You. Well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if youre a renter you can get earthquake shushes well take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode im the chief resilience officer for San Francisco im joined by my good friends for the Earthquake Authority were at the el cap center for the city and county of San Francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city youll see one of the demonstrates weve built the model home and i encourage other episodes well be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as Property Owners to employ you work for the california Earthquake Authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if youre a renter or Property Owner how the insurance issues. Im the chief mitigation officer or c e a a Property Line funded pubically managed entity that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. What make the c e a deft. We work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy youre not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. Am i covered with Homeowners Insurance. No California Homeowners understand their Homeowners Insurance doesnt cover earthquake they need a separate policy if youre an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. So explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. Irreverent so in the 80s the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. Were talking about the homeownerships buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters whats my opposite. The option for renter the earthquake be Insurance Company is affordable i think people dont realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as Emergency Repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit thats whether earthquake is important. Youre title youre the excessive mitigation officer for the state of california when i think of insurance i dont think about mitigation. So as part of Public Safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had 45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for California Homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. Whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. Earthquake authority. Com not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the work. What does mitigate the home mean. Strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. Thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the Earthquake Authority but well talk about. 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I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me it was too far out there for me okay. , good afternoon okay, good afternoon. Im sorry, what . Okay, good afternoon. Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, supervisor stefani is excused. So, madame clerk and colleagues, before we move on, i would like to do something a little bit different today and introduced to you a new segment to highlight the work of our city departments that are sometimes overlooked. Today we will have a short clip from whats next San Francisco, or whats next s. F. , produced by our Emmy Awardwinning team at San Francisco government t. V. , featuring the department of recreation and park and theyre wheelchair basketball program. Can we roll the clip . I got the hang of it a little bit from the first time. I never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask me twice. That is where you can always find me, on the court. [ ] thank you to some generous support for sports and recreation, we have been able to purchase approximately 12 athletic wheelchairs. This grant provides a really expensive tool to facilitate basketball, specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden skate war golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state. Led by its captain, chuck gill, it was a National Pair olympian and is now an assistant coach on the u. S. National team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. This is the main hub of the bay area which, you know, we should definitely have these resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i am looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that these resources are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied to be able to see and to try this sport and to appreciate just trying different things. People can come and check out the chairs to use them any time we have openings, but also friday evenings from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball. We will make sure the floor is available. That way people can no that other people can come into play at the same time. We always try to meet people where they are at regardless of any difference in ability. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusionary programming, but this is the first time we have ever had our own equipment and that enables us to do some important things. [ ] thank you. Thank you. You know, we often times are here to critique, criticize, or to try to get our departments to be more aware of issues that come from our home districts and throughout the city and we forget on a daily basis that our departments actually do a lot of positive things. I want to take the opportunity to maybe do this once a month where we have these short segments. I hope that you will provide some suggestions and some of the departments that you would like to see. I think it is important for the public to know how our tax dollars are being spent. Okay . So, thank you. Lets go to our approval for the Meeting Minutes. Yes, approval of the june 4 th, 2019 Board Meeting minutes. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from june 4th, 2019. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the a minute prove the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor fewer. Motion to approve without objection, these minutes will be approved after public comment. Madame clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda and call items one through five. Items one through five are considered routine, a single roll call vote will occur, otherwise discussion of an item will occur only if a member severs it to be considered separately. Okay. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk, please call the role. On items one through five. [roll call] there are ten imacs. Okay. Without objection these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item six is an ordinance to call and provide for special election to be held in the city on tuesday, march 3rd, 2020 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded debt of this city in the amount of 620. 5 million to finance the construction and seismic retrofitting of multiple facilities for earthquake safety and Emergency Response pursuant to california Government Code Section 43607 and 608. This item requires a vote. Okay. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item seven is an ordinance to appropriate approximately 12. 2 million in Public UtilitiesCommission Funds to appropriate to but 1 million from airport airport Commission Funds to d. Appropriate and re appropriate 304,000, approximately from the port Commission Funds and pursuant to charter section 9. 113 subsection c. , this ordinance requires a 23 rd vote of all members for the 12. 1 million in Public Utilities commission appropriations approval, 200 and 83,004 Airport Airport Commission reappropriation approval and 139,000 in Port Commission reappropriations. Chair peskin okay okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . This ordinance is finally passed madame clerk, please call item number 8. Item eight is an ordinance to amend the ministry to code to establish the cooperative living living opportunities for Mental Health loan fund and the Mental Health program to finance the acquisition of Residential Properties operated as communal housing for people with chronic Mental Illness and or Substance Use disorders. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection oh, i see supervisor safai. Sorry, you are moving so fast i almost missed it. Colleagues, i am in support of this amendment, this legislation today. I think it is very thoughtful. I wanted to add my name is a cosponsor, but just speaking to the sponsor of the legislation, i wanted to add one small piece of language on i am proposing an amendment on line 23, page 5 that would add the ability that there would be an appraisal of the Property Done before any purchase of the property, so that would just be four words after the word start with the Program Regulations shall address matters such as programs and fund administration, public and competitive processes to apply for loans, compliance with applicable laws and regulations, appraisal of the property affordability restrictions for the longest possible term. Those will use the funds underwriting the criteria and Transaction Processing documentation and compliance monitoring and enforcement. Okay. Any objection . I see there is a motion put forward by supervisor peskin. I think the actual provision in the code is pursuant to chapter 23 of the administrative code, but i will defer to council. Deputy city attorney. You are correct, supervisor peskin that chapter 23 addresses appraisal requirements for city purchases of property. This amendment will authorize the department to adopt regulations regarding appraisals under this program. Okay. Any other comments . While i have the floor, perhaps a relevant section of law that supervisor safai wants to refer to his chapter 23 of the administrative code. He said applicable law, the applicable law is that chapter. The current ordinance provides that the department will adopt regulations regarding compliance with applicable law and other issues including appraisals, Program Administration et cetera. So i think supervisor safais amendment hits the mark. For the president , i get it. Is there a second for that . Okay. If there is no objection, one can we take the amendment as stated . Okay. Motion passes. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call as amended . Without objection, this ordinance as amended is passed. On First Reading, mr. President. Thank you for the correction. This ordinance is passed as amended on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item nine is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the castro lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer cultural district in and around the castro neighborhood and to affirm the sequel determination. The sequel determination. Colleagues, can we take the same house, same call . Without objection this ordinance is finally passed. Madame clerk, please call items ten through 12 together. Okay. Item ten through 12, item ten is a resolution to determine and declare that the Public Interest and necessity demand Affordable Housing improvements and related costs necessary to be financed through bonded indebtedness in an amount not to exceed approximately 600 million, to authorize the 50 passthrough of the property tax increase to residential tenants under chapter 37 of the administrative code and to adopt the requisite findings. Item 11 is an ordinance that calls for and provides a special election to be held in San Francisco on tuesday, november 5 th 2019 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur the 600 million of bonded indebtedness for Affordable Housing improvements into and to adopt the appropriate findings. Item 12 is the motion to urge the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to update and amend the 2019 general obligation Affordable Housing bond report to reflect the increase to the bond amount update allegations of proposed funding and proposed amendments on prioritized issues pursuant to the california Government Code Section 43607 and zero eight. Item ten and 11 require eight votes. Thank you. As you know, in anticipation to this vote this morning, we had a little press Conference Rally out in front of the city hall steps. I want to think all the supervisors who attended the event because this really shows that we are working very closely with the mayor, not only the mayor, but also the community in presenting this bond measure. As you know, we started this discussion a few months back with a 300 milliondollar bond housing bond measure. Eventually people all agreed that we needed to grow it. The needs are much greater and much too great for us to not make it larger then the 300 million. I think with the urging of many of the members on the board of supervisors and with the mayor agreeing that we finally grew it to 600 million, and that is a good thing. Because of your efforts and your staffs efforts, we are going to be able to do a lot more than we had anticipated. Because of this, with the input of the Board Members, we have been able to secure funding to address the Housing Needs in neighborhoods that have not seen any net new Affordable Housing for many, many decades, and we have seen even more investment in Supportive Housing for those with chronic Mental Illness. We also have a callout for a very important population, housing for our Public School educators and staff. I am most proud of us seeing the diverse crosssection of the Community Partners who came together to help form this bond. With the help of our four Incredible Community cochairs, malcolm and others, they were able to engage in a robust discussion about the bigger picture. Housing is a Public Infrastructure issue. It is a Public Health issue, it is a social equity issue. Our roads, our parks Means Nothing if there are no residents here to enjoy them. We need to invest in ensuring existing Affordable Housing stock, but also bring in units that will be available to those who need it most. For the first time ever, and im so excited for this, there is a dedicated conversation about our aging population. Nearly half of our seniors cannot even qualify for Affordable Housing because they are on fixed incomes. We also have seniors who feel trapped in homes that they can no longer maintain, but are unable to move out because of scarce options. Only 12 of the housing in the pipeline for Affordable Housing was dedicated for seniors. Now we have 150 million in this bond to reverse this trend. In addition, this bond measure emphasizes that while we must invest in Public Housing units and build more extremely affordable units for our low income residents, there is still a growing need for our middle income households. If we want to keep our workforce and new families in San Francisco, we must do more to support these residents, too. The need will continue to be there after this bond, but we will be bringing 2800 units online. This is not a small feet. It shows that we can it shows what we can do when we roll up our sleeves and put our brains together. That is what we intend to do. After this board approves this bond measure, it will be in the hands of the voters in San Francisco. I hope we can keep this momentum going strong. The mayor and the board of supervisors, who dont always agree on everything, but for this one, this one particular issue, were coming together to make sure this bond passes overwhelmingly and i want to think you for being with us every step of the way. I would say, lets take the goal and lets get this done. Colleagues, i can see there are other supervisors who would like to make some comments. Supervisor mar . Thank you. I just wanted to briefly acknowledge and commend mayor breed and president and your staff and all the members of the Affordable Housing working group for all of the work that you brought in on this incredibly important bond measure. I would like to add im very pleased that it includes the importance of geographic balance of the criteria and allocation of Affordable Housing dollars to prioritize projects in district four and other districts that havent received their fair share of Affordable Housing over the years. I also wanted to highlight that from all of the input that i received from my constituents in district four, also very pleased that there is allocations not only for the different a. M. I. Levels for Affordable Housing, but specific populations that are a high priority including seniors and our educators. Finally, i just wanted to also comment that i think we can all agreed that while this is an incredibly important measure to move forward and 600 million of new investment is supported by housing, that, you know, it is clearly not enough. And all the difficult discussions that happened through the Affordable Housing working group and among Board Members about how to allocate that pie highlights the need for us to continue to look at other Revenue Streams or Revenue Sources so we can truly address the Affordable Housing crisis at the scale that it is and really something that is affecting, you know, all districts and all communities here in the city. I look forward to further work with colleagues on the board and other stakeholders at looking at other revenue proposals that we can come up with and finally i would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor ronen . Yes, thank you. This is so exciting. Congratulations to all of a sudden and especially to you, supervisor yee for fighting so hard to double the quantity of this housing bond. This is absolutely essential to create the Affordable Housing that we so desperately need for our working families. People exiting homelessness, seniors, and people with disabilities. I really wanted to take a moment to talk about the Immediate Impact that this will have on district nine. The mission, as you all know is continuing to be ground zero for displacement and i certainly, as a supervisor for the district, felt the organ urgency of the crisis every day. I was determined this bond would keep the pipeline of Affordable HousingDevelopment Going and it will with two projects that havent Broken Ground yet. We will also use a portion of this bond to help and the crisis of People Living on our streets by dedicating funds for acquisition of small scale cooperative delivering just living spaces. I wanted to thank you, president yee because not only did you pay so much close attention to having making sure that all of our individual priorities were included in this bond, but you brought us a mayor and the community all together. I think it is really a testament to your fierce and elegant leadership and i am just so excited about it. Thank you so much and lets go win this thing. Supervisor haney . Thank you. I also want to echo my congratulations and gratitude to you for your leadership in bringing us together and representing us so well in this process. I know we had a conversation early on and we both agreed, well, if theres anything we can do to make this bigger, lets do it. So i really appreciate you and mayor breed and all the members of the committee for seeing that through and doubling the bond in terms of its size from where it was first proposed. I really appreciate that because as supervisor mar said, this process i think we realized how much need there is and how urgent this funding is, and how, you know, if we can have twice as much that we would still feel like we have a long way to go. I want to appreciate your leadership and mayor breeds leadership and our controller who i know, every time i see him i say goodbye. They were able to do that. It is really exciting because this will mean that hundreds of more people, thousands of people will have a place to call home, a stable and affordable place to call home, and it is an extraordinary thing, and life changing for so people. There are a number of projects in district six that are shovel ready that we that will be able to be built if this bond passes. I know we will do everything we can to make sure it passes in november, but this is one of those issues where as the district that has seen the large majority of a lot of the housing being built in the past, im very excited to see housing be built throughout the city as a result of this bond and the commitment to geographic equity and our shared commitment to the board is very exciting. I want to know there was a lot of work done to make sure we maintain our commitment to union labor and prevailing wage and really partner with labor in this process. I think this was a critical aspect that we were able to work through that and educate our housing, seniors, cooperative living, theres so much that is exciting about where we ended up last thing i wanted to say, we did have the need to secure additional ongoing funding. Through this process we have been able to identify where we would prioritize. I hope that we will put the Affordable Housing priority into our bond schedule moving forward so that, on a regular basis, we have an Affordable Housing bond and that we take advantage of things like the jobs housing linkage fee, which is also going to be coming up soon for us to secure hundreds of millions of more and Affordable Housing dollars. Thank you to all of my colleagues for your work on this i would like to be added as a cosponsor in this bond and we look forward to getting it passed in november. Thank you. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. I rise to also affix my name to this Obligation Bond as a cosponsor and salute you and your staff for your work and concur with the previous members of the board to salute the good work of the controller. I want to address one thing. It is the compromise that then supervisor tom made to have a 50 50 passthrough, capture by landlords, have shared by tenants, were indeed it was raised by the Tenants Union that that has actually turned out not to be equitable. I wanted to share with all of you that with the good work of mr. Rosenfield, i will be introducing legislation to make that right. If anybody from the Tenants Union is watching, you can join the forces of labor in supporting this because we are going to fix that little technical problem, which is, i never believed it because we always say that we retire as much debt as we issue, and therefore your marginal tax rate should not be going up, and therefore the past should not be going up, but it turns out that is not true, that it is fixable. It is fixable. That is another thing i wanted to say is that i just had the honor of coming from a ribboncutting of our newest Affordable Housing project with the mayor who has long been in the making. I was delighted to be there. Almost 200 units of Affordable Housing. Much of it for seniors, but i wanted to reflect on something because the controversy of the day is the notion that the bureaucracy and the input is slowing down the building. I wanted to say for the record, what is slowing it down is not community input. Everybody saluted the fact that neighborhood input made to the project back better. It is the lack of actual funding that is why i am affixing my name to this measure today because 600 million, over half a billion dollars of the public s money that we will all pay for it, that we will all work to get past this november, that is where the rubber hits the road, that is where we actually build Affordable Housing. And given that it takes a long time to raise those funds, we have time to have Good Community process and Good Community input , so lets not wreck what makes projects better and lets fund what builds these projects. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I just want to add my excitement about the bond and i want to thank president yee for working so closely with the Mayors Office, but also with our four cochairs from community who worked very hard to galvanize community and bring everyone together. I want to just say that 600 milliondollar of a bond is a big deal. I think people should really sit back and analyse how much 600 million is and how important the resources to finance