item number 11 is motion appointing supervisor matt dorsey as a member of the association to be or your executive board term ending june 30th 2025 or the inclusion of his term as a member of the board of supervisors. >> thank you so much mr. clerk. seeing no comments or questions from colleagues, we will now call for public comment on the items. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak may line up to speak at this time you will have two minutes. >> hi, my name's liam mckeever. i live in d six which is the supervisor for number ten. >> i don't know if i can say names anymore for the reentry council. >> the reentry council coordinator. it's local efforts to support justice involved in formerly incarcerated people. >> and just judging off of all the legislation and what my or the supervisor is enthused to impose on us via criminalization and incarceration especially of homeless and people addicted to drugs, i question if he's a good■9 fit for everyone who nees services from the reentry council or just seems pretty narrow minded and seems committed to recovery only via . abstinence o

i'm supervisor matt dorsey and i just want to ask how many of my brothers and sisters in recovery are here today out and proud. >> thanks so much. it's so moving to see this. but now i want to talk about the center part of the audience participation portion. how many of us have lost a friend or loved one in the last few years to a drug overdose? a lot of hands up here. many of you know the story of why i'm here, why i'm on the board of supervisors, why i ask for a job i frankly never thought i would want let alone have because when i served in the san francisco police department during covid there was a meeting that i took part in every month representing s.f. pd with officials from the department of public health and the office of the chief medical examiner to preview the monthly report on how many people died of drug overdoses the month before and month after month. i looked at a number knowing i am one bad decision away from being there and at a time when everybody was paying attention to covid and nobody was paying attention to a drug overdose crisis that was literally twice as de

. >> and from district six, matt dorsey, thanks to everybody. supervisor matt dorsey and it has been my honor to serve this city 14 years of which in a san francisco city attorney's office that fought again and again successfully to uphold our city's sanctuary city policies. and for those who look at sanctuary three as an ideological issues, i want to just remind everybody about the important principles that underlie it. the federal government is responsible for immigration, not local governments. who said that? the founding fathers said it. where do they say it in the 10th amendment to the constitution and how long has it been there? since 1791. that is the principle upon which sanctuary city stands. and i'm proud to stand with my colleagues, policy makers, law enforcement professionals to do everything that we can do to protect the public safety of san franciscans irrespective of their citizenship status. no human being is illegal and i'm proud to stand with you for sanctuary. >> and that's it folks. that is your san francisco board of supervi

i'm joined by vice chair supervisor matt dorsey and supervisor joann gaudio, our cricket's brant halper. i would like to thank colleen mendoza from essex tv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> thank you, madam chair. just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please make sure it sounds all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent interruptions to our proceedings should you have any documents to be included as part of the file they should be submitted to myself, the clerk public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda item of interest comes up in public comment this called please line up to speak on the west side of the chamber to your right my left along those curtains hand while not required to provide public comment we do invite you to fill out a comment card and leave them on the tray by the television to your left by the doors if you wish to be accurately recorded for the minutes. >> alternatively you may submit public comment in writing and either in the following ways he mailed them to myself the budget and finance com

leaders work really collaboratively to try to make it happen and i also like to thank you supervisor matt dorsey'se and also our planning staff monica have worked tirelessly. my recollection is more than half a decade of work in this particular property to figure out what can it be done here if not that success story housing unit that clearly did not meet the proforma. >> so with that being said that i've i have a kind of soft spot for making common sense here to move things forward so then we can enable jobs and then they bait and enable some active space that really we can see the light at the end of the tunnel per se. then just continue to perpetually keeping it empty and then continue to have a lot of issues on safety, streetscape and everything. >> but i do feel sympathetic about a lot of people's raised concern on what this is going to look like on the ground floor. so i'm going to go then really quickly but i wanted to emphasize that too they weren't asked to give a waiver for the active use on second floor only. so i want to make sure that we're focusing on one piece here but then we can j