# Board of Supervisors Minutes: November 9, 2021 - Meeting date: 2021-11-09 - Document type: minutes - Source format: PDF - Extracted pages: 21 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/804/2021-11-09-minutes) - [Authoritative City source](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=903780&GUID=8B133496-7617-4F5F-81E2-4530187A5C84) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City source is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 211145: Final Map No. 10341 - 3310 Mission Street - Pages: 14-15 - Vote 1: approval, likely final - Action: 211145 [Final Map No. 10341 - 3310 Mission Street] Motion approving Final Map No. 10341, an eight residential unit and two commercial unit, mixed-use condominium project, located at 3310 Mission Street, being a subdivision of Assessor’s Parcel Block No. 6635, Lot No. 054; and adopting findings pursuant to the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1. (Public Works) Motion No. M21-156 APPROVED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton - Absent: Haney ### File 211157: Recognizing November as National Native American Heritage Month - Pages: 15-16 - Sponsors: Ronen; Chan, Mandelman, Preston, Walton, Peskin, Safai, Melgar, Mar and Stefani - Vote 1: other - Action: ions of relocated intertribal American Indian nations in California; and’ to ‘where they would be forced to assimilate. American Indian cultural centers became the cultural foundation for American Indians in Urban communities resulting in California being one of the highest populations of relocated intertribal Nations. Today 90 percent of American Indian populations live in urban cities like San Francisco; and’; Line 20, by changing ‘movements’ to ‘actions’ and changing ‘including’ to ‘notably’; on Page 2, Line 23, through Page 3, Line 2, by changing ‘broken treaties, and was the catalyst for President Nixon’s return of the sacred Blue Lake, 48,000 acres back to the Taos Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico; and’ to ‘broken and unratified treaties, exposing the genocide of California Indian Nations and the extraction of their environmental resource funded by the federal government and state of California; and’; on Page 3, Lines 19-20, by changing ‘Native peoples of Native Americans to the culture of the United States’ to ‘of American Indians’, Line 22, by changing ‘Native Americans’ to ‘American Indians’; and on Page 4, by adding ‘cultural humility’. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton - Absent: Haney - Vote 2: adoption, likely final - Action: Resolution recognizing November 1, 2021, through November 30, 2021, as National Native American Heritage Month for their contributions to our nation and as first peoples of San Francisco, celebrating the heritages and cultures of Native Americans and the contributions of Native Americans to the United States, and encouraging all people to participate in activities and events to learn about and understand the contribution of indigenous people to this land. Resolution No. 526-21 ADOPTED AS AMENDED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton - Absent: Haney ## Extracted text ### [Page 14](https://sfbos.info/documents/804/2021-11-09-minutes#page-14) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 11/9/2021 PUBLIC COMMENT Anastasia Yovanopolous; expressed support of newly introduced legislation urging the institutionalization of a sensitive communities map in the General Plan Housing Element. Kara Galavan; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Shawn Carberry; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Maria Ahnich; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Donnie Centric; expressed concerns regarding the concentration of homeless in District 6. Rocky Shawlin; expressed support of newly introduced legislation 1) apologizing to the Chinese American community and 2) prohibiting factory farms. John Arne; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Anna; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Candy Anne Merrill; expressed concerns regarding current health orders and visitor restrictions for those in medical care. Maryanne Merlay; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Almira; expressed support of newly introduced legislation prohibiting factory farms. Carolyn; shared personnel concerns regarding the Department of Public Health. Francisco Da Costa; expressed concerns regarding public comment and needed street repairs. James Elword; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Jean Walsh; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Mary Alonzo; expressed concerns regarding a Public Works urban forestry project at St. Mary’s Park and the College Avenue median. Supervisor Haney was noted absent at 4:47 p.m. and for the remainder of the meeting. FOR ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE REFERENCE 211145 [Final Map No. 10341 - 3310 Mission Street] Motion approving Final Map No. 10341, an eight residential unit and two commercial unit, mixed-use condominium project, located at 3310 Mission Street, being a subdivision of Assessor’s Parcel Block No. 6635, Lot No. 054; and adopting findings pursuant to the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1. (Public Works) Motion No. M21-156 APPROVED by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Chan, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton Absent: 1 - Haney City and County of San Francisco Page 909 Printed at 2:54 pm on 12/10/21 ### [Page 15](https://sfbos.info/documents/804/2021-11-09-minutes#page-15) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 11/9/2021 Severed from the For Adoption Without Committee Reference Agenda Supervisor Ronen requested that File No. 211157 be severed so it they may be considered separately. 211157 [Recognizing November as National Native American Heritage Month] Sponsors: Ronen; Chan, Mandelman, Preston, Walton, Peskin, Safai, Melgar, Mar and Stefani Resolution recognizing November 1, 2021, through November 30, 2021, as National Native American Heritage Month for their contributions to our nation and as first peoples of San Francisco, celebrating the heritages and cultures of Native Americans and the contributions of Native Americans to the United States, and encouraging all people to participate in activities and events to learn about and understand the contribution of native peoples to this land. Supervisors Mandelman, Preston, Walton, Peskin, Safai, Melgar, Mar, and Stefani requested to be added as co-sponsors. Supervisor Ronen, seconded by Supervisor Preston, moved that this Resolution be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE, on Page 1, Line 8, by changing ‘native peoples’ to ‘indigenous people’, Line 14, by adding ‘and’ after ‘Francisco’, Lines 17-18, by changing ‘and non-federally recognized tribes throughout California; and’ to ‘recognized and 75 non-federally recognized Nations petitioning for recognition in California; and’; on Page 1, Line 23, through Page 2, Line 3, by adding ‘WHEREAS, The City and County of San Francisco formally recognized in 2019 the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco as a virtual Cultural Center. The first American Indian Center (AIC) in San Francisco started in the 1940s to create an identity for American Indian people, providing programming space and resources for American Indians in the Urban areas. These community and cultural centers hold a strong history and cultural foundation for American Indians in San Francisco; and’; on Page 2, Line 10, by changing ‘as many’ to ‘over’, Line 11, by changing ‘reservation’ to ‘ancestral’ and ‘identified’ to ‘such as’, Lines 12-17, by changing ‘as one of the top four urban job centers which resulted in San Francisco Bay Area having one of the highest populations of relocated intertribal American Indian nations in California; and’ to ‘where they would be forced to assimilate. American Indian cultural centers became the cultural foundation for American Indians in Urban communities resulting in California being one of the highest populations of relocated intertribal Nations. Today 90 percent of American Indian populations live in urban cities like San Francisco; and’; Line 20, by changing ‘movements’ to ‘actions’ and changing ‘including’ to ‘notably’; on Page 2, Line 23, through Page 3, Line 2, by changing ‘broken treaties, and was the catalyst for President Nixon’s return of the sacred Blue Lake, 48,000 acres back to the Taos Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico; and’ to ‘broken and unratified treaties, exposing the genocide of California Indian Nations and the extraction of their environmental resource funded by the federal government and state of California; and’; on Page 3, Lines 19-20, by changing ‘Native peoples of Native Americans to the culture of the United States’ to ‘of American Indians’, Line 22, by changing ‘Native Americans’ to ‘American Indians’; and on Page 4, by adding ‘cultural humility’. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Chan, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton Absent: 1 - Haney Resolution recognizing November 1, 2021, through November 30, 2021, as National Native American Heritage Month for their contributions to our nation and as first peoples of San Francisco, celebrating the heritages and cultures of Native Americans and the contributions of Native Americans to the United States, and encouraging all people to participate in activities and events to learn about and understand the contribution of indigenous people to this land. Resolution No. 526-21 ADOPTED AS AMENDED by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Chan, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton Absent: 1 - Haney City and County of San Francisco Page 910 Printed at 2:54 pm on 12/10/21