aaron peskin -- >> clerk: direct your comments to the board as a whole, not to an individual. >> okay. why name subway station after someone so controversial? i did a google search, what i found is in 200 -- i forget the year. basically, rose pak had a contract with the former mayor, ed lee. so earlier nominate julie to be the member of the board of supervisors, and so rose pak supported aaron peskin to be a member of the board of supervisors. so is that the reason why you supported rose pak? because -- there's no reason to name a great station after so notorious people. i can show you, this is what i found on wikipedia. so after you name the station after rose pak, somebody on wikipedia said aaron peskin support chinatown station being named after rose pak. is that what you want to be recorded on history? okay. many years later, people would say this is a politician playing political games, or do you want people to say this is a great politician who served the community. come on, give the people a break. they already suffered a break. before they came here, they were doctors, lawyers

some hard-core requestings supporting aaron peskin. no rents for two or three months, and then, you agree to pay 25% of what it was before. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. [inaudible] >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. dear president of the board and the supervisors. we understand supervisor peskin had a very close, personal relationship with rose pak, but that is the perspective of only one individual. the chinatown subway is a public facility, and the best interest of the community need to be the business of naming any public facility. to my knowledge, naming a subway station after any individual has not been done before in san francisco for numerous reasons, including the division that such a naming would inevitably cause. i would hope you would overturn the president after naming a station after an individual that impacted so many people in a negative way during her time. if even a fraction of these accusations are true, it is enough to rule out rose pak for consideration for such an honor. thank you. >> p

i am the chair of this committee, aaron peskin, joined to my right by supervisor ahsha safai and sitting in for supervisor matt haney is supervisor gordon mar. miss clerk, do we have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss major. could you please call the first item. >> clerk: yes. would you like to make a motion to excuse supervisor haney in the meantime? >> chair peskin: i believe that supervisor haney is going to be joining us shortly. i can make a motion to excuse him for the first items until he gets here, so i will do that. i would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor haney until he arrives. that motion will be passed without objection. first item, please. >> clerk: item 1 is a motion initiating the process to install plaques at 3899 20th streets to commemorate them as the few working fire hydrants during the fire of 1906. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss major. i think this item is really cool. there are a handful of fire hydrants that unlike vanness, survive and continue to provide water to a number of engines, and as we deal w

this time supervisor aaron peskin has changed the proposal and he was confident that that tweak would be accepted. >> have they told you as much? >> i reached out to the chair of that body she was quite optimistic. >> reporter: but members are protesting the proposal. the group had a long-time feud with pak including her refusal to allow the group to join the annual parade. >> we think it's not right to name a facility after her name. >> reporter: at the subway station which is under construction residents we heard from are divided. >> if they call it the rose pak chinatown station, is that a good thing? >> it's good. >> no, no, no, no, no. just name the chinatown station. >> reporter: 70 people signed up to speak at this afternoon's meeting. they have been at it since 3:00. now i am number of the now hearing in the last 30 seconds that this motion to name the station after rose pak has been tabled. apparently the board members couldn't come to a decision. they were 3-3 split. there is a fourth board y hall, mark ht now it motsnn w matthews, nbc bay area news. >> so for right now no r

i want to ask supervisor aaron peskin to say a few brief words. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mayorreed. i am the supervisor representing the northeast corner of the city, but i share with mayor breed the desire to have a one stopper hitting shop for everything in san francisco, and this floor print of almost an acre, 40,000 square feet, is precisely the right way to do it whether it is integrating planning and building and health and fire. this is going to be a huge step forward for the city and county of san francisco. thank you to related, thank you to public works. i cannot wait for it to be finished. [applause.] >> it is not easy to get projects done in our city. the person who is a leader to make sure we put forward the responsible policies and budgeting practices to allow an opportunity like this and recognizing we need to make the city more efficient and provide facilities that are safe and energy efficient is really the leader, one of the leaders of the city, our city administrator, naomi kelly. >> good morning. i have to say i am so honored to be here today. i want to than

forgive me if i pronounce wrongfully the name, and safai, and aaron peskin. this issue is -- we should just go away and solve the problem, and the sfmta should buy back the medallions, and we should be in peace, and the city should be in the peace, and hope -- sfmta has gone inspect hibernation. this is the only place we have to come for help from you peoples. and help and buy back the medallions, and push them as far as you can. also, request, like, if we have $2300 of baggage on our back. if you could takeoff the $1250 that we pay every month to the cab companies, what for? 1,000? that's fine. we are thinking -- we got the loan from the federal credit union, but why are we paying $1250 or so to the cab companies. we should be exempted from this affiliation of the companies. if you could consider this point also, then it will alleviate at least half of our burden from our back until they are buying back, al least it will alleviate our pain a little bit, and i hope you will consider that. thank you very much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> i ha

i think it's a very bad idea from all the merchant, nobody likes it, and we've been supporting aaron peskin for many years, and he should consider the fact that for his idea at this time, there are no supporters. >> so this is a few voice of chinatown business owners. so please do not disappoint them. please do not disappoint me. i took time off work because i trust you. no rose pak naming, please. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hello, board of supervisors. my name's gigi. i strongly urge the board to oppose this resolution to name the new chinatown central subway station after rose pak. i would also like to talk about rose pak's track record of defaming politicians not in line with her. back in 2006, when the board of supervisors was debating a resolution to condemn the persecution of -- [inaudible] >> -- the chinese consulate in san francisco also called on supervisor mar to pressure her. rose pak threatened that she would end supervisor mar's political career. supervisor mar, the only asian american on the board at that time, chose to uphold the u.s. a

my name is aaron peskin joined by sasha safai and matt haney. clerk. >> clerk: be sure to silence all electronic devices and produce items submit ford the file to the clerk and item will appear on the june 25th agenda. the clerk's office would like to thank supervisor peskin for his service to the city and wish him a happy birthday. >> commissioner: please your heart. thank you, madame clerk. colleagues, last week i warned you we'd have a super long land use committee today. it turns out that that is not the case for three items the subject of a continuance so as a matter of housekeeping madame clerk can you please read items 1, 5 and 6 together? >>reporter: item one a hearing to receiving a report from the puc on options for electric service through acquisition, construction or completion of public yutilities. item number 5 an ordinance to establish a legitimization program for a certain non-residential uses at 3150 18th street and affirming appropriate findings. item 6 requires building setbacks for building front being on narrow streets modif

. >> there was a report that rose pak helped aaron peskin to be elected. he is the current supervisor. [indiscernible] >> many media reports that rose pak was famous to her deep ties. perhaps it will be bad for chinatown business and business owners against it, not to mention, rose pak was a discriminatory person. i hope the m.t.a. will stand for the policy. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: hi, everyone. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i do not support her name for this station. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: in the heart, chinatown is very. , it is a place that is very. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: whenever we missed the homeland, we think of going to chinatown. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: when i was in chinatown, i always hear how rose pak used government funding illegally with her own free housing. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: earlier she also mentioned she owned propert

i think it is an important issue i have already spoken with aaron peskin, and should there be the necessityadditional cameras, there would be. thank you. >> thank you. we have time for one more. come on up. this is the last one under this item. >> hello. my name is susan. about 20 years ago, my husband and i were able to purchase a home in dogpatch. at that time, it was a low-key overlooked neighborhood. things have changed. one of the things that was so special about that neighborhood was that it was a community and we would go to the park, park, hang out with our neighbors, and meet each other and find out what's going on and build that community even more. talking and meeting with people who you would never expect to meet with. hell his angels, gang members -- lots of people are coming to the park. if the renovation progresses in a manner where the type of surface is an artificial turf as opposed to natural turf, it is going to hinder people from going to the park and using it as a community, or building that community. as a senior in this city, it is getting harder and harder for me to

aaron peskin has said washington will never get a landmark designation. when you're in the business of doing something symbolic -- >> president cook: thank you. thank you. [applause] >> linda lewin. i'm a retired substitute teacher from san francisco unified school district, and i live about a black awock away, i've seen these murals. i believe this is not the way to teach history by displaying these murals which display racist imagery, and i do believe children need to be educated, particularly nonindigenous children, need to know about the history of native americans, and which is why i wrote and produced an award winning d.v.d. called "growing up indian" and i'm of jewish descent. i just want to -- >> president cook: thank you. [applause] >> my name is huda, and i'm one of the youth leaders at a branch of the grassroots organization called aroc. violence of this mural reminds me of the history of my people and the french colonization of morocco. i'm here with all the represented communities. the actions taken in this mural are unjust, racist, and illeg

but having heard from aaron peskin that it is san mateo county, i know that this is just beginning now, but i'd love to see the impact of this. but if this is the only place that we can regulate, then i think we should regulate it, and we should do everything in our power to regulate it. you might see it differently because you have to worry about customers. we're worried about the livlihood of people. >> supervisor safai: thank you. we'll call you up if we have any questions. next speaker is miss toran. >> chair peskin: kate toran, thank you. >> my name is kate toran, and i want to thank sfmta for the implementation of these new taxi rules. and i'm here today to report on the -- our progress related to our new taxi rules at s.f.o. which were implemented on february 1. and before doing that, i'm just going to give some background just to make sure we all have the same context. okay. i want to start off with the important role of the taxi industry? the taxi industry has a lot of pride and has been part of our paratransit program for many years. it's actually been part of paratransit sin

why is aaron peskin removing this from the code? i think you should reject it because this is a bad change. this is a bad law. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is seth brookeshire and before i moved here 20 years ago to start a design build firm i worked in boston, miami and san santa barbara. i thought architecture was already illegal here except for the wealthy but boy, that does it. thinking about this, i could only come up with two things that made sense about why we would be doing this. the first, well, you know, multiple generations 50 years, mayors, planning commissioners, yourselves included, plus your predecessors, in a massive conspiracy to eliminate the middle-class from the city of san francisco and make this a nice haven for the wealthy and the tourists. i don't see that's the case. i think it would probably be above your abilities to hold that for so many years but the alternative is you are all really, really ignorant and stupid because we have 50 years of failed policy and if we're not able to lo

the time short and i want to express that aaron peskin, leave the chinese people alone. just let the chinese people in chinatown and people aroun aroue world decide this is chinatown station. we don't need to name 16th street, 26th street trump station, we certainly don't need inform add a name to any station. it's just confusing for the uber drivers and confusing for anybody and chinatown should be chinatown as simple as that and the other way day when i was at home my children in my family asked me wh whose is rose pak. you can google it. if they're in china they cannot google it. you can find out who she and and what she has done to chinese people in san francisco and chinese people around the world and we all come here for freedom. we all come here to embrace american freedom. i hope that we would not name someone if the human rights violator and in history i think hopefully history not on the back page of the history. >> dear board of directors, my name is victoria and i am a student from sf and i'm still against naming the central subway station after rose pak. i b

[indiscernible] >> separately, aaron peskin's charter amendment, which assigned chart -- taxi jurisdiction to the empty has a clause affording m.t.a. exclusive authority over taxi related functions. and highly suspect opinion, the city's board of appeals has rolled up a luminary authority language in it means that no taxi permit holder has any due process appeal rights. also, m.t.a. appeals that prop k. had the attention to -- [indiscernible] -- this interpretation is dangerous and violates americans for disability act. the san francisco taxi coalition asks this board to sponsor simple housekeeping amendments for prop a of 2007, on the november knowledge to specify due process and disability rights. unfortunately, i have been put in charge of making that happen, so in the next week or two, i will call around to a few supervisors and hopefully we can find a sponsor to lead the effort. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i too m. a medallion holder, although i don't want to be one. but you see, when the m.t.a. took over, it had a policy that instead of us re

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