[cheers and applause] [applause] >> next up is supervisor stefani from district two. >> thank you. i also want to thank supervisor ronen and her aids for organizing this, and congratulation to all the honourees who have preceded my

district two honourees. it is truly inspiring to celebrate these stories and to recognize how immigrants are the backbone of this country and i am proud to be in san francisco where we not only recognize that but we celebrated. colleagues, today i am proud to honor alberto and lily meyer. they are long-standing members of our neighborhood and they, like all of our honourees, are a testament to the strength and importance of our diverse communities. alberto first came to san francisco from mexico as a chemistry student at san francisco state. after college, he returned to mexico, h. -- which is when he met his wife. he was on vacation in veracruz and she was there helping her mother run a restaurant. together they moved back to san francisco in 1981 to start their life together and they spent a beloved fixture on union street ever since. with nothing but their tireless work ethic and lily's family

recipes, they started a small catering company in 1987 and it should come as no surprise to anyone who has tasted their food , especially their burritos, that the small catering company grew to become a big restaurant on buchanan, one of my favorite places in san francisco to get mexican food. for the last 32 years, alberto and lily have remained rooted in the traditions in which they were raised and their menu reflects their values. all their food is made right in front of you from scratch with the freshest ingredients. they have worked hard to keep the quality of their food high and prices extremely low. it is hard to find a delicious meal in san francisco for $6, but thanks to alberto and lily, it is not impossible at union. in addition to these fabulous small business owners, they are kind, compassionate, engaged members of their community, and has spent the last three decades making their adopted home a better place for all of us.

i am lucky that there son attended the same school where my kids have gone and they have been incredible members of the school community right now. their lives, traditions, and careers have always spanned two countries and we are all better off because they were able to do that. thank you to alberto and lily for your dedication -- dedication to our community. you embody the best of what the american dream has to offer. thank you. [applause] >> i just want to think all the board of supervisors and especially supervisor stefani for recognizing and bringing up our humble beginnings. we thank you for your support and we are very happy, as we have always been, we are very

honored to be part of this community that is embracing all races, all nationalities and all cultures. we are so happy and very grateful, very honored, and thank you, again, for everything [applause] >> mr. president, if i associate myself with supervisor stefani's words, i have been a long time customer, so thank you. >> thank you.

>> okay, we are getting down to the last section. they're two more of us left. next up is supervisor walton from district ten. >> thank you. thank you supervisor ronen. thank you for coordinating the ceremony and congratulations to all of the awardees here today, most of which i also wanted to chime in and say some special words about, but i also didn't want to be here until midnight. congratulations. it is my honor to be able to recognize the work of yolanda gutierrez.

[applause]. >> known to most as jolie. she is the daughter of immigrants who came to this country from nicaragua and mexico and met here in the united states looking for a better life. they worked hard to provide the children with a bright future. their father owned a small business in the bayview and their mother worked at s.f. general and they are both here today to celebrate with us. jolie was born in san francisco and attended public high school, graduating from downtown high school in 1993. yolanda's family lost her brother to street violence when she was young, in this tragedy was heartbreaking. the gutierrez family, like so many other families, had to suffer this senseless loss of life. yolanda new that this pain was so deep and committed herself to improving the lives of others in

efforts for them to avoid having ever feeling the same pain. after having an opportunity to do community service, her life was changed. she began to work with young people and provided them with a platform to be successful in her own commute -- in their own communities. i have often watched her go above and beyond to help someone else advance and grow. at first, as executive director of young unity developers, she became a part of the team and it was evident from the very beginning that her spirit was genuine and her motives peer. jolie was instrumental in conducting formerly incarcerated young people to jobs and careers , and help them become productive role models in their communities. meza g., is known to participants, always made sure she exhausted every available opportunity for everyone she served. no one was on savable, although true to the mission, her deep love for community gave her all

the skills she needed to help people in bayview hunters point and across san francisco. yolanda was one of the key leaders in developing the i.p.o. to organize a violence prevention program where formerly incarcerated transitional raised youth forgiven job training, city employment, and case management in order to maintain gainful employment and to reduce recidivism. they're all of this, she is amazing mother of her son, alonso, who is right here with us today, as well. she loves him more than anything she is currently with urban strategies and continuing to connect bayview residents to jobs, supportive services, and anything that they need. aside from today, one of my proudest moments in life was when i had the opportunity as a member of the board of supervisors to personally give her her degree on stage in the spring of 2017 at city college's

graduation where she received her degrees in criminal justice and social behavioral science. give it up for that. [cheers and applause] yolanda is a great team player and brings that special touch of celebration to everything. she is a true event planner at the heart, and most often, i have had to try to stop her from turning a small gathering into in academy award like presentation. [laughter] she knows how to put together a party. this extra touch makes a celebration so much more personal. as a resident of bayview and someone who works in bayview, she is an example of overcoming what so many of our residents face even in this great community. no greater example of her love for this community then when in my first week of office, it was her that dealt with the families of homicide victims. and in her mind, serving our communities a 24-hour job and she was there every step of the

way, helping victims families get through the worst times of their lives. she has had to endure these also through personal experience. i'm very excited to honor community advocate, mother, big sister, leader, and personal close friend and sister, miss yolanda gutierrez. [applause] [cheering] >> thank you, thank you, everyone. i'm deeply honored for this recognition today. first off, i just want to give all glory to god because without him, none of this would be possible. secondly, my parents for paving the way for us, coming from mexico, and nicaragua at a young age without any family support, they were here alone, they managed to be -- have the american dream, owned businesses in the bayview, and do things for us, and pave the way for us, for all five of us. i just want to say thank you to

my parents. also, to murray, if she is in here still. she saw something in me that i didn't see in myself for about 22 years, when i was a young girl walking into a community center to do community service, and from that, i just want to continue to fight for justice, and a big shout out to tracey for connecting me with such a great man like shimon who is just a great leader to me and has paved the way for me, also, and to my son, alonso, i want him to know that you can dream to be whatever they you need to be, son. and to beat -- and to all my community members, and everyone here today. thank you so much. i am so honored today. mr. walton, i love you. thank you. [applause]

[applause] >> all right. i guess it is my turn. supervisor ronen and your staff, i am truly honored to introduce the best -- i saved the best for last. i'm introducing my latin x. honoree, the one and only, fabulous sonia torres. [cheers and applause] come on up.

she was groped -- he grew she grew up in mexico city. she is only a few blocks from where i live. it is worth mentioning that she also has a staff that speaks vietnamese. her program actually, in reality , is a multi- lingle program. she started her family childcare small business when her children were small, they are both grown and in college. she says she has a job but it does not work. a lot of parents tell me the raising kids is a lot of work. i am glad you think it is not work. as someone very familiar with

early education and teaching young children, sonya, what you do is probably the most important work, and it is not easy. in 2018, she was recipient of the health apple award. this recognition is only awarded to early educators who have demonstrated commitment to nutrition and civil activity and to have incorporated this philosophy into the curriculum. she is very unassuming. [please stand by]

there's a huge unmet need a while back for their families, so she started sharing -- caring for them in the evening. many of them work night shifts and nights in hotels. her family childcare is also open to families that need her services until midnight. this allows families to work. evening hours continues to be an unmet need and sonya offers this to our community. as if running a family childcare with extended hours isn't enough , she also volunteers at st. anthony's. the theme this year couldn't be more fitting. as latin x. immigrants, who

small business provides bilingual education that supports the growth and development of our san francisco children and families. i couldn't be more honored to recognize her today. i am grateful for this opportunity to really honor latin -- a latin x. woman who has impacted nearly a generation of san francisco families. sonya, would you like to say a few words? [cheers and applause] >> many thanks. thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be here and be honored. i really appreciate it. i would like to say thank you so much for approving the programs. they really support me a lot. it is my pleasure to work for people with low income like the arts program, homeless people, that is my pleasure.

this job, you have to not only do it because you have an education, masters, no. these people need, also people with incredibly good patients. and also, i feel so proud because every morning, they get a healthy breakfast. it has to be healthy to start the day to start to learn. and my lunch is also very heart healthy with no oil, no salt, and no sugars. thank you so much for supporting me. i have been getting a lot of support from them and i really feel very blessed. thank you to my coach, thank you

to reagan, i'm a little bit nervous, and thank you to you guys. i really appreciate it. my lord bless you, everybody. [cheers and applause] >> once again, congratulations to all the people that were

recognized today. what a great group of people to recognize. thank you, my colleagues, on the board of supervisors for really being so thoughtful about who you wanted to honor. i wish i could honor each one of them by myself, but i guess i only get one. again, thank you very much. we will build on this. next year we will make this bigger, right? all right. let's move on to our business. madame clerk, let's go back to item 20. >> item 20 is an ordinance to amend an administrative code to reenact and revise the tourist hotel conversion ordinance which restricted the conversion of hotel rooms in large tourist hotels to condominiums, and to delete the sunset provision and to affirm the secret determination. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call?

without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. >> please call the next item. >> item 21 is an ordinance to amend administrative code to establish the street-level drug dealing task force to advise the board of supervisors and the mayor and the city departments regarding policies to address harms related to street-level drug dealing in the tenderloin, civic centre, midmarket, and south of market neighborhoods, into set forth the membership and the duties of the task force >> can we take this same item, same call? >> i think there are amendments, mr. president. >> supervisor haney? >> thank you. we do have some amendments before you that are pretty simple. i just wanted to thank all of the community organizations and residents and small businesses who brought this proposal forward. i also want to thank the rules committee who passed this unanimously and all signed on as

co-authors. i appreciate that. what is before you is legislation to create a street-level drug dealing task force. this will bring together the department leaders impacted individuals, residence, to begin to put forward a more comprehensive strategy that really gets at the root of this crisis that is impacting these communities. the task force has seats that are appointed by the board of supervisors and will be comprised of a very diverse group of individuals. there will be 12 seats. the task force will look at crime prevention, recidivism, economic development, diversion, and alternatives to incarceration. it will hold public hearings and solicit testimony, and ultimately you will have the power to access data and provide recommendations to this body, as well as to the mayor and other

departments. thank you to the budget committee and budget share fewer we were able to secure $200,000 of funds to the task force in this year's budget. i'm hopeful that putting all relevant stakeholders and departments in the same room will lead to meaningful collaboration and dedicate us to address the harms associated with this crisis. the two amendments that are in front of you, first on page five , line 21, i highlighted on your copy that we are adding the department of emergency management to the list of departments to provide data, and second on page six, line nine through ten, we are adding of the workforce about mint program as another data point to be analysed and collected by the task force. i think we all agree that all of our resident should have safe and healthy neighborhoods and that we should protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. i also believe, as a representative of soma and the tenderloin, their residents and

organizations who have a lot of good ideas about how we can approach this differently, with creative ideas to really get at the root of this problem, and to get our departments working together more effectively. that was something that came out of the hearing that we had in the b.l.a. report. it really didn't have an effective strategy that was coordinated across the departments. with that, we would like to take these amendments with positive recommendation. >> is -- there's a motion to make amendments and seconded by supervisor peskin. if there is no objection, then the motion to amend passes. colleagues, can you take this item same house, same call as amended? okay. without objection, this ordinance is amended is passed on first reading unanimously. please call item number 22. >> item 22 is a motion to appoint supervisor mandelman for a two year term to the

association of bay area governments executive board regional planning committee. >> colleagues, and we have a motion to excuse supervisor mandelman,? >> made and seconded. without objection, super mandelman -- supervisor mandelman is excused. please call roll on this item. >> on item 22... [roll call] there are ten aye. >> okay. the motion passes unanimously.

i believe we are going to committee reports. >> yes. >> item number 23. >> twenty-three and 24 were considered by the government audit and oversight committee on a regular meeting and were forwarded as committee reports. i don't 23 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by gregory sapper tely. this alleged personal injury on the city street. >> colleagues, can we take these items -- roll call, please. [roll call]

there are 11 aye. >> without objection, these ordinances are passed on first reading unanimously. >> that was just item 23. would you like me to read item 24? >> without objection, this is passed on first reading unanimously. >> i don't 24 is the ordinance authorizing less -- settlement of a lawsuit against the city $425,000. this lawsuit involves a personal

alleged injury on a city street. >> can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. let's go to -- i'm a little confused. i think there is item 25. >> twenty-five was considered by the rules committee but was not forwarded as a committee report. >> in this case, let's go to roll call for introductions. >> first member to introduce new business is supervisor ronen. >> thank you so much. it is with great sadness i offer this in memoriam to remember a native son of san francisco whose life was taken suddenly and senselessly earlier this month on sunday, september 8th he was yet another victim of the gun violence epidemic facing our

city and was only 19 years old. he was dedicated to his family, friends, and community. he grew up in san francisco's mission district. later in his youth in an attempt to escape violence that he encountered in his community, he relocated to oakland where he became heavily involved in communities united for restorative justice, a youth leadership develop and program focused on combating youth criminalization and mass incarceration. he became a member and youth leader at a church where he participated in outreach and mentored other youth to stay out of trouble, complete school, develop workforce skills and learn about community healing practices rooted in the cultural traditions of african people. he also participated in policy work and other community justice coalitions across california to advocate for legislation that improves opportunities or people

impacted at the justice system and pass a statewide initiatives like the california act to save lives, which establishes the nation enforcing california law enforcement. he was also an artist on a rubber. -- wrapper. his friends and colleagues described him as one of his best -- as a best young leader and a brilliant young man with a lot of talent. he will be so deeply missed by those he left behind. i would like to say to the family and friends of him who were able to join us here today, that i stand heartbroken with you and the in explicable loss of your son, your brother, your friend, and i want to express my

deepest condolences for your loss. president geet will suspend our rules for a minute just for the family to say if you words. >> please come on up to the microphone here. >> good afternoon. thank you for this beautiful honor. i worked with luis in oakland and i'm also a san franciscan, but it was a great honor to work with him. he was a beautiful man. i also have the great honor of watching him grow up in knowing him since he was a baby.

he was a very passionate about fighting racism, he was very passionate about fighting injustice, and he was also very inspired by the recent move of supervisors to shut down juvenile hall. and i ask in his honor to continue that you fight that. mass incarceration has one of the massive -- one of the massive impacts it has on our communities is a culture of violence. and thousands of people rotating in and out of the state penitentiaries with intense ptsd , and without the support to be able to pay rent and buy groceries, and with the potential of their ptsd, just like military veterans, exploding all over again. we are seeing the impact of this and his honor, i want to thank the board of supervisors and san francisco, and i ask you to

honor his legacy by continuing to fight racism and continue to fight for economic justice and by dismantling mass incarceration. thank you very much. >> thank you. i'm sorry for your loss. >> good afternoon. i'm his mom, and i just want to say thank you for taking the time to acknowledge my son, and for letting people know him. too many kids, all victims, and nobody hears about them. on behalf of my family, and all of luis' family, i want to say thank you. we will do everything we can to keep his legacy going. thank you, everybody. >> thank you. the rest i submit. >> okay. thank you very much. i am sorry, once again, for your loss.

>> i don't have any formal introductions but i wanted to go on the record to say that i think today is the day in our nation's history that we will remember for a long time. i want to give a big shout out and support to our speaker, nancy pelosi, are making for making a strong move to initiate impeachment inquiries against this president. this democracy has been under assault for the last three years , and finally, we have reached the tipping point. this most recent action by our president to use taxpayer money to go after a political opponent is just completely disintegrating what the founding for fathers and mothers and everyone that fought about what this democracy would been -- would mean is just unconscionable. i just wanted to make a note of support for the impeachment

inquiry. i wanted to put on record that i think this board of supervisors wholeheartedly supports restoring our democracy and going after president trump in all his machinations to undermine our democracy. the rest i submit. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comments. supervisor stefani? >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor walton? mr. president? >> thank you. colleagues, i am introducing a resolution today supporting the issuance of permits of s.p. five compliance emergency technology, entities and contractors seeking to operate in san francisco by the san francisco municipal transportation agency. as we have seen in the past few decades, no employment models prioritize an independent contractors and have given way

to companies avoiding the responsibility of benefits and investing in workers being ineligible for being ineligible for basic benefits typically made available to employees. this is also been exasperated with pervasiveness of the emerging technologies. california has been at the forefront of addressing the negative impacts of this worker model. in july, as a board, we passed a resolution in support of assembly bill five, which establishes the presumption that a worker is -- they are an employee for purposes of wages and benefits. two weeks ago, a.b. five past and was signed by governor newsome. while there is a legitimate space for the use of independent contractors, the exportation of many workers who have been denied the opportunities for benefits afforded to employees

has run rampant. these workers are denied the basic benefits such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, worker's compensation, a guaranteed minimum hourly wage, and a right to organize to better their working conditions. from my work for the development of the office of emerging technology, it is clear that much of the innovation being launched is in the realm of transportation. the resolution i am introducing today urges the sfmta to consider compliance with a.b. five when issuing permits to emerging technology entities. contractors, vendors, and any entity which seeks to operate in san francisco. this resolution requests any sfmta permit holder that the

workers be employees and not independent contractors. i want to thank my cosponsors, and the rest i submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor brown? >> thank you. today as cities across california, including san francisco update our building code to ensure we are all in alignment with the state, i'm introducing legislation to amend chapter 7 of the miscible green building requirement to eliminate natural gas and all new municipal construction and whole building renovations. and the action strategy, the department of environment has studying the credentials for all new electrical construction since 2015 and city agencies. [please stand by]

--, i hope that you will all join us as co-sponsors as well in the rapid accelerated change towards a more sustain all-electric feature.

and also, colleagues, i want to address an ongoing issue that threatens vulnerable rent-controlled tenants in my district and yours. today, along with supervisor peskin and fewer, i am introducing a resolution urging the san francisco rent board to develop stronger criteria for the concept of reasonable reliance. last year the board of supervisors passed legislation to limit landlords' ability to pass through debt services and property tax increases when purchasing rent control buildings. the original intent of this ordinance was to enable smaller landlords with allowable increase to achieve a fair rate of return and to pay off increased expenses. at the time the board had hoped that the rent board would create objective standards on whether an investor did, in fact, reasonably rely on their ability to pass through these costs when they decided to purchase the building. following the passage of this legislation, however, we've witnessed an uptick of certain

passthroughs that result in rent increases, including operation and maintenance passthroughs. these passthroughs are disproportionately being petitioned for by large corporate landlords who own and manage hundreds of buildings which impact thousands of tenants. my constituents are currently facing hardship, uncertainty and displacement. this is unacceptable. yesterday we learned that a major private property owner petitioning for these o.n.m. passthroughs had a voluntary relief program. we appreciate that. if they want to offer case-by-case relief, that's their choice. but we need to take a city-wide approach and an enforceable, clear and meaningful policies. i am committed to work with supervisor peskin and fewer to offer concrete reforms to the

san francisco rent ordinance and push for stronger guidelines on reasonable reliance. this is why i've also called for a hearing and a b.l.a. report to take a deeper dive in what we need to do to protect the tenants from these rent increases. too many people are struggling in today's rental market and many are marching today to protest their rights and their homes. we want to ensure that tenants in san francisco can count on more than corporate benever b b. and the rest i submit. >> and i left out one name that is a co-sponsor, the resolution around 85. thank you, supervisor, fewer. >> i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor haney. supervisor safai?

>> we weren't able to get our word to supervisor yee in time so i'm also a co-sponsor on that. thank you. >> thanks. supervisor haney. >> thank you, madam clerk. two items, the first is today i'm directing the city attorney to draft legislation that will expand just cause protections to more san francisco tenants. generally if your apartment building was built before 1979 and has two or more units, then you are not only covered by rent protection, but also evacuationn protection. under the eviction ordinance, the landlord can only evict you for just causes. the landlord cannot do so for non-payment of use and the illegal use of the unit. and it's to prevent evictions and to keep people housed. however, there are thousands of

units, individuals, families, who are not granted those same protections simply because they are in a building built after 1979. for these tenants the landlords are not required to state a reason for evicting them. the protections as they are now are arbitrary and they leave thousands without protection. so what i'm proposing is simple and to expand just cause protections to buildings built after 1979. and no one should have to live in fear of an arbitrary eviction and i look forward to the continuing discussion when the legislation is introduced next month. the second item that i have is i'm introducing a resolution declaring a public health crisis on our streets caused by drug overdoses. the open drug use and overdose deaths in our city are absolutely devastating and are increasing at a terrifying rate. people in our city are dying from fentanyl and heroin overdoses at the highest rates

ever. this drug crisis is wreaking havoc, particularly on our downtown neighborhoods. it is a public health and a public safety crisis. deaths are skyrocketing and our residents, especially those in tenderloin and south of market are feeling the awful impacts of the lack of action. we need an emergency response now. i have spoken about this at the last few board meetings but i want to reiterate some of these numbers because of how awful they are. drug overdoses in san francisco have claimed the lives of 259 people in 2018. fentanyl, synthetic painkiller, up to a hundred times more potent than morphine has passed prescription pills and heroin as a leading cause of overdose deaths in the city it. increased 150% in 2018. drug overdoses account for five times as many deaths as either traffic deaths or homicides. and experts are predicting now that we are on track to have a

continuing large rise in deaths in 2019. each one of these individuals who lost their life has loved ones and a future that was tragically cut short. their are resources that must be addressed to save lives. the desperation on our streets is increasing and it's more deadly and dangerous. just the other day supervisor peskin and i were walking back from a meeting in the tenderloin and there was an individual who was on the ground who was unconscious. he was surrounded by a few other individuals who were trying to revive him. this is a situation that is i think far too common in our city. he was it seems that they had lost him. he had lost his heartbeat. that he was on the verge of

dying. we didn't have narcan on us at that point so we were able to yell and find somebody who did have narcan while we called 911. thankfully, we were able to apply the narcan and the fire department arrived in very quickly, in a few minutes and he was able to be revived. his situation thankfully is one of survival. there are thousands of overdoses that are happening in our city every year and, sadly, many people are not surviving in the way that he did. some of you may have seen the recent articles in the "san francisco "chronicle"" about an individual named tyson fielser. tyson had been in san francisco and had lost contact with his family for years. and they didn't know where he was. finally they were able to reconnect with him a few months ago here in san francisco.

and it seemed at the time that this was going to be a story of healing and of reconnection and rehabilitation. he left with his family to the midwest and ultimately earlier this month took a bus back to san francisco and last week tragically overdosed on the streets of the tenderloin and died. this situation of people dying on our streets without any sort of emergency response is one that without a doubt that i hope that we can admits at a crisis level that deserves and needs an emergency response much greater than we are seeing now. i have spoken to firefighters and e.m.t.s and street outreach workers and they're all completely shocked at the failure of urgent action on our

streets that will save lives. so i know that this is something that i have talked a lot about and that supervisor mandelman and supervisor stefani having a hearing, and working all together on mental health s.f., but i think that the urgency and the need for emergency responses to specifically to address the crisis of drug overdoses and drug use as many of the drugs that are coming into our streets are more dangerous than ever, i think that we should expect an emergency plan that responds at the scale of this crisis that we're experiencing. so i hope that we can all work together on this. there are people who are dying every day. largely in my district, but also all over the city. and i really hope that we can respond with urgency to save lives. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i'm introducing an ordinance to

incentivize all electric buildings and disincentivize the use of natural gas in construction. it's one of the significant contributors to our carbon footprint and on the heels of thousands of san francisco youth taking to the streets on friday to demand action on climate change, this is an important step toward reducing emissions in new buildings. the legislation will update the building code to favor the design and construction of all electric zero-emission buildings by mandating higher and more efficiency requirements for buildings that use natural gas and end electricity known as mixed fuel. while we have made significant progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in san francisco we cannot continue the status quo when it come comes to our city's buildings. the department of the environment, say that 44% of the greenhouse gas emission comes from buildings and 82% of those emissions from natural gas, a fossil fuel that is a contributor to our climate crisis. thanks to the public utilities

commission and the clean power s.f. program, we have 100% clean electricity that we can use to power all of the energy needs of our buildings. we don't need to use natural gas to hoot our wate heat our waterd should use 100% gas-free electricity to do that instead. starting january 1, 2020, my legislation will incentivize developers to design and build all-electric buildings without using any natural gas. for a mixed fuel commercial buildings and units of four or more, new projects will be required to be 10% more efficient than the building code and all-electric will be required to meet the code standards. for low-rise residential of one to three stories, they will be required to be 1 % more efficit than the building code. and all of this a adds up to mae natural gas more expensive than the all-electric alternative. this is a step forward but not nearly enough. so today supervisor brown and i

announce a commitment to bring forward the legislation within the next six months to ban natural gas in all new residential and commercial buildings in san francisco. last year mayor breed committed san francisco to ambitious -- as supervisor brown described -- mayor breed committed san francisco to ambitious building decarbonization targets including a new goal of eliminating emissions in new construction no later than 2030. we cannot afford to wait until 2030. we need to do it in 2020. to accomplish this, we will convene a series of meetings with labor leaders, environmental advocates and equip ares and city agencies to ban natural gas in all construction in san francisco. and we will not stop there. following a complete ban on natural gas in new construction, the next necessary step will be to require the retro fitting of existing buildings to be all electric. what we do here in san francisco can be a model for city it is throughout the world and we are going to lead the way in ending our climate crisis.

we want to thank the department of the environment for all of their work on this legislation. especially director debbie rafael, and barry hooper, charles sheahan and peter goloa and the mayor's office for their work as well and my co-sponsors, supervisors brown and peskin for joining me in this effort. finally, i want to thank our climate advocates for demanding action and making sure that we continue to rein in our emissions and reduce our carbon footprint. and finally, i want to thank kyle smeily in my office for all of his work on this. and that is the legislation that i have to introduce. and i also, sadly, have a memorial. i'd like to ask that we end our meeting in memory of an extraordinary woman who passed away on september 5th after battling cancer for many years. tanis was born and raised in san francisco and her father was jewish, a second generation san francisco resident and a

teacher. and her mother came to the bay area with her family in search of a better life. in a feature in "the san francisco "chronicle"," candice wrote about grits with butter, a favorite that she inherited from her mother. she recalled the role that her father played in nurturing the love of food and community and cooking from an early age. after her parents divorced in the 1960s, her single father made sure that she'd learn and remember her family's heritage and keeping their house full of good food and eclectic company. and this inspired her to pursue a life-long career in the culinary and hospitality industry. in 1985, she graduated from the culinary arts and hospitality department and after earning her b.a. in management from st. mary's college and a masters in adult education through san francisco state, she returned to city college as an instructor in 1993. tanis spent more than 20 years working in various positions within the industry, including

maitre d' and general manager, in several companies, before providing services as a consultant, specializing in restaurant start-ups and service training and wine education. after running a dining room at city college which some of you may have had the pleasure of enjoying, it's amazing, where she taught students and ran a restaurant open to the public she was elected chair of the culinary arts and hospitality chairs department in 2009. from that time until her retirement last spring, tanis was the face of the culinary department. she's remembered not only for her work as a beloved educator and a department leader at city college but also for her huge heart. in her off-hours, tanis had a boot camp to have the communities to get a start in the industry. and built partnerships to bring culinary training to people in the criminal justice system. tanis' passing is a tremendous loss, not only for city college but for our entire city and she will be greatly missed by all of

those who lives she touched. she is survived by her husband, darwin, father paul, and mother jean and brother noah and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor marr. >> thank you, madam clerk. i'm calling for a hearing on a b.l.a. report on jobs and housing, that is the analysis of the alignment of the city's housing production to workforce growth by income level. in public discussion about solutions to our housing crisis, far too much focus has been paid to simplistically to increasing housing supply generally and not enough on how rapid and uneven job growth drives housing demand in our housing affordability crisis. there's concern among the residents in my district and throughout the city that the housing that we have been producing is not meeting the needs of our growing workforce and not addressing the affordability challenges of low-to-moderate income workers. the jobs housing fit analysis

can inform future development projects and economic development decisions and i look forward to hearing the recommendations of the b.l.a., the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. and supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk. and first i'd like to rise to a public policy issue that supervisor brown spoke to earlier and put it in a little historical context. this board passed through the passthrough ban going forward and we could do it retroactively, i am clear on that. but it goes back to the 1970s when one extremely large landlord became known as "the father of rent control" because in the 1970s we did not have rent control and at that time one individual who owned i think 6,000 units in those days had across-the-board rent increases

and our radical mayor at that time, diane finestein, i believe was supportive of rent control in those days. and i think what we're facing now with another similar large landlord, and while our hands may be tied as to certain types of legislation and retroactivity, it is ultimately going to lead to a whole set of new proposals and policies from this board. so i really don't want to have this fight. i saw the kpix tv show last night about one of my own constituents who lives on a fixed income whose rent has gone up 19%. almost one-fifth in the course of two years on a series of different passthroughs which, quite frankly, are not necessary. he lives three blocks from where i live.

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