i'm so proud to work for a city where i can be out. and where i can be part of advancing the rights for trans and lgbtq people across our great city. whether it is spanning travel are contracting with states that past policies that allow discrimination, or assuring that we have benefits for everyone in our city, or making sure that we have all gender facilities, or developing districts that honour our san francisco culture. or that celebrate the legacy of our lgbtq leaders like renaming terminal one after harvey milk. we still have so much more work to do and i look forward to being part of this change. i am grateful for the late mayor lee for appointing me and seeing the value in transgender leadership in our city. [applause] thank you to mayor farrell, city administrators, my team and everyone on the mayor's staff in the community for supporting me over my first six months. from constant to s.f. pride, san francisco is a beacon of hope and will continue for generations to come. today, we celebrated the raising of the pride flag over s

it's what i've done in my career for nearly 30 years. cityl cannot operate without checks and balances. it hasn't worked for years and it will not work in the future. i will be the checks and balances. i will stop san francisco from being taken to the brink of catastrophe. so why am i running? while i believe in or -- core values that will guide me as your next mayor. accountability, law and order and uplifting our quality of life. everything from homelessness to car break-ins, to supporting our police officers, to building housing, to fixatemmunity infrastand cleaning the streets, to maintaining quality leadership to department city heads. to helping neighbourhood small businesses and so much more. all these issues can and will be addressed by my thre re values of accountability, law and order and uplifting our city's quality of life. the under -- other candidates for mayor think a solution to our financial woes is to continue to tax hard-working residents and add more and more burdens on small business owners and property owners and in a ro

for full families. we are applying other mechanisms to give relief in city plan. it may be best to illustrate with numbers. slide 15 is the early retier rees as well as -- retirees as well as the contribution strategy for the active employees. so, to acclimate you to this table, i know there are a lot of numbers. we start at the very top of the page with the monthly contributions, py-2018, those are the monthly contributions being paid today by the members in city plan. the active employees, early retirees by tier. the next four numbers illustrate our projected 2019 contributions, our recommendations to you by scenario. so, the coding is where you see cp, that's city plan. where you see cp-cna, that's city plan choice not available. participants will have city plan where they don't have choice of other plans. and then you will see ask number one, that refers to scenario one, which we talked about earlier. that's the 1/3 use and s number two is the full use. so, what i encourage you to do is hone in -- maybe let's start with the early retirees. let's hone in on what

for city build as a program, and i'm happy to provide further context on what city build is or does. it's a program that's been around for 12 years. it's the preapprenticeship program that provides pathways to career opportunities in construction, working with the building trades and union programs. i think it's really safe to say that the strength of the program, which is pretty universally recognized. i can't speak to the specific details of the proposal, just not having been part of the negotiations but generally the concept. we have plenty of projects which are public works where there's a project labor agreement that works well for us. particularly because city build, which brings in diverse candidates, men and women overcoming barriers to employment, formerly incarcerated workers, workers in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, people most at risk for being left behind. public housing residents, folks we want to see engaged in this industry, which is at a peak never before seen in the city. the best pathway for our candidates to get on sites is through the program. it gets all

this is a system for us and the city as a whole. it allows our office to manage around $238 billion of assessed property values. this is a legacy system that's been in our office for over 20 years, and soon we'll no longer be able to be supported. it will have a huge impact on our office for many reasons. one of which is that, when you are replacing these legacy systems, not only are you replacing the system itself, but you are also replacing all of the business processes they have allowed them to work with the system. we're overhauling how our staff gets their work. finally, as we're trying to close the role on time for the first time in many years, we're also going to be asking the best and the brightest to come and work on the project so they can help design the system. we'll be continuing our production and pulling some people off of production in order to do this work. it's going to be very important now more than ever to make sure that we have the right people in place so that we can continue with our operations as we're essent

just become something is innovative doesn't mean it's good for our city. we are using this to put in place the regulatory for example work that makes sure that we can get the best of the transportation benefits for the people of san francisco without some of the detriments such as we have seen on the streets already. the city attorney made reference to safety and that is our number one concern. we want to make sure that the use of the scooters is being donecephaly and appropriately when used and when stored and not using them to ride on sidewalks or block sidewalks and there are the two main concerns we have seen and we share, so the permit will require a robust plan to show how they will ensure the proper use and storage of their scooters. there are provisions that speak to the people. who support the scooter share programs whether employees or contractors, there are privacy protection. we are in the business of transportation and mobility but not in the business of permitting harvesting of personal data, so one of our requirements is making it clear that

more funding for the mentally ill, programs here in the city. for more prevention so we can get money for early preventions for the mentally ill. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. good afternoon. i'm here with services. i want to thank the mayor and the board for the funding you provided for youth and families thus far. i'm here in support of our ask a $14.8 million to serve youth, family and adults. specifically $1 million for youth, for emergency housing assistance for youth. i want you to specifically keep in mind that 80% of youth experience and homelessness are unsheltered. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good afternoon. i am with larkin street youth services. i am also a member of the budget justice coalition. you're asking for 300,000. 100,000 for each of our respective youth leadership bodies. i want to remind us all that one in five homeless people are transitional age youth and we do know that 50% of homeless people in san francisco became homeless under the age of 25. that is why it is especially imp

last month, to make it mandatory for cities to create an inventory of seismically vulnerable buildings. how do y >>> we are joined for tonight's bay area proud. >> we first profiled eugene in a bay area proud story for reasons you're about to see. after the story, eugene went on the hunt for someone to give him a job being kind to others. he didn't find one. you can guess what he did next. three years ago, eugene pulled off a single, monumental act of kindness. really big. like climbing mountains big. >> i claimed several yes, i did. yeah. >> reporter: in 2015, eugene hiked the pacific crest trail, from mexico to canada. raising money along the way for a paraplegic man he barely knew at the time. arthur rentwitki. so that he could buy device to help him walk for the first time in a decade. when all was said and done, though, eugene was faced with a question. how do you top such a big act of kindness? with thousands of small ones is the answer that came to eugene. >> would you care for a meal? >> the first act i did was so grand, but what i also learned is that something so simple and e

city. we're happy to be a science and sustainability leader for the city and for the world. today i'm glad to say that we are in agreement with the budget and the staffing allocations for the aquarium and our f.t.e.s will remain consistent with this year. so our proposed budget for f.y.2018-2019 is $8.4 million and 30% for salary and benefits for our 12 stationary engineers. and 21 21% for capital and maintenance. and in 2019-20, we have a budget of $5.9 million, very similar spending plan except we have a smaller capital and maintenance ts soe really exciting things happening at the the acay right now and i'm proud to announce that we are the first organization in the u.s. to have successfully spawned coral in a lab. and we're only the second in the world to do this. now spawning corals in a lab is a big deal because it is a major first step in being able to ultimately to restore coral re reefs in the wild. >> supervisor cohen: do we own that equipment? or do we borrow or lease it? >> we purchased it. >> supervisor cohen: so we can make more coral and populate the world? >>

i know many in the room are born and raised san francisco people and to be setting foundation for our city is powerful and you are here and awarded tonight because you have been nominated by so many people for all your hard work, but let's never forget what we are doing and the power behind that is incredible. i would like to recognize supervisor sandy fewer who is here. [applause] i want to thank the blue ribbon panel for helping select these nominees and obviously a difficult decision-making process for doing that. you know the four principal winners were selected because of their dedicate and leadership just like the teachers and our paraeducator. congratulations to you all. this is a fun thing to be here and a fun thing to go to the giant's games and beon the field. we don't get to do that every single day, but thank you for all that you do for our children on behalf of san francisco. we can't do it without you. please know how important you do is to all of us. i know it's one of the most challenging jobs in the world, but i want to say thank you on behalf of a grateful city. [applause

we stand up for equality for every single person in our city, and we make sure that our city continues to be an example for the rest of our country to follow. you know, as mayor, and before then as member of the board of supervisors, i've been able to witness the strength of our lgbtq community here in san francisco. we have fought many battles over the years. today, with what was a very narrow ruling out of the u.s. supreme court, but the rhetoric that comes with that, and what our lgbtq community must do to combat that and stand proud and stand tall. it is so important at the rest of us, as a city stand with our lgbtq community. that is who we are as san francisco. along those lines, i want to make sure i let everyone know today, and announce officially, san francisco is joining with the rca of california and banning all business practices with the state of oklahoma. [cheers and applause] we will not -- we will not, as a city, continue to tolerate other jurisdictions that discriminate upon our civil rights, and certainly with her lgbtq community. we will continue to stand tall as a c

but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, y

for the most part it's bone dry and it's very very hot we're into the forty's for baghdad and for kuwait city pleasant weather around that eastern side of the med by rate of around twenty seven celsius on saturday and similar fatties as we go on through sunday twenty eight degrees celsius the for jerusalem again back into the forces there for baghdad for q eight city and also in tehran thirty four there for karate for those numbers around here in kos i'm getting up to around forty celsius on sas as a forty two for abu dhabi notice a little more cloud just towards. my just a little more that cloud just sliding its way towards u.a.e. as well say feeling somewhat more humid for a time at least as we go on into sunday the humidity should ease off that cloud just slide this way to southern parts of saudi arabia meanwhile some thickening cloud also making its way into the western cape and into the selling cape all south africa see how it slides its way through when a the rain in cape town places say we may see some over the next couple of days that right slicing through saturday and sunday.

the city's funding will enable us to be the cultural point of bayview. thank you for your time. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, tony robles, senior and disability action. seniors and people with disabilities are really hit hard in this city. there hasn't been an increase in the cost of living or cola in -- in social security in the last three years. our organization is senior and disability action. seniors and people with disabilities are in need of housing subsidies, and we'd like you to make this a priority and fund the $3 million for subsidies. we do support the hspa ask. i know seniors who are personally paying their rent. the subsidy can allow them a cushion, which is a security in situations that are precarious with individuals who can barely afford food and other necessities. these subsidies will provide housing stab housing sta housing stablity, and one-third of the housing in san francisco are seniors. and we need to provide for that. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jessie johnson. we recognize that ma

we do a lot of work as the safety net hospital for the city and to have the recognition is truth an honorarticularly for stroke patients and developing protocol, from neurology, physicians, respiratory therapists, we thank you for this honor. [applause] >> supervisor breed: thank you so much. and thank you, everyone. we're going to take a group photo right outside the chamber. i want to thank you, each and every one of you, for all the work that you continue to do and for being here today to be recognized. i know the countless lives many of you have saved over the years and, again, the city and county of san francisco owes you a debt of gratitude for all you do every single day. thank you, all, so much. [applause] >> so we're going to take it into the hallway. next person up is supervisor peskin. if you can just wait a moment for people to empty the hall. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for indulging me, because today i have two special order commendations. i'm proud to honor john updike on the occasion of his retirement after 32 years of public service, including the last six as director

i think in your next position, you might be able to do something for the city that increases people thatare in jail, and can help their dignity. and help our community, and help your families and friends. i know you have a special visi vision. i would like for you to team up with supervisor kim. probably the point person in this city who knows exactly what is happening on the streets and what needs to be done to help these people. i think jail is probably the worst thing to do. if we can come up with a plan, if you can work together, it would be lovely to get this do done. we will help our communities. thank you and good luck. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> thank you. president breed, ladies and gentlemen of the board, i am a voluntary psychiatric outpatient in the city for over a decade. last week i read to you from a law journal. along with you about some quotations by a psychiatrist basically saying that involuntary outpatient treatment means they get to take away constitutional rights of our citizens. and i asked you, are we ruled by loss? are we to be ruled

i want to thank you and the representatives behind me that recognize such a great leader for our city and county of san francisco. thank you for making this happen and making this space. >> thank you. any other members? seeing none, public comment is closed. again, thank you, todd, for everything. an frcisco's loss is new york's gain, but we'll see you still. don't worry. okay. next item, please. >> todd, i also wanted to thank you for your contributions to the city and to help us. i know that every time i come to you for help, you come through very nicely. so good luck with your new endeavor. we'll miss you. >> director. >> thank you. i wanted to extend my appreciation. it's been a great pleasure to work for you and with you and i've learned so much. you've been a great mentor and i think, you know, commissioner adams just really spoke to the bredth of what you've been able to accomplish. your passionate, economic development and economic developmt at all levels of business and employment and while i think the city, it's a loss for us, but i'm also very excited that if you're able to

the cities are almost all run by nonpartisan mayors. people who run for office to leave their cities and put politics to to the side. >> there's an issue that you cannot escape from the problem in a reality that that's where the people who need the help are. there's a history that says cities have played this role since before america was created, cities and other parts of the world is where people went to create countries. in our own country we've gone through various stages, with the new deal improvements played out in all the jobs programs. the great society of lyndon johnson played out. you take that history and capability and the question becomes, if we are dealing with this real inequality issue, more money being concentrated at the high end ten people at the low-end not getting a good start in education, if cities consciously play that role not just because they have done it historically, but did it with the conscious and intentional strategy of saying, we are going to be places where we create opportunity for people, that would be phenomenal. >> i