next person is marlene flores. >>> good afternoon. i'm marlene flores. i am here to show my interest to [speaker not understood] position as a family member. i wanted to let you know that i'm very interested in the position since i have myself experienced mental health problems. and i have a son who is bipolar. so, i have unfortunately another member of my family that has another mental illness. and i've been through all the process of the issue with my family and i'm one of the -- who has been able to help them in a way that's now my son and my brother, they are living in a good environment. they have family. my son is about to graduate from college. and my major interest in this is to contribute my experience and my knowledge as to families in the people besides the paperwork and information that i can get from the mental health board, and especially to work with the hispanic community. i speak spanish and be able to help them to not only to get the right care for the families who are mentally ill, also to help them to prevent, to get big problems, esp

marlene grew up responsible, mischievous.arlene loved family and grew up in a family with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins with precious memories along the way. growing up, marlene went to russian river, playing and listening to music and summers in el salvador with her family. alongside family, marlene loved education. marlene was fond of the arts and was a phenomenal student. she had a great economic career where she met many life-long friends. marlene went on to attend mercy high school and met more of her life-long friends and they grew up listening to motown music and disco. she studied to be a nurse. after a long deliberation, marlene went on to live in el salvador with her family. it was there that she realized her true passion for helping others, specifically children. in el sa salvador, marlene workd for her uncle's clinic. upon her ru return to the u.s.a, marlene changed her major and pursued an major in education. she pursued an masters in education. as her passion and skillsets continued to grow for education,

i know that if selected, marlene will prove to be an excellent edition to our board. thank you. ~ addition to our board. thank you. >> thank you. so, ms. brook, i just want -- it was mentioned, do you have anybody that's bilingual on the board at all? >> i'm sorry, do i what? >> do you have any bilingual members on the board? >> not bilingual spanish. we have chinese, vietnamese, the actual demographics are 7 women 5 men, 7 caucasians, 3 african americans, 1 vietnamese who speaks both vietnamese and french, and 1 chinese person who speaks -- forgetting which dialect, but no one who speak spanish. >> thank you for the clarification. so, seeing no other public comment, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, i would like to take seat 12 and 15, since there's one applicant for each one of those seats. we'll take them, if you could move the nomination of seats 12 and 15 without any objections? >> yes. >> do we have to say the name on record? go ahead. >> so, we have a motion to accept and approve errol wishom to seat number 12 and lena miller for seat number 15.

marlene grew up responsible, mischievous.arlene loved family and grew up in a family with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins with precious memories along the way. growing up, marlene went to russian river, playing and listening to music and summers in el salvador with her family. alongside family, marlene loved education. marlene was fond of the arts and was a phenomenal student. she had a great economic career where she met many life-long friends. marlene went on to attend mercy high school and met more of her life-long friends and they grew up listening to motown music and disco. she studied to be a nurse. after a long deliberation, marlene went on to live in el salvador with her family. it was there that she realized her true passion for helping others, specifically children. in el sa salvador, marlene workd for her uncle's clinic. upon her ru return to the u.s.a, marlene changed her major and pursued an major in education. she pursued an masters in education. as her passion and skillsets continued to grow for education,

last, but not least, marlene tran. now, marlene tran is one of those persons who is kind of a quiet/loud force. she works for the san francisco unified school district and city college for over 35 years, teaching bilingual courses, working to fight for her community, in visitation valley, it is a community on the south side of san francisco that sometimes feels forgotten, feels left out, but marlene doesn't let that happen. she makes sure that everyone who is supervisor, that anyone who is mayor, they are not going to forget about visitation valley and providing this community, and especially seniors -- especially seniors -- with the support that they need to thrive and feel safe in their community. i got to know her over the past years in just watching her run for supervisor in district 10. you didn't win, but you sure did create a lot of heck. and i said, i really was drawn to her because i love the fight in her. he is unapologetic in her commitment to fight for people who oftentimes don't have a voice, especially ma

marlene grew up responsible, mischievous. marlene loved family and grew up in a family with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins with precious memories along the way. growing up, marlene went to russian river, playing and listening to music and summers in el salvador with her family. alongside family, marlene loved education. marlene was fond of the arts and was a phenomenal student. she had a great economic career where she met many life-long friends. marlene went on to attend mercy high school and met more of her life-long friends and they grew up listening to motown music and disco. she studied to be a nurse. after a long deliberation, marlene went on to live in el salvador with her family. it was there that she realized her true passion for helping others, specifically children. in el sa salvador, marlene workd for her uncle's clinic. upon her ru return to the u.s.a, marlene changed her major and pursued an major in education. she pursued an masters in education. as her passion and skillsets continued to grow for educatio

my name is william reese, and i'm a friend of marlene kramer's. i am not a resident of california. i live in chicago, but i am a registered architect, so marlene is a relative, and we're also really good friends, have been for a long time. she -- you know, i don't want to say consulted. she was asking me for some insight over this whole course of this project as to, you know, sounding board and everything else. i don't -- i didn't have any access to the plans until the other day, when we went down to the building department and reviewed the plans. and they are consistently lack of clear scope of what is actually taking place, and that has taken -- that's over the course of the whole project. so when -- when this appeal for the interior room configuration perplans, that is tweaking of little things of the big stuff they already did, okay? so it's little tiny little modifications. i want to speak to the structural concerns here, also. they did remove the retaining wall at the back of the house. there is no -- they also -- when they fixed the crack, they removed the entire slab of the

next up marlene tran. >> good morning. i'm a long time resident of visitacion valley and also the spokesperson of the visitacion valley of the asian alliance. we met in fran martin's living room and in our neighborhood with many many community needs we're grateful that dedicated members joined in monthly meetings with the developer and the department of toxic control and other entities to plan this huge development after the setback from the loss of redevelopment funds we are also grateful that the hardworking staff of the planning department that the first phase of schlage lock would move forward and the component of affordable housing a new grocery store, two new parks and improved transportation plan would definitely help to revitalize our community please help to support this program thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you jonathan. i'm just here to thank the community of visitacion valley for driving this process to this point and for redefining what i know to be the definition of tenacity these people and their dedicat

i salute my friend marlene morgan who's president of cathedral hill association. marlene, i have worked -- seven years have been involved in this proposed cpmc project and is currently on the negotiating team between neighbors and cpmc. i salute don treanor who is the warrior of middle polk. she's a tiger. she's a warrior. she's shaping up middle polk, something you started president chiu. i salute my friend judy hoyam who's the president of the neighborhood network. she's a d.r. expert and i can count on her for advice on how to deal with the planning department on d.r.'s. i salute my friend elena sterness who is here from -- she's manager of the north point center. she has been president of the fisherman's war of -- wor of, the fisherman wor of association. she's president of the telegraph neighborhood center. i sa salute judy dirkwitz the president of the san francisco neighborhoods who is a model of patience and determination in keeping that group together. i think you know what i mean. i salute my friend chris schaefer from the university of terrace. she is -

ok last but not least marlene tram now marlene tran is one of those persons who is kind of a quiet loudrked for the san francisco unified school district and city college for over thirty five years. teaching bi lingual courses working to fight for her community in visitation valley. we are familiar with that community it's a community on the south side of san francisco that sometimes feel forgotten. feel left out but marlene doesn't let that happen. she makes sure that everyone who's supervisor than anyone who's mayor? they're not gonna forget about visitation valley and providing this community and especially seniors. especially seniors with the support that they need to thrive and feel safe in their communities. i got to know her. over the past years in just watching her run for supervisor and district 10. you didn't win but too short to create a lot of heck am i said you know i really was drawn to her because i love the fight in her. she is unapologetic in her commitment to fight for people who often times. don't have a voice especially many of the seniors who in visitation valley th

>> marlene brought up some good questions about a language access. i wanted to ask, how many bilingual officers are bad angle side -- at ingleside? how are they making sure that they maximize their language tools for the community. going back to translation materials, what is going on in that area? >> i have been there for five weeks, so i do not have a total number on how many people are on their speaking different languages. i read the reports every day and every time there is someone that is a victim or a witness that need a translation service, it seems every time we have one of our officers to the translations themselves, as opposed to to bring the service. i would have to get that answer for you. as for the website, primarily in english. if we have a need for translation, we have the opportunity. we will work with community relations to get that translated. >> i noticed there were materials translated in different languages. the safety messages at my time.

nelson and mat and marlene jonathan and fran martin. okay go ahead. >> good morning supervisors and president chiu. time moves quickly as we get older and it's easy it's really not been that long since 1849 when san francisco really got going so really live in a very young city and the 15 years since my husband and i bought our home in visitacion valley have flown by and i'm grateful to know a part a part of the city that i might not otherwise have known. my name is chris ba r.n. ett and participated in the planning fight and served as an advisor under the redevelopment agency and advice or to the

and we were -- her teaching her daughter has recently also given birth to their first grandson and marlene spoke about the total joy that her grandson had brought into her life and we are all deeply moved by marlene's story but we know that her legacy will be toned by her family here in san francisco. >> thank you supervisor kim, supervisor mar. >> thank you madame clerk, today, i'm working with the san franciscobicycle coalition and other neighbor advocates in a process to look at dust in the city and directing the to preventing bike death and is as well as solving these times types of crimes, bicycle ling is becoming more popular throughout the city base of the great work of different advocate and is it's especially improving in the intricate where i live where biking is up 167% and it now represents about 10% of all the vehicle trips taken. i think that hain of us might agree that we want to see more people bicycle ling whether to mute commuting to work or family outings as well and i have i should mention that i have had two bicycles stolen from my garage in my building over the past c

rest in peace, marlene and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor ronen and supervisor safai. >> i have two introductions today. and the first one is regarding the much talked about maligned and rolled out scooter process here in san francisco. i'm asking for a hearing, the sfmta's process to create the scooting permitting, how it was done, we believe that it was done in isolation without public input. we'd like to investigate if it was ultimately fair and the best outcome for san francisco sis ad our network. we'd like that to help at the land-use and trpg transportation committee and to have input from all much the affected parties and the applicants and the sfmta and hopefully the commissioners can come and attest to that. secondly, something that supervisor -- excuse me -- president cohen and i worked on together but this is something that's been vexing the residents of district 11 for some time, we're putting forward legislation today for a special use district and district 11 as it relates to single family homes. we had an incident

to marlene's comments i would like to add this observation speckly related to architecture design in the public realm. the size, mass -- and mass of this colossal building will overwhelm the cathedral hill neighborhood both visually and with negative impacts. it's the equivalent of a bulky 26-story office building and in my view is just plain too big. >> hello, everybody. my name is is clifton smith is and i cannot see a thing. >> good evening. my name is ronnie dickins. i'm a resident of the tenderloin community and organizer with the central city sro collaborative, a member of the good neighbors coalition. i've seen the streets of the tender loirp used as a highway and already speeding traffic. i'm concerned that the cpmc current proposal does not address these traffic issues. we would like to implement the little saying ison tenderloin study which was done by the city in 2007. which has several is traffic calming measures. thank you. >> thank you. my name is clifton smith. i'm a resident of the ir 0 quoice homes and member of the good neighbor coalition. the good neighbor coalitio

or marlene to the next programs meeting you should give our imply supervisor time to find someone who works for our district. for seat two i want to respect the continuance of supervisor farrell >> supervisor farrell is support i have of ms. sax. >> i want to add that that's great to have such a long-standing member of our advisory committee i know it can be a lot of meeting and your commitment has been tested and shown and you also come to many of our full board meetings as well i'm happy to support ms. sax. >> let me ask if anyone from the public wants to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. so colleagues there's a motion to reappoint jackie sax to the c ac. any objection >> and to continue with the appointment of marlene. >> i want to echo my support of ms. sax thank you four speaking your mind. >> so colleagues can we take that without objection. congratulations. so ms. chang call the next item >> recommending adopting the supervisor advisory committee and the terms not to exceed two years. >> thank you. good morning committee members i'm with the authority. this item

brinkman: next speaker, please. >> clerk: marlene morgan, peter papadapolous, alita dupree. >> marlene morgan, president of cathedral hill homeowners association. we are in favor of improving transit and involved with development agreements geary and van ness hospitals. we met with mta repeatedly on the geary project and thanks to liz and her team for all the outreach. transit is important on the van ness and geary corridors. we have tremendous amount of eastern and western bound traffic at all times also on van ness, we have to improve through transit. the easiest improvements are on the area from gough to aguello. that is the expressway. that's the part that was created by the redevelopment agency when they bulldozed down the fillmore and japan town and built a major expressway. we could have major improvements in that area without a lot of expense. when you look at the outer richmond i have a lot of sympathy for the people who live out there, a lot smaller streets, more regular, maybe that's something we should take another look at but in our area with the rapid we are in favor of i

marlene grew up responsible, mischievous.arlene loved family and grew up in a family with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins with precious memories along the way. growing up, marlene went to russian river, playing and listening to music and summers in el salvador with her family. alongside family, marlene loved education. marlene was fond of the arts and was a phenomenal student. she had a great economic career where she met many life-long friends. marlene went on to attend mercy high school and met more of her life-long friends and they grew up listening to motown music and disco. she studied to be a nurse. after a long deliberation, marlene went on to live in el salvador with her family. it was there that she realized her true passion for helping others, specifically children. in el sa salvador, marlene workd for her uncle's clinic. upon her ru return to the u.s.a, marlene changed her major and pursued an major in education. she pursued an masters in education. as her passion and skillsets continued to grow for education,