>> thank you, madam clerk. today i am introducing legislation to ensure that the francis scott key teacher educator housing project will qualify for the full streamlining benefits of prop e if and when it's approved by the voters. this legislation will amend the unit mix for educator housing projects by removing the three bedroom requirements and requiring that half of the unit in an educator housing projects are two bedrooms or larger by making this tweak, we can shave more than a year off the approval of timeline for francis scott key by eliminating the need for rezoning. in the future, i will be introducing legislation to create a baseline high increase for 100% affordable housing projects and educator housing projects. this high increase is not needed by the affordable housing projects in the pipeline and it's not time sensitive. i will be asking the board to consider this change at a later date after environmental review is completed. i want to thank my co sponsors, supervisor peskin, haney and

mar. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor fewer. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam clerk. harvey milk said, every gay person must come out as difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family, you must tell your relatives and friends if they are your friends. you must tell the people you work with, you must tell the people in the stores you shop in. when they realize that we are their children that we are in deed everywhere every myth, lie will be destroyed once and all and when you do you will feel so much better. colleagues, this friday is the 31st annual national coming out date which marks the anniversary of the national march on washington for lesbian and gray rights. it's important and it's also as harvey milk new important. if we aren't out, we aren't seeing, we don't count and we

aren't counted. that's why i am introducing a request for a hearing on the city's fiscal year 2018-2019 sexual orientation and gender identity reports. passed by the board of supervisors in 2016 requires departments and contractors providing health and social services to seek, collect and analyze data on the sexual orientation and gender identity of the clients they serve and to provide annual reports on that data at the end of each fiscal year. lgbtq people have largely been ignored in the collection of demographic information by state local and federal governments for decades. this lack of data has led organizations including the center for dataen ovation to advocate for data to be collected at all levels of government to help address service disparities that negatively impact the lgbtq community. in april, i held a hearing on the first annual reports which covered fiscal year 2018 as well as 2018-2019. this gave us a look at disparity

and access to essential services for lgbtq people and identifying challenge to data collection faced by a number of city departments. although the initial results in mixed the first round of reports showed that unless programs are designed to specifically serve lgbtq people, they will not serve lgbtq people. they make up 30% of our homeless population, according to 2017-2018, only 17% of clients assess for coordinated entry identify as lgbtq. similarly only 6% of clients receiving public services to the mayor's office of housing come community development identify as lgbtq and 2% are trans or nine binary despite 12% of our city's identifying agency lgbtq. we learned that several departments struggled to collect soji data. i look forward to working with the office of transgender initiatives and participating city departments to use this to

review progress made toward improving data collection and service outcomes for ledge lgbtq people in the 2018-2019 fiscal year. today i am also introducing a resolution in support of tipping points all in campaign launched in july. tipping point has been a strong partner in the city's efforts to address homelessness, funding the implementation of a new behavioral health bed tracking tool and committing $3 million to create a 15-bed behavioural bed respite center. it's a public education and engagement campaign that seeks to build support for supportive housing and services and every san francisco district. many san franciscans want to be part of solving homelessness and all in aims to galvanized everyday san franciscans to secure homes for people experiencing homelessness throughout the city. tipping points launched all in with its first community roundtable.

>> i'm declaring a state of emergency for the emergency firefighting water system to protect all neighborhoods in the event of a major earthquake and fire. the resolution urges the city to create a comprehensive plan including three key points. first to expand the emergency

firefighting wire system high pressure water pipelines dedicated for firefighting to all unprotected neighborhoods. to create an interim protections within three years by increasing the emergency firefighting capacity in all neighborhoods that are unprotected by high pressure firefighting water pipelines. and thirdly, to strengthen public oversight and accountability by requiring an annual consolidated report to be presented to the board of supervisors on the status of the emergency firefighting water assistance preparedness for a major earthquake and fire. since the earthquake 30 years ago, the city has taken many important steps to protect residents in our city from the next big one including widespreawideseismic retro fit d engage community members in disaster preparedness. one critical area of disaster

preparedness that's not been adequately addressed is the threat of fires following a major earthquake. the even more devastating 1906 earthquake caused 3,000 deaths and destruction of 80% of our city due to fires following the earthquake. following the 1906 earthquake, the city took the important step of building a high pressure emergency water supply system dedicated for firefighting which is independent from our drinking water supply system. this system is defined to furnishish large amounts of water for firefighting purposes and contains special features to increase reliability in the event of an earthquake. the emergency firefighting water system was built over 100 years ago when most of san francisco's population lived in the northeast portion of the city. as a result, the network high pressure water pipelines covers the north eastern part of the city. today, one-third of the city is not protected by the emergency

firefighting water system. most of the city's residential neighborhoods on the west side and in the southeast remain unprotected and are vulnerable to widespread fires, loss of life and property destruction following a major earthquake. we are all well aware that another major earthquake will impact our city in the near future. and we're just reminded that by the earthquake of saturday morning. the u.s. geological society estimates a 72% likelihood of a major earthquake before 2043 and the usgs warns the pace of large earthquakes will increase due to gough owgeo logicals so these ws along with the tent 30th annivey is a wake-up call. this resolution will bring greater attention and to elevate the priority of the urgent issues here at city hall and throughout the city. i want to thank my co sponsors,

board presidents and supervisors fewer and safai as well as many neighborhood leaders who have provided invaluable input. secondly, i've asked the city attorney to prepare a charter amendment for placement on the november 2020 ballot that will prohibit the mayor from appointing an individual who is a declared candidate for an elected position to a having say for that position and prohibit individuals to positions from running in an election for that position within 90 days of their appointment. the rates to represent district 4 last year was the first open election in the sunset in 13 years. part of the reason why i ran for supervisor was because of my strong believe that we the people deserve to chose our representatives in free and fair

elections. it's also why i made strengthening our democracy an early priority in office offering two ordinances to expand public financing and putting prop f on the ballot to address money and politics and political corruption. our efforts to strengthen our democracy are weakened when democracy itself is ignored. it's plainly undemocratic and wrong to appoint a candidate, any candidate to the office that they're running for weeks before a contested election. in the words of the aclu, appointments like these are fundamentally undemocratic and favor candidates who have establishment support as opposed to allowing the process to run its course and let voters decide in an even playing field. in the case of the district attorney's office this has continued uninterrupted for a century. the 13 years it took for my district to have an open election was too long.

that we have been prevented from an open, free and fair election for our district attorney after 110 years of unbroken inkum benn see. with my charter amendments it would be. we, who are democratically elected to serve the people need to trust the people to decide for themselves who is best suited to represent them. i hope that as we work together to bring this charter amendment forward, in iron out details, we will. thank you. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor peskin. >> submit. >> thank you. supervisor ronen. >> thank you. colleagues, today i'm introducing legislation to initiate a landmark designation for 7070woleey. which unanimous resolution the board of supervisors declared

the garden district and explicitly called out the university nursery greenhouses as one of the very few remaining physical markers of the historic role in flora culture. immigrant-owned and operated businesses that produced flowers to supply retail flourists flors forecast i lived there for several years and along with my former neighbors. i'm proud of this unique history of san francisco's flower-growing district. the university mound nursery and the remaining historic grown houses are a focal point of this cultural landscape. initially, this request for landmark designation was proposed by members of the grassroots group, friends of 7070woolsley. an al analysis was prepared and documentation compiled and applications submitted to the sf planning department. preservation staff and the planning department analyzed the nomination and concurred with historic resource evaluation

that the property is significant and as well as meeting three of the four priorities for landmarking including the need to encourage designation and goughgraph i cannily under represented areas like the portala and submitted it to the historic preservation commission which hpc would district staff to add it. that would have been essentially the next step to flush out the analysis hold public hearings and who are charged with making the final designation about local landmarks. i was shocked when i listened to the recording of the h.p.c. hearings. first, each commissioner mentioned they've been contacted by the mayor's office on behalf of the property owner. and u matily they declined the

staff recommendation to add this project to the work plan. so i feel that i have no choice but to respond to this heavy handed hack tick and i oppose housing on the site. the hpc encourage a false choice between landmarking and housing and the sponsor and friends have at times set into that. but it is absolutely untrue. landmarking will not preclude housing from being built and i will work with the developer and the community to find that solution. but in the meantime, i would like the planning department to properly and without improper

corrupt influence analyze the historic merit of the property. >> thank you, supervisor. >> i just want to be added to supervisor fewer's legislation regarding the two bedrooms for teacher housing. we weren't able to let her know before introduction. >> thank you. >> mr. president, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> supervisor yee: thank you, madam clerk. let's go straight into public comment. >> the public may address the board for up to two minutes each on subject matter jurisdiction items within the hands of the board. you may speak for up to two minutes on the board meeting minutes. items 32-34 did not go through committee as you already know, items previously heard in committee that were subject to public comment may not be heard again today. display document on the overhead

projector, please, just put your document under the projector and remove it and when you would like the coverage to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> the president believes there might be a coup in the white house and i've asked people to get the podcast of yesterday's broadcast. phillip mud and brandon and other former clapper directors of the c.i.a. have made very threatening statements and i am praying the marines will execute them. these are epic times, ladies and gentlemen. it's hard to cram two hours into two minutes. i made a mistake at san jose, supervisors, we only got one minute a couple months ago and i said i was counting how many words and the bird landed on me and that was not true. because i tried an hour into 60

seconds i made a mistake. if there's anyone out there watching that live, pray for me that god will help me in jesus name. now what really happened was that i was praying after i counted how many words elijah had spoken and i was just pondering, you know, what he said and how god told him to a joint jesus to be king over israel and other things and i wrapped my head in the green flanel cotton shirt and a bird landed on my head it quacked and it flew off. it's interesting because it says here in second kings that the house they have their master may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the ser visits of the lord for the whole house shall perish and i will cut off him that

pissed against the wall and him that shut up and left in israel and i will make the house like the house of son the nebat and like the house of the son. and the dogs shall eat jess a bell. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. if you -- we need to keep him out of the chamber if he is going to behave that way. next speaker, come on up. >> unto the lord said peace. i don't understand what just happened. >> he has got it. >> good afternoon, i'm peter war

field. library users association. and in an action of extraordinary arrogance and difference to patrons service and the san francisco public library last month stopped making -- stopped the mailing of printed notices to patrons about activity on their accounts. that means the library quit a core function sending people notices of overdue, sending people notices that books are available. this was done with no public discussion or approval bit library commission and no advance notice to the public. there was nothing posted for the public at library locations. instead, there was a single letter to recipients of printed notices announcing this as a done deal. and that notice didn't even mention that there are alternatives if folks want them and that would include e-mail and telephone notifications. that will hurt a lot of people

who don't have easy access to a computer and don't have e-mail and who don't have a telephone or don't want notices in that way. what about language barriers? if you get a notice in english, by mail, you can take it to a family member or friend and can them what it's about. there are serious issues of privacy. people being exposed to privacy breaches and the exploitation that that involves through the internet. through e-mail and phone notification. it's a reduction in service despite the fact that the library's income from you allocations have gone up and up and up every year and they're now at $160 million. we ask one or more of you to requesrequest thequestion the ls matter and they not degrade service with no due process and no public process ahead of time.

thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. nick. when a patron phones the library trying to find a book, the usual practice is for the librarian to set aside the book would a hold to be picked up at a branch. when the book has been retrieved, the library mails a notice. without warning or notice of the impact of a change in this policy, the library has eliminated the mail notice. it bars the use of the library by 100,000 san franciscos. because of the damage this ill-conceived policy change inflicts on san francisco's most vulnerable, this policy must be changed and restored to its longstanding viable service

level. the digital divide is a life and thriving in san francisco. thanks to the mismanagement of the san francisco public library. there are more than 100,000 san franciscans who don't have internet access in their homes. i am one them. a couple of weeks ago, i received an unsigned letter on the san francisco public library letter head that effectively bars me and all 100,000 other san franciscans in the full use of all library services by virtue of requiring enter access. i believe this radical change longstanding library policy to be illegal. this policy runs contrary to the stated and mandated purpose of the library to serve all patrons with the same level of service without discriminating on the base of income, race, gender, religion or any of the long list of protectioned guaranteed by city, state and federal laws not limited to the california state

civil rights act. if it's not broken, don't fix it. >> supervisor please be seated. if you don't respect us, then we will not respect you. now, there is a word drawn out equity. if you look at our dictionary about the word equity, you will find -- there are members coming

over here and they come here and plead and beg and tell you about what they're suffering there is no empathy. there is no compassion.

but most importantly there's no fairness and there is no justice. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. you know, i look around. we lost one of our drivers october 3rd. i want to wish his family nothing but peace and happiness. it's very sad. why can't we have spikes going the other way so that the drivers cannot get on the freeway like they do out places. let's do something different. let's shake it up, guys. i feel like no one really listens. people on their phones and talking to each other and acting like this is a big game.

we have over 200 signatures now of drivers that want us to represent them. do you know what every single one of these drivers say to me, they all say one word. one word. they say when? when? what are we doing? when? what do you guys want from us? it's the same old story here. war getting mass occurred. i'm physically, emotionally and financially done. i have to look for a new place to live. i have maxed out my credit cards. i've sold my car. i've given you guys everything. everything. i give you my time and you give us nothing. you don't even give us respect. we're not standing up here asking for anything than other than we deserve. how would you like it if i'm driving you down the street and

texting my friend at the same time. it's disgusting, how secretary e traffic not be worse. you have to redo it all. start over. let's look back. stand on california montgomery in the morning and count how many. when are we going to limit these guys -- right now it is subjugated by ride share companies. they made ride share and they

have done nothing for hard-working. there's nothing left for us. everything has been looted by ride share. this is extorsion. and sfmta and city and involving this and -- i tell you explicitly this will be

foreclosed soon. prime with us make your final decision. relief of us this imprisonment. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am in here to remind you last week we lost one dear friend and a driver. he is very, very hard-working person. i feel very sad talking about it because he has a wife, kids, like a family man. and i tell you the worse things i was 10 or 15 cars behind him. i see exactly what happened. because i was the same situation. you imagine you sitting in your port three or four hours.

they hold your and mentally, believe me. you drive far away and they levee your own car you imagine every day four hours is like that. we are sitting behind. your feet blow up. and these guys, he was sitting behind a car. i know, maybe it was an accident but i don't see that. you guys and this situation killed him. over a tire. he may be at the airport and he controls everything. he is more than three hours, the whole day. 12 or 14 hours. what do you expect? this is happening. and i want to remind you other things, new york, chicago, boston, other cities he was not

like this in san francisco. san francisco is guilty. because they have to stand up for his m medallion. you broke your promise. you have to bring if back. no choice. you have to -- next speaker. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is abdullah and i'm a long-time taxi driver and the press shuprecious medallion anda father of five kids. i don't know what to say. we didn't give up yet. we have faith in the city of san francisco. i tell my kids i want to keep the relationship with the city of san francisco because we gave

them 22 years. i don't say they lived to us. we'll always respect you. even if you listen to us or not, come on. it's way too much. i don't want to be in the freeway. i don't want to get in an accident when i'm driving a taxi. i want to exist from the shop and i want to give someone an opportunity to drive a taxi. we treat the customers maybe one of you ride in my taxi we get them home safe. you know, we're human beings. we need you to feel with us. i came today not to pick up my check for money back or bail out, i can't drive and support my kids. one of the other drive and make the payment and keep my kids. i don't want to be homeless in the city of san francisco. i see a lot.

i show my kids all the homeless in every street. so, come on. help. help the people. help the hard-working people. we love this city of san francisco and we want to be part of the city. we want to remember you with the good things. you back up the cab drivers. you damage the drivers and you have to fix your damage. so that is what i have to say. thank you. >> good afternoon. sam the taxi drivers and we come coming back and fourth again and again and nothing has been changed and the things are getting worse and worse and same like what we are losing and start losing hope on up guys and don't bring us up to the point where we lost complete hope. some of you have promised us you

will buy back. you promised us you will get our money back. please, help us out. everybody in san francisco has the right to make a living wake. why not the taxi driver? with the $250,000 investment we are not making a living wage. we are legalized under big slaves and this is the democra democracy. this is what you want to see the san francisco and that's how you want to be remembered? we are finished. this is a question of all the board of supervisors how you would like to be remembered among the taxi drivers.

at least you can give us some relief as long as you don't come up with the master plan of how you are going to buy back at least you can get us out from the neck of the cab companies that we are not making money but we are filling their tummies and they're never going to say enough. we don't want your money anymore. they are so greedy that they are take our $700 a month and we can spend that towards mortgage and towards our future. >> supervisor yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon. it's my first time here. the reason why i'm here is i just last week i was right behind the cab driver who died on the freeway so i have seen everything. so, i just want to ask how long

we have to wait. we've been back and fourth for almost eight years or nine years and that is no answer from you or the sfmta. we kept waiting and waiting. the sfmta told us the medallion and this plan and this plan has failed. is there anyway to solve this problem. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i come down tonight to speak about how you have it in a room district attorney appointed and felt very bad about that because i came down to speak out against mario woods shooting death and no one is going to speak out except for capper nick and capper nick was a great quarterback in that he put a need out and i want at statue put up in his behalf.

i am pictures of it and everything. i enjoy being able to ex down here and speak out because you know, what is happening in hong kong and what happened over in chinatown, we are going through a lot of hell here in the city. and it's on our backs what is going on. with cappernick and everything, he spoke for mario woods and mario woods' brother are celebrating this moment right now. i thank you. there's a lot going on in this world. and be able to come down here and speak out against all of that. you know, when kaepernick was out there in alcatraz, and they appointed him indian or you

know, honorary chief, he said this is like a chapel here with the priest down here talking we're all married to our lord jesus christ. he is just unbelievable for what he has done to us and i hope we can have a statue out here. >> next speaker. >> tom, i wish for this board

and the mayor to create and sign a national petition for the complete ban of all assault semi automatic rifles and wells in an the united states. let other towns, cities and villages sign up. an opportunity to get some local majority out into washington too the people who are here. we don't need these weapons that kill people. we just want it changed. and i think the cities are the place where we can get the most amount of change. we're closer to the people. and the people that we need. direct television, again, is canceling out or threatening to cancel out channel 2, ktvu and

channel 7. if you are a broadcast station and you have news, a local news affiliation you should not be able to be canceled or cut off from your broadcast. no cable should have that ability. right now, we are living in object sudden tee where we have thousands of people burn oil, pollute the air, set carbon dioxide, increase our disaster that is happening so they can make a living and secure a safe home for their children and the next day they go out and buy more gas to burn to more fuel so they can come to the city to create a regular job so they can go back home and have a safe house. it's not happening. we're in a destructive mode. we need policy ranges.

thank you. >> good evening. mr. president and supervisors. my name is wo duffy i'm a neighborhood activist from this area around here. about a year or two ago, this body approved a big tower in the downtown area with housing and mostly market rate housing and they promised they would put an mexican-american museum in the ground there were that's great and they said well what are you going to have? we're going to have the head of request teen murry e.t.asomeone. what i said then is we have to get more out of the buildings and we had a perfect example of that today. a building that did not provide enough and our planning code did not allow us and also ceqa did

not allow us to get a better outcome. especially now when you start to consider global climate change. we know upper income people who live in market race housing has a tendency towards creating more climate problems. climate emissions. they have a bigger profile. so, as big a problem is that is, i can't help but say after our first speaker and you have 50% of america inundated talk about revolution and the civil war is acceptable and they're literally the people we are fighting against now are literally pushing violence against us citing that people to violence and i hope that our city can help because we need help with a non violent change of gover governance. >> supervisor yee: thank you.

>> good evening president ye e and supervisors. i dug these up when i was 12 years old. the bottle is from the south of market area. many years ago and the can is from camp used from the loggers up there. i'm going to get the late 1800s. and the locket is from sutter's mill when i was 12-years-old, one of the first thing that locked up gold. have you seen a older lock. that's i didn't like that one. bruce is retiring. can you see the t-shirt. and i want to say good luck to retirement to him.

he worked there quite a while. he is leaving on a jet plane. and good luck in retirement to him. oh i hope he does real good. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> and we'll see. we'll meet again. do know where or when but i know we'll meet again. some supervisor board of supervisors day. >> supervisor yee: thank you. any other speakers? please come on up. >> when i first moved to san francisco it seemed inform and

it didn't put out very much heat and to inspect the appliances and he explained his procedure and took a look and stated all was well and left actually the guides who installed the new gas stove had failed to seal the connection. it was a metal thread to metal thread no puddy or tape whether the thermostat was up or down the flame remained the same. i turned off the gas and sealed the stove connection in my opinion neither p.g. and e. or private contractors who might break an old alliance and in order to sell a new one are

necessarily the best parties exam such issues. this is why i suggested the fire department recruit and our police cadets inspect furnaces and carbon monoxide and fire alarm devices and crowded neighborhoods particularly where there are many children. and one thing i seem to perceive here is that under the budget chair contractors are not simply and running the mill and soltation osoltation of the indi have had witness on no less than half a dozen occasion and ringing funds out of the budget committee and offering no more than poorly constructed and arguments yet, they have succeeded in receiving additional funding on nothing more than an assumption of

payment for an opening. >> thank you. seeing no other public speakers public comment is now closed. madam clerk, before we do that, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer. made by supervisor safai and no objection she's excused. please call for the adoption with our committee reference calender. >> items 32 to 34 are introduced a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first reading today alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. >> supervisor yee: ok. would any of my colleagues like to officer any items. >> 32, please. >> ok. madam clerk, could you go ahead

and take 33 and 34. >> items 33 and 34, supervisor stefani. >> [roll call] there are eight ayes. >> supervisor yee: so, these two resolutions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, call number 32. >> a resolution urging the municipal transportation agency to ensure further compliance with private scooter permit conditions.

>> supervisor yee: thank you. >> thank you president yee i would like to thank yourself and supervisors for co-sponsoring this resolution. i have circulated some amendments. as i've said repeatedly about. >> is zero tolerance for riding these devices on the sidewalks? it's plain and simple. that's the law but as we did a pilot program and as it's not been fixed and as the current regiment that is is being proposed in just a few days from

now has three steps before someone is blocked for walk riding and can move from platform to platform and you haven't fully figured this out and safety first and we do not want these people coming in with traumatic and finally, let's use all of tools that we learned here. first hiring direct hiring and stop the 1099 economy and let's have the w2 economy all of these pay your employees right and i thank you for your co sponsorship and there are before you some non substantive

amendments and there's one correction to what is before you on page 2 at line 4 that april 2016 is a typo it should be april 2018. what my office said to the clerks legislative division has that so i'd like to make these amendment requests thaamendmente additional change. >> i want to say one thing from today, chris tanevance a d-5 person. hey, as skip scooters, your scooter was parked as a 45° angle and a man tripped and fell. paramedics had to be called. remove the scooter asap the sidewalk is too crowded as it is. >> i rest my case.

>> supervisor yee: there's a motion to amend. is there a second. second by supervisor stefani. can we take these amendment without objection. amendment passes. can we take this item as. >> i wanted to be added as a co-sponsor. >> can we take this item as amended same house same call. this passes unanimously. is there anything else? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. >> supervisor yee: that brings us to the end of our agenda. is there any other business before us today. >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you very much.

>> first off, i want to give a huge shout out to the domestic violence's consortium and fearless leader of the event, beverly upton.

[cheers and applause] domestic violence is an issue that spans many departments and agencies here in san francisco. as a safety, we have worked very hard to develop strong partnerships. i want to welcome supervisor catherine stefani. [cheers and applause] supervisor safai, city college trustee i.v. lee, fire chief janine nicholson, we welcome her david lazar. representing san francisco airports, front seth -- francesca garcia, and on her way is the sharp director kelly

densmore who is the new director of the office of sexual harassment and assault response and prevention. so tonight's theme is building pathways to safety. we recognize that domestic violence is an issue that impacts every gender, race, sexual orientation, immigration status, and we need to meet our diverse community members where they are. we are so proud of our partner agencies that work so hard every day to expand women's safety. if you are from one of our partner agencies, make some noise. [cheers and applause] please stay until the end of the event. as the sunsets, city hall will be let -- let purple for domestic violence awareness month. this is the only time of the month that it will glow purple. it is truly magnificent. a wonderful selfie shot.

so i want to welcome -- we are welcoming our president, the commission on the status of women, the strongest women's commission in the country. let's give that a cheer. [cheering] >> the president the lifelong advocate for women and girls and has acted as a champion for policy change in education and community and economic development. she just stepped off a plane from india, so please help me welcome president rhianna zawart >> hi, everyone. i am very honored be here and to represent the strongest commission in the country.

i'm joined tonight by our vice president, commissioners. can we give it up for our commissioners? [applause] the reason why this commission and this department is so important is because every day we live the theme of this month which is building pathways to safety. according to the national coalition against domestic violence, an average of 20 americans experience domestic violence every minute. that is 10 million victims in a single year in the u.s. and according to the coalition, domestic violence survivors receive 8 million -- lose 8 million working days. the numbers are there and they are scary. we can't get lost in the numbers because we have to remember what happens when people are victims and survivors of domestic violence. and what i'm proud of today with this commission is that we have provided an impressive dented

$8.6 million in funding to community-based organizations working across the city to support victims and survivors of violence and their families with crisis lines, counseling, case management, legal services, emergency and transitional shelters. can we give it up for a $.6 million in services for the city and county? [cheers and applause] for example, we provide essential funding to three domestic violence shelters including the first in the nation, the asian women's shelter pick the first in california -- [speaking spanish] -- and st. vincent de paul society. through these grants, we are serving thousands of victims and survivors. in 2017, our partners filled in 25,000 service calls, provided 25,000 hours of counseling and reach 12,000 individuals in violence education and prevention programs. our strong network of partners and provider services and dozens

-- in dozens of languages works to ensure that their work with the survivors is done in a culturally competent and sensitive way. again, we always look past the numbers and the humanity. the people that faces every day to make sure that we are providing the needs of this community. so make some noise again for our partner agencies who are doing this work every day. we are so proud of you. [applause] even with all of that, the demand is greater than the supply. for every one person served in our emergency shelters, we are about four people who are turned away every day and placed outside of san francisco. we have to do better. there is more work to be done to ensure that survivors and their families are on a path toward safety. every day, survivors are faced with the impossible choice between remaining in an abusive environment that are potentially life-threatening, relieving and becoming homeless. -- or leaving and becoming

homeless. we must invest in expanded services and more shelter spaces for domestic violence and their families. by providing safe places for survivors and supporting them to rebuild their lives, we can break the cycle of violence. is our guest of honor here? fantastic. with that, i want to introduce someone who i am honored to work with. our supervisor catherine stefani , "i know is not afraid to stand up and defend survivors and his leadership in this city and county is unprecedented when it comes to finding pathways to safety. give it up for supervisor stefani. [cheers and applause] >> thank you so much. i want to thank the department on the status of women and the domestic violence consortium for sponsoring today's event and everyone who came out today to show your support. it