Good afternoon.

Welcome to the July 28, 2026 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Yes, Supervisor Chan.

Chan present.

Supervisor Chen.

Chen present.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey present.

Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder present.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Mahmoud present.

Supervisor Mandelman.

Present.

Mandelman present.

Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar present.

Supervisor Sodder.

Soder present.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl not present.

Supervisor Walton.

Walton present.

Supervisor Wong.

Wong present.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

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

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatushaloni have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory.

As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland.

We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramatushalone community, and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples.

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

For which there stands on my nation.

On behalf of the board, I want to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV.

Today, that is especially Kalina Mendoza.

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

Madam Clerk, do you have any communications?

Yes, Mr.

President.

The Board of Supervisors welcomes your attendance here in person in the board's legislative chamber, room 250 on the second floor of City Hall.

When you can't be here, the proceedings are airing live on SFGov TV's local cable channel or live streaming at SFGOVTV.org.

As of July 1st, pursuant to SB 707.

During the public comment period, we will prioritize those who have joined in person and then hear from our remote callers.

The board has also approved a rule to address disorderly public comment.

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Members, that concludes my communication.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

All right.

Let's go to our approval of meeting minutes.

Today the board is considering approval of the June 23rd board meeting minutes and the June 22nd, June 24th, and June 25th.

Special meeting minutes at the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which constituted a quorum of the board.

Can I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented?

Moved by Walton, seconded by Chen.

Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Yes.

On the minute, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

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

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

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar, I, Supervisor Soder.

Soder, I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, there are 11 eyes.

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

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

Please call items 1 through 18.

Items 1 through 18 are on consent.

These items are considered routine.

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

Please call the roll.

On the consent agenda, Supervisor Walton.

Walton I, Supervisor Wong, Wang I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder I, Supervisor Mahmood, Mahmood I, Supervisor Mendelman.

I.

Mendelman I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar I, Supervisor Sauter, Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I.

They're 11 Ice.

With that objection, the ordinances are finally passed and the resolutions are adopted.

Let's go to unfinished business.

Please call the budget.

Items 19 through 26 together.

Items 19 through 26 comprise the final reading of the annual budget.

Item 19 is the budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for departments of the city and county of San Francisco as of July 1st, 2026 for the fiscal years ending June 30th, 2027 and 2028.

Item 20 is an is the annual salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fiscal years ending June 30th, 2027 and 2028.

Item 2021 is the ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the city administrator to pause reduce or return the annual contributions by the departments that contract for public works to the San Francisco Self-Insurance Surity Bond Fund.

Item 22 is an ordinance modifying the baseline funding requirements for early care and education programs in fiscal years 2627 and 2728 to enable the city to use the interest earned from the early care and education commercial rents tax for those baseline programs.

Item 23 is an ordinance amending the health code to set patient rates for services provided by the Department of Public Health for fiscal years 26-27 and 27-28.

Item 24 is the ordinance amending the administrative code to increase certain utility meter fees and authorize the controller to annually adjust device fees for weights and measures and utility meters up to the maximum allowable under state law.

Item 25 is an ordinance temporarily suspending the cap on the use of homelessness gross receipts tax revenues to fund short-term rental subsidies and finding that temporarily allowing for increased expenditures on short-term rental subsidies will further the purposes of our the R City R Home Fund.

And finally, item 26 is the ordinance adopting the neighborhood beautification and graffiti cleanup fund tax designation ceiling for tax year 2026.

Chair Chan.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Uh colleagues, I rise before you at a very proud moment.

Um a month ago, the budget and appropriations committee completed its work to bring before the full board a unanimously recommended fiscal year 26-27 and 27-28 to fiscal year budget.

And today we are poised to hopefully again unanimously approve this budget, something that this board of supervisors has not done in six years.

And this budget, while it can certainly be improved upon, is something we all can be very proud of, all of us.

We will restore more than 28 million dollars in cuts to vital services, retain frontline jobs, and safeguard more than 1.3 billion dollars in reserve funds to protect against further anticipated cuts from Trump's administration.

For the past four years, uh our work, um, my team and I uh as chair of the budget committee has centered uh on reducing wasteful spending, creating guardrails against corruption, saving for the future by putting reasonable dollars on reserve and reversing cuts affecting the most vulnerable San Franciscans and saving essential jobs and services.

I believe that together we have been successful with this work.

This year, again, in collaboration with Mayor Lurie, we have accomplished a lot.

Uh and thanks to him and his team.

This year, we invested $8 million annually to replace the San Francisco Fire Department's fire trucks, all of which are more than 10 years old, with some up to 50 years old.

We funded new PIFA freeze uniform for every firefighter by July of this year, replacing all uniforms containing cancer-causing chemicals.

Of course, as mentioned earlier, that we now put together a 1.3 billion dollars in reserve to safeguard against Trump's cut to health care.

We have ensure full funding for immigration legal defense funds and immigrant resources.

In collaboration with all members, and particularly the budget and appropriation committee, we restore $28 million in reinvestments, and those include vital services to support seniors, employment opportunities for youth, critical programming and services for our LGBTQ, IA, Transgender, Latin Max, and BIPOC communities.

We fully funded Free City College.

We also fund vital HIV prevention and care services.

We reverse layoffs for workers that provide services at 311 call centers, Laguna Honda Hospital, and child care facilities under the Human Services Agency.

This budget showed that we can and should move forward a spending plan that prioritizes support for our most vulnerable communities and that we can still safeguard for our future.

So I am proud of the work we have accomplished together, an honor to have serves San Francisco as your budget committee chair under two different mayors, two different board presidents, and 18 supervisors.

And so thank you, colleagues.

While we are still facing tough challenges ahead, the work we have done together has smooth San Francisco in a positive direction.

So while this is my last year, shepherding the city's budget as chair, please know colleagues, I am here at your service to assist all of you to make sure that we continue to stay on this positive trajectory.

Meanwhile, though, I continue to hope, not just right now, but remaining of the year, that all of us continue to stay vigilant in guarding the city's fiscal health.

So of course, just want to thank President Mendelman for appointing me to as budget committee chair, and thank you, colleagues, and thank you, Vice Chair Dorsey, for being a vice chair that really throughout the year, not just during the budget process.

So thank you, colleagues, for your support.

It's been an honor serving you.

Thank you.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, I want to start by thanking Budget Chair Connie Chan for her outstanding leadership throughout the budget process.

As I have witnessed here in City Hall for many years, prior to joining this board, guiding our city through challenging fiscal times is no small task.

Chair Chan has approached it for more years than just this past one with professionalism, intelligence, and a collaborative spirit that benefited all San Franciscans.

And as I said at the Budget and Finance Committee two weeks ago, I know that some men my age might bristle at the notion of having to admit they have been well mentored by someone who is younger than they are.

Fortunately, I'm not one of those men.

And I just want to say through the chair, Connie, you have been a great mentor to me as your vice chair on budget.

Thank you.

I'm also grateful to Chair Chan's staff and especially Francis Shea for the generous collaboration the entire office brought to working with my office through the budget process.

Thank you all.

That same spirit of partnership extended to many others.

Of course, I want to thank Mayor Lurie and his team, Budget Director Sophia Kittler for their collaboration every step of the way.

Ms.

Kittler was thoughtful, responsive, and deeply engaged throughout these negotiations.

I would also like to thank Controller Greg Wagner and his team, but the budget and legislative analyst office and every department that spent countless hours and shared their expertise in answering our questions and providing the information we needed to make well-informed decisions.

I want to thank my colleagues on the Budget and Appropriations Committee and all the colleagues on this board.

This was one of the most collaborative budget processes I have ever observed, let alone been a part of.

We brought different perspectives and priorities to the table, of course, but we approached this work with mutual respect, a willingness to listen, and a shared commitment to finding common ground.

For much of that spirit, I also want to give a special shout out to President Mandelman for the spirit of cooperation that you have imparted in your leadership of this board.

This year's budget was never going to be easy.

We met we entered this process facing a significant structural deficit compounded by threats posed by the Federal Government.

I believe our responsibility was to make decisions that put the city's finances on a more sustainable path for years to come.

At the same time, budgets are ultimately about people.

And throughout this process, I appreciated that the committee remained focused on listening to communities and responding as best we could.

The board's spending plan reflects that effort, I think, restoring and protecting programs that matter deeply to San Franciscans while remaining mindful of our city's fiscal constraints.

Perhaps closest to my heart, I'm proud that we found a way to stabilize funding for programs that train the next generation of addiction and recovery specialists and community mental health counselors.

At a time when San Francisco is making historic investments in behavioral health and recovery services.

We also have to invest in the workforce that makes these services possible, many of whom are in recovery themselves and who are finding real purpose in helping others.

I'm grateful too for the partnership of uh Supervisor Cheyenne Chen and her staff, Jackie Prager in particular, in working to preserve essential community services, especially for the Filipino community, so that we share in District 6 and 11 and beyond.

Those organizations provide trusted culturally competent support that thousands of residents rely on every year, and I'm proud we were able to work together to protect them.

Finally, thanks to my team, my chief of staff, Dominica Donovan, who staffed me on this budget.

Um, thanks to Madison Tam, Brian Dahl, and Mahana Sabati from my team.

I'm incredibly grateful for the dedicated uh professionals I get to work with who are part of my team, and I'm pleased that we were able to preserve important services for older adults across our city, including health programs that provide services to the LGBTQ plus community and those of us aging with HIV.

These programs are lifelines for seniors and caregivers alike, and they deserve our continued support.

Um finally, I truly appreciate the clo the collegiality of all my colleagues in this process.

We didn't agree on everything, but we approached these decisions in good faith and a shared commit to serving the city we love.

Thank you all, and for these reasons, I'm happy to support this budget.

Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, if we take ourselves back a few months, I think we all knew the original budget wasn't acceptable.

It had too many cuts and was too blunt in how it made those decisions.

I know we all spent countless hours since trying to get this budget to a better place.

Maybe not the exact perfect place any of us would have liked, but a much better place.

And in a moment, when we see our federal government turning on its most vulnerable, I am proud that the budget committee and now this board stood united and looking out for the city.

I'm also proud that we were able to fight for and win back many of the proposed cuts.

In particular, we advocated in one back funding to save programs that serve our seniors, small business grants that fuel our neighborhoods, and services to support our immigrant population.

Over the past few months, we've spent a lot of time listening to communities, both inside these chambers and out in the neighborhoods.

And through that, I've heard loud and clear that residents want transparency from City Hall.

They want partnership, and they want to see city dollars turned into results.

Those are values that don't end today with the passage of this budget, and which we need to keep top of mind going forward because this certainly won't be the last challenging budget before us.

I want to appreciate my colleagues, particularly on the budget committee led by Chair Chan, our Vice Chair Dorsey, and thanks as well to my team for navigating a challenging and time-consuming last few months, particularly my chief of staff, Tietabell and Michelle Andrews as well.

Colleagues, I would respectfully ask for your vote today so that we can pass this budget.

I do want to thank uh special thanks to Chair Chan, who has now done this for four years and ably led processes with different boards and different priorities, but um uh has done it with a unique set of skills.

Um so thank you to you and to Francis Shea and to um the folks in your office who got us through that.

Uh to my other colleagues on the committee, thank you for your uh participation for all of your work, and then I would also like to give a little shout out to Cheyenne Chen who um agreed to sit in for me on a number of uh of those uh budget appropriations committee meetings.

I hope it was a useful exercise and experience for you.

I appreciate your will your willingness to do that for me.

Uh and with that, Madam Clerk, um I actually I don't think we need to do a roll call.

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

The ordinances are finally passed.

Uh please call item 27.

Item number 27 is an ordinance amending the police code to provide penalties for the prohibited discharge of fireworks, including a first offense with a fine not less than 125 or more than 250, and a second in any subsequent offenses with a fine fine not less than 250 or more than 750, or imprisonment for not more than six months.

This one we do need to do a roll call on.

On item 27, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, no, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I.

Supervisor Chan.

Chan, I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey, I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder, no, Supervisor Mahmoud, Mahmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.

I.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

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

Cheryl I, there are nine ayes and two no's with Supervisors Walton and Fielder voting no.

The ordinance is finally passed.

Madam Clerk, please call it number 28.

Item number 28 is a resolution retroactively authorizing a grant from the California Department of Parks and Recreation for the Sunset Dunes Striping and Signage Project and the amount of 200,000 for a grant performance period starting July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028.

Please call the roll.

On item 28, Supervisor Walton.

Walton I.

Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I.

Supervisor Dorsey.

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

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I.

Supervisor Melgar.

Melgar I, Supervisor Sauter.

SODR I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, there are 11 eyes.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Please call item 29.

Item 29 is a resolution authorizing a grant in the amount of 250,000 from the Jane Shravidi fund for the purpose of increasing juror per diemes to qualifying low income through the B jer be the jury program from August 1st, 2026 through July 31st, 2031.

I can take this item, same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Please call 30 through 32 together.

Items 30 through 32 are three resolutions to retroactively accept and expend gifts from the Epic Systems Corporation to help low income and at risk populations for the period of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026.

Item 30 authorizes monetary uh monetary gift in titled 2025 UGM Safety Net Grant in the amount of approximately 12.7,000.

Item 31 authorizes a monetary gift in title 2025 safety net gift in the amount of 115,000.

And item 32 authorizes a monetary gift in title 2025 under restricted gift in the amount of 37 37.5 thousand.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Please call items 33 and 34 together.

Items 33 and 34, two resolutions approving third amendments with resource design interiors for system furniture.

Item 33 increases the amount by approximately 1.6 million for a total not to exceed amount of approximately 10.6 million and extending the term by three years for a term of nine years from September 15, 2020 to September 14, 2029.

And item 34 increases the amount by approximately 8.8 million for a total not to exceed amount of approximately 17.8 million and extending the term by three years, three months, and seventeen days for a term of nine years from January 1st, 2021 to June, December, I mean to December 31st, 2029.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Please call 35 and 36 together.

Items 35 and 36 are two resolutions retroactively authorizing the Department of Public Health to accept and expend grants in the amount of approximately 1.1 million for a total grant amount of approximately 15.9 million from the centers for disease control and prevention for participation in a program entitled strengthening STD prevention and control for health departments for the period of July January 1st, 2019 through February 28, 2027.

And item 36 in the amount of 250,000 from the state of California through Essential Access Health for participation in a program entitled Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Program for a term of one year from April 1st, 2026 through March 31st, 2027.

Same house, same call, without objection.

Uh the resolutions are adopted.

Please call 37.

Item 37 is a resolution approving the recreation and park department general managers declaration of emergency for emergency dredging at the San Francisco Marina Yacht Harbor, estimated to cost in excess of 2.5 million.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Please call 38 and 39 together.

Items 38 and 39 are two resolutions regarding construction of affordable housing.

Item 38 authorizes MOHCD to acquire the real property located at 758 Pacific Avenue from New Asia Housing LP for approximately 2.2 million, approving a third amendment the third amendment to the loan agreement in a total amount not to exceed approximately 13.7 million.

And Item 39 is a resolution that authorizes MOHCD to partially forgive approximately 1.2 million in outstanding rent obligations and reduce a monthly base rent to 5,000 per month for the main remaining duration of the month-to-month occupancy to end on September 30th, 2026.

Same house, same call without objection.

The resolutions are adopted.

And with that, Madam Clerk, we should go to our 230 p.m.

special order for people who are here for items.

Um later on in the agenda, we have a lot of items under our 230 p.m.

special order, and uh so that could be it'll definitely be more than an hour.

Um Madam Clerk, please call I 230 p.m.

special order.

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

Let's start with District 10.

Supervisor Walton.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, today it is my honor to recognize and celebrate someone who has dedicated an extraordinary 50 years of her life to the students, families, and communities of San Francisco, Miss Emily Wade Thompson.

Miss Wade Thompson is a true San Francisco native and lifelong product of the San Francisco Unified School District.

She attended SFUSD from kindergarten through twelfth grade, and then went on to earn her degree in elementary education from San Francisco State University, and her master's degree in educational leadership from the University of San Francisco.

She has spent her entire career giving back to the very school district that helped shape her.

Over the course of 50 years with SFUSD, Emily served as a teacher, principal, and administrator.

She spent 15 years in the classroom, 11 years as principal, and 24 years as an administrator.

For 30 of those years, she dedicated herself to Dr.

George Washington Carver Elementary School.

First as a teacher and later as a principal.

She touched the lives of generations of students and families.

But Emily's impact extends far beyond the walls of any one school.

For 24 years, she served as a supervisor and director of family and community engagement, where she worked tirelessly to strengthen the relationships between schools, families, and communities.

She understood that we invest in families and bring communities to the table.

Our students are stronger, and our schools are stronger.

She also believed deeply in creating opportunities for young people to dream bigger.

She coached the only elementary school track team and SFUSD at the time, and organized educational and cultural trips that allow students to experience the world.

Traveling from Paris, France, to Senegal, Taiwan, Washington, D.C.

Her commitment to service has also been felt throughout our community for more than 30 years.

She has been a dedicated member of the San Francisco Alliance of Black School Educators, serving as president and helping lead important initiatives such as the African American Read In Day and scholarship programs.

For more than 20 years, she partnered with the Suchi Foundation to support attendance and student success and Bayview Hunters Point schools, and she supported 28 shoestrings pre-K cohort graduations.

Through her membership and leadership with the beta new chapter of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa Incorporated, she has continued to advance literacy, mentorship, and community engagement.

And as a lifelong member of First Union Missionary Baptist Church, she has remained committed to uplifting families and strengthening the bonds that hold our communities together.

Miss Wade Thompson, your career is a testament to what it means to truly serve.

You didn't simply work in our schools, you help build community.

You didn't simply educate students, you opened doors, created opportunities, and inspire generations of young people to see what is possible for themselves.

50 years of service is an incredible milestone, and your impact can be seen in the students you taught, the families you supported, the educators you mentored, and the communities you strengthen.

It is my privilege to honor you today and celebrate the remarkable legacy you have built right here in San Francisco.

Congratulations, Ms.

Wade Thompson, on 50 years of service.

We are grateful for you.

We celebrate you, and we thank you for everything you have given to our city.

Enjoy your retirement.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Okay.

Good afternoon, everyone, and to Supervisor Shimon Walton, and to everyone that is present.

It is indeed an honor to be here to accept this.

I am so humbled at this very moment.

I'm grateful for the 50 years that I have served in the San Francisco Unified School District on something that I know that I was called to do, that I loved and I was very passionate about that of being an educator.

I could not have made this journey without some very strategic partners, such as the San Francisco Alliance of Black School Educators, the First Union Missionary Baptist Church, the National Sorority of Fiadelta Cap Incorporated, beginning a new chapter, the Sushi Foundation, the African American Achievement and Leadership Initiative, and of course my family.

And I do want to say to Supervisor Shimon Walton, thank you for being one of those African American readers that have come into our community for at least 20 years.

Please do not forget those African American children that I've worked so hard with and that are still there.

If you know that you can help them and you know what you know and you know how to educate them, please do so.

Once again, thank you, Supervisor Shimon Walton, and thank you for everyone who's present here today.

I really do appreciate it.

May I have Mr.

Simon Tennis come up to the podium.

To recognize Roxy Food Center, a true District 11 institutions, as they celebrate their 50th anniversary in this August.

Roxy is more than a neighborhood market.

It's a story of immigration, perseverance, family, an American dream.

In the 1970s, Simon Tenors and his family, one of ten siblings immigrated from Jordan in search of better futures.

Like so many immigrants' family who have helped build San Francisco, Simon began by working long hours in a local supermarket alongside his uncle through hard work, determination, and sacrifices.

He and his brother, Peter, realized that they dream of opening Roxy Food Center on San Jose Avenue in 1975.

Over the past five decades, Roxy has become woven into the fabric of District 11.

When larger grocery store like the safe ray closed for the evening, Roxy stayed it open, serving neighbors, workers, family, anyone who is needing a warm meals or friends or a friendly face.

They carefully selected product that reflected diversity of our community, making everyone feel welcome.

Roxy has also been a gathering place for a generation of young people.

They have proudly sponsored a local athletic programs, including City College Football, real than high school teams, real than high school sports team, and Baboa Bacanyas found proudly known as many as Roxy Spots.

Their work with trophies and team photos tell the story of business that has always invested in its community.

Their generosity extends far beyond the store.

Rossi has donated food to countless community drives, participated in neighborhood celebrations such as the Fourth of July parade, and regularly cater community meeting and public safety event.

Today, Simon's nephew, Make proudly carry on the family's legacy as a father of three wonderful children.

He represents the next generation of an immigrant family whose heart work continue to strengthen our city.

Roxy Food Center is not simply a successful small business in District 11, it's also a symbol of American dream, a beloved pillar in District 11, and also one of the many immigrants successful stories that make San Francisco the extraordinary, the extraordinary city that it is today.

Congratulations on 50 incredible years.

Congratulations.

And over there.

We have been blessed, and thank you so much, uh Supervisor Chen, for bringing us to this point here.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, everyone.

Have a good afternoon.

District one, Supervisor Chan.

Thank you.

Um President Mendelman.

I first want to thank um Supervisor Dorsey for really um legislate the resolution celebrating the Afghan American Heritage Month, and that I'm so honored to co-sponsor, but I also want to thank Supervisors Dorsey's A Mahana's Ibadium for organizing all of us, and I'm so humble through this uh ability that we together can honor uh the next generation and our young and also all Afghan American leaders in the community and through the recognition.

So thank you so much for your work.

It is my privilege and honor today that uh I get to uh honor Robbie uh Mahadidi, um, who is a native uh San Franciscans um and uh whose professional and personal commitment reflect his deep dedication to our city and our communities.

Uh Robbie has um remained devoted to the continued growth and success of our city that he proudly calls home.

His commitment to San Francisco is reflected not only in his professional achievements, but also in his dedication to supporting the people, businesses, and communities that contribute to our city's vibrant characters.

Through his work as an attorney, entrepreneur, and community member, Robbie continues to embody the spirits of service, leadership, and civic pride that defines San Francisco.

Robbie is a labor and employment attorney with nearly a decade of legal experience.

Yes.

Um, and he currently serves as an associate attorney at uh O'Gautri uh Deacons, where he focuses exclusively on litigation and representing employers in complex workplace uh matters.

Robbie earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Chapman University and his jurisdictor from Ohio, Norton University, Pettit College of Law.

Beyond his legal practice, Robbie has uh is a partner with uh Prickly, a natural hydration company powered by prickly pear caddis water.

He has helped grow the brand from an emerging startup into a nationally recognized company that is carrying in more than 3,000 retail locations across the United States, demonstrating his passion for supporting local entrepreneurship and contributing to San Francisco's thriving business community.

Community service has also been an important part of his life for the past 22 years.

He also volunteers as a mentor for Golden Gate University's mock trial competitions, helping aspiring attorneys strengthen their advocacy and courtroom skills.

In addition, he volunteers at his local mosque, supporting community outreach initiatives, youth mentorship programs, charitable efforts, and service projects that assist families throughout the Bay Area.

So clearly, he does not sleep.

Through his legal career, entrepreneurial efforts and lifelong connection to San Francisco.

Through his legal career, entrepreneurial efforts, and lifelong connection to San Francisco, Robbie continues to contribute his skills, leadership, and passion to the city and communities that have shaped him.

And I'm so proud and so humble to recognize his contribution here today.

And the floor is yours.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, President Mandelman, Board of Supervisors, and a special thanks again to you, Supervisor Connie Chan, for this incredible honor.

I'm truly humbled and grateful to receive the commendation from District One.

I remember being a kid looking up at the tall buildings in the city and thinking to myself that one day, you know, I want to be in one of those buildings, um, doing something that matters.

San Francisco lit that fire in me.

It gave me something to reach for, and it inspired me to dream big.

And to be standing here today, recognized by this incredible community is something I will carry for the rest of my life.

As a labor and employment attorney at Ogletree Deacons, I've had the privilege dedicating nearly a decade of my life of my career to advocacy and problem solving, helping organizations of all sizes navigate complex challenges.

Every day I get to do work I love right here in the city I love.

That combination is something I never take for granted.

And beyond a courtroom, I've been fortunate enough to channel my entrepreneur spirit into prickly, a better for you beverage company that makes natural hydration drinks from real fruit instead of artificial ingredients.

And we have them here in many stores here in our very own San Francisco.

And it all started with that same hustle, creativity, and determination that the city instills in all of us.

And at the end of the day, everything comes back to San Francisco, whether it's the law, the entrepreneurship, or simply showing up for the people around me.

The city is what drives me.

The people, the neighborhoods, the businesses, the culture.

There's a heartbeat here like nowhere else, and I feel it every single day.

I'm so proud to be part of this community and lift each other up and never stop striving to make the city better for everyone else.

I want to thank my family, especially my wife who thinks I work too much, my colleagues, and everyone else who has supported me along the way.

I promise to keep working hard to keep serving this incredible city and to keep making San Francisco proud.

Thank you so much.

District 2 Supervisor Cheryl.

Thank you, President Mandelman and colleagues.

Thank you all for joining for Afghan American Heritage Month.

This month, I am extremely uh grateful and honored to commend Zarina Youssefzai from the Union Square Alliance.

Zeren, thank you so much for being here, and more importantly, thank you for being you.

Zerena was born and raised in Fremont to Afghan immigrant parents who instilled in her a strong commitment to education, hard work, and community service.

She carried those values with her to UC Irvine, where she earned her degree in political science in 2018.

And since 2019, Zorina's built her career here in San Francisco at the Union Square Alliance, where she now serves as finance and human resources supervisor, overseeing the organization's financial, human resources, and administrative operations.

In this role, she has demonstrated remarkable leadership and resilience in fields where women of women of color remain underrepresented.

Zarina also plays an important role in advancing the Union Square Alliance's mission to support San Francisco's downtown recovery.

She has helped manage grant funding from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, delivering public activations, concert series, safety initiatives, and community programming.

This work has been instrumental in revitalizing Union Square, bringing residents, workers, visitors back to the area, and revitalizing San Francisco as a whole.

But beyond her professional accomplishments, Serena is deeply committed to uplifting her community.

She volunteers at Al Sabil Masjid Noor al-O-Islam Mosque on Jones Street, where she assists Afghan families, and she mentors young women in their educational and career pursuits.

Zarina, thank you for all that you have contributed to San Francisco and the community.

Your story reflects the broader contributions that Afghan Americans have made to San Francisco.

Contributions rooted in service, perseverance, and a dedication to uplifting others.

Today we recognize you for your leadership, your professional excellence, and most of all your commitment to this community.

Zarina, congratulations, and the floor is yours.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Supervisor Cheryl.

It means a lot to me, and thank you to the Board of Supervisors for this commendation in honor of Afghan American Heritage Month.

It is truly an honor to be here today.

I also want to extend a special thank you to Manaz Ebladi for recommending me for this recognition.

I'm grateful our paths cross while serving this incredible city.

Your commitment to uplifting our Afghan community inspires me deeply, and I'm honored to stand here today because of your support.

My Afghan community is the core of who I am.

I was born and raised in Fremont, as mentioned by Supervisor Cheryl, known to many as Little Cobal, where thousands of Afghans, including my parents found refuge in the 1980s.

I carry that history with me every day.

It reminds me of the resilience our community has shown and motivates me to serve, especially our youth and young Afghan women who deserve to see what is possible.

My parents inspire me every day.

Their sacrifice, strength, and belief in education and hard work are the foundation of everything I do.

I would not be standing here without them.

Like so many children of immigrants, I am here because of the opportunities they work so hard to create.

Uh and I believe it is our responsibility to inspire the next generation through education, civic engagement, and community involvement.

Being recognized in the city I love means so much.

San Francisco is a huge part of my story.

I'm proud to work for the Union Square Alliance and contribute to its mission alongside an incredible team that has provided me with countless opportunities, uh, countless opportunities to grow both personally and professionally.

Growing up, San Francisco was always a place I dreamed of being, and I'm grateful to now serve and give back to the city.

They say if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life, and that's exactly how it feels.

This commendation is not a just a personal honor, it's a recognition of the Afghan American community, our history, our contributions, and our future.

It celebrates those who came before us and those who will come after us.

I did I do not take this commendation lightly.

I'm deeply grateful to be commended during a month that celebrates Afghan Americans and their contributions to the city and county of San Francisco.

Thank you, I think we're in the United States.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, today I'm happy to introduce Sarah Farozi in honor of Afghan American Heritage Month.

Sarah, please come up and join us.

Sarah Farozzi is an immigration lawyer at the San Francisco office of Fragman Del Rey, Burnson, and Lowy LLP, located in District 3.

Her journey in San Francisco started at USF Law School in 2017, where she obtained her JD in 2020.

And for the past nine years, Sarah has witnessed firsthand San Francisco's vibrant culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep-rooted immigrant heritage.

Through her work, she actively protects and strengthens these attributes every day.

By helping immigrants build their future here in San Francisco, she is ensuring that our city continues to be a hub for innovation and economic growth.

Her work also enriches San Francisco's cultural fabric by helping individuals and families build new lives, establish lasting roots, and contribute their unique perspectives, traditions, and talents.

As a bilingual attorney, fluent in English and Farsi, Sarah brings a valuable cultural perspective to her practice, representing the immeasurable contributions and resilience of Afghan Americans in the legal profession and beyond.

Her involvement and leadership in celebrating Afghan American heritage is a reflection of her belief in promoting the stories of those who chose to call this city home.

And as we honor Sarah's work and prepare to celebrate Afghan American Heritage Month in August, this is a moment to recommit to the work of making sure our city is a place that welcomes and protects immigrants, values their contributions, and recognizes the vital role they play in shaping our city's future.

So, Sarah, thank you again for being an inspiring representative of the Afghan American community and for helping San Francisco be a stronger and more inclusive city.

And I now welcome you to share a few words.

Thank you for your leadership, your service to the city, and your commitment to celebrating the diverse communities that make San Francisco such a special place.

As an Afghan American woman receiving this recognition at a time when our community's contributions, stories, and history are being formally recognized by the City of San Francisco, makes this honor even more profound.

It serves as a reminder of how far our community has come.

And the countless individuals whose resilience, perseverance, and service have helped shape the city we all call home.

For the past nine years, San Francisco has been my home.

It is where I attended the University of San Francisco, where I built my career, where I found community, lifelong friendships, and where I have grown both personally and professionally.

Today I have the privilege of serving as an immigration attorney.

Every day I work alongside individuals and families who are pursuing new futures, excuse me, new beginnings, seeking opportunity and building their futures in this country.

Through that work, I am constantly reminded of the determination and hope that immigrants bring to our communities.

Thank you, Rachel, for your mentorship and support.

And this recognition is not mine alone.

To my parents, thank you for your sacrifices, perseverance, and unwavering belief in the power of education, hard work, and service.

Everything I have accomplished stands on the foundation you built for me.

To my mom, especially, thank you for being my greatest supporter and constant source of strength.

And to my husband, thank you for your unwavering support, encouragement, love, and partnership.

I am so grateful to share this moment with you and our daughter.

Lastly, I would like to close with an Afghan proverb.

Excuse my farsi.

Catra Katra Jamako May Shawad.

This means drop by drop, a river grows into the sea.

To me, this reflects the spirit of San Francisco.

Every act of service, every opportunity extended to another person and every contribution to our community may seem small on its own, but together they create something extraordinary.

Thank you again for this incredible honor.

It is a privilege to call San Francisco my home, and I am deeply grateful to be recognized that by the city that has given me so much.

Thank you.

All right.

District 4, Supervisor Wong.

Good afternoon, colleagues.

May I have Park and Rec come join us up here?

Hello.

Good afternoon, colleagues.

In celebration of park and recreation month, I'm pleased to honor the dedicated employees of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, whose hard work makes our parks and open spaces some of the greatest assets in our city.

District 4 is home to some of the city's most iconic parks and open spaces, whether it's children playing at a neighborhood playground, families gathering for a picnic, athletes competing on our ball fields, or residents simply enjoying the outdoors.

These spaces enrich our daily lives.

None of this would be possible without the hard working park recreation and park employees who care for them every single day.

Today I'm honored to recognize two outstanding members of the department, Nick Ogerson and Park Services Manager.

And Brendan O'Keefe, Gardener Captain.

Nick serves as the Park Services Manager for Service Area 4, overseeing more than a thousand acres of parkland across nearly all of District Four.

For more than 14 years, he has led gardening and custodial teams, working closely with residents, support countless community events, and ensured our parks and rec facilities remain in outstanding condition.

His leadership has been instrumental in successfully managing our parks through four Stern Grove festival seasons, including the challenging years following the severe winter storms, and in maintaining premier athletic fields throughout the district while helping deliver the new Stern Grove playground.

Brendan serves as the gardener captain for the Stern Grove complex, caring for Stern Grove, Pine Lake Park, Parkside Square, McCopin Park, Carl Arsen Park, and several surrounding neighborhood parks.

During his nearly 12 years of the department, he has advanced from apprentice gardener to gardener captain, bringing remarkable skill and pride to every park he has served.

One of his proudest achievements was leading the landscape restoration of Stern Grove's east meadow following the devastating winter storms, helping restore his beloved community space for concerts, weddings, picnics, and countless neighborhood gatherings.

While we're recognizing Nick and Brendan today, they represent the hundreds of dedicated recreation and park employees who work behind the scenes every day.

From gardeners and custodians to maintenance crews, recreation leaders, and supervisors, your dedication keeps our parks beautiful, our facilities welcoming, and our neighborhoods thriving.

On behalf of the residents of District 4, thank you for everything you and your team do to serve our communities.

And thank you to the board for the recognition and the honor, of which I'm really proud on behalf of uh my team, both gardening and custodial, uh, to accept.

Uh it's it's really quite an honor.

Uh, as park services manager, uh, I'm incredibly thankful for the fantastic and committed staff we have uh over in District Four.

Um together we manage, as you mentioned, 11 parks and complex sports complexes just within District Four.

Um I have to pause and say one of the one of the uh great joys I have with in working with parks is is the amazing team that that I work with uh towards the the beneficial maintenance of uh all of those unique parks in District Four and throughout the city, if you think about it, each park is a very unique little gym and and so unique are are the communities that surround each each park.

So each each one's vastly different from the next.

And um, so the parks there serve those local communities and it's just nice to be part of uh that whole um process to provide some oxygen to uh you know this this um this area that can seem a little bit um nine to five for for a lot of folks.

So um uh just uh uh I also wanted to mention uh that our uh SFRPD team deeply values its role in in working towards the maintenance here uh aspects and um that's in providing beautiful active spaces for our diverse community.

Uh thank you for recognizing the hard work and efforts of our humble team.

Appreciate it.

District 5, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Colleagues, today it is my honor during Afghan American Heritage Month for the upcoming month of August to recognize Ilham Husseini, the assistant US attorney whose career has been defined by extraordinary commitment to public service and to protecting our communities.

Ilham.

Oh graduates.

Ilham has spent the past 13 years as a federal prosecutor.

Since returning home to the Bay Area in 2022, she has served in the Northern District of California, where she worked on corporate fraud matters, violent crime, and drug trafficking cases affecting neighborhoods within San Francisco, including the tenderloin.

She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and came to Fremont as a child after her family immigrated to the United States.

Like so many Afghan families who made their East Bay their home, they became part of Fremont's vibrant Afghan American community, helping build the neighborhood while creating opportunities for the next generation.

She went on to earn both her undergraduate degree and law degree from UC Berkeley before clerking for a federal judge in Miami at both the district court and 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Although she had the opportunity to remain in private practice, Ilham chose a career in public service.

She joined the U.S.

Attorney's Office in Miami, prosecuting cases in violent involving violent crime, child exploitation, fraud, civil rights, public corruption, and drug trafficking.

In 2022, she returned to the Bay Area to continue that work here at home.

Her recent jury trials in San Francisco involved the human trafficking of a young minor and a murder for higher prosecution, representing some of the most difficult cases our justice system is called upon to handle.

Throughout her career, Ilham has approached this work with conviction and responsibility rooted in protecting and serving our most vulnerable communities.

She has worked to protect victims, uphold the rule of law, and help keep our communities safe.

This is especially meaningful to recognize Ilham during Afghan American Heritage Month because this month of August gives us the opportunity to celebrate the generations of Afghan Americans who have strengthened our city and our country through our public service, entrepreneurship, education, and community leadership.

Ilham's career reflects that legacy and stands as an example of what is possible for young Afghan Americans growing up here in the Bay Area.

Recently I also learned that Ilham is the cousin of author Khaled Hussein, whose work many millions of readers may know to Afghan's history and to the resilience of its people through the book Kite Runner.

You may not know Ilham, but one of the last uh memories I have of my grandmother was watching the Kite Runner when it was playing on Broadway in New York.

And it's a memory I will cherish for the many years now that she has passed.

So Ilham, thank you for your service to the people of San Francisco and for representing the very best of our Afghan American community.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, President Mandelman, Board Supervisors, and a special thank you to Supervisor Mahmoud.

I'm incredibly grateful for this recognition.

My Afghan heritage is a big part of who I am.

My family immigrated to Fremont when I was 10 years old.

My earliest memory as a child are from growing up in Afghanistan, and my first memories of immigrating to this country involve how warmly the community in Fremont welcomed my family.

It's not just the community in Fremont, but the Bay Area in general.

I've had the privilege of working with law enforcement partners and officials to make the tenderloin a safer place to live and work.

I want to thank all those partners for the work we've done together.

And also of special note, thank you to Bahana's Ebadi for her tireless efforts and working to bring people together for the betterment of our community.

On a personal level, I want to dedicate this to my mom who is here today.

Mom, I'm amazed by your sacrifices and grateful for your support.

You are the smartest and strongest person that I know.

And finally, as a mom myself, I want to call out my beautiful children, Zane and Perry.

I love you both.

Thank you again.

I really appreciate this opportunity.

District 6, Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, it is my distinct honor to recognize an exceptional public servant whose life and career embody the very best of San Francisco's values, resilience, opportunity, integrity, and an unwavering commitment to serving others.

I'm proud to honor Yosef Azim, Mayor Lurie's assistant chief for public safety.

Yosef.

Now Yosef's story begins like so many great San Franciscan stories do, uh, with a family seeking refuge and finding a home.

In the early 1980s, his family arrived in San Francisco as Afghan refugees seeking safety, stability, and the opportunity to build a better future.

They settled near Silver Avenue and Sweeney Street in a community that welcomed them with compassion and hope.

Yosef says that San Francisco gave his family everything opportunity, security, and a future.

And he has spent his career admirably repaying that gift through a lifetime dedicated to protecting and serving the people of this city.

That calling led him to the San Francisco Police Department, where he broke new ground as the first Afghan police officer promoted to the rank of sergeant and was a SFPD colleague of mine for a time.

Over the course of his distinguished career, he served honorably and well in the mission, Southern, Tenderloin, and Northern Police Districts, earning the respect of colleagues and communities alike.

Yosef understood that true public safety isn't achieved solely by enforcing the law, but by earning trust and building meaningful relationships with the community he was sworn to protect.

He worked tirelessly to strengthen partnerships between law enforcement and our diverse communities, approaching every inact interaction with fairness, empathy, and with respect.

When medical challenges brought his police career to an unexpected close, Yosef continued his commitment to service in the private sector with the San Francisco 49ers organization.

And when the opportunity arose once again to serve the city and county of San Francisco, he answered that call without hesitation.

Today, as assistant chief for public safety and Mayor Lurie's administration, he continues to advance initiatives that strengthen public safety and foster collaboration across our city.

What makes Yosef's career so truly remarkable isn't simply the positions he has held, but the values that have guided him through every chapter of his service.

Humility, integrity, compassion, and an enduring belief that public safety is both a privilege and a responsibility.

Yosef, on behalf of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the people of San Francisco.

Thank you for your decades of service, your principled leadership, and your unwavering commitment to our city's diverse communities.

As we prepare to celebrate Afghan American Heritage Month in a few days, it is our privilege to recognize you for your contributions and to express our gratitude for all that you do and all that you have done for the city we love.

Congratulations.

But before you speak, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Hey Yosef.

Yosef, you have made um one of the most profound impacts in my career in this first two years of office.

And it was like walking down a history of memory lane.

Because every block, you told me the story of who was there, how long they've been there, different demographics, different races.

Every block was a different community, a different challenge, and a different element of hope.

And I remember when we got, I think, to Levenworth and Eddie.

A group of 20 kids runs up.

They weren't kids anymore, but probably young, young early 20s, and they run up to you, and I don't think you'd seen them in years.

And one of them says, Uncle Yosef, I just got a job.

And you showed me how these were people that you knew as kids, um, from your days in community policing.

And I don't know what lesson you were trying to teach me that day.

Uh but I came away with like 50 lessons.

Um it showed me the power of community policing, the profound relationships you have formed with the neighborhood in that and on that day for years prior, and the impact that that has had uh for years and years to come.

And that impact um I think has led to permanently shaping uh a future for this neighborhood, where for the first time in years, um we're investing in community policing again in the tenderloin.

For the first time in years, we're taking a focus on the youth and actually elevating their stories.

Because of you, we are now creating the first youth violence prevention program, which I see a lot of those guys are behind you.

Uh we want to rise with United Players.

Um it just shows how one person, namely you, can make a huge difference.

And Mayor Lurie picking you was one of your best choices for the neighborhood, man.

Like it was like if you were not in this position, the tenderloin would not be in the recovery that it's in today.

Um I have permanently learned so much from you that um I will never forget.

We have many years to go, but I um I'm so grateful for being able to partner with you and for teaching me so much on how to turn in this neighborhood around and really excited and really great choice.

I'm really bummed it wasn't mine.

So yeah, congrats, Yosef.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, man.

Yosef, I I should acknowledge that your boss, Mayor Lurie, has entered the chamber.

Mayor Lurie, if you would like to say anything, please come up.

Okay.

Uh Supervisor Macmood, that was uh really poignant and I appreciate it, and he deserves every single uh word of it.

Uh I just wanted to stop by and uh say I I've known uh uh what would I call you, Mr.

Azine?

Yosef, um for a very long time now.

Uh his brother and his sister are here who are dear friends.

Uh and uh when you go into jobs like this, uh you want uh people that are going to go all in uh with you.

Uh and this is a tough uh uh uh position uh that you're in, uh challenging one, you and uh and and Steven Betts and you all have just gone all in with your soul and your heart.

Um and uh I talked to you uh at midnight, I talked to you at 6 a.m.

You are always on, and you care so deeply about this city, you care deeply about the TL, but you care deeply about every uh single part of this city.

You want our youth to have opportunities and you're fighting for it every day in this position.

And uh you come uh from the law enforcement side, but your heart is in the community building side, which I think is so incredibly unique, um, and we need more of that in this city.

And so uh uh it's uh I'm so grateful to the supervisors for uh honoring uh I know uh uh Joseph Azim.

Uh he's a dear friend, um, but I'm glad that the whole city uh gets to see a true uh champion of San Francisco uh doing the work every single day.

Your two children, your wife, uh your brother, your sister, your parents, uh I know uh are incredibly proud uh of you, as am I.

So thanks for all your work on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey, President Mandlin, board.

Uh I'm truly grateful.

I also want to thank Mayor Lurry, or Chief of Public Safety, Stephen Betts, my counterpart and the guy that truly puts in all the work with me.

Um, my teammates across our city departments, Chief Dean Crispin, Sheriff Miyamoto, Chief Quanaco, Lieutenant Dave Goff.

Um, you know, you guys are working with us every single day making things happen.

And I can't thank you enough.

Um, you know, my family, my wife Nicole, my kids, Luciana, Joseph Jr.

And my brother Tara Kazim, Deena, and my mom and my Uncle Tony for always supporting me.

Um I always have big dreams, big goals, and they've never told me I can't do them.

They always say go harder, go bigger, and even when I do it, they go, you gotta go even harder next time.

So they're never it's never enough.

You gotta keep going.

So I I genuinely thank you for for for doing that.

And really the community organizations.

I mean, you got Howard, we got Rudy, we got the squad, we got VS VIP, you'd have to play as I mean it's been over close to fifteen years.

I've been working with these guys day in and day out, and just like the mayor said, I'm on the phone with Howard at four in the morning, six in the morning.

I mean, these guys answer the call, they show up.

It's really not me doing the work, it's honestly them doing the work, and I'm just the guy that's conveying the messaging.

So thank you all.

This is really your benefit uh award, not mine.

So thank you sincerely.

Um, our family's journey began about 40 years ago when my parents arrived as refugees uh with nothing but hope.

And my mother taught me that no matter how hard life gets, you always take care of your community, and in return your community will take care of you.

And why I say that was because she, as a mother of three children, my father had some severe health mental health issues, and she never gave up on him.

She continued to care for him.

Um she would still help other people.

And I would always say, Mom, you're struggling, but you're helping other people.

And she would always say you have to keep helping people.

I never I didn't understand it, but I saw it.

And that's why it's kind of ingrained in me now, and I just do it naturally because I watched her do it.

And you know, I hope she's proud.

I hope you're proud, Mom.

They're able to see this today.

This is really about you, uh, not I again.

Um but I could tell you guys, you know, I get a little emotional even talking about it.

The San Francisco police uniform was the greatest honor of my life.

Um the way it ended wasn't on my terms, of course, because of some health issues, but um being able to come back in this role so special for me.

And just to be able to work with these people again and do what I do from the bottom of my heart.

Um there's nothing great in this role.

I mean, when this ends, I've accomplished my mission in life.

I'm happy to be here.

I'm happy to do what I get with you guys.

Um, again, I can't thank you guys enough.

Uh Supervisor Dorse, you're the best.

I appreciate you very much.

You're a great partner.

Um I can't do this without a group like this, and Monas, you're doing phenomenal work.

So again, thank you for my my bottom of my heart.

Thank you.

And next up.

District 7, Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you, President.

Uh, colleagues.

Uh, it is great on with a great honor that Disability Pride Month, we will be presenting a special commendation to the Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center.

If you could come up, please.

You too, David.

Uh, located on the outer edge of San Francisco in District 7, the Pomeroy Center has served at San Francisco's disability community for more than 70 years.

Next year will mark the center's 75th anniversary.

And it is act it's probably lesser known than the Pomeroy Center, but it is actually owned by the city, uh, the land is uh through the Public Utilities Commission.

The Pomeroy Center was founded by Janet Pomeroy in 1952 at a time when many individuals with disabilities were excluded from society and community life, and often institutionalized.

In founding the center, Janet Pomeroy aimed to meet community needs for programs that serve children, adults with disabilities, seniors.

The center's mission is to provide recreational, vocational, educational opportunities for people with disabilities through programs and services that encourage self-expression, promote personal achievement and growth, and lead to greater independence.

Today, the center's programs and services support nearly two thousand people every week.

Some of Pomeroy Center's impactful programs include the after-school program for children with disabilities who attend SFUSD school throughout the day, offering a safe, active, engaging place to learn, to play, to hold relationships, the residential program, which provides adults with disabilities with safe, stable housing and individualized support, the aquatics program, a pool and swimming program that serves both the disability community and the broader community, particularly children and seniors, and the employment services program, which provides job training and placement services to people with disabilities.

Families feel truly connected to the center, and that is only possible because of the intentionality of the relationships that get built here.

We are especially grateful to Supervisor Melgar, who has been an incredible advocate and friend to Palmer throughout the years, and we are incredibly honored to be here today.

This recognition is important because it reflects something really extraordinary.

History has not always been kind to the disability community, whose members have often been excluded, ignored, and hidden from public life.

This commendation shows that the Board of Supervisors sees values and celebrates this community and recognizes the contributions that they make every day.

At Pomeroy, we create opportunities for children and adults with developmental disabilities to build relationships, develop life skills, express themselves, find meaningful employment, stay active, and of course have fun.

We also provide residential services that offer safe and supportive homes where our residents can build independence while also maintaining connected to the Palmore community.

Our participants are not only involved at Palmer, they also volunteer throughout the Bay Area.

For example, one group volunteers with the San Francisco Marin Food Bank and delivers meals throughout the Bay Area, sharing their time and talents while making a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

As we continue to grow, we plan to expand our residential housing program so more participants can have safe, stable homes.

For families with a child or a sibling with a disability, housing can be a major source of fear and anxiety, especially when they are uncertain about their future.

We are committed to easing that fear by creating more long-term housing opportunities so people with disabilities can remain in San Francisco and stay connected to the people and the places they know and love.

We also hope to one day open an inclusive inclusive preschool and daycare on site where children with and without disabilities ages zero to five can learn and grow together from an early age.

Today, Palmer serves more than two thousand people each week, but our true impact is found in the small moments of confidence, connection, independence, and belonging that happen here each day.

Thank you again to the Board of Supervisors for this meaningful recognition, and thank you again to Supervisor Melgar for your continued partnership and support.

I would now like to turn it over to JJ, who's one of our participants at Palmoi to give her words on the uh her experience at Palmer.

Good afternoon.

My name is JJ.

I am proud to be a participant at the Palmer Center.

Palmo has helped me grow because Palmoi because of Palmer, I have a job at Latusa, and I'm proud to work and be part of my community.

My job gives me couplets and helps me be more independent.

Palmo Palmo has also helped me make one wonderful friends.

I thought to learn new things, go on fund community outings and try activities I never thought I could do.

I feel it could I feel supported.

I feel like I belong.

Disability Prime of Momites as that people with disabilities have strips, talents, and dreams.

With the white support we can work, make friends be part of our communities and live full and meaningful lives.

Thank you for recognizing Palmer and for supporting people like me.

Thank you, President Manaman.

I would like to ask Anya Worley Zygman to please come to the podium.

Colleagues, I'm thrilled today to commend Anya Warley Ziegman, who among the many roles they play in the community is the founder and coordinator of the People's Budget Coalition.

Today, after passing the budget for this fiscal year, it is fitting to honor Anya for their work bringing us all together to protect vital services for our communities.

At the helm of People's Budget Coalition, which represents over 150 organizations citywide, spanning the spectrum of services, it is nothing short of a miracle that they've been able to build consensus among partners and get to agreement on priorities for advocacy.

And they accomplished this during an extremely challenging deficit year when we were initially facing proposed massive cuts to San Francisco's social safety net and extensive layoffs of city workers.

Instead, due to Anya's expertise on the city budget and process, they led the way in ensuring the restoration of 28 million dollars in cuts to community services.

Anya has been no stranger to City Hall budget season for the past six budget years they have been advocating for the most vulnerable residents in our city.

They began their time as an intern for former Supervisor Dayton Preston in the District 5 office back in 2020 at age 18, and then subsequently with the office of former supervisor Ronan, who was budget chair at the time in the role of budget fellow.

They learned the ropes, poured over spreadsheets, and built relationships on the second floor and among stakeholders outside the building.

They have become a master of budgets and spreadsheets.

While a fellow, Anya realized the need for participatory budgeting process where residents and the organizations serving them shape how our money is spent.

Other than the mayor's budget office and Chair Chan, Anya knows the budget and budget negotiations process like no other in this building.

But Anya also knows the community, the needs for essential services, and how to bring everyone to the table to come up with a plan to protect these vital supports provided by so many amazing community-based organizations.

Due to their leadership and the collective partnership of people's budget members and negotiations with all of my colleagues and their budget staffers, we were able to secure wraparound support for immigrant families, job training and placement for people, especially system-involved youth, case management, recovery and substance use treatment and supportive services, culturally responsive support for adults in the mission, mobile health care, SCI testing and overdose prevention for sex workers, trainings and job connections for older adults and adults with disabilities, housing support for people experiencing gender-based violence, support for culture districts, and commercial quarter revitalization, and so much more.

Anyway, just wanted to thank you again for all your advocacy over the last several months.

And elevated voices and issues that too often are forgotten as part of budget processes.

So thank you again for your advocacy, as Supervisor Fielder said.

Um we would not have had the outcome had it not been for you and your coalition.

So thank you so much.

Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Port President.

Um thank you, Supervisor Fiodor, for offering this special uh commendation to Anya.

Anya, you were on budget this year and doing previous years as large part how this sport has to be held accountable to our community.

So your voice, your advocacy have helped to ensure that we don't waver and that we protect the direct essential services that our most vulnerable populations have rely on for decades.

Uh you kept people calm.

Uh, why do you remaining farm and step fast?

You should be very proud, very proud of your coalition building and your accomplishment.

And I know for my district, District 11, we are grateful for your partnership during this budget year.

Congratulations.

The floor is yours.

Thank you.

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

It's nice to not have the timer counting down while I speak up here rarely.

I have very much grown up in City Hall.

I've been here since I was 18.

This is my seventh budget year, and this is the first time that I exited the budget proud of what we all did together because truly it took each one of you as a member of the Board of Supervisors.

I saw each one of you fight in a way that I've never seen before.

Fighting not just for your district or for one organization that was important to you.

Each of you fought for a community of San Francisco that desperately needed your voice and your leadership in a country that is demolishing people's voice and people's leadership.

You give working class people access to City Hall through your public comment, through staying attentive to our public comments, through welcoming us in and allowing us to make a bunch of noise in the hallway and interrupt you and annoy you and bother you.

You let working class people know this year more than any other that when they get involved, they can make a difference.

We've let people know through this budget process where we saved every organization that was going to close that is not going to happen and did not happen on July 1st.

And that is because of you.

So I hope that we can remember and hold this together as the future fights come ahead as it continues to be challenging.

I hope all of us can remember the wins this year and the lesson that it taught to working class San Francisco.

When you get involved with your city government, you can make a difference.

When you get involved with the budget, you can change people's lives radically.

It's a very dangerous lesson for working class San Francisco to know, which is that when we fight, we win.

And so we will be back, of course.

We'll be back every single year until the work is done because people's budget is a broad coalition that is so much more than just myself, though I am so honored with the leadership that they allow me to have as such a young person who can make mistakes, certainly.

The coalition backing me up has given me a voice to say what many of us for many years have been chanting outside of City Hall, which is that in San Francisco, we can do better.

We can do better than this.

We can have universal child care, we can have universal health care, we can get to zero on HIV.

There shouldn't be any elders out on the street.

We can feed every child.

We can do all of that in more in San Francisco, and we can do it most of all when we all work together.

And so I think most of all, Supervisor Fielder, it is incredible to have you back and to have our champion back in City Hall, and especially to Supervisor Chan as well, and to every supervisor who held a town hall with us.

You are making a difference.

You're changing the way that we do city government here in San Francisco and reclaiming our role as San Francisco as the leader in democracy, most of all.

And I think, of course, my wonderful mother, a survivor of domestic violence herself, who has passed on to me just a portion of the strength that she was blessed with and that I carry with me every single day.

So she is the reason why I'm here today.

And thank you especially to Supervisor Fielder, Supervisor Preston, who originally brought me into City Hall and trained me in the first place, Supervisor Ronan for teaching me the budget, and to my partner Dio for supporting me for endless, endless days.

He knows all of your names, whether or not he wants to.

So I appreciate all of you and uh thank you.

I accept this on behalf of my coalition and on behalf of every working class person who came to City Hall and got to see a vision of what it would be like for working class people to really control City Hall.

Thank you.

All right, colleagues, I have two today.

A retiring or a retired city employee of great excellence and then an amazing uh organization.

First, I'm gonna invite Eileen Lochren to come on.

You can't be leaving us.

This is outrageous, Eileen.

Lucky me.

Um I am honored to present a commendation recognizing Eileen for nearly three decades of work on some of the city's biggest public health challenges, including overdoses, HIV, hepatitis C, and homelessness.

If it's hard in San Francisco has to deal with it, Eileen has probably been having to deal with it.

From the start of her career, she has championed communities that have historically been marginalized, stigmatized, or overlooked.

At the Department of Public Health, she'd worked in the former HIV prevention section, the community health equity and promotion branch and behavioral health services, helping strengthen the department's capacity to provide compassionate service to people who use drugs, those experiencing homelessness and others facing systemic health inequities.

As director of the Office of Overdose Prevention, Eileen built on that previous work and experience guiding the development and delivery of overdose prevention programs.

Before her retirement in June, Eileen served as community affairs manager where she continued to advance HIV overdose and hepsi prevention efforts.

In every role, Eileen emphasized building partnerships across neighborhoods and within the department, ensuring that public health initiatives were not only grounded in science, but also informed by the lived experiences and needs of San Francisco's most vulnerable residents.

Her ability to listen, build trust, and connect with San Franciscans from all backgrounds helped shape more responsive public health policies.

Throughout her career, Eileen also supported the next generation of public health leaders, strengthened collaboration across the department, and helped foster a culture centered on compassion, partnership, and innovation.

With deep respect and gratitude, we thank you, Eileen, for your decades of service to the City and County of San Francisco.

And the floor is yours.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Anyway, thank you, President Mandelman and members of the Board of Supervisors.

I'm so deeply honored to be recognized today for my 28 years of service at the Department of Public Health.

But I really want to emphasize that success is never a solo achievement.

It's a team effort, and I'm incredibly grateful for the countless colleagues, city partners, and community stakeholders that I've had the privilege to collaborate with, collaborate with over the decades.

San Francisco is my home.

I moved here very young, and I grew up here, and I've called this city home for nearly 40 years.

As a young adult, I worked my way through City College and San Francisco State, determined to build a better life for myself and others.

I still remember the sheer excitement of landing my first role with DPH, a part-time non-benefited position on an HIV prevention research study.

What began as a temporary assignment became an incredible 28-year journey?

And over time, my work has expanded to include from HIV prevention to overdose prevention and community engagement.

And my goal has always been very simple to bring people together, creating opportunities to learn, grow, and build lasting partnerships.

And despite my best efforts during my career to bridge that gap, I've often found myself navigating a broader conflict.

This mission was deeply personal and is deeply personal to me, having lost many loved ones to overdose, and having also celebrated many others who are thriving in recovery.

I know firsthand that a variety of approaches are vital to a person's journey.

Regrettably, the civil servants and frontline staff who lead this vital work have increasingly become targets of hostility both locally and nationally.

And unfortunately, I experienced that backlash firsthand simply for championing these life-saving efforts.

Yet San Francisco has always been a global trailblazer, and I hope our city continues to lead by standing firm in our core values, sending a clear message that bullying over differing opinions has no place here.

While my time at DPH has ended, I know I will continue to see many of you as I embrace my next chapter as a proud lifelong resident of San Francisco.

Thank you for the privilege of serving the city, allowing me to serve the city and county of San Francisco for these past 28 years.

And I know for certain that I'll see Supervisor Mandelman because we see each other everywhere.

So thank you.

Congratulations.

Okay, we're going back.

I just want to say thank you.

I think you see many people from the department here.

Many people in our community have worked with Eileen for far longer than I have, and yet in my little over a year, um I've quickly come to know how incredibly special and unique you are.

And I've said this to you in terms of your grace, your compassion, your kindness, your desire to bridge different points of view, and ultimately always to make sure we care for the people we care for here in San Francisco.

So I think the folks that work with you both at the department and the community have seen that, and um we will never be able to fill exactly the hole that you are leaving here.

Um I think that's very clear that your legacy lives on.

So congratulations, and we miss you, and we wish you were still with us.

So but I hope you're enjoying.

Thank you.

Let's try this again.

Um the Jing Ying Cantonese Opera Company to come on up.

Shubin Chen.

And anybody with you.

Come on up.

There we go.

Excellence.

All right.

All right, colleagues.

Um it is my great honor to be presenting a commendation to the uh Jing Cantonese opera institute today.

For nearly three decades, Jing Ying has worked to preserve the centuries-old tradition of Cantonese opera while introducing this art form to new generations and audiences throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Cantonese opera is a traditional performance art that combines singing, live orchestral music, acting, martial arts, acrobatics, and elaborate costumes to tell stories drawn from history, folklore, romance, and everyday life.

Although it originated in the Cantonese speaking regions of southern China, it has since spread around the world as Chinese immigrants brought songs, performances, and stories abroad with them.

The first known performance of Cantonese opera in America actually occurred in San Francisco when the Hong Fuk Tong Chinese dramatic company performed in the Sanson Theater in 1852.

In recognition of its cultural significance, Cantonese opera was inscribed in UNESCO's representative list of intangible cultural heritage of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2009.

Despite its significance, history and popularity within the Chinese community, however, opportunities to experience and learn about Cantonese opera are limited in the United States.

Since its founding in 1997, Jing Ying, one of the few organizations in Northern California dedicated specifically to presenting Cantonese opera to broader audiences, has worked to ensure this tradition continues to be performed, taught, and shared with new audiences.

Under the leadership of founder and music director Shu Ben Chen, a fifth generation generation Cantonese opera musician, Jing Ying has hosted regular performances of Cantonese opera, complete with a traditional uh Cantonese opera orchestra, um, elaborate embroidered costumes and head pieces, martial arts, and more through performances at venues such as the historic Great Star Theater and participation in cultural celebrations, including AAPI Heritage Month.

The institute has become an important part of San Francisco's arts and cultural landscape, drawing more than 800 audience members each year.

Jing Ying also hosts more intimate salons and workshops, training and connecting not only established performers and musicians, but also members of the community who want to learn more about Cantonese opera.

Jing Ying's work, however, goes beyond preservation.

Part of the institute's mission is to ensure that Cantonese opera reaches new audiences, evolving and growing as a living tradition rather than remaining a relic of the past.

Through bilingual performances with English subtitles, educational programming, and interactive talkback sessions.

The Institute introduces audiences of all backgrounds to the history, artistry, and cultural significance of Cantonese opera.

At their annual festival this May, Jing Ying brought elected officials and community leaders from across San Francisco, many of whom were not of Chinese heritage, including myself and Supervisor Sauter on stage to perform Fragrant Sacrifice, one of the most iconic songs in the Cantonese opera repertoire.

It was a lot of fun.

It was extraordinarily nerve-wracking, but I think all the community participants were grateful for the opportunity to learn more about the tradition.

And an event like this can only happen because of an organization like Jing Ying, which actively works to make Cantonese opera accessible to broader audiences and to encourage new audiences to engage with the art form.

I want to thank everyone at the Jing Ying Cantonese Opera Institute for all that you do.

And with that, I want to invite well, no, I actually want to invite my colleagues to weigh in.

Other people want to talk.

Supervisor Sauter.

Well, thank you, President Mandelman, for bringing this honor before us.

It is well earned and deserved.

I want to appreciate your work to carry this legacy on and to make sure that it reaches everyone.

And earlier this year, when we had the chance to uh to participate, um, it was a treasured memory that'll that'll uh that'll always live on with me.

And I appreciate you being so patient, supportive, kind in welcoming me into your space.

Um, and we just had an incredible concert there at Great Star Theater.

So thank you for your work every single day to carry this legacy forward.

And Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Supervisor Mandelman.

Um, you know, as someone who grew up in Canton, you know, also grew up in Cantonese opera.

I I really want to acknowledge uh everyone who is sitting here, actually, you know, uh our respected elders uh for continue effort and love in preserving our culture and heritage.

Um this performance is really um I it's a very special way of continue to tell the Chinese stories, you know, whether it's history, folk tale stories, romance, a loyalty.

Um I have a seven-year-old.

She tried it, you know, little kids was trying it.

But uh again, I I think the vocal, like the language itself, it's requires a lot of dedications and practices.

It's beautiful, but it's really hard to do it.

And I also want to acknowledge, you know, this performance, it's also the makeup.

It takes hours to put it on in order to see what is on stage and does our Chinese face.

It takes 10 years of practice just to show you uh 10 minutes on the stage.

Um and seeing a lot of young people uh actually it's also engaging through a Jing Ying's opera.

Uh it is to me it's really warm and also uh feeling really uh grateful and excited and seeing that our heritage is continue to be able to carry uh for the next generation.

Thank you so much, well deserved congratulations for this wild dessert uh accommodation.

Thank you.

Alright, and now for the multi-generational um family that brings us Cantonese opera.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Annie Chen.

And I'm Keelan Chen.

Our dad, Siu Ben Chen, will be giving his remarks in Cantonese first, and then we will be giving our English translations.

Today is especially meaningful to me because three generations of our Cantonese opera family are gathered here together.

My father, my wife, and our children.

I would also like to take this opportunity to say something to my father.

Dad, thank you.

It was my father together with my grandfather who introduced me to the world of Cantonese opera.

What they passed on to me was much more than just music.

They pass on a passion, a responsibility, and a mission.

To me, that is the true meaning of intangible cultural heritage.

On this occasion, we hope to share a chapter of Canti's opera's history that many people, even here in San Francisco, may not know.

For many early Chinese immigrants, including the railroad workers and laborers who helped build the American West, Canties opera performances were an important way to learn about current events and stay connected to news from home.

In many ways, Canti's opera served as one of the earliest forms of community media for San Francisco's Chinese community.

This history is not only the story of Cante's opera, it is also part of San Francisco's story.

Today's recognition gives us even greater confidence and determination to continue our work, whether in preserving the art of Canti's opera or expanding education and outreach to younger audiences.

Finally, I would like to once again thank President Rafael Mandelman, the Board of Supervisors, and everyone here today.

Thank you.

And that takes us back to item forty.

And can I have a motion to excuse Supervisor Walton from the remainder of the meeting moved by Chen, seconded by Fielder.

We can take that without objection.

Supervisor Walton is excused for the remainder of the meeting.

Yes, item number 40 is a resolution retroactively authorizing a lease with Third Street Youth Center and Clinic for the second and third floors of the property located at 888 Post Street for a two-year term commencing on July 1st, 2026 for an annual base rant of one dollar and making appropriate findings.

Please call the roll on this item.

On item 40, Supervisor Wong.

Wong I, Supervisor Chan.

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

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

I.

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

Cheryl I, there are ten eyes.

Please call item 41.

Item number 41 is a resolution approving the 2026 grant application for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care Program with anticipated revenue to the city in excess of sixteen million and fulfilling the Board of Supervisors Review and Approval Process.

Same house, same call, without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Please call items 42 and 43 together.

Items 42 and 43 are two resolutions suspending board rule three point twenty five point two, which requires an affirmative vote of eight members, and approving settlement of unlitigated claims involving an unfair practice charge arising from employment disputes.

Item 42 approves a settlement with the International Federation of Technical Engineers, Local 21 for approximately 201,000.

And item 43 approves a settlement with the Service Employees International Union, Local 10 to 1 for approximately 181,000.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The resolutions are adopted.

Please call item 44.

Item number 44 is a motion ordering submitted to the voters at an election to be held on November 3rd, 2026, an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code to beginning March 1st, 2027, eliminate the real property transfer tax foreclosure exemption for the transfer of all properties other than the transfer of residential and mixed-use properties with fewer fewer than five residential units, and to make other nonstop substantive clarifications to the real property transfer tax and increasing the city's appropriations limit by the amount of real property transfer tax collected for four years from November 3rd, 2026.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Thank you, President and colleagues.

This measure gives San Francisco this before you today, voters the opportunity to decide whether our transfer tax code should reflect the ways to today's commercial real estate market operates rather than the market that existed decades ago.

Before I go further, I want to thank the many partners who made this ballot measure possible.

Our drafting city attorneys, Carol Ruart and Scott Reiber, our partners at OEWD, Lee Lutansky and Maggie Mattson, whose work was central to getting this measure to where it is today.

In the Mayor's office, Ned Siegel and Ali Bondi, Controller Wagner and Grayson Spencer for their rigorous analysis, and Assessor Recorder, Joaquin Torres and his team for the data that grounds this conversation.

I want to thank Mayor Lurie as well for initiating this measure together, and many co-sponsors at the board, Supervisors Dorsey, Melgar, Chen, Wong, Walton, and Mandelman for standing behind this measure and the growing list of organizations, including SCIU 1021, SEIU 2015, Teamsters, and a growing list of organizations for sponsoring this measure as well.

I also want to acknowledge the amendment we adopted in committee, which guarantees that if this measure and any other measure addressing the transfer tax both pass in November, both will go into effect.

This measure also comes at a critical moment for the city's finances.

San Francisco is confronting a serious budget crisis, one that has forced difficult trade-offs across city departments and services.

It is entirely reasonable to ask whether our tax code is capturing revenue.

It was always meant to capture, not creating a new tax, but closing a gap that has grown substantially as the market has changed.

Historically, the foreclosure exemption was primarily used in traditional lender foreclosures, where a bank took title and transfer tax was generally paid later when the lender sold the property.

The assessor recorder's data shows that pattern has shifted dramatically.

Between fiscal years 2023 to 24 and fiscal year 2025 to 26, more than half of exemption claims involve properties valued over 10 million dollars, compared to just 4 to 5 percent in the preceding 15 years.

Sophisticated investors structuring transactions to take advantage of an exemption that was never designed with them in mind.

During that same three-year period, transactions involving income producing and investment oriented properties account for more than 450 million dollars in transfer taxes that otherwise would have been generated, compared with roughly 50 million over the prior 15 years combined.

The controller's estimate office's estimates that this measure would increase our real property transfer tax revenues by an average of 100 to 150 million dollars annually over the next five years.

Meaningful revenue we cannot afford to leave on the table, though the controller was candid that it will be unpredictable and cyclical tied to foreclosure activity and real estate conditions.

Importantly, this proposal does not eliminate the exemption for homeowners or small residential properties.

It remains in place for single-family homes, smaller multifamily properties with fewer than five units, and qualifying small mixed-use properties.

The measure asks only whether larger commercial investment property transfer should continue to receive the same treatment under today's market conditions.

Colleagues am asking to send this to the voters so that they can decide for themselves whether that this is the moment to close that gap.

Supervisor Sherrill.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

I'm going to be supportive of this, but it's not without reservation.

Right now we're in a situation where a huge number of things are contributing to a very high cost of construction for housing, a very high cost of transaction for downtown office buildings that we desperately need to be sold and rehabilitated and reinvigorated.

And this will be a slight, slight added cost, not a huge one.

And so I would urge us to be aware that this measure looks to provide balance and gives us more optionalities.

We look forward to levers like the broader transfer taxes that might be blocking, especially certain housing construction.

And so I would encourage us as we look forward past November, should this pass at the ballot to not think of this as a new source of revenue to allow us to possibly spend more on things, but as a way to give us the flexibility to potentially consider lowering a transfer tax that would allow us to build more housing that we desperately need.

I think the conversation around the housing trust fund is incredibly important because it is us as a city saying we value affordable housing and we're willing to put our money there.

Similarly, on this side, I think we need to look forward and say, hey, we're we're addressing a gap, a loophole, if you will, in the tax code with this.

We're going to fill that gap, but at the same time it gives us flexibility to maybe lower a transfer taxes blocking the production of other housing.

So I, with reservations, I will be supporting this, but I would urge us to remember that the original intent behind this was not to create a new stream of income in a vacuum, but was intended to balance out uh the potential reduction of other income streams in order to incentivize more housing production that will help San Franciscans overall.

Thank you.

Okay.

And with that, I think we can take this item uh same house, same call without objection.

The motion is approved.

Madam Clerk, please call items 45 and 46 together.

Items 45 and 46 are two resolutions regarding the Treasure Island Infrastructure and Revitalization Financing District.

Item 45 is the resolution of intention to issue bonds as a result of an annexation of property.

And 46 is a resolution approving annexation supplement to the amended and restated infrastructure findings infrastructure financing plan.

Let's take these items, same house, same call, without objection.

The resolutions are adopted.

And please call items 47 through 68 together.

Items 47 through 68 are 22 ordinances amending the planning code to designate various properties as landmarks and making the appropriate findings.

Item 47 designates the Alexander Adams home located at 1450 Masonic Avenue.

Item 48 designates a born home located at 99 devisadero street.

Item 49 designates a Charles Katz home located at 1200 Dolores Street.

Item 50 designates the Charles L.

Hinkle home located at 740 Castro Street.

Item 51 designates a Eurosta Eurosty home, James C.

Hormel Mansion, located at 181 Buena Vista Avenue East.

Item 52 designates the DeBose Triangle Greek Revival Home located at 2173 15th Street.

Item 54 designates the Early Hate Ashbury Farmhouse located at 11 Piedmont Street.

Item 54 designates the Elliott M.

Wilson home located at 1335 Guerrero Street.

Item 55 designates the engine company number 44, Adams Van Housen House, located at 3816 22nd Street.

Item 56 designates a Guerrero Street Double Stick East Lake home located at 1415-1417 Guerrero Street.

Item 57 designates a Henry Street Row houses located at 191 to 197 Henry Street.

Item 58 designates a Holy Innocence Church located at 455 Fair Oak Street.

Item 59 designates the John J.

Clark House located at 210 Douglas Street.

Item 60 designates a mission congregational church located at 3689 19th Street.

Item 61 designates the Phoenix Brewery located at 552 Noe Street.

Item 62 designates the Richard Spreckles Mansion, Buena Vista Studios, located at 737 Buena Vista Avenue West.

Item 63 designates the second Church of Christ Scientist located at 651 Dolores Street.

Item 64 designates a Tietz-Beneckey house located at 657 Chennery Street.

Item 65 designates a William Shaughnessy home located at 394 Fair Oak Street.

Item 66 designates a Fernando Nelson home located at 701 Castro.

Item 67 designates a Lange House located at 199 Carl Street.

And finally, item 68 designates engine company number 33, located at 117 Broad Street.

All right.

Let's take these items.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the ordinances are passed on first reading.

Please call item 69.

Item 69 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for the appointment of Lindsay McClees to the Building Inspection Commission term ending July 1st, 2028.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The motion is approved.

Please call item 70.

Item 70 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for the reappointment of Eleanor Illanor Bloom to the Public Works Commission, term ending July 2nd, 2030.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The motion is approved.

Please call item 71.

Item 71 is a motion approving the mayoral nomination for the reappointment of John Trustfina to the Board of Appeals, term ending July 1st, 2030.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The motion is approved.

Please call item 72.

Item 72 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for the reappointment of just Joshua Arce to the Public Utilities Commission term ending August 1st, 2030.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The motion is approved.

Please call item 73.

Item 73 is a motion approving the President of the Board of Supervisors, Raphael Mandelman's nomination for the reappointment of Robin Abad Akubello to the Board of Appeals, term ending July 1st, 2030.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The motion is approved.

Please call 74.

Item 74 is a motion reappointing Kimberly Hartwig Shulman, term ending July 1st, 2030 to the Sanitation and Streets Commission.

Same house, same call without objection.

The motion is approved.

Let's go to our committee reports.

Please call item 75.

I'll first start with items 75 through 77 were considered by the Land Use and Transportation Committee on July 27th and were forwarded to the Board as Committee reports.

Item 75, it was recommended as amended with the same title.

It is an ordinance accepting irrevocable offers of public infrastructure associated with the Hunter's View Hope SF project phase two, dedicating set public improvements for public use, dedicating them for public street and roadway purposes, accepting for city maintenance and liability purposes, establishing official street grades, side with sidewalk with and public right of way with, accepting an offer of dedication for phase two easements, delegating authority to accept the phase three public infrastructure, affirming the sequel determination, and making the appropriate findings.

Same house, same call, without objection.

The ordinances passed on first reading.

Please call 76.

Item 76 was recommended as amended with a new title.

It is a resolution adding the commemorative street name Carlotta Texador del Portio Way on Bartlett Street between 21st Street and 22nd Street and recognition of Dr.

Carlotta Texador Del Portillo's leadership in establishing the City College of San Francisco's mission campus and her legacy as a longtime civic and educational leader.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Please call 77.

Item 77 is a resolution of intent to initiate an undergrounding process for Homestead Street between 24th and 25th Streets and making findings that undergrounding at this location is a general benefit to the public.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Please call 78 through 81 together.

Yes.

Item 78 through 30 through 81 were considered by the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on July 23rd and were forwarded to the board as committee reports.

They comprise four resolutions determining the public convenience or necessity of various liquor licenses and requesting the alcoholic beverage control imposed conditions on the issuance of these licenses.

Item 78 is a person-to-person, premise to permise transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises beer, wine, and distilled spirits liquor license to out of sight productions, doing business as Reggie and Mauds, located at 456 to 460 Larkin Street.

Item 79 is a type 64 on-sale general theater liquor license to Uptown Tenderloin, doing business as Tenderloin Museum, located at 835 Larkin Street.

Item 80 is a person-to-person premise to premise transfer of a type 21 off-sale General Beer, wine, and distilled spirits liquor license to Ms.

Singh Liquor, doing business as College Market, located at 995 Ellis Street.

And finally, item 81 is a person-to-perman person premise to promise transfer of a type 20 off-sale beer and wine liquor license to HJMW Enterprise doing business as Hello Mart, located at 2135 Buchanan Street.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Please call item 82.

Items 82 through 85 were considered by the rules committee on July 27th and were forwarded to the board as committee reports.

Item 82 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination for the reappointment of Kate Stacey to the Public Utilities Commission, term ending August 1st, 2030.

And we can take this.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the motion is approved.

Please call 83.

Item 83 is a motion approving the mayoral nomination for the appointment of Mike Chen to the planning commission, term ending June 30th, 2030.

Same house, same call without objection.

The motion is approved.

Please call items 84 and 85 together.

Items 84 and 85 are two motion motions approving the president of the Board of Supervisor Raphael Mandelman's nomination for appointments to the planning commission.

Item 84 is for Elizabeth McDonald with the term ending July 1st, 2030.

And item 85 is for Joe Coppel, term ending July 1st, 2030.

Same house, same call without objection.

The motions are approved.

And Madam Clerk, let's go to roll call.

First up on Bro call to introduce new business today will be Supervisor Wong.

Notes here.

Colleagues, today I am introducing a resolution to accept a $1 million in state funding for the Sunset Boulevard Recycled Water Irrigation Improvement Project.

Sunset Boulevard has a tremendous amount of open space running through the neighborhood, but much of it is currently dry, patchy, and not nearly as green or welcoming as it should be.

Years of drought, deferred maintenance, and problems of the existing irrigation system have taken a visible toll.

This project is an important step toward changing that.

The funding will help connect the irrigation system serving approximately 60 acres of medians and roadside green space to San Francisco's recycled water system.

That will eliminate the use of potable drinking water for irrigation and conserve an estimated 40 million gallons of potable water every year.

This resolution will not transform the boulevard overnight, but reliable, sustainable irrigation is essential if we want to restore the landscaping, support healthier trees and plantings, and make better use of this large public space.

I want to thank Senator Scott Wiener for his work in Sacramento to secure the state investment.

His efforts made this funding possible, and we appreciate his partnership in delivering critical infrastructure improvements for San Francisco.

I also want to thank our partners at the Department of Public Works for advancing this important project.

The sunset deserves the same level of attention and investment that the city gives to prominent public spaces elsewhere.

This is a practical, much needed investment in the neighborhood, and I respectfully ask for support.

Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Wong.

Supervisor Chan.

Thank you.

Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Madam Clark.

Um, colleague, today I'm introducing a resolution to recognize July 28, 2026 as wool hepatitis day in San Francisco in 2020.

The World Health Organization declared July 28 as war hepatitis day to honor Nobel Prize winner, scientist Dr.

Baruch Blumber, who discovered the hypotheticis B virus.

In San Francisco, it's estimated that 15,000 residents are living with chronic hypotheticals, hepatitis B, one in 12 Asian Pacific Islander adult immigrants are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, thus by effective vaccines.

This resolution recognized the health care professionals, advocates in San Francisco Happy Free, who work tirelessly to provide accessible care, community education, and who advocates for state legislation mandating primary care physicians to offer screenings to individuals at risk.

But most importantly, it urges health care providers to continue providing preventative preventative hepatitis screening, accessible care, and to continue educational outreach to ensure our communities are healthy.

I would like to thank my colleagues, Supervisor Chen, Feuder, Mandelman, Mammo Wong, and Walton for your early co-sponsorship.

Next, um, colleagues, I would like to introduce another resolution urging Kaiser to drop its terrible three contract demands.

This comes as a follow-up to the hearing that we held at last week's committee of the whole.

We heard from clinicians and experts about problematic contract demands that have the possibility of negatively impacting the quality of care that patients received due to potential for layoffs of staff clinicians, increased outsourcing of care, and referral of larger number of patients onto artificial intelligence therapy platforms.

I have serious concerns about the use of AI or machine learning for clinical treatments and clinical triage.

As I said during the hearing, I'm not against technology, but without meaningful data and evidence that emerging technologies ready for the kind of war that is eligible being imported with through Kaisha, we rise putting patients in harm's way.

AI and ADA machine learning emerging technologists are not obligated to patient care or wellness.

They do not take Hippocratic oath.

If someone is seeking out a health care provider to inquire about behavioral health treatments, they deserve at minimum to be assessed by a licensed clinicians on intake.

This resolutions urge Kaisa to drop its terrible three contract demands and request that they come to the bargaining table in good faith and with intentions of upholding the highest quality standards of care as possible.

Thank you to my colleagues, Supervisor Walton, Chan Fielder for the early co-sponsorship and the rest I submit.

Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you.

Supervisor Fielder.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Please re-refer to me after my colleagues, Supervisor Mel Gars and Memorium.

Supervisor Mahmood.

Colleagues, as part of our continuing effort to address food insecurity, I'm submitting a letter of inquiry today to the city administrator and the director of real estate to learn more about San Francisco's municipal property portfolio and how it can be used to support future investments in food security.

From what I've heard from residents in District 5, accessing affordable, healthy groceries is an issue in many of our neighborhoods.

And with grocery stores closing and tariffs affecting the cost of goods, that is a problem that will only get worse and make San Francisco harder and harder to live in for those whose incomes can't keep pace with rising costs.

The city has some data on its real estate, but this information isn't easily accessible or compiled in a way to help leaders and community partners plan for potential new food distribution and retail uses.

The ask in this letter is for complete inventory of city-owned property, including vacant parcels, underutilized buildings, and ground floor commercial spaces in city-owned buildings.

The neighborhood or supervisorial district in which each property is located, the approximate size of each parcel in each building, and where available, any existing use designation, occupancy status, or known constraints for each property.

I hope the results of this LOI can be helpful to the rest of my colleagues as well as we consider the city's role in our neighborhoods.

Just like the budget we approved earlier today, how the city uses its real estate is a moral document and should be an honest expression of our values.

This is the first step towards achieving that.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor.

Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I have a hearing request, an ordinance, and three in memoriams.

First, I am calling for a hearing on the progress of the city's ongoing efforts to address drug markets and open air drug scenes across San Francisco.

In May 2023, the city established the drug market agency coordination center, DMAC to improve coordination of the city's response to open air drug markets.

Since that time, residents and visitors alike report improvements in street conditions, especially downtown.

However, drug scenes have persisted in historically challenged neighborhoods at levels of activity that are unacceptable, and new areas have emerged as hubs of drug-related activity, notably including the areas around the BART Plazas at 16th and 24th Streets.

Recognizing the deterioration of conditions in the mission, the administration in June, the beginning of June, initiated a 90-day period of focused enforcement and other activities to try to turn the tide.

At this hearing, I am interested in better understanding and also giving the public a better opportunity to understand the efforts that have been made to reduce street-level drug activity citywide and the more recent specific efforts focused on the mission.

In short, what has worked, what hasn't, and where are we going from here?

I look forward to hearing from the mayor's office, the police department, the district attorney, the Department of Public Health, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and BART.

And I want to thank Supervisor Jackie Fielder and Supervisor Matt Dorsey for their co-sponsorship of this hearing request.

Secondly, earlier this year, uh the board passed an ordinance submitted for our consideration by the Proposition E Commission Streamlining Task Force.

You will remember you may remember this.

I hope you remember this.

The task force's mandate was to identify opportunities to modify, consolidate, or eliminate public bodies to improve the administration of city government while preserving meaningful opportunities for public engagement.

Among other changes, the ordinance established more standardized structures and membership guidelines across commissions to improve transparency and consistency in how these bodies operate.

The task force's ordinance established term limits for most of our city's oversight bodies.

However, the members recognized that term limits might not be necessary or desirable for all bodies.

One such body was the Rent Board.

The members of the task force recommended preserving the rent board's current structure with no term limits.

The ordinance is introduced and passed, however, inadvertently omitted an exception to give effect to that direction.

The legislation I'm introducing corrects this and restores the rent board term limit provision to its original form, which is consistent with what the task force recommended.

I want to thank Mitchell Omerberg, uh executive director of the Affordable Housing Alliance, Meg Heisler, uh policy director for San Francisco Communities Against Displacement, and Polly Marshall, a founding member of the Affordable Housing Alliance and 35-year veteran of the Rent Board for identifying and working with Maeve Skelly in my office on this issue.

I also want to thank Jananne New and the Apartment Association for their feedback.

And finally, I want to thank our deputy city attorney, Brad Russian for his work drafting the legislation.

The first memorium I have is for Jerry Fuller.

I'm asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Jerry, who died of Jerry, Gerald Allen Fuller, who died on July 14th at the age of 76.

He was born in Illinois on September 30th, 1949, and spent his early years in Des Plains, a suburb of Chicago, before his family moved to nearby Mount Prospect when he was 11.

He graduated high school there in 1967.

A lifelong friend once said that they were the only progressive-minded people in that conservative suburb, and growing up in that environment sparked Jerry's lifelong political activism.

In high school, he studied French, unlike most students, true he learned to truly see he truly learned to speak it fluently.

And after spending a semester at the Sarbon, he fell in love with Paris, where he would return to spend many of his birthdays.

Jerry was known for his intelligence and boundless curiosity.

He attended the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960s and early 70s, studying political history during the height of the Vietnam War protests when the streets around were literally on fire.

After completing his undergraduate studies, Jerry moved to Washington, D.C.

to pursue a master's degree in international relations at George Washington University, later transferring to American University.

Living in Georgetown in the mid to late 70s was Jerry's first time living in a city with a visible openly gay community and culture, and DC would remain one of his favorite cities, along with San Francisco and of course Paris.

In 1980, moved by the community's response to the assassination of Harvey Milk, Jerry relocated to San Francisco.

He got a job at Kaiser where he helped develop one of the first outreach programs for people living with HIV.

During these years, he suffered the loss of many dear friends, losses that only reinforced his commitment to political and community activism.

He worked at Kaiser for more than 20 years before retiring in his early 50s due to attendant injury.

In retirement, he discovered a passion for photography, taking classes at City College.

However, politics remained his first love.

He served on the board of the Alice Petokless LGBTQ Democratic Club in the early to mid-2000s, which is how I met him as a young, gay, aspiring politico.

He remained active with LGBTQ rights organizations and was a dedicated volunteer at the Frameline at Frameline.

In every city he lived at every job and school, Jerry formed deep lasting friendships.

In addition to his intelligence, passion for helping others, love of art and literature, and sense of humor, it was this gift for friendship that defined Jerry Fuller.

He left behind a world full of best friends.

Rest in peace and power, Jerry Fuller.

May your memory be a blessing.

I am also asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Jeremiah Jerry Francis Halasey, a civic, environmental and educational leader who died on July 17th at the age of 87.

He was born on January 15, 1939 in Boston and moved to the Bay Area to earn his jurisdictor from the University of California Berkeley School of Law after earning a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Boston College and a Master of Arts in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

After graduating, he served in the United States Army from 1963 to 1969.

And following his military service, he began a distinguished legal career that spanned more than five decades.

After being admitted to the California Bar in 1966, he served as a deputy district attorney for Contracosta County and as a staff attorney with the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission.

He went on to co-found the law offices of Halasey and Johnson in San Francisco in 1970, where he specialized in California energy and labor law.

Even after leaving his full-time roles in public service, however, Halasey remained committed to serving the public.

Over the years, he held a number of leadership positions in various civic and educational organizations, including his 20-year tenure as a trustee of the California Construction Industry Labor Management Cooperation Trust beginning in 2006.

He also served in the California Transportation Commission, where he was vice chairman, the California Economic Development Commission, the California State Coastal Conservancy, and the University of California Board of Regions.

He was deeply involved in Democratic Party politics, playing key roles in the campaigns of Governors Edmund G.

Brown Jr., Gray Davis, and Gavin Newsom, and fundraising for Democratic candidates of the national level, including Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

Halasi's Catholic faith was a guiding force throughout his life, shaping the way he approached his work, relationships, and service to others.

Guided by the church's teachings, he consistently sought opportunities to care for those around him and help those in need.

He was known for being a weather enthusiast and for his love of books and eclectic art.

Many remember him as an institution at the Institution of Sam's Grill.

Additionally, while he eventually embraced the San Francisco 49ers and California Golden Bears, he never lost his Boston accent or his loyalty to the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins.

Our condolences go out to his sons Jeremy and Sean, his stepson Charlie Johnson, and the many extended family members, friends, colleagues, and clients who loved him.

Rest in peace, Jeremiah Halasey.

May your memory be a blessing.

And finally, I'm asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Sidna Ellen Constant, who died far, far too young on June 26, 2026 at the age of 40.

She grew up in Marin County, received both her undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of the University of San Francisco.

Sydna was named for her grandmother, who, along with her grandfather Gus, bought John's Grill in 1969 and turned it into the landmark restaurant it is today.

Sidna often worked behind the bar at John's Grill and was known for her warmth, quick wit, and her genuine interest in each and every customer.

Her gift for connecting with others led her to a career in hospitality.

Although she later moved to Greece, San Francisco remained an important part of her life.

She continued to stay connected to John's Grill and collaborated on projects with her brother, including the On Ellis Block Party and the Hello Local podcast.

Friends and family remember Sydney as event as adventurous, joyful, giving, and devoted to her family.

She's survived by her parents, John and Athena Con Athena Constant, her brother John Constant Jr.

and his fiancee Lindsay, her nieces Athena and Alea, and many beloved cousins.

We want to send our profound and deep condolences to the family.

Rest in peace and power, Sidna, and may your memory be a blessing.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Supervisor Milgar.

Thank you.

Colleagues, today I'm also submitting in a memoriam along with my colleagues, Supervisor Fielder and Supervisor Walden, in honor of my dear friend Doctor Estela Reyes Garcia, whose life's work has transformed the health and well-being of generations of San Franciscans.

Dr.

Estela Reyes Garcia was a partner, a TIA, a sister, a leader, a chicana, an activist, a psychologist, a mentor, a jokester, and so many other things to so many people.

She carried warmth and humor alongside deep wisdom, and she was tough.

She understood that healing did not happen only in a clinical office.

Healing happened in relationships with family, community, land, ancestors, ceremony, language, music, movement, and collective struggle.

Throughout her life and career, Dr.

Garcia worked to improve the mental, emotional, spiritual, and communal well-being of Chicano, Latino, Indigenous, and across all communities in San Francisco.

She is known for her approximately 35 years at Instituto Familiar de la Rasa, including 15 years as its executive director and leader.

Her story is one of perseverance, service, and an unwavering commitment to uplifting Archicano, Latino, and Indigenous communities.

From her childhood working alongside her mother in siblings in California, Central Valley to earning degrees from City College of San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and a doctorate from UCSF's Langley Porter Institute, Dr.

Garcia has never forgotten where she comes from and who she serves.

Under her leadership, Instituto has become a model for culturally responsive care, providing vital services that recognize that true wellness is an emotional, spiritual, cultural, and social.

Throughout her work, countless individuals and families have found support, dignity, and hope.

A defining feature of Dr.

Garcia's work was her conviction that meaningful healing must recognize the culture and spiritual lives of the people seeking support.

Under her leadership, IFR brought together clinical services, family support, youth development, prevention, peer support, community organizing, traditional practices in different forms of healing.

Dr.

Garcia described healing as a continuum that included prevention, treatment, emotional wellness, spiritual wellness, and behavioral health.

She emphasized that no single practice, professional discipline, or healing tradition was enough on its own.

People and communities need many medicines, and those can include therapy, but they also can include healing circles, ceremony, prayer, altares, danza, art, music, movement, storytelling, laughter, food, family, participation, elder guidance, community gatherings, and connection to the ancestors.

Her philosophy rejected the idea that professional mental health treatment had to be separated from one's culture and spiritual practice.

She understood that such a separation often reflected system that had historically dismissed indigenous knowledge and treated Western clinical models as the only legitimate form of care.

Dr.

Garcia instead affirmed that ancestral knowledge and community traditions had always sustained our people.

She worked to create spaces in which clinical practice and traditional ways of healing could exist together, strengthening each other.

One of Dr.

Garcia's many important contributions to San Francisco was her advocacy for both indigenous residents from Mexico, Central America, and further south, as well as her support and bridge building with the American Indian community.

Many indigenous immigrants in San Francisco encountered health, housing, immigration, education, and social service systems that were just not prepared to recognize their languages, their cultures, histories, migration experiences.

Indigenous residents were often grouped broadly into Latino categories, making their distinct identities and needs invisible.

Dr.

Garcia understood that this invisibility was not simply an administrative problem, excuse me, but it was part of a longer history of colonization and cultural erasure.

The Indigena Health and Wellness Initiative began through Asociación Mayab in response to the needs of San Francisco's Yucateca and Mayan community, and Dr.

Garcia's advocacy helped secure dedicated funding for indigenous communities.

Under her leadership, IFR initiated and supported many programs and efforts that continue to this day to serve indigenous people from across Latin America with greater attention to mental health, cultural identity, migration, and trauma.

Dr.

Garcia also played a formative role in the development of the roadmap to peace, a community initiative created in response to violence affecting young Latino residents.

Following the loss of several young people in 2014, community organizations and leaders began meeting to develop a coordinated response.

Dr.

Garcia made clear that the community could not remain inactive while young people were being lost.

She understood that violence has connected to deeper conditions, trauma, disconnection, institutional racism, poverty, neighborhood displacement, involvement in juvenile and legal and criminal legal systems, limited economic opportunities, and the loss of cultural identity and belonging.

Roadmacked Peace brought together the community and providing combined coordinated services, youth leadership, healing, family support, community engagement, and alternatives to involvement in the juvenile and criminal justice system.

Dr.

Estela Garcia's legacy can be found in the clinicians she mentored, the organization she strengthens, the coalition she helped build, the ceremonies and healing circles she supported, the young people, many young people given another path, and the families who encountered services that recognize their full humanity.

It can also be found in the continued practice she left with all of us, the practice of La Cultura Cura.

My heart goes out to her spouse, Ruban San Miguel.

Thank you, Estella, for your lifelong commitment to healing our communities.

I also want to thank especially Julia Sabordi and Tracy Brown for their collaboration in preparing this in memoriam.

San Francisco is a better, healthier, and more compassionate city because of Dr.

Estela Garcia.

Dr.

Stella Reyes Garcia.

And Mr.

President, Madam Clerk, I would like to turn this over to Supervisor Fielder to share a few remarks and then be re-brefered for introductions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I would like to add a few brief remarks on behalf of myself and District 9 to honor the life and legacy of Dr.

Estela Reyes Garcia, who played such a pivotal role in the mission district throughout her decades of leadership and work for social change, including over 35 years at Insito Familia de la Rasa, 15 of those at the helm.

Dr.

Garcia was a beloved mentor and visionary, especially visible in the countless women leaders who grew up in her orbit and who are now outspoken changemakers in our city.

Dr.

Garcia loved her mark in advocating for and implementing public policy and mental health, HIV services, and social services to improve access and promote healthy communities, particularly for the Latino immigrant community.

The mission district will miss her dearly, but remember her legacy, which lives on in IFR, and so many of our leaders.

I offer my deepest condolences to her lifelong partner Robin San Miguel, their daughter and nieces Michaela, Ana and Esperanza, their grandchildren, and their extended community.

Looks like Supervisor Chen also.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Malga, for giving us the opportunity to recognize the many contribution that Data Garcia blessed it our community with.

Not only did she help build IFR into what is today, but she had a direct impact and influence over the wellness and safety of so many families in our neighborhoods.

Her innovation, grids, and love for community will be remembered for generations.

I'm also sending my love to our family.

Thank you for sharing her with Alk City.

May her memory be a blessing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Supervisor Melgar, you wanted to finish your roll call for introductions.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Today I am introducing a hearing request along with Supervisors Dorsey, Chen, Chan, and Fielder for a joint meeting between the Commission on the Status of Women and the Board of Supervisors Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee, the staffing needs, policies, and procedures for responding to and addressing reports of sexual assault.

Last March, we held a hearing on the severe understaffing and policies for the San Francisco Police Department's Special Victims Unit.

The hearing illuminated the critical consequences of an understaffed team tasked with some of the most egregious cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, human trafficking, and the toll that it takes on overworked investigators.

While staffing remained difficult to address, there was still a commitment and immediate steps that were taken after the hearing to alleviate the strains of the spectral victims unit and to strengthen protocols.

There has been some progress, but we still have a long way to go.

Last week, the San Francisco Standard reported on how difficult it remains to navigate the process, even when a survivor follows all the steps, collects evidence, and even has a suspect match.

It demonstrates that there is a culture that prevails where sexual assault is not provided the same level of urgency and sensitivity, which leads to surviv survivors refraining from reporting or speaking up when there is a sexual assault.

San Francisco's rape case clearance rate has dropped significantly to the point where there are we are at half the national rate with only 14% of rapes cleared.

If we want survivors to feel safe coming forward, it is up to us to show how we will be held accountable to serving them with dignity and a sense of urgency.

The Commission on the Status of Women also discussed this issue last week, so that is why I'm calling the joint hearing with our public safety and neighborhood services committee today.

We want this hearing to focus on next steps for improving the outcomes and the handling of sexual assault reports.

This is about collaboration and bringing together resources so we can center survivors and make improvements.

And thank you to Chair Dorsey of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee for your partnership.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor.

Supervisor Sauter.

Colleagues, housing continues to be the defining crisis of our day.

Rents are crushing the very people who make this city run and are keeping out countless members of the next generation who want to live their San Francisco dream.

We need to respond to this emergency by both building more homes and supporting existing tenants.

Keeping renters in their homes and ensuring these homes are affordable and in good condition must absolutely be part of our response to the housing crisis.

So today I'm introducing three items which respond to the increasing pressure that renters find themselves under in today's hot housing market.

First, I'm introducing a drafting request to update and strengthen San Francisco's elevator ordinance.

And before I tell you what the legislation is, I want to tell you why I'm doing this.

It's because of the tenants at 845 California that I have met over this past year.

Almost a hundred of my constituents, different agents, different backgrounds, all who have had to bond together out of necessity because their elevators have been broken nearly nonstop.

An elevator outage might seem like an abstract problem until you hear directly from the people it hurts.

So this summer I visited 845 California and met the people impacted by this.

I met an amazing 94-year-old woman who has contributed decades of her life to San Francisco, but is now isolated from the city she loves.

I met a man who suffered cardiac arrest in his apartment.

And when the paramedics arrived, he had to walk himself down many flights of stairs because the elevator was broken.

I met a woman who told me how she struggles to carry her dog in one hand and groceries in the other as she traverses the steep stairs.

I met neighbor after neighbor who shared that they now go out less because of the elevator outages, skipping seeing friends, limiting groceries, and putting off doctor appointments or even surgeries because of the uncertainty.

And I saw that eight flights of winding narrow disjointed stairs stand between them and their normal lives and activities in San Francisco.

Despite nearly 30 formal building complaints, repeated outreach from my office and tenant complaints, the property owner has been evasive and noncommittal in their responsibility to fix the elevators.

They constantly play a count and mouse game in making temporary fixes to evade building inspections and force tenants to wade through endless mazes of phone trees to try and reach a real human being.

And while these elevators sat broken month after month, this landlord has been marketing a 400 square foot studio in the very same building for $4,200 a month.

And the listing even promised a quote elevator for effortless access.

After I toured the building, I was left dismayed and angry.

The property owner clearly needs to answer for their own neglect.

But our city can do more too.

So today's drafting request will ask that the city attorney work to update San Francisco's elevator ordinance in a number of ways, including requiring that property owners have responsibility to maintain all elevators as operable at all times and setting a clear deadline for repairs to be completed.

Requiring that relocation options be provided by property owners to certain populations that need accommodations for outages longer than 24 hours.

Requiring that more notices and electronic communications be posted and sent immediately for all outages, including translation for city supported languages.

I believe that a working elevator in an apartment is not an amenity or a luxury, it is a core housing service.

And so this legislation says simply if you profit from a building, you're responsible for keeping it livable.

Next, I'm introducing a budget and legislative analyst request to consider improvements for San Francisco's policy regarding banked rent increases.

Banked rent is the practice of a landlord skipping an annual allowable rent increase and instead saving or banking the unused percentage.

And under today's policy, landlords have the option to add this bank rent increase at a future date to the same tenant with no limits.

This can lead to a large rent increase in future years that can be hard to expect or absorb all at once.

In today's hot market, we're seeing bank rent uses a tool to push tenants out with large increase rent increases that are untenable.

This is especially concerning around the sale of new buildings, which was the case at 1120 Jackson in my district, where a 92-year-old and her neighbors are fighting evictions.

Here, banked rent was first used as an incentive for the building as it was marketed having a 224% rental upside achievable through unit turnover.

And then bankrupt bank banked rent was weaponized to bring sudden rent increases that no tenant could absorb overnight.

I believe there are guardrails that we should consider, which will help us avoid these scenarios.

Every other city that allows bank rent has guardrails.

Every single one except San Francisco.

And we have literally been called the wild west of rent banking because of this.

So our BLA report will look at limits and protections that other cities have enacted and consider how they might impact San Francisco tenants, property owners, and the overall rental market.

Finally, I am introducing a hearing request on the topic of rental scams, a practice that is becoming more sophisticated and deceptive in this brutal rental market.

San Franciscans searching for housing are increasingly targeted by rental scams, listings, listings for apartments that simply don't exist, scammers posing as landlords or property managers, requests for deposits or first month's rent before a viewing, and fraudulent subletting schemes that exploit the city's competitive rental market.

These scams disproportionately hit renters with the least room for financial loss, students, new arrivals, low-income tenants and immigrants navigating an unfamiliar housing search process for the first time.

So our hearing will examine the scope of this problem in San Francisco, what protections currently exist, and what more the city can do to warn people before money changes hands.

A special thanks to Chief Assistant Treasurer Amanda Freed for her work in elevating this issue and her office's commitment to consumer protections.

In a brutal housing market, we need to step up how our city protects renters and longtime tenants.

My message to those seeking to exploit today's competitive market is clear.

If you own a building, keep the elevator running.

If you're going to raise the rent, don't spring years of increases on someone overnight.

And if you're advertising an apartment, it should actually exist.

So I look forward to turning this work into legislation in the months ahead to better protect San Francisco renters.

I want to thank Michelle Andrews for my team for her work on all of these items and for approaching both the human stories and legislative side with care and consideration.

I also want to thank city attorneys, including Brad Russian, Megan Ryan, and Rob Kapla for their partnership on these items.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor.

Supervisor Sherrill.

Thank you.

Seeing no other names on the roster, Mr.

President, that concludes roll call for introduction.

Let's go to public comment.

All right.

At this time, the Board of Supervisors welcomes your general public comment.

In-person speakers will be prioritized, so please line up on the right-hand side of your uh the chamber.

Those joining us remotely should press star three now to line up in the remote queue.

During general public comment, you may speak to the approval of the June 23rd board meeting minutes, the June 22nd, June 24th, and June 20 June 25th budget and appropriation committee minutes.

Items 88 through 95, the items under the for adoption without committee reference calendar, and any other general matters that are not on today's agenda but must be within the board's subject matter jurisdiction.

All other agenda content will have been reported out to the board by an appropriate committee where the public comment requirement occurred.

As I indicated at the beginning of the meeting, the board has also approved a rule to address disorderly public comment.

Members of the public must keep their comments germane to matters within the jurisdiction of the board.

Any comments that contain personal attacks, harassment, or discriminatory remarks directed to a city employee or board member are outside the scope of this body and shall be redirected.

Failure to immediately redirect your comments will result in your forfeiture of remaining time, and we will transition to the next speaker.

Also, please remember to address your comments to the board as a whole and not to individual members.

First person.

Good evening, supervisors.

My name is Amelia, District 9, speaking in my individual capacity.

In the last two weeks, I have walked over 23 miles across our city, across our system of care.

The crisis centers, shelters, rehabs, drop-in centers, food distribution sites, supportive housing sites.

I had to tell them they may be witnessing the removal of peer counselors from the street crisis response team from frontline workers to directors.

No one that I spoke to had heard it anywhere else.

They count on the non-uniformed peer support backed by our traditional first responders when they call 911 for their people, our people.

One person on foot, door to door during off hours should not be the communication strategy for a policy change of this consequence within a city's administration focused on coordination, accountability, and outcomes.

Some of the sentiments of those conversations are already public record in the 70 letters you have all received in your board packets from the last two weeks alone.

If we really are to break the cycle, let's start with telling the truth out loud.

Do your constituents, your healthcare and social service workers, first responders want this?

The answer is in your inbox.

I want to be able to solve programmatic issues at the programmatic level while looking to you for macro level direction.

But I ask, right now, why would we forfeit funded high quality care that has mechanisms for federal and state reimbursement in this budget climate?

Please sign a letter to the mayor's support the mayor's office to support us regarding a thorough review before recess.

I am here as a resource.

Whether we are to do the right thing right now or whether we'll have to someday rebuild the demolition of a once successful collaboration, now effective, now effective August 14th.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Good morning, President Mandelman, members of the Board of Supervisors, and my fellow San Franciscans.

My name is Eva Seligman, and I am honored to serve as a legislative intern in Supervisor Dorsey's office.

I am also a proud native of San Franciscan.

Currently, I study at Boston University, Frederick Party School of Global Studies, where I study international relations and history.

It is my privilege to stand before you today to introduce a resolution that I helped authored establishing a fentanyl awareness and remembrance day in the city and county of San Francisco.

For the past four years, Supervisor Dorsey has been a leading voice in advancing a recovery first approach to the drug crisis in our city.

An approach that prioritizes treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, and public safety.

This resolution builds upon that important work by recognizing the profound impact fentanyl has had on our communities and honoring the lives we have lost.

Fentanyl has fundamentally changed the landscape of the overdose crisis in San Francisco.

It is more potent, more dangerous, and more unpredictable than previous substances, and it has left families, neighborhoods, and communities across our city devastated.

Behind every number and every statistic, there is a person.

There is a loved one, a neighbor, a friend, a family member, a son, a daughter, a valued member of this community.

This resolution creates an opportunity to honor those individuals, support those who continue to grieve, and raise awareness about the ongoing dangers of fentanyl.

Fentanyl awareness and remembrance day is not only about looking back and remembering those we have lost, it is also about looking forward with greater awareness, stronger prevention efforts, and a renewed commitment to pursuing solution that saves lives.

San Francisco has always been a city that confronts difficult challenges with compassion, courage, and action.

By recognizing this day, we affirm our commitment to supporting those impacted by the crisis.

I respectfully ask for you to support this resolution.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments.

Good afternoon, President Mandelman, members of the board.

My name is Mahanezibati, and I have the privilege of serving as a legislative aide to Supervisor Matt Dorsey.

I'm deeply honored to stand before you not only as a member of a staff, but as a proud Afghan American speaking on behalf of Item 88, recognizing August as Afghan American Heritage Month.

This resolution represents something I have never imagined that I would see growing up.

To stand in this chambers as an Afghan American serving the people of San Francisco and representing a resolution recognizing my own community is both humbling and deeply meaningful.

It is a reminder that representation matters and that every community deserves to see its story reflected in the institutions that serve them.

This resolution also represents the continuation of a journey that began here in this chamber.

Back in 2023, I had the privilege of drafting San Francisco's first Afghan American heritage resolution.

And at the time, I hope that it would become more than a proclamation.

I hoped it would become a tradition, one that ensured future generations of Afghan Americans would not only see their heritage recognized, but their contributions celebrated.

Today I'm incredibly proud to say that that vision has grown beyond San Francisco.

Earlier this year in March, the state of California officially recognized Afghan American Heritage Month, building upon the momentum that began began here at the Board of Supervisors.

It is a powerful reminder that meaningful change often begins at the local level.

This year also marks another historic first.

For the first time in conjunction with Afghan American Heritage Month, the Board of Supervisors is recognizing Afghan Americans for their extraordinary service to our city and our state.

These honorees are more than accomplished professionals.

They are examples of Afghan Americans that have contributed to California for decades, quietly serving, quietly leading, and giving back.

This is why this resolution matters.

I want to personally thank Supervisor Matt Dorsey for his unwavering support and for championing this resolution, and I thank each of you for recognizing the extraordinary contribution.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

At least one of you has expressed a desire to fill the task force with members who take a so-called pragmatic approach towards sunshine law compliance.

Delaying appointments of those who have already applied, and in some cases been vetted by SPJ and the League of Women Voters is anything but pragmatic.

You are forcing the task force to go on hiatus, causing buildup of a backlog of sunshine related complaints and delaying redress for those who have filed them.

It is not the task force's job to be more friendly or more adversarial towards city officials and agencies.

The task force's job is to encourage and monitor sunshine law compliance without fear or favor.

At least one of you argues that the volume of record requests makes it difficult for city officials and agencies to do their job.

Sunshine law compliance is part and parcel of that job.

But rather than make sure that those officials and agencies have sufficient staff and resources to meet record requests.

Some of you want instead to blame the requesters for exercising their right to know about city policies and actions and their bases.

A tactic straight out of the authorit authoritarian playbook.

It is a wrong-headed approach that will enable backroom dealing and force sunshine complainants to go to court, which will cost the city potentially millions every year.

That is anything but pragmatic.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Hello, City Council.

And nice to see you, Jackie.

My name is Dee Henry, and I'm here to discuss something that's not on the agenda today.

But stick with me.

It will all relate.

I want to advocate for a historically shafted bird.

I was once like you, Jackie, thinking of them as rats of the skies.

I saw dirty scoundrels feeding the dirty birds, and it almost brought me to tears to say that I spat on them.

I've heard them called mudwads, black plague birds, target practice, chubby doves, dog toys, government spies, alien spies, hoochimamas, scallywats, mm-jumbos, concrete chicken, guzzlers, and in some cases as the COVID pandemic's patient zero.

I would like to offer a moment of silence for uttering those words.

But it all changed when I moved to San Fran.

I was gazing out at the beautiful sunset over the bay as I cut my toenails in a big bang almost made me chop off my toe.

I went out to the balcony and heard a faint cuckoo and saw what become my best friends and lover, Lil Kenny.

I realized that these are cuddly, cooey, chunky, curious, and totally cuckoo for Coco Puff creatures, and this city has declared war on them, and I'm here to make a stand.

Look around.

There's spikes on windows, nets on doorways, and the covert pigeon hunting syndicate known as the parrots.

I've spent long nights weeping in the fetal position due to this city's atrocities towards Pidgeys.

So here are my demands.

Cuckoo coo.

Here we go, Jackie.

Okay, everyone, pigeons on three, one, two, three, pigeons.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Good afternoon.

My name is Yahya Buzade.

I'm here today with CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and we support the resolution recognizing South Asian American Heritage Month in San Francisco.

For generations, South Asian Americans have shaped the fabric of San Francisco through their contributions to the city's culture, economy, public service, and civic life.

The South Asian American community is incredibly diverse, encompassing Muslim, Dalit, Sikh, Tamil, Bengali, Napali, Indo-Caribbean, and many other communities whose histories and contributions deserve to be recognized and celebrated.

Recognizing South Asian American Heritage Month uplifts many stories, identities, and contributions, especially at a time when South Asians continue to face discrimination, hate, and erasure.

We are grateful to Supervisor Mahmoud and Commissioner Kudrat Cantillis Chadri for their leadership on this resolution.

We respectfully urge the board to unanimously support the resolution and to continue celebrating the invaluable contributions of South Asian Americans in San Francisco.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

I'm aspiring to root more in what makes being human worthwhile, as corny as it sounds.

Love is what makes this fight worth fighting.

Love of my soulmates are kiddies, love of love of seeing joy in others and helping others find their joyful moments, seeing and uplifting and protecting the humanity of every other person.

To everyone feeling like they're about to buckle under this state-sponsored domestic terror, don't give up.

I won't give up, and I hope you don't either.

Related.

We have a no new taxes on the rich mayor and a technofascist billionaire political movement that has paved its way into city hall paid its way into city hall, transforming San Francisco into a red city in a blue state, red not due to communism or socialism, but red due to our mayor's alignment with the Trump's administration's agenda.

The mayor's approach to governing is that of a CEO, capitalist and tyrannical and stealing stability and life itself from the homeless, poor and marginalized.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Despite the fact everyone bet against her.

By June of 2019, I had a change of heart.

A grudge to me is an act of nothing more than drinking poisoning, hoping the other person be will die.

Let bygones be bygones.

To celebrate my new view, I bought my auntie a new iPhone.

Two months later, I drove Maggie to meet my auntie.

Auntie, where is my iPhone?

It was a tongue-in-cheek response that Miss Chinatown is here, it's by my side and here to stay.

She took it the wrong way.

She thought I was going to calm me near the iPhone and hand it to Maggie.

Instead of paying Maggie a greeting, she bolted up the stairs and lock herself in a bathroom.

She cried hysterically, uncontrollably, and she would not open the door until I leave.

That ends my journey to the title owner of Miss Popularity of Miss Chinese International.

It is true.

That's our angle, Maggie could be terrifying.

Which brings me, I would prefer not to talk about my destination, but my journey.

For me, doing something that's difficult and hard, I don't look at talent.

I look at hope.

If there's chance for me to clinch another 0.01 chance of success, I would take it because my mom named me Logsu Nang means ability and will do what I need to do.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Good evening, supervisors.

Happy disability pride month.

This is Elijah Larin, Director of the Office on Disability and Accessibility.

And while I would love to just talk about all the great work our office and our departments are doing around accessibility, including expanding language access for the deaf and hard of hearing community, including best practices for small businesses in partnership with the Office of Small Business, including some of our great capital efforts there and moving forward.

If I did not talk about my friend Alice Wong, who was before you a year ago, and who lives on in our memory.

And so in honor of Alice, I will just read one of her greatest hits.

Disabled people have always existed.

Whether the word disability is used or not.

To me, disability is not a monolith, nor is it a clear-cut binary or disabled of disabled and non-disabled.

Disability is mutable and ever evolving.

Disability is both apparent and non-apparent.

Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy.

Disability is socio-political, cultural, and biological.

Being visible and claiming a disabled identity brings risks as much as it brings pride.

Thank you for your leadership and support.

Thank you for your comments, next speaker.

President Mandelman, Board of Supervisors, my name is Richard S.

C.

Peterson.

I want to talk briefly about artificial intelligence, and I think that was brought up briefly, and I think 80 one of the items in 86 or something.

I've been involved in artificial intelligence since the 1960s, believe it or not, at Tufts University.

I then went to uh uh college at in Boston with some of the greatest teachers in at least New England.

I came to up San Francisco and have continued artificial intelligence work with both clients and some of my own personal work.

I've developed uh certain game boards and things that actually assist in many of the concepts of artificial intelligence.

I want to warn um against using artificial intelligence as a automatic means to enforcement of many of your governmental regulations.

And this goes not only to the city but to the state.

As my uh trials with the state board, state bar show that some tracks when already set are put in motion by simple oversights.

Once they're in motion, there is rarely anything that you can do uh except under extraordinary circumstances.

The other thing is the algorithm is basically an if-then type of uh algorithm.

All algorithms are if-then.

When you get into generative uh uh development, then you get into real trouble because you are allowing other humans to introduce the algorithms that change your mind.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Okay.

Good afternoon.

I'm Jessica Pesico.

My written comments focus on transparency, accountability, and accessibility.

You can read them right here.

Okay.

I also want to thank Mayor Laurie for attending today.

I hope he can attend this Monday's health commission meeting at 4 p.m.

at room 408.

The September board meetings and stay for public comments before signing budgets and other matters.

Most urgent, Daniel Laurie, I urge you, if you're watching, to not sign one file number two five one zero zero three, expanding drug-free housing in ways that may add cost, risk evictions for people in recovery and those with mental health conditions, and worsen our existing housing and health care system.

Because we know that there's an accessibility crisis.

Number two, file number two five zero six three zero, the cleanup code that removes reporting labeled obsolete.

Um including that for Hunters Point Shipyard Oversight.

Residents rely on these to protect our environment and to keep them protected.

I also ask that this board and anybody watching to work with me to get our federal Medicaid payments back by addressing fraud waste and abuse.com.

Please verify and adopt gov.disgame.com as a public resource.

To anyone watching this with the means, please consider a bridge gant for services affected by Medicaid budget cuts, such as S ZFGH and UCSF.

I'd also like to thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, Mr.

President W.O.

Duffy.

I just recently uh added a new supervisor district uh that I've lived in for about a month and a half.

I've lived in Chinatown now in a private hotel.

Um SRO Hotel, private, now unsubsidized.

And um the people there uh were living in very close quarters to each other, and I just couldn't, I was just so impressed.

The security in the there was no problem with security in the building.

I'm just so impressed with my neighbors, their tenacity for life.

This is a building, by the way, no elevator.

Uh it's a flight and a half up from the street, and then this floor above that is another flight, and a lot of seniors just lugging stuff up those stairs every day and lugging it back down.

I I just was very impressed by them.

I I think it's a really good thing that someone here that the board is leaning towards realizing that yes, we need more housing, but we also have to protect, preserve, and and the and defend the quality of life that we have for the housing that we already have.

I'm very impressed by that today.

I you know I changed my speech that I'm gonna make sometimes I change it five times while I'm sitting back there.

And I I just like to thank you all for your service, and I know you're gonna be out at play in the field of the Lord, and I I hope you uh are observing things and thinking and have a moment to to contemplate.

Thank you for your comments.

Seeing no other individuals here in person, we will be going to our remote line.

If you have not already done so, please press star three to remote to line up remotely.

Again, personal attacks, harassment or discriminatory remarks directed to a city employee or board member are outside the scope of this body and shall be redirected.

Failure to immediately redirect those comments will result in in the individual's forfeiture of remaining time, and we will transition to the next speaker.

Let's hear from our first caller.

I oppose upgun heritage month resolution because they are kebab like calls of all.

All right, let's go to our next caller.

Hello, supervisors.

My name is Will Havert.

I'm resident of District 9, and I'm calling because I'm a complainant in a pending Sunshine Ordnance Task Force complaint.

And uh the deadlines for processing it under the existing task force can procedures was July 17th.

The boards can't meet right now because nine of the task force seats are vacant and it cannot walkfully convene.

Chair Walton's published statement explains how this happened, which is that the city attorney advised only on June 26th, and the task force was subject to the new rule.

No one designed this outcome.

I get that.

But I want to note in response to the idea of expanding the search to more applicants, which is a worthy goal.

Uh of the existing uh seats, four are filled by nominations from the Society of Professional Journalists and the League Women Voters coming since March and June.

For those four seats, the pool is fixed by ordinance.

Outreach cannot change it.

Acting on them right now would restore a quorum and allow the remaining five seats to uh be uh determined at the at the board's leisure in the future.

Uh the comments are from the Society of Professional Journals have noted publicly that at least one member of this board considers the sunshine ordinance burdensome and we prefer commissioners with more pragmatic to use.

Section 67030 assigns those nominations to outside organizations precisely so that the watchdog's composition does not track any officials' appetite for oversight.

On July 10th, the Ethics Commission returned a matter concerning the mayor's office to a body that cannot convene to receive it.

I attributed attempt to no one, but every week this body saves dark makes that harder to explain.

I ask that you please calendar the four organization nominated reappointments to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force no later than the first September Rules Committee meeting and sooner at a special meeting is convened.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker.

Good afternoon.

My name is Lynn Rivas.

I'm Dr.

Lynn Rivas.

I'm the executive director for the California Association of Mental Health Peer Run organizations.

Relying solely on emergency department personnel while eliminating peer specialists would compromise San Francisco's crisis response efficiency.

It'll increase criminal justice involvement and unnecessarily inflate health care costs.

Based on the research, San Francisco should retain peer specialists and community mobile units for the following key reasons.

One, peer levels field outreach prevents hospitalization and manages acute crises early.

Two, peers improve de-escalation, and strengthen crisis intervention.

Three, community mobile crisis units directly reduce arrests and criminalization.

And four, relying solely on emergency department departments increases costs and system strain.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments.

Next caller.

Hi there.

Um I'm Ramaland Schmaltz, North Beach resident.

San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance begins with the simple principle that government exists to conduct the people's business, and that the people don't give government the right to decide what we should know.

Today's state city hall seems to be saying, why violate the Sunshine Ordinance when you can simply eliminate the people who enforce it?

Recently, so-called streamlining changes the ru change the rules for um commission reappointments.

Streamlining what?

Bureaucracy or accountability.

Now nine of the eleven members of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force have been forced off the commission because their reappointments have been left to expire by you.

And the timing couldn't be more convenient.

You remember that October phone call between Mayor Lurie and Dan Donald Trump.

When the public asked for um public records of it, the mayor's office refused.

The Sunshine Task Force found that um re that refusal violated our transparency laws, and their next step should have been to finish that case.

Instead, the task force itself disappeared.

That's quite the magic trick.

But it didn't go away because the public lost interest, but because the referees had been escorted off the field.

And this isn't really about one phone call, it's about whether oversight itself survives.

Remember when the Washington Post had some political will left back in 2017 and warned us that democracy dies in darkness?

Well, between this and the deplorable shade act, I had this hit through last week.

Your constituents are watching and feeling mighty left out in the cold these days.

So please do the right thing by the folks who elected by elected youth and let the sun shine back in.

Thank you for your comments.

I believe that ends our remote call in line, Mr.

President.

All right.

Public comment is now closed.

Madam Clerk, please call the for adoption without committee reference agenda.

Items 88 through 95 together.

Items 88 through 95 were introduced for adoption without committee reference.

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

Any supervisor may require a resolution on first appearance to go to committee.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Like to sever item number 90.

Supervisor Dorsey.

I'd like to sever item 88 and 89.

Supervisor Melgar.

93, please.

And I would like to sever 94.

And so, Madam Clerk, could you call the roll on the remaining balance of the items?

Yes, on items 91, 92, and 95.

Supervisor Wong.

Wong absent.

Supervisor Chan.

Chan, I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

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

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

I.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar I, Supervisor Soder, Sutter, I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I.

There are nine eyes.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted and the motion is approved.

Please call item 88.

Item number 88 is the resolution declaring the month of August 2026 as Afghan American Heritage Month in the city and county of San Francisco.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

Colleagues, today I'm proud to ask you to support this resolution declaring August as Afghan American Heritage Month for the City and County of San Francisco.

San Francisco has always been defined by those who came here seeking opportunity, freedom, and the chance to build a better future.

The African American community embodies that enduring spirit, as we've heard in much of today's meeting.

Today, African Americans, um Afghan Americans help shape every corner of San Francisco as physicians, attorneys, educators, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, public servants, and members of our armed forces and community leaders.

This resolution is an opportunity to recognize not only those remarkable achievements, but also the resilience, perseverance, and generosity that define the Afghan American experience.

It affirms that their story is an essential part of San Francisco's story.

I would also like to recognize someone from my own office who has been instrumental in making this recognition possible.

My legislative aide, Mahana Sabati, who worked tirelessly to elevate Afghan American Heritage Month into one of the city's signature cultural celebrations through her vision, leadership, and unwavering dedication.

And what has been a local celebration has uh grown into an annual tradition that now brings together leaders from across California to honor the extraordinary accomplishments of the Afghan American community.

Mahanas, thank you for your leadership, your dedication to public service, and for ensuring that history, culture, and achievements of the Afghan American uh community are recognized and celebrated in our city.

Because of your work, San Francisco has become a leader in honoring Afghan American Heritage Month, and our city is stronger and richer for it.

To the Afghan American community, thank you for your resilience, your service, your leadership, and your countless contributions to the city and county of San Francisco.

We're proud to celebrate your achievements today, and we look forward to continuing this tradition for years to come.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, is this the same house?

Do we have supervisor?

It is the same house.

All right, let's take this same house, same call without objection.

The resolution is adopted.

Um please call item 89.

Item 89 is a resolution recognizing August 21st, 21st, 2026 as national fentanyl prevention and awareness day to honor the lives impacted by the overdose crisis, support families and communities affected by substance use disorders, recognize frontline responders and service providers, and reaffirm the city's commitment to prevention, treatment, recovery, and public safety.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, President Manuan colleagues.

Uh, this resolution uh recognizes August 21st as fentanyl prevention and awareness day in San Francisco.

This resolution is about remembrance, awareness, and action because the numbers behind the crisis remain staggering.

Fentanyl is as much as 50 times more potent than heroin, and a dose of as little as two milligrams is fatal for most most people.

According to the CDC, more than 70% of accidental overdose deaths nationwide in 2024 involved fentanyl.

Here in San Francisco, more than the more than 3,000 people we've lost to fentanyl-related overdoses since 2020 has made this the deadliest public health emergency in our city since the darkest days of the AIDS crisis.

In August, we will remember those lost, stand with grieving families, and recommit ourselves to prevention, treatment, and long-term recovery.

As well, we must recognize and honor the health care workers and first responders, peer counselors, and community organizations doing life-saving work in this realm every day.

I want to recognize my legislative intern, Ava Seligman, who we heard from earlier, who her research and drafting made this resolution possible.

Ava, thank you for your hard work and commitment to public service.

Finally, colleagues, I would invite you and all members of the public to attend the fifth annual International Overdose Awareness Sunset Vigil, a light for every life, on Sunday, August 30th at 7 p.m.

on the steps of City Hall.

There we will honor the lives of those lost and stand with families and individuals in recovery whose voices remain at the center of this work.

Thank you to Gina McDonald and the other moms who have held this visual for the past five years and for their continued fight for recovery.

Madam Clerk, please call the role on this item.

On item 89, Supervisor Wong.

Wang I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey, I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder I, Supervisor Mahmood.

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar.

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

Cheryl I, there are 10 eyes.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Please call item 90.

Item 90 is a resolution declaring July 18th through August 17th, 2026, a South Asian American Heritage Month in the city and county of San Francisco, and affirming the cultural, religious, and linguistic richness within the South Asian community and recognizing this pluralism as a source of source of strength that contributes to San Francisco's identity as an open, inclusive, and forward-looking city.

Supervisor Mahmoud.

Thank you, colleagues, and thank you to everyone joining us today in the audience as we recognize July 18th through August 17th, 2026 as South Asian American Heritage Month in the city and county of San Francisco.

Deeply honored to have had the opportunity to introduce this resolution, recognizing the many contributions of South Asian American communities that have helped shape San Francisco into diverse, dynamic, and inclusive city that we are today.

As someone of Pakistani Heritage, this recognition carries personal meaning, and it's a reminder that our city is strongest when every community's history, culture, and contributions are seen, valued, and celebrated.

South Asian identity encompasses a vast and diverse group of communities, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Within that diversity are countless languages, faiths, cultures, and traditions, and lived experiences that enrich our city.

South Asians have been a part of San Francisco's story for generations, from entrepreneurs and small business owners to health care workers, educators, engineers, artists, and public servants.

South Asian Americans have contributed to nearly every aspect of civic life in our city.

This month is an opportunity to recognize the resilience of this community.

Our history in this country includes moments of exclusion, discrimination, and injustice, from restrictive immigration laws to the rise of Islamophobia, anti-Sikh discrimination discrimination, anti-Hindu discrimination, and xenophobia that have impacted communities across South Asia's many identities.

But our history is also one of perseverance, solidarity, and own organizing.

South Asian communities have stood alongside other communities fighting for immigrant rights, workers' rights, gender equity, LGBTQIA plus inclusion, racial justice, and a more equitable future for all.

This recognition is particularly meaningful because the dates of South Asian American Heritage Month coincide with several significant moments in South Asian history, including Independence Days and other milestones that represent both the complexity of our shared histories and the enduring ties of South Asian communities around the world.

For many South Asian families, these histories are deeply personal, and they represent stories of migration, sacrifice, and resilience, but also opportunity, a story that many San Franciscans I know share as they seek a better life for themselves and their families.

San Francisco has always been a city shaped by immigrants and by communities who bring their experiences, cultures, and hopes for the future.

Recognizing South Asian American Heritage Month is a reflection of our city's values, and that inclusion is not just about welcoming people into our communities, but honoring their contributions.

I want to thank the members of the South Asian community, advocates, cultural organizations, small business owners, and residents who continue to strengthen our city every day.

Today we celebrate the richness of the South Asian community in San Francisco and reaffirm our commitment to building a city where every person, regardless of where they come from, what language they speak, or what traditions they carry, knows that they belong.

I respectfully ask for colleagues for your support on this resolution.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, President Mandelman, and thank you, Supervisor Mockmood, for introducing this resolution to celebrate the contributions of the South Asian community to our city.

You know, one of my favorite things about serving people in a city as diverse as ours is that we are all strongly encouraged to crash the party for one another's cultural celebrations.

And that includes one of my absolute favorites, wholly the Festival of Colors, which we hosted in my district at the East Cut Crossing a couple of years ago with brightly colored chalk powder.

I still can't get out of much of the clothing that I wore that day.

And um, we celebrated earlier this year at the uh Salesforce Tower projection.

Um last year to honor South Asian Heritage Month, I recognized Seema Shri, a constituent of mine who was just an incredible civic and cultural leader in the South Asian community.

I wanted to take the opportunity to express my appreciation again for all the work that she has done to uplift and celebrate the community.

Um she has helped activate public spaces for cultural celebrations and supported South Asian artists and entrepreneurs and used her talents to build connections, equity, and visibility.

She unfortunately could not uh be here today to give public comment as much as I know she wanted to, uh, but I did want to give her credit and uh to her and people like her for dedicating themselves so generously to sharing their culture and celebrating our diversity.

So thank you, SEMA, and thank you, Supervisor Bachbutt.

All right.

I think we can take the uh Yeah, I think we can take the same house, same call without objection.

The resolution is adopted.

Please call item 93.

Item 93 is a resolution recognizing July 2026 as Disability Pride Month in the city and county of San Francisco.

Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you, President.

Colleagues, July is disability pride month, and I wanted to make sure to acknowledge some of the accomplishments that our city is leading on in light of the egregious setbacks by this federal administration.

I want to make a special shout out to Eli Gillardin from the Office of Disability and Accessibility and their team.

This July, ODA and DOS working closely with the mayor's office, city departments, community partners, a welcomed the support of the National Association of the DAF Biennial Conference.

In preparation for thousands of deaf attendees, we strengthen language access throughout the city, expanded ASL availability at city at city events, and coordinated with departments to improve communication access and public facing services.

They also hosted the California Commission on Disability Access for a regional meeting at this Disability Cultural Center.

ODA worked closely with the Office of Small Business on the Beyond the Front Door initiative, which helped businesses improve physical accessibility for residents and visitors.

During Mayor Lurie and First Lady Proudhouse One City Day, the agencies created a fully accessible event that honored the legacy of the 1977 Section 504 sit-ins.

Protesters, Dennis Billups, and Debbie Kaplan, along with Disability Cultural Center co-director Emily Batics, shared reflections that meaningfully connected the history of the disability rights movement with a work underway today.

In partnership with the Economic Support and Self-Sufficiency SFMTA and the Disability Cultural Center, they held a 504 walking rolling tour, staffed resource tables provided on side CalFresh and Medical Support and showcase SFHA's Mobile Benefits Center, demonstrating that cross apartment cross-apartment collaboration looks like in action.

We celebrated the one year anniversary of the Disability Cultural Center's accessible community centered space and heard directly from residents about its growing impact.

Together, these accomplishments reflect San Francisco's commitment to going beyond ADA requirements to expanding access to services and ensuring people with disabilities can fully participate in the civic life of our city.

It is my hope that as we approach next year's milestone that we will also take this opportunity to expand our support for people with disabilities, further elevate visibility of our heroes like Judy Human and Alex Wong.

Wouldn't it be incredible if we uh finally saw a statue of Judy Human to take mark the location in UN Plaza where the 504 sit-ins took place?

With that, happy disability pride month.

Thank you, Supervisor Mugger.

Let's take this item.

Same house, same call without objection.

The resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item 94.

Item 94 is a motion authorizing preparation of written proponent and opponent ballot arguments and rebuttal ballot arguments for submittal to the voters for the November 3rd, 2026 consolidated general election.

All right.

And I believe that you have some uh proposed amendments to this resolution for us that have been circulated.

Yes, they have been circulated.

The amendments to the motion be uh being proposed is to designate Supervisor Chen to write the proponent argument for the Charter Amendment on Municipal Finance Corporation and Public Bank.

Designate Supervisor Mandelman to write the proponent argument for the charter amendment on department, board, commission, and advisory body updates.

Designate Supervisor Melgar to write the proponent argument for the charter amendment on the housing trust fund.

Designate Supervisor Ramud to write the proponent argument for the initiative ordinance on real estate real property transfer tax foreclosure exemption.

Designate Supervisor Walton to write the opponent argument for the charter amendment on extending city administrator duties and changes to city contracting.

Designate Supervisor Walton to also write the proponent opponent argument for the charter amendment on changes to executive branch management and designate Supervisor Walton to also write the opponent argument for the charter amendment on changes to ballot measure process and designate Supervisor Melgar to write the opponent argument for the initiative ordinance on allowing private vehicles on the Great Highway in the Sunset Dunes.

The remainder of the opponent arguments section will be stricken for all of the ones that the supervisors had no interest in writing and making other clarifying and conforming changes.

And then uh can we take the amended item, same house, same call without objection.

Uh the motion uh motion motion.

No motion is approved.

All right.

Madam Clerk, um we have any imperative agenda items?

We have no imperative agenda items.

Can you please read the in-memoriums?

Yes, today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals.

On behalf of President Mandelman for the late Mr.

Gerald Alan Fuller, and on behalf of Supervisors Mandelman and Melgar for the late Ms.

Sidna Ella Ellen Constant, and on behalf of President Mandelman for the late Mr.

Jeremiah Halasey, and on behalf of Supervisor Melgar for the late Dr.

Estella Garcia.

And I think that brings us to the end of our agenda.

Madam Clerk, do we have any further business before us today?

That concludes our business for today.

Thank you.

We are adjourned.