Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to the October 21st, 2025 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Supervisor Chan.

Chan present, Supervisor Chen, Chen present, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey present, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder present, Supervisor Mahmoud, Mahmoud present, Supervisor Mandelman.

Mandelman present, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar present, Supervisor Soder, Soder present, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl present, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton present.

Mr.

President, all members are present.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatoshalone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatoshaloni 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 Ramatushalone community, and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples.

Colleagues, will you join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

One nation, under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

And on behalf of the board, I would like to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV today, particularly Kalina Mendoza.

They record each of our meetings and make transcripts available to the public online.

And with that, Madam Clerk, we should probably go to our 2 p.m.

special order.

Yes, the special order at 2 p.m.

is the appearance by the Honorable Mayor Daniel Lurie.

The mayor may address the board for up to five minutes.

Welcome, Mr.

Mayor.

Do you have any opening remarks?

Good afternoon, Board President Mandelman and members of the board, and to my friends in the audience from Petrero Hill, Jude.

We love you, Jude.

Congratulations.

As mayor, as mayor, my top priority is keeping San Francisco safe while always, always upholding our city's values and laws.

Led by local law enforcement, with the support from the state and federal law enforcement partners, we've driven violent crime down to its lowest levels since the 1950s and reduce tent encampments to record lows, and we are showing real progress.

Yet the fentanyl crisis continues to impact our streets, our families, and businesses, and my administration is tackling it head on.

We've worked to transform the city's response to this crisis while coordinating local law enforcement efforts with FBI, DEA, ATF, and the U.S.

Attorney's Office to dismantle open air drug markets and cartels through DMAC.

While I deeply respect our military service members, the federalized National Guard does not have the authority to arrest drug dealers and disrupt drug markets.

Deploying the National Guard is clearly not the solution to the city's challenges.

As we tackle fentanyl alongside state and federal law enforcement partners, I will never waver in my commitment to protect the people and values that define San Francisco, our safety, compassion, and sense of community.

And I will do everything, everything in my power to support our immigrant and LGBTQ plus communities who have continuously come under threat.

That is what makes us San Francisco.

At the same time, we must continue the daily work of governing and supporting our city's recovery.

Yesterday, under the leadership of Chair Melgar, alongside Supervisors Mahmood and Chen, the Land Use and Transportation committee held a hearing on my family zoning plan, with many of the board members offering thoughtful remarks, amendments, and questions.

As all of you know, the state is requiring us to go through this process.

I want to thank you for the many hours spent with the planning department, neighbors, small business owners, and advocates over the past many months in shaping this important legislation.

I know how important this work is, and I know you've been working hard alongside many others.

Too many parents are questioning whether they can afford to raise their children in San Francisco, and too many young people are unsure if they will be able to stay in the city they love.

Our family zoning plan addresses those challenges by adding more housing, supporting small businesses, and preserving what makes San Francisco unique, all while keeping local control over our zoning decisions rather than ceding it to Sacramento.

Working with Supervisors Melgar and Sauter, we added amendments that strengthen the plan's protections for tenants and small businesses.

In the weeks ahead, my team and I will continue reviewing amendments to ensure we advance a plan that helps families afford to live here and keeps San Francisco in control of its future.

Thank you all for your dedication to the working people, families, and small businesses across our neighborhoods.

They are counting on us to make this city more affordable and maintain control of our zoning.

And I look forward to continuing our work together to accomplish that.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Madam Clerk, could you please call the topic for District 11?

Yes, the first topic submitted by the District 11 supervisor, Supervisor Chen, is the recruitment and retention practices for police department to increase language, ethnic, and gender diversity.

Supervisor Chen, you may ask your opening question.

Thank you, President Mendelman.

Thank you for joining us today, Mr.

Mayor.

I believe that a cornerstone of our public safety solutions should include building a police force that reflects the community it serves.

To me, that includes, for example, the linguistic competence to serve monolingual communities.

It means gender parity so that we are increasing the representation of movement police officers.

It means an ethically diverse police force that looked like San Francisco and the diversity neighborhood across the city.

But it also ensuring that our police force possessed the sensitivity, awareness, training, and pull costs to be responsive to the challenge of our local communities face, including the heightened enforcement of ice raids in these times.

As you know, the more diverse our law enforcement agencies are, the more that we reflect the makeup of our city's demographics, and the safer and more effective our public safety initiative will be, including and especially our sanctuary, our century city policies, upholding and defending our sanctuary city policies is the hearts and minds of many of our constituents, especially given the heightened ICE enforcement activities terrorizing our city.

While recruitment of our officer to SFPD seems to be trending in a high and right direction, I'm still concerned that we're not making significant progress on our 30 by 30 goals and our goals for the language and ethnic diversity.

Will you commit to immediately implementing programs that have been successful in other counties and city and cities to recruit and retain female officers, offices of color, and offices with language comp with language competency?

Thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Uh, Mayor Larry, you may respond to the opening question.

Thank you for your question, Supervisor Chen.

Uh, when I issued the rebuilding the ranks executive directive earlier this year, I said our I said our city needed a clear and immediate plan to restore our sworn public safety workforce.

We needed a plan that would not only put more officers out on our streets, but make sure those officers reflect the city that they serve.

This initiative is about rebuilding capacity and gaining trust through reforms that will help keep our community safe by making sure our police department has the staff and support it needs to do its job safely and effectively.

To date, San Francisco has seen a net increase in police officers and sheriff's deputies for the first time in a decade, with entry-level police officer applications up 40%, and an academy graduation rate up 20%.

But as you mentioned, staffing alone is not enough.

We need to rebuild the ranks with purpose to create a modern, professional and inclusive police department, one that draws on the diversity, the languages and the lived experiences of the people that live and work and play here in San Francisco.

Thank you, Mayor Lurie.

You may now ask a follow-up question directly related to the opening question.

Thank you, President again.

Mayor, can you please specify a kind of the kind of programming that your department is considering and help to build a culturally competency, including the trainings, the awareness, and the poll course around sensitive issues, especially this times relating to enforcement and centuries city policies.

Mayor Lurie, you may now respond to the follow-up question.

Supervisor SFPD's recruitment unit conducts extensive outreach to recruit people who reflect the communities that it serves.

The emphasis is on recruiting, outreach to diverse community and educational partners, and staying engaged with applicants beyond the initial hiring contact through multilingual advertising in Chinese, Spanish, and so many other languages, SFPD highlights bilingual officers to show that if you speak the language of San Francisco, there's a place for you in the department because understanding our communities, as you pointed out, is essential to keeping them safe.

SFPD is equally committed to gender representation and was among the first major police departments to sign the national 30 by 30 pledge, but we still have work to do.

We are committed to specific actions to support and advance women in law enforcement.

Beyond that, the department has worked to strengthen family support policies, expand membership mentorship opportunities, and ensure transparent merit-based systems that help all members grow and lead.

When I talk about rebuilding the ranks, it's not just about staffing.

It's about building a department that reflects our city by recruiting faster, training smarter, and supporting officers to serve San Francisco's diverse communities with integrity.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Mayor Lurie, you may now ask a question to Supervisor Chen or to any other supervisor in attendance pertaining to the same topic, but not necessarily related to the previous question.

Okay.

The mayor is good.

I see Supervisor Fielder in the queue.

Supervisor Fielder.

Thank you so much, President Minelman.

Thank you, Mayor Larry for being here today.

Colleagues, I would like to make a motion to ask all of you to provide me the opportunity to ask an unscheduled question to the mayor today.

In following the recommendation of the city attorney, I will explain how my question is allowable by administrative code section 2.11.

Firstly, I'm an eligible supervisor.

That is a supervisor who could have submitted a topic in advance today.

Secondly, there's been a sudden or unexpected incident or occurrence, and that is President Donald Trump making not one but two statements, committing to send the National Guard to San Francisco since last Wednesday afternoon.

The reason could that this could not have been anticipated before noon last Wednesday is because I do not have any line of communication with the president.

I don't have telepathic capabilities to have anticipated he would have made those statements.

Thirdly, members of the board could not have anticipated that incident at noon last Wednesday, as the first reports of Trump's statements were made Wednesday afternoon Pacific time.

Political actually first report on Wednesday at 1 43 Pacific time.

Fourthly, the incident or occurrence raises formal time-sensitive policy matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of the mayor, as the mayor has both the permission to ask the governor to send the National Guard, and also as laid out in Article 3 of the City Charter, Section 3.100, quote, the mayor shall have responsibility for one general general administration and oversight of all departments and governmental units in the executive branch of the city and county, two coordination of all intergovernmental activities of the city and county.

And my question pertains to both the National Guard and coordination of intergovernmental activities of the city and county.

Fifthly, the question cannot be adequately addressed at the mayor's next scheduled appearance because we may very well have the National Guard on our footsteps.

And this has not been considered in committee and is not on the board's agenda for today.

So with that, I ask for your support in asking an unscheduled scheduled question.

Supervisor Fielder has made a motion to be allowed to ask an unscheduled question.

I am seeing a second from Supervisor Mahmoud.

Is there any discussion?

I don't know if you I don't know if you get to talk.

I am the designated Grinch of this body.

It is my job, partly my job to prevent us from stretching our rules to the point where we are not following them generally.

And I do think that there is a significant risk in slippery slopes and doing something once and then continuing to have an expectation from supervisors that they'll be able to do it for other topics and on future occasions.

So I would generally be inclined to vote no on a request like this.

However, however, uh the mayor uh has indicated that he would like to be given the opportunity to answer this question, and so I will stand down from my Grinchliness and support the motion.

Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

On the motion to allow Supervisor Fielder to ask the question.

This is an eight vote threshold.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder I, Supervisor Mahmoud, Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar I, and Supervisor Sauter.

Solder I.

There are 10 ayes.

And uh the motion is adopted.

It's passed.

All right, Supervisor Fielder, you may ask your question.

Thank you so much, President Manelman.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, colleagues.

Um, I'm invoking this rarely used board privilege because over the weekend, as you all know, the president was reported as doubling down on his commitment to send the National Guard to San Francisco.

He has deployed federal forces and the National Guard to cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland.

His comments about our city should not be taken lightly.

And in the mission, we've been bracing for this moment.

The moment that people stop going to work, when anyone black or brown can't freely walk outside without the fear of Trump's federal agents racially profiling and arresting them, the moment when parents stop sending their kids to school, become too afraid to go get groceries or go to the doctor.

What we've been preparing for in the mission is essentially a shutdown, the likes of which we haven't seen since COVID.

And colleagues, this scenario has become increasingly and terrifyingly more real for thousands of our constituents over the past six days.

As a sanctuary city, I believe San Franciscans are owed a statement from our mayor on the record about how the mayor's administration is preparing to defend their civil liberties and rights.

And so with that, Mayor, I would like to ask what is your administration doing in the coming days and weeks?

More specifically, what direction have you given to relevant governmental units and departments in the executive branch in the city and county to prepare our city and protecting the civil liberties and rights of our residents and especially immigrants and people of color in the event that Donald Trump sends militarized federal forces, including potentially the National Guard, to San Francisco.

I appreciate it, Supervisor.

As everyone in this room knows, we've been constantly monitoring the possibility of federal intervention really since the day I took office, so that we can be prepared to respond and keep San Francisco safe under any scenario.

I have said this from day one.

Keeping San Francisco safe is my number one priority.

We've been convening a cross-departmental policy group of public safety leaders, representatives from the city attorney's office, and other affected department heads to continue coordinating our local response to potential federal actions.

This policy group is meeting regularly to ensure our operational strategic plans remain current and effective, and we just ended one about an hour ago.

The city attorney yesterday filed a brief in the U.S.

Supreme Court, their fourth brief brief on this issue, making it clear that local law enforcement is best positioned to keep our communities safe and that they are doing it well.

As you know, SFPD has a longstanding general order, which Interim Chief Yep reaffirmed recently in the department's notice to officers that governs engagement with federal authorities and ensures SFPD officers have clear guidance.

That policy prohibits SFPD from participating in federal civil immigration enforcement.

It is not the role of local law enforcement to assist with military operations on our streets.

San Francisco has had policies like this in place for decades.

They help foster trust between law enforcement and communities, and that helps keep our community safe.

As I have always said and will repeat again today, I am fully committed to upholding those policies.

Of course, that has always been the case, but it is particularly important now, and I continue to do that.

I'm going to say it one more time so everybody can hear this.

As I have said, my top priority is keeping San Francisco safe, and I will continue working with this board however I can to deliver on that commitment to the city and to the people of our great city.

I appreciate the question.

Thank you, Supervisor.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

This concludes the District 9 topic discussion.

Thank you for joining us today.

Um, all right.

These matters have been discussed and will be filed after general public comment.

And Madam Clerk, that takes us back to communications.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I went directly to consent.

My apologies.

Thank you all for joining the members of the Board of Supervisors in the board's legislative chamber.

Uh I want to say that you are noticing that we are missing a member of the board, as you all may know, there is a vacancy in the district four office as soon as the Honorable Mayor Daniel Lurie makes the appointment, that seat will be filled.

Until then, the vote threshold will remain six votes for substantive votes, unless, as you saw earlier, the ordinance requires a higher vote, in which case the vote threshold would be higher, uh, of the entire membership of the board.

Uh that housekeeping bit.

I wanted to also then, if you have uh the opportunity to come to this chamber on a regular basis, thank you for attending.

Otherwise, you can catch the proceeding on SFGOV TV's Channel 26, and provide your public comment in writing by sending either an email to SFGov to BOS at SFgov.org, or use the Postal Service, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the Room 244, City Hall, San Francisco, California, 94102.

If you need a reasonable accommodation or you need language assistance, please contact the clerk's office at least two days in advance by calling 415-554-5184.

Thank you to the members.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Let's go to the approval of our meeting minutes.

We have approval of the September 9th, 2025, and September 16th, 2025 board meeting minutes.

Colleagues, could I have a motion to approve the minutes?

Move by Walton.

Could I have a second seconded by Chen?

Um, and uh Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll?

On the minutes as approved, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton, I, Supervisor Chan, Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder, I, Supervisor Mahmood, Machmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar, I, and Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter, I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented.

And now, Madam Clerk, I think we've caught up to you.

Let's go to our consent agenda.

Please call items 2 through 16.

Items 2 through 16 are on consent.

These items are considered to be routine.

If a member objects, a member may ask for an item to be considered separately.

Please call the roll.

On items 2 through 16, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton, I, Supervisor Chan, Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder, I, Supervisor Mahmoud, Machmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar, I, and Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter, I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, these ordinances are passed on first reading and finally passed, and the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, let's go to unfinished business.

Please call item 17.

Item 17.

This is an ordinance to amend the building and planning codes to comply with California Government Code Section 66007 by postponing the collection of development impact fees for designated residential development projects to the date of first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy, whichever occurs first, and to affirm the CEQA determination and to make the appropriate findings.

Supervisor Walton.

My apologies, President Melman, not for this item.

Okay.

Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll on 17?

On item 17, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl, I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, no, Supervisor Machmood.

Machmud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar, I, and Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter, I.

There are nine ayes and one no.

With Supervisor Fielder voting no.

And the ordinance is finally passed.

And I think we're gonna come back to 18 and 19 later.

We'll let's go to our 230 special order.

Yes, the 230 special order is the time to celebrate residents of San Francisco for meritorious service.

And we will start with District 3 Supervisor Sotter.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, today I am honored to recognize Rich Monguero of the downtown San Francisco Partnership for his heroic life-saving action in this very building two weeks ago.

Rich, can you come please join us at the podium?

It was at the October 6th Art Commission hearing upstairs in room 416, where a public commenter collapsed as he was returning to his seat from the podium.

Attendees rushed over to him and seeing that he was unresponsive, pleaded to the room for help.

Moments like these require quick action to prevent serious health impacts and possible loss of life.

Fortunately, Rich, who was also attending that hearing, answered the call.

Rich performed CPR.

He provided emergency assistance until the sheriff's deputies and paramedics arrived in room 416.

He demonstrated courage, selflessness, and care for an absolute stranger that day.

And in fact, I believe the two of you had the chance to be reunited in the hospital room recently as he's recovering and recovering well.

Many of you know that immediate CPR can double or triple the chance of a person's survival.

It is reported that only about 40% of people get the help they need from bystanders before first responders arrive.

And we were very lucky on that day in October to have Rich there to answer the call.

Rich jumping into action probably doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who knows him.

He has a long history of serving others.

He served for nearly 20 years as a police officer in San Jose.

And currently he's the vice president of operations for the downtown SF partnership, where he manages the clean and safe programs.

And he's done a tremendous job and has been a big part of our downtown recovery.

He exemplifies what it means to be an everyday hero, and his actions remind us to be generous towards strangers, to help when help is needed, and to always be prepared.

So on behalf of the board, Rich, we want to thank you for your brave, life-saving actions.

And we also want to thank you for all of your work downtown and all your service to our city.

So please join me in welcoming Rich to now say a few words.

Thank you, Supervisor Sauder, for uh this honor uh and your team.

I am both honored and humbled uh to be recognized by you and the board.

No one can ever plan to or expect to be in a situation like I was on October 6th.

And all I kept thinking about during that time was doing everything that I possibly could to keep that man alive.

Uh I've had never met the gentleman before that day, and my only recollection of him up until a few days ago was his physical state when I began doing CPR.

I had the opportunity to meet him, and his first name is Carl, five days after the incident in his hospital room here in the city.

And when I walked into the room, seeing him sitting up in a chair smiling, then crying, brought this whole event truly into perspective.

And he asked me only one question.

What's it like to save somebody's life?

I never really thought of it and truly couldn't describe the feeling.

I told him I honestly don't know how to describe it.

I'm just glad that I was able to be there for him when he needed someone, and that I hope that if ever that situation were to fall on me or one of my loved ones, someone would jump in as well.

So again, thank you, Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you to the board.

I'm a native San Francisco and born and raised very proud of the city and everything that it's becoming.

So thank you again for the honor.

Next up, District 10, Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, President Madaman.

If I could get Jude Deckenbach to come up to the program.

Colleagues, today I am proud to recognize someone whose dedication to her community, her neighbors, and to the city of San Francisco has truly stood the test of time, Jude Deckenbach.

For more than three decades, Jude has poured her energy, expertise, and heart into nonprofit and community work.

Her career has bridged both the corporate and nonprofit worlds, but her passion has always been rooted right here in the neighborhoods and public spaces that bring people together.

In 2015, Jude took on a major challenge with the friends of Jackson Park, helping to craft a vision for the park's renovation, navigating the maze of city agencies, and leading the charge to fundraise and bring that vision to life.

Her leadership, perseverance, and commitment have been instrumental in moving this project forward, and she's done it all with a sense of humor, determination, and the right amount of persistence.

Jude and her husband, Dave, raised three children in Patrol Hill, where Jackson Park became an extension of their backyard.

A daily destination filled with memories and community.

Years ago, Jude worked with neighbors and the city to replace the old carcinogenic playground equipment with what stands there today.

Proof that when she sets her minds to something, change happens.

And here we are again as she continues to fight for Jackson Park to be brought into the 21st century.

She is tireless, she is passionate, and she is absolutely relentless in the best possible way.

For her unwavering commitment to community, for her love of this city, and for reminding us all that great things happen when neighbors care deeply enough to act.

If there was an Ivy League course and on effective persistence, Jude would be the professor.

Congratulations, Jude, and thank you so much for your extraordinary service and spirit.

The floor is yours.

And for your undying support of the Jackson Park Renovation Project.

Julia, who's watching from New York, 368 Club, I love you so.

Thank you.

And now I'd like to ask all the friends of Jackson Park to stand up, which should be everybody in the room.

I'm just saying, because everybody loves Jackson.

For over a decade, this community of Jackson Park supporters has worked with our partners, Rec Park, to craft our park renovation project that would address the growing needs of green and open space in our neighborhood, ADA guidelines, which we don't currently meet, and to restore and renovate our historic from nineteen twelve clubhouse.

Anybody who's been to Jackson, and I'm sure all of you have, know we need some help here on our beloved park.

This community has attended over 12 community meetings, 10 stakeholder meetings, countless coffees, and other neighborhood organization meetings, all to support the design, which was community driven, and to fundraise for this park renovation project.

We have our project has received secret clearance.

And we've raised a little over 32 million.

Let me repeat that number, 32 million.

And then that's both in pledged and donated public and private funds for this project, which is a little over 75% of what's needed according to the city.

So now is the time to complete this project.

Jackson needs to jump up on the list of priorities and get the renovation project that we need and deserve.

So, as I told Mayor Lurie, Supervisor Walton, General Manager Ginsburg, and anybody else who would listen to me, I am asking today, taking this opportunity to help us fund our gap from this board.

Let's find that money.

I promise you I will stop bugging you and any of all of you once it's done, but not until it's done.

So let's work together and let's build this park.

Thank you for your help.

You have an honoree.

Yeah, thank you, President Mendelman.

Um, colleagues and everyone.

Today I'm so proud to honor Po Sampoon, a passionated advocates for home care workers, a dedicated community member, and an inspiration inspirational leader in both the labor movement and the Chinese American community.

Mr.

Pun began his journey as a teacher in China before immigrating to the United States.

He is an inspiration.

It's also an inspiring example of many who overcame language and cultural barriers to fully engage in our community, leading with heart, dedication, and a true spirit of services.

After immigrating to San Francisco in 2000, Mr.

Poon began working with the in-home supportive services to care for his own family.

That same year, he joined SCIU UHW, United Healthcare Workers West, standing in unity for workers' rights and social justice.

In 2011, he was elected as an executive director of SCIU UHW.

And in 2017, appointed as a vice president of SIU Local 2015's Bay Area chapters.

This is truly a testament to his determination, organizing skills and leadership.

Thanks to your tireless effort, Mr.

Poon, and your local 2015's negotiation team, San Francisco's home care workers now enjoy one of the strongest union contracts in the Bay Area.

And it's a model for others nationwide.

Even now you are in retirement, you continue to serve, you mobilize union members, mentors, young leaders, support education and cultural programs, and advise community events like your neighborhood, Richmond Nunan New Year Street Fair.

Together with leaders in the community like Sali Tang, Sam Ju, Go Manhong, Yang Guai Lan, Iva Zhao, Yun Hong Hu, Tony Chen, Mr.

Poon has continued to help lead a powerful coalition of retired leaders, continue to inspire and support and pass on their organizing wisdom to future generation in San Francisco.

And I would also like to say if you were in Chinese, I'm not sure.

And first, Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, President Mendelman.

And first, I'm gonna say that in English, and two, I want to be able to express my gratitude to Mr.

Poon in Chinese as well.

I'm not gonna I concur with so much of uh of the sentiments that Supervisor Chen has already expressed toward Mr.

Poon.

But Mr.

Poon has been really a long time district one resident uh at the sites uh on by Aguero and Gary, and now but really officially in district two, uh lucky Supervisor Cheryl.

Um but Mr.

Poon has always been a community leader, taking care of his neighbors, the people that live in that very same building, and making sure that they understand their rights, uh, whatever that is happening in our neighborhood.

So for that, I'm just so grateful to Mr.

Poon.

Um, uh Dayako, uh, uh Goiman, Dan Haila, uh, you go, I'll let uh see Thompson, let's have phase on the wing hunger language.

And I will just say uh I think that the entire board is grateful for this commendation.

So thank you, Supervisor Chen for offering it.

And now you can speak.

Today I am deeply honored to accept this certificate of honor and to be recognized here by the board of supervisors in this grand chamber.

This recognition affirms my over twenty years of social activism and community service.

It also acknowledges those who have collaborated with me, supported me, and stand by my side today.

Here with me is my wife, Dole Ping.

Thank you for your unwavering support and your understanding.

I am also very grateful to Manager Yang Weiling of the Gamsan Chinese Newcomers Association and Mutual Aid Association, who helped me gain a foothold in America after immigrating.

I'd also like to thank former executive director of the SCUHW San Francisco chapter, Sally Jusam Goman, and Member Lanfa.

Thank you to the chairperson Wong from my hometown association and chairperson Wong Yi Hong from the Residents Association.

Also, thank you so much to several senior classmates out in the Richmond who helped and studied alongside with me, digital education and AI.

Thank you again to all of the community and to the members of the Board of Supervisors for your encouragement.

I hope that more immigrants and immigrant elders will actively participate in advocating for civil rights legislation and budgets.

And now District One Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, today I'm honoring one of the rich Richmond's most cherished resources, the Internet Archive.

We are just so grateful that for their accomplishments, not just for San Francisco, for the Richmond, but really, I would say for the entire nation.

And today, tomorrow, is uh Internet Archive's 26th uh anniversary.

That is 26 years.

Twenty-nine.

Twenty-nine, I was like looking at Robin.

I was like, I think that we know that.

We knew that.

Um, 29 years of protecting our First Amendment rights and creating equitable access to information.

In today's world, colleagues, uh, this access is more important than ever.

Um, we know that when our First Amendment rights uh is under attack, uh, when our public libraries are under attack, um, this uh when we talk about Internet Archives work, when we talk about um all that this organization has done is more critical than ever.

When we're seeing books banned and people silenced, the Internet Archive stands up and ensure free access to vital information under the leadership of Brewster Kale, when I who I call the bring behind the Internet Archive.

Um, this institution also now celebrating an enormous accomplishment of their one trillion web pages archived.

This is an incredible achievement and a testimony to and testament to their unwavering commitment.

In addition to the web pages, the Internet Archive has preserved 49 million books and text, 13 million audio recordings, 10 million videos, five million images, and one million software programs.

And we know that, as I have learned today, our uh Mr.

Librarian uh Michael Lambert mentioned that uh when Internet Archive started in 1996, it was the very same year that our Ming Library, the flagship library across the street, uh, began.

Um, and since then, there's an ongoing partnership.

Thanks to Brewster in 2008, supporting our public library and being able to again have access to our information and to our library online.

Um it's just we're just tremendously grateful for Internet Archive, and that we want them to know that this board of supervisors, the city and county of San Francisco, will always be in solidarity with Internet Archive in the fights for First Amendment's rights and the fight for public information and access to free information.

And so with that, today I'm very happy that we are going to honor Internet Archive Day, celebrating and declaring October 22nd, that Internet Archive Day in San Francisco.

Thank you.

Connie Chan, Voter Supervisors, thank you very much for making this the welcome home of the Internet Archive.

We were born and bred in uh in uh San Francisco, and I'd say the Internet Archive, as well as a lot of other nonprofit uh organizations and high-tech nonprofits, are really this is a natural home for it because of the support of nature.

So, like Wikipedia, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive is part of the bedrock fabric of the internet and is very much a San Francisco style project.

And more than just a San Francisco Born and Bred, through the evolution of the internet, which isn't always been up and to the right, um, San Franciscans and San Francisco governors, govern uh supervisors have always been in support.

This is a time that's extremely important.

As as Supervisor Connie Chan just said, it's a tough time for libraries.

We're getting, there's criminalization of librarianship now.

There's book bannings, defundings, very difficult licensing environments that are making our libraries have a harder and harder time doing our core functions.

And the idea of having this commendation is uh fantastic.

The idea that there is a Internet Archive Day to celebrate one trillion web pages authored by over a billion people now in a library in San Francisco is kind of awesome.

It really shows that people want to share, want to have what they know available to the world by the billions of people, and that we're able to go and collect these, recognize the billion voices that is the World Wide Web over the last 30 years to give it a home and permanence shows the significance of that work, but also what a place like San Francisco brings to bear for our common world.

So I just like to say thank you very much and we're honored that there is an Internet Archive Day coming up tomorrow.

In that note, we are going to close down a street in Richmond at uh Funston uh Long Park Presidio at Clement, and you're all invited.

It's a big party to celebrate one trillion web page, a once in a generation uh accomplishment.

Uh far outstripping the Library of Alexandria or even the uh library of Congress in sheer volume.

Um let's celebrate in the Richmond District tomorrow night.

You're all invited.

Thank you very much, thank you all.

All right, I think that concludes our two thirty special commendations.

Madam Clerk, let's go back to uh items eighteen and 19, if you could call them together.

Items 18 and 19 are two ordinances that amend the business and tax regulations code.

Item 18 temporarily exempts transfers of certain rent restricted affordable housing from the real property transfer tax, retroactive to transfers on or after April 12th, 2024, and to affirm the CEQA determination.

Item 19 excludes from gross receipts tax the gross receipts of low-income housing partnerships received from the lease of residential real estate beginning with the 2026 tax year.

It suspends the business registration certificate and fee requirements of those partnerships beginning with the registration year commencing April 1st, 2026.

Exempts from city exempts the city from the commercial vacancy tax retroactive to January 1st, 2025, and exempts persons holding property to be used for city-sponsored affordable housing projects from the commercial vacancy tax retroactive to January 1st, 2022, and refunds commercial vacancy taxes paid by exempt persons.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

And Supervisor Walton, you didn't have something on one of these, right?

No.

No, President Amendment.

I was just going to ask for a roll call on them, but that was automatic because it allows vote.

Got it.

All right.

Um Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

On items 18 and 19.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

No.

Walton, no, Supervisor Chan.

I.

Chan I.

Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, no, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mendelman I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar I.

And Supervisor Sauter.

Aye.

Sauter I.

There are eight ayes and two no's with Supervisors Walton and Fielder voting no.

The ordinances are passed on first reading.

Madam Clerk, please call item 20.

Item 20.

This is a resolution to authorize the recreation and park department to accept and expend cash and or in-kind grants valued at approximately 500,000 from the San Francisco Irish Famine Memorial Committee for the Irish Famine Memorial Project.

Please call the roll.

On item 20, Supervisor Cheryl.

Sheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, I, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Machmud I.

Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Milgar.

Melgar, I.

And Supervisor Sauter.

Shotter, I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, uh, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 21.

Item 21, this is a resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to execute a funding and license agreement between the Commission and the Unified School District for the construction, operation, and maintenance of an on-site solar photovoltaic system at the Mission Bay School for 653,000 and for a 30-year term through October 31st, 2055.

Uh, I think we can take this item, same house, same call without objection.

The resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 22.

Item 22, this is a resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to execute the third amendment to a contract for power scheduling coordination and related support services with APX Inc.

to allow for the processing of the California Independent System Operator Power Transmission Service Charges to increase the contract by $365 million for a new total contract amount of approximately $1.26 billion and an additional three-year term extension for a total term of May 31st, 2022 through May 25th, 2030.

And again, same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call items 23 and 24 together.

Items 23 and 24 comprise two resolutions that pertain to child care grant agreements for item 23.

This is a resolution to retroactively approve a contract between the city and county for implementation of the citywide plan for elderly care and education for a three-year and six month term through December 31st, 2028, for a new amount of approximately 436 million.

Item 24, this resolution retroactively approves a contract between the city and Wu Yi Children's Services for the implementation of the citywide plan for early care and education for a three year and six-month term through December 31st, 2028, and for a new total amount of 238 million.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 25.

Item 25, this resolution approves and authorizes the director of property to enter into a lease of approximately 12,000 square feet of real property located at 845 Jackson Street on the fourth floor with Chinese Hospital Association for an initial term of three years with one option to extend for one year for an initial annual base rent of approximately 500,000.

Same house, same call.

The resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 26.

Item 26, this is a resolution to approve a first amendment to the lease agreement with the Trans Bay Joint Powers Authority for continued MUNI operations at the Salesforce Transit Center, located at First and Mission Streets for a term through December 31st, 2050, with two 10 year extension options and a current estimated annual operating charge of approximately 1.2 million.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 27.

Item 27, this is a resolution that is retroactive to approve and authorize the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to execute a memorandum of agreement with the City of Daly City for funding construction and operation of the Vista Grand Drainage Basin Improvement Project for $35 million with a duration of five years, August 4th, 2025 through August 31st, 2030.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 28.

Item 28, this is an ordinance to modify the Geary Boulevard Neighborhood Commercial District to authorize outdoor hand washing, vacuuming, and detailing of automobiles as an accessory use in certain automotive service stations to affirm the sequel determination and to make the appropriate findings.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading.

Madam Clerk, please call item 29.

Item 29, this is a resolution to add the commemorative street name Jim Marshall Way on 16th Street between Noe Street and Castro Street in recognition of his contributions to capturing the cultural and music history of San Francisco.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call items 30 through 45 together.

Items 30 through 45 are 16 resolutions that initiate landmark designations under Article 10 of the Planning Code.

For item 30, this is for the firehouse, host company number 30, located at 1757 Waller Street.

Item 31 is for Mauds, located at 929 through 941 Cole Street.

Item 32 is for St.

Matthew's Church, located at 3281 16th Street.

For item 33, this is for the St.

Nicholas Cathedral, located at 2005 15th Street.

Item 34 is for St.

Paul's Church, located at 1660 Church Street.

Item 35 is for 102 Guerrero Street.

Item 36 is for the Bank of Italy, the branch building, located at 400 through 410 Castro Street.

Item 37 is for Bob Ross House at 4200 20th Street.

Item 38 is for the Castro Rock Steam Baths located at 578 through 582 Castro Street.

Item 39 is for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, 514 through 520 Castro Street.

Item 40 is for the Full Moon Coffee House, located at 4416 18th Street.

Item 41 is for 110 Diamond Street Church, located at 100 Diamond Street, the Rectory at 115 Diamond Street, and the convent located at 117 Diamond Street and the school.

Item 42 is for Shaharazov's the historic location located at 220 Danvers Street.

Item 43, this is for 361 San Jose Avenue.

For item 44, this is for the Chautauqua House located at 1451 Masonic Avenue.

And for item 45, this is for the engine company number 13 at 1458 Valencia Street.

Alright, I think we can take these items.

Same house, same call without objection.

The resolutions are adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 46.

Item 46.

This is a resolution to accept the city administrators' report that adds the Department of Homelessness and Sportive Housing, the Controller's Office, and Data SF to the previously designations that included the Department of Public Health, Fire Department, the Health Service System, the City Attorney, the Treasurer Tax Collector, and the Department of Technology as health care components under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, known as HIPAA, pursuant to Administrative Code Chapter 22H.

And same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 47.

Item 47, this is an ordinance that amends the administrative code to create the Union Street Entertainment Zone on Union Street between Goff and Steiner Streets and on Fillmore Street between Union and Greenwich Streets and to affirm the CEQA determination.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the ordinances passed on first reading.

Madam Clerk, please call item 48.

Item 48.

This resolution accepts the annual surveillance report for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency under the Administrative Code.

Section 19B.6.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 49.

Item 49, this motion appoints Ankita Mukpatahi Kumar to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force.

Term ending April 27, 2027.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the motion is approved.

Madam Clerk, please call item 50.

Item 50, this motion appoints Benjamin Tingle to the Citizens General Obligation Bond Oversight Committee.

Term ending November 21st, 2026.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the motion is approved.

Madam Clerk, please call item 51.

Item 51.

This motion appoints Jennifer Hand to the children, youth, and their families oversight and advisory committee to amending July 1st, 2026.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the motion is approved.

And with that, Madam Clerk, let's go to roll call for introductions.

Supervisor Cheryl is the first member to introduce new business.

Submit.

Thank you.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Colleagues, today I have an in-memorium and two resolutions to introduce.

First, I want to celebrate the life and legacy of Karen Jean Pierce.

A woman whose presence brought light, purpose, and compassion to everyone who knew her.

Karen was born on February 4th, 1947, right here in San Francisco.

The city she loves so deeply and never left.

From an early age, it was clear she had both a brilliant mind and a generous heart.

She graduated Summa Cum Ladi from San Francisco State University and went on to earn her law degree from Eust D.

Hastings.

Karen's true calling was always about people, especially children, families, and communities that too often go forgotten.

For more than 20 years, she served as San Francisco Department of Public Health, where she became the department's first and only environmental justice manager.

That title alone tells you something about her spirit, and she did not wait for paths to be paved.

She created them.

Through her work, she fought for clean air, safer neighborhoods, greater equity, particularly in Bayview Hunters Point.

She listened deeply, spoke truth to power, and turned advocacy into action.

The impact of her work still ripples through this city and will for years to come.

Beyond her professional achievements, Karen lived with balance and with joy.

She loved a good book, the challenge of a thousand-piece puzzle, and the smell of something homemade, bacon in the oven.

She also had an adventurous side, completing three marathons after the age of 50, with races that took her to Bermuda, Hawaii, and even Alaska.

That same determination that fueled her advocacy carried her across finish lines, most would never attempt.

Those who knew Karen described her as strong but gentle, serious when it mattered, but quick to smile, deeply compassionate, yet unwavering in her principles.

She was a listener, a mentor, a fighter for what's right, and above all, she was kind.

Her life reminds us that change doesn't always come from loud voices or big gestures.

Although she always got her point made.

Sometimes it comes from quiet strength, steady persistence, and a heart that refuses to give up on people.

Although Karen has left this world, her impact on her family, her community, and her city will continue to grow.

May we honor her by living with that same purpose and grace.

And everyone here that's here in support of Karen, could you just stand so we could see?

Thank you for being here to honor her.

Colleagues, I'm also introducing a resolution, a resolution calling for motorized scooter enforcement on sidewalks in order to protect pedestrians and keep people safe.

Our sidewalks are where everyone walks, whether it's seniors, children, families, people with disabilities, and neighbors moving through their community.

They are meant to be safe, predictable spaces for pedestrians, not shared with fast-moving electric or gas-powered scooters.

Riding scooters on sidewalks is not only illegal, it is dangerous, and it undermines a sense of safety that every person deserves when walking in San Francisco.

Under California Vehicle Code and San Francisco Transportation Code, it is already prohibited to ride scooters on sidewalks.

Yet we continue to see writers treating sidewalks like thoroughways, often at high speeds.

This behavior puts pedestrians at serious risk and goes against the core principles of our city's vision zero commitment.

A District 10 resident recently wrote about her 84-year-old father who is unsteady on his feet.

A scooter doesn't even have to hit him.

The shock of one zooming by could cause him to fall, with serious consequences for his health.

Many of us have family or community members in the same position.

Our elders, children, and people with disabilities deserve sidewalks that feel safe and walkable, not stressful or frightening.

While SFMTA regulates shared scooters, we have seen a rapid increase in privately owned scooters, and enforcement of these violations depends on SFPD.

This resolution calls for stronger coordination between SFMTA and SFPD to treat sidewalk scooter riding as the moving violation that it is, and to prioritize enforcement and education in high pedestrian areas such as commercial corridors, senior centers, and school school zones.

It also calls for clear signage, reminding riders that sidewalks are for walking and for residents to continue reporting violations through 311 to help guide enforcement resources.

Everyone, riders, drivers, and pedestrians, share responsibility for keeping our city safe.

We can support new forms of mobility, but never at the expense of those who walk.

Sidewalks belong to people who walk, and this measure reaffirms that simple but vital truth.

And lastly, colleagues, today I'm introducing a resolution in support for women basketball players represented by the Women's National Basketball Players Association, including the Golden State Valkyries, who have kicked off their inaugural season this year with a playoff run.

This resolution calls on the WMBA to reach a fair contract that gives players better pay, benefits, and working conditions that keep them healthy and safe.

The WMBPA is the first professional sports union for women.

These players are not only athletes, but also workers and role models who have helped build the league's success.

They are now in their sixth round of contract talks, asking for fair pay and respect for their hard work.

Even as the WNBA grows, players still don't receive shared revenue from tickets, sponsorships, or TV deals, while men's leagues like the NBA share around half.

The players are calling for recognition of their value and the same respect given to other professional athletes.

Women's sports bring people together, boost local economies, and inspire the next generation.

The Golden State Valkyrie will continue to add new energy and excitement to San Francisco and show young women what is possible when women are supported in the coming years.

San Francisco has always stood with workers fighting for fair treatment, and I want to thank the SF Labor Council for helping to bring this resolution forward.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Walton.

Supervisor Chen.

Submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Madam.

Thank you, Madam Kerr.

I have uh in memoriam.

Colleague, I would like to offer in memoriam to Hector V Hector Williams, a longtime resident and homeowner in the Excelsior district who passed away peacefully on October 3rd, 2025 at age 80.

In the early 1950s, there were four young brothers, Hector, Tony, Gilbert, and Ray, born and raised in a rural copper mining town in northern Mexico, very close in age.

They were as close as sprouters could be.

Why their mother worked long hours to support her family?

Hector, the eldest of these brothers, looked after his younger siblings with a watchful eye.

Whenever Hector's baby brother Raymond Qui, Hector Credo him gently, a spig Brother, baby sisters do.

But as Faye would have it, the toys found themselves embarking on a long trip which would change the course of all their lives forever.

Upon arriving in San Francisco, Hector was enrolled in and probably graduated from Mission High School.

During this formative years, he became a mentor and then a certified camp counselor at the Salvation Army's Rescue Boys Club Summer Camp.

Now a young adult, Hector had a strong affinity for all things automotive.

He trained for several years as an auto mechanic, eventually found and operated his own repair shop, SF Engine.

Always a raising car and through it, a racing car and through it.

And he bought a big fiend in your face, 1957, Chevrolet Bat Air, which he named Trigger.

It was his treasure possessions.

Hedder had a gift for fixing things.

When someone was in need for car repair, he unselfishly offered to repair it and did not expect to be compensated.

Hector loved music.

He loved to travel.

He was a fervent San Franciscan 49ers and also San Francisco Giants friend.

Watching his grandchildren grow up and getting to know his great-grandchildren brought him and destroy.

He was an excellent example of what a big brother should be.

He offered a loan of men of money if you found yourself temporarily insolvent, offer you a place to stay if you experiencing one of your life's unexpected realm patch, and gave you sage advice when you asked for it or not.

As his business thrive, Hector achieved to cover American dreams and was able to purchase a home in San Francisco.

For his growing family, Hector was a kind, compassionate, even tempered, considerate family man, and good citizen who was non-judgmental.

He remained, he reminded us that love is hard to come by and to accept people as they are.

Hector is survived by his children, Danny, Michael, Flora, Rebecca, and as well as his three brothers, a sister and grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephew.

Hector lives behind a family who will forever be proud to call him theirs.

May he in rest in peace.

Thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Colleagues, I would ask that we adjourn today's meeting on behalf of the entire Board of Supervisors in remembrance of a longtime public servant and criminal justice innovator who left an enduring influence on San Francisco, in its legal community, among its political leaders, and in a city that is in numberless ways better for his contributions to it.

Arlo Smith, who served as San Francisco's district attorney from 1980 to 1996, passed away earlier this month.

He was 98 years old.

Arlo was among my first bosses after I graduated college, and he was an early and influential mentor to me for his tireless work to do justice, for his commitment to protecting public safety, and for his fearless efforts to uplift and empower those from underrepresented and too often marginalized communities.

Long before a generation of enlightened criminal justice reformers would embrace worthy concepts like diversity, equity, and inclusion, they were personal priorities for Arlo Smith, who, as a good man with an abiding sense of fairness, sought to include those from all our city's diverse communities because it was the right thing to do.

As a district attorney and as a political leader, Arlo Smith hired and promoted many dedicated women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community, myself included, to positions of leadership and responsibility at a time when there weren't many of us there.

The names of those given opportunities by Arlo Smith are countless, but they include admired legal community leaders ranging from Judge Julie Tang to a then baby lawyer named Yvonne Moray, who today serves as our own chief deputy city attorney.

They include two beloved community members who are no longer with us.

Haiti Red from San Francisco's Black Community and Wayne Friday and Dennis Collins from the LGBT plus community.

Arlo trusted me early in my career to manage his successful 1991 re-election bid.

A year after his narrow loss as the Democratic nominee for California Attorney General, a race he lost by just one vote per precinct statewide.

As his speech writer for several years, I worked hard to learn Arlo's voice, but I benefited most from learning his values.

Looking back on it today, I am especially grateful to Arlo for affording me the opportunity at a young age to work with him when he created the district attorney's hate crimes task force in 1991 to develop protocols for prosecuting crimes that target not solely victims but entire communities.

It was there I first came to learn about the inspiring diversity of San Francisco at its best, and how our city's eclectic communities can rally around one another on unifying issues like protecting the safety of our most vulnerable and standing up to discrimination and bigotry.

The hate crimes task force was, in fact, among several pioneering firsts Arlo Smith led as district attorney.

Others were a groundbreaking victim services division and a domestic violence unit that was among the first of its kind in the nation.

That's especially worth noting as we celebrate leading with courage today in recognizing domestic violence awareness month.

Our heartfelt condolences to those are to those Arlo Smith leaves behind.

His loving children, Arlo, Ace, and daughter-in-law Laura Talmas and Alexa, his grandchildren, Mina Soham and Abram Hale, and his great-grandchildren, Tig Hale and Nora Lilly.

Rest in peace, Arlo.

Thank you for your service to our city and for the inspiration your life and leadership were to me and to the countless others to whom you gave their start in public service.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey.

Supervisor Fielder.

Thank you, Madam Clerk, colleagues.

It is with a heavy heart that I share this in memorium for Benoit's Badatoki, Budatoki.

Benoit was a cherished resident of Bernal Heights and the Nepali community in the Bay Area.

His life was tragically cut short by a hit and run driver on October 4th, 2025, at the corner of Cortland Avenue and Anderson in Bernal Heights.

As he was walking home after celebrating the Dashane Festival, one of the most important festivals in Nepal, celebrated each fall to commemorate the victory of good over evil.

This incident marks the 13th pedestrian death in San Francisco this year.

Benoit was kind, hard-working, and a lighthearted young man who brought warmth and positivity to everyone he met.

He was a devoted father, loving brother, and loyal friend, known for his humility, kindness, and dedication to helping others.

Originally from Nepal, he became a proud San Franciscan and an active member of the Nepali American diaspora in the Bay, embodying the values of compassion, family, and perseverance, supporting his family here and in Nepal.

His warmth, generosity, and quiet strength touched many, and his legacy will continue to inspire those who seek to make their communities stronger and more united.

At the Memorial Service, Councilmember Dilly Battery of Hercules, the first elected official from the Nepali's American community in California, offered heartfelt remembrances, honoring Benoit's life and contributions, emphasizing his example of resilience and efforts to bring people together.

In the days following his death, Fernal residents, family, friends, and electeds gathered in Bernal Heights to honor Benoit.

In response to this senseless and tragic incident, I held a meeting with Fernal neighbors after the accident and asked SFPD, MTA, and the mayor's office to attend and affirm the city's commitment to making Bernal Street safer in Benoit's memory.

I want to extend my deepest condolences to Benoit's eight-year-old daughter, Brother Nabine, Budatoki, the Budatoki family in Nepal, and the Nepali community in the Bay Area.

May Binoza's memory continue to remind us of the power of kindness, unity, and the collective pursuit of a safer and more compassionate San Francisco.

I also have other introductions.

Today I'm excited to introduce a resolution urging the mayor, treasurer, and tax collector and other departments to explore and pursue funding opportunities for the establishment of San Francisco's Green Bank.

This resolution builds on an earlier plan unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors, which initiated the development of a plan for a public bank.

This new resolution incorporates lessons learned from San Franciscans, aligning the development plan with how San Franciscans want the bank to function.

Recent polling shows that 67% of likely voters are in favor of starting a public bank, and an even higher percentage of likely voters, 70%, are in favor of a green bank.

Green banks are nonprofit financing entities which have a focus on providing financing for renewable energy infrastructure, infrastructure that often struggles to find financing now, in addition to supporting local enterprise and affordable housing.

The Green Bank will be critical for San Francisco's fight against the worsening effects of climate change and will also provide reliable financing for affordable housing projects.

As we all heard at yesterday's land use meeting discussing the family zoning plan, we are in dire need for affordable housing financing, and a green bank is one solution.

This resolution marks a step forward in not just addressing the problems of financing projects, but developing a financial institution that is accountable to its owners, the people of San Francisco.

As working San Franciscans struggle with the rising cost of living and the growing threat of the climate crisis, we need public institutions that aspire to reimagine how we invest in our communities and in solutions that address climate change and housing insecurity.

I want to thank the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition, LAFCO Executive Officer College Samurai, former Supervisor Dean Preston, the Treasurer and Tax Collector, Controller, and City Attorney's Offices for all of your work and collaboration on this resolution.

I also want to thank Supervisors Chan, Chen, Mahmoud, and Walton for your early co-sponsorship.

Colleagues, today I'm requesting a hearing regarding outstanding financial commitments made by private developers in seeking support for the housing developments at 2000 Bryant Street and 681 Florida Street in the Mission District.

In 2016, developer Nick Podell and his representatives came before the Board of Supervisors after meeting with former District 9 supervisor David Campos and community stakeholders regarding the market rate development at 2000, 2070 Bryant Street, and the affordable housing development at 681 Florida Street.

During a sequel appeal, Mr.

Paddell's project, Mr.

Biddel's attorney affirmed multiple times and submitted a letter from Mr.

Padell confirming that Mr.

Paddell's development group would provide $500,000 in capital funding for tenant improvements to the community art space on the ground floor of 681 Florida Street, one of several concessions to the community concerns.

Fast forward to today, and both housing developments are occupied, including the ground floor space of 681 Florida Street by Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas, or better known as Ghana, the organization responsible for many of the city's cultural celebrations and ceremonies, including the annual Garnaval Festival.

Ghana and the community who relied on the developers' commitments have yet to see the fulfillment of the financial promise to fund their capital improvements.

Despite repeated attempts by the current owners of 681 Florida Street and my office, Mr.

Perdell nor the current owner of 2000 Bryant Street have heated calls about their outstanding commitments.

I'm hopeful that we can make this right.

I'm calling for a hearing on this matter and requesting that Nick Padell, JRE Partners, Meta, TNDC, the Mayor's Office, and the Mayor's Office of Housing Community Development and the City Attorney's Office report.

Excuse me.

Um, finally, colleagues, today I am announcing a hearing on the open gov contract awarded by the mayor's office in their effort to stand up a system to launch the permit SF program.

My concerns around the open gov contract boiled down to the quality of the contract, the costs, the process by which it was procured, and the pre-existing relationships of OpenGov with the mayor's former nonprofit tipping point.

Firstly, Clarity, a competitor to OpenGov, was consistently rated higher by city staffers than OpenGov, scoring an average of 4.42 out of five, while OpenGov scored just 2.88.

Feedback from 16 technical city staffers also stated that OpenGov's technology had, quote, gaps so significant that it quote shouldn't be considered.

Secondly, OpenGov will cost the city up to $4 million annually, almost eight times as much the license of Clarity, which would have cost the city just 528,000 per year.

Thirdly, according to the SF Chronicle, the contract was awarded under an unusual process under a quote, little known section of the administrative code that bypasses the standard bidding process.

And lastly, both the Chronicle and the Standard have reported that leaders from OpenGov have long-standing relationships with the mayor, the mayor's former nonprofit tipping point.

Any one of these circumstances of this contract award on their own are eyebrow raising, but combined, they are cause for serious concern.

I'm committed to bringing transparency, integrity, and efficiency to City Hall.

That is why, as chair of the Government and Audit Oversight Committee, I call for this hearing.

I also want to take this moment to remind the public that anyone with reports of waste, fraud, or abuse by city employees and people who do business with the city can make a confidential whistleblower complaint with the controller's office, and it will be investigated.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Fielder.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Colleagues, you've often heard me talk about data and statistics, and there's one number that I note frequently.

It's 3,500.

3,500.

There are more than 3,500 children and youth living in the tenderloin.

And I say it often because it would seem that no matter how often I say it, it's a demographic that still feels invisible in the dialogue around the neighborhood.

If I don't say it, then I fear little will change for those 3,500 children and youth living there, and they'll continue to face daily exposure to unsafe street conditions, drug activity, overdoses, and violence.

At least 57 youth aged 13 to 17 have been arrested in San Francisco for a drug dealing since August 2023, often in the tenderloin.

In fact, just earlier this year in February, two men were charged in San Francisco Superior Court with using a minor to distribute narcotics in the tenderloin, underscoring active recruitment of youth into the local drug trade.

Whether you're involved in the drug activity or violence, just living around these conditions compounds and exacerbates public health disparities affecting our youth.

The Department of Public Health is clear that violence is a public health issue that causes injury, death, and chronic trauma, with effects like toxic stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, and long-term physical and mental health harm among youth exposed to community violence.

We have to do better.

We owe them so much more than that.

The data is clear as reported by this morning by Mission Local.

Youth violence prevention programs implemented in the Bayview in recent years have cut violent crime by 50%.

That's not just a statistic.

It's lives saved.

But no such program in the tenderloin exists, and the impact is real.

In the past two months alone, I've attended two services to mourn the loss of sons of our neighborhood, lost too soon to an overdose, and another to gun violence.

These young men deserve the chance to live a full life.

And no family should have to bury their child because of preventable violence in our streets.

The community will never be the same again.

When I spoke to their grieving families in the hospital, their pain was simply unfathomable.

While I wish I could carry their pain for them, what I promised them I could do was channel their loss into action, day in and day out for a better, safer future, so no family has to endure what they have gone through.

And so today I'm calling to launch a tenderloin youth violence prevention program because every young person deserves a chance at life.

And colleagues, I hope to have your support.

Thank you to the Department of Children, Youth and Families and their families, and to the Mayor's Office of Victims' Rights, especially Ivy Lee and Bobby Lopez for the incredible work you do every day across our city to support young people, survivors, families, and for your thoughtful feedback in helping shape this resolution.

A heartfelt thank you as well to Yosef Azim and Steven Betts and the Mayor's Office for their feedback and collaboration in drafting this resolution.

Finally, we are grateful to the planning department for their ongoing efforts through the tenderloin community action plan, which provides a strong foundation for us to continue building upon as we work collectively towards safety, healing, and opportunity for all young people in the tenderloin and across San Francisco.

Thank you to United Players, DCYF, and I'd like to thank my legislative director, Sam Logan, and my office for drafting this resolution as well.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Supervisor Mandelman.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I want to thank Supervisor Walton for the scooter enforcement legislation.

There's a bunch of people in the district eight jumping out of their seats in support of that, I think, but I imagine other districts as well.

And then I also want to thank uh Supervisor Dorsey for that really beautiful in memorium for uh for Arlo Smith.

And Madam Clerk, what do you need me to do anything to make that?

Yes, Mr.

President.

Just stated for the record that it will be on behalf of the full board.

That in memorium will be on behalf of the full board, and I'll gavel that.

Okay.

And then, colleagues, I have a couple of resolutions.

Uh and more in memoriams than I would like.

Um, all right.

Uh first, I'm introducing a resolution supporting the Bay Area Air District's rules that establish zero emission standards for building appliances.

In March of 2023, the Bay Area Air District adopted rules 9, 4 and 9.6.

These rules established future zero emission standards for water heaters and furnaces, which will cut deadly air pollution and make energy bills more affordable.

The rules will only apply when existing fossil fuel equipment needs replacement and will phase that phase in gradually starting in 2027 for water heaters and 2029 for furnaces.

These rules will provide significant health benefits for the Bay Area, which has some of the worst air quality in the nation.

The rules would likely prevent 15,000 asthma attacks annually and save up to $890 million in annual health care costs attributable to air pollution exposure.

Switching from gas to heat pumps can also save ratepayers $370 per year on their energy bills.

Ahead of the 2027 implementation date, the Air District is working to amend these rules to include common sense flexibility measures.

Unsurprisingly, the fossil fuel industry and its allies are hoping to use this process to roll back these clean air rules entirely.

Environmental health community, climate and environmental justice groups are mobilizing to protect these rules while working with staff to incorporate measures to help ensure smooth and equitable implementation.

The resolution supports the air District's work to responsibly amend and implement those these rules so that we can have a cleaner and healthier Bay Area for generations to come.

I want to acknowledge and thank Supervisors Walton and Mahmoud for their service on the Air District Board of Directors.

And then I want to thank Sam Fishman and Colleen Corrigan from the Bay Area Clean Air Coalition for working with Calvin Ho in my office on this resolution.

And then I also want to thank the Climate Emergency Coalition for their persistent advocacy on these issues and finally SF Environment for their helpful feedback on the resolution.

Next, I'm introducing a resolution to recognize October 28th, 2025 as Roger Caseman Day in San Francisco.

Roger Caseman was a gay man who lived from 1864 to 1916 and is known for exposing the atrocities of colonialism in the Congo and Peru and for his martyrdom after the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland.

His 1904 casement report described the atrocities committed by King Leopold II of Belgium and contributed to the end of Leopold's reign of terror in the Congo, thus helping end the abuse of the Congolese, including the enslavement, mutilation, and torture of natives on rubber plantations.

Casement was originally knighted by Britain in 1911 for his investigations into human rights atrocities in the rubber industry in Peru, but after he was convicted of treason for his work to support Irish independence prior to the 1916 Easter rising.

His title was stripped, he was executed by hanging, and his body was thrown into a prison cemetery.

To honor his memory, the Consulate General of Ireland, Neil Richmond, Ireland's Minister of State for International Trade and Diaspora, and the Rainbow Honor Walk will be unveiling a commemorative bronze plaque to honor his legacy on October 28th in the Castro.

I would be remiss if, in addition to the fine folks of the consulate and the Rainbow Honor Walk, I did not offer special acknowledgement to Matthew Rothschild, who for at least a decade, maybe longer, has been campaigning to see his hero, Roger Caseman, get this recognition.

Thanks, Supervisor Dorsey, for your co-sponsorship, your friendship with Matthew Rothschild, and your co-sponsorship of this resolution.

And I also want to thank uh Anha for all his work on this.

The first uh in memoriam I have is for Miss Major Griffin Gracie, who died on October 13th at the age of 78.

Miss Major was born in Chicago on October 25th, 1946.

She was assigned male at birth, but knew from an early age that her true gender was female, despite not having the language to describe it at the time.

In the late 50s, she publicly came out as trans.

She spent the next 20 years of her life in and out of homelessness on welfare and receiving hormone drugs from the black market.

After she was expelled from college at 16 for wearing women's clothing, Miss Major began working as a showgirl at the Jewel Box Review at the Apollo Theater in Chicago and took up sex work for the steady income.

During this time, police raids on gay bars were common and trans women were often rounded up and sent to police stations.

Instead of jail, she was incarcerated at a psychiatric facility.

She later moved to New York, where she was a regular patron of the Stonewall Inn.

When police raided the bar in the early hours of June 28th, 1969, she was among the first to fight back.

The Stonewall riots lasted six days and kickstarted the modern gay rights movement.

In the 70s, after the death of a friend who she suspected was murdered by a client, she and fellow sex workers banded together to look out for each other since they didn't believe the police or anyone else was going to look out for them.

She described this as the start of her activism.

In 1974, after serving time in a men's prison for a robbery, she became an advocate for incarcerated trans people.

She moved to San Diego in the late 70s.

There she joined the fight against AIDS and she started the health care agency Angels of Care, where trans women provided care for gay men and trans women dying in the epidemic.

Miss Major continued her AIDS relief work when she moved to San Francisco, becoming a health educator for the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center and advocating for a mobile needle exchange program.

She also started a drop-in program to protect trans sex workers called Gigi's Place.

In 2005, she was brought on as the first executive director of the transgender, gender variant, and intersex justice project, which fights the abuse of trans people of color in prison, a role she held until 2015.

Through this work, she testified on behalf of trans prisoners before the California State Assembly, as well as the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva.

Ms.

Miss Major spent her final years in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she founded House of GG to provide resources for black trans leaders.

In a 2023 interview, she said, I know the world I would like to live in.

It's in my head, but I try my best to live it now.

Rest in peace and power, Miss Major.

May your memory be a blessing.

I have two more in memory.

The last couple in memory in memory, the last couple of months have been rough for the nightlife industry and community.

First, I'm asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Mark Rennie, known as the Batman of SF Nightlife, who died on September 1st at the age of 76.

He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 23rd, 1949.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio University in 1971 and graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1974.

After passing the bar, he opened the law offices of Mark E.

Rennie, where he helped the city's dance club owners and bartenders navigate legal and permitting issues.

In the early 1980s, when the South of Market neighborhood was emerging as San Francisco's nightclub district, Mark was the owner of the Popular Club 9, where Chris Isaac performed in the house band, and Courtney Love was the coat check attendant.

Mark was an intrepid entrepreneur and bought 15 abandoned warehouses on Folsom Street to create artist studios and office spaces.

His restaurant, the Billboard Cafe, featured wall-sized exterior art and was connected to eight hotel rooms turned galleries called the Art Motel.

Rennie advocated on behalf of the nightclubs, artists, street fairs, and the communities that rely on San Francisco's arts and nightlife economy.

He also played a leading role in establishing the San Francisco Human Entertainment Commission.

He strongly believed the nightclubs and entertainment are a form of free speech.

He also contributed to LGBTQ cultural heritage in the city.

When Gilbert Baker created the iconic rainbow flag in 1978, he did so in a studio rented for Mark, who documented the process with his camera.

The images were later shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Until recently, Mark continued to fight for the rights of nightclub owners and artists through his law firm, now going on 51 years.

He contributed enormously to San Francisco's unique culture and nightlife and was a well-known figure in the city's entertainment community.

There will be a public memorial for him on November 2nd at the chapel, and so I'm also introducing a resolution designating that day Marquee Rennie Day in San Francisco.

I want to thank Audrey Joseph and Liam Shy for their help with the resolution.

We send our condolences to Mark's family and many friends.

Rest in peace, Mark Rennie.

May your memory be a blessing.

I'm also asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Terrence Allen, who died this weekend at the age of 73.

Terence Allen attended Fenton High School in Bensonville, Illinois.

He spent a year studying urban planning at Cornell College, a year studying art and philosophy at Elmhurst College, another year studying architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a year at the University of California, San Francisco, where he lived in a Volkswagen bus on the ocean with his two dogs.

In the 90s, Terrence got involved with a Dennis Perone's Gay Weed Mafia.

Terrence worked alongside Perone and fellow cannabis activist Brownie Mary to successfully pass Prop 215 in 1996, which legalized medical marijuana.

Shortly after passage, he opened the nation's first nonprofit dispensary, Champ, Californians helping to alleviate medical problems.

In the 2000s, Terrence, a nightclub owner himself, began advocating for the city's entertainment industry and helped form the SF Late Night Coalition.

He campaigned for and served as a founding member of the Entertainment Commission in 2009.

He helped start the Love Parade and How Weird Street Fair.

Terrence was an active member of the Castro community as well.

His tenure on the Castro Merchants Association led to installation of the rainbow poll banners along the commercial corridor, and he fought to protect the now landmarked Gilbert Baker flag.

His public involvement also included sharing the SF Cannabis State Legalization Task Force and service as a board member on the Tenderloin Equitable Development Project, president of the Castro Merchant Association, board member of the California Music and Culture Association, and board member of the Tenderloin Community Benefit District.

Joe Caruba, a friend of Terrence's, described him as a force of nature, kind, creative, relentless, and utterly devoted to his community.

He helped shape San Francisco's cannabis, cannabis nightlife and LGBTQ plus culture in ways that will be felt for generations.

Rest in peace and power, Terrence Allen.

May your memory be a blessing, and the rest I submit.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Supervisor Melgar.

Submit, thank you.

Supervisor Soder.

Submit, thank you.

Mr.

President, seeing no names on the roster that concludes the introduction of new business.

Well, then let's go to public comment.

Alright, at this time, if you line up on your right hand side of the chamber, we're setting the timer for two minutes, and you'll able you're able to speak to the mayoral appearance.

To the minutes as presented for September 9th and September 16th.

Items 54 through 58 on the adoption without committee reference and other general matters, not on the published agenda, but within the board's subject matter jurisdiction.

All right.

Let's hear from our first speaker.

Welcome.

Ready?

Don't worry.

We don't expect you to adjourn this new real fake meeting of pedophiles.

In the name of the thousands of children, being sacrificed, murdered, trafficked, raped, every day.

Don't worry, we don't expect that from you.

You can always use a gavel on your head, huh?

Because the desk did nothing wrong to you, my friend.

There is one missing.

Good readance.

I think actually, you know, we probably are going to need new kings that take care of the business.

I don't think it's the right world, Kings.

Because we don't want pedophiles anymore in society anywhere.

So, uh, who is going to enforce this?

I think it's something like a king.

Obviously, not the guy in charge now, since he's a big time pedophile.

So, ready to welcome the National Guards of pedophiles.

I think it's what's in the agenda somehow.

Okay, I didn't want to come today honestly.

Uh, I'm a bit short of inspiration, but I wish there were several guys like me, you see.

The problem is that there isn't.

So I follow my orders from this guys.

I have no choice.

My mission keeps going until you guys.

Repent.

It's gonna be tough.

Otherwise, what is awaiting you is an institution where you won't get out.

No matter how long it takes.

I said before, no matter how hard you try, you unintelligent pedophiles, it's gonna it's not going to work.

You understand?

Never.

Because I'm here.

Thank you for your comments.

Can we hear from the next speaker, please?

Good night.

Good.

Welcome.

While reading The Fall by Albert Camus, a French man who fought against Nazis during World War II, I came across some passages that reminded me of SF politicians.

The narrator is a man who targets privileged folks who have latent desires for fascism, or at least an openness to further oppress people.

Let me share a few quotes.

Quote I announced the publication of a manifesto exposing the oppression that the oppressed inflict on decent people.

One day while I was eating lobster at a sidewalk restaurant and a beggar bothered me, I called the proprietor to drive him away and loudly approved the words of that administrator of justice.

You are embarrassing people, he said.

Just put yourself in the place of these ladies and gents after all.

That reminds me of government officials who don't know how to empathize with suffering people.

These suffering people are seen as an impediment, an embarrassing problem that they can't explain to their kids.

This attitude pushes our government to deploy policing and banishments as a solution instead of actual care and consideration.

Quote, I am for any theory that refuses to grant man innocence, and for any practice that treats him as guilty.

You see in me an enlightened advocate of slavery.

This reminds me of the board's approach to people with substance use disorder.

No one caught using substances like fentanyl as innocent.

They are marked as guilty instead of being seen as a person existing, probably also suffering.

No judgment is necessary.

But under anti-science policies, really anti-humanist policies, our government has been implementing abstinence is supreme.

This creates a hierarchy among people.

Those who don't use substances are better than those that do.

This hierarchy devalues the lives of those who use, even if it isn't voluntary, it doesn't matter.

You have created a value system for human life and put people who can abstain at the top.

Quote, I invite the good people to submit to authority and humbly solicit the comforts of slavery, even if I have to present it as true freedom.

Every excuse for increasing police surveillance for reducing police oversight and for increasing the police budget is rooted in that quote.

I know I'm not free under massively invasive surveillance and policing.

Do you?

Are you aware of that?

Thank you for your comments.

I have a handout.

Yes, we'll come collect that from you.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors.

For the record, my name is Chris Ward Klein.

I also go by Sergeant Klein of the United States Marine Corps.

I first wanted to ask for your support to get with the sheriff and the police chief to move forward with the investigation, a report that was filed.

Um we will be submitting that final report November 14th to the Sheriff's Oversight Committee.

So we are trying to put pressure on the sheriff to move forward with this.

It's very important.

Um I just handed out um a sheet here.

Just pay attention to the last part.

There's a university that has put larger numbers of people in San Francisco on surveillance, and they've done it before.

Um we are asking for them to turn off the surveillance of primarily LGBTQ members, but also African Americans.

Um, you'll see the name here.

I'm not going to read it out publicly, but please look at it.

Please call that university, please have them stop their surveillance.

Um basically the military has already called them and they said stop work immediately.

That means that if the military does come in and they do not stop work, the military will come in and confiscate their equipment.

Um, it is a serious issue, listening to some of your stories.

Um you probably were impacted with your journeys by this university.

So please take a look at it.

Please act on it.

And again, I'm asking for your support and talking to Sheriff Paul Miyamoto and the interim police chief Paul Yep and moving forward with the investigation that was turned over to their offices.

Um, I'm not gonna name the people in that report.

I think there was a copy that was hand-delivered to this board.

Um, it is very serious and it needs to stop immediately.

Uh as of right now, there's a 97% chance the military is coming in.

That's because these universities will not turn off their equipment, and they get funding from the Department of Defense and the Commerce Department.

So if they come in, that is the reason that they have to come in.

It's not because of anything else, it's not because of politics, it's because they won't turn off the equipment that they have turned on illegally.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Hello, supervisors.

I am a member of the San Francisco Quaker meeting.

I'm here to address an issue that I know matters uh and is on the heart of many people here, which is cultural competency across our provider sector for those that are providing services for the unhoused.

Um, we launched a ministry with Glide, whereby we accompany people, meet them where they are, try to understand what their life narrative is so that we can better impact their outcomes.

Um I just want to share with you that I was very disappointed by an experience we had recently, um, accompanying someone that we tried to overcome every barrier that they had, and the provider couldn't have gone more out of their way to make the person more reactive, more escalated, feel less wanted.

The provider felt distant, they were rolling their eyes, their body language was closed off.

They literally couldn't have done a better job to turn this person away from services.

One of the challenges that we have is that none of the data captures the patient advocacy side unless a negative experience triggers a report.

We cannot expect reports from people who are in active psychiatric crisis.

So, in the same ways that we staff with security personnel, it might be that we need to staff some sites, some pilot projects with patient advocates that report lack of cultural competency because providers are not going to be in the business of self-reporting lack of cultural competency.

I know that we all care about getting people towards their outcomes, and I know that we all care about making San Francisco a better city.

And to the earlier speaker, um, I just published a book a couple months ago in the last few lines of Huey P.

Newton's autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide, or a quote from Camus.

And I know that's what we're all here to do, which is to remake the soul of our time.

Bless you all.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

I live in a level 90 mission street.

I'm here to just uh defeat the problem I'm having at my place.

My life was off for seven days and seven nights.

Um, due to my landlord, and I got uh injured inside of my room.

I have a head injury right now as we speak uh due to the faulty of my landlord.

And right now that I had complained to HASH about my head injury.

They didn't do anything.

I was released from the hospital for my head injury and to the pub, the president of the NWCPA, the hospital called him and released me into his custody because of the my unit situation.

My landlord has the power to turn my life back on any time he get ready.

He stayed left foot off for seven days and seven nights.

After the president of the NWCP put in a work order, they violated me three violations.

I'm on the process of losing my house right now.

HSH is right now discussing what they're going to do about my situation.

This is LD ogleck.

One case manager went and told HSH that I threaten them.

They took that in consideration, but they are not taking a consideration about my injuries.

This is my second time complaining about a staff member.

I was here in 2002 when I got three stitches, five stitches over my right eye, and I had 10 stitches over my head when I came in here and explained this to the last president.

So I'm asking y'all this time.

I have a pinch nerve in my head, and it comes from negligent of the property manager, and I got documents and pictures.

I want to know, and I want to just document it.

I need to find a how can I get immediate attention, immediate action because they are right now trying to put me out.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

You're out of order, Mr.

Feel.

Next speaker, please.

Welcome, sir.

Uh good afternoon, supervisors.

Uh, my name is Rashaw Rout.

I'm a resident of District 9.

Uh, I'm speaking today in strong support of Supervisor Fielder's green bank resolution and moving forward uh with uh with San Francisco's public bank.

The city has already shown unanimous support for public bank in the past because it reflects San Francisco's shared values, investing in affordable housing, small businesses, and green energy instead of letting our money be siphoned off to Wall Street.

Right now, with the federal government showing active hostility toward climate action, it's up to cities like ours to take the lead.

A public and green bank would let us finance renewable energy, social housing, and local enterprise directly, keeping wealth circulating in our economy and lowering costs for everyone.

This isn't a radical idea.

Public banks already hold 25% of the world's assets.

They work.

And here in San Francisco, the public mandate couldn't be clear.

As Supervisor Fielder mentioned, recent polling shows that nearly two-thirds of likely voters support a public bank, and even more if it's a green bank.

This is our chance to build a self-sustaining public institution that drives hundreds of millions in low-cost loans each every year.

An economic engine for a city that works for everyone, not just the wealthy.

Let's bank the boom that's happening right now in San Francisco and make sure that it benefits working people and our planet.

Please support the Green Bank Resolution and move forward.

Uh move forward on a public bank.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Good afternoon, board.

Good to see you all here today.

Um, Griffin Lee with Connect and SF District 2 resident.

Um, here for a couple reasons.

Um, one is um urging Supervisor Fielder to serve our constituents.

Sir, sir.

Please address the members as a uh as the body as a whole and not an individual supervisor.

Thank you.

So say that again.

You may not um admonish a single supervisor, please address them as a full board.

Um, okay, let me start over.

Um Griffin Lee here with Connected SF, also district two resident.

Um, I'm here today for two reasons.

One to encourage Supervisor Fielder to um pay attention to our constituents and actually try and make an effort to solve the prostitution problem going along shot well.

This is coming directly from our members, and we've heard that you have been unresponsive to the situation and no made no effort to try and dissolve the situation.

It's a public safety issue.

So I think that's we should stop that time.

Um, all right, Madam Clerk, we have board rules, and they say we folks are not supposed to address members of the board individually.

Is that correct?

Yes, Mr.

Sorry, I have hearing it's bad hearing.

I did not um try and defy the rules there.

Could I address at least state or go back to our one minute and thirty seconds and how do I go about this?

Um to the board, we I hope you um try and actually solve the matter and coordinate with different agencies, SFPD, um, public works, whoever else may be involved to combat the prostitution problem on Chotwell.

Um I've heard from numerous members of our members at Connected SF that the problem is still a problem.

Um secondly, I would like to thank Raphael Supervisor Madlerman and Supervisor Dorsey for their action in response to AB 255.

Um, I have a specific amendment that I wanted to address and uh hopefully to consider, and that is an ordinance amending the administrative code to state that in the city policy to expand the availability of the board permanent supportive house based site-based permanent support of housing for people experience homelessness who have formally lived in San Francisco by proof of past residents via uh home address, not including an individual who falls to sh fails to show proof of past residents in San Francisco.

Furthermore, individual who has a PSH address in San Francisco in the past.

That supports abstinence by prohibition.

Thank you for your comments.

Your two minutes is expired.

Next speaker.

Hello, supervisors, good afternoon.

My name is Scott Feeney.

I'm a resident of the mission district, and I'm calling I'm I'm um commenting um to uh ask for all of your support for Supervisor Fielder's resolution uh towards a publicly owned green bank.

Um with the Trump administration slashing funding for climate action, we need to act locally more than ever.

A public bank will provide the ability to do that more affordably, as well as uh providing more affordable funding for important transit infrastructure and for uh affordable housing to uh make that um you know that controversial zoning plan that we're we've been talking about uh make that work for the 46,000 low and middle income affordable units that we need.

Uh a green bank will be a way to fund all of these things and more.

So I hope that you'll all support it.

I appreciate those of you who've already signed on as co-sponsors.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Hi, members of the board of supervisors.

I'm Anya Worley Zygman with the People's Budget Coalition.

I thank each of you who came out to domestic violence awareness month today, and I wanted to emphasize uh sort of the line of people's budget and reminding you that a fully funded public safety system really means investing in our local providers with that cultural competency is really, really vital.

And I want to remind you folks that last year SFPD's overtime could have more than 14 times paid for our total domestic violence investment as a city.

Just their overtime could have paid for it more than 14 times.

So when we talk about a fully funded public safety system, we have to be real about where we're starting from and build on top of that.

In my personal capacity, I'm also here to support the public bank resolution as well.

In these times, we need to be really creative about raising funding and looking at how we as San Francisco can institutionalize our own wealth here and redistribute it.

We can't rely on the state or on the federal infrastructure to help keep us safe in San Francisco.

We have a beautiful city here that we need to protect and double down on as best we can.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Good afternoon, honorable members of the board.

My name is Justin Locke.

I'm the executive director of Not in Our Town.

I would like to thank you all today for considering the resolution later in today's agenda commemorating United Against Hate Week.

For 30 years, Naught in Our Town has helped communities stand up to hate with local leadership at the center.

United Against Hate Week began as a Bay Area effort and has since grown from just 13 communities in 2018 to more than 200 participating school districts, community organizations, towns, cities, and civic entities across the country.

San Francisco's voice carries far.

When you lead, others listen and others follow.

This resolution matters because it does more than mark a week on the calendar.

It signals that San Francisco stands shoulder to shoulder with neighbors who have been targets of hate, whether they be the AAPI, black, Latino, Jewish, Muslim, Arab sick, LGBTQ, or disabled communities, or any of the other communities who are threatened by bigotry and violence.

It invites every district to take action, schools to host dialogues, libraries to share learning resources, small businesses to post solidarity signs, city agencies to promote reporting channels and victim support, and neighborhood groups to organize unity walks, art builds, bystander and upstander trainings or other grassroots efforts to counteract hate in all its forms.

If adopted, not in our town is committed to continuing to partner with your offices to provide toolkits, film and discussion guides and connections to community leaders so that every district can activate quickly.

We know that when cities coordinate public safety, schools, arts, faith, and community groups, people feel safer, more seen, and more willing to speak up for one another.

Thank you for elevating this work and for modeling what civic courage looks like.

United Against Hate Week does not end after these seven days.

It strengthens everyday fabric of the city.

We are grateful for your leadership and stand ready to help San Francisco.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Good afternoon.

I'm a member of the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition and the California Public Banking Alliance.

I've lived in San Francisco for 50 years.

I've seen a lot of changes, some good and some not so good, a lot not so good actually.

Um I retired from teaching in San Francisco Unified School District after 30 years in 2017.

At that time, I joined with a number of other folks who are interested in getting something done to start a public bank in San Francisco.

I've been to Sacramento, I've been to meetings with task force, I've been to every meeting you could possibly imagine, and uh talked with many, many people about this.

I haven't come across anyone who's against setting up a public bank except for the bankers.

You know, there's a few bankers that don't like it.

Um, and I don't understand why it's taken us so long to do something so simple.

It's really uh, you know, and given the current situation where we are under siege from a government in in uh Washington, DC, we need to take things in our own hands, and this is one thing we can easily do.

And I would encourage you to do all the things that you can possibly do to make this happen as quickly as possible.

We transitioned to make it a green bank because we thought that would make it easier and quicker.

And it should be easier and quicker, and I would encourage you to really do everything you could possibly do to support the resolution and get this green bank going.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is Misha Steyer.

I'm a District 7 resident and lead organizer for the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition.

I'm here to speak in strong support of the resolution to explore and pursue funding for the establishment of a green bank.

The city's work to date on the public bank and green bank has been a really inspiring example of universally shared values, and it has been supported by policymakers, unanimously enjoying unanimous votes at the board whenever the opportunity has arisen.

This resolution is an opportunity to continue this expression of universal San Francisco values, supporting affordable housing, small business, and green energy.

This board, this broad support can uh be attributed to the clear benefits for San Francisco, regardless of your ideology.

We all care about what's in San Francisco's best interests and the benefits of a green bank are clear.

A green bank is an economic engine for a city that works for everyone.

Issuing and recycling millions of loans each and every year in low-cost loans for affordable housing, green energy, and small business.

I encourage you to support this resolution and see through this groundbreaking work.

The uh federal government is declared war, in effect, on any efforts to address climate change, and it is all the more essential that San Francisco reiterate our commitment to combating climate change loudly and whenever possible.

This resolution is an opportunity for all of us to come together and declare our commitment to combating climate change.

There are uh myriad benefits for a green bank.

Uh the cost of living is an issue top of everyone's mind.

We're seeing skyrocketing rents, we are seeing energy prices spiking, and uh we are seeing small businesses uh being displaced and forced to raise their prices.

The support that a green bank can provide uh will help lower cost in San Francisco and has been mentioned uh polling has been conducted recently indicating what uh I likely suspect many of you know, given your support for the green bank in the past and the public bank in the past, that this is a very popular idea in San Francisco.

Two-thirds of likely voters support a public bank, 70% of those voters uh support starting a public bank as a green bank.

So this is a fantastic opportunity to continue this groundbreaking work.

You'll be the first city in the country with a municipal public bank.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Hello, supervisors.

Uh, my name is Sylvia Chi.

I um also here to speak in support of the Green Bank Resolution.

Um I'm also a member of the San Francisco Public Banking Coalition and the California Public Banking Alliance.

And I also served on the city's reinvestment working group.

Um, and I wanted to highlight that experience.

Um, as you know, the Board of Supervisors authorized that working group, and we met for months and months and developed um detailed plans, feasibility plans for both the green bank and the public bank as an institution.

So we've proven that it's doable.

As uh Misha just mentioned, it is also popular among San Francisco constituents, and as other commenters have all highlighted, it's very critical in this moment when we're facing these challenges with federal funding.

As I'm sure you all know, um the current federal administration is choking off funding to the city, not just uh in terms of funds directly to the city, but also through the state and as well as other intermediaries like um CDFIs, community development financial institutions.

Um, and as others have noted, their attacks on climate action have been um really devastating, but they've also been attacking other important San Francisco values, including racial justice, small businesses, and affordable housing.

They just laid off the entire staff of the CDFI fund.

They've attacked HUD.

So all of these are areas that can be mitigated with the uh the green bank and eventual San Francisco Public Bank.

Um, one other note is that the city's climate action plan has no way to be funded at this moment.

The Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, and Environment has has identified a green bank, a municipal green bank bank as a way to pay for it.

So I encourage you all to support the resolution.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Hello, I'm an stay or dipoliiki.

Namaste or the Paoli kehardship come.

Namaste and heartfelt, happy diwali.

May this festival of light bring joy, peace, and prosperity to all in our vibrant San Francisco and protect us all in these times.

Manineksha, or San Francisco Board of Supervisor K.

Sadas Sadaganya, Samani Tadaganya, Paribar, or San Francisco, Sare Bharatia, or Abum Dakshin Asiaki, Samudai Kitarepse, Mayapse Hardik Pur Vik Vinticartihu, Ki up, October Beast Tariko, Divali Divas, Go Shit Kia Jai in English.

Dear President and members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on behalf of the Parivar Bay Area, on all of the Indian and South Asian communities of San Francisco, I respectfully request the board of consider and pass a resolution celebrating Diwali Day on October 20th, 2025 in San Francisco.

This historic resolution, the first introduced by President Madelman, honors one of the world's most cherished festivals, Diwali, also known as Di Pawali, Di Pawali, Dihar, Ban, Chordivas, and Kartik Purnima, is one of the most sacred and joyous festivals celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists and others alike.

It symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness, hope over despair, and knowledge over ignorance, along with new beginnings like the grand opening of Parivar Bay Area's own community space in D5 last night.

This is about peace, prosperity, unity, and cultural renewal.

And on behalf of the San Francisco South Asian immigrant and all of the Paribar and the families and all those who call San Francisco home, we're very grateful for the city's continued commitment to build awareness and belonging to many of us in many diasporas and furthering multicultural celebrations.

J.

Bavani, thank you, Danielat.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good afternoon, supervisors, Beverly Upton, San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium.

It was so wonderful to stand on the steps of City Hall with you today as uh we are waiting for a resolution to recognize October as domestic violence awareness month in San Francisco.

Thank you so much.

When we heard from Julia Tempango today, and we talked about her sister, Claire Joyce Tempango, who will be gone, taken from us by an abusive partner 25 years ago tomorrow.

Um I think we all remember and recognize what domestic violence can do to our city, to our communities, and to the families.

They will always feel that.

Many of us will always feel that, but San Francisco came together and issued the Justice Encourage report.

400 recommendations that we are still working on currently.

And of course, there are new ones.

The Family Violence Council, uh, all of us, the shelters, the crisis line, uh, legal services, and the beloved community, the coup offs, the Cameron houses, the APA family services are working every day to protect families.

Um we used to have 10 to 12 homicides a year in San Francisco, and now if we have one or two, as we should, we are still in shock, but it is progress, but to continue that progress, we're really going to need your help.

Immigrant families are gonna stop looking for services.

We're so worried about this.

We're worried that we're not gonna have the budget to keep the shelters open, keep the crisis lines answered, and keep the legal services and the civil legal that hasn't even been started yet that the voters passed.

So we are gonna have to have an all hands-on deck response.

That's what got San Francisco to a 90 some odd percent reduction in domestic violence homicides, but it's not just homicides.

We have to stop the domestic violence before it gets there.

And to do that, we are gonna need everybody.

All the shelters, all the crisis lines.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Board of Supervisors and San Francisco mayor office of San Francisco.

Today's speech is Tony Robbins' psychological shift.

In the year 2007, I woke up with a grandiose idea to become a stage performer and a singer.

In 2012, after competing by four-year stint and six flags for Leo, I was public relations officer of Six Flags.

And I dabble singing out of center stage of Discovery Kingdom.

In 2015, I had a knee injury on a bus.

I broke down and cry.

Someone entered an idea that I was too old to be friend of a 19-year-old girl named Maggie Wong.

In 2018, she's crowned Miss Chinatown or San Francisco.

And in 2019, she's crowned it Miss Popularity of Miss Chinese International of host of our TVB and Louisa Mack.

In 2018, I met a girl, this Thai girl.

I texted her for full disappointment that she's back in Thailand to take her mom.

Three hours later, Maggie said she's competing for Miss Chinese International.

So in 2023, I'm brand at Twitter Master of X.

Yes, I'm the man behind Doge, Department of Democratic Superiority.

In 2024, after we see a go ahead message from Mark Cuban, I was declared CEO of Project Mello.

And three years later, I'm ambassador of Nintendo, three months later.

In the same instant, I get to know Louisa Mack as a friend and our artist.

In 2014, has connected with me as a partner in crime.

So I stand board of proposal visor to express my gratitude for my role and hopefully we could become friends.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is Harlow Pippinger.

I'm a district two resident, a member of the public bank coalition.

I'm also here to speak in support of the Green Public Bank Resolution.

This is a really inspiring initiative that will have the potential to do a lot for the city in terms of making investments in green energy, social housing, small businesses, and a lot of other priorities that we share, I think, across the political spectrum.

We've seen proven success of the public bank model around the world, and I think this is a great opportunity for us to follow that approach and begin making these investments to make San Francisco better for all residents.

So I encourage all of you to please support this resolution.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Hello, Kristen Evans.

I am also here to speak about uh the resolution on the public bank.

So the public bank coalition started in San Francisco, I think in 2018.

I was late to the party.

I joined in 2023 when we were forming the reinvestment working group.

And that was comprised of community experts, of which I was representing small business, as well as uh banking and financial experts.

And it was a really interesting time.

It was during the time when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.

It was uh interesting moment when we were contemplating governance structure and the way to establish good uh governance practices to ensure uh a robust public bank.

We looked at models uh that of other successful banks across the country and also abroad.

Um, in particular, I was gonna note for small businesses the longest running uh public bank in the United States, uh the Bank of North Dakota, uh, which is over 100 years old, um, made uh headlines uh around the pandemic because they were most the most successful state at getting the highest PPP loan rates out to their small business, uh small businesses in specifically they had the highest dollar per capita for by for each small business worker.

And it was through their infrastructure and partnership with local community banks that they were able to be much more successful at a time when in San Francisco small businesses were struggling to access capital, and Wells Fargo was really had frozen uh processing PPP loans.

So there's really some good arguments for good sound policy for creating a method for us to have a banking uh establishment, both to support small businesses, but also affordable housing and all the other wonderful projects that were mentioned, including greening and environmental efforts.

Thanks so much.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Okay, I'd like to talk about climate change.

Winter, spring, summer, fall.

There you go.

Climate change.

The rest is all a lie.

It's communist BS.

Now, uh, I'd also like to talk about Joseph.

Okay, remember him?

Jacob's favorite son.

And uh so he comes in and Farrow says there was on the bank of the river, key phrase, the bank of the river, and he saw seven cows come out, and Joseph's tells him that those seven cows are uh seven good years, and the skinny ones that ate the fat ones and were still skinny represents seven years.

Okay.

Now, fast forward around 13, 80 years to Daniel's days, a similar character.

They're both uh captives in a foreign land, they both interpret dreams.

Now he sees in the 12th and last chapter on the bank of the river, key phrase, bank of the river, bank of the river.

One angel, another angel on the bank of the river, third angel on top of the river, is asked by the other angel on the bank of the river.

How long will it be to the end of these wonders?

He raises his right and left hand to heaven and swears by him that lives forever that it'll be in three and a half years.

No animals come out, but if a uh statement of time, which is of course half of seven years, three and a half years, uh, is given that they need um an interpretation of, okay.

Now, to make things more complex, he says there's an additional 30 days after the three and a half years, and uh there's gonna be the abomination of desolation to the taking away the daily sacrifice.

That's the that's that's the mystery.

And then uh there's an additional 45 days, okay.

And it's strange because the lunar difference in 45 years is 70 weeks.

So these 45 days bring us to the end because he tells Daniel to go his way, okay, because he's gonna die and then be resurrected at the end of the 45 days.

Think about that.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Heavy.

Okay, do we have another speaker?

Jesus.

Are there any other speakers?

Okay.

Come forward, sir.

Before you begin, if there are any other members of the public who haven't yet spoken and you would like to this afternoon, please stand in line, or else this will be our last speaker.

Welcome, sir.

My name is Richard S.

D.

Peterson.

I uh live in Noah Valley of San Francisco, and I follow the news, and I am very disturbed by the news.

Ordinarily I'd talk about parcel taxes because I think that the mayor's stand on parcel taxes is uh a bit skewed for downtown, and it does not take the interest of homeowners into consideration.

But today I'd like to talk about uh uh a couple of things that I've read in the news.

Uh and the one is uh Mark Benioff.

Um he, of course, has been in the news for inciting up uh the Donald Trump to perhaps almost immediately bring troops into our city.

Now, this was kind of a gaffe that he walked back a little bit, but not really.

He is a professed Republican now after being a Democrat for many years and taking the services of many years of not the services, but taking uh the providing service.

He was very generous.

He's an enterprise software uh uh developer formal.

We had IBM.

If you want to check me out, I've been in this business for 50 years, but that's not the real thing.

He's just one of the big bros that are running uh the show.

What I really want to talk about is the disturbing thing that I read in the paper about Mayor Lurie and the no-bid contract uh that has been brought up.

And I realize that uh there has been talk about that in the board at this particular time, and the only apparent defender has been uh one of our supervisors that is actually uh a democratic socialist.

Interesting.

Thank you for your comments.

All right, Mr.

President.

All right, uh public comment is now closed.

Madam Clerk, let's go to our for adoption of that committee reference agenda, items 54 through 58.

Items 54 through 58 were introduced for adoption without committee reference.

A unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first appearance today.

Alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first appearance to go to committee.

I think that Supervisor Melgar may want to sever something, yeah.

Yeah, uh 57, please, and I want to sever 54.

And Madam Clerk, could you call the role on the balance of the items?

On items 55, 56, and 58.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan, I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen, I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey, I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder, I, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Mahmoud, I, Supervisor Mandelman.

I.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, I, and Supervisor Sauter.

Sautter, I.

There are 10 ayes.

Uh without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Um, Madam Clerk, could you please call item 54?

Item 54.

This is a resolution to celebrate Diwali on October 20th, 2025 in the city and county of San Francisco, and honoring the South Asian community for its enduring contributions to the city and the city reaffirms its commitment to promoting equity, inclusion, and cultural celebration for all San Franciscans.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I pulled this item because I wanted to thank Anjali Remy for coming by uh and talking to us a bit about Diwali, also to congratulate her and um Parivar Bay Area on your new home at 837 Turk.

Um Diwali is of course more than just a celebration of light suites and fireworks, it's also a celebration of the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil and hope over despair.

Across India and around the world.

Millions of people light day as decorate their homes and come together with family and friends to mark the joyous occasion.

It's a celebration of renewal of life, of relationships, and of purpose, and it invites us to reflect on the past year to let go of negativity and to welcome new beginnings with open hearts and open minds.

I want to thank my colleagues for their unanimous co-sponsorship and thank Calvin Ho and my officer's work on the resolution and um and with that.

I'm sure there are no objections.

I think we can take this item.

Same house, same call without objection.

The resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 57.

Item 57, resolution to recognize October 2025 as domestic violence awareness month in the city and county of San Francisco.

Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Uh, and thank you to uh all, every single one of my colleagues for uh co-sponsoring this legislation and to those of you who attended the rally earlier.

I also want to recognize the domestic violence consortium and Beverly Upton, who uh just spoke at the Office of Victims' Rights.

Uh, I see Director Ivy Lee and Bobby Lopez uh here, uh, along with Sam Hogan from uh Supervisor Mahmoud's office, and also Tracy Brown Callardo in uh Supervisor Walton's office and others who supported this effort along the way.

We have such a long way to go, uh colleagues.

I just want to thank all of the service providers and advocates.

Um, especially the survivors who continue to shed a light on this issue and fight fearlessly and with courage.

It takes courage to survive and thrive.

I am a survivor of domestic violence and abuse along with my mother and sisters.

There are so many of us who have lived through it and uh at risk, are at risk of it, and we need to do everything we can to invest in the resources to prevent and to uplift survivors.

This means housing, it means health care, it means services, mental health resources, wraparound care, two generation strategies, everything we can to uplift people.

We must do, um, and we have to do it when it counts at budget time.

It breaks my heart to know that we are slipping backwards in our city.

Backwards as domestic violence is on the rise locally and nationally during a time when our basic fundamental rights are under attack.

Aggravated domestic assault makes up 50 percent of TV incidents in San Francisco, up from 35 percent in 2019.

We must commit to doing more.

And with that, before I vote before we vote, I want to make uh a motion to present a minor uh but meaningful amendment to the resolution on page two, please.

Lines seven uh through eight to reflect the updated theme for this year, which is lead with courage, a call to action in a way to honor the strength of survivors and the importance of our own accountability.

And I have circulated this uh amendment among all of my colleagues.

Uh, thank you.

The rest I submit.

Great.

Thank you, uh Supervisor Melgart.

We have a motion to amend the resolution.

Is there a second seconded by Chen?

Um colleagues.

I think we can take that amendment without objection.

Um, the resolution is amended.

Um, and then I think we can take the amended resolution, same house, same call without objection.

The resolution, the amended resolution is adopted.

And then uh Madam Clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items?

I have none to report, Mr.

President.

Uh, could you please read the in memoriams?

Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of Supervisor Walton for the late Miss Karen Pierce, on behalf of Supervisor Chen for the late Mr.

Hector Williams, on behalf of Supervisor Dorsey and moved by the president to be on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late Mr.

Arlo Smith on behalf of Supervisor Fielder for the late Mr.

Binoz Budatoki, on behalf of Supervisor Mandelman, for the late Miss Major Griffin Gracie, Mr.

Mark René, and Mr.

Terrence Allen.

Thank you, Madam Clerk, colleagues.

I think that brings us to the end of our agenda.

Madam Clerk, do we have any further business before us today?

That concludes our business for today.

And we are adjourned.