It is estimated at about 750,000 is what it takes per unit to build Affordable Housing , and that depends on what type of project and materials you use, but 600 million is a big deal. I want to make sure that everybody understands that it gives us the resources to revitalize our Public Housing, the resources to build more housing for seniors, the resources to have more marginalized populations, and i think that this is a testament to the prioritization from this board and from the leadership of the city that we are committed to building more and more Affordable Housing across San Francisco. And like supervisor morris stated, this is one thing that we are finding hard to do and make happen because there is a lot more work that we need to do as a board and as a city to address the issue, but like supervisor peskin, we can have all the land available, we can have we can go through all the process, but after financing , we cannot get the housing built. So this bond is a great deal. We need to thank everyone for working together, particularly for the geographic equity. As we know, a lot of the Affordable Housing is built in my district, as well as district six and district nine, and only highlights that because it is important that we continue to fight for our resources for us to build more Affordable Housing across the city so this notion of people trying to stop the building of housing or trying to somehow slow down that, you can see it is actually an unrealistic argument and the board has pushed hard to make sure that the 600 million was possible, which didnt start off at 600 million. As we know, it started off it half the size. Thank you. Supervisor safai . Thank you. I just want to echo a lot of the statements that were made. I also want to underscore the fact that i represent a part of town that there has only been one Affordable Housing project ever done, and that is for lowincome seniors. We have two phenomenal projects in the pipeline and we do have two phenomenal projects. One being done by mission housing, the others being done by Bridge Housing that will bring, for the first time, 260 units of affordable workforce housing, middle income housing, affordable in all of the senses of the word. We spent a lot of time in this chamber over the last two and half years as the economy has been raising, and the price of housing has been raging. To expand the definition of Affordable Housing, and who benefits from that Affordable Housing, we have a down payment loan assistance in this bond that will help firsttime homeowners compete in a market to be able to buy their first home and stabilize. Thank you supervisor fewer for pushing so aggressively to add additional funding in there for the acquisition of apartment buildings for the Small Program that is in here. Thank you to supervisor walton, haney, peskin, ronen, and also fewer and president yee for pushing for a fund for educator housing. We are doing some very phenomenal things in this bond and, you know, there is all also times where we stand up and pat ourselves on the back and say we are doing such a great job, but really, at the end of the day, the faster we can get this bond out there, the faster that we can get this approved and put it in front of a board, the faster we can construct Affordable Housing, the faster we are saving families and keeping our city divers and keeping the Economic Diversity of what makes this city special. I just want to say a shout out for parts of the city that have not seen Affordable Housing built in them, im very excited about that, as well as some of the other categories that we named. And lastly, thank you, president yee, thank you were pressing so hard for a fund that no other group has the ability, there is no other Funding Source for a net flow income seniors and lowincome seniors will be a big beneficiary of this as we have a strong aging population. Im super excited that this bond is going to to have unanimous support of this body and that we will quickly move this to the ballot and see it past. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor brown . Thank you. I want to echo a lot of what people have said but i also want to thank you for really working with our mayor to get this bond right and doubling the money. It is not enough. We know that. We need more money, but it is a good start. I think when we are looking at building Affordable Housing, i have five sites sitting in my district that have been waiting. Eight of them have been waiting for over eight years to have Affordable Housing being built. One is the transitional age to youth housing which we so desperately need. I am excited that this is moving through and the possibilities to have, you know, to build Affordable Housing, but also to buy existing buildings. I was fortunate enough just a few months ago to buy a building in haightashbury, seven units. They were beautiful apartments and the people that we saved in there, a lot of them are seniors a few of them had absolutely nowhere to go if they lost their place. For me to be able to buy existing buildings and keep people in the homes and the neighborhoods that they love and that they have weaved into the fabric of that neighborhood is so important. So to have a pot of money more than what we have now to buy existing buildings to keep people in place is really, that preservation is so important, but also Public Housing. This money will be used for Public Housing, which i think its really important because we have to remember that we have a lot of Affordable Housing within our Public Housing and our h. U. D. Housing out there. I am just really happy right now that with all the combinations, everyone in this room has been fighting to make sure that we have a right partnership when we are looking at the 600 million, and moving forward, i think it will be a lot easier for us because i think we see a pathway , and i just want to thank everyone. Thank you. Supervisor fewer . Thank you. I just want to say, in the words of my legislative aide, this is a good thing. I think this is a really good thing for all of San Francisco and longoverdue. I respectfully ask that pain that my name be added as a cosponsor. Thank you for your leadership. It doesnt happen often, but when it does, democracy is a wonderful, wonderful thing that we have heard from everybody, that all of us have come together to work for a problem that has been hanging over us in San Francisco and we are finally putting money where our mouth is i want to say congratulations to everyone. Thank you for your leadership and thank you all, colleagues. I want to add my thanks and congratulations to all who have gotten us to this point and my preemptive gratitude to all the folks who have been working so hard between now and november to get it over the finish line. Great work. Thank you for your comments from all of you. I just want to reemphasize that there wont be any increasing the tax on the property. We made sure of that in terms of how much we could do that, how much we could actually put on the bond measure. And a lot of that was the analysis of the controllers office. Thank you very much. He probably isnt paying attention. He is going to get fired. [laughter] no, thank you for your work on the bond measure. [laughter] i also want to say that one of the biggest pushes that we did was for the capital plan that the housing piece of this now, we are actually going to make this be part of the capital plan it will be they will be regular housing bond measures in the future, and i am glad that supervisor peskin mentioned that little correction that needed to be made. It is kind of coincidental. When i looked at it more carefully today, just at my final reading, this was passed through with 50 . And in my mind, i said, i guess that means there shouldnt be any increase, and i stand corrected. It seems like, i mean in the past maybe people have kept on increasing it and they shouldnt have, so i would love to lend my office to help with that. I think it needs to be corrected if i may, mr. President , our controller has to do with the fact that in the old days we did not pass them through, and as we were retiring the debt, 100 was passed through and that is what was impacting the baseline for tenants today. It is a relatively easy fix. I have actually discussed it with both landlords and tenants, creating a hardship exemption i think will be expected by all of the parties. Thank you very much for that. Okay, i think this is one of the few times where we have, on a piece of legislation, the mayor and all 11 supervisors as cosponsors and i thank you need to appreciate what happened. Thank you very much, my colleagues. Can we take this same house, same call . Without objection then the resolution and Everything Else is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, i think we need to go im sorry. I think this is first reading, isnt it . Yes, the ordinance is being passed on first reading. The resolution should be adopted thank you for correcting that madame clerk, can we go to our 2 30 p. M. Commendations . We have four commendations. Supervisor peskin, brown, walton , and mandelman. Okay. Supervisor peskin, would you like to present your commendation . Thank you mr. President. I actually really would like to present this. This individual i have known for almost 20 years, and when i met her, she worked for the city and county of San Francisco for almost 20 years, which is to say that miss omalley, a new her under a different name 20 years ago, has worked for the department of Public Health for 38 years. During this time, lisa worked as an Environmental Health inspector, senior Environmental Health inspector, and when she retired a couple of weeks ago, she retired as the manager of one of the citys food districts this is actually some of the toughest work. We honor first responders, we honor people who do incredible work like clean our sewers, but Health Inspectors have it really , really tough. Lisa was in charge of much of the district that we have represented on and off for the last 20 years. North beach and chinatown. She was absolutely instrumental in increasing the health and Safety Standards within chinatown, outside of chinatown and i have to say, despite the irrational fear of the government and Health Inspectors in particular, particularly in the Restaurant Industry, lisa is incredibly regarded by the community because she understands the local business culture, the local culture, the practices, she is fair, she is patient, accommodating and takes no shit. I rarely use words like that but that will summarize lisa. She was so thought of in the community that she was invited to be the grand marshal of the Chinese New Year parade which says a lot. She always had the sense to call me to say, im shutting down a restaurant in your district and your phone is about to ring, but i knew everyone would start screaming at me and rose would say she called and did the right thing. She is a legendary fixture at the department of Public Health, as patient as she is with ignorant owners, she is equally, and i mean it, no nonsense when dealing with selfserving operators who intentionally avoid doing the right thing, the legal thing and the healthy and safe thing. At 5foot two and 110 pounds, which is just about my size in wait, lisa can lisa, where are you, come on up here. [applause] you are a force of nature when it comes to protecting the public. Here is lisas infamous winwin question. There are a couple of them. One is, this is of course, a hearing with an alleged offender this is lisa. I am appalled at the conditions in your restaurant. After reading the report and reviewing the photos, how many days a week are you at your restaurant . The operator says, i am only there a few times a week. To which lisa says, well, there you are. How can you be expected to be responsible for a restaurant if you dont commit to be there on a regular basis . Look at these disgusting photos. Or, alternatively, the operator says, i am there without fail, to which lisa says, really, you are there were there every day . It is negligent. Look at these disgusting photos. Whatever the operator, the alleged offending operator chooses, lisa ensures that the operator admits fault, takes responsibility for the conditions of the restaurant, and most often, lisa and her team doesnt shut them down. A little bit of education and they are back on line in a few hours or maybe overnight when they call people in, and as a respected manager, she is remarkably, was remarkably, and im sure will continue to be a remarkably will be remarkably committed to her staff that she mentored, and loved her, and she would bring them all together for lunch is, and occasionally i would have the honor of being invited. Under her leadership, she was instrumental in establishing the first online food application and the entire state of california and has been recognized by the California CouncilEnvironmental Health directors as the winner of the food Safety Leadership award in 2015, and most importantly, i have her 100 clean record in my kitchen, which he actually never inspected. And after four decades, she decided to enter her retirement last month where she will finally enjoy spending some time with her family and her newly born twin grandchildren. I wanted all of you to know that i introduced a piece of legislation last week and the last week before last. It will change the restaurant Rating System to green, yellow, red, which i think the Restaurant Industry or Restaurant Owners will appreciate, and lisa, it makes good sense. It is used in many other counties in the bay area. Lisa, from the bottom of my heart, i wanted to thank you for your decades of tireless, mature , and constructive commitment to the people of San Francisco and i love you very, very much and i want to give you a certificate of honor and some flowers, but first, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, supervisor peskin. I appreciate working with you and having you understand the important work that the Environmental Health inspectors do every day to protect your Public Health. They are a great team of inspectors and we dont just regulate, we enforce and we empower businesses and therefore empower communities. It started out and chinatown but we do it citywide and the inspectors, thank you for the recognition. This isnt really just for me, it is for the great work that they do every day. Thank you, and think all of you. [applause] thank you. Before i give you the certificate of honor and these flowers, i just want to say lisa suffered many epidemiologists and Department Heads and survived with valour and honor. [applause] thank you. Supervisor brown, please present your commendation now. Thank you. It sounds like a day of retirement for people who have been in the city a long time. Today i am commending Elizabeth Murray who is retiring this month from 38 years of services to the city and county of San Francisco at the war memorial and performing arts center. Forty years ago, Elizabeth Murray began her career of service to the citys arts and Performance Community as a secretary at the louise Symphony Hall construction project. In 1982, she joined the war memorial as executive secretary to the board of trustees an assistant managing director. She has guided the war memorial to most consequential a longstanding commitment to preserving the War Memorial Building has enabled millions of people, as well as the patrons of ballet, opera, symphony, and Chamber Music to benefit from the Historic Resource at the heart of San Francisco. Over the years, elizabeth has also shaped the structure and growth of the war memorial workforce, engaging directly with employees in helping them to develop a sense of occupational pride in their work she has truly proven her worth as a leader, as head of the war memorial serving under seven mayors, wow, seven, and guiding the war memorial through major Capital Improvement projects, economic recessions, presiding over unprecedented periods of growth and success. The residents of San Francisco, as well as anyone who comes to visit our city and as landmarks are indebted to keep the war memorial open and available for all. Today we recognize her skill, her leadership and her vision for the San Francisco war memorial. And to extend to her the best wishes as she is entering a welldeserved retirement. Elizabeth, please come up. Elizabeth, before you say something, there is supervisor peskin who would like to make a comment. Thank you. Having been on two tours of duty with you and your department and others, i really want to salute to you. I thought that project would never actually happen despite beens rosenfield deep commitment to it. Congratulations for getting it done in stewarding that incredible resource for all of these many decades. Thank you. I am very grateful. I thank you so much. My job has been a gift to me. It is a labor of love. I didnt always have a great relationship with band, but i do understand i was persistent and i did want to get i thank you very much. [applause] i lastly, we have supervisor mandelman. Would you like to present the commendations . I would pick one of the privileges is getting to present the demon family and today i want us to honor her. [applause] she was born in chicago, moved to the west coast shortly after. She spent most of her youth in the bay area, graduating from high school before earning her bachelors degree in social work from the university of the pacific. She met her husband, who when he retired was the longestserving judge in San Francisco history. [applause] they were married one year later she conditions with food runners which works to alleviate hunger by turning over 17 tons of leftover food into 20,000 meals a week for sa san franciss in need. Shes best known of a tireless supporter of the local democratic party. Where she has helped many local candidates get there are start in politics. Registering voters doing an amazing job of tabling outside safe ways with jane morrison. Inside firstdegre. Many of us hf the woodland parties she hosted. In 1976, she was appointed by mayor george boskoy i remember where she joined the San Francisco landmarks and throughout her years of service shes fought to preserve and create open space and expand our urban tree can pee. Today she is the c. E. O. Of her household and keeping her husband and children safe, clothed and happy. For each of these contributions, i am proud to honor ina deerman. [applause] now, shes brought a good chunk of Ashbury Heights down with her. Among the folks we have here is kelly deerman, her daughter. And colleagues, you may know kelly as executive director of the ihsf public authorities since 2014. Prior to that she was president of the Human Services commission, ran her own small law practice and in 2008 founded sf urban c. H. C. , a nonprofit buying Financial Literacy for low and moderate industry. I think kelly was going to say a few words. President fung supervisor peskin. Thank you, i apologize for popping up. When youve been on this board on and off for 20 years. I remember ms. Deerman when i used to go to the planned marks reservation board before it was a commission. And ms. Deerman had a profound sense of figuring out who was cheating and speculating and who was doing the right thing. Ive never forget what she said, i like your blue eyes, i do not like your protec project and shd no and brought the rest of that with her. Thank you ms. Deerman. [applause] president fung the floor is yours. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you so much for this honor. My mom and i ask the discussion last night and she said did i have to speak and i said no. Ill do it for you. I can honestly say on behalf of my whole family its probably better that i am up here. If you know anything about my mom, her most famous saying is i speak the truth. I would say for all of us who have lived with her and know her and love her we know its the case. We also know with my mom, that one thing might get you down but theres always a reason to get up. Mom proves that everyday by get being up, standing tall, reading the paper, reminding us of all the work we have to do. This honor is very much appreciated on behalf of all of us and i thank all of our family and friends and colleagues that have come out to join us to support her. She would tell me to stop talking and tell you there was much work to do so please, continue doing it. Thank you so very much. [applause] [applause] supervisor yee thank you for bringing this great set of people to honor today. That would conclude our special commodatons. Lets go to items 2124. Clerk items 1224 comprise the special order of 3 00 p. M. For public hearing of persons interested in the decision of public works dated june 6th, 2019. Approval a map for a threelot subdivision project at 2146 through 2150 union street. Item 22 is the motion to approe and item 23 is to disapprove the departments decision and to disapprove the tentative map and item 24 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. Supervisor yee these will be continued to next tuesday, july 16th, 2019, with the understanding these items will be continued. We will now take Public Comment on the continuance. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the proposed continuance of this appeal . All speakers should be allowed two minutes each. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. And i will make a motion to continue the items. Supervisor yee are you making the motion . Were going to take a motion to keep the hearing open and continue these items for july. Motion made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor safai. Without objection we need a roll call. Mandelman is not here. Supervisor yee ok. Roll call, please. On the continuance to july 16th of items 21 to 24 [ roll call ] there are nine ayes. Supervisor yee this area will remain open and items 21 to 24 are continued to july 16th, 2019. Madam clerk, please call the next 3 00 p. M. Special order items 25 and 26. Clerk i have 25 and 26 comprise the board of supervisors sitting as a committee as a whole and this public hearing was scheduled pursuant to a resolution adopted may seventh, 2 2019. Its to consider the subject matter of item 26. Which say resolution to establish renew and expand the property based Business Improvement district known as the union square Business Improvement district ordering the levee and collection of assignments against property located in the district for 10 years commencing with the fiscal year 201920. Subject to conditions as fess tied and tspecified and make the appropriate environmental findings. Supervisor yee were now sitting a as committee of the whole. Colleagues, the purpose of this hearing is to take testimony on the proposed levee of assessments of the property and Business Improvement. Pursuant to the board resolution of intention we adopt it on may seventh, 2019. As described in a management district plan, the proposed district would be approximately 620 identified parcels located on the 27 hole or partial blocks. Details of the cover area are in the file. At the conclusion of the public hearing, the department of elections will tabulate the ballot and report to the board of supervisors. Members of the public may view the ballot tabulation by the department of elections on the basement level of city hall in room 59. The board of supervisors will either levee the assessments or approve the establishment of the district if theres a majority protest. Im sorry, let me say that again. The bother of supervisors will neither levee the sisment. If theres assessment. The publis follows, we will first hear from all speakers in support of the assessment district. Each district will have each speaker will have two minutes. Then we will hear from all speakers in opposition to the assessment district. Each speaker will have two minutes. During the hearing, a property owner, who has not voted yet, or wishes to change their vote may speak with the department of elections staff. They are at the table just outside of the Board Chamber and will provide you with an affidavit and ballot. After the hearing closes, the ballot will be counted. Before we begin, supervisor peskin, would you like to make any opening remarks . Thank you, president yee. I want to acknowledge the burgundy blazer. [laughter] more importantly, i would like to acknowledge the work of ms. Flood and the staff at the union square improvement district. This is created in late 1990s amid the remarkable controversy. I had the honor and pleasure of presiding over its first extension which was approved unanimously by the board. More importantly, voted by an overwhelming super majority of the Property Owners that will actually pay for the safety and public realm improvements that continue in the Union Square Area and as that Business Improvement district has expanded, it was continued yet again by my predecessor, supervisor chu. I will not in anyway forecast the outcome of this election. If theres not a majority vote, we cannot vote to have this be extended but i am hopeful, if not confident, that the good work that ms. Flood and her staff have done will lead to that majority vote and after the votes of counted, i will hopefully be able to be in a position to extend the time length to the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you for your work. Supervisor yee do you have a word or two to say. Thank you. Senior program officer. As the resolution stated this is a renewal of the union square Business Improvement district for an additional 10 years. Id like to thank supervisor peskin and his staff who have been nothing but fantastic throughout this renewal. I would like to command karen flood, the executive director, den horn as well as hobby silver on a phenom enam outreach effort they did throughout this renewal and expansion campaign. This would not be possible without the city departments in particular the Clerks Office and the department of elections. In particular, from those offices id like to thank alicia somaro, erika major, john carole, juan clock, regan wang and alice law for the assistance on the renewal campaign. With me today is karen flood who will be showing you all a brief presentation on the upcoming renewal of the bid. Thank you so much, chris for that nice introduction and for all your good work in helping us renew this bid. Good afternoon. Resident norman yee, aaron peskin for sponsoring this legislation and supporting us and also supervisor haney who also also part in his district and all members of the board of supervisors. My name is karen flood and im the executive director of the union square bid and im pleased to have this opportunity to present to you today the case for why to renew the union square bid for another 10 years and present our plan. So the union square bid, were proposing to renew for another 10 years until 2029. We are proposing minimal changes to the current 27 blocks. Just to round out the borders. We are proposing some enhancements to the following services which really are based on over 18 months of solid outreach to the stakeholders in our district. So namely were proposing a 20 increase in the clean and safe staff team wages. We think this is really important to pay a fair wage and keep our staff we are proposing to increase our Members Services to 24 7789 thi7. This is the number if they want a rapid response. Were proposing expanded cleaning and Safety Services and in the afternoon and evening hours and we see more pedestrians moving throughout the district and theres a cleaning and safety during those hours and expansion of our security program. We have 350 cameras on private buildings through out the district. They cover 60 of the district and were hoping to expand that to about 100 of the district and to activate the public realm and our allies, our open spaces and to invite everyone downtown to experience union square and make the area more beautifulment to do all this, were proposing the increase to 65 to take us from 3. 7 million to 6 million. Its a big ask but were really pleased on petition that we received 50 of the properties of the weighted assessments and its incredible and you only have 30 and we believe that the turnout of the votes today will reflect that same very high number so here are our boundaries and to the east is kearney and a jagged line at mayson and taylor. Were proposing two zones in this reiteration of the bid. The pink in the center is really the core of our district and we believe this area and based on feedback from our stakeholders, this area really needs more service. This received calls and incidents throughout the 10 years and this is where theres foot traffic. This is where rent is higher. This needs more services. Were proposing twice the level of the Current Service this is this area. The gray area a 1. 5 level increase to this area. This is the frequency of our cleaning and Safety Services and you have the power front in powt of you. Were increasing the frequency so our properties get two cleanings a day and well propose four cleanings in the core. The pressure watching twice a month and every week in the core and so on. Our assessment methodology is based on a benefits point system and this is similar to the c. B. D. S and they are here to answer questions. Its technical. We believe the harder it is to understand it the fairer it is so believe me and trust me. Its fair but essentially, its based on three factors, sidewalk front age is 70 of the assessment building. 15 lot size and theres four types of land uses and Condominium Properties and theyre all assessed at a slightly different rate or using different points. You may more in zone two because you get more service. A renewal budget brings us to 6 Million Dollars i 6 million ande another 524,000 which would bring us to 6. 5 million were upping this to 64 but this is again the take holders wanted and theres a real need downtown for additional cleaning and Safety Services. But were also looking forward to providing more public realm, marketing and advocacy to create continue to have a vibrant and residents to come through in union square and management admin rounds out the budget at 14 . This slide goes into detail about the cleaning and the different types of cleaning and the theme cleaning and again upping the frequency and ill let you review that on youren. Here are some of our cleaning embassadors and some of the good work they did in 2018 and they picked up 572,000 pounds of trash and this is a lot of garbage and this is about two large dumpsters that we fill everyday in union square park. Its a lot that gets picked up. We expect it to get picked up even more Going Forward. We pick up a lot of needles. 9,000 needles everyday. And 17,000 graffiti tags and stickers. Here is a snapshot of the safety programs and again we hope toen chance with additional frequency and ill height lie here we have one officer 10 hours a day and it will be a second officer and we do pay deerly for this and 100 out an how and we plan to do that and we have a overnight Security Patrol to cut down on some of the incidents happening at night and the drive throughs in our store windows that were hoping to prevent Going Forward as west beck. Here is our safety team right now. They give out directions all daylong. They address many quality of life issues. From excessive noise to aggressive street behavior. Its up to the sfpd to enforce the laws but we provide eyes and ears for them on the lots and ordinance on the books in San Francisco. Economic impact, union square impacts a union punch. We represent 3. 5 of the land mass in San Francisco yet we are bringing in considerable dollars for the city. In forecast, we bring in 34 of the citys generated sales and consumer goods. 13 i think of all of our goods. 27 of the citys tran see ant and we have workers and daily, monthly rather, we have 4 million visitors. Theres a lot of people moving through union square everyday. So weve gone above and beyond our Management Plan over the last 10 years and im so proud of the work that we have done with launching our union square foundation. It enables us to go above and beyond the clean and safe and provide Workforce Development through our downtown street theme. Theres a representative here today with downtown streets. They hire Homeless Individuals and get paired up with a case worker. We have hired these individuals to our regular crew and were proud of the partnership that we have there and another organization we partner with recently is miracle messages and we have outreach workers in union square that go around and talk to some of the homeless folks to deif they can recorrect them with family members they lost touch with and we have nice stories of where there have been reconnections and such so were proud of that work and we hope to continue more of that Going Forward. Our place making. We have been working closely with supervisor peskins office to see how much more we can activate cam ton, some of these public spaces to invite people downtown and then encourage them to stay downtown. To enjoy foods from the food trucks. These are our paparazzi dogs. Were so proud of our winter walk which started as a mitigation effort for the subway construction which is tough on all of us down there. We created this incredible public popup plaza for five years where we welcomed 2. 2 million visitors. Were going tmore on come on thy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you so very much. Supervisor yee any questions . I dont see anybody on the roster. I guess we will now take a open public testimony. If you are here in support of the assessment district, please come up and go ahead and make your comments. You have two minutes. In support. Good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors. Supervisor peskin, thank you very much for being the real i was on the renewal committee, which as was explained started over 18 months ago. We did extensive outreach to Property Owners, surveys, stakeholders, and held Community Meetings to find out what people wanted in the district. Again, this outlined what the result of that was and got our petition reaffirmed to the Property Owners. Well get what they want and theyre willing to pay for it and if the boa vote comes out as supervisor peskin thinks it will go, i ask you to vote yes to renew the bid. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is raymond. Im the lead project manager for downtown streets teamment im here today to share our support of the renewal of the union square bid. They create an Inclusive Community for all individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing this and we provide Workforce Development experience where our team members chose an area and many of them have chosen union square to beautify the streets picking up debris and needles and we work on members gaining employ and housing. Since union square has had us working with them we picked up over 200,000 pounds of trash and over 5900 needles and weve been able to help employ 27 team members and house 15 team members. A number of those team members have been hired within the union square bid as well. And all those numbers show the metric lies impact on the community, the personal impact created for our members is far greater. The bid has brought our team members to appreciation lunches, they invited them to various events such as tulip day and more. They have empowered our teams to be a neighbor, friend and family. We support the renewal for the bid and look forward to empowering many more individuals and the time to come. Thank you. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon. Members of the board and board president yee. Im the general manager for golden gate and board member of the union square b. I. D. Given what we do, we often partner with city agencies like d. P. W. , d. P. H. And union square b. I. D. We have constant merchants and corridor walks to identify problems and fix them proactively. With the birds eye view i see, the staff that ive experienced are very courteous and they work hard. They provide valuable services to the community. They remove graffiti before they are spread over the other areas, pressure wash to keep pedestrian and pathway street clean. Pick up trash before it attracts more dumping. Top off city cans before they are overflowing. And report abandon waste via 311. They also provide job training and permanent jobs for those who want to work. And some have found permanent housing as you heard before. It is really the model for other b. I. D. S. Under the leadership of karen, the renewal will provide betterpaying jobs, expand in services and will be a 24 7 operation. They will allow the jam to continue to flourish. I urge the support from the board of supervisors for the renewal of the union square b. I. D. Thank you. Supervisor yee next speak or. Good morning. Ive been a union square worker for 37 years. Its hell. I work over cardboard boxes, needles, camping equipment, just to get to my door. Im here to voice our support for the renewal of the union board district. Last year, San Francisco welcomed over 25 million visitors who spent 10 billion here. That generated 771 million in taxes and fees for the citys general fund. Many of those visitors are going through union square or the first time or returning for a repeat visit. Its our front door to the world. San francisco remains inviting and welcoming to all the exhibitors. The bid provides extensive cleaning services as well as Public Safety with 10 officers and overnight security. The bid embassador provides assistance to visitors who need help with wave finding and directions. Without the bid this would not be provided and we hope you support the renewa renewal. Thank you. Good afternoon, president yee. At t has had a long history with San Francisco. Over 100 years. We have thousands of employees that live and or work in the city of San Francisco and thats one of the reasons that at t chose to locate our flagship store. 1 powell is smack dab in the heart of the city and union square. Formerly the bank of italy. Its a beautiful building. We chose it because its right there at the cable car turn around where thousands of people pass every single day. With the current problems that were seeing in that area, including Public Safety issues, cleanliness, homeless drugs, Mental Health issues, sometimes the heart of the city right there in union square can look like a broken heart. The bid works really hard to mend that broken heart throughout reach to the homeless, coordination with city agencies and all of the non profits that karen mentioned, continuous cleaning, graffiti cleaning, i cannot imagine how union square would be without the bid. With retail facing constant changes and challenges, it has been a real advocate from public realm improvements to securing grants for public art, marketing, place making, all these things that keep people coming to union square when really people could just