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fact, i'm counting on it still involved in serving district 4 so we can have a corrective agenda and keep on working for workers and community. >> legislative chamber, room 250 - city hall, 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, san francisco, ca. and um, forum the rights of immigrants? important we have that iron on this board this reflect the population of san francisco and i have been grateful to serve on the board and have no doubt all be involved and thank you very much for given up four years of our life for the wonderful city. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor dorsey. >> supervisor mandelman i want to thank supervisor mar for four years ago for serving excellently for working along
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with the staff trying to do and doing tonight especially you made a mark around the city's commitment to the environment to advancing is environmental agenda around transportation and um, you know, often i observed some of the things you've be able to do i wish i was doing that so um, i outcome, you know, wanted to commend and thank you for that and being could i person and someone that i could in disagreement never been personal always been like that is okay. so i issue wish you all the best you'll continue to serve for the rest of our life.
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thank you. >> supervisor mandelman and . >> commissioner chan and supervisor dorsey express any growled four leadership on public safety and role my work with you and your office on those issues preceded my time during the couple of years with the police department and had the opportunity to work with you and appreciated the excellent questions and detail you brought to things like police staffing and violence during a time was, you know, joined the police department two weeks before covid 19 and watched had was happening and appreciated our living room on that as well as police staffing and some of the hate crimes in the district i remember in particular i think that was the first one with the board of supervisors when they
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while if you could detail the elective to be harmonized with it and now i don't work with the police department you have the permission to carry the day but you're leadership is valued and important i hope we have the opportunity if work with again thanks so much. >> thank you and supervisor ronen well a huge loss to it board of supervisors and how this gain to selling thrilled those jobs take our time and energy i think earned you're right to give to the family i
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remember you best from your days of executive director with the association when i was a baby lawyer and i, you know, that commitment to justice has never left you it has been part of you all the time. you've been consistent and i'm role excited to see how you took our energies and experience you're next endeavor i know we'll keep in touch and thank you, for you service. >> thank you supervisor ronen. >> supervisor preston i join so many of the comments i'll say i was thinking about your accomplishment on the board usually likely a few main things i had a list of 10 things were
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you've done multiple legislation in each one in love ways one of the more prolific supervisors in terms of the range of important issues you worked on for the boards and folks touched on a lot of them and in particular work you're workers rights and veterans elevating. >> free city and to name a few stood out for me, i think as i was or not on our roll on the board and i think enjoyed working with you, you thinking about where you came to the position from and organizing and like the background like supervisor ronen mentioned that
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brought a unique perspective to love your work and where i really noticed i know a lasting impact we see evidence in the work but don't talk about the origins in san francisco and the incredible power alliance between let the record show and affordable housing. so and a lot of that is the work your work getting some planting so many seeds in our work and very deliciously roeshgz that affordable housing and fair wages and the workers are to sides of coin and it has been years and continue to grow that relationship in the housing on workers reports you worked on but really shows up in every election and every issue that
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comes before us and part of outcome what the successes we have so around affordable housing. i think are in large part because of that labor and affordable housing you have had supervisors before a major hand in crafting that and suspect you'll continue to do so though our toilet of district four thank you, supervisor mar for you friendship and also just for really being in this work i think for all the rights reasons putting your heart and goal into that and pleasure to serve with you and our constituents and look forward to continuing to work with you on all the issues
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we worked on together. >> thank you supervisor preston. >> supervisor stefani thank you, supervisor walton we spent a lot of time together on that committee and um, you know, you've been one of the strongest advocates for seniors and veterans and i've been role happy to co-sponsorship and thank you for reaching out in presidio we've the only ones through it is important to see oath supervisor there and thank you, for your commitment to the veterans and gone about the veterans for affordable housing the fact you used the facilities on property for veterans and i
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in san francisco also, of course, what you've done with the actual people to make sure they're paid fairly their deployed that work is so important i alters want to echo thank you for being a could i decent nice man, you know, and i have not been on the side of the same issue identifying never believed and oh, my god he's such a jerky never thought that and jobs are stressful and people get passionate and i hope you stick around and wish you
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well with our family and a break from all this we'll missed you thank you, for you service. >> thank you supervisor stefani and supervisor safai. >> supervisor walton and supervisor dorsey i two have enjoyed working with you and been on the budget committee our time back to the jobs for judicious was there with the generated union and doing work with the work section act and prevailing wage all that work i think that was what was annoyed burglary working with you nice to have someone that came from the labor movement i saw each and he every time the legislation you're thinking about the workers working families was important how that works as ms. calvillo and others have said not someone on my time
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on the board a loud advocate for veterans and people that serve our country in that regard so thank you for allowing me to it was fun serving with you and enjoyed you're working together and we'll continue to have ways to find work to continue to advance those causes so thank you for all you do. >> thank you . thank you. >> first of all, thank you for all the roll could i and words that yeah means a lot to me and - but i'll try to keep it concise and brief that's my
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identical (laughter) and been a long meeting this commendation is the last between our winter recess i want to start by staying a tremendous, however, to serve with the board of supervisors and really just bold brilliant and could i and creative and generally cordial body and i've learned something from all of you and each of you and had the pleasure and the privilege of working with each of you in majestic meaningful ways and all supervisors and,
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you know, i was regulating reflecting on once in a generation the emergency, you know, board has the covid 19 pandemic defined so much of my time in this office and the all we have done over the past 4 years presented unprecedented challenges i think this body role truly rose to moot in protecting public safety and pretending eviction and 123gd the economy and the future of adopt we adopted to meet the needs and acted swiftly and bravely and together and proud of our collective work to store the city through a crisis. and if it board is remembered for nothing else we'll be remind for
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that and hoping also remember the silver city of lincoln that have come in the pandemic and proved positive this city can do things together from shared spaces to community ambassadors and more. and while the pandemic shaped our work we didn't loss so i get of other challenges we're facing the murder of george floyd and black lives exchanged us to think more deeply and to religious to lgbtq attracts to have a public safety in pertaining violence and
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aiding bigotry of any kind and our democracy is in a crisis and city must be a beacon for the democratic values and justice in the midst we have faced did ticking clock of climate change and climate crises and that board of supervisors have pushed posh to make climate change a reality so thank you, colleagues for all you've deposit plus a big and behold and flashy work with the everyday silent serviced virginia has been honor and privilege set the record straight with madam city clerk, and all the clerks officer and i
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had the honor to- a sfgov staff you guys are incredible with the professionalism and dedication and you allow us to do our work thank you to all of you and to deputy city attorney and the deputy city attorney that we worked on so many poise of legislation and helping us to take our policy ideas and turn it into policy legislation and why we couldn't do that and then really appreciate all the support for the budget and legislative analyst and harvey milk but campbell working on quite a few important policies and one will come out this week
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and dan and others for all the staff they provide staffing for the budget committee work. outcome and i want to thank all the public servants in the department we worked on a widow range of issues and too many to name but express my appreciation to the public servant in san francisco and then role to thank just to thanks to the organization advocates who have held us accountable and we saw some of them on critical issues tonight that is important that is where i came from that is incredibly part of my work over the last 4 years working with you all and finally wanted to
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outcome just thank my incredible district 4 team, you know, i had over the past four years i can't say enough i haven't acknowledged all the work incredible work you've done in the past four years i apologize for that but wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the staff and maybe starting with the current staff rambo the newest member and supervisor chan and just done incredible work especially supporting the small businesses and responding to our constituent acquires can be quite a lot of work you guys know and also our dedicated we really bend from dedicated policy- randolph and jeff who
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acted at volunteer in the office to roll appreciate that and then also low was important part of our staff team and important work particularly working with the communities that created the chinese district and baby quan lived in integrity 7 and grew up there an incredible part of our team and leading the work on affordable housing and development that we move forward significantly over the last four years in the sunset and allen yeah with the team from the beginning the incredible i think people have spoken about some of the major accomplishment supporting the veterans and the crime preservation through the policing act and free city
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college for 10 years. and then finally league of women voters edward wright has just yeah was my campaign manager my heros and then he's role just played an incredible roll in all the work and i did want to mention the nature policies that edward worked on because it is significant and has not gotten credit but edward with the the key political strategist for dark money and public financing 2.0 and the climate action plan work with the decarbonization and later the great highway park like a special role special and
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end by role thanking my family and starting with my brother the first real supervisor supervisor dorsey and incredible and any wifi and daughter lord to the unexpected opportunity to spend a lot of time with my family especially any daughter is graduating from high school optimums i want to make somehow closing remarks i reflected often this and graph to have the opportunity in the sunset and i started this journey start to run for district 4 a few members
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of the board told me what couldn't be done and a labor organizer and leader and we couldn't win and spent 4 years chief executive officer and changing the trajectory of the sunset and challenging has considered potential for this in the city and while we feel short of winning a second term we got done and i'm doping proud of our record and accomplishments and i did want to summarize in my own words when i took office had the worst housing production record losing more affordable housing than built and we spearheaded
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the first homelessness and supportive housing in the district and the first affordable housing perspective acquisition and broke ground 0 on the future housing property and had the vision to create the sunset chinese are culture and the great highway and outer sunset and climate action plan plan for district had their fair share of the money and the dark money disclosure nomination and free city college and let the record show rights for hundreds of thousand ever workers and community policing and report on hate crimes and pass groundbreaking policy and our time is not coming to a close sunset will help to forward the
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projects mobility study including a new community shuttle and our climate action plan plan will move forward and to join us on promenade on sunday to continuing the weekend walkway. >> continue the holiday season and we'll have e bicycle santa clause you want to end by saying i love this role and work more hopeful than ever. as an organizer and activist for decades i know it is owes to be generated to see government as a vehicle but i'm confident than i was four years ago in the ability of government to be a force and to curtail government overreach to write laws and i do
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having said that, want to acknowledge and thank the oasis shelter family twoertd janitor it showed up to share their stories and remind us of the challenges and clothes e colleagues, any work fighting formal working people in process began when i entered this office and not ending so for many, many years and i'm not going anywhere to i work for a economy and liveable planet and will continue thank you, been a great honor thank you,
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(clapping.) thank you, supervisor mar you are a class act and city clerk and 50 and then on item 50 and then take a picture in the well. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> and supervisor mar, aye. >> supervisor melgar, aye. >> supervisor peskin, aye. >> xheshgd, aye. >> supervisor ronen, aye. >> supervisor safai, aye. >> supervisor stefani, aye. >> supervisor walton, aye.
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>> (clapping) all right. madam city clerk, do we have any imperative items. >> none to present. >> please today's meeting many in memoriam of following individuals on behalf of supervisor mandelman for the lace co-counsels is on above the supervisor mar and supervisor peskin for michael and on behalf of supervisor peskin francis collins and supervisor mar for the last scott. >> madam city clerk, any more business before today? >> that concludes our business
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