my name is stefani. as my mother says, i am also a quarter irish, and i just want to recognize a member of my staff, andy mullen, who just became an irish citizen, as well. we can't wait to share this event with you, but just a few words. it's so exciting to hear from mayor breed and the lord mayor of cork and the chair of the san francisco cork sister city committee and police commissioner jim byrne. i have to say, his patience, tolerance and restraint were qualifications to get to be grand marshal, that's your qualifications. i am grateful that you are committed to public service and to the safety of san franciscans, so thank you, commissioner byrne. i also want to take a moment to extend my deepest thanks to consular general robert o'driscoll for his services in san francisco and across the united states. the consular general's term will end in just a few months, but we will always remember his legacy, and i want to go over a few of them. during his term, he supported the irish community center's deve

supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: i'm introducing final resolution stairwell lane. as we all know, beecha was 84-year-old immigrant from thailand. she was retired in the united states to be closer to his eldest daughter and grandchildren. he was very well for hour long walks each morning. i want to thank everybody who came out on january 30th to asian justice rally and the national day of remembrance in action. we gathered the senora lane which will be called -- we had a rally to protest the horrible acts of violence against the a.aapi community. for the past year, beecha's daughter has turned tragedy into action. she worked to amplify the voice not only in the thai but all those in the aapi community. i'm honored that their family has entrusted me to work on renaming this very stairwell after b eecha. renaming the lane will commemorate and memorialize his death as what movement towards equality and anti-discrimination with the asian-american and pack islander community. i want to thank his daughter from the southeast asian development center. thank you for initiati

thank you. >> chair mar: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair mar, and i just want to say one more thing because i have been around here in a while. i was a legislative aide to supervisor alioto peer, and at that time, we did not have the votes. dr. mitch capps, who i thought was fabulous, was absolutely against it. so were the advocates, for a lot of reasons that i'm still hearing today, that they weren't meeting patients where they're at, that it was forcing them to do that they didn't want to do, that it was violating civil rights, everything we heard about all the other laws we attempt. i stayed on as supervisor aide when mark farrell was elected. this time, we had a different mayor and a different director of public health, barbara garcia, again. barbara garcia was against a.o.t., and again, the advocates said the same thing. would violate people's civil rights, would not get them the help that they need, would not be effective, and fortunately, we were able to overcome that opposition, and we were ab

on jimmy kimmel, gwen stefani. have a great night. >> lou: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live." tonight, gwen stefani, jude hill, and music from wilderado. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: hi, i'm jimmy. i'm the host. thanks for watching. thank you for coming. oh, that's very nice. i appreciate that greatly. we have -- oh, there's a lot happening. i have many thoughts on many subjects, starting with president joe mama biden. did you know his middle name is mama? [ laughter ] named after his mother, that's right. the president is in brussels right now for an emergency summit with our natoal ties. put out a forceful statement nt- warning russia not to use chemical weapons on ukraine. also posed for a series of awkward photographs, starting with a group shot. i don't know, this seems unnecessary for an emergency meeting. but you can see there's biden. [ laughter ] with canadian prime minister justin trudeau. it's like a commercial for mentad

supervisor stefani? >> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor chan for those comments and to my fellow female colleagues, when i first started here, there were seven women on the board. now we have four. i always like to make sure that we are doing everything we can to get more women running for office. i think it's very fitting that on women's history month, we are finally opening the board chambers to the public. i think it's because a lot of women in public service did a lot to make that happen. starting with our mayor, mayor breed, carmen chu, my comments. we have so many doctors, department of public health that got us through the pandemic and we have so many women throughout city government that have really led us through this pandemic. the theme of this women's history month is the resiliency of women leaders in san francisco. we have faced unprecedented challenges. our communities, healthcare, public safety, our school system all have gone through so much. it's really the womenful san francisco t

supervisor stefani? >> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor chan for those comments and to my fellow female colleagues, when i first started here, there were seven women on the board. now we have four. i always like to make sure that we are doing everything we can to get more women running for office. i think it's very fitting that on women's history month, we are finally opening the board chambers to the public. i think it's because a lot of women in public service did a lot to make that happen. starting with our mayor, mayor breed, carmen chu, my comments. we have so many doctors, department of public health that got us through the pandemic and we have so many women throughout city government that have really led us through this pandemic. the theme of this women's history month is the resiliency of women leaders in san francisco. we have faced unprecedented challenges. our communities, healthcare, public safety, our school system all have gone through so much. it's really the womenful san francisco t

my name is stefani. as my mother says, i am also a quarter irish, and i just want to recognize a member of my staff, andy mullen, who just became an irish citizen, as well. we can't wait to share this event with you, but just a few words. it's so exciting to hear from mayor breed and the lord mayor of cork and the chair of the san francisco cork sister city committee and police commissioner jim byrne. i have to say, his patience, tolerance and restraint were qualifications to get to be grand marshal, that's your qualifications. i am grateful that you are committed to public service and to the safety of san franciscans, so thank you, commissioner byrne. i also want to take a moment to extend my deepest thanks to consular general robert o'driscoll for his services in san francisco and across the united states. the consular general's term will end in just a few months, but we will always remember his legacy, and i want to go over a few of them. during his term, he supported the irish community center's deve

supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i would like to close today's meeting in memory of richard charles blum, who passed away on sunday after a long battle with lung cancer at the age of 86, and joining me in this memoriam, supervisors ronen and melgar. he is survived by his wife, dianne feinstein, president of the board of supervisors in 1978, and former san francisco mayor. richard grew up in ingleside terrace neighborhood in san francisco. he began his career in an investment brokerage firm after leaving u.c. berkeley with two degrees in 1959. he became partner in an investment firm before the age of 30 and spent much of his career transforming troubled businesses, including the ringling bros and barnum and bailey circus. richard would go to serve on the berkeley high school's advisory board and would serve many years on the university of california u.s. board of regents. as a charismatic and adventurous man, he accompanied climbers to the never tackled tibetan side of mount everest. a humanitarian a

supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair mar. and thank you, supervisor peskin and your legislation and i understand the need for it. i just want to comment and, of course, i'm concerned about our small businesses and the fees and the fines and i appreciate the more customer friendly and accessible notice that they're getting the notice of violation. it is important to remember that these businesses are victims of crime. you know, graffiti is not allowed and they, you know, even if they're abandoned buildings or buildings that remain vacant, they're still a victim of the action that should be taken in the first place. it's one reason i'm supported by a pilot program to help our small businesses that continue to struggle out of the pandemic so that we, you know, they are not bearing the responsibility for someone's illegal act. also, working to eliminate the need for property owners to request a hearing in order to determine hardship and allow for the public works director to determine whether hardship exists administratively. so

supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk.agues, today i would like to close today's meeting in memory of richard charles blum, who passed away on sunday after a long battle with lung cancer at the age of 86, and joining me in this memoriam, supervisors ronen and melgar. he is survived by his wife, dianne feinstein, president of the board of supervisors in 1978, and former san francisco mayor. richard grew up in ingleside terrace neighborhood in san francisco. he began his career in an investment brokerage firm after leaving u.c. berkeley with two degrees in 1959. he became partner in an investment firm before the age of 30 and spent much of his career transforming troubled businesses, including the ringling bros and barnum and bailey circus. richard would go to serve on the berkeley high school's advisory board and would serve many years on the university of california u.s. board of regents. as a charismatic and adventurous man, he accompanied climbers to the never tackled tibetan side of mount everest. a humanitarian at hear

i'm supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee and i'm joined by supervisor stefani and supervisor haney. madam clerk, do you have any announcements. >> clerk: yes, mr. chair. the board recognizes that public access to city service is essential and invite public participation in the following ways. first, public comment will be available on each item of this agenda and sfgovtv.org. are streaming the public comment call-in number across the screen. comments are available via phone by calling (415) 655-0001. then enter the meeting id 24924576123 then pound and pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, press star three to be added to the speaker line. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your listening device. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. e-mail them to myself the clerk at lisasamara@sfgov.org. if you submit public comment via e-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisors and be part of the official file. you may

>> second by stefani. call the roll on that motion. that is without objection. >> thank you. madam clerk. could you please call item 2. >> may i make a announcement. >> sure. >> public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 415-655-0001. when prompted enter access code 24928041621. then pound and pound again. when you join you will be able to listen as participant. public comment on an item when it is called dial star 3 to be added the queue to speak. do not press star 3 again or you will be removed from the queue. when your line is unmuted the operator will advise you you have two minutes to speak. calls will be taken in the order received. speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios. if you wish to comment during the meeting listen via public comment line to avoid delay on the live stream of the meeting. >> supervisor mandelman: cheese call item 2. approve the resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california government code section 5

supervisor stefani? >> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor chan for those comments and to my fellow female colleagues, when i first started here, there were seven women on the board. now we have four. i always like to make sure that we are doing everything we can to get more women running for office. i think it's very fitting that on women's history month, we are finally opening the board chambers to the public. i think it's because a lot of women in public service did a lot to make that happen. starting with our mayor, mayor breed, carmen chu, my comments. we have so many doctors, department of public health that got us through the pandemic and we have so many women throughout city government that have really led us through this pandemic. the theme of this women's history month is the resiliency of women leaders in san francisco. we have faced unprecedented challenges. our communities, healthcare, public safety, our school system all have gone through so much. it's really the womenful san francisco t

my name is stefani.r irish, and i just want to recognize a member of my staff, andy mullen, who just became an irish citizen, as well. we can't wait to share this event with you, but just a few words. it's so exciting to hear from mayor breed and the lord mayor of cork and the chair of the san francisco cork sister city committee and police commissioner jim byrne. i have to say, his patience, tolerance and restraint were qualifications to get to be grand marshal, that's your qualifications. i am grateful that you are committed to public service and to the safety of san franciscans, so thank you, commissioner byrne. i also want to take a moment to extend my deepest thanks to consular general robert o'driscoll for his services in san francisco and across the united states. the consular general's term will end in just a few months, but we will always remember his legacy, and i want to go over a few of them. during his term, he supported the irish community center's development of the irish center 2025 proje

i'm supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee and i'm joined by supervisor stefani and supervisor haney. madam clerk, do you have any announcements. >> clerk: yes, mr. chair. the board recognizes that public access to city service is essential and invite public participation in the following ways. first, public comment will be available on each item of this agenda and sfgovtv.org. are streaming the public comment call-in number across the screen. comments are available via phone by calling (415) 655-0001. then enter the meeting id 24924576123 then pound and pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, press star three to be added to the speaker line. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your listening device. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. e-mail them to myself the clerk at lisasamara@sfgov.org. if you submit public comment via e-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisors and be part of the official file. you may

supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i would like to close today's meeting in memory of richard charles blum, who passed away on sunday after a long battle with lung cancer at the age of 86, and joining me in this memoriam, supervisors ronen and melgar. he is survived by his wife, dianne feinstein, president of the board of supervisors in 1978, and former san francisco mayor. richard grew up in ingleside terrace neighborhood in san francisco. he began his career in an investment brokerage firm after leaving u.c. berkeley with two degrees in 1959. he became partner in an investment firm before the age of 30 and spent much of his career transforming troubled businesses, including the ringling bros and barnum and bailey circus. richard would go to serve on the berkeley high school's advisory board and would serve many years on the university of california u.s. board of regents. as a charismatic and adventurous man, he accompanied climbers to the never tackled tibetan side of mount everest. a humanitarian a

. >> supervisor stefani: present. >> supervisor walton: present. >> mr. president, all members are present. >> president walton: thank you, the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues, please stand with me for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, wit

supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair mar. and thank you, supervisor peskin and your legislation and i understand the need for it. i just want to comment and, of course, i'm concerned about our small businesses and the fees and the fines and i appreciate the more customer friendly and accessible notice that they're getting the notice of violation. it is important to remember that these businesses are victims of crime. you know, graffiti is not allowed and they, you know, even if they're abandoned buildings or buildings that remain vacant, they're still a victim of the action that should be taken in the first place. it's one reason i'm supported by a pilot program to help our small businesses that continue to struggle out of the pandemic so that we, you know, they are not bearing the responsibility for someone's illegal act. also, working to eliminate the need for property owners to request a hearing in order to determine hardship and allow for the public works director to determine whether hardship exists administratively. so

thank you. >> thank you, supervisor stefani. supervisor ronan. >> thank you. first, i officer want to thank and acknowledge the hard work of everyone involved in this effort and i see how hard you work everyday and i would agree with my colleague supervisor stefani that something is not working. it's not for the lack of trying and hard work and i guess i wanted o with my opening remarks wanted to hear from dr. cunnings and from dr. director carole do you think it's working? is it too soon to tell and has the intense focus and redirection of resources hurt the implementation of mental health assess. my response partially to supervisor stefani is and i wish we would know, we don't even know if mental health sf works and and so, two years after and after we said this was the vision of how we were going to and in the city and i do think that the focus on the linkage center has moved us forward because of that and i've had additional herzog if you could . if you would both remark on those questions. we making come from slightly perspectives on this we're seeing the

. >> supervisor stefani: present. >> supervisor walton: present. >> mr. president, all members are present. >> president walton: thank you, the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues, please stand with me for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, wit

>> second by stefani. call the roll on that motion. [indiscernable] that is without objection. >> thank you. madam clerk. could you please call item 2. >> may i make a announcement. >> sure. >> public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 415-655-0001. when prompted enter access code 24928041621. then pound and pound again. when you join you will be able to listen as participant. public comment on an item when it is called dial star 3 to be added the queue to speak. do not press star 3 again or you will be removed from the queue. when your line is unmuted the operator will advise you you have two minutes to speak. calls will be taken in the order received. speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios. if you wish to comment during the meeting listen via public comment line to avoid delay on the live stream of the meeting. >> supervisor mandelman: cheese call item 2. approve the resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california governmen

thank you. >> chair mar: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair mar and i just want to say one more thing because i have been around here in a while. i was a legislative aide to supervisor alioto peer, and at that time, we did not have the votes. dr. mitch capps, who i thought was fabulous was absolutely against it. so were the advocates, for a lot of reasons that i'm still hearing today that they weren't meeting patients where they're at that it was forcing them to do that they didn't want to do that it was violating civil rights everything we heard about all the other laws we attempt. i stayed on as supervisor aide when mark farrell was elected. this time we had a different mayor and a different director of public health barbara garcia again. barbara garcia was against a.o.t. and again, the advocates said the same thing. would violate people's civil rights, would not get them the help that they need would not be effective, and fortunately, we were able to overcome that opposition and we were able to pass l

>> good morning, supervisors haney, mar, and stefani. thank you for holding this hearing. and i am with the h.i.v. advocacy network and chair of the harvey milk club. of those over 700 deaths and supervisor haney referred to at the beginning of the session and one of those was the love of my life. his name was vincent. he buried vincent on october 14, 2021, a day before his 46th birthday. and while he is suffering from bipolar disease and schizophrenia and was with the substance abuse use disorder. he died alone from having injected crystal meth cut with fentanyl. and i feel he would be here if he had access to safe consumption site. advocacy and diminishing deaths from overdose has been proven time and time again across the globe. new york city alone prevented 15 overdose deaths in the first week of opening. the longer san francisco delays in opening and ses makes the city and county complicit and anyone who dies from overdose death. please prevent someone else's vincent from dying. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. may we have the next caller pleas

. >> thank you supervisor stefani. >> thankyou supervisor, thank you president walton . first of all i want to say that we have been due to the incredible work of the joint field outreach team and hsoc and community partners, the entire outreach to people who are using and suffering from drug addiction has been served as an outreach. we have in no way criminalize that behavior in any way at any time during this initiative. and what we hear and the community supports that. but they also come to us and say what about us. what about us, what about those ofus , what about us walking our kids down the street trying to get to the school. having them literally attack which has happened multiple times inlight of the fact that we createdsafe passage . what about the violence that's going on in the streets . you know, and what about parents of adolescents who are terrified for their kids because they can't walk them and hold their hand and go to schooland have to get on the bus and go to school ? what about the seniors afraid to leavetheir homes ? they are literally saying what ab

on jimmy kimmel, gwen stefani.a great night. >> lou: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live." tonight, gwen stefani, jude hill, and music from wilderado. and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] and now, jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: hi, i'm jimmy. i'm the host. thanks for watching. thank you for coming. oh, that's very nice. i appreciate that greatly. we have -- oh, there's a lot happening. i have many thoughts on many subjects, starting with president joe mama biden. did you

supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair mar. and thank you, supervisor peskin and your legislation and i understand the need for it. i just want to comment and, of course, i'm concerned about our small businesses and the fees and the fines and i appreciate the more customer friendly and accessible notice that they're getting the notice of violation. it is important to remember that these businesses are victims of crime. you know, graffiti is not allowed and they, you know, even if they're abandoned buildings or buildings that remain vacant, they're still a victim of the action that should be taken in the first place. it's one reason i'm supported by a pilot program to help our small businesses that continue to struggle out of the pandemic so that we, you know, they are not bearing the responsibility for someone's illegal act. also, working to eliminate the need for property owners to request a hearing in order to determine hardship and allow for the public works director to determine whether hardship exists administratively. so

my name is stefani. as my mother says, i am also a quarter irish, and i just want to recognize a member of my staff, andy mullen, who just became an irish citizen, as well. we can't wait to share this event with you, but just a few words. it's so exciting to hear from mayor breed and the lord mayor of cork and the chair of the san francisco cork sister city committee and police commissioner jim byrne. i have to say, his patience, tolerance and restraint were qualifications to get to be grand marshal, that's your qualifications. i am grateful that you are committed to public service and to the safety of san franciscans, so thank you, commissioner byrne. i also want to take a moment to extend my deepest thanks to consular general robert o'driscoll for his services in san francisco and across the united states. the consular general's term will end in just a few months, but we will always remember his legacy, and i want to go over a few of them. during his term, he supported the irish community center's deve

thank you supervisor stefani for your collaboration on this. i'm looking forward to making sure that we get out of this and that our businesses made whole and that our commercial corridors look and feel better and safer. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: colleagues , thank you for your support. i want to be clear that the law that we suspended and the law that we are reinstating does not actually have small businesses as a responsible party. it is actually property owner under this law that is the responsible party. however, as a matter of contract, there may be provisions in a lease or other instrument that -- we're looking at if that can be obligated as pa matter of law. i do have reservations about making the city responsible for blight on private property. in hearing concerns about impacts to small businesses, it was very interesting to find that in only three percent of the cases pre-pandemic were fines assessed. good news is, when the property owners gets the notice, because they didn't clean it up themselve

thank you supervisor stefani for your collaboration on this. i'm looking forward to making sure that we get out of this and that our businesses made whole and that our commercial corridors look and feel better and safer. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: colleagues , thank you for your support. i want to be clear that the law that we suspended and the law that we are reinstating does not actually have small businesses as a responsible party. it is actually property owner under this law that is the responsible party. however, as a matter of contract, there may be provisions in a lease or other instrument that -- we're looking at if that can be obligated as pa matter of law. i do have reservations about making the city responsible for blight on private property. in hearing concerns about impacts to small businesses, it was very interesting to find that in only three percent of the cases pre-pandemic were fines assessed. good news is, when the property owners gets the notice, because they didn't clean it up themselve

. >> thank you supervisor stefani. >> thankyou supervisor, thank you president walton . first of all i want to say that we have been due to the incredible work of the joint field outreach team and hsoc and community partners, the entire outreach to people who are using and suffering from drug addiction has been served as an outreach. we have in no way criminalize that behavior in any way at any time during this initiative. and what we hear and the community supports that. but they also come to us and say what about us. what about us, what about those ofus , what about us walking our kids down the street trying to get to the school. having them literally attack which has happened multiple times inlight of the fact that we createdsafe passage . what about the violence that's going on in the streets . you know, and what about parents of adolescents who are terrified for their kids because they can't walk them and hold their hand and go to schooland have to get on the bus and go to school ? what about the seniors afraid to leavetheir homes ? they are literally saying what ab

i'm supervisor gordon mar and i'm joined by kathryn stefanie and supervisor haney shortly. to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, i do, mr. chair.