Good afternoon.

Welcome to the March 10th, 2026 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.

Present.

Mandelman present, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar present, Supervisor Soder.

Sauter present, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl present, Supervisor Walton, Walton present, and Supervisor Wong.

Wong 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 Ramatushaloni, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatushaloni 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?

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

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

On behalf of our board, I'd like to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV.

Today that is especially Suze Enos.

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

Madam Clerk, why don't we go to our 2 p.m.

special order, the mayor's appearance?

Yes, the special order at 2 p.m.

is the appearance by the Honorable Mayor Daniel Lurie.

There being no questions submitted from eligible members representing districts 5 through 8.

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

Welcome, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, Board President.

Good afternoon, everyone, members of the board.

You all know that our city charter is one is one of the longest in the country.

It's bloated and it's broken.

That's why President Mandelman and I are proposing reforms to clean up our charter and make our city's government more accountable to the residents we serve.

First, we are going to fix the city's broken contracting system to make sure that our tax dollars are spent efficiently and transparently.

Right now, city contracting is too expensive, too slow, and too political.

Not only do different departments have different rules, but more than a dozen departments can be involved in approving just one contract.

This slows down projects and drives up costs, and we all know we can do better.

By bringing contracting under the city administrator, we can set consistent citywide standards that will cut red tape, reduce delays, and save taxpayer dollars.

Second, we are going to make our ballots shorter and simpler.

In 2024, our San Franciscans considered 15 ballot measures.

In the same election, Oakland had three, San Jose had one.

Our proposed changes would allow a majority of the Board of Supervisors to put a measure on the ballot and bring us closer to state and other Bay Area city standards on signature requirements.

And it would eliminate the mayor's ability to unilaterally place a measure on the ballot.

These reforms will move us in the right direction and ensure that ballot measures reflect citywide priorities.

Third, accountability.

San Franciscans expect our city to deliver world-class services.

But right now, our charter reward rewards bureaucracy and scatters responsibility.

These reforms would change that to ensure that when San Franciscans elect a mayor, they know who is responsible for delivering results.

They would allow the mayor to hire and remove department heads, while ensuring that unelected commissioners are accountable to the leaders who appoint them.

They would also create flexibility to reorganize departments when government isn't working as it should.

San Franciscans elect people to run their government, and those leaders should be accountable for whether it works.

If it doesn't, voters should know exactly who to hold responsible.

That's why we hold elections.

This package of reforms is about results.

It's about accountability.

It's about making City Hall work for San Francisco.

Thank you.

Thank you, Board President.

I appreciate the time.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you for your remarks.

Thank you for the uh collegial way in which you and your team have worked on these measures over these last several months.

Thank you, sir.

All right.

Good to see you.

Thank you.

And with that, this meet this matter has been discussed and is now filed.

Madam Clerk.

That takes us back to communications.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes you all to attend the board meeting in person in the board's legislative chamber, room 250 within City Hall on the second floor.

And when you're not able to be here, you can catch the live stream at WW.sfgovtv.org or watch the live uh showing on SFGov TV's Channel 26.

If you need to submit public comment in writing, you can send an email to BOS at SFgov.org or send an email to uh uh or use the U.S.

Postal Service address the envelope to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, Dr.

Carlton B.

Uh Goodlit Place City Hall, room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102.

If you need to make a reasonable accommodation for a future meeting under the Americans with Disability Act, or to request language assistance, contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling 415-554-5184.

And through a prior arrangement, Mr.

President, today the first speaker during general public comment will be a caller who has requested an ADA accommodation.

Thank you, members.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Let's go to approval of our meeting minutes.

Yes, approval of the February 3, 2026 board meeting minutes.

Could I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented, moved by Chen, seconded by Dorsey.

Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll?

On the minutes as presented, Supervisor Dorsey.

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

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

I.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter, Sauter, I, Supervisor Sherrill, Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, there are eleven eyes.

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

Madam Clerk, let's go to our consent agenda.

Please call items one through four.

Items one through four are on consent.

These items are considered to be routine.

If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately.

Please call the roll.

On items one through four, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, I, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

I.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter.

Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, there are 11 eyes.

Without objection, these ordinances are finally passed.

Madam Clerk, let's go to new business.

Please call it number five.

Item number five, this is a resolution to approve the Fourth Amendment to a contract SFMTA-2018-48, armed and unarmed security services agreement between the City and County and Universal Protection Service LP, doing business as Allied Universal Security Services to extend the term by one year for a total term, April 1st, 2020 through March 31st, 2027, to increase the amount by approximately 5.9 million for a new total amount of approximately 65 million.

Let's take this item, same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call it number six.

Item six, this is a resolution to approve and authorize a grant of a permanent easement on SFPUC's San Francisco Public Utility Commission's property, located at 1800 Gerald Avenue, to consist of an easement of approximately 3,000 square feet of land within SFPUC's Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant between the city and Pacific Gas and Electric for the purpose of replacing and relocating SFPUC's existing solids treatment facilities at its Southeast Water Pollution Control Plithent and Modern Techies and facilities at no cost for a term effective upon approval of the resolution and recordation of the agreement by the city by the city's assessor recorder until PGE surrenders or abandons the easement area or the agreement is terminated and to determine that the grant of the easement at no cost will serve a public purpose by delivering an increased natural gas supply to SFPUC's existing Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant and its new biosolids digesters facilities and to adopt the appropriate findings.

Supervisor Fielder.

Thanks, President Mandelman.

Normally this this item is something that would not really catch my attention, but I do understand that according to S of PC, the improvements that this easement will grant replaces old solids treatment systems with new technology and supporting biogas, which I I think makes a ton of sense for helping to meet our climate goals.

But in order to make this regenerative energy work, the plant actually needs more natural gas.

And PG ⁇ E already supplies gas to the site, and so they're going to also be installing that.

And this facility needs extra gas.

And knowing what our climate goals are, I just cannot support support the concept of this.

But understanding what this puts what this means for our climate goals, I I cannot support it, so I'll be not supporting it.

Thank you.

Do we have anyone from the PUC here?

Come on up.

Well, welcome, Mr.

Smith.

Would you like to try to address that concern?

Thank you, President Mendelman, Jeremy Spitz with the SFPUC Government Affairs.

Thank you, Supervisor Fielder, for the concern.

I I just want to clarify one thing.

This easement isn't for the biogas portion of the biosolids digester facilities project.

It is just to provide additional natural gas to heat the new larger digesters, which is important for the uh biosolids digestion process.

Um of the reasons why we need additional natural gas, and sorry, this is gonna be a little bit in the weeds here, but we um made the decision as part of the design process to move away from a cogeneration process where we actually used the natural or the biogas that the process um creates on site to create electricity and then feed that back in to create heat, which is part of the process.

Um we made a decision to move away from that because it had uh an environmental justice impact on the community nearby.

Excuse me.

Um so we fully understand your concern with having additional natural gas, but we just thought that this was the best uh the best solution for the community and the most value for the project.

Thank you, Mr.

Spitz.

Um Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

On item six, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, no, Supervisor Mahmood.

Machmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

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

Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton I, Supervisor Wong, Wong I, Supervisor Chan, Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I.

There are 10 ayes and one no, with Supervisor Fielder voting no.

The resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item seven.

Item seven, this is a motion to appoint Elena Rivkin residency requirement waived to the assessment appeals board number three, term ending September 7th, 2026.

Please call the roll.

On item seven, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder I, Supervisor Machmood.

Mahmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar I, Supervisor Sauter.

Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton I, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I.

There are 11 eyes.

Without objection, the motion is approved.

Oh, without objection, yes, the motion is approved.

Madam Clerk, please call item eight.

Item eight was referred without recommendation from the rules committee.

It's an ordinance to approve the police surveillance technology policy for electronic location tracking devices and to make the required findings.

Chair Walton.

Thank you so much, President Mendelman.

Colleagues, as you know, this was referred to this body without recommendation from committee.

At the time of the committee meeting, there were questions that I had, and there are also questions that other colleagues in community have about this ordinance.

So I would like to continue this ordinance until our March 24th meeting.

A few of the major reasons is because there are concerns about warrantless trackers, lack of data, cost concerns, reliability, and of course, always the protection of civil liberties.

And I would like to make a motion to continue to the 24th.

Seconded uh by Fielder.

Um Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, President Amendelman.

Uh, and thank you, Supervisor Walton, for making that motion.

I am in support of the motion to for continuance, allowing a couple of things.

I have some questions, um, both on the existing technology that uh is available.

Um, Star Chase um seems uh it to be the technology uh in question and also the only uh technology that is uh currently available uh for a pilot uh use.

Um I have some questions about that technology itself.

I would like to um have some more time, help me under better understand the technology.

Uh I certainly also have questions about um the uh you know basically also the policy um uh ensuring whether this policy also ensure um the rights to fourth amendment um allowing a tracker um for a moving vehicle.

Um so those are some of my questions that I hope to have answers um to um by the time we meet again uh and vote on this um legislation, but I certainly hope that uh in the events that we I do have those answers.

I I still hope that when we vote on this, I note that today we're not ready um to have um perhaps presenters um in the chamber to answer those questions publicly.

Um or are we do we have someone that's here now that's able to answer?

We do.

Great.

Good afternoon, President Mandelman, Supervisors, I'm Carl Nasita, government affairs manager for the police department.

If you'd like Supervisor Chan, I can just jump right in and explain a little bit about the policies in question, which is Star Chase, you're correct.

StarCase is a pursuit mitigation tool.

It's not a pursuit enhancement tool.

Its overall goal is to reduce dangerous high-speed pursuits within the city.

It is a GPS projectile launcher that would affix to a car regarding Fourth Amendment rights.

Under exigent circumstances only, would the police department be able to use uh Star Chase to tag a vehicle so that it wouldn't have to pursue the vehicle and would be able to track it.

In other scenarios, the department would request a warrant, obviously approved by a judge to continue tracking, but in exigent circumstances, including hot pursuits of vehicles, uh the department would be allowed under the policy.

And um it is my understanding that as I'm learning that Oakland Police Department has determined that Star Trace is not a functioning technology or I shouldn't say the technology itself.

Is that just the star chase itself as uh equipment that they provide is not meeting the standard uh or meeting the goal to um to be fully utilized?

Could you walk us through?

So I can't speak to Oakland's experience directly, though I did read some public reporting about their use of Star Chase, and there are a couple of differences between OPD's policy as well as SSPD's policy in Oakland.

They required a warrant after tagging the vehicle in order to track it at all.

That was their policy.

That sort of defeats the purpose of it in these exigent circumstances.

That delayed time would not allow police to be able to apprehend a vehicle contemporaneously, which is the goal here.

So that's the major difference.

I know in public reporting, Oakland said that they only use Starchase in five years a handful of times, and only were able to successfully tag one vehicle.

As you mentioned, this is a pilot program or pilot technology under Prop E.

So the department first deployed Star Chase in December 2024.

Throughout the calendar year of 2025, the department had 22 deployments of Star Chase and 17 successful tags on vehicles during that time.

Some of those did lead to either vehicle recovery or the safe apprehension of suspects.

So the purpose of the pilot, you know, is to see whether or not it would work for the SFPD so far within that one-year pilot.

We have seen success.

And again, it is a pursuit mitigation tool to reduce the need for high-speed pursuits throughout the city.

Obviously, because our deployment is limited, we only have six mounted on vehicles.

It won't work in every situation, but it will mitigate some.

Thank you.

Um I do appreciate colleagues.

I I hope that I may, if I may have just two weeks time period.

Um I do have more questions, but I also would like to do a little bit more of a homework again around the Fourth Amendment and policy-wise, and help me allow me to have that time.

So I appreciate the potential two weeks continuance uh allowing us to have more in-depth conversation.

Thank you.

Um seeing no one else on the roster.

Um, I am inclined to support the request for a two-week continuance.

I think uh, you know, as a matter of collegiality, that's a reasonable thing for uh colleagues to request, and there isn't any particular reason why this needs to get dealt with sooner.

I fully anticipate that I at least will be supporting this uh this item in two weeks.

Um I did support Prop E.

I think uh, you know, San Francisco and Oakland can take different paths on public safety, and um, you know, in this case I think should, but uh we can talk about that more in two weeks.

Um Madam Clerk, could you call the role on the motion to continue?

On the motion to continue, item eight, two, March 24th, Supervisor Dorsey.

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

Aye.

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

Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Aye.

Walton I, Supervisor Wong, Wong I, Supervisor Chan, Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I.

There are 11 ayes.

Uh without objection, the motion is approved.

Um Madam Clerk, let's go to our committee reports.

Items 13 through 19 were considered by the government audit and oversight committee at a regular meeting on Thursday, March 5th, 2026, and were forwarded as committee reports.

Item 13 through 19 are seven ordinances that authorize the settlement of lawsuits filed by various entities against the city.

For item 13, this is uh this lawsuit involves an employment dispute filed by Keisha Henderson for 55,000.

For item 14, this lawsuit involves an employment dispute filed by Renee Owens for 800,000.

For item 15, the lawsuit involves alleged elder abuse filed by Lan Pham et al.

for 500,000.

Um item 16 is an unlitigated claim filed by WPP Group USA Inc.

for 350,000.

This claim involves a refund of gross receipts and homelessness gross receipts taxes.

For item 17, it's an unlitigated claim filed by Robert Daiphoon for 32,500.

This claim involves property damage arising from flooding alleged to be caused by a water service line rupture.

For item 18, this is an unlitigated claim filed by Everen Capital Corporation for approximately 2.2 million.

The claim involves a refund of gross receipts and homelessness gross receipts taxes.

And for item 19.

This is a settlement of a situation settlement of a citation issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District for $30,405.

This citation involves an alleged public nuisance stemming from the discharge of chemical agents.

Please call the role on these items.

On items 13 through 19, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder I, Supervisor Magmud.

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar I, Supervisor Sauter, Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Aye.

Wong I, Supervisor Chen.

Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I.

There are 11 ayes.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 20.

Item 20.

This item was considered by the Land Use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on Monday, March 9th, 2026, and was recommended as amended with a new title.

Item 20 is a resolution adding the commemorative street named James Richardsway on Oakdale Avenue between 3rd Street to New Hall Street.

And we can take this item.

Oh, nope, we cannot.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you so much, President Mendelman.

I just wanted to one thank the land use committee for hearing this item on yesterday and thank all the co-sponsors for making sure that this move forward to today's meeting.

Thank you.

All right.

And now we can take this item, same house, same call without objection.

The resolution is adopted.

And Madam Clerk, let's go to our 230 special order.

Yes, the 230 special order is the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of San Francisco.

And I think today we're starting with District 10 Supervisor Walton.

Thank you so much, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, today I rise to recognize and commend Jessica Campos.

For her extraordinary commitment to community, equity, and public service here in San Francisco.

As the daughter of Mexican immigrants, Jessica brings not only professional expertise, but deeply rooted lived experience to her work.

Born and raised alone at San Francisco and Delhi City border, near the Cow Palace, she understands firsthand the challenges many families face when navigating systems and institutions that were not built with their cultures, values, and identities in mind.

That perspective grounds her leadership in cultural humility, compassion, and a deep respect for community.

Jessica currently serves as the Director of Outreach and Engagement for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, where she leads community-centered strategies that strengthen the trust between residents and government.

Through her work, she ensures that city initiatives are informed by lived experience and that equity is not just something talked about, but something that is actively implemented to create real and lasting change across our multiracial and multilingual communities.

Before this role, Jessica served as the community engagement lead at the San Francisco Office of Racial Equity, where she worked to connect residents directly to policy efforts focused on eliminating racial disparities.

And prior to her work in the city government, she served as the center manager of a Head Start and Early Head Start program in District 10.

Supporting some of San Francisco's most vulnerable families.

Through her leadership, she created environments where children, educators, and families were in power, while also building cross-sector partnerships to connect families to housing stabilization, food access, and other essential resources.

But Jessica's commitment to community does not stop at her job title.

She continues to serve as a board member for Advanced College and holds seat 12 on the San Francisco Child Care Planning and Advisory Council.

She supports early care educators in San Francisco and volunteers her time with numerous community organizations.

In partnership with San Francisco State University, she helped develop professional learning circles for educators and taught course focus on community engagement, civic leadership, and advocacy.

And anyone who has attended any community event across the city knows something else about Jessica.

She shows up.

Whether it's a neighborhood gathering, a community meeting, a cultural celebration, or a resource fair, Jessica is there.

Always present, always helping, always advocating for all of our communities.

Jessica, your leadership, dedication, and unwavering presence in our communities.

Do not go unnoticed.

On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, it is our honor to recognize you and thank you for the incredible work you continue to do for our city.

Congratulations and thank you for your service.

Good afternoon, Supervisors.

Happy Women's Month.

Supervisor Walton, thank you for your acknowledgments.

Both my parents found themselves here in San Francisco on Bryant Street where they met and then married.

To my dad, Apa, thank you for teaching us how to have impeccable work ethic and community organizing through the years of your leadership in the Hispanic group of Our Lady of Visitation in Sunnydale Avenue.

To my mom, Amma, gracias por the quedavas despiertas and talk but terminal, aunque no sabias como ayudarnos, I te quedabas con tu dictionario intuta bilingue para poder entenderlo que stavamo siendo.

You are the reason why I became an educator.

I learned very young that life is full of hardships, but also a lot of people who extend their hands to help.

It truly takes a village.

These are the roots that I that anchor me to the passion and dedication of serving our communities.

Thank you to my friends, families, and team who joined us today.

Y'all are amazing, and I'm truly fortunate to have such dedicated and passionate community advocates to live, to look up to, and to work alongside of.

Thank you again, Supervisor.

Next up from District 11, Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Paul President.

Jerry, may I have you go up to the podium?

She is uh bathroom.

Uh okay.

Oh, are we uh uh my honor is in the bathroom.

Let's let's can I come back?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Um District 2, Supervisor Cheryl.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Can I welcome Danielle Burris up to the lectern, please.

Colleagues, it is my absolute honor today to commend Danielle Burris for her outstanding leadership as one of the presidents of the Sacramento Street Merchants Association, where very recently she committed an or completed an arduous journey through getting lights up along the corridor.

And as a neighbor, I can't tell you how happy I am for your hard work.

But more importantly, it is an honor to be able to recognize you and your leadership today.

Danielle is a San Francisco native, an entrepreneur, a retailer, community builder who has spent more than 26 years creating independent retail concepts, supporting designers, artists, and small businesses.

A proud product of District 2, Danielle attended Convent of the Sacred Heart until third grade, Ecole Notre Dame de Victoire, then University High School here in San Francisco before going on to build a remarkable career rooted in this city and in its neighborhoods.

Danielle began her retail career in 1999 when she opened Brown Eyed Girl on Sacramento Street, a destination that blended fashion, interiors, and lifestyle and helped establish Presidio Heights as a hub for independent retail.

In 2004, she expanded into the bridal world with Anne Something Blue, a boutique known for its heart and for its personalized styling and for welcoming and celebrating comp couples, excuse me, from across the country as marriage equality expanded.

In 2009, Danielle founded the Barcode, first on Pier 3, bringing together international designers, artists, retailers, and innovators through rotating retail residencies, merging fashion, culture, and most importantly, community.

But beyond her own ventures, Danielle has quietly mentored countless women entrepreneurs sharing the lessons she learned from building independent retail brands in San Francisco.

Your work has long connected retail, philanthropy, civic engagement through your partnership with designers, nonprofits, and community organizations to support causes ranging from arts, culture to social justice and neighborhood revitalization.

And today, Danielle is actively strengthening Sacramento Street and helping shape the emerging Presidio Heights Fashion Design District, bringing together merchants, artists, and civic leaders to support small businesses and neighborhood events.

As co-president of the Sacramento Street Merchants Association, you have fostered an incredible community among the small business owners on the streets and brought the street to life, especially the new string lights, as we mentioned.

Danielle embodies women leadership in the business world.

And I'm so honored to have her join us in the chambers during this women's history month to be celebrated for all that you do for our neighborhood and for our city.

So, Danielle, on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, and more importantly, just me personally, thank you for being such a wonderful friend.

Thank you for being such a wonderful leader in our city, and thank you for being you.

And with that, the floor is yours.

Well, first off, thank you, Supervisor Sherell and the entire board for this honor during Women's History Month and just after International Women's Day.

To be honest, I'm experiencing now what it's like to be a room with all of your heroes.

What you guys do for this city means so much to us every single day.

And I say that for every merchant, especially in this last year and a half, year, year and a half, almost.

In 1999, encouraged by my girlfriends, I took a risk and opened my first door.

Brown eyed girl.

My mom believed I should start my own business, partly because I'm dyslexic, and she knew I had a gift for ideation.

And that working in a rigid man's corporate structure world might crush my creativity.

She was right.

When I opened Brown Eyed Girl, I wrote a mission statement that still guides me today.

I wanted to offer the women of San Francisco something greater than off-the-rack retail, a place where women could truly gather and share their stories.

Because women have stories, and unless they are told, we lose our voice as a community.

The idea continued with my bridal store and something blue.

I expanded from selling bridesmaids' dresses to full bridal salon in 2012, during a moment in time when marriage equality became the law of the land.

Suddenly I could style both of them for their wedding day, no matter what state they came from.

Watching that shift happen in real time was incredibly powerful.

Today, with the barcode, the mission continues to evolve.

It's ultimately about raising the bar for creativity, entrepreneurship, co-creation, and community, especially on Sacramento Street.

Along the way, I've lived with an autoimmune disease that disproportionately affects women.

But that experience has only strengthened my belief that when women support one another, there's very little that can stop us.

So today and every day, my goal is simple to keep raising that bar for creativity, entrepreneurship, and women's voices in the city I love so much.

Thank you, President Manelman.

Colleagues, today I have the honor of welcoming staff and eighth grade students from Saints Peter and Paul School as we celebrate their hundredth anniversary.

Dr.

Harris and the students, would you come on up, please?

There's a lot of them, so I'll start with the history.

Students studied academic subjects alongside alongside religion, music, and the Italian language.

In 1950, the school would become co-ed after a nearby all-girls school closed.

Today, Saints Peter and Paul School continues to follow the educational method of St.

John Bosco, providing students with a strong spiritual formation grounded in reason, religion, and kindness.

From pre-K to junior high, students at St.

Peter and Paul are part of a school that models and promotes social justice, compassion, inclusion, and tolerance.

Saints Peter and Paul School has stood for academic excellence in the heart of North Beach since 1925.

It's located right on Washington Square Park.

But beyond academics, it has built community.

When asked about their memories, alumni, including my office's own very own, Amy Lee.

You got to see your eighth grade picture last week, have offered these memories.

Visible throughout the neighborhood as the kids make their way to school.

After school hours, next door at Solutions Boys and Girls Club with Randy.

And Friday Mass with peers.

After we read, I asked the students for ideas on how the city could be improved and what laws we should consider.

And I was blown away with their ideas and how in tune they were with the city.

They shared ideas about Muni bus stops, traffic, trash cans, and they even knew about the fire sprinkler mandate.

So a hundred years is an incredible feat.

We're really glad that you were able to come in to help celebrate this.

Please.

We thank you for all the work and service that you offer our beautiful San Francisco.

And we are so delighted to be celebrating 100 years of service to youth in San Francisco.

And Danny, I'm so proud of all that you know about the Salesian world.

You took away a lot of my speech.

So I think what you really need to know is that these young people are eighth graders and they are about to head off to high school.

And that's where they're going to really start thinking about what the future holds for them.

And I know that as educators, we have one of the most privileged jobs, because every day we touch a piece of the future.

And so as we're experiencing this beautiful life, lifetime lesson.

Was that we hope all of our graduates will become good citizens of the earth.

And so that is our primary philosophy at Saints Peter and Paul School.

We thank you for your gracious welcome here to our beautiful City Hall, and we want you to know that we support your efforts as we move San Francisco into the next hundred years.

Thank you.

That's the good thing about being sure.

All right, District Four, Supervisor Wong.

Okay, may have uh Maria Luz Torre come up with uh the entire gang.

Over here.

Thank you, President Mattelman colleagues.

I think we're all familiar with Maria Luz Torre.

Uh she's been to many, many Board of Supervisors meetings.

And in Sacramento, too.

If anybody here ends up going to Sacramento, uh she'll be showing up uh to visit your offices.

It is my honor to present this commendation celebrating Maria Luz Torrey on the momentous occasion of her thirtieth work anniversary with Parent Voices California.

For three decades, Maria has been a source of wisdom, leadership, and unshakable commitment to the child care justice movement.

Maria is not only a devoted mother of two, but also a courageous immigrant who came to the United States from the Philippines as a lawyer and environmental advocate.

Seeking political asylum in nineteen ninety-two.

Her own struggles to secure child care fueled a passionate advocacy that has uplifted children, families, and especially women-led households throughout San Francisco and across California.

She's regarded as a respected principled leader whose lived experiences continues to shape meaningful change.

As a longtime organizer with Parent Voices San Francisco, Maria played a vital role in advancing policies that support working families.

Her leadership was instrumental in the passage of San Francisco's baby props C, a groundbreaking commercial rent tax dedicated to expanding child care and early education.

Maria likes to uh say since I I got uh put on the board of supervisors that uh she uh sh I became a supervisor, but she lost her supervisor.

Uh before uh stepping up to this role uh at Children's Council of San Francisco, I was uh uh uh she was part of my team, uh the advocacy team at Children's Council, and so honored to have had her be a part of that experience that I had there, where when I joined the organization, she really taught me, gave me her wisdom, uh took me on lobby trips uh to City Hall and to uh the state capitol, many, many of them uh to advocate for child care and working families.

Her impact, however, extends far beyond child care.

Under her leadership, Parent Voices San Francisco received a recognition from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for its asthma relief for kids initiative, which ensured that all school buses meet clean air standards.

Maria also served multiple terms on the Board of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth and has been a valued advisory committee member of the San Francisco Health Plan for many years.

Her legacy is visible, literally and symbolically, through her inclusion, and I'm probably supposed to sit pronouncing this wrong, Khaya, Kayagan, a permanent stained glass installation at the children's creativity museum that honors Filipino American community leaders.

The word meaning visibility or bringing truth to light perfectly captures her lifelong mission to make the experiences, strengths, and voices of children, families, and caregivers impossible to ignore in public policy and community spaces.

Uh definitely impossible to ignore.

She's probably getting you assigned some sort of commitment card somewhere.

Uh today, during Women's History Month, we proudly honor and celebrate Maria Louis Torre for her extraordinary service, transformational leadership, and immeasurable impact.

We extend our heartfelt appreciation for her continued commitment to the child care justice movement and to communities she has tirelessly served.

As Parent Voices California also marks its own 30 years of powerful parent organizing.

I like to invite Mary Ignatius, also up here, executive director of Parent Voices California to say a few words.

Thank you, Supervisor Wong.

Um Maria Luce uh has always practiced an uplifted collective leadership.

In fact, as an organizer, uh, she's trained to be in the background and let the parents lead.

So all of this attention makes her very uncomfortable.

This is a complete surprise to her.

She didn't know uh this was happening, but it's exactly why we wanted to do this, because the city and county should know Maria's name.

Um thank you.

Uh and uh and at the celebration that we just had prior to this, the parents said that all she needs to do is pick up a phone or send a text and they respond because they will follow her wherever she goes.

And that is a testament to the trust that she has built with them, and that only happens through deep relational parent organizing that Maria has harnessed for 30 years.

And as we at Parent Voices California celebrate our 30 years, we want to express our deepest gratitude for Maria Luce's relentless advocacy, moral courage, and decades-long dedication to love, power, dignity, and justice.

And as it is Women's History Month, we are proud that Parent Voices stands on the shoulders of two giants, Patty Siegel, Rest in Power, and uh Maria taking us into our next chapter as we win universal child care here in San Francisco across the state and across the country.

So uh it is my honor to introduce Maria Luz Torre.

But first, nope.

We have people up here who want to um say more nice things about you.

Um Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you.

Um Maria Lisa.

Happy women's history month.

Uh so you are one of the fiercest pen I warrior women I know.

Uh I am so glad we're doing this.

Thank you, uh Supervisor Wong.

Um, you are an amazing, relentless, courageous organizer, strategist.

Just like I I have watched you for decades doing your thing and making progress every step of the way to get us where we are today, which is farther than we have ever been in this movement.

So I am grateful for you.

I'm grateful, not just for your heart and the way that you mobilize people, but your brains.

Like you are an amazing strategist, and you have gotten us so far um with the work.

So I uh thank you.

I'm grateful for you.

Uh I'm also grateful that we can do this to honor you.

And uh make no mistake, everybody here knows somebody else started as the city hall knows our name.

Uh and we're hoping that everyone in Sacramento knows your name too.

Um, and that we do get to that promise of universal child care uh in our state, in our country, because that is the true social justice that we're all fighting for.

So thank you, Maria Luz, for everything you've done.

Uh I'm so glad that we're recognizing you and you go, girl.

Supervisor Chen.

Thank you for present Maria here.

Um thank you.

I I just want to thank you uh for really demonstrating as an immigrant as a mom and the month of uh where we celebrate Women History Month.

You are demonstrating what it's impossible to become possible.

So thank you.

Thank you for your work of fighting for our children, fighting for our youth, and fighting for our environment.

Um thank you for always sharing your love, your leadership, and your trust and your dedication to with us.

And very grateful and and very proud to be here celebrating it with you for your 30 years of uh 30 years of services in our community.

Thank you.

So proud of you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, President Mendelman and Maria Luz.

I just want you to know that I am so glad that this is happening.

Your commitment, your advocacy, the way you fight for our youngest and most vulnerable and the children who need you the most.

And now, Maria Luz, the floor is yours.

Thank you, um, Board of Supervisors and happy International Women's History Month to everyone, to all the women's supervisors.

Uh this is also a great event to commemorate our parent voices' 30th anniversary year.

Uh, that goes without saying I'm a founding organizer.

Uh I'm glad I'm witnessing this while I'm still alive, because the last time I was here was a commendation for Pat Sullivan.

And I honor all the women, child care warriors who I stand on their shoulders, Rosie Kennedy, Pat Sullivan, Carol Stevenson, Patty Siegel, the founder of Children's Council on Parent Voices, and someone who is still very much alive, who was also my mentor as Parent Voices Advocate for Youth, Margaret Broadkin, and all the parent voice leaders who are here behind me today.

Thank you for this very thoughtful and inspiring commendation.

Thank you.

District five supervisor Mahmoud.

Call up Mike Wong to the front.

Colleagues, today.

I have the honor of recognizing Michael Vaughn, the Clubhouse Director of the Tenderloin Clubhouse, for his deep commitment to the young people of San Francisco and for nearly two decades of service advancing the mission of the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.

Today's recognition is especially meaningful because Mike is concluding his time with the Boys and Girls Club movement.

As he closes this chapter of service, we want to take a moment as a board to acknowledge the impact he has made on countless young people and families across our city.

Those who know Mike know he, like me, is obsessed with Batman.

And not just because of his Batman tattoos, uh, but because of his focus and dedication to stand beside the community and protect the people who need it most.

So I apologize, Mike, I'm going to make some comic book references throughout this statement.

From there, he became a founding member of the Excelsior Clubhouse and later a founding member of the newly renovated Columbia Park Clubhouse.

Even at a young age, Michael stood as a leader.

Through programs like Keystone Club, he built the skills and confidence that would shape his path forward.

Over the course of nearly two decades, Mike served in multiple roles across several clubhouse sites within the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.

In each position, he became known as a mentor and collaborator, someone who helped colleagues strengthen their programs and build environments where young people felt truly supported.

As Clubhouse director of the Tenderloin Clubhouse, Mike has led with purpose and compassion.

Across all of this work, Mike has held a simple but powerful belief.

So thank you, Mike, for your dedication to the youth and families of San Francisco.

Our city is stronger and more connected because of your service.

We are grateful for everything you have done and excited to see the impact you will continue to make in the years ahead.

Thank you, Supervisor Mahmood and the District 5 office for the accommodation.

I have spent over 20 years of my life serving the youth and families of San Francisco through Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.

I spent over a decade of my life in the mission district at our Columbia Park and Mission Clubhouses in the past 10 years in the Tendloin, not only working for Boys and Girls Clubs, but being on a board of the Teneloin Community Benefit District, Teneloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, and the advisory board of the Healing Well.

Most recently here in the Tenloin, I was given an opportunity and a trust to help build coalitions, helping to form and steward the TL Children's Youth and Families Coalition and a TL executive director working group have been proud moments.

Opening the renovated Bodeka Park, a top 10 park in the city, has been our proud moment.

And to be part of the growth of initiatives like the Tenderloin Investment Blueprint, the Go Negre, and other projects will always hold a special place in my heart.

And I love being a leader at the Tenloy Clubhouse, working with, guiding, and supporting adult allies who are here for the right reasons.

I try to remember that I need to take care of the adults who take care of those kids.

So much of what I do is push kids to do their best to grow and learn every day.

Thank you for all the opportunities, the trust and the memories.

Thank you to all my mentors and thought partners, some of those people in this room today.

Thank you to every person and every organization that paved the way for me to be here.

Thank you to the city departments I got to partner with, the residents who guided and informed me, and the many organizations I got to build with for so long.

And thank you to Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco for letting a 14-year-old live out his dream to be a clubhouse director.

If I had a chance, if I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.

Thank you so much.

And now back to District Eleven, Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

What a beautiful day today.

Uh I am also honoring someone that's very, very beautiful.

Jerry, may I have you come out to the podium?

Woohoo!

It is my absolute pleasure to honor a woman who is a fierce advocate, a beautiful soul, an amazing warrior, and my own district eleven neighbor.

She is a woman who has quietly yet powerfully left her mark on our city's environmental justice movement and public education system.

As a young San Francisco as a school unified student, Jerry Almanza was already built for greatness.

She had great street smarts, compassion, and a desire to do right by her community.

As one of the earliest staff members of Podere, people organizing to demand environmental and economic rights.

Jerry worked hand in hand with young leaders to fight environmental racisms.

She helped to lead a signature campaign to reclaim a toxic brownfield on Folsom and Twenty Third Streets and transform it into a beautiful multi-generational part and gathering space to serve the neighborhood's diverse working class residents.

Today, part users may not know about all the people who fought for over eight years to turn the empty lot into a park.

They are grateful for the opportunity to play in a safe space in their own neighborhood.

Through it all, Jerry Amanza was there making it all happen.

Jerry also poured her heart into the Southwest Network for environmental and economic justice, or SNEC, serving as the delegate and joining force with over with other environmental justice communities from California to northern Mexico to live up community solutions to combat corporate and state sponsored and stay sponsored environmental racism.

Jerry went on to get her teaching credential in bilingual education and spent the next sixteen years as an elementary school teacher at CISA Chavez Elementary School in the mission district.

During that time, she taught bilingual education and everything from math to geography to science, using hands-on techniques to engage students to build shop, inquiring mindset with carefully based, with culturally based practices and a lot of love.

In her role as a UESF treasurer, she has supported and housed it SFUSD families who organized in the Faith in Action Bay Area to gain resources for families so that no child sleeps on the street and help start a legal defense fund for SFUSD students and family who are seeking opportunities for a better life for their children.

It is my greatest pleasure and my honor to honor Jerry today.

Thank you for all that you do to help create San Francisco, a San Francisco, where the lights of our youth and our diverse working class family shine blind.

Thank you, Jerry.

And Jerry, not only fan club in the audience.

You also have one over here, Supervisor Melgar.

I couldn't pass it up, Jerry.

In addition to being a great teacher, uh organizer, union leader, you're also an amazing friend and a mother.

And I uh admire your passion, but also your love and your deep commitment to community and also your family and the people around you that you're responsible for, and you are just um breathtaking uh in the way you approach life.

You're an amazing human being, Jerry.

This is why you have such a big support network.

Um I will say that whatever you do, you do well.

You put your heart and soul into it, and you your amazing brain.

Um, and we are so lucky to have had you um lead so many different campaigns, initiatives, because everything you do I know will turn out because Jerry's in charge.

So thank you, uh Supervisor Chen, for doing this, for honoring this amazing woman.

Uh the flowers look good on you.

Um and I am so glad we're doing it.

Thank you, Jerry.

Thank you.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, President Maneman.

Jerry, I just want to say, and I know that Supervisor Chen and Supervisor Melgar have said a lot and almost everything, but I do want you to know one that I appreciate you as an educator and also appreciate you for all the work you did coordinating and organizing everyone to make sure that our students still had a place to go during the strike and that they were looked after.

And just for being the amazing leader that you are.

Again, this is well deserved, and so I'm happy to be here to see this happen.

Thank you.

Supervisor Fielder.

Thank you.

Uh Jerry, uh, you have been there for some of the most vulnerable people in San Francisco.

Um, specifically our immigrant students, their families, our students who don't have homes to go into at night, their families.

And I just really am in awe of how much you stick by and and work alongside people who are in uh instructural injustices, and you put your all into it and your compassion for your colleagues and your members comes out very clearly, and I just want to appreciate you for everything that you've done for our students and their families, especially those who um have migrated here and who are not sure where they're sleeping at night.

So thank you so much.

The floor is yours.

Thank you.

Um thank you, Supervisor Chen, Fielder, Milgar, Walton, Connie.

Um I want to first of all appreciate Supervisor Chen.

Um, she is my neighbor, and I'm very, very proud that she is um gets to be the person that represents our district as a woman of color, as a mother.

Um, and so I I want to appreciate you and thank you.

And of course, your amazing aide, Charlie Shimas.

I know he doesn't like this to be called out, but he's awesome too.

Um, so I want to give a big shout out to everybody that's here today.

Um, you all um Chen and all of you talked about this, right?

My Poder family is here, my César Chavez family's here, my Fen Accion family, my family, my daughter It's my mother-in-law, my partner Roque, and my good best friends first since I was 19 years old that I first came to San Francisco and got to meet and still friends with, um, along with Mirna and Lisa, my men some of my mentors from earlier on from Poder.

Um, and so I'm really excited to be here with you all today.

And I want to just say that I I couldn't do this work without any with your support without your support.

Right.

So all of you have been have given me strength.

You have listened to my rants and my crazy ideas.

You provided me with love.

You helped me raise my child.

Um, you've given me courage to follow my heart to keep organizing for a different world that we know is possible.

Um, as our recent educator strike showed, SF is a union town.

Um, I am so proud to stand before you as a union leader who is actively working to make the world uh the world the real that world a reality.

We're working class families can continue to live here because of rent control, right?

Like to be honest, that's why I'm still here because I've been living in rent control uh places as a teacher.

I can't afford anything else, right?

Um it I I strive to work for an SF that welcomes newcomers from diverse backgrounds because we know it's possible.

We know that SF continues to support innovation and creativity, right?

That's shown to be possible.

Um SF can continue to invest in social services for our youth and our families.

We know that we can make that a possibility.

Um, so SF is one of the richest cities in the world, which gives us a responsibility to ensure that we are investing in those of us who are the backbone of this city and make the city culturally rich.

We have a responsibility to ensure that those who have benefited from the generous tax incentives pay their fair share.

I look forward to continue to contribute to work towards an SF that is diverse and supportive of working class families and strengthening our public schools.

I urge all of you here who were elected by your peers to use your public service to champion uh a San Francisco that is diverse culturally and economically.

So let's make it happen, guys.

Let's keep doing it.

Thank you.

All right, Madam Clerk, please call our three PM special order items nine through twelve together.

Items nine through twelve were continued open from February 10th, 2026.

Item 9 is a public hearing of persons interested in the de facto denial of a conditional use authorization for a proposed project at 524 through 526 Vallejo Street and 4-4A and San Antonio Place to legalize the merger of three dwelling units on second and third floors into one dwelling unit and to reinstate one dwelling unit on the ground floor within an existing four-unit residential building located within RM1, residential mixed low density zoning district, Telegraph Hill North Beach Residential SUD.

Item 10 is the motion to approve the Planning Commission's decision, de facto denying a conditional use authorization.

Item 11 is the motion to disapprove the Planning Commission's decision.

And item 12 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

We continued this item from February 10th.

I believe we have received uh another continuance request uh from the appellant who is also the project sponsor.

Um I see Supervisor Sauter in the queue.

Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you, President Manaman.

Yes, colleagues, I'd like to ask for this item to be continued once more.

Uh all parties, including the appellants, uh Department of Building Inspection Planning are on board with this request.

And this additional time will allow for an inspection from DBI, which we believe is important to bring more clarity to the situation.

So I would like to make a motion for these items to be continued to April 7th.

All right.

Um is there a second?

Seconded by Dorsey.

Um we will need to take uh public comment on the continuance before we act on that motion.

Um I guess I will uh Madam Clerk, can you please call for public comment on the continuance?

Great.

Welcome, sir.

Uh I need the overhead, please.

We're setting the timer for two minutes.

Thank you.

My name is Jerry Durattler.

I'm opposed to continuing this matter.

In our chronicle article yesterday, the homeowners acknowledged they knew the house was zoned a multi-unit building, could see the property at a single floor floor plan or single family floor plan, and relied on assurances from the seller and real estate agents that the discrepancies were not a big deal.

The Chronicle article contradicted important representation in their 98-page appeal.

The homeowners are asking the Board of Supervisors to override the Planning Commission and grant them a CUA in a housing crisis.

There is no sound rationale for their request.

If you grant them a CUA, the owner of this property, 104 to 114 Presidio Avenue will convert seven housing, who converted seven housing units into a $32 million 26,000 square foot private estate will be right behind them.

The criteria for overturning the planning commission decision has not been met.

There were no errors in interpreting the planning code or abuse of discretion by the planning commission.

As my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make right.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Are there any other members of the public who are interested in the continuance of items 9 through 12?

The public hearing of persons interested in the de facto denial of a conditional use authorization for the Vallejo Street and Antonio Place projects.

All right.

Public comment on the continuance is closed.

And so uh colleagues, we have this motion to continue the hearing open to the April 7th, 2026 Board of Supervisors meeting.

I am imagining that we can take that without objection.

Uh Mr.

President, we have a different House.

Oh, nope.

We got to do a roll call.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

On the motion to continue items 9 through 12 open to April 7th.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, I, Supervisor Machmood.

Mahmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

I.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar, I, Supervisor Soder.

Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Aye.

Walton, I, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I.

There are 11 ayes.

Without objection, uh, this appeal hearing and its associated motions are continued open to April 7th, 2026.

And I think, Madam Clerk, that takes us to roll call.

Yes.

The first member to introduce roll call for introductions is Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Um, colleagues, I have a couple things today, both relating to an email I sent last week outlining the basis for my opposition to a proposed lease for our employees' retirement system in its bid to relocate from its long-standing location in the civic center area to a luxury office high rise in the financial district.

Um, as you may recall, I had a few reasons.

Uh first, leaving aside my feelings about that agency's rationale to improve its proximity to financial services vendors to the detriment of proximity to the city employees whose retirement dollars it manages.

This move is inconsistent with the board legislative policies enshrined in our general plan.

In particular, it would abandon Civic Center area plan objectives to maintain and reinforce the Civic Center as quote, the focus of community government and to develop the civic center as a cohesive area for the administrative functions of city, state, and federal government.

These board-enacted planning priorities will be essential if we are to restore the vibrancy and well-being of neighborhoods I represent, including mid-market civic center, West Soma, the hub, and portions of Hayes Valley, most of which were disproportionately harmed by city government policies during the COVID pandemic.

In my view, any city agency's proposed move out of Civic Center represents the exact opposite of what our city should be doing to reinvest and reinvigorate our adjacent neighborhoods with strategic investments of our city's own real estate assets, and I will have more to uh say on that in the next week or two.

Um, second, given these policy implications of our general plan, even beyond the charter provisions that assure uh board the this will be subject to board approval anyway, this board of supervisors deserved to be consulted much sooner than it was, in my view.

We should never be put into situations where sunken costs and administrative presumptions risk up being upended because we, as a board declined to behave like potted plants.

We are elected to do our duties under the city charter, which includes policymaking authority, and this proposed move was a policy matter before it was anything.

Third, I remain unconvinced that this agency's search for a new location was a good faith exercise to maximize value for the employees' pension trust.

The representation in the budget and legislative analysts report and to me directly was that SPERS uh toured and evaluated a total of 20 buildings for their new site.

Only after obtaining the actual list of 20 buildings did it become evident to me that 19 of the 20 buildings were in the financial district.

Only one option was in the civic center, and despite its cost savings, it was rejected.

Accordingly, I am today announcing two items.

First, a legislative drafting request for a proposed amendment to our administrative code to ensure that there is an early policy-making role for the Board of Supervisors whenever city real estate decisions intend to depart from board enacted policies enshrined in our Civic Center area plan.

And second, uh a letter of inquiry requesting that the city administrator's office direct its real estate division to survey all possible alternatives for SFRS relocation within the mid-market and civic center area and to do so in conformance with the spirit of our general plan.

And on behalf of uh my mid-market and civic center area neighbors, please know how much I appreciate everyone's consideration on this, and the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey.

Supervisor Fielder.

Thank you, Madam Clerk, colleagues.

Today I am requesting that the budget and legislative analysts office complete an audit of the sheriff's office.

This audit is not an indictment of any one person or workforce.

The sheriffs are esteemed and valued public servants who secure our city buildings and protect public safety.

I know all of us at the board are grateful every day we have the sheriff securing this building and many others around the city.

With that said, it is a part of our job on the board to ensure that public funds are used efficiently and dutifully on behalf of taxpayers, especially during a budget deficit, and when many San Franciscans are wanting community policing.

There are several reasons I'm calling for this audit this year.

Firstly, the Sheriff's Department is projected to overrun its overtime budget by $19 million.

We all recently received a memo from the controller's office noting that from July 1st, 2025, the start of this fiscal year, to February 13th, 2026, sheriff expenditures, especially on overtime has ballooned so much that according to the controller, if the rate of expenditures continues to exceed the budget, even savings on vacant positions, drawing from reserves, equipment, capital projects, and facilities maintenance will not be enough to fund a shortfall and could materially impact operations.

At the same time that our public health department funding is being cut by 40 million dollars.

This disparity raises serious questions about our city's priorities and commitment to fiscal oversight.

Secondly, the Sheriff's Department has been the center of a number of troubling incidents, further deepening the public's concerns about transparency and management.

There have already been costly consequences.

The city was sued by the Bay Aquality Management District after Pepperball Launcher Gas drifted onto the campus of Portula Elementary School from a sheriff's department training exercise, with the city ultimately settling the case for thousands of dollars this past fiscal year.

And we just approved that settlement here at Board.

Separately, Mission NOCL reported disturbing allegations from women incarcerated in the San Francisco jail, who say deputies forced them to undress during searches while filming them.

Claims that have sparked outrage and calls for accountability from our constituents.

Finally, despite San Francisco's sanctuary policies, ICE continues to operate here in San Francisco.

And the Sheriff's Department has authority over which individuals in county jails may be handed over to federal immigration authorities.

The public deserves to know if the Sheriff's Department is honoring our sanctuary city policy in good faith.

San Franciscans deserve accountability when it comes to how public funds are spent, especially when serious allegations of abuse and potentially fiscal negligence are at hand.

Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being used and whether public resources are being directed responsibly, especially amid our city's budget deficit.

And that is why I'm announcing an audit of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department.

Secondly, today I have an in memorium for Diamond Dave Whitaker, who died at age 88 on March 2nd.

Diamond Dave was a ubiquitous character in San Francisco, having moved here at age 19 in 1957.

He was the quintessential lifelong hippie beat poet, punk rocker, and political activist who moved in and out of art and advocacy across the city and connected with everyone he met along the way, offering poetic musings, a giant smile, and always a twinkle in his eye.

Diamond Dave was honored by the Board of Supervisors in 2016 with a resolution commending him for his contributions to the arts, culture, social well-being, and peace, and declaring February 2nd, 2016, Diamond Dave Whitaker Day.

The lore around Diamond Dave is endless.

He was an early mentor to Bob Dylan, turning him on to Woody Guthrie, Jack Kiriwak, and allegedly marijuana.

Two sessions from Dylan's Through the Open Window bootleg series were recorded at Diamond Dave's house in Minneapolis.

He shared his personal accounts of many major historical events he witnessed in person, which he called his hip story.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech in DC as a passenger on the further bus to the human being in 1967, and later that year at the death of the hippies funeral, and so many more pivotal moments in our nation's and our city's history.

He seemed to always be everywhere in San Francisco's counterculture history.

He cooked free food with the diggers in the summer of love and food not bombs in the 1990s through the 2010s.

He was one of the founders of KPOO Radio in the 1970s and hosted a long-running live music and poetry show on Pirate Cat Radio, which would later become Mutiny Radio in District 9 at the corner of Florida and 24th Street.

While that radio station closed a few years ago, he did not stop writing and reciting poetry here and there and really everywhere.

He was a member of the Flower Shop Art Collective next to the Alamani Farmers Market.

He was a lifelong student at City College and for many years was celebrated as the oldest senator of City College's associated student council.

His legacy is a long winding road of poetry, music, art, and protest.

And I express my condolences to his family, friends, and the broader community of hundreds of San Franciscans who knew him so well.

And there is comfort in knowing he left a lasting mark on San Francisco by always living his life in line with his trademark poem that so many of us know by heart.

Cast a wide net, find the common thread, let life flourish, and don't panic.

Keep it organic.

Rest in peace and power, Diamond Dave.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Fielder.

Supervisor Monkmood.

Submit, thank you.

Supervisor Mandelman.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I have a few items today.

First, uh an update for those who have been following our efforts to push for more EV chargers on the sidewalks or in cur on curbside in San Francisco, and especially the members of the land use committee and Chair Melgar and others who participated in our December.

Um, not entirely satisfying at the time hearing.

Um I think we were heard, and so today the mayor and I are introducing uh legislation to establish a permitting pathway and program to allow uh curbside charging to go from the pilot that it is now to scale.

Um it'll create a new process building on that temporary curbside pilot program that has uh gotten two curbside chargers into um to Bose Triangle and will be getting more uh into other neighborhoods imminently.

Um the addition of these curbside chargers should make it easier for residents who live in apartments and may not have access to a charger in their building to uh to have an electric vehicle.

Um I'm grateful uh to all the folks, especially the folks at the MTA, uh Kate Turan and um others who've uh made that happen.

Um, today uh Supervisor Walton and I are introducing a resolution to recognize March 28th, 2026 as John and Ina Deerman Day in the city and county of San Francisco.

March 28th will be John's 95th birthday and will mark 48 years from the date when he was first appointed to the municipal court of San Francisco, and 16 years from the date of his retirement from the bench.

He was born on March 28, 1931.

Ina was born on February 4th, 1936 and died in January 24th of last year, on January 24th of last year.

It has been my great honor as a supervisor to have represented these two extraordinary, much admired and much beloved leaders who broke barriers and dedicated their lives to advancing civil rights and justice, who were always committed to doing the right thing and standing up for those whose vote voices too often go unheard.

Born into poverty in Texas, John grew up attending segregated primary schools and spent part of his childhood picking cotton as a sharecropper.

Despite intense discrimination among a number of challenges, John excelled academically throughout his schooling in Texas and later in Michigan.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Wiley College and earned a law degree from Wayne State University.

His experiences growing up inspired his lifelong fight for justice and his advocacy for vulnerable and marginalized communities.

As a black lawyer in Detroit, John was repeatedly denied opportunities at law firms and supplemented his income through social work.

When it became clear that it would not be feasible for him to pursue a law career in Michigan, he moved to California in 1959.

California, of course, had plenty of its own barriers to black advancement.

Racial minorities faced immense economic disadvantage and extreme wealth inequality, and many landlords in the 50s were refusing to rent or sell homes to African Americans.

Shortly after he arrived in San Francisco, he met Willie Brown.

The two quickly rose to prominence, demonstrating against discrimination in housing development projects in Forest Knowles, where developers had refused to sell homes to African Americans.

Their civil disobedience and contemporary contemporaneous community activism helped contribute to the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

In 1965, John and Willie Brown founded the Brown Deerman and Smith Law Firm that operated out of the heart of the Fillmore, and among other things earned a reputation for representing civil rights protesters.

On March 28th, 1977, former Governor Jerry Brown appointed John to the municipal court of San Francisco.

He would laser later rise to the Superior Court in 1979, where he served as presiding judge from 1990 to 1991.

He then went on to spend nine years overseeing the San Francisco probate court before officially retiring from the bench on March 28, 2009.

He was one of the longest serving judges in San Francisco.

His background inspired his lifelong dedication to advocating for the underdog, the vulnerable, and marginalized communities.

He credits part of his success to those in his life who saw what he could achieve and who opened his eyes to what he what would be possible.

Chief among those individuals was his extraordinary wife, Ina.

Ina was born Ina Fleming.

She graduated high school at age 16 and earned a bachelor's degree from the College of the Pacific, now University of the Pacific, and a Master's of Social Work from UC Berkeley.

In 1961, just a few months after she married John and found out she was pregnant, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

She would survive 70 more years with the disease as well as recover from two kinds of cancer and a broken back, all the while raising her family and contributing to her community.

She was a woman of unyielding optimism, discipline, and grit.

In 1969, she co-founded the Cross Cultural Family Center, which for 55 years has provided mental health and early education services to children and families across San Francisco, including in the Western Edition, Tenderloin, Patro Hill, Castro, Hayes Valley, the Richmond District, and Visitation Valley.

Ina also served on local, national, international boards of the YWCA, worked as a treasurer and volunteer for numerous political campaigns, including I think some of ours, and served on many San Francisco boards, including the Planning Commission and the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board.

Even in her later years with limited mobility, she remained committed to social action.

One of her final projects involved delivering food from farmers markets to homeboys, patiently explaining the mission to any concerned neighbors who might question the temporary double parking.

This board honored her with a special commendation on July 9th, 2019.

This resolution is a show of gratitude for John and Aina for their work and an opportunity for this board to honor their achievements and legacy.

So I'm hoping you'll all be, and I know you'll all be supporting making March 28, 2026, John and Ina Dearman Day in the city and county of San Francisco.

And finally, I'm introducing an ordinance to extend for an additional five years our existing delegation of authority to the San Francisco PUC to enter into grants of up to 20 years for their green infrastructure grant program.

San Francisco's wastewater and stormwater flow through the same pipe, so it's especially important that we manage stormwater effectively to protect the reliability and performance of our sewer system.

SFPUC's Green Infrastructure Grant Program facilitates this by supporting projects that capture and absorb rainwater using nature-based solutions such as permeable pavement, rain gardens, and vegetated roofs.

Through these projects, the program reduces pressure on the sewer system while delivering community benefits like neighborhood greening, climate resilience, and improved public spaces.

The effective life cycle the effective life cycle and required maintenance period of most green infrastructure projects is roughly 20 years.

So the PUC's grant length reflects that.

As grant agreements in excessive 10 years require a delegation of our authority, we made this delegation to the SFPUC general manager in 2019 and have extended it roughly every two years since.

This ordinance simply extends that delegation for another five years, reducing the number of times the PUC will have to return to this body to implement implement a program that benefits our sewer system, our neighborhoods, and our environment.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Supervisor Melgar.

Submit.

Submit, thank you.

Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Colleagues today have two resolutions in support of state bills that I believe will improve the health and safety of our residents in San Francisco.

First, I am introducing a resolution in support of AB 2276, the Stop Super Speeders Act.

This bill from Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria would establish a five-year statewide pilot requiring certain reckless speeders to install active intelligent speed assistant assistance devices before returning to the road.

Under this bill, individuals who have offenses, including reckless driving, engaging in speed contests, or driving more than 100 miles per hour, could be required to install devices which actively limit a vehicle speed.

A recent pilot of a similar program in New York City is showing promise, with a 64% reduction in total time spent speeding and a 37% drop in hard breaking.

The tragedies of the last week here in San Francisco, in which we saw three pedestrian fatalities on our streets, only underscore the urgency in which we must act for safer streets.

I want to thank Supervisor Mott Mood for his co-sponsorship, and I hope many others will join.

Next, I'm introducing a resolution in support of State Senate Bill 1218.

This bill was introduced by Senator Jesse Erguin in partnership with Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and will require the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner or lease lessee has outstanding illegal dumping penalties.

My office has been working with city departments to sharpen our enforcement tools against illegal dumping, but there's more to do that requires help from the state.

In 2025, the Department of Public Works issued over 500 notices of violation in 250 citations for legal dumping, but only about 40% of those fines had been paid, leaving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines uncollected.

The DMV has existing authority to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner or LEC has a delinquent parking ticket.

And SB 1218 would expand that authority to also consider outstanding violations related to illegal dumping.

I want to thank Supervisor Walton and Supervisor Mottmanhood for their co-sponsorship on this item.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Sauter, Supervisor Sherrill.

Colleagues, today I ask for us to adjourn in memory of Lieutenant Frank Skip Lucier, a dedicated member of the San Francisco Fire Department for more than 23 years.

On the night of the 1989 Loma Prieto earthquake, Frank was on duty as our city faced fires, collapsed buildings, and a critical lack of water.

Amid the devastation, neighbors rushed in to help carrying hoses, pulling bricks from the rubble, and doing whatever they could to save lives.

As Frank later reflected, people were willing and ready to be directed, but they did not yet have the skills.

From that experience, a vision was born.

In 1990, Frank became the first program coordinator of the neighborhood emergency response team, or NERT, helping bring structure and leadership to a new effort to train San Franciscans to respond safely and effectively in disasters.

He helped build Nerd from the ground up, shaping a model of community preparedness that continues to serve our city today.

By 1996, nearly 5,000 volunteers had been trained.

And I've had the privilege of attending a few NERD classes myself, and I can tell you firsthand how dedicated the volunteers and fire department leaders are to ensuring we are all prepared to serve our city in a time of crisis.

Now Frank didn't just stop in San Francisco.

He traveled nationwide, training communities in disaster repairedness.

Frank's leadership, dedicated dedication to community empowerment, and belief in service left a legacy that lives on through every NERT graduate and every act of neighbors helping neighbors.

I extend my heartfelt condolences to Lieutenant Lucier's family and friends who keep his image alive, especially his wife Kathleen, his sons and daughters, and his many grandchildren.

Rest in peace, Lieutenant, and thank you for your service to our city.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Sheryl.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Colleagues, today we honor the life of Visitation Valley resident, Dr.

Kumunbin Mahin Dracumar Dave, who passed away peacefully at home at the age of 85.

Dr.

Dave was not simply a physician, she was a pioneer, a servant, a bridge between cultures, who gave the fullest measure of herself to the communities she loved.

Dr.

Dave broke barriers from the beginning.

She became the first doctor in her community and the first woman doctor to serve her town.

She went on to become one of the first women physicians for BAPS, a spiritual organization that today serves millions of people across India and around the world.

She practiced medicine for 45 years, and in that time, she also touched the lives of more than 250 families in the San Francisco Peninsula.

Among her many acts of quiet generosity, she offered her medical services completely free of charge to a school for blind girls.

Her faith and her service were inseparable.

For more than 50 years, Dr.

Day volunteered with BAPS, coordinating relief efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters and showing up wherever she was needed most.

She was also instrumental in the founding of the first Hindu temple in San Francisco, located in District 10 at 333 Tunnel Avenue, a place where thousands of people have since found peace, community, and spiritual grounding.

Dr.

Dave was equally devoted to preserving Indian culture and language for the next generation.

She helped organize Indian cultural festivals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and worked tirelessly to ensure that children here grew up with their connection to their heritage and mother tongue.

Dr.

Dave's funeral services will be held this Saturday, March 14th.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Walton.

Supervisor Wong.

Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chan.

Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Mr.

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

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Let's go to public comment.

All right.

If you are here in the public gallery and you'd like to provide public comment to the Board of Supervisors, now is your opportunity to line up on your right-hand side of the chamber.

You are able today to speak to the mayoral appearance.

The minutes as presented, items 23 through 32, the items up for adoption without committee reference.

And other agenda content that I should say general matters that are not on the agenda, but have to be within the board subject matter jurisdiction.

But all other agenda content has already been reported out by a board committee where it has had public comment.

We are setting the timer for two minutes.

Thank you so much.

This Commissioner Hakimi, uh I uh I'm here on uh item number 24.

Uh I want to uh recognize that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Romatushaloni and uh original people, inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

Um please bear with me.

I'm going to be a little emotional as it goes through this item.

Um I want to start by thanking Supervisor Darcy and your team.

Without your support, uh we would have not been here today.

So I sincerely on a personal thank you so much.

And I want to also uh thank the sponsoring um supervisors, uh President Mandelman, um Supervisor Chen, Walton, and Wong.

Um I stand here today full of complicated emotions as a proud Iranian American resident of the most significant city or magnificent city on earth, San Francisco.

Um I stand in gratitude uh and appreciation of each and every one of you for considering this resolution at a very complicated moment, uh not just for the Iranian community, but also as uh all of us as American American community or American people.

Uh a year ago when I started to work on engaging the city hall on a conversation about the dedication of month of March as the Iranian American Heritage Month.

I uh never imagined that I'd be standing in this chamber in celebration of such a monumental moment for our community combined with such a monumental moment of sorrow and agony as the Iranian American community.

And yet I stand in front of you humble and grateful on behalf of a community that has been part of the fabric of this country and city for the last four decades.

A community that understands the responsibility of carrying a proud ancient heritage in harmony with civic and social responsibilities in the county and city we call home.

Um this declaration is not only for our community as a formality, but also recognition uh and and hope that we finally belong in the history of the city.

We proudly call home.

Thank you for your comments and uh welcome back to the chamber, Supervisor Safai.

But before I'll ask you to begin through a previous uh accommodation, we do have a caller who is prepared to provide their public comment, who's asked to go next.

All right.

Thank you for your patience.

All right, to my team.

Can we please send the caller through?

Welcome, uh Patrick When Ed Shaw.

Yeah, can you hear me?

Yes, I'll set the time once you begin speaking.

Thank you so much.

This is Patrick Whenet Shaw.

I am hearing from my colleagues that unless major changes are made by the Board of Supervisors to recommendations in the streamlining task forces, final report and the proposed legislation for the charter amendment.

They and their constituents won't vote no on the next November.

I fully agree.

And should the motion at agenda item 31 stay passed to pull the streamlining final report and legislation back from the rules committee without adequate review in committee level hearings.

Back to the fall board for a committee of the whole hearing.

That will add more fuel to the fire to encourage voters to reject any and all charter change measures on the November ballot.

You've been warned.

Don't pull this out of the rules committee.

Board Rule Section 3.22, the 30-day rule.

Specifically state that measures introduced that would create or revise major city policy.

The committee to which the measure is assigned shall not consider the measure until at least 30 days.

Supervisor Mandelman's motion hijacked the legislative intent and spirit of the 30-day rule.

The Board of Supervisors should all vote no on Mandelin's motion today.

You should allow the rules committee review process to play out.

Mandelin's motion to pull the matter from the rules committee to the full board appeared magically.

Just four working days after the Board of Supervisors received the two pieces of legislation transmitted on February 22nd.

But it took until March 3rd for the Board of Supervisors to introduce the proposed legislation through a substituted and assigned procedure to the rules committee on Tuesday, March 3rd, assigned to board file number 260147.

Supervisor Mandelman must surely know that a 14-day period between assigning the legislation to the rules committee and holding a committee of the whole hearing 14 days later on March 17th.

It's not a full 30-day rule waiting period.

There's no need to rush this process.

Charter amendments for the November ballot basic deadline of July 24th, 2026.

There's no need to eliminate thoughtful rules committee hearings or multiple hearings at the rules committee.

After all, July is still four months away.

Vote no on the motion, file number 260225 at agenda item number 31.

Separate mandalance motion from the adoption without committee reference, agenda item.

And consider it separately from the other items.

If you don't, and you pull it from the rules committee, voters will remember this.

And they reject the ballot measure in November.

Thank you.

Can you turn them off?

Thank you so much.

Thank you for waiting.

Uh and please welcome back to the chamber, Supervisor Safai.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and members of the board here.

I want to first thank Supervisor Dorsey for sponsoring this resolution about Iranian American Heritage Month the first time.

I want to specifically thank uh MASA and all of the wonderful women behind her and her community.

Her mom is here with her today.

I want to also recognize also the hard work of Mahanas and Supervisor Dorsey's staff for putting this together.

Um as she said, couldn't imagine uh the pain and suffering uh that the community would be feeling right now around the world, uh particularly during this month of Ramadan when people were supposed to be spiritual introspection, fasting, and recognizing all of the transgressions of the past year were coming upon the most important uh month in the Persian uh culture, Iranian American culture is uh the Noruz or the New Year.

So it's going to be an extremely difficult time uh for everything that's going on and all the people that are suffering.

Um but I know as Manoz and I were talking earlier, it's not just Iranians that are suffering around the world, it's immigrants coming from Central America and all over the world, it's Palestinians, it's Sudanese, it's Muslims, it's Jews, it's Christians.

It's it's everyone right now suffering at the hands, unfortunately, of this country.

And and it's okay to be proud American, but also be critical of the transgression of this country.

Um on the first day of this so-called war, a school of 150 children were killed.

Um and so there are there are no winners in war, but I wanted to come here today specifically to support the community, support this resolution, and what it means for Iranian Americans right now, during this time of pain and suffering.

So thank you, members of the board.

I hope you all, I know there's five sponsors.

I hope you all will unanimously sign on uh to this.

I know it's symbolic, but it's extremely important for this chamber and this board and this body to support this at this time.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments.

I will just say before the next speaker, we do have a board rule in the chamber where there are no uh sounds of or that are audible to the board, whether you support or disagree, but thank you.

I know it's a celebratory uh moment to have the supervisor here and to speak of these very important issues.

All right, so we'll welcome our next speaker.

Welcome to the chair to the podium.

Supervisors.

I want to talk about the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

It started with a budget for the source system improvement project from six billion dollars.

It's gone to fifteen billion dollars, heading towards twenty-five billion dollars.

Some time ago I came and told y'all that three workers were fired for telling the supervisors to do the right thing.

Confined space is uh project where you have confined space that are certain rules and regulations because you are working on the very difficult situations underground.

Now, I was at the supervisor's San Francisco Public Utilities Commission meeting today.

I was here in this chambers twice, and I hear about San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, where they're spending money on things without any accountability.

The mayor alluded to it in a way.

But let me tell you this, we have our reservoirs, and you wouldn't like to know that they are filthy.

They haven't been cleaned.

So I'm asking the Board of Supervisors because I brought it to their attention.

I want somebody to contact the health department and OSHA and see whether it is right or wrong, because I got photographs and I got the empirical data.

Our drinking water should be clean.

Our drinking water comes from Hachachi that's supposed to be clean.

But the Board of Supervisors by Job and do due diligence and get this thing on track.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments, Mr.

DeCosta.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Hello, um President Mendelman, Board of Supervisors, Madam Clerk.

On 4 December 24, uh some city generated some paperwork against me.

The next day on the fifth, I tried to get this clarified and cleared up and resolved.

I was told to go away.

Five deputies were summoned.

Moving on over the next 13 months, I would continue to try to get this issue resolved.

I reached out to City Attorney's Office.

There's one.

Two mayors.

The outgoing, the incoming, three library commissioners, and four supervisors.

I received no relief, not an interested ear, was rejected by all.

You'll notice that of the four that I just mentioned, four groups, three are elected officials.

Moving on.

So October, more recently, last year, October 31st, President Mandelman, one of your staffers assisted me by reaching out.

Sir, can you please address the board as a whole?

This is not a meeting between you and the board president.

This is a meeting of the board address the board as a whole.

I just want to specify that one of your staffers uh assisted me by reaching out to try to help resolve this issue.

This is on the 31st of October.

I took three pages of notes.

Went out of town for two months, came back.

January, when I reconnected with this person, they said, no, I never spoke to the person who was at the library.

We never have a thank you for your comments.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for your comments.

Can we hear from the next speaker, please?

Welcome.

Hi.

My name is Roshiaga.

As uh an Iranian American community member, I'm here to thank Supervisor Matt Dorsey and his team for sponsoring the Iranian American Heritage Month recognition.

I arrived in San Francisco in this September of 1977 as a 17-year-old student to go to school.

And uh what, 50 years later almost, um I'm um flabbergasted that we're getting this recognition here.

Thank you so much for all your work.

Thank you, Mahnaz, for all your help.

And MASSA when Massa approached me a couple of years ago with uh this idea.

Uh I said, just yeah, would uh sign me up.

I'm here to help.

And again, thank you so much to the board and uh especially the supervisor Matt Dorsey.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Just remind you to hold your applause.

If you do absolutely need to show support, just wave your hands like that.

The board members will see you.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good evening.

Uh Board President Mandelman and Board of Supervisors.

My name is Richard Esky Peterson.

I'm going to be really quick.

I have two quick issues.

One, um, I've been asked in my uh uh district to run, which is district eight, to run as a board of supervisor, and I said, no, I'm too old.

I'm a year younger than uh Bernie Sanders, but I'm still a little too old, but I'm looking for a young couple uh in District 8 that has uh children in or a child in the San Francisco district schools.

That's what we want in our district at this particular time.

Second issue, as you know, I have always been against uh parcel taxes, but I'm coming around.

I think uh fair uh parcel taxes are gonna be needed to uh save uh the uh Muni.

Uh Muni is uh lifeline for San Francisco.

When the Muni go down goes down, this town is gonna go down.

Nobody is gonna be able to get anywhere.

I ride the Muni um maybe every single day, maybe every other day, but uh it's indispensable to myself, to many other elders that don't drive, and to many young people who uh require it to get around town to get to school or to get where they need to go.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good afternoon.

My name is Pune Rafarian, and I'm a resident of District Six, and I am a proud San Franciscan.

Um we all have most Americans have an immigration story.

And mine began um in 1960, not that I came.

My uncle came here in San Francisco in 1960, which made me have a blessful path to being a resident of this city.

So I'm here in support of item 24, and I want to thank Masa Hakimi and everyone else that has worked hard to bring this um bring this to this day for a vote.

So um I would like to thank you guys for doing that, and also thank this city for always being a voice for those that don't have voice elsewhere, especially at this very emotional moment for all Iranian Americans.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

To everyone applausing in the chamber, just remember no audible sounds.

If you wouldn't mind, just wave your hands in the air, and the board members will see that that you support that.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Okay, thank you.

Our mayor's approach to public safety is in itself a plug a public safety threat, as we saw last Thursday on March 5th.

For one dollar a year, our mayor, Daniel Laurie, a wealthy white man and heir to the Levi's fortune, got in a SUV with his SFPD bodyguards and went into the tenderloin, and he came out and told a story about being attacked by men blocking the road and of being attacked.

Uh that's the narrative of what went nationwide with a black man's name and photo along with that story.

We later learned that it was SFPD who escalated with a physical assault.

And the video is just it's horrible.

Um, this all speaks to our mayor's approach to public safety.

Bullying, coercion, lying, and violence.

He goes into these areas and does his own vigilante uh department of public works sweeps.

What does he actually do to help these people that he encounters?

Offer them housing, uh basic income.

I don't I don't know.

He can tell us.

Uh I don't know if he takes into account uh in this particular situation uh last week the uh stress and discrimination of being black in America in San Francisco and how this story would negatively impact and stigmatize this man probably for the rest of his life.

He needs to help this man who he has hurt.

Uh this story also conveniently overshadowed another story that broke earlier that day, where uh the former DHS Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Gnome claimed to have conversations with Lurie and praised his cooperativity.

Um this attack has overtaken this ice lorry story.

And also earlier last week, a mother of two, one of which uh was a young little kid whose death was abducted in Soma, San Francisco, disappeared and deported from the Bay Area, is no longer in the country.

Um, how many ice abductions are permissible in San Francisco?

I would like a cap, actually.

Can you give me a cap on how many abductions are allowed in this city?

Our mayor has a lot to answer for, and his silence is damning.

Thank you for your comments.

So welcome, our next speaker.

I just had to come up here after that lady talk about the mayor.

I came up here to talk about Ellihill Hutch, but just commented on our mayor, who really don't care about us blacks.

At that particular day, and it's gonna take up some of my time.

I asked the mayor, can I talk to you this day he got his security guys got jumped?

He came downstairs, he wouldn't say nothing to me.

Even today, when he left, he wouldn't say nothing to me.

This mayor don't care nothing about the filmmore or the black community.

Anyway, I'm here to talk about Ella Hill Hutch, community center.

Y'all all better pay attention, particularly my supervisor.

Ella Hill Hutch is getting ready to close down after years of being a cub for the black community because of this roguish uh uh community uh whatever they're called.

But we are putting together a committee that's gonna be selecting uh a committee of a board of directors and a selective board.

And I want to work with the city as a conduit to help this community center come back together.

My name is Ace.

I'm on the case.

And we got two other brothers here that's gonna talk to you about uh Ellihill Hutch.

So you pay attention, Mr.

Supervisor, because you don't know too much about Ella Hill Hutch.

We are the ones that know of history of Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, and we don't want this mayor coming down there closing the doors on Ella Hill Hutch.

That is our center.

Just because some roguish people tuck on it before, that is our center.

We tuck it before, and we're gonna take it back again.

My name is Ace, damn it, and I am the Fillmore Corridor Ambassador, and the city and the mayor better put some respect on that name.

I've been doing politics probably when he was a kid.

He's young enough to be my son, damn it.

My name is Ace, y'all, and I'm on the case.

Thank you, Mr.

Washington.

Welcome to our next speaker, please.

Uh thank you, supervisors.

Well, my first thing is, you know, um, as I keep saying to our supervisor, it's been 50, 60 years.

It don't fall on his lap, it falls on his lap right now.

But we really need help in the Fillmore, and I know that we have this new action committee, but it's time out for these action committees, time out for all this stuff.

And I'm really here today to acknowledge um as you recognize Women's History Month.

And I told my superbala this the other day, it's a shame, colleagues, that you let your colleagues building Ellie Hill Hutch, as a woman, black first woman supervisor.

Her building is deteriorating, right?

As the first black supervisor, I think all of you guys that are here now should stand on the principle of doing something about that building, right?

The the letters are falling off the building.

You got the uh the outside, you know, the walls are breaking down, the inside is is leaking.

Uh you know, I I really think that we need to fast forward what we're doing as we rebuild San Francisco, right?

You're rebuilding San Francisco, but you're forgetting about the neighborhood that was first destroyed.

The first Negro removal, right?

In history, redlining, right?

And now we come with this these grants and things to rebuild, but it's time out for all that stuff.

How could you give me a grant now to move in a space at the rate that it is now and not at the rate that you took it from me when you redlined my district?

My grandmother, uh, grandfathers, you you can't match up to that right now.

So it's a lot that needs to be done.

And I don't think this committee that is formed, this health department, this all these uh planning department.

I don't think it's gonna work until we really get some real down solutions.

But the first thing I'm here to say is please, and I ain't gonna I don't really beg nobody here, but I may actually do something about your colleagues building.

Really do something about your colleagues' building.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Ace.

Hello, President and Commissioner.

I mean, uh supervisors.

My name is Randall Evans.

I consider myself a public speaker, but I couldn't do this if I wanted to to speak in three minutes would need to be said.

First of all, it was 4,700 black people was just erased from the Fillmore area.

They came down and took 883 black businesses out of the Fillmore area.

They knocked down 2500 Victorian houses.

Simultaneously, the city was given 50 million dollars to do something about the redevelopment of that area.

And instead of redevelopment, I have to admit that it had to be a plan.

You listen to all the stories that was told today and all the awards you gave out today to all the people that done all the great things to your knowledge.

And you couldn't even stand up to say anything about the Western Disney and the black beautiful women that was there doing the things and bought their butts off to try to save it, like Ezekiel Collins, LaVoya Baker, the older king, and others a list of them, you know.

I have a photostatic memory about most of the history that took place in the Fillmore with the urban renewal, and some blacks would call it Negro removal.

Right now, it is under a state of emergency.

We are reaching across the community all the way to Bayview Hunters Point to get as many people as possible involved in some list of town halls that we're gonna be having at Rosa Park to try to save Elliot Hutch Community Center.

We not only want to just save it, we want to redevelop it.

And we want to redevelop that whole square block.

We're gonna be coming down here in loads to get your support and your understanding.

It's very important that you respect the history of the Fillmore area.

It was the gentleman behind me in front of me was making it a point that they redlined the area.

It was a plan to just make us disappear.

And it's not fair.

At this point, we need a lot.

Thank you, sir, for your comments.

Thank you.

Let's welcome our next speaker.

Hello, supervisors.

I'm Teresa Dulales with Solom Ken, and I'm also a resident of the San Francisco Community Land Trust in District 6.

I'm here to talk against uh Prop I repeal.

This proposal, you know, to repeal Propi is deeply troubling to us because this is a voter-mandated funding that supports housing stability programs in San Francisco.

When we talk about repealing it, we're talking about cutting funding that directly supports the emergency rental assistance, small sites acquisition, affordable housing preservation, and these are all the tenant stability programs.

These programs are not just theoretical, they are lifelines.

Organizations like SomCAN, the FCC, Bishop, West Bay, and all the other orgs, you know, work work with residents every single day who are trying to stay housed and trying to live.

People come to us when they're scared, when they're facing eviction, when they don't know where their children will sleep.

So does this proposal fully account for how many people will be directly affected by removing this funding?

Because cutting housing stability programs does not solve the housing crisis.

It decreases, it increases displacement, it increases homelessness, and it widens the economic divide in our city.

We also have to be honest, you know, with ourselves.

Are we even meeting the state's housing element goal housing goals plan?

The answer is a big fat no.

You cannot build affordable housing by cutting the funding that makes it possible.

San Francisco must remain a city for working families, seniors, immigrants, and longtime residents, not just for those who can afford rising housing costs.

We do not want to give the mayor more power to destroy our city.

We respectfully urge this board, please.

Thank you for your comments.

Let's welcome our next speaker.

Good afternoon, Madam Clerk, President Mandelman, and members of the Board of Supervisors.

My name is Kyle Smealy.

I'm the policy director for the San Francisco Community Land Trust.

I'm here to speak in opposition to the proposal to cut taxes on billionaires who trade buildings worth 10 million dollars or more.

I've heard in the case to cut Prop I that it has failed to live up to its promise.

That is not accurate.

In the first two years that Prop I was in effect, uh this board wisely allocated more than 200 million dollars to the intended affordable housing purposes that Propi was made for, including rent relief, housing preservation, and land banking.

I would ask anyone who claims that Propi has failed to tell one of the 20,000 San Franciscans whose homes were saved from eviction because of Prop I, because we stood up the most robust rent relief COVID program in the country, tell them that it failed.

Tell the hundreds of people whose homes were taken off the private speculative market and turned into permanently affordable housing that ProPI has failed.

Ask the hundreds of San Franciscans whose 100% affordable housing is being constructed right now because of Propi.

Tell them that it failed.

Prop I has and should continue to work.

Instead, at a time when rents are rising faster than any city in the country, evictions are at an all-time high, and groceries, gas, and basic goods are unaffordable to working people.

The policy prescription from this Board of Supervisors is to cut taxes on billionaires.

That makes no sense, and we will fight this every step of the way.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kyle.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome.

Afternoon, supervisors.

Uh my name is Christian Cassius.

I am a resident in the Lower Haight and a proud democratic socialist.

Uh the repealing of Prop I.

Um to speak specifically to Prop Isaac Congressman's.

And these are the same people who are uh who would be at risk of homelessness that the rich techies that would benefit from the repealing of this um this proposition would don't want to see on their streets.

And in reality, if you don't want to see homeless people on your streets, you should house them.

If you want to ensure that the people, the wealthy people who call this place home who do not give their fair share to the city and its residents, uh, are happy make sure that the people that they're stepping over have somewhere to live.

Um in addition, it has helped fund uh 40 million dollars for land baking, which has been used for more than 550 affordable homes, and 64 million dollars for housing acquisition that has taken hundreds of homes off the private speculative market.

We need affordable housing.

We do not need market rate or above housing.

Um for people like me who are from the Bay Area our entire lives who moved here during school uh to San Francisco specifically and then have stayed here.

It's hard to find housing that is affordable.

I want to stay where I live, but if for whatever reason social housing goes away and our prices continue to increase, that would make it so much harder.

So I'm asking all of you, I am asking um my supervisor, Bilal Mahmood, to uh make sure you oppose the repealing of Prop I.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good afternoon.

Um is Alep Zukar.

I'm an artist uh and someone who's born and raised here in the Bay Area.

Um speaking to uh item 24.

Um I just wanted to um express my gratitude for this being considered.

Um this kind of formal recognition uh means a lot from my community.

So thank you, especially during this time.

Thanks.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Hi.

Uh my name is Mike Heisler.

I am here on behalf of the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition to echo some of the earlier comments and urge you to oppose Mayor Lurry and Supervisor Mahmood's um repeal of the real estate transfer tax Prop I.

Um calling this policy a housing solution ignores the reality that it primarily benefits large-scale real estate investors, not the tenants who make up the majority of the city.

Uh commercial transactions, not housing, have generated the majority of nearly half a billion dollars Prop I has raised.

This is not about unlocking housing.

If we were interested in that, we would endeavor to raise new revenue for the more than 17,000 units of affordable housing that are ready to be built but lack the funding.

Meeting the urgent needs of tenants across the city requires significant public investment.

In eliminating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue will only make those homes harder to build.

Thanks.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Good afternoon.

Uh I want to start.

I have a heavy heart.

Uh I don't understand why the country can find so much money to bomb Iran, but we can't find money to build housing.

And uh that just it infuriates me.

And I'm speaking um against the repeal of Prop I.

Uh I want to say uh I'm a retired teacher.

Uh uh when I uh started teaching, I could rent a flat in Seacliff for $600 a month.

A flat by myself.

Uh I could save up my money by cutting out my lattes and uh croissant, and I bought a house in Bernal Heights with the help of my mother.

Not a lot of help, but a better help.

And that's impossible today.

There is no teacher that can afford to buy or even rent in San Francisco at market rates right now.

This is absurd.

And it's not.

And teachers are among the better off people.

We're talking about our service workers, people who make this city run.

They can't afford to live here.

And we're gonna cut the taxes on the richest San Franciscans so that they can get more money.

It's ridiculous.

You know, um Mayor Lurry Lurry's house is worth 16 and a half million dollars.

My house, after many years of appreciating, is worth maybe a million, a million and a half, and I I could give a shit if I have to pay extra taxes when I sell it.

If that puts people in housing, then we should do it.

And I think that that this uh supervisors and the mayor have to really think about what's going wrong in this city because that's what's going wrong.

And there should be no tax cuts for millionaires or billionaires.

There should be no tax cuts.

They should pay more taxes, and we should build more housing.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors.

Uh my name is Rashav.

I'm a resident of District 9 and the mission, and I'm urg um speaking today to urge you to reject the Build Act and to oppose any effort to repeal Prop I, the 2020 real estate transfer tax passed by voters.

San Franciscans have been clear about what they want.

We passed Prop K affirming our commitment to social housing.

We passed Prop I to make wealthy real estate speculators pay their fair share.

Overturning these democratic mandates at the behest of wealthy donors and real estate interests is betrayal of the voters that this board is supposed to represent.

Evictions are at their highest level in a decade.

Rents continue to climb beyond what most working San Franciscans can afford.

Meanwhile, the repeal of Propi would deliver a direct tax windfall to the very real estate speculators driving those evictions.

These same speculators have already seen their federal tax burden reduced significantly under the Trump administration.

They do not need further relief pro relief from this board.

The claim that the transfer tax oppresses housing construction does not hold up under scrutiny.

The vast majority of Prop I revenues come from sales of major existing commercial properties, such as PGE's sale of its $800 million headquarters in 2021, not from housing transactions.

Gutting this revenue stream does nothing to build housing.

It simply protects the profits of large property holders.

The real obstacle to affordable housing is funding, and Prop I provides it.

We just watched 365 units of affordable housing disappear from the Petrero Yard modernization project due to lack of funds.

That is the housing crisis in concrete terms.

Propi is one of the few tools we have to address it.

Since its passage, Prop I has delivered so much, including the strongest rent relief program that has protected 20,000 tenants from eviction, land banking, and housing acquisition to keep homes off the speculative market.

These are real results for real families.

The root of our housing crisis is the treatment of housing as a financial asset rather than a human need.

The Build Act and the repeal of Prop I would deepen this problem, not solve it.

I urge you to stand with San Francisco voters.

Reject the Build Act, reject the Build Act, preserve Prop I.

Thank you for your comments.

Over 1,000 San Franciscans for social housing uh have signed our petition calling on this board to pass another resolution of intent to spend Prop I transfer tax revenue on social housing.

Last week I read some of their names.

Since then, hundreds have sent letters repeating our reasonable request.

This week I'd like to read the name names of some distinguished in San San Franciscans that actually voted in 2020 specifically to call on the mayor to spend Prop I funds on a social housing program.

Their names were Sandra Lee Feuer, Matt Haney, Gordon Marr, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Hillary Ronan, Asha Safai, Catherine Stephanie, Norman Yi, Shimon Walton, and Raphael Mandelman.

These notable San Franciscans, then supervisors, and for two of you, current supervisors, stated firmly in a unanimous vote that it was their united intent to use the money from Prop I to fund a social housing program.

The Build Act's promise is to speed up development of new housing, to which I say I'm reasonable.

I love to talk about speeding up new housing development.

Let's build baby build.

But that's not what this act is currently written to focus on.

This act applies to all properties, not just new developments.

That means billion dollar properties like 555 California, which Donald Trump is a co-owner of would see massive tax cuts in a sale under this act.

The co-owner of that building, Stephen Roth told investors last year that uh the property might be for sale at the right deal at the right time.

The Build Act would save Steve Roth and Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars and do nothing to restore faith in San Francisco government that when it says it's going to do something, it actually does something.

Now isn't the right time for massive cuts on tax cuts on billion dollar properties.

Now is the time to restore faith in the word of the Board of Supervisors.

Thank you, Honest, for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good afternoon, uh President Mandelman and Board of Supervisors Scott Feeney, District 9 resident.

Um I already shared with you my position on repealing prop I last week.

I'm against it.

I think you should spend the the funds on social housing.

But I wanted to give a little bit more color on that.

So uh in December, uh sorry, no, in January, there was an article in the SF standard that was headlined one for the NIMBY's Sunset Affordable Housing on Hold.

And it talked about how a project with almost 200 units of affordable housing in the Sunset uh 1234 Great Highway was being put on hold.

Uh but it wasn't because of a height limit, it wasn't because permits were taking too long, it wasn't because of complaints over shadows, anything like that.

This project was put on hold because there were no funds for it.

In this particular case, the funds were expected to be withheld by the uh Trump administration.

However, affordable housing projects, as I'm sure you all know, assemble funding from a wide variety of sources.

And uh some of the other funding uh that was making that project possible and might uh eventually lead to it hopefully getting constructed in the in the end uh is coming from Prop I.

So I just want to emphasize that not funding affordable housing is a form of NIMBYism.

It is a way that NIMBEs win, and it is essential if we want to build housing, if we want to have a San Francisco that opens its golden gate for all, we have to preserve and enhance funding for affordable housing.

Please don't repeal Prop I but dedicate it to social housing as the voters intended as previous speakers have said.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Hello, my name is Eric Brenner.

I'm a 40-year resident of San Francisco, and I'm a retired librarian.

And I voted in 2020, along with 57 and a half percent of the voters for Prop I, and I've been outraged almost ever since to see that the money has barely been spent on affordable housing.

People who voted for this uh Pop I are outraged when I tell them that uh they're talking about cutting back uh what you guys voted for.

Um anybody who hears about this that I talked to is absolutely outraged, and you guys should be ashamed to be even considering this.

We need much more affordable housing, and this is absolutely going against the will of the voters.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments to welcome our next speaker.

Hello, board, good afternoon.

Uh my name is Destiny Santana, I'm a resident of District 5.

Can you pull that microphone down to you close?

Thank you.

Sorry.

Is this better?

Yes.

Okay.

Uh my name's Destiny's Yantana.

I'm a district member of District 5, and I'm here to oppose the Build Act like many of the other residents who have spoken before me.

So I will remind you that two weeks ago, the budget and finance committee heard from the mayor's office on budget instructions.

The mayor's Office of Public Policy and Finance made it clear that city spending outpaces revenue by a lot.

The city's deficit this year is 296.3 million.

By fiscal year 2029 to 2023, the deficit will rise to 1.17 billion.

These figures do not reflect the reduction of ProPI funds that would be lot lost because of the Build Act.

Prop I matters to me because the real estate transfer tax is the biggest funder of the city's general fund and makes sure that everyone pays their fair share.

Last year, just 38 transactions resulted in 144 million in revenue for the city.

Even with the funds from Popeye, the city is facing a massive budget deficit, and the mayor is currently calling for a 400 million dollar cut in city spending and eliminating non-core programming.

Without funds from Propi, many residents will face the consequences of these spending cuts and eliminations from the mayor's office, giving a tax base to the wealthy developers.

Supervisor Mambood has stated that the Build Act will jumpstart development and affordable housing.

I would like to see how many real estate companies come to the board asking you to waive impact fees and lower the number of inclusionary units because the economics just doesn't pencil out.

The Build Act is a giveaway to real estate developers who only build unaffordable housing.

I'm sure the mayor will continue to call for austerity, but not austerity for all.

Well, giving public subsidies away in the name of common sense reform.

Please oppose the Bill Act.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Mr.

President, Madam Secretary.

Wasn't the guy who wasn't the guy who was supporting all the cutting all the commissions and cutting it down to the bare bones.

Wasn't that Mark Farrell?

And am I wrong that he he lost the election?

You know, as a uh as a big picture thing, I mean that I know there are a lot of young, younger people than myself here on the board now.

I think everyone actually.

But you know, uh I think that we're turning a lot of ways the budgets that we're talking about now are turning the clock back to a very much more difficult time than the one that we're in now.

Uh you know, all of these soft programs, and there's a whole bunch of them in the tender line that are getting cut, apparently.

Uh you know, they protect the safety of the people that live there.

They protect the safety of the people that live in San Francisco, the the quality of life, the safety.

And I I think that we're talking about turning the clock back to the 1960s and reliving all that time, and it was a very violent time.

There's a lot of political violence, there was a lot of interpersonal violence.

And I I think that this attack so-called attack on the mayor is it's kind of emblemic of you know people are going to become more violent.

Is that is is is that the right thing?

Uh one more thing about Diamond Dave.

I I really loved him.

I never had no idea.

He was so old.

But we went to the same clinic, the Native American Health Clinic together.

And he told me one thing words to live by.

He told me don't go on for dental service on Columbus Day.

Thank you for your comments.

Before the next speaker, I'll just ask if there are other members of the public who'd like to provide general public comment, please line up on your right hand side of the chamber.

Otherwise, this may be our last speaker.

Welcome.

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All right.

Ms.

Mr.

President.

Public comment is now closed.

Madam Clerk, let's go to our four adoption without ref without committee reference agenda.

Please call items 23 through 32.

Items 23 through 32 were introduced for adoption but without committee reference.

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

Any member may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee.

Supervisor Dorsey, I'd like to sever item 24.

Supervisor Walton.

Sending item 28 to committee.

I just wanted to be added as a co-sponsor to item 24, please.

Noted.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Oh, uh Supervisor Fielder.

Thanks, President.

I wanted to be added as a co-sponsor to item 24.

Also noted.

All right, Madam Clerk, on the so on all of the items except 24 and 28.

Can you please call the role?

Yes.

Oh, hold up.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Co-sponsor to 24 as well, please.

Looks like Cheryl wants to be on there.

Um I think I am on there.

Anybody else?

Okay.

Um everything except 24 and 28.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Yes, Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Uh colleagues, I am asking today.

Oh, I'm sorry.

This is on the Fokker items except 24 and 28.

Dorsey I.

Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, I, Supervisor Mahmood.

Mahmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

I.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl, I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, and Supervisor Chen.

Chen I.

There are eleven eyes.

All right.

Then with that objection, the resolutions are adopted and the motion is approved.

Madam Clerk, please call item 24.

Item 24.

This is a resolution to recognize the month of March 2026 as Iranian American Heritage Month in the City and County of San Francisco.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Okay.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, uh, I am today asking you to join me in supporting a resolution recognizing the month of March as Iranian American Heritage Month.

And I do want to express my appreciation to colleagues for your co-sponsorship.

I think we have uh run the table, and I think that's really an important statement for the community.

Umers, entrepreneurs, doctors, engineers, lawyers, educators, educators, and some remarkable public servants, one of whom uh we heard from in public comment, our friend and former uh colleague, supervisor, uh former supervisor Ashrasoff i.e.

Together, these are San Franciscans who have shaped and blessed our city in numberless waves, ways that deserve to be named and honored.

This resolution does that.

But I also want to acknowledge the moment we are in.

The Iranian American community, like so many diaspora communities in the city, carries a complicated relationship with the country of their heritage.

Love and grief, anger and hope, often all at once.

Events happening far away have a way of landing very close to home, as we heard in public comment.

And in moments like these, it matters more than ever what this board does.

It matters that San Franciscans, that San Francisco and San Franciscans are able to say unequivocally, you belong here.

Your culture is valued, and your contributions are celebrated, regardless of the headlines.

For the rich diversity of all who call our city home.

And when we join hands in celebrating the unique cultural blessings of communities like the Iranian American community, which contribute so much to making us who we are, I urge your support.

Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey with that.

And Madam Clerk, I think that takes us to my question of whether we have any imperative agenda items.

There are none to report, Mr.

President.

Could you please read the in memoriams?

Yes, on behalf of well, today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals.

On a motion made by Supervisor Fielder for the late Diamond Dave Whitaker.

A motion made by Supervisor Cheryl for the late Lieutenant Frank Skip Lucier.

And on behalf of Supervisor Walton for the late Dr.

Kamud bin Machen Dracumar.

Dave.

And Madam Clerk, I think that brings us to the end of our agenda.

Do we have any further business before us today?

That concludes our business for today.

Well then we are adjourned.