>> good morning, everybody. >> let me start by triathlon all 6 it to bring attention how big tobacco trying to hook the new generations on tobacco produces and tobacco companies appeal to the public with with threatening decades of people. a few years ago san francisco put children first and young people first and banning the sale of flavored tobacco products to rest our space and city have enforced against brick-and-mortar rashlt by online arrangements are the nexus next frontier on the study was experienced today, our city attorney's office has announced

a lawsuit against three california companies by selling flavored tobacco products online to people in san francisco and you'll hear the press we have some of the products in front of us and after the press veteran you will see the three meanwhile, one incorporated the technical an llc and the smokey an llc sell a variety of tobacco products and e circumstances to commissioner green and one of the online sellers with not ship products to the jurisdictions the website of those have two indication will not ship the products. in study by office each defendant sold to our office and fruit or flavors designed to appeal to young people like strawberry and have

an he will and all monday and shipped them to the city in violation of the law we are bringing reputes i lawsuits to clear message to the tobacco retailers will not be tolerated in san francisco. we're going bringing to lawsuit to protect the lawsuit especially you from the health risks of tobacco this year alone mill middle school high schools students have currently using e significance with 89 percent of flavored products over 20 percent of our high school students have tried e cigarettes we're bringing to lawsuits to shop the tobacco companies through their flagrant disregard of the law and seeking the defendants past violations of the law. now to address this public health crises the

advocates and health professionals behind me in the city and state have worked tirelessly, tirelessly against the tobacco companies and a number of people i introduce each of the affair speakers but thank you for the organizations campaign for tobacco for kids represented ken gibbs today thank you and a little known fact i worked with this organization they're work as literally saved miles of lives i want to thank the to for the work (clapping.) and for its work in meeting and global listed advocacy because of our vocabulary our first speaker will pass a law that is critical to the lawsuit. working with my preserve dennis herrera

and spear hesitate did local law in retail of e cigarettes thank you for being a vocal champion (clapping.) thank you, city attorney good morning, everyone you first of all, we know how along the fight has been. tobacco big tobacco that's been in the city and nationwide go back to in 1998 we had all the first first commissioners to take resources from tobacco and equate young people not to use tobacco and then come to find in 2018 that true lab is here in san francisco targeting our children and making sure that they can doing everything we can to addict them to a lifetime of tobacco use we gathered together and figure out hard and goat

egging e on the other hand, cigarettes band from san francisco and across the state and across the country and eventually internationally and everyone who understands their directly targeting our young people seen the data and demonstrates that at the focused on making sure the youngest children in our city will become and i indicted and now we have every responsible company doing the same thing and articulating our residents and articulating our young 0 people by trying to skirt our laws and by products online three come directly into san francisco we're not going to take down for people skirting around our laws and thank you, city attorney chu for bringing this lawsuit and want to thank all of my colleagues, all my

sports here with us today for fire hydrant because this lawsuit is important. because we need to make sure that not only do those big companies not 25eshg9 our residents here but didn't happen anything in the nation and for too long that people are being using online platforms to skirt laws and target residents and in different cities we're going to make sure they don't get away with that here in san francisco. we have it continue to protect people we understand the harms of the cigarettes and what is necessary do to the target young people and lead them to a lifetime of tobacco so just like we passed a law in 2019 and fought against big tobacco to make sure they don't over turn laws we're going to do did same

thing with the tobacco companies and thank you, for coming up in support of this law and fight and let big companies and corporation know we'll not tlofrnt targeting our young people thank you, (clapping.) thank you, supervisor walton to your leadership we had a number of policymakers part of fight. >> thank you leah accordingly our extraordinary banning tobacco products and someone next in the city attorney's office like to invite up matt dorsey chp you thank you, city attorney chu. and, you know. more than 25 years ago there was a former city attorney that filed had becomes a groundbreaking lawsuit against big tobacco and hold them

accountable and in starting that created a altercation it's city attorney's office of leadership analyzed against big tobacco and the chambers has harms is causing something that dennis herrera continued i'm proud and grateful it is something the city attorney david chiu it the national leader against big tobacco honored to be here as someone working with the district attorney's office city attorney's office for years and occurred to me a furious i had the opportunity to stand with another important leader my clearance shamming anyone walton and the labs was proposed to spend this city got ground and spending millions and shadow shoulder to shoulder with some a ragtag bunk 7 advocates we

didn't know governor 0 bloomington burger about coming come up but i'm proud of shamming anyone it stands in history as is biggest 2023 as lost for big tobacco several thousands of dollars we spent per vote a losing effort sends a powerful message how much san francisco protects kids and others from the harms of tobacco thank you, very much to be port of that and hand side. >> shoulder to shoulder with folks for years to come. thank you. >> thank you. matt dorsey and would not be successful without the leadership the san francisco medical associate and past president the leader in our stay

and country (clapping.) >> thank you doctors. >> is always the national heart association and cancer society. >> (calling names.) >> and others and take a a moment to thank the department of health staffers with the endorsement of laws and the next who represents the doctors leading this work please join me in welcoming the san francisco health officer. >> (clapping) good morning. my name is did susan philip the health officer for the city and county of san francisco and the direct the population health against or distinction at department of health i'm so happy to be here with the zoo david chiu and others and our wonderful leadership and all of you for decades the department of health has sought so reduce the access

to public tobacco and provides services to help people to quit in recent years enforced the restriction of product sales in san francisco. this labor library mu-n thalamus and cheri are marketed to our communities of color and including other vaping products this restriction is critical to protect the happy earth day of those in 20 percent of high school students and others eying e seconds are a high concentration of nick tone and can harm the developing brain. adversely effecting the attention and additional starts lifetime addiction before 18 continued to

have serious illness of heart disease and flavored product is easily to start and harder to quit i applaud city attorney for protecting the health of san franciscans and for the continued advocacy of supervisor walton and dorsey with the leadership. san francisco adults can go to sf quit.org and call at 62867678 request a director howard together we'll continue to help the community if tobacco smoking related issues. thank you. (clapping.) thank you, dr. philip and colleagues for your tremendous work and our efforts will the no

be successful without the grassroots for young people the first nonprofit board i joined in any 20s which for decades to train young people to lead comments and stand up for generations i met the next speaker was one of the young applicants come on up. >> (clapping) good morning, everybody. um, you know. the youth leaders institutes along with the city of san francisco buildings in the voice tobacco is an issue and a justice issue we've come a long way reducing the access it critical for targeted from the to destroys and culture vat

another generation of young people the to destroy masks the hash environment and um, young adults to think they vap and sentencing them to a lifetime of vaping and this may sound harmless but have done traded ingredients and dangers to our community and public health. an interesting fact vap are three times more likely to somebody cigarettes within a year and the lierpdz like the folks support of efforts of david chiu and those on stage to reducing accessed to the abstract retailers and again, it will not

stop we can't either thank you, (clapping.) thank you. so our last speaker is the more important here because of impact of the actions everyone or of omicron tobacco retailers and the next generation is the leader. >> (clapping) good morning you my name is (unintelligible). >> i'm 23-year-old i was born and raised in the bay area i will be congratulating into college and have been in the er merging community leader with over a year. i help lead the community action model program where people are working to address the negative feedback

and the policy alternatives that protect the community health i'd like to not referring to the ceremonial use the problem is that tobacco that the tobacco destroy prioritizing the young people tobacco retail marketing strategy specifically charges the next door communities more than any other. and current as of policy young people are still using commercial tobacco products when i was 5 i opposed my first book history one of my interests i was 7 when the ceremonial tobacco was introduced i had to navigate negative associations that came from culture bias and presentations. i was 11 many i

saw the impact of commercial tobacco products. that commercial products had on my peers and had consequences. and at 13 my turn to learn about tobacco. how significant to indigenous communities and the simple truth it is introduced and promoted and became a wide commodity. i have seen this circle happen to my young people. the young leaders in and the program have believed in a commercial free tobacco generations and commercial tobacco anyone born after january 1st, 2005, would suggested policy implementation within the next 5 years or by january 1st, 2026, with our

support with we can unite and have solutions for people now and a positive change for future generations. thank you. (clapping.) thank you. i have a couple of closing comments one thanks to the incredible legal professionals from our city attorney's office had folks from three teams in the office our teams are investigation team and the healthcare team and specifically shout out to julie iceberg and julie. >> (calling names.) >> carol constituting for your great work thank you, guys. >> at the beginning of the session we have some of the products available here in the media wants to take photos of them and i will reiterate products not only not welcome in

san francisco, they are legal to sell or distribute the last thing to say thanks to everyone who is standing with us and the folks have been working on the issues in to throughout the years together we will hopefully have some day soon a tobacco free generation. with that, thank you for being here. and folks are available for questions and interviews if you like. thank you very much. >> it is one of the

first steps families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for them and their loved ones. your home, it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. a asset that offers a pathway to build wealth from one generation to the next. and you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. your home, small business, air looms and more. you and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. by providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and home ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. working with local non profit

organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the serveess to you and community, to workshops focused on estate planning and why it's important. >> i'm 86 years old and you do need a trustee. you need a will and put who ever you want in charge of it. >> that's why i wanted to be here today. that is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. but even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. >> if you don't have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. that could be $40 thousand for a home at that level. i don't know about you, but i don't $40 thousand to give up.

>> (indiscernible) important workshop to the community so we can stop the loss of generational wealth and equity and maintain a (indiscernible) >> why are estate plans important? we were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. >> as mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid $2700, $2700 just for revocable trust. what we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to $3500. free or low cost meaning free, or $400 if you make above $104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. because we want to focus on black and brown households, because that's whether the need is, not only in san francisco, not only the bay area

but the region as well. and, >> i was excitesed to see the turn out from the western addition and bayview and want to make sure we cover all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family. >> work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. >> that's why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. so we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. >> we insure the financial stability of san francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. >> on behalf of the office of assessor recorder, i'm thankful for all the support and legal assistance they have given that makes the estate planning program a realty for you in san francisco and are thank all the community partners like san francisco housing development corporation, booker t washington center and neighborhood leaders

and organizations that help families and individuals realize their dreams of building wealth in san francisco from one generation to the next. to learn more about this program e-mail inquiries at har >> the vibrant south of market neighborhood in san francisco is deep lee rooted filipino if fluences to shape the cultural identity. soma pilipinas known for [indiscernible] night life and art scenes is home to growing filipino community that thrived for generations. >> soma pilipinas is a community, the village that has been over a hundred years in the making.

this is home to many generations of filipino from the turn of the century, to the present. continues to be a gateway community for a lot of filipinos just arriving from the philippines. >> one of sth most prominent scines is filipino owned businesses become staples in the neighborhood. restaurants like manila bowl and jp restaurant offer [indiscernible] >> we call it [indiscernible] this is my passion. everybody's who came right now. we feel good right here. community is like a family. >> the eatery serve mouth watering dishes and provide a sense of home to the filipino community, preserving traditions passed down

generation. >> a filipino restaurant utilizing california ingredients we honor traditional family recipe [indiscernible] we shop in the market 2 to 3 times a week. we make the filipino cuisine proud in san francisco. >> along with the culinary deliteds, soma philippine ow is home to san francisco top mix aulgists. filipino artistry is a facet of soma pilipinas rich tapestry. the filipino cultural heritage district transformed public spaces into canvases that depict the stories and experiences of filipino americans. >> parlt part of the work we do is support filipino artists to work with community to really create and develop community based art.

this is murals and designs that really reflect the rich history, the culture and the struggles and triumps of the filipino community. >> the presence of the filipino cultural center which offer workshops, language classes and community resources is a testament to the community efforts to preserve and promote the heritage. >> features the [indiscernible] philippines which is a indigenous community weaving textiles and tapestry for hundreds of years so proud to feech were modern ones and very antique ones and showcase fashion from the community and we are inviting everybody to come experience that with us. >> the center not only caters to the filipino community, but welcome all who wish to learn about and embrace this culture. >> we want to develop a cultural district where you have the young generation learn their history, language and culture and where you have also

the seniors be part of the cultural and share their stories and their traditions, and continue to grow young in the neighborhood. >> the intersection of technology and culture in this part of san francisco provides a unique back drop for a thriving community embracing the past while looking to the future. the filipino influence ingrained in soma serves as remindser of the power of cultural diversity and importance of celebrating in our ever changing world.

>> okay, good morning, every one. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the december 11, 2023, regular meeting of the land use transportation committee of the board of supervisors. i'm imelda melgar. and jason is our staff person for sf tv. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? . >> clerk: