. >> good evening beverly upton i want to thank you all for your service of the board president of david chiu i met him when he joined our substance abuse committee and taught me how to make a list and i never knew he would be on the board of supervisors but to end domestic violence in san francisco and beyond whether it's joining with our supervisor in district 5 london breed to help us end our ellis act or to help i want to thank you for your leadership and friendship and for the board for all our support to all the support and defied offer those years thank you very much. >> tom to the agreement september 29th any mother turned 90 october 13th my youngercy turned out 59 and october i is it your understanding 64 it's nice i'm closer to 60 than 70 and keeping with the season birthday season celebration of life and birthdays are basically a celebration of life seeping e keeping in the season i have a pumpkin pie and i was going to cut it up here i decided not to do that instead if we can imagine here on the overhead please is a pumpkin pie i can celebrate by having it all to my myself or

3 about worked closely to deliver for our neighborhood thank you to the advocates we work with beverly upton and so many that represents the best of what your communities are about thank you i have to thank the hundreds of city staffers you've had a chance to work with two mayors to 3 board liaisons to our controller and our muslim city attorney marry madam clerk you and your incredible staff for putting up with us in ways we tried to bend the rules and your incredible aided we believe we have the best staff at city hall but i have the most amazing staff the height it working staff any former staffers thank you for your sacrifice and it's been an incredible time working together with all of you and to our colleagues i'm going to miss each and everyone one of you including any debate partnering partnering the good supervisor from district 9 i'm not going to forget working with katie and london breed and jane kim on the arts and norman yee and childcare and supervisor wiener secret reform and public nudity and supervisor farrell and supervisor campos the of months we've spent locked together e

3 about worked closely to deliver for our neighborhood thank you to the advocates we work with beverly upton and so many that represents the best of what your communities are about thank you i have to thank the hundreds of

>> good afternoon, commissioners, beverly upton. i'm so happy to be here thop -- on this day. thank you very much. i hope to advance your approval for our hope for the status of the building. i wanted to thank you for your wonderful report and this love for our building. i want to thank jackie for all of her hard work and jennifer george. for bringing rue's memory alive to all of us. to london breed, our supervisor and valley brown who told us how to get to the planning commission. and of course the man himself rue goldberg, we learned so much about him and we are honored to live in his building for 25 years. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner pearlman? >> are you okay? >> i was in a meeting yesterday and three times during the meeting someone in the meeting referred to rue goldberg devices they had created and i was able to tell them about the hearing today and what that spoke to me was the power of this man from san francisco who, you know who is still very much alive in the lexicon of our world today that people kn

please help me to welcome, someone who represents the heart of this community, my dear friend, beverly upton. >> i am so honored to be with everybody today. this work goes on, and it is difficult but it goes on. what does it take to shine a light on domestic violence? what does the city have to have? well, tonight we will see that it is going to have city hall lighting up purple. but what does it really have to have at its heart? it has to have leadership and it has to have justice and it has to have advocacy, leadership really starts at the top, and in san francisco, it starts with mayor ed lee and his team at city hall and preventing and intervening and funding those of us who try to stop domestic violence. thank you. >> david chiu, and the board supervisors, their doors are always open to us and we meet with them year round on the legislation and budgetary issues and their leadership shows, every single day. emily murase, dr. murase, and the department and the commission on the status of women, kandel and andrea shorter and johnson and many, many more show the city every day that women co