>> the meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 25, 2021 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am supervisor melgar, chair of the committee joined by the vice chair supervisor presa canario and supervisor peskin. the committee clerk is erica major. and i would like to acknowledge javier at sfgov tv.

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will -- is expected to appear on the february 2 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. madam chair. >> supervisor: thank you, so much, madam clerk. will you mindly call the first item? >> clerk: yes. item 1 is a resolution to approve the official street names for certain unnamed street including dr. maya angelou lane and toni stone crossing akated on san francisco pier commission property with the seawall lot 337 and pier 48 mixed-use project area. members who would like to make comment on item number one should call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 146 590 3676. and if you have not done sot, press star 3 to line up to speak and the system prompt will

indicate you have raised your hand. wait for public comment and you will be notified that you have been unmeeted and i believe that vice chair preston would like to say a few words before we have the presentation. >> thank you so much, chairman melgar. when this item was before us and presented in land use committee, my office saw an opportunity to name some of the new streets in a more meaningful way and this was at a time when san franciscans were taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers to demand racial justice. we thought it only made sense to take this opportunity to recognize the contributions of trail blazing black san franciscans or all too often marginalized in our city's history. and just amazed by how folks picked up that ball on this. and moved forward. the port of san francisco

working with san francisco giants was very receptive to this suggestion. worked really closely with our colleagues on the board and now president walton, supervisor haney, and really went back and considered alternatives and i am really just proud of the community process that has occurred, the approval from the board commission and that the streets will be named in honor of toni stone and dr. maya angelou and to have played a small part in recognizing the incredible african-american trail blazers is an honor to know the legacy will be enshrined for generations to come by streets that bear their name is wonderful. and i just want to really thank everyone who was part of the process and i know we will be hearing from folks, but i do want to specifically recognize the port of san francisco

executive director elaine forbes and the port's legislative affairs amanager, the commission president of the port. and the san francisco giants and colleagues supervisors haney and walton, as well as at the time my colleagues on the committee supervisor peskin still with us on this committee and previously supervisor safai who both were in strong support of -- and spoke in strong support of the renaming effort. and thank you to the families of toni stone and maya angelou who i understand some who may be joining for public comment today. thank you, chair melgar. >> thank you so much. i want to note, violate chair preston, that i am very grateful that you led this and pushed it forward. aside from recognizing the

contributions of two prominent and important african-american residents of the city, and it's also two women and today director kimberly ellis was in the paper talking about how we're not quite there in terms of the goal of having 30% of the streets and public art being named after prominent women and introduce this item and seeing you at this port of san francisco. if you could start us off. >> a vice chair preston really made all the comments i was going to make so thank you so much. when we came to the committee

some time ago, they would have been named spur and plain street and in a pre-covid world before the issues of systemic racism on the forefront and did not make sense in that context. i am extremely grateful to the giants and express huge gratitude to them and maya angelou and toni stone and to support commission president kimberly brandon, board president wilton, and vice chair presa canario for really giving us leadership, guidance, and support and to the mayor for her support and sponsorship of the item. the two incredible african-american women inspired and liberated so many before and will continue to do so and the naming is a great honor to be in

a neighborhood designed to be diverse and equitable. we couldn't be more pleased to be here with the opportunity to do the right thing and thank you so much for guidance and leadership. with, that i will turn it over to rebecca who will go through the details as she is our acting director of real estate and development. rebecca? >> thank you so much, director forbes. good afternoon. eeverything gave wonderful headline and i am going to give you the fine print, so bear with me for a moment. we will have the slides and to join me for a moment to provide

detail and with the first slide and is not easy and not common. and takes about 12 years to get the properties held in trust. >> can we get the slides up? >> thank you, boris. the next slide will show that timeline and goes back to state legislation. and 12 to 13 years later at the beginning of breaking ground last year. >> i'm sorry you, guys. we can't see the slide. can other people see the slides? >> i can. >> i can. >> they are up, but i can also

send them to you directly. >> just want to make sure people can see them. >> thank you so much. go to the next slide and is a forward phase project from the buildout and commercial partnership and 2.8 million square feet at the site. and 40% inclusionary housing and able to get to the 40% because the fees from the office go to support the residential, so that is one great innovation of the mixed use project. and it will culminate in the office, retail production and the rehab of the wonderful southern end of our embarcadero southern pier district, pier 48. and next will show phase one which we are focused on at the current time. it is the delivery of the site infrastructure to support two office, two apartment buildings

as well as that five acre china base and park. we broke ground or the development team broke ground on infrastructure and two of the buildings, one housing and one offers, so far, and will anticipate in the next two buildings to break ground during this year with estimated completion end of 2022 beginning of 2023 for that first phase. next slide and four are extensions. we are proposed to allow the extensionings and presented to board earlier in the summer and this is a unique opportunity to name the streets and who are meaningful at the time and did the process and name them after

two names and that was approved by the port commission. we paused when we got to the board back in june to look at these again and take the opportunity to seize the moment and do more with the street names. next slide please. and originally proposed spur and plank paused and the board gave us the opportunity to meet the moment and to have a connection and re-engaged the partners and san francisco giants and turn on the cameraened a take us through the process and the two mim came to the forefront. and thank you, chair melgar. and congratulations under

election and chair supervisor, did you want to say something? that is not the chair because you are the chair. >> i just want to say we disappointed the head of spur and alicia jean-baptiste to be the new member of the tjpa, and so i just wanted to state that spur. thank you, supervisor. go ahead. >> thank you. as rebecca mentioned, before the commission came together and collect a number of names and we want to reiterate our gratitude to dr. anglo and toni stone's family and to president brandon, director forbes, president walton, and haney and giving us some giants of these.

we met with the community including the southern bar front advisory committee and the co-chairs and toni levine and had a number of presentations and many personal and conversations and clearly rose to the top of the list. and we decided to not only recommend that we rename one but both street names. it's been an honor to continue on and connect with the families. we have had very warm conversations with them. and they have given us the blessing and they are joining us today to speak more of the history with the loved ones. i wanted to take a moment to recognize the connections in san francisco. and both relocated to san francisco as very young women. and the families will speak and from the first black streetcar

conductor and to receive numerous awards and bless the world with pretty inspired literary genius and guides our hearts and minds. and i am blocking forward to hearing more today. and she was an incredible athlete in many different sports, she insisted on playing baseball with the boys. and part of the west coast negro league and became the first woman and went to play in the negro league for the indianapolis clowns and the kansas city. and retired from baseball and became a nurse in oakland.

in 1975 the giants invited they are to travel for a ceremonial pitch at candlestick park and inducted into the international women's hall of fame and national negro baseball league and last year there was there was a play going to open up the san francisco telling her life story and with the pandemic, and the rest of the city family. the the amazing neighbors. and with the recommendation and the board's approval and called dr. maya angelou and may be one of the few intersections and

particularly black women and we are honored to be here and share in this extraordinary moment in our history. >> i'm sorry. thank you so much. i'm sorry. i'm sorry, director forbes. did you have something to ask? >> chair melgar, it was rebecca speaking just to finalize the last slide, which is requested action. >> thank you so much. >> and just to be clear, we have gone through the process and i want to thank our colleagues at the department of public works and bureau street and mapping have cleared this as compliant and unique identifiers and back in december and requesting the recommendation of the committee and we're here to answer questions and i like to recognize also the mayor's office and the implementation team and helped keep us with the

pieces of legislation and here to answer any questions. thank you so much. >> you are muted, madam chair. >> and do either of my colleagues have any questions or comments? >> with that -- >> i actually do. >> i do have one comment. >> and i really want to thank my then colleagues on the land use committee and supervisor safai and supervisor preston for hearing what led to the changes that we see before us today and i'm sorry if my earlier comments sounded flippant. i have no idea why it took this much time or had to involve this, but with that, i totally

support this. >> thank you so much, supervisor peskin. and madam clerk, do we have any public comment on this item? >> thank you, madam chair. we have 19 callers and two in queue. please unmute the first caller. and you may begin your comments. welcome to the land use committee. >> go ahead. >> caller: good afternoon and thank you for extending the opportunity to join today's hearing. my name is samiya and i serve as the executive director of the dr. maya angelou foundation. born in st. louis, missouri, and raised in arkansas, dr. maya angelou was a writing, poet,

performer, and teacher. paragraph and in 1969, with the publication of the ground breaking literary autobiography "i know why the caged bird sings" and rose to international prominence and caged bird is an intelligent and sophisticated story of how angelou transformed herself from a victim of racism to inferiority complex and with the civil activists. dr. angelou has published five books of poetry and including "i shall not be moved." and letter to my daughter, a number of children's books and six longform poems including mother and on the post of morning which she read at the 1992 inauguration of president william jefferson clinton. angelou's reading marked the first time that an african-american woman and at

the presidential inauguration. in 2013 at the age of 35, angelou published the seventh autobiography, "mom and me and mom." the list of her published verse, non-fiction and fiction and includes 30 best selling titles. the remarkable career encompasses dance, theater, journalism, and activism and appeared in broadway including cabaret for freedom. at the request of dr. martin luther king jr. and served as the northern coordinator and the southern leadership christian conference during the heights of the civil rights demonstration. and malcolm x asked her to work with him upon his return in mecca. and angelou spent considerable time abroad and worked as the associate editor of the arab

observer and then as features editor and writer for the ghanan times. she was the national book award judge for biography and autobiography and dr. angelou has received more than 30 honary degrees and inducted into the wake forest university hall of fake for writers. and 2010 president barack obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom and the highest -- and literary award. and honorary contribution for the community and she passed away in may 2014. hon behalf of dr. angelou's family, it is with embracing love, joy, and support we thank you for honoring dr. angelou in an innovative and impactful way. >> thank you so much.

>> next speaker please. >> welcome to the land use committee. go ahead, please. >> this is maria barton from toni stone's family. >> hello. welcome. go ahead, please. >> caller: i just wanted to say thank you. her family is so proud of her and to have the street named after her is really fantastic. she loves san francisco and she lived in san francisco, and she played ball in san francisco. and i know it was such an honor for her to have a street named after her and especially where

it's located. and the area is fantastic and are glad she's going to represent in a way the street. and i wanted to tell everybody and we really appreciate everything you have done to see that the area the named after her. and playing baseball and playing baseball with the men. and she fought to do this. she believed in and testimony like an addiction to her. and the lowest paid person on the teams and she did it because she loved the game. and when she came to san francisco, her sister was living here. and they talked about the game and talked about playing for san francisco. and a lot of the contracts were done in san francisco while she was there.

the odd jobs and the finest houses in san francisco at the time. and loved talking to the children about the game and showed them different ways at different schools about how to play the game. and she was really well aboved by the children. and she loved them and wanted to see them go ahead and do what they wanted to do. and especially the young women. she gave them all prize as to believe what you are doing and you have to believe in yourself to do that. that was fantastic. as her niece, i lived with her for a long time and she would tell me these things, but growing up with her i really didn't pay that much attention to it. and it wasn't until i had gotten older that i really instill in

mee and install in other women. >> thank you so much. thank you for coming. what a blessing. thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is david and i am calling in to talk in support of the eagle. am i in the right place? >> no, that is item number 3, so we will unmute you when we get to item number three, and then you press star 3. right now we are item number 1. >> caller: thank you. >> thank you so much. >> do we have another commenter for item number one?

>> unmute the next speaker. we have three in queue. >> caller: hello. i believe my line has been unmuted. >> yes. >> caller: i am reverend arnold townsend. i just wanted to speak briefly in support of this naming proposal. i'm one of those people like toni stone who didn't play as well as she did, but who was bitten by the baseball bug very early in life. and because i was in los angeles with no big league team, i picked the giants in 1951 and the dodgers moving to l.a. and didn't change that and increased my hatred toward them. i am especially excited to have the streets named after two

african-american women and especially in this era. and when we know the difficulty that so many have had trying to play baseball evidence recently by the passing of hank ar ron and with his story of what he has to endure. i can't even imagine what it must have been like as a black woman trying to play baseball when you were getting discrimination from so many sides. i am glad she persevered and we know the story and had the pleasure and honor of personally meeting dr. maya angelou and so to have these streets named after them so that young folk and then young women of all colors can understand the importance of pursuing what you love. it's been said by someone and never work a day in your life.

>> this is especially important to us. want to thank the board of supervisors for sending this back and asking the giants to be more creative and i am so glad and grateful for the creativity that the giants showed in the big and beautiful women that will forever be a part of san francisco history and baseball history. thank you so much. god bless you all. >> do we have any other public comment for this item, madam clerk? >> we have two in the queue. and good afternoon. i am the executive director of the bayview hunters point ymca and calling in favor and really excited about the naming of these two streets after dr. maya angelou and toni stone.

having been a resident and working in san francisco for many, many years, i am just very much so excited as many have already shared about this unique opportunity to name the streets after two amazing trailblazing women and we see children, youth, and families coming through the doors at the facility and schools and other programs offsite and getting to read stories and dr. angelou and learning about toni stone with the images on the screen. and the children in the great city, particularly children in district 10 will be able to literally walk the street of dr. maya angelou and dr. toni stone and i am truly grateful for the committee who have worked tirelessly and named after two amazing individuals. truly excited about the generational impact this is going to have on our children,

particularly not only in san francisco and certainly african-american children in the city and calling in favor of support of the project and really excited about the impact you're going to have. >> thank you so much. next speaker please. is there another speaker? unmute the last speaker please. >> hello. my name is daniel banks. can you hear me? >> you may begin your comments. >> i am the managing director of

project level based in the western addition of san francisco. and i am in support of the naming of the street. as a san francisco native, being born and raised here, i have had the privilege to meet dr. angelou, and it was as a young lady, it was so inspiring. i felt like i could be able to achieve so many amazing things in working with young people today. and it is a privilege and an honor to be able to see that san francisco continues to move forward and acknowledging and honoring black women in the city who have made a tremendous impact. i am fully in support of this naming. both women have accomplished many things and i heard other speakers say the impact about young women and young people today.

i would appreciate your support in pushing this through. thank you. >> thank you, ms. banks. mat am clerk, are there anymore public commenters? >> thank you, madam chair. i am just confirming with our staff. >> and we have no other callers. >> thank you so much and with that, public comment is closed. is there a motion to send this forward with a positive recommendation? >> so moved. awe thank you, madam clerk. call the role please. >> on the motion as stated by supervisor preston. supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> oh ya. >> melgar, aye. >> you have three aye's.

>> thank you. without objection t resolution is approved. and madam clerk, can you call the next item. that item is recommended to the full board. item two is resolution approving the official street names for certain unnamed streets low t kayed on treasure island and yerba buena island based on historic references to the island and the san francisco golden gate international exposition of 1939. members should call 415-655-00 # o 1. the meeting i.d. is 146 590 3676. press pound and pound again. if you have not done so already, please press star 3 to line up to speak. madam chair? >> thank you so much. i believe we have director bob beck from the treasure island development agency here today

for a brief presentation. welcome, director beck. >> thank you, chair melgar. bob beck with the treasure island development authority. i will share my screen here.

they were located in the former naval station. they used street names like second and third street as well as california street. names that were not suitable to the similarity and duplication with other streets in san francisco. so we set about back in 2015 to develop the street naming convention for treasure island and we worked with the treasure island museum and master developer for treasure island and community development to draw inspiration from the 1939 golden gate international gate exposition for street naming convention for treasure island. and we drew names of artist,

architects and place names within the fair exposition grounds. and as our inspiration for naming the streets on treasure island. the names have been reviewed with public works to ensure they don't duplicate others found elsewhere in the city and recommended in june 10 of 2020 by public works director's order. proposing to bring the island wide framework to the board today to solidify the frame work and facilitate addressing for building, permitting and to expedite project imp littleation. this is the street names as they were identified in the planning documents and the design for development documents for treasure island. you can see they were placeholder names. avenue i, avenue h, avenue g,

etc. and numbered streets 4th, 5th, 6th. and and took the name of the existing street on the island. and what we bring you to today and is drawn from the 1939 golden gate international exposition held on the island shortly after it was constructed. and is part of the works progress association. and administrations and thank you supervisor. the major arterials on the island and the main streets draw names from place names within the fairgrounds. and they are named as avenues to facilitate the way finding for the island. and clipper clove avenue and clipper cove. and where the pan-am clippers

flew out of the cove during the exposition and seven seas avenue and other major north-south arterial. and trade winds and avenue of the palms. avenue of the palms did run along the waterfront and title of the exposition. and the clipper cove was called the port of the trade winds during the exposition and there was clipper way and the court of prominent location within the fair exposition grounds. other north-south streets include pasa flora way. peacemaker street and siesta way and garden walk and pacifica street and highlight garden walk is shared public ways which are

intended to be bike pad locations. and they provide emergency vehicle access as well. they draw place names from the garden walk and the siesta pools, the peacemaker mural in the court of pacifica. other east-west streets on the eastern neighborhood include portway passage, blossom lane, garden bell way, fairlawn street and again, these draw the inspiration from place names within the fairgrounds including indy's place, blossom way, fairlawn avenue and courtway passage. the east-west streets on the west side of the island and the north-south streets on the east side all draw their names from artists and architects and

personalities that were part of the exposition and the streets on the west side of the island are named streets and the east side that are all lanes. so again, to ease in way finding for visitors to the island and then they are arranged alphabetically south to north and west to east. some of the personalities include the burden sisters and -- the bruing sisters and the peacemaker's mural and in pacifica court. and designed the unity sculptures and these two sculptures are are in the collection and unity fountain and we have a total of 14 sculptures that survived from

that fountain and in the titles collection. each artist involved in that fountain designed two sculptures for the fountain and these two were the work of -- and sergeant johnson designed two of the sculptures for the unity fountain. sergeant johnson was a preimminent african-american artist from the west coast at this time. and was a leader in african-american art from this side of the country. >> madam chair, some of the work cans be seen at maritime museum at aquatic park. >> george tellum was a prominent architect with the overall plan for the exhibition and designed several of the courts as well as

the administration building which survives on the island today. he also designed the palace hotel on market street and the asian art museum in the original incarnation as the public library. and bernard mayberg, renowned architect and landscape was one of the chief expositions primary planners. and other notable work in san francisco includes the palace of pine art and the surrounding gardens that still exist today. antonio sotomayor, bo livian artist and bo livian born artist and which is shown here on the right and the terra-cotta pieces

and other work he did in san francisco included a number of murals and cathedral and ball las hotel and has works in san francisco and new york and museum of modern art. designed the path of darkness mural. here at the -- the grounds in the court of pacifica. and also taught at the kra arts and crafts and spent her career in the bay area.

and donald mackey is also a bay area architect in design the elephant towers and abstract sculpture and the prominent piece within the art of the grounds and also design several buildings with the oxford track on the. uc. berkley campus. and design some of the sculptures that were part of the part of the the unity pacific sculpture. and in the museum of modern art and foundation of fine arts and

san francisco. and designed the yerba buena club and fairly modern sculpture that looked over the clipper cove in the fairgrounds. he was the dean of the college -- went on to become the dean of college of environmental design at u.c. berkley. and also worked on the reuse plan and the design of the bank of america building and the former bank of america building. and finally, lantit nutter was the spokesperson for the golden gate international exposition and went on to have a career as an aviation advocate becoming the first female president

aviation hall of fame museum in 1988. and was a regular visitor to the island throughout her life and only passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 105. but was a regular visitor and advocate from the island. and on yerba buena island, and the street grid is staying more to the historical alignment and with the street name on yerba buena island including treasure island road which connects from the bay bridge and down to the island and hillcrest and backside of the island and yerba buena road which circles the top of the island and mccullough road which is the east-west

access on the north side of the island. and north gate road which goes from mccullough down through the historic officers quarters to access the coast guard facilities that are on the south side of the yerba buena island. so that addresses the names that are proposed. and i would be happy to take any questions from board members about the individuals, the exposition and the recommendations. >> thank you very much. thank you, director beck. do my colleagues have any questions for director beck? okay. so seeing that as we have no questions from my colleagues, we will go to public comment on this item. madam clerk? >> thank you, madam chair. we are checking to see if we have any callers in queue.

it looks like we have 15 listener rs and no callers in queue. and since we have no public comment on this item and does someone want to make a motion? >> so moved. >> with recommendation. >> thank you so much. thank you so much, supervisor peskin. will you take role, please, madam clerk? >> yes. on the motion as stated by supervisor peskin -- >> did i close public comment? >> yes. we took it. >> no worries. on the motion to recommend item number two, supervisor peskin, aye. supervisor preston. >> an aye. and supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> we have three aye's. >> the motion passes. thank you so much. >> so pardon, and we had with

the proposed amendment of the language and we need to have thank you so much for reminding me. and would you like to send the vote? >> sorry. we proposed a substitution to correct a couple of misspellings in the original resolution and exhibit. >> okay. do do we call the amended resolution now then, colleagues? >> and supervisor preston who made the motion. peskin. >> and make the amended motion. and withdrawn the previous motion and i will make a motion to amend. as so stated. >> thank you.

>> madam clerk, please call the role. >> on the motion to update the street names as submitted by tida, i move vice supervisor peskin. peskin, aye. >> supervisor me melgar. >> aye. >> you have three aye's. and thank you so much and the motion passes. madam clerk, will you call the next item please? >> madam chair on the remaining balance to move the item forward, would you like to make a motion? >> so moved as amended. >> and the motion stated by supervisor peskin, supervisor peskin? >> aye.

>> peskin, aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. and you have three aye's. and the motion passes. >> thank you, madam clerk. now call the next item please. >> item 3 is a resolution initiating a landmark designation under article 10 of the planning code for the san francisco eagle bar, situated with the leather and lesbian, gay, transgender and queer cultural district. call 415-and if you have not done so already, press star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. madam chair? >> thank you so much. i believe we have honey mahogany

here from supervisor haney's office to prevent on this item. >> thank you, madam chair. good afternoon, chair melgar. and on behalf of supervisor haney, i wanted to provide a brief resolution introducing landmark designation for the san francisco eagle bar which is the historic night life and within the soma and provided under planning code 104.11. and the sf eagle has been operating at the current location since opening in february 1981 and 396 and 398 12th street and the name sake of public plaza that pays homage to historic lgbtq and the leather community has played an integral role and western soma is considered by many to be the

epicenter of leather culture. the fullsome and corridors comprise an area historical and historical mile and bars, club, and leather shops and bathhouses in the 70s and 80s. the sf eagle and holds much significance and supervisor haney and acknowledge the significance and in the original part of soma being erased due to ongoing development as the space is of vital importance to the weekend. and we received dozens of letters extolling the profound importance of the san francisco to the queer community and a petition created last week has garnered over 1,000 signatures in the landmarking effort. and the san francisco eagle bar is a corner stone of the leather

and lgbt cultural district and the community anchor that deserve the protections to provide. supervisor haney, and thanks to the committee for the consideration and hopes that the resolution will lend the support to the effort. and at this time i would also like to introduce ms. shane watson who is a historic preservationists on the contact statement for lgbtq history in san francisco and in collaboration with donna graves and arts and heritage consulting in 2015 and is also a well known historian and san francisco and supervisor haney has provided so provide expert comments on this item. and welcome, ms. watson. >> good afternoon, chair melgar. and i from the presidential

planner in lgbtq heritage preservation in san francisco. as honey mentioned, i am the co-author of the san francisco lgbtq historical context statement and the san francisco statement and nationwide and lgbtq america. and currently working with the lgbt leather and consulting district and as we all know, san francisco is known worldwide as the birthplace of lgbtq culture and designated for associations with the history. and none of those landmarks that represent south of market neighborhood. and the historic queer enclaves and lgbtq and leather history and queer district in the castro and south of market in the pioneer and lgbt social justice

movement, publishing and the arts. the nation's first gay community center and south of market at 83 6 street. and two of the nation east earliest organizations have the first offices in the south of market in the williams building on mission street. and the services of eagle opened in 1981 and is one of the longest continually operating leather and queer bars in san francisco. landmarking the eagle would bring much needed attention to the neighborhood's importance as a queer center of international significance. additionally and perhaps most importantly and the eagle is very much alive and beloved and the long-standing patrons from around the world. and thank you for considering adding this site to san francisco's small but growing list of lgbtq landmarks.

>> thank you so much, ms. watson and ms. mahogany. do we have any comments or questions? >> no questions, chair melgar. i just want to thank supervisor haney, honey mahogany, the d6 team and all the activists who came together to make this happen. really important. looking forward to hoping all our colleagues do as well. >> and supervisor peskin to be added as a co-sponsor please. and me, too, if i am not already. >> and i would, too. thank you so much. >> awe no further questions and can we go to public comment please? >> and we have 16 listeners with

12 in queue. unmute the first caller. the system will notify that we have been unmuted and begin your comments. >> my name is david and with the f wonderful cause and landmark status and a 72-year-old gay man who lives alone since my husband died and is my habit to go every sunday almost religiously to the eagle beer by sunday afternoon. and to feel it is such a wonderful opportunity for socialization, ar fe, the staff, and ownership and people there are friendly and welcoming. and it's really home for me on sunday.

i hope this will pass and that the eagle will continue on and on. and do such good work for the community. i am really in awe of all that they do. and it is a fun place. >> thank you for your comment, david. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: i am lex and owner and operator of the san francisco eagle bar and took it on to the mission to save the place and back in 2011 when it closed an then finally got it working on march 2013 and partnership with the late business partner and we have endured through hard times and bringing the community back

together. but i like to recommend as a person, as a san franciscan, and the mission and continue the traditions of community and provide a safe space for everybody in san francisco and from every part of the world that comes from the worldment and transmit our mission throughout the whole world. and please consider the designation and thank the members of the supervisor's board consideration. very much. >> and if i may interject, and sorry for our mutual friend mike's untimely passing. >> thank you so much,

supervisor. next speaker please. >> hi. this is donald kelly. i am a native san franciscan. i was born and raised here. i just want to say that i fully support this and the good things that the eagle bar does for the community in san francisco and i am not a public speaker, but i wanted to say my support. thank you. s a thank you. next speaker please. >> next speaker please.

awe an i have been a patron of the eagle for 30 years and substantial donor to eagle plaza and board member of the archives, though i am not calling in that official capacity right now. and in the letter of support that will come in san francisco

and is a safe haven and was hosting thousands of charity events and is very much part of the fabric of the soma neighborhood. the san francisco eagle is an international beacon for the leather community, but i also want to add in appreciation of ms. watson's comments that it is shocking that as many lgbtq businesses that have been in the city over the last 70 or 80 years and landmark designations and none are in the soma district. and take that seriously and lost so many lgbtq icons and businesses and the eagle could use that support right now.

and thank you for your comment, ben. next speaker please. >> hi, my name is tammy martin. i am the first and current miss san francisco eagle. and i would just like to say that i am giving my support in this and among not only the land mart and safe haven and fundraising and numerous fundraisings and nonprofits and organizations throughout san francisco. and i just feel that the eagle contributed so much to the lgbt and leather community to make this still safe and welcomed and loved.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. i am a queer event organizer in san francisco and 31 years old and appreciate everything the soma neighborhood does between the coronavirus and the beloved institution and start two blocks away and strongly in support of giving the eagle whatever designation from the clear cultures and through the pandemic and to express support. >> thank you, toby. next speaker please. >> caller: is that me? >> and my name is douglas. i am calling to give my support for historical landmark status for the sf eagle to reiterate what everyone else has said and

just -- the charity fundraising that happens on a weekly basis raised millions of dollars for all sorts of nonprofits and ensure the historical status that the eagle never goes away in this age, that will be a great thing for the city. i support this legislation. from organizing and with the very strong support and thank you very much. >> next speaker please.

>> thank you, madam clerk. do we have anymore speakers in the queue? >> we do. and this speaker is currently unmuted. so they can begin their comments. >> i am on the board of directors of the leather and lgbtq cultural district and the sentences of the bay area leather alliance and i believe that the eagle and sf eagle has imminently qualified an appropriate historic designation. and i thank the commission for the enthusiastic support for it. thank you. >> thank you, david. >> next speaker please. >> hello, caller. you have been unmuted. you may begin your comment.

>> next speaker. >> i already spoke. >> good afternoon, supervisors melgar, preston and peskin. i am president of the leather and lgbtq cultural district and i am also president of the friends of eagle plaza. and i am here to express our support for this resolution and the leather and lgbtq community and has been for decades. and it is also a pillar of community fundraising and a lot of the small grass roots groups depending on fundraising that takes place from domestically

and internationally to preserve the icon for the future and i urge the support. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> hello. my name is gauge fisher. i am an employee of the sf eagle bar. first off, i want to thank the supervisor haney for the sponsorship and honey mahogany and shane watson for the words and incite. and holding the space and time for this. and ever back to the first time and walked into disney land and that is the kind of expression i have gotten to see working at

the eagle on a fullsome sunday and is like a weekend. and to see the joy on the faces of people who have gotten to experience sf eagle for the first time. and we are known the world over for the parties that we put on and the space that we hold for everybody. that has been held for decades and be it just trying to create a safe space for the fundraising that has already been mentioned before and the previous bar title myself and able to begin fundraising effort for sf suicide prevention. the amount of work that goes into this place. you would think it is not just a bar. and we are merely the current facet of what has been existing there for decades.

i wholeheartedly support this initiative to make this designation happen and thank you for your time. >> next caller please, madam clerk. >> i am just calling in order to to support sf eagle. and so many of myself and my friends have found ourselves a home at the sf eagle and would not be the same without it and is so much of a part of our identity and our pride. i would love nothing more to show this than to be able to stay around forever. it is important to preserve our history and thank you so much for allowing me to speak. >> next speaker please.

>> do we have mr. speakers? >> they have been unmuted. they may begin. >> hello, caller. you are on the line. you may begin your comments. >> they decided they are -- we will take the next speaker, which is the last speaker. >> actually, that was our last speaker, madam chair. >> thank you so much. >> it looks like no more caller, so public comment is now closed. is there a motion to send this out with a positive recommendation, colleagues? >> so moved. >> madam clerk, supervisor preston moved. can you call role please? >> i have added supervisor

peskin and chair melgar as co-sponsors. on the motion to recommend item three, moved by supervisor preston, we have -- moved by supervisor preston, on the roll call. supervisor peskin? peskin. >> supervisor preston? >> aye. and i think you missed me as or me too on the co-sponsor. >> you were already were. >> i was, thank you. aye. >> preston, aye. and supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> melgar, aye. it would have aye's. thank you. the motion passes unanimously with positive recommendations. madam clerk, are there any other items before us today? >> that concludes the business

for today. >> thank you so much. so that was short and sweet. and we are now adjourned. thank you. >> thank you. awe thank you so much. >> good morning, everyone. my name is susan breel, and i

am a judge here in san francisco, and i am the chairman of the san francisco human trafficking collaborative. i want to give a welcome to everyone at this press conference today. we have over 170 people who are currently logged on, including the press. i'm going to ask everyone to mute themselves, and i do want to begin by acknowledging the traumatic and horrific events of wednesday at the capitol, a spectacle that radiated contempt for our country, for its laws and traditions, and most of all, for its citizens. i find it profoundly reassuring today to be here with citizens who are responsible, who are concerned, and who are compassionate. i find it conspireing to be here with esteemed and duly

elected public officials, who by their concern for human trafficking both honor and reaffirm the worth and dignity of every human being. this is our 12th annual antihuman trafficking press conference. at our first press conference who was then district attorney kamala harris who is about to be the vice president of the united states of america, so who knows what is in store for our illustrious public servants who are here today. i'm going to turn it over to my cochair, bonita hawkins, to introduce herself and who is our first speaker. >> thank you, judge breel. i echo your sentiments of this week, and a hearty welcome to all who are watching here today

and who have joined us here for our annual event. it gives me great pleasure to start our program today with none other that the mayor of the great city of san francisco, mayor london breed. welcome, london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, so much, bonita, and thank you so much, judge breel, for the work that you continue to do to address human trafficking in our city and throughout the bay area. thank you to the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking and its cochairs for having me here today. i want to start by recognizing all of the partners, advocates, and awardees who are doing so much work every day to prevent human trafficking from occurring in the first place. your work helps make the city a safer place for everyone. every san franciscan deserves

to feel safe and live without exploitation, but for too long, these tragic crimes have persisted throughout the day despite our best efforts. the risk of being trafficked are very real. even as we face one of the greatest public health crisis of our lifetime, our work to end human trafficking in our city must continue. no one should have to wonder every day how they escape from an unsafe situation or experience the daily trauma of being taken advantage of. we in san francisco have a responsibility to protect survivors and implement new policies and programs that will help us end human trafficking in san francisco, and i really want to take this opportunity to point out the need to address the challenges that continue to persist in the tenderloin, the people who are

being trafficked to sell drugs, that is definitely something we should take on and address as soon as possible. it has been going on for far too long. as we are here today to commence national slavery and human trafficking month, i am announcing two new initiatives to prevent human trafficking in our city. first, all of our inspectors under the department of public health will be trained to recognize the signs of human trafficking do you remember their inspections at hotels, restaurants, bars, and other sites. they will be required to report their findings immediately to our san francisco police department for investigation. this gives us one more tool we can use to identify people who may be the victims of trafficking and then take action to get them out of that very dangerous situation. second, the san francisco international airport has

installed multiple signs in multiple languages to inform people of the signs of human trafficking and encourage them who might find themselves in danger to call the airport hotline and get help immediately from trained s.f.o. staff. as we know, in these situations, time is of the essence. our goal is to be both vigilant and responsive so that we can prevent human trafficking and get people the care and services they need. i want to thank everyone in san francisco. i want everyone in san francisco to know that help is here if they need it, and they do not have to suffer in silence. if you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, you can call 911 or reach out to the national human trafficking hotline at 888-373-7888. during this year's national slavery and human trafficking

prevention month, we renew our focus on supporting survivors, honoring their strength, and working on preventing trafficking from occurring in the first place. thank you to the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking for organizing this very important event and keeping it in the hearts and minds of people throughout this city. thank you, again, for all the service providers and law enforcement partners who are working day in and day out to serve and protect survivors of human trafficking. i know that, working together, we will make san francisco a safer place for all those that find themselves in this unfortunate situation. let's continue to do the work. thank you so much. >> thank you, mayor breed, and thank you for those two initiatives. please know that we join you in continuing this work. thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule

these days during these unprecedented times. and now, i would like to introduce the u.s. attorney for the northern district of california, david anderson. >> thank you, bonita. thank you so much for including me. i want to thank you and i want to honor the remarks by the mayor and also judge brielle, and also everyone who has joined here the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking, and this conference at the beginning of every year is such an important reinforcement of work that we're all doing to combat human trafficking. so as u.s. attorney, i lead all federal prosecutors, also known as ausas, in enforcing federal law in northern california. and i want to mention one particular ausa to this group,

someone who's known to many of you in this group. marissa harris is a past speaker of this event and i feel a force of rare force and power. marissa ensures that any referrals make their way quickly to an ausa who can evaluate that case referral for the filing of federal charges, and we at the u.s. attorney's office are joined by ten federal agencies in the federal human trafficking collaborative, and included in that is homeland security investigations. i know that tatum king, the special agent in charge of human trafficking investigations, is on this call, and you'll be hearing from him momentarily. but i just want to acknowledge

ausi in the importance of investigating human trafficking. i feel strongly that we are all safer when we work together. i'll close, and i know that there are many speakers, and i've been asked to speak for just a few minutes. i'll close with my observation that at the federal level, we don't just work the cases, but we also feel the pain that these cases represent, and i think that in some areas of the law, there can be a tension between law enforcement and compassion, but in the human trafficking area, we really see that enforcement is compassion in so many ways, and vigorous enforcement of the laws against human trafficking are critical

in the fight against the misery and the suffering that we all in our own ways are trying to bring to an end, so i honor you for your work, i thank you for your work, and i look forward to working with you, and with those comments, i'll pass the podium back over to you. >> and i'll pass it over back to you, judge brielle. >> excuse me. it looks like we are at capacity. i want to encourage all members of ncaw to leave the call, and all the volunteers so that we can admit the district attorney. >> i think our next speaker is public defender. is he -- has he been able to log on?

>> yes, i'm here, judge. >> okay. thank you. so i do want to thank our u.s. attorney and all the great work that he's doing. and now, it's my great privilege to introduce our public defender, mr. raju. i think he is the only public defender to be an elected official in the united states. no other elected public defender, and he's not only one of our public officials, he is really an amazing trial attorney in his own right. [inaudible] >> i'm going to ask everyone to mute themselves other than mr. raju, and it is a my privilege to ask -- it's my privilege to ask him to say a few words at this press conference. >> thank you, judge. it's an honor to be here at this collaborative.

the empowerment and holistic solutions and people on this call really represent that. as a san francisco public defender, i think it's crucial that people are aware that we view ourselves as a public safety organization. and what i mean by that is when you truly see someone, when you truly hear someone, when you're really willing to see and hear their complete story. that in and of itself can be a spring board to moving one's life in a more positive direction, and we really encourage all of our staff to develop that trusting relationship with every single person that we represent because it's only when you have that relationship of trust that someone will confide in you something like they may be a victim of trafficking, so we

encourage and insist that our attorneys have those long meetings with people that we represent. we encourage that they reach out to community members, also, because each person is a member of family and communities in some ways. you know, what is important that i'm seeing in things like the collaborative is we're thinking about long-term visions of a more just world. there's a lot of people who get caught up in our system for a lot of very complicated reasons, and it's very important that we listen to the victims. it's also important that we address the condition that lead to the proliferation of trafficking, that we look at things to see if we're doing things in a way that empowers individuals and communities as opposed to disempowering them.

we try to do that one client at a time. we also work on local policy, we also work on state policy, but i think if we're guided by few principles, that we are aware that, you know, there is a lot of intergenerational trauma, but there is also a lot of intergenerational resilience in our communities, and i think if we tap into that resilience, we can come up with solutions that both empower individuals and implicate systems in a way to reduce trafficking going forward. so i just want to tell everyone here that i'm honored to be here, honored to be in community, and look forward to working with everyone going forward. thank you. >> thank you so much, and we look forward to working with you. i think our district attorney is having trouble logging on still, i'm wondering.

>> hi, i just made it -- just made it on. >> oh, i'm so glad to have you. we are so glad to have you. it's my pleasure to introduce the district attorney in the city and county of san francisco, chesa boudin. he is one of the new wave of district attorneys who always has something provocative, intelligent, and interesting to say in human trafficking, so we give it to you. >> well, thank you, judge brielle, and i hope next time we can have a zoom account that has unlimited access so all of the people that want to participate can. it took me a while to get in this morning because it was full. i think it's a good sign that there's so much interest in this issue, and i hope the next event will have a bigger space, whether in-person or virtual to

accommodate every single person in the city who are as dedicated as i am, and who i know as you are, judge, to discourage the scourge of human trafficking. let me just start by thanking the heads of this initiative. judge brielle, antonio breen, and marissa hawkins. without your leadership, we would not be here today. i also want to thank fellow he leaders for coming to this call to action. i want to congratulate the champions that we are honoring today. may we continue to learn from and be inspired by you. each year, this event creates the opportunity to raise voices often not heard or forgotten, the opportunity to address concerns shared across system partners, and the opportunity

to discuss our plans for the year ahead. today, i'd like to share three main priorities to combat human traffics in 2021. -- human trafficking in 2021. first, continue to provide high quality victim services to survivors of child sex and labor trafficking. as a lead law enforcement official in san francisco, i am working with our system partners to design and implement new strategies to identify victims and address criminal exploitation and trafficking in all forms. the district attorney's office continues to have a dedicated human trafficking advocate who provides support to victims and survivors. the victim services division human trafficking team provides multilingual trauma responsive services to survivors for both crisis and ongoing needs. we collaborate and partner with other city nonprofit and

government agencies to ensure that all human trafficking victims receive comprehensive and coordinated victim services. antihuman trafficking networks like the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking and its member agencies are essential in order to increase the identification of victims of human trafficking and coordinate timely humane response and services. in addition, my office funds two community agencies: huckleberry youth services and safehouse to provide services to victims and survivors of human traffics who may not choose to access services through the district attorney's office directly. in 2021, we are committed as ever to working together to ensure that even those who do not identify as victims or survivors are able to receive the support they need. now second, as guardians of the constitution, we need to ensure

that all victims and survivors, regardless of immigration status, feel comfortable reporting to law enforcement and seeking services. criminalizing undocumented individuals and immigrant communities increases the motivations for traffickers by driving the immigrant community further away from the resources that can help to keep them safe. exploitation of the most vulnerable population is a public safety issue for all community members, and when victims can't come forward, harm is perpetually underground. third, my office is developing and implementing new strategies to identify, investigate, and

hold those who harm and exploit others accountable. covid-19 has pushed trafficking victims and survivors further into the shadows, making it more difficult for people to come forward or cases to be discovered and investigated. victims and survivors of all forms of trafficking have several unique and layered needs for safety, basic resources for daily life, trauma recovery and life skills development. victims and survivors frequently experience trauma, linguistic and cultural isolation, fear related to immigration status, and cultural, familial and societal attitudes and believes to perpetrators control, exploitation, and violence. we know that a person may be arrested for assault, drug sales, or other crimes, and when we look deeper into the

case, that behavior is an expression of trauma linked to human trafficking. we know that a person may be identified as a victim of domestic or intimate partner violence, and when we look deeper into the case, they are being trafficked. we are instituting criteria for additional case review, leveraging analysts to flag cases with characteristics common in exploitation. once these cases are flagged, my team works towards solutions centered in healing and recovery that simultaneously hold people accountable for harmful behavior. these three priorities will prevent future acts of exploitation, allow for successful criminal prosecution, and protect all san franciscans. we look forward to your partnership in making this vision a reality. lastly, my office, under the leadership of dr. gina castro rodriguez, is hosting our

annual human trafficking awareness training on monday morning at 10:00 a.m. i encourage all of you to end at that. for more information, please go to our website at www.sfdistrictattorney.org. thank you so much. >> thank you so much for your information, and i didn't know about the link with huckleberry link services. i'm very impressed with all of the programs the district attorney is implementing. i'm now going to turn to our next speaker, patty lee, from the public defender's office. she is the head public defender of the juvenile division and an expert on children who are exploited and trafficked and, really, a mentor to me.

patty? hmm, she might have had trouble coming on. >> i am here. >> oh, there she is in hawaii. >> yes, i'm in hawaii. i bring the sunshine to you all. so i am deeply, deeply appreciative for all of the work of the san francisco coalition against human trafficking. thank you, thank you, judge brielle, antonio, and bonita, for always being there for us. during covid, it has become even more difficult in providing advocacy in this virtual world for trafficked youth. they're likely to fall through the cracks as they're hidden from view during shelter in place, and this was mentioned by our district attorney, and they're trafficked over the internet and over our borders. the juvenile justice focus for children who have been sexually exploited is generally one of girls that we deal with in our system, and they're trafficked locally county by county and

even across state lines. our system involved girls, however, really require a wider lens. none will admit on our first meeting that they mighting victims or at risk of being trafficked, but on further assessment, i would say that 99% of our girls have either been propositioned by pimps or their boyfriends or actively engaged in their own exploitation or previously engaged. they suffer from substance abuse, and many become addicted to heavy drugs such as coke, meth, or heroin provided by their pimps to keep them coming back for more. sadly, we know that system involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice system are at highest risk for exploitation. they experience failed home

environments, multiple placements, and awol. even in foster care placement and juvenile hall, we know of situations where girls are being recruited or pimped by their peers to be sexually exploited. fortunately because of the work that the partners here in the coalition over the past decade, we've seen a huge shift in treating sexually exploited children. no longer are children charged with prostitution in california. we divert them from the juvenile justice system, and we provide humane treatment and resources to heal the child. unfortunately, we have also seen a huge population of undocumented youth who are trafficked by drug pushers and cartels. we are a sanctuary city, and we

must focus on the boys, as well, who have been sexually exploited. they come over the border at a young age, experiencing some of the most horrific circumstances of physical violence or sexual abuse just to come to the u.s. these youth are pawned off on the street corners in the tenderloin, and that was mentioned by mayor breed, to sell their bodies to payoff their debts owed to their traffickers. the majority are unaccompanied youth who suffer from isolation, extreme poverty, and resulting complex trauma. our office has provided incredible advocacy to immediately contact the families in their native countries to secure the birth certificates and work to reunify them or advocate for

other placements or work with our immigration unit for immigration relief or those who might qualify for asylum. so i want to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to the coalition and all of the partners here, and a big congratulations to the awardees for more commitment and dedication to end human traffics in all of its insidious forms, and i really appreciate the opportunity to speak to you all today. thank you. >> thank you so much, patty, and i should mention that patty lee was a modern day abolitionist award winner last year, and i'll turn it back

over to you. >> it is now that i get to introduce one of the -- the project director of one of the leading children's clinics not only here in oakland but the bay area who has been very concerned with the assessment of our children as well as just the care of our children there at west coast children's clinic, and that is, may we welcome hannah haley. >> good morning, everyone, and thank you, to the collaborative for inviting us to share our work today. west coast was founded in 1979 and provides mental health services to 1500 children and youth in the bay area each year. almost all of our clients are involved in either the child

welfare or juvenile justice system. almost all of them are living in low-incomes and almost 86% of their are children of color. we have researched training and policy departments to inform our own practices to see if what we do helps with legislation. by 2009, we had noticed a growing incidents of teens in our program demonstrating troubling behavior, running away, drug concerns, and they were all suspected human trafficking. sea change works with youth through all stages of

exploitation to provide case management and therapy. because the trauma of exploitation occurs within a relationship, that's where we focus or services, as well. our staff offer a relationship that expects nothing in exchange from the youth, countering the message that all relationships are transactional. through this, there's an opportunity for youth to build trust, develop their sense of agency, and restore faith in themselves and other people. we were recently approached by the partners of the san francisco safety opportunity and learning project to provide sea change services to san francisco youth through a pilot project, and we were honored to come on board. the s.f. soul project, as we call it, includes a sand plaster care pilot, a hype

center, and multidisciplinary collaboration with other partners, and we seek to do just that through the project. we are proud to be part of this partnership with the san francisco department on the status of women, freedom forward, huckleberry youth programs and family builders, and to continue building knowledge about how to best meet the needs of children who have been trafficked. and lastly, i just want to congratulate all of the awardees today, but in particular, our own team member, sable, for her award. thank you so much for being part of our team, and we thank you for your work. >> thank you so much, hannah, for those fine words. and moving right along, whenever we have asked for help or have a committee that is seeking help, this person is always raising his hand and volunteering, and that is

homeland security investigations special agency tatium friend, but here -- tatum king, but here at sfcaht, we call him friend. so turn it over to tatum king. >> thank you. again, just tremendous professionals, we know that this work really requires, you know, specialized experience, knowledge, and patience, to thank you very much to them. you know, without their leadership, we would not be successful in working on this

critical issue. so good morning, distinguished speakers and distinguished guests. my name is tatum king, and i'm here to represent homeland security investigations. thank you very much to sfcaht leadership team, cochair hawkins, and executive director levine. these meetings are getting fuller and fuller, and it's all hands on deck, and we appreciate everyone working together. so for sfcaht, they have more than 11 years sustained efforts combatting human trafficking in the bay area. they bring together a wide array of individuals, agencies, organizations to support human trafficking survivors. i would also like to offer my congratulations to the 2021 modern day abolition awardees.

it is their collective grass roots work which has significantly contributed to addressing the -- and discouraging the reason. we at d.h.s. as a d.h.s. partner agency, we understand getting the word out to all agencies, all divisions, is so important to let folks know what to look for and, of course, report it to competent authorities. too often, the perception of our law enforcement work only consists of enforcement actions and incarceration. for h.s.i., we ensure support and recovery of the survivor as our priority. whether or not a particular case results in a criminal prosecution, while ideal,

h.s.i. will still strive to be a voice for all survivors, regardless of immigration status, and provide services to which they are entitled, including immigration assistance, and we work with our partnership agency, united states immigration services to help with obtaining any visas. last year, we established the center for human trafficking, and this is an integrated law enforcement operations center, and this center consolidates 16 d.h.s. programs and is led by homeland security personnel. with this center, together with new partnerships and more public awareness, we believe we can better tackle human

trafficking and provide survivors with the hope they deserve. last year, h.s.i. has grown our team so that we can increase support to survivors, and during 2021, we'll continue our partnerships to continue to work to get the information out. at sfcaht continues to build bridges in our community, this is hope that victims of human human -- and survivors of human trafficking will reach out for help. we are collaborating more efficiently to provide better

awareness and knowledge of the resources available to survivors of human trafficking. thank you very much to sfcaht, coalition on the status of women, c.b.o.s, u.s. department of labor, the f.b.i., u.s. attorney anderson and team as well as district attorneys in the region making san francisco a safer place, and i appreciate your effort. >> thank you very much, special agency king, and thank you for always being there and lending a hand, you and your team. and now, we will hear from craig baird, f.b.i. special agent in charge. >> hi. thank you very much for having me. it's a pleasure to be here. i'd like to thank the u.s.

attorney's office for the northern district of california, san francisco district attorney's office, and the other supporting organizations. so the f.b.i.s work in 2020 certainly was not done in a vacuum. a majority of the operations that we participated in were done with our task forces, and that includes san jose human trafficking task force, the bay area child exploitation task force, the bay area innocence lost working group, san francisco santa clara county working task force, and the vice and child exploitation unit. so our efforts and approach, much like h.s.i., are victim centric, and the ultimate goal these past four environments are to recover victims and investigate traffickers at the state and federal level. the f.b.i. also employs three

victim specialists in our division here in san francisco, and those victim specialists work with victims long after they have been recovered. these task force operations in 2020 have led to the arrest of 42 traffickers who were mostly involved in trafficking of underaged victims, and those operations allowed us to look at 17 underage sex trafficking victims. so the f.b.i. investigates all forms of human trafficking regardless of the victim's age, their nationality. what we're finding is the number of cases are growing, and it's unclear if this is because there's a greater awareness of the problem or because the problem itself is growing. nationwide, the f.b.i. caseload has increased significantly in the past several years, and as of november of 2020, there were more than 1800 pending human

trafficking investigations. 2020 also marked our annual human empowerment annual art, or heart. that art was displayed throughout the bay area, and it's also did i employed in the offices of the f.b.i. here in san francisco. so in closing, human trafficking has been and will continue to remain amongst our highest priorities here at f.b.i. san francisco. thank you very much for having

me today. >> thank you, mr. fair, for all the work that you're doing. i also want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the work for alameda county district attorney o'malley who is also a modern day abolitionist awardee from a couple of years ago, and thank you for being here today. next, we will have herinana utarte, and she's representing the asian women's shelter in san francisco. >> thank you. good morning -- i guess it's good morning. good morning, everyone, and thank you, sfgov, for having me, and congratulations for all our awardees, number one.

many of you know about asian women's shelter. we're an older organization, and we are an agency that provides social services for all survivors of violence in 40-plus languages, including the rare ones like mongolian or arabic. in the last few years, we have expanded our services. we provide shelter in our safe house, but we also provide shelter for women ready to go out on their own. many, many of our trafficking survivors actually have a need for our support. so secondly, i want to highlight also our support for

our survivors of violence. our program here is called queer, asian women, and transgender support. i want to emphasize, that even though we have the word "asian" there, we serve everyone. 70% of our clients do not identify as asian. we know that violence happens in all relationships, and we all know that survivors who are lgbt identified have less and less places to go as opposed to the other folks. and also, when they speak little english, there are less resources for them. i want to share with you that we have quite a bit of cases of

young people especially both in labor and sex trafficking situations, and they run into this situation when they left or disowned by their homophobic or transphobic families. this is something that i would like all of you to think about, and when they come from a smaller community, then, they also face all kinds of persecution by their own communities. any way, i also want to let you know that our work is not only about sadness and strife but happiness and hope. we try to provide as soon as we can wraparound support for our clients and survivors, so i think this is it for now. thank you, sfgov, for highlighting our work, and

thank you all for the opportunity. >> thank you, heriana, and thank you for the great work. judge brielle. >> yes, i just wanted to say to miss dutarte that it's a lucky day when we have a representative from the asian shelter to support survivors. thank you very much for all of your work. we are very lucky because we have now, as our next speaker, a real live deputy consul general, the honorable raquel solano, the honorable philippine general consul for san francisco. >> thank you, city of san francisco mayor london breed, and everyone. the philippine consul in san francisco joins the san francisco coalition against

human trafficking in acknowledging human trafficking month. cognizant of the plight of filipino women and children and even men becoming victims of human trafficking, our country was among the first in the world seeking to prevent trafficking, protect the victims, and prosecute the perpetrators. the antihuman trafficking persons act of 2002, this law has made it possible for the philippines to comprehensively deal with the issue of human trafficking. this law was amended in 2012 with the passage of the public act then 364, or the expanded antitrafficking in persons act

of 2012 which expanded the list of crimes prosecutable in this act. the interagency council against trafficking was created by the head of the department offus i say who moderates for the implementation of these laws. all the philippine foreign service posts are working towards the elimination of human trafficking. the philippines has made significance in its inroads to combatting human trafficking. in 2016, the philippines was declared a tier one country

dealing in trafficking persons report. much still needs to be done, however. every day, women and men continue to fall victims to human trafficking. it is important to hold events such as this to shed light on this serious issue. it is our hope that our collaborative efforts will be able to help us make significant and lasting changes towards finally eliminating the scourge of human trafficking. thank you very much. >> thank you so much, and our last speaker before we get to our awards winners -- our award winners, last, but not least, is lori cohen.

she is the executive director of expat u.s.a. >> thank you, miss hopkins, judge brielle, and the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking for inviting expat u.s.a. to join identifying preventing human trafficking month. expat is the nation's first organization to address the crisis of child sex trafficking and exploitation. founded 30 years ago, it belongs to a global network active in 104 countries, all sharing the goal to halt the on-line sexual exploitation of children, the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, and the sexual exploitation of children in the travel and tourism industry.

we came to prominence when we led a national campaign against the immensely profitable but deeply exploitative child sex industry fueled largely by north american and western european men. with the passage of federal legislation, banning pedophile tourism, we turned our attention to events happening on our home turf. we saw that our youth were being criminalized as child prostitutes, when in fact they were victims of domestic sex trafficking. working with coalitions across this nation, we advocates for safe harbor laws that offered children supportive services instead of arrests and

incarceration. we have an inextra gram campaign by trains educators and students on healthy relationships in -- instagram campaign by trained educators and students on healthy relationships in on-line events, and we do this through our work with local, federal, and state law makers advocating for education and policies that protect our kids while holding exploiters accountable. but our work remains more urgent than ever. the covid pandemic, which has shuttered schools and i say other owe lated students, has also heightened the vulnerablities for child sex trafficking and exploitations. as a response, we quickly rolled out an on-line safety campaign for young people, their families, and educators,

with no nonsense guides on way to protect their virtual identity from predators. the guides are available and downloadable on our website for free in english, spanish, and in honor of today's event, chinese. we have also moved our content to a virtual format so that schools worldwide can participate in our learning workshops. we have launched a free course for the hospitality industry, available in 17 languages, to ensure that hotel workers can identify indicators of human trafficking and respond to it safely and quickly. we are honored to partner with the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking, and we look forward to working with you throughout 2021 and beyond to ensure that every child has

the right to grow up free from the threat of sexual exploitation and trafficking. thank you. >> thank you so much. bonita, i'm going to turn it over to you for the awards, to kick them off. >> yes, the moment that many of us have been waiting for. thank you to all of our speakers this morning. we are so honored to have you all, to take time out of your busy schedules. earlier, i neglected to acknowledge our planning committee members, and i want to do that at this time and thank you all for your hours in preparation for this event, our kickoff event, as well as the rest of our events for national human trafficking awareness

month. our committee members and partners are team from h.s.i., as has been mentioned, mayor breed's office, the department on the status of women, and the women of the national council of jewish women san francisco, who is the sponsor of today's event. thank you, one and all, and for all of the volunteers who were on the committee with us. thank you so-so much. it's at this time that i would like to acknowledge also my fellow award recipients over the years past. we have mentioned patty lee was here with us. if you could just -- those of you that are on the call, i see so many of you, if you could just let us know by raising your hand or giving a shoutout or something to let us know that you are here, that would

be great at this time. i know heriana and, i think, sharon denoa is on the call, who was a fellow awardee with myself the year that we were awarded. thank you all for being here today. and now, it's my greatest pleasure to open our awards ceremony. today is different than any other previous awards ceremony, and that is we have an inaugurate award that we'll be offering today, and it is my greatest pleasure to introduce this person. if you are not familiar with her and her bio, it is on-line

at sfcaht.org, but i'm going to give my own personal experience, so i'm going off script just for two second here today. noah brantley has made an indelible mark on my life. she's an inspiration, an educator, a trainer, master trainer, visionary, and friend. i had the privilege of sitting under her tutelage, her training, when i was first introduced to this issue of human trafficking back in 2007, 8, or 9. i couldn't quite remember the year, but to hear her speak what was happening, and right here in our own backyard. we don't even have to go outside of our state, but right here in our area, i was appalled as an educator in a

school at that time, and i knew then and told her then that our paths would cross. needless to say, i did not know how often our paths would across over the course of these years, but miss brantley has done amazing person and is an amazing person. the person who nominated her said this: miss brantley, with her fierce heart, rare love, and strong vision, created the foundational and necessary blueprint for abolitionists' work in san francisco and beyond. her heart is both the creative force and the enduring model, and i might add, is still used today.

nola brantley is our modern day harriet tubman, sojourner truth, all rolled into one. sometimes we are privilege to walk the earth with someone who possesses tremendous amounts of courage and grace. they are truly magical, and we are blessed to be in their presence. nola brantley is such a soul. it is my greatest pleasure to present sfcahts inaugural member of the decade award -- we had to make it special -- to

nola brantley. >> going to make me cry before i get a chance to say a few words. well, good morning -- good afternoon, actually, everyone. it's both an an who and a pleasure to be receiving this ard with a, especially given the award that it is. thank you so much to the san francisco coalition against human trafficking, and for all the work that you have done. i started my work in 2005, under the leadership of gary thompson, barbara loza, and shandra murray of alameda county. i was joined and supported by local leaders, grass roots organizers, fellow professionals, concerned community members, policy makers, and the faith-based community, and together, we were able to make an incredible

impact. i am so grateful for every single person that i have been supported by on this journey. in the beginning, we were addressing a journey that we had referred to as teenagers in prostitution. thanks to our partners in atlanta, georgia, who had already begun to address this issue, we began to understand it in the sense of exploitation. in the years to umm can, i was introduced to an incredible human being by the name of david backston of not for sale. david helped me connect the dots of people in my community and the broader issue of human trafficking. it was then that i began to understand this issue through the framework of commercial sexual exploitation, the language used in the victim and trafficking protection act of 2000. i was able to learn that commercial sexual exploitation was not the only form of human

trafficking, but there were many, many individuals suffering as victims and survivors of labor trafficking, so thank you to mayor breed and others that have mentioned that because it's important that we begin to highlight that, as well. and since that i am too, it has been a -- since that time, it has been a constant learning journey. collectively, we have been able to learn about that, the needs of the population and how to better support victims and survivors while taking care of ourselves, and we still have so much more to learn. the experiences and knowledge of victims and survivors is key to our continued learning. one thing that has become clear to me over the years of doing this work is that human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation are symptoms of much, much larger societal ills. in order to truly, truly address the issue of human trafficking, we have to be willing, as hard as it is, we

have to be willing to address issues such as historical oppression, abuse of power, and without addressing those core issues, we will never eradicate human trafficking. i would like to dedicate this award to all of the advocates who have dedicated their life to this work. i admire you, and i would like to dedicate this award to my family, who have sacrificed and supported me every single step of the way. i adore you. most importantly, i could not have done any of this without

jesus christ, who strengthens me. thank you. >> thank you, nola. it was at that first global forum with days of stone that we met, and i think the audience can understand the indelible imprint that this person has made in my life. antonio, i'm going to pass it over to you to show off this beautiful plaque and certificate from the mayor's office. [inaudible] >> denise, can you mute yourself? thank you so much. thank you, antonia. and now, our next recipient is

a young lady who is making her mark and making her mark quickly in -- here in the bay area. sable marie horton is a survivor consultant at west coast children's clinic, who we heard from earlier. she is the owner of agape design, and she is the founder and executive director of shades of beauty, and an educator and survivor leader with love never fails. when i first met sable a couple of years ago, i could tell, i could look at her and tell that great things were ahead for

her, and man, has she blossomed, and we're so proud today to honor and award sable marie horton with the award for outstanding advocacy. sable -- well, actually, antonia, will you show us sable's award? yea...and certificate. thank you. and sable, would you share a few words with us? >> sure. thank you so much to everyone for being here today, and thank you so sfcaht for this award. i'm super grateful for it. i actually wrote a poem when i was being trafficked.

it's called, does anyone hear me? >> she can't stop crying, but no one can see her tears. she was forced to grow up so quickly, barely reaching her adult years. she's so young, but has lived through some of her biggest fears and then some. men enjoying her body and threatening her just for fun. they threaten her body with knives, sometimes with guns, and when she thinks it's over, here comes another one, and another, and another, and another, and another, and they come all throughout the night, constantly giving this girl a fright, and finally, she gets mercy, and daddy calls it a night. she's finally allowed to clean herself up in the shower,

finally free to allowed to try to sleep, but she won't be able to, and it won't help to count sheep. she'll have nightmares as she tries to sleep. she's have a smile on her face as people tell her she's adorable. she's expert at walking around outside, but on the inside, she knows she'll have to soon perform for men, knowing to the world that she's invisible, and if she see her wounds, they'll become judgmental. make no mistake, this isn't a choice she decided to make. she's afraid and wounded, and hundreds of times, she's been violated, been raped. wondering in her mind what freedom looks like and to get

there what it would take. this young person, like so many others, has been trapped in the 21 century, and the modern demagoguery slavery. thank you so much for this. >> thank you, sable, for that beautiful poem, and thank you for being here today. now we know why you were recommended by so many people this year for this award. thank you so much. judge brielle, for our next awardee? >> i just want to say to sable that there's many things in the chat box, and one of them says thank you, sable, for your fierce vulnerablity, and we all thank you, and we all want you to know that we see you and we hear you, just to respond to your poem. i am very excited about our next award winner. it's the modern day

abolitionist award winner. our award winner is carly murray with huckleberry youth program. carly has worked with huckleberry youth programs since 2016 on the huckleberry advocacy and response team, and that's for youth experiencing sexual exploitation. in addition, carly has provided a variety of training, shaping city and statewide policies supporting vulnerable youth here in san francisco. her successful youth has been based on honoring the guiding principle that youth are experts in their own experiences, and that effectively supporting them involves prioritizing their voices and their definitions of

safety, well-being, and justice, and i just have to really say that carly devlin has made me a much better judge by listening to her, having better conversations, and having her, like, personally helped me and trained me on many of these issues. i could not be more proud to present this award to carly devlin. >> thank you. it is such an honor to be recognized by sfcaht for hard work, for huckleberry's work. i just wanted to start by recognizing my team, and they are working hard to provide the direct support to young people that we work with.

[names read] >> and i am so deeply appreciative of their contributions, creating heart, sustaining heart, and just the approach that everyone has created around youth empowerment, equity, and harm reduction, so these are all really incredible people, and we have really seen that young people can move towards healing, and when providers and systems truly meet them where they're at. and i also want to thank the many bay area partners and across the state that i've had the pleasure to work with in the last couple of years. it's been a pleasure to work with everyone and move the needle forward when it comes to systems and policies that can benefit young people. and i also wake up every day thinking about the young people that we work with, and i want to recognize and prioritize that reason why we're all here is youth themselves and really holding that their voices and erns spoos should lead the work we're doing, especially taking

into account the issues of marginalization, invisiblization, especially classes of young people and thinking through issues of equity. i think our role is to provide support and change the systems that enable this issue all coming from youth centered perspectives. i have been and am so humbled to witness so many young people's processes in doing this. it's great in receiving this recognition and all of the work that's being done around the bay area with these young people and for these young people. thank you. >> thank you so much, carly, and i know you're not on video, but antonia, can you show the plaque and the mayor's

commendation. just know it's there for you, and it's very impressive, carly. so turning now to our next modern day abolitionist award, and this is for outstanding legal policy and achievement, this award goes to ruth silver cow. she is the attorney at the catherine and george [inaudible] a delegate to santa clara human trafficking commission, and coordinator of the santa clara wage theft coalition. ruth has conducted numerous trainings on civil litigation and human trafficking cases. she has assisted forced labor human trafficking clients, seeking civil remedies. she has trained transit

operators to identify human trafficking, and she has partnered with minority bar associations to hold clinics to screen for human trafficking. ruth's tireless and highly inspirational work in advocacy has yielded numerous awards, and we are proud to add to that, sfcahts prestigious award. ruth? >> thank you so much to the collaborative, and judge brielle, i echo the sentiments in the morning at the very beginning. i'm humbled to be a recipient of this award and in the company of such colleagues.

the name of the award abolitionist harkens back to my days teaching at a school in sierra leone. the british navy intercepted slave ships and settled liberated slaves in sierra leone after the liberated the slave trade in 1803. however, they were never truly liberated. they were sold for amounts as slow as $20 to british under

the false premise of apprenticeships. today, labor trafficking victims are unpaid or receive minimal pay, and they're forced or coerced into working against their will. in the past few years, the south bay coalition has participated in operations in cases that are eerily similar to the 1800s. care homeworkers receiving little pay rate, forced to clean assault weapons and threatened with deportation. a man forced to live in the back room of a liquor store and forced to wash up in a sink, 15 people living on the floor of an apartment, and a worker told he'd be forced to jump off

golden gate bridge if he tried to escape. unfortunately, trafficking abounds in our culture, and there's little understanding of what trafficking really entails. it's falsely equated with smuggling. it conjures up images of barbed wire fences. to dispel these myths, there's been training of hotel workers. this morning, before this ceremony, i trained both v.t.a. bus drivers, who i've trained for almost six years, as well as sfmta bus drivers that i've been training for several months. i also was gratified to hear

d.a. chesa boudin about trainings in the area. fairly recent positive developments include the fact that by statute, the department of fair employment and housing now has jurisdiction over civil sex and labor trafficking claims. wage theft is a pernicious part of human trafficking and, at the location i trafficking, we screen for trafficking. i started a coalition six years ago to advocate for legislation at the local level to combat wage theft which will help to combat and detect wage trafficking. we've had success in enacting wage theft legislation, but

there's more work to be done. we need to eradicate the system that was established in the 1800s to an intersectional and collaborative approach, which all of these attendees are doing. with the work of the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking, my fellow awardees, and the attendees, i'm optimistic that we will make great strides. again, i'm grateful to you all for your work, i'm grateful to the san francisco collaborative against human trafficking for honoring me today with a modern-day abolitionist award. thank you all for the great work you do. >> thank you so much, ruth. antonia is showing the plaque to everyone, and i love what you said about wage theft being a pernicious part of human

trafficking, and who knew that there was a canadian peace corps. thank you so much for all of your hard work, and i'm going to turn it over to you, bonita. >> thank you, ruth. >> thank you, judge brielle, and thank you, ruth, so much, for all the work that you have done over the years. we so appreciate you. last, but not last, we would like to honor our last two awardees. this is the second time that i'm aware that we have coawardees, and these two are being recognized as modern day abolitionists for outstanding

modern day abolition. betty ann kavanaugh, and brian wo, the chief program officer and cofounder of the bay area antitrafficking coalition. we'd like to call baatc -- have both been prominent leaders and speakers throughout the community on this issue and has been instrumental in their strategies to fight human trafficking. in betty ann's case, it has been over 18 years. she started her career with international justice mission, whom i'm sure we all know. she has worked collaboratively with over 100 antitrafficking organizations and government agencies here in the bay area

and around the world, and i think that she would say that the most compelling and the most rewarding, teachable experience that she has been a part of has been her 18 months that she spent interviewing former human traffickers in san quentin prison to better understand the lucrative business practices and to inform the development of baatcs current strategies and programs. brian, on the other hand, participated in an antitrafficking work back in 2008 in thailand, and that opened his eyes to this travesty of a crime here in our area.

he worked diligently to dill collaborative networks through outreach organizations, service providers, and government agencies, and both of them have been very instrumental -- the district attorney mentioned the training at the airport, and mayor breed mentioned that, as well. they have been instrumental in a lot of the training at all of our local airports here in the area as well as restaurants and hotels and motels. it gives me great pleasure to introduce and to award betty ann kavanaugh and brian wo the modern day abolitionists award for outstanding community in