local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ] >> are we ready? okay. five, four, three, two, one. here we go -- whoops. roll it. [applause] >> the hon. lond >> the hon. london breed: it is

trans awareness month in san francisco. just have a seat and ignore the reserved seats signs because everybody for the reserved seats signs are probably behind me. happy trans awareness week in san francisco. we need to do it bigger. let's do a month, and this is where we are, celebrating so many amazing things, so many amazing accomplishments. but we also know, sadly, that our trans community all over the country is under attack. just recently, sadly, we shouldn't be surprised, but the president has rolled out some new discriminatory plan against

our trans community, trying to take away millions of dollars of federal funds from our cities throughout the country. and we are of course, in san francisco style, going to continue to fight back time and time again against the discrimination that continues to attract -- attack our trans community here in this city. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: we understand, more than anyplace else, despite the differences that we may have, that our diversity is our strength. that is what makes san francisco such an incredible, unique place. and i'm proud that every single time this president tries to put forth a discriminatory policy, we come back harder and badder than ever with more investment, with more policy changes, with a new approach to

doing things. the fact is this didn't happen because of us, it happened because of you. it happened because we have incredible leader like senator scott wiener and supervisor rafael mandelman who continue to lead the charge. it happens because of people who make sure we are making the right investment. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: now more than ever, we have to be bold, and i want to really thank mickey callahan for being here. because when i put out the forms last year to make the training and initiatives and other things possible so that people who work for the city and county of san francisco can have the appropriate training to work with our trans community, that we make changes to our documents so people can

choose whatever they want to identify with on our forms in the city, she was a leader in moving forth that effort, so thank you, mickey, for being here to celebrate with us today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: but i will tell you, one of the proudest things that i think san francisco has done is to put forth not only millions of dollars of investments in organizations that not only serve our community, but trans home sf will really be a game changer for our community when it comes to supportive housing. we see, saddly, that our trans community is 18 times more likely to experience

homelessness than any other population in the city, so we have to be deliberate about the investments that we make to make sure that we change that. and so thank you so much for all of your work and advocacy. when i first became mayor, and we had that initial meeting, we talked about -- tony, you remember -- not just housing and homelessness, but investment in the arts, investment in resources to make sure that we as a city aren't just talking about what we support, we're putting our money where our mouth is, and we've seen record numbers of investments. i'm excited about the future of san francisco, and i'm excited to be here with each and every one of you today, and yes, i wore the deliberate colors of the flag. i wore my pink on my shoes and

my white on my ears to let you know how proud i am to be here in san francisco at this moment, celebrating a resilient community, one that represents san francisco so well in how we continue to push the envelope on policies that really not only support this community but support all communities that continue to be left out of what prosperity should be for all citizens of this city. and so i want to thank you all for continuing to shine a light on issues of equity that need to be addressed in san francisco, and i want to really thank claire for her leadership and her hard work and commitment. and i also want to acknowledge that we have other elected officials here today to support this incredible occasion. thank you so supervisor matt haney for joining us as well as treasurer jose cisneros.

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only funding trans programs, but that we're doing it in an equitable way. so you know, san francisco has really had a long history of championing the community, and

we've been a beacon of hope. so this morning, when i was thinking about what i wanted to share -- it wasn't that -- i was reminded of a quote by robert f. kennedy that says each time we're asked to standup for an ideal or strike out against injustice, we send forth a tiny ripple of hope. and i see that san francisco in these times where folks are under attack, black folks are under attack, immigrants are under attack, trans folks, lgbtq folks are under attack, san francisco can be a beacon of hope. so if we want to have better investments, it starts with recognizing and creating awareness. so we kick off this month filled with wonderful events.

we have the amazing trans film festival, spear headed by shawnna that's been a prominent fixture in our city, and we'll get to hear from her today. we also get to kick off our trans home, which is a $2.3 million investment in our community, which will include rental housing and subsidy for our community. [applause] >> and also through the leadership of supervisor mandelman, we'll be doing the board of supervisors first trans leaders recognition and accommodation day this month through city hall. and lastly, you know, there's a lot of events to share, so i won't go into all the detail. but we have our trans day of remembrance, which, you know, is often a very sad day. this year specifically, we've lost more and more black trans

women. i know for many of us in this room, we've been going to these events year after year, and we continue to see the same challenges. so today, i want to commit my office, with the support of the mayor, to really focus on how we can end violence in our communities. we are grateful that san francisco has done incredible work on this, but we know that we need to do more. and as we look out to the rest of the country where we continue to see such loss of life, it's important that we remember that we can be that change. so as we move forward, i really want to recognize, and i'll bring her up later, nicky colma, who's been leading the charge. nicky? [applause] >> wow. i have a lot of notes here. i don't know how i thought i'd get through them all.

you know, so as the mayor mentioned today, trump again came out against lgbt health care. it seems like he has something against fridays and trans people. it's like every friday, there's something else. and so i just want to remind folks, because i think this can be a scary time, that outside of even november, that san francisco and california will continue to protect our community. and so regardless of what happens in washington, you will be protected. we will stand together, and we will make change together. [applause] >> so in closing, you know, i really want to encourage us all to get involved and encourage our allies to be a part of this change. we know that being open about your love and respect and value of trans co-workers and friends and partners is key to shifting

the landscape of violence that our community faces, and that also starts with policy and our elected officials. so as kennedy said, we'll move forward with a ripple of hope, and i hope today is just one moment of that, and i really appreciate you all for being here. and with that, i would love to introduce our first speaker who's going to share a little bit more about our trans home and has been a leader of change, miss tony newman from st. james infirmary. [applause] >> i am so excited to be here. i wrote a book in 2011 called "i rise," and it was in mind that transgender people can get power and rise. and i see that san francisco is the only city in the country who's financially supported trans home and safety and housing, and that deserves a

round of applause. [applause] >> i would like to thank mayor breed for your support, the supervisors for their support, especially rafael and matt. matt has been very supportive to st. james, and we're thankful to him. and i would like to thank larkin and their team. i want to announce that we've hired the trans home team. the social worker is matthew peda. would you stand, please? [applause] >> the housing navigator is camden carter. [applause] >> my bilingual navigator is jessie santos. [applause] >> we're also in touch with john mckinley, who's the housing project manager at t

t.g.i. justice manager project. we can help you immediately or with your own apartment. we're here to serve you with the community, so come to st. james starting december 1. we're not quite ready. we have to train these folks. they just got hired yesterday, so come to st. james starting december 1 with your needs, and we will do the very best we can to serve you in the capacity as your ambassadors. thank you. [applause] >> are we ready to get our community housed? yes. i also want to do a shout-out to aria saheed who's leading our cultural district. aria, thank you for all of your work. so next, we're going to move on, and it's my honor to

introduce someone who was in the office and has been leading the charge in trans and lgbt policy on the state level, our state senator, scott wiener. >> thank you, claire. i also want to acknowledge aria saheed who we honored as our district 11 woman of the year, so thank you, aria, for all you do. you know, we've made a lot of progress, and we tend to focus on the challenge because it's important, and we have to overcome them, but sometimes we need to step back and recognize where we've been. in 2011 when mark leno authored the program to extend health

care to trans people, it was lambasted by fox news. fast forward to 2012, when we were able to get health care to extend full coverage to trans people in san francisco. we braced ourselves for this explosion, and you could have had a pin drop. that's just in a decade. that shift was extraordinary. but we know there's still huge challenges around poverty and unemployment and homelessness and around the violence. and the epidemic of trans people and particularly trans women of color who are being brutally murdered all across the country and living in fear. and people should not be in fear to walk down the street, and yes that is the atmosphere that we have for so many trans people in this country, and that is unacceptable. and you have to call out the

elephant in the program. part of the problem is there is lack of trust in the criminal justice system in the trans community, and it is well earned mistrust, and we have to change that. and this year, we were able to pass legislation, and i want to thank toni and st. james infirmary for sponsoring it, to provide that when a sex worker is reporting a violent crime, they can't be arrested for sex work, because -- [applause] >> -- when we talk about keeping people safe, and keeping trans people safe, the last thing we want is if i go to report i was being assaulted, raped, or kidnapped, or i saw someone getting

assaulted, raped, or kidnapped, that they're afraid to report it, that creates a community of fear. we're working to pass legislation to ensure that trans people who are incarcerated. that if they choose, they can be incarcerated and housed in the housing that they choose, not their birth gender. we're going to continue to work -- i want to thank the amazing trans leaders who make all of the work we do in city hall and in the capitol possible. and the fine -- another challenge i want to leave you with is we need to help elevate more trans people into high leadership in this society.

[applause] >> i would never have thought that we still would not have a transgender member of the board of supervisors. we have never had a trans state legislator in california, but we might change that. so i know we have a lot of work to do, but thank you, everyone. [applause] >> so speaking of leadership, i want to recognize my team. we're a small and mighty team. hal craigo and mateo pearson. we're also taking on a training officer to train all our departments. i know it's only one person, but we're going to do our best.

i also want to recognize our amazing trans advisory committee who advises our office as well as the mayor. to our trans advisory committee members, if you could raise your hands. give a little love to them. [applause] >> thank you so much for your leadership. so now, it's my honor to introduce someone who's been doing incredible work both as a director of community health projects, formerly a.p.i. wellness center, but also leading the charge for trans day of remembrance, trans march, trans visibility day. i don't know how she has the energy she has, but please welcome nicky colma. >> thank you, claire. good afternoon, everyone. my name is nicky colma, and i work for the san francisco health center, formerly known as the agency a.p.i. wellness

center, and i oversee our programs and community engagement of the organization. so i'm very honored to be here with everybody and speaking here, you know? i came to san francisco in 1989, and i was right behind mark leno when they were doing all those initiatives to -- to give health care for all the city employees. and i wasn't wearing glasses then, and now i'm wearing glasses coming back here. so -- but i just wanted to let you all know what's going on, the contribution that we're doing. you know, i've been doing a lot of events for my community, and this one -- this one event is something that every time it comes near, i always have to think about if i want to really spearhead it and make sure that it's happening because i think it's something that we just don't want to have it anymore,

you know? it's the transgender day of remembrance, and for many of those who don't know, the transgender day of remembrance started in 1989 by transgender advocate gwendolyn smith to honor the memory of her friend, rita hester, who was killed in 1988. and this day is to remember those who we have lost. sadly, across the country, in 2019, we have seen 22 transgender people shot or killed by violent means. 22 people of color or transgender african american

women. the body of b. love slater, 23 years old, a trans woman of color, was found on august 23. her body was badly burned, and she had to be identified with dental records. this hasn't stopped. so i would like to invite all of you to join us this coming november 20. it's going to be a city event. we have a march from city hall to u.c. hastings, where we held it last year, as well. it's going to be at 5:30 to 6:00 for the march and a celebration at 6:00 at u.c. hastings. and i would like to invite folks to come to our annual trans giving event.

i think it's official that san francisco was the very first city that had a drop-in center for the transgender community, and that was trans pride, so that was trans at that time. and we do this wonderful brunch for our community on thanksgiving day itself from 11:00 to 2:00, and we'd love to see folks who could like to serve or like to help out or just, you know, talk with all the clients that we have at trans tribe. i'd like to also mention the trans pride board is here, who we just brought somebody new on board, our president, carol and anjalie. we're going to rock s.f. pride and make sure we are there, so everybody, thank you so much. [applause] >> so before we continue, i

would love to just take a moment of silence and really honor all those folks that nicky mentioned that we've lost this year. now, i'd like to thank tom horn for helping us make this event happen. it would not happen without his leadership and support. standup, tom. okay. [applause] >> he doesn't like the attention. and charlotte, too. thank you so much for your ongoing support and work. these events are done with love, and it takes resources to make them happen, so thank you so much. so speaking of resources, we have a huge champion for our community and our lgbt community.

our district 8 supervisor, and the only out lgbt member on the board. please welcome supervisor raphael mandelman. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you claire. and as others have said, thank you so much for the extraordinary work that you and your office do. and thank you, tom horn. the mayor was whispering to me before we started that tom horn always comes through. thank you. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: i guess i'll begin where senator wiener finished, in that harvey milk knew how important queer representation is, how important it was for people to come out, and for people to be elected and serve. i think i had said at other events i look forward to the day when i am speaking after a

trans elected supervisor. we need to do that, and it will happen soon. we have other queer people who are serving on school boards and other places, tom temprano and mark sanchez. since we're quoting great elected american officials from decades ago, i often think about hubert humphreys quote, about the three groups of american citizens. in san francisco our actually in the united states in 2019, i think the moral test of our queer community and certainly here in san francisco, the moral test of our community is how we treat our trans

community. and until recently, i think we all know -- and continuing to this day, by that measure, we are failing, and we have failed. but i do want to thank this mayor, london breed, for the focus she has brought to the trans community and the unprecedented achievements she has made, but we need to do more. these shelters particularly around homeless and the workforce events we are doing is so important to this community. but we need to do these things not because the trans community is in need but because the trans community is our strength. certainly as queer people, we know our movement began with trans folks. the reason that donald trump finds repeated reasons to attack the trans community is

because the trans community is everything that donald trump is not. and ultimately, donald trump will lose, but every single trans person in this country presents a fundamental threat to what donald trump is all about. so the future is trans if we're lucky and if we work for it, which i know we're going to do. have a fantastic month, everybody. [applause] >> wow. the future is trans, and for now, we'll start with a month, but -- so i also wanted -- we have one more speaker, but i want to recognize our lgbt commissioners, and our department heads. if folks could wave. i see you back there, naya, being all shy. [applause] when we talk about pathways to leadership, the supervisor spoke, they're a great way to

be on one. so come talk to me. it's my pleasure to introduce two people that have been doing incredible work in the arts, shawnna veraga and shawn dorsey have been leading the way for the trans festival and the fresh meat festival every year. and last week, shawn, who's on our trans committee, met with the mayor about the need to preserve trans art in our city. we come to san francisco with the hope to be able to share that with the rest of the city. and with so many of us displaced, it's really important that we invest in art so that we not only remember our history but that we preserve the stories and art that make our community so important.

so with that, please welcome shawnna veraga and shawn dorsey. [applause] >> excuse me. i -- i can't right now. speaking to the mayor. okay. bye-bye. hi, everybody. my name is shawnna verago. i'm the artistic director of the san francisco transgender film festival, and i'm so honored to be here today. i'm so grateful to be here today. i came out in the 1980's, and so when i go to trans events, whether it's the san francisco transgender film festival or fresh meat or anywhere else where a lot of trans people gather, i'm usually the only person from my generation of

friends that's still alive because of suicide, hiv/aids, poverty, murder. and so i feel very driven to continue our battles and our -- and our fight against our avowed enemy. you know, it's interesting because i'm primarily an artist, and i'm been thrust into being an activist. and i've heard so much inspirational wisdom here today, and i would like to thank -- i have a long list of gratitudes, but i do want to thank senator scott wiener, supervisor mandelman, everyone at the office of transgender initiatives, and especially the mayor's office and mayor breed for helping us continue to thrive, to increase our budget.

we -- when we started, we -- one of the codirectors had a credit card, and that's how we were able to rent the theater. we applied for years to get grants. we couldn't get a grant to save our lives. and so through grit, through punk rock toughness, really, we managed to survive since 1997. and we're the longest running transgender film festival in the world. and we started here. we started in the mission district. we've screened over 300 films since that time, and i do think, as we know, our communities are under attack, but that the san francisco transgender film festival, i think we kind of all have to know what our expertise and our lane is. and i think there's these political geniuses behind me.

but we need to change the narrative of how we're viewed in our culture. and i think we've proven since we have been here since 1997 that trans people won't be silenced, we won't be erased, and we're going to continue the fight through the arts, so thank you very much. [applause] >> hello, everyone. i just want to add -- i don't know if you shared that the trans film festival was founded at the world's first trans film festival, so i feel like we should give ourselves a round of applause. hello. i'm shawn dorsey, and i'm the director and founder of the fresh meat festival.

we're all about investing in the creative expression and cultur cultural community in the trans community. right now, i want to invite all of us to take part in a creative expression exercise. so i want everyone to please repeat after me. i love trans people. [repeating] >> except say it like you're not so sad about. i love trans people! i love gender nonconforming people! and as we talk about the continued genocide and murder of black trans women, that's an equation. so the other side of that equation is please repeat after

me. i will invest in the well-being and leadership of black trans women. i love trans people! [cheers and applause] >> thank you all so much. please -- yes, check out our work and please come to the san francisco transgender film festival next week. it's thursday through sunday. sftfs.org. two programs are closed captioned and a.s.l. interpreted. no one turned away for lack of funds, so please join us. thank you so much. [applause] >> so it's almost that time for drinks and food. i'm sure you're all ready for

it. it's friday, but i also want to recognize honey mahogany from the dccc and supervisor haney's office and ana deyano and her team. [applause] >> so as we move forward, as i mentioned, we need to continue to prioritize communities that are impacted in our city and beyond. and the mayor has taken leadership and really supported mental health and housing four -- for people in our city, and that includes the trans community. and over the last year, we've lost so many to suicide. so it's really important we reach out for help, we see each other in our community because you are loved, as shawn said. we want to continue to be a part of a community that

continues to grow. and as i said, have a great trans month of awareness. yes, drinks. let's get drinks. [music] >> san francisco city clinic provides a broad range of sexual health services from stephanie tran medical director at san francisco city clinic.

we are here to provide easy access to conference of low-cost culturally sensitive sexual health services and to everyone who walks through our door. so we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. we also provide hiv screening we provide hiv treatment for people living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them health benefits and rage into conference of primary care. we also provide both pre-nd post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of women's reproductive health services including contraception, emergency contraception. sometimes known as plan b. pap smears and [inaudible]. we are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. weight buries a lip it could be the

first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. there are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. in general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. >> my name is yvonne piper on the nurse practitioner here at sf city clinic. he was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. the first time i got treated for [inaudible]. i walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome i'm chad redden and anna client of city clinic >> even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. at that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. there's been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. there were some public health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco.

>> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. plus prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. recommended both by the cdc, center for disease control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. >> i actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. i'm currently on prep. i do prep through city clinic. you know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly

recommend prep >> a lot of patients inclined to think that there's no way they could afford to pay for prep. we really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. we find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so it's affordable for them. >> if you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. we have two different clinics going on at that time. when is women's health services. people can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. we also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. he was city clinic has been like home to me. i been coming here since 2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know

was very helpful. so i [inaudible] hiv care with their health >> about a quarter of our patients are women. the rest, 75% are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. a small percent about 1% of our clients, identify as transgender. >> we ask at the front for $25 fee for services but we don't turn anyone away for funds. we also work with outside it's going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. >> i get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. accessibility to the clinic was very easy. you can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. i feel i'm taken care of and i'm been supportive.

>> all the information were collecting here is kept confidential. so this means we can't release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a sexual health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. >> trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. and in healthcare. hiv and std rates in san francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. so we really try to make city clinic a place that strands-friendly trance competent and trans-welcoming >> everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. they are friendly good for me being a sex worker, i've gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they weren't competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life

that i do. i have been coming here for seven years. when i come here i know they my services are going to be met. to be confidential but i don't have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less >> a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. we have some testing with you on site. so all of our samples we collect here. including blood draws. we sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. then we have a few test we do run on site. so those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. people get those results the same day of their visit. >> i think it's important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you

can come to. >> on-site we have condoms as well as depo-provera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. we can prescribe other forms of contraception. pills, a patch and rain. we provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in san francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a state-funded program called family pack. pap smears are the recommendation-recommended screening test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. we do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. we might be understaffed

that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf city clinic.working there's a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >> >>

>> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and

others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden

tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would

stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪] [♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at

gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website >> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. buying your first home is a big deal. for many of us, it's the single largest asset that we'll own. that's why it's really important to plan ahead for property taxes so that there are no surprises. a typical question new homeowners ask is what is a supplemental tax.

so understand supplemental tax, we need to start with proposition 13. under california's prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to a 2% growth peryear, but when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we set a properties assessed value to market value. the difference in value between the previous owner's value and the new value is the supplemental assessment. how does the supplemental assessment translate to the tax you need to pay? supplemental tax is calculated by applying the tax rate to the value and then prorating it for the amount of time that you owned it in that tax year. in generale, the tax rate is roughly 1%. let's walk-through an example together. here dan is the original owner of a home with a prop 13 protected value of $400,000. with a tax rate of 1%, he pays $4,000. dan sells his home to jennie at

a market rate of $700,000. in this case, jennie's home will be reassessed to $700,000, and jennie is responsible for paying property taxes at that level from the time she first owns it. many times, people might have already paid their property taxes in full by the time they sell their home. in that case, dan has paid $4,000 in taxes already for the full year. jennie would likely payback dan through escrow for her share of the $4,000, depending on the proportion of the tax year she owns the home. however, she's also responsible for paying taxes at the higher market value from when she begins to own the home. how does that work? let's say jennie owns the property for nine months of the first tax year, which is approximately 75% of the year. during the escrow process, she'd pay dan back 75% of the $4,000 he already paid, which is $3,000. on top of that, she would owe taxes at the higher rate for

the proportion of the year she owned the house. in this case, she owes the amount not already billed through dan or $700,000 minus $400,000, multiplied by a tax rate of 1%, and multiplied again by 75% to reflect the time she owned the home in that tax year. here, jennie's supplemental tax is roughly $2,250. going forward, jennie will be billed at her new reset prop 13 value. are you still with us? if this isn't complicated enough, some new owners might receive two supplemental tax bills, and this has to do with the date that you transfer property. but before we get to that, you first need to understand two concepts. first, what is a fiscal year? in california, local government runs on a fiscal year. unlike the calendar year, where the year begins on january 1, a fiscal year begins in the

middle of the year, on july 1. property tax follows the fiscal year cycle. second, state law requires property be valued as of january 1 every year, in other words, new year's day. the value as of january 1 is used to calculate property taxes for the upcoming fiscal year. this means property value as of january 1, 2018 will be usedtor fiscal year 18 -- used for fiscal year 18-19 covering july 2018 through june 2019. similarly, the value of january 1, 2019 will be used for the fiscal year covering july 2019 through june 2020. now back to whether you should expect to receive one or two supplemental tax bills. the rule of thumb is that if the property transfers happens in the first half of the fiscal year, in other words between july and december, then you should expect only one supplemental tax fill.

if the transfer happens in the second half of the fiscal year or between january and june, you should expect two supplemental tax bills. here's the reason why. using dan and jennie's example again, dan's $400,000 value as of january 1 is used to set the tax bill for the following fiscal year beginning july through june of the next year. jennie buys the property from dan in october. the taxable value is reset to $700,000 as of october, but the bill issued still reflects dan's lower value. in this case, jennie would expect to receive one supplemental or catch-up bill to capture the difference between her assessed value and began's fr began's -- dan's from october through june. because of january 1 we already know of the sale, we would have used the following year to set jennie's property taxes and no other supplemental bill should be received. however, if dan sells the property to jennie in march,

instead, jennie should expect two supplemental bills. like before, jennie would receive one supplemental bill to cover the time in which she owned the home in the current tax year from march to june. but because as of the next january used to set the tax base for the following tax year, dan still owned the home, the following year's entire bill still reflects the values not updated for jennie. in this instance, jennie receives a second supplemental for the following year covering july through june. after the supplemental tax bills, new owners should receive only one regular tax bill peryear going forward. remember our office values the properties, but billing and collections are handled by another organization called the treasurer and tax collector's office. if you'd like to learn more, please visit our website at sfassessor.org. thank you for watching.

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