whether we shouldn't jay walk, we should use the intersection, the pedestrian crossing, and we shouldn't pass in front of a car that's coming because if it hits us, the pedestrian, you know, is is ysusceptible to in. you know, it's common sense, and we just need to work together on this. i just thought of the word law enforcement. it's a tough term, i think -- i think myself. i think of police as having a roll in our society. the u.s. has a huge prison population relative to the entire population of the country. that indicates that there's something -- something wrong and it needs to be addressed. we live -- we all need to live in a far more civil society. thank you. >> president yee: thank you.

next speaker. hell hello, -- >> hello, supervisor. i love all of you, but i came in late as i always do about that trans -- i am so sick and tired about being confused as a transgender, and at least once a month, i get my ass beat like a man, and i'm sick of it. and most of the time, it's by some male security that works for somebody, and like i tell them, you need to get a female. what we need is more females that are put in security positions so that when they're interacting with a female, they can just say come on, ma'am. and i just had to do it today with lutheran social services, and i'm going to leave it at that because i feel like i have a relationship and an open-door policy with some of you all's offices, but some of you need to get some candy.

thank you. >> president yee: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my condolences to supervisor safai. i hope he rests in peace, your father. we sat down with kate teran. we're told she cannot do a buy back, that that's above her. who's above the m.t.a.? the s.f. board of supervisors, m.t.a., and mayors, past mayors are guilty. it's malfeasance. it's harmful act, contrary to the law, wrongful, used

especially in violation of public trust. i cannot go visit my family for thanksgiving because i have this medallion payment strangling me. how long are we going to delay? how long are we going to wait? happy thanksgiving. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> my name isally geller from walk san francisco and on behalf of walk san francisco, we offer our condolences to supervisor safai. we are very grateful to the board of supervisors for taking a strong stance for our city's children today. united nation's convention on the rights of a child offer a holistic way of san francisco strengthening ways of caring for our children. in order for san francisco to be a truly child friendly city,

we want to be sure that we're creating safe streets for walking, biking, scooting, and playing for all children in every neighborhood. if we all work quickly toward this vision, we will all benefit every age and every ability. child friendly streets will benefit all our lives and our communities, and it will set our city apart in the best possible way and lead other cities to follow. thank you all. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is nick pasquariello. i'm delivering you a letter from the californians association of retired americans. this is to every member of the board of supervisors and to every member of the library

commission. dear mary wordwell. the san francisco public library recently made major changes in its core borrowing procedures that adversely affects its most vulnerable population, seniors, low-income and disabled library users. in mid-september without any prior notice, the san francisco library eliminated public notices which let library users know which materials they requested are available for pick up at branchs. these notices greatly encourage borrowing of library materials. without them it's impossible for thousands of library users without internet access to use the library premises. the latest report reports that 300,000 san franciscans do not have internet access from their homes, including me. in making this decision, the

library staff did not take into account this block of library users. they presumed all users have internet access which would allow them to receive notices via the internet. they did not take into effect all of these san franciscans who have no way of placing materials on hold for pick up. this greatly disadvantages 138,000 patrons from using the library. quite simply, if a patron cannot know if a book is available, they will likely not use the library. this action by the library violates its public obligation to serve all users equally and at the same level of service. it may also violate -- thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> i came today -- linda chapman from knob hill.

-- nob hill. i came today to represent the poor people of san francisco. when i saw the flier at an interfaith event, and the huge page of national support from fack, tea facebook, tears came to my eyes. so you know, carr is getting tgetting -- cair is getting the word out. this is where i left off when i went to resurrected city, when i had the honor of my life of working in president johnson's poor people campaign and helping organize a local

version of george wright's campaign. and then in the 60s, we lost all the voices -- the important voices. bobbie kennedy, martin luther king, and humphrey, and a few years later, george wiley. i came back to san francisco expected to devote my life to this kind of thing here, and everybody was off on the environment. and then, on the groups of, you know, affirmative action for women and for black people, and chicanos. well, my job in the federal service was affirmative action. but to see, forgetting poverty, poor people, the democrats turned their back on it after that. i only here middle classes mentioned once in a while, we must -- you cannot imagine unless you're lived in those -- you've lived in those

circumstances -- >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> clerk: yes. we'll come and pick that up. thank you. yes, please. thank you. [speaking spanish language]

>> clerk: ma'am, are you translating for you? >> sorry. let me get her notes. >> clerk: oh, sure. let me pause your time. >> hi. my name is sylvia, and i am here supporting the resolution in favor of asylum because i think that all humans deserve respect and to be treated well and they deserve protection from violence. thank you to all of the supervisors that supported this resolution. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [speaking spanish language]

>> hi. my name is wendy cortez, and i am here to raise my voice. [speaking spanish language] >> -- for all of those who have threats because of their -- because of violence and discrimination. [speaking spanish language] >> there's a lot of women and children who die because they don't have anywhere to flee to. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker.

>> hello. i'm also here to speak in support of supervisor ronen's proposed resolution affirming san francisco's commitment to its asylum seeking residents and we're so grateful for the supervisor's support and the resolution of the cosponsors. i'm here from the center for gender and refugee studies and as attorneys we're fighting to overturn this ruling in the courts. every day, we're seeing the devastating impact it's having on asylum seeking women, children, and families. we face a steep uphill battle, but no matter who's in the white house, the u.s. government must continue to uphold its moral and legal obligations and provide every asylum seeker to present their case before a judge.

we know that litigation victories alone do not create lasting change, and we know from our experience that real change will require a ground swell of public support for the communities we serve, and it is our hope that by advancing resolutions like this one and in welcoming cities like san francisco to help us support asylum seekers, that will allow us to get the victories that we need and to allow our next administration to restoring justice to our asylum system a priority. i did mention this morning, a similar resolution is before the los angeles county board of supervisors, and it passed unanimously and we're hoping that san francisco can do the same today. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is maria adrena and i work for san francisco recreation and parks

department. i am here to thank you on behalf of recreation and parks and san francisco children and nature for adoption the resolution of the u.n. convention of the rights of the child. rights of the child work to address the disparities along socioeconomic and racial lines to ensure all the children have the opportunity to play, learn, and grow in nature. time in nature vershas been significantly proven to improve all aspects of development, including the decrease of negative emotions such as anger, if a seeifatigue, and s and the growth of creation, confidence, and more. on october 18, 2014, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously endorsed the community based effort to establish the san francisco

children's outdoor bill of rights proclaiming every san franciscan child has the right to feel safe in the outdoors, to play anyplace in the city, to play in the sand and mud, and to steep under the stars -- sleep under the stars, just to name a few. in 2016, san francisco became a member of the national initiative, and today, with the adoption of this resolution, san francisco continues to recognize its ongoing commitment for the rights of children including their rights to experience sustainable childhoods. thank you for your ongoing commitment and vision for a child friendly city that includes accessibility to nature and kid friendly programming. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [speaking spanish language]

>> hi. my name is juana florez. i'm here in support of the resolution for asylum. we want to thank hillary ronen and all the supervisors who are cosponsoring this resolution because we believe that the right to asylum is a human right. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is lourdes martinez, and i just wanted to share with all of you a message that we gave down stairs during the press conference. that we at mujeres thinks that

this begins with justice and the healing of our immigrant community begins with accompaniment. a sister of mine who will speak in a moment spoke of a great success that we saw in immigration court due to accompaniment, and our resolution is a great example of this accompaniment that helps the heelialing of many wn that are arriving here in san francisco only to face the hate of the trump administration. we encourage you to stay connected to this movement and hopefully, we will eventually overturn what the trump administration has done and, you know, win asylum protection for women fleeing gender-based violence. thank you. >> president yee: thank you.

next speaker. >> hi. i'm sophia manjares, and i want to thank hillary ronen. as we know, asylum is a human right, and we hope that san francisco continues to be a trailblazer for other cities so that we can see changes at the federal level. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. last night, i went to a screening of a great film called last man in san francisco. showed the impact of gentrification and how it destroys communities. san francisco is destroying its soul by pushing out the locals in this city. we need to protect our culture and make sure we don't lose anymore artists in the culture that makes our city so wonderful to live in. on a separate note, there's not

enough trash cans between 25 and 26 on south vanness in district 9, and we would like to request more trash cans as ones have been recently removed. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is lilia montecitos. as an immigrant survivor of domestic violence, i support the asylum resolution because it protected human life. it was a long road to get my freedom back. the city lacks of support for victims of domestic violence. let's take a step to help those who need it. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [speaking spanish language]

>> my name is ana delgado, and earlier during the president conferen -- press conference, i had the opportunity to show the testimony of one of the members where we had the opportunity to take her to court where the judge shared she did not qualify for conventional asylum. [speaking spanish language]

>> unfortunately, it's complicated because she was eventually granted humanitarian asylum but unfortunately that

was because of the severity of the three years of abuse that she endured, physical, emotional, sexual. and unfortunately, she survived, but the thing is, it's not just -- when we leave our countries, it's not just the violence that we experience when we leave those countries, it's not just the violence of crossing through the multiple borders a lot of times, and it's not just, like, the violence of the yeleras, the ice boxes, as they call them, so there has to be relief at some point. [speaking spanish language] >> and that's why we're passing -- we're grateful for your support in trying to pass

this resolution. this is all our grain of sand, right? and we look forward to helping push this in other cities, as well, sacramento, alameda, oakland, washington, everywhere. so, you know, we're just starting with our grain of sand but hoping it gets a lot bigger. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [speaking spanish language]

>> hello. my name is dora ramirez. i'm with muja, and i am to

share with you guys. i'm from guatemala, i'm recently arrived, and i'm asking your support with this resolution because a lot of times when we're recently arrived, it's very difficult. a lot of doors are closed in our faces, and that's why it's very important for me to be able to make these connections with muja to be able to receive the support that i receive by ask you guys to support in the ways that you can, which is with this resolution. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> following me, i want to say i feel a little odd when i'm the largest stature person in the room. i'm not of large stature. the events of the last few

days, i just want to commend this board as a general thing. i know that the typical political career is not particularly long. the most -- the meeting one. some of them are quite long, but the meeting one is not, and i want to -- whatever changes are coming to this board, i want to thank the people here. i think all of your parents should be proud of you. there's been kind of a civility with this board. it started with mayor ed lee, and it went through mayor london breed, and it's through to the current board. and i hope it continues, and i want to thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i i'm edward with the original equity group. i just want to extend my condolences to supervisor safai on the loss of his father.

normally, i stay in my lane when it comes to cannabis equity, but i do want to say i was disappointed with the appointment of susan diamond to the cannabis commission. >> clerk: sir, excuse me. i'm pausing your time. that item was addressed at committee, so you cannot speak about miss diamond. >> okay. i'll move on. the vacancy tax that wasn't spoken about today, i'm not in support or opposition for. the fund that's going towards small businesses, i do want to see that fund split between the office of cannabis's community reinvestment fund, which is still waiting to be funded since 2018. again, equity applicants are verified most vulnerable business population that we have here in san francisco, and i know this is not an urgent matter for the board, but i

would like to see that amendment in the vacancy tax. i do want to congratulate the board for passing item 39. there are some changes i would like to see, but i'll take those comments offline. again, thanks for your time. >> president yee: thank you. any other public comments? seeing none -- okay. come on up. if there's anybody else, please lineup, otherwise, there will be the last one. >> well, with the new d.a., we're definitely running into a situation. i believe there'll probably be

an uptick in tent encampments and public urination. i'm wondering what does your police department choose to do about it and what this body chooses to do about it? ultimately, i would request that you create more infrastructure and more legal infrastructure. the other thing i'm concerned about is your navigation centers. it seems like they're violating the laws that this body has created. let me see if i can pull this picture up. thank you go to this picture? if you look in the middle upper, i believe that device is a camera in people's sleeping area.

i'm wondering, in what legal area is any of that even legal. do i have a right to put a camera in any of your bathrooms or bedrooms, and why is a contractor being allowed to deal with this? this image right here, this is also your navigation center. this is a very clear violation of your laws about bedding and -- and spatial. the jails that i've been in, they provide more space between individuals, so you have this problem. the other problem is the jeff

kozinski reports -- >> president yee: thank you very much. okay. this concludes public comment. okay. madam clerk, please call the for adoption without committee reference calendar item. >> clerk: items 53 through 63 were introduced without reference to committee. a unanimous vote is required for resolutions. alternatively, a member may require a motion to go to committee. >> president yee: would any of my colleagues like to sever any items? supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: item 55. >> president yee: supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: 53. >> president yee: and i'd like to sever 56. so colleagues, can we take -- no. okay. colleagues, can we take the rest of the items minus 53, 55,

and 56, same house, same call? >> clerk: roll call, mr. president. we need a roll call. >> president yee: roll call. >> clerk: okay. on items 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, and 63 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. madam clerk, please call item 53. >> clerk: item 53 is a resolution to declare the week of november 17 through the 23, 2019 as united against hate week in the city and county of

san francisco. >> president yee: supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: colleagues, november 17 through 23, which we are in right now is the united against hate week. it's a call for local civic action by people in every bay area county to stop the hate and implicit biases in the bay area. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: the number of hate crimes committed across the united states has increased dramatically in the past several years including san francisco where hate crimes increased 61% between 2017 and 2018. with this resolution, san

francisco will join berkeley and oakland in participating in united against hate week. i want to thank the organizers of the united against hate week and others. i'd also like to thank my cosponsors for their support. >> president yee: okay. thank you. colleagues, can we take this same -- on item 53, same house, same call? without any objection, then, it passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, call item number 55. >> clerk: item 55, resolution to affirm san francisco's support for asylum seeking residents fleeing gender-based

persecution and decrying the federal government's ordinance criminalizing domestic violence. >> president yee: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i wanted to thank everyone for their fierce support [speaking spanish language] >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take this item, same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk -- where am i? please call item 56. >> clerk: item 56 is a resolution to declare november 20, 2019 world children's day in the city and to affirm the city and county's commitment to

the united nations convention of the rights of children. >> president yee: colleagues, let me indulge you a little bit for a moment here. i believe this is the first time this body has voted on such a resolution to acknowledge the world children's day which lands on -- tomorrow, on november 20 of every year. this year marks the 30th anniversary of the united nations convention of the rights of children which provides basic human rights principles that ensures that every child is protected from violence and poverty. but beyond that, it provides this very basic notion that children deserve to have their voices heard as part of any community or governing structure. of all the united nation members, the united states is the only one to have not -- to not have ratified the convention of the rights of children. i think all of you -- i want to

thank all of you for joining as cosponsor, and i guess, if i can, have -- officially have supervisor walton and supervisor safai join us also, for this important resolution to on call out the importance of this convention. but to also motivate to us to become what is globally known as a child friendly city. a child friendly city is a concept that is trying to challenge the realization of the rights of children in an increasingly urbanized and decentralized world. what we are also seeing is that climate change, we need to start designing cities that are environmentally resilient, and that is what child friendly cities are all about, a city designed with children and youth in mind is a city that is

sustainable and safer for all residents. last year, i attended the child safer city conference in vienna, austria, and heard about all the wonderful things cities like san francisco were doing all over the world. but what i found so fascinating is that cities were reimagining public spaces to be playful, imagin imagi imaginative and accessible to children of all ages. can we imagine what san francisco would be like if we placed children at the center of all the decisions that we'd be making, influencing the build environment around us. imagine every city street where a children could bike and walk on their own to school without

fear of being hurt in a dangerous environment. imagine every new housing unit being designed so that families of all types to could expand multigenerational units that accommodated children, growing teens, and parents who are care giving. imagine public space being inviting to children so they could actively and creatively explore beyond just the confines of parks and playgrounds. the possibilities are endless, but we need to make this conscious decision that child friendly city is what we aim to be. over the course of past years, we have been able -- been part of these discussions with planning to push for family friendly design guidelines

fashioned around vision zero, but i want to think bigger. i want to thank our department of children, youth and families, our youth council, our department of public works and rec and park for helping us move this conversation along. i also want to acknowledge parents who have come together to really galvanize around this effort. parents like serina unger who i believe made a statement today in public testimony who is an urban planner by profession but was so passionate about this idea of child friendly future, she has taken it upon herself to present this idea to many, many groups who would listen. the other aspect of the child friendly city which i believe is so incredibly incredible is the idea that children and youth should be participating in meaningful ways in decision

making. i know we do a great work with the youth commission and many of our own districts have youth councils like in district 7. but the child friendly city pushes this further. it is about ensuring that every child, even preschool age residents, should be able to engage and provide input on what they want to see in their lived-in environments. yesterday, the youth commission voted to support our resolution and also asked for a friendly amendment which i have distributed to all of you, and i'll talk about it in a second. as a city, we have always placed the needs of communities most impacted by our environmental, racial, and economic injustice at the forefront. they are -- they are asking us to -- to really include the

need -- to explicitly prioritize the need of black and brown communities in addition to other communities with high needs. in all my years as a parent and educator, i have never been more obsessed about a concept like this. i really hope that we as a city can pursue this idea. as a grandparent, i want san francisco to become the place that my children can grow up and establish their roots. when i see all this new development and all these millennials, i am praying that they will choose to stay here. when we lose the children, we lose the vibrancy and diversity of our community. the stakes are high. the resolution is calling on san francisco to rise to the occasion and help us become a

part of this global child friendly cities movement. i think we are ready and we can possibly become the first in the united states. so i want to point out again it was the youth commissioners who advocated for the amendments, and i totally agreed with them. so basically, we're adding on page 5, line 16, to include the wording, "particularly marginalized black and brown children and youth." so that's my motion. could i have a second on that? thank you, supervisor peskin. without any objection, then, the motion passes, then, for the amendment. [gavel]. >> president yee: so madam clerk, what do i do? >> clerk: you can take it without objection as amended -- or same house, same call as amended. >> president yee: okay. can i have this same house, same call as amended? without objection, this item

passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: so madam clerk, i think that's the end of our agenda, but please read the in memoriams. >> clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved memorials. on behalf of supervisor mandelman, on the late jack porter, and on a motion made by the president and on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, on behalf of the late atta safai. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. please have a safe travel. i will see you in a few weeks. madam clerk, is there any further business for today? >> clerk: that concludes our

business for today. >> president yee: so we are adjourned. [gavel] >> good afternoon. we will now be convening as the full board for this november 21

st, 2019 special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. i haven't seen my colleagues in this room for such a long time. welcome back. madame clerk, please call the role. [roll call] mr. president, you have a quorum >> okay, thank you. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]

on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff from san francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to you to the public online. madame clerk, are there any communications? >> yes. we have received communications from supervisors mandelman, peskin, and stefani affording the board of their actions and requesting to be excused from today's meeting. >> can i have a motion to excuse the supervisors? made by supervisor fewer and seconded by supervisor walton. if there is no -- any objection? the three are excused. plays call the committee report.

>> item number one is a motion ordering to the voters that an election will be held on march 3 rd, 2020 and an ordinance amending the tax regulation code an administrative code to have the excise tax on persons keeping ground floor commercial space in certain neighborhood commercial districts and certain neighborhood commercial transit districts vacant to find assistance to small businesses and making appropriate findings. >> okay. i was listening to the last meeting and i didn't chime in then. i will say something now which is i want to thank the author of this legislation for bringing this forward. we have been grappling with this issue for years. we have tried different things and it seems like nothing has been all that effective. there is a legislation that would allow for any of these storefronts if you wanted to change from the commercial

retail business to put residential there. if it is designated for family shelter owned business, which is still a commercial usage. and we have not shown much results. it was an approach. so here we go. without objection, madame clerk, there is a motion and we don't have to have a second. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> on the motion to approve... [roll call] there are eight aye.

>> okay. the motion passes. right now, one last thing. let's go to public comment. >> at this time, the public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes with items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. public comment is not allowed when an item has been previously come subject to public comment at a board committee. >> any public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. madame clerk, is there any further business before us today >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned. happy thanksgiving break.

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was

safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was

about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she

would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to

conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like

this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that

there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president hirsch, i would like to take roll. [roll call] commissioner dejesus is in route. you have a quorum. also with us today are chief will scott of sfpd and