i think we've done a lot for san franciscans. this conversation is revolving around non-san franciscans. not to say they're not important. their visitors to our city. i think we spend a lot of time andthe department has put forth his concerns . it's made theirarguments . you made your argument but it seems like there's a lot more work and conversations to be done. it seems like it would make sense to duplicate the file. allow thisconversation to move forward and see if there's a way you can work itout . i don't think you guys arethat far apart . i think we're getting stuck on the word flex pricing . it sounds like at the end of the day there's not that much difference but i do think it's important to move the agreement forward and allow this process to begin . there's work that needs to be done at the sites. there's renovations,there's new updating . i think there's just a lot of work that needs to happen and i think it would provide the time tocontinue that conversation with the department . ithink that you've done good work . y

a brack san franciscan is six times more likely to be subjected to a traffic stop as a white san franciscan, nine times more limely to be subject to use of force, and 11 times more likely to be arrested. this commission must hold sfpd accountable. you must demand that sfpd end its campaign of racism and violence against black san franciscans. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> miarian is david aaronson. i am a core team member of the wealth and disparities in the black community, and i am also a resident of district 1. there is an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is: antiblackness. i've grown tired of talk to the police commission, to the sfpd, to the board of supervisors. where is the urgency? if the tables were turned and these statistics represented white folks, there would be urgency. when are you going to take responsibility and address the harsh, biased, and unjust statistics which is truly your responsibility that you took an oath to seek justice for all san franciscans. for si

we want to make sure that the san franciscans that we all know and love have that opportunity and that is my goal for this. i really intend to implement a labor caucus to make sure that we are doing what we need to do to give every san franciscan the opportunity be to participate from our economic recovery from covid and overall economic recovery as we get on with opening up the city and making sure that people come to san francisco. those the obstacles before us. i hope we overcome them altogether as we move along. thank you. [applause]. >> clerk: this meeting is being held by webex, pursuant to governor's executive orders and mayoral declarations declaring a local emergency. during the covid-19 emergency, the commission's regular meeting room is closed, and meetings of the fire commission will convene remotely. you may watch live at www.sfgovtv.org, and to participate in public comment

i think that at the end of the day, i am a san franciscan. i love the city. i will make a decision in the best interest of the entity and best interest of the city. that will involve feedback from people who really -- parents especially, teachers, educators as well -- having well rounded feedback and number to choose from that are going to be important. that is my focus. my hope is they are people who will work with me and work with the city. we want to partner with the cool district. you have come to us and we have gone to them. we want someone to work with us so we can help support our children. >> do you have a position? are you open to changes? >> i think that it is the wrong message right now. these people worked really hard. this was a very grassroots effort. i think that people should have the ability if they have a concern with any elected leader. they should have the right to take a recall effort to the ballot. it is unfortunate. to put this on the ballot is very unfortunate. >> you are a part of children and families staying in the budget. so much p

and the design and desire to have san franciscans come for free, i think that's an important thing . my children and others have benefited greatly from as students here in san francisco. i'm sure other members of this committee and other supervisors have as well particularly with the conservatory of flowers. i think that having all of them under the same umbrella and then expanding the service that the botanical garden society can bring so it's not just having someone sit there without a lot of detail, without a lot of knowledge, without a lot of conveying of information to the visitors if the japanese tea garden and some of these other places, we will up the level of service and that's an important thing. last thing i would say is always different departments, particularly rack and park are thinking about maintenance and operating and how they're going to maintain a level ofservice and i think this is good. i guess for me , i don't have a problem with the flex pricing proposal. i hear what supervisorchan, i hear what you're saying . maybe one way to resolve this would be to have rath

a brack san franciscan is six times more likely to be subjected to a traffic stop as a white san franciscan, nine times more limely to be subject to use of force, and 11 times more likely to be arrested. this commission must hold sfpd accountable. you must demand that sfpd end its campaign of racism and violence against black san franciscans. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> miarian is david aaronson. i am a core team member of the wealth and disparities in the black community, and i am also a resident of district 1. there is an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is: antiblackness. i've grown tired of talk to the police commission, to the sfpd, to the board of supervisors. where is the urgency? if the tables were turned and these statistics represented white folks, there would be urgency. when are you going to take responsibility and address the harsh, biased, and unjust statistics which is truly your responsibility that you took an oath to seek justice for all san franciscans. for si

the best thing to do for the majority of san franciscans is to close jfk drive. i would also like to say something about the survey. most of the respondents, 65% were white, and these people made between $100,200,000 a year, and most of them lived around the park. there were absolutely no respondents at all from the southeast portion of san francisco, only to .6% were black and only five-point one% were hispanic. i want to caution you on putting these on the surveys because we know that they are skewed in favor of members of the bike coalition because the bike coalition is given advanced information about the survey, and they are skewed and unfair. it gives everyone the false assumption that the majority of san franciscans want all of these roads closed, like jfk. also, let's say i did and i was able to get onto jfk with my walker. the bicycle riders are not, in any way, monitored by the police, and they do not obey stop signs. they are going, like the caller said, 30 miles an hour. they are rude and arrogant. the yellow people to get out of the way. that is anot

last year we lost 165 san franciscans to covid in january of 2021. this month to date we have lost five. now we don't know what covid has in store for us, but we do have great defenses against this virus. vaccinations and boosters and i expect in the relatively near future effective antiviral medication. we know how to layer defenses. during periods with high transmission when we must protect front line workers and vulnerable by masking, testing, improving ventilation. staying home when sick. omicron taught us we have vulnerabilities in the system of care. we need testing to be accessible, affordable and fast to truly use this tool together safely. we are working with our state and federal partners to make rapid over the counter tests easy to come by and requiring the healthcare system partners to step up and do their part with regard to testing as they have done with hospitalization. we anticipate new tools to become available soon such as retroviral medications to better protect people who are especially vulnerable to severe disease. as we come out

the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscansino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy san francisco mayor london and we are here to swear in stephanie cahina to the sfmta board. i want to thank the heresies from coming to lakeviewto be with us today . you must be somebody really special. i want to acknowledge some of our elected members of the board of supervisors for joining us . marna melgar recommended stephanie so thank you supervisor melgar for being here . supervisor mandelman and supervisor hillary cahina. thank you to the members of the board not only for being here but for s

it is time for hope, happiness, pride in who we are as san franciscans. it is a tough two years. be proud of what we have done. on february 19th we will be back in san francisco! the year of t adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get there's a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to treasure island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity can't be beat the views and real estate that great county

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and at that time, there were a handful of san franciscans that stood up and stood up for the chineseow proud i am of the san francisco community, saying no to the hate. we're at a time, 145 years later, at this asian ceremony, we have our first asian sheriff, sitting next to our first asian public defender, sitting next to asian supervisors, supported by our mayor, our district attorney, our commissioners, and so many of you from the community, whether you're our commissioners, whether you're from the chamber, whether you're from the six companies or whether you're a nonprofit that's stood with us, i just want to say thank you. and during the year of the tiger, i say thank you as we come roaring back. and with that, it is my pleasure to welcome not just our first asian public defender, but the first asian public defender in the country. >> it's truly an honor to be in this space today. i owe so much to san francisco, san francisco's asian american community. i actually began a lot of my belief and identity about empowerment by teaching a class for san francisco kids in chinatown, and

and at that time, there were a handful of san franciscans that stood up and stood up for the chineseow proud i am of the san francisco community, saying no to the hate. we're at a time, 145 years later, at this asian ceremony, we have our first asian sheriff, sitting next to our first asian public defender, sitting next to asian supervisors, supported by our mayor, our district attorney, our commissioners, and so many of you from the community, whether you're our commissioners, whether you're from the chamber, whether you're from the six companies or whether you're a nonprofit that's stood with us, i just want to say thank you. and during the year of the tiger, i say thank you as we come roaring back. and with that, it is my pleasure to welcome not just our first asian public defender, but the first asian public defender in the country. >> it's truly an honor to be in this space today. i owe so much to san francisco, san francisco's asian american community. i actually began a lot of my belief and identity about empowerment by teaching a class for san francisco kids in chinatown, and

i can make a decision that san franciscans can be proud of. has it made you proud for news? he meantime, on the same day, the school board members were recalled. san francisco supervisors passed a recall reform proposal. >> that will go to voters this june first and kerman live for us in san francisco tonight with a look at what changes voters will have to decide on dan. well, what doesn't change is like the number of signatures or who can be on that recall ballot. what does change are the parameters around? >> when people can be recalled and what happens to the person appointed to office? with the school board recall behind us and the district attorney recall. still ahead, san francisco supervisors are trying to reform the recall process. >> people support having free and fair elections and those who have a lot of money to throw around on sour grapes should have some sensible, reasonable guardrails around that. that's what this proposal is at tuesday's meeting. the board majority agreed to put supervisor. aaron peskin is recalled reform proposal on the june ballot. among the

there's an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans and i'm going to call it what itrce, and racial profiling and i've grown tired of talking to police commission, sfpd and board of supervisors. where is the urgency unquote. since 96a and doj caps we've spoken to the antiblack authorities and sfpd data. police commission has not responded. why hasn't this commission spelled out this problem and the report and the commission acted on the recommendations it took from june of 2021 and it demand the routine traffic citations as we have been saying here for months. thank you. >> g. caller. you have one minute. >> caller: my name is nick berg i'm a san francisco resident and business owner and i'm calling into thank chief scott he is preventing crime and enforcing our laws and providing safety and in contrast he should be recalled chess abu teen. >> calling and i would like to comment on the collaborative phase 3 report is this a proper place to comment on that because i see the monthly update is here and i don't want to detract from my 60 seconds. can you answer the questi

it was not successful. 40 years later, san franciscans have voted to remove three school board members. good evening. i ama daetz. dan: and i am dan ashley. streaming on the abc 7 bay area news app. this move by san francisco voters now gives mayor london breed the power to appoint replacements. ama: our reporter tells us what kind of candidates the mayor is looking for. >> my hope is that i can make a decision that san franciscans can be proud of. >> mayor london breed will have four out of seven school board appointees, and unusually high number given the school board commissioners are almost always elected by voters. the mayor's office told us no potential candidates have been interviewed but today, she affirmed that anyone who wants the job must answer to the following demands. >> what are we going to do for those kids who have learning disabilities? when are we going to do for those kids who do not have parent advocates? how are we going to focus on the challenges around learning loss? how are we going to deal with the budget deficit? >> mayor breed said these are some of the conc

yesterday's election costs, san franciscans, 12 million dollars >> for election where these folks from the ballot anyway come november. so we're putting some sensible cost-effective guidelines around it in san francisco. it's the mayor that fills positions of those recalled as part of this reform proposal. those appointed by the mayor to fill the recalled position would not be able to run for that office in the next regularly scheduled election. the reason for that was to not give i'm the executive branch, an incentive to support unnecessary, misguided recalls. they become 100% beholden to the mayor. >> it's almost as though the mayor has made an appointment as a department head their lame duck. they're not running for office again. so what what interest do they have? what motivation do they have to work with their colleagues on which ever bored? >> or commission there pointed pose that numerous grounds. among them, it would take away a pathway for creating diversity in elected office. what we do know based on the statistics >> is more women, more people of color. we'll have the opport

director to have the it staff write an ad hoc query in the patient throw module to select only san franciscanswho were discharged out of county to any city, not named, san francisco, dph must stop its lying and the health commission. >> thank you caller for your comments. that was the only public comment question. thank you caller. our next item is an action item and it's a resolution adopting a new regulation to license rev you collections and permit designated rev use collection routes within the city and county of san francisco and for this presentation we have veronica slattengrin the health inspector with dph environmental health services population health division. [please stand by] >> we clash >> to provide more transparency to the permit application process, we opened an application period where we would announce the application period on our website and provide them with all the instructions that apply. in addition to that, we have had a preapplication question and answers section that would be held before the permit application period. what that entails is an e-question session, as w

we demand that police commissioners stand for reform that san franciscans can actually trust. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> hi, there, i'm a san francisco resident, and i'm here to say that it's really ironic that you're upset about due process when your own office fail to provide due process. i'm glad to hear that sean moore is seeking some justice, but we still need justice for so many more. you should not be allowed to threaten and respect the safety of our communities by harassing outside investigations and investigators. do better. bye-bye. >> clerk: thank you. caller. good evening, caller. you have one minute. >> this is alarming that the commission is more upset with chief scott for pulling out of the m.o.u. than it is with the highly unethical behavior of chief scott in the first place. what chesa did matters, and what you're doing matters. you're placing the blame entirely on chief scott. there is an affidavit signed by a deputy d.a. you say you're guardians of the guardians? you're bullies and prefer a liar to an honest

also a sixth generation san franciscan.i wanted to touch on a couple of the things that make little school so special. our pillars of inclusion and diversity. the fact that we include children who require additional support or have special needs identified within our classrooms is something that really sets us apart. one of the biggest barriers for that is our necessity having two and three day part time programs as a parent talked about, it doesn't work for working parents in san francisco unless they have another form of child care. i hope that you will help us make little school more available to all kinds of families. thanks so much. >> clerk: that concludes public comment. this matter is now before you commissioners. >> president tanner: i will call on commissioner moore. >> vice president moore: i want to express my strong support for this particular project. the reason is, it's for years now, the issue of child care and children and families have been very strong subject matter in the planning commission. it's a heig

elections director john art says more than 250,000 san franciscans will be eligible to vote in the runoff election about half the city but aren't says something he's never seen before, is that people in the assembly district will need to vote for times in just one year. following this week's special election. there's the runoff election in april just to fill the seat through the end of this year. then two months later , comes the june primary to fill the next term, which will be decided by november's general election. when you have these multiple elections of the year, the last people are really paying attention and engaged. yeah i do worry about them being uncertain about the process that could lead to turn out burn out just trying to get people to the polls or post their mail in ballots. we expect more phone calls. trying to answer people's questions about what's on the ballot and why san francisco elections officials are already preparing and holding for elections in less than a year does come with a cost estimate going into february, was it costs around $6.5 million going into the apr

i think voters and san franciscans need to be reminded of this point, and all the way until june and beyond until we really solve the corruption problem in san francisco. i am happy to support it today and move this forward to really hopefully also have support of all of our colleagues of the full board to keep this conversation alive and have this conversation going and really we constant reminder that corruption is real. it is happening to our government and we need to work very hard to tackle that and restore public trust. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor chan. is that a motion? if it is a motion, will you make a motion to send it as a committee report so it gets to the full board tomorrow where it will not be voted on, but will sit for a week. >> i think is what supervisor melgar once. if that is the case, i'm happy to support it. >> okay. i'll consider that to be a motion to send this charter amendment to the full board of supervisors as a committee report. mr. young, on that motion, a roll call, please. >> on they motion to recommend the matter as a committee report... [ roll

they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from

i think that at the end of the day, i am a san franciscan. i love the city. i will make a decision in the best interest of the entity and best interest of the city. that will involve feedback from people who really -- parents especially, teachers, educators as well -- having well rounded feedback and number to choose from that are going to be important. that is my focus. my hope is they are people who will work with me and work with the city. we want to partner with the cool district. you have come to us and we have gone to them. we want someone to work with us so we can help support our children. >> do you have a position? are you open to changes? >> i think that it is the wrong message right now. these people worked really hard. this was a very grassroots effort. i think that people should have the ability if they have a concern with any elected leader. they should have the right to take a recall effort to the ballot. it is unfortunate. to put this on the ballot is very unfortunate. >> you are a part of children and families staying in the budget. so much p

there's an urgency to address the injustices of black san franciscans and i'm going to call it what it is, antiblackness and use of force, and racial profiling and i've grown tired of talking to police commission, sfpd and board of supervisors. where is the urgency unquote. since 96a and doj caps we've spoken to the antiblack authorities and sfpd data. police commission has not responded. why hasn't this commission spelled out this problem and the report and the commission acted on the recommendations it took from june of 2021 and it demand the routine traffic citations as we have been saying here for months. thank you. >> g. caller. you have one minute. >> caller: my name is nick berg i'm a san francisco resident and business owner and i'm calling into thank chief scott he is preventing crime and enforcing our laws and providing safety and in contrast he should be recalled chess abu teen. >> calling and i would like to comment on the collaborative phase 3 report is this a proper place to comment on that because i see the monthly update is here and i don't want to detract from my 60 se

the best thing to do for the majority of san franciscans is to close jfk drive. i would also like to say something about the survey. most of the respondents, 65% were white, and these people made between $100,200,000 a year, and most of them lived around the park. there were absolutely no respondents at all from the southeast portion of san francisco, only to .6% were black and only five-point one% were hispanic. i want to caution you on putting these on the surveys because we know that they are skewed in favor of members of the bike coalition because the bike coalition is given advanced information about the survey, and they are skewed and unfair. it gives everyone the false assumption that the majority of san franciscans want all of these roads closed, like jfk. also, let's say i did and i was able to get onto jfk with my walker. the bicycle riders are not, in any way, monitored by the police, and they do not obey stop signs. they are going, like the caller said, 30 miles an hour. they are rude and arrogant. the yellow people to get out of the way. that is anot

many of our san franciscans had their houses and their garages broken into, businesses broken into, and we saw an uptick. the first half of this year, it was a significant uptick. so we adjusted our deployment. we put officers where these incidents were happening including putting our plain clothed officers, deploying them at night. surveilling people who we believe to be involved in those burglaries. we made some key arrests. we were tracking the prolific burglars and we were able to make arrests on many of them. and we started to see about mid year, about may, we started to see those numbers decline and they declined throughout the year. so we ended the year on a positive note with burglaries. but we're not out of the woods on burglaries. as you can see, we're far higher than 2019 and the previous year. so we still have a lot of work to do and we still have a lot of people to hold accountable for what we're doing. what we find with the burglary suspects is many of them are repeat offenders and prolific. those are the ones we have concentrated on. those people, those individuals. we've

it is time for hope, happiness, pride in who we are as san franciscans. it is a tough two years. be proud of what we have done. on february 19th we will be back in san francisco! the year of the tiger, >> hello and welcome to the february 15, 20

sanchez was a native san franciscan. he graduated from a jesuit school back in 1957. he joined the navy. he served in the south pacific on the aircraft carrier in the division of naval air. after naval service, dr. sanchez continued his education using the g.i. bill to earn b.a. and m.a. from san jose state university. he taught in the sfusd. after receiving ph.d. from uc berkeley, he went on to teach sociology at the university of san francisco and joined department of family and community medicine at ucsf. dr. sanchez served in various positions at the university of california from 1969 to 2005 including being assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs. he retired as professor emeritus as the university of california san francisco after rich and well established career. dr. sanchez was a committed community leader who served the city of san francisco in many capacities. he served on the unified school board. the san francisco community college board, the san francisco police commission, the san francisco health commission. he was president. catholic charities bo

antiblackness and use of force and racial profiling in traffic stops of black san franciscans. have grown tired of talking to the police commission, to the sfpd. when are you going to address the harsh bias and unjust statistics which is truly your opportunity to seek the good in all san franciscans. i am tired of our concerns falling on deaf ears, ty enough to look at this antiblackness in your chambers. since 96-a and d.o.j. cops began, the police commission has not responded. why hasn't this commission addressed the problem as spelled out in the federal d.o.j. cops report? the commission should demand the elimination or auto mags of routine traffic citations as we have been saying here for months. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> yes, hi. i'm calling in support of -- my name is cynthia coin, and i am a homeowner here in san francisco. i'd like to thank chief scott for his efforts to change san francisco. i'd like to thank chief scott for his service. >> clerk: i'm sorry, caller. but that is item 7. if you

there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> how i really started my advocacy was through my own personal experiences with discrimination as a trans person. and when i came out as trans, you know, i experienced discrimination in the workplace. they refused to let me use the women's bathroom and fired me. there were so many barriers that other trans folks had in the workplace. and so when i finished college, i moved out to san francisco in the hopes of finding a safer community. >> and also, i want to recognize our amazing trans advisory committee who advises our office as well as the mayor, so our transadvisory community

san franciscan's and the workers who come to work in san francisco will not put themselves in harm's way. that's all i will say. it is very easy to talk about the janitors, especially the janitors who have been out of work for so long. what are we doing about it? what about retraining? we had a woman here from the mirror's office of economic development rambling around about this, that, and the other. what are they doing to retrain the workers? there are many people in san francisco the don't have any money from the stimulus that this city gave to whoever they wanted to give. what about that? we need an audit. we have supervisors who can too much of this thing that we had this year and they are off-line rather than waste our time. and guess what? you get only two minutes. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a research and advocacy director with the san francisco electrical construction industry. thank you for this hearing. it is an important topic for our industry and for the building trades at large. i think for something that a lot

san franciscan's and the workers who come to work in san francisco will not put themselves in harm's way. that's all i will say. it is very easy to talk about the janitors, especially the janitors who have been out of work for so long. what are we doing about it? what about retraining? we had a woman here from the mirror's office of economic development rambling around about this, that, and the other. what are they doing to retrain the workers? there are many people in san francisco the don't have any money from the stimulus that this city gave to whoever they wanted to give. what about that? we need an audit. we have supervisors who can too much of this thing that we had this year and they are off-line rather than waste our time. and guess what? you get only two minutes. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a research and advocacy director with the san francisco electrical construction industry. thank you for this hearing. it is an important topic for our industry and for the building trades at large. i think for something that a lot

it is time for hope, happiness, pride in who we are as san franciscans. it is a tough two years. uary 19th we will be back in san francisco! the year of the tiger, >> i am so happy. african-americans in the military from the revolutionary war to the present, even though they have not had the basic civil rights in america. they don't know their history. in the military the most sacrifice as anyone in this country to be willing to lay down your blood and fight. i believe that all african-americans have served because they love this country and the hope that the citizens. >> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been inc