without objection. require 8 people to wave this rule and there are 9 of us. but yes, you could and i could declare a special board meeting. chief lazar >> good afternoon. i want to congratulate supervisor ronen, safai, preston for your time on the board and i'm here today president peskin to congratulate you on allure years of service to the city. and i wanted tell that you i typeset thank you for your support of san francisco police department. especially your officers at central station. where you provide an amount of support to them. one thing you have done is you makure you know every officer's name by their first name. whether in china town or north

beach you always shown love and support for your cops at central station. i want to conclude by saying i'm grateful as the then the captain of 7 roll station in 2016 to have the privilege to work with you and -- to see how much you cared about the community about public safety. about holing us accountable and meching sure we were responsive and making sure that we modeled like you did as a city represent making sure we were taking care of people. for this i'm thankful. you also showed me the importance. having i unified front. captains and supervisors work handled in hand to have this presence to represent the city i'm honored be here to say a few words about our time and expert witness. how much -- i the department and i greatly value you.

i want to rum and share how valuable we found our working realm to supervisor preston thank you for being fierce advocate for tenant right in the board or as an attorney in your private life i appreciated all of your support for many of neighboring serving programs you are in there with our team making sure our folks knew where

we cover to make sure we were representd and served your community i thank you for this level of attention and for this care for your community.

you knew everybody and this life for san francisco the people of san francisco is something that shown through. i have appreciated this left go around working withow issues

that were important whether about getting right municipal waste process rolling back contracting laws wing on things that were mundane like oil feels. real estate loses they were themmings you pay attention to and made sure we got right and you tested us. you asked us hard question and made us do better. i recall working on clone up a piece of legislation that was passed separate the department of public ws you were the lead champion to help us repairs when would have been breaking up a department and the connection point in this department. and i remember you tellingly me this you were responsible for wrong to passing something you regret exclude your responsibility make it right. i thought this spoke a lot but as a person willing to understand the operations and willing to say, you know what i got it wrong and i will feks temperature that's spoke a lot and spoke a lot when you were

think burglar and considering prospect b you speck about employee morale and did in the forget to uplift the people who dot w. thank you, supervisor peskin for the ways big and simultaneous you helped influence my public serve here. before i go i have a gift. betters be under 25 dollars. [laughter] 18 dollars. to be exact. you motive not see this i will tell you i know this i will get this wrong and people will offend the dent tech office offense a pint do you recallian ice chrome if my favorite parlors in the district marco polo we spoke about this place it is delicious. but don't take this the wrong way. dur yen is the flavor i think many people find difficult to tolerate.

[laughter] definitely hard on the nose not to everybody's taste and is ban in the commute trains and in holings in country rows. but to others the dur yen is the king of fruits and a true treasure. thank you, supervisor peskin. thank you, carmen. [applause] the foal system muteual the city is good hands with and i'm proud of your work neymary ellen carroll. >> swim are extraordinary and surfer, too. why yes, well00 our city add administrator spoke of seeing you the pleasure of seeing you in community not many have had the pleasure of like me of seeing you in the speedo at five in the morning as we jump in the water. so -- more on you in a minute.

first, want to congratulate you all i will start with supervisor preston. you know we did not alling agree on everything. but we -- certainly have always had the ability to community and to work together. especially on and for on behalf of the vulnerable community in your district. we are i'm very proud of work we have done. on our team and with your team to really try to bring better conditions to your sdrekt and those most vulnerable. i want to say this one of my most indelable experiences was the 11 hour, 12 hour board meeting we had on that went from december 23rd to december 24th i

can't remember when year time has no meaning. >> that will forever be in my mind and that was you know from it there, you know we irrelevant were able to find our path and work together. and i do respect how you stand up for what you believe in and -- my kid is a fan of yours. there you go. >> second low, supervisors safai, i just you know i i i the biggest thing i have to thank you for is your bringing prop i to fruition and the board. this is the gives the benefits to the dispatchers they have so longmented and in my opinion have deserved. honest low. i told them may be two year ago when we would come up i was able to abling a miracle this is in

the my decision. but -- it is huge and it is really automatic00 you -- i'm not sure you know the impact it has to them to have the recognition as public safetied responders this they truly are, so. honest low that is indelable gift and something this will have forever and so i appreciate you seeing them. and moving that forward. supervisor ronen, again i want to say having a woman on the board in this position this is a position that is very male dominated. it is hospital to solicit support i felt seen by you from this perspective. fell supported and i also say you are only supervisor that brought home maid cookies to dispatches during covid.

and to be seen i really appreciate your passion. and the emotion you bring to this it is okay to feel deeply about the things that are important to us. finally supervisor peskin. i will swim with you any time no problem. >> and -- you know i'm grateful because i tends to go in the afternoon but nothing lect a morning swim to wake you up i froesht the times you helped mow to get out there. what i want to say to you and really to the group especially to you supervisor, is what i will never forget is your support and the commitment this you had during covid. you sir issue other reason we have changed our protocols to make a space for supervisors during large events. we changed our plans to make

sure that happens. you know that you are an honorary member of d e m you have the t shirt. to show it i don't think anyone else does. but you know i would have never thought 6 envelope years ago appointed this position this all of us would be experiencing what we hope is a lifetime once in a lifetime event of a pandemic. it was terrifying for so many people and obviously one of the biggest impacts we all had. you really you -- really helped to lead the way. and be present. and help us to make better decisions because of your connection to community. the biggest lesson we learned during covid is we have to 39 community. we have to let community lead the way. and tell us how to help them and support them. many of you were per of this

supervisor robe sxen safai did a spell at covid command center. and i hope of that you irrelevant hold this with pride. and know this you are part of history and supporting us and saveingly lives during that time. i wish you all the best, i said to the in coming folk when is i met them the folks coming behind you i'm so deeply grill to them for decide to take this crazy job and serve of the public du it with distinction and i want it thank you for this. it is in the easy. thank you, and i help you are all proud of what you have done. >> thank you. thank you for your incredible staff and leadership. [applause].

chief nicholson good to have you back i think we don't think there are anymore fires we never we think everything is better now. chief. >> welcome back. >> it is. greetings and salutations board of supervisors it is wonder to feel see you all. i am your former fire chief nicholson and i want to congratulate each of you supervisor safai, ronen, supervisor preston and the one and only president up there. congratulations. on all the w this you all have done. and i want to thank you for your tutelage and support of me coming in 5 and a half years ago and thank you, near your friendship as well i'm proud of

the work we have done. i irrelevant believe this some of the things we have done changed not the trajectory of individual lives but families and i'm speaking of the city emt program and your support of this has been just next to none. and thank you for always supporting the fire department. i appreciate each worn of you and wishut best to nice to see all of you. and it is in the bad on the other side. thank you. [applause] chief be careful on that bike ride down to los angeles. she stopped swimming now riding a bicycle as much as she was swimming. carla short head of public works. doing an awesome job.

>> naturings for this. president peskin. it is hard to follow all these eloquent speakerers i wanted thank you all your jobs are not easy. and -- on behalf of my department i want to thank you all for really each of you has been a major supporter of my department and my colleagues. who have some difficult j.w.s in the city. and so, supervisor ronen thank you for championing our street venning enforcement team and recognizing how challenging that work is. and always supporting their efforts. supervisor safai, thank you for always reminding the westerlied this you worked the public works. we are proud you are a former

colleague. and for being i champion for our employees and recognizing all of their hard work. supervisor preston you have always shown up to our events and brought great enthusiasm and support for the team. and the w this we do and really recognizing that keeping the streets clean in parts of the city is a task. but that we are out there and doing our best and that it is in the easy. thank you for supporting. and president peskin, i think i met you almost fwenlt years to the day. i had been on the j.w. an among as the city's now urban forester. and i had it get up and meet supervisor peskin at 7 a.m. to talk about treeos telegraph hill. and that should have let mow happened this this job would not necessary low be easy.

but never be dull. and thank you for the men years of enter in the w this we do all the february lutz stories i hope we will continue to hear them and for supporting again, my colleagues in the department of public works. i am deeply grateful to you all for your support and i wish you the very best and hope you have a lot of sleep in your future >> thank you, thanks for taking the job. kelly deerman i see you >> thank you. >> so, supervisor preston safai and ronen and i'm happy and honored be here and want to thank you all for always standing up for my department. for people with disabilities and for older adults you will any

time i come to your office to talk whether you believe mow or not you were always supportive and i ken tell you how much i appreciate that. . on behalf of the over 200,000 folks we serve left year. i appreciate you all recognizing that they are out there that they are working really hard it live with dignity and he thrive in the city and you make that happen and scombrierz ronen i want to have this drink so -- let's -- make that happen. to supervisor peskin not only do you show up for my department you have always shown up for me. you have shown up for my family and i can't tell you how much i appreciate that and -- means a lot to me and parents being be here i'm sure they will tell you congratulations my dad would tell you aging is hard, retirement is fun. and this there are men things

this you can did this you have in the been able to do during this time exit hope you doll it. and i hope you all do it and recover and figure out when is next we need help in my department i always have jobs so -- just -- give me a call i'm here. seriously. thank you, personal low and professional low and good luck to all of you >> thank you god there a. am [inaudible] [inaudible]. inea and john our love. least known most important person in the city. >> good afternoon president peskin this is an unexpected honor. i do want to thank all of you about this those stilling and those of you moving on to bigger

and better, for your assistance and support for the real estate team. i especially want typeset thank president peskin who's expertise in the real estate field is parnone and i valuable not only alli but behind the scenes collaborative colleague and make structures better for the city. i'm not the most eloquent speaker i work behind the sxeens get the job done and appreciate the help from all of you >> that deal for on mid america we will never forget you. thank you. why all right our former city attorney deputy city attorney who left ussan pierson are you here do you want it say anything, you don't have to, all right.

we will stop the privilege of the floor if any member of the public want it make mean spirited comments about the 4 of us the floor is yours we are taking public comment on items 32, three, 34 and 35. >> good afternoon. district 2 resident and former city employee. i want to thank safai ronen, pret know for your service and leadership and with marginalized community. and neglected community thank you for everything you have done to make sure all are represented. i'm here today buzz my friend and meantor supervisor president peskin done an amazing job i want it thank you you have in idea how much you mentored us you gave me hell on the old

project. and it was my [inaudible]ing to city government nobody this understandses innersectionality of public service and community like you. and everyone thinks you are a lawyer butture in the and you make us believe you one which forces us to do our home work we are better because of you i want it say thank you so much. typeset having the mind of a general and heart of a soldier you have done magnificent work more for asian community and historic preservation and you have done more for small business than any supervisor since i have been around thank you and god bless and you good luck to everything you will do. >> keep being a force of nature. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm elaine i'm from d 5. i'm here to say thank you mr. president. you are amazing beautiful

wonderful machine. you walk you talk you do everything possible to help everyone in the neighborhood. and i appreciate you my family appreciate you and please, continue to be who you are because that is what you are made of that stuff. that makes people proud to be human being and thank you. >> [applause]. thank you. >> mr. president, supervisor brown. member of the board. old saying from mississippi if i task is once gone never leave it tell its done, labor great or small do it well or not at all.

those of you who are leaving this board i will not call where you will by name because i don't want to take up my time to get to my punch line. you done well. and we congratulate you the services this you rendered i'm 83 going on 84 i think i have more years to give you where i see you some many surmons. about this unfinished task -- of liberation for black folk in this town. you did well. by acknowledging our harm i terrific evil done. against our ancestory and in

through public policy. the redevelopment agency. did in the bring renewals for african-americans but black removal. from 16% of the population down to 4% you had nothing to to it, no. but the collective body pol tech of this town still in the has not seen sons and daughter of africa being human. my hope and prayer is that those who are left on this board will join with the new board and make sure that if we really respect the legacy of one harris --

that, that heritage building will come in the hundreds of comprehend 10 qualified, able -- aftercan american business leadership.

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jewish prudent system of being innocent until proven guilty. kaurt is rolling on and many not giving favorable decisions for all the people. why should we want to stop dream keepers because allegations have been made. by certain persons. that program helped too many and help men more we have a moral obligation of keeping it alive. good bless you. be safer. we are all member of the human

family. and that injustice anywhere in every affects all of us every where. thank you. reverend brown. >> um -- good evening or good afternoon. i wanted thank everyone on this board especially dean preston for the renaming of the street for my son and everyone this voted for it. i am so happy after 18 years of fighting for justice i got a little something and the people that did the crime to my son will drive by that street and see that name up there. and i still post my picture and is just thank everyone this came out on that day to support me

and the community chief scott the da. the new lect mayor and mayor breed everyone that came out it was they were so much love there to show this we can build relationships between patrol and community. this was a great event. and i irrelevant hate to see that you are leaving. but you are not gone. you will still with here w with us and i wanted it say dream cope keeper's money that helped me get service for myself for i'm still suffering from my son's murder and services have helped me trust the system. and this dream keeper's money

have gotten services for all of us especially me. mental health services and just things for seniors i'm 65 you in. and -- i just want to thank everyone i'm out of words. joan what to say. thank you and especially you dean preston for doing this for me and for us. >> thank you. thank you, ms. brown this is public comment for specific items 32-35. >> next speaker, please. >> we will hearing general public comment after the speakers. welcome. >> this is not general public comment for general matters this is for specific to item it is 32-35. why yes. >> this is not going not about

policy or government or kindness i want top say to dean, thank you so much. okay this is not a great ms day for me i stayed in the have to be here to say this. one day i'm sitting at the panhandle. sort of by fell and he and his daughter were crosses over from oak and saw something was off. and he didn't walk he did not run he bolted across that panhandle. to make it right and see i was okay i will never on either forget that! and everything else dean it is not over you are coming back you are doing stuff. and aaron, one thing about aaron

you minot remember this but metropolitan years ago there was a tape of you this is become whent mz's were showing up you said what is this ride share business it is a transactional thing we will split the cost and said sharing is when 2 kids in the school yard one dropped a sandwich and the other kid says would you like half. [laughter]. hillary we will see you again and ahsha go union! god bless you all. >> thank you. welcome, next speaker, please. good evening supervisors i'm catherine speaking on behalf neighborings united and supervisor ronen, safai and

preston thank you for your service i have learned so much over the groers you. but the afternoon to you board president peskin and gwen on behalf of neighborings u nighted sf our found are lori brock the 64 organizations in our coalition and numerous thousands of individuals we represent we want to express our deepest gratitude and admiration for your combroord years of service it san francisco. your tireless advocacy for our city's neighborhoods. your dedication left i mark on our community and leadership will be missed at city hall. your ability to bring opposing sides together and navigate complex challenges set you, part as a true leader time and again you have shown a talent for finding solutions that honor the diverse perspectives of san

francisco residents. in the city multifaceted as ours your commitment to collaborate rigz nothing short of inspiring we marvel would your river replaceable to site chapter and verse of city charter planning code with precision. this expert eesz combuoyanted with wellingness to be vocal has earned you respect of constate webs. consistent low you bring intelligence to every discussion. as you step away from the board we know san francisco is losing not just i public serve not but i champion for integrity of neighborhoods yet we remain hopeful this you that this is in the good by but a moment of transition your unique style and

skills are too vital to remain on the side line. thank you for all you have done for san francisco you lead with passion, principle and heart and look forward to seeing what the next chapter holds for you them. thanks. >> thank you supervisor preston for leading san francisco for 5 years on the board for your tenure on the board lead the fight to i think make san francisco better for those the least and the most vulnerable. thank you for fighting for rights of tenants house and neighbors with drug and mental health issues. thank you for fighting prevent eviction keeping thousands of neighbors off the streets and to build more affordable housing to keep families under one roof.

i want to sthafrng supervisor preston, ronen and peskin for introducing and passing the cease-fire resolution and speaking for all against what is help nothing goesa and arabic and muslim community in san francisco. supervisor preston san francisco deserves more leaders like yourself. i'm thankful for your service and leadership on the board. thank you. hello eye would like to thank supervisor preston for your service as a kid growing up in los angeles i uponed to live in san francisco san francisco is a magic place where anything was possible. in my role as an torn at eviction defense i represent people who are the living of the

very san francisco spirit this drew me here. people without legal representation would be booted out. artists, musicians,im grnltsselder members of lobes and i'm describing my case load now. naifrngs to your work the special people stay enriching our beautiful city thank you for being an alli and role model to me and for fight to protect special mag that i can makes san francisco the best city in the world. >> good afternoon thank you all for your years of service i'm mark san franciscans 20 years. our city is an incredible place i love being a parking lot exclusive love belonging here there is so nouch love about the city it is mostly our diverse

culture it is special and you all know this. since founding san francisco had know ug low history of displacement of indigenous people. people of color and the working class. over the years folks forced, way from livelihood and homes and friends and family. mosts low by the forces of racism and greed. terrible unjust displacement of san franciscans gone down for many years our diverse spirit found a way to shine through. that is in no small part made possible by lead, like supervisor preston who remained residencellow in standing up for seniors communities of color and working families. san francisco remains more diverse and about how far and more just thanks to supervisor preston's work. supervisor preston's work in

this body improved the material conscience of wing class san franciscans allowing thousand its stay in homes. being witness to his struggles makes me proud to be a san francisco. whether you agree or not we are luck tow have this guy on the side of the people of san francisco. thank you dean for continuing the fight to keep san francisco an incredible place where we all belong. i'm humana a resident of d 9 for 12 years i'm here to bid fare well to both president peskin and brierz preston two leaders in our city when make me proud to be here. president peskin wish you were

leave to be our next mayor i used one of my votes it was for you you the only one i had confidence in thank you for your service. supervisor preston your policies mech wee me feel save i'm not sure how knowledge live in a city i was born without leadership from you. supervisor preston and peskin eshgs etch foil what it means to be a public service thank you you will be missed the next 4 years and hope you will run again. thanks hannah. ms. irving. i'm a representative of another species that benefited from supervisor pes king's attention and support. i just got this letter from the [inaudible] flew the in and hand today to me and i will read it.

dear supervisor peskin the wild tear everparrots of telegraph hill or i bill time the first fundraiser bee the telegraph hill dwellers for the move that he made us famous. you put up a big sign feeding burdeners present in the ferry park. when doddsens of misinformed people fed us conservatorship. that was in 2007. you advocated for us in the san francisco chronicles official animal contest which we won. . defeating the corporate sea lions of pier 39 and standing up for inspect mavericks our flock and yours and you made our reign official enshrining it in law in 2023 you supports humans in the city but the other species as well. the parrots thank you.

squawk! [laughter] will e supervisor melgar deserveses thanks, too. >> hello i'm leah and i live in san francisco. i got my master's in [inaudible]. the people who call me radical call you a dangerous radical i think of biochemistry. however sometimes orbit tality has 1 electron that is a radical. radicals are reactive to environments and are have a hypo terrible energy. i, am high low reactive to my environment.

radicals have the ability to mutate dna and i think and we see the dna of on sight well is something harming people instead of helping. and so -- i take credit in being i radical and mutate that make society better so we don't harm people and just help them.

thank you for saving america match the program at furthermorery market and stopping municipaly fare hikes, fighting for evidence bills said, diction prevenning treatment in the form of safe consumption site advocacy for

homeless. piloting homeless holing. creating the first permanent shelter for families in the city. thank you for filling over three00sro's in the city. thank you for author and passing a 10 not right to council giving everyone right to free lawyer prevent the 20,000 husband holds from fitsing eviction. thank you for tax the ultare wealthy to liz millions for emergency rental assistance because of this the biggest rental assist annual in the country. thank you for kwhour work to hold the police accountable calling for audits in the voting for 800 million dollars for [inaudible]. so thank you so much for all

your work searching san francisco and thank you for being know amazing brave soul socialist on the board and yea you are an inspiration. thank you. okay. all right. society first time i came to san francisco meeting i witnessed the freak so that is public comment. chris dam and he gavin sitting supervisors. my impression of newsome he was out of place and gross. chris daly he was i represent for the tenderloin. y think this you dean preston and chris daly are different people and different pol positions i think you are the most beloved representative of the tenderloin since chris daly. i have taken your opportunity in

office to represent attentives disables, immigrants palestinian and working whiches you have been i royal pain in the ass to real and stood up for working people in the face of death threats and wash of lies told about you and about those loyalings you were the best person when it came to housing policy getting units built and affordable and accitizenable for everyone in san francisco and in the just those with tech income the only approximately this understood the decommodification is the other thans to homelessness and housing cries. f all the lies prevented evictions and hest open constituent staff in city all you helped me personal low a couple times i will never forget this and i want it thank you i think i can say all the tenderloin community thanks you.

stenographs not over i'm looking for to working with you years to criminal thank you. >> good evening chris, lower polk i like to thank robe sxen safai we crossed paths in old jobs issue concern jobs and throughout time and thank you for everything. supervisor preston, the left couple years in the tenderloin and the lower per of my day job thank you for your service and dedication and staff. it has been wonderful w with you and thank you. for reasons of geography supervisor peskin and i work the a lot over the years in lower polk and legislated and

constituent stuff and i ~esque litted things within gentleman to him and all this stuff hen r believe but when we are really when i will remain forever grateful for to supervisor peskin how he empowered, up liftd and amplified both my voice and the voice of my community and the voice of my neighbors. he was our biggest advocate and connector and linker to others allowed us to empower each other. and i think that -- was the single biggest thing that supervisor peskin did for us you and you alone the other accolade says people have begin. allowing you to empower ourselves and giving us this gift or -- making us our voices stronger. i'm forever grateful. thank you. many years ago i called you

aaron now i will say aaron, thank you >> thank you, chris. >>. good evening. i'm here. thank you aaron peskin. and peskin and all the -- legislative members here. you know -- i appreciate you to tick me to sacramento to do work with you sb529 and lost by 1 vote this inspired me to get in tenant's rights activities and especially -- but i want to thank you and will be in touch. and a lot of w to do. and put your slowos i will put mine on. >> and my theory was not in

[inaudible] we are called [inaudible] the donald trump thing we need to hold our ground and fight back. thank you. >> holeo i will try to keep it short. good evening. thank you all out going supervisors for your services. i want it say [inaudible] dean preston here and concerned about issues in our city like affordable you have done wonderful work. [inaudible]. and not the [inaudible] and i

appreciate you fighting for d five and the city. and thank you supervisor peskin for fighting for reason control in d three where i live i hope key see you run for mir again i was happy to vote for you. and -- yea. >> thank you. good afternoon i'm jaime from the tenderloin and i'm here to express gratitude to supervisor safai, peskin, ronen and preston for the work you have done. thank you for supportingly prospect l and remind to make policy to prioritize public transit.

deano cernel to face the waling and he get trndzit funded. thank don't's staff. for your support and uplifting mow on this work you know you are in the office go 6ers, go fillies and eagles that's it. >> and -- the staff and others on the board are a reminder that city hall is in the always corrupt and power hungry there are people who are kind and jen scombin grounded and uplifting

and sustaining up for wing class and under served. thank you to dean and staff and out going supervisors good luck i look forward to celebrating dean preston day. thank you. >> hi. i'm andy gillis i live in d 8 i'm here to express appreciation for dean preston. who i worked for 2019 and 2024. i want to thank you, don't for being a very effective humin legislator. passing laws that have benefitted thousands of working people in san francisco. free attorneys. covid relief for small businesses. and tenants and -- of course, getting thussands of unitings of

housing built. much of it -- affordable. flip a quote from reagan of all people. created and per pet wit in the inquality and the problems the city hall is continue its try to address. the billionaires involved in san francisco politics i think because they have focused lives on enriching himself to annast nom cal degree are singularly unqualified to make any contributions to san francisco politics. it is people like dean preston who have worked tireless low for

wing people. so, thank you very much, dean. and aaron you would have made a great mayor. why thank you. andy. >> >> mark >> i'm mark long time resident of d low and moved cross town planning to speak but aaron, thank you for your years of service i remember the piers this stayed with the city and thanks for that. during the america's cup. i'm glad to be in a room so many people have gratitude for their public serve ans. it is great to be here and hear the -- gratitude. thank yo employee attends

theela hill how much community center, checkive impact. i say it is in the okay to take away from us. category for resources and always have something positive it say about our commune center. i'm a young woman with a single mother when benefited from working at collective impact i explore opportunity with collective impact and for example this summer i did in know internship with ucsf. i benefited from collective impact being able to make connections with people who help

my 40 like being able to make keksz i'm able to pay bills for my family because of the program. me and my peers are here to show you how we struggle the fanatic we may thot have a safe place to be after sdool the fact the department the city defense want to cut us off isup fair have you no idea no idea how our commune center has impacted young people like me. thank you. thank you for where you are comments. for being here today. i will say this is public comment for item 32-35. why thank you for your work, supervisors. preston and safai and ronen. and peskinful i saw the psychic the other day and said you will swim william dolphin that's not me that is president peskin.

i want to thank london broed for being the great mayor. don't you love a madly [singing]. thank you. thank you walter. [applause] district 5 resident. i normally would be sing in front of i mic now i have in the

had drinks in mow i will not do this i wanted to comment dean for pis his service the pedestrian 5 years and voted 4 him in all 4 elections proud of his referred. and it is unusual for in general for pep to beably to vote for machine when than i agree with on every issue. it is hard for me to find anything that i have disagreed with dean on. and yea i'm impressed with everything. i he is in the only met my expect eggs but surpassed them. a lot of that things he's done is also really impactful food justice in the district fighting for food justice to keeping the soma safe way open. trader joes he is the only trade are joes

amazing i shop at both of those stores all the time i help your

star continue its rise. thank you and fwrt tude to you and to inner for evering you have done forrure city. thank you. >> thank you, david. >> hi. good evening,ment to say thank you to the out going supervisors service to the commune has been appreciated we look forward it seeing you in the community. i thank those of that you came down to the cafe supervisor peskin lived havingor talks

every tuesday. supervisor preston you will be missed. you have done so much for community especially with housing. supporting our organization with housing. stanning up for us when no one will. we truly appreciate that andment to you know from the bottom of our hearteds we will miss you wish all well in all you do after you leave here and look forward to seeing you all >> all right i will thank all of the out going supervisors for the, mazing work hay have done toward public work and commencement to our city had an opportunity to work with dean preston i are a gold star to all of residence denials in san francisco especially in district 5 you have been a strong, model

of what someone who stands up for tenant and individuals in public houseings. around hud organizing and take the time out to meet with leaders you have truly left a remarkable impression on the community and inspired so men people to trowel think different, do different. and be different. and think about how to create change and -- really hold developers and alots of the direction the city is going. you truly are -- a golden star and we appreciate and really have been honored work with someone like you in housing justice and really you will be truly i don't think you are going far so we will looking for to working with you and continuing to work with you and continue to aspire you are a

person for the people you see so many are here to take the time and honor you and thank you for your commitment and continued hard work and tireless work you have done. thank you and i electric forward it working more with you. >> good evening. >> good evening. i wanted thank you all i want to be broef but i need to single a couple out for nonstop tenant advocacy. supervisor ronen, thank you for being such a feelist advocate for tenants. over and over never, ever had to doubt you. your vote or never doubt whether you would go become to become for the most vulnerable. thank you.

supervisor peskin. thank you for right to organize and thank you for so much but thank you especially for right to organize and the home legislation. it thank you for letting my team help wroit it with your staff and trusting us to take this incredible risk. and it has been ground break very successful legislation. the things we have been able to accomplish. now talking to l.a. the other day. berkley, pass today like thank you. supervisor preston. thank you for right to counsels. thank you for the eviction moratorium that -- bee talked about what it would take to have one. am and this brave moment calling what was needed and that the entire could you want row had to

follow. yea. thank you all. >> thank you. [applause] peter. good evening i'm peter warfield head of liesh libraer user association i like to support items 32-35 without qualification. and in peculiar speak to my unfortunately former supervisor without moving he moved away with the redistrict of 2020. i considered him my supervisor as he is everybody's brierz and all the supervisors serve the public. all over san francisco. i wanted mention no eviction as

an important and valuable action. for everybody and there are men others this we heard some. one i want to be commenting on is having to do with the library and an neighborhood organization and use library by neighbors after covid the library cut one hour from every branch open until 9 o'clock every 9 o'clock open until 9 o'clock was cuts by an hour to 8 o'clock.

i'm -- dean preston, you motivate mow to do what i do. and thank you for what you did for the city. thank you. >> good evening supervisors. thank you to be out going supervisors supervisors preston, ronen, safai you all have a special place in my heart and grill to worked with each of you

over the course of my career. but i want to focus on supervisor peskin whom i had the honor to work for 6 years. formative year of my life and i could not be more grill that you plucked mow from the jock i was w nothing with my qualification i was taller than anybody at the time. and trusted i could do good work and we did fan taft being w together over the span of our time together that i'm so proud of. we -- passed a privacy first charter amendment and first been on facial recognition surveillance and surveillance oversight policy i just ran in sophie howard who confirm third degree policy is working and that just left week they updated them and i begged this board to

consider this mechanism. we did incredible work on housing. e lim nitted single family home and did it by increasing affordable mandating reason control and creating -- tenant right to organize. and that was the first in nation effort. it was never big stuff you told me earlyow don't do big legislation you did, let but commitment to the ever day functioning and making sure san francisco gentleman works for people. who live here. real people that is the prosecute found lesson i will tick from working with you i'm grateful for our time together and look forward to joining the appear of people in your office now. good evening i'mimismel with

affordable housing eric lines working on reasoner's rights. i want top say thank you supervisor safai i enjoyed getting to know and you w with you since covid. supervisor ronen thank you mrooi wonderful d 9 supervisor. who i'm able to take for grantd and freeze up my time to lobby the gentlemen sitting to your left and right. thank you supervisor preston, the city is a better place because of to you have someone who really represents tenants. and rentery rights and who is mart and stead firefighter and articulate in doing that is thank you.

supervisor peskin began a partnership almost 24 years ago it began i did in the support him when he republican in 2000. which was an interesting store and he what happened after that and coffee and got this straightened out. we worked together productive low in a fun manner so many piece of legislation you know attentive's right to organize but you know the ability of tenants to the fellow tenants the golden gateway center years after and willing to tackle the obscure hard to understand legislation that really matters. bond passed and property taxes

truly no one understood. sept for marshallmented say thank you to dean. thank you supervisor peskin for a wonderful productive partnership. >> thank you, mitchell. thank you all of you. i'm calvin mulch had the pleasure of working with all 4 members of the board that are leaving us today. i want it thank supervisor safai for commitment to the city dp supervisor ronen for her long standing advocacy for the least amongst us. and her ability to marshall resources about this political and if you will moral.

in their support. i have not worked that close low with her. but i have admired her from a for. supervisors peskin and preston i have worked close low with. over the years. i -- specific low remember supervisor peskin being perhaps the only member of the board attempted to be been prosecute, poring before the board supervisors. was a supervisor who took such exception to supervisor peskin's advocacy this he attempted to ban aaron peskin from giving public testimony at the board of supervisors. financial, or unfortunately, depending on your point of vow he failed.

supervisor preston is my supervisor. supervisor from my district. and his and commitment, come passion and skill is worth out equal in my experience in a supervisor from my district. alone the success of -- council the legislation that create today in drafting it was a bell on the measure is took a vote of san franciscans and dean follow third degree through. 10 of thus arounds of san franciscans have already benefited and i would say that hundreds of thousands more will benefit over the years.

sthi will notteen know dean's name. we do we should [inaudible] for that accomplish am alone. >> thank you. >> back to aaron peskin i was witness add vocating no doubt for affordable housing. >> your i'm sorry your 2 minutes xriered a bit ago >> i'm sorry >> thank you. >> aaron. for what you have done and what you will continue to do. >> thank you. calvin. >> [applause]. precinct 7533 mr. president i know an insurance adjuster you tickled the hell out of. i guess i had thing its say but

reverend brown took my talking points this was 4 and a half hours ago i came up with new once. nab. [inaudible] i be remiss if i did in the say thank you for the serves and work you have done i want today say thank you to you and also deep i will misyou and all the work you have done and if we will go on will the topic let's go. now we will go enter in agenda item that president notified

everybody about the dream keeper's act. i'm lisa a member of the community am i on the right topic. >> the agenda item >> weer same one. >> 32-35. thank you. all right i will miss you guys i'll be back. >> deponent worry started this satire. it is in the bad if you play the is theire but you get [inaudible]. you explain for example holly wold can't make it.

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biggest mistake. so now there you go. >> politic peskin special board, is tht open citizen talk. no. we are on 4 agenda items commending for you leaving supervisors and we will go to yes or no public comment. seeing no other member of the public for these. why okay. >> . ed it say i hope you really have enjoyable and carefree holidays. >> thank you. public comment is now closed on these items. before we vote on them if there are any words from members on these i will say -- after taking

34, 640 votes all i have it say is really simple. i am from the bottom of my heart grateful. grateful to the voters of the northeast corn are of san francisco. my neighborhood of north beach and china town, russian knob and telegraph. low are knob the whar downtown. from the bottom of my hart grill for volunteer and done ors for each cam participate grateful for the people of san francisco who re11less low carpet bombs by millions from a handleful of upon have headses scoutod love

and love the city and believe in san francisco values. folks believe should embrace artists, musicians, nurse and good old san francisco neighborhood characters. who celebrate and gloer in our beautiful neighboringless the soul of the city from the mission to the bayview and the sunset and japantown north beach and china town grateful to the 42 member of the board of supervisors i served and collaborated with even when it got tense and when sometimes got intense. colleagues who fought for heck and affordable housing, taxation. language access. lbgtq+ rights surveillance protections attentive rights environmental laws and sustain it up powerful special interests and those who often were own willing it carry their water

employment grateful, touchd and humbled my colleagues saw fit it elect me as president from time to time. thifrngful to the public service employees of city who dot work the heard w this makes the city run. from muni operators to our public works staff to city attorneys. ive appreciate you more than i can tell you. and the employees the nonprofits who do the city's work and maintain our social safety net. fwrafl to the controller's office and their teams. grateful to the sheriff, departments like drew. greatest to the clark of the booshd angela. alisa. and the absolutely truly incredible staff who taken good care of all of us and make this department the department number one run like a swift watchenless low. takening to every detail daily

yearly, grift to my family and wife for her support life and encourage and want profound low grateful and lucky for my staff i say it is the truth we are as good as our staff i have been blessed the most talented hard working, fun creative staff who put up with my bullshit and had my back and became my dear friends and my conscious to sunny who i had the pleasure of a lifetime working with. [reading of names] am i may be leaving city hall but in the going anywhere my love for the city is undiminished.

so goodbye for now and one last thing supervisor walon there is i dispute about whether i have the longest staff re10ing referred in the resolution 35. but i appreciate supervisor walton's graciousness in allowing me to make that claim it gets complicated i done 17 years he's done 6 he's got a good argument thank you for not making an ma'am on that resolution and i the not be for. thank you all i appreciate you.

i prepared a few washing everremarks for my last day of 15 years. i want to thank the people of d 9 giving mow the honor of representing you over the left 15 years. being an aid and a introirz in d 9 office has been the best job i ever had and ever will have. i so deeply proud to have been per of a team this accomplished so much motor residents of san francisco. we med health care strong are for workers, universal rep 7ation and eviction protections hemless shellers the first, children in public schools tiny homes from developers than i waited for entitlements over three,000 new units of affordable housing in d 9.

reformed and prookayive maling system. and office where women are knowed in seeking help from because of assault. life saving wages for those who got sick from covid. saving new businesses thousands in start are up de feos to the city. moving the achievement gaps for hundreds of african-american students. create students success fund this will raise achievement and maling of public school students ensuring children are not questioned without an adult present. gaining huge community benefits through puc learning infrastructure projects. and inventing the ground breaking cull roll districts to preserve the rich cultures that make san francisco, san

francisco. companing living for people live nothing mental illness. dosz upon of improve am practical this is make neighborhoods more powerful we have accomplished so, so much together. and we are able to experiment in san francisco in i prosecute found way where we create first of coin programs. have the budget it fund them and men times spread them initial low changing the world for the

better by helping lift up the least fortunate among us. and i do fear that we are currently moving in the wrong direction local low. we will no longer be the special and innovative gentleman we have been. poverty and inquality so wide pred and visible. we are all rightfully angry. we want it changed we don't want to suffer or faced with so much suffering when we walk out of our doors. i worry that the rightful anger has been direct the at the wrong people. and if we blame the wrong people the individuals instead of a broken system. . if we return at this time failed policy this is got us here in the first place we will neverfect the prospect problems when this men american residence

den and san franciscans are so so poor when working a full time minimum wage job does in the afford you a single place to live in the city. when public school systemers crumbling before our eyes. it makes no sense to am blame the homeless or mentally ill or the suffering. one wants these afflictions ask the thouz ajds of homeless children in the district they did not choose their lot. we are all frustrated remember to focus that right everanxiety are up, up to a broken tax system and systems riged make the richardson and poor poorer. thank you so much for considering my out going pitch in my left days as annual

elected official i will return to the community and continue to fight outside the halls of power for justice on an equal society and i'm so looking forward to it. we are not just any city gentleman. we are san francisco a city that has symbolized acceptance and compassion for the world. let's not lose this. let's continue to be that city. i want to to thank all of you so much for your support and guidance the past 15 years angela. alisa. all of the clerks. thank you for your every day support it has meant the westerlied to mow to the city attorney's office and especially john and brad thank you so much. to all of 99 you are all amazing. but especially mine. thank you. and i love you.

you all heard me gush about you nonstop for hours at our holiday party jan will talk to you about this. i will not do it here. but you are my favorite people my family exit love you so much. to the mayor's office. and especially to tom and andrea thank you for helping us move mountain in our district you did get us resources we needed to mech a difference. there are so many heroes working throughout the city. and as our public servingant this is never get enough credit for the encredible w than i do.

thank you to all the nonprofit workers know extension of the city and we would not be 18 to provide the safety net we provide without you.

i hope to seal you well thank you again to everyone for giving me an amazing 15 years i will never forget a seck of it. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. >> supervisor preston. thank you, president peskin i have some res and i do just before i begin want it thank all the folks who came out to stay nice things about all of us. appreciate it. mr. president, madam clerk, colleagues i thank you for this kind resolution. today marks 5 years when i was

sworn in the chambers by former assembly member.

>> i want to emphasize this. commune organizing and our partnerships more on the board. created a family sheller bell affordable housing invest in the alternatives to policing. funding community land trusts protected small businesses from become rent. championed slow streets and homeless people.

saved public trndzit line the grunt w for i public bank. a human piece of legislation frommor office. turned the city all priorities upside down. proppingor work through afternoon equity upon lens. made clear that christiana porter beaten by police for jay walking matters as muchs a white crime victim in pacific heights a mother in public housing trump typed matters as much as a homeowner unnerved by a garage break in. med clear through okays a person who roadways the bus matters as much as someone who driveways. we made clear at a homeless person what recessed matters as much as a house person harassed.

i believe med a difference in our city and also showed when having i socialist in office for the first time in 40 years can do. our york to invest in our communities was working. we showed the people of know fran were willing it particular the meg rich because of this successful advocacy we were targeted by years long disinformation come pains. death threats. personal, taxes.

and red baiting. beened e vects and texted billionaires to pay back reason. more important low they attacked our constituents upon tenants, worker, artists, students. bipoc and transand other people. as part of their ~esque litting war on the poor, a worry on working class folks struggling it still in the city and survive despite a system structures to displace oppress and exploit them. i'm humbled for my career so many of the receiving end of so much oshg preparation have entrusted mow with amplifying their kuz in the streets with a bull horn and the crop with my law degree and city all their legislator.

fight for the people not the powerful. we have a lot more w to do together. we mode to create a public bank. lunch a robust social housing program in san francisco. stop evictions the during the pandemic and going forward. fund the bus. create a complete citywide safe streets network and invest in violence prevention. good on promises of reparations for african-american community. open a grocery store in the tenderloin. activate the fillmore heritage center and implement a series 4 pillar's drug plan to imfrouf street conditions. we need to get serious about housing stability and economic prosper isfor all especially the

poor and working class. we mode to make housing a human right and invest in our kids. take on initially and local low per voyors of disinformation and hate. stand strategy as a sanctuary city. want to thifrng d if i have for twice electing mow as supervisor and giving mow the opportunities to do my part to help credit a better city and world. it it is an honor to serve in office. i want to thank my family and my wife and two daughters for all their sacrifices and all their support. and i'm looking forward it spending more time with them. they might get sick of mow after january 7th. and i allment to thank my staff and echo the commented this in city hull you are are goods

where you are staff. with no disrespect to another office i have the heardest working and brilliant team in city hall. my chief of staff preston killgore. amazing jennifer bohn. amazing lee lovett. and our former staff and we have, missing folks the -- who previously work in the our office and dog, mazing things melissa hernandez. kyle. jen snied andaviary yu. and have fellows who have wed tireless low in our office and could not do work without them. thank you to our voltory and everyone per of the movement this made this work possible. i want to echo the thanks to our

clerk angela, and the entire clerk's office. i want to thank the unsung heros hash harvey rose and his team. city attorneys who put up with us the lawyers on the board arguing with them we think we know the law better than them. thank you to city attorney especiallian and brad. and i want it thifrng you will the workers who keep city hall running and who help our constate webs every day. and i want to thank you all, colleagues i will not take the time to talk individually about when we have done together but everything this i just mentioned was done everything done with a majority most with superior mirjt and many. these things with unanimous

votes from this board of supervisors and i'm proud of our work. with that colleagues thank you for the opportunity to work together the left 5 years proud of what we have done together and looking forward it continue w with you from outside city hall. >> thank you. dean. supervisor. supervisor safai.

building and on this body. dean and i. dean. supervisor. preston. you know, i think you and i on one of those charts that shows like where the members of the board of supervisors fit, you know, we're probably a maybe not the furthest, but we're on, you know, not the same little our

dots are not overlapping. and so we have tussled, you know, on on things where members of this board disagree. but i have really appreciated a few things, at least about you i've appreciated your insistence on the reality that if san francisco wants to house middle income and lower income and very poor people, we have to invest in housing for those people. and it is a delusion to believe that the market can solve that problem anytime soon. you've been the clearest voice on that. you have fought relentlessly for, that you have put measures on the ballot to try to get more money for it. and i commend that and respect that. and i know you'll continue to do that work. i know i'm sometimes one of the voices on this board and in this government who asks us to get the basics right and focus on,

you know, can we just can we can can we can we deal with just delivering what we've been trying to do? and you are a voice that asks us to go big and not give up on the biggest solutions to our biggest problems, whether it be free transportation and dramatically expanded transportation. and i do think that it is important to have people in our government who are setting our sights higher and demanding that we be aspirational. and i've appreciated you doing that. and although we have tussled, i have also appreciated that our disagreements have always been principled. and you are a consummate gentleman, that it's not personal. we will we may spar here, but in the hallways you're incredibly decent and kind. and so thank you. i spoke earlier, ahsha supervisor safaí to the mayor about how when we

were both elected, we probably weren't supposed to like each other very much. you and i really weren't supposed to like each other. and i think each of us had worked on multiple campaigns against each other. you had run an ai against me in 2010. i had supported anyone who'd ever run against you. like we were not set up for love. and yet i have. and there were people who would tell me, ash is really a good guy, like, i really like him. and i would be like you do, but i have grown to really like you, ahsha and i think i appreciate your good nature. as you and i have sort of evolved in our positions on the board, i, you know, i think our i've come to appreciate your pragmatism. there have you have been i also appreciate just your love of the legislative process and your unwillingness to take no for an answer. you will keep pushing for whatever the thing is that you're trying to get done. you'll adjust it, you'll

come back, you're relentless and it can be annoying. but it's also good legislating and i and i and i appreciate that. supervisor. ronen hillary. i think there may have been points in my time on this board when you may have considered me your greatest disappointment. hillary ronan's greatest failure, because hillary ronen did a lot to get rafael mandelman elected back in 2018. and i appreciated that. and then within about a few months of my joining this board, we were just at it. but but i also but but there's lots that i appreciate about you. and one of the things that i think members of this board have to struggle with, and each of us comes up with a different answer, is like, what do we do with these positions? like we are in some ways the weakest county supervisors in the state of california. we don't pick the city's chief executive. we you know, our ability to shape policy is limited. and so how do you exercise power and how do you advance what you're trying

to do? and in hillary's case, that is justice. every day from dawn until dusk. and you are relentless in that. i called olga miranda fierce and formidable. but, hillary ronen, you are fierce and formidable. you are a supervisor who may have had the greatest ongoing impact on our city budgets. it occurred to me that each year hillary ronen picked, you know, 10 or $20 million, millions of dollars that she was going to reprogram in perpetuity for some vulnerable group. and that is a remarkable legacy. and that is incredibly impressive. of course, we have bonded and i think come back together a lot around our shared exasperation around the way in which we abandon severely mentally ill people and our commitment to trying to change that as best we can from these from these seats that we have. and so i've enjoyed doing a little bit of an evolution coming full circle. i really do enjoy sitting next to you and i enjoy our friendship.

i'm making you cry. i'll stop. and supervisor peskin, like a number of us. president peskin. aaron, you know, we go way back and you and a lot of ways gave me my start. you appointed me to the building inspection commission as the landlord rep back in the day. ha. the landlords did not like that very much. i appointed me to the board of appeals, supported me in my in my ill fated run against against scott weiner and. i, i admire so many things about you. there's the, you know, the machiavelli adage that it's better to be feared and loved. you were feared and loved. and that is i mean, there's also people who don't love you, and you're well aware of that. but, but but in answering that question, how to be relevant, how to make the most of this position, i don't think there's another supervisor i have seen who knows how to

leverage what power there is in this office to actually try to deliver for constituents, for vulnerable people. it's very impressive. i'm reminded you remind me of that quote in phil burton's pocket on, you know, in the marina that the only way to deal with exploiters is to terrorize the bastards. and you don't do it full time. it's not, you know, 24 over seven, but you do it some and it's, it's an amazing thing to behold. when carole migden was running for reelection. not. it's a good comparison. i mean, she was one of her tagline was one serious supervisor. and i don't know that people appreciate what a serious supervisor you are. and carmen talked about this, but that you really care about the actual functioning of government. and i think that some of the people outside this building who attack you, or imagine that you are this demon,

don't realize how much work you have done to actually get the train, try to get the trains to run on time that benefits everybody vulnerable and more affluent and more powerful. and we should acknowledge that for you and thank you for it. and i guess the last thing i will say is you remind me of another quote from, you know, from the last black man in san francisco. you can't hate san francisco unless you love san francisco. and you are someone who loves san francisco. its history, its neighborhoods. you know, the struggles that different people have fought for, different pieces of our heritage. and you're not eager to give that up. in fact, you'll fight to defend it. and that's what your career so far has been. and i assume you will continue to do. bernie and eleanor would be incredibly proud. eleanor would have been out on street corners for you this year. and it's been an honor, a great honor. i think young raphael would have

wouldn't have imagined that i would get to work with you. and it's been a great honor to be able to do that. thank. you. thank you. raphael. supervisor. melgar. thank you, president peskin. you know, the press loves to highlight our conflicts. you know, whenever there's disagreement, whenever there's non-unanimous votes. and especially in the last couple of years that there's all this toxic money and new groups, new, you know, astroturf groups wanting to organize people in san francisco along a specific agenda. the differences between us have definitely been highlighted. and, you know, promulgated everywhere. and, you know, one of the things that people don't talk about enough is that i think that that actually is exactly our strength as a city. we are a very diverse place, one of the most diverse

places in the country. and it is magical because of its diversity, because of its differences. we make better decisions that way. so i have been so proud to have worked with all of you. i think i have learned so much from all of you, and i hope you've learned a little bit from all of us, because i think that our differences in the way we work out our differences are at the root of democracy, and we do it really well here in san francisco. we really do. i want to say, president peskin, it has been an honor to serve on this board with you. i thank you for supporting me. when i ran four years ago. you have exercised power in ways that are breathtaking, and i have learned from you each and every day that

i have worked with you. we haven't always seen eye to eye. in fact, you you don't remember. but you did try to get me fired once, many years ago when i worked for gavin newsom. and, you know, working with you on the land use committee. i have seen not just the breadth of your knowledge and how you have, you know, shaped our city, but i have also appreciated your wisdom and all the quiet conversations, you know, not during meetings and all the gossip, but also all the wisdom and your deep knowledge of people and relationships and everything that you put into not just your district, but the city as a whole. supervisor preston, thank you for your unwavering commitment to your community and renters in our city for your work on midtown park apartments. you know that it is a place that

i deeply care about, where i've spent a lot of time. i've appreciated that you're the only other supervisor that doesn't have a parking spot that you pay for in front of city hall. i think that that shows, you know, walking the talk and your deep commitment to public transit, to making muni free for kids, to all of the things that we have worked on together, i have really appreciated and learned from you and your deep moral clarity on a lot of issues, on racial justice, on your commitment to people in our city who are just surviving when they should be thriving. supervisor safaí, i probably have known you the longest. we worked together, and i think that we have probably voted the same the most out of anyone in this chamber, and i really have appreciated

your deep commitment to workers and to understanding that the single most powerful way that people have been lifted out of poverty in america has been a good union contract. and like some of my colleagues said, you're relentless in pursuing those things. and i have really appreciated all the work that we've done together collaboratively in districts seven and 11. we share by far the biggest border, and i have really appreciated the collaborative ness. even when we fight, we usually come up with a good solution and implement it and work together. so i've really appreciated. and so last but not least, i have to say my sister friend here, hillary ronen, i am going to miss you the most. so i think that those of us who have been aides know, you know, this work in a

different way. you and i haven't always agreed on things, and i have never, never known that you don't come from a place of deep care. i think you are one of the smartest people i've ever known. certainly one of the fiercest. i've always appreciated your care for the latino community, for the mission, for the cultural institutions, in the mission, for the kids. we have done great work together. and i promise you, i will keep going with the sfusd for with the department of children, youth and families and for childcare. i think, you know, we are a minority women on this board, and i've always understood and been understood by you in our commitment to gender equality and how that underpins a lot of economic equality. so i look

forward to the work that you're going to do in ai and all of the things that you're going to put your amazing brains and fierceness to. and i really look forward to seeing you come up here at some point and tell us what to do. so i will miss you dearly. i will also miss your staff because you've got great staff. you all do. but i will say that the women in your office are particularly wonderful to work with, and i will miss them dearly. thank you. supervisor engardio, when i came to this body two years ago, i was the new supervisor and to the departing supervisors, we didn't know each other. we really only knew each other as caricatures. caricatures created by the media or by political opponents. and so it's really been an honor to get to know each other as human beings. and i remember the lunch i had with hillary just after i was

elected. and what a wonderful lunch where we discovered so much about that we care about that we have in common. and, and then we use that in working together on a lot of issues. and ahsha, i love the nickname. you came up with me. he came up for me. and i know early on you gave me some advice. you said, you know, we're all kind of on a boat together, and you might want to feel like throwing someone off the boat, but we're on this boat in this rocky ocean. and so we got to make it work. and that was pretty wise. and i really appreciated that. and dean and, and president peskin being able to work with you on, on legislation like corner lots like housing. and we worked together and we worked it out and passed it unanimously at this board. like, when did we ever do anything on housing? that's unanimous. so like that was really heartening for me. it gave me hope that that we can get things done that betters our city. and i know we all experience some very intense and historic moments in this chamber

over the past two years. and sometimes we take a little break and that ante room and feel the humanity we have with each other. and, and then working with dean on and figuring out language that would, that would we could all agree on or most of us agree on was just has been some of the highlights of my time here. and president peskin, i'm really lucky to have served at this moment in time, because i got to serve with the legendary aaron peskin. and, you know, it's just i'm so happy that i got two years here with you at the helm. and to learn from one of the best, who knows, knows everything inside and out. and so hope to keep keep learning from what you're going to be doing. i'm sure you're going to keep doing a lot from the outside, but thank you for your service here at city hall. so it's been a pleasure. so it's been a pleasure to serve with everyone and wishing you all the best. thank you, supervisor

walton. thank you, president peskin. and just for the record, i don't think we supported the corner lots unanimously because i did not support that. but these commendations have the entire board of supervisors as a sponsor. and i don't remember saying i want to sponsor these commendations. but in all seriousness, you know, ahsha i mean, what can i say? i really want to thank you for channeling your inner progressive. when i got on the board. i believe there are issues that you supported after we worked together that you probably would not have supported before. and so i just want to, you know, make sure that i state that. but you turned out to be someone that i worked closely with on this board. i can remember when

you first got elected, you had a multiple homicide in community, and very few supervisors and very few communities have to deal with something like that. and i think that was when i really first learned about your concern for my community and the way you handled that. you know, you weren't scared to fight for the ever unpopular first safe parking site, first vehicle triage center. and that's one of those things that a lot of people don't want to welcome in community. but you stood up and made sure that happened and demonstrated your your compassion, which was huge. you know, i definitely wish you would get your point across a little bit quicker because because my days would be a lot shorter. but and my hope for you now is that, you know, you maybe one day you will be able to do more push ups than me. but but i'm going to miss your your energy. seriously. and you

actually taught me we can actually get up and move around in the chamber, you know, thank you for your adhd. so i was able to hide mine a lot more. but i really want you to enjoy life on the other side. but definitely it has been a pleasure working with you. we didn't always agree, but we most certainly fought together on a lot of big issues. and i want you to know how much i appreciate that. hillary, you know, if i have to walk in a room and, and fight about any policy or anything i value, i want to make sure that you're the person that's with me 100%. not only are you a fighter, but highly intelligent, compassionate, you have a fire that not many people possess, and i do not know where you get it from. watching you tackle issues and scold people with the calm and condescending tone like no other is definitely fun to

watch, but you get your point across. i mean, you had the munster and the mission benders in 24th street, capp street, and i was like, how is she going to come up with solutions for this? but you were able to do it in every case. it's the student success fund for me. i know it's mental health except for you, but the student success fund was genius. and if the district does what it's supposed to do, it will be the most impactful legislation ever to address the gaps in achievement here and the inequities that exist in our schools. so i want to thank you for that fight and for pushing for that, working with you to protect immigrants, provide opportunities for our children, and to address the mental health needs of people of this city has been a pleasure. and the good thing and exciting thing for me is i know you're not done yet. dean. a lot of people talk about wanting housing. a lot of people talk about and preach housing,

but very few really actually do something about it that is going to make sense and work for everybody. and the way you were able to get prop i on the ballot and get millions of dollars to support social housing, to support housing is something that, you know, really shows your genius. i really just know that working with you, you're one of the few people that is bold enough to say where you stand and stick to it, regardless of what the media says, regardless of what anybody else says. and very few people possess that strength and that courage. being bold about wanting to tax the rich and understanding how important it is for the people who have more to make sure that they provide for the people with less, and not just talking about it, but putting policies in place and making sure things happen. fighting for tenants before, during and after the pandemic and making sure that folks were

not able to get evicted even though landlords wanted to jump to evictions as soon as the pandemic is over. definitely going to miss working with you. i'm going to miss the fact that you make sure that you call out the waste and the police budget and get people to really, truly understand how much money we actually do spend on our police department here in san francisco. almost $1 billion. but i just, you know, i'm going to 100% miss working with you. i think the only thing that we disagreed on was jfk, and i won't revisit that, but but i will say we still need you in this fight. so thank you. president peskin. you know, most people think they know everything. and then there's aaron. i mean, if you don't know, you sure as hell do an amazing job at making it look like you have the answers. but i truly do admire your wisdom and

the fact that you are willing to do this job for 16 years. and people look and, you know, sometimes people think this job is easy, but some people make it look easier than it actually is. and i think you're one of those those people, most people can't lead in general. and to lead through adversity, both personal and pandemically says a lot about how someone is built, and it's definitely been a pleasure working with you, watching you and learning from you. i think one thing people don't know about you is you actually can admit when you're wrong, even though you don't like it. but i think i'm just saying all of this to basically say you do a pretty damn good job of leading by example, and i just appreciate having the opportunity to work with you. i am glad you came back for this second stint of the second eight years, because otherwise i would not have had that opportunity. and i do want to thank you for

our fifth aid money making. sunny. thank you. shamann. all right. seeing no other names on the roster, why don't we take these four items? same house, same call. the resolutions are adopted. and then let me hand these. over. to jean. so we have. more to add to the collection. come on, everybody, take a seat. yeah.

i. okay, should we do about angela? angela. clark. news12, member of the board of supervisors. angela. thank you. mario. for your meeting. this.

all right, madam clerk, let's go to general public comment. yes. we have several items on the agenda. items 36 through 38. the mayor's appearance and other items, generally speaking, that you may address. there are several items, though, that have already been disposed of. if you wouldn't mind, do not speak about items 32 through 35 or any items on the agenda. welcome, miss brown. we're setting the timer for two minutes. i'd like to use the overhead sfgovtv, please. thank you. i wanted to use this because we were talking about our new mayor coming in, and we have to gather around him. so are we here? wait. let me turn it up. try trying to make this work. you have to know

us. you have to get to know us. come on. yeah. give me a hug. nice. oh. all right. i'm just here to pay my respects. i appreciate you inviting me. this is my first time meeting you in person. i may get to know you and get to know the community. and i appreciate you all having here. mayor. it's good to see you. and i'm going to be in community for years to come. and i'm going to look to you for guidance and counsel, and i promise, and i appreciate you having me today. thank you for the mayor. y'all come together. come here, over here. be honored. someone take your picture. i'm going to stop that. and i just wanted to show that

because even though our our mayor london breed, is leaving, we still have to gather around this new mayor because he doesn't he needs to get to know the community. he needs to get to know us. and i'm glad i invited him. i'm glad we need to even get with him about the dream, the about getting our money back for these programs and for our children so that they'll live and they don't get on the streets and get murdered out on the streets. so we need these programs to continue. i was in a program, and now i can't even learn anything because the money is gone now. so we need to bring back the dream. and i'm hoping he's he's listening, that he can help bring back the dream catchers initiative. thank you. thank you, mrs. brown. welcome to our next speaker. hello, supervisors. man, you guys have

had a hell of a run. you know, i know you really feel good about it. and you've you've accomplished a lot running san francisco. that's really a great thing here. anyway, what i wanted to say is that. what i'd like for you to do is continue the fund for the dream. for the dream keepers programs, because they benefit so many people. and if you have a problem with with some of the people where the money went, we'll put them on a paid leave or something like that. but don't penalize everybody else because you got a bunch of other people that's dependent on that. and it's christmas time. it's christmas time. and not just because it's christmas time, because it's fair. you know, like if the

mayor got just like when the mayor got shot, they didn't close down city hall, you know, i mean, you know, when if a general gets, gets shot, then, you know, the troops don't. i mean, the thing still goes on. now, now you have to look at what this will do to the community. you know, you it's a sin. don't throw the dirty water, the baby out with the dirty water. so don't do that, please. and thank you much for your comments. next speaker please. david elliot lewis of all the board of supervisor meetings i've attended, i think this has been the most poignant and touching of any meeting, just to hear all the tributes being spoken to all of our wonderful supervisors, every comment made by every supervisor was just so emotionally poignant and just heartfelt. so i really want to thank you all for your

service and for your comments today. it really, really moved me. this is the we live in, what i call the calm before the storm. you know a lot's going to change after january 20th and it's not going to be for the better. and we're going to look back to today as the good old days. these are the good old days right now, right before the storm, after january 20th. i wanted to say that and say that i hope you appreciate how good we have it, because we won't always have it that good. also, i wanted to make a quick tribute to my neighborhood, the tenderloin, which is like a punching bag neighborhood for like right wing news media and pundits and people who've never visited the city, but who love to hate and who love to use us as an excuse for what's wrong with democratic governance. you know, we're the example of failed governance. just look at the tenderloin. it's not true. the tenderloin thrives in many ways. we're a neighborhood that cares about each other or a neighborhood of diversity of

different cultures, different languages, of artists, of people who who are struggling to make a better life and people who who found their life there like me, 18 years living there. i love it, i love my neighborhood. i would never live anywhere else. so i just want to express my gratitude for my neighborhood and for the attention that sometimes i get, i get for it. we still need help. we still need things like open space, like a grocery store, like recreation center. we need things, but we still appreciate what we have. so thank you for all your time and your service. wishing you a happy holidays and new year. wishing you well in whatever comes next. thank you all. thank you much. david elliot lewis, next speaker. all i have to say. is, as amos brown and i heard many of you talk about wisdom being left. and

those persons who served on this board, and we applaud them for their wisdom and for their practical. steps to be responsible. legislators. i want you to help me on one thing. the poet says there's so much good. and the worst of us, so much bad. in the best of us, that it doesn't leave any room. for us to talk about. on. kindly about

any of us. as one who said, who served on this board as pastor of the historic third baptist church for now, 48 years, going on 49 next year. i'm disturbed about how certain media outlets in this town. have done too much attacking black leadership. and sister cheryl davis has done a good work. no process of investigation has proven anything, and i just refuse to be quiet when i see what i

consider to be yellow. journalism. and we are all, in our ways, moral agents. i hope that wherever you go you will say, back up. why do i say that? because in that seat where brother mandelman is sitting there about to get up for president. there sat one doris. ward, who was president of this board. thank you, reverend brown. and an allegation. well, let me finish this point. an allegation went around about her and she went to her grave with a broken heart. but after real investigation was done, it was proven that she had done no wrong. the point is, somebody

needs to say something about how we have unmercifully attacked this person who was in charge of dream keepers in the press, and finally. reparations. reparations? you said you're sorry. you said it was wrong. what was done. now it's time for us as a city to show some fruits of repentance. and the fruits of repentance is for that heritage building. as i said earlier, to be in the hands of an integrity competent. body of folks who look like me. amen. god bless you. thank you. reverend. next speaker. good evening. thank you

guys all for your service. as many of you know, when you enter the work of a service provider, it is often exhausting and requires great sacrifice. i didn't come here with the intention of speaking today, but i thought it was important because i see all of the negative connotation that's attached to the dreamkeepers initiative. but i am an example of something positive that came out of the dreamkeepers initiative. i am blessed and fortunate to be able to work for a black organization that largely funds where dreamkeepers largely funded my salary. i'm able to work with seniors, disabled adults. our initiatives are to stabilize the community that has experienced so much trauma and loss, and we're able

to foster a village fellowship and cultivate and kind of hold each other in a safe space. dreamkeepers initiative also helped me on a personal level, not only professionally, but it allowed me to become housed in a system that does not work for african american people. a broken, coordinated entry system. and i'm now in case management where i'm helping people navigating this broken system as a result of the dreamkeepers initiative, it was able to prop me up while i was climbing. i went on to obtain various certifications. as a result of dreamkeepers initiative, i was able to be a part of a cohort that supports black early educators. i was able to be a part of children's

council business initiatives to help small black business owners establish child care and development centers. so i am an example of dreamkeepers working, and it's been a very, very important initiative, especially in the western addition community, the fillmore community. we have a lot of wraparound services at booker t washington. and just friday we serviced, we had an event where we served about 400 community members. ma'am, to be fair to all speakers, we're just giving everybody the same amount of time. and your two minutes is up. thank you. but the importance moral of the story is it's about collective impact. it's about creating a village and holding each other accountable and creating a safe space where we're all able to come together and there's equity and there's justice, and we're all subject to equal rights. thank you. so this initiative

give everybody the same amount of time. thank you. thank you. next speaker please. good evening everyone. i'm here about the dreams dream keepers agenda. i'm sorry my phone is going off again i apologize, please forgive me. for keep talking. well, i am a participant of the dream keepers project. project. i was working and i got retired. i had issues that needed to be dealt with, so i became a member of the booker t washington center. and the center has encouraged me, protected me, giving me directions to continue to live. i. i.e. i needed

assistance with housing. they had provided housing information for me, i needed assistance, where can i go and rebuild myself? they prepared me to move on with my life. i was computer illiterate. the system provided me with classes and computers and instructions how to use computers. i podcasting to maintain who i am and continue to grow in this new system of computers. this system, the dream keepers initiative is needed. we have a lot of young gifted people that don't have the opportunity, but they have the dream. they have the hope, but they need a little help and they are deserving to be helped. the seniors are deserving. they have decent homes and decent instructions how to maintain those homes, how to how to live

in their homes independently, and how to take care of themselves. we need a little help. we need the money. we need the people with empathy and compassion to help us be productive citizens in san francisco and be be a beacon and hope for other people and to train other people. so therefore, we need this money, we need this. we need the people, we need the money and we need to be, and the people need to be trained. i want to hold everybody to the same amount of time. thank you. please, thank you. hello, board of supervisors. i'm also to the community that's here today. thank you for everyone that's being here today. my name is lisa nguyen. you're going to be missed. but also i'm here to ask for help. my community is suffering. i'm a sf native, i am i don't really care because i'm, i'm i'm from district ten, but i

also serve. it's only 0.2% of blacks in san francisco. so i believe when i'm sitting here standing, i'm standing for all black san franciscans and the due process of what's been going on with the dream keeper initiative, i feel, has been very unfair to the people that have been granted already the funds, this community right here, i heard you say student success. the students here, please stand up. please stand up. students. when you say affordable housing. she was just here speaking about affordable housing. you say mental health sf. look, everybody here is affected by trauma. and i know because i am a consumer of that right now. the season that we are in, we are in it's called seasonal affective disorder. this is a very sad time. and we're mental health is very important, especially to the vulnerable community that we serve here today. and i implore you, please keep our dream

keeper funds available. but i don't feel it was necessary that you are ready, scolded our leaders not only scolded our leaders. why? why as us as a community have to suffer, why not teach us? why not put more systems in place? teach us how? so we cannot do the same mistakes that we did. if we did do them, we shouldn't suffer. you shouldn't let a community suffer because a few people made a mistakes, and if they did make some mistakes, you should show them and teach them. thank you. that is my time. and shout out to london breed. thank you much. lisa venmo, next speaker, please. here we go again. first of all, i want to acknowledge london breed and supervisor walton for spearheading the dream keepers. it has been truly a dream. unfortunately, we are bogged down by process. what started out to be a corrective

measure has quickly turned into a punitive measure. now, you and i all know that something under $1 million can be cleared out in less than a week, less than a week. okay, the population of the black population of san francisco is probably around 4%. we're bulging at the seams and all the rest of the agencies. section eight jail, mental health services, dreamkeepers has allowed an opportunity for people to vehicle into being mainstream society members and contributing. it's clear you guys know it. i'm not going to take my time and tell you all of that, but you have an opportunity. the population of san francisco is so small in the nature is so critical. think about it. 4.5% less than that. what black organization is capable of taking a city grant

being funded, waiting for six nine months to be paid so they can pay their employees? how many black city agencies, how many black nonprofits are capable of doing that? are you know, it's amazing. it's a miracle we're not even all sleeping with each other once again, reverend brown, i hope you give me your shoes one day. i don't know if i'll be able to fill them, but i'm still trying to get them. thank you. oh, jeffrey greer, recovery theater. thank you much, jeffrey. mayor. next speaker, please. hello. my name is richard sd peterson, and i've been here a couple of times talking about the same issue. and that's black plastics. the city is supporting many nonprofits that are serving elders. by the way, i'm catching up with elder brown, amos brown. i'm 82 now, 82, and i'm eating

up two of these a day that are required to be heated. at least one of them a day is required to be heated. now, the food that i'm given is extremely nourishing, but they're putting in it in black plastics and the black plastic, which has the flame retardant leaks into the food. and i eat the food. i hope i can be with you here in the next five years, but in the meantime, god bless you all and please show our new mayor who our mayor elect. lurie. where room 008 is. he also might not want to know where room 007 is, which is across the hall from zero eight. do you know? does anybody in here know where those rooms are? no. downstairs. thank

you much for your comments. next speaker please. going to try and be quick for the sake of time. congratulations and we appreciate the service of those who are going to be moving forward into other areas. i want to say today and speaking about dream keepers, of course, but i do want to acknowledge the youth that were here earlier this evening who had to leave because they had something important to say and didn't get an opportunity to say it. so i do want to acknowledge them. i implore and request that you all speak to the mayor and request, for lack of a kinder word, demand the monies to be released to dreamkeepers those of us that have had no wrongdoings proven. i think at this point it's been nine months of suffering. we still have clients who need services. we would appreciate your support and requesting that

the mayor release the funds. merry christmas, happy kwanzaa and happy hanukkah. thank you. thank you much for your comments. next speaker please. good evening, supervisors beverly upton, san francisco domestic violence consortium i want to thank everybody who is on to their next chapter very soon. i was a happy resident of district five for 27 years, and i'm going to miss being there. i mean, i have missed it. i've been gone for eight years, but i've lived in north beach, i've lived in noe valley, and i lived on the corner of oak and goff for 27 years. so you all have helped my family and everybody that i work with. so thank you for the domestic violence consortium. i wanted to thank supervisor mandelman for introducing a piece of legislation that lets us stand with the lbgt community and every community that needs privacy and some security, and

will need it even more than ever. survivors of domestic violence. i am one of them. as we move into our next chapters, may want to be on boards of shelters, crisis lines, legal services, and you cannot do that if you have an abuser who can pull your name up on on the website and find you. so you have created some liberation and some safety. and i really, really, really appreciate it. that's what i'm really here to say today. and one more thing. please do everything you can to release this dki funding. the dreamkeepers initiative is so important. so many survivors of domestic violence come from the black community. i'm here supporting pam today. and black women revolt against domestic violence. they've been paying their staffs and they haven't been paid. they believe the

city, when the city appropriated money to them, they hired good young black advocates to work with the black community. they continue to pay them, but pretty soon that well is going to dry up, and people on city hall are sitting on that well. so please do everything you can to release it. thank you so much and happy holidays. thank you much. beverly upton. next speaker please. how are you doing? my name is james spingola. i am the executive director at collective impact and i am just in awe of y'all. i am so disappointed in san francisco right now because i thought in this work it was about going to work, doing the work, creating pipelines. not to prison, but to college. all my young people came down and stayed today with me all night. so at the end of the day, i'm

just i'm just i'm just in awe because i don't get it. where where are we going? you know, i have this saying. i always say to my young people, i say, you know what? i grew up, i had the luxury of making mistakes. but today, you know what? you don't have the opportunity to make mistakes because you know what? it cost you your life. but everything that has happened in these last few months has changed that whole dynamic. now we are the ones that's making that. that's not giving these young people opportunities or even a problem. they can't make mistakes. and we are telling them, you can't make mistakes. you got to get it right the first time, all the time. but, you know, i said that to say that when i was in awe the first time i heard peskin say collective impact. collective impact was something negative that came out. he didn't talk about we ain't, we ain't. i ain't never heard him say nothing about, you know, what collective impact did during the pandemic that we built a hospital. we became our own eoc. we saved thousands of lives back there. we run a program that has

over 80, 80 young people that show up every day. we run after school program. we run a summer program that has over 700 people in it. we do an event every every wednesday somewhere with 5 to 1000 people. but the first time collective impact and person. i always wanted to have a conversation with you. i should have been coming down here more, but this is not my role in this work. my role is in the community. i do what i'm supposed to do. that is my purpose, that i do that work. and i just for me personally, i just always said it just come by the space, talk to us, see what we do. because sometimes people are just so disconnected on what happens in these communities and what it takes sometimes. i heard what you said at the beginning when you talked about all these programs that mess up all this money. they they snatched my funding. they called me one day, snatched my funding the same day for some, for some kid books and paying. honoree for spingola. i

want to give everybody the same amount. no, i understand, i just wanted i just wanted to say that. but i guess the rules work different for different people because it's just i heard what you said earlier and it was just like, oh, these people did all this, but i got i got my whole funds snatched my kid books that we gave the kids. can i respectfully suggest that you're on the wrong side of the building? yeah, that this board is not withholding any funds. you know that we know that this is an issue that emanates out of the mayor's office. i mean, you can you can come here and speak all you want. and i feel badly for the entire situation that the city and your organization find ourselves in. but you're this is not before our board of supervisors. we appropriate the funds. the mayor's office and her department spend it or choose not to spend it. that's the reality that we are in. but you know that i know that. all right. you got to go in space before you can be heard. i we

are the people's chambers. and i hear you. good, i appreciate it. next speaker, please. alright. my name is pj bastiani. i'm one of the vice chairs of the sf naacp. history has been my favorite subject in school, so i'm about to take you all to school real quick. let's bring it back to 2020, when george floyd died because he had a cop's knee in the back of his neck. and then we had the whole world saying, defund the police. and you know what? mayor london breed was the only one who actually stood on business and defunded the police. but she didn't just defund the police. she put that money to where it needed to be, which is the black community. and i, too, am a benefactor of that. i was on the first cohort of the early childhood education black accelerator program. i, through that program, was able to get stipend money to stay in the city to a little bit longer to afford to stay in the city. additionally, i got to speak on

business. mr. mark farrell said 60 students is not something to be proud of in san francisco. and excuse me, sir, because of mayor london breed and because of doctor cheryl davis, there were 67 black to san francisco hbcu black excellence students that were here in san francisco this summer, and i got to be with the sf bayview newspaper and cover them a little bit. and just imagine how beautiful it was to have students from all hbcus in this country walking down third street, turning heads, because they had never seen black excellence like that before. that was one of the very many reasons why you need to keep that that program alive. the dream keeper initiative has helped so many people, clearly. and for me, because of mayor breed, because of doctor davis and doctor sy, they brought two amazing people who became my best friends and are going to be future lawyers in this country that are attending southern university. i would never have ever met them in my entire life had it not been for the dki. so

on business, find a way to make it happen, protect this program and to whoever is incoming. and don't touch that money, don't touch that money, don't touch that money. but my last three seconds. free. free palestine. next speaker please. yeah, i was listening to david elliot lewis and i. it reminded me of a time i was having a hard time getting work, and i finally got a job in a nicotine patch factory, and there was a there was a lot of ppe, a lot of protective equipment, ventilation and so forth, because nicotine is deadly, poisonous and extremely minute amounts, but nonetheless, every i was i got an hour of overtime every shift as well. nonetheless, a little bit of it at the end, during the shift and during the shift, a little bit of it would sneak into your blood system. and, and i remember that the night we all got laid off, i, i didn't

actually notice that i got laid off, you know, the slate of euphoria from the nicotine patch. that's what this meeting reminded me of. next speaker. hello. thank all of you for your service. i'm here today because when i look at the leaders of san francisco, i see something different. i see the power that you guys. and in a meaningful change that all of you guys have participated in. that's why i'm here tonight. to ask for actions during your off time during these holidays that are going to come. i just want you guys to realize to me it's a big thing. i grew up in san francisco, san francisco native, always been here my whole life. 38 years come tomorrow morning, right? and when i see these children actually fighting to make something of themselves and things like that, and to hear the things that are that they're up against in order to keep going and the service that's provided for them. i just want to get in and help them out. i want to make sure that they don't make the same mistakes that so many of my peers that's not here anymore make. so that's why i'm coming tonight to ask

you guys during your off time doing as you as those of you that stepped away. thank you for your service. but to ask if you guys could continue to help find ways to help this initiative out in some way somehow, i know. thank you speaker, for everything that you've done, sir, for us. i just ask that you know that you can continue in the fight. as you said, the fight is not here with you folks. we're just coming to really just be heard somewhat, because we know that you guys are the ones that fight for us. i know that, you know what i'm saying. so i ask that you guys will continue to take on our fight with 50s remaining. the few other things that i had to say was that i. i guess i'm urging you guys at this point to invest in some solutions or find some ways to help us through this right here. the one thing that i did learn just meeting mr. spingola earlier this year was throughout all the programs and people i have dealt with, he was one that cared, which is why i came here today to stand up and say something for him. i'm not going to take up too much more of you guys time. once again, thank everybody for their service. and i just ask you guys, if you guys do in your off

time and when you guys come back, come back with a remedy, reach out to people. so we know especially these youths that that actually care. they actually care to participate and give their time to be coming here night after night and trying to find solutions. therefore, they don't have to be doing other things because we all know they could be wasting their time and their lives away. thank you, thank you and best wishes for your birthday. good luck to pay. it's going to be tough education. first, you can't do anything without changing the system of education, which means that's how you get competence. you keep falling in the traps. otherwise you see the traps set up by nature itself, actually. but so usually the banking system, we need to get rid of it. it's the only way we're going to create a new system, which is going to be based on the capital of energy that you have to transfer in terms of potential first to education, then competence. you

exchange that no more money. that's the future. you won't survive without being by my side. it is not presumptuous. i'm not proud of it. pride works against intelligence. the unintelligence in power today is going to fail. the problem is that you might not be able to escape. you are promoting racism. you see, you do not understand what's in their idiotic minds is to target you, to eliminate you. they can even use the guillotine. that's what they are doing. it includes all minorities. they are exposing you stupidly because they're going to fail as well themselves. but the damaged children are being murdered. yes. guys, do you think it's a

period of history to rejoice? no, that's. you have to take responsibility and use critical thinking in order to avoid the so many traps that are in front of you. actually, you fell in a big one. you are not going to get out without understanding my message. have a good night. bone. we. next speaker. 17. okay. oh, it was reported that there are 33,000 fewer people residing in san francisco. post pandemic. they're not working from home. that and also that there are 10,000 fewer students. they're not being homeschooled. they're not newly enrolled in private charter schools, either. the school districts having 10,000 fewer students has contemplated closing a dozen

schools and releasing nearly 500 teachers. so given the general fallout, how many fewer school administrators can the school districts do without? if there are 500, well, if 500 educators do enter early retirement, 500 fewer will be paying into the system. they will instead be drawing on their pension accounts, their pensions, the pension fund today seeks 30 billion, a $30 billion loan to increase liquidity in a high interest rate environment. obviously, we should find some way to use seasoned educators and higher interest rates to our advantage. is it possible to have an audit committee conduct a thorough analysis and comprehensive review of the teachers required retirement fund? educators have experienced glitches in getting paid while working. i'm sure they'd like to know that there are no hiccups

in the in their retirement. the city has already gained experience in auditing and conducting audits, albeit of the nonprofit sector sector seeking to ensure economic integrity. confidence in. society's sustainability. nearly a decade ago, a fiduciary for the california teachers fund, or teachers pension made off with $5 million and bought himself a golf course in idaho before being arrested last year. california subsidized public golf courses to the tune of $20 million. thank you for your comment. are there any other members of the public here for general public comment? please go ahead. hello, marissa. betty garza i'm actually visiting from miami. i kind of fulfill your three main points that you made here today. i am elderly 62. i am enjoying the honeymoon phase of my retirement. at the moment.

i am also homeless eight years hardcore, i know i don't look it. i decided to approach it from a different aspect and i am also part of the lgbt community. under that criteria, i wanted to make a couple of points. my item here, and i mentioned this yesterday at a meeting that i went to, i have gone to the maricopa county board of supervisors, and in comparison, you are notches above, if you will all take the time to watch the last supervisor meeting that happened on december 11th, they shamelessly turned around the agenda where they actually denied everybody the public comments. and i commend you for not doing that. and following that, they claim that san francisco is not very nice to outsiders. that might be the case in some cases, because in my respect, i'm actually a

conservative individual under those three categories. continuing my other note i had here, as i mentioned last night, i went to the youth commission meeting. there was not anybody attending and there was nobody viewing the commission meeting, the youth commission meeting. and i would hope that at least at the very least, the parents or the guardians of the 17 individuals who volunteered their youthful time for this, that they might be given more of an incentive if more people attended their meetings, because there you can make comments and they they seem to be very responsible. and i think san francisco has, from what i saw today, has produced quite a number of active citizens. and i'm hoping that when the new year comes, it'll be better. thank you. thank you. seeing no other members of the public for general public comment. public comment is closed. madam clerk, could you please read the

balance of the for adoption without committee reference calendar? yes. items 36 through 38 were introduced as resolutions and motions. i believe there's. yes. would any member like an item or item seven? seeing none, we will take these items. same house, same call. the motions are approved. madam clerk, are there any in memoriam? yesterday's meeting will be adjourned. in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor mandelman for the late miss varun szoke. on behalf of supervisor mandelman. for. and supervisor peskin for the late mr. bob dockendorf. on behalf of supervisor melgar for the late honorable judge raymond joseph arata, on behalf of supervisor preston for the late miss pia harris and mr. joseph kreitz. peace out. we're adjourned.

>> we do in a way which is exciting engaging-the idea is bring the stories to life, because they are so relevant to the questions we all are

asking today about where we belong, who are we, who do wree want to be. we wanted to be do something about food, because it is such a wonderful entrance. to get people to think what are these cultures, how did they come about and how do i relate to them. we can't live the idea [indiscernible] >> there is hundreds if not thousands of immigrants kitchens and we wanted to show how immigration from 1849 through now the different dishes bought here and how it shaped the culture of the city. . not the thing we have to sit down and read for hours and hours, but you get a 2 and a half minute story and the feeling you can eat those foods and never get a dish the same way again. you have the context. >> we decided to set an journey

across the city. the result is [indiscernible] >> san francisco is a place where there are so many different immigrants communities. we are a sanctuary city, a welcoming place to be and the melting spot is a great to get out and explore the city, the history and how we got to have some of the best cuisine in the country and maybe even the entire world. >> my mother and myself and two sisters--we had to leave quick. my mom had one hour to pack and gather her things and gather her kids and head to the airport and evacuate. we found ourself in san francisco. my grand mother was already here. that is why san francisco was

the destination for us. it goes back to my grand mother and who loved to travel and she was also very afraid of the war going on in vietnam. she came to san francisco and she kind of fell in love with the sitdy. city. she visited the italian deli by oakland beach because she loved the beach and met the owner and the owner told her that this place is for sale and she decided this is her opportunity to stay in san francisco and her dream to be a business owner and open a restaurant. >> i was born [indiscernible] i graduated from a french program culinary school, then i [indiscernible] at that time, we had college of

san mateo in the back yard and had a program for foreign students and we got together and went to the american embassy and this woman welcomed us and she gave both. it is not [indiscernible] and then after that i got accepted and [indiscernible] ended up in san francisco where i had friends so i came to college of san mateo. from there, i transferred to chico state college, so i graduated there and that is when my culinary adventure started. i love cooking and also remind me of my childhood mptd >> my father had a dream and grit and determination. worked very very hard. to me, food is one of the most

readily accessible to understanding a culture. i don't think many people have the opportunity to travel to armenia or lebanon. we are lucky in the city, the abundance of asian cuisines and [indiscernible] restaurants are in many ways an opportunity to engage with another culture through food. >> my grand father had his backyard you name it, we had it. [indiscernible] but my grandma's cookie the memories of the [indiscernible] very powerful. when you channel these memories there is a image because it is a experience all 5 senses get if to it.

i think that is why city is so important for immigrants. the first thing you [indiscernible] we got to eat. you got to nourish the body and you remember and i went from memory really. >> i remember my grand mother telling me stories that when she first opened in 1971, people really didn't know much about vietnamese food and she started selling the italian deli food and half the food and half vietnamese food and she stands in the corner trying to pass samples just to lur customers into the restaurant and try vietnamese food. i think when you enter a new place and you have your family and you have each other and food is what holds your family together. at least for my family for sure, that is the time we get to enjoy

food, make connections, bond, sit together and be together. i just remember my grand mother and mom working hard all the time and once a week we would have family dinners. we gather and she would cook the food. all the kids we always look forward to that. my grand mother coming in 1971, she brought vietnamese food in san francisco. we are one of the first vietnamese arrest raunt restaurant in san francisco. >> for san francisco to have this map and look at all the people who came here and made things you can only find in sf. we are the place to get a

mission burete. burrito. that could be overlooked and not seen [indiscernible] >> important because it highlights the san francisco, the diversity for each restaurant and each spot on the map to share their story through food they serve to diners. i think it is special way to highlight the welcomeness and the [indiscernible] san francisco community is bay area has. >> it is one of the project that is so uniquely san francisco that speaks to the long history of immigration and cuisine the city has been known for. the melting spot allows the small businesses that have been around for a while to really shine with

their own unique stories and flavors and so we really love it. the ecosystem in san francisco is very unique and very welcoming of immigrants and immigrant initiatives. san francisco choice to honor us with the legacy business recognition really shows their support of small local businesses. >> a legacy business is a business that has been around and open in san francisco for at least 30 years. legacy businesses are the most foundational businesses in our neighborhood corridors. they provided services and a place for community to gather for often times for generations. they are really part of the culturally fabric that makes san francisco neighborhoods so unique. >> the idea is take what i think is [indiscernible] about immigration, about belonging, about some of the amazing

history of the city. >> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the

success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken,

links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities

commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a

public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey.

everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

>> this coffee memory i remember having coffee with any grappled. in the old days myelogram ma get together >> i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. >> when i was younger i know it did something to my body. >> ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> i've been drinking coffee since i was 17 really the only

thing i'm good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. i like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit. >> the coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get

into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend so that's my pleasure. each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people give me a reputation i can't buy.

people love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. >> fell in love with coffee and went to the coffee shops the community aspect i really enjoyed. >> i think it's important to have a place for people to show up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in san francisco it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> i really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission i've lived here the whole time and the community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and san francisco. or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let

the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> usf donates 100-120 pounds of

food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community.

>> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers.

no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's

definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's.

♪♪♪ ♪ by the power ♪ ♪ of your name ♪ >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go

out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're

like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.