that can we make muni free? gavin newsome did it and then mayor lee. and we found out that muni would collapse if it was free. so this is the kind of things that we're dealing with right now. [applause] >> moderator: thank you very much. ms. o'meara, this next question. how will you reach out to and work with low-income communities, here in the city?

>> well, there seems to be a deficit in our outreach towards low-income communities. primarily black, brown, lgbtq, youth populations. therefore, that means that there needs to be some aggressive outreach towards those communities. i am around or surrounded by some of those communities. and i see part of the problem is also, like i said, low-performing schools. and i spoke to the principal of the school close to my house. she said there had been an improvement, in fact, in the school's performance. but we need more of it, because we have a generation of people who were caught up in the '80s and '90s with a lot of the aftermath of the civil rights movement, got caught up in that whole drug culture.

and basically it was a kind of a holocaust of black people. >> moderator: thank you. >> that were either incarcerated or they were deprived of opportunities to succeed in life. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. >> that's a historical fact. >> moderator: okay. thank you very much. mr. preston. >> well, i've been working directly with low-income individuals, clients and communities for -- over the last 20 years, as a housing advocate, working with folks who are struggling in the city and across the state. i think you start by working with low-income communities in a way that this city doesn't do often enough, which is actually listening to low-income communities, holding real community meetings, not meetings that are just designed to roll out your latest plan, to do things to communities. and i want to point to s.b.50, that's different between me and the appointed incumbent.

you know, to me -- s.b.50 is a state law that basically takes away neighborhood voices. they oppose this kind of upzoning of their neighborhoods, that doesn't increase affordable housing and takes away their voice. and i believe we need to be fighting against things like s.b.50 at the state level and defend the neighbors' voices, especially in the low-income communities and communities of color. >> moderator: thank you very much. ms. brown. >> well, regarding sb-50, i think you mischaracterized my position on that. my position was that we should be working with our state representatives to make sure that we get what we need in amendments for it. because once something passes at the state, we cannot change it. we have to follow that law. so we have to be able to work with our state representatives, whether we like them or not. we have to be able to sit down with them and work out amendments to say this is what we need in the city. i did that with senator wiener

and one of it was community outreach and community input. he was fine with that. he actually -- we did eight different amendments that he was fine with. it was regarding outreach for communities of color. you really have to be boots on the ground. if you don't know the community, you are not going to do very good outreach. i've always been boots on the ground. [applause] people know me in the community. and you have to walk the community, you have to talk to everybody. you have to go into public housing. you have to go into all kinds of housing and talk to people. go into businesses. this is what we expect in district 5, boots on the ground. that's the only kind of outreach you can do effectively. >> moderator: thank you very much. [applause] and mr. lam. >> or is it my turn? >> moderator: mr. lam. >> oh, sorry. >> it's okay. one thing about sb-50 is somebody once told me, or i quote, you don't amend that bill, you kill it. but that's that.

so i think giving low-income families and citizens a second chance, an opportunity is very important. i see it with civic center commons. i see it with many other organizations. and i think that the creation of jobs, that we need in san francisco, is critical. we can create more jobs to focus on keeping our city safe and clean. and give it to people who need a second chance, who have been incarcerated and want to completely restart their life and start living -- start being law-abiding citizens. and i want to make sure that we keep kids in school from low-income families. making sure that they at least finish high school. it they have the chance, they go on to free city college. thank you. >> moderator: thank you very much. mr. preston, this question is

for you. how would you protect the lgbtq community from discrimination and housing and other city services, especially in light of what's going on in the country. >> yeah. thank you. and i'm proud to be the sole-endorsed candidate of the harvey milk democratic club and appreciate their strong support. i've been fighting to protect lgbtq residents from eviction, displacement and from housing discrimination. and that is really -- it's essential to understand that even in san francisco, that the lgbtq community is regularly subject to discrimination in housing and in the workplaces. one of the reasons we did prop f was to provide a right to counsel to fight back against that. it's also very exciting to see our state has finally passed a ban on section 8 discrimination. so we're actually seeing some movement on preventing

discrimination in housing. but from the lgbtq renters in particular, that i talk with regularly, the threat of real estate speculation, of evictions and of displacement remains the biggest threat. and i believe, as the sole-endorsed candidate, that i'm in the best position to prevent that displacement. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. ms. brown. >> well, i'm the sole-endorsed candidate of alice b. tuck. there you go, huh. [laughter] well, you know, housing is always really important. when i was a neighborhood activist and a legislative aide, i fought with my neighbors to actually bring lgbt housing into district 5. and at the time it was district 5, it was 55 laguna. we worked to do that and also worked to pass neighborhood preference, so people in the neighborhood from our lgbtq community could have affordable housing. this is so important.

especially for seniors' lgbt. we have to continue this kind of model. we also have to make sure that we have funding for aides. a lot of times people say haven't we cured that? no. there are still issues that we have to be able to fund. and a lot of it is health care. a lot of it is health care because of the drugs that they have been using for years and years. a lot of them are having side effects and they need our funding and protection. >> moderator: thank you very much. mr. lam. [applause] >> one group i've been working with over the last three, four months is the log cabin republicans. they are lgbtq group. we meet in the castro every month. and they're voting on my endorsement this month. i am for the equal rights of all under the law. and here's where my rights counsel for all comes in. it's a defensive rights counsel

for all. and right now proposition f is for people facing evictions. but when you're discriminated and you are being oppressed or some sort of offensive action and legal action is taken upon you, you get a free attorney to help you get the housing that you need. >> moderator: thank you very much. ms. o'meara. >> i think everyone here on this panel has touched on the issues and concerns of the lgbt community. lgbtq community. i share their sentiments. and i think that there has to be perhaps even a special counsel created specifically for lgbtq communities, who experience discrimination when it comes to housing, whether it's seniors or youth. and it's -- it's something that

must be addressed. it's also our moral imperative to be sensitive to those that are different than us. we're going to talk about identity politics. >> moderator: okay. thank you very much. in san francisco, one of the driving forces for our economy are the small businesses we have here. so starting with ms. brown, how do you think we can speed up the permitting processes for small businesses? >> well, i actually legislated to do just that. it was about a year, year and a half for a lot of businesses to even open. so i just did pretty much a big major streamlining business -- streamlining for all businesses throughout the city, not only district 5, to help them get open faster. to help give them more choices if they wanted to have two businesses in one space they can. i cleaned up a lot of codes to

make it easier for businesses. i mean, you know, we have to look at all kinds of ways to help small businesses. because the corridors are -- our corridors are really the vital heartbeat of our neighborhoods. and if we don't have a corridor of a coffee shop or somewhere we can go to meet friends, it's going to really change our neighborhood. and so we really have to look at ways to support business. we have the legacy business that we support businesses that are over 20 years old. if you're nominated, we help them -- the city helps them in all kinds of ways. we also have to stop buying from amazon all of us. you know, brick and mortar. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. [applause] mr. lam. >> so i was a businessman. i started my business in affiliate marketing here in san francisco. but i'm doing this now. and i continue to work with small and local businesses.

in fact, i work with over 50 plus to help find solutions to their issues that they're facing here in district 5. one thing that was really hard that i have to say is the increase in minimum wage is very, very, very tough for small businesses. if it increases to $20 or something like that, a small coffee shop can't sell that many coffees to pay two coffee workers. and taxes. so taxes inadvertently harm small businesses. one time i bought a water bottles, i was taxed three different times for that lunch. you know, c.p.v., san francisco health initiative. i could just go on and on with the taxes. but those are the two issues that small and local businesses are really struggling with today. and i hope so solve them.

>> moderator: ms. o'meara. >> could you just reiterate the question again. >> moderator: sure. how can we speed up the permitting process for small businesses? >> the permitting. >> moderator: the permitting. >> oh. well -- >> okay. >> acceleration. okay. by that mean i mean -- first of all, when we talk about small business, we need to be sensitive. it's very easy to look at the status quo and think it's normal for things to be as they are. but as we know, as a woman, as a black woman, as a -- here's the thing, we don't have equitable representation of a diverse business ownership in this city. that needs to be addressed. i think when i was going around district 5 in the western aand

-- district and parts of the fillmore, one of the things that my constituents said to me, do you know what, i feel -- i would like to have a business, as a black man, and i feel like there isn't an opportunity or it isn't coming fast enough. there's also a dearth of businesses owned by women. they certainly aren't as plentiful -- there aren't enough women that own businesses. i would like to see a change in that. >> moderator: thank you. mr. preston. [applause] >> thanks. so, you know, i am a former small business owner myself. i was co-owner of the historic music venue on market street, cafe deny. i'm familiar with permitting, zoning and other issues. but i do need to observe both the question and some of the responses from the supervisor. if there's a tendency to focus on the thing, in a way that's often the easiest to deal with.

you know, the commercial landlords love the streamlining and rezoning proposals. what they don't love is a vacancy tax, a storefront vacancy tax. if you keep your storefront vacant for nine months or more, the city will tax you. that's what the merchants i hear are talking about. the vacancies on their block. that's what communities are hearing, are demanding. but you've got to stand up to the real estate industry to get that. other things we can do a public bank, where there's momentum for public bank, which could do loans to small businesses, which would be very meaningful. and also we should do a mentorship and training program, similar to what the small business administration does with the score program. that pairs up experienced entrepreneurs and small business owners. >> moderator: thank you. >> with focuses struggling for training and technical assistance. >> moderator: thank you very much. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, this will be our last question. >> excuse me, ma'am. one last thing i wanted to add to small business. >> moderator: thank you.

but we've got a timing issue. >> all right. >> moderator: but i appreciate it. >> that's okay. >> moderator: our last question. and i'm going to combine two. how do you -- and mr. lam is going to start. >> sure. >> moderator: no. you get one minute. they pretty much go together. okay. how will you be held accountable -- to what standard do you want to be held accountable as a candidate about your campaign promises? and how do you plan to ensure that the residents and fox of district 5 have as much say as powerful donors and corporations on what goes on in district 5 and in the city. and we're going to start with mr. lam. >> okay. so first question. i take responsibility and integrity very seriously.

in my term, i do promise a decrease in homelessness and make sure that happens. but i always -- the part in responsibility is you have to know your policies and know the effects it has on the economy and take responsibility for that. you can promise free everything and people will vote for you. and then the economy collapses and somebody -- you could just be gone to another city in minutes. so for me i have research team who does very, very hard work. and they make sure that my policies are reliable, they're reachable. and they're attainable. so that's how i'm going to make sure my promises will be kept. >> moderator: thank you very much. and if you wish, because i believe you have about ten seconds, do you want to speak to how you'll ensure that the folks in district 5 have as much sway with you as any donor you may have? >> oh, sure.

yeah. one of my things is i really want a completely resident campaign. on my website, i have all of the contact information that you need. you can reach me directly and to my team. you can come and speak with me right after this, if you're willing to. >> thank you, mr. lam. ms. o'meara. >> well, firstly, i think on the question of integrity that ryan just raised, is crucial to having -- i don't necessarily believe the process is as fair or as resident as it's led to be, at least in my experience and my disenchantment with the department of elections or the ethics commission. that being said, i -- i have concerns about -- it's not up to me how somebody gets their money. but gordon mar wrote an interesting article, one of the supervisors. sunlight and dark money. to me there seems to be a

correspondence between the people you get money from and what contracts they get and what you will vote for. okay. so anything -- i'll give you one example. our mayor did not vote for prop c. well, that's a bit of a problem. it's questionable is what i'm saying. >> moderator: okay. thank you very much. mr. preston. >> well, i think it starts with what kind of money you're taking in the campaign. so we made a pledge early on in our campaign to run a clean money campaign. we're not taking money from big real estate. we're not taking money from law enforcement interests, fossil fuel industry, charter school movement that's trying to divert money from public schools to charter schools, increasingly. so we're not taking any of that money in the campaign. it's a real problem how much money the dark money that nomvula refers to pours into the

race. an independent expenditure pact that was set up to go after me and our campaign. and it's no mystery that that's going to be real estate interests. and that's going to be mr. ron conway and others. and what happens is they put all of that money in and under current law, nobody knows about it until months after the election. that's what happened in district 4 so gordon mar, district 6 to matt haney. the good news just like our campaign, those folks ran a door-to-door campaign and all of the money against them did not win the day. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. [applause] ms. brown. >> yes. well, i have to say 80% of my donations are from san francisco, unlike dean preston. and the majority of them are from district 5. so i am running and i have a community campaign and donors. so i'm not going to -- people

that live in district 5, i'm not going to pit one person against another because of what you do. i feel like i need to bring people together. i don't divide people. and so that's my floss by. i -- philosophy. i came as a neighborhood activist, i worked with the community as a neighborhood activist. and i will do so always. i will never mislead you, like some people saying, when i get into office, i'll do this. i'm not going to do that. because you hold me accountable. i'm the supervisor now. and i am going to say what i'm going to do, i'm going to do. if i can't do it, i will tell you why and we will look for a way around it to make it work. but this is always been my policy, because i come from the community. >> moderator: thank you. [applause] thank you very much. okay. now we come to the candidates' closing statements. but let me first remind you that

if you aren't registered to vote, please do so right away. and urge others you know to register. if you've changed your name or you changed your address, be sure to re-register to vote. okay. we will do the closing statements in reversal if betcal -- alphabetical order. remember, candidates, you have one minute for closing statements and starting with mr. preston. >> thanks. i wish i had time to rebutt all of the false statements made about our campaign donations. but i won't. so thank you for being here this evening. and let's remember what this is all about. it's about real people and their struggles that folks face today in san francisco. seniors who are facing evictions, students burdened by massive educational debt, transit riders that can't even get on their bus because it's too crowded. and families unable to afford affordable housing to stay in san francisco.

so i'm running for supervisor so that city hall starts working for the people who are struggling, not just the big corporations and corporate landlords. and that's the real difference in this race. and it's what's earned me the sole endorsement from so many trusted grassroots organizations, like the sierra club, the united educators of san francisco, the affordable housing alliance, san francisco young democrats, latino democratic club, san francisco tenants' union, a majority of the current board of supervisors and former elected officials like mark leno, jane kim, tom and art. i look forward to working with you all to take the big steps we need to take here in san francisco. >> moderator: thank you. >> thank you. >> moderator: thank you very much. [applause] >> moderator: ms. o'meara. [cheers and applause] >> moderator: could you hold your applause. you'll get an opportunity. [laughter] ms. o'meara. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for initiating this

whole meeting today. it's an honor to stand here amongst you and to hear what a lot of us had to say. i think a lot of us have more in common than what divides us. and i'll say -- i'll tell you why. i got a very interesting quote from former president barack obama. he said the greatest sum of us unites us far better than the lesser of us that's polarized. something to that effect. you think you understand what i'm saying. when we polarize and divisive, there's fewer of that. when we're bigger and united, we have the ability to make a lot of amends and changes. so my priority, if and when i get the job, is i really think the housing issue is critical, not just because i have children. i can actually identify with millennials and what they're going through. as well as the lgbtq community. >> moderator: thank you.

>> because there is discrimination. >> moderator: thank you. >> in terms of housing. i think it's critical in our city and the represent situation. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. [applause] mr. lam. >> so again ryan lam. i hope my points resonated with you. i want to bring back responsibility and integrity to city hall, with reliable and actually attainable policies. if you're not satisfied with your life and city hall right now, i'm the only candidate that's significantly different from the candidates up here, in terms of policy and physically. so i hope you -- [laughter] thank you. [applause] >> moderator: thank you very much. ms. brown. >> yes. you know, as supervisor, i bring a perspective and life experience that's really unique. i became an orphan at 14. i've been without health care. i've been evicted.

and i've had to live in a van as a child, because my mother could not put money together for the next apartment. so when i work on homelessness and housing, it's personal to me. i've achieved real results on the issues -- on the issues that matter. i'm not just talking about the green new deal, i worked to create our clean energy provider and one of the first nation's plastic bag ban. i'm not just talking about housesing. no one else on the panel has done that. and as an activist, you learn not to take no for an answer. but you also learn to work with everyone to get the job done. and i'm fighting for what i believe in by listening and bringing people together, rather than dividing. i truly appreciate your time tonight. thank you. [cheers and applause]

>> moderator: thank you. on behalf of -- [applause] >> moderator: on behalf of myself, the league of women voters of san francisco, and our partner organization, our thanks to the candidates for participating. and if all have been to the forums before, this is not a hard job. we're not easy here in san francisco. and thanks to each of you for taking the time to inform yourself about your choices on november 5th. vote like your life depended on it. and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. let's give them a big round of applause. [applause]

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any

difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35

hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy

produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of

having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a

bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables

it is healthy being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but

the personal pride business owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy

options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have more >> once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. i just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didn't have to ask twice. you can always find me on the court. [♪] >> we have been able to participate in 12 athletics

wheelchairs. they provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a national paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. >> it is great to have this opportunity here in san francisco. we are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. now that that is happening, you know, i i'm looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs -- that these people are here for everyone. i think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as able-bodied, to be able to see and to try different

sports, and to appreciate trying different things. >> people can come and check out this chairs and use them. but then also friday evening, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. >> we offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [♪]

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accommodations at mod@sfgov.org. our next regular meeting will be on friday, november 15, 2019 from 1-4 in this hearing room. we thank you for joining us today. we will now proceed with roll call. >> chair denise? present. stephen perman? here. alex madrid? here. lily marshall-fricker. present. helen pelzman?

present. orkid? helen smolinski? here. kate williams is absent. council member tiffany yu. present. >> ms. senhaux (chair): thank you. we'll go to action item number 2. reading approve. >> reminder to the guests to speak slowly in the microphone to assist captioners and interpreters. public comment. items not on today agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. we welcome the public's participation during the public comment periods. there will be an opportunity for public comment at the beginning and end of the meeting as well as after every item on today's agenda. each comment is limited to three minutes and the council will respond to your comments following the meeting if you

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