today, today. >> oh, deep in my heart (music). >> i- feel that we shall overcome today. (music). >> the truth will set us free. >> but who will set us free. the truth will set us free (music). >> today. >> today.

>> oh, deep in our heart. we do believe that the truth will set us free today (music). >> we are not afraid no, we are not afraid. (music). >> we are not afraid today.

(singing). >> oh, we deep in our hearts. we over (unintelligible) we are not afraid today. (singing). >> we shall overcome we shall overcome. oh, we shall overcome (singing). >> we shall overcome we shall overcome today. (music).

>> oh, we deep in our hearts. (music). >> that we shall overcome oh, yes. yes. i'll overcome we shall overcome. we shall overcome someday. (music).

>> (clapping) thank you, lawrence perfect keynote speaker is doctor, is the social vice president safety and at the university of southern california. he's a veteran of three law enforcement agencies a former fbi situate agent a professor of homeland security. and was president on the first nominated g s a a security analyst to enormous in depth and consultants around the world and earned the great-granddaughter from brown university and master in doctorates in public policy from

usc let's welcome dr. >> thank you, mr. williams and before i start how about raurmdz for brother lawrence (clapping.) laurence i gave me chills brought me back to my days when around the church that is new jersey and ground and thank you for the honor and privilege to contribute to the black history month and mayor breed an honor to be here from our colleague mayor basing i spent a lot of time with her the last two weeks more than years we commensurate this be period of recognition we do so with a clear understanding

of mayor breed seven hundred earlier we stand on the shoulders of giant and as mentioned in 1619 project the very people that are not supposed to be part of our democracy have played a role in creating. as mentioned he i was professor in public policy with the public service but as i share any thoughts today, i'm going to ask our permission if i can get personal? resistance is historical and essential component our our basically 150i6r8 consistently be mindful of that regard and i spent a lot of time in my home office and have images of black leader and icon or so and looking at them i

feel like i owe a debt. i remember john smith in the 1956 olympics and was disconsent and storm trorpdz by a legendary broadcast in apple open delay mohammed ali not fighting for a country. and carolyn appropriately acknowledged on other posture for today is event those men have a core conviction that racism and decisions endure and held to their beliefs and lost their ability to work their

career was taken from them because they challenged and gave up their careers in the fourns of resistance and given that some people might is they were unsuccessful i disagree after the point so i'm asking you had you're willing sacrifice and led those those within the organizations and institutions where change is over due we need to be inside of capital and by the way, that is a phrase i didn't create bikeway i'll talk about that in a moment a cool realty we're allowed to have the accomplishment of our people and a core the nation and our hard-earned senate and people want to force to reshape to reflect their own image for the

last year and a half suppression laws were passed and more recently the deconstruction mentioned of martin luther king jr. and the ap african-american studies obviously the need to resistance and you may be asking yourself how did this square with a guy with a long career with law enforcement including the fbi. so say fbi that was notorious for a program that was designed to pit blacks against each other and targeting change where die get off to resist i'll talk about my journey i'm a son of educators i grew up in new jersey town. like many of my

friends i want to be a star athletic for education my mother said your education is the only thing they can't take from you by the way, she was the same mom the first african-american with graduated (clapping.) my parents made sure i know about groups that development the processing for globetrotters and made sure a son of a parent that, you know, invented the gas mask. my parents participate in the march on working they practice what they preach to make sure i was watching and learning and as a teenager my interaction to be assaulted and

led to the conclusion that was a profession i didn't want to be part of the police and following light foot acceptance of resistance at brown university i participated in 75 take over of the university hall and protesting the lack of hispanics and other professors and demand students of color brought this- i got kicked out of brown. and i marched around the university hall and my hands were swollen and at that time i'm going to say that mile-an-hour wifi knows at that time i was like anything else i thought i knew everything and complained about everything. fm one day my 2k5d had enough said you can't change the capital from outside. so the

resistance with the construction of our goal but comes as a time ignorance is growing everyday by leaps and bound here's my dismr. chairman. i no longer wait my time when obama was elected the president of the united states and no longer building in people that- we don't live on the same planet how do we grapple with the obvious? >> understand there is a movement to roll back the cloud with that a mayor breed mentioned hate crimes targeting

african-american and asian and jews and identifies white supremacist we will not ignore those dynamics perpetuate both sides of hate. (clapping.) so my resistance is often on display had i talk about the facts we need to have the regressive statement this is a person opinion this is also true in law enforcement. how many times after an event can we hear we need better training and body cameras and length-

>> it is fare the police officers as a national model no, no. we should talk about cities with no deadly uncounters with the blacks and residents. >> (clapping) places where offices deescalate and have alternatives before and those departments and cities should be held up as examples and accept nothing less we gather this month to recognize the staff that the focus that mayor breed mentioned for that has to be a strategy. resistance means influencing the constitution and systems that facilitate just and accountability and transparency we displaced it for decades how do we do that? i'll give we

continue to protest and martin luther king jr. and parks are shining examples. two, we hold our elected officers position at the ballot boxes and lastly, we compartment of and manage the institutions that govern our lives and one way to have accountability we resisted the steering committee h status quo we need first hand finding as well as something like this to those solutions. this includes challenges for law enforcement and homeless and public housing

marin county and dream without a plan it not a plan ask yourself what you're doing inside of the capital 9 black women serving as mayors in over one hundred cities we are honored to be one of them on this occasion (clapping.) so i'll end by saying this is how change happens. there inside of the capital will join them join me in the words of mayor breed our responsibility to stand up for equity and fairness and civil rights. thank you very

much. >> thank you dr. >> okay. the- >> next item i'm on the agenda um, will be ginger vice president will come up and make some announcements and talk about um, events coming up. okay. >> (clapping) how do you do everyone i'm amazed you came out but i'm blessed we're blessed to be in the presence of one another not having to worry covid 19. >> and i appreciate those wearing their masks hi grant. a lot of familiar faces

(laughter) a lot of familiar faces so we're happy to have you here. um, fantastic. thank you very much. >> that's the heart of our journey here. and resistance with a positive outcome. so just a few announcements. um, i want to honor again david johnson and his wife. david every time i see him, i want to sing happy birthday. and so you may want to congratulate him on all the wisdom of years and i'm so sorry you missed some of you might have missed his photo exhibit. that was hanging over here in

the north light court so you may be able to get that online. go to the website and i may be able to find that for you. >> so february may be the 140r9ist most of the year but black history month events are occurring everyday. everyday around that city in our community and churches and organizations, you know, in our homes and also across the bay make sure to check out and learn something you can learn something new that the black history month contributions in this great country. and not just our history but culture and the way we live and other contributions. so a few other announcements the society will sponsor yet another genealogy

workshop on february 18th at 11 o'clock at working community center our first in-person um, genealogy workshop and getting it started in march of 2020. >> we hope that you want to join us let us know go the registration desk if you preregistration we want that and or go to the website faa f g s.org and ask the desk to register. you never know you may need to have some sort of inventlogy background to be eligibility for reparation but to go through where you, you came from how you connect with the past. and the future. two

members on february 18th as 11 o'clock at booker t washington service center and asked to invite to hear john a historian of black history month who will make a presentation on the black history month at home black resistance at w a m e church tomorrow i don't know the time so- you have the time [off mic.] >> john are you here? >> okay. go to the website and if you like to hear john got a wealth of information about san francisco and african-americans role john is the author of several books related to history and served as a trustee of the

martin luther king alabama. we also want to notify you to visit our table to look at 9 material if you want to join us please do if you want to in the generallogy workshop but after this join us out to join in a second line does everyone know what a second line it? >> the new orleans with black resistance comes black joy. and black joy is inclusive everyone can join in without marching we are walking we're going to stroll. and we are going to be doing this so the sound of the

courtesy san francisco public library walking through the library if you have a hang any get it out get into the spirit if you want to waive our cloth and remedy black history is everyday. thank you. >> (clapping) >> okay. thank you ginger and that brings us to the end of our program my apologies we ran a little bit over but let's take a moment and give dr. seiuers and reverend shaw thank you for your presentation and brings us to the- i want to mention we have the programs sponsors that

supported this and make that possible for the contributions for society. board members of the society are listed as well we want to thank them for their hard work and attraction and as ginger said any interest in history for the just african-american history but all the histories intersect we love to have you been part of society. and with that, we want to thank you thank you for being here. and this afternoon and lawrence you having a mic will sing a song on the way out you don't have to sing on the way out. >> okay. >> the impediment is- all

that stand in the way because it is the way. all that stands in the way because it is the way. so we're going to do a bill withers lay it on me. let that play right there. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. >> (laughter.) >> (music). >> put your hands together for the music for the music.

>> (music). >> more music. >> (singing). >> if you need someone to lean on. >> some >> more music. >> times you have what this is a we all have days we have sorrow yeah. >> yeah. >> if you are one. >> we know that there always tomorrow. >> always tomorrow. >> lean on me. >> when you're not strong i'll be your help you carry on more music. >> it won't be long what? >> someone to lean on.

>> if there is a law music. >> what? >> that you- >> oh, i follow your path if you have days what. >> what you going to sing. >> call on me brother when you need a hand. >> we all need somebody to lean on. >> i just might have a problem that you understand. we all need somebody to lean on. >> yeah. >> lean on me. yeah. >> when you're not strong. i'll

be friend i'll help you carry on. >> for it won't be long. >> for what? i know you'll need somebody to lean on. >> what you going to sing. >> just call on me brother when you need a hand. >> we all need somebody to lean on (singing). >> i just might have a problem that you understand. >> we all need somebody to lean on. >> lean opec me when you're not strong i'll be your friend i'll help you carry on. >> that won't be long actually,

i'm going to need somebody to lean on. >> i call me. >> call me. >> call me. >> call me. >> call me call me. >> yeah. >> give yourself a hand. >> just call on me brother when need a hand. we all need somebody to lean on (singing). >> i just might have a problem that you you'll understand. >> we all need somebody to lean on. we all need. >> oh, yeah. >> we all neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>> alright. hello. welcome. thank you. thank you for making time out of our your day and thank city hall and (inaudible) let's give them all a big hand. [applause] also to make sure if all families here, make sure to give them love and hug after this, because great thing we couldn't be here without significant others friends, family. they like us to coach an dre and i to hand out the certificates for winning the

state championship, which is quite a honor and we are really excited to put ourselves in there and we came a long way and there was a lot of growth in our young men and women who help out the team. we are going to start with-teammates if you can come up, i'll shake your hand and coach dre will give you a certificate. first one is andre patrilli. [applause] andres (inaudible) a sophomore pulled up this year and did a great job for us at the end of the year. it was awesome. [applause]

angle luna, another sophomore coming up. is he around? that's a no. [applause] anthony (inaudible) another young men that got a lot of reps at the end of the year. great for our team and looking for him in the future. [applause] chester bliss. [applause] is chester here. he is wrestling, sorry about that. one of our off-season commitments. that's great. (inaudible) [applause] junior played reserver and db for us, had a great year. dion solis i think he is at

the wrestling match as well. senior. dante moore. he's not here. diego (inaudible) one of our fine young juniors coming back next year. looking for great things from him. doing well in school also. [applause] dominic is here. [applause] doesn't look like it. a lot not here. dominic alano [applause] great kid, great family, great to have him ball with the team. appreciate him. his nickname is gascone. emanuel

haro. [applause] sorry. evan lou, are you here? another of our late additions, came up, did a great job for us. probably one of the best projects ever, can ever play football in his life and ends up starting on a state championship, p hilpe [applause] the silence giant, gabriel. [applause] we have a wrong spelling. good job. don't worry. don't get mad at me because it is spelled wrong. you are too

big. gordon are you here? yes. [applause] another of our young new players, which is great. then our favorite young man, harrison brown. [applause] harrison is a junior or sophomore? sophomore or junior? junior. great kid. [applause] i tried to get this guy to speak on the team behalf and he never shuts up, but now he doesn't want to talk. henry flores. [applause] another one year player, ivan tran, came out, had a great year for us.

[applause] jad hamadala. his brother played for us, so we had to take him on. [laughter] jamel newman, a junior, had a great year. [applause] back in the year of the aaa. as you know, you saw the article in the paper about how fast this guy moves. we might not make it out of here till 5:30 if he comes up here, jalen lopez, the sloth. there he comes. there it is. [applause] there it is. that's what we are looking at. that

is the hurryness of going to class right there. that's our guy. jose (inaudible) [applause] another great sophomore for us. played great job at the end of the year. caden woo, another junior coming up. is he here? we'll clap for him anyway. is he wristling? kevin (inaudible) great addition to the team, there every day, playing hard. kevin wright. kevin here? that's right, he's on

the bus. kevin zow. [applause] we love kevin on the field. does a great job in the classroom also. kyle miranda. [applause] junior. is latu here today? [applause] our freshman. he had a fun year playing a bunch of positions. did a great job. known him since he's about 5. he has pajama's on still. (inaudible) big laz! [applause] plays volley ball also. great

kid. leo kessler, i think he's wrestling. sorry about that. luke ranier, first year player came from another school. does a great job for us. (inaudible) luke (inaudible) one of our young junior coming out, playing for us, doing a great job. first year. [applause] matthew chu. [applause] one of our sophomores came up, great practice player, going to be a great player for us in a up couple years. i don't know what to say about this, i might cry, about i know practice wasn't his favorite

thing. but, he did a great job when we needed him and he's always interesting. melvin. also defensive lineman of the year. [applause] michael's not here. (inaudible) is he wrestling? thank you. good we are all wrestling. miles hamlen. i know he is human but don't know what planet he's from. miles is a great kid. i'm not saying his last name, just calling him

by his nickname, putter. i cannot say your last name. [applause] great guy coming out. great job. renee taylor. [applause] 125 pounds of muscle. this kid was a great player for us this year. unbelievable. really loved him and he's great teammate to a lot of people and are really showed what great heart and great determination can happen on the field. thank you renee. this guy. what a pain in the butt. i'm just kidding as usual. this young man had a great year, got hurt first week of the year. he's a big guy coming back but he's specting a lot of

things out of him and just told him to make sure you get ready and make sure you come and play. as we saw the last 3 weeks of the season, he had three touch downs, turkey day, two touch downs and heart and soul of our team and we loved him and still love him. rickey underwood. [applause] so, this is a greatest guy in the world, ryan tan. [applause] him and cruise would screw up where to line up and couldn't believe a 4.0 student could get messed up where to stand.

[applause] and then we have another junior, ryan is a junior also. we got another junior named (inaudible) is yo here? played outside line backer and full back. did a great job and looking forward to great things from him in the future. [applause] is sid here? sid. you going to come up or you want me to bring it down? sid hurt his leg, and sid just stand up, say hi. came up the end of the year, did a great job for us. really bought if to the deal. [applause] thank you sid. so, tao carter, one of our sophomores. got

great athletic ability. can double as a male model. he's great. [applause] timothy chan, our next-tim. first year player, came out, played hard. [applause] victor baros, is he here today? no, he's not. that's right. so, probably bun one of the greatest-he's got the best gpa ever. i'm jealous of him because he's handsome and great guy, great leader he was for us. very unassuming. what a jump he had from his junior to

senior year becoming a leader and doing everything he wanted to do and, just really happy for him. he has a great future. he's got-applied to a bunch of great colleges back east, i think harvard, i think columbia. a bunch of stuff for the male model as we call him. vincent wang. [applause] here's another one. he wanted to play football since he was about 8 years old because his brother played for us in 2016 and never got in lincoln until last year and it is great we gave (inaudible) which is a great package. now they are leaving. so sad. it is great. they are here forever. great guy and had a great game on turkey day and all

year. xavier. [applause] yes. our guy. probably did a great job, one of the best improvement i have seen over a year him getting better every time he came out. goes to show what you do when you want to work and we got to get them working next year to get them better again. (inaudible) lee. [applause] and then we have (inaudible). is allen here? yes. [applause]

hurt his shoulder last year, came back and contributed in the amount he could. [applause] now we got the managers. probably one of the better ones we ever had. ava (inaudible) [applause] is ava here? there she is. is dena jordan here? no. the girls-okay. get a couple more here. excuse me. alise hammond who has been

with us 18 years. she is our athletic trainer. i think she might have a game tonight but has been a great asset to our school and our program over the say 18 years. just a really good person. katie isn't here. and then we've got the twins. the only reason i get to tell one of them apart is because they have a dot on their nose and that is princess and the other is stephanie and i get confused all the time but they do a great job. couldn't do anything without them. unbelievable. [applause] unbelievable, great teammates, great girls. hold on. >> thank you.

>> so, now we are going to get to the underpaid people, the coaches. couple things. okay. to use this term as a coach is great. so, i first met this young man in 2006 or 7. i think it was-he was in my pe class and he wanted to play football. we asked him where his counselor was and he said i have no idea and we brought him out to be the ball boy and he refused to take washington ball because he didn't want to touch it. my coach had to coach on the side line and by the ball boy at the same time. so, now he's got a life time contract. let me tell you, it is a tough one. we love him. he takes (inaudible) at the

games, put down all the film. does a great job. edison zou. [applause] so, very lucky. all my coaches have either coach (inaudible) i played for and all the other coaches i coached so very fortunate to have people who know what we want and how we can learn from each other and this young man played in a state champion shp for us in 2018 and came to coach with us and doing a great job.

jovanna serrano. [applause] so, we have a couple who are not here. william chan, and are coach dougherty are not here today. very proud to have this for my old coach. making a better coach every day and great to reopen our relationship, ed coda. [applause] here's another one that is a great one. this guy saw me when i had hair in

1986. amazing. i coached him in 1986 from 1988 or 89 at lincoln high school and now he's a counselor and big cogg to the wheel and so blessed to have him in my life, again. omar campos. [applause] so, i think that's everybody that's here. oh, no! [laughter] no. this guy is amazing. met him in 20 o3 my first time driving on lincoln

campus when i got the job in 2002 i thipg it wasment looked at the cat walk and first job second year, first job was mission and second job here, and him and all his buddies were up stairs and they had nothing. they didn't have any helmets, no direction and we were very fortunate to turn that around for them. you didn't score a point for 10 years, and he was ready for it. one of the greatest players we ever had. also just great heart, great spirit. he lives the 3d's. dedicate, have the discipline to do it every day and have it desire to be great. three things we live by and do our best and i'm very proud to be in this man's life and proud to be here presenting this to him. andre walker thomas.

[applause] so, as usual, can't get out of here without thanking my wife and family. so, honey, thank you so much. my wife, my son, my son in law, my daughter and my granddaughter who bosses me around like i boss the team around. [applause] so, and just if we haven't said anything they want me to kill a little time, but at the same time, what else to say? we started out a little shady, but we all knew as coaches we could get it together and then our kids started believing in themselves and it isn't rocket science. you got to make sure as a team,s it is there for everybody. you are not here sometimes, not here other times. if you are not go toog

make it you have to make sure you communicate. communication is key in life. you got to make sure you are there, especially being part of a team. so, that is huge. i think we got better at communicating as coaches and better at communicating as athletes and students. that was the perfect. we are very fortunate to be able to catch fire at the end of the year and play real hard for each other so really proud and happy for the backing of our administration, adrian and sherry and principals and athletics directors so very fochinate fortunate to be where we are and happy to be where we are today, so, thank you. [applause] i have nothing else. [laughter] i think it is principal bolisi. i think you are next.

the mayor is coming in a few minutes. she's a little late. okay. just hang out. [laughter] thank you.

>> our special guest is here, and also want to make

our cheerleaders know we love them and mr. bader, we love you too. thank you so much. mayor breed, thank you for coming. thank you. >> let me tell you, lincoln has been 2 and 1 the state championship so many times i think i have about three of these hoodies. hi, everybody. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and deis so great to be here with lincoln high school, the state championship football team. [applause] i hope members of this team are giving some of the 49ers suggestions on what it means to be real champions. coach phil, i want to say how much we appreciate your leadership, and how much we appreciate the amount of work and the support

that you provide for the team. you and the coaches and what that means. it is not just about the work that you do on the field, but the work you also do in school off the field with having all of the team members combined and average gpa of at least 3.0, that is pretty remarkable for the work that you are all doing off the field as well. [applause] now, as a former graduate of galileo high school, you know how hard it is for me to show up here in this lincoln high school hoody, but my niece goes there so i route for her and root for all kids in san francisco, because this is where someone like me got my start. i grew up in this city. i grew up in public housing in the city under challenging circumstances and the ability to serve as mayor is

remarkable and are it happened because i had the support of people like coach phil. i had the support of my teachers and the folks who worked at the schools who never gave up on me. and the thing is, they never gave up on you, because they made sure that you were prepared to go out there and do the hard work of winning not only turkey day but the state championship against los angeles because you know how we like to beat la. [applause] i for one took really a lot of pride in caller the mayor myself even though she's my friend and bragging about the fact that we beat la. more importantly, you believe in yourselves. you know what it takes. the teamwork, the time you have to invest. the dist plin, the focus. all of that has-you understand that when others are off doing other things you have to go

to practice and you got to put in the work because you want to emerge victorious. and you did that. and so here again today we honor this amazing team. i see we have our cheerleaders in the backgrounds. thank you for being here. [applause] they keep you all pumped. they keep you all motivated and excited about the work that you had to do to get the job done and so here today with your family, your friends, your principal, your coaches and the people who want to see you not only succeed on the field, but off the field, we say congratulations, job well done and as a result, we have two really cool surprises. first, we are going to officially declare today the lincoln football team day in the city county of san francisco. [applause]

so, the mustangs will have a day because of this football team in san francisco, coach. and then secondly, we are go ing to light up city hall tonight in crimson and gold to recognize lincoln high school. [applause] so, i know it's not dark yet are, but make sure you come back and you get a picture of that and you like, hash tag lincoln wins again! that's the hash tag. just to show not only your family and your friends, but this entire city. show them what it means to be a winner, to be a champion and what it means when hard work really shows itself on the field. so, congratulations, and let's give the 49ers some of that love and rub off some of that winning energy on them. we want that game. i don't care if you are not a 49er fan. you are a san

franciscans, you are 49er fan! let's go mustangs, let's go 9ers. congratulations and thank you. [applause] >> mayor breed, we couldn't bring you another sweatshirt. i'm surprised that your galileo body can hold that on there, because of the rivalry. i was thinking what we can do for the mayor who is so gracious to have us here. never in my life would i think i would be here meeting the mayor. just a smuck from the sunset so i have a couple things for you. i thought of you today. so, we are going to give you a nice state medal. >> thank you. >> no problem. [applause] why not, right? now, want to give you this because sometimes it is hard and you got a lot

going on but you got to remember these words. you are a mighty mustang. right here. dedicate yourself (inaudible) have discipline to do it every day and the desire to be great. i think you do that, because you are a strong woman and that is a great example for everybody here so thank you very much. >> thank you coach. [applause] >> i then i didn't want to rub it in but (inaudible) >> i'm wearing a hoody. >> just trying my best. thank you, mayor breed. appreciate you very much. thank you so much. >> this is for you. >> cool. >> you get the lincoln high school football team day in san francisco. >> that's awesome. >> then we'll do a nice photo. >> cool, that's great. okay. great. you can't read it because you are too

far. sure. >> now let's take some photos and then let's go celebrate. >> i agree. no doubt. [applause]

>> what we're trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. it's not just the old european style food. we are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. all we ask is make it flavorful. [♪♪♪] >> we are the first two-year culinary hospitality school in the united states. the first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. i'm a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. so students can expect to learn

under the three degrees. culinary arts management degree, food service management degree, and hotel management degree. we're not a cooking school. even though we're not teaching you how to cook, we're teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus you're getting an associate of science degree. >> my name is vince, and i'm a faculty member of the hospitality arts and culinary school here in san francisco. this is my 11th year. the program is very, very rich in what this industry demands. cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. it's quite a complete program to prepare them for what's happening out in the real

world. >> the first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. he was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. this program, it's awesome. >> it's another world when you're here. it's another world. you get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. you get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. >> i've been in the program for about a year. two-year program, and i'm about halfway through. before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. i had few injuries, and i couldn't pursue the things that

i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. when i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. >> the good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to -- >> we have kids from every area. >> facebook and google. >> kids from everywhere. >> they are all over the bay area, and they're thriving. >> my name is jeff, and i'm a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in san francisco. i attended city college of san francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90's.

nopalito on broderick street, it's based on no specific region in mexico. all our masa is hand made. we cook our own corn in house. everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, we're making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. a lot of love put into this. [♪♪♪] >> used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. now, it's shades of gray, and we're trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. fine dining calls into white table cloths. the cafeteria is large

production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. and the ideas that change every year, again, it's the notion and the venue. >> one of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. it's been a pizzeria, a taco bar. it's been a mediterranean bar, it's been a noodle bar. people choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. we, again, serve breakfast,

lunch, and dinner. other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. we're open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. >> the menu's always interesting. they change it every semester, maybe more. there's always a good variety of foods. the preparation is always beautiful. the students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and they're so proud of their work. >> i've had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so it's more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. >> when i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90% of the students get hired in the industry, well

above the industry average in the culinary program. >> we do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of san francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can

save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there.(music >> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse

business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible).

>> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the

phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one

of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and

quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic

restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> good afternoon and welcome to the february 7, 2023 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, will you please call the roll? >> thank you mr. president. [roll call]

>> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. the san francisco we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples.

>> thank you. the san francisco we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues please place your right hand over your heart and join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, i received an e-mail communication from supervisor walton's office regarding the fact that his flight home was canceled and he is requested to be excused from today's board meeting. can i have a motion to excuse? made by supervisor ronan and second by supervisor mandal and colleagues take without objection. madam clerk, any communications? >> yes, mr. president. the board welcome the public to

listen to proceedings in person or remotely. the board will prioritize the participation from attendees. from those who called into the remote system as soon as i call general public comment later this afternoon. the meeting is airing live on sfgovtv award winning channel 26 or you may view the computer live stream at www.sfgotv.org. if you intend participateic the teleramon number and meeting id is on the agenda and streaming on the screen. we have a clerk standing by to assist anyone who needs help accessing the meeting remotely. give call to 415-554-5184. a word on agenda changes this afternoon, item 26 is the special order at 3 p.m. it is public hearing on the draft san francisco reparations plan and dream keeper initiative updates. this matter may be continued to the regular board meeting

of march 14, 2023. public comment will be taken this afternoon on the continuance and we will have interpreters present thanks to the partners at office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. once we hit 3 p.m. special order we'll ask interpreters to introduce themselves and for item 30, general public comment once theite is called you will be able to speak 31-40. items under adoption without committee reference and other matters not the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction. other content will have been reported out to the board by a appropriate committee where the public comment requirement occurred. thank you. >> thank you madam clerk. consent agenda, item 1-9. >> consent. these items are considered to be ruteen. if a member objects a item may be removed and considered

separately. >> seeing no names on the roster, it sounds no one wants to sever any items. madam clerk, why don't you call the roll? >> items 1-9- [roll call] there are 10 ayes. >> those ordinances are finally passed unanimously. madam clerk, please read item 10-13 together? >> item 10-13 comprise 4 resolutions that provide retroactive authorization to department of public healthory

dph grants. item 10, continue to receive funding for the integrating hiv surveillance prevention program for health department from the center for disease scroll and prevention and request approximately $7.8 million in hiv funding. item 11 is to receive grant funding for ryan act hiv aids emergency relief program from health reservice administration and request $16 million in emergency hiv funds through february 29, 2024. item 12 accepts expends approximately $386 thousand. grant increase from the california department of public health for total amount of $1.3 million to participate in a program

pertaining to sexually transmitted disease management and collaboration through june 30, 2024. and item 13, this item accepts expends a $1.6 million grant from california department of public health to par ticipate in a monkeypox response award for san francisco through june 30, 2023. >> seeing no names on the roster, we will pass same house same call. the resolutions are adopted unanimously. next item, please. >> item 14. this is resolution that approves water purchase agreement with between the port commission and mission rock utility. purchase water for port owned parks and open space at mission rock for 30 year term and $44.6 million. >> same house, same call, the resolution is adopted unanimously. next item, please.

>> item 15, retroactive approval for port commission lease located at pier 9, suite 116 bays 1-3 for 30 thousand square feet of office and shed space and to area for solar panels and public improvements for one year term, one year option and for just about $125 monthly rent. excuse me, that is $125 thousand in monthly rent. >> thank you madam clerk. seeing no names on the roster, we will take this same house same call. the resolution is adopted. next item, please. >> item 16 is resolution to approve the 9th modification for airport contract for project management support services for the international airport court yard 3 connector project with pgh1 and partner jv. joint venture-to

increase the contract amount by $7.8 million for not to exceed $25 million for service and make the appropriate findings. >> take same house same call. the resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 17 is resolution to approve agreement between dph and california health and human service agency to exchange helths social service information with the term exceeding 10 years effective january 31, 2023 at no cost. remaining in full force and effect until terminated by dph or california health and human service agency. >> take this item same house same call. the resolution is adopted. >> item 18, resolution to represent row actively authorize department of public health to expend $316 thousand grant from the san

francisco health plan for participation in a program entitled, cal aim incentive payment program through february 28, 2023. >> same house same call resolution adopted. >> item 18, resolution to authorize the arts commission to enter into agreement with treasure island series 1, llc, the developer at hilltall park yerba buena island to construct a 69 foot tall skullture by hiroshi sugimoto for amount $274 thousand for a term starting pawn approval and ending upon the completion of the foundation. >> same house, same call, foundation resolution is adopted. next item, please. >> item 20 is ordinance to amend 24 planning code to allow night time entertainment use for leather and lgbtq

cultural district. >> seeing no names on the roster, same house same call the ordinance passed first reading. unanimously. >> item 21 is ordinance to wave specified requirements in the administrative code to allow two food service shared spaces on a sidewalk bulb-out of valencia street as curb-side shared spacing subject to requirements and affirm the ceqa determination. >> same house same call the ordinance passed first reading. please read items 22 and 23 together? >> items 22 and 23. these are two resolutions that pertain 250 liquor license. item 22 determines issuance of type 48 on-sale general public

premises liquor license to sin ombresf llc located at 312 harriet street. it will serve the publong convenience or necessity and request the california department of alcoholic beverage control impose conditions. in addition to item 23, which is resolution that transfer type 21 off-sale general beer wine distilled spirits license. the transfer of type 42 license and the transfer of type 86 educational tasting license to california wine and spirits llc doing business as total wine and more located 1750 harrison street and also serve the public convenience. >> seeing no names on the roster, we will take these resolutions same house same call. the resolutions

are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> item 24 is ordinance to require board of supervisors approval for policy governing the funding and use of law enforcement equipment set forth in state law and approve the sheriff department use of equipment policy. >> colleagues, assembly bill 481 authored by then assembly member david chu now the city attorney has a specific provision that requires the policy to be posted by the law enforcement agency for minimum period i believe of 30 days. this policy underwent substantial changes and the city attorney has opined that the proper notice period has not been satisfied and

therefore even though we did very good work, i like to think, anyway, at the rules committee, we need to turn it-return it to committee where it cannot be heard until the 6 day of march of 2023 so is there a motion to send item 24 back to committee? made by supervisor dorsey, seconded by supervisor mandelman and we will take that without objection. the item is sent back to committee. next item, please. >> item 25, ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish a city policy against seeking preemptive resignation letters from persons seeking or being considered for appointment or reappointment to city boards and commissions and other city bodies. >> supervisor preston. >> thank you. colleagues i introduced the ordinance in response to the revelation that the mayor was

obtaining letters from nominees for appointed commissions. this practice came to light when police commissioner max carter oberstone blew the whistle after the mayor office pressureed to make statements for the police commission proposed policy to ban pre text traffic stops. requiring undated reslingination letters is against city policy and the decision whether to resign is commissioners and not delegated to the appointing authority. this applies equally to all appointing authorities including the board of supervisor, the mayor, the controller, the public defender, the district attorney and are any other city official husband the power to appoint commissioners. at the end of the day we want to make sure this practice is clearly prohibited for anyone, not just the mayor moving

forward. the ordinance does not prevent any appointing authority from removing a commissioner through the process outlined in the charter. i think it is important that we recognize the circumstances giving rise to this legislation. as commissioner carter oberstone disclosed he was pressured to use mayoral talking points regarding the pretext stop policy considered by the police commission. mayoral staff asked him to make statements the community engagement prauls process for the policy was lacking. herefused to do so because the statements were untrue: he believed if he did not comply with the mayor request he could (inaudible) to preserve independence he resending this rezingination letter. we learned

that dozens of such letters had been required by the mayor of appointees. i believe strongly no commissioner protected from at-will termination should be under emplied or theft they can be removed for exercising their judgment. sump approach is inconsistent with the charter remove provisions and allowing this would threaten the independence of commissioners. want i want to close by thanking president peskin, supervisors chan, ronan, safai and walton for their cosponsorship. i also want to thank deputy attorney ann pierson and (inaudible) for their work in drafting the ordinance and i want to thank my legislative aid melissa hernandez for her work on this and urge your support for this common sense good government legislation. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor engardio. >> my vote today is not a statement about

mayoral power, but a statement about the independence of commissioners whether appoint bide the mayor or board. it is about what good government should look like. commissioners and members of city boards serve the people of san francisco and should be able to exercise independent judgment doing so. i also note having a policy against preemptive resignation letters avoid the legal ambiguity under the code which says resignation letter-for those reasons i will vote yes on the amendment to the administrative code today. >> thank you supervisor engardio. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you. i spoke on this in committee. in mew view the ordinance is unnecessary. the letters were deemed by the city attorney to be ineffective and this mayor or other mayor will seek the letters. i don't think it was the terrible thing the mayor sought the letters i think especially important bodies that oversee important departments charged with carrying out the

policy. it is reasonable to maintain or try to maintain some level of direction or control over those departments and so it didn't work, i don'ts think it was a terrible thing he asked for these letters of resignation. the board president opponented out and think there is a difference with bodies like the planning commission and board of appeals and if we were really seriously digging into this i might try to think about ways in which the different commissioners. i don't think she was all that wrong in the first place. >> supervisor dorsey. >> thank you president peskin. i will support the vote to support this. but i want to express that i am a supporter in general of the principle of strong mayor forms of municipal government and do think there are checks and balances within our system of government that are not as balanced as they should be. i think

that for commissions that are policy making bodies the mayor should have a freer hand in many cases then she does or he does or whoever would be mayor would have to exercise the same kind of authority in removing somebody from that office that we do as a board of supervisors. i know within the appointments memo which referred to as the monitor memo of all the boards and commissions, there are different stanards for removal that canned inclusion suspension of removal removal for cause or misconduct. i think where the board of supervisors can remove someone for any reason as the police commission the mayor should have the same authority but at the same time i don't think there is anything wrong with codifying this in our

administrative code so i will be supporting it. >> i had to respond to some of supervisors mandelman's #c5u789s because i think it is a important disagreement. we spend a-trying to find a alternative. a lot of money for to operate commissions over several departments and agencies and we have work groups and it takes an incredible amount of time and money to operate these entities and it is supposedly because we believe in and value independent oversight by citizens of is of san francisco of the work the city does. if a mayor can just

immediately remove someone from a position because that person disagrees with the department or the mayor, then it obiates the need for the great expense and the great amount of time that all our commissioners and all our departments put into this exercise. either we want this independent citizen oversight, or we don't and that's something we can debate. but if we want the oversight then it should be truly independent, otherwise this is just a waste of everyone's time, money and bother. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you. i think this is a pretty straight forward piece of ledge ilation. i think when individuals are appointed to bodies they should have the independence they are

afforded and are they serve at the pleasure of citizens of san francisco and the appointing bodies and there are procedures. if the mayor chooses tee are move someone she can submit the request to the board of supervisors. hardly happens. and also sit down with the commissioner of her concern and give direction which way she would like to see the policy body move forward, but to have a resignation letter handed to you upon your appointment is strong arming and somewhat intimidating as most of the peep people never served in these capacities, not familiar with the process and want to understand and time and give their ideas and effort to making our city better so to start off with being asked to resign if something were to go wrong, i think really sets the wrong tone. i agree

with supervisor dorsey, i'm very supportive of strong mayoral city and having strong executive branch but the decisions we have made over the years to balance power out and insure there is checks and balances, this is complete removal of that check and balance and so i think so much so the mayor's office said they were stopping that practice. appreciate supervisor preston and in full support today and think this will clarify things moving forward. >> thank you supervisor safai. madam clerk, could you please call the roll on item 25? >> on item 25- [roll call]

there are 8 ayes and 2 noes with supervisors mandelman and stefani in the descent. >> thank you madam clerk. why don't we go to committee reports, item 27? >> item 27, i will first say mr. president that this item was considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting monday february 6 and forwarded as a committee report. item 27 is ordinance to amend the administrative code to extend it grace period for additional 120days for permit applications to operate under pandemic shared spaces permits including any just add music approvals related to these spaces and convert the shared spaces to a

post-pandemic permit and affirm the ceqa determination. >> alright. seeing no names on the roster, roll call, please. >> on item 27- [roll call] there are 10 ayes. >> that ordinance passesue unanimously on first reading. >> item 28 was considered bay the rules committee regular meeting monday february 6.

forwarded. as required by proposition c adopted at the november 8, 2022 to all members of the local coordinated board duties are to serve as governing body required to participate in the federal continuum of care program and advice it commission on issues relating to the continuum of care that the shelter monitoring committee advice the commission in lieu of the coordinating board that the our city or home oversight committee advice and make recommendations to the commission and the health commission and that the oversight committee inform the department of homelessness and supportive housing strategic planning process. >> okay. supervisor safai. >> yes. i am going to say a few remarks on this. i are was more motivated to add on to things we talked about in committee yesterday, because of the story that came

out today. so, what you have before you is what was required by the charter amendment, which passed by 68 percent of the vote support citizens in san francisco. the new commission is to set homeless policy in public forum. we also will have mandatory controller audits of homeless service city delivered and not profit. it will also streamline many advisory bodies that exist now to improve efficiency and reduce conflict but as clear from the story today in the chronicle we have $5 million that have sat since last year as buildings sit in disrepair. residents in the buildings are often living in difficult conditions and so for that reason rather then just having one independent department that is not necessarily have rg a oversight body, i think we need this oversight now and this is the first step getting

there. we will have follow epilegislation next week that will set policy streamlining the department and oversight. we will have i believe looking to have the hearing for the appointment of these commissioners happen at the end of february, so in the next two weeks and it is intended to get going by the beginning of may, so i appreciate all of your support and input on the matter. thank you. >> alright. i'm just thinking out loud here whether or not we can take that same house same call and we can. the ordinance passed first reading unanimously and if i keep talking slowly we will be able to call our 2:30 special commendation. madam clerk, i think we have only one

special commendation today, which is mine and it is my honor to recognize senior inspector jason column on the occasion of retirement from the district attorney office. inspector column if you would please approach the podium. [applause] and don't think i have ever seen you in uniform inspector, but i wanted to celebrate and acknowledge your 27 years of service to the city and county of san francisco and its people and particularly the chinese community on the eve of your retirement tomorrow. jason is immigrant and second jen rice bilingual police officer and served 8 years as a q2 patrol officer and 19 years as a inspector or what

we would call a detective. before joining the district attorney's office he was also special agent under attorney general kamala harris my kindergarten class mate. jason is most known in the city and far beyond the city. matter of fact, all around the world as a expert in transactional organized crime and shared his experience at the national and international level at conferences sponsored by the department of state and by interpoll. supervisor safai are you listening? this is important. he was the lead inspector of the landmark anti-fraud caiz of disruption of (inaudible) recognized operation that virtually wiped out all major blessing scams operated by (inaudible) and

those who don't know what they are, they were prominent financial scams all of us remember a few years aaimed to exploit strong family ties rooted in the chinese community and chinese family. criminals usually target chinese seniors and concern for family safety by offering-selling motifs and blessing rituals in exchange for life savings and are earnings. jason might not be the only bilingual officer and inspector but braust brought lived experience, understanding of cultural values and gave the department of level cultural competency to grasp the scams. able to dissect complexity of cultural norms for colleagues and supervisors and establish partnerships with

enforcement agencies not only in the city, not only in the state, but all around the world. above all, jason is victim sintric and his work is directly with the victims in his and their native tongue. he believes in importance of community (inaudible) to tackle victim shaming, both within and outside of the community. so, today your second to last day i wanted you to know how much i appreciated you as those scams were really up-ending our community and destroying people's lives and i know jason you will continue to be a resource and champion for the chinese community locally and are far beyond and i really thank you for your work and you have done it humbly and lovingly and i thought

that rose to the level of bringing you to the board of supervisors for this commendation and even made supervisor safai listenism inspector, the floor is yours, sir. >> thank you president peskin and board of supervisors. it is a honor to be receiving this special commendation today. i never been accused of being quite. but thank you for having me today and i especially proud because my father did 23 years on the job and i have done 27 and together put in 50 years and that is quite a enough. [laughter] but i will continue to serve in other capacities, i may say. working for 27 years

starting with national park service, i traveled all over the united states working at different states, different cities and then going on to other agencies i worked outside of san francisco for most of my career until about 11 years ago when i focused on san francisco. within a week i felt like i was home again. there were days supervisor chan that i find myself speaking chinese only and it was just so nice to be able to go back to the communities i grew up with and to help folks that raised me over the years, especially the elderly seniors, and i have to thank you president peskin over the year s you have been a big supporter when we have outreach events and you are always there and you are always there suffering with me as i

recount a victim's experience. this horrendous experience they go through as they lose their life savings. and moving forward, looking back a little bit, when i went to graduate school at ucla i was under the ethnic studies unbrella as asian american studies and always accused by my small group of cohorts because i lean towards law enforcement that i'm a pig and i start to be nothing but a pig in a very derog torry way and today after 27 years i want to let them know, yes, i am a pig, but i'm a proud pig because i served my community and served it well for the last 27 years with honor and respect. thank you very much board supervisors. >> thank you inspector. enjoy your retirement. you totally deserve it. [applause]

>> let's do roll call. >> supervisor mandelman you are first up to introduce new business. [laughter] >> okay. i think we are trying to stand more, right? >> yes, sir. >> we are. alright. alright folks, i got a couple

items. first, i am asking that the city attorney's office work with my office to draft legislation that would allow the sale of non cannabis infused food and not alcoholic drinks at cannabis retail establishments. last week assem blemen matt haney introduced ab374 to allow cannabis retailers to sell food drinks and host ticketed events. san francisco cannabis lounges and are dispensaries need our help. we talked about the challenges facing the legal cannabis industry including high rates of taxation and are availability of banking of traditional banking, and the like and the fact that the illegal cannabis industry continues to thrive and in fact is larger then the legal cannabis industry in san francisco. need

pathways to revenue and current restrictions on cannabis small businesses do not make sense. so, we will try to fix that. san francisco is a culinary cultural entertainment capital. invasion in cannabis policy helps san francisco to be a leader and model for other cities in the united states to follow. my legislation will take a page from european cities like amsterdam that foster a cannabis friendly small business model cannabis cafes and good for night life small business tourism residents and are good for ending the illegal cannabis industry. the city always been a leader in cannabis policy. grateful to assembly member (inaudible) for taking this up. assembly member richard bloom attempted this before and i think this time we will hope to get it done. i thank (inaudible) in my office working with assembly

member hany's office and also the city attorney. secondly, introducing a cleanup bill to amend provisions of the police and building codes that require owners of residential construction projects that create or add 10 or more housing units to maintain a labor compliance to protect workers from wage theft. the current rules the board passed last year require builders to file bond compliance with the controller, the condition of receiving a site permit. however, the existing requirements mandate that builders be in compliance long before construction actually begins which is significant cost. places unnecessary burdens in front of developers and trying to build housing in san francisco. by insuring the bond requirement only kicks in at the point construction is actually going to begin, we can

facilitate housing construction while meeting the goals of the original legislation. i want to thank our department of building inspection and especially christine (inaudible) for her work. the san francisco building construction trades. ibw local 76, (inaudible) (inaudible) yes this is good thing to do, and i also want to thank again adam (inaudible) in my office and the rest i will submit. >> thank you for supervisor mandelman. supervisor melgar. >> thank you, i have several things. today i am submitting two pieces of legislation relating to the naming of the streets. in the future neighborhood that is currently being built on what is now 17 acres of parking at the balboa reservoir. the principle street into this new neighborhood off ocean avenue is currently named at lee avenue and begins in

lake view district 11 and at the reservoir. that short stub of street currently named lee at ocean avenue has no residence just the exit and ends at the reservoir. we will be renaming it edwn m lee avenue and extended through the entirety of the street which is going to be built at the reservoir. as we all know, mayor edwn lee served our city for man years as a commissioner director of public works, city administration and first asian american mayor of the city and county of san francisco. mayor lee was a advocate for affordable housing having grown up in the public housing himself as a child of immigrants in seattle. his passion grew as a young activist supporting the resident improvement association to improve living conditions for low income chinese families. rising the ranks of city hall

from human rights commission in 1991 to mayor in 2011 mayor lee brought together diverse communities to build consensus around the toughest challenges facing our city including unprecedented investment in affordable housing. mayor lee was ahead of his time identifying opportunities for new communities to grow and thrive on the west side including district 7. were not for the tireless efforts of mayor lee to advocate for housing across the city and district 7 and many ongoing projects in district 7 would not have been possible. including park merced, (inaudible) i'm honored to introduce this legislation. currently lee avenue connects ingle side to ocean avenue and city college and more thousand new

units including 50 percent being affordable added to this area of the bal bowo reservoir. new roads constructed in mayor lee avenue will serve as the major artery in this community. i want to thank mayor lee's family anita breana and tonia and (inaudible) for their help in drafting the legislation and colleagues for their support honoring our late mayor. in addition to mayor edwn m lee avenue the balboa reservoir will be home to playground child care facility and streets. this legislation will name the adjoining streets loquat lane, myer reason and (inaudible) dieggo lane will run across the front of city college to allow permanent viewing of the mural temporarily housedads (inaudible) the gement

will not break ground for another year, it is crucial that we implement the street names in order to ease permitting construction and the development process. i also want to let you know colleagues for the past year my staff and i have been working with our city attorney and dpw on the issue of permitting encroachments by improvements done in the public right of way by community groups and volunteers. several are dealing with the issue. this was prompted to paint and beautify the censing ton bridge. the paint was considered encroachment and took many hours of staff time and dpw staff to get the project underway. the community and city are better off more beautiful and more comfortable because of the efforts and should make it easier for community group jz city staff alike. we have been working out the

compliance issues and hope to introduce this very soon. lastly, i am submitting an in memoriam for milly leeman. i would like to ask we close the meeting in honor of milly leeman and offer our condolences to her husband mike leeman and family who are long time residents of golden gate heights and district 7. milly was a founder of the usf faculty association which represents teachers at usf. the only woman on the initial steering committee in 1975. milly was mathematics professor beginning in 1961 and served saz department chair for decades pioneering the presence of women at the usf campus. illustrating the rarity of women in the sciences upon retirement in 2004 she still remained the only tenured female professor of mathematics

at usf. early contributions for crucial to survival of the union along with her mike they advocated for competitive compensation for faculty, due process and fought against mass lay' offs. her contributions as educator and labor pioneer remain respected and admired the tireless milly was the loving mother and step mother to 6 children and 5 grandchildren. milly will be remembered for her warm heart and generosity. she is survived by husband, children, grandchildren and brother. memorial service is held at the usf campus friday february 24 and the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor millger. supervisor ronan. >> thank you. supervisor melger, we are also working on

encroachment permit issues in our neighborhood and the ridiculous situation was home owners on a really wide street having benches outside their home, beautiful benches where everyone in the neighborhood walking dogs sit and chats and enjoy. they have been there 20 years never provided a problem and out of no where everyone was cited and told they have to spend thousands of dollars. we should make sure to collaborate because i do think there is distinctions between being neighborly and making your community better and brighter and major encroachments and so i think we have gone off the deep end on that part and should be scaling that back so i wanted to mention that. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor ronan. supervisor safai. >> thank you. i have a few

items today. first, as you know, san franciscans are calling on us to address the epidemic of street level drug dealing in our streets and the impacts it has on crime and overdoses happening in our city. i want to thank grow sf together sf, mothers against drugs deathss, many members of many different neighborhoods throughout our city, tenderloin, soma, bayview hunters point, ingleside, all over san francisco dealing with street level drug dealing and impacts it is having and so many others for reaching out and many member oz thf board on this topic. i look forward to working with all my colleagues on this issue to end this street level drug dealing that is exploded over the last few years and what we have seen and begin conversation. i'm asking the medical examiner office to brief us on the annual

overdose report that was issued january 18. some may know in 2022 the office of medical examiner reported 620 accidental overdose deaths out of 1677 total ocme cases. dr. luke (inaudible) has been able to track the type of drugs involveped including fentanyl, heroin, medical opioids methamphetamines and cocaine. it is worth having the hearing to directly understand the impact it is having our our city, on our streets and how it impacts the crime in so many different neighborhoods. i'm introducing to have o (inaudible) health department to talk bethe plans they have and strategies they have to address overdose as well as our law enforcement part

ners to discuss what we are doing. calling for hearing to call for legislative analyst report of repurposing of commercial real estate for housing. before i go to that i want to thank supervisor stefani for cosponsoring the hearing with me. thank you supervisor, i knowia you have done a lot of work and think other colleagues, supervisor dorsey has something to say talking about the medical examiner office and look forward working with you as well. to go back to the second introduction calling for the hearing to review the budget ledgeilative analyst report repurposing commercial real estate for housing. too often when we discuz the issue we talk how it can't happen, but i want to discuss and focus how it can happen and how we as a legislative body can come together to make this happen for the city and help some of

the revitalization we are looking for. we have examples already occurring without incentives from the city. the warfield theater is planning to convert office space to housing. 901 sutter and lower nob hill the chronicle featured talked about that. also 30 van ness sold by the city who is building a 540 square foot office and housing tower with 25 percent residential permanently affordable. the conditions on our city and throughout our city are changing as we speak. it is extremely difficult in this market to get lending. extremely difficult to financing. we have to figure ways to incentivize existing properties and repurpose them. the bla report outline the trade-offs needed to make it happen and realty. in addition to the report, we need to hear from design and development community, labor partners on

the feasibility of these projects including suggestions from what we need do as a body to streamline the conversion and what incentives need to be offered so conversions can happen. i want to be clear while our office conversions to housing is not the only solution fixing our downtown and other parts of the city, it is a important piece of reimagining the use for buildings that are sitting vacant and as our office vacancy rise in the downtown core to over 30 percent it will have a dramatic impact on san francisco and our future revenues. finally colleagues, i am introduced resolution today in support of senator nancy skinner social media accountability act and bill. for all the parents on the board particularly ones that have young women, this is a extremely important piece of legislation. i have been seeing more and more reports how social media is used among teens and increaseic cry for

hell to access mental health and struggling with anxiety depression and behavioral issues. furtherer more, we also heard alarming reports that social media platforms have been used to create illegal substances like fentanyl and guns in addition to increasing exposure of harmful behavior at younger ages. we have seen how social media is weaponized to promote hateful speech that cause harm. last year governor newsom signed ab587 which requires social media companies to publicly post policy regarding hate speech (inaudible) on the platforms and enforcement of the policy. i believe this bill aims to improve social media insuring companies are responsible and play a crit 8:role protecting children from harmful content and negative impact. we have a responsibility to keep our children safe from access to

harmful content and make sure more vulnerable-that are more vulnerable to addictive and harmful behaviors that we can work with them to protect our youth. we are calling on social media companies to be partners and do all in the power to protect their children preventing them from future harm. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor safai. supervisor stefani. submit. thank you. supervisor chan. submit. thank you. supervisor dorsey. >> thank you colleagues. going to be just mentioning that i'm submitting a letter of inquiry to city administrator and office of chief medical examiner that follows up on supervisor safai talked about with the office of chief medical examiner. last month the chronicle reported that the medical examiner office is developing a method

of testing drugs to test for drugs like zia zeen, (inaudible) iso, novel synthetic opioids prevalent on the east coast. reading this it was very encouraging to me that the office of chief medical examiner office is doing this and i do think it will be urgently important that we make sure as policy makers we are doing everything we can to support the office of the chief medical examiner in this important work. it may be counter intuitive that ocme is playing a essential role in helping to inform our city in a way that will save lives, but i have publicly expressed many

times the work of the forensic laboratory division publishing the monthly accidental drug overdose reports and collaborating with city agencies has been instrumental in informing our response to the drug crisis that we are facing and i also have spoken publicly it is my own engagement with ocme and others that lead me to seek this role on the board of supervisors . they are playing a important role to inform us for a public health calamity that surpassed covid-19 in fatalities and historically unprecedented since the days of aids. this is a organization, this is a agency of our government that is doing horoic work and want to make sure we are doing everything we can to support them. i look forward working with my colleagues and especially supervisor safai to do that. the rest i submit.

>> are thank you supervisor dorsey. supervisor engardio. submit. thank you. and mr. president, seeing no names on the roster that concludes the introduction of new business. >> okay. if we sit in quite recess for another 90 seconds we can go to the 3 p.m. special order. why don't you read public comment and we'll go to public comment in a minute after the special order. >> when the president calls it, after the 3 p.m. special order that is the time the board will welcome general public comment and we will prioritize participation from attendees in person. you are welcome to line up on the right hand side of the chamber. the meeting is being live streamed on

channel-well, the computer is live streamed at www.sfgovtv.org and channel 26. if you like to participate remotely the telephone number and meeting id is published on the agenda and streaming oen the screen. during pub lrk comment you can speak to items 31-40. the item for adoption without committee reference calendar, and the general matters not on the agenda but the subject matter jursh jurisdiction of the board and all other content reported out to the board by appropriate committee. woo ehave interpreters standing by and i will have them when we do go to public comment introduce themselves and the service they provide. we do mr. president conclude my comments and when it is time to call public comment i will have interpreters introduce

themselves. the board will convene committee of a whole scheduled for pursuant to motion on january 21, 2023 for public hearing to hold a public hearing on the draft san francisco reparation plan and dream keeper initiative update and request the human rights commission the african american reparations advise ray committee and dream keeper initiative to present. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues as you may have heard, unfortunately the chief sponsor of this hearing and the adjoining resolution is unable to attend today and therefore has requested we continue this item to march 14, 2023. and i will entertain a motion for the continuance and sit as committee of a whole on that

date. any members of the public who would like to speak to the issue in the board chambers please proceed. madam clerk if you want to say your magic words. >> are i ask the interpreters to introduce and the services they are able to provide for the hearing. please begin. (inaudible) please begin. [interpreters providing instructions for public comment]

>> thank you for being with us this afternoon. if we have someone addressing the board in language you can jump in. anyone in chambers who would like to address the 2023 reparations plan and dream keeper continuance to march 14, 2023. approach the podium now. seeing no one coming forward, mr. lam, anyone in the remote queue interested on the matter to address the board this afternoon? let's welcome the first caller. hello,

caller. mr. lam, since no one has spoken yet, we have reverend brown in the chamber. former member of this board of supervisors. he is coming forward to the podium. welcome reverend brown. >> thank you very much madam clerk. ladies and gentlemen, i beg your indelgence to let me speak. as president of the san francisco branch of the national association of the advancement of colored people, and also as the senior pastor of historic baptist church for now 47 years, and i hope mr. president and members

of this board that we would have the moral compass to show some love for african americans in this city. this is african american history month, and it only came into being because unfortunately races of the nation said we had no history and even arstotal and politics said the ethopeian was a black man. inferior because the skin was dark. the only way we become enlightened and contributors of civilization we have to go through europe and become lighter. he also said we would never be capable of self--governance and always have to have a white man or white woman over us. well, we all know that's a lie.

but during african american history month, i'm appealing to this board to show the moral fiber and intestinal fortitude to stand with the african americans in the city around the issue of reparations. woo we know what happened in the last 48 hours. not talking about anybody, just talking about what i'm talking about. for indeed, justice delayed is justice denied. it is painful, it is excrutiating during the month of african american history month where we were supposed to have first reading of the reparations task force and it will not happen

during the course of this month. not blaming anybody or pointing any fingers but saying it is a bad mark on san francisco that we cannot keep faith of a schedule to right the wrongs and the harms and responsible logical sensible way so we will not have blacks victimized by the words of lang stn hues who said to the lord i still can't see why democracy means everybody but me. that was around weather you knew it or not in the 1920's. god bless you. we sent it over to the month of march, but it does violence to the idea of reparations when in this city we could not keep thing with that report being

presented during the month of february and by the way, that is also the month that i was born. >> thank you. >> i am 82 years old and ain't tired yet and will stay on the battle field and fight until justice rolls down waters and rishsness as a stream. i want to give a copy of a document to the board. in 2019 when the naacp introduced the idea of reparations to the city and county of san francisco. thank you very much for indulllinging me, i went over time but this is baptist preacher talking and 3 minutes won't- >> happy birthday reverend brown. next speaker, please. this is on item 26. >> good afternoon. my

name is kurt young. a long-term resident of the mission district and small business owner and i have never considered myself a political person and came to observe and gain information and insight about how our city runs and always fascinating to hear the ongoing operations of this complex entity we call home. i was afraid to speak but since i was a child i heard about-my fate was determined to me and wouldn't make it to 20 years old because i was a black male. i came from a-raised by a female, my father died early, i had dislexia and problems in school, so i had-the system had no expectations for me. actually, a school guidance counselor told my mother not to

expect much from me outside of being dead or in jail. i still hear it today. all the progress we made in the country and i admire looking at the photograph of the board of supervisors back in the early turn of the century with all white male to most contemporary that a city that truly represents the city shows the progress we have made but in the meantime, i still dread for my life on a financial aspect, on a safety aspect because when i look at tv it is people like me getting shot and beat and jail and prison and i have to find a way to look over that. reparations is an opportunity for us to live up to our promise. i believe the constitution does say

we the people, not y'all the people or us the people in order to form a more perfect union. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comments. any other members of the public who would like to address the board on item 26, the draft san francisco reparations plan and dream keeper initiative? seeing none, mr. lam, can we hear from our first caller, please? i think we have 9 callers in the queue. if you would like to speak on this matter, now is your chance. press star 3 if you have not already. welcome caller. >> hello. can you hear me? >> yes. welcome. >> okay, thank you very much. i heard words like good government serve the people. governance serve the people,black history

month, reparations, but i don't see any of that. i don't see good government, i don't see serving the black people of the city. my understanding that 5.1 percent of the people are black in the city and the 50 percent incarceration of incarcerated. that's not civilization. everybody there is educated, i'm educated. i hear lofty words, but i don't see civilization. i see oppression and i see a road that leads to the bottom for everybody. we cannot continue incarcerated people and criminalizing people and generating homelessness so we look like a third world country and the drug

proliferation, everybody black, white, asian, hispanic is being effected more then you think. we all have to pay for this in our taxes and with the suffering and the degradation of our country as a whole. we have one black member of that body there but we have 50 percent of the homeless population, 50 percent of the criminalization of black people. how can you people say you are human and raise your heads? >> thank you to the caller. thank you for your comments this afternoon and finding your way to the remote system. mr. lam, is there another caller in the queue, please? >> hi. this is goria

berry, a member of the reparations committee and disappointed the matter is continued and i'm also concerned that first it was continued to the 14th, now to march and i'm actually fighting to organize on march 14 date because i think people get frustrated and don't come to events when they are scheduled over and over. i also like to consider separating dream keepers from reparations. two totally different subjects, and other communities don't have their subjects thrown into one hearing, they usually get separate attention to each matter. i also seen push-back already on reparations and i would like you supervisors to consider there is 111

recommendations, not just the one or two that twitter likes to dwell on. i just want to remind folks that the reason why black people came to san francisco in the first place was for labor purposes. the ship yards just opened and they wanted labor for that and also for the gold rush. people came out here for a better life. people were doing well. we were restricted in the fillmore and hunters point and (inaudible) there is a document about the (inaudible) says you can have a hundred dollars hanging out your pocket walking around but no one will rob you because everybody had a hundred dollars and now since the shipyard is closed there is no plan on what to do

with-no plan on where they wanted- >> thank you for your comments this afternoon. mr. lam, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> madam clerk, no more callers in the queue. >> okay. thank you mr. lam. i want to apologize to anyone i might have interrupted. we did set the timer for two minutes. mr. president. >> we will-ask for a motion to continue this item to march 14 made by supervisor dorsey and seconded by supervisor ronan and colleagues, we will take that same house same call. the item is continued to march 14. madam clerk, let's go to public comment. >> yes, earlier a moment ago we did call for general public comment and we have already had the interpreters introduce themselves. i ask the gentleman to come forward, mr.

gambro. let's hear from the first speak er. >> my name is (inaudible) that i need somebody that stepping behind the desk and assist me. i have been on the streets since wednesday. the reason i'm in the streets today is because i had a shelter and there is 7 (inaudible) i call myself being a surreal man and trying to protect these womens from getting (inaudible) trying to rape them. the supervisor went back told the guy what i said. i'm a student at city college. i came from school and the guy knocked me in the eye. i have 10 stitches. i went to the (inaudible) for all

most a week asking these people to come to my rescue. i'm asking y'all here today because i have been in the streets since wednesday. see what i'm saying y'all? been in the streets since wednesday because they tried to put me in a dorm where i all most lose my life. i must have inherited (inaudible) more bodies have come to my rescue yet. i am asking somebody here today before you leave here today in the name of jesus christ talk to me because i have no reason to be in the street. you understand? if i let the guys come in and rape the women i wouldn't stand in front of you now. i ask for somebody to come behind that desk so i can continue my schooling. that is

all i to come to san francisco is to go to school. i didn't come here to get involved in- >> thank you. >> if i can-there are-i'm aware of some of this and i have been in touch with the district 10 supervisors office who are also in touch with the department of homelessness and supportive housing and i can ask one of my staff if you want to visit with them. >> i understand what you are saying, i appreciate what you are saying. i have been to every high ranking (inaudible) all they doing is giving me conversation after conversation. i have been to the district came to my rescue, i wouldn't be on the sidewalk now. (inaudible) if you can get somebody sir to come to my

rescue-- [no audio] >> i understand that, sir and i'm trying to hook you up with a little bit of help and if one of my colleagues can come and see if we can get you some help. there are staff there and staff at hsh that are aware of your case. yeah. thank you. thank you supervisor ronan. why don't we go to our next-yeah. thank you supervisor ronan. >> thank you mr. president. are there other members of the public who would like to address the board? please come forward. we are setting the timer for 2 minutes. welcome. >> can you hear me? my name is (inaudible) i'm a native of san francisco and active member of

the san francisco (inaudible) of the armenian of (inaudible) and ongoing human rights violations. i also happen to be a public school teacher, english teacher and volunteer with two ngo supporting teachers in armenia. one is called teach for armenia and another called hidden roads initiative, which place and support teachers in some of the boarder regions of armenia and are currently has teachers currently working with the students in (inaudible) under dire circumstances. there is no heat for the children, no food and yet they are attempting to maintain assemblance of normalcy under the humanitarian threat. first i want to thank you, all of you

for continuous supporting the republic of (inaudible) and 120 thousand armenians. the blockaid started december 12. i have been in touch with many colleagues who are suffering immensely to say the least, and it is now entering its 58 day cutting off food medicine fuel and other vital supplies. imagine my colleagues teaching english in freezing conditions. just yesterday they had to cancel recess so the children wouldn't exert energy and get more hungry due to lack of food. furthermore, the armenian american community and san francisco bay area is still recovering from the devastating and unprecedented hate crimes that took place in 2020 against my church, st. gregory church and armenian school- >> thank you. >> still shocked these-- >> thank you for your comments. we do apologize for

interrupting anyone. you are welcome to submit any comments and would be happy to put that in the minutes for you. >> thank you for your support. next speaker, please. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is (inaudible) i'm french. i came here to address something which is going to be i think- >> get closer to the microphone. >> i think it will be very good (inaudible) for all you here. may actually change your life. i will try to be as short as possible and please bear with my accent. that's the best i can do. humanity is in great trouble. if the lack of understanding what the trouble

is, we all no matter where we are from, all human s are exactly the same reason for (inaudible) it applies to every living specious on the planet. it applies to (inaudible) the reason for being is happiness. (inaudible) you can pretend to be, but the reason i know you are not happy is because you are not serving the most important thing that feeds happiness forever. this is absolutely precise. it is called beauty. the reason why i know you cannot be happy is because in the last recent year, especially in the last 3 years i should say, you know perfectly well you are

confronted with ugliness. so, you are responsible now, i am. i'm doing my best as a artist to tell you. please, the first thing is focus on beauty. first. for anything you (inaudible) >> thank you for those comments this afternoon. is there anyoneential else in the chamber who would like to address the board during general public comment? seeing none, we'll go to remote system. mr. lam, i see there are 10 callers listening. 4 in the queue to speak. if you are one of the 10 and like to speak this afternoon, press star 3 if you have not already. let's welcome our first caller. welcome caller. >> (inaudible) not by

choice mind you, by force. some call it excessive force while americans across the nation expand their reach for medical care through telehealth. san francisco is flirting with prohibition of sorts on free speech orchestrated by law enforcement. i feel for the first time like a unwelcome uninvited wedding crasher at city hall secrecy fueled (inaudible) what does law enforcement call when witnesses are tampered with and the fbi call when action is taken that discurjs the public communicating with them, killing. the proposal to eliminate citizen 22 from the meetings is having a chilling affect on capacity to voice my essential right to participate in democracy. since 22 it isn't directed at you. countless others are left in the cold. all

(inaudible) shivering trembling, null and void as democracy becomes simply a ornament like a pretty ice sculpture at a black tie event. like a city hall party, vip gala. i feel like sydney (inaudible) as my rights are examined prodded dissected like a real time autoopsy (inaudible) show the board they are tone deaf to implications here as with the initial ignorance contemplating the killer robot city they imagine for us. >> thank you citizen 22 for your comments. do we have another caller in the queue?

>> good afternoon. (inaudible) joe (inaudible) first, on the draft rules minutes for yesterday, i did speak in support of supervisor stefani being on the san francisco (inaudible) i spoke in favor because she's more then qualified not just because she gives great speeches but she advocates for safe streets and highly qualified. the second comment today is also about the rules committee. i have last december (inaudible) on the board. i think it is very disappointing we have conversations about the let's say the functions of this board of supervisors, not one (inaudible) inviting to sit in on that discussion yesterday. i think it is absolutely a failure of leadership to not

consult these (inaudible) during these critical discussions. that's one opinion. i differ to the opinion of the supervisor who (inaudible) [difficulty hearing speaker] third, if we talk about limiting testimony based on who lives where, we have a supervisors who thinks it is god given duty to issue resolutions of national importance like (inaudible) gun violence survivors week. do you want to limit that? do you want to risk a civil rights lawsuit when that supervisor gets on the (inaudible) somebody's want to testify from outside san francisco about the supervisor national important resolution? i don't

think so. i don't think you want to tell her not to turn on the after-burners and turn and burn like maverick. give me a break. >> thank you for your comments this afternoon. mr. lam, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> hi. this is gloria berry again, district 10. listening to the public comment i just had to call in because i remember 8 years ago coming up to the microphone and begging for help when i was homeless for 10 years, and i remember writing the mayor then ed lee, supervisor kim who was district 6 supervisor, the department of homelessness, anybody who would listen, and it just didn't resolve any help, and i had to

be by biggest advocate and just demand different places to speak to managers, speak to directors, speak to higher ups and just really be as annoying as i can be and finally getting results but the moral of the story i hope when you see people like that man that had the courage to come up to the podium that we understand that when you offer a bed at next door and say-and a person says no, it isn't that they don't want help, it is that they want humanity. (inaudible) they took me to detox shelter and i don't use drugs, so i didn't make it there past a hour. i put on treasure island in transitional housing and last 9 months but i snuck out as much as i could because it was so

inhumane, violent, the conditions were -there is a smell. the smell was disgusting,s and it was a lot of people who are not (inaudible) placed in the same room. that is hard. we need to have more solutions that fit people humane and please (inaudible) because they dont want to go to a horrific place you suggest to them. just like i said-- >> thank you for your comments. mr. lam, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> hello. can you hear me? >> yes. welcome. >> this is peter warfield, executive director of library user association, library user 2004 and (inaudible) and po box

(inaudible) this is black history month and the library is having not only for the month but is observing it in a program broad program more then a month, but if you want to hear any speeches that martin luther king may have made, one of the famous and brilliant oritorres of our life time and more you wont be able to hear anything unless you somewhere the necessary gear. what i mean by that? if you have a audio book say available from the library computer, you have to bring your own ear phones, the libery will not give you ear phones to listen to anything. if you are able to get a dvd or cd of any

of the speeches, and they have those, this isn't a issue with what all they have, but the ability to actually hear. to hear a dvd or cd you have to provide the player, you have to provide the ear phones or whatever else necessary to play because the library doesn't have those at the library either. so, the idea of free and equal access which is beginning of the library slogan is not free and equal for those who don't have the necessary gear and don't know to bring it or have it available when necessary. this is also carried out in the library neglect of people who don't have easy access or any access with a respect of publicity announcement and fliers (inaudible) and so on. >> thank you for your comments. mr. lam, do we have another caller in the queue,

please? >> yes, do i have 3 minutes or 2 minutes? >> you have 2 minutes. welcome. >> okay thank you. i like to reiterate comments the previous lady was saying. she was homeless and the lack of empathy and the lack of humanity that i actually spoke on-spoken on earlier. in watching you people sitting there and i dont believe that you could possibly care. you call yourself civilized. not going to call anyone names or insult anyone, but you are not civilized. the act of being civilized is being civil to human-beings. there is a city,

a sea of humanity living on concrete and the underlying problems that created this situation and the drugs is you people. you are supposed to be the leaders, the representatives of this city. you people are the ones that are in the gutter. you need to take care of all the citizens, including black citizens. but you don't care. you are not civilized enough to care, but you can be. you are not human unless you care. there is a city, a sea of homelessness and are drugs and oppression and racism in the city that you have created. you

people sitting there, you are responsible. do something, besides sit there and try to pretend to be civilized. people are dying at your hand. >> thank you for your comments, sir. mr. lam, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> thank you madam clerk, no more callers in the queue. >> thank you mr. lam. mr. president. >> madam clerk, public comment is closed, and let us go to the adoption without committee reference calendar. >> items 31-40 introduced for adoption without reference to committee. unanimous vote is required for resolution on first reading today. alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee.

>> would any member like a item or items severed? madam clerk please sever item numbers 33 and 34? seeing no other names on the roster, could you please call the roll on balance of adoption of committee reference. >> i was pausing for a moment, mr. president just in case there was issue with our public comment line. make sure everyone out there can hear us. i think we are good. with items 33 and 34 severed the president called the roll on items 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 and 40. [roll call]

>> there are 10 ayes. >> those resolutions and motions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, could you please call item 33? >> 33 is resolution to recognize and celebrate black history month in san francisco during the month of february, 2023. >> can we please have a motion to continue this item one week when supervisor walton will be back to the meeting of february 14? motion by supervisor ronan and seconded by supervisor safai and take that same house same call. the item is continued to february 14. madam clerk, please read item 34? >> resolution to accept the draft san francisco

reparations plan of the african american reparations advisory committee. >> colleagues, the request of supervisor walton i'm seeking a motion to continue the item to march 14. supervisor mandelman, on the item. >> i like to be added as cosponsor. happy to make a motion. >> the record shall show supervisor mandelman as cosponsor and a motion by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor dorsey to continue the item to march 14 and we will take that same house same call. the item is continued to march 14 and madam clerk, i believe that takes us to the end of our agenda and seeing no imperative item please prentd the in memoria. >> today's meeting is adjourned for the late ms. milly

layman. >> as there is no further business, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square

miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. each corridor has its own personality. our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. >> you are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping small businesses grow. >> it is more environmentally friendly. >> shopping local is very important. i have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. by shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the

flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. it is really good for everybody. >> shopping locally is crucial. without that support, small business can't survive, and if we lose small business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. >> it is important to dine and shop locally. it allows us to maintain traditions. it makes the neighborhood. >> i think san francisco should shop local as much as they can. the retail marketplace is changes. we are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you

are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. >> the fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. there are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. at the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. >> shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the business owners to thrive in the community. we see more small businesses going away. we need to shop locally to keep the small business alive in san francisco.

>> shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. you can see the banners in the streets around town. it is great. anything that can showcase and legitimize small businesses is a wonderful thing. >> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with

san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the

next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else.

there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone.

>> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the

big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you

am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman

elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond

is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the

communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music] >> meeting of the san francisco police commission. the chair called the

meeting to order. please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> vice president carter oberstone, i like to take roll? >> please. [roll call] >> you have a quorum. also here tonight we have chief william scott appearing virtually as well as assistant chief lazar and paul henderson from department of police accountability. >> welcome everyone. for member s for the public want to advice changes to the

agenda. item 5 is taken off the agenda today because there isn't yet a revised version for the public and the commission to consider, and the chief will give a update on status of the negotiations during his chief's report. chief scott will be joining remotely for a portion of today's meeting and so we will take a couple items out of order that chief scott will speak on so he can speak first because he is on the east coast. with that, we are going to start with item number 6, please. >> line item 6, discussion of deadlines per dgo 3.01 written communication for guidelines of first amendment activity 6.18 warrant arrests and 9.303 mandatory blood test for drivers under the influence. at request of the commission. >> i asked for the item to be

placed on the agenda a few weeks ago and wanted to provide background and context on the issue. so, it was a few months ago now that director henderson highlighted for the commission that there were 26 dgo's that had been started the revision process but had been stalled despite the department having received recommendations from dpa. in response to that-some of the dgo most stalled over a year, some over two years. in response to that the commission took a few steps. first president elias assigned to each commissioner each of these dgo's so each commissioner had personal responsibility to shepherd the dgo through the revision process and insure that timelines were being met. secondly, last year

dgo 3.01 became effective and with dgo 3.01 does, it sets out an explicit step by step process how dgo's are to be revised. it sets strict timelines for each step along the process. now, while the timelines are strict, they are not completely inflexible. the dgo allows for dpa or department to seek extension of time if they feel they are not able to meet a deadline and just have to describe explain why there is good cause to receive an extension and the commission then decides whether or not to grant that extension. i called this because it appeared that certain deadlines were not being met for dgo-revision of dgo 8.10, first amendment surveillance activities and it appeared also the department did not seek an extension of time as required under

3.01. back when we had our original meeting many months ago to discuss the 26 stalled dgo's many of us were including myself, many were very critical of chief scott for the unexplained delay, but i also said back then and still believe very much now that the commission was just as much at fault because it is ultimately our responsibility as the oversight body to insure that policy revision is happening on time. when we have instances as in the case of dgo 8.10 where deadlines are not met, it is the commission responsibility to inquire why that is, especially when there is no timely request for extension of time and i also say in addition to 8.10, commissioner benedicto had similar issue s and

asked for other dgo's to be placed on the agenda. if it is alright, i'll start with 8.10 and you can take it away. sergeant, could you put the graphic up? alright. so, i just wanted to-as part of this inquiry into dgo 8 10 i asked to provide e-mails as it relates to the dgo and this just outlines the timeline of those e-mails. on october 27, dpa requested certain documents in the department it needed to make it phase one recommendation grid. there is no response as far as i can tell to the