Good afternoon, everybody.

Welcome to the May 12, 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 not present, Supervisor Mahmoud, Makmood present, Supervisor Mandelman.

Mandelman present, Supervisor Melgar.

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

Wong present.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatushalone, 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?

One nation.

On behalf of the board, I want to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV today, especially Kalina Mendoza.

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

Madam Clerk, let's go to our 2 p.m.

special order.

Yes, the 2 p.m.

special order is the monthly appearance of the Honorable Mayor Daniel Lurie.

Here today, there are no questions submitted from members of the board representing districts one, two, three, or four.

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

Welcome, Mr.

Mayor, as our clerk indicated.

We have no topics submitted for you today, so uh we welcome you to speak for up to five minutes.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Board President Mandelman and members of the board.

Over the last 16 months, we've talked many times about the work that we've done together to get people off the street and into shelter and treatment and onto a path to stability.

It's clear that San Franciscans feel like our city is moving in the right direction, and today I was excited to announce another important milestone.

According to the preliminary 2026 point in time count, unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco is now at the lowest levels in 15 years.

Since 2024, unsheltered homelessness is down 22%.

The number of people in tents is down 85%, and overall homelessness is down with nearly 1,000 fewer people sleeping on our streets compared to 2024.

Those numbers represent people coming indoors, getting help, and getting on the path to stability.

When I took office, we committed to transforming how San Francisco responds to homelessness, addiction, and behavioral health.

We focused on accountability, coordination, and getting people off the street faster.

With this board's support and leadership, we passed the fentanyl state of emergency ordinance and launched our breaking the cycle plan.

We integrated street outreach to better connect people to care.

We ended the policy of handing out fentanyl smoking supplies without pathways to treatment.

Last year, alongside supervisors Cheryl and Sauter, we opened 822 Geary, a 24-7 stabilization center.

And just last week, we opened the reset center in Supervisor Dorsey's district, making clear that open air drug use is not acceptable on our streets.

Across San Francisco, we added more than 600 shelter and treatment beds because recovery requires more than just a place to sleep at night.

We've also made major progress helping families living in RVs, thanks to the partnership of my legislative co-sponsor, Supervisor Melgar.

To date, we've helped 132 families move from RVs into shelter or housing.

And we've expanded Journey Home, reconnecting more people with family and support systems in the last three months than in any three month period since the program started.

At every step from outreach to shelter to permanent housing, we are reforming the system to deliver better outcomes and break the cycles of homelessness and addiction.

But we all know our work is far, far from done.

Family homelessness increased since 2024, reflecting trends we're seeing across California and the country.

We are continuing to invest in prevention, shelter, and housing support for families because no child should experience homelessness in San Francisco.

And beyond the numbers, I know you see it, I see it every single day.

And residents also still see it and want cleaner and safer streets.

I do too, and I'm as motivated as ever.

I want to thank all of you who have made who have made this progress possible here at the Board of Supervisors, our city departments, our nonprofit partners, our first responders, our outreach workers on the front lines every single day.

I want to thank you, Board President Mandelman, for your leadership and for all of you here at the Board of Supervisors for your partnership.

We're on the right track, but we have so much more work to do, and we need to do it together, and I look forward to doing that with all of you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Congratulations again on the great pit count numbers and other successes.

And uh we'll see you next month.

Thank you, sir.

Good to see you.

Thank you.

All right.

This matter has been been discussed and is now filed.

And with that, Madam Clerk, I think we go back to communications.

Yes.

Thank you.

The Board of Supervisors welcomes you all to attend this meeting in person here in the board's legislative chamber.

It's room two fifty in City Hall on the second floor.

When you're not able to be here, the proceeding is being aired live on SFGOV TV's Channel 26, or you can view the live stream at WWW.sfgovtv.org.

If you would like to submit public comment in writing, you can do so by either sending an email to BOS at sfgov.org or send a letter to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, Dr.

Carlton B.

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 finally, as stated previously, pursuant to a memo dated April 7th, 2026 from Supervisor Jackie Fielder.

A motion renewed each week between April 7th and June 30th, 2026.

Would be in order today, Mr.

President, to excuse Supervisor Fielder from today's meeting.

Thank you, members.

Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Can we have motion to excuse Supervisor Fielder from today's meeting?

Motion made by Chen, seconded by Walton.

Um, and I think colleagues, we can take that without objection, without objection, Supervisor Fielder is excused.

Let's go to our meeting minutes.

Yes, meeting minutes, the approval of the April 7th, 2026 board meeting minutes.

All right, um, colleagues, can I have a motion to uh approve these minutes as presented, moved by Chen, seconded by Cheryl.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

On the minutes as presented, Supervisor Wong.

Wang I, Supervisor Chan.

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

Aye.

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

And Supervisor Walton.

Walton I.

There are 10 ayes.

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

And with that, Madam Clerk, I think we go to our unfinished business.

Please call item number one.

Item one, this is an ordinance to appropriate 1.5 million from the General Reserve to the public defender to support the projected increases in salary and fringe benefit costs in fiscal year 2025 through 2026.

This ordinance requires a two-thirds approval or eight votes of all members pursuant to charter section 9.113 sub-C.

Please call the roll.

On item one, Supervisor Wong.

Wang I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Machmood, Mahmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar I, Supervisor Sauter, Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I and Supervisor Walton.

Walton I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed.

Madam Clerk, please call item number two.

Item two, this is an ordinance to amend division one of the Transportation Code to authorize the Director of Transportation to approve temporary street use permits, and under certain circumstances to amend the administrative code to authorize the Director of Transportation to approve certain street closures proposed by community benefits districts under the Downtown Entertainment Event Activation Program and to affirm the secret determination.

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

Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed.

Madam Clerk, please call item number three.

Item three, this is an ordinance to amend the housing code to revise qualifications and deadlines for conducting structural maintenance inspections and to affirm the secret determination.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed.

Madam Clerk, please call item number four.

Item four, this is an ordinance to conditionally accept an offer of dedication and quick claim deed for real property from the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure for a segment of East Clementina Street between Beale and Main Streets to conditionally accept the segment of East Clementina Street for maintenance and liability, to delegate to the public works director the authority to accept this street segment for city maintenance and liability purposes, to establish the official public right-of-way widths and street grades and other related actions, to conditionally accept offers of improvements from Trans Bay II family LP and Trans Bay II Senior LP, collectively known as Trans Bay II, for public improvements on Beale, Folsom, and Main Streets, and to approve Folsom Street Public Sidewalk Easements from Trans Bay 2, and to waive the application of ordinance number 1061 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to allow establishment expansion and reduction of official sidewalk widths through administrative action associated with the improvements and to make the appropriate findings.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed.

Madam Clerk, please call it number five.

Item five, this is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to authorize the public utilities commission to purchase utility infrastructure from customers that the public utilities commission would otherwise be required to install subject to specified conditions.

Same house, same call, without objection, the ordinance is finally passed.

Madam Clerk, please call item number six.

Item six, this is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to state that it is city policy to expand the availability of site-based PSH or permanent supportive housing that prohibits on-site illicit drug use among residents, the drug-free PSH, to meet the demand of people experiencing homelessness who prefer such a residential option to bar the city from funding new site-based PSH for people experiencing homelessness that prohibits evictions on the basis of drug use alone.

That's the drug tolerant PSH, except where operation of the housing as drug-free PSH would conflict with standards imposed by law or by a condition of other funding, or if the board of Supervisors has waived the funding prohibition based on specific findings, and to require the Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing to survey residents of the site-based PSH to address to assess their interest in living in either drug-tolerant PSH or drug-free PSH, and to report on the survey findings and uh HSH' strategies to meet PSH residents' demands.

Chair Dorsey.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Um, colleagues, although I believe we would have the uh votes to pass this legislation in its current form today.

Um I wanted to report that we had a very productive meeting with the San Francisco and Marin Medical Society last Friday after a lot of back and forth between us over the last month.

Um we have reached an agreement, at least in principle, on clarifying language for eviction protections that I am very comfortable with.

Uh, likewise, many advocates from the recovery community I've spoken with are comfortable with it.

It's my understanding that SFMMS is also comfortable with it and is prepared to withdraw its opposition to the legislation.

All that being said, the final final wordsmithing is still being done with our city attorney, the mayor's office and HSH.

However, in any circumstance, the amendment is going to be substantive, meaning the item will need to go back to committee for a rehearing and amendment.

Given that we're not facing any imminent acquisitions of uh permanent supportive housing that requires rushing this item and in consideration of the many conversations I have had, including with colleagues, about their preference to forge the broadest possible consensus on drug-free supportive housing.

Uh if possible, I'd like to make a motion to send this uh item back to committee at this time, and uh we should see you back here in a month.

Thank you, Chair Dorsey.

Thank you for your work on that.

There's a motion to send this item back to committee.

Is there a second seconded by Chan?

Um colleagues.

I think we can take that without objection, without objection.

The motion is approved.

Madam Clerk, uh please call item number seven.

Item seven.

This is an ordinance to appropriate approximately 1.2 million of ambulance billings and approximately 426,000 of fire overtime service fees revenues in the fire department to deappropriate permanent salaries of 500,000 in the Department of Emergency Management, permanent salaries of approximately six million, and dependent coverage of approximately 990,000 in the fire department, and permanent salaries of 1.25 million in the public utilities commission, and approximately 500,000 to overtime in the Department of Emergency Management.

Approximately uh 8.6 million in overtime in the fire department and 1.25 million in overtime in the public utilities commission to support the department's projected increases in overtime as required per administrative code section 3.17.

This ordinance requires a two-thirds vote of all members for approval of the fire department's appropriation of $7.9 million.

Colleagues, I believe we can take this item same house, same call without objection.

The ordinance is passed on first reading.

Madam Clerk, please call it number eight.

Item eight, this is an ordinance to deappropriate approximately a two point five million of open space acquisition funding and approximately 2.5 million in the recreation and park department for a loan to the San Francisco Zoological Society in fiscal year 2025 through 2026.

Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you so much and clerk.

Um I just want to start by saying thank you so much to uh the budget and finance committee and specifically to the chair of the committee at Supervisor Cheyenne for their very thoughtful deliberations at last week and for the work ahead of next Wednesday's meeting regarding the loan agreement that goes with this.

I also want to uh profusely thank the budget and legislative analyst um for all of the number crunching, and most importantly, for finishing the audit that I requested a while back.

It took us a while to get here, but I can report that we are there.

And to be used as an initial loan disbursement to the San Francisco Zoo in the year 2526.

The formal loan agreement is still before the budget and finance committee.

It will be heard at this coming week, and it is expected to be executed for fiscal year 25-26.

The remaining loan amounts will be dispersed, and the San Francisco Zoo is then obligated to meet at some strict milestones, including completion of a financial sustainability plan and the strategic plan.

So I want to thank at Rack Park, the mayor's budget office, Greg Wagner, thank you for all of the support and advice.

And I also want to thank uh the controller's office at Dan Goncher and Lyndon Baerie for all of their work.

Uh and of course, Nick Menard, thank you so much for the support and work.

Um thank you, colleagues.

I ex I I uh respectfully request your support.

Thank you, Supervisor Mogar.

I think we can take that item.

Same house, same call without objection.

The ordinance is passed on first reading.

Madam Clerk, please call items nine through eleven together.

Items nine through eleven uh approve various grant agreements between the city.

And for item nine, this is with the tenderloin housing clinic Inc.

and the Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing for the Abigail Housing Ladder Program to extend the term by 36 months for a total term January 1st, 2021 through June 30th, 2029, and to increase the agreement amount by 5.5 million for a new total of 15.5 million.

For item 10, this resolution approves the second amendment to the grant agreement between the tenderloin housing clinic and the Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing for Support Services, property management and masterly stewardship at the Garland Hotel to extend the term by 36 months for total term April 1st, 2022 through June 30, 2029, and to increase the agreement amount by 7.3 million for a new total of 17.3 million.

For item 11, this resolution approves the second amendment to the grant agreement between community forward SF and the Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing.

Again, for support services, property management, and master lease stewardship at the Coronado Hotel to extend the term by 12 months for a total term of January 1st, 2021 through June 30th, 2027, and to increase the amount by 2.1 million for a new total amount of 11.9 million.

For item 12, this resolution approves the second amendment to the contract agreement between five keys schools and programs and the Department of Homeless and Support of Housing for the provision of Ellis Semi-Congregate Shelter to extend the term 24 months for a new total term December 15th, 2022 through June 30th, 2028, and to increase the agreement amount by 12.2 million.

For item 13, this resolution retroactively authorizes the Office of Economic and Workforce Development to accept and expend a $5 million grant from the California Natural Resources Agency for the preservation and revitalization of the Castro Theater, a historic LGBTQ venue, to help advance economic development in the Castro neighborhood during the grant period of April 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2027.

And you wanted me to go all the way to item 15, Mr.

President.

Um no.

Oh, okay.

Just I think we can stop at 13th.

Okay.

Um, so on uh for items nine through thirteen.

I think we can take these same house, same call without objection.

Uh the resolutions are adopted.

And then please call item number 14.

Item 14, this resolution approves and authorizes the director of property on behalf of the drug market agency coordination center to execute a lease with 338th Street, LLC, a California limited liability company for a portion of the real property located at 338th Street for a term of 10 years and four months at an initial annual base rent of approximately 448,000 with 3% annual increases.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, because this agreement happens to be with my own landlord.

I have been advised by counsel that I should recuse myself from this vote.

Right.

Um then you may leave colleagues.

May I may I have a motion to excuse Supervisor Dorsey from this vote?

Moved by uh Cheryl, seconded by Chan.

And colleagues, can we take that without objection?

Without objection, Supervisor Dorsey is excused.

And then Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll on the item?

On item 14, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Mahmood, Makhmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I uh Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter, Sauter, I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I.

There are nine ayes.

Uh without objection, uh, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call items fifteen and sixteen together.

Items 15 and 16 are two resolutions that retroactively authorize the Department of Public Health to accept and expand expend two grants for item 15.

This is one million dollar grant from the California Department of Health Care Services for participation in a program entitled Department of Health Care Services Grant for the San Francisco Chinese Hospital to support the new oncology clinic and chemotherapy center at the Chinese hospital July 1st, 2025 to December 31st, 2026.

For item 16, this resolution retroactively authorizes the acceptance and expenditure of grant funds from July 1st, 2025, retroactively approving the grant agreement between the city acting by and through the Department of Public Health and the California State Water Resources Control Board for the purpose of collecting Bay and Ocean Shoreline water samples for pathogen analysis for a term of three years, July 1st, 2025, now through June 30th, 2028, for a total of 87,000.

Supervisor Wong.

Like to be added as a co-sponsor for 15.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll on items 15 and 16.

On items 15 and 16, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey, I, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar.

Milgar I, Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter, I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl, I, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item number 17.

Item 17.

This is a resolution to authorize the executive director of the Department of Emergency Management, the controller, and the Deputy Controller as agents to act on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco for all matters pertaining to state and federal disaster and emergency assistance funding and to provide the assistances and agreements required by the Governor's Office of emergency Services.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The resolution is adopted.

That brings us to 2 30.

Madam Clerk, can you please call our 2 30 p.m.

special order?

Yes, the special order at 2 30 is the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of San Francisco.

Alright, then we will begin with District 4 Supervisor Wong.

Okay.

In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, as well as a belated trans history week.

We are proud to recognize Rabbi Martin Rollins Find for his extraordinary leadership, service, creativity, and commitment to building a more inclusive and compassionate community.

Martin is a Bay Area rabbi, educator, filmmaker, parent, advocate, and community leader whose work has touched faith communities, civic institutions, political organizations, and cultural spaces across San Francisco and beyond.

He has dedicated himself to creating a world where transgender people, LGBTQ people, Jewish communities, and families of all kinds can live openly, authentically, and with dignity.

As a rabbi and educator, Martin has helped advance inclusive Jewish life, created ritual and spiritual care for people of many backgrounds.

Through his leadership within his congregation and in broader Jewish community spaces, he has helped build places where people can bring their full selves into religious life.

His writings and liturgy have also contributed to Jewish scholarship and practice, including work on pride, mourning and transgender Jewish experience.

Martin has also made a lasting impact through civic and political leadership.

He served as president of the Roe Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club and currently serves as co-chair of the Alice B.

Tokless LGBTQ Democratic Club, strengthening coalition building and elevating LGBTQ and Jewish voices in public life.

He has also served as an elected executive board member and assembly district delegate in Democratic Party leadership, further reflecting his deep commitment to representation, participation, and public service.

At UCSF, where he has worked for more than two decades, Martin has supported education, collaboration, and transgender health advocacy, including work connected to the UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health and the National Transgender Health Summit.

As a filmmaker and community builder, Martin has helped expand visibility through storytelling, co-created the first San Francisco Trans Marches, founded by Conic Film Festival, and lifted up trans queer and biplus voices through film art education and advocacy.

What makes Martin's example so powerful is that his visibility has always been tied to service.

He has used his voice not only to speak for himself, but to open doors for others.

Today we thank Rabbi Martin Rollins Fine for his leadership, generosity, courage, and enduring commitment to dignity, belonging, and justice.

Oh, wow.

And I would just like to add my congratulations on having known uh Rabbi Rawlings Fine for like probably 20 years at this point.

Impressive to see your contributions over that time.

Well, thank you very much uh President Manelman and Alan, thank you very much.

Uh I um I I feel like uh this is my duty as a as a person of faith to say that you know um we're all loved.

This is a big deal.

People should be authentic and be who they are.

And for all the trans kids out there, this is for you, because I couldn't do what I do unless I were sticky about everything way forward, because I I'm not doing this for myself.

I'm doing this for everybody who's coming after me.

And uh, and just want to say that, you know, if you're a trans kid out there in the world, and you need to hear this, you are loved.

We will embrace you, we love you, and this is an important thing that everybody needs to to figure out.

We need to really embrace our trans children and help them going forward.

And uh I just I'm I'm really blessed to be here, and I'm really wonderful, wonderfully um.

This is very touching, so thank you very much uh, all of you for doing this today, and uh uh, you know, um the Ida Hobbit of the International Day of Against Homophobia, bisexuality, uh biphobia, and um uh and uh and uh and transphobia uh is held on May 17th this year, and it's actually really important because it's you know uh always through democracy.

That's a part of the thing is, you know.

This is this is an important part of uh of democracy is everybody being accepted.

So thank you very much.

District 10, Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, today I want to take a moment to recognize a group of people who are often the very first faces when we see when we walk into this building each day, our sheriff's cadets, and as they come forward, before the meetings begin, before the conversations happen, before the work of government gets underway, you are here.

You welcome staff, members of the public, community leaders, and visitors with professionalism, patience, and respect.

In many ways, you help set the tone for the entire building.

What stands out most is not just the work you do, but how you do it.

Over time, you build real relationships with the people who come through these doors every single day.

You learn names, exchange greetings, offer kindness, and create a sense of familiarity and comfort that often goes unnoticed, but matters deeply.

Public service is not only about big moments, it is also about consistency, reliability, and showing up every single day with integrity.

Each of you represents that spirit.

Your presence helps make City Hall feel safer, more welcoming, and more connected to the people we serve.

You keep us safe, and we all know that when we walk in this building, we are secure.

I don't want a day to go by without all of you knowing how much you are appreciated.

On behalf of my office, this board, I want to sincerely thank you for all of your service.

Thank you for always starting our day off on the right foot.

We appreciate you, we value you, and today we are proud to recognize all that you do, pointing people in the right direction, keeping out danger, welcoming community, remaining professional, greeting the public with warmth, maintaining patience, watching our backs, always present, and for this, we are grateful.

Thank you so much.

I just wanted to take a moment.

President Medleman, we have a long line of supervisors.

The sheriff can go ahead first if he'd like.

I apologize.

Yeah.

Go ahead, go for it.

I just wanted to say, um, it is a very challenging job, Supervisor Walton.

Appreciate the words.

Uh, there have been many, many times where uh your work has gone unrecognized.

And I only have the capacity to thank one of them one at a time with our employee of the month.

This recognition today by the board is a reflection of how the community feels about you, and it's a reflection about all of us in the sheriff's office family feel about you.

You represent the very best of our community.

Uh, the heart and soul behind your patches and behind your badges uh really are a reflection of San Francisco.

So thank you for keeping everyone safe and welcome, and and please continue uh to do the great work that you do.

Thank you very much.

And thank you, board for recognition.

All right.

Now we have the long line of supervisors.

Uh Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, Paul President.

Thank you, Supervisor Walton for recognizing our City Hall cadets.

I am you all can continue to come back.

We want to appreciate you.

I am greatly appreciative of your hard work.

You keep all of us and the public safe from harm.

For many visitors, you are the first face that they see, and when they walk through the stores, and you are the ambassador of City Hall, your role is multifested and demanding and providing vital information to the public, whether you are helping a resident finding the right office or providing first aid in critical moments, your presence ensures that our seats of government remains a safe and welcoming space for all San Franciscans and visitors.

I am, and we are very proud of your dedications that you show every day and often working long hours and holidays to keep us safe.

Thank you.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Um, congratulations, and I think just wanted to thank on and two points to echo my colleagues.

One, um, you really make City Hall inviting for not just the people who are visiting, but for the people who work here day in, day out.

Um, borders, you you will ask me about my wife as if I got married yesterday.

Um, it's been nine months, but you still ask me about it.

Um, but you also tell me about your daughter and uh the vacations you take, and it makes us feel at home as we walk in.

Um, and then second, I really appreciate every one of you hold us accountable and don't let us go through the security gates with any exceptions.

Um, and it really just shows that you really are keeping us safe and holding everyone accountable, be an elected official or uh uh a person who's visiting City Hall.

So thank you for all you do for keeping us safe, uh keeping us welcome, and making us feel uh like we belong in our and all in our mutual office space.

So thank you.

Supervisor Jan.

Thank you.

Of course, on a good day, we always appreciate you.

Um, but we also do know, given the history of this building, uh, that you do put your life uh at risk every day.

Um you de-escalate all the intense situation, either at the door of the city hall or at the doors of our offices.

Um we appreciate you.

We also appreciate you, at least for me.

I would say, as a budget committee chair, uh, we appreciate you during the month of budget where everybody is coming through, and those absolutely those long nights that you have to stay with us and stay put with us, um, but also every single meeting that we have in this board chamber uh or that we have our committee hearing when there's public comments, you're always there to make sure that should there be tension, we know that you're actually right there.

You will step in and to again the skills that you display and on display uh to de-escalate.

We appreciate you.

Not to mention even last year's budget.

We have our fellow, you know, laborer siblings coming in here and getting arrested.

Uh again, you demonstrated professionalism.

Um, we cannot thank you enough, and we're gonna do the best we can to try to make your life just a little bit easier.

Um, but uh because of you, I think that many people feel uh actually free and safe to be able to speak their minds in this chamber, and that is because the role that you have played.

So for that, we appreciate you and grateful.

Thank you.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Um thank you for your kindness, for your patience, for pretending like people who pretend like they've never seen a metal detector before aren't ridiculous.

Um, but uh the smiles that we see on most of your faces most of the time, um, are really appreciated.

Um I won't pretend like I know all your names, so I'm sorry.

But for those of you who I have gotten to know on a personal level, I really appreciate being able to walk into a place that feels a little more like home and a little less like work, and that starts with you all.

Um you work really hard, but you are really kind, thoughtful, generous people, and for that I want to thank you.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

You know, my first day on the job in this building was almost 24 years ago.

Um, and in that time, I have always appreciated the consummate professionalism and friendliness of our deputy sheriffs.

Over the years, I have had things where I've had to come here and get three o'clock in the morning because I left my laptop or you know, just some of the things that I have had to do, and sheriffs have always been there, and it just means the world to me that um, you know, to be greeted by friendly faces and just knowing that you keep us safe.

Um you're so appreciated, and I'm grateful that uh you're being celebrated today.

Thank you.

Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you so much.

I will just add to what my colleagues uh have said because I appreciate every single one of you.

Um aside from keeping us safe uh and uh enforcing order, um, when people come into the building.

I know that when you're having a bad day, I see you.

Um, and you see me too.

Uh thank you for holding the door uh when I'm struggling with my bike and all the bags.

Uh but also thank you for the countless long hours that you put in on evenings and weekends.

I know that sometimes some of you at work double shifts, um, you're here till late at night when you started, you know, early in the morning uh to keep us safe.

Uh you've opened doors for me on weekends and evenings, uh, and for my staff when we've locked out ourselves out of the office late at night.

All of these things.

We see you, we appreciate you.

And thank you for uh your kind words and greetings every morning.

It makes all the difference.

Um, thank you so much.

Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you, President.

Um, I will echo echo everything that has already been said.

Um, just a few things to add.

You know, um, starting this role now 15-16 months ago from day one, I felt very embraced and very loved, uh, very cared for by all of you.

And um, I'm happy to have all these folks in the well here as my colleagues, and I considered you to be my colleagues as well.

Um you're always looking out for us, you're always asking about our days and and looking after us.

Um I you know uh weekends, evenings I come into the building, and I think there's gonna be no one here, and and one of you is here, and uh I always feel um a little bit surprised, but very happy that you're always watching guard.

Um, and I uh I just want to say on the record, I was always feel a little guilty.

I'm bringing in my coffee and my pastries, my lunch, and I don't have any for you.

And I always always feel guilty.

So uh I'll bring you some at some point.

Um, thank you for always looking after us and protecting us.

Uh I will just I have thoughts.

I will just uh Shamon's ready to give you your certificates.

Um, I'll just thank you, uh Supervisor Walton for doing this.

Um I think I thought I was special.

I thought I had this unique relationship with each of you, but now I realize that you are kind and helpful and um and and start everybody's day off, right?

And uh so just for all that you do to keep City Hall running and engaging with the public and being kind to us, and sometimes, you know, I'm coming in with all my stuff falling all over the place.

Um, and uh you don't make too much fun of me.

Um I just want to echo my colleagues because we all do appreciate you very, very much.

So thank you, cadets, and one of the room.

Thank you.

All right, colleagues.

We're gonna shift around the order uh that uh you all have received a little bit today.

I apologize, but I believe we may have a consul general in the room.

Um and so we'll go to Superv District One Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, President Mamdomen, and thank you, colleagues, uh, allowing me to uh be able to uh first uh really uh want to respectfully uh invite uh our honorable Lim Yong Tae, uh Consul General of the Republic of Korea, Dr.

Jonathan Kim, the presidents of the San Francisco and Bay Area Korea Center, and uh Li Yung uh Quang, representative from the Ikong Cultural Foundation, who's also an award-winning um vocalist who has earned countless titles from international competition from Germany and Italy to Turkey and Seoul.

Colleagues, uh, in the celebration of API Heritage Month, I would like to recognize the San Francisco and Bay Area Korea Center for the contribution to San Francisco cultural and economic diversity.

Korea Center, located at seven forty-five Buchanan Streets, was established to promote the cultural, social and educational and economic progress of Korean Americans and to strengthen mutual understanding and partnership with communities across the city and throughout the Bay Area.

As part of the MAIS AAPI Heritage Month celebration, Korea Center has invited the touring of um the Inchang Cultural Foundation and uh performance group to San Francisco, showcase Korean American heritage through dance and performing art.

So one of the pieces that the dance group uh is featuring is a masterpiece of Korean folk dance traditionally performed during the Harvest Moon Festival.

It is a celebration of life, longevity, and the bond between humanity and nature.

A perfect piece to bring the community together this month.

And I just really wanted to thank them for being here, but I also want to take this opportunity to say that um, you know, uh for a long time that in uh San Francisco, the AAPI community uh should ought to really work in solidarity to recognize each other.

Uh I know that often time we recognize Chinese American community, um, but I think that this is a moment to also recognize and extend that welcome and inclusivity uh to our Korean American community and recognize that they their positions and their contribution uh in San Francisco.

Uh, I know that many Korean Americans in San Francisco, both be it small business, uh community leaders, uh, and artists uh really have done well, including our Asian art uh museum director, Director Lee, also Dr.

Lee also has uh contribute so much to the art and culture and richness of San Francisco and Bay Area.

And so for that, I want to welcome them and thank you so much for being here.

Uh good afternoon supervisors.

I'm Korean Council General here.

I especially thank for the Kuni-chan for giving us, you know, the this the precious opportunity to introduce our the cultural troop.

The Korean community is very welcomed by the board of supervisors.

Thank you very much.

So I'm very honored to receive you know recognition on behalf of the Korean community.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Jonathan Kim.

On behalf of the Jindog and Kyang Shim Foundation and the San Francisco and Bay Area Korea Center, it's my great honor to support the 5,000-year Korean culture, history, drama, music, food, cosmetic surgery, cosmetic makeup, tack on the and hang of the Korean language.

Now I would like to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to Supervisor Kani Chen for her exceptional leadership, unwavering dedication, inspiring vision for the city and county of San Francisco.

Thank you so much.

As you see, we have 24 Korean traditional dancers to support the Korean Heritage Night at Oracle Park and to celebrate AIPI Heritage Month.

If you are interested in seeing Korean culture, please visit the San Francisco Bay Area Korea Center, located at 745 Buchanan Street, only a 10 to 15 minutes of walk from the City Hall and the Asian Art Museum.

The San Francisco Bay Area Korea Center is a multicultural hub that offers audience a window into Korean music, art, film, history, and language.

And thank you so much for your attention.

Please enjoy today's event.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

I'm the CEO of the Asian Cultural Foundation, representative of a city in Korea that may be small in size, but is a giant in spirit and culture.

Today I stand beneath this magnificent dome of San Francisco City Hall with our total play troop.

We come to you under the title I Chan Tong Xinsa, inspired by the historical peace and voice of Korea.

Having crossed the vast Pacific, we are deeply moved to share our message of harmony in this beautiful city by the bay.

Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a world that is weary.

However, I stand here today with a firm conviction.

What politics cannot solve and what economics cannot feel, can be healed by the power of culture and the arts.

Music is the most beautiful language.

For the brief moments our melodies linger in your ears, but it holds a giant size hope you can forget the worries of the world and find true happiness.

Please remember, the city of Eachon Korea and the Eachon Culture Foundation will always be cheering for you and for peace throughout the world.

Actually, before I conclude, I have a special surprise for all of you.

Long before I laid this foundation, I spent many times, principal opera singer at the Theatre Basel in Switzerland.

To honor this beautiful encounter in San Francisco, I would like to raise my voice for you.

Many of you might recognize this melody through PTS.

But today I want to share the original roots of this song, the true soul of Korea, Arira.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And now we'll go back to our regularly scheduled programming the act to District 5, Supervisor Mahmood.

Thank you, President, colleagues.

Uh today during police week, it is my honor to recognize members of the Tenderloin Station Patrol.

Can we have them to the podium, please?

We're honoring the Tenderloin Station Patrol, whose work reflects a deep commitment to public safety, neighborhood service, and the day-to-day well-being of District 5 residents.

This includes Officer Ernesto Lenares, Officer Edwin Anaye, and Samuel Baronson for their service to the Tenderloin community and for the work they do every single day to keep our neighborhood safe, accessible, and cared for.

As many know, the Tenderloin is one of the most dynamic but challenging neighborhoods in San Francisco.

It is home to working families, seniors, immigrants, small businesses, students, and longtime residents who deserve clean, safe, and welcoming public spaces.

Residents require not just consistency, but also visible ties to the community.

The Tenderloin Station Patrol delivers this.

They show a level of dedication in the form of knowing the names of the residents they serve and putting in the time by beginning their work in the early hours of every morning, often before most of the city is even awake.

They help ensure sidewalks are clear, public spaces are maintained, and residents can safely navigate their neighborhood.

These officers have dedicated much of their careers to exactly that mission.

Officer Ernesto Lenares immigrated to San Francisco from El Salvador as a child after his family fled the Civil War.

He joined the Marine Corps Reserves at just 17 years old and later entered the SFPD in 2006.

For the past 17 years, he has been at Tenderloin Station and has served as a field training officer and community services officer, focusing on homelessness outreach, public safety, and neighborhood quality of life.

His leadership, compassion, and resilience embody the very best of public service.

Officer Edwin Anaye is a San Francisco native and proud graduate of Lincoln High, who has served at Tenderloin Station since 2007.

Over the years, he has worked extensively as a homeless outreach officer, helping connect vulnerable residents to navigation services, sobering centers, and critical support systems.

His work earned him a mayoral commendation in 2017, and in 2019, he received a life-saving award for his actions during a critical incident.

And Sam Baronson has brought a collaborative and innovative approach to public safety work across multiple city departments.

From addressing illegal street vending at Mission Station to helping coordinate DMAC operations in the Tenderloin, Sam has worked closely with city agencies, public works teams, and community partners to improve sidewalk accessibility and neighborhood conditions.

His work on initiatives like Operation A-Frame demonstrate how coordination across agencies can deliver meaningful improvements on the ground.

As Captain Matt Sullivan has said about his team, they are part of the reason sidewalks are open every morning for people who go to work and to school.

And in a neighborhood of 3,500 children, often the sons and daughters of immigrants and refugees, you three, as part of your team have given them hope for a better life.

Captain Sullivan also notes that their consistent commitment and professionalism make a meaningful difference in the community each day.

Because you at the Tenderloin Station Patrol represent a model of public service rooted in consistency, collaboration, and care for community.

Your work begins before most of us even wake up.

And while much of what happens outside the spotlight, residents see the impact of what you do every single day.

I'll share an anecdote.

As I was walking home from work the other day, um, Captain Sullivan and I talked to our favorite bike shop owner uh on Market Street, and he commented how he's never seen the street conditions better in the 10 years he's been running that bike shop in Market Street in the Tenderloin.

And we have all of your hard work to thank for the changes that we're seeing happen today and for the years you've been in service to our city.

So, on behalf of Board of Supervisors and the residents of District Five, thank you all for your service to the Tenderloin and to the city and county of San Francisco.

Thank you.

But before you speak, Supervisor Chen, who does not represent the tenderline, has put herself into the queue.

Thank you, Board President.

Um, I want to say thank you so much for Supervisor Makmoo for this commendation.

I'm grateful for the work that Tener and Station Patrol does to collaborate and what to solve very complex issues for the city.

But in particular today, I want to thank Sam Baronson for many many years served in District Eleven office, first as legislative A, and then as our beloved public safety liaison.

Myself, my team, and my constituents, Ms.

Sam's diligence and professionalism in the field, but I am very proud to see Sam doing important work with the Tenor team City Y.

Again, thank you, Sam.

Thank you also again to the Tenor and Station Patrol team for your leadership.

Thank you.

Now the floor is yours.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

It's an honor to be here in this beautiful building and to work for the city and county San Francisco, in my dream, and I'm here.

On behalf of Officer Anaya and Samuel, we'd like to thank you for this award, and also uh a special thanks to uh DPW, DPT, Recology, and every team that helps us um complete our job every day.

Uh also to our captain, a tenderloin, great leadership, um, and my family and friends that came over to support us today, and uh to my wife that motivates me every day to be a better man.

Thank you.

Uh next up, District 11, Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Paul President.

Uh, may I have Jay, the owner of the recovery room to the podium.

In celebration of our AA N H PI Heritage Month, it is my great pleasure to recognize Jay Femm, owner of the recovery room bar in the Excelsior.

Jay moved to the Excelsior at 10 years old from Hoyan, Venom, to live in his to live with his mom and grandpa.

He later moved to the Ocean Rio neighborhood while attending San Francisco State and worked in bars and restaurants.

When Jay became the operator of his bar, it was important to maintain the character.

As a business owner, he has been an active member of the Excelsior community.

From the annual Jerry Day in August, he helps with fundraising and provides a space for grateful debt entertainment.

He also hosts Excelsior Street Clean Ups on Saturday mornings at the recovery room.

Last holiday season, he also hosted a toy drive for you first and donated to the event.

If you haven't been to our neighborhood, I hope you will stop by for a drink and by at the recovery room.

And thank you, Jay, for everything that you do to keep our Excelsior to keep the strict vibrant.

Thank you so much.

Hi.

Thank you guys so much for having me here.

This is such an amazing honor to represent District Eleven.

I just want to personally thank you, Supervisor Chen for giving me this amazing honor.

And I want to thank District Eleven to take me in as a young immigrant kid and allowing me to provide for my family and to be here today.

And that's basically it.

Thank you guys so much for listening to me.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Would Marla Perkins please come up to the Rossroom?

Colleagues, it is my absolute honor to commend Marla Perkins of the Episcopal Church of St.

Mary the Virgin, located in Calhallo, for more than 30 years of artistic educational and community contribution to the wonderful families and especially to the children of the city and county of San Francisco.

Marla was born and raised near Brandon, Manitoba in Canada, where her love of music began as a child singing beside her mother at the piano, a love she has spent her life sharing with others.

She holds advanced degrees in piano performance from Brandon University and the Hart School of Music, where she won the school's concerto composition competition, excuse me, and later earned a postgraduate degree in professional studies diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Now, since moving to San Francisco in 1991, Marla's taught piano and voice to children and youth across the city, including at St.

Bridget Academy, Ecole Notre Dame de Victoire, Calvary Presbyterian Church Nursery School, and her own private studio.

For over 20 years, she has accompany accompanied and coached young musicians through Villa Sinfonia and the ACT Young Conservatory, helping students find their artistic voice and perform with greater depth and confidence.

A St.

Mary the Virgin Parishioner since 1994, Marla has served as associate music director since 2016, directing the children's and handbell choirs and producing original pageants and music each year, including sewing costumes by hand.

For Marla, music and faith have always been inseparable.

Through her work at the church, she has helped weave together worship, community, and the joy of music, creating a space where children and families feel seen, feel celebrated and connected to each other.

Her approach has always been about more than performance.

She teaches children to listen deeply, express themselves with confidence, and carry a lifelong love of music with them.

Now Marla is preparing to begin a new chapter, returning to Canada closer to her daughter and her first grandchild, but the hundreds of children and families she has impacted here in San Francisco will remember her contributions in the city for generations to come.

So, Marla, on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, on behalf of the parishioners of St.

Mary, thank you so much for the beauty, the joy, and the dedication you've brought to San Francisco's children, our families, and the entire community for more than three decades.

We wish you all the best in this exciting new chapter.

Congratulations.

It's such a quiet crowd here compared to the children wriggling on the floor, bouncing off the walls and hiding under the chairs.

But my community work in San Francisco has been entirely through music, and I am so grateful for this honor through these years.

I truly love watching a child open up to the song and the dance within themselves, discovering a musical voice and expression of them sharing with others, of listening, and in an age of distraction, tuning in and engaging.

My work in the church community of the Episcopal Church of St.

Mary the Virgin and the wider community of San Francisco has provided so many opportunities to witness just that.

I am so grateful to this community and to every child and adult in St.

Mary's and for its support of children's programs and multi-generational interaction.

Also for my communities in the Richmond and Sunset Districts, the schools and the musical organizations with whom I've worked and socialized.

I truly believe that it takes a village to raise a child.

I feel blessed and honored to have lived and worked in this great city of San Francisco for 35 years, and to have raised my own family here beside the ocean, in the parks, among the variety of people and the neighborhoods.

As I now prepare to move to help raise my new grandson, I will cherish these years in San Francisco, at St.

Mary's, and in this city, in my heart.

Thank you.

And next, we have District Three Supervisor Soder.

Thank you, President Mendelman.

Colleagues, today I have the honor of welcoming David Osman to the chambers for a special recognition.

David, would you please come on up and join us?

David, you have some fans out there.

As you all know, last month was Earth Month, and we had planned to have David in then, but we're happy to use a scheduling conflict as an excuse to extend Earth Month celebrations just a bit longer.

Not only is David a proud district three resident residing in Russian Hill, but he is also the retired deputy director of the San Francisco Environment Department.

During his time there, he led recycling program efforts, including adopting a zero waste goal.

He worked to close the Hunters Point and Petrero Power Plants, created the Green Jobs Program, and saw the department grow in size and impact over the years.

David is also a San Francisco, a prominent San Francisco birder and photographer.

Two passions that he's been able to spend more time on in retirement.

He manages the annual San Francisco Christmas Bird Count for the National Autobahn Society, which is an important exercise to track population changes and monitor environmental health.

David leads regular Golden Gate Bird Alliance field trips at Fort Mason, where he delights visitors with his encyclopedic knowledge of the many species that call San Francisco home.

In fact, David estimates that he has spotted nearly 500 unique bird species that have flown through San Francisco over the past 20 years.

During the pandemic, he turned his knowledge into a welcome distraction when he started a practice of posting a new bird of the day on next door each day.

Neighbors look forward to his post every day and commented how it was something to look forward to and learn about in the midst of a dark time.

David, thank you for your nearly 20 years with the Department of Environment for sharing your knowledge and wisdom and always ensuring that San Francisco is a place that continues to lead in protecting our environment.

I hope that you'll share a few words, maybe tell us some of the birds to keep an eye out for out there.

And the floor is yours if you want to share a few words.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Supervisor Sauter, for this honor.

After a lifelong career in the environmental field, I'm now dedicated to sharing images and education about the beautiful wildlife that calls San Francisco home and to do what I can to promote conservation.

Despite being 95% developed, San Francisco is still one of the most biodiverse cities in the nation.

Here are just a handful of examples.

We all know about the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill, the official city animal, and we probably are familiar with the sea lions at Pier 39, including Chonkers, the Stellar Steeline that's just showing up.

But there's lots of other activity in this city.

There's the harbor seals now bringing their young to the docks across the street from the safe way in the marina.

There, and then there are the birds.

Last night, radar picked up 275,000 birds flying over the city as they migrated on the Pacific Flyway, with a number of them stopping here to rest or to spend the summer.

We have 75 species of birds that raise their young in the county of San Francisco.

Also, there's a gray and humpback whales that migrate through San Francisco waters and sometimes hang around Alcatraz or the cliffhouse.

There are the many species of butterflies that live here on migrate through here.

There are 20 plus species of mammals that live here, including the re-established coyotes.

And there are hundreds of native plant species, including some that are found nowhere else in the world.

I would like to end by dedicating this commendation to the species that share our home.

Last but not least, it is my great honor to present a commendation to the people who helped pull off San Francisco's St.

Patrick's Day Parade and Festival this year, and specifically I want to invite up James Quinn, PJ Masterson, and Ellie Schaefer.

Who are these amazing people?

Well, let me tell you.

So uh the St.

Fran St.

Patrick's Day Parade has been a part of San Francisco history since 1851, and is one of the city's longest-running and most beloved traditions.

The United Irish Societies of San Francisco, a volunteer-run organization that celebrates Irish culture and community, has been the longtime host.

In 2024, James Quinn stepped into the role of parade director at United Irish Societies, assuming responsibility for the parade's overall coordination and vision.

As the head of the organizing committee, James manages the big picture elements of the event, including invitations, coordination with grand marshals, and organizing the many volunteers and participants that make the celebration possible.

James works closely with PJ Masterson, his right-hand man to his right, with uh within the United Irish Societies, who helps him with the finer details of the event and troubleshoots challenges.

Under James's leadership, uh the United Irish Societies also launched the St.

Patrick's Day Festival in 2024 as part of the effort to re-energize the celebration after the pandemic.

James and the committee work to recruit performers, food vendors, and cultural organizations from across the city.

And that first festival launched under the theme Unite SF, aiming to share St.

Patrick's Day with more people and embrace all the unique cultural groups that make San Francisco unique.

Now, although it was a success, it was also costly, and those exorbitant costs and myriad of logistical challenges made it impractical, impossible to do a St.

Patrick's Day festival in 2025.

Fortunately, James is not someone who gives up.

He plots, he meets, he cajoles.

I was uh invited to at least some of those meetings, determined to host a festival in 2026.

He met repeatedly with city departments to better understand the many requirements and processes involved.

Um, and through that persistence, he forged critical partnerships with city agencies and leaders whose shared commitment ultimately helped make the festival a reality.

I do want to acknowledge they were not able to be here today, but I want to acknowledge the Rec Park folks who worked closely with the United Irish Societies on the parade and festival, and specifically I want to call out Beverly Eng, Shauna Bogitz, and Dana Ketchum.

But I really want to uh celebrate, honor um Ellie Schaefer, the director of large special events in the mayor's office, and my constituent uh who was an incredibly important champion for the parade and festival inside City Hall.

And uh I've seen her do this for other events uh where someone has a good idea.

The city is big, daunting, bureaucratic, and Ellie figures out a way to make it happen.

She brought together several departments, including Wreck and Park, SFPD, MTA, and Department of Emergency Management, coordinating the many conversations and moving pieces and moving pieces that were required to actually make the festival happen.

Along the way, she helped James and PJ cut through the maze of city regulations and procedures, wrangling the complicated bureaucratic process into a clearer set of guidelines that James, PJ, and the United Irish Societies could follow, not just for this year's festival, but we hope for future celebrations as well.

So thank you, Ellie, for making that possible.

Youth Sports Day was a great success on that bright March afternoon.

Children darted around Civic Center, learning traditional Irish sports, including Gaelic football, hurling, and rugby, and having Irish sports played and represented in the heart of San Francisco, made for a fitting close to the St.

Patrick's Day Parade, sharing an important part of Irish culture with new generations.

Organizing the St.

Patrick's Day Parade and Festival is a labor of love for from everyone involved, but I do want to reemphasize that the United Irish Societies, and I know we got a few folks here, uh, is entirely volunteer run with no paid staff or dedicated funding, and the time commitment often rivals that of a full-time job.

So thank you to James, PJ, everyone at the United Irish Societies for all you do for San Francisco, and thank you, Ellie, for uh stepping up in this case, as in so many others.

And now, oh, of course, the District 4 supervisor has wisely put himself into the queue.

Supervisor Wong.

Okay.

Thank you, President Maddeline, for taking the time to recognize this wonderful group and the work they do for our city.

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you and recognize the incredible people who helped make the St.

Patrick's Day celebration successful.

These kind of traditions don't just happen.

They happen because people care enough to put in the time, energy, and heart to bring communities together year after year.

We're especially lucky to have such a strong Irish community in the sunset.

It's a place where friendships are built, traditions are passed down, and the broader community comes together to celebrate.

St.

Patrick's Day is always such a joyful tradition in San Francisco, but that joy comes from the people behind the scenes who make it all happen.

So thank you to the United Irish Societies, James Quinn, PJ Masterson, Ellie Schaefer, Beverly Ng, and everyone who helped organize, support, and bring this celebration to life.

Thank you for continuing to keep this tradition going in a city that's constantly changing.

There's something really special about the communities that continue showing up, bring people together and keeping these traditions alive for the next generation.

Congratulations and thank you for all the work that you do.

Thank you, Supervisor Wong.

And now, James, the floor is yours.

Thanks very much for uh having us here this afternoon.

Uh Supervisor Mandelman, thank you.

Your big support from the moment I met you there at uh case and eight months ago uh for the Roger Casement dedication.

So thank you very much for your support.

Uh PJ and Ellie, I mean, you've been amazing.

Page is brilliant.

He reads all the fine print.

And uh Ellie, um, you know, has been uh great to to work with, and uh I was just talking to Ellie that next year we have our I set on Fulton Plaza, so for a big festival there.

So again, um this is a fabulous room.

Um I love the city, I know where I'm from.

Um I got married outside that door twenty-five years ago, so um really appreci appreciate the city and everything you guys do for us, and uh the place looks great, and thank you very much.

And before we move on, I should note that we have our former, well, not our colleague, but former member of the Board of Supervisors, Reverend Amos Brown is back in the chamber.

Welcome, Reverend Brown.

Um, I think we were Madam Clerk at item eighteen.

Item eight, please call item eighteen.

Item eighteen is a resolution to authorize the execution and delivery of multifamily housing revenue notes in one or more series in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed thirty million.

For the purpose of providing financing for the construction of a ninety-four unit multifamily rental housing project known as sixteen eighty-seven market residences.

Please call the role on this item.

On item eighteen, Supervisor Wong.

Wang I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Magmud.

Makmood.

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melcar, Melkar.

Milgar, I, Supervisor Sauder, Shatter.

Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, the resolution's adopted.

Uh, for city staff who may be wondering, uh, I think we will we'll take it to the three p.m.

special orders after we get through item 20, I think.

Um, Madam Clerk, please call item 19.

Item 19.

This is a motion to appoint Jasper Verduin, term ending January 1st, 2027.

Michael Fitro, Sam Urstrazinski, residency requirement waived, and Keisha Mason, terms ending January 1st, 2028.

And Brandon Fountain, Amelia Harman, Stephanie Gonzalez, and Tara Gamboa Eastman, terms ending January 1st, 2029, to the Behavioral Health Commission.

All right.

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

Uh the motion is approved.

And Madam Clerk, please call item 20.

Item 20.

This is an ordinance to amend the administrative business and tax regulations campaign and governmental conduct code, environmental health, labor, and employment, municipal elections, park planning, police, public works, and transportation codes to define and distinguish between commissions and advisory bodies to establish the term and term limits of bodies to establish, modify, or clarify the sunset dates of certain bodies to abolish other bodies, to modify the composition, excuse me, to modify their powers and duties, to modify the composition membership or appointment structure, to transfer to chapter five of the administrative code provisions for bodies that are currently located elsewhere in the municipal code to modify the duties, responsibilities, definitions, and membership of the child care planning and advisory council to conform with applicable state law, to add two state required bodies to make other minor or clarifying changes, and to authorize and direct the city attorney to make clerical non-substantive changes to update the municipal code pursuant to Charter Section 4.100.1 sub E.

Two-thirds of the board of supervisors would be required to either amend or disapprove this ordinance.

A minute to get the names in the queue, but there they are.

Thank you, President.

Um colleagues.

It was a long hours and a lot of work.

Uh, for all the hours that they dedicated to the process to um being there, but also all the research and analysis.

This was a Herculean effort that unveiled so much that has been left untouched and lost in our code.

Before this process, we didn't even have an accurate number of the count of boards and commissions in how many bodies that we have.

Um there's a parallel process that needs to go uh before the voters, and we will take certain parts of their recommendations through the charter amendment process in the coming months.

I feel that the ordinance before us today reflects many of the changes we need to make as a city, for example, eliminating 36 inactive defunct bodies, reorganizing the code sections so that they're easier to interpret, clarifying the roles for various bodies, and providing the same level of uniformity uh of seats and terms.

However, uh there are uh recommendations or eliminations or consolidations of body that I don't agree with, or I feel need more focused analysis.

One of the things that I've always um you know uh focus my attention on uh while I've been supervisor is at the um Littles, the early Care and education, and this ordinance proposes the elimination of the early care and education oversight and advisory committee on which I sat, with its duties consolidated into the first five commission, which is a state mandated body that is required to approve spending of state Prop 10 tobacco tax revenue funding.

The first five commission includes members of staff from other departments and a board of supervisors.

It feels inappropriate for other department heads and staff to influence this department, the Department of Early Childhood, its budgets and its programs that have nothing to do with a state mandate.

Even the task force recommendation acknowledged that this was not, you know, a great fix, but they felt consolidated to come to consolidate the bodies.

Um, and uh, you know, they have some overlap.

While the first five commission does play a significant role in shaping the country, the county strategic plan on early childhood and family services, they that is um not comprehensive enough.

San Franciscans approved hundreds of millions of dollars that support early childhood and envision universal child care system.

I think it's important that we have proper oversight and policy, especially now that we are forging ahead with universal child care.

I don't feel like this ordinance encapsulates all the changes that I want to see, and I would like the opportunity to support trailing legislation to address those issues.

So, as such, uh, because the vote before us today is the ordinance as a whole, and we can't be voting on different parts.

I will be voting no, unfortunately.

Um, there are some amendments I think many of us have explored, but feel uh that we need more time to develop in time is not on our side, given that this ordinance um gets approved with or without our vote, and that it was uh put forth because of vote of the people.

Um again, I want to emphasize that most of what's in this ordinance is necessary and should be enacted.

I just wish there was a way to do it without taking the other recommendations that I feel like need more work or have unintended consequences or negative consequences.

I look forward to working on the trailing legislation and taking many of the recommendations uh offered by the task force, and my apologies.

I also want to um thank uh Rachel Alonso from the city administrator's office for her incredible work staffing this task force.

Thank you.

Uh Supervisor Mahmoud.

Um colleagues want to uh echo Supervisor Melgara's comment on thanking a lot of people to help cut us here.

We want to start with thanking the voters.

In November 2024, San Franciscans passed proposition E with 53% of the vote, creating the Commission Streamlined Task Force and directing it to methodically review all the city's boards and commissions, and today we are following through on that mandate from the voters.

It's worth appreciating the scale of what the task force took on.

San Francisco has 152 boards and commissions with over 1,000 residents volunteering their time.

But only 115 of those bodies were ever even active.

Many existed in law but hadn't met in years.

The task force spent all of 2525 reviewing every single one of those commissions.

That means 21 public meetings, 556 public comments from over 320 unique commenters and sixty six hundred and sixty-seven pieces of written public comment.

This ordinance implements the task force recommendations, standardizing terms, adding term limits, limiting holdover service, and consolidating the large majority of these bodies into a single readable chapter of the administrative code.

Some are worried that streamlining means less community voice.

But this process is proof that those goals are not in conflict.

The bodies that survived are better defined and better structured.

There'll be more meaningful venues for participation than 152 bodies of uneven quality.

What we are eliminating is bureaucratic redundancy, not community voice.

And again, before I close, I want to recognize so many of the people who made this possible.

Task force members gave an enormous commitment of time and expertise.

Sophie Hayward from the city administrators' office, Natasha Mahal from the controller's office, Andrea Bruss from the city attorney's Office, Ed Harrington as the board's labor representative, Sophia Kittler from the mayor's office, and Jean Fraser of the Presidio Trust who served during the first phase of this work.

And to the staff who produced the final report, Rachel Alonso, Hannah Cohenzade, Joanna Bell, Henry O'Connell, and Chelsea Hall, thank you all for your service.

San Francisco has long had a reputation for governing by committee, sometimes at the expense of clarity and accountability.

This ordinance is a meaningful voter-mandated step in the right direction, and I intend to vote for it in support.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, as you can see, this came to us without recommendation.

I want to echo all of Supervisor Mirna Melgar's statements.

And some of these changes most certainly needed to happen, but I think there's some committees that are still important that did provide a lot of community voice that we still need.

This in its entirety, and having no choice, I can't support this today.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair Walton.

I will echo the thanks of uh my colleagues for um for Chair Harrington and members uh Brussels Hayward Mihal and Kittler uh for their work on the task force.

Um I think Supervisor Mahmoud detailed some of you know the work that they did, but 23 public meetings.

Uh, it was a heavy, heavy lift.

They were deep in the weeds for a very long time, and um I don't know that as over time we will think we will decide or feel like every last decision that they made was exactly right, but the point of the the um benefit of this being an ordinance is that at any point the board can um make a change.

I do think it is hard once bodies have been created, reporting requirements have been added, um, those things tend to accrete much more um reliably than uh than we get around to um trimming or pruning, and I think it is good for the people who try to make our government work.

It would be good if we did a little more pruning a little more often.

Um I think the forcing function here of making this board vote on something and uh having it take effect, even if we don't, unless we uh reject it by a supermajority, was probably um a little bit of genius in actually forcing us to take some actions that might be hard.

But again, if a majority of us you know want to change something about this, we certainly can do that going forward, and I'm sure and I suspect that we will make at least some changes in some of what we're doing here today.

But I think overall this is a good set of uh good set of changes and a good process, and um uh I was happy to put my name on it, and um with that, madam clerk, please call the role on this item.

On item 20, Supervisor Wong.

Wang I, Supervisor Chan, Chan, no, Supervisor Chen, Chen, no, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Mahmoud, Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar, no.

Millgar, no, Supervisor Sauter, Soder, I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, and Supervisor Walton, Walton, no.

There are six eyes and four no's with Supervisors Chan, Chen, Melgar, and Walton voting no.

The ordinance is passed on first reading.

All right.

Madam Clerk, let's go to our 3 p.m., our first 3 p.m.

special order.

Item 21 through 24 comprise.

Apologies, Mr.

President.

Items 21 and 22 comprise a public hearing.

This is a hearing to consider objections to a report of assessment costs submitted by the Director of Public Works for sidewalk and curb repairs through the sidewalk inspection and repair program ordered to be performed by the public works director.

Pursuant to the code, 706.9 and the administrative code.

Chapter 80, the costs being paid for by the city and county out of a revolving fund.

Scheduled pursuant to a motion number M26-037, approved on April 14th, 2026.

And item 22 contains the report of the assessment costs, which will be delivered in just a moment.

And you know what?

I threw you for a loop, Madam Clerk.

I'm sorry, you can call items 23 and 24, the second special order as well.

Yes, the second special order was scheduled pursuant to a motion number M26-038 approved on April 14th, 2026 for a hearing to consider objections to a report of assessment costs contained in item 24, submitted by the Director of Public Works for inspection and or repair of blighted properties ordered through the accelerated sidewalk abatement program to be performed by the director pursuant to the administrative code chapter 80 and costs thereof having been paid for by the city and county out of the Blight Abatement Fund.

Colleagues, we are now sitting as a committee of the whole for these two hearings on the report of assessment costs for the sidewalk inspection repair program and the accelerated sidewalk abatement program, and these hearings are now open.

And we will begin by hearing from Public Works.

Welcome.

Good afternoon, President Mandelman and members of the board.

My name is Wu Ju Chung, and I am appearing on behalf of San Francisco Public Works Code Enforcement for the Sidewalk Inspection and Repair Program and the Accelerated Sidewalk Abatement Program.

Under both programs, pursuant to State Highway Code 5611 and municipal public works code section 706.

The property owner is responsible for the repair and maintenance of the sidewalk adjacent to their property.

Agenda item 21 for the sidewalk inspection and repair program or colloquially known as SERP, is a proactive sidewalk inspection and repair program designed to inspect all sidewalks in San Francisco on a 25-year rolling basis.

We inspect and notify property owners and other entities when defects are found that need to be repaired.

The program is designed to make it easier for property owners to complete those repairs by providing a city contractor, which they can use, or they have the option of using a private contractor and making the repairs themselves.

When property owners elect to have the city contractor make the repairs, or when no response is received and the requisite repairs have not been made within the time specified, the city will see that the repairs are made and then invoice the property owners accordingly in an instances where these bills go unpaid or instances where the property owners elect to have the cost of repairs place on their property taxes.

We submit the liens to the Board of Supervisors for approval and inclusion on the annual tax rule.

Since the last hearing in May of 2024, the 270 invoices have been issued to property owners between January of 2024 to January of 2026, and 244 or 90.3% were paid.

A total of 26 unpaid invoices were initially submitted for your consideration.

As of 11 a.m.

today, 20 invoices totaling 35,890 were removed from the original list through payments made in recent weeks.

19 of the 20 invoices were paid.

One payment plan was requested and granted.

Therefore, the report we are submitting for your consideration has six invoices totaling 23,121.28 cents, including the 12% administrative fee.

Regarding agenda item 23 for the accelerated sidewalk abatement program is more site-specific uh specific and designed to expedite repairs of high priority locations as well as address outstanding notices to repair.

Again, we inspect and notify property owners and other entities when defect need to be repaired.

If they fail to do so within the allotted 30 days, a notice of violation is issued with the requirement to make the repairs within 15 days and an associated blight fee in accordance with administrative code section 80.

If the department makes repairs on the property owners' behalf and they fail to pay or elect to have the cost put on their property taxes, we submit for it to be added to the tax rule.

For this year, the properties on the remaining list have been assessed the blight fee only.

Since the last hearing in May of 2024 up until February of 2026, 50 invoices were issued to property owners, 17 have been paid, leaving a total of 34 unpaid invoices that were originally submitted for your consideration.

As of 11 a.m.

today, 19 invoices totaling 7,519 dollars were removed from the original list in the recent weeks.

12 of those 19 have been paid, seven of the 19 invoices have been waived.

Those addresses include 525 7th Avenue, 604 Waller Street, 431 Castro Street, 1741 Terra Val Street, 708 Ellis Street, and two invoices for 571 Nevada Street.

Therefore, we are submitting the remaining 15 invoices totaling $6,647.20 cents, including the 12% administrative fee.

It is here that the department requests the board's approval of both lists for agenda item 22 and 24.

Um available for any questions which you have any.

I don't see any comments or questions from colleagues.

So thank you.

Uh we will now open these items for public comment.

If you are a member of the public who would like to speak on items 21 through 24, the lean matters matters, you may come up to the podium or line up on the on your right, my left.

If you're here for these items that do not want to provide public testimony, you will have the opportunity to speak with public works staff outside the chamber to resolve your issue.

Public comment is now open.

All speakers will be allotted two minutes to provide your comments.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the first speaker?

Welcome.

Welcome, come to the podium, sir.

Uh, thank you for allowing me to be here.

My name is Boris Foodham.

Can you try to speak closer?

Closer to the microphone, please.

My name is Boris Foodham and I'm the Walner of 514 visitation.

First of all, on this list, this property twice on the list.

I have no idea why.

But I'm trying to build ADU in this building for last six years.

I applied through DBI through every department, which is, as I heard, it's very bureaucratic city.

Somebody come on here.

And I went to DBI, there's no way to go through and speak to someone because all these people work from home, there's no single point of contact.

And the last I know the project is being held by request to put the three, which is on a revision number four, first three revision.

They were okay to take the fees instead of three.

When I provided the picture to people who requested the three because there's no way to put the three in front of the building, because there's a bus stop, electrical pole, and driveway, and the department is not replying.

So I have no clue where to get from here, because if you go to DBI, this says, Well, we don't have anybody for you to speak.

Send the mail.

When you send the mail, the people are not replying.

But you do have people who have time to go and give me a fine, which is the work which they requested me to do, have to be redone, because according to their notes, I have to remove the cut of the curb.

So that's what it is.

That's where I am with this building.

Okay, thank you, sir.

If you wouldn't mind going over to the right-hand side of the chamber, Wu Zhu Chung, will you and your team signal to those individuals who would like assistance to negotiate with you, just get their attention and direct them to go into the hallway, please?

All right.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Supervisors San Francisco.

My name is Starchild.

I'm chair of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco, LPSF.org.

And I find this whole exercise and sidewalk inspection reprehensible.

There's a backlog of complaints that people have actually submitted to the city of public infrastructure, including sidewalks that need repairing.

I think it's ridiculous for the city government to be instead of addressing that backlog and the things that people have actually brought to their attention that need fixing, to be going out and doing inspections and then basically nailing property owners for something that shouldn't even be the responsibility.

It's unfair to them, and it's also unfair to the public because we're talking about public sidewalks here.

If you make the property owners responsible for paying for repairs to the public sidewalks, that will naturally give them a feeling of entitlement and ownership of those sidewalks.

But those sidewalks are not theirs.

They belong to the public, and it shouldn't just be the people who happen to live nearby that get stuck for the bill repairing them.

Again, this encourages an entitlement and sense of ownership, and then they feel like they have the right to control those sidewalks and keep other people off them or out of the area or whatever.

It just creates more NIMBYism.

And why doesn't the city government just address the problems that have already been reported by the public of things that need fixing?

I know there's a backlog for that.

If you check, there's probably a very long list of streets and other things that need repairing.

I think this inspection program is just basically a way to extort more money from the public and put it in the city government coffers.

Thank you.

Thank you, Star Child, for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Now, this is not general public.

Because the comments I was gonna make actually relate to the public sidewalks.

On the way over here, walking from Market Street to uh uh by the uh uh the the building, the education building uh to City Hall.

I was nearly struck.

Uh I was struck by uh one uh uh electric scooter, and I was nearly struck by two bicyclists on the sidewalk.

Now, if you're going to repair the sidewalks, are you gonna put aside any of that money that you may be collecting, maybe for enforcing the no vehicles on the sidewalk?

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

All right, please come on up.

Welcome.

Hello, my name is Whittier Betteen, and uh Mrs.

Ruby, one of my Mrs.

Ruby tripped and fell and died while walking on her dog on the uh McAllister Street between Laguna and Webster.

The sidewalk uh brick was lifted by tree roots.

It was only when she died from tripping and falling that the sidewalk was fixed.

To have the responsibility of maintenance of sidewalk to be on the property owner while the city entity DPW issues fines.

I don't believe this action best serves the public.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Uh good afternoon, City Hall.

I think it's very important to remember that we just came out of COVID, and a lot of business owners and property owners barely have enough money to maintain and keep their homes and not get it taken away from the government.

And I think this is a time where a lot of people that are barely surviving are getting attacked by the government with more taxes and fines, which is what all of you did today.

Just add more taxes onto the citizens that own houses and property and bit and businesses.

And I just think it's very nice and everything for you all to say something is free, but nothing is free.

You're taxing people, and you say free because you know that people don't have time to pay attention to politics.

You are all very intelligent people.

You all went to very good schools.

So did I.

I also went to very good schools, and I'm also a very intelligent person, but I am not a bad person.

And I don't appreciate how you all are up here saying this is free.

Universal child care is not free.

You're gonna tax people unless you get grants, which most of you don't, and I didn't see a grant on this on this uh universal ma'am.

This is not general public comment.

Okay, so you're gonna be able to do that.

And also, I'm speaking on the sidewalk.

So let me finish.

On the sidewalk, also I want you to all maybe think and be a little lenient on the fines and maybe give them more time, or don't do it at all.

And think of something else, because like I said, businesses and homeowners are barely surviving and barely keeping their homes.

Especially in San Francisco.

Yes, the people here make a lot of money, but even all the money they make, they still can't afford it.

So please think about that.

Thank you very much.

Alright, do we have another speaker who is actually here who needs to discuss the liens pursuant to their property?

Welcome.

Hello, my name's Michael Rushing.

I'm uh specifically speaking about agenda item 23.

I was assessed a fine.

I don't believe I should have been.

Uh there is damage to the sidewalk in front of my house, a large section because of uh tree roots and popped it up.

And the uh DPWs come by and put green uh marks on it that they were gonna fix.

They never fixed anything.

They come by and put white marks in front of my driveway, which isn't in the path of travel.

There's no there's no tripping hazards, anything there.

But now they sent me a blight fine, and I just don't think that's right.

That's enough.

Thank you, sir.

Are you going to go into the hallway and have a conversation with the DPW inspectors?

Mr.

Wright, welcome.

Thanks.

This sidewalk inspection is another example of poor supervision and management and shifting the blame to other people who don't have a damn thing to do with the problem.

Those property owners are not planting those trees that's roots that's causing the sidewalks to buckle and causes violations and safety hazards.

You're always shifting the blame to other people who don't have a damn thing to do with the problem.

That's the responsibility of the city and county of San Francisco.

Goddamn Cisco.

You're the one planting those trees on that property, and now you're trying to charge the property owners to pay for it.

This is the result of people packing up and leaving.

The city has lost 25 billion dollars in revenue because of this technique that you apply to not only uh high income multi-millionaires and billionaires, but now you're doing it to property owners that barely survive with a high-paying job, and you're taxing them.

So for you to sit up there and penalize them for funds that were responsible by the Department of Public Works and shift the blame over there is ridiculous and it's disgusting and it's scandalous.

So for that continuation, which is a pattern, which demonstrates throughout the administration, whenever there's a negative cash flow, a multi-million billion dollar negative cash flow is always because of the city and county of San Francisco's administration.

Always, and then you want other people who don't have a damn thing to do with the problem, want other people to do it.

I repeat, we lost a minimum of 25 billion dollars in tax revenue because of the people that you use this technique on, packed up and left the city.

Alright, can we hear from our next speaker, please?

This is specific to sidewalk abatement.

Yes, it accelerated sidewalk repair.

Yes, welcome.

Thank you.

Elisha Rochelle here, resident of Baby Hunters Point.

Uh District 10, the sidewalks that we're talking about.

Um, I fell onto a metal gate because of these things, uh, the roots of the sidewalk sticking up and yes to gray, excuse me, the green spray paint was there for months.

There were two women uh who are residents of the building where I tripped and fell, and they were saying that it's been like that for months, and it's it's very is it's it's inches high, and so the folks who own and who are responsible for uh the building has not repaired it.

I'm not sure when the green spray comes who's responsible for that, but I believe it's the city that has come out and did that, and nothing had been done.

I will go back and check and see what the outcome is as of yet.

Last time I went by there, there was some work being done, but not on the exact spot where the tree roots were coming up at.

It was a little bit down.

So that whole block is kind of messed up between third and quaseda on um, excuse me, Quaseda and Palu on Third Street, and so who's responsible for that?

Who's going to um pay for the fact that I was out of work for a week?

I had to get child care for a week because I was unable to care for my child.

So how does that get taken care of?

And um, I have called 311 and submitted that, and I also have the city form that needs to be submitted for a complaint.

So just put that on the record.

Thank you for your comments.

And if you could go outside to the hallway to report that information to the DPW uh sidewalk inspector, that would be helpful.

Thank you.

Do we have another uh speaker who has a lien that they would like to discuss with the board?

Please come forward.

Otherwise, this will be our last speaker.

Just in general, I think the sidewalks are too high.

They're too high, and I fell almost a couple of times because I had to be extra careful when I'm you know, I gotta lift my foot up like this just to go up there.

You know what I mean?

Make sure that I can't walk like normally on the sidewalks because crossing the streets, you know what I mean.

But um, I just think the sidewalks are too high.

You know, and um I almost fell a couple of times, and the potholes are would you consider those potholes breaking away the cement?

I don't know.

I think it's something going on under San Francisco that's causing these reoccurring issues when they get fixed, you know.

So I think it's something going on more so going on beneath the surface of why these reoccurring issues keep coming up about the sidewalks, is my opinion.

All right, thank you for your comments.

All right, Mr.

President.

All right, thank you, Madam Clerk.

Public comment is now closed.

Um, and on these items, we'll we'll be doing real public comment.

Um, items 21 and 23 have been heard, uh have been heard and are now filed.

Um, and for anyone who wants to speak with uh public work staff regarding the assessment on their property, you should go out into the hallway now.

Staff is out there, they will talk to you about your assessment, and then we will come back to items 22 and 24 later in the meeting, uh Madam Clerk.

Could we go to our last 3 p.m.

special court special order?

Please call item number 25.

Yes, item 25 scheduled pursuant to a motion M20-125 approved on September 15th, 2020.

Item 25 is a public hearing of the board to convene a committee of the whole to hear and receive updates on the progress and implementation status of the United States Department of Justice recommendations pertaining to reforms within the police department.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, President Madam and Colleagues.

There is not much new information to report.

Uh so we're I'm requesting that we continue this item to November 10th, 2026.

There is a motion to continue the item to what date?

November 10th.

November 10th.

Is there a second?

Seconded by Chen.

And then I believe that before we take that motion, we need to take public comment on the continuance.

So this is just public comment on the continuance of item 25 to November 10th.

If there are any uh individuals who'd like to provide comment with the understanding this matter will be continued.

Come on up and line up.

Supervisors, you may not know about cops, community-oriented policing services.

That's what we are talking about, which we attended these meetings.

Because of the killings and shootings, and we need due diligence from the police and the various types of uh committees they formed who really don't care about the thousands of people that were harmed, and how we had to go attend this long meetings only for something to be announced on an agenda like this and say, Oh, like let's continue it.

Continue about what this city and county of San Francisco is going to the hogs.

These are recommendations which now are neutralized in Washington DC.

There is no real Department of Justice.

So cops had uh some funds.

We have the programs there, the state has contributed to it, and I want to know which of your supervisors attended the meetings, and what the hell do you know about cops?

And what the hell have you done to save those people or help those people who are harmed?

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

DeCosta.

Mr.

Wright.

And the Board of Supervisors made comment you want to thank the voters.

The voters' vote is always intercepted, and funds that we voted for is always spent and enjoyed by people in high income brackets.

For example, proposition C.

We voted for proposition C, which was a measure to help the most vulnerable people who are economically disadvantaged, homeless with a combination of both mental and physical disabilities and out on the street and people in wheelchairs.

Now, fast forward to the present date.

You got the mayor, and I agree, I don't agree if this board goes along with what the mayor is doing, is using funds from that voted proposal and agreed to and voted on to be enjoyed by people in high income brackets that's making 200,000 to 230,000 a year to pay for their child care while they weren't making that much money per year.

Those funds for proposition C is supposed to be for the most vulnerable people.

You're demonstrating again that you're just the opposite of Robin Hood.

Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives from the poor.

What you're doing is stealing money from the programs for the poor and giving it and benefiting it for the rich.

It's unconstitutional, it's unethical, and it's disgusting and it's discrimination.

Now, also uh this uh 1.5 billion dollars that you in debt with.

You got nobody to blame but yourselves, poor supervision and management of the taxpayers' money there too.

And then on top of that, you also uh lost 2.5 billion billion.

Strike that, 25 billion dollars in tax revenue because of the big companies packing up and leaving.

So that's a total of 26.5 billion dollars that you've wasted, and about you celebrating St.

Patrick's Day pray.

St.

Patriots Day made $7.5 billion million dollars that day.

Mr.

But this is specific.

This is not general public comment, sir.

Oh, I thought you said general public comment.

This is specific to the updates on the progress of the implementation of the United States Department Justice recommendations.

Oh, well, you should have told me that.

Thank you, Mr.

Wright.

Ms.

Aquia Chandler.

And speaking of the Department of Justice, and Francisco de Costa spoke very well.

I went to Francisco de Costa when my son was murdered concerning the Department of Justice, and I still did not get any justice.

I had to be the one to fight for uh investigation and for the arrest of the murder of my son.

Yalani Yemas Chinyama Rende, the San Francisco Quadrupa homicide, and I am going to speak at the end with General.

But there's no justice in San Francisco.

The political system has failed the common people and the disenfranchise.

And it's going to be a time that many of you that know this to be true, you're going to pay the price.

Because what you do, you have us come here and speak behind these walls, and actually nothing happens.

Many of your fight is for your own constituents.

And I know that.

And the disrespect, this might be off, but the disrespect of you giving the black nation a uh reparations that has to do with a GoFundMe is an insult.

And I'm gonna leave you with this.

What you put out is what you're gonna get back, because you haven't used beg you for something that you know was rightfully voted at this at this uh this this this excuse me this chamber here.

So I'm going to come and speak at the end, but it's no justice in this in the state, and it's sure no justice in the United States of America, and it's gonna be a time that every one of you is going to reap what you saw.

Thank you, Ms.

Chandler.

Star Children, thank you, Madam Clerk.

Good afternoon again, members of the Board of Supervisors San Francisco.

Uh I don't know what the delay is, but this item keeps getting continued over and over again.

Why is it so hard for local police to comply with the recommendations of the Justice Department?

Very ironic now that we have, you know, of course, the Justice Department under the current administration, which is more anti-liberty and and more uh willing to tolerate police abuse in a position of telling the local police department that they are out of line.

And if the local police department, which you control and the mayor controls, uh would get its act together, we wouldn't be in this embarrassing situation of having the Trump administration looking over their shoulders to tell the local police how to do their jobs.

One reason is that they don't have any competition.

Back in the 1990s and before then, actually, since before the SFPD was created, there was a group called the Patrol Specials, who are basically like private security guards, except they could move around from location to location.

They had beats, and people hired them, merchant groups hired them, and other people hired them to provide more extra security and community oriented policing that people actually wanted.

And in the castor, there's a plaque uh dedicated to one of them, Jane Warner, uh at the corner of Market on 17th, who is a longtime patrol special officer, uh injured in line of duty, and uh much loved by the community.

I think you should try to bring back the patrol specials, provide some competition to the police department.

Show them what good policing looks like, help them understand the importance of civil liberties and respecting the rights of members of the public, then we won't have the Trump administration and others looking over our shoulders in this embarrassing fashion.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Uh hold your applause, please.

Are there any other speakers who would like to address the Department of Justice recommendations pertaining to reforms in the police department, right, Mr.

President?

All right.

Uh public comment on the public comment on the continuance is now closed.

Uh Supervisor Walton has made a motion to continue this hearing to November 10th.

It has been seconded by Supervisor Chen.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

On the motion to continue item 25 to November 10th.

Supervisor Wong.

Wang I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Mahmood.

Makmood absent.

Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I.

Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar I.

Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter, I Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I.

And Supervisor Walton.

Walton I.

There are nine ayes.

And the hearing is continued to November 10th.

All right, Madam Clerk.

Let's go to committee reports.

Please call it number 26.

Item 26 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on Monday, May 11th.

It was recommended as amended as a committee report with the same title.

It now reads item 26 ordinance to amend the administrative code to create the downtown hospitality zone.

In multiple areas bounded by Fifth Street from Folsom Street to Market Street, Cyril Magden Street from Market to Eddy Street, Eddie Street from Cyril Magden Street to Mason Street, Mason Street from Eddy Street to Ellis Street, Ellis Street from Mason Street to Taylor Street, Taylor Street from Ellis Street to Post Street, Poe Street from Taylor Street to Mason Street, Mason Street from Post Street to Bush Street, Bush Street from Mason Street to Kearney Street, Kearney Street from Bush Street to Market Street, Market Street from Third Street to Second Street, Second Street from Market Street to Folsom Street, and Folsom Street from 2nd Street to Fifth Street, and to affirm the planning department's determination under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you, President Miniman.

Before we vote, I just wanted to give a bit of context on this.

This is the local implementation of a state law that would allow for up to 20 new liquor licenses specifically designated for downtown San Francisco within a hospitality zone, the boundaries as read by our clerk, which is roughly split between my district and uh District 6 with Supervisor Dorsey.

Um this state law was introduced over a year ago in February 2025, then signed into law by Governor Newsom in October 2025.

And we're what we're looking at here today is the local implementation of that.

Um since the signing by Governor Newsom in October 2025, uh the mayor's office has been engaging with key stakeholders, including the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, Union Square Alliance, the Yerba Buena partnership, and independent bar owners.

Based on the feedback received uh from bar owners, an amendment was made in rules committee yesterday to reduce the number of total licenses available through this program from 20 to 15.

The state law dictates that a maximum of 10 licenses can be granted in the first year, with then five more available in the second year.

So that was the amendment made yesterday, and and uh the file is uh as amended before you, but the file was also duplicated in committee yesterday, which I think is important and will give us time for further considering further amendments.

Um we are under a uh time constraint here as there is a July 1st deadline in the state law to have a local ordinance in effect, and I want to make sure that we meet that deadline and do not lose this uh really important opportunity.

So it is uh my intent today uh that we pass this uh and again have that duplicated file in committee for further amendments.

Thanks.

Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, President Mendelman.

I will be voting in support of this with the uh knowledge that um this uh legislation has been duplicated committee and that there's an intention to amend um to make sure that we uh uh have equal play field for all uh business owners and small businesses that um have liquor license and um that we don't end up setting up a two-tier system.

So I will be voting in support, but I also look forward to the amended version or the uh that it's to come.

Thank you.

Chair Walton.

Thank you, President Mandelman and thank you, Supervisor Sauter for summarizing what happened in rules committee yesterday.

Uh we had a hefty discussion again about making sure that we protect existing businesses as we move forward to do everything we can to revitalize downtown area.

Also just want to note uh that we were not happy to be put up against the gun and having to make this decision in such a short period of time because we are caught up against the timeline, so it's like we support it or we don't, but we did duplicate the foul so that we could work with community and businesses to make sure that we come up with something uh that will not use the term make everybody happy, but most certainly do everything we can to support future business and keep downtown thriving, but to make sure that our current businesses are able to thrive as well.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Um, echoing what my colleagues said, especially um Supervisor Walton, um a little heads up a little earlier would have solved a lot of problems.

Um I think there's been much more negotiation on this matter, much more back and forth than I and probably my my colleagues on the rules committee were made aware of.

Um my conversations over the last 36 hours to 24 hours really have made me a lot more comfortable with the work that's been done.

Um but at the same time, I think a lot of this could have been avoided.

Um I really don't like the back against the wall.

I'm glad that we duplicated the file.

I'm gonna be voting to support this.

Um I think the work that's been done so far was much more robust than I was initially led to believe, and I appreciate that.

I'm glad that's true.

Uh so I'll be voting support on this today, but I'm glad we have a duplicated file and continue to work on this.

Madam Clerk, please call the role on this item.

On item 26, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Mahmood, Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

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

Sauter, I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading.

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

Supervisor Wong, you're first up to introduce new business.

Submit, thank you.

Supervisor Chan.

Submit, thank you.

Supervisor Chen, submit, thank you.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Um, colleagues, I'm today introducing a resolution commemorating the 140th anniversary of the landmark civil rights case.

Yikwo v Hopkins.

With zero precedent to suggest they might succeed.

Lee Yik and the Chinese six companies of San Francisco bravely asserted the promise of the U.S.

Constitution in 1885 when they sued over discriminatory enforcement of a local law.

That case remains one of the foundational equal protection precedents in constitutional law and has been cited countless times in rulings ever since.

It was also among history's first instances in which San Franciscans of principle and daring challenged an injustice and in so doing changed America for the better.

It's also among the enduring legacies of San Francisco's Chinese community.

The case arose because, under a law enacted by the board by the Board of Supervisors, the city and county of San Francisco denied necessary permits to all but one of more than 200 Chinese laundries, including Yicks, while granting permits to all but one white-owned laundry.

The city declined the renewal of uh Lee Yik's permit, despite the fact that he had operated for more than two decades with a clean safety record.

Yik was a fined and then imprisoned and refute for refusing to pay.

When he filed suit in 1885, he did so along with Wo Lee, another San Francisco laundry operator.

They were backed by the Chinese consolidated benevolent association, also known as the Chinese Six Companies, which raised some $20,000 for the case.

That's more than $600,000 in today's dollars.

Their legal team was led by an all-star attorney named Hal Hall McAllister, whose statue stands on the street that still bears his name right outside City Hall.

The YICWO case was appealed all the way to the U.S.

Supreme Court, and on May 10th, 1886, the nation's highest court issued an unanimous ruling that held that a law applied in a racially discriminatory manner violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection to all persons, citizens or not.

This remains a foundational case in American jurisprudence, and it is part of a still largely underrecognized tradition of legal action by Chinese American immigrants who fought discriminatory laws in American courts at a time when they were barred from citizenship and largely stripped of political power.

It is more important now than ever to celebrate that history and to recognize the achievements and contributions of our immigrant communities.

Education and placemaking are powerful tools to highlight and celebrate history, which is why this resolution also supports placemaking at the site of Yikes Laundry in my district.

As someone who spent much of my career around lawyers in the city attorney's office as well as the district attorney's office, I've long been familiar with the case, but only learned recently that the Yikwo laundry was actually located in my district.

So I believe placemaking and physical recognition near the site would be warranted.

I want to thank the community members and organizations who organized the event yesterday, where we celebrated the case and spoke about the importance of recognizing this storied history.

We were joined too by my colleagues, Supervisors Mandelman, Sauter, Chan, and Chen who are co-sponsoring this resolution, and I hope it can earn everyone's support and the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey.

Supervisor Makmood.

Colleagues, today I'm introducing a resolution in support of Senate Bill 1422 introduced by Senator Maria Alena Duraza, which would restore full scope medical access for undocumented adults in California.

California has made real progress on health coverage.

We brought our uninsured rate down to about 6% through health for all expansions, giving roughly 1.5 million undocumented Californians access to preventive and primary care.

That progress is now at risk.

The 2025-26 state budget imposed a freeze on medical enrollment for undocumented adults, which is projected to strip coverage from over one million Californians by 2030.

Cutting people off from Medi-Cal doesn't make their health needs disappear.

It just pushes those costs onto counties, hospitals, and emergency rooms, increasing uncompensated care and straining local public health systems like ours here in San Francisco.

Preventive and primary care saves money.

When people can see a doctor regularly, we reduce avoidable ER visits, hospitalizations, and long-term costs to the healthcare system.

San Francisco has long served as a provider of last resort.

This enrollment freeze will directly increase the fiscal and service burdens on our city.

SP 1422 would sunset this enrollment freeze and restore full-scope Medical beginning January 1st, 2027.

A common sense investment in public health and fiscal responsibility.

Undocumented Californians contribute an estimated $8.5 billion annually in state and local taxes.

They deserve access to the same health care that keeps our communities healthy and our economy strong.

I want to thank Supervisor Sauter for being an early co-sponsor, and the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Makmood.

President Mandelman.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I have a couple items.

First, I'm introducing a resolution in support of HR 8426, the Crime Survivor Support and Stability Act of 2026, introduced by Representative Latifa Simon and Representative Amelia Sykes.

This legislation takes three important steps forward for survivors of violence.

It directs states to enumerate and protect survivor rights.

It establishes a federal grant program to fund community-based organizations and distributing direct cash assistance to survivors, and it author authorizes state-level victim needs surveys to strengthen the evidence base for future federal investments.

The need is substantial.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported approximately 6.4 million violent victimizations in the United States in 2023 with associated costs, medical expenses, lost wages, mental health services totaling tens of billions of dollars annually.

Violence leaves people materially devastated at the very moment they are most vulnerable, and the evidence is clear that prior victimization is among the strongest predictors of future violence.

Existing victim compensation programs have done important work, but they contain gaps that leave many survivors without access to support.

Programs that condition eligibility on reporting to or cooperating with law enforcement while well-intentioned, often exclude immigrants, domestic violence survivors, and others whose circumstances make cooperation difficult or unsafe.

These are often the same individuals who face violence at disproportionately high rates and may need support most urgently.

HR 8426 addresses those gaps.

Under this legislation, survivor rights and access to assistance would not be conditioned on reporting, immigration status, housing status, arrest or conviction record, or any claim that the survivor contributed to their own victimization.

Direct cash assistance delivered through community-based organizations would be excluded from income and asset calculations for federal means tested programs to ensure it would not reduce survivors' eligibility for other public benefits.

I want to acknowledge and thank Representative Simon for her leadership on this legislation and Representative Sykes for her co-sponsorship.

I also want to thank Ivy Lee and Barbara Lopez in the Mayor's Office for Victims' Rights for all their help with this resolution.

And I want to thank Renil Bajoy in my office for his work as well.

Secondly, colleagues, I'm asking that we adjourn uh today's meeting in memory of Lawrence Michael Stephanie, the beloved father of our former colleague, Assemblywoman Stephanie, who died on April 29th, 2026 at the age of 82.

He was born on December 18th, 1943, raised in Merced, California in a tight-knit Italian Catholic family.

Growing up, he worked in the family business, Stephanie Clothiers.

After graduating from Bellarmine College prep in college preparatory in 1961, Lawrence moved across the country to attend University of Notre Dame.

At Notre Dame, he formed lifelong friendships and developed a deep and abiding love for the university and its traditions.

Long after he graduated, he would fill his home with Notre Dame songs, stories, and spirit.

And many of us will remember that his daughter also carried that affection with her and talked about it often.

He earned a master's degree in international relations from UC Berkeley before serving as a first lieutenant in the United States Army, including a year stationed in Vietnam.

In 1968, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for outstanding professional competence and devotion to duty.

He went on to build a long and respected career in financial services, beginning at Bank of America and later at Payne Weber and UBS.

In Merced, he managed one of the most successful branch offices in Payne Weber Group's global investment network for more than two decades and remained deeply committed to mentoring colleagues, serving clients, and leading with integrity throughout his 37-year career.

Beyond his professional accomplishments, Larry was endlessly curious, deeply thoughtful, and full of life.

He was an avid reader and a devoted student of history, particularly the Civil War.

He loved traveling to Italy to stay connected to his family and heritage and found joy in music and performance throughout his life, from singing in a boys' choir and the Bellarmine Glee Club to performing with the Merced Center for the Performing Arts and later singing tenor at St.

Patrick's Parish.

Above all, he was a devoted husband, father, mentor, and friend.

He made people feel seen, valued, welcomed.

His words of encouragement, plan, focus, execute, and perseverance as the price of greatness reflected the values by which he lived and inspired others, including Catherine, to do the same.

Rest in peace, rest in peace, Lawrence Stephanie.

May your memory and legacy be a blessing.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Next up is Supervisor Milgar.

Thank you.

President, if it's okay, I would like to be added to your in memorium for our dear former colleagues at Father.

To get that.

I wanted to be added to the in memoriam.

No, why don't we do that on behalf of the full board?

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Okay.

Uh colleagues, today I am introducing a resolution to urge state officials to support Senate Bill 436.

That is uh Aisha Wab's uh bill, the Keeping California's House Act of 2026.

Uh, the best way to prevent homelessness is to prevent people from being homeless.

SB 436 is a bill that would extend their notice period for renters to pay lay rent or move out from three days to fourteen days.

A three-day notice period makes it very difficult for renters who fall behind on rent to access emergency rental assistance.

This is particularly difficult for people who receive subsidies, uh either Section 8 or any other local subsidies where they have to deal with a bureaucracy that may not move as fast.

Um the three-day notice, uh whether it's um getting help from family or uh pay it and get help from someone is short.

So in twenty twenty two, the board of supervisors agreed and unanimously pass a similar ordinance that would have required a 10-day warning period and opportunity to pay before eviction proceedings could happen.

However, the court said that it needed to be state law, and that is what we're attempting to do now.

ISB 436 uh would be that.

Uh state tenant advocates have asked our office to draft this resolution so that San Francisco could be on the record to support.

Representatives Stephanie and Haney supported the twenty-two local version uh while on the board, and now they will have an opportunity to support the state version when it comes before them.

Thank you, Supervisors Mahmood Sauter and Chen for co-sponsoring in advance, and the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Millgar.

Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you.

Uh colleagues, today I'm introducing a hearing request to discuss how we can make it more welcoming for families to use public transit in San Francisco.

This hearing request is part of the Stroller Act.

My push to focus on making life easier for young families in San Francisco.

While public transit in San Francisco does often feel easy and enjoyable, navigating buses and subways with toddlers in tow or strollers in hand can present its own unique challenges.

Our our hearing will provide space to hear from operators, including Muni and BART, and understand their progress, success, and shortcomings and factors that make a big difference for families using public transit, such as elevator and escalator access and reliability, wayfinding and signage, restroom availability, fares for youth and families, safety, speed and frequency.

Moving around a city, be it from home to school or weekend trips to libraries, parks, and playgrounds, is a major part of the experience of raising a family in San Francisco.

We should make sure our transit agencies are doing everything they can to make sure that these are these experiences are more positive, yes, but also more importantly, faster, less expensive, and more reliable.

Doing so is a major way that we can make it more affordable to raise a family in San Francisco.

The cost of owning a car is enormous, and it's gotten considerably more expensive in recent years.

Between the vehicle insurance, parking and maintenance, you're looking at a price tag that could be well north of ten thousand dollars annually.

Given this, the ability for our public transit systems to be good enough for more families to not feel forced to drive is an opportunity to put thousands of dollars back in the pockets of an average family each year.

As the supervisor representing the neighborhoods with the lowest co car ownership in our city, I'll always fight for better public transit.

And as we face fiscal challenges, this focus is also a good investment.

When you make it practice to ride transit early on, you're more likely to be a lifelong muni rider and customer.

Finally, I want to emphasize that when we make it more welcoming for families to ride public transit, we also make it better for everyone.

That's why we've been working with partners, including Senior and Disability Action and the Office of Disability to shape this hearing and make sure that transit can work better for all those who need extra time or space to move about our city.

So I look forward to our hearing for a full discussion on this important topic.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Sauter.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Submit, thank you.

And Supervisor Walton.

Submit, thank you.

Mr.

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

Great.

And Madam Clerk, are we ready to go back to items 22 and 24?

I believe we are, Mr.

President will ask.

All right.

DPW representative to come up.

Great.

President Mandelman, members of the board, um, thank you for the opportunity to have productive and um conversations outside of chambers.

Um were just informational, they had questions not pertaining to the any of the agenda items itself.

There was one individual which we had um struck in one from the list for items 21 and 22.

The uh the list remains the same.

And for items 23 and 24.

Uh, there is one uh item, the property at 514 Visitation Avenue, which has been stricken with the revised amount that is being um request for approval is six thousand two hundred and four dollars and eighty cents.

Uh we'll provide that uh revised report.

Um, it's been issued to the clerk, which is just the um strikeout form, but we will provide a more formal uh report in the morning.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for your work.

Um, colleagues, can we accept the amendment to uh the report in uh item 24 and remove the property identified by department staff without objection and seeing no objection, those changes are accepted.

That change is accepted, and then Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll on the resolutions item 22 and 24 with the amended report?

On the amended reports for item 22 and 24, Supervisor Wong.

Wang I, Supervisor Chan.

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

Aye, Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauder, Sauter, I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, and Supervisor Wilton.

Walton, I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, items 22 and 24 are adopted with the amended reports.

Um, and now let's go to public comment.

At this time, the board welcomes your general public comment.

If you'll line up on your right hand side of the chamber, you may speak to the minutes as presented, the mayoral appearance, items 29 through 31.

These are the items up for adoption without committee reference and other general matters that are not on the published agenda today, but must be within the board's subject matter jurisdiction.

I will make a special note of three items.

If you speak to the report of assessment costs for either the sidewalk inspection and repair program or the blighted properties for the accelerated sidewalk abatement program, or the update on findings and recommendations pertaining to law enforcement practices, those three items are not eligible for your public comment during this general public comment.

You will be redirected and the clock will continue to tick.

So let's hear from our first speaker.

Welcome.

We're setting the timer for two minutes.

Okay, thank you.

My name is Makia George Watkins, and I'm um first given honor to God who was the head of my life.

I would like to say good evening to the supervisors.

Um I've lived in the Fillmore for most of the 53 years of my life.

Um I've worked there for 30 30 years as a licensed cosmetologist.

From my from my business to my home, I'm on the ground every day.

I see the gaps that the city often misses.

For over a decade, the Ella Hill Hex Center hasn't lived up to its potential.

We need it to be more true, to be a true community hub again, a place for senior access, for young adults, for kids, and for single mothers and fathers who need information and resources.

It should just it shouldn't just be for a group, it needs to be for a lifeline, a lifeline for everyone from our elders to our infants.

But we cannot build that vision through government overreach.

Trying to rush a single person into leadership without trans without a transparent community process is a mistake.

It annoys it ignores the people who actually live there.

This demands collective action and a fair process, not a top-down appointment.

We need a leader with the heartbeat for the community, someone who communicates with us, not to us.

We are not here to hate judge, but we are here for justice.

We have petitions from residents who believe that Renard Monroe's leadership because believe in our Monroe's leadership, because we want this to work, we are asking for a co-director model between Shakira Somali and Renard Monroe.

Supervisors, please do not vote on a single director.

Honor the community's voice.

Let's make Elder Hill.

Thank you for your comment.

Thank you kindly.

Before the next speaker approaches, we do have an ADA caller who has made a prior arrangement and is on the line and prepared to give their two com two minutes of comment.

Good afternoon, supervisors, Delphine Brody.

Um the mayor has proposed not to renew vital city funding for TGI justice projects, rental housing subsidy programs for trans people, which would eliminate these programs and the subsidies they provide for more than 300 trans people funded by the city over the past five years, sustaining and expanding these programs, not eliminating them, is key to the city's goal declared five years ago at the inception of the program providing the subsidy I received to end transgender homelessness.

Speaking for myself as a formerly homeless, disabled, queer trans woman and advocate whose work in support of trans prisoners 25 years ago paved the way for the founding of the transgender variant and intersex justice project.

And as an SSI beneficiary with a means tested income below the federal poverty level for 20 of the 20 of the past 28 years since I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after surviving a series of traumatic ordeals, unable to maintain a substantial gainful income as the cost of renting a studio apartment in San Francisco and other parts of the inner Bay Area rose further and further out of reach.

For the past four years, as my disabilities have multiplied, become more severe, and kept me homebound most days in order to keep this roof over my head out of necessity.

Today the cost of a studio apartment in San Francisco is 2560 a month, more than twice the monthly income I receive from SSI.

If the city does not renew the funding for TTIJPs, housing subsidy programs, I will be one of hundreds of transgender barrier residents who can no longer afford to rent our apartments and face permanent displacement and a return to homelessness and the dangerous traumatic conditions that exacerbated my PDF and precipitated my permanent disabled.

Alright, let's hear from our next speaker.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you, supervisors.

My name is Erica Scott.

You all received an email from me last week regarding the Ellie Hill Hutch Community Center.

But I am asking the other supervisors to not support the lease transfer to Booker T.

Washington Community Center with the executive director, Shakira Slimley.

As we all know, the Ellie Hill Hutch Community Center right now is facing court proceedings regarding the leadership, the former leadership of our community center.

To rush and give the property to another entity within our community, creates another monopoly that we're just getting out of.

The former leadership had no real accountability, they use the center to their advantage, deciding who would receive services, funding, and support, and um Shakira Simili is a direct product of that same line of leadership.

She worked directly with the human rights commission.

She's um, she's the one that the existing leadership is pushing to get into the building, it's just not a fair process, it does not support our community.

We are in trauma right now, and to give such a leadership position to one person who's not from our community, who's not willing to work with anyone from our community, is just not a good decision for us as a whole.

So I am asking that you do not agree with the information that's been shared by the thank you, Erica Scott, for your comments, Mr.

Wright, discriminatory practices and tricking devices, real complicated and sophisticated, but you're not more sophisticated than me.

You try to put illegal immigration, illegal aliens on medical insurance programs is the reason why we have a 1.5 billion dollar negative cash flow deficit right now.

You can't give state and federal funds to people who snuck in the country illegally and violate federal rules, and then by the same response, expect taxpayers who are United States citizens to pay for their insurance.

That's the reason why you got a 1.5 billion dollar negative cash flow right now.

What part of that you don't understand?

It brings in the question if you're documented or not.

Okay, and by the same response, this board participates in illegal immigration and harboring illegal immigration.

You got a member on your board, Connie Chen, she's not even a U.S.

citizen, understand me.

You got a job that's supposed to be held by a U.S.

citizen, a person that lives in the city and county of San Francisco's jurisdiction that is born in the United States, not somebody that's snuck into the country and comes from China and always creating a multi-million dollar negative.

We do not endorse those comments that you just made.

Well, you you got your time is ticking.

Okay, stop me from speaking.

So I'm reclaiming my time.

So as a result, example, you let people come to the Chinese New Year's ride muni for free.

Munie is one point five million dollars in debt.

Okay.

After that, Chinese celebration, now Muni is 3.5 million dollars in debt because of you.

St.

Patrick's Day Parade a week or two later made seven point five million dollars.

That's an example of your time is concluded.

And Mr.

Wright, you cannot come here and insult people.

The truth hurts.

And ain't nobody been welcoming the manager.

Can the next speaker get ready to come forward, please?

I got a constitutional right to talk like that.

That's what you do not.

It's a limited right.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Welcome.

Yes, please proceed.

Hi, ladies and gentlemen of the board.

Thank you for having us here today.

I really appreciate the opportunity to make a general comment.

My name is Aaron Roach.

I'm the president of the Marina Community Association, and I'm here to just give you all an update on what's happening with the Marina Safeway Project because I think it's a project that has implications for all of your uh districts at some point or another.

We are challenging.

It's an eligibility for AB 2011.

Uh, fortunately, we've had the support of Supervisor Cheryl in this recently.

It's a project, the the project site is riddled with complexity, and it is not one that easily fits in a series of checked boxes.

Um, the land mass that this project represents is equal to a half a percentage of all of the marina, and so when the implications about infrastructure, sewage, liquefaction, soil contamination aren't seriously considered, it's gonna be a problem.

And if anybody of you lived through the recent F 1 debacle, you'll know what I mean.

When things get crowded at the marina, it's very difficult on the rest of the city.

So I wanted to tell you that we've sent a letter to city planning that details the challenges that we're making to AB 2011.

And I would love to give you all a copy.

It's a big document because there's lots of supporting evidence here.

And I can send it via email.

I can give it to the clerk to make copies, but I would like you all to take it seriously and hope that we can work with the city to make a more reasonable development at that site.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome, Mr.

DeCosta.

Supervisors, I want to talk about two issues.

Issue number one.

We have reservoirs in San Francisco that are contaminated.

Imagine clean drinking water contaminated.

Brought this to the attention of the SFPUC 16 times.

Took this to the OSHA.

Brought this to the attention of one of y'all in this chamber.

Are we going to put San Franciscans in harm's way?

You better look into it.

Secondly, I see people.

They have no understanding of what they are talking about.

If you take cops, community-oriented police services.

Over a million dollars was spent in order to improve safety and bring changes to our police force, which should be 2000, which is 800.

What are y'all doing about that?

They'll seem not to know anything about operations.

Mickey Mouse is what y'all need.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Okay, hello everybody.

So on a good note, um, my name is Annie Delamora, I R-A-N-I-A-Telamora D-E-L-A-M-O-R-A.

The police department of San Francisco does a great job in San Francisco.

I just want to say, I want to take a moment to say that because I've I noticed I wanted to take a moment to say how I walk down the streets of Jerry Powell Franklin and Bush and other streets often.

I walk alone often.

And I also often film myself, I do vlogs.

I started doing vlogs about a month ago.

And the reason I do it is because I started watching this young man called Kurt Cass, and he does vlogs all over the world, and he's a nomad.

And I think I might end up being one in the next few years.

But I'm a bit not happy about it because the rest of the world is a lot more violent, and they also lack police the way we do here.

A lot of them have federal uh governments like um militia working.

They don't have police like we have here, and it looks very dangerous, but I hope when I get out there they have police.

I know they don't do that, but I hope they consider other countries consider having regular police like we do.

Um I started becoming very active in the public of San Francisco about three years ago.

I started seeing it on the streets making videos, and I started attending um the French Alliance meetings, which we have a huge alliance with the French government.

If you guys did not know, one of the big reasons that we won the Civil War and the American Revolution and all of our wars was thanks to the French army, which always came to help us.

Um I speak of to the people of San Francisco monthly and sometimes weekly, and I have a great love for San Francisco because I was able to buy my first house working two jobs in San Francisco.

Um I also don't own the house anymore, thanks to COVID.

I can say with assurance, every week San Francisco becomes more lively and more popular worldwide.

I hope to one day participate in international relations and help promote the beauty of San Francisco Worldwide and bring the culture of Union Square worldwide because it is one of my favorite places in the world.

Thank you for your comment.

Thank you.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Hello, everybody.

My name is Whitty of Teen.

About three of like, okay.

So Wuju mentioned that the complaints that his office received comes from areas of San Francisco that are more respected.

And I want to propose that DPW leads a campaign that informs the public about the 311 application and how to submit a response, and that it should be a collaboration effort.

And in addition to a 311 application campaign, the city should expand the sidewalk inspection and repair program.

And then that can also be like a um what's the word?

I don't know what the word I'm talking about, but a pipeline to work into the city.

That's the only comments I have right now.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Continuing on.

I've noticed that it's been a lot of blacks that had city positions that are either in prison or being charged.

The name is Mohammed Nuru.

And I want to say these individuals, I don't know the story as far as guilty or innocent, but I'm looking at the timeline here of all these black individuals.

Cheryl Davis, black, Dwayne Jones, black.

Now it's obvious that it's a lot of investigation going on around here with these black so-called executives, but it's not much investigation going down concerning the other nationalities.

What's going on around here?

No one is blind anymore.

We are awakened people who have stepped into our position of power.

The tribe of Yuda has risen.

The Hebrew nation is awakening.

But what I want to say, the disrespect of insulting us as a commonly called black nation, and saying that every one of you have voted for reparations for us, yet it's a GoFundMe for us to get the money ourselves.

Being nice to the system is not going to work.

But I'm here to let you know.

I have no problem because many of our young black boys have been murdered, and the blood has spilled in this country, and the enslavement and the condition of my people.

Thank you, Ms.

Chandler, for your comments.

Thank you, Ms.

Chandler.

All right, next speaker, welcome.

This is tough, guys.

Gals, guys.

Elisha Rochelle again.

I only got two minutes.

I wasted my gas.

Excuse me, I used my gas to get here.

I'm just gonna stand here.

Because I'm not necessarily, I don't want to say I'm disappointed.

I'm trying to find my space in this political situation.

I never wanted to be political, but everything is political.

I will say Sharon Hewitt's name again because she told me that this is how it is.

And I still don't agree with it, but here I am.

I'm looking at all of y'all, and I heard so much go on today, so many things just the whole day is here in this these chambers.

And you know, when we speak here at this microphone, what in the world are you guys doing with this information?

I want to know.

And I just really want to see a more transparent system here because I mean I'm 50 plus, and um what I've seen is not the best system of how things work for me as a native San Franciscan, grew up here.

Yeah, just yeah, just listen.

I guess I'll wait for the beep too.

But it's just is really interesting how this process is working, and I'm here for it.

I'm not going anywhere.

I'm gonna find out my place in this space because God told me that I'm to be working with the supervisors.

So here are the supervisors.

Here I am, you'll see more of me, and I am listening to see what's next.

When I call you, please answer.

Work with me.

I'm where I'm ready to work with you, okay, because we are living here in this space together.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Hi, my name is Nick Piazza, and I'm here to ask that, in accordance with the Charter of San Francisco, that you please act to meet the needs of the people of San Francisco to fund the city's services and hold the AI companies accountable.

There is a justified and growing public concern regarding the current harms and impending risks of artificial intelligence.

These include negative cognitive effects, AI addiction and psychosis, invasions of privacy, environmental degradation, widening socioeconomic inequality, job displacement, outright social engineering, mass surveillance, cyber attacks, autonomous weapons systems, and even an existential threat to the human species.

I hope I have your attention.

These current harms and impending risks of AI constitute a public emergency right now.

It is imperative that every level of our city government address them satisfactorily and immediately.

We San Franciscans are also aware of the severe budget cuts, which will impact immigrant families and low-income communities the most and eliminates many harm reduction programs.

These issues and concerns can be resolved, so we propose that you do the following as soon as possible.

Number one, mandate by emergency order or city ordinance that no AI company in San Francisco operate without a valid AI license issued by the city and not without demonstrable and certifiable evidence and ongoing proof that the AI company's models are safe, secure, and under human control.

Number two, set the annual cost to obtain the AI license at 2% of the AI company's annual revenue and set the fine for operation without the valid AI license at two million dollars per day paid to the city of San Francisco.

And three, allocate the revenue gained from the licensing program to fund the city's services that are otherwise being cut.

Thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this urgent issue.

Thank you for your comments.

You're welcome.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Good afternoon, Board President Mendelman and Board of Supervisors.

My name is Fiona Yim, and I'm the communications manager at Walk San Francisco.

Um first I wanted to thank uh Supervisor Dorsey, Mandelman, and Melgar for co-sponsoring the resolution to further embrace speed cameras to save lives, make streets safer and our city better.

Already the 33 speed cameras in San Francisco's pilot program are making a remarkable difference.

Data from the first year of the speed camera program shows the cameras are working with a nearly 80% drop in drivers traveling 10 miles per hour or more above the speed limit across all camera locations.

When the cameras were turned on, Baixal Avenue gave an average of 255 notices per day.

Now it gives an average of 74 per day.

That's a 71% decrease.

Mission between 7th and 8th saw an 83% drop in citations near social and health services.

Geneva has seen a 94% drop in notices near Crocker Amazon Park.

There are more than 40,000 fewer instances of dangerous speeding every day, and 65% of vehicle owners who receive a notice do not receive a second citation.

Bringing down speeds is the number one way to make our streets safer.

This pilot has shown that speed cameras will do just that, but the program must be brought to scale.

California speed camera pilot has strong privacy protection parameters that ensure that the data does not get into the wrong hands.

And equity was explicitly designed into the law.

Safe speeds is one of the pillars of the city's street safety initiative and street safety act.

The cameras are one tool to reach the city's goal of ending deaths and serious injuries from traffic crashes.

Thank you again, Supervisor Dorsey, for re-establishing the city's commitment to this technology and beginning the exploration of how to expand the legislation to meet the demand.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Okay.

Hello, honorable supervisors.

My name is the Dragon King.

I am a San Francisco Drag King, a trans man, a man raised to love his neighbors by his Catholic, Lutheran, and Ashkenazi Jewish relatives, and I run a free community day at 575 Castro Street.

Supervisor Harvey Milk's campaign headquarters and camera store.

For 10 weeks, we have offered free use of typewriters to write to the mayor's office because we don't believe in using chat GPT.

We offer five different news sources to assist in drafting, and for 10 weeks, we have both hand delivered and sent scanned emails to this with a simple request we would appreciate the courtesy of a response from you or a member of your staff regarding the contents and proposals set forth in this letter.

We have received zero responses.

The San Francisco citizens that came to Castro the Castro wrote to the mayor or at least one of his staff expecting a response from their elected official, but they have been ignored.

Were these citizens not important or worthy enough for a response?

Could the mayor's office not spare at least one of his 45 budgeted staff members in the office to respond?

We have written about cuts to community services, cuts to HIV funding, attempts to increase mayoral executive power, and we have even written in to ask that speed limits be put on our ships so they stop killing whales in the bay.

For today, completely independent from me and the 575 queers fighting for the movement to continue.

The SF people's budget and the SFAIDS Foundation took that idea of sending the mayor letters and innovated in ways beyond my wildest dreams.

So many postcards with grievances, fears, and community needs to the mayor, all held up by San Franciscans, who quite frankly gave the cops panic attacks, maybe because they realized their oversaturated budgets are under threat.

That is San Francisco.

Those are your people demanding to be heard by their elected officials.

So my question to the board is this How can the people of San Francisco trust the mayor's office and by the extension its supervisors if they feel unheard?

How can the mayor of San Francisco possibly represent and meet the needs of his neighbors if even the letters from the mayor of the Castro Street home is home be blatantly ignored?

Thank you for your comments.

And what will you do to help for the movement to continue?

Let's hear from our next speaker, please.

I am allcome.

Hi.

Yes, Jessica Pesico, District 10 candidate and RN expert witness, and I'm here to discuss how we can improve some of our ways for people to get around AKR transportation.

Specifically, I'd like to work with you guys as well as SFMTA and redoing some of our bus routes.

For example, we have a lot of overlapping bus routes, 9R, 14, 14R, and there's other bus routes in my district, such as the 54 and the 19 that we could redo so we can get better access to the hospital and major events within our district and outside.

So I'd like to work together to do that.

Also, if we could work together to evaluate ways to decrease the cost of parking tickets, um it's expensive enough to own a car, let alone afford gas now, and we have to figure out a way to keep costs down for our residents, as well as provide them safe places that are uh that we can work.

We're often finding that a lot of our employees, well, not employees, their 1099 workers are being misclassified, and they should be W-2 employees.

The problem is the uh Department of Labor, aka, um, also the uh California Department of Industrial Relations is not only understaffed, but they need a bigger budget to help um some of these workers get their benefits because we're often seeing that there's a big uh lack of access to health care, and um a lot of these employees are working a lot of hours, but they cannot afford health insurance.

They're afraid of working more because if they do that, they don't get Medicail because the limit is $1,800.

So we need to figure out ways to improve a health access.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Hello.

My name is Shannon Gallimore.

I work with ATN staffing, and I also serve as a volunteer assistant for Jessica Pesacal, right here behind me.

Um she's uh candidate for San Francisco District 10 supervisor.

I would like to respectfully request time to speak and share a few recommendations regarding the entertainment commission, regardless, um, the guidelines, um, permits for sound ordinance and things like that and times and stuff.

Um I would like to see if uh you guys would like me to speak with my friend Jessica on the podium if that's okay.

Cool, thanks.

So um after going to the entertainment commission, speakers' time, you can you know.

Oh, the time is allotted to you.

Uh I asked if she can speak with me.

No, we we don't do that.

Okay, she's completed her time.

So uh regardless of um of the uh ventilations requirements, the current guidelines and emphasis is keeping doors and windows closed inside venues.

Oh, I just propose uh reconsidering this approach.

I'm pausing your time.

All right.

Just so you know there is no electoral, no electioneering you can do in the chamber during general public comment.

So just keep your comments general.

Okay.

Do not talk about the election or the fact that you're a candidate or anyone else is a candidate.

Okay, okay.

Thank you.

So yeah, we're not talking about that right now currently.

Um the nightingale, the founder of the modern nursing offices, importance in the fresh air, um having windows open, doors open during events, um, and never to be afraid of open the windows, um, and things like that.

So for health reasons, uh, and things like that for indoor environmental health.

Um to help prevent noise um complaints.

I recommend that entertainment commissions provide clearer guidance to businesses about sound limits specific to their local area as noted in the permit guidance.

Uh business are expected to be familiar with their sound limits, clear, more accessible information would help improve compliance.

The business of appearing in commercial zones, I suggest are considering whether permits are necessary for lower impact activities such as karaoke, reducing um the str uh streamline permit requirements in these cases can lower costs for small businesses and make compliance more efficient.

All right, thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Hello, my name's Darrell Daniels, uh born and raised in the city.

I want to speak on the LA.

So you can pull that microphone up to straighten it as much as you can.

I wanted to speak on the Ella Hill situation.

I think every household should have its own parent, and I think Ella Hill Hutt should have its own parent, and I don't think a person should have two jobs like that because it needs its own attention from what's been going on in the past there, and I think uh it would be very unfair for one person to run two places like that.

It needs to be one person run it here, one person run it there.

And I want to say this to the supervisors.

And I want you to take this personal.

I sat and I watched certain people speak.

You don't look them in the eye, you look down, you're talking, you should treat everything the same.

The energy you guys have for the guy who spoke on the trans and the kids, the first guy, everybody was into it.

You should be like that with everyone, especially the natives.

God bless.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Good afternoon again.

Starchild, chair of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco's Starchild.for Liberty.org.

Referencing one of the previous comments, I wanted to talk about the cameras, the speed cameras.

This is part of a much larger trend in our society of mass surveillance.

Everything from monitoring cars through the fast track thing that go over the bridge, cameras in our Muni, buses, cameras on BART, all kinds of information being data harvested through tech companies and often ends up in the hands of government if government isn't harvesting it directly.

This is a growing threat to all of our privacy and civil liberties.

I understand wanting to reduce deaths on the street.

I don't own a car, I'm a cyclist.

I bike mostly to get around.

But I do not want more cameras out there surveilling us.

The current Trump administration and everything they're doing to erode civil liberties and democracy in this country should really make you think twice before being willing to put in a network like this.

You don't know who's gonna succeed you.

I mean, San Francisco seems solidly democratic right now.

I know you're all Democrats.

You may feel like that's gonna exist and be the case forever, but it isn't necessarily going to be the case forever.

Any power that you give to government, thinking that, oh, this is someone I agree with and I trust them with this power.

Well, that power will still be there when they're succeeded by somebody whose agenda you don't necessarily agree with.

And all these mass surveillance cameras really again pose a standing threat to all of us.

So please think about other ways that don't involve monitoring and surveilling the public and adding to this growing turnkey to totalitarian police state that's being built in this country.

Please remove the cameras and look into specifically the flock company.

Uh it's getting a lot of negative press.

There's been a lot of disingenuous information from them.

Um I don't have time to go into it, but please.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

And before you speak, are there any other members of the public who would like to address welcome uh the board during general public comment?

All right, please proceed.

We'll set the timer for two minutes.

Hi, this is Kimberly Simmons, and I would just like to make a propose a few ideas that I have.

Kimberly, can you speak directly into the microphone for us?

I just wanted to propose a few ideas that I have for San Francisco.

Um, one of the ideas that I have been um propose one would like to propose is San Francisco Bay Seawall, the water, you know, um these anxiety attacks about this water and ocean and y'all got the bay and you got the ocean, everything is all around San Francisco so small, I don't know if it can hold up as much as we would like to believe.

However, I'm not a professional, I don't have any construction ideas on how to fix it.

However, I just wanted to make a few suggestions for professional help in these situations, but however, it would be um San Francisco Bay Seawall, and I was also thinking about um a boat harboring station over there in Candlestick Bayview area, um, for um boat harboring.

Um I don't know if you guys ever been to Lone Beach Queen Mary.

It's like a boat there and it's a hotel, restaurant food, just like, you know, um, just like a nice boating area.

Um, only in the city, the city of Bayview Candlestick Park.

Um, have you ever thought about extending um San Francisco Bay?

It's a lot of complaints about not enough housing and other stuff, but um expanding San Francisco Bay.

I'm not sure what all professional levels you guys deal with these reconstructions, reconstructioning San Francisco on, but I just want to make a few suggestions and ideas for San Francisco.

Thank you for your comments.

If I could recommend that you check out the port commission, they are working on exactly building a seawall.

Okay.

Welcome, Reverend Brown, Mr.

President, Madam Clerk, members of this August body, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of St.

Francis.

Obviously, I sat and listened.

My grandmother said God gave us two eyes to see and two ears to hear.

And the more we look and listen and less we speak, the better we shall all be here.

And I rise at the age of eighty and five.

Say I sat where you sat.

You sit rather right now.

And I made every effort to do the right thing for the summons, the common good, and no one, I felt should monopolize.

Goodness.

And also another matter I would like to call to your attention.

Aristotle said in his politics during the fourth century BC that the black man or the Ethiopian were inferior because our skin was dark, and that we would never be capable of self-governance, that we would always have to have a white person over us.

For the black community in San Francisco, feels that what's happening around the issue of Ella Hill Hutch Center is an obvious situation where someone seeks to make decisions for, please hear me, the black community.

The sociologists have all said it.

The historians have said it.

But the decisions that was made around L.

Hutch, not one black faith community was consulted.

That's bad politicking.

That denies the persons.

So we are saying, as a community, the civil rights community and representing NHCP2 and the faith community, Bethel AME Church, Third Baptist, First AME Zion, Cornerstone.

I can't call all of them, but we are united, and we are saying, please, please, pretty please, don't insult us again by making decisions for the black community.

Hold your applause, please.

So I trust that you all will see also that we have wisdom.

We know how to be statespersons.

But leadership somewhere in the body of politics.

And from Booger T, have said no to reason and common sense when we were advanced idea that we would have at that center, joint leadership so that we would come from under that pain, anguish and agony of the cloud that has been over the community.

So, members of the board, please listen.

Please work with us.

And don't dismember us.

That's what was done during the days of lynchings of the South.

After they strung us up, what did they do?

They cut off our fingers and our toes.

Check it out on the internet.

It's the truth.

And what we do when we play divisive politics, we dismember a community.

So please listen.

Thank you, Remember.

And not act on what you are thinking of doing.

The community needs to be respected.

Thank you very much.

And I now present to you a young man from the community that you should hear and see the new director of Coleman Advocate.

Coming up here.

And I will just make I will make a note that pursuant to the board rules, the Board of Supervisors allowed Reverend Brown privilege of the floor as he is a former member of this board of supervisors.

But generally there are we set the timer for two minutes.

Welcome, sir.

If you're the last speaker, please.

He brings great credentials.

How are we feeling?

Hello, board.

Hello, San Francisco.

Um, I just want to say, Stephen, how are you?

Good to see you again.

I'm uh it's an honor to be here to be a small cog and a Marty Clark that makes up the ecosystem of San Francisco.

Although I'm not born here, um I consider this my my home.

Um I would say that Coleman, having 52 years of legacy and success, is willing and ready to work not only as a preventative arm of uh the ecosystem, but also as an accountability arm.

So uh I asked Reverend Brown to allow me to come here simply to say uh consider us your partner.

Uh as he was saying, the black community as any other community has a voice, it has a mind, um, and it has autonomy.

Uh, whenever you're making decisions, I think it is pertinent that you consider those who are most affected by the decisions that you are making.

Uh again, it's an honor to be here and have a great day.

Good bless.

Thank you for your comments.

All right.

Are there other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comment?

Mr.

President, public comment is now closed.

Madam Clerk, please call the for adoption without committee reference agenda.

Items 29 through 31.

Items 29 through 31 were introduced for adoption without committee reference.

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

Other uh any member may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee.

Thank you.

Just sending item 30 to committee.

Supervisor Dorsey.

I'd like to uh sever 30 just to speak to it.

If it's possible.

Yeah, uh, Mr.

President, when a member indicates an item, it can be sent to committee just as such, and you can indicate which committee it's gonna go to.

We'd we would recommend P SNS.

Yeah, I mean it would go to PSNS, sorry, but I have a member in the queue, but he can say whatever he wants.

Yeah, it's a single member's privilege.

There's there's no debate on but it's but if there is an idea.

That's why it's going to committee.

It is certainly going to committee.

I mean, there's not a question whether it's going to critic committee.

The question is I have a member in the queue who wants to speak about it.

Then I're not allowed to speak after that member too.

If we're going to do that, well, I mean, sure.

Oh, sure.

Okay.

I mean, this is sort of a board rule question.

I'm not sure what the answer here is.

I think if you just go to Supervisor Dorsey.

Sure, I just wanted to say, uh, although this is going to be going to a committee hearing, as is any members right, I did want to take the opportunity to explain why I've been such a strong proponent of the automated speed enforcement program during my time on the board.

This program took several tries in the California legislature, and I'm grateful for the leadership former Assemblymember Laura Friedman provided in finally getting this bill across the finish line.

I also want to recognize the leadership of our city attorney David Chu, who during his time in the state legislature sponsored this law several times.

Back in 2023, I joined advocates from WAC SF and Families for Safe Streets for an advocacy day in Sacramento.

It was deeply moving to see how traffic violence can affect people's lives and how some family members and loved ones find purpose in advocating for traffic safety like speed enforcement cameras to ensure that no more families face the tragedies that they did.

San Francisco moved quickly to implement the bill and to maximize the program to the fullest extent of the law.

This board took action to allow a design build contract to allow for smooth implementation.

Last week, SFMTA released its data on the first full year of the program, and the results speak for themselves.

Speed has dropped an average of 80% at 33 locations in the program, many of them in my district.

District 6 has many dangerous arterials where drivers behave as if they are on a highway when in reality they're in the middle of a dense urban neighborhood.

The streets with camera do feel safer, and we've seen incredible progress.

This program is proving why we should have more of this life-saving technology.

This resolution would recognize the program's success and put San Francisco on record in saying that we support it, that we believe the state legislature should strengthen it.

Um I look forward to working with our local advocates and our state delegation to see slower cars and safer streets.

I want to thank WAC SF for their unrelenting advocacy on this issue, for the representatives who spoke to it and to MTA for their diligent work to implement and run the program.

I appreciate this board's prior support for the resolutions to support the state law, AB 645, as well as the trailing legislation needed to implement it promptly, and I hope you'll join me in supporting the resolution when it comes back from committee.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Anything with surveillance involved in it, I am going to send it to committee.

Um for adoption without committee reference, makes a blanket statement that we're all in agreement with everything, and that's not always the case.

That's why this is getting sent to committee.

And we send it to committee so we don't have a debate on it right here because it's for adoption without committee reference.

So for us to be going back and forth is inappropriate.

There are rules that we need to go by at this board, even out of respect for our colleagues.

So we need to remember that, Mr.

President, because we shouldn't be going back and forth over something that got sent to committee.

That's what committee is for.

I believe Supervisor Walton is correct and that I am in error.

Um, I don't see anybody else in the queue.

Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll on items 29 and 31?

29 and 31.

On items 29 and 31, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Aye, Chan, I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey, I, Supervisor Mahmood.

Machmud, I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar, aye.

Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter, aye.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl, I, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I.

There are 10 ayes.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

And then Madam Clerk, do we have do you have any imperative agenda?

Do we have any imperative agenda items?

There are none to report.

All right.

Could you please read the in-memoriums?

Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individual on behalf of the entire Board of Supervisors on the motion made by President Mandelman for the late.

Mr.

Lawrence Michael Stephanie.

And I believe that brings us to the end of our agenda, Madam Clerk.

Do we have any further business before us today?

That concludes our business for today.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

We are adjourned.