i want to thank the san francisco tenants union, housing rights committee, the asian law caucus, rent board members, and the san francisco apartment association as well as the affordable housing alliance, the educators of san francisco for providing feedback and i hope thattiis w meet all of your support. >> president yee: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you, president yee. i'd just like to be listed as a cosponsor, please. >> president yee: okay. >> supervisor peskin: and i'd also like to thank sonny angulo for spear heading this process. >> president yee: okay. madam clerk, let's go to our 2:30 presentations. okay. madam clerk, we have six. so in the past -- i've reminded that you have five minutes total. that includes whatever you say and what your honorees would like to say. i'm going to try to keep you do it because we have so many. so first up, supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, president yee. i'd like to call tony up. is he here? great did my time start? [applause] >> president yee: it started. >> supervisor stefani: yea, tony. >> president yee:

sierra club, the united educators of san francisco, the affordable housing alliance, san francisco young democrats, latino democratic club, san francisco tenants' union, a majority of the current board of supervisors and former elected officials like mark leno, jane kim, tom and art. i look forward to working with you all to take the big steps we need to take here in san francisco. >> moderator: thank you. >> thank you. >> moderator: thank you very much. [applause] >> moderator: ms. o'meara. [cheers and applause] >> moderator: could you hold your applause. you'll get an opportunity. [laughter] ms. o'meara. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for initiating this whole meeting today. it's an honor to stand here amongst you and to hear what a lot of us had to say. i think a lot of us have more in common than what divides us. and i'll say -- i'll tell you why. i got a very interesting quote from former president barack obama. he said the greatest sum of us unites us far better than the lesser of us that's polarized. something to that effect. you think you understand what i'm saying. when we polarize and divisive, there's fewer of that. when we'

i want to thank the housing rights committee, the san francisco tenants union, the aish law caucus, senior disability action and members of the anti-displacement coalition who have helped provide input on this legislation and would like to thank any chief-of-staff, sunny angulu i commend this legislation to you and hope we have a unanimous vote. >> supervisor yee: ok. so, where are we. colleagues, can we take this same house same call. without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. [applause] i want to remind the audience we don't allow audibles. just do that and we know that you love it. if you don't love it just go like that. perfect. 2:30. madam clerk, can we go to our 2:30 accommodations. >> clerk: yes, it's time to recognize members of our community on behalf of supervisors stefani, president yee and supervisor peskin. president yee again and supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor yee: why don't we start with supervisor brown. >> thank you, i'm commending maurice dotson in aiding the san francisco police department in stopping small business burglaries on the w

these include, but are not limited to the san francisco apartment association, the sr collaborative, and the tenants union. we undertook broader efforts and more than 2300 residents pratted iprattedparticipated in the cit. we determined that there are three goals that we wanted to address in this initiative. the first is to protect and stabilize communities and we seek to mitigate ongoing displacement and we want to help vulnerable populations thrive and contribute to the city's culture and economy. so to achieve these goals, we worked with our agency partners to organize all of the city's existing efforts into four main categories ranging from tenant protects to economic development and a benefit of this is that we are able to share everything the city is doing no one place. this initiative primarily focuses on the city's work to protect tenants and preserve housing. the housing production houses are identified in element 2022. so there are two primary components of this initiative. the comprehensive policy are and program invent tor inventory ine assessments. each of those ideas are qualified by the com

san francisco's top shopping destination. stores have been closing in uniosqre people shopping online and chains like forever 21 going bankrupt. that area is having a tough time attracting new retail tenants. according to the chronicle, union square has a 6% retail vacancy rate, up from 2% in 2014. other vacancies include the former macy's men's store . >>> gramps is coming back to union square but not for long. the famous department store closed last year after filing for bankruptcy but now the owners say they plan to opening holiday pop-up shop on post street just a few blocks from where the old original store stood for more than 150 years. the plan to keep the store open for about four months but they may extend the pop up. it depends on how good sales are. the pop-up shop will open this coming sunday. >> okay, gentlemen. they need our help. union square. the stores. we need to help is the economy. let's go. >> i will, pam, but only if you call me stone cold sal. >> stone cold sal. >>> all right. we are getting ready for wwe which will be on this tunnel. our traffic jams are kind of going to bethat. i will tell you the bridge accident is finally clear. it took him a while but it did its damage at the bay bridge. even th

san francisco in the top shopping destination. stores a big closing at union square. with more people shopping online and jay's life forever 21 going bankrupt, the area is having a difficult time attracting new retail tenants. according to the chronicle, union square has a 6% retail vacancy rate, up from 2% to five years ago. other vacancies at union square include the former macy's men's store and moments. >>> is coming back to union square but not for long. the well-known department store closed last year after filing for bankruptcy, but now they open to plan to open a holiday pop up shop. they plan to keep the store open for about four months, but could extend the pop up depending on sales. the pop up shop will open on sunday. >>> new at noon, a huge burning man is being built at the oakland museum of california. it is being built by david beck and his team of volunteers. the temple as part of the fall exhibition no spectators, the art of burning man. he says the 40 foot tall nondenominational temple is called the temple of reunion, and honors those who mourn the loss of family from violence, deportation, immigration or incarceration. >> the inspiration is that right now the asian hispanic community is