. >> thank you, john supervisor cohen and supervisor jane kim and supervisor wiener that is truly a historic day i'm victor the general council the mexican museum with me the mexican mime committee appearing to give you a couple of upgrades on the mexican museum as mentioned supervisor cowen andrew and wanting mr. gomez will be speaking and other folks from the building committee and there are two community members who were invited to speak after dozens and will be coming next week to serve the final vote as general council i led the council on the mexican museum for the long term lease to be moved to the full board the combined 99 year lease is extremely well-thought-out and we worked on it for over a year part of the negotiations included folks in the room as well as others for the mexican museum think outside the box on behalf of team i want to thank the team who represented the city starting with john updyke who just spoke and tom and rebecca from the arts commission and tiffany and chris 10 from the accessory our agency and to very capable and distinguished council who is now general co

both he and john caldera created the resolution we hope to be before you shortly on port chicago 50. also miss dixon one thing i understand about supervisor cohen's comments on inclusiveness, i think it's former justice john paul stevens who would also look to joe marshal for his lived experience. he knew he was limited in what happens in the world and our commission cannot move forward without having a broad depth of people with various lived experiences. so in concluding, i support the former and incumbents coming back to you today. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> thank you, i wish to speak in public comment for some of the other applicants. i made my own presentation, i will skip over that, but i wanted to just say for seat no. 1 i support sam pandy who made a great presentation to our commission just a couple days ago with some dynamic new ideas for the commission to move forward on. i support his appointment. i support for seat no. 4 sitting commissioner caldera he and i have worked together in the past not always seen eye to eye but i can tell you one thing, he's always there, he's always on time and he's dependa

the future for >> good morning, welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors i am john, avalos and joined by tang and cohen our clerk is lisa and do you have any announcements for us? >> be sure to silence devices, items today will be on the april 7th board agenda, unless others stated. >> the first part of the agenda includes the members of the board of supervisors who are applying for the outside committee and regional bodies and there will be an opening perhaps, that has to leave at noon, and we will open that up and continue it to the end of the agenda, when we will do the other interviewwise the monitor committee applicant and let's go to the first item. >> item

>> good morning, welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors i am john, avalos and joined by tang and cohen and our clerk is lisa and do you have any announcements for us? >> be sure to silence devices, items today will be on the april 7th board agenda, unless others stated. >> the first part of the agenda includes the members of the board of supervisors who are applying for the outside committee and regional bodies and there will be an opening perhaps, that has to leave at noon, and we will open that up and continue it to the end of the agenda, when we will do the other interviewwise the monitor committee applicant and let's go to the first item. >> item number one is a motion >> purpose mar has been there and he does not need to be here to present and so we can open it up for any comment, and any member of the public that would like to comment on the application to lafco, and seeing none, we will close the public comment and could we have a motion to move forward. >> i would like to move supervisor mar to lafco and this to the full board with the positive recommendations. >> and that is s

supervisor cohen. aye. supervisor ferrule. aye. supervisor kim. aye. supervisor mar. aye. 11 aye's. >> the resolution is adopted >> item 16 is a motion to appoint johnillen, andrew [inaudible] dan [inaudible] dan, sandsy sure win and [inaudible] urban forestry >> this is approvedue man mississippily >> itealp 17 is a motion to appoint [inaudible] citizens general over site

supervisors. my name is john avalos, chair of the committee. joined to my right by vice chair katy tang and will be joined shortly by supervisor malia cohen. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and all documents to be included in the file should be given to the clerk. >> okay very good. thank you. we have several appointments up for us today and let's go on to our first one. item no. 1. >> item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing two members terms ending november 16, 20016, to the bicycle advisory committee. there are two seats and two applicants. >> very good, we can go straight ahead to presentations. i know the district 11 seat applicant, casey allen, will not be here, but i believe mr. mark brand is here. please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. by the way, i have worked with casey allen and i think he's really great committee member. i've been on the bicycle advisory committee for a few years now and i consider it a great honor. i have been a bicycle mechanic for many years i've worked also in the transportation industry doing shipping, so i think i understand some of the issues t

supervisor cohen. aye. supervisor ferrule. aye. supervisor kim. aye. supervisor mar. aye. 11 aye's. >> the resolution is adopted >> item 16 is a motion to appoint john malcolm hillen, andrew [inaudible] dan [inaudible] dan, sandsy sure win and [inaudible] urban forestry >> this is approvedue man mississippily >> itealp 17 is a motion to appoint [inaudible] citizens general over site bond committee >> same house, same call. this motion suprovedue manue ue unanimously >> [inaudible] >> same house, same call >> without ubjeckds this is approved. item 19 >> a motion to aprove the presidents of the bord of supervisors nomination. predsdant london breed to the board oaf appeal >> same house, came call same call. approved unanimously. madam clerk t is now 2:30 and at this time i would like to recognize supervisor katy tang with accommodation >> thank you prez dent breed and thank you for [inaudible] today is a bitter sweet moment because we are saying fair well to someone from the san francisco police department. i don't know if you know why yoi are here today deputy chief [inaudible] if you can please come on up. i think that the police department had to

john caldera i have matthew scott gay but i have a note that he is not here today. so we will go on to matthew caldera >> good afternoon, supervisor avalos, tang and cohen. i am nearly 50 years old and i have lived almost my whole life in the city of san francisco. i can't imagine anywhere else. i have been a member of the american region for 16 years and i currently serve as the first vice the lie 3 4 f1 i have lost more veterans last year to suicide. every 24 hours 22 veterans will commit suicide. women are 3 times more likely to commit suicide if they have served in the armed service. i apologize, this hit me very personal last year. there are a lot of issues hitting our veterans, including moving back into our veteran's building to make sure our veterans have access to that building. right now we are thrown to the winds and veterans are meeting various places so we look forward to moving back into that building that has been promised to us since world war i. we helpd with the creation of a veteran's court which is meeting at 850 bryant and is considering whether or not to deal with veterans that committed crimes that are violent versus non-violent cr

john caldera i have matthew scott gay but i have a note that he is not here today. so we will go on to matthew caldera >> good afternoon, supervisor avalos, tang and cohen. i am nearly 50 years old and i have lived almost my whole life in the city of san francisco. i can't imagine anywhere else. i have been a member of the american region for 16 years and i currently serve as the first vice

elicia, and john was part of that as well and other staff members and so i would like to see that work continue and i think that it addresses the issues, the social justice issues that supervisor cohen has brought up and especially when we look at the more out lying neighborhoods of san francisco and often, the transit and the density of the options are not quite the same as other places and effects our ability to access, and we would make sure that we continue that partnership with you to work on those issues and i know that is your bread and butter as to what you care about as the director. >> yes,vy been working with the staff and sharing the lessons that i have been able to learn with partnering with organizations that are trusted and have deep roots and are connected to the dmaunts we are trying to serve and make sure that there is better representation and every decision and conversation that we have going forward. i will certainly continue to be vigilant about those issues. >> okay, so we will open up this item for public comment and any member of the public who would like to comment come forward. and seeing no member come forward we will close public comment. >> oh, we will

supervisors. my name is john avalos, chair of the committee. joined to my right by vice chair katy tang and will be joined shortly by supervisor malia cohen. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and all documents to be included in the file should be given to the clerk. >> okay very good. thank you. we have several appointments up for us today and let's go on to our first one. item no. 1.