martin luther king, jr., a man who worked. london breed is qualified. please do the right thing and let her stay in her seat and govern this city. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good evening, board of supervisors, i want to say, we don't need a caretaker, we need to vote for interim, or leave it as acting. i say this only because we have a misunderstanding about the politics in the city of san francisco. we say that we want someone to run this city, fight for us, be there for us, carry out mayor ed lee's legacy. this is what our board of supervisors president has been doing. since mayor lee passed away. we need to show the respect, the loyalty that we have for you guys voted her twice as board president. i was watching the news today, they said this is the year of the woman. and being that i come from a powerful woman, mother, and she was a great woman, a great leader, who taught me more than values, i think that we need to honor that by leaving our african-american acting or interim mayor in place to carry out the city and the duties that th

all of our schools and offices will be closed on monday, january 15 in observance of martin luther king day. >> vice-president mendoza-mcdonnell: our acting mayor, london breed, was a proud graduate of galileo high school. item 5 is recognition and resolution of commendations. superintendent matthews? >> we'll begin with digital schools recognition and i'm asking chief truitt to come forward to present. >> thank you, superintendent matthews, and good evening, president mendoza-mcdonnell and vice president cook and our commissioners of the board of education, and welcome deputy superintendent brad stamp. in support of global, local goals in vision 2025, sfusd wants to be sure that all members have the proficiency to thrive in a digital landscape. the district partnered with common sense media several years ago to provide teachers, students and families with appropriate digital literacy aligned to every grade level k-12 and i want to stop for one moment and say that i know that merv is here from common sense media. there you are. hi. thank you, merv, greatest partner from common sense. he

upcoming this week, we have several festivities related to martin luther king day. there will be a parade monday, january 15th. sfpd will attend and participate there's a town school m.l.k. freedom march january 12th from 9:30 to 11:00. there's also a annual m.l.k. march in golden gate park this friday and m.l.k. march on thirw saturday january 13th from 9:00 to 11:00. that is it for the significant events for this week. the last thing i have to report, an update, this was an request from commissioner hertz on our chapter 96 data analysis. i believe the issue was where are we in terms of data analysis ? the department and i have said several times that we're trying to secure private or independent research to help with that analysis. so we have two independent, one academic institution, one non-profit institution that we are in m.o.u. negotiations with. we hope to have that done in a very short amount of time. i was gone back and fourth with some of the language and we have an agreement with principle with one of the entities. the other one their attorneys are looki

normally, it would be scheduled for the 15th of january , but since that is martin luther king, jr., holiday birthday, we will have it that next wednesday at 6:00 p.m. >> thank you. a >> just wanted to report that we had very successful presentations at the csba annual education conference attended by the superintendent, president walton, and commissioner norton. we -- i presented -- moderated two panels, one on trauma informed approaches, and the second one on new kummer schools. i encouraged my colleagues to look at the professional development trainings that are coming up. there's a two day training in san francisco over the summer, so really happy with the panels that we were able to present and bring greetings from superintendent janet schultz who used to work in our school district. her district in the east bay won their first golden bella ward. >> -- bell award. >> and we want to thank dr. merase who sat on the committee and helped plan the conference. thank you so much for your dead indication to that wo -- dedication. thank you. section m, other informational items. staff re

i do want to acknowledge my amazing team who hosted last friday's martin luther king day celebration at the rec center. our staff just did an amazing job in organizing celebrations, legacy of dr. king. it included our annual rec centre, which was the 34th annual community celebration, but it also included a family-free swim day at the pool in bayview and three other pools around the city and a number of volunteer work parties around the city in honor of the national day of service. our recreation staff including bob, jackie, lorraine, and linda, our aquatic staff, our volunteered division all deserve kudos for helping us celebrate and remember the positive impact that dr. king's life had on our nation particularly at a time when our country could use reminding. i want to acknowledge and thank our speakers including the honorable brown, who gave an amazing speech and special shout tout margaret macarthur for her help in facilitating mayor brown's appearance. i want to thank our terrific police chief, chief bill scott, for coming to the event, bringing his team and for his remarks and

on january 15th, monday is a holiday but many of us will be in the martin luther king march starting at 11:00 a.m. at the cal tran station and this follows the meeting on the 24th but on the 26th, if anyone is interested, station five and you'll get at the next meeting deputy chief nicholson's report where she'll talk about work with the puc, some of us are meeting with them on awss issues, different options. i believe there's a hearing for awss- -- president cleaveland, your concerns and points. but on the 26th station five will have the topping off ceremony, basically when the steel has -- the steel completion of the project. that's our division two house. many of us will be there at 1:00 p.m. we'll provide you further detail. it's something that department of public works does with the contractor. but we have been invited as well. it's a milestone if you will related to the project. at the next meeting you'll get an update on where we're at with station five, 16, 35, the adf, all that will come in that report. that concludes my report. i wanted to ask for consideration at the end

martin luther king said three days before he was executed, they mechanized our farms. we put the roots in the ground. our farms. our land. and i have a dream speech, he said, we're in exile in our own land, we need to wake up, amnesia has to end, this spell has to end. we're the indigenous people of the land, a majority. the president says to -- and history one of you i hope will be back. i'm looking for a champion, i need it for recognition for digits people, paleo-americans. thank you. >> clerk: before the next speaker begins, are there any other members that would like to address the board during general comment. you may address the board on the process to appoint the successor mayor. in a couple of minutes we're going to take up the items -- 40 and 41. and you can then provide your preferred nominee to the board so they can then appoint that individual hopefully. please proceed, sir. >> good afternoon to the board. my name is joshua herbert. i was a resident of d-5 but evicted from a rent controlled residence from loopholes navigated by my millionaire landlords. as

but martin luther king said no lie lives forever. and eventually that science got accepted and it led to this cascade of policies to reduce smoking from warnings on packages, banning cigarette advertisements on television, increasing cigarette tax, banning smoking on airplanes, selling to minors and restaurants. and today we've cut smoking down to 15%. and it's projected to fall 12% by 2020. one of the biggest public health success stories in our country's history. and i think the world has a smoking problem. and we're dealing with this exact same junk science dynamic with the fossil fuel industry that i think this is the trajectory that we're going to follow. and with that, i'll stop. thanks. [ applause ] >> commissioner ching ting wan: thank you so much for your presentation. it's very exciting, and thank you for the advice to continue to be bold in san francisco. and all over. commissioners' questions. we're going to take questions and then i think we'll also have questions after we have questions for commissioner huckshield. that

many of us, including president cleaveland on january 15th participated in the martin luther king march from the caltrain station to yerba buena guards, so thank you for marching to us, and some of the members of the audience came with us, as well, so thank you very much. the deputies and i as well as assistant deputy chief rivera attended the labor manager meeting which is monthly with local 798 executive board. it's always a fairly productive exchange of ideas and topics, so we've been good of keeping that on a regular basis with local 798. on the 17th, and i know chief nicholson might highlight this in some of her reports, some of items that i'm mentioning, but we did met with the nrt advisory board on the 17th. we try to do that on a quarterly basis, and that was with assistant chief jeff columbini. this is the civilian nrt advisory board, and that's also a very productive exchange. the categories for us sort of all the work and the class that have been attended in the 2017 year and just different ideas for moving forward and making sure that that program, which is very vital, ai kn