ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, vallie brown. [applause]. >> thank you.eally appreciate everything you were doing, giving the funding forward so we can actually address these issues. i guess you i will have to legislate things to get that done, but i really feel that in these times when small businesses are struggling, the city needs to step up and do better. we need to make sure that streamlining, when people get in , trying to open their businesses, it doesn't take them a year and a half to pay rent and open a business if they want to have a couple of businesses able to go into one bigger space , that should be easy for them. we need to make it easy. in these times are we have amazon and all the other home deliveries, we need to make it easy for businesses to not only survive, but to prosper. this was personal for me because i lived in the lower hate for 20 years. it is my heart. i have to join you -- tell you, at cafÉ international, over 15 years ago, and the patio, that is where we started the first neighborhood association. we also started the first

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at the time, supervisor london breed set aside funds, and supervisor vallie brown continued the traditionbudgeted for rent. we had to promise we had 15 people. the first day, 35 people came in. we rarely have fewer than 45 or 50. that's a lot of seniors with disabilities. it's a large crowd. we want to expand the program in the coming here to three days a week, we want to be able to offer more activities for seniors. it's a similar program that's in district 7, that there have been programs funded there. the cayuga program has been funded in district 10. we are beyond our expectations, and we do need more money to keep going. it's a free program for seniors -- [inaudible] >> so good to see you. >> chair fewer: thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> chair fewer: mr. wright. >> all right. i'm ready to start now. the best way to provide housing and take care of the homeless problem in san francisco, you got 8,011 homeless people. i come across this transaction deal for $57 million to build 144-unit apartment building complex that's three stories tall. you build nine of these for less

also for supervisor vallie brown and her desire to become a champion for this idea of zero waste early on in her legislative career. it's been something that is near and dear to the heart. i'm going to ask our two speakers both juan carlos and alexa to speak. >> commissioners, thank you for giving us a few minutes. supervisor brown wanted to be here tonight. unfortunately, given the legislative break, long weekend, she's not in the building today. out in district. she asked me to be here to speak briefly on her behalf. as we just heard, supervisor brown has been a champion of this particular issue for a very long time. she first came to city hall in 2007 to help pass the nation's first plastic bag ban. she remains very committed to this usually. she was excited to partner with the department on this legislation. both climate action and plastics are major long-term challenges. to be successful you need to keep working at it. she believes that strongly. she's been working to continue her work on theft and energy benchmarking and all the different areas of change that we sort of continue

award for participating in the sfusd sustainability earth day every day challenge, and supervisor vallie brown will speak to students about the importance of protecting the environment. also this thursday, students at sunnyside elementary school will him -- experience hands-on learning at their first steam night and science fair. fourth and fifth grade classes will display their project board and answer questions from real scientists. the end of the year event will include science stations where students can explore his goals and fossils, use microscopes to make art, explore their sense of smell and vision, and play other science-based games. students will also participate in engineering and technology based activities such as programming robots, building with kiva planks, and building electric circuits. student artwork will be on display. the purpose of the event is to highlight the school science curriculum while engaging families and hands-on science and technology. finally, san francisco unified school district invites students , families, and staff to join our third annual fcf -- s.

really an important legacy business that really holds this community together, and your supervisor, vallie is one of the small businesses around our city that are more than just a small business. they are spaces for our neighbors together across close-knit communities, they are where young people get their first job opportunities, and they are an important part of our workforce.

mclean, better known as marlena to his friends, i would like to thank the supervisors, especially vallie brown from district five, and the community for this honor. marlena would have liked to have been here in person, but it -- is in ill health, yet good spirits. on the 50th year anniversary of stonewall, it is with great pride that i repeat marlena's mantra. it is easier to love than it is to hate. thank you. [applause] >> okay. that brings us to supervisor from district seven, which is me [laughter] >> first of all, i want to congratulate everyone of the honourees today for pride month. it is a really great selection of people that we have chosen, especially that we -- the one i am going to be choosing. my 2019 pride month honouree for district seven is dr. steven tierney. come on up. [applause] >> there's a long list of accomplishments attached to my honouree's name, but let me just start by underscoring the most important ones because not -- dr. stephen turney, multiple generations of lgbtq youth are alive today, not just surviving, but flourishing and paying for the gifts of anothe

and i think in san francisco because of vallie and ross and that legislation that they passed five yearsgo, i think it's in everybody's mindset that you bring a bag to check out. i mean, even when i go shopping in downtown in the big stores, i bring my own bag. i think -- and i almost feel like we're being punished for doing the right thing. and i just -- this is how i feel. and like i said, i like everything you do, but on this one, and the way it was just described, i am not doing my job, and in fact, looking in the back of the car and i have a stack of bags. my company gave out -- you said 10,000 bags. my company has given out more than 100,000 bags in this town at street fairs and whatever. all right. so this is -- i am just trying to comprehend all this in my mind because this is keeping me awake for the last week. it's like, why are we doing this? because we are environmentally correct in this town. and we are doing the right thing. so why are we being punished? >> thank you, commissioner. i'm sorry that this has kept you up the past week. >> i appreciate it. >> and the quick answe

supervisor vallie brown introduced the legislation and saw it through to passage.s professionals like attorneys don't have to accept cash either. >> but, i mean, have you ever met a lawyer that wouldn't take cash? i mean come on. so if you went in with your $10,000 and said, could you represent me, here is cash, i don't know a lawyer that probably would say, oh, no, i can't do that. >> reporter: i reached out to sweet green and amazon go. i have not heard back from sweet green. amazon go says it is adding cash starting in new york. i'm michael finney, "7 on your side." >>> in mountain view a market that has been a community staple for 45 years is closing its doors for good. milk pail owner steve rasmussen made the announcement back in march, but the final day for customers to shop is tomorrow. closing time is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on sunday. you can look back at the history of the market at "abc 7 news".com. >>> time now is 8:26. still to come on "abc 7 news", presume wraps up the g-20 conference before heading to south korea. the last-minute offer he is making t

supervisor vallie brown introduced the legislation and saw it through to passage.s professionals like attorneys don't have to accept cash either. >> but, i mean, have you ever met a lawyer that wouldn't take cash? i mean come on. so if you went in with your $10,000 and said, could you represent me, here is cash, i don't know a lawyer that would say, oh, no, i can't do that. >> reporter: i reached out to sweet green and amazon go. i have not heard back from sweet green. amazon go says it is adding cash starting in new york. i'm michael finney, "7 on your side." >>> in mountain view a market that has been a community staple for 45 years is closing its doors for good. the milk pail owner steve rasmussen made the announcement back in march, but the final day for customers to shop is tomorrow. closing time is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. you can take a look at the history of the market at abc7news.com. >>> still to come on abc 7 mornings, a place for all things dog. a one-stop destination for the ultimate man's bes you'll do july 4th right whether you're entertaining... or t

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