engagement with us and i hope this partnership continues and that we will move forward to make sanfrancisco as well and wonderful as we know it can be. now than.thank you. [cheers and applause] >> next up is our supervisor from district 10 -- i mean district 11. [ laughter ] >> supervisor safaye. >> that's ok. i'm use odd tha used to that tr. [ laughter ] >> it's such an honor and i'm so excited to honor our api honoree from district 11. dori was bee born and raised inn immigrant family. she's of chinese and philippino dissent and attended the discovery school, school of epiphany, lower high school and sanfrancisco state university where she majored in ethnic studies. during one of her first classes, she saw footage of her brother and father protesting at the hotel and it was then that she realized her own families history in san francisco. she felt a strong sense of pride knowing her father fought against eviction and displacement. i'm sorry, her father and her uncle, not her brother. dori has worked hard to continue her family's legacy and serve her community ever since she was able to ha

i believe in sanfrancisco i in o that does big and throws down and i believe all of this is possible, but we must dream. so i am asking, will you dream with me? and since we're not in a comicweek, will you fight with me? thank you. [cheers and applause] >> next up is the supervisor from district 8. >> thank you, from president. is michelle meow here? there she is, come on up. [cheers and applause] your reputation precedes you. born and raised in stockton, michelle moved to sanfrancisco to attend san francisco state university where she earned her ba in broadcast journalism. she is giving voice to the lgbtq community. froing up in stockton, michelle faced racism in her own neighborhood and told by classmates that she should go back to her own country. this experience inspired michelle's commitment to spread love, acceptance and inclusion through journalism. as the host and producer of her own weekly and tv show, she uses her platform to amplify race, immigration, gender and lgbtq community. in late 2017, michelle joined forces with the commonwealth club to launch a weekly one-hour radi

we are sanfrancisco. we all share the values and that old saying about city college being the best working class institution in our town has to remain. it is not just an avenue for people to go to college, a four-year college. it is that and you heard from many teachers they're work on that and that's credible but it's a community college that serves the youth, the middle-aged, the old people, is that e ca we can continue to grd flourish in our town. it's very important. we pass prop w for funding and we should look deep and not make some the cuts recommended. half of our members went to city college to learn about labor history through the great labor history section and part of that is being cut here. we support cuts and classes that have one or two or five people in them, of course. everybody in this room supports that. we don't want to keep class tazs that have three people but if they have requirements on the floor, 15, 20 or 30 and serve everybody's needs, those are the classes we should have. they'

it was approved by the sanfrancisco mental health board on august of 2018 and approve it's about the mental health service's oversight and accountability commission on october of last year. we also consulted with the city attorneys regarding the development of this participation agreement and this project. we ask that you please support our collaborative efforts with cal-me serious as and approve or agreement. thank you for your time. i'm here with myself and my colleague teresa with innovations mhsa programs. >> there is no daily report. seeing no comments from my colleagues, let's open up this for public comment. seeing none. .i would move this to the board. madam clerk, please call item number five. >> a resolution authorizing the public utilities commission for an extex o extension of a propea ten-year extension term commencing on november 1, 2019 for the continued use by the public utility's commission at 48,000 for a total annual base rent of 577,000. >> thank you very much. we have tony bardo here, director of real estate. >> good morning. i'm the assistant real estate directo

in addition, we demand sanfrancisco board of supervisors advocate for city college students and instructors ensure that such an act will never happen again in the future. thank you. >> thank you. (names called. >> my name is katelyn and i'm a new student of the city college and i came to san francisco three months ago. at that time, my english is bad, especially my speaking skills. and when i came to city college, the school, the teachers helped me a lot to improve my english skill. i came here to support city college but i think i should say something. i want to keep my classes, my school, my plan, my future. and i know that the student's future is the country's future. so please keep this for our students. thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is diana walcott and i'm the executive assistant at mission housing and i'm here on behalf of our deputy executive ma.we want to begin with a fully city college with the full class load. a third reduction in classes is not the way forward for our beloved community college. out residents and our community h

you are a sanfrancisco treasure and it is my honor and privilege to present this accommodation to you for all that you have done and continue to do. dale? [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much, president yi. i'm grateful not board of supervisors and it's wonderful to pass those resolutions commemorating the 150t 150th anniversary of the railroad for all chinese workers were invisible in history until recently and also the third world strike on the philosophy and values and principles to many who grew up during that time. i want to thank you for, especially as you told me, norman, i get an award of the $1 million but i don't want to take this. i want to give this back to the general fund. [ laughter ] >> i would like you to use this to alleviate the homeless problem and pay teachers more salary. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> next up is the supervisor from district one, supervisor furr. >> thank you, president yi. it is with great honor i introduce my honouree reverend harry chuck and i'm thrilled they are constituents of my neighborhood. can you please come up. [

city college is something so essential that actually for me, as i think about what makes sanfrancisco an amazing place with spirit and soul, and where is our heart, i think about city college and actually, i have a little heart on in the logo, that sigh seea lot, latino stud, citizenship programmes, sign language. i just am reminded, just how powerful all of those courses are and the departments are and how we need to support them. the diversity of who is served by city college was on display today and it's beautiful to see the solidarity of people of all makes anages. it's just an extraordinary thing to be proud of. i know that's something we all believe. they should not be asking for this but we should be thanking them to fight for a powerful institution. i'm also concerned about a couple of things and i appreciate the presentation from the chancellor and from the administration. for me, i think about civic center, campus, serving vulnerable communities and a reduction what that will mean for the communities and those residents. i'm also concerned about some of the changes around cl

this is a bad name in sanfrancisco. [cheers an (applause). >> members of the board of supervisors, board of government and if we can have the overhead, please. david chu, president of the board of san francisco supervisors at that time says i don't think we'll allow public comment for the next speaker which was me. sfgtv, i would like this on the screen until i resume speaking. it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it and that's the problem you have with me and the sunshine ordinance. you don't want to follow it. you don't want to allow the public to have the access the law expects them to have and want to able to interfere as mr. chu did that day. i'm not quite sure what he did, to be honest with you. i don't know if first amendment rights were suspended or what but i was dragged out by the sheriff's office and as an american citizen within i'll be dammed if i will do that in silence. civil grand jury of city and county of san francisco for 2010 and '11 wr

the kingpins bringing if drugs to the sanfrancisco and making profits.when someone is convicted of a drug-relatedrug-relate offense,e dramatic consequences in eligibility for student loans, inability to get a job and really a life on the margins. you know, given the small amounts of drug taz ar drugs thd in these cases, the so-called war on drugs in san francisco has beehas been a war on crumbse late defender used to say. we understand that there are people who live or operate small business in these areas that are frustrated. they may welcome arrests. they want the city to pay attention to these issues. but arrests and buy-bust operations and prosecutions, i think would be a continued failure. there are different ways to disrupt the market that will be more effective and long-lasting. we need a paradigm shift. it's time for science-based practices and health and human rights. first of all, we should invest in increased resources for and fortify front-end services, affordable long-term and safe and supportive housing with trauma-informed and culturally s

we have more than 2,000 children students in the sanfrancisco school district and we don't do nothing and we have to do something because the children will suffer. and we neethank you so much. >> thank you. >> hi. i'm with the coalition of homelessness. i'm here to support pro the priy budget proposal because i've been working with homeless families -- i've been working with the homeless people for 13 years. i've been working alongside with the families of homeless families and as i keep working with them, there's more and more, they keep coming. i would love to see this go -- i would urge to invest the housing and services in the san san frao and to fully fund our home budget proposal. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. i'm the executive director of the san francisco housing. i'm here to really emphasize that in addition to the homeless housing needs and the new construction that is extremely critically important to the whole city right now that the designation of some of the funds for the preservation as it is drafted is extremely critical, as well. and we just here t

so we need to -- sanfrancisco needs to do more to help these people. i'm not a native san francisco person and i navigated here from europe and it's difficult to explain to my name where there's people living on the street when this country is supposed to be richer than the one i came from. we need to build these two hundred beds on the embarcadaro. i would say we won't run out of need any time soon. there's thousands of people that need 200 beds. i'm saddened there' there's a hg crisis. my office is two blocks from the proposed lot. so i see the unhoused folks around here and i would much rather we house and serve them than to leave them outside which seems obvious. i want to remind those of us worried about safety that homeless folks causing violence is a myth. they are often the victims rather than perpetrators. so remember the humanity of the people in our communities who have the least and who can get off the streets for good with our support. please do not delay the vote on this proposal as helping our homeless neighbors is one of the most you're

we do that in sanfrancisco. they need to do that everywhere they're not doing that.y have to do that. i'm glad we're doing that in san francisco and we're making progress. it is on us to change the training, to change how we hire, to hire compassionate people with empathy, to provide updated training for law enforcement personnel. it is on the government to do that. changing wor words on a piece of paper doesn't change the minds of individuals who have been taught a certain way. i know it's old. i know it goes back to that standard. i know that. it doesn't change the fact officers do fear for others in certain situations, it doesn't change the fact they carry guns, a lethal tool that we allow him to carry in order to keep the people safe. i hate guns. everyone who knows me knows that. there are too many guns in this country and it is disgusting. more than 390 civilian-owned firearms in the u.s., enough for every man, woman and child to own one and americans make up 4% of the world's population. there are too many guns h this country. in this country. so changing the

water is happy but when you take out on the sand somewhere and you know, same like taxi drivers in sanfrancisco. we have the same situation like fish. my english very poor so next time i will bring a translator. thank you, god bless. >> thank you, sir. >> good afternoon. thank you. i'm again here today about the taxi medallion and believe me, we were hit hard like that tsunami. uber and lyft has taken everything from us. we don't want to bother you. but i know you have a power. this issue is nothing four you. you solve big issue bigger than big but for this small issue, it has ta taken the life of our fay and issues. that's a lot of paw money for ud we cannot make it. we're paying $4,000 and uber and lyft, we still paying the same thing and where we get this money and how we bring it up what they're paying. we're slave. so please, do it as soon as you can do it. were need mercy and justice. we depend on you. and we hope that you are the only hope you have and otherwise we be pawning from here to here. so we family and kids and everybody should be happy. we want to see new life. i been years and

unfortunately, for people of native colour in sanfrancisco, they cannot breathe. it's just an unfulfilled american dream. i'm committed to supporting racial equity so we may uplift and impower our communities of colour and fulfill our vision of a more fair and conclusive vision. i would like to thank my colleagues for signing on today. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor brown. supervisor hainey. >> i'm introducing a long overdue update to the job's housing linkage fee pe. when the city started its first highrise, it recognised the need to link office development to fees to off--set the impacts of development. toua job's housing impact and transportation were created as a result of development. a completed nexus study is needed to justify impact fees to mitigate those needs and sets the maximum fee allowed. it's been legally successful in funding more affordable housing. in 2015, the fee generated $30 million and in 2016, it generated 60 million. but a quarter century since the nexus study, the fee is based on old data on the number of workers per square feet, the

i'm andy stone with the sanfrancisco aids foundation and i'm here in support of the budget proposal. i wanted to specifically highlight the supervisor injection sites, supervisorred consumption services. the entire board of supervisors unanimously voted in support of ab362, a state-level bill to allow the san francisco to pilot the first overdose prevention site in the nation. now is a chance for the city to actually make these statements a reality, right? people are dying on our streets from preventible overdoses in the midst of an overdose crisis fueled by homelessness crisis and opioid epidemic. these are proven that have been over the last 30 years in different countries that saves lives. in lines with the city's plan to be the first city in the world to be to zero new hiv infections and they prevent hepatitis c. that was something we could never achieve if we don't deal with the homelessness crisis. as 13%, is-7hiv infections are those experiencing homelessness. i urge you to invest in housing foto fund san francisco. >> thank you, next speaker. >> honourable supervisors, my nam

. >>> plus, we're just hours away from this year's carnaval san carnaval sanfrancisco parade. joe takes us behind the scenes as dance groups get ready for the big event. . >>> welcome back. we're here to speak with b.a.r.t. board president who if you caught the last segment gave us a pitch about what b.a.r.t. is doing to make things safer and better for the riders. can you engineerer good behavior? that's what you're dealing with in b.a.r.t. is bad behavior. >> yes. >> you're talking about people that get on the system, sprawl out, use drugs, do what they want to do. >> shave their heads. >> you have the usual people out there feeling unsafe. you're talking about hardening the entrances. but the question is does that work? >> i think it will. i think that for a lot of riders, they agree that making the system more difficult to evade is a positive thing. but the reality is we opened the canopies in downtown san francisco. i take a ton of heat because of the drug deals around it. we sat down with the captain of the tener loin station and there was a police car parked next to the