Remarks by Myrna Melgar
19 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I'm a little afraid of this thing now. Thank you. Could I have Joanne come up, please? Joanne Giavanoni. There you are. Colleagues, today we are honoring the spirit of adventure and exploration in a woman who has made her career out of sharing her love of travel with her clients and her students and our city. Joanne Giovannoni has run Portal World Travel on Ocean Avenue for 47 years. During that time, she has shared her experience and expertise with hundreds of appreciative customers who know her to be an expert for all details, great and small. She has organized trips for customers to…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, President. I just wanted to start out by thanking my colleagues on the Budget Committee and also Supervisor Fielder for calling the hearing. I particularly want to thank Supervisor Chen for her work on this. She got us to a place of agreement, and she did so with grace and talent. So thank you so much, Supervisor Chen, for your leadership and hard work. I also want to thank Sarah Dennis Phillips and Liz Waddy in the planning department for all of their work. And, you know, wanted to provide just some remarks because I have a lot of history with this issue. This story started way…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, President. Just wanted to say one last thing before we vote. I appreciate Supervisor Chan's comments and wanted to say that I really expect and fully look forward to the department coming three years from now being able to say all of the successes that we have reached. I can understand why we wouldn't want to put specific numbers when we have had this project for 12, 15 years and haven't really moved it forward. I totally get that. And I also know that, you know, putting back this language by Supervisor Dorsey gives us some backup as Supervisor Chan articulated. However, I have…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much, President Mandelman. And I wanted to thank you for this nomination and my colleagues on the Rules Committee. I just wanted to say a couple of words of personal support for my friend Malia Chavez for the Planning Commission. She and I may not always agree on planning things, and I trust her and support her wholeheartedly. I think Malia has a deep connection to the community, the mission community, the Latino community in San Francisco, but really a lot of communities she served. as director of the women's building, deputy director of homeless prenatal. She worked with me at…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Clerk. I will start with a report on my outside boards and commissions. I am your representative on the MTC. This morning at the CTA, we approved some of our recommendations for OBAG. What we have been doing at the MTC, particularly at the Programming and Allocations Committee, of which I am the vice chair, is approving the tranches in the timing of the allocations of this federal money, which amounts to about $750 million over eight years, to support the regional transportation priorities in the nine-county Bay Area region, in addition to our one Bay Area grant priorities,…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, President. Happy Latin A Heritage Month, colleagues. I'm grateful to be bringing this resolution forward with my colleague, Supervisor Fielder, and co-sponsor, Supervisor Mandelman, Chen, Mahmoud, and Chan. Today is particularly special to me. It is Independence Day for El Salvador. It is different than Independence Day in Mexico. And it is also the Independence Day of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. This month serves as a reminder to honor the legacies of resistance and resilience that connects us in the Latin American diaspora in our continued fight for justice,…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much. This item came out of the Land Use and Transportation Committee, and I will be voting to support it. I just wanted to address a couple of the points that I have heard from many advocates who oppose this legislation and to explain why I'm voting for it. First of all, I wanted to thank my colleague, Supervisor Wong, for his work and his staff's work on this. I do think that it makes it easier for smaller property owners, mostly homeowners on the west side, to add those ADUs to densify their properties, which is what we want. But I also sort of really want to reject some of…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm not going to belabor some of the points that my colleagues have made, but thank you, Paul, for everything that you have done for our city. But more than anything, thank you for the decades of work upholding Japanese culture and everything that you have given us in terms of your work with young people of paying it forward for the next generation. You have lots of fans here. You will have lots of fans on this side, too. And good luck on your retirement. I know you'll still be doing a lot behind the scenes. But again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I believe this commendation is because of your work on the earthquake commemoration. But I also just wanted to put in that all the other things that you do that people don't see behind the scenes, bringing people together, building community, engaging in gossip, occasionally, especially political gossip, Saturday lunches at St. John's Grill, and all the things that you do behind the scenes to make our city better, a better place, a more vibrant place, a more connected place. So thank you for being such a mensch. Thank you for your support of…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, President. Thank you, Supervisor Chen, for calling these hearings and for your really good questions. I have been a Kaiser member since I was 18. All three of my daughters were born at Kaiser. I have gotten excellent care at Kaiser, not just through pregnancies and childbirth, but also my husband a while ago had a very serious issue Health issue that got him to spend about a month at Kaiser and got nothing but excellent care from the very dedicated and professional staff there. For all of these years, the one exception to that excellent care for my family was mental health related…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 21, 2026
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“So Ilana, what happens to the patient? So if they are triaged by someone who's not licensed or someone who's not even a person, what happens if then they're assigned to something that's not appropriate or that they feel is not helping them or that doesn't meet their needs? Then what is their recourse?”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, President. I'd like to be added to the memoriam for Clint Riley. I also, like you, Supervisor Dorsey, worked for Clint in 1994 while Clint was running Kathleen Brown's campaign for governor, which she was ultimately defeated by Pete Wilson, unfortunately. But we'll always remember his mentorship. Many, many very strategic and interesting conversations, even ones when we disagreed. And send all the love to Janet and his family. And the rest I submit. Thank you.”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, President Mandelman. I just want to start my comments by thanking you and your staff for a tremendous amount of work, and also City Attorney Chu and his staff for the many hours they spend on the legislation, and partners who have done this. As I previously stated, I do believe that the exercise to evaluate and assess the code and clean it up is an act of good government hygiene. I don't know if that's a phrase. Our code has become convoluted over time and it requires regular cleanup of obsolete sections, redundancies, purging of sections that are no longer useful. And I want to be…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, I am so excited for the opportunity to send this measure to the ballot today and ask for your support. It will secure a steady source of funding for affordable housing and preservation through the expansion and the extension of the existing housing trust fund. to eventually reach $125 million by dedicating a portion of future growth of property values in San Francisco. This is important because it is not just more money, which we desperately need for affordable housing, but the way the money behaves is different than the way that we had it before. This…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you so much, President Mandelman. I wanted to explain my co-sponsorship of this item and address a couple of concerns that have come up from some of my colleagues and members of the public. For non-housing nerds, the way we set the inclusionary rate in San Francisco is the same as the rest of California. It has to be based on a NEXA study. This is since the Palmer decision many years ago. And the NEXA study really just is a calculation that looks like how much it costs to build a unit and how much a family of low income can afford. And as costs go up, that gets wider, that gap gets…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you so much. I wanted to start my remarks by thanking Supervisor Dorsey. When you first spoke to me about this legislation, that was over a year ago. You've been at this for a really long time. And this legislation actually has really moved. So I wanted to, first of all, thank you for your engagement and for incorporating my feedback and the feedback of others in the community. And I know that it took a lot of head and heart for you to do that, and I just want to appreciate you for that. I am uncomfortable in some of the similar ways as were described by Supervisor Fielder. And I think…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you so much, President, and thank you for your sponsorship of this item. This came out of the Land Use and Transportation Committee without recommendation so that we could vote on it on the full board. I would have voted against it despite having been a very strong supporter of the cannabis industry. throughout my time on the Planning Commission and here on the Board of Supervisors. I feel like we need to do more to support the industry, the brick and mortar retailers who have not seen what we sort of sold to them, promised them when we first permitted retail sale of cannabis moving…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, President, for this inspired commendation. And I also wanted to add my voice to my colleagues as a district that also is served by Park Station. So I won't repeat some of the things that my colleagues have said about you, your involvement in the community, your ability to tap into the needs of the community. And just say, as a mother, and I so admire your trajectory, your warmth, your strategy. And despite being, I was really bummed out when I heard that we were losing you for real. And I told Chief Flew that I wasn't happy about it. But then when I heard where you were going, I…”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 7, 2026
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“I'll co-sponsor. Thanks for your leadership and for the nudge.”
Board of Supervisors · Jul 7, 2026