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somewhere? oh, it's there. all right. cool. okay. my name's paul mcgavin and complete my statement from before. >> clerk: sir, i'll just correct you, we're not talking about the report. >> correct. t it was quietly changed in response to some successful appeals of close proximity microwave and telephone facility locations that are being three things, placed, constructed, and modified, just those three, on the streets of san francisco, and what happened? we had a 1400-page appeal that

outlined all of the things verizon was doing wrong. they pulled the application at 2298 pacific avenue. anyone can read that on mystreetmychoice.com. essentially, they wiped out the appeal process. we need the city and county of san francisco to put in regulations that are essentially seat belts and speed bags to keep them from putting a tower 12 feet from a child's bedroom. there is much more to be said. i think i have 30 seconds left.

cut me off when you can. we need a hard equipment enforceable level from the radiates power, not down to thousands, but down to milliwatts. i'm talking about .25 or .35 of a watt. but that gets you coverage down the street of a mile. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, board members. my name is michael levesque, and i happen to be extremely electrical sensitive, and we need a moratorium on cellular antennas, when further study is

required for determination by the department of health, than the process must be followed by its two rules. one, it is not preemptive. second, it is not condition. therefore, there are no conditions restraining its action. it is there for the sole purpose to protect society from abuse, danger, or harm, the e.p.a., the f.d.a., c.d.c., the courts, consider wifi a pollutant. inappropriately, electrical and he wi electronic engineers measure harm. they do not measure the body or cells. they do not measure exposure

over time. scientific authorities recognize the danger and state it must be reduced a thousand fold and would still be able to enable communication. san francisco in its wisdom passed a precautionary principle and can now mandate and enact it, allowing policy to catch up with science to protect us, the residents of san francisco. 5-g is not tested, even under specific absorption rates. so much of it goes on. i'm sure there'll be another hearing which i'm sure you'll allow us to stay more. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon -- good evening, president yee and supervisors. i want to show a picture of my

mother again, meter maid, grace murray, checker 111 back from 1975. i remember she'd work hard. nobody's perfect. she gave my father a ticket once, out at fisherman's wharf. she signed it with love. she gave george moscone a ticket at west portal. he was having an ice cream. i've got it on my wall. i told kriss moss tony about it, too. i'm going to ask him if he mentioned it when he came home. so i hope you're protecting yourselves from an earthquake because -- it -- shake, city, shake. shake, city, shake. in case there's a shake, city,

shake, in case there's a shake, rattle, and roll, i said shake, rattle, and roll, you've got to do something to save yourself from an earthquake, your soul. and cheers. here's a meteorite. they also say it could hit us, but it's a graphic right here. it's a very slim chance, but it brings me to my public comment. if i were the mayor of san francisco, i'd sure let you know i'd hold a meeting that i did all 'cause i'm stone in love with you. i did it all 'cause i'm stone in love with you.

>> president yee: thank you. next speaker. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm leslie, and i'm from district three -- or i reside in district three. the implementation of 5-g technology demands mass coverage throughout the city with wireless antennas. current nonindustry funded scientific studies absolutely show harm, biological harm from electromagnetic microwave radiation, which is wireless. the roll out of 5-g is in opposition to san francisco's precautionary principle. 5-g is harmful. the public must be allowed to continue to speak about any proposed site for antenna

installations. please rescind ordinance 190-19. there are cities in europe which are ae posing 5-g, and if you would please keep in mind that the f.c.c. is an industry -- f.c.c. is an agency that's protected by industry. so please, protect the city, not the industry. thank you so much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am speaking on behalf of the taxi medallion holders. [inaudible] >> and san francisco city government functional

hierarchy, enabled lyft to destroy taxi business. [inaudible] >> we have dedicated 25 years to san francisco public. you never allowed us work without medallions. more than 700 taxi medallion owner families turned into poverty by san francisco city government. we did not choose to buy it. s.f. forced us to buy. [inaudible] >> we are trying to kill two birds with one stone, like their job securities and products on the fronts. without funding money to us. but these aren't our concern. our concern is we want our money back.

our taxi business is down to 10%. we have no equal rights, something that is irregular, dishonest, conducted and never made corrections. why are you enforcing medallion loans? it is extortion -- [inaudible] >> -- no make your decision and notify us of our specific times of our money -- [inaudible] >> thank you. >> president yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon. we came here at 2:00. now it's at 5:00 p.m. -- no, 7:00, 7:10 and almost five hours, and i don't think i'm going to make any money today. but my expenses are still there. it's $100. $45 was the cab company.

they are not serving anything for me today, but i still owe them $45 today. bank gave me $250,000. i have to pay them $50 a day. but i request that you can smash the $45 i am paying on a daily basis. $20 goes to insurance, and that's fine, but the $20 to the cab company, what do they do for me? i look for my customers on the street, fisherman's wharf, or the airport. i wish that you would take that burden off of my back. you can do that. you are most intelligent people of san francisco. you are dancing the city on your fingertips, and we hope

that you can do the same thing to the sfmta. make them dance on your fingertips. give us our money make and find some other birds so you can give us our blood. let us go, pay us $250, and grab your new birds. thank you very much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, sir. my name is hachi, and i drive taxi cab since 1992, and i was living in sacramento, and i have -- i lose my business standing, but i have to still drive. i'm not able to drive taxi

anymore in the city of san francisco. sfmta, they promised to take medallion back. they're going to give us our money back when we're not able to drive, and i don't know how long they have to punish to us. thank you very much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is robert johnstone. i'm here to express my opposition to your recent 5-g lemgs latio legislation, but i would also like to voice my support for the taxi drivers. it sounds like they got a bum deal. so i appreciate supervisor mar

and supervisor peskin and supervisor mandelman for asking for new hearings. i will skip over my part of the statement about your betrayal of public trust, but for those of you who have tenants in your district, i want to tell you just what a bad actor verizon has been for years. verizon has never wittingly noticed a single tenant pursuant to article 25 ever. they claimed ridiculously that your legislation claimed they could notify owners or tenants but not both. the city attorney was aware of this, or at least the deputy city attorney was. i imagine the d.p.w. was, as well. to me, this just encapsulates

what's been wrong with this system. your recent legislation made this worse, so i hope you can make this better. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. audrey rume with new neighborhood council. i'll be brief. i just want to point out the san francisco's ordinance on precautionary principle and urge you to stop implementing this technology until we know better. here's what the precautionary principle of -- san francisco's precaution principle states. where sets up irreversible damage to people or life exists, damage or certainty to cause and effect hadshall not used -- [inaudible] >> so if this is a technology that we know so very little

about and implementing it in a city of 800,000 -- over 800,000 people could be catastrophic. so it's not too much to ask you to stop implementation until we have that data that tells us the health of the residents. and also, like the previous driv speaker, i think it's reasonable to pay the taxi drivers back the medallion many. i think in a city with $12 billion budget, we can afford to do something for these folks. >> good evening, supervisors. i urge you to proceed with caution and not rush into implement 5-g. many northern california cities have taken steps to protect their residents with respect to

the objective standards public works is proposing. the objective standards will lead to a pro-liferation of 4 and 5-g cell an tents with up to five antennas per pole and bulky boxes everywhere. in addition, fiberoptic wiring can go to homes and businesses instead of antennas and facilities of 4 and 5-g. rushing to promote 5-g standards will result in the loss of local government control, insight, and will have direct environmental impact. cities have traditionally negotiated with providers on issues like location, appearance, and size of wireless structures. these bills severely limit the ability of cities to ensure that infrastructure suits the

neighborhood around it and the ability of cities to decide whether or not to allow private use of public property at all. the f.c.c.s order requiring fixed rental rates for municip municipally owned poles and right-of-way forces taxpayers to subsidize private commercial development and violates the fifth and tenth amendment. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i'm sarah, a teacher at school district unified school

district. >> we are concerned that antennas will be located as close as 6 feet from a bedroom window. the process requires our city officials to not knowingly put the residents in harm's way. san francisco has flagrantly failed to enact its ordinance by allowing scientifically tested cell phone tours and antennas with clear evidence of d.n.a. damage and cancer. it was yesterday published, showing a definite increase in d.n.a. damage, such as the small cells that the ordinance

would be putting in front of children's high schools. lowell high school already has a small cell in front of it where parents pick up their children. one of my students waits underneath that cell tower every day and it just breaks my heart because this is an unknown, untested thing, personal wireless facility. they didn't even know what it was. so san francisco should be leading the way. so i'm going to -- ely marks from the california brain tumor association mentioned sacramento. she has a letter to you. she wrote small cells have been activated in areas of san francisco and los angeles -- >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. before i start, i just wanted to voice my support for the taxi drivers. i understand it's a very complex problem, and there's

not a clear solution yet, but it's something that should be given a lot of attention. that said, my name is ryan and i'm a third-year student at the university of san francisco. as future health care providers, we understand the great gap in care for those affected by mental health disorders. we'd like to acknowledge and support the efforts of budget and finance committee for the mental health program. in addition we're in support of sb 1045 which provides additional mental health services to san francisco's health population. however we would like to advocate for greater expansion for efforts to all members of the community. in addition, utilization and out come studies must be conducted in order to determine

additional unmet needs. our san francisco community is incredibly diverse. this form of response can be valuable at increasing the overall productivity and affected life of individuals. the consequences affect not only the patient but the community as a whole. thank you so much for your time as well as the opportunity to comment on this unmet need. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is kieran jackson. i'm a biology student at san francisco state university. i'm here to talk about the 5-g cell phone tower ordinance? there's not a lot i can say that hasn't been already said, but a fun fact -- or not so fun fact about the cell towers. recent health studies from

kaiser have revealed that exposure to magnetic fields in women have resulted in an in -- in pregnant women have resulted in an increased health risk. we're experiencing a lot of detrimental environmental effects that are not due to the cause of this generation and it's kind of been dumped on us from the previous generation? and i don't think that it's fair to do that and contribute to that with the 5-g cell phone towers for our babies in the future. thank you so much for your time. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i just wanted to talk about my personal experience with electromagnetic radiation. i'm an engineer. i moved to san francisco three

years ago. i started getting headaches, i started getting multiple headaches a few times a day. i lost hair and lost weight, and i didn't know what was happened. i happened to hear from a podcast at that time about e. m f. i also had arthritis in every joint of my body. i never got tired, but when i fell asleep, i would wake up with arthritis and hangover headache although i've never drank the night before. all this stuff went away when i turned the power off in my room, so i've become an avid activist as much as i can for e.m.f.s. and it's not that it hasn't been studies, there's thousands of studies showing effects. there's d.n.a. damage,

neurodegeneration, lower sperm count, causes cancers, insomnia, headaches, depression, fatigue. i've experienced a lot of these things, and i have to live in san francisco. i have to commute on b.a.r.t., and i do it while watching people watching videos on their cell phones, and i don't think i will be able to do that if it's 5-g. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. you know, have you thought about the safety hazard that's created by this medallion program? we're all working long hours, doing anything to meet our goal just to break even. it's pretty disgusting. really disgusting.

down right pathetic. the profit margin is pathetically low, and this medallion is not even worth $125,000 and we're paying $250,000 plus interest. pretty terrible. you know, as far as i'm concerned, the m.t.a. ended this sales program a long time ago when they chose not to lower the price and reimburse us the difference. this program has been dead for a long time. it's time to keep up your end of the bargain, and i say your because you guys are the city, and you guys are hand in hand with the m.t.a. in one way or the other. don't blow smoke up our you know what. please.

i'm sick of it. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. my name is marcelo fonseca. i've been a full-time taxi driver for 31 years. i take a lot of pride in what i do for a living. the rise of the medallion and ride share such as uber and lyft has brought great financial hardships to taxi drivers. medallions acquired through the waiting list are forced to drive until they drop dead, and medallions acquired through the medallion sales program are trapped with unpayable loans.

late mayor lee and the m.t.a. had to know that uber and lyft posed a great threat to all medallion holders in the taxi industry as a whole, and yet they carried out the program masterminded by gavin newsom. they made millions of dollars on the backs of drivers at the same time they welcomed unfair competition. we would not be here all these years if it was not for the investment we made in the medallion system. our careers and lives are being destroyed. the m.t.a. and the city of san francisco have failed us. so the city of san francisco and the m.t.a. have a moral, ethical, and very possibly a legal obligation to bail out the taxi industry.

i hope this board will look into this matter sooner rather than later. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is carolyn kahn. i live in potrero hill in san francisco, and i won't take a long time. i think you've heard a lot of eloquent statements with many facts. i happen to be a ph.d. cell biologist. i'm not going to go into it. you'll hear the facts at the next meeting. i'm very proud to live in san francisco and i support the liberal policies in this city. and i'm having a hard time understanding why just some of these cities have already not supported 5-g and are protecting their citizens and among them are berkeley,

piedmont, monterey county, lot altos, sabastopo -- sebastopol, and the list goes on. i think this is just an issue of greed. i think that, you know, many of us have cell phones. i haven't been anywhere in this city where i've not been able to use my cell phone, and i don't see the need for 5-g at all. i don't know that we canty it out, but i think you should really seriously consider the implications. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> oh, i enjoyed the obvious portability of the obvious pop up clinic proposed by supervisor mandelman,

particularly if it operates throughout the night. the 129 rescue wing of the california air national guard is based at moffat field. i'm wondering if -- and also whether there's an understanding with the news agencies as regards where they might be permitted or restricted from operating helicopters following a substantial earthquake or fire, and also have valves and certain specified pump stations been auto mated as recommended in a 2014 awss report produced by acom. they've estimated that property insurance homeowners might decline by $34 million annually, and collectively if you carried out all of their recommendations and lobbied for them alongside interest groups.

>> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, dear member supervisors. i did google for what we're going to be using tonight. i found one, we're hungry, that's correct. everybody's hungry. we're out here five hours. you, me, everybody's hungry. but the second work, m.t.a. promised along with san francisco credit union, we're going to help you make money when many of us are taxi drivers supposed to have our free medallion. i found the pilot program.

mr. lee, mr. -- all the member of this staff, sfmta, go into any company, brother, you're going to make money. you're going to be rich guy. you're going to make the kind of money you needed. well, what happened when the pilot program fail? they return the money. why are we waiting? please do something for return our money. thank you and good night. >> president yee: seeing no other speaker or -- public comment is now closed. madam clerk, i think we have one more item. can you call the adoption without committee reference calendar. >> clerk: yes. item 25 was adopted without reference to committee. a unanimous resolution is

required for passage today. >> clerk: i guess, why don't we just take roll. roll, please. >> clerk: on item 25 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are eight ayes. >> president yee: the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, please read the meemoriam. >> today's meeting will be

adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of annemarie garvin, mr. leslie michael silverman. for the late simon migdon. for the late reuben good man, richard e. stewart, and daphne dorman. >> president yee: okay, colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> president yee: we are adjourned. .

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interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month

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>> my family's starts in mexico in a small town. my parents are from a very, very small town. so small, that my dad's brother is married to one of my mom's sisters. it's that small. a lot of folks from that town are here in the city. like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. my dad came out here first. i think i was almost two-years-old when he sent for us. my mom and myself came out here. we moved to san francisco early on. in the mission district and moved out to daily city and bounced back to san francisco. we lived across the street from the ups building. for me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. when i was seven-years-old and i'm in charge of making sure we

get on the bus on time to get to school. i have to make sure that we do our homework. it's a lot of responsibility for a kid. the weekends were always for family. we used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new mission theater and then afterwards going to kentucky fried chicken. that was big for us. we get kentucky fried chicken on sunday. whoa! go crazy! so for me, home is having something where you are all together. whether it's just together for dinner or whether it's together for breakfast or sharing a special moment at the holidays. whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or birthdays. that is home. being so close to berkley and oakland and san francisco, there's a line. here you don't see a line. even though you see someone that's different from you,

they're equal. you've always seen that. a rainbow of colors, a ryan bow of personalities. when you think about it you are supposed to be protecting the kids. they have dreams. they have aspirations. they have goals. and you are take that away from them. right now, the price is a hard fight. they're determined. i mean, these kids, you have to applaud them. their heart is in the right place. there's hope. i mean, out here with the things changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless because they're scared.streets.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and

meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i

african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no

standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current

administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants (fireworks) later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy

new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and giv

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>> 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