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[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Good afternoon. Welcome to the 03/10/2026 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And clerk will you please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you Mr. President. Supervisor Chan. Chan present. Supervisor Chen Chen present. Supervisor Dorsey? Dorsey present. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder present. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood present. Supervisor Mandelman?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Present.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelman present. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar present. Supervisor Sauter? Sauter present Supervisor Cheryl Cheryl present Supervisor Walton Walton present and Supervisor Wong Wong present Mr. President all members are present

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramitushaloni, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the 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 Ramatush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Colleagues, will you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance? On behalf of our board, I'd like to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV. Today, is especially Sue's Enos. They record each of our meeting each of our meetings and make the trans transcripts available to the public online. Madam Clerk, why don't we go to our two p. M. Special order, the mayor's appearance?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes the special order at two p. M. Is the appearance by the Honorable Mayor Daniel Lurie. There being no questions submitted from eligible members representing Districts 5 through eight, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Welcome Mr. Mayor.

[Mayor Daniel Lurie]: Thank you, board president. Good afternoon, everyone, members of the board. You all know that our city charter is one is one of the longest in the country. It's bloated and it's broken. That's why president Mandelman and I are proposing reforms to clean up our charter and make our city's government more accountable to the residents we serve. First, we're going to fix the city's broken contracting system to make sure that our tax dollars are spent efficiently and transparently. Right now, city contracting is too expensive, too slow, and too political. Not only do different departments have different rules, but more than a dozen departments can be involved in approving just one contract. This slows down projects and drives up costs, and we all know we can do better. By bringing contracting under the city administrator, we can set consistent citywide standards that will cut red tape, reduce delays, and save taxpayer dollars. Second, we are going to make our ballots shorter and simpler. In 2024, our San Franciscans considered 15 ballot measures. In the same election, Oakland had three, San Jose had one. Our proposed changes will allow a majority of the board of supervisors to put a measure on the ballot and bring us closer to state and other Bay Area city standards on signature requirements. And it would eliminate the mayor's ability to unilaterally place a measure on the ballot. These reforms will move us in the right direction and ensure that ballot measures reflect citywide priorities. Third, accountability. San Franciscans expect our city to deliver world class services, But right now, our charter reward rewards bureaucracy and scatters responsibility. These reforms would change that to ensure that when San Franciscans elect a mayor, they know who is responsible for delivering results. They would allow the mayor to hire and remove department heads while ensuring that unelected commissioners are accountable to the leaders who appoint them. They would also create flexibility to reorganize departments when government isn't working as it should. San Franciscans elect people to run their government, and those leaders should be accountable for whether it works. If it doesn't, voters should know exactly who to hold responsible. That's why we hold elections. This package of reforms is about results. It's about accountability. It's about making City Hall work for San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, board president. I appreciate the time.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for your remarks. Thank you for the collegial way in which you and your team have worked on these measures over these last several months.

[Mayor Daniel Lurie]: Thank you, sir.

[Al Etikkar (public commenter)]: All right.

[Kyle Smeely (Policy Director, San Francisco Community Land Trust)]: Good to see you. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And with that, this meet this matter has been discussed and is now filed. Madam Clerk, that takes us back to communications.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you Mr. President. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes you all to attend the board meeting in person in the board's Legislative Chamber Room 250 within City Hall on the 2nd Floor. And when you're not able to be here, you can catch the livestream at www.sfgovtv.org or watch the live showing on sfgovtv's channel 26. If you need to submit public comment in writing, you can send an email to BOSSFGov dot org or send an email to or use the U. S. Postal Service address the envelope to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, Doctor. Carlton B. Goodlet Place City Hall, room two forty four, San Francisco, California, ninety four thousand one hundred two. If you need to make a reasonable accommodation for a future meeting under the Americans with Disability Act or to request language assistance, contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling (415) 554-5184. And through a prior arrangement Mr. President, the first speaker during general public comment will be a caller who has requested an ADA accommodation. Thank you members.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's go to approval of our meeting minutes.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes, approval of the 02/03/2026, board meeting minutes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Colleagues, could I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? Moved by Chen. Seconded by Dorsey. Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the minutes as presented, Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, I. Supervisor of Mahmood. Mahmood I supervisor Mandelman

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: mandelman I supervisor Melgar Melgar I supervisor Sauter I supervisor Cheryl I supervisor Walton Aye. Walton, I. Supervisor Wong? Aye. Wong, I. Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, I. And Supervisor Chen? Chen, I. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. Madam clerk, let's go to our consent agenda. Please call items one through four.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items one through four are on consent. These items are considered to be routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items one through four supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey I supervisor Fielder Fielder I supervisor Mahmood Mahmood I supervisor Mandelman

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelman I supervisor Melgar I supervisor Sauter Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton I, Supervisor Wong? Wong I, Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan I, and Supervisor Chen? Chan I there are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection these ordinances are finally passed. Madam clerk let's go to new business please call item number five.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item number five this is a resolution to approve the fourth amendment to a contract sfmta-twenty eighteen-forty eight armed and unarmed security services agreement between the city and county and universal protection service lp doing business as allied universal security services to extend the term by one year for a total term 04/01/2020, through 03/31/2027 to increase the amount by approximately 5,900,000.0 for a new total amount of approximately 65,000,000.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Let' take this item same house same call without objection the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk please call item six.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item six this is a resolution to approve and authorize a grant of a permanent easement on sfpu c's san francisco public utility commissions property located at 1800 Gerald Avenue to consist of an easement of approximately 3,000 square feet of land within sfpu sees Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant between the city and Pacific Gas and Electric for the purpose of replacing and relocating SFPUC's existing solids treatment facilities at its Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant with more reliable efficient and modern technologies and facilities at no cost for a term effective upon approval of the resolution and recordation of the agreement by the city by the city's assessor recorder until pg and e surrenders or abandons the easement area or the agreement is terminated and to determine that the grant of the easement at no cost will serve a public purpose by delivering an increased natural gas supply to SFPUC's existing Southeast Water pollution control plant and its new biosolids digesters facilities, and to adopt the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Fielder.

[Supervisor Jackie Fielder (District 9)]: Thanks, President Mandelman. Normally, this item is something that would not really catch my attention. But I do understand that according to SFPC, the improvements that this easement will grant replaces old solids treatment systems with new technology and supporting biogas, which I think makes a ton of sense for helping to meet our climate goals. But in order to make this regenerative energy work, the plant actually needs more natural gas. And PG and E already supplies gas to the site, and so they're going to also be be in selling that. And this facility needs extra gas. And knowing what our climate goals are, I just cannot support support the concept of this. I understand that this was kind of based on information from 15 in technology fifteen years ago. But understanding what this puts what this means for our climate goals, I I cannot support it. So I'll be not supporting it. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Do we have anyone from the PSC here? Come on up. Like to well, welcome, Mr. Spitz. Would you like to try to address that concern?

[Jeremy Spitz (Government Affairs, SFPUC)]: Thank you, President Mandelman. Jeremy Spitz with the SFPUC Government Affairs. Thank you, Supervisor Fielder, for the concern. I just want to clarify one thing. This easement isn't for the biogas portion of the biosolids digester facilities project. It is just to provide additional natural gas to heat the new larger digesters, which is important for the biosolids digestion process. One of the reasons why we need additional natural gas and sorry, this is going to be a little bit in the weeds here, but we made the decision as part of the design process to move away from a cogeneration process where we actually used the natural or the biogas that the process creates on-site to create electricity, and then feed that back in to create heat, which is part of the process. We made the decision to move away from that because it had an environmental justice impact on the community nearby. Excuse me. So, we fully understand your concern with having additional natural gas, but we just thought that this was the best the best solution for the community and the most value for the project.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, Mr. Spitz. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item six, Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, no. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood, I. Supervisor Mandelman?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelman, I. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, I. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, I. Supervisor Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, I. Supervisor Walton? Walton I. Supervisor Wong. Wong I. Supervisor Chan. Chan I. And Supervisor Chen. Chen I. There are 10 ayes and one no with Supervisor Fielder voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, please call Item seven.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item seven, this is a motion to appoint Elena Rivkin, residency requirement waived, to the Assessment Appeals Board Number three, term ending 09/07/2026.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item seven, Supervisor Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood, I. Supervisor Mandelman?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelman, I. Supervisor Melgar, Melgar Aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter Aye. Supervisor Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl Aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton Aye. Supervisor Wong? Wong Aye. Supervisor Chan? Chan, I. And Supervisor Chen? Chen, I. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the motion is approved. Oh, without objection, yes, the motion is approved. Madam Clerk, please call item eight.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item eight was referred without recommendation from the Rules Committee. It's an ordinance to approve the police surveillance technology policy for electronic location tracking devices and to make the required findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Chair Walton. Thank you

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: so much, President Mandelman. Colleagues, as you know, this was referred to this body without recommendation from committee. At the time of the committee meeting, there were questions that I had, and there are also questions that other colleagues in community have about this ordinance. I would like to continue this ordinance until our March 24 meeting. A few of the major reasons is because there are concerns about warrantless trackers, lack of data, cost concerns, reliability, and of course, always the protection of civil liberties. And I would like to make a motion to continue to the twenty fourth.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Chair Walton's made a motion to continue this until the twenty fourth. Is there a second? Seconded by Fielder. Supervisor Chan.

[Supervisor Connie Chan (District 1)]: Thank you, President Mandelman. And thank you, Supervisor Walton, for making that motion. I am in support of the motion for continuance, allowing a couple of things. I have some questions, both on the existing technology that, is available. STARCHASE seems it should be the technology in question and also the only technology that is currently available for a pilot use. I have some questions about that technology itself. I would like to have some more time, help me better understand the technology. I certainly also have questions about the basically, also the policy ensuring whether this policy also ensure the rights to Fourth Amendment allowing a tracker for a moving vehicle. And so those are some of my questions that I hope to have answers to by the time we meet again and vote on this legislation. But I certainly hope that in the events that I do have those answers, I still hope that when we vote on this I know that today we're not ready to have perhaps presenters in the chamber to answer those questions publicly. Or are we do we have someone that's here now that's able to answer?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: We do.

[Carl Mesita (Government Affairs Manager, SFPD)]: Great. Good afternoon, President Mandelman, supervisors. I'm Carl Mesita, government affairs manager for the police department. If you'd like, Supervisor Chan, I can just jump right in and Please. Explain a little bit about the policies in question, which is Star Chase. You're correct. Star Chase is a pursuit mitigation tool. It's not a pursuit enhancement tool. Its overall goal is to reduce dangerous high speed pursuits within the city. It is a GPS projectile launcher that would affix to a car regarding Fourth Amendment rights. Under exigent circumstances only would the police department be able to use Star Chase to tag a vehicle so that it wouldn't have to pursue the vehicle and would be able to track it. In other scenarios, the department would request a warrant, obviously approved by a judge, to continue tracking. But in exigent circumstances, including hot pursuits of vehicles, the department would be allowed under the policy.

[Supervisor Connie Chan (District 1)]: And it is my understanding that, as I'm learning, that Oakland Police Department has determined that Star Chase is not a functioning technology. I shouldn't say the technology itself. It's that just the Star Chase itself as the equipment that they provide is not meeting the standard or meeting the goal to be fully utilized. Could you walk us through?

[Carl Mesita (Government Affairs Manager, SFPD)]: So I can't speak to Oakland's experience directly, though I did read some public reporting about their use of Starchase. And there are a couple of differences between OPD's policy, as well as SSPD's policy. In Oakland, they required a warrant after tagging the vehicle in order to track it at all. That was their policy. That defeats the purpose of it in these exigent circumstances. That delayed time would not allow police to be able to apprehend a vehicle contemporaneously, which is the goal here. So that's the major difference. I know in public reporting Oakland said that they only used Star Chase in five years a handful of times, and only were able to successfully tag one vehicle. As you mentioned, this is a pilot program or pilot technology under Prop E. So the department first deployed Star Chase in December 2024. Throughout the calendar year of 2025, the department had 22 deployments of Star Chase, and 17 successful tags on vehicles during that time. Some of those did lead to either vehicle recovery or the safe apprehension of suspects. So the purpose of the pilot, you know, is to see whether or not it would work for the SFPD. So far within that one year pilot, we have seen success. And again, it is a pursuit mitigation tool to reduce the need for high speed pursuits throughout the city. Obviously, because our deployment is limited, we only have six mounted on vehicles. It won't work in every situation, but it will mitigate some.

[Supervisor Connie Chan (District 1)]: Thank you. I do appreciate, colleagues. I hope that I may if I may have just two weeks' time period, I do have more questions. But I also would like to do a little bit more of a homework, again, around the Fourth Amendment and policy wise, and help me allow me to have that time. So I appreciate the potential two weeks continuance, allowing us to have more in-depth conversation. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Seeing no one else on the roster, I am inclined to support the request for a two week continuance. I think, you know, as a matter of collegiality, that's a reasonable thing for colleagues to request, and there isn't any particular reason why this needs to get dealt with sooner. I fully anticipate that I, at least, will be supporting this item in two weeks. I did support Prop E. I think San Francisco and Oakland can take different paths on public safety. And in this case, I think should. But we can talk about that more in two weeks. Madam Clerk, could you call the roll on the motion to continue?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the motion to continue item eight-two March twenty four, Supervisor Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood, I. Supervisor Mandelman? I. Mandelman, I. Supervisor Melgar? I. Melgar, I. Supervisor Sauter? I. Sauter, I. Supervisor Cheryl? I. Cheryl, I. Supervisor Walton?

[Unidentified public commenter (Fillmore community advocate)]: I.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Walton, I. Supervisor Wong? Wong, aye. Supervisor Chan, Chan, aye. And Supervisor Chen. Chen, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the motion is approved. Madam Clerk, let's go to our committee reports.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 13 through 19 were considered by the government audit and oversight committee at a regular meeting on Thursday 03/05/2026 and were forwarded as committee reports Item 13 through 19 are seven ordinances that authorize the settlement of lawsuits filed by various entities against the city. For item 13 this is a this lawsuit involves an employment dispute filed by keisha Henderson for 55,000. Item 14, this lawsuit involves an employment dispute filed by Renee Owens for $800,000 For item 15, the lawsuit involves alleged elder abuse filed by Lanpham et al for $500,000 Item 16 is an unlitigated claim filed by WPP Group USA, Inc. For $350,000 This claim involves a refund of gross receipts and homelessness gross receipts taxes. For item 17, it's an unlitigated claim filed by Robert DiFoon for $32,500 This claim involves property damage arising from flooding alleged to be caused by a water service line rupture. For item 18 this is an unlitigated claim filed by ever in capital corporation for approximately 2,200,000.0 the claim involves a refund of gross receipts and homelessness gross receipts taxes. And for item 19 this is a settlement of a situation settlement of a citation issued by the bay area air quality management district for $30,450 the citation involves an alleged public nuisance stemming from the discharge of chemical agents.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Please call the roll on these items.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items 13 through 19, Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood, I. Supervisor Mandelman?

[Supervisor Alan Wong (District 4)]: I.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelman, I. Supervisor Melgar? I. Supervisor Sauter? I. Soder, I. Supervisor Cheryl? I. Cheryl, I. Supervisor Walton?

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Walton, aye. Supervisor Wong? Aye. Aye. Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. And Supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk please call item 20.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 20. This item was considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on Monday 03/09/2026, and was recommended as amended with a new title. Item 20 is a resolution adding the commemorative street name James Richards Way on Oakdale Avenue between 3rd Street to New Hall Street.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: We can take this item no we cannot. Supervisor Walton.

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: Thank you so much, President Mandelman. I just wanted to, one, thank the Land Use Committee for hearing this item on yesterday, and thank all the cosponsors for making sure that this move forward to today's meeting. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: All right. And, now, we can take this item. Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. And, Madam Clerk, let's go to our two thirty Special Order.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes, the two thirty Special Order is the recognition of commendations for service to the city and county of San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I think today we're starting with District 10, supervisor Walton.

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: Thank you so much, President Mandelman. Colleagues, today I rise to recognize and commend Jessica Campos. For her extraordinary commitment to community, equity, and public service here in San Francisco. As the daughter of Mexican immigrants, Jessica brings not only professional expertise, but deeply rooted lived experience to her work. Born and raised alone in San Francisco and Daly City border, near the Cow Palace, she understands firsthand the challenges many families face when navigating systems and institutions that were not built with their cultures, values, and identities in mind. That perspective grounds her leadership in cultural humility, compassion, and a deep respect for community. Jessica currently serves as the director of outreach and engagement for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, where she leads community centered strategies that strengthen the trust between residents and government. Through her work, she ensures that city initiatives are informed by lived experience and that equity is not just something talked about, but something that is actively implemented to create real and lasting change across our multiracial and multilingual communities. Before this role, Jessica served as the community engagement lead at the San Francisco office of racial equity, where she worked to connect residents directly to policy efforts focused on eliminating racial disparities. And prior to her work in the city government, she served as the center manager of a head start and early head start program in District 10, supporting some of San Francisco's most vulnerable families. Through her leadership, she created environments where children, educators, and families were empowered, while also building cross sector partnerships to connect families to housing stabilization, food access, and other essential resources. But Jessica's commitment to community does not stop at her job title. She continues to serve as a board member for Advance College and holds seat 12 on the San Francisco child care planning and advisory council. She supports early care educators in San Francisco and volunteers her time with numerous community organizations. In partnership with San Francisco State University, she helped develop professional learning circles for educators and taught course focus on community engagement, civic leadership, and advocacy. And anyone who has attended any community event across the city knows something else about Jessica. She shows up. Whether it's a neighborhood gathering, a community meeting, a cultural celebration, or a resource fair, Jessica is there, always present, always helping, always advocating for all of our communities. Jessica, your leadership, dedication, and unwavering presence in our communities do not go unnoticed. On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, it is our honor to recognize you and thank you for the incredible work you continue to do for our city. Congratulations and thank you for your service.

[Jessica Campos (Honoree; Director of Outreach and Engagement, SF Human Rights Commission)]: We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on earth for. Dolores Huerta. Good afternoon, supervisors. Happy Women's Month. Supervisor Walton, thank you for

[Francisco Da Costa (public commenter)]: your

[Jessica Campos (Honoree; Director of Outreach and Engagement, SF Human Rights Commission)]: acknowledgments, and truly honored to be recognized by someone who has given us an example of what it is to not allow previous circumstances to determine our future destinations. As a daughter of Mexican migrants who left their homes seeking for a better possibility, both my parents found themselves here in San Francisco on Bryant Street where they met and then married. To my dad, thank you for teaching us how to have impeccable work ethic and community organizing through the years of your leadership in the Hispanic group of Our Lady of Visitation in Sunnydale Avenue. To my mom, You are the reason why I became an educator. I learned very young that life is full of hardships, but also a lot of people who extend their hands to help. It truly takes a village. These are the roots that I that anchor me to the passion and dedication of serving our communities. I too want to become that helping hand and express with actions, not only with words, the impact that it is to show up and have and support people. Many of us have the privilege to be in spaces and tables where decisions are made. Let's always remember that our role is to always center community voices and keep doors that were once closed to us wide open for others to enter. Thank you to my friends, families, and team who joined us today. You all are amazing, and I'm truly fortunate to have such dedicated and passionate community advocates to live, to look up to, and to work alongside of. Thank you again, supervisor.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: All right. Next up from District 11, Supervisor Chan.

[Supervisor Chyanne Chen (District 11)]: Thank you, Board President. Jerry, may I have you go up to the podium? Uh-oh. Bathroom.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. Oh, are we

[Supervisor Chyanne Chen (District 11)]: My honoree is in the bathroom

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Let's, we'll

[Patrick Monét Shaw (public commenter; ADA accommodation caller)]: circle back.

[Supervisor Chyanne Chen (District 11)]: Can I come back? Yeah. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: District 2, Supervisor Sherrill.

[Supervisor Stephen Sherrill (District 2)]: Thank you, President Mandelman. Can I welcome Danielle Burris up to the lectern, please? Colleagues, it is my absolute honor today to commend Danielle Burris for her outstanding leadership as one of the presidents of the Sacramento Street Merchants Association, where very recently she committed and completed an arduous journey through getting lights up along the corridor. And as a neighbor, I can't tell you how happy I am for your hard work. But more importantly, it is an honor to be able to recognize you and your leadership today. Danielle is a San Francisco native, an entrepreneur, a retailer, community builder who has spent more than twenty six years creating independent retail concepts supporting designers, artists, and small businesses. A proud product of District 2, Danielle attended Convent of the Sacred Heart until third grade, Ecole Notre Dame de Victoire, then University High School here in San Francisco before going on to build a remarkable career rooted in this city and in its neighborhoods. Danielle began her retail career in 1999 when she opened Brown Eyed Girl on Sacramento Street, a destination that blended fashion, interiors, and lifestyle, and helped establish Presidio Heights as a hub for independent retail. In 2004, she expanded into the bridal world with And Something Blue, a boutique known for its heart and for its personalized styling and for welcoming and celebrating couples, excuse me, from across the country as marriage equality expanded. In 2009, Danielle founded The Barcode, first on Pier 3, bringing together international designers, artists, retailers, and innovators through rotating retail residencies, merging fashion, culture, and most importantly, community. But beyond her own ventures, Danielle has quietly mentored countless women entrepreneurs, sharing the lessons she learned from building independent retail brands in San Francisco. Your work has long connected retail, philanthropy, civic engagement through your partnership with designers, nonprofits, and community organizations to support causes ranging from arts, culture, to social justice, and neighborhood revitalization. And today, Danielle is actively strengthening Sacramento Street and helping shape the emerging Presidio Heights Fashion Design District, bringing together merchants, artists, civic leaders to support small businesses and neighborhood events. As co president of the Sacramento Street Merchants Association, you have fostered an incredible community among the small business owners on the streets and brought the street to life, especially the new string lights, as we mentioned. Danielle embodies women leadership in the business world. And I'm so honored to have her join us in the chambers during this Women's History Month to be celebrated for all that you do for our neighborhood and for our city. So Danielle, on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, and more importantly, just me personally, thank you for being such a wonderful friend. Thank you for being such a wonderful leader in our city. And thank you for being you. And with that, the floor is yours. Well,

[Danielle Burris (Honoree; Sacramento Street Merchants Association co-president)]: first off, thank you, Sherrill, and the entire board for this honor during Women's History Month and just after International Women's Day. And to be honest, I'm experiencing now what it's like to be a room with all of your heroes. What you guys do for this city means so much to us every single day, and I say that for every merchant, especially in this last year and a half year, year and a half almost. In 1999, encouraged by my girlfriends, I took a risk and opened my first door, brown eyed girl. My mom believed I should start my own business partly because I'm dyslexic, and she knew I had a gift for ideation, and that working in a rigid man's corporate structure world might crush my creativity. She was right. When I opened brown eyed girl, I wrote a mission statement that still guides me today. I wanted to offer the women of San Francisco something greater than off the rack retail, a place where women could truly gather and share their stories. Because women have stories, and unless they are told, we lose our voice as a community. The idea continued with my bridal store and Something Blue. I expanded from selling bridesmaids dresses to Full Bridal Salon in 2012 during a moment in time when marriage equality became the law of the land. I will never forget the first time two brides walked into my store together hand in hand. Suddenly, I could style both of them for their wedding day no matter what state they came from. Watching that shift happen in real time was incredibly powerful. Today, with the Barcode, the mission continues to evolve. It's ultimately about raising the bar for creativity, entrepreneurship, co creation, and community, especially on Sacramento Street. Along the way, I've lived with an autoimmune disease that disproportionately affects women, but that experience has only strengthened my belief that when women support one another, there's very little that can stop us. So today and every day, my goal is simple, to keep raising that bar for creativity, entrepreneurship, and women's voices in a city I love so, so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: District 3, Supervisor Sauter.

[Supervisor Danny Sauter (District 3)]: Thank you, President Mandelman. Colleagues, today I have the honor of welcoming staff and eighth grade students from St. Peter and Paul School as we celebrate their hundredth anniversary. Doctor Harris and the students, would you come on up, please? There's a lot of them, I'll with the history. It was in September 1925 that the Lesion Grammar School for Boys first opened its doors with two classes of fifth and sixth graders. Students studied academic subjects alongside alongside religion, music, and the Italian language. In 1950, the school would become coed after a nearby all girls school closed. Today, Saint Peter and Paul School continues to follow the educational method of Saint John Bosco providing students with a strong spiritual formation grounded in reason, religion, and kindness. From pre k to junior high, students at Saint Peter and Paul are part of a school that models and promotes social justice, compassion, inclusion, and tolerance. Saint Peter and Paul School has stood for academic excellence in the heart of North Beach since 1925. It's located right on Washington Square Park. But beyond academics, it has built community. When asked about their memories, alumni, including my office's own very own Amy Lee, you got to see her a three a picture last week, have offered these memories selling cases of the world's finest chocolate to help pay tuition. Signature emerald plaid uniforms, which I'm sure all of the students have always loved, visible throughout the neighborhood as the kids make their way to school, after school hours next door at Salesian's Boys and Girls Club with Randy. And Friday mass with peers. I witnessed the energy and curiosity of the students firsthand last week when I joined the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students to read in recognition of read across America day. After we read, I asked the students for ideas on how the city could be improved and what laws we should consider. And I was blown away with their ideas and how in tune they were with the city. They shared ideas about Mewni bus stops, traffic, trash cans, and they even knew about the fire sprinkler mandate. I was very impressed and colleagues, was last Tuesday and I might have joked with them that they should come with me and be my new colleagues on the board. No offense. But they are ready and they're coming for our jobs very very soon. So a hundred years is an incredible feat. We're really glad that you were able to come in to help celebrate this. And with that, doctor Harris, principal Harris, I'll ask if you might share a few words. Please.

[Dr. Harris (Principal, Saints Peter and Paul School)]: First of all, I would like to thank you, Supervisor Sauter, and all of our local leaders. And I did hear you be called heroes. We thank you for all the work and service that you offer our beautiful San Francisco. And we are so delighted to be celebrating one hundred years of service to youth in San Francisco. And Danny, I'm so proud of all that you know about the Salesian world. You took away a lot of my speech. So I think what you really need to know is that these young people are eighth graders. And they are about to head off to high school. And that's where they're going to really start thinking about what the future holds for them. And I know that as educators, we have one of the most privileged jobs. Because every day, we touch a piece of the future. And so as we're experiencing this beautiful lifetime lesson, I want the children to really think hard about what it means to choose a job that really helps the world. Because one of our sayings that I was really thankful that you missed was that we hope all of our graduates will become good citizens of the earth. And so that is our primary philosophy at St. Peter and Paul School. We thank you for your gracious welcome here to our beautiful city hall. And we want you to know that we support your efforts as we move San Francisco into the next hundred years. Thank you. Okay. I'm gonna cut in front of you. That's the good thing about being short.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: District four, supervisor

[Supervisor Alan Wong (District 4)]: Wong. Okay may I have Maria come up with the entire gang.

[Danielle Burris (Honoree; Sacramento Street Merchants Association co-president)]: Over here.

[Supervisor Alan Wong (District 4)]: Thank you, president Matt Dorsey and colleagues. I think we're all familiar with Maria Luz Torre. She's been to many, many board of supervisors meetings. And in Sacramento too, if anybody here ends up going to Sacramento, she'll be shown up, to visit your offices. It is my honor to present this commendation celebrating Maria Luz Torre on the momentous occasion of her thirtieth work anniversary with Parent Voices California. For three decades Maria has been a source of wisdom, leadership, and unshakable commitment to the child care justice movement. Maria is not only a devoted mother of two, but also a courageous immigrant who came to The United States from The Philippines as a lawyer and environmental advocate seeking political asylum in 1992. Her own struggles to secure child care fueled a passionate advocacy that has uplifted children, families, and especially woman led households throughout San Francisco and across California. She's regarded as a respected principled leader whose lived experiences continues to shape meaningful change. As a longtime organizer of Parent Voices San Francisco Maria played a vital role in advancing policies that support working families. Her leadership was instrumental in the passage of San Francisco's baby prop c, a groundbreaking commercial rent tax dedicated to expanding childcare and early education. Maria likes to, say since I I got, put on the board of supervisors that she I became a supervisor, but she lost her supervisor. Before stepping up to this role at Children's Council of San Francisco, she was part of my team, the advocacy team at Children's Council. And so honored to have had her be a part of that experience that I had there where when I joined the organization, she really taught me, gave me her wisdom, took me on lobby trips to City Hall and to the state capital, many, many of them, to advocate for child care and working families. Her impact, however, extends far beyond child care. Under her leadership, Parent Voices San Francisco received recognition from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for its Asthma Relief for Kids initiative, which ensured that all school buses meet clean air standards. Maria also served multiple terms on the board of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth and has been a valued advisory committee member of the San Francisco Health Plan for many years. Her legacy is visible literally and symbolically through her inclusion and I'm probably pronouncing this wrong, a permanent stained glass installation at the Children's Creativity Museum that honors Filipino American community leaders. The word meaning visibility or bringing truth to light perfectly captures her lifelong mission to make the experiences, strengths, and voices of children, families, and caregivers impossible to ignore in public policy and community spaces. Definitely impossible to ignore. She's probably getting you signed some sort of commitment card somewhere. Today during Women's History Month, we proudly honor and celebrate Maria Luz Torre for her extraordinary service, transformational leadership, and immeasurable impact. We extend our heartfelt appreciation for her continued commitment to the child care justice movement and to communities she has tirelessly served as parent voices California also marks its own thirty years of powerful parent organizing I like to invite Mary Ignatius also up here executive director of parent voices California to say a few words.

[Mary Ignatius (Executive Director, Parent Voices California)]: Thank you, Supervisor Wong. Maria Luz has always practiced an uplifted collective leadership. In fact, as an organizer, she's trained to be in the background and let the parents lead. So all of this attention makes her very uncomfortable. This is a complete surprise to her. She didn't know this was happening. But it's exactly why we wanted to do this, because the city and county should know Maria's name. And thank you. And and at the celebration that we just had prior to this, the parents said that all she needs to do is pick up a phone or send a text, and they respond because they will follow her wherever she goes. And that is a testament to the trust that she has built with them and that only happens through deep relational parent organizing that Maria has harnessed for thirty years. And as we, at Parent Voices California, celebrate our thirty years, we wanna express our deepest gratitude for Maria Lucia's relentless advocacy, moral courage, and decades long dedication to love, power, dignity, and justice. And as it is Women's History Month, we are proud that Parent Voices stands on the shoulders of two giants, Patty Siegel, rest in power, and, Maria taking us into our next chapter as we win universal child care here in San Francisco across the state and across the country. So it is my honor to introduce Maria Lustore.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: But first, nope. We have people up here who wanna say more nice things about you. Supervisor Melgar.

[Supervisor Myrna Melgar (District 7)]: Thank you. Maria Luz, happy Women's History Month. So you are one of the fiercest penile warrior women I know. I am so glad we're doing this. Thank you, Supervisor Wong. You are an amazing, relentless, courageous organizer, strategist. Just like I have watched you for decades doing your thing and making progress every step of the way to get us where we are today, which is farther than we have ever been in this movement. So I am grateful for you. I'm grateful not just for your heart and the way that you mobilize people, but your brains. Like you are an amazing strategist. And you have gotten us so far with the work. So I thank you. I'm grateful for you. I'm also grateful that we can do this to honor you. And make no mistake, everybody here knows Maria Luz Torres. City Hall knows our name. And we're hoping that everyone in Sacramento knows your name too. And that we do get to that promise of universal childcare in our state, in our country, because that is the true social justice that we're all fighting for. So thank you, Marie Luz, for everything you've done. I'm so glad that we're recognizing you. And you go, girl.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Chan.

[Supervisor Chyanne Chen (District 11)]: Thank you for present. Mary Mary Anne Wu here. Thank you. I I just wanna thank you for really demonstrating as an immigrant, as a mom, in the month of where we celebrate Women's History Month, you are demonstrating what is impossible to become possible. So thank you. Thank you for your work of fighting for our children, fighting for our youth, and fighting for our environment. Thank you for always sharing your love, your leadership, and your trust, and your dedication with us. And I'm very grateful and and very proud to be here celebrating with you for your thirty years of thirty years of services in our community. Thank you so proud of you thank you.

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: Supervisor Walton. Thank you President Mandelman and Maria Luz I just want you to know that I am so glad that this is happening. Your commitment, your advocacy, the way you fight for our youngest and most vulnerable, and the children who need you the most, I want you to know we see you, we appreciate you, and I just want everybody to know that if there was ever a person who was more fierce at fighting for a cause, this is it. This is definitely it. I want you to know that I appreciate watching you organize, bring people together, and just excited that this is happening here in this chamber today. So, congratulations. Well deserved.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And now Maria Luce, the floor is yours.

[Maria Luz Torre (Honoree; Parent Voices California)]: Thank you board of supervisors, and happy International Women's History Month to everyone, to all the women's supervisors. This is also a great event to commemorate our Parent Voices thirtieth anniversary year. That goes without saying, I'm a founding organizer. I'm glad I'm witnessing this while I'm still alive, because the last time I was here was a commendation for Pat Sullivan. And I honor all the women childcare warriors who I stand on their shoulders, Rosie Kennedy, Pat Sullivan, Carol Stevenson, Patty Siegel, the founder of Children's Council on Parent Voices, and someone who is still very much alive, who was also my mentor as parent voices advocate for youth, Margaret Brodkin. And all the parent voice leaders who are here behind me today, thank you for this very thoughtful and inspiring commendation. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: District 5, supervisor Mahmood.

[Supervisor Bilal Mahmood (District 5)]: Call up Mike Wong at the front. Colleagues, today, I have the honor of recognizing Michael Wong, the clubhouse director of the Tenderloin Clubhouse, for his deep commitment to the young people of San Francisco and for nearly two decades of service advancing the mission of the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco. Today's recognition is especially meaningful because Mike is concluding his time with the Boys and Girls Club movement. As he closes this chapter of service, we want to take a moment as a board to acknowledge the impact he has made on countless young people and families across our city. Those who know Mike know he, like me, is obsessed with Batman. And not just because of his Batman tattoos, but because of his focus and dedication to stand beside the community and protect the people who need it most. So I apologize, Mike. I'm gonna make some comic book references throughout this statement. Mike's journey with the club began almost twenty years ago, not as a staff member, but as a young person walking through its own doors. At just 12 years old, he joined the Columbia Park Clubhouse. From there, he became a founding member of the Excelsior Clubhouse and later a founding member of the newly renovated Columbia Park Clubhouse. Even at a young age, Michael stood as a leader. Through programs like Keystone Club, he built the skills and confidence that would shape his path forward. His dedication earned him the honor of being named Youth of the Year, a recognition reserved for young people who demonstrate exceptional leadership and service. That same spirit carried forward into his professional life. Over the course of nearly two decades, Mike served in multiple roles across several clubhouse sites within the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco. In each position, he became known as a mentor and collaborator, someone who helped colleagues strengthen their programs and build environments where young people felt truly supported. We'll look back to what Batman said in The Dark Knight Rises, that a hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let them know the world hasn't ended. And for the children of the Tenderloin, that is the reassurance that Mike has given to the kids that live there as well. As clubhouse director of the Tenderloin Clubhouse, Mike has led with purpose and compassion. He has guided policy development, program scheduling, and the long term vision for the clubhouse while ensuring it remains a safe and welcoming space for youth. In a neighborhood that faces real challenges, Mike has helped create stability and opportunity for the young people who walk through those doors every day. His leadership, though, extends far beyond the clubhouse walls. Mike has served the community as a board member of the Tenderloo Neighborhood Development Corporation, as an advisory board member for the Healing Well, and as a senior strategic adviser to the CEO of the Tenderloo Community Benefit District, where he also served previously as its board chair, and where he has contributed to initiatives as the Tenderloin Youth Violence Prevention Program. Across all of this work, Mike has held a simple but powerful belief. When we build strong fundamentals and strong community connections, young people are able to achieve incredible things. Mike is also a powerful testament of what happens when we invest in young people. Mike, as a kid, once walked into a clubhouse seeking opportunity, grew into a leader who helped create opportunity for thousands of others. That full circle journey represents the very best of what youth development organizations strive to achieve. Mike, as you conclude your time with the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, we want you to know that your leadership and compassion have left a lasting mark on our city. Just today, you actually reminded one of my team members of a line from Endgame, where Tony Stark says, Part of the journey is the end. Feels especially fitting today because while this chapter of your work with the Boys and Girls Club is coming to a close, the journey you helped shape and build for so many young people in this city is just beginning and will continue for years to come. So thank you, Mike, for your dedication to the youth and families of San Francisco. Our city is stronger and more connected because of your service. We are grateful for everything you have done and excited to see the impact you will continue to make in the years ahead. And to close out, I will quote Lego Batman, which says, life doesn't give you seat belts, So let's go.

[Michael Wong (Honoree, Boys & Girls Clubs of SF – Tenderloin Clubhouse Director)]: Ramadan Mubadik, happy women's history month. I also want to acknowledge that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramadan Shaloni, who are an original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. Thank you, supervisor Mahmood, and the district five office for the accommodation. I've spent over twenty years of my life serving the youth and families of San Francisco through Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco. I spent over a decade of my life in the Mission District at our Columbia Park And Mission Clubhouses in the past ten years in the Tendaloin, Not only working for boys and girls clubs, but being on a board of the Tendaloin Community Benefit District, Tendaloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, and the advisory board of the Healing Well. I am a product of the boys and girls clubs and understand firsthand what is possible when you combine caring adults, resources, and opportunities. I'm a product of the community coming together to make sure first class services are provided. As an adult, I was able to stand on the shoulders of amazing people who have done this type of work far before I entered the picture. Most recently here in the Tin Loin, I was given an opportunity and a trust to help build coalitions. Helping to form and steward the TL children's youth and families coalition and the TL executive director working group have been proud moments. Opening the renovated Bodeca Park, a 10 top 10 park in the city has been a proud moment. And to be a part of the growth of initiatives like the ten eleven investment blueprint, the Golden Gate Greenway, and other projects will always hold a special place in my heart. And I love being a leader at the ten eleven clubhouse, working with, guiding, and supporting adult allies who are here for the right reasons. I try to remember that I need to take care of the adults who take care of those kids. I take all of that personally and I take the trust people give me personally. It was always a very difficult decision to get to. I still love this organization, our mission, and the type of impact we get to make every day. But I also feel like this is the best time for me to see what else is out there for me. So much of what I do is push kids to do their best, to grow and learn every day. My resignation is my way of being the ultimate role model, pushing myself to find what's next even when it's scary. It has been an honor to work in this organization and in the tenderloin the past ten years and in the fourteen years in the mission before that. Thank you for all the opportunities, the trust, and the memories. Thank you to all my mentors and thought partners, some of those people in this room today. Thank you to every person and every organization that paved the way for me to be here. Thank you to the city departments I got to partner with, the residents who guided and informed me, and the many organizations I got to build with for so long. And thank you to boys and girls of San Francisco for letting a 14 year old live out his dream to be a clubhouse record. If I had a chance if I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing. Thank you so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And now, back to District 11, supervisor Chan.

[Supervisor Chyanne Chen (District 11)]: Thank you, president Mandelman. What a beautiful day today. I am also honoring someone that's very, very beautiful. Jerry, may I have you come up to the podium? It is my absolute pleasure to honor a woman who is a fierce advocate, a beautiful soul, an amazing warrior, and my own District 11 neighbor. She is a woman who has quietly yet powerfully left her mark on our city's environmental justice movement and public education system. As a young San Francisco as a school unified student, Jerry Almanza was already built for greatness. She had great street smarts, compassion, and a desire to do right by her community. As one of the earliest staff members of Pauldair, people organizing to demand environmental and economic rights, Jerry worked hand in hand with young leaders to fight environmental racisms. She helped to lead a signature campaign to reclaim a toxic brown field on Folsom And 23rd Streets and transform it into a beautiful multigenerational park and gathering space to serve the neighborhood's diverse working class residents. Today, park users may not know about all the people who fought for over eight years to turn the empty lot into a park. They may not know about the city's negotiations with property owner or the soil tests or many, many community meeting where youth, immigrant families, and neighbors helped design the park. They are grateful for the opportunity to play in a safe space in their own neighborhood. The school children at elementary school left their mark by naming this new park or children uniting part. Through it all, was there making it all happen. Jerry also poured her heart into the Southwest network for environmental and economic justice, or as niche. Serving as the delegate and joining force with other environmental justice communities from California to Northern Mexico to live up community solutions to combat corporate and state sponsored environmental racism. Gerri went on to get her teaching credential in bilingual education and spent the next sixteen years as an elementary school teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in the Mission District. During that that time, she taught bilingual education and everything from math to geography to science, using hands on techniques to engage students to build shop, inquiring mindset with carefully based, with culturally based practices and a lot of love. In 2021, Gerri was elected by her peers to serve as the treasurer of the governing board of the United Educators of San Francisco. Together with other elected officers, Gerri has worked hard to build an organization whose hard lies with building strong schools for students with all the necessary resources and supporting kids and their family in the ways that are the most needed. In her role as a UESF treasurer, she has supported and housed SFUSD families who organized in the faith in action barrier to gain resources for families so that no child sleeps on the street, and help start a legal defense fund for SFUSD students and family who are seeking opportunities for a better life for their children. It is my greatest pleasure and my honor to honor Jerry today. Thank you for all that you do to help create San Francisco, a San Francisco where the lights of our youth and our diverse working class family shine blind. Thank you, Jerry.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And Jerry, not only do

[Rosh Yaga (public commenter; Iranian American community member)]: have a fan

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: club in the audience, you also have one over here. Supervisor Melgar.

[Supervisor Myrna Melgar (District 7)]: I couldn't fast it up, Gerri. I have had the pleasure of working with Gerri and also watching her not quiet, fierce, passionate organizing skills in environmental justice at as a fantastic teacher at Cesar Chavez. And now having seen you step up to this leadership role at UESF, In addition to being a great teacher, organizer, union leader, you're also an amazing friend and a mother. And I admire your passion, but also your love, and your deep commitment to community, and also your family, and the people around you that you're responsible for. And you are just breathtaking in the way you approach life. You're an amazing human being, Jerry. This why you have such a big support network. I will say that whatever you do, you do well. You put your heart and soul into it, and your amazing brain. And we are so lucky to have had you lead so many different campaigns, initiatives, because everything you do, I know will turn out, because Jerry's in charge. Thank you, Supervisor Chan, for doing this, for honoring this amazing woman. The flowers look good on you. Thank you. And I am so glad we're doing it. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Bilal.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Walton.

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: Thank you President Mandelman. Jerry, I just want to say and I know that Supervisor Chan and Supervisor Melgar have said a lot and almost everything, but I do want you to know one that I appreciate you as an educator and also appreciate you for all the work you did coordinating and organizing everyone to make sure that our students still had a place to go during the strike and that they were looked after and just for being the amazing leader that you are. Again, this is well deserved, and so I'm happy to be here to see this happen. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Fielder.

[Supervisor Jackie Fielder (District 9)]: Thank you. Jerry, you have been there for some of the most vulnerable people in San Francisco, specifically our immigrant students, their families, our students who don't have homes to go into at night, their families. And I just really am in awe of how much you stick by and work alongside people who are in structural injustices. And you put your all into it. And your compassion for your colleagues and your members comes out very clearly. And I just want to appreciate you for everything that you've done for our students and their families, especially those who have migrated here and who are not sure where they're sleeping at night.

[Theresa Dulalas (public commenter; SOMCAN & SF Community Land Trust resident)]: So thank you so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The floor is yours.

[Gerri Almanza (Honoree; UESF Treasurer and educator)]: Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Chen, Fielder, Melgar, Walton, Connie. I wanna first of all appreciate supervisor Chen. She is my neighbor, and I'm very, very proud that she is gets to be the person that represents our district as a woman of color, as a mother, and so I I wanna appreciate you and thank you. And, of course, your amazing aide, Charlie Chymus. I know he doesn't like this to be called out, but he's awesome too. So I wanna give a big shout out to everybody that's here today. You all, Chen and all of you talked about this. Right? My Poder family is here. My Cesar Chavez family's here. My family, my family, my daughter, Itzel, my mother-in-law, my partner, Roque, and my good best friends for since I was 19 years old that I first came to San Francisco and got to meet and still friends with, along with Myrna and Lisa, my ment some of my mentors from earlier on from Poder. And so I'm really excited to be here with you all today, and I wanna just say that I I couldn't do this work without any with your without your support. Right? So all of you have been have given me strength. You have listened to my rants and my crazy ideas. You provided me with love. You helped me raise my child. You've given me courage to follow my heart to keep organizing for a different world that we know is possible. As our recent educator strike showed, SF is a union town. I am so proud to stand before you as a union leader who is actively working to make the world the real that world a reality. We're working class families can continue to live here because of rent control. Right? Like, to be honest, that's why I'm still here because I've been living in rent controlled places. As a teacher, I can't afford anything else. Right? As as as SF, it it I I strive to work for an SF that welcomes newcomers from diverse backgrounds because we know it's possible. We know that SF continues to support innovation and creativity. Right? That's shown to be possible. SF can continue to invest in social services for our youth and our families. We know that we can make that a possibility. Sorry. Okay. So SF is one of the richest cities in the world which gives us a responsibility to ensure that we are investing in those of us who are the backbone of this city and make this city culturally rich. We have a responsibility to ensure that those who have benefited from the generous tax incentives pay their fair share. I look forward to continue to contribute to work towards an SF that is diverse and supportive of working class families and strengthening our public schools. I urge all of you here who were elected by your peers to use your public service to champion a San Francisco that is diverse culturally and economically. So let's make it happen, guys. Let's keep doing it. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Madam clerk please call our 3 special order items nine through 12 together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items nine through 12 were continued open from 02/10/2026 item nine is a public hearing of persons interested in the de facto denial of a conditional use authorization for a proposed project at May 4 Dash 4 A San Antonio place to legalize the merger of three dwelling units on 2nd And 3rd Floors into one dwelling unit and to reinstate one dwelling unit on the Ground Floor within an existing four unit residential building located within R M one residential mixed low density zoning district Telegraph Hill North Beach residential sud item 10 is the motion to approve the planning commission's decision de facto denying a conditional use authorization Item 11 is the motion to disapprove the planning commission's decision. And item 12 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. We continued this item from February 10. I believe we have received another continuance request from the appellant, who's also the project sponsor. I see Supervisor Sauter in the queue. Supervisor Sauter.

[Supervisor Danny Sauter (District 3)]: Thank you, President Mandelman. Yes, colleagues, I'd like to ask for this item to be continued once more. All parties, including the appellants, Department of Building Inspection and Planning, are on board with this request. And this additional time will allow for an inspection from DBI, which we believe is important to bring more clarity to the situation. So I'd like to make a motion for these items to be continued to April 7.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: All right. There's a motion to continue these items April 7. Is there a second? Seconded by Dorsey. We will need to take public comment on the continuance before we act on that motion. Guess I will Madam Clerk, you please call for public comment on the continuance? Great.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Welcome, Yes.

[Jerry Dratler (public commenter)]: I need the overhead, please.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: We're setting the timer for two minutes.

[Jerry Dratler (public commenter)]: Thank you. My name is Jerry Dratler. I'm opposed to continuing this matter. In a chronicle article yesterday, the homeowners acknowledged they knew the house was zoned a multiunit building, could see the property had a single floor floor plan or single family floor plan and relied on assurances from the seller and real estate agents that the discrepancies were not a big deal. The chronicle article contradicted important representation in their 98 page appeal the homeowners are asking the board of supervisors to override the planning commission and grant them a cua in a housing crisis there is no sound rationale for their request. If you grant them a cua the owner of this property 104 to 114 presidio avenue will convert seven housing who converted seven housing units into a $32,000,000 26,000 square foot private estate will be right behind them the criteria for overturning the planning commission decision has not been met There were no errors in interpreting the planning code or abuse of discretion by the planning commission. As my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Are there any other members of the public who are interested in the continuance of items nine through 12, the public hearing of persons interested in the de facto denial of a conditional use authorization for the Vallejo Street and Antonio Place projects. All right, Mr. President.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: All right, public comment on the continuance is closed. And so, colleagues, we have this motion to continue the hearing open to the 04/07/2026, Board of Supervisors meeting. I imagine that we can take that without objection.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mr. President, we have a different house.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Oh no we got to do a roll call thank you madam clerk.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the motion to continue items nine through 12 open to April 7 supervisor Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey aye. Supervisor fielder fielder aye supervisor Mahmood Mahmood I supervisor Mandelman I supervisor Melgar I supervisor Sauter I supervisor Cheryl I supervisor Walton I Walter I supervisor Wong Aye. Wong, aye. Supervisor Chan. Aye. Chan, aye. And Supervisor Chen. Aye. Chen, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, this appeal hearing and associated motions are continued open to 04/07/2026. And I think, Madam Clerk, that takes us to roll call.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. The first member to introduce roll call for introductions is Supervisor Dorsey.

[Supervisor Matt Dorsey (District 6)]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues I have a couple things today both relating to an email I sent last week outlining the basis for my opposition to a proposed lease for our employees retirement system in its bid to relocate from its longstanding location in the civic Center area to a luxury office high rise in the Financial District. As you may recall, I had a few reasons. First, leaving aside my feelings about that agency's rationale to improve its proximity to financial services vendors to the detriment of proximity to the city employees whose retirement dollars it manages. This move is inconsistent with the board legislative policies enshrined in our general plan. In particular, it would abandon civic Center area plan objectives to maintain and reinforce the civic Center as quote the focus of community government and to develop the civic Center as a cohesive area for the administrative functions of city state and federal government. These board enacted planning priorities will be essential if we are to restore the vibrancy and well-being of neighborhoods I represent including Mid Market Civic Center West so much the hub and portions of Haze Valley most of which were disproportionately harmed by city government policies during the COVID pandemic. In my view, any city agencies proposed move out of Civic Center represents the exact opposite of what our city should be doing to reinvest and reinvigorate our adjacent neighborhoods with strategic investments of our city's own real estate assets and I will have more to say on that in the next week or two. Second, given these policy implications of our general pan plan even beyond the charter provisions that assure board the this will be subject board approval anyway, this board of supervisors deserved to be consulted much sooner than it was in my view. We should never be put into situations where sunken costs and administrative presumptions risk up being upended because we, as a board declined to behave like potted plants. We are elected to do our duties under the city charter which includes policy making authority and this proposed move was a policy matter before it was anything. Third, I remain unconvinced that this agency search for a new lake location was a good faith exercise to maximize value for the employees pension trust. The representation in the budget legislative analyst report and to me directly was that SFIRS toured and evaluated a total of 20 buildings for their new site. Only after obtaining the actual list of 20 buildings did it become evident to me that 19 of the 20 buildings were in the Financial District. Only one option was in the Civic Center and despite its cost savings it was rejected. Accordingly, I am today announcing two items, first, the legislative drafting request for proposed amendment to our administrative code to ensure that there is an early policy making role for the board of supervisors whenever city real estate decisions intend to depart from board enacted policies enshrined in our Civic Center area plan. And second, a letter of inquiry requesting that the city administrator's office direct its real estate division to survey all possible alternatives for SPUR's relocation within the Mid Market and Civic Center area, and to do so in conformance with the spirit of our general plan. And on behalf of my Mid Market And Civic Center area neighbors, please know how much I appreciate everyone's consideration on this, and the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you supervisor Dorsey supervisor Fielder.

[Supervisor Jackie Fielder (District 9)]: Thank you madam clerk colleagues today I'm requesting that the budget and legislative analyst office complete an audit of the sheriff's office This audit is not an indictment of any one person or workforce. The sheriffs are esteemed and valued public servants who secure our city buildings and protect public safety. I know all of us at the board are grateful every day we have the share of securing this building and many others around the city. With that said, it is a part of our job on the board to ensure that public funds are used efficiently and dutifully on behalf of taxpayers, especially during a budget deficit and when many San Franciscans are wanting community policing. There are several reasons I'm calling for this audit this year. Firstly, the sheriff's department is projected to overrun its overtime budget by $19,000,000. We all recently received a memo from the controller's office noting that from 07/01/2025, the start of this fiscal year, to 02/13/2026, sheriff expenditures, especially on overtime, has ballooned so much that, according to the controller, if the rate of expenditures continues to exceed the budget, even savings on vacant positions, drawing from reserves, equipment, capital projects, and facilities maintenance will not be enough to fund the shortfall and could materially impact operations. At the same time that our public health department funding is being cut by $40,000,000, this disparity raises serious questions about our city's priorities and commitment to fiscal oversight. Secondly, the sheriff's department has been the center of a number of troubling incidents further deepening the public's concerns about transparency and management. There have already been costly consequences. The city was sued by the Bay Area Quality Management District after pepper ball launcher gas drifted onto the campus of Portola Elementary School from a sheriff's department training exercise with the city ultimately settling the case for thousands of dollars this past fiscal year. And we just approved that settlement here at board. Separately, Mission Local reported disturbing allegations from women incarcerated in the San Francisco jail say deputies forced them to undress during searches while filming them, claims that have sparked outrage and calls for accountability from our constituents. Finally, despite San Francisco's sanctuary policies, ICE continues to operate here in San Francisco. And the sheriff's department has authority over which individuals and county jails may be handed over to federal immigration authorities. The public deserves to know if the sheriff's department is honoring our sanctuary city policy in good faith. San Franciscans deserve accountability when it comes to how public funds are spent, especially when serious allegations of abuse and potentially fiscal negligence are at hand. Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being used and whether public resources are being directed responsibly, especially amid our city's budget deficit. And that is why I'm announcing an audit of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. Secondly, today, I have an in memoriam for Diamond Dave Whitaker, who died at age 88 on March 2. Diamond Dave was a ubiquitous character in San Francisco, having moved here at age 19 in 1957. He was the quintessential lifelong hippie, beat poet, punk rocker, and political activist who moved in and out of art and advocacy across the city and connected with everyone he met along the way, offering poetic musings, a giant smile, and always a twinkle in his eye. Diamond Day was honored by the board of supervisors in 2016 with a resolution commending him for his contributions to the arts, culture, social well-being, and peace, and declaring 02/02/2016, Diamond Day Whitaker Day. The lore around Diamond Day is endless. He was an early mentor to Bob Dylan, turning him on to Woody Guthrie, Jack Kerouac, and allegedly marijuana. Two sessions from Dylan's Through the Open Window bootleg series were recorded at Diamond Dave's house in Minneapolis. He shared his personal accounts of many major historical events he witnessed in person, which he called his hip story, Martin Luther King Junior's I Have a Dream speech in DC as a passenger on the further bus to the Human Bee Inn in 1967, and later that year at the death of the hippies funeral, and so many more pivotal moments in our nation's and our city's history. He seemed to always be everywhere in San Francisco's counterculture history. He cooked free food with the diggers in the summer of love and food not bombs in the nineteen nineties through the twenty tens. He was one of the founders of KPOO radio in the nineteen seventies and hosted a long running live music and poetry show on Pirate Cat Radio, which would later become Mutiny Radio in District 9 at the corner of Florida And 24th Street. While that radio station closed a few years ago, he did not stop writing and reciting poetry here and there and really everywhere. He was a member of the Flower Shop Art Collective next to the Alamany Farmers Market. He was a lifelong student at City College and for many years was celebrated as the oldest senator of City College's Associated Student Council. His legacy is a long, road of poetry, music, art, and protest. And I express my condolences to his family, friends, and the broader community of hundreds of San Franciscans who knew him so well. And there is comfort in knowing he left a lasting mark on San Francisco by always living his life in line with his trademark poem that so many of us know by heart. Cast a wide net, find the common thread, let life flourish, and don't panic, keep it organic. Rest in peace and power, The rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Supervisor Fielder. Supervisor Mahmood, submit. Thank you. Supervisor Mandelman.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. I have a few items today. First, an update for those who've been following our efforts to push for more EV chargers on the sidewalks or on curbside in San Francisco, especially members of the Land Use Committee, Chair Melgar, and others who participated in our December. Not entirely satisfying at the time hearing. Think we were heard. And so, today, the mayor and I are introducing legislation to establish a permitting pathway and program to allow curbside charging to go from the pilot that it is now to scale. It'll create a new process, building on that temporary curbside pilot program that has gotten two curbside chargers into both triangle and will be getting more into other neighborhoods imminently. And the addition of these curbside chargers should make it easier for residents who live in apartments and may not have access to a charger in their building to have an electric vehicle. So, I'm grateful to all the folks, especially the folks at the MTA, Kate Turan, and others who've made that happen. Secondly, today, Supervisor Walton and I are introducing a resolution to recognize 03/28/2026 as John and Ina Dearman Day in the city and county of San Francisco. March 28 will be John's 90 birthday and will mark forty eight years from the date when he was first appointed to the municipal court of San Francisco and sixteen years from the date of his retirement from the bench. He was born on 03/28/1931. Ina was born on 02/04/1936 and died in January 24, on January 24. It has been my great honor as a supervisor to have represented these two extraordinary, much admired, and much beloved leaders who broke barriers and dedicated their lives to advancing civil rights and justice, who were always committed to doing the right thing and standing up for those whose voices too often go unheard. Born into poverty in Texas, John grew up attending segregated primary schools and spent part of his childhood picking cotton as a sharecropper. Despite intense discrimination among a number of challenges, John excelled academically throughout his schooling in Texas and later in Michigan. He completed his undergraduate studies at Wiley College and earned a law degree from Wayne State University. His experiences growing up inspired his lifelong fight for justice and his advocacy for vulnerable and marginalized communities. As a black lawyer in Detroit, John was repeatedly denied opportunities at law firms and supplemented his income through social work. When it became clear that it would not be feasible for him to pursue a law career in Michigan, he moved to California in 1959. California, of course, had plenty of its own barriers to black advancement. Racial minorities faced immense economic disadvantage and extreme wealth inequality, and many landlords in the fifties were refusing to rent or sell homes to African Americans. Shortly after he arrived in San Francisco, he met Willie Brown. The two quickly rose to prominence demonstrating against discrimination in housing development projects in Forest Knowles where developers had refused to sell homes to African Americans. Their civil disobedience and contemporary, contemporaneous community activism helped contribute to the passage of Fair Housing Act of 1968. In 1965, John and Willie Brown founded the Brown, Dearman, and Smith law firm that operated out of the heart of the Fillmore and among other things, earned a reputation for representing civil rights protesters. On 03/28/1977, former Governor Jerry Brown appointed John to the Municipal Court of San Francisco. He would laser, later rise to the Superior Court in 1979 where he served as presiding judge from 1990 to 1991. He then went on to spend nine years overseeing the San Francisco Probate Court before officially retiring from the bench on 03/28/2009. He was one of the longest serving judges in San Francisco. His background inspired his lifelong dedication to advocating for the underdog, the vulnerable, and marginalized communities. He credits part of his success to those in his life who saw what he could achieve and who opened his eyes to what he, what would be possible. Chief among those individuals was his extraordinary wife, Ina. Ina was born Ina Fleming. She graduated high school at age 16 and earned a bachelor's degree from the College of the Pacific, now University of the Pacific, and a Masters of Social Work from UC Berkeley. In 1961, just a few months after she married John and found out she was pregnant, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She would survive seventy more years with the disease, as well as recover from two kinds of cancer and a broken back, all the while raising her family and contributing to her community. She was a woman of unyielding optimism, discipline, and grit. In 1969, she co founded the Cross Cultural Family Center, which for fifty five years has provided mental health and early education services to children and families across San Francisco, including in the Western edition, Tenderloin, Petreau Hill, Castro, Hayes Valley, Richmond District, and Visitation Valley. Ina also served on local, national, international boards of the YWCA, worked as a treasurer and volunteer for numerous political campaigns, including, I think, some of ours, and served on many San Francisco boards, including the Planning Commission and the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board. Even in her later years, with limited mobility, she remained committed to social action. One of her final projects involved delivering food from farmers markets to homebound seniors, patiently explaining the mission to any concerned neighbors who might question the temporary double parking. Ina was formidable, purpose driven, thoughtful of others, unafraid to speak the truth, and a relentless soldier for good. She shared with John a love for San Francisco, a city they called home for over seventy sixty four for over sixty four years. And, this board honored her with a special commendation on 07/09/2019. This resolution is a show of gratitude for John and Ina for their work and an opportunity for this board to honor their achievements and legacy. So, I'm hoping you'll all be, I know you'll all

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: be

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: supporting making 03/28/2026 John and Ina Dearman Day in the city and county of San Francisco. And finally, I'm introducing an ordinance to extend for an additional five years our existing delegation of authority to the San Francisco PUC to enter into grants of up to twenty years for their green infrastructure grant program. San Francisco's wastewater and storm water flow through the same pipes, so it's especially important that we manage storm water effectively to protect the reliability performance of our sewer system. SFPUC's green infrastructure grant program facilitates this by supporting projects that capture and absorb rainwater using nature based solutions such as permeable pavement, rain gardens, and vegetated roofs. Through these projects, the program reduces pressure on the sewer system while delivering community benefits like neighborhood greening, climate resilience, and improved public spaces. The effective life cycle and required maintenance period of most green infrastructure projects is roughly twenty years. So, the PUC's grant length reflects that. As grant agreements in excess of ten years require delegation of our authority, we made this delegation to the SFPUC general manager in 2019 and have extended it roughly every two years since. This ordinance simply extends that delegation for another five years, reducing the number of times the PUC will have to return to this body to implement a program that benefits our sewer system, our neighborhoods, and our environment. I want to thank Jeremy Spitz and his colleagues at the SFPUC who've worked on this legislation, as well as my legislative aide, Ranel Bejoy, and the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Mr. President. Supervisor Melgar. Submit. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor Sauter.

[Supervisor Danny Sauter (District 3)]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues, today I have two resolutions in support of state bills that I believe will improve the health and safety of our residents in San Francisco. First, I'm introducing a resolution in support of a b twenty two seventy six, the Stop Super Speeders Act. This bill from assembly member Esmerelda Soria would establish a five year statewide pilot requiring certain reckless speeders to install active intelligent speed assistant assistance devices before returning to the road. Under this bill, individuals who have offenses including reckless driving, engaging in speed contests, or driving more than a 100 miles per hour could be required to install devices which actively limit a vehicle's speed. A recent pilot of a similar program in New York City is showing promise with a 64% reduction in total time spent speeding and a 37% drop in hard braking. The tragedies of the last week here in San Francisco in which we saw three pedestrian fatalities on our streets only underscore the urgency in which we must act for safer streets. I wanna thank supervisor Mahmood for his cosponsorship and I hope many others will join. Next, I'm introducing a resolution in support of state senate bill twelve eighteen. This bill was introduced by senator Jesse Arguine in partnership with Oakland mayor Barbara Lee and will require the Department of Motor Vehicles to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner or lease lessee has outstanding illegal dumping penalties. My office has been working with city departments to sharpen our enforcement tools against illegal dumping, but there's more to do that requires help from the state. In 2025, the Department of Public Works issued over 500 notices of violation and 250 citations for illegal dumping. But only about 40% of those fines had been paid, leaving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines uncollected. The DMV has existing authority to refuse to renew the registration of a vehicle if the registered owner or lessee has a delinquent parking ticket. And SB twelve eighteen would expand that authority to also consider outstanding violations related to illegal dumping. I want to thank Supervisor Walton and Supervisor Mahmood for their cosponsorship on this item. And the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Sauter, supervisor Sherrill.

[Supervisor Stephen Sherrill (District 2)]: Colleagues, today I ask for us to adjourn in memory of lieutenant Frank Skip Lucier, a dedicated member of the San Francisco Fire Department for more than twenty three years. On the night of the nineteen eighty nine Loma Prieta earthquake, Frank was on duty as our city faced fires, collapsed buildings, and a critical lack of water. Amid the devastation, neighbors rushed in to help carrying hoses, pulling bricks from the rubble, and doing whatever they could to save lives. As Frank later reflected, people were willing and ready to be directed, but they did not yet have the skills. From that experience, a vision was born. In 1990, Frank became the first program coordinator of the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team or NERT, helping bring structure and leadership to a new effort to train San Franciscans to respond safely and effectively in disasters. He helped build NERD from the ground up, shaping a model of community preparedness that continues to serve our city today. By 1996, nearly 5,000 volunteers had been trained. And I've had the privilege of attending a few NERC classes myself, and I can tell you firsthand how dedicated the volunteers and fire department leaders are to ensuring we are all prepared to serve our city in a time of crisis. Now Frank didn't just stop in San Francisco. He traveled nationwide training communities in disaster preparedness. Frank's leadership dedicated day dedication to community empowerment and belief in service left a legacy that lives on through every Nurt graduate and every act of neighbors helping neighbors. I extend my heartfelt condolences to lieutenant Lucier's family and friends who keep his image alive, especially his wife, Kathleen, his sons and daughters, and his many grandchildren. Rest in peace, lieutenant, and thank you for your service to our city. The rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Sherrill, supervisor Walton.

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today we honor the life of Visitation Valley resident, doctor Kumunbin Mahmood Dhrukhumar Dev, who passed away peacefully at home at the age of 85. Doctor Dave was not simply a physician, she was a pioneer, a servant, a bridge between cultures who gave the fullest measure of herself to the communities she loved. Doctor. Dave broke barriers from the beginning. She became the first doctor in her community and the first woman doctor to serve her town. She went on to become one of the first woman physicians for BAPS, a spiritual organization that today serves millions of people across India and around the world. She practiced medicine for forty five years, and in that time, she also touched the lives of more than 250 families in the San Francisco Peninsula. Among her many acts of quiet generosity, she offered her medical services completely free of charge to a school for blind girls. Her faith and her service were inseparable. For more than fifty years, doctor Day volunteered with BAPS, coordinating relief efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters and showing up wherever she was needed most. She was also instrumental in the founding of the first Hindu temple in San Francisco, located in District 10 at 333 Tunnel Avenue, a place where thousands of people have since found peace, community, and spiritual grounding. Doctor Dave was equally devoted to preserving Indian culture and language for the next generation. She helped organize Indian cultural festivals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and worked tirelessly to ensure that children here grew up with their connection to their heritage and mother tongue. Doctor. Dave's funeral services will be held this Saturday, March 14. The rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Supervisor Walton. Supervisor Wong. Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chan. Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chan. Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chan. Mr. President, seeing no names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you madam clerk let's go to public comment.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: If you are here in the public gallery and you'd like to provide public comment to the board of supervisors now is your opportunity to line up on your right hand side of the chamber You are able today to speak to the mayoral appearance the minutes as presented items 23 through 32 the items up for adoption without committee reference and other agenda content that, I should say general matters that are not on the agenda, but have to be within the board subject matter jurisdiction. But all other agenda content has already been reported out by a board committee where it has had public comment. We are setting the timer for two minutes. I do apologize if I'm interrupting anyone. And I will invite the first speaker. Welcome.

[Commissioner Massa Hakimi (public commenter)]: Thank you so much. This is Commissioner Hakimi. I'm here on item number 24. I want to recognize that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the and original people, inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. Please bear with me. I'm going be a little emotional as I go through this item. I want to start by thanking Supervisor Dorsey and your team. Without your support, we would have not been here today. So, sincerely thank you so much. And, I want to also thank the sponsoring supervisors, President Mandelman, Supervisor Chyanne Chen, Walton, and Wong. I stand here today full of complicated emotions as a proud Iranian American resident of the most significant city, a magnificent city on Earth, San Francisco. I stand in gratitude and appreciation of each and every one of you for considering this resolution at a very complicated moment, not just for the Iranian community, but also as all of us as American, American community or American people. A year ago when I started to work on engaging the city hall on a conversation about the dedication of month of March as the Iranian American Heritage Month, I never imagined that I'd be standing in this chamber in celebration of such a monumental moment for our community combined with such a monumental moment of sorrow and agony as the Iranian American community. And yet, I stand in front of you humble and grateful on behalf of a community that has been part of the fabric of this country and city for the last four decades. A community that understands the response of carrying a proud ancient heritage in harmony with civic and social responsibilities in the county and city we call home. The district declaration is not only for our community as a formality, but also recognition and hope that we finally belong in the history of this city we proudly call home.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. And welcome back to the chamber, Supervisor Safai. But before I'll ask you to begin, Through a previous accommodation, we do have a caller who is prepared to provide their public comment who's asked to go next. All right. Thank you for your patience. All right. To my team, can we please send the caller through? Welcome, Patrick Shaw.

[Patrick Monét Shaw (public commenter; ADA accommodation caller)]: Yes. Can you hear me?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. I'll set the timer once you begin speaking.

[Patrick Monét Shaw (public commenter; ADA accommodation caller)]: Thank you so much. This is Patrick Monet Shaw. I am hearing from my colleagues that unless major changes are made by the Board of Supervisors to recommendations in the streamlining task force's final report and the proposed legislation for the Charter Amendment, they and their constituents will vote no on the next November. I fully agree. And should the motion at agenda item 31 today pass to pull the streamlining final report and legislation back from the rules committee without adequate review in committee level hearings, back to the full board for a committee of the whole hearing that will add more fuel to the fire to encourage voters to reject any and all charter change measures on the November ballot. You've been warned. Don't pull this out of the Rules Committee. Board Rule Section 3.22, the thirty day rule, specifically states that measures introduced that would create or revise major city policy, committee to which the measure is assigned shall not consider the measure until at least thirty days. Supervisor Mandelman's motion hijacked the legislative intent and spirit of the thirty day rule. The Board of Supervisors should all vote no on Mandelman's motion today. You should allow the rules committee review process to play out. Mandelman's motion to pull the matter from the rules committee to the full board appeared magically, just four working days after the Board of Supervisors received the two pieces of legislation transmitted on February 27. But it took until March 3 for the Board of Supervisors to introduce the proposed legislation through a substituted and assigned procedure to the Rules Committee on Tuesday, March 3, assigned to Board file number 260147. Supervisor Mandelman must surely know that a fourteen day period between assigning the legislation to the Rules Committee and holding a committee of the whole hearing fourteen days later on March 17 is not a full thirty day rule waiting period. There's no need to rush this process. Charter amendments for the November ballot face a deadline of 07/24/2026. There's no need to eliminate thoughtful rules committee hearings or multiple hearings at the Rules Committee. After all, July is still four months away. Vote no on the motion in file number 260,225 at Agenda Item Number 31. Separate Mandelman's motion from the adoption without committee reference agenda item and consider it separately from the other items. If you don't and you pull it from the rules committee, voters will remember this and they reject the ballot measure in November. Thank you. Thank

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: you so much. Thank you for waiting, and please welcome back to the chamber Supervisor Safai.

[Supervisor Ahsha Safai (District 11, former)]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Mr. President, and members of the board here. I want to first thank Supervisor Dorsey for sponsoring this resolution about Iranian American Heritage Month the first time. I want to specifically thank Massa and all of the wonderful women behind her and her community. Her mom is here with her today. I want to also want to recognize also the hard work of Myrna Melgar and supervisor Dorsey's staff for putting this together. As she said, I couldn't imagine the pain and suffering that the community would be feeling right now around the world, particularly during this month of Ramadan, when people were supposed to be spiritual introspection, fasting, and recognizing all of the transgressions of the past year. We're coming upon the most important, month in the Persian, culture. Iranian American culture is, the noruz or the new year. So it's going to be an extremely difficult time for everything that's going on and all the people that are suffering. But, I know, as Manaus and I were talking earlier, it's not just Iranians that are suffering around the world. It's immigrants coming from Central America and all over the world. It's Palestinians. It's Sudanese. It's Muslims. It's Jews. It's Christians. It's it's everyone right now suffering at the hands, unfortunately, of this country. And and it's okay to be proud American but also be critical of the transgression of this country. On the first day of this so called war, a school of 150 children were killed. And so there are no winners in war, but I wanted to come here today specifically to support the community, support this resolution, and what it means for Iranian Americans right now during this time of pain and suffering. So thank you, members of the board. I hope you all I know there's five sponsors. I hope you all will unanimously sign on, to this. I know it's symbolic, but it's extremely important for this chamber and this board and this body to support this at this time. Thank you very much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. I will just say before the next speaker, we do have a board rule in the chamber where there are no sounds that are audible to the board, whether you support or disagree. But thank you. I know it's a celebratory moment to have the supervisor here and to speak of these very important issues. All right. So we'll welcome our next speaker. Welcome to the cha to the podium.

[Richard Eske Petersen (public commenter)]: Supervisors,

[Francisco Da Costa (public commenter)]: I want to talk about the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. It started with a budget for the S sewer system improvement project from $6,000,000,000. It's gone to $15,000,000,000, heading towards $25,000,000,000. Some time ago, I came and told you all that three workers were fired for telling the supervisors to do the right thing. Confined space is a then in a project where you have confined space, there are certain rules and regulations because you are working under very difficult situations underground. Now, I was at the supervisor's San Francisco Public Utilities Commission meeting today. I was here in this chambers twice, and I hear about San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, where they're spending money on things without any accountability. The mayor alluded to it in a way. But let me tell you this, where our resident was, and you wouldn't like to know that they are filthy. They haven't been cleaned. So I'm asking the board of supervisors, because I brought it to their attention, I want somebody to contact the health department and OSHA, and see whether it is right or wrong, because I got photographs and I got the empirical data. Our drinking water should be clean. Our drinking water comes from hetch hetchy, it's supposed to be clean. But the board of supervisors might do their job and do due diligence and get this thing on track. Thank you very much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments, mister Dacosta. Welcome to the next speaker.

[Unidentified member of the public (library/city paperwork issue)]: Hello, President Mandelman, Board of Supervisors, Madam Clerk. On 04/2024, some city generated some paperwork against me. The next day, on the fifth, I tried to get this clarified and cleared up and resolved. I was told to go away. Five deputies were summoned. Moving on over the next thirteen months, I would continue to try to get this issue resolved. I reached out to city attorney's office. There's one. Two mayors, the outgoing, the incoming, three library commissioners, and four supervisors. I received no relief, not an interested ear, was rejected by all. You'll notice that of the four that I just mentioned, four groups, three are elected officials. Moving on. So October, more recently, last year, October 31, President Mandelman, one of your staffers, assisted me by reaching out

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Sir, can you

[Unidentified member of the public (library/city paperwork issue)]: please address the

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: board as a whole? This is not a meeting between you and the board president. This is a meeting of the board. Address the board as a whole.

[Unidentified member of the public (library/city paperwork issue)]: I just want to specify that one of your staffers assisted me by reaching out to try to help resolve this issue. This was on the October 31. I took three pages of notes, went out of town for two months, came back. January, when I reconnected with this person, they said, no, I never spoke to the person at the library. We never

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Thank you, sir. Thank you for your comments. Can we hear from the next speaker, please? Welcome.

[Rosh Yaga (public commenter; Iranian American community member)]: Hi. My name is Rosh Yaga. As an Iranian American community member, I'm here to thank Supervisor Matt Dorsey and his team for sponsoring the Iranian American Heritage Month recognition. I arrived in San Francisco in September 1977 as a 17 year old student to go to school. And, what, fifty years later almost, I'm flabbergasted that we're getting this recognition here. Thank you so much for all your work. Thank you, Mahmood, for all your help. And Massa, when Massa approached me a couple years ago with this idea, I said, just, yeah, sign me up. I'm here to help. And again, thank you so much to the board, and especially Supervisor Matt Dorsey. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Just remind you to hold your applause. If you do absolutely need to show support, just wave your hands like that. The board members will see you. Welcome to the next speaker.

[Richard Eske Petersen (public commenter)]: Evening, Board President Mandelman and Board of Supervisors. My name is Richard Eske Petersen. I'm going to be really quick. I have two quick issues. One, I've been asked in my district to run, which is District 8, to run as a Board of Supervisor. And, I said, no, I'm too old. I'm a year younger than Bernie Sanders, but I'm still a little too old. What I'm looking for is a young couple in District 8 that has children in, or a child in the San Francisco District schools. That's what we want in our district at this particular time. Second issue, as you know, I have always been against parcel taxes, but I'm coming around. I think fair parcel taxes are going to be needed to save muni. Muni is a lifeline for San Francisco. When the muni goes down, this town is going to go down. Nobody is going to be able to get anywhere. I ride the Muni maybe every single day, maybe every other day. But it's indispensable to myself, to many other elders that don't drive, and to many young people who require it to get around town, to get to school, or to get where they need to go. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to the next speaker.

[Unidentified District 6 resident (Iranian American community)]: Good afternoon. My name is and I'm a resident of District 6. And I am a proud San Franciscan. We all have most Americans have an immigration story. And mine began in 1960, not that I came. My uncle came here in San Francisco in 1960, which made me have a blissful path to being a resident of this city. So I'm here in support of item 24, and I want to thank Massa Hakimi and everyone else that has worked hard to bring this bring this to this day for a vote. So I would like to thank you guys for doing that, and also thank this city for always being a voice for those that don't have voice elsewhere, especially at this very emotional moment for all Iranian Americans. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments.

[Kyle Smeely (Policy Director, San Francisco Community Land Trust)]: To

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: everyone applausing in the chamber, just remember, no audible sounds. If you wouldn't mind, just wave your hands in the air, the board members will see that, that you support that. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Unidentified public commenter (public safety/ICE concerns)]: Okay, thank you. Our mayor's approach to public safety is in itself a public safety threat, as we saw last Thursday on March 5. For $1 a year, our mayor, Daniel Laurie, a wealthy white man and heir to the Levi's fortune, got in a SUV with his SFPD bodyguards and went into the Tenderloin, and he came out and told a story about being attacked by men blocking the road and of being attacked. That's the narrative of what went nationwide with a black man's name and photo along with that story. We later learned that it was SFPD who escalated with a physical assault, and the video is just it's horrible. This all speaks to our mayor's approach to public safety, bullying, coercion, lying, and violence. He goes into these areas and does his own vigilante department of public works sweeps. What does he actually do to help these people that he encounters? Offer them housing, basic income? I don't I don't know. He can tell us. I don't know if he takes into account in this particular situation last week the stress and discrimination of being black in America in San Francisco, and how this story would negatively impact and stigmatize this man probably for the rest of his life. He needs to help this man who he has hurt. This story also conveniently overshadowed another story that broke earlier that day where the former DHS secretary of homeland security, Christy Noem, claimed to have conversations with Lori and praised his cooperativity. This attack has overtaken this ICE Lori story. And, also, earlier last week, a mother of two, one of which, it was a young little kid who's deaf, was abducted in SoMa, San Francisco, disappeared, and deported from the Bay Area. Is no longer in the country? How many ICE abductions are permissible in San Francisco? I would like a cap, actually.

[Destiny Sientana (public commenter; District 5)]: Can you give me

[Unidentified public commenter (public safety/ICE concerns)]: a cap on how many abductions are allowed in this city? Our mayor has a lot to answer for, and his silence is damning.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Let's welcome our next speaker.

[Ace Washington (public commenter; Fillmore Corridor Ambassador)]: I just had to come up here after that lady talk about the mayor. I came up here to talk about Eli Hill Hutch, but just commented on our mayor who really don't care about us blacks. At that particular day, and this is gonna take up some of my time, I asked the mayor, can I talk to you? This day he got his security guy got jumped. He came down the stairs. He wouldn't say nothing to me. Even today, when he left, he wouldn't say nothing to me. This mayor don't care nothing about the Fillmore or the black community. Anyway, I'm here to talk about Ella Hill Hutch Community Center. Y'all all better pay attention, particularly my supervisor. Ella Hill Hutch is getting ready to close down after years of being a cub for the black community because of this roguish community whatever they're called. But we are putting together a committee that's going to be selecting a committee of a board of directors and a selected board. And I want to work with the city as a conduit to help this community center come back together. My name is Ace. I'm on the case. And we've got two other brothers here who's going to talk to you about Ella Hill Hutch. So you pay attention, Mr. Supervisor, because you don't know too much about Ella Hill Hutch. We are the ones that know of history of Ella Hill Hutch Community Center. And we don't want this mayor coming down there closing the doors on Ella Hill Hutch. That is our center. Just because some roguish people took on it before, that is our center. We took it before, and we're gonna take it back again. My name is Ace, damn it, and I am the Fillmore Corridor ambassador. And the city and the mayor better put some respect on that name. I've been doing politics probably when he was a kid. He's young enough to be my son. Dammit. My name is Ace, y'all, and I'm on the case. Fillmore Corridor Ambassador.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Mr. Washington. Welcome to our next speaker, please.

[Ace Washington (public commenter; Fillmore Corridor Ambassador)]: The next one, come back.

[Francisco Da Costa (public commenter)]: Come on up. Don't be scared.

[Unidentified public commenter (Fillmore community advocate)]: Thank you, supervisors. My first thing is, you know, as I keep saying to our supervisor, it's been fifty, sixty years. It don't fall on his lap. It falls on his lap right now. But, we really need help in the film war. And, I know that we have this new action committee, but it's time out for these action committees. Time out for all this stuff. And, I'm really here today to acknowledge, as you recognize, Women's History Month. And, I told my supervisor this the other day, it's a shame colleagues that you let your colleagues building. Ellie Hill Hutch, as a woman black first woman supervisor, her building is deteriorating. Right? As a first black supervisor, I think all of you guys that are here now should stand on the principle of doing something about that building. Right? The letters are falling off the building. You got the outside, you know, the walls are breaking down. The inside is is leaking. You know, I I really think that we need to fast forward what we're doing as we rebuild San Francisco. Right? You're rebuilding San Francisco, but you're forgetting about the neighborhood that was first destroyed. The first Negro removal, right, in history, redlining. Right? And now we come with these these grants and things to rebuild, but it's time off for all that stuff. How could you give me a grant now to move in a space at the rate that it is now and not at the rate that you took it from me when you redline my district? My grandmother, my grandfathers, you you can't match up to that right now. So it's a lot that needs to be done. And I don't think this committee that was formed, this health department, this all these planning department, I don't think it's gonna work until we really get some real down solutions. But the first thing I'm here to say is, please. And, I ain't gonna I don't really beg nobody here, but I may actually do something about your colleagues building. Really do something about your colleagues building.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to the next speaker. Hayes.

[Randall Evans (public commenter)]: Hello, president and commission I mean, supervisors. My name is Randall Evans. I consider myself a public speaker, but I couldn't do this if I wanted to, to speak in three minutes what need to be said. First of all, it was 4,700 black people who was just erased from the Fillmore area. They came down and took 883 black businesses

[Will O'Duffy (public commenter)]: out of the

[Randall Evans (public commenter)]: Fillmore area. They knocked down 2,500 Victorian houses. Simultaneously, the city was given $50,000,000 to do some about the redevelopment of that area. And instead of redevelopment, I have to admit that it had to be a plan. You listened to all the stories that was told today and all the awards you gave out today to all the people that done all the great things, to your acknowledgement. And you couldn't even stand up to say anything about the West edition and the black beautiful women that was there doing the things and fought their butts off to try to save it, like, Ezekiel Collins, Lavoia Baker, Bilal and there's a list of them, you know. I have a photostatic memory about most of the history that took place in the film were with urban renewal, and some blacks would call it Negro removal. Right now, it is under a state of emergency. We are reaching across the community all the way to Bayview Hunters Point to get as many people as possible involved in some a list of town halls that we're to be having at Rosa Park to try to save Eliot Hust Community Center. We not only want to just save it, we want to redevelop it. And we want to redevelop that whole square block. We're going be coming down here in loads to get your support and your understanding. It's very important that you respect the history of the Fillmore area. It was the gentleman behind me, in front of me, making a point that they redlined the area. It was a plan to just make us disappear. And it's not fair. At this point, we need a lot

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, sir, for your comments. Thank you. Let's welcome our next speaker.

[Theresa Dulalas (public commenter; SOMCAN & SF Community Land Trust resident)]: Hello, supervisors. I'm Theresa Dulalas with Somcan, and I'm also a resident of the San Francisco Community Land Trust in District 6. I'm here to talk against Prop Aye repeal. This proposal, you know, to repeal Prop Aye is deeply troubling to us, because this is a voter mandated funding that supports housing stability programs in San Francisco. When we talk about repealing it, we're talking about cutting funding that directly supports the emergency rental assistance, small sites acquisition, affordable housing preservation. And these are all the tenant stability programs. These programs are not just theoretical. They are lifelines. Organizations like SOMCAN, the FCC, Bishop, West Bay, and all the other orgs, you know, work with residents every single day who are trying to stay housed and who are trying to live. People come to us when they're scared, when they're facing eviction, when they don't know where their children will sleep. So does this proposal fully account for how many people will be directly affected by removing this funding? Because cutting housing stability programs does not solve the housing crisis. It decreases it increases displacement, it increases homelessness, and it widens the economic divide in our city. We also have to be honest, you know, with ourselves. Are we even meeting the state's housing element go housing goals plan? The answer is a big fat no. You cannot build affordable housing by cutting the funding that makes it possible. San Francisco must remain a city for working families, seniors, immigrants, and longtime residents, not just for those who can afford rising housing costs. We do not want to give the mayor more power to destroy our city. We respectfully urge this board. Please.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Let's welcome our next speaker.

[Kyle Smeely (Policy Director, San Francisco Community Land Trust)]: Good afternoon, Madam Clerk, President Mandelman, and members of the Board of Supervisors. My name is Kyle Smeely. I'm the policy director for the San Francisco Community Land Trust. I'm here to speak in opposition to the proposal to cut taxes on billionaires who trade buildings worth $10,000,000 or more. I've heard in the case to cut prop I that it has failed to live up to its promise. That is not accurate. In the first two years that Prop I was in effect, this board wisely allocated more than $200,000,000 to the intended affordable housing purposes that Prop I was made for, including rent relief, housing preservation, and land banking. I would ask anyone who claims that Prop I has failed to tell one of the 20,000 San Franciscans whose homes were saved from eviction because of Prop I, because we stood up the most robust rent relief COVID program in the country, tell them that it failed. Tell the hundreds of people whose homes were taken off the private speculative market and turned into permanently affordable housing that Prop has failed. Ask the hundreds of San Franciscans whose 100% affordable housing is being constructed right now because of Prop I. Tell them that it failed. Prop I has and should continue to work. The conversation right now should be to how we spend Prop I dollars to address the affordability crisis. Instead, at a time when rents are rising faster than any city in the country, evictions are at an all time high, and groceries, gas, and basic goods are unaffordable to working people, the policy prescription from this Board of Supervisors is to cut taxes on billionaires. That makes no sense, and we will fight this every step of the way. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Kyle. Thank you for your comments. Welcome.

[Christian Casias (public commenter; Lower Haight resident)]: Afternoon, supervisors. My name is Christian Casias. I am a resident in the Lower Hate and a proud democratic socialist. I'm here to demand that you oppose the repealing of prop I. To speak specifically to prop Isaac accomplishments, it has helped fund the strongest COVID rent relief program in the country and made sure that more than 20,000 San Franciscans were, saved from eviction. And these are the same people who are, who would be at risk of homelessness that the rich techies that would benefit from their appealing of this from this proposition would don't want to see on their streets. And in reality, if you don't want to see homeless people on your streets, you should house them. If you want to ensure that the people the wealthy people who call this place home, who do not give their fair share to the city and its residents are happy, make sure that the people that they're stepping over have somewhere to live. In addition it has helped fund $40,000,000 for land banking which has been used for more than five fifty affordable homes and $64,000,000 for housing acquisition that has taken hundreds of homes off the private speculative market. We need affordable housing we do not need market rate or above housing for people like me who are from the Bay Area our entire lives who moved here during school to some of this specifically and then have stayed here it's hard to find housing that is affordable. I wanna stay where I live, but if for whatever reason social housing goes away and our prices continue to increase, that would make it so much harder. So I'm asking all of you, I'm asking my supervisor, Bilal Mahmood, to make sure you oppose the repealing of Prop I.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to the next speaker.

[Al Etikkar (public commenter)]: Good afternoon. My name is Al Etikkar. I'm an artist and someone who's born and raised here in the Bay Area. Speaking to item 24, I just wanted to express my gratitude for this being considered. This kind of formal recognition means a lot for my community. So thank you, especially during this time. Thanks.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Meg Heisler (public commenter; SF Anti-Displacement Coalition)]: Hi. My name is Meg Heisler. I am here on behalf of the San Francisco Anti Displacement Coalition to echo some of the earlier comments and urge you to oppose Mayor Larry and Supervisor Mahmood's repeal of the real estate transfer tax Prop I. Calling this policy a housing solution ignores the reality that it primarily benefits large scale real estate investors, not the tenants who make up the majority of the city. Commercial transactions, not housing, have generated the majority of nearly half $1,000,000,000 Prop I has raised. This is not about unlocking housing. If we were interested in that, we would endeavor to raise new revenue for the more than 17,000 units of affordable housing that are ready to be built, but lack the funding. Meeting the urgent needs of tenants across the city requires significant public investment. And eliminating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue will only make those homes harder to build. Thanks.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Unidentified retired teacher (public commenter)]: Good afternoon. I want to start, I have a heavy heart. I don't understand why the country can find so much money to bomb Iran, but we can't find money to build housing. And that just, it infuriates me. And I'm speaking against the repeal of prop I. I want to say I'm a retired teacher. When I started teaching, I could rent a flat in Sea Cliff for $600 a month. A flat, by myself. I could save up my money by cutting out my lattes and, croissant, and I bought a house in Bernal Heights with the help of my mother. Not a lot of help, but a better help. And that's impossible today. There is no teacher that can afford to buy or even rent in San Francisco at market rates right now. This is absurd. And it's not. And teachers are among the better off people. We're talking about our service workers, the people who make this city run. They can't afford to live here. And we're gonna cut the taxes on the richest San Franciscans so that they can get more money? It's ridiculous. You know, mayor Larry Larry's house is worth 16 and a half million dollars. My house, after many years of appreciating, is worth maybe 1,000,000, 1,000,001 half, and I I could give a shit if I have to pay extra taxes when I sell it. If that puts people in housing, then we should do it. And I think that that this the supervisors and the mayor have to really think about what's going wrong in this city because that's what's going wrong. And there should be no tax cuts for millionaires or billionaires. There should be no tax cuts. They should pay more taxes, and we should build more housing.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Rasha V. (public commenter; District 9)]: Good afternoon, board of supervisors. My name is Rashaev. I'm a resident of District 9 And The Mission. And I'm I'm speaking today to urge you to reject the build act and to oppose any effort to repeal prop I, the 2020 real estate transfer tax passed by voters. San Franciscans have been clear about what they want. We passed Prop k affirming our commitment to social housing. We passed Prop I to make wealthy real estate speculators pay their fair share. Overturning these democratic mandates at the behest of wealthy donors and real estate interests is betrayal of the voters this board is supposed to represent. Evictions are at their highest level in a decade. Rents continue to climb beyond what most working San Franciscans can afford. Meanwhile, the repeal of Prop I would deliver a direct tax windfall to the very real estate speculators driving those evictions. These same speculators have already seen their federal tax burden reduced significantly under the Trump administration. They do not need further relief relief from this board. The claim that the transfer tax suppresses housing construction does not hold up under scrutiny. The vast majority of Prop I revenues come from sales of major existing commercial properties such as PG and E sale of its $800,000,000 headquarters in 2021, not from housing transactions. Gutting this revenue stream does nothing to build housing. It simply protects the profits of large property holders. The real obstacle to affordable housing is funding and Prop I provides it. We just watched 365 units of affordable housing disappear from the Potrero Yard modernization project due to lack of funds. That is the housing crisis in concrete terms. Prop I is one of the few tools we have to address it. Since its passage, Prop I has delivered so much, including the strongest rent relief program that has protected 20,000 tenants from eviction, land banking, and housing acquisition to keep homes off the speculative market. These are real results for real families. The root of our housing crisis is the treatment of housing as a financial asset rather than a human need. The build act and the repeal of prop I would deepen this problem, not solve it. I urge you to stand with San Francisco voters. Reject the build act. Reject the Build Act. Preserve Prop I.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome.

[Honest Charlie Bodkin (public commenter; President, District 5 Democratic Club)]: Hello, supervisors. My name is Honest Charlie Bodkin. I'm the president of the District five Democratic Club and cofounder of San Franciscans for Social Housing, who I'm representing today. Over 1,000 san franciscans for social housing have signed our petition calling on this board to pass another resolution of intent to spend prop I transfer tax revenue on social housing. Last week, I read some of their names. Since then, hundreds have sent letters repeating our reasonable request. This week, I'd like to read the name names of some distinguished in San Franciscans that actually voted in 2020 specifically to call on the mayor to spend Prop I funds on a social housing program. Their names were Sandra Lee Feuer, Matt Hamy, Gordon Mahmood, Erin Peskin, Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen, Asha Safai, Catherine Stephanie, Norman Yee, Shamann Walton, and Rafael Mandelman. These notable San Franciscans then supervisors, and for two of you, current supervisors, stated firmly in a unanimous vote that it was their united intent to use the money from prop I to fund a social housing program the build act's promise is to speed up development of new housing to which I say I' reasonable I love to talk about speeding up new housing development let's build baby build but that's not what this act is currently written to focus on this act applies to all properties not just new developments that means billion dollar properties like 555 California which Donald Trump is a co owner of would see massive tax cuts in his sale under this act. The co owner of that building, Stephen Roth, told investors last year that the property might be for sale at the right deal at the right time. The Build Act would save Steve Roth and Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars and do nothing to restore faith in San Francisco government that when it says it's going to do something, it actually does something. Now isn't the right time for massive cuts on tax cuts on billion dollar properties. Now is the time to restore faith in the word of the board of supervise.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Honest, for your comments. Welcome to the next speaker.

[Scott Feeney (public commenter; District 9)]: Good afternoon, President Mandelman and Board of Supervisors. Scott Feeney, District 9 resident. I already shared with you my position on repealing Prop I last week. I'm against it. I think you should spend the funds on social housing. But I wanted to give a little bit more color on that. So in December sorry, no, in January, there was an article in the SF standard that was headlined one for the NIMBY's Sunset Affordable Housing on Hold. And it talked about how a project with almost 200 units of affordable housing in the Sunset 1234 Great Highway was being put on hold. But it wasn't because of a height limit, it wasn't because permits were taking too long, it wasn't because of complaints over shadows, anything like that. This project was put on hold because there were no funds for it. In this particular case, the funds were expected to be withheld by the Trump administration. However, affordable housing projects, as I'm sure you all know, assemble funding from a wide variety of sources. And, some of the other funding that was making that project possible and might eventually lead to it hopefully getting constructed in the in the end is coming from Prop I. So, I just want to emphasize that not funding affordable housing is a form of NIMBYism. It is a way that NIMBYs win and it is essential if we want to build housing, if we want to have a San Francisco that opens its golden gate for all, we have to preserve and enhance funding for affordable housing. Please don't repeal Prop I, but dedicate it to social housing as the voters intended as previous speakers have said. Thank you so much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Speaker 46.0]: Hello. My name is Eric Brenner. I'm a forty year resident of San Francisco, and I'm a retired librarian. And I voted in 2020 along with 57 and a half percent of the voters for prop I, and I've been outraged almost ever since to see that the money has barely been spent on affordable housing. People who voted for this, Popeye, are outraged when I tell them that they're talking about cutting back what you guys voted for. Anybody who hears about this that I talked to is absolutely outraged, and you guys should be ashamed to be even considering this. We need much more affordable housing, and this is absolutely going against the will of the voters. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Let's welcome our next speaker.

[Destiny Sientana (public commenter; District 5)]: Hello, board. Good afternoon. My name is Destiny Siantana. I'm a resident of District 5.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Can you pull that microphone down to Close. You.

[Destiny Sientana (public commenter; District 5)]: Sorry. Is this better?

[Dr. Harris (Principal, Saints Peter and Paul School)]: Yes. Thank you.

[Destiny Sientana (public commenter; District 5)]: My name's Destiny Sientana. I'm member of District 5. And I'm here to oppose the BUILD Act, like many of the other residents who have spoken before me. So I will remind you that two weeks ago, the Budget and Finance Committee heard from, the mayor's office on budget instructions. The mayor's office of public policy and finance made it clear that city spending outpaces revenue by a lot. The city's deficit this year is 296,300,000.0. By fiscal year 2029 to 2023, the deficit will rise to 1,170,000,000.00. These figures do not reflect the reduction of Prop I funds that would be lost because of the Build Act. Prop I matters to me because the real estate transfer tax is the biggest funder of the city's general fund and makes sure that everyone pays their fair share. Last year, just 38 transactions resulted in a 144,000,000 in revenue for the city. Even with the funds from Popeye, the city is facing a massive budget deficit, and the mayor is currently calling for a $400,000,000 cut in city spending in eliminating non core programming. Without funds from prop buy, many residents will face the consequences of these spending cuts and eliminations from the mayor's office giving a tax base to the wealthy developers. Supervisor Mahmood has stated that the BUILD Act will jump start development and affordable housing. I would like to see how many real estate companies come to the board asking you to waive impact fees and lower the number of inclusionary units because the economics just doesn't pencil out. The BUILD Act is a giveaway to real estate developers who only build unaffordable housing. I'm sure the mayor will continue to call for austerity, but not austerity for all, while giving public subsidies away in the name of common sense reform. Please oppose the BUILD Act.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please.

[Will O'Duffy (public commenter)]: Madam Mr. President, Madam Secretary, my name is Will O'Duffy. Wasn't the guy who wasn't the guy who was supporting all the cutting all the commissions and cutting it down to the bare bones, wasn't that wasn't that Mark Farrell? Am I wrong that he lost the election? You know, as a big picture thing, I mean, I know there are a lot of young younger people than myself here on the board now. I think everyone actually. But, know, I think that we're turning, in a lot of ways, the budgets that we're talking about now are turning the clock back to a very much more difficult time than the one that we're in now. You know, all of these soft programs, and there's a whole bunch of them in the tender line that are getting cut, apparently. You know, they protect the safety of the people that live there. They protect the safety of the people that live in San Francisco. The quality of life, the safety. It's a large number of things, but, and it is complex, but they do work. And I, I think that we're talking about turning the clock back to the 1960s and reliving all that time. And it was a very violent time. There's a lot of political violence. There was a lot of interpersonal violence. And I, I think that this attack, so called attack on the mayor is, it's kind of emblematic of, you know, people are going to become more violent. Is that, is, is, is that the right thing? One more thing about Diamond Dave. I, I really loved him. I never had no idea. Was so old. But, we went to the same clinic, the Native American Health Clinic together. He told me one thing, words to live by. He told me, don't go in for dental service on Columbus Day.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Before the next speaker, I'll just ask if there are other members of the public who'd like to provide general public comment. Please line up on your right hand side of the chamber. Otherwise, this may be our last speaker. Welcome. Alright. Mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Public comment is now closed. Madam clerk, let's go to our for adoption without committee reference agenda. Please call items 23 through 32.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 23 through 32 were introduced for adoption but without committee reference. A A unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first reading today. Any member may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor dorsey. I' like

[Supervisor Matt Dorsey (District 6)]: to sever item 24.

[Supervisor Shamann Walton (District 10)]: Four. Supervisor Walton. Sending item 28 to committee.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. Supervisor Melgar.

[Supervisor Myrna Melgar (District 7)]: I just wanted to be added as a cosponsor to item 24, please.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Noted.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Oh, Supervisor Fielder.

[Supervisor Jackie Fielder (District 9)]: Thanks, President. I wanted to be added as a cosponsor to item 24.

[Jeremy Spitz (Government Affairs, SFPUC)]: Noted. Noted. Yep.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: All right. Madam Clerk, on the so on all of the items except twenty four and twenty eight, can you please Yes. Call the Hold up. Supervisor Mahmood.

[Supervisor Bilal Mahmood (District 5)]: Co sponsor to 24 as well, please.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Looks like Cheryl wants to be on there. I think I am on there. Anybody else? Okay. All right. So on everything except '24 and 28, Madam Clerk, please call the

[Randall Evans (public commenter)]: roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. Supervisor Dorsey.

[Supervisor Matt Dorsey (District 6)]: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues, I am asking today Supervisor

[Rosh Yaga (public commenter; Iranian American community member)]: Roll call.

[Supervisor Matt Dorsey (District 6)]: Oh, I'm sorry.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: This is on the Falker items except 2428. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood, I. Supervisor Mandelman?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelman, I. Supervisor Melgar? I. Melgar, I. Supervisor Sauter? I. Sauter, I. Supervisor Cheryl? I. Cheryl, I. Supervisor Walton? I. Walton, I. Supervisor Wong? I. Wong, I. Supervisor Chan? Chan I. And Supervisor Chan. Chan I. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: All right. Then without objection, the resolutions are adopted. And the motion is approved. Madam Clerk, please call item 24.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 24, this is a resolution to recognize the month of March 2026 as Iranian American Heritage Month in the city and county of San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Dorsey. Okay.

[Supervisor Matt Dorsey (District 6)]: Thank you, President Mandelman. Colleagues, I am today asking you to join me in supporting a resolution recognizing the month of March as Iranian American Heritage Month. And I do wanna express my appreciation to colleagues for your co sponsorship. I think we have run the table and I think that's really an important statement for the community. Our city is home to a thriving Iranian American community which includes small business owners, entrepreneurs, doctors, engineers, lawyers, educators and some remarkable public servants one of whom we heard from in public comment, our friend and former colleague supervisor former supervisor Ashisafai. Together these are San Franciscans who have shaped and blessed our city in numberless waves, ways that deserve to be named and honored. This resolution does that. But I also want to acknowledge the moment we are in. The Iranian American community, like so many diaspora communities in the city, carries a complicated relationship with the country of their heritage, love and grief, anger and hope, often all at once. Events happening far away have a way of landing very close to home as we heard in public comment. And in moments like these, it matters more than ever what this board does. It matters that San Franciscans that San Francisco and San Franciscans are able to say unequivocally, you belong here. Your culture is valued and your contributions are celebrated regardless of the headlines. I also want to acknowledge my legislative aide, Mohana Subadi, who drafted this resolution and who has worked closely with members of the community to help bring it forward. San Francisco is at its best when we make stake space for the rich diversity of all who call our city home, and when we join hands in celebrating the unique cultural blessings of communities like the Iranian American community, which contribute so much to making us who we are. I urge your support.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey. With that, I believe we can take this item. Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. And, Madam Clerk, I think that takes us to my question of whether we have any imperative agenda items.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: There are none to report, Mr. President.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Could you please read the in memoriams?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. On behalf well, today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On a motion made by supervisor Fielder for the late diamond Dave Whitaker, a motion made by supervisor Cheryl for the late lieutenant frank skip lucier, And on behalf of Supervisor Walton,

[Francisco Da Costa (public commenter)]: for

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: the late Doctor. Mahmood Mahmood Drakumar, Dave.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And Madam Clerk, I think that brings us to the end of our agenda. Do we have any further business before us today?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: That concludes our business for today.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Well then, we are adjourned.