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>> this meeting will come to order. good morning and welcome to the may 1, 2023 rules committee. i'm supervisor dorsey chair of the committee and joined by vice chair walton and committee member safai. on behalf of colleagues i want to express gratitude to committee clerk, victor young and thanks to the team at sfgovtv for broadcasting today's meeting and our producer
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jason. mr. clerk, any announcements >> yes, the board is convening hybrid meetings that allow in person attendance and public comment. public comment will be taken on each item. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and then take those waiting on the telephone line. the public comment call in number is straeming across the stream. you will hear the meat ing discussion and muted and listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, those joining in person should line up to speak and those on it telephone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. if you are on the telephone please remember to turn down your television and all listening devices you may be using. you may submit public comment in writing, e-mail them to myself the rules committee clerk at
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victor.young@sfgvo.org or send to city hall. finally, items act aupon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda may 9 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, please call item number one. >> item 1 is hearing to consider appointing one member aterm ending february 1, 2029 to the ethic commission. >> thank you mr. clerk. on item 1 and want to express a oversight that resulted in the item be agendized in error after i made commitments to the community members and one applicants and intended not to call the item this week. the published agenda was a version control error on my part so i beg everyone's
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forgiveness. i don't know if it is too late-been here long enough to call a rookie mistake but do apologize. as viewers may know we had a couple delay said and a couple other 11th hour applicant. i want to make sure the ethic commission applicant have time to meet with colleagues and are heard from community members they want more time to be heard. i know this item has been continued a few times for few different reasons, the ethics commission is aue naeckly important body of the city and county of san francisco with unique powers in our city government and think it is important we take time need today make the best most thoughtful choice in the best most participatory process for all involved so i move to continue this item. mr. clerk, can we take public comment on the continuance? >> would you like to continue to date certain or call of the chair? >> call of the chair. probably next week.
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>> continued to our meeting next week. on the motion to continue, we are taking public comment. members who wish to speak on the item and joining in person line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue please wait until the system states you are unmuted. there is nobody in the room for public comment and no callers in the queue on this matter. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on the continuance on this item is now closed. okay. >> the motion to continue the matter to may 8 which is next monday, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the
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motion passes without objections. >> mr. clerk, the item is continued to the-well, to next week. mr. clerk, please call item 2? >> yes, item 2 is ordinance amending the campaign governmental conduct code to create permit priotorization task force responsible for recommending permit prioritization guidelines to department of building inspection, planning department and public works requiring the review and update the permit prioritization guidelines periodly and requiring each commission to oversee each department to approve the department permit prioritization guidelines. >> thank you mr. clerk. i appreciate supervisor safai leadership on this and he is a member of this committee and prepared to speak to it, supervisor safai, the floor is yours. >> thank you chair. colleagues, this is-i feel a pretty straight forward piece of legislation but i want to
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give background how it came about. in terms of priority processing, there are certain categories that make for individuals or sponsors or others to want to put forward something, whether it is affordable, whether it adds to the city housing stock in great need, so in this instance this came about a as result of a issue in my district. if you-many may recall but was a strong champion and have been a strong champion of home sf program to create more density, affordable housing and get more housing in the city. essentially zoning incentives and affordable housing with market rate housing together and after we passed it we wanted to see more home sss f projects not just in my city but city wide so we push project sponsors to consider it and a number submitted
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applications in my district in particular, but what we found out was the planning department to their credit were and are prioritizing home sf projects, but department of building inspection and public works were not, and so it isn't helpful to have one department and others that are part of this process not prioritize. dpw has not updated that priority processing list since 2014, and working-when we brought this to the attention of the department of building inspection, director orearden did pake the change of the priority processing. we worked with the city attorney highlighting this as a need and wanting to bring parallel to what the planning department is doing. but we
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shouldn't have to go throughs this on a individual basis. it should be the city should have a list of priority permit processing so this process should be inform ed and driven by data and looking what we are trying to accomplish based on the priortaz of the city and data. in this case you have a program with home sf doing affordable housing, market rate housing, greater density, greater number of units. the result is stakeholder and commission input done in a public meeting and that way we have the opportunity for there to be a public vetting of the process. but we should allow individual department said the flexibility to have department specific priorities that may not be shared by other departments so each has its own flexibility but meeting the common goal of a particular policy objective. but this is also how in my mind how you also root out
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corruption, because these department by making it clear to them and clear by our permit department and what they prioritize and why they are prioritizing not based on individual relationships or individual circumstances. so, what you have before you is a ordinance that amends chapter 4 section 3.4 of the campaign government conduct code to require the creation of a permit prioritization task force responsible for developing a recommended city wide list of prioritize permits and projeblth types and recommending guidelines department of building inspection, planning department and the department of public works. requiring those departments to review and update their permit prioritization guidelines periodically and requiring the commission that oversees each department to approve the departments permit prioritization
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guidelines and that again goes back to the public vetting and public process for it. we did have some additional edit said in here we handed outd today to clarify the task force is recommendation and not binding departments. given this is created by ordinance it doesn't have the power to override the commission and charter authority but felt it was important to have a specific group focusing on this then advising the commissions and their departments and as we understand the city attorney has deemed that these are non substantive. so, that's it colleagues. if there is any questions, happy to answer them, but we felt at the end of the day-i know we have folks here from the planning department. i don't know if dan snyder wanted to hop in and say anything. nope, just here to look good. okay, great. [laughter] thanks for being here,
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dan. >> great. thank you supervisor safai. i don't see any other question from colleagues. i will just say that i know it may seem counter intuitive sometimes we need process to speed process, but it has been my experience in city government that there are task forces in particular in the city attorney office over the years i have seen a code enforcement task force that brought together a lot of different departments with a lot of different skills and areas of expertise to speed the process, so while it may be we don't need another task force or commission, i think the realty is that having a task focused task force really can be something that improves the operation of city government for everybody involved, so i want to express my appreciation to supervisor safai for that. mr. clerk, can we open up to public comment? >> yes, members who wish to speak and joining in person
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should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely on the call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker linement those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you with with begin your comment. no parties in the room, checking the call-in line- >> one here. >> good morning, joe kelly is my name. i got in here just as you were closing the public comment on item 1 and i made my way down here so i wanted to just say that-i could speak on this as well but i wont. efficiency of government, i'll just address this and the other one, it boggles my mind the inefficiency of this government and the fact item 1 is tabled
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with a gentleman who has basically- >> my apologies, i hate to- >> that's fine. >> item 1 was not tabled, it was continued. >> continued. whatever. the person that-there is a person that is up for the commission appointment that basically wrote- >> okay, again, we take comment on item 1. >> on this, the permitting process, just because i'm here and i am small business man and do insurance in the city and-it is monday morning and will give your jolt of coffee, it is absurd what you are talking about. it is so broken that-i'll just say that. i was here for the other item, but this discussion, it is really depressing and i care about city government. i
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served on it civil grand jury, 8, 10 years ago and i just would really ask you folks to contemplate what you're doing, because it is not serving the public interest i don't believe. anyway, have a good one. >> thank you. no further speakers in the room, just like to note, we do not have any call in speakers on the matter. i believe we can close public comment. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment is now closed. supervisor safai would you like to make a motion? >> yeah, i want to add one more bit of clarity so folks know that the task force the group will be lead by the san francisco permit center director and their area of city government, which we think is appropriate and just for clarity for those listening, the campaign in government code requires all permits
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as they come before can department said are treated equally to insure there isn't corruption and favoritism, however, unless the departments declare a priority permit and provide administrative bulletins to memorialize why they are prioritizing something and in this instance we have asked that when someone or some project sponsor is creating affordable housing and greater density and greater housing, we want that to be prioritized, we want that to move faster through the process. hundred percent affordable should be prioritized and in this instance home sf is in exchange for much greater levels of affordability and greater density. we want that to be prioritized as well and so we found there was unevenness in the application so that was the genesis why we did this. anyway, thank you. and then just one last thing,
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the reason this task force expires, one of the amendments on page 8-6, is we have to provide a date for a-expiration date for a task force so-so-is that not right? anyway,wy did, so it will expire unless it is extended and hopefully good work has been done and there's a lot of clarity in terms of moving forward. thank you. i like to make a motion to accept these amendments that we have in front of you today that i distributed. >> thanks. mr. clerk, roll call on that. >> on the motion to amend the ordinance, that will be vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> now we can make a motion to send this to full board with positive recommendation. >> on the motion to-
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>> as a-minded. >> walton aye. safai, aye. dorsey, aye. motion passes. >> on unanimous vote permit prioritization task force moves to the full board with positive recommendation. and mr. clerk, please call item 3. >> yes, item number 3 is a motion amending the bord of supervisors rules of order by amending 3.25 and 3.25.1 and striking rule 3.31 young desolve the youth young adult and family committee. >> thank you mr. clerk, this item introduced by supervisor hillary ronen who chairs the committee and she has some brief remarks i'll share. desolving the yuth young adult family committee the board is
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no way deprioritizing youth and education issues. we will continue to engage in these issues by channeling hearings and legislation as needed to other committee assignments a well as through the work each district office does doing support youth in san francisco in partner ship with sfusd, dcyf and other important youth base #d organizations. i want to echo supervisor ronen's sentiment as someone who served for a short time on that committee a few months as did supervisor safai. i really appreciate the work of the staff at usd and dcyf and hearings that took place at that committee. this is a area that i was-relative newcomer to joining the board, but i learned a lot and one thing that i think is really going to be a challenge that is with us is to remember that we have kids who went through a period of time where they
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didn't have school during the covid lock down and we are going to have too cognisant of that in our work around youth and young adult and educational issues, so i want to express appreciation to supervisor ronen for her leadership on this and echo her commitment that this is not something-the fact we are getting rid of the committee does not mean we are in any way getting rid of the important work in front of us. mr. clerk-don't know if there other comments from colleagues? seeing none- >> i agree hundred percent, and we will continue to take up issues for children youth and families and many different committees we sit on, and i would just add i think one of the most lasting and consequential things i have done on the board grew out of that committee which was prop g which is setting significant dollars aside as
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opportunities at doing enrichment for math and reading literacy and helping close the achievement gap as referred to, building on so much that has been done in the city, but unfortunately many times a lot of the work is funded in very short stints. good work and good momentum is created and funding removed and we created a opportunity building on the success of thing s we learned from covid from the work of department children youth and family and board of supervisors and the board of education and sfusd, so those schools that are the most under-resourced in the city will have the opportunity to create community school model and have enrichments other schools have benefited from for years because
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they had strong pta. anyway, i just want to say that tremendous work done by chair ronen, supervisor melgar, all of those-supervisor walton, everyone involved in this process, but i have to say one of the most consequential things i have been a part of and grew out of that committee and we'll continue that work. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai and echo your appreciation for the leadership on the stud ntd success fund which i was a latecomer today but proceed proud to be cosponsor. can we open up to public comment? [providing instructions for public comment] no persons in the room for public comment, there
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is nobody on the phone line for public comment at this time. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item 3 is now closed. i like to make a motion to snd this item to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, roll call on the motion. >> yes. on that motion, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. clerk. that item goes to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, please call item number 4. >> item 4 is resolution approving the use of city corporate seal for the purpose of jackets for district 6 supervisor dorsey and staff that identify them as members of the board of supervisors and board of supervisors staff representing district 6. >> thank you mr. clerk. colleagues, section 1.6 of our administrative code governs the
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use of the corporate seal in the law but what we know as the city seal of the city and county of san francisco, which i think we all know is a well recognized brand that features the rising phoenix alongside visual reference and mining and navigation history. i represent downtown district with several different union ambassador programs and dont think my district unique in having residents who appreciate the high visibility of public servants where city contractors or community ambassadors representing their role when they serve in the public role. for some time i have been working with staff to explore options how we might represent our office when we have public facing roles out in the community and we all agreed we think it is more important then ever we should be visible representation of the city we serve and the board of
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supervisors when working in this public capacity. this past weekday i was with staff and we were at the leukemia and lymphoma society, big event to support efforts that that organization does to cure blood cancers and we were at oracle park with the firefighters and there was a lot of public entities and private entities representing visibly their teams, and we didn't have any representation. i think people who recognized us were appreciative, but it wasn't showing the support of the city that we could have been and i think could have made a difference. we went to a meeting with equality california board. the same thing. some people know me and some dont but think showing the support of the city and board of supervisors for a important community based organization. we went to oasis for legalized drag event for a community that
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is under siege in many parts of the country. i think this would have been important to show visible representation of the city. and went to the holy event the celebration from south asian community that involves a lot of colored chalk and might have taken the jacket off for that one because it was a little messy, but a lot of fun. when we are showing up for our city and our public roles whether as matt dorsey or (indiscernible) we love our city as individuals of course, but also serve our city proudly as city employees, and i talked to them about it and we agreed it would mean a lot we think for those we serve to see us and to recognize we are public servants acting on our residents behalf separate from this also aware there is one community
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ambassador program in-pretty visible district 6 office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. they have the florescent jackets with city seals. it is my understanding their seals may not be authorized so i want to take steps to retroactively authorize them because i want to make sure for the same reason they have a lotf ofans in the neighborhood and people appreciate seeing them and understanding this is the city that is there. so, i hope-i want to makesure we are respecting the process of the administrative code. this is something we should do thoughtfully and have policies around it. i want to make sure this isn't something we are cheapening the brand and when we wear the city seal we are doing so in a way that reflects the high expectations our residents have of us and think when you put our city name on our uniform whether it is stef curry or steve young
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or anybody-there is high expectations for excellence and think that is-and integrity and think that is true of my office. i think that is true of the members of the board of supervisors i serve with and think it is true with the excellent staff all of them have that we will take this seriously, but i hope i can get support for the authorization of the city seal on office jackets. with that, i guess i dont know if there is comments from colleagues? if i can invite up the clerk of the board, angela. >> good morning chair dorsey and members of the committee. i ran down the hall, forgive me. angela. clerk of the board. pursuant to administrative code 1.6 as you know, the clerk of the board is the constodeian of the steel and the space i occupy with that item is that when there are requests that come to the
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board of supervisors for usage of the seal that the clerk of the board is authorized to provide approval upon review of the look and feel and style of what that city seal-the placement of the seal. i have done that the last 16 years and my predecessors as well 6789 the style guide is such that when there is an item that is requested, that it is slightly-yes, it may be the official business, but there might be considerations associated with it. that is generally when i ask that the board of supervisors get a toint to opportunity to review and there are times you see the city seal come for adoption without reference to committee portion of the agenda. with this particular item, it is the first time we received an official request in
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writing to utilize the city seal, and with the intention that this move forward. my request that a resolution be placed in front of the board of supervisors was not to say no to the request, but to just bring up the consideration. the considerations i mentioned to your staff and your office are, any liability to the city, if an individual is wearing the jacket is hurt. if there-with the city receive the jacket back from an individual who might not be in your employment any further and so while there are several departments and agencies and programs that are definitely utilizing the city seal on clothing, it did not come to the board of supervisors for usage and so we had not had the
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opportunity to have the conversation around these considerations mostly for the city protection, for the individual's protection and so that is why that item is also here before you today. f it is again not to say that it is not a worthy usage of the city seal. would never want to say that, but there are some things to consider. i'm available for questions if there were to be any. thank you. >> great. thank you so much madam clerk. i agree. i will say as-i am not a lawyer, but i worked most of my career with lawyers and spent of my career in city government and city attorney office. there is a reason there are laws and should respect that and think that is why it is important we go through the process administrative code provides. and we should be able to hear concerns and i know one of them for example, if somebody leaves
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city service, we dont want official looking gear out there. i know when i worked in the police department, there were jackets and there was actually a badge. i was always nervous having to have a badge because i was worried there is a expectation i will be able to do something useful in a emergency and that isn't a well placed expectation. even-i quickly gave that-this is no longer my role and giving that back as well as my jacket. i appreciate your participation in this and i really do want to make sure we respect the process of what the administrative code provides, so making sure we are doing this the right way is really what matters. thank you for that. colleagues, i don't know if there is comment? can we open this up to public comment? >> yes [providing instructions for public comment]
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we have speaker in the room at this time. >> thank you chair dorsey, vice chair walton. i applaud this item. this is a excellent item. i think it will look great on whatever-which ever garment to attach the seal and think it will reflect great. it reflect very nicely on the work you do. you guys-i know this board is-very proud to be here and to listen to the activities and the discussions that occur, and i hope to be a part of the solutions that you guys are providing or making. when i first started working for the city, i got a
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seal myself. i work frd the sheriff department and i got a badge. my uniform said san francisco sheriff department cadet and that was a very very proud moment for me. i got the uniform for the first time, got into my car and was in a hanger and hanged it up in the car and if you were passing by the car you saw my uniform. you knew i was part of the sheriff department, and that makes me proud. that makes everybody proud. this is a great item. i urge you to pass it to the full board for consideration with positive recommendations and let's make this happen. thank you. >> thank you. moving on to our public call in line, can we have our first caller? >> can you hear me now? yes, please proceed.
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>> great. david pillpel, good morning. interesting item. thank you for the thoughtful comments from chair dorsey and clerk of the board calvio. it is in my experience rare, but not without precedent that items come before the board for use of the seal. i would note that the mayor declared a emergency over a year ago in the tenderloin and took certain actions as did the rest of the city to address concerns in the tenderloin. it seems to me like one of the easier things that can be done to improve the visibility of supervisor dorsey and his staff is to approve this particular use of the city seal on jackets. it
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is certainly not go toog clean up the tenderloin or address the myriad of problems there, but i think having a presence that indicates when the supervisor and staff are out that they care and are in the community doing work is a very good positive sign. i have no objection and in fact support the proposed use. i did have at least one thing in the legislation to bring up i think on page 2, line 8, the word "termination". i would suggest replacing that with the word separation. upon separation from the board of supervisors and page 2 line 19, the time period through november 3, 2026 makes it look like it is more elect torl related. i suggest (indiscernible)
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>> your time has elapsed. thank you. just checking to see if we have additional speakers. that was our last telephone speaker and believe we can close public comment at this time. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item number 4 is now closed. can i ask-i appreciate the comment and the observation from mr. pillpel and don't disagree. can i ask deputy city attorney, is that a substantive amendment? >> no, those amendments could be made today. >> okay. i like to make a motion then to substitute the word separation for termination and to move the date reference for the end of the period that was one thing that did-i like the idea of let's bring this back for reauthorization. i like sunsetting things because we can try it. mr.
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(indiscernible) the date referenced i move that we amend that to say it will end at noon january 8, 2027. >> january 8, 2027? >> correct. and could we have a motion amending- >> on the motion to amend? vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, absent. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection with supervisor safai being absent. >> and could we now have-could i move to positive recommendation? >> would you like to
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go out as committee report? >> sure, yeah. actually, we can just are send it- >> okay. recommended as amended not as a committee report? >> correct. >> on is that motion, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, absent. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection with supervisor safai being absent. >> okay. thank you mr. young. on unanimous vote use of city corporate seal moves to full board with positive recommendation. and before we call the next item i want to-i see we have visitors i like to recognize. ellen, can we introduce- >> would you like to introduce your class? >> you want to come up to the--so we can say
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hello? >> hi, good morning. this is (indiscernible) elementary second great, room 208. >> thank you second graders. grateful for you to be here. i was actually a second grader when i was-i was like a government nerd. hopefully maybe some will be sitting in these seats. welcome to the board of supervisors, to the rules committee. i think this is. is there anymore business? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> okay, we have no further business. thank you everyone, we are adjourned.
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[meeting adjourned]
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>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's
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hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also
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a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid.
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i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i
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existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's
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incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we
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do. i think the access to care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the prospective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal
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experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits before i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those
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situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all hmm.those things are temporary.
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