Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

So i do not support this motion. I think we have to act with urgency. I think it is high time we have an oversight body for a department that has ever expanding budget. Ironically, it was the mayor who didnt support prop c because she said there wasnt enough oversight over the department. So how all of us are not supporting this department right now is absolutely beyond me. So i would encourage all of my colleagues to not support the motion to delay this to march and to act with the urgency that our constituents demand and deserve. President yee supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, president yee. I want to echo thanks to supervisor haney for the leadership youve provided on a number of issues, and particularly on the sea wall Navigation Center. I think that was a courageous act and the leadership that you provided there is something i think everyone in city hall should be grateful for. I would be grateful for more time on this, this commission. And although again with great respect, i do disagree with one of the things that supervisor haney said about this commission. He said it is like commissions that exist throughout the city bureaucracy overseeing any number of departments. And this proposed commission is different in at least one very significant respect in my view, which is that every commission overseeing a department over which the mayor is ultimately going to be held accountable, has either an entirety all of its members made up of mayoral appointees or a majority. If you look at any of the commissions you named, from health, which is entire mayoral, to police which is 43 with the number of three folks pointed by the board of supervisors, but four people on that commission are appointed by the mayor. So the mayor has the ability to direct what is going on in departments that she is going to be held responsible for. I know who is accountable and responsible right now for what happens in the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. Their names are jeff and london breed. I do not know and will not know who will be responsible for the activity that the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing if this Charter Amendment passes, because three people will be appointed by the mayor. And three people will be appointed by the board of supervisors and one person will be appointed by the controller to direct this department. I appreciate having a controller who exists above the fray, who mayor, and board of supervisor folks can turn to as an honest broker. The notion of 33 contest playing out at the homelessness and Supportive Housing commission where the controller is called upon to direct homelessness policy in this city strikes me as a profoundly bad idea. So i think that there may be a need for more sunshine and i think there were a number of issues that drove this proposal, some of which may be able to be solved without a commission, some not. But i believe that we need more time on this and i think giving this until march makes a great deal of sense. President yee supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, president yee, and thank you for your comments and your leadership. I first want to respond to that now that its being brought up. I appreciate your defense of the mayor and her power, but i think there needs to be important shared responsibility here in terms of our role. As you heard particularly with the emails that we get, the responses that we get from our constituents. You also understand were also accountable to addressing homelessness. And for us to have that shared responsibility along with, i think, the greater commitment to accountability, the power of the audit that the controller has, i think that this balance which is very similar to the balance that was put in the proxy Oversight Committee is a more effective balance for checks and balances. I think there is a lot of concerns about some of our current commissions, because if you have a director that works for the mayor and commission that oversees that director, that puts a lot of power in the hands of one person. So i do think we have shared accountability here. I do wish i will say that some of these concerns coming up today were brought to me earlier. We actually changed to have the 7th appointment be from the controller because of feedback from the mayor and took that forward. And nobody said that was the red line for them weeks ago when we had the power to amend it. So i do want to be clear that we have had months now of working on this for the Mayors Office, for working on this for the department of homelessness, taking amendments, and ive unfortunately not received these kind of responses which we could have addressed before until today. So i appreciate the comment that we need more time, but i would have liked to know this was your bright red line and you would rather have a stronger Mayoral Commission, a majority Mayoral Commission and that is what you would have preferred to have your support. As far as the motion for march, i do want us to be able to develop consensus here and i think its important were united. I also believe that is ready to go for november and would prefer it goes for november, but i want to hear from all of you, and obviously, if we dont have six votes for november, then we can continue to Work Together and ill be committed to bringing it back next year if thats the direction we go. President yee supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. Getting involved in public service, i understand that we have to deal with several bureaucracies as we try to get the work done. And all of my experience in working in leadership and working with the city, i have never seen people excited for some reason about addressing issues right away. There is always people who feel we need more time. And that we should be given more time. And i am grappling with the more time thought process and the word crisis, because i know that they dont belong together. When we have a crisis, we have to do everything that we can to address that in its immediacy as much as possible. And for us to effect change and do the things we need to, were going to be required to not ask for time, but ask for strategies and solutions to some very hard issues that we all grapple with on a daily basis. I agree with you, president yee, because homelessness is a big issue for all of us in San Francisco. And i know most of us list it as one of our top two priorities if not our number one. And it is not about any particular district versus another district, but i hope that it is something to be said that the districts that have the biggest populations of unhoused individuals are the very same people who are really fighting for this commission. I hope its not lost on everyone that, yes, were fighting for this commission, but we also provide a lot of the services to address unhoused individuals needs here in San Francisco, whether talking about Navigation Centers, whether were talking about shelters, and thats because of all of our collective work. Working together to address the issues that exist. But it is a very real reality that certain areas of the city are actually having to deal with more phone calls, more emails, more constituent complaints that are very real. Some of us drive by this on our way to city hall every single day. Weve made calls. Weve had people connected to services and then the same situation continues to occur over and over and over. And so i just want to really re emphasize we are working hard to address homelessness and we have to have a sense of urgency. Sometimes we cant give more time. Sometimes people have to work. Ive never had a job where i didnt have to work hard at it and there are a lot of people working hard to do their job, im not saying theyre not, im saying this will help us all work harder, work faster, to address a major crisis in San Francisco. Supervisor mandelman, i definitely just want to say in terms of your response about the makeup of the commission and appointments, the motion on the table right now does not address your concern. Theyre not one and the same, so again, i hope that you support the commission because this is something that we see as important and we see as something that will help us immediately address a crisis here in the city. President yee supervisor brown. Supervisor brown thank you. I just want to thank supervisor haney, because youve done a lot of work on this. And its not easy. I know that. And supervisor ronen, i hear your frustration, and ive been there. I think, you know, rattled the chains together on a lot of the issues. And same with supervisor walton. These emails that you get, i get every day, too. You have to remember that im right by the civic centre in mid market which is actually being focused for, you know, for actually removing the homeless and a lot of times what were doing i know supervisor mandelman and i have talked about it, we just push them from one area to another. And its frustrating. When we were doing the vehicle Navigation Center, we had a pushback. We were told that there wasnt that many People Living in cars. It took seven months to get it through, which seemed like a long time for me even though we were changing police codes, but also i just felt like we did not get the we did not get the respect a lot of times from the department. And i felt that. And i think we all felt that. I do appreciate mayor breed giving us that funding even though we were struggling with the department. I feel that right now, for me, where is our oversight, our proxy Oversight Committee . That was something that was legislated and should be being formed right now, too. But i also want to make sure if were going to do this and have a commission because it is a crisis, i want to make sure we do it right. And i know, president yee, you had mentioned that the advocates were agreeing on pushing this to march. I, for me right now, i would probably like to see us have a little more time to make sure this is right. But i also want to see this Department Step up and especially for the supervisors that have the most homeless in their district. They have to be bold and step up. And also we have to be bold. Ive been trying to get a Navigation Center in my district and it seems like every site i go to, its not the right site. So i really feel that we need to get it right. And i support if advocates support to wait until march and let people and lets give them a countdown. I feel like if we give them a countdown and they say theyre going to do it, lets hold everyone accountable. But i thank everyone for your hard work. This isnt easy. And ill be supportive as we go forward, thank you. President yee so, were recycling names. I want to give you a last chance, but can you make it brief, because weve been on this i know its important, dont get me wrong. Supervisor ronen no, i understand. Just that i appreciate all your comments, supervisor brown, and just that issue alone. The fact that you and supervisor peskin have been begging the departments to open up a Navigation Center, not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but so many different sites in your district. The fact that the Navigation Center at 1515 south van ness, that i was successful in opening that they told me no until i went directly to mayor lee myself. That is all proof that we need oversight. We have civilian oversight commissions for every Single Department in the city practically. Why wouldnt we have one for a department that has frustrated beyond measure and i do want to back up and say, its not that i dont appreciate the work of the department and dont understand how hard it is, because its some of the hardest work out there, so this isnt to say that theyre not trying or theyre not working their tails off on a daily basis, but there are times where all of us have disagreed in very, very substantial ways with the leadership of that department. And why we wouldnt have an Oversight Department an oversight body made up of citizens to bring those disagreements to the public, to debate them out, to get answers that are transparent for our constituents about why they refuse to do one thing or another, this isnt rocket science. This is a commission. Its something we have over every department. Why do we have to wait and wait and wait when there is a raging crisis happening in our streets . When we know these commissions work over other departments . And when we got the point in time count showing a 30 increase in homelessness . Despite the spending that weve increased every single year. Despite the creation of a brand new department to supposedly fix the problem. Why do matt haney and i have to create a solution to a broken Mental Health and Substance Use system because the department itself have ignored the problem for years . Were supposed to be legislators. Were not supposed to be physically building Navigation Centers and counting how many tents there are. Thats supposed to be the departments work when supervisor mandelman said i know who is responsible for this problem, its jeff cozin ski and mayor breed. That wasnt the case in district 9. I had to walk the streets and fix the problem with the 260 tents. And anyone will tell you thats what i had to do to get those done. Its not supposed to be our work, but because the department is failing, our constituents come to us and ask for answers and im not willing to tell them, sorry, i got no answers for you, there is no solutions, the people responsible for it arent doing what they should be doing. Thats not good enough for me. And we need this oversight body now. President yee roll call, please. On the motion to amend the date to march 3. Fewer aye. Haney no. Mandelman aye. Mar no. Peskin aye. Ronen no. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton no. Yee aye. Brown aye. There are seven ayes and four nos with supervisor haney, mar, ronen and walton in the dissent. President yee thank you. Again, i want to thank everybody for this discussion and i want to say publicly, if its not clear, that if nothing moves or very little moves in the next few months, then i am committed to supporting a commission for the march election. So, colleagues, right now, because we made this motion, we need to make a second motion which is to refer this item to the committee. So id like to make a motion. Is there a second . Supervisor fewer . Can i take this same house, same call . Roll call. President yee thats right, roll call. On the motion to send item 22 to committee as amended, fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee motion passes. Again, thank you, everybody. Madame clerk, lets go to our next item, i believe number 23. Item 23 is a Charter Amendment for draft to change the name of the aging and Adult Services commission to the disability and aging commission to establish qualifications for three of the seats to change the name of aging and Adult Services to department of disability. To change the name of the living fund to the disability and aging fund at an election to be held on november 5, 2019. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin as i discussed earlier, im sorry for being argumentative, mr. President , but it is not uncommon for departments to use different names and their official names in the code or in the charter, for instance, code says its the department of public works, but Rachel Gordon rebanded it public works. The code says its the department of the environment, but all of their letterhead says sf environment. The Human Services agency, i dont think exists anywhere in the code. Couldnt we just tell the department they can change their name and put it on their letterhead and not going to the ballot . Just asking. President yee so this is a question. And besides changing the name of the department, changing the name to the commission and changing the qualification for certain positions to commission, when i asked the City Attorneys Office what do we need to do . And basically the answer was to, you need to bring it to the voters to change the wording in the charter. Supervisor i mean deputy City Attorney givner . Jon givner. Thats right. Supervisor peskin is correct that some departments have informally changed their names in how they present themselves to the public. To formally and legally change the name of a department that is created in the charter, requires a Charter Amendment. And certainly to change the qualifications for any seats on the commission requires amendment to the charter. President yee and this was vetted with people from the community, in particular, the Disability Community where they really felt it was important for them to have this formally be part of the name, because of the services that the department provides. Thats why i supported to move it forward to have the voters vote on this and to change the name so that it reflects the services that actually provide. I dont think its going to be controversial from the communitys point of view. Okay. So do we need roll call or can we take same house, same call . Same house, same call. With no objection, then this mr. President , supervisor haney is not in the house. President yee okay, roll call, please. On item 23, supervisor fewer aye. Haney absent. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. There are 10 ayes. President yee okay. This chart amendment is submitted unanimously. Next item, please. Next item is item 24, ordinance to amend the administrative code to amend the program fund to lower rent in Housing Developments occupied by lowincome senior citizens. President yee same house same call . Without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Next item. Item 25 is ordinance to amend the administrative code to modify the San Francisco city College Financial Assistance Fund from which the city provides funding to the San Francisco Community College district to modify the membership of the Oversight Committee that makes recommendations regarding the uses of those funds. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is finally passed. Please call the next item. Were going to go to 29. Item 29 is ordinance to approve the Health Service system plans and contribution rates for calendar year 2020. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed often the First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk . Next item item 30, the resolution to approve agreement between public works and j. C. Decaux for automatic Public Toilet with anticipated revenues of 13 million and 21. 5 year term to affirm the ceqa determination. President yee same house, same call . This ordinance passed First Reading unanimously. Item 31 is a resolution to authorize the office of the treasurer and tax cleollector t extend to a 10year term with additional fouryear option to extend to increase the contract amount for a total amount not to exceed 2. 27 million in a term through june 30, 2024. President yee same house, same call . This resolution is adopted unanimously. Next item. Item 32, resolution to retroactively approve the Second Amendment of the grant between the city, the Unified School District for the provision of preschool support and staff training, to increase the rent amount by 7 million for new total of 17 million for the Agreement Term through june 30, 2021. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item number 33. Item 33 is a resolution to approve the terminal three boarding area cafe lease between rylo Management Llc for a 10year term and annual guarantee of 310,000 for the first year of the lease. President yee this resolution is adopted unanimously. Next item. Item 34, resolution to authorize the general manager of the Public Utilities commission to enter into an agreement to Purchase Renewable Energy with Southern California Edison Company for cleanpowersf. For approximately 15. 7 million. President yee can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 35 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the recreation and Parks Department to accept an inkind grant up to 900,000 from the trust for public land for planning and Design Services and Community Engagement for the buchanan mall, number 5 block project, including letsplaysf renovation for the project term. President yee can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 36, a resolution to retroactively authorize the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to expend a 2 million grant from the California Department of parks for the Richmond Community center. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 37 is a resolution to authorize the director of property to execute an amended and restated 10year commercial lease with options between the city and volunteers in medicine doing business as clinic by the bay, for the city owned property located at 35 onondaga avenue. President yee roll call, please . Supervisor safai i just wanted to say quickly, i wanted to thank the budget committee, all the members of the committee that worked on this. When this initially went out, it was the first week i was in office and there was gross underestimation of the work that would be done. The city will retain ownership over this property, 3545 onondaga, but two wonderful nonprofits. A free clinic and another is the Arts Organization that is helping to bring more arts into the neighborhood, will be based there. This is not your traditional 1 a year lease. Theyre actually playing a little bit below market rate. In exchange for that, theyre doing a significant amount of tenant improvement to the building. Each will spend 10 million each, but they will get a long term lease. In part of the deal, the city is bringing the property up to essentially to shell usage. Theyre going to get it to the spot that the tenants can do the tenant improvements. Again, i want to thank everyone for support. Thank the mayor office and budget chair for supporting and putting the additional funding in the budget to bring this project whole. And the nonprofit organizations are expanding clinic by the bay for their determination and hard work to get this done. Thank you, colleagues. I urge your support. On item 37, supervisor fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 38 is a motion to order submitted to the voters at an election to be held november 5, 2019, in ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code and administrative code to impose excise tax on rides facilitated by Ride Share Companies and Autonomous Vehicles and Transit Service vehicles. Supervisor peskin thank you. I just wanted to take a moment not to elaborate on the legislation which every Single Person on this body is familiar with. I just wanted to thank all of my ten colleagues for your cosponsorship. The mayor for her support. The City Attorneys Office in scott rieber and our controller, mr. Rosenfield and ted eagan. Amanda faried. Assembly member tinge. And our association in sacramento getting the bill passed to all the folks from the Transportation Task force 2045, who came up with this recommendation a few years ago, back when ed lee was still amongst us. And most particularly, i would like to thank my long suffering chief of staff, sunny, for her incredible work on this and now is time to turn it over to the voters and hopefully twothirds of the electorate will see fit to do what portland, massachusetts, new york, and others are doing that can go into Pedestrian Safety improvements, the likes of which many of us attended a gathering this morning that supervisor haney held with regard to the Pedestrian Fatality yesterday. The second one in the tenderloin in a week. And money can also be used for muni operations and capital. So i commend it to you and thank you all once again. President yee okay. I believe same house, same call . Without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. Item 39 is ordinance to amend the business and tax regulation code to increase the daily transient Tax Exemption amount from less then 40 to less than 52, to increase the weekly Tax Exemption from less than 100 to less than 130 and require review in september 2022 through 2024 time frame by the controller of the exemption amounts from the for the purpose of considering adjustment in those amounts. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Item 40, ordinance to amend the administrative code to prohibit city funded travel to states that have enacted laws that prohibit abortion. Prior to the viability of the fetus and to prohibit City Contracting with states that have enacted such laws where work on the contract would be performed in such states. President yee supervisor brown . Supervisor brown this ordinance would limit city funded travel to states that pass abortion bans. This legislation is drafted in the spirit of the Ground Breaking chapter 12x ordinance, article i, of chapter 12x currently places a ban on city funded travel with city contracts, with states that pass antilgbtq laws. Im grateful for this legislation, its authors and the Community Leaders for paving the way. Weve added a second article to the extending code chapter. It will expand existing ordinance to states that have waged war on our constitutional protective right to an abortion. Today, im asking that you join me. Lets make a stand for the reproductive rights of women, transgender and nonbinary people. Lets fight back against states limiting access to abortion care. Lets make sure that the economic might of San Francisco is in alignment with our social values. Its time to walk the walk. Lets put our money where our mouth is. Again, thank you to our community for lending your voice in support of this legislation. I also want to thank our city administrator, planned parenthood of Northern California and the department of the status of women for your collaboration. Colleagues, thanks for standing with me on this legislation. I am proud that all 11 of us are unified on this legislation and standing and sending a strong message to those who challenge reproductive freedom and limit gender, racial and economic equality. I appreciate your support. President yee thank you, supervisor brown. I assume we can take this same house, same call . This ordinance is passed on First Reading. Item 41 is ordinance to amend the planning code and zoning map to create the ocean view large resident district to promote neighborhood character and affordability by requiring conditional use authorization for large developments in that district and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Supervisor safai thank you, president yee. Again, this is another thing that has been a couple years in the making. Weve had a surge in our district, the number of people that were taking advantage of the market, buying singlefamily homes. Putting in plans and proposals for maybe a few bedrooms and baths. And then turning it into 14bedroom, 12 baths all on suite. Many times this was done after the fact, or putting forward a plan for a bathroom expansion or kitchen expansion. That would be one side. The other side, it was all out in the open. And they were putting forward plans that were just turning these smaller homes into dormitories. This part of our district is book ended by city college. And San Francisco state. The way we drew this special use district also includes part of president yees district and we worked with his office on that. And the intent actually is for the first time when youre doing development and youre putting forward proposals into the city, that youre actually using a florida area ratio when building a family home. And we came up with the proposal that encourages more accessory dwelling units. We actually want that to happen in these instances and we give what we think is a fair amount of square footage. If there is not going to be an accessory dwelling unit, but you must go beyond that, then we encourage and promote an accessory dwelling unit being added. This is something that was done in strong coordination and consideration with many stakeholders in my district. My neighbors in action, heights leaders, many of the folks over in the lakeview area, because this was ground zero. We had it for a larger portion of the district, but we scaled it back to look at how this will play out in the portion of the neighborhood. We believe its a fair way. We believe it will allow for speculators to stop speculating on these homes, but also to encourage when they do, and if there is the need for extended family situation, we take in consideration of that, but we ask there to be a look for i know supervisor mandelman has the same things happening in his district, where people are creating these monster homes that are completely out of character in their particular context. This does not discourage more density, in fact, it encourages it, but does it in a reasonable and thoughtful way. We talk about bathrooms, we talk about bedrooms. Some is enforcement with dbi. Help and Planning Department oversight, but weve seen a shift in some of the proposals that are coming in. I want to thank sue haas from my office. She spent two years listening to me talk about this. The City Attorney office for all their hard work. And judy and others for really working hard to get this right. We appreciate the hard work that they put into this. Colleagues, i thank you and hope that you will support me on this proposal. President yee okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading. Item 42 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to modify building standards. President yee supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, president yee, and thank you to the members of the Land Use Committee for considering this legislation and forwarding it. Since the Land Use Committee did that, concerns have been raised about provisions of the legislation dealing with 311 notification. I heard those concerns from a couple of colleagues. I would i am going to move to continue this for one week to give me an opportunity to work with those colleagues on the resolution to that concern . President yee motion to continue this item to the next meeting . Okay. On july 30. Seconded by supervisor ronen. With no objection, then the motion passes. Number 43. Item 43 is ordinance to amend the planning code to revise the nct moderate scale neighborhood commercial district controls to allow arts activity, Philanthropic Services and Public Services and to revise the upper market controls to allow arts activities and institutional use and modify requirements for Liquor Stores and bars and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance passed on First Reading unanimously. Next item. Item 44 is anard ordinance to amend the public works code for obtaining personal Wireless Service for site permits. President yee colleagues, same house, same call . This ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Next item. Item 45 is an ordinance to amend the planning and administrative codes to abolish the north of market Affordable Housing fund and to have certain fees collected in conjunction with the north of market Affordable Housing to be deposited in the Citywide Fund and make the appropriate findings. President yee supervisors haney, any changes to item 45 . Supervisor haney yes. I have an amendment. Would you like me to go to the next item. Lets go to item 46. Item 46 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to allow operation of a Farmers Market on the department of Motor Vehicle field Office Parking lot and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Supervisor brown thank you. The divisadero Farmer Market is important to me. I was legislative aide and i helped open this market. Im excited to help this market move to a new location under state owned land. The legislation were considering today is a sensible expansion of the planning code that will allow for Farmers Markets to seek authorization to open on other public facilities, such as city and state owned lands. We currently allow intermittent activities like Farmers Market at hospitals and postsecondary institutions and its surprising we dont allow them on other Government Owned Properties like the d. M. V. Parking lot on baker street. The Farmer Market has contracted with the d. M. V. , but it could not make the move under current zoning. Making this change today will allow the market to expand and serve the interests of the residents of district 5. The Pacific Coast Farmers Market association is a good neighbor. And theyve created markets that are accessible to all. Every vendor at this market accepts snap benefits and the market managers are considered members of the community. This move and expansion theyre proposing has the full support of the northern of the panhandle neighborhood association, in addition, merchants such as biright market. It will reopen grocery on sunday, providing relief to folks on grove who have to make contingency plans for accessing their homes every weekend. Finally, the move of this market will activate a space in district 5 that is not currently being used on sunday. We should celebrate the success of Farmers Markets. They promote healthy eating, create Community Spaces and increase the walkability of our neighborhoods. The code update were considering today will create additional Farmers Markets to open in the parking lots of our schools, museums, and public facilities. I hope you will join me today in voting yes on this sensible update that will benefit all san franciscans. President yee can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Before we go to item 45, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. If it pleases the chair, i would love for us to go back to the committee to the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole so we can rescind the vote on item 52 50. We dont have to sit as committee of the whole. We can just rescind the vote. President yee motion made, seconded and with no objection, then, the vote is rescinded. Madame clerk, can we take roll i guess we dont need to take roll call. Can you just name the item again so we know what were talking about. Item 53. We just rescinded the vote for 53, so can you call the item again. Call the item again and take roll call . Yes. On item 53, supervisor fewer . Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay, this ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madame clerk, go back to item number 45. Item 45 is the planning and administrative code changes for the north of market Affordable Housing fees and city wide Affordable Housing fund. Supervisor haney yes, colleagues, for item number 45 at the request of the Mayors Office, im asking for an amendment to update the Fee Associated with the north of market residential special use district. The fee of 5 per square foot was established in 1985 and should be indexed to the current year, which would make it 25. 41 per square foot. The Planning Commission recommended the amendment, but because it was not made at Land Use Committee, im proposing we send the item back to land use as the City Attorney and clerk have advised. I have i think that the clerk has copies . President yee okay. So i think there is motion to make amendment. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor mandelman. Without objection, amendments are adopted unanimously. And then there has been a motion to by supervisor haney to send this refer this item back to committee as amended. Is there a second . Second by supervisor walton. Without objection, this ordinance will be rereferred back to committee as amended. Please call item number 48. 47 maybe. 47. Item 47 is a resolution to impose interim zoning control for 18month period requiring conditional use authorization for a change in use from nighttime entertainment to any other use allowed in the area south of Market Street and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. President yee can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 48 is ordinance to amend the police code to clarify the content of the notice that employers must post summarizing applicants and employees rights under the fair chance ordinance. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this is passed. Number 49. Item 49 is a resolution to determine that the premise to premise transfer of type 21 of sale, beer, wine, to Guss Community Market located at 1101 Fourth Street will serve the public convenience or the necessity of the city and to request that the California Department of alcoholic Beverage Control impose conditions on the issuance of the license. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 50. Motion to approve the mayors nomination for the reappointment of ben layman to the entertainment commission. Same house, same call . Without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. Item 51 is a motion to reappoint paul wells to the bicycle advisory committee, term ending november 19, 2021. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk, we are going to item number what . Committee reports. 54. Item 54 through 57 were considered by the government audience and Oversight Committee at a regular meeting on thursday, july 18, 2019 and were forwarded as committee reports. Item 54 was recommended. Its ordinance to amend the administrative code to create an office of Racial Equity as a division of the Human Rights Commission department. President yee okay. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer thank you very much, president yee. I want to first acknowledge this week were celebrating the 55th Year Anniversary of the human rights president yee excuse me, supervisor fewer, do you want to oh, im sorry. I thought we called 54 to 57. Just item 54. Okay, thank you. F supervisor fewer i want to acknowledge we are celebrating the 55th year of the Human Rights Commission. The same year that the Civil Rights Act was passed. As the director explained yesterday, the founding of the Human Rights Commission came in response to explicit antiblack racism in San Francisco and the organizing to fight such racism. Considering this history, it is fitting that our legislation to establish an office of Racial Equity is voted on during the same week we celebrate this legacy, to continue and refocus our efforts to address racism in the city. Im proud of this legislation that finally makes a real commitment in San Francisco to adjust Racial Disparities in our city that have deepened over generations. There is deep racism in the country, causing harm to communities of color over hundreds of years and San Francisco was not an exception to the history. Historic race based racism has manifested in destructive policies like creating obstacles for chinese residents from owning business. The racial segregation of neighborhoods. The internment of japanese americans and the destruction of black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal. Now Racial Injustice appears differently. It is not exclusion policies, but rather in the inaction of the government to address and correct these pastimes done. And this has led to worsening disparities for black san franciscans, as well as latin, asian, arab communities in the area of housing, income, economic security, health, criminal justice, education and so much more. So today, this board will take action to address structural racism. Our legislation will require a citywide Racial Equity plan with identified outcomes and accountability for departments and tool for analysis pending legislation at the board of supervisors among other measures and it establishes office of Racial Equity to oversee all of this work. This legislation was drafted and amended with input from city workers, and nonprofit organizations. It is long past due that they renew their commitment to civil rights. And the new office will hold us accountable as a city to make sure that everyone who lives here has an equitable opportunity to life to. Thank you for my partner in this legislation supervisor brown, and her fabulous staff. I want to extend my profound thanks to my legislative aide chelsea for her diligence and persistence to craft legislation that sets a foundation for Racial Equity in the city. Thank you to my cosponsors for your support. Supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen, mar. And the Human Rights Commission for their support in the drafting process. And thank you to all of the members to have the public who came out to support and shared their stories. We know this is not a Silver Bullet for racism, but it is a critical, long overdue step toward Racial Equity. Thank you. [please stand by] in california, and throughout the united states, we have seen a genocidal history with our native and indigenous communities, which is included exportation and a loss of land, culture, and language. This history was made possible by the state laws and policies. This city was built on that history and those policies. We need to atone for this harm. There is no simple solution to undo this pain. This will take continued organizing and work on behalf of our board, working handinhand with our local community. We need to acknowledge and address our past harm for a more hopeful future, and we also need better policies and funding to combat deep disparities in housing, health care, education, transportation, and employment. I hope that we can Work Together to take this first step and pass this legislation thinking. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I want to thank the supervisors and all the cosponsors for working hard to set up this office of Racial Equity, and as we continue to attempt to address the injustice and inequalities that exist in our city and work to achieve tangible outcomes from recommendations from reports such as the unfinished agenda and the outmigration report, this will finally give us a formal platform to adequately address these recommendations and requires Department Heads to respond with concrete plans to address race issues that exist in our city. Theres more work to do, but this office calls out racial inequities and will affect systemic change. Thank you for everyone supporting this. Okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 55 through 57. Fiftyfive through 57 are three ordinances representing the following settlements, for eight and 55, this authorizes the settlement of the petitioner s claim for Attorney Fees and costs in a lawsuit filed by san franciscans for livable neighborhoods against the city for approximately 250,000 and involves a challenge to the Environmental Impact report prepared in support of and the approval of the 2009 Housing Element of the citys general plan, it does incorporate the new language from committee, item 56 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by fidel joshua against the city for 460,000. The settlement involves an employment dispute, and for eight and 57, this item authorizes settlement of the lawsuit filed by jury jack against the city for 200,000 and involves an employment dispute. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Fiftyeight through 63 were considered by the land use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on monday, july 22nd. Item 58 was not forwarded to the board. Item 59, mr. President , this item is an ordinance that amends the planning and administrative code to establish a legitimization program f