Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the April 8th, 2025 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? Yes, Supervisor Chan. Chan, President, Supervisor Chan. Chan, President, Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, President, Supervisor and Guardio. In Guardio, President, Supervisor Fielder. Field or present, Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, present, supervisor and guardian, in guardian, present, supervisor, fielder, fielder, present, supervisor, mambood, mambood, present, supervisor, mandolin, present, mandolin, present, supervisor, melgar, melgar, present, supervisor, solder, solder, not present, supervisor, Cheryl, Cheryl, present, supervisor, Walton, Walton, present, Mr. President, you have a quorum. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Supervisor Sauder is attending to his newborn. Can we have a motion to excuse Supervisor Sauder from today's meeting, moved by Chen, seconded by Melgar, and I think without objection, we can approve that motion. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unseeded ancestral homeland of the Ramitusha Loni, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramitusha Loni have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all people 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 Ramitusha Lone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Colleagues, will you join me in saying the pledge of allegiance? on. and on behalf of the board I want to acknowledge the staff at SFGovTV and especially today Kalina Mendoza who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. And I believe our next item is approval of minutes. Yes, today we are, the board will be considering the February 25th, 2025, in March 4th, 2025 board meeting minutes. Great. Colleagues, do we have any changes to the minutes? I don't see any one Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented, moved by Cheryl? Is there a second? Seconded by Chen. And Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? On the minute, supervisor Walton. Walton, I supervisor Chan. Chan, I supervisor Chan. Chan, I supervise your door. I supervise your door. I supervise your guard. I supervise your filter. I supervise your mom. Mom, I supervise your mandolin. I supervise your melgar. I supervise your sharel. I supervise your chair. I supervisevisor Cheryl. Cheryl, I. There are 10 I's. Then without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. And Madam Clerk, I skipped over communications. Do we have any communications? Yes, Mr. President. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes your attendance at this meeting. In the's legislative chamber room 250 second floor in city hall You may also watch the proceedings on SFGov TV's channel 26 or view the live stream at www.sfgovtv.org To submit your public comments send an email to bos at sfgov.org or via us postal service to San Francisco Board of Supervisors Number one Dr. Carlton be good luck place city hall room to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Number one, Dr. Carlton Begoodle Place, City Hall, room 244, San Francisco, California, 9402. To make a reasonable accommodation request under the Americans with Disabilities Act, order request language assistant. Please call the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling 415554-5184. And finally, Mr. President, our office is in receipt of an ADA accommodation request to provide their comments as a first speaker during general public comment. When general public comment is called, we will pull that request first. That concludes my communication. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's go to our consent agenda items one through nine. Items one through nine, come, come, come, rise the consent agenda. Colleagues, does anyone want to sever any items from the consent agenda? I don't see anyone on the roster. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll. On items one through nine, supervisor Walton. Walton, I supervisor Chan. Chan, I supervisor Chan. Chan, I supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I supervisor and guardio. I supervise her Chen. Chen, I supervise her Dorsey. Dorsey, I supervise her in cardio. In cardio, I supervise her filter. Filter, I supervise her Mamud. Mamud, I supervise her Mandelman. Hi. Mandelman, I supervise her Melgar. Melgar, I supervise her Cheryl. Cheryl, I, there are 10 eyes. Without objection, these ordinances are passed on first reading and the resolutions are adopted. Madam Clerk, let's go to our regular agenda new business item 10. Item number 10 is a resolution approving the Police Commission statement of purpose, pursuing to charter section 4.1022. All right, colleagues, I think we can take this item same house, same call without objection. The resolution is adopted. And Madam Clerk, will you please call item 11? Item number 11 is a resolution approving the Port Commission lease L 17 180 with Everett Jones Barbecue SF International. For a two story restaurant space located at 300 Jefferson Street for a term of 10 years at the rental rate of 5% of gross revenues for the first year and no less than 10,000 per month with incremental increases thereafter. And let's take this item same house same call without objection this resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, can you please call item 12. Item number 12 is a resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of multif-family housing revenue notes in aggregate principal amount not to exceed 64 million. For the construction of a 92 unit multi-family rental housing project known as 850 Turk, approving a funding loan agreement, a borrower loan agreement, and a regulatory agreement and declarative of restrictive covenants of the project. Okay, let's take this item, same house, same call without objection. This resolution is adopted and Madam Clerk, please call item number 13. Item number 13 is a resolution approving and authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development with Hazel Eddie Woolsey to execute documents relating to alone in an aggregate total amount not to exceed approximately 11.6 million to finance three existing affordable multi-family rental housing projects for low income households known as a burnout bundle located at 1652 to 1654 Eddie Street 3554 17th Street and 195 Woolsey Street and making appropriate findings. Let's take this item same house, same call without objection. This resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item 14. Item number 14 is a resolution authorizing the Department of Technology, Chief Information Officer to enter a no cost memorandum of understanding under which the city will provide feedback to innovate US and which will grant innovate US a right to use the city's feedback for any purpose for a two year term. And we'll take this item, same house, same call without objection, this resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, can you please call item 15? Item number 15 is a resolution to authorize the mayor, the mayor's chief of staff, chief of infrastructure, assistant chief of infrastructure, chief of housing and economic development, director of public affairs and policy advisor and the general manager of RPD, the director and staff of RPD's partnership division, RPD's director of capital and Planning, RPD's India Basin Project Manager, and RPD's India Basin Equitable Development Plan Manager to solicit donations for the India Basin Waterfront Park Initiative from nonprofits, private organizations, grant makers, and foundations for six months, notwithstanding the behested payment ordinance. And we will take this item same house same call without objection this resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk can you please call item 16. Item number 16 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to create the Castro upper market entertainment zone and clarify the boundaries of the existing area arena entertainment zone and making appropriate findings. We'll take this item, same house, same call without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam Clerk, can you please call item 17. Item number 17 is a motion appointing America, Michelle Sanchez, term ending April 27th, 2026 to the Sunshine Ordin second to the second to the second to the second to the second to the second to the second to the second to the 2026. And we can take this item same house, same call, without objection, this motion is also approved. And Madam Clerk, let's go to our committee reports. Item 23 was considered by the Land Use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on Monday, April 7th, 2025 and was recommended to the full board. Item 23 is an ordinance amending the planning code in zoning map to establish the 600 towns in street, west special use district to allow the legalization of the longstanding office uses at the site and making appropriate findings. We'll take this item same house, same call. Without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading. And Madam Clerk, let's go to roll call, I think. First, on roll call for introductions is Supervisor Walton. Submit. Thank you, Supervisor Walton. Supervisor Chan. Thank you, supervisor Walton. Supervisor Chan. Thank you, supervisor Chan. Supervisor Chan. Hi colleagues. Today I am introducing a resolution or froming that the support of four supervisors for an affordable housing site strategy that ensures that we make proactive and meaningful progress towards our affordable housing goals. As our city engaged in the conversation around resounding, the housing opportunity area, and priority equity geographies and an affordable housing size strategy, it is critical to create housing at all income levels, including 100% affordable and preservation projects. Throughout our neighborhood commercials and transit corridors, there are many untapped it opportunity sites for 100% affordable housing and housing preservation projects, many of which struggle to complete against for profit developers and investor to a quiet site. As an affordable housing site strategy, it's something that we sign up for in our housing elements in policy actions. 1.2.2-1.2.6, and it's critical to achieving our affirmative leave furthering fair housing goals. It will recommend strategies for identifying, acquiring, and maintaining such suitable locations for affordable housing citywide, informed by community needs, financial visibility, and programmatic realities. It will provide an opportunity to incentivize strategy for developing specific type of sites, such as public lands and property owned by religious and non-profit organizations, as well as best practices for site acquisition, rezoning, public land use, and public and private partnership throughout San Francisco. The planning department and the mayor's office of housing and community development have begun to develop a site strategy and this resolution urge this department to bring this effort to fruition and also to present the strategy to the board of supervisors and I'm looking forward to support for this resolution from my colleagues and want to thank supervisors fielder and supervisor Connie Chan for their early co-sponsorship. The rest I submit. Thank you. Thank you Supervisor Chan Chen. Supervisor Dorsey. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor Engardio. Thank you. Supervisor Filter. Thank you. Supervisor Mahmoud. Colleagues, I have a very special resolution to introduce today that is deeply personal to me. I'd like to introduce a resolution declaring April Autism Awareness Month. Last month I toured the Arc San Francisco and Supervisor Dorsey's district, which is a leader in advocating for residents with learning and developmental disabilities, including autism. And was reminded of the incredible outcomes we have when people are met where they're at and provided specialized support to help them thrive. They have a youth-achief program which partners with SFUSD and focuses on the transition from high school to employment, ensuring that individuals' autism gain the skills and support they need to thrive in higher education, jobs, and careers. A program with incredible benefits to our city. Programs such as these show that we've come a long way and not only awareness, but an acceptance and destigmatization of near diversity over the past few years. The Internet and social media have played a role in connecting people on this and providing the space for individuals to openly talk about their experience. But it wasn't always like this. I remember growing up, the science around autism was very one-sided. In school at Stanford even, we were taught the diagnosis was only found in white male youth. But how it expresses itself in different populations wasn't even considered. We know now that autism's a spectrum and can express itself differently by gender, by race, by culture, and would diagnosis often going undetected in people of color and women, especially. In my personal experience for a long time, I felt different from others, but didn't fully understand why. Receiving an autism diagnosis later in life as many are coming to these last couple years has helped me understand my differences and embrace some of them as strengths. From experiencing monotropism, to sensory sensitivities, to being extremely rigid in routines, I'm choosing to share this part of myself in the hopes of destigmatizing autism, and showing others especially our youth that they are not alone. Autism spectrum disorder is a complex developmental condition that can affect communication, behavior, and social interaction and it affects an estimated one in 36 children nationally and is increased by over 30% in the past decade in San Francisco alone, according to the data from the Department of Public Health and SFUSD. Now, at a time where we are in a budget deficit, I believe it is time to double down on investing in the services that are necessary for our most vulnerable communities. Our neurodivergent and autistic communities rely on muni, SFUSD, DCYF, as a lifeline to move, to learn, and to work. When I was at the ARC Center, the number one question that everyone brought up to me was, what are you doing to bring back the 49? What are you doing to preserve our service cuts? And I think what's lost on this facet is that people who have autism or neurodivision are often very rigid in their routines. And a single disruption of a muni line, taking away a bus stop, stopping the service at Market Street, that single change can be a life altering outcome for people who are neurodivergent or autistic. So when we think about the budget discussions that we have and whether to preserve muni or not, think about that these aren't just line items on a budget, but these are people's lives being impacted every day. So today I'm proud to stand not only as a policymaker, but as someone who lives with this reality, the families and the children in the neurodivergent community deserve to not only be recognized, but feel supported by their city, so they truly can succeed and thrive. This resolution commends local programs and advocates who work tirelessly to support neurodivergent communities by providing vital services to families navigating the complexities of raising children with autism, offering education, peer support, and individualized assistance to ensure that families are empowered with the resources that they need. I'd like to highlight the work of Felton Early Autism Program, the Bay Area Autism Collective, and initiatives such as Bridges from School to Work, and the Arts San Francisco's Youths Achieve Program. I would also like to thank the Department and organizations that have endorsed this resolution, including Sheriff's Dorsi Smith, interim executive director SF Department of Children, Youth and their families, Virginia Juan Nguéria, Senior Director of Workforce Inclusion and Program Optimization for the Arc San Francisco, Eli Gilardin and his team at the Office of Disability and Accessibility and SFUSD Superintendent, Dr. Maria Sue and her team. I'd like to thank my colleagues who've co-sponsored, supervisor Cheryl, Dorsey, Malgar, Mandelman, Chen, Chan, Fielder, and Walton. I'd like to close as well by thanking those who have reached out to not only show support, but share your stories this morning with me. Experiences around autism, neurodivergence of your families, of your children, of your loved ones, because together I know that we can uplift each other and the response from the community make me more confident that we can shift the narrative on autism. Thank you all for your support and for your advocacy on making autism. Awesome. Thank you Supervisor. Supervisor Mandelman. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you for your introduction. Supervisor Mahmoud. And it's an honor to serve with you. I have a couple of intros. First is that I'm introducing a resolution recognizing April 9th, 2025 as education and sharing day in San Francisco. Education and sharing day was first established by the United States Congress in 1978 to honor the Rabbi Menachem Mendelschneerson, who dedicated his life to youth education. education. The holiday calls for all Americans to reflect on our commitment to high quality, accessible education for all. And I want to thank Rabbi Potash at the Habad-Kolvali in District 8 for bringing this day to our attention. I'm also asking that we adjourned today's meeting in memory of David Hartzau, an American Quaker peace activist in District 8 resident, who passed away on March 22nd at the age of 84. The son of peace movement activist David dedicated his life to non-violent peacemaking from an early age. After meeting Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956, he was inspired to join civil rights and later anti-vegetan on more movements. He participated in the 1960s sit-ins and contributed to peace buildingbuilding efforts in Kosovo. For nearly two decades, he worked with the American Friends Service Committee, engaging in non-violent peace-making in the United States, the Soviet Union, Mexico, the Philippines, and Iran. David later went on to lead the peace workers, a network of peace activists based primarily in San Francisco until his death. In 2002, he joined peace advocates fromates from 49 countries to officially establish non-violent Peace Force, which deployed its first civilian protection team to Sri Lanka a year later. In 2014, he founded World Beyond War, an organization that pursues the abolition of war through regional organizing and global campaigns to close military bases and divest from corporations that profit from war. Rest in peace and power, David Hartzau, Mayor Memory, be a blessing. The rest I submit. Thank you, Mr. President. Supervisor Melgar. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor Sotter. Oh, I'm sorry. Supervisor Cheryl. Colleagues, tomorrow marks the 83rd anniversary of the Baton Death March. On April 9, 1942, during World War II, after months of resistance in the Baton Peninsula in the Philippines, 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers were forced to surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army. These brave members of the United States Army forces in the Far East endured 99 grueling days of combat, only to forced upon surrender to march over seven sixty-five miles in brutal conditions with little food, medicine, or support. Thousands perished and what is now remembered is the Baton death march, one of the most harrowing atrocities of World War II. On April 5th, my office had the privilege of attending the annual Baton Remembrance Ceremony at the San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio, honoring the courage and sacrifice of those affected by the death march, as well as the veterans of World War II and the Korean War. Thank you to Cecilia Garland, Garland, excuse me, and the Baton Legacy Historical Society for continuing to preserve the legacy of Filipino and American World War II veterans, and serving as a powerful reminder of the deep ties between the Filipino and American peoples. Both of my grandfather served in World War II, and their stories have always reminded me of the sacrifice and strength that defined that generation. But I'm also proud to say that others on my team have grandparents who served in World War II and various capacities, including my aide McDell-Razzario, whose grandfather Artemio was a Philippine scout and he himself endured the Baton death march. Through this resolution, the city and county of San Francisco affirms its solidarity with the families, veterans, and communities that carry this history forward. Let us pledge to ensure this legacy of bravery and sacrifice never gets forgotten and endures for generations to come. Rest I submit. Thank you, supervisor. Mr. President, that concludes roll call for introductions. All right, thank you Madam Clerk. We're running early and so I guess we will do five minutes of public comment if anybody wants to get their public comment out of the way early. Okay. All right. Thank you Madam Clerk. We're running early and so I yes we will do five minutes of public comment if anybody wants to get their public comment out of the way early All right at this time the board welcomes general public comment Please line up on your right-hand side of the chamber along the curtains You may speak to approval of the minutes as presented items on the forward option without committee reference agenda items 26 to 38 And general matters that are not on today's agenda but must be within the board's subject manager restriction. All other agenda content will have been reported out to the board by an appropriate committee where the public comment requirement was satisfied. As I indicated at the beginning of the meeting we do have an ADA accommodation. Mr. Kevin Lamb could you please put the caller for? Hello, please confirm you can hear me and I will start my stopwatch. We can hear you. Hello, this is Michael Petrellis calling. I'd like a moment of silence please for Tony, the gay bar worker who was brutally attacked on March 9th under the Castro Theater Monque. Please a moment of silence for his recovery. Okay, the moment of silence is over. There is a traumatized gay community in the Castro after this attack on Tony. And we have not had cooperation from either the elected officials in the district or the police safety liaison. Demands have been made for a town hall where the elected officials town hall where the elected officials and the police would listen to our trauma and our concerns for how to address the violence that is occurring too often in the Castro. The town hall would also address the need to help our homeless neighbors, one of whom died on the sidewalk earlier this year. As we have seen across the country, fearful Republicans do not hold town hall meetings because they don't want to face accountability demands from their constituents. Unfortunately, this republican way of not engaging with constituents is what we see in the Castro. And it is harming the vibrancy and eventual revival of what we know as the Gaborhood. Yes, the Gaborhood used to be a beacon of accountability from government officials to a gays worldwide. Today we need to restore that vibrancy with town hall meetings. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. All right, let's go to our in-person commenters. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is Eric Randall, I'm 25, your resident in district five, a business owner, gym owner in district six, are with an undergraduate degree in kinesiology from USF and also graduate degree in kinesiology from SF State. My work has been published in peer review journals which includes research on reducing drug overdose deaths. I'm here with an urgent plea for immediate action. Last February, our medical examiner revealed a devastating truth during black history month, African Americans, less than 5% of our population, accounted for 38% of overdose deaths. This isn't just a statistic. It's a crisis demanding a new approach. The city of San Francisco has focused on more housing, harm reduction, and incarceration for years. But in November 2023, something shifted at UN Plaza. We addressed the built environment. Drug overdose became to lower because we offered a healthy alternative for adults. I've seen firsthand how exercise helps individuals cope and stay sober. Yet free accessible options are scarce in other underserved areas of the city. We need to replicate the UN Plastic's success immediately in the South of the market and Lower Navhil not next spring but next month. It can be gained with installing simple pull-up bars on the sidewalk that take up as much space as a street sign offering a no-cost immediate way for residents to manage stress and build self-efficacy. Building potentially before they see no other option other than substance use, waving liability for these health-promoting installations as we do handing out needles and foil for harm reduction. It's a crucial step that's invested in proactive health, not just reactive crisis response. That's built in a city that offers a healthy choice starting now. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon, I'm Anthony Garcia. I'm a Noi Valley resident. I'm also an Army combat veteran. I've spent 22 months in Iraq. I was a medical evacuation officer for eight years while serving. My last tour in Iraq, we met about approximately 6,500 patients in 11 months. We flew over 4,000 combat missions. It was 90 of us doing this work. You could get woken up at 3 in the morning or maybe be fortunate to get a mission at 3 in the afternoon. We didn't know if people were alive when we were showing up half the time, didn't know what the injuries were, the wounds. We were lucky if we had a grid coordinate and a call sign. I'm also a former captain that led all these professionals. I got a DeArmy in 2007 and that's when I started to let everything kind of permeate throughout my body. I'm 100% disabled veteran. Got a lot of PTSD. The last time that it was a severe, as it was, when I came out, was in 2020 getting compressed from the COVID outbreak. I called the VA, was able to talk to somebody within 48 hours, which I believe prevented me from killing myself probably at third time. My fear is that the VA will go away. There's 26,000 veterans in the city. There's 300,000 veterans that attend the VA in San Francisco. I attended the VA in Palo Alto prior to moving up here to San Francisco. The people that work in the VA have a special set of skills that are designed to help professionals like myself. I'm using a lot of very clean language right now, but it usually doesn't go that way when you're in the VA, because a lot of the military stuff comes back to you. They know how to handle this, and I'm fearful that my psychologists that I've had since 2020 won't be there on the other end. I talked to them last Thursday. I thanked them and I expressed to them that if he was going to be departing, I would like to know. My call to act. My apologies. Thank you sir. Thank you for your service. We're going to have. We will come back to public comment but now we have to get to our 230 special order. Madam Clerk, can you call our 230 special order? Yes, today's 3 o'clock, 230 special order is a recognition of commendations. Great, and I believe we're going to go with a detent supervisor Walton first. Thank you so much, President Mademen. Today, I rise to honor the Patreot Terrace Market and Mary and Edmund Wu. If they could come up to the podium, please. On March 1, 1960, Jack and Fong Wu laid the foundation for what would become a beloved cornerstone of the Patreo Hill community. With deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown, where Jack gained experience in the grocery trade and Fung worked diligently in a garment factory. They followed their dream of building something of their own. When the opportunity arose to purchase a small neighborhood store in Patreille Hill, they took a leap of faith that would shape the course of their family's future. Together, Jack and Feng Wu owned and operated the Patreille Terrace Market with unwavering dedication, raising their children in the aisles and behind the counters. After school, Mary Edmond and their siblings pitched in, learning not only the ins and outs of the business, but also the values of hard work, family, and service. Over the decades, the stores stood witness to history, including the 1970s era patty herds kidnapping ransom that called for feeding the poor and effort that took place just across the street. The Wool family also shared a warm and lasting friendship with the family of O.J. Simpson further rooting their store in the vibrant diverse tapestry of Patreole Hill. As Jack Phong gracefully aged, Mary and Edmund stepped up to carry the legacy forward, eventually being entrusted with the ownership and stewardship of the store. Through all the years, the heart of the business remained unchanged. It was always about the people. The friendships formed, the story shared, and the support exchanged between neighbors made the store much more than just a place to buy groceries. It became a community institution. Today, we commend the entire Wu family and Marion Edmond Wu for their lifelong commitment to Patreau Hill for preserving a legacy built on love, labor, and deep community ties, and for continuing to honor their parents' vision. Their store has nourished generations not only with food, but with connection, kindness, and care. The bond shared between this generational store is an example of how cultures can come together in community. I would argue that there is no better example of Asian and Black solidarity in a neighborhood. Even as a young child in Portal hill, we knew that Jack and Phong loved being a part of the hill. We celebrate and thank you so much for your extraordinary service and for the rich history you this award. My mom and dad is having a look down and I'm sure they'll be proud. So on behalf of me, Mary and my brother Robert, we appreciate your support. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You have to get it, man. Good to see you of doing accommodation for Chris Duters that if you could come up with your family and we basically have the whole inner sunset neighborhood here in support. So Chris Duters that, yay! It is an engineer, artist, public space advocate Artists, public space advocate, in long time San Francisco resident. Chris has lived in the inner sunset for 52 years. During this time, he has used his many skills to bring beauty and accessibility to our city's public spaces. Since 2012, Chris has led the Public Bench Project. This incredible organization builds and provides public benches free of charge to any San Francisco who requests one, expanding access to quality public spaces regardless of means. Chris began his bench making career in 1977. The first one he designed was an easy to clean model for a friend's veterinary clinic. But he wouldn't stop there. He, ever the engineer, Chris continued to build benches, refining his designs by spending countless hours in Golden Gate Park studying different models. In 2003, the Racken Park's department began a project to expand Golden Gate's skating area. In Chris, a long time roller skater, offered to create the benches to populate the renovated space. Those benches are still enjoyed by skaters today. In 2012, after receiving a design challenge from a friend, at Chris created a new portable wooden bench design. Realizing that these benches could be built and distributed with relative ease, Chris started the public bench project. He then launched a website where community members could request a bench or find plans to build their own. Since founding the public bench project, Chris has built and installed over 210 benches. These benches can be found in nearly every neighborhood in the city, but in the inner sunset we have many of them and they're all beautiful. Although the public bench project accepts donations to cover the cost of the materials, Chris only, Chris has donated all of his benches free of charge. He not only makes the benches themselves, but also decorates them. Chris's benches can be found in a rainbow of colors and beautifully painted designs. He currently makes and installs about two benches a month. Chris is a fierce advocate for increasing access to public spaces. By creating benches for all who want them, Chris hopes to provide San Francisco's diverse communities with physical space for connection and relaxation. Each and every day, San Francisco's of every age, background and demographic enjoy Chris's benches. Whether used by roller skaters and Golden Gate Park, elders who need to rest after climbing a particularly steep hill, or people who simply want to take a break and watch the fog roll in, Chris's benches have provided an invaluable public service. Chris, through your devoted and incredible volunteer efforts, you have demonstrated your creativity, commitment to community building, deep love for the city and its residents. It is my honor to recognize your efforts and thank you for all you have done to bring joy and connection to everyday San Prasiskins. Thank you. I would like to thank you very much, Supervisor Melgar. I'd like to thank all of the supervisors for giving me this honor. And at the same time, I would like to thank all of the supervisors because I am sure you You are all here because you believe you can make art city and the world a better place. Personally, I started working in public spaces 40 years ago and I've been on the board of about a dozen different public space organizations including San Francisco tomorrow. And then as the supervisor so aptly mentioned, because of my profession, I made custom machines for Silicon Valley. They would ask me, they'd bring me a problem. I'd give them design. If they liked it, I'd make it, and I'd bring it, and install it. And my machines picked up everything. Apple made, Cisco made, Sunmade, Hewlett-Packard made, and another 150 another 150 companies, the benches were an off-chute of this. And I find that we all have skills, and we can take those skills and put them toward helping others, then we can make a better place. In any case, I want to thank all of the people that have accepted my benches. The benches are only place where people request them. I make sure that there's a reasonable place to put it. If there's a problem, we just remove it. And with that, today I delivered two more benches, so I'm at 215. And I don't know how much longer I'll be doing this until I can't stand up anymore. Very briefly, I'd like to introduce my wife, Karen Duterstadt. She's chair of the Sutro Sturts, who you honored earlier this year. She couldn't make it because she was on the border, helping with people trying to get asylum coming into the country. So as you can imagine, there's a cloud over our house now. Thank you very much. But Karen is standing right behind you. I just want to talk knowledge. Thank you. Thank you so much. You took half my speech. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I'm sure I'll try to take a picture with all the people. Should I do this? Do the Trump thing? Let's go out there because we have so many people to public comments. So folks want to line up over on the side. We can do this until three o'clock when we have another special order. Please proceed. Hello. My name is Jeremy and I lived in the Bay Area and my whole life. I grew up in San Francisco. I went to OLM in daily city up until I was in second grade, moved to the procedure in 1998 with my father, Norman anducino, who worked for the Presidio Trust. And my mother, Judy Infucino, who had 30 years of service at the Department of Veterans Affairs here in San Francisco. I'm really pissed off, and I'm trying to contain myself because I feel there's trying to stay in this place. I'm trying to stay in this place. I'm trying to stay in this place. I'm trying to stay in this place. I'm trying to stay in this place. I feel there's been a lack of leadership in terms of our mayor. I feel there's been a lack of leadership in terms of our mayor. Our mayor hasn't spoken out against Trump. I'm getting really worked up because my parents put in time My parents put in time and actually cared and put in service for this country and this city and this area. My dad passed away about two years ago. He had staged for lung cancer and before that he was the chief shops thwart at the Presidio Trust. Now that means he argued a lot and he didn't see eye to eye with people, but he was forced into situations where you have to talk with people you don't agree with. And I have no idea what the mayor is doing. I see his Instagram, I've messaged him multiple times, asking and calling for a town hall. I haven't heard shit, pardon my language, but I am frustrated. I don't like the fact that he's a comes from that type of money in terms of stepson of a billionaire? I don't like the fact that he's a comes from that type of money in terms of stepson of a billionaire. I don't know anyone who has that type of money. Thank you, Ferrah comments. Speaker's time expired. Apologies for cutting you off. Everyone is receiving two minutes today. Next speaker. Yes. I'll make this brief. December 4th, last year, 2024, while visiting the Bay Area, I had a contact that was a little bit troubling over at a local library in San Francisco. Since that time, I visited, I submitted several records request under Sh Chi and received very few records in response. Subsequently, I put a complaint, found out about a complaint that I could put into the task force and have been struggling, have been languishing with that process. Last week, I attended a task force meeting last Wednesday and overheard the chair talking about the troubles they were having sunshine with ethics, just sort of administrative at the staff level, dismissing referrals to them. And one of the things that I took away from that meeting was that because Sunshine has a city attorney contact at that meeting was that it would be a very simple to me training to bring and business meeting to bring those two together and work out the differences and and really streamline that. So I'm looking for advocates who are really interested in in that process and assisting me to also get my issue through. I've been languishing for four months with this. I haven't had a administrative hearing nor have I been able to get my issue in front of the task force. It's being stopped at the staff level as well. So with a show of hands of anyone on the Board of Supervisors who's interested in assisting me, I will contact you. Sir, this is not a question you're answering time. This is our year time to provide comments. No, I didn't ask for a question. I just asked. Your time. Speaker's time is expired. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors. For the record, my name is Chris Ford Klein. I also go by Sergeant Klein of the United States Marine Corps active duty. Prior to this meeting I sent each of you an email with the packet of a plan. It's not my plan. It was put together by the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense for San Francisco to get one billion plus dollars. That would pretty much solve all your budget problems. So I would speak with the mayor, speak with the controller, speak with the city attorney's office. That needs to happen. It will happen. I'm getting money from that. Veterans are going to get money from that. Citizens in San Francisco are going to get money from that. You can build your seawall with it. You can use it to fix your budget. So I don't understand why it's so complex to submit a claim for over a billion dollars. Why isn't that claim already submitted? Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Klin and I'm a member. Pairnforces, San Francisco. I'm a registered nurse, but I'm forced to be a stay at home mom because I don't have child care. Even with the help of baby prop C funds, the choices for city fund the child care is limited, especially for non-traditional hours. We need to expand parental choices by allowing city vouchers to several kinds of care. Please keep the promise to our children of universal access to quality childcare. And allow for parental choice that meets the family needs. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is Lourdes Alarccon. I'm a resident of San Francisco for many years. I have two children. I'm also an educator and an early care provider. And I am really happy to announce that BBC was a great proposal for our children to get served, especially the ones that are young, like one to five. And BBC is one of our best, one of your best decisions and investment, but I also want to say that we still need like to get like fair salaries, Our salaries as providers are really low. And also we're advocating for the waiting list. The waiting list is always there. Children are still waiting to get education, to get care. And I'm here to ask you please support the early care and education, rewired the educators as they deserve, and also take care of the educational system and early care and education again. Thank you very much for your attention. I hope we will have your support. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. Happy week of the young child. And we also want to acknowledge the supervisor Melgar for sponsoring the resolution for the week of the young child. We are proud to have passed baby Prop C in San Francisco. And it started a trend in the Bay Area, Oakland, also past theirs. Sonoma County and other counties are looking at us and how we implement this special funding for child care. We want to make sure that we honor the charge given to us. We want you to keep the promise to our children of Universal Access to quality childcare and allow for parental choice that meets family's needs. So we have baby prop C but the choices of parents are still limited. Our city vouchers can only go to specific kinds of childcare. Queen earlier said as an RN, her schedule could be mostly nuntraditional and we want to make sure that we also address that need. But most of all, we appreciate your support for making sure that BBC is preserved and for passing the budget last year that saved the principal for baby prophecy and only just dangerous. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hello, supervisors. I'm Alan Wong. I'm the policy director for Children's Council San Francisco and also here on behalf of the SFEC advocacy coalition. And so we're very happy to have a resolution sponsored by the by supervisor Mel Gar on the agenda today to support week of young child. We've made a lot of progress in our investments with baby Prop C supporting investments in early care and also pre-kindergarten. We want to ensure that we get our supervisors to see what's going on in your child care sites in your districts. We're going to be sending invites if we haven't already to sign you all up to visit some of the childcare facilities that are in your districts and we're looking forward to hosting you all and having you join our coalition. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hello, my name is Leah McGeever. I live in District 6. I'm a transgender Latinx homeowner. I am very disappointed in San Francisco which proclaimed itself a transgender sanctuary city in a transgender sanctuary state and yet I just read about how San Francisco has taken more money away from trans people, trans groups, including money away from a bunch of other suffering oppressed communities as well. $950,000 from the transgender variance and intersex justice project, which focuses on black and trans people, black and brown trans people, $250,000 from the transgender district. You should be spending more money. You should be spending more money on trans people, on black people, on brown people, on undocumented people, on Chinese people, on LGBTQ people in general, on people who have HIV because the fucking federal government is attacking all of us right now. Okay, there are many people on this board who fall into that demographic. You should be very vocal and very loud and put your money where your mouth is if you opened your goddamn mouth for us. Some of you stood on a stage with Scott Weiner saying you'd protect trans youth. What have you done since then? Did you even do anything visible on trans day of visibility? I doubt it. I think one of you posted something on a social media account. That's so pathetic. So pathetic. You canceled the GIF program last year, which was for very poor, very vulnerable, black and brown trans people. Do you know what happened to them? Do you ever follow up? Do you know the consequences of your fucking actions? You are hurting people. People need to be mad at you, not Trump or Musk. Next speaker please. Very emotional there. So, good afternoon Supervisors. My name is Ace. I'm the Film War Corridor Ambassador. I'm trying to make this as fast as I can to all of you law makers, legislators. We in the Fillmore needs your help. We need your support. I got a big case load. I don't know if I'm going to be able to talk about the Fillmore Center. We got the Safeway issue. We got public housing issue. We got the department here, HRC dealing with our issues about the, oh Jesus, the June 10th. So I'm sick and tired of being sick at the, there's no reflections on on our new administrators. This has been going on for years before you all got here. But the mayor, he must care because he's a millionaire. You could get your other buddies to help us. And I'm not being facetious. I'm being truthful. We need help in the field more. Now, the mayor came a couple of weeks ago and I've videotaped it. I also videotaped it when Ed Lee came. And I'm going to compare it. And we still got problems. We got big issues. I haven't named them all, but we have issues that needs to be addressed immediately. We got collective impact at Ella Hill Hutch. We got the issue. We got so many. I only got 30 seconds, but I had to be crystal clear to this city and county, the city by the bay. I am the Philmore corridor ambassador. I mean I beat America or the supervisor of the power, but I'm here to tell y'all we need help From this administration My name is Ace Damant and I'm on the case Live and direct and you don't have to adjust your set Thank you fair comments next speaker Good afternoon supervisors my name is Anthony Huang and I'm an advocate with Chinese for affirmative actions. I'm here to voice strong support for the resolution condemning President Trump's unlawful and cruel use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport non-citizens. I thank Supervisor Melgar for her leadership on this critical issue. The Trump administration's action, deporting over 200 Venezuelan nationals without due process, are unconstitutional, xenophobic, and echoes some of the darkest moments in US history. We've seen this before during World War II, the government used the same law to detain Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants leading to mass incarceration and injustice. San Francisco has stood as a city of inclusion and immigrant rights. We must continue that legacy by rejecting these harmful policies and fuel, fear, and racial profiling. I urge the Board of Supervisors to approve this resolution and reaffirm our commitment to protecting all immigrant communities. Thank you for your leadership on this critical issue. Thank you, Pierre Comments. And just to clarify, folks, we're awaiting, we're going to have to interrupt public comment at 3 o'clock. So this is probably our last public comment in this bit. We have a 3pm special order. Sir. Please continue with your public comment and we are going to go to our 3PM special order. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is Nick G. I am an advocate with Chinese for affirmative action, a civil rights-based organization in San Francisco's Chinatown and co-founding partner of the Stop AAPI Hate Coalition. Today we stand in strong support of this resolution, condemning President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to kidnap and deport non-citizens. We are incredibly grateful to Supervisor Melgar's leadership in introducing this critical and timely resolution in a moment when immigrant rights continue to be under attack. We must fight back. The unlawful detention and deportation of over 200 Venezuelan nationals without notice, hearings or legal representation is a blatant violation of due process and an attack on immigrant families. This is not just about one group, this is about all of us. When the government targets one community it sets a dangerous precedent that puts all immigrants and people of color at risk. History has shown us the harm that xenophobic policies like these can cause from the incarceration of Japanese Americans to today's mass deportations. The city of San Francisco must take a stand and reject the shameful history from repeating itself. We must continue to actively support and defend our immigrant communities regardless of immigration status and oppose the escalation of federal immigrant enforcement. It is for these reasons I urge the Board of Supervisors to approve this resolution, and we look forward to continuing to work with your offices to protect San Francisco's immigrant communities. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Thank you. All right, sir. We're going to have to take a break and public comment because we have a 3 p.m. special order. You can come. You will be nested on both sides of all. Do you know how much people with drinking pranks water is a great tool? You can keep them all. So try and get them out of the stomach. Do you have a chance on you? All right, thank you. We are now going to go to our 3 PM special order, Madam Clerk, can you call that? Yes, items 19 through 22 are associated with the appeal of the conditional use authorization for the proposed project at 4,100 Third Street to convert an existing two-story over-basement mixed use building. Item 19 is a hearing of persons interested. Item 20 approves the CU authorization. Item a higher vote threshold. I'm not less than two thirds or eight votes of the members to disapprove the conditional use authorization. And I'dem-22 directs the clerk's prepared findings if the board wishes to disapprove this conditional use authorization. All right, thank you, Madam Clerk. So colleagues, we have before us a hearing on the appeal of the conditional use authorization approval for the proposed project at 4,100 third street. There is a standard way that we would proceed on hearing an appeal like this. That would involve proceeding as follows. We would give the appellant up to 10 minutes for a presentation. We would then open public comment for speakers who want to speak in support of the appeal. Then we would provide up to 10 minutes for a presentation from the planning department. And then we would provide up to 10 minutes for the project sponsor. Then we would take public comment from speakers who want to speak in support of the and support the project sponsor and opposition to the appeal. And finally, we would provide up to three minutes for a rebuttal by the appellant. I believe that the applicant believes that this matter that may be withdrawn by the appellant. If it is not, I believe that the applicant may be wanting to request that it be continued, but I guess we can proceed and hear from the appellant and then this board can decide what to do if we actually need to hear Have a full hearing on this matter. So that's how I'm proposing that we proceed Unless there are objections. I know that was about as clear as mud. I apologize colleagues I will explain it again if I need to explain it again Seeing no objections objections, the public hearing will proceed as indicated and is now open. And then I don't know if Supervisor Walton if you want a nope, all right. Then and no one else is on the roster. So I will ask the appellate to come forward and present their case and you may have up to 10 minutes. I'm sorry, President Mandelman, I thought I was going to be able to answer your question before you guys took that order, but since we move forward, I just wanted to say good afternoon, President Mandelman, supervisors and members of the public. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today regarding the appeal for the conditional use permit for 4,100th street at the space that is not only a historical gem in the baby community, but as of 2024 was one of the last remaining saloon restaurants in San Francisco still operating in an original form with SRO units that serve working class residents above the commercial space. This building has stood for 144 years providing community meals, drinks, and affordable housing for people who built and sustained this city. Last year, I was part of a group of local makers who shared this space and had invested time and resources in dividing the space with hundreds of thousands of dollars of city grants before this building was sold. Thus, once again displacing vulnerable entrepreneurs who ingenuity shines at local farmers, markets, and fares. The transition from the space was sudden and a cloud of uncertainty was placed over new owners of the space. In January, our friend of mine reached out to me to inform me that the building had already went before the planning commission with zero little community outreach. As someone who is deeply concerned about our affordable housing crisis, I was baffled at why anyone would approve the loss of S.R. units in a city with a housing shortage crisis in a neighborhood which has doubled its homelessness since COVID. the type of protections which are available in other neighborhoods are not codified and bay view, not or are there systems in place which provide checks and balances to properly inform the planning commission and things happening in our community. So as you can see, this conditional use permit is about more than just one building. It speaks to the larger system that brought me here before you today. A system that too often fails outdated and accessible in adversarial, turning neighbors such as myself and FOTC into opponents instead of collaborators. But in I view this moment as an opportunity, a spark, and a beacon of what's possible when we come together to fix broken systems with equity, care, and shared vision. I want to take a moment to express my deep gratitude to Supervisor Sauter, Martin Ermogar, Shayan Chan, Bill Malamu, Moud and Jackie Filder for your leadership, engagement and thoughtfulness throughout this process. I look forward to working with all of you guys on broader board to continue addressing the complex challenges of our community's face and help make San Francisco more inclusive, equitable and vibrant city for everyone. It is my hope that following today we can work with the board to bring our administrative code for fee waivers into compliance with state law so that no other indigent person must face the kind of obstacles. I had to have calms simply to be heard by you today I also urge the planning department to conduct more rigorous and proactive research and historically significant properties especially those were Where the date of construction is unclear thanks to the dedicated knowledgeable staff knowledgeable staff at our San Francisco Public Library, I was able to verify through sellers records, water permits, and insurance logs that this building holds deep historical value. It reflects the period of our city's founding and architectural structure that is quickly disappearing. Furthermore, I'd like to encourage the Planning Department's equity task force to ensure it truly reflects the full diversity of San Francisco and allows a larger community process, not just people that are hand selected by various officials to be on some of these decision-making groups as we move forward with detain zoning and other issues like that. I want to also say that I would like, sorry, even so, I would also like to say I'm grateful for the leadership of the Friends of Children of San Francisco for working with me over the past several months to ensure that we can preserve space for some of our, those displaced entrepreneurs, post-reinnovation. I'm encouraged that historic elements, like the buildings exterior and Butler elevator will be preserved, and we are actively exploring ways to offer culinary classes for families and build workforce pathways for youth interested in the culinary art. This partnership between myself, Big Black Branch and Friends of the children, shows what's possible when community and development work hand in hand with mutual respect and collaboration to lead the way. I'd like to, in the spirit of our agreement that we made, I would like to withdraw my petition for the appeal, being that the issues that I raised, FOTC, has agreed that they will honor the historic preservation and have pleasantly and warmly invited some of our merchants back into use of space once they're done with their renovations. So thank you again, supervisors, the public and friends of the children. All right, thank you, Ms. Brackett. All right, so Madam Clerk and Mr. City Attorney, you're going to need to help me out here a little bit. We have an appeal before us. We have a public, we are in a public hearing. The appeal, the applicant appears to desire to withdraw the appeal. Is that just done? Good afternoon, Supervisor Stepett, City Attorney Brad Ressie. I think you should confirm with the project sponsor that they're on board with the withdrawal of the appeal and then proceed to public comment on this item before you take action. And would we take action on the item tabling? I think the action would be to affirm the planning to commission's decision and table the other items. All right. Thank you, Mr. Russy. Hello, you are with the applicant. Yes, Susan Corlette, Executive Director, Friends of the Children, SF Bay Area, and I affirm. All right, so the applicant and the appellant are in agreement and we can open this item to public comment. If there's any member of the public who wants to speak on to us on items 19, 20, 21 or 22, please line up. And since no one is doing that, public comment or this public hearing is closed. And then I think I would be looking for a motion to approve the CU authorization, which means approving item number 20 and table items 21 and 22. So moved by supervisor Walton, is there a second, seconded by Supervisor Fielder, and Madam Clerk, can you call the role on that motion? On that motion, Supervisor Walton. Walton, I Supervisor Chan. Chan, I Supervisor Chan. Chan, I Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I Supervisor and Guardio. And Guardio, I Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, I Supervisor Mamoud. Mamoud, I Supervisor Mand in cardio. In cardio, I supervise your fielder. Fielder, I supervise your mamud. Mamud, I supervise your mandolin. Aye. Mandolin, I supervise your melgar. Melgar, I supervise your Cheryl. Cheryl, aye, there are 10, aye's. All right, then without objection, item number 20 is approved. Items 21 and 22 are tabled. And I think we can go back to public comments. So those who have not provided public comment, please line up now. We will continue with the public commenters. Go ahead. Thank you. My name is Professor Stephen Zunis. I teach at the University of San Francisco. And I am, want to weigh in, in addition to some comments made last week for special memorial recognition of the late David Hartso, who died about a week and a half ago. Those of you who heard his testimony earlier know of his commitment to peace and justice, his earlier rest, and the civil rights movement, and opposition to the Vietnam War, but he continued. Indeed, he was a rest of just a few months ago, protesting arms shipments to foreign governments that were engaging in war crimes. But his advocacy for nonviolent resistance and support of freedom and justice was refreshingly non-ideological. As an American, he felt a special obligation to oppose war and defend human rights and Washington war responsibility, but he also defended the rights of those struggling against anti-American regimes as well. Long before most people even heard of Kulsavov, he was perhaps a single most active supporter in the United States States of the non-violent struggle by the ethnic Albanian majority struggling against the oppressive apartheid-like system imposed by the Serbs. And more people listened to him. We could have avoided the rise of the armed wing of the independence movement and the 11-week NATO bombing campaign that followed. His commitment was not just to causes, but his generosity to people here in San Francisco was immeasurable. He and his wife Jan allowed the rooms in their house and the hate to be made available for writers, scholars, activists, workers, and volunteers in the non-project sector who have otherwise had trouble affording to live here. And thanks to thanks to his generosity and able countless people contribute to the political and cultural life of the city as well as humanitarian work who otherwise would not have been able to do so. So thank you for your attention to this and for honoring a great San Francisco who is going to be sorely missed. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. My name is Jenna from the San Francisco Public Defenders Office and I rise to support the resolution condemning the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act is a shameful resurrection of a racist episode in our nation's history. We last invoked this act based on a fraudulent pretext to incarcerate Japanese community members during World War II. It was morally wrong then. It is morally wrong now. As a public defender, you might expect for me to talk about due process, especially in light of the Supreme Court's decision last night, lifting the restraining order and permitting the continued kidnapping and disappearances under the AEA to continue, so long as individuals are given so-called due process. But do not be fooled. Due process is a hollow promise from this Supreme Court. I have defended immigrants and deportation courts for over 10 years. I have seen the due process that has allowed my clients to be detained for years in private jails, only to be ordered removed by judges who deny 99.9% of asylum claims. Due process is not enough here. It has never been enough when we are talking about demonizing people in order to justify cruelty against them. As we speak, we are rendering people to a mega prison whose conditions are designed to inflict pain. We're talking about cells without mattresses, without sunlight, where people are being forced to eat food off the floor like dogs. We're talking about a place where the Salvadoran President has boasted, quote, we are going to wipe out these murderers and their collaborators. We will put them in prison and they will never get out. So what we need is not procedure, it is safety. The Alien Enemies Act makes us all unsafe. It is not only Venezuelans, but any of our- If you have any comments. Thank you for your comments, next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Francisco Garte. I'm the manager of the Immigration Defense Unit at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. I'd like to thank Supervisor Melgar for putting forward this resolution and for all supervisors who've co-sponsored the resolution against the alien enemies act. I just want to say one thing briefly. We are living through an assault on our fundamental freedoms and an attempt at mass deportation in a way we've never seen in this country. We can stop this only if we raise our voices, only if we are brave enough to raise our voices. And this resolution is just one step of many we need to take because it will if we do not raise our voices. And this resolution is just one step of many we need to take, because it will, if we do not raise our voices, these things are going to continue to happen. And we've proven our ability over and over and over again to defend fundamental due process and freedoms, not only for immigrants, but for all people. And this is an issue where all of us should be united on, because the Trump administration can come after immigrants, but there's nothing to stop it to come against anyone that it perceives as an enemy, which is exactly what this law was designed to address. So I just thank you so much. I invite you to join us and I also ask with all of my heart for the mayor's office to take a stand. We haven't heard from you much on this issue. We need to hear from you. Please. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is Ashley Milburn and I am an early child care provider. I'm standing here with the Black Early Educator Policy Council, a group that continuously advocates for Black Early Educators and the curious and courageous children of San Francisco convened by Children's Council of San Francisco. I'm proud to say that I'm a native who resides in Bayview Hunters Point District in. For this week of the young child, I wanted to call attention to the need to wholeheartedly support Black children and their families. with everything happening in our economy, our black children needs the adults to come together and be the leaders they entrust us all to be. And ensure our children are secure, safe, and poured into with educators who are trained and equipped to deliver the trauma informed and culturally competent care. We thank the Board of Supervisors for their hard work helping save baby prophecy funding during the last year's buzzer season. Yet there's a lot of other, there are a lot of early black educators still struggling greatly with equitable compensation, opportunities for higher education and credentials, playing fields for credit good credit in Home ownership and honestly the same needs that we've been having for needing for generations We thank the Department of early childhood and city and city and county of San Francisco for their current support, but we employ you to support more in public investments and as you continue to recruit and retain black early educators such as myself and not only the black children of San Francisco but all children of San Francisco. Let us take care of those who take care of our future. Thank you. Thank you, Pierre comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board supervisors. My name is Tammy Cake and I'm here to to talk to you about special SPOA Special Police Officers Association. It is an academy for security our individuals that have to better themselves by training and practicing the ideology that from each person, you can gain by examining the beliefs then and learning from our past choices that it is better to be positive and not to let the choices dictate our past as a failure that society tends to push you to believe in If you learn one thing let it be that life is a place to know you are the creator of your own destiny learn from the practice and training that you are able to be better if you want and believe in that ideology. It makes the actions you learn to know how to change and the situation because it's better when you know how to do better. Then you can teach others that it matters. The choices that you make can have a negative effect are a positive effect. By striving to, through this practice and training, you can learn how to grow in a positive manner. I think one of the best and most important choices are made by members who can, through self-betterment, you can learn how to choose the best way to handle a given situation. And that choice may be to ask for help. And what I was trying to get to was that SPOA needs your help a lot. They're losing the building on 14th and full sum. And I was hoping. Thank you for your comments. Apologies for cutting you off. We are providing everyone two minutes. Next speaker. President Mendelman and members of the Board of Supervisors, my name is Joyce Nakamura and I have been a resident district three for over 30 years. First of all, I'd like to thank Supervisor Melgar and all the sponsors of the Resolution Condemning President Trump's Use of the Alien Enemies Act. I am thankful that this resolution calls on our congressional representatives to repeal the ALEA by supporting the Neighbors Not Enemies Act. This power must be taken away. It must be stripped from the president as witnessed by Trump's recent use of the AEA to arrest without due process, detain and deport Venezuelan immigrants. Invocation of the AEA without a declaration of war by Congress and denial of fifth amendment rights of immigrants is unconstitutional. My 1942 my grandfather had spent nearly 30 years, 30 years, investing in the life and economy of this country, building his farming business, building community with his peers and raising his four U.S. born children. This life was destroyed overnight. He was denied citizenship. He was branded as an enemy of the U.S. by the A.E.A. My U.S. born mother was also targeted as disloyal. My grandfather lost his business and had to start all over again in his early 60s to rebuild his life's work. The Alien Enrizac must be repealed so the president cannot abuse the law and further violate our Constitution. It is overly broad and can be used to target individuals based only on national origin, only on national origin like my family was. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Thank you Supervisors. My name is Karl Decay. I'm the program director for civil liberties and community safety at the Asian law caucus. And I'm also the great grandchild of Judo Shiga, an immigrant who was arrested under the Alien Animes Act during World War II II. I'm here to thank Supervisor Melgar for your leadership and to speak in support of the resolution condemning President Trump's illegal invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. My great-grandfather immigrated from Japan in 1904 to live the American dream. Over nearly four decades he built a thriving sweater knitting business in Seattle, grieved his wife's death from tuberculosis, and raised their five American-born children to adulthood. But in January 1942, his dreams were shattered when two FBI agents came to Jura's house and arrested him as an enemy alien in front of his children. As he sat in a prison camp, his business was shut down and his pride was crushed. Juro did not live to see the end of the war. He died of a broken heart in spring of 1945. By illegally invoking the 1798 wartime power, President Trump is seeking to silence dissent and disappear parents, siblings, neighbors, and co-workers without due process based on who we are or where we came from. We cannot let this happen again. On behalf of ALC, I urge you to keep the memory of my great grandfather in your hearts and thank you for passing this resolution condemning this illegal abuse of power. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Thank you, good afternoon supervisors. My name is Carolyn Goosin, and on behalf of the Public Defender's Office and Public Defender Rejou, I wanted to give my utmost thanks to supervisor Melgar and her staff, Jen Lowe and Emma Hare, for their leadership in bringing forward the resolution condemning President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act. I also want to thank Carl and Joyce for sharing those very powerful stories. And thank you as well to the nine supervisors who has co-sponsored it. Just as thousands of San Francisco's took to the streets this weekend to oppose the cruel and malicious actions of this federal administration. We are all collectively taking a stand today through this resolution to oppose the use of this terrible act to deport without due process over 200 Venezuelan immigrants. The use of this act is dangerous and should shock the conscience of every American. As has been mentioned, some of those who were essentially kidnapped by the US government and sent to El Salvador have pending civil court dates to obtain immigration status. These individuals are now being held indefinitely in a country that suspended its own constitution with no speedy trail rights, no independent judiciary, and in a massive prison that has been condemned by human rights organizations for torture tactics and other human rights abuses. The Trump administration's use of this act is horrific, terrifying, and outrageous. But it has been inspiring these last few weeks to see so many come out in opposition in our city. Immigrant rights leaders and particularly Japanese-American community members and elders who have been vocal and passionate in their opposition to this act, as they are all too familiar with the disgusting abuse of power that is connected to it. So thank you supervisors for your support, and we urge a unanimous vote. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. My name is Chanel Brown here on behalf of the Black Early Educator Policy Council, a group that advocates on behalf of Black Early Educators and children in San Francisco, convened by Children's Council San Francisco. This week of the young child, I especially want to pay homage to the Black Early Educators as they have been the backbone of the child care industry since its inception. They need pay equity and more economic supports to sustain themselves in this field. Home ownership and financial literacy workshops could greatly help black early educators expand their family child care businesses which would open up more child care spaces for black families. We thank Supervisor Shaman Walton who participated in a site visit at Mom and Need is loving arms child care last year in district 10 And we thank the rest of the board as supervisors for their hard work Helping to save baby prop C funding during last year's budget season But a lot of our black FCC still struggle greatly with facility upgrades With all the rollbacks in the national education landscape our black children are very vulnerable. We thank the Department of Early Childhood and the City of San Francisco for their current support, but we need as much public investment as possible to continue recruiting and retaining Black early educators to not only support Black children, but all children in San Francisco. Again, we thank supervisors Melgar, Filder, Sotter, and Chan for sponsoring this week of the Young Child Resolution. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors for Becca Jackson, VP of Reentria at Community Ford and Co-Chair of the San Francisco Women's Housing Coalition. I can't help be caught up in the plight of the immigrants of our trans community. And I just want to remind everyone that women are silently being put to the test as well on the federal level. And so I am here begging you guys to unanimously support the resolution. Now is our time that we can declare San Francisco as a sanctuary for women who are seeking safe housing. And two weeks ago we were gathered outside. Thank you to all of you who supported us in that. Over 20 organizations saying that women in the time are now and we have a plan. And this resolution introduced by Supervisor Chan is just a call for us to coordinate and work together in a promise that you all see us. We are 40% of the unhoused population and we need to work together. We can make a big impact, but we can't be afraid to say the word woman and all that that means here and now and that's an inclusive statement. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is Liz Munagrad. I work for the low income investment fund and also a for C-PAC. We focus on expanding access to high quality early care and education in San Francisco. I want to thank you for your steadfast support of our youngest children and their families. And for recognizing this nationally celebrated week of the young child with this important early childhood education resolution. Thank you for your leadership and the critical funding from Baby Prop C. We've been able to make great progress. These dollars have helped educate and support early educators, increase salaries to aid in recruitment and retention, and most visibly expand access by building and renovating childcare facilities across the city. This year alone we will have invested almost $15 million into new sites and quality improvements that directly benefit our children's learning environments. As we move deeper into budget season we know there's still so much more to do. We hope you will continue to protect this funding and stand with San Francisco's children, families, and educators. Thank you again for your continued support in early care and education. Hey Supervisors, good afternoon. My name is Alex McCavskay, with the San Francisco Early Care and Education Advocacy Coalition. Thank you so much for celebrating and recognizing early care educators, young children and their families today with the resolution celebrating the week of the young child. We also thank you for your work hand in hand with us in the past years to protect child care funding. Those funds have done some pretty amazing things. They've raised many in our ECE workforce out of poverty level wages. They've helped incentivize future entrants into the workforce to secure the future and increase access so that San Francisco's children can be set up to be successful and thrive, just to name a few. As we tread into another uncertain budget season, I have to reiterate as Liz did how important protecting baby-prapcy funding is. That funding will allow some of the programs of four mentioned to continue and new programs, such as providing supports to children with special needs, for example, to emerge. The dreams of many children, families, and educators depend on that funding. So thank you again for all you do. I look forward to working with you all and the Department of Early Childhood to continue to make San Francisco a national leader on early care and education. And on behalf of the coalition, we look forward to hosting you all later this month for ECE site visits in your district. Thank you all. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hello, good afternoon supervisors. My name is Sierra Fisher, and I both live and work in the mission district, district nine. So I want to thank you guys for just considering our week of the Young Child Resolution or Item 35 and being here today to celebrate early care educators, young children and their families during the nationally recognized week of the young child. I'd like to reflect on the hard work, collaborative spirit, and commitment to early care and education, demonstrated by helping to secure childcare funding in the last year's budget cycle. Ultimately curtailing cuts, which would have been detrimental impacts to the expansion of this community. As you'll undoubtedly hear today, baby Prop-C funding has meant the world to this community, increasing educator wages to livable and more dignified compensation, expanding to new EC sites and increasing access to affordable and quality childcare across the city. These funds ensure proper investments are made into improving young children's lives and setting them up for success in their most critical and formative years. So thank you again for continuing to uplift the children, families, and educators within our San Francisco, ECE community. We look forward to having each of you at our upcoming visits across a child care site in your district. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon President Mandolin and Board of Supervisors. My name is Sarah Hicks-Kill Day. I'm with the early care educators of San Francisco and the San Francisco Advocacy Coalition. I want to speak first on commanding you on putting forward resolution 31 and recognize is the good talk from many people in the public. I am here to speak to resolution 35, appreciating you for recognizing the importance of early care and education during the week of young children. I want you to both thank you and remind you of last year's agreements to make sure the Prop-C funding is maintained for its purpose for early care and education. And we'll work with you towards that commitment in this hard budget year again. The over 100 educators that I've met with during the last week have both expressed their appreciation for the compensation rollout that has come so far. The professional development pathways have come so far as well as talked in detail about how that could be made even more robust and talked about how their services could be made more quality with the increased compensation ability to move on to specialize in certain areas and integrate that into the teams they work with to serve special needs children. Their ideas are innovative and have never been in a place where they feel ready to make them really move into action. I look forward to visiting at site visits and hearing more about this during the few months ahead. Thank you again. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hello, Supervisors. My name is Ryan Hazleton. I'm a resident of D6. I'm the executive director of Mara Posakids in D9 and a member of CPAC. pack and I'm here to speak today in celebration of week of the early child and the proclamation for early childhood education in our city. I thank the board for the previous support of investment in early childhood education. And as the school district really focuses on their success, I want to remind everyone here that investment in early childhood education leads to kindergarten readiness, which can improve school district performance overall. And to bring in the energy that we saw over the weekend here in Civic Center, let's go into budget season with the idea of hands off baby Prop C. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hello, my name is Virginia Taylor. I'm Senior Policy Advisor at Safe and Sound. Safe and Sound is San Francisco's child abuse and neglect prevention organization. I'm here today for the Family Services Alliance, which represents over 40 family support organizations serving more than 30,000 San Francisco families each year. In support of the week of, I'm here in support of the week of the Young Child Resolution. The Family Services Alliance wants to express our heartfelt gratitude to our city's early childhood educators and family support workers for their dedication to making a positive difference in the lives of San Francisco's youngest children and families. We extend our gratitude to the Board of Supervisors for this resolution as April is also Child Abuse Awareness Month. Quality child care and family support are crucial in enabling families to stabilize their lives, which prevents child abuse and neglect. The city's investment in these services have contributed to the city's 60% reduction and child abuse and neglect. The city's investment in these services have contributed to the city's 60% reduction in child abuse and neglect over the past 20 years. Thank you to the board and the Department of Early Childhood for your leadership. But as we celebrate these successes we recognize that our work is far from over. Building on the progress made the city must continue to support children from birth to five and their families stable families and thriving children create a safer San Francisco We look forward to continuing this essential work together ensuring that every San Francisco child from zero to five and their families can thrive Thank you for your support. Thank you for your comments next speaker Hello, good afternoon. My name is Vanessa Boam and I work for the Central American Resource Center. We are an immigrant rights and advocacy organization that has been serving low-income families and immigrant families in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area since 1985 through a variety of direct service programs. We are here today to express our support for the resolution condemning Trump's AEA. As an organization, the offers low-cost legal immigration services and as part of a greater network of other local organizations providing critical legal immigration support services. We work day in and day out to protect the rights of our immigrant community members. The invoking of the Alien Enemies Act against people who migrate and those who protest the current federal administration denies them of their rights to do process and much more. We wholeheartedly believe that the City of San Francisco should protect immigrant rights. We know that our community is support you all and will continue to support you all as you take further action to protect immigrant rights. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon board of supervisors. My name is Linda Mack Birch and I am an early childhood educator. I am also a resident of San Francisco, a proud resident. I have been here for over 30 years. I am also a member of the Black Early Education Policy Council, which is convened by San Francisco's Children's Council. And as I said earlier, I'm a resident here also. But this week of the young child, I especially want to call your attention to the support of Black children and families, and not just black children and family, but all of our children. And I also want to thank you for Prop C, all of your hard work and just for your support that you have continued to give us. But we know that we're in some difficult times, we're in some lean years, but we still need to plead to you and call out to you to please continue to support us. We thank you for your Department of Early Childhood Education and the City of San Francisco for their support and as I said earlier we need to keep supporting our black children there our future our early educators we need we still need equitable pay we need financial literacy we need as, as we know, we live in the Bay Area and housing costs are very high, especially for family childcare center providers. So again, I wanna thank you and continue to support us as we continue to support you and the great city of San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hi, my name is Nossan Potash and I'm the rabbi at Chabad of Kovale here in San Francisco. I'm here to support the board of supervisors resolution declaring Wednesday April 9th, 2025 education and sharing day San Francisco. And I want to thank Board President Supervisor Mandelman for his leadership. The Rebel, Rebel Mehlachem Andelschnerson of righteous memory, taught that every individual and, in fact, every individual action has an impact on the entire universe. The Rebel emphasized the importance of education and go character. And the Rebel taught that education in general should not be limited to the acquisition of knowledge and preparation for a career. Instead, the educational system must pay more attention to the building of character with emphasis on moral and ethical values. Over the last four decades, the US Congress has set aside education in sharing day marking the anniversary of the Rebus birth, and tribute to his commitment to teaching the next generation of Americans' noble values and morals. This day provides Americans the opportunity to pause and recognize our responsibility to ensure that our young people have the foundation necessary to lead lives, rich and purpose and fulfillment. Last week, Mayor Lurie signed a proclamation designating Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, as Education and Sharing Day in San Francisco. And I'm standing before you to share my support for the Board of Supervisors Resolution initiated by Board President Supervisor Manelman. This resolution is a call to all residents of San Francisco to reflect on the vital role of education in preparing our youth to be the leaders of tomorrow, with an emphasis on inspiring them of their moral and ethical obligation to serve a cause greater than themselves and instilling in their minds and hearts, the empowering message that one act of kindness can tip the balance of the world in favor of positivity. May our city serve as a beacon of light for people of all faiths and walks of light. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hello everyone. My name is Bevap Brackett. I wanted to thank Super Reza Melgar and for her resolution in support of rejecting Trump's cruel use of wartime actions to deport non-citizens. I also like to thank Super Reser Shema Walton for his support of the African-American early childhood alliance. And I also urge that you support those and new and upcoming childhood educators with the pathway for them to own their own homes and building in spaces so that we can have more child care facilities and home-based child care for families. I know that typical 9-5 child care doesn't always work for all families. They have different working hours and these home-based child care centers kind of feel that gap in need. But I'm actually here today to urge you to re- urging all of our supervisors today to for each of you to review the October 1st, 2024 OCI commission meeting, specifically items 5C and 5D as they highlight glaring failures in our CISI systems and oversight processes. These items underscore what many of us already know, our most vulnerable residents are being left behind while developers and property management companies with city contracts continue to operate without proper accountability or compliance. Yesterday you heard directly from residents of the Alice Griffith, affordable housing development about the uninhabitable conditions they are forced to endure in silence. Conditions continue and include broken elevators, ADA violations and even feces on the children's playground. This is not just unacceptable, it's unaccountable and these families live in a development that is less than five years old and yet the conditions resemble those of neglected been buildings many decades older. Following the October 1st meeting, RLCI had commissioned voted to approve the creation of a housing task force. An important step forward that task force was intended to not only address the issues in crisis at Alice Griffith, but also to work to drafting new legislation that would allow OCI to main hand conservatism over their sites. It builds, ensuring quicker and more effective responses to future issues. However, despite the promise. Thank you for fair comments. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is Barbara Walden. I work for MNC Inspiring Success and I'm also here on behalf of the Black Early Educator Policy Council, a group that advocates on behalf of Black Early Educators and Children in San Francisco, convened by Children's Council of San Francisco. Thank you for celebrating early care educators, young children and their families today during this nationally recognized week of the young child, and your hard work helping to save childcare funding during last year's budget season. Marginalized communities are being targeted, and children, especially Black children, are the most at risk and vulnerable of these marginalized communities. Head start and other subsidized childcare that provides for these communities are also under attack. Now more than ever we need to stand together. The city must show us how much they truly value childcare. Despite current challenges, I am very appreciative of the Department of Early Childhood and all they have done for educators and children via baby prophecy implementation. Compensation support, workforce pathway, stipends for educator's sequel and other amazing initiatives. San Francisco is a model for childcare in the nation. We thank the EEC and San Francisco for their current support, but we need as much public investment as possible to continue to recruit, retrain, retain, and support Black early educators to not only support Black children, but all children in San Francisco. The San Francisco ECE advocacy coalition will be inviting all the view to child care sites in your districts. I look forward to having you visit some of my campuses in the near future. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hi, everyone. My name is Robin Crop. And I'm here to say a few words about my friend, David Hart. So, I'm a thanks Supervisor Mandelman for reading an immemorial firm today. David and his family live in the Haydash Bay for 50 years. He was a local and a global peace activist. And I think the first thing I want to say is I'd like to invite people to go listen to him and his own words on YouTube. You can look for him reading the first couple chapters of his book, Waging Peace, Global Adventures of a Lifetime activist that's him talking to us. This also a wonderful interview of him January 20, 2020 with him talking to the Peace Workers organizations. His stories are marvelous. They're so inspiring. And then also, USF here in our city gave him a lifetime achievement award for his work. And I recommend that you watch that because we have at least 15 leaders talking about him and his work and how they were affected by him. So he has so much to teach about nonviolence. And I think I just feel like I want to see him keep teaching. He used to say just a few people could encourage more people, could encourage more people. And one of my favorite stories is when he was integrating the lunch counters in Arlington, Virginia when he was a student at 20. And a man came up to him with a switchblade knife and threatened him. And David looked at him and said, friend, do what you believe is best to do. but I will still try to love you. And the man's hand shook and he dropped the knife and walked out. And that showed David the power of nonviolent and loving response. And so he basically, I think he had a lot of successes. Like here at the Comfort Naval Weapons Station, just a few of them blockaded. And then when Brian Wilson had his legs cut off, 10,000 of us went, we tore up the railroad tracks, and then 50 peace organizations were there for two and a half years, and they stopped those weapons from going to Central America. That's one story out of hundreds that I could tell. So thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Well, I'm torn between two. I want to talk about how I pray for Tom Homan and President Trump that I thank God for, and religion. And there's really nothing more important that Palm Sunday is coming up. So I'm going to talk about religion. Now in our holy religion it's called Christianity. We believe that Jesus actually wrote a donkey, two of them, in fulfillment of a prophecy in Zechariah. And as he was writing the donkeys, they said, Hoseanna, to the son of David, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And Jesus made a very telling statement as all of them are. He said, if these were altogether to hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. Now in Psalm 118, I'm not sure when that was written and by whom it was written, but it says the stone, which the builders refused, is become the headstone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now I beseech the O Lord. Now when they said, Huzanna, that's what they were saying. They were saying, save us from the Roman Empire and their cruelty. And government is designed by God to protect the people from the criminal elements. Now we probably have 40 million illegal aliens that have served the border and have become felons because they have served the border. fulfillment of Joe's prophecy when they stole the election in 2020 to surge the border. But this is also prophetic because the sun is being darkened right now. When I think about Latisha James, she's such a hypocrite. Quoting scriptures. God. Jesus had zero tolerance for hypocrisy. See, by the grace of God, I'm not a hypocrite. I'm telling you the truth, okay? Jesus saves. Next speaker, please. My name is Richard S.T. Peterson. I've obviously talked here before and I want to express my disappointment that the city is not granting permits. Permits, permits, permits, permits. How are you going to build in this city if you don't grant permits? I've been waiting eight years for a permit, although I paid the planning department over $15,000. I had to finally change my profession. Now I'm attempting to be a fortune teller, and I paid my money from my fortune telling permit. It still is not issued. Permits, permits, permits. Oh, and a shout out for Mimi Haas. Love you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hi. Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors. Where to begin. So the other day I was in downtown San Francisco, a union square at one of my favorite restaurants, the Cafe Central. I was at the counter ordering breakfast or brunch, whatever. And before I knew it out of the blue, I was assaulted. I was physically physically assaulted from behind and before I could realize what was going on, I look over my shoulder, there's an arm reaching over me, somebody's reaching for the cash in the register till and once I realized it was a robbery I stopped that guy and I held him down until the police got there and unfortunately that's not the first time that's happened. That's the second rest of robbery. I've stopped in Union Square several months before that. The Pine Crest Diner was robbed. And I chased that guy down from Geary Street to Powell Street. The newspaper made me out to be the bad guy. A few months later, they let that same robber out of jail. He went back to the same place and assaulted an innocent Latina woman. God would have it that I was just so happened to be walking by, and I placed him under a citizen's arrest a second time. The chaos and lawlessness happening in our community is widespread. It's not just one neighborhood in a common theme throughout all of this is drugs. And we need to stop the drug dealers. We need to deport the fentanyl dealers, not give fentanyl dealers the same rights and respects as indigenous Native Americans. We need to deport the fentanyl dealers, and we need to remove fentanyl from our community once and for all fentanyl showing up on playgrounds and in schools Children are overdosing You guys are supposed to be our leaders and every day we're walking the streets and we're seeing the decline of Western civilization Everywhere you look are the signs Thank you. Thank you. All right. I believe that unless there are other speakers, public comment is closed. All right. All right. All right. So we give everybody, we give everybody two minutes and you're welcome to come back. But we got to go on to our meeting. All right, let's go to our for adoption of that committee reference agenda items 26 through 38. Items 26 through 38 were introduced for adoption, but without committee reference. A unanimous vote is therefore required for adoption of a resolution on first appearance today. Alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee. Thank you Madam Clerk. Sorry to jump the gun there. Looks like Supervisor Melgar has something. Yes, I'd like to, at several items, 30, 31 and 35, please. All right, you got 30, 31, 35, and nobody else has anything? All right, so on the remaining balance of the items Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Yes, Supervisor Walton. Walton, I supervisor Chan. Chan, I supervisor Chan. Chan, I supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I supervisor and cardio. And cardio, I supervisor filter. Filter, I supervisor Mahood. Mahood, I supervisor Maldoneman. I. Maldoneman, I supervisor Melgar. I. Melgar, I supervisor Cheryl. Cheryl, I supervise her, Manzaman. Aye. Manzaman, I supervise her, Melgar. Aye. Melgar, I supervise her, Cheryl. Cheryl, aye, there are 10, aye's. All right. Without objection, resolutions are adopted and the motions are approved. And then, Madam Clerk, can you please call item 30? Yes, item 30 is a resolution waving the Department of Public Works permit fee, and Board of Appeals fee associated with Detroit Steps project. Supervisor Melgar? Thank you so much in working with our city attorney this week we discovered a procedural error. So I need to send this resolution to committee to budget and finance. So I'd like to make a motion that we send this to committee. All right, there's motion to send this item to committee. Is there a second? Don't you motion? Just send it. Thank you. No motion and it's going. Okay, great, thank you. Any member can do that or I need to do that without any member. That's right because it's on the floor. Thank you. All right. There we go. Thank you former President Walden. All right. Madam Clerk, can you please call item 31? Yes, item 31 is a resolution condemning President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport non-citizens as an abuse of power and threat to our constitutional order. Super-Resmelgar. Okay. Thank you, colleagues. For your support and co-sponsorship of this important resolution, we are living in dangerous times. The Alien Enemies Act is being misused to justify mass deportations under the false pretense that the violent actions of a few constitute an invasion by the country of Venezuela. This act has a painful history, particularly for Japanese Americans, that should not be overlooked. It was used as a basis for one of the most egregious acts of our country's history, the mass arrest of Japanese immigrants and the incarceration of Japanese Americans. This action represents yet another example of dangerous overreach of the executive power and direct and direct attack of our constitutional protections. We must stand against it and call on our congressional leaders to repeal the alien enemies act through the passage of the Neighbors Not Enemies Act, which is HR Bill 630 and Senate Bill 193. I want to take a moment to appreciate everyone who came for public comment today and who has helped in drafting this resolution to come out in support. Some of these are the immigration unit of the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, Public Defender Manu Raju, and others in his office. Carl Taque with the Asian Law Caucus and Moli Marasi at the Japan Town Task Force. Joyce Nakamura, the Nihomachi Community Coalition in all of its members' organizations. And I also want to thank all of the Japanese community API leaders and the immigrant rights leaders who held a press conference in Japan Town 2.5 weeks ago to call attention to this issue, including John Osaki, Satzuki Ina Dean Ito, Grace Shimizu, Reverend Deb Lee, Bay Area Day of Remembrance, and the Nihomachi Community Coalition and organizations. Lastly, I want to make a motion to adopt an amendment to clarify a word in the resolution to accurately reflect that during 1944, the Alien Enemy Act was authorized to arrest Japanese immigrant community leaders. Immigrant community leaders. This change is on page one, line 25, and I have shared that language with everyone. Thank you President Mendelman. Thank you, Supervisor Melgar. Thank you for this resolution. I think we're going to be finding new offenses weekly, pretty much to be calling out and condemning. And I know there's an eye having the desire not to hyperventilate and overreact to things, but this is extraordinary. I mean, I think 70, something like 75% of these folks have no criminal record. Some of them are being carted off because they have tattoos, a particular person is a gay hairdresser who, like, you go back through his social media over like 10 years, and it's very gay and not very gangy. And if you think that this is happening to people who are legally seeking asylum or status here in this country, this can happen to any immigrant. It can happen actually to any native born person because they're not using due process to determine who gets sent off to this hellhole in the prison in El Salvador without any rights at all and how long are they going to be there. So thank you Supervisor Melgar. I think that we need a second for your proposed amendment seconded by Walton. I think we can take that without objection and then we can and so the motion that without objection the resolution is amended. And then I think we can take the amended resolution, same house, same call, without objection, the amended resolution is adopted. All right. Applause is okay. Why not? Actually, we're not supposed to. It's right exactly. Okay. And then Madam Clerk, if you could call item number 35. Item 35 is the resolution celebrating early care educators and families of young children during the week of the young child, April 5th through April 11th, 2025, and reaffirming the city's commitment to establishing a universal, inclusive early care and education system that expands access, reduces barriers, addresses affordability, and leverages strategic partnerships. Supervisor Melgar. Okay, colleagues, happy week of the young child in the city and county of San Francisco. I'm excited to celebrate this annual week to honor all the hard work of our early educators and the families of young children. Thank you to all the advocates who are here today. Many of us will be visiting early care education sites on our respective districts at this month. And it's honestly one of my favorite things to do because I love seeing the toddlers and the babies. It is magical to look at or quality early education in nurturing environments provided by people who are passionate and care about our children. Early care educators are essential to our city, but are so severely underpaid and underappreciated for the work that they do. This workforce is predominantly women of color, which further, you know, highlights the disparities and inequities in our society. Still, San Francisco remains a leader, and I would be remiss not to acknowledge the champions for childcare who have come before I simply paid the way for where we are today from a president in Normandy and Jane Kim in the voters of San Francisco who passed a historic baby Prop C with a goal of raising wages for these workers with a formation of the Department of Early Education, Early Care Educators are seeing increase in their wages and more investment in their professional development. And we have seen a decrease of 73% in the wait list since 2018. However, we still have a lot of opportunities for growth and expansion so that we can fulfill the promise that we made to the voters for universal childcare. This includes expanding slots for families like like middle-income families, but also for babies, in making room for the tiny ones. We need to remove more barriers, leverage partnerships with employers and organizations, and I also believe that creation of these slots is a way for our downtown recovery. This is where we need them. We also should be looking at more interventions for children with special needs, children who are different, and more focused investments in our Black Indigenous English language learners and Pacific Islander families. I want to express my deepest gratitude to our early educators for their work and of course acknowledge the advocacy of the Child Care Planning, Care and Advisory Council. Thanks for being here. Parent voices, the Black Early Educator Policy Council, the Low Income Investment Fund, Children's Council, and other organizations that have been relentless in their fight for universal early care and education. And I hope as we go through this difficult budget season, we don't turn our backs on our promise. Thank you, colleagues, for your support. Thank you, supervisor Melgar, for this resolution. And with that, if no one else has anything to say, I think we can take this item, same house, same call without objection, the resolution is adopted. And, also with the, okay. And Madam Clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items? We do not have any imperative items today. OK. Then, Madam Clerk, can you please read the in-memoriums? Yes. Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individual on behalf of President Mandelman for the late Dr. Mr. David Hartso. And I believe that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam Clerk, is there any further business before us today? That concludes our business for today. Thank you.