Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Okay. Good afternoon and welcome to september 3, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Welcome back, supervisors. I guess we are going to have another exciting round of meetings. Until we take a break in the winter. Madame clerk we please call the. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] you have a quorum. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So exciting to get started again. Okay, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jesse larson and jim smith who and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have none to report, mr. President. We are approving the minutes from the july 9, 2019, july 16, 2019, and july 23, 2019 regular Board Meetings. And, the minutes from the july 11, 2019 special meeting at the rules committee. The meeting will constitute a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor brown, seconded by supervisor mandel men. Those will be approved after the comments today. Madame clerk and and he called her side. Item one, 190214, Building Code fee waiver for 100 Affordable Housing and accessory dwelling units. For a one Year Pilot Program and to do to determine the ceqa. Can i have a roll call . [roll call] there are 11 in favor. This ordinance has passed unanimously. Please call the next item. Item two is an ordinance ordinance to amend the health code to streamline a Small Business permitting and determine the ceqa determination to make the appropriate findings. Okay. Can we take this same house, same call. Without objection this ordinance has passed unanimously. These call the next item. Item three, 190048. Ordinance amending the planning code to 1 require building setbacks for buildings fronting on narrow streets, 2 modify front yard requirements in residential districts, 3 increase required rear yards in singlefamily Zoning Districts by five percent, 4 amend the rear yard requirements for through lots and corner lots in certain districts to permit second buildings where specified conditions are met, and 5 allow Building Height increases to existing stories in existing nonconforming buildings in order to accommodate residential uses; affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act; making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1; and adopting findings of public necessity, convenience, and general welfare under planning code, section 302. Can we take the same house same call . This ordinance has passed unanimously. Please call the next item. Item four, 180777. Ordinance amending the planning code to require a conditional use authorization for employee cafeterias, as defined, within office space, except for existing employee cafeterias; affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act; making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1; and adopting findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare under planning code, section 302. Colleagues, welcome back, i actually have some pretty big news on this announcement today. When we started this conversation, we started the conversation about a band for these types of cafeterias. We felt that the condition and the treatment of the labor force , not having one, actually only one having representation, organized labor out of 45 of these, in the entire city. Thousands of employees that were working for companies that on an annual basis and make millions, if not billions of dollars per year in revenue. We felt that it was not appropriate. We felt that that conversation needed to be had come at the same time we were concerned about the impact of surrounding neighborhoods and surrounding Small Businesses, and what that meant to the surrounding environment. In terms of how we want to shape and go forward as a city. We then amended that, within the last year. I want to think a lot of the companies thats sat at the table with us, facebook, uber, dropbox, twitter, airbnb, lyft, many of the companies that you see, that actually have these types of employee cafeterias. We talked about going through an open and fair process, the conditional use process. Always keeping an eye on the condition of the labor force, and the treatment of the workers , in environment. We have been notified by the hotel and restaurant workers union, that these companies and their employers, and employee cafeteria world, have come to the table and offer card check mentality across the board and the entire industry. Thousands of employees now will finally have the opportunity to organize, have benefits, and be treated like fullscale employees, and have the dignity and respect that they deserve. Today i stand here, i want to thank my colleague, supervisor has scanned with his unwavering support with my lead cosponsor on this legislation. These agreements, all of them, have not been executed. In light of that, and all of the other cosponsors that signed on, my colleagues and those that push the City Attorneys office, and my staff that carried a lot of weight on this over the last 1. 5 years. I want to thank all of those companies. I want to thank local 2 for their hard work in this. In light of the negotiations being very close, and all of those employees having the opportunity to have card check mentality and representation. I want to make a motion to send this back and let those final negotiations play themselves out. We are very excited to see that there has been a slow commitment on behalf of the companies, and the employers that represent these companies, to have fair representation for this workforce. Thank you for everyone who has participated in this process and supported me, and the workers along the way. There is a motion on the floor, and seconded to send this back to committee. Without any objection, this motion passes. Item five, 190594. Ordinance amending the planning code to revise the zoning control tables of the chinatown mixed use districts to make them consistent with those in articles 2 and 7, to apply the use definitions in section 102, to set an abandonment period for use size maximums, and to allow general entertainment and nighttime entertainment uses with conditional use authorization; affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act; making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1; and adopting findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare under planning code, section 302. Supervisor peskin. Colleagues, i have passed out to each and every one of you, a minor nonsubstantive amendment that appears in three places on pages 20, 31 and 43. Which would delete the philanthropic Administrative Service use classification from all of the three chinatown mixed used districts. Which will not have any impact on these districts, its actually to conform this with legislation that was passed before the summer recess and file 190248, which deleted that use classification, so that this legislation will conform to the previously passed legislation and finally i would like to think roy chan and the Chinatown Community developing center for their input and support of this legislation. I would like to make that one amendment in those three places. There is a motion to amend, is there a second . Without objection, the amendment is passed. Can we take this same house, same call as amended . Without objection this ordinance has passed First Reading. Item six, 190702. Ordinance amending the planning code to permit new floor area or building volume on the rooftop of a noncomplying structure that is designated as a significant building under planning code, article 11, located on assessors parcel block no. 3707 5 third street , provided that the rooftop has an existing parapet at least 17 feet in height along the primary building frontage; affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act; making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1; and making findings of public necessity, can we take this item, same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance has passed on First Reading. The next item. Item 72 determine if the issuance of a type 42 on sale beer and wine public premises Liquor License to nunovi, llc, doing business located at 1519 polk street will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and to request that the California Department of alcoholic Beverage Control impose conditions on the issuance of this license. Can we take this same house, same call . Without objection . This resolution is adopted unanimously. Next item. Item eight, 190657. Ordinance amending the San Francisco administrative code special tax financing law, constituting article 43. 10, to authorize special tax financing of certain facilities and Services Related to property in the jurisdiction of the port of San Francisco. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance has passed on First Reading unanimously. Next item, please. Given that it is not yet to 30 00, it, we can skip over the 3 00 p. M. Special orders. Go to roll call for introductions . [roll call] colleagues, today im introducing interim zoning controls to help slow the loss of San Franciscos Residential Care facilities. Or board and care homes, have provided stable housing to our vulnerable populations and seniors and people with disabilities. Staffed by inhouse medical personnel, they perform a critical function keeping these folks and karen off the streets. However, as we all know, in recent years we have been losing these facilities at an alarming alarming rate. According to a report issued earlier this year by the city of assisted living working group, coordinated Council Working group, San Francisco has 21 fewer residential buildings and we did in 2012. At 26 decline resulting in 112 critically needed beds. We are in the risk of losing even more of these facilities. The department of Public Health has already learned of the planned closure of three additional facilities and it seems certain that more closures on the way. In response, president e and i are introducing a resolution today that will impose interim zoning controls for 18 months to require conditional use authorization for a proposed change of use from a Residential Care facility to a different use. They intent of these interim controls is discouraged discourage further closings, slow their loss and give the city additional time to address this challenge. The resolution requires thats in evaluating any such proposed change of use, the Planning Commission take into account the following factors. Any findings by the department of Public Health, the Human Services agency, the department of aging and adult services, and the San Francisco longterm care coordinating council regarding the capacity of the existing Residential Care facility use and the nature and quality of services provided. The impact of the change of use on the neighborhood and community, where there are sufficient available beds and a licensed Residential Care facility within a 1 mile radius of the site and whether the Residential Care facility use to be converted will be relocated or replaced with another Residential Care facility use. Missus an urgent stopgap member to preserve a curse crucial component of Housing Stock for vulnerable, sick and elderly residents. I ask that you join me in passing this resolution, without delay. And, i suspect there might be a number of us to have something to say about this today. While we are on Residential Care capacity, ive also requested City Attorney legislation to require the department of Public Health to open and fill all 55 city operated longterm residential treatment beds at San Francisco generals adult residential facility as soon as possible, but in no event later than june 30, 2021. One of the first pieces of legislation i authored, made it easier for operators to add to our stock of private Residential Care beds. While the legislation i just spoke about addresses the challenge of stabilizing providential care beds, there is a need for us to expand city operated their beds for those vulnerable residents set up available for placement. All of us were horrified to see the headlines over the last few weeks describing the closing of longterm beds at general, to make room for a homeless shelter. With most issues, there is a back story here. An explanation. But that explanation is in some ways even more troubling. At a time when San Francisco is desperate for more longterm placements, very sick, mentally ill individuals. Dozens of our beds have gone on sale for years, for a complicated set of reasons. Was some context the decision to spend empty beds and resource scarce space to accommodate a third hummingbird may make sense. Giving up on the art most often does not. You are and i have requested will require the dph bring all at a complete city operated facility online by the time the suspension of the currently suspended 41 beds ends in june of 2021. It will further require that within three months of enactment, the department present to this board report on the barriers to full capacity including any necessary legislative, regulatory, budgetary or policy changes on a plan to achieve full capacity by june of 2021 at the latest. It also requires semiannual updates to the board regarding this initial report. Allowing the department two years to restore should be enough time to fall in staffing or regulatory issues. I am mindful that it is not operated at full capacity for many more years and that. I believe when dph staff when they say they have been trying. They need to try harder. This ordinance will put the full weight of the board of supervisors, and i hope the mayor behind that. The rest i submit. Thank you, madame clerk. Today, along with supervisor haney, im introducing a resolution condemning the attempted assassination of San Franciscos sunset district native and u. S. Citizen, brandon lee, in the philippines by suspected elements of the philippines military. The resolution supports the immediate evacuation of brandon, from the philippines and his repatriation to San Francisco to ensure his safety and access to adequate article care. It also urges our San Francisco federal representatives to initiate a congressional investigation into the shooting of brandon. It also urges our federal representatives to support a congressional hearing on consequences of u. S. Tax dollars going to the Philippine Military and police, and to advocate for suspension of u. S. Aid to the regime in the philippines. And tell case is resolved and the perpetrators are brought to justice. As we were just beginning our august recess. I, along with so many here, in San Francisco and the bay area were really shocked to get the news of the attempted assassination of brandon lee, and brandon is a u. S. Citizen, born and raised in San Francisco. He was shot multiple times outside of his home on august 6, in the philippines. Brandon has been working as a an indigenous and environmental rights advocate, journalist, volunteer, paralegal with a Human Rights Alliance on the philippines. He also had previously volunteered with the Chinese Progressive Association when i was the executive director here in San Francisco. He worked for several years at the stones town ymca and San Francisco State University where he graduated. I just wanted to add that brandon chose to commit his life to advancing indigenous and environmental right and that is why he has been living in the philippines since 2010 with his wife and daughter, among the indigenous communities. Prior to the august 6 attack, since 2015, brandon had been subjected to repeated threats and harassment by the Philippine Military for his advocacy to protect the land and rights of indigenous people, and the surrounding region of the philippines. Since the attack, and attempted assent assassination of brandon on august 6, he has been recovering in a General Hospital where his brother, and his mother, who is a 40 year city and county of San Francisco employee, under the department of Public Health, and currently working as zuckerberg General Hospital, his brother and his mom are providing 24 7 bedside care for him. He remains in Critical Condition with multiple bullets still lodged in his face and back. Brandons experience in fits a pattern of harassment, documented by human rights, and amnesty international. Incredibly [inaudible] against human rights defenders, and all people expressing opposition to Government Policies under the administration of the president. According to Peoples Alliance and the Human Rights Alliance, the attack on brian was not isolated brandon was not isolated. The simultaneous attacks carried out saint day on both brandon and several of his qualities. Again, i am joining with supervisor haney on introducing this resolution in support of brandon lee, and also human rights in the philippines, and supervisor haney had the opportunity to travel to the philippines, during the recess and visit with brandon, and his family and his supporters there. I would like to add my name to the resolution. Thank you. Supervisor haney, do you want to speak now . It is great to be back, colleagues. Today i have two items, but i was very happy to learn that supervisor brown has been working with the City Attorney on some legislative fixes to the heavyhanded effort to regulate the massage industry. Over the break, i had dozens of masseuses who are running legitimate businesses, one of the very few businesses that allow middleclass individuals to continue to work, and stay, and run their own business in San Francisco. We passed a law, a few years ago , sponsored by katie tang, who meant to protect victims of trafficking from being victimized at massage establishments. I worry that we went too far, and we have put the lives of dozens, and dozens of Business Owners and their legitimate businesses, in complete chaos, and im really looking forward to working with you supervisor brown, to fix that. Secondly, i am introducing today, a similar issue that supervisor mandel just spoke about, together with supervisor haney, a hearing request that we should be doing in the next 23 weeks, regarding the i would say shocking decision to remove 41 out of the 55 longterm beds at the adult residential facility, which is the only city run facility providing assistance to longterm care, for severely mentally ill people in our city. This decision came at a time where the city is already losing over 40 of our private board and care homes for people with severe mental illness, and it comes at a deeply troubling Mental Health crisis that you and i see every single day on the streets. I first learned about the bed closer from a frontline psychiatric nurse at dph, who informed me that the department of Public Health had quietly decided to place 41 longterm beds on indefinite suspension, essentially removing them until further notice. The Department Already removed 14 of those beds last year, using them instead as a shortterm navigation beds at hummingbird place. About quietly removing the 20 beds for the same purpose. Also informing us that the department had stopped admitting new residents to this facility, since it back in september 2018. People are waiting in locked facility wards to get into those beds. They are essentially still incarcerated, despite the fact they do not have to be incarcerated, because there is no board and care beds to send them to. Incredulously, if it was not for local 20 workers, who brought this to light, we would not have learned about these changes at all, even though my office has been engaged in weekly meetings with the department of Public Health, around Mental Health, and around this very issue. Despite the fact that this board of supervisors has held countless hearings on our Behavioral Health system, both before, and during the budget process. It is quite shocking. These 41 longterm beds are the type of beds that we most urgently need in San Francisco. These are bids for the sickest among us who are not able to care for themselves over the long term. The people you and i see on the streets were often abandoned and struggling with illness, completely on their own, these are the beds for those people in need. Because of how dire our cities Mental Health crisis has become we cannot afford for a single bed to be removed or go unused. I am a huge proponent of expanding Navigation Center beds. I have fought for them ever since ive started as a supervisor and i believe we need to create more Navigation Center beds in the hummingbird style. To do so at the expense of providing longterm, or removing longterm beds, we are severely mentally ill people have lived for years, some as long as 15 years, makes absolutely no sense. By removing longterm beds, the shorter beds, where people average 19 days, we are essentially robbing peter to pay paul. We are nibbling around the edges, not providing Actual Solutions to the Mental Health crisis on our streets. This is unsustainable, and unacceptable. Make no mistake about it this decision will lead to more people being diverted to our streets. This decision also has serious implications for people who are being conserved. We recently passed legislation expanding the number of people who the city can place into conservatorship, and yet we are, at the same time, removing the precious beds that we control, for the people that are going to be conserved. At the rally, protesting the closure of the adult residential facility, a couple of weeks ago, one of the cities conservators, michelle dioguardi, was asked by a journalist, where will who you can serve. Her response, while she was shaking her head, it would have i would have absolutely no idea. Why were families, of residents of the facility, workers of the facilities, and the residents themselves not told about this decision in advance . Why was the truth help from these workers providing care for these vulnerable residents. The article yesterday exposed the fact, that dph management has been lying to workers about the reasons they will be keeping beds empty since 2018. Suzette mayer, one of the worker said in the articles, we were told to leave the empty beds in us not having an new residents because of the numerous citations we received and we were on a two year probation from licensing. When informed, this justification was not accurate, she replied i am in shocked it was not just her, it was dozens of workers that were told the same thing. Dph has stated and told me, that the decision to close critical longterm beds was not because of the lack of need for those beds, but rather staffing issues when i asked dph for what measures did you take to hire the workers to run the facilities . They took no difference, or unusual, or extra measures whatsoever, and have been keeping those beds empty since september 2018. This is frankly shocking, shocking. Supervisor haney and i are calling for a public hearing grade we are requesting that both the department of Public Health and the department of Human Resources be present at the hearing, and discussed the following areas. Weve also sent an extensive Public Record information, records request to both departments. We want to know the timeline when the decision was made by the department of Public Health, and whether any alternative options were considered that did not require the closure of beds at the adult residential facility. We want to know why the board of supervisors, despite the numerous hearings and budget hearings precisely on this topic were never once informed that this decision was in the works, and that these beds were purposely being kept close, and unfilled for a year, which was extremely relevant to our consideration, and determination on whether or not to vote in favor of the conservatorship law. This would have been information i would have love to know, when i had voted in favor of that law. The reason i rationale behind close in the beds, stopping needs at the adult residential facility and steps taken by dph and the department of youth he have resources, including any efforts made to hire staff on an urgent priority basis, the breakdown of the adult residential facilities budget, and how that relates to operating a staffing cost, the justification for why over 20 permanent beds remained empty over the past year, even though people were awaiting entry into this longterm care facility. The reason why new clients have not been admitted to the facility since september 2018, how changes to the core provisions of services at the adult residential facility were communicated to residents, their families, and once again to this board of supervisors. With all due respect to my colleagues, supervisor mandel men, june 2021 is not going to cut it these beds have scandalously been empty for a year. That, and it outcome is an outrage. We as a city need to be doing everything in our power, right now to hire the labor force that is necessary, and whatever we need to do to make that happen, so that those beds go online next month. That is the kind of urgency that i have around this crisis, there are people being incarcerated in jail, and in on the the locked ward, who do not need to be any psychiatrist that comes here they will tell you they have patients that they can name right now in that predicament, when what we are doing may even be illegal, it is something for the City Attorney to look into. This supervisor is outraged, and has no patients, and could not have a greater urgency for this being done tomorrow. Unbelievable, colleagues, unbelievable. I couldnt wait to come back, because i have never felt that the separation of powers is more important than it is at this moment. If this board of supervisors does not demand accountability, from our department, nobody else will. That is our job to make sure they are doing their job and they have failed miserably in this case. Finally, colleagues, with my colleague peskin, we will be introducing a resolution opposing Assembly Bill 235. It is pg es latest attempt to lobby the state legislature for bailout. They have no shame, do they . This bill allows utilities to use taxexempt bonds for the welfare costs to reduce financing costs. Pg e wants customers to act as guarantee years of 20 million more, urging lawmakers to further protect his shareholders at the expense of their customers. Despite concerns around pg es financial health, and they need to make victims whole, it is not appropriate for california rate payers and taxpayers to subsidize an investor owned companies that related to past wildfires, especially given that the company in question was found criminally at fault for past safety issues. This one should be a nobrainer, and i hope that our state representatives see the light here, they usually do when it comes to pg e. I think it is important for this board to go on record and tell them where we stand. Thank you, madame clerk it is passed to 30 00, so we are going to go ahead and move back to our 2 30 p. M. Special accommodations right now and then go back to rollcall later. We have 2 30 p. M. Accommodations submitted by supervisor haney and supervisor mandleman. Thank you, president yee. I am proud to be honoring a group of heroic First Responders, from the San Francisco Fire Department and the severance cisco police department, officers, who have courageously saved lives on our streets. In 2018, over 72,000 americans died of drug overdoses. Nationally there were more opioid Overdose Deaths than there were deaths from Car Accidents or firearm related homicides. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for people under 50. Overdose rates that are two times the national average. In 2018, San Francisco had 259 overdose related deaths, which is over 20 deaths per month. Each one of these individuals who lost their life, has a ones and a future needlessly and tragically cut short. Overdose related deaths are within the Tenderloin Civic Center and south neighborhoods. The impact of these deaths in the deadly drug use crisis ways especially heavily on my constituents who want and deserve safe streets, Public Health, access to treatment and care and a thriving, healthy and connected community. It is time to change the way we look at drug related deaths those suffering with addiction are persecuted by the illness. As a community we need to act boldly, and compassionately in dealing with overdose issues headon and the impact of the deadly drug crisis in our neighborhood. We know Overdose Deaths are preventable. An opiate overdose can almost always be reversed by the administration of a legal nonscheduled opioid antagonist that can be quickly administered by intramuscular injections. While oxo produces no symptoms, dependence or tolerance. In the absence of narcotics has no formal logical activity. It is routinely administered by Emergency Services personnel to revive opioid overdose victims on side effects are rare. Thanks to the introduction, the dose project reported that over 1600 overdose reversals occurred in 2018 alone. That is 1500 lives that were saved last year. August 31 was International Overdose of where to stay. A day for wasting awareness, while remembering those who have died who have suffered permanent injuries as an overdose. I am honoring 11 individuals. They have demonstrated bravery, compassion, and caring for their fellow san franciscans and continue to provide Invaluable Service to our city. The individuals i am recognizing today have been identified by their leadership, having the highest number of overdose preventions on their teams. These police officers, and emts demonstrate to their peers and all of us what it takes to help in this crisis. They make us proud of our cities compassion for one another and inspire us to recommit to end deadly drug overdoses in our city. We are offering these accommodations are First Responders today, we want to recognize those Community Members who are also part of the solution. We are working with these groups to come up with accommodation for them, at a later date. We are also working with Community Partners to schedule a number of narcan trainings around district six this month, including one here at city hall for my fellow supervisors and for city hall staff. We need to address the deadly crisis with systemic changes, more access to narcan, and we also need to make sure that each of us are prepared as these heroes were to save a life if we are needed. At this time, it is my pleasure to provide certificates of honor to the following First Responders for their Exemplary Service to our community, saving the lives of our friends, neighbors and family members. Acting section chief, paramedic eddie byrd, officer matthew parker, officer joseph, officer andrew clifford, officer holbrook, officer townsend, officer costa, officer stephen arango, officer nico, an officer john. I think we have the captain who is going to say a few words. Thank you, captain, for your leadership and for training, and supporting your officers so that they can be prepared when that moment comes,. I want to thank you for your leadership, as well. [applause] i really appreciate you for these officers today. We have one here who has done six saves in 2019 already. At the end of their shift, i really feels good to know that you saved a life. These officers are also fighting another front also, who are putting deadly drugs on the streets. Thank you again, laura, if you want to acknowledge . As you said, it is an epidemic and we do have a serious problem , on the streets. I am very proud of the officers that stand behind me, they could just call for medical assistance, but they decide to jump in and be that medical assistance. I am very proud of them. Thank you for everything that you did. Thank you, also, all of the supervisors for supporting the department and providing us with this drug, because we cannot do it without you. Thank you. [applause] next we will have supervisor mandleman. Would you like to present your accommodation. I want to take a moment to honor gary weiss for his commitment to district eight. For more than 30 years, gary owned and operated a floral shop , known for its sculptural, unusual and unexpected arrangements. It was a business that celebrated the unique, the extravagant. In many ways, embodied the neighborhood he called home. Gary operated the business until 2017, when he transferred the business to a new owner. In addition, to his decades as a Small Business owner, he has grown above and beyond to keep the corporate heights neighborhood a special place. 415 years, he spearheaded efforts to organize meetings and bring to light issues that impact to the area. In the early 2,000s he was critical in efforts to underground utilities, serving as liaison between city agencies and neighbors. He also helped lead the fight against the spread of the at t boxes, suffered getting a moratorium put in place in corporate heights. In addition to his work, he served on the years of the board of associations, carrying both of their land committees. There are many neighborhoods that owe gary weiss. Cities change, but whether those changes are for the better or worse, depends in large part on the wisdom, dedication and persistence of neighborhood activists. Gary is not want to stand idle in the pace of change, certainly not want to give up in the face of seemingly overwhelming economic forces. No better example than his work to limit socalled monster homes, in the neighborhood. Working with my predecessors in the district eight offices, he organized his neighbors to establish zoning controls which became the framework for special use district. More process for projects, taking away rear yard oak green space, to make large homes without adding density. It is more than a change of zoning rules. It is an attempt to preserve what makes Corona Heights special, make sure residents have a real place in shaping the future of the neighborhood. Thank you, gary, for your commitment to the corporate Heights Community and the city and county of San Francisco. And now i would like you to say a few words, if you like. Supervisor, if i could add a couple of things. I also want to thank gary, not only for his neighborhood activism, before being part of the coalition of flower vendors that was instrumental in making sure that our beloved flower market is preserved into the 21st century, so thank you for that. Thank you, supervisors, president yee. I am not quite sure why i enjoy doing this stuff. It is rewarding to see change for the good. Our neighborhoods are always under attack by one force or another, whether it is homelessness, overenthusiastic developers or politicians in sacramento. For my 102nd soapbox, i have two asks. Please consider supporting any proposal that requires significant improvement to our transit infrastructure, prior to permitting housing for new residents, and please do not view rear yards, and mid walk open space as underexploited options for new housing. I am incredibly grateful, to the residence of corbin heights, and especially to supervisor mandel men for this accommodation. Thank you. [applause] [applause] madame clerk, since that completes the accommodations, its not quite 3 00 p. M. Why dont we continue with roll call and why dont we start with supervisor peskin. We will refer. Thank you. Welcome back, colleagues. So come on the legislative side today, i am going to introduce an ordinance amending the citys preference policy to accommodate tenants displaced by temporary capital improvement, evictions, which is an all too often increasingly common occurrence, citywide, but especially in districts like the one i represent that have older, other representing similar districts that im looking at, looking at supervisor brown that has Housing Stock predominantly. San franciscos rental law allows landlords to displace tenants in order to form capital improvements. Sometimes these improvements are mandatory, as in certain seismic retrofits. Some of them are voluntary. Under the rental law, these evictions are intended to be temporary, and tenants are entitled to return when the renovations are completed. The law generally requires the work to be completed in about 90 days, and provides Relocation Assistance to the tenant, during that timeframe. The law also allows landlords to extend the time without a time limit, and indeed i am seeing any number of cases where this is being exploited, really with the intent of having the tenant never return, and often it is accompanied by offers of buyouts with threats of a longterm displacement, so this proposal eligible with inclusion of our city existent policy for tenants. I think you understand the process. I think we do need to work on more comprehensive reforms to protect tenants from abusive practices. The conversion of rentcontrolled housing, corporate rentals, tourist hotels, and other uses, et cetera. Right now, this is something we can do for folks who are facing these eviction threats today. Finally, i would like to adjourn todays Board Meeting, in the memory of two individuals who have left a mark on the city, and county of San Francisco. The first, filmmaker, charles rudnick, who passed away after a long and courageous struggle with cancer. He was the husband of carmen, from tommasos restaurant in north beach. My condolences to carmen, and his family, and in particularly his three daughters, tessa, kali and margie. The second is for somebody who you all, colleagues, new. He was seen behind me, on any given tuesday afternoon, a humble, sweet, remarkably observant journalist, lauren marson, who worked at kgo tv for 38 years, passed away, after cancer. While we were on summer recess. During his storied career, mostly behind the camera, he covered the hall of justice, San Francisco police headquarters, and that the weekly goingson at the board of supervisors, and i think the longest serving member of this board of supervisors, i have to say when you got his smile, of approval, you knew you were doing the right thing. When he would give that subtle little grimace, you knew the board of supervisors was messing up. His commitment to journalistic excellence was beyond just basic ethics, integrity and reporting. He was a constant grounding element, behind the camera, and his gentle presence i really felt indicated a deep empathy for his subjects, and the news, and that incredible, soothing voice that he had, always made people feel comfortable and at home. I would like to adjourn todays Board Meeting in lauren marsons memory, and extend our deepest condolences on behalf of the board to his children bonnie and gavin. I know they have been through a lot the last few weeks as lauren struggled to hospice. The rest i will submit. Thank you, mr. President. I want to thank you, and supervisor mandleman for taking the lead on the conditional use for longterm care. In fact, i think if you get an analysis, our districts collectively have the most in the entire city. I know many of the inhome care facilities, in my district, are feeling the pressure from speculators coming in, or family not being able to handle an additional family member. I actually asked my staff to do the same thing. We would love to be a process. Please add me as a cosponsor to your resolution. I think it is extremely important part of our delivery system, given the fact that we have such a large aging population. I know i have one of the highest number of seniors aging in place, and many of them want to be able to continue to live in their community, and the relative affordability of the homes being able to be converted into inhome care, assisted living facilities, in that district is very important. I know walton also has many of those facilities, ive met quite a few that actually operate facilities in multiple districts and they are the same operator in the same family. Definitely want to be a part of that resolution. Also asking the City Attorney, we are going to begin a process conversation, i know we went through an extensive process on medical cannabis dispensaries. Weve had a lot of conversations about the number, the amount of people, equity, and so on. There just seems to be a general sense that certain areas of town are more prone to multiple applications, versus ones that are not. We want to have a conversation about a potential interim control, and what that would mean to allow for a a fullfledged community, of conversations about what say spreading them, more equitably, across the city in terms of accessibility, and terms of opportunities. I will work with the City Attorney on that, and have some some initial conversations with walton, i know there is a large queue in his district as well. Anyway, we will continue those conversations. Everyone else, welcome back read the rest i submit. Supervisor. , thank you madame clerk prayed i would like to close todays meeting in memory of kirby walker who passed away on august 4, after a long and difficult fight against melanoma. She lived an amazing life with extraordinary joy, undiminished gratitude and the contagious and positive spirit until the very end. A native san franciscan, she was born to brooks and peggy walker in 1956, and was the oldest of three children. She married her college sweetheart, Paul Danielson in 1982. Kirby and paul were married for 37 years and had two sons, miles and clay. After graduating from the university of colorado and earning a masters degree from stanford university, she cofounded a productions, a Video Production company. The most recent film, the awardwinning hbo documentary, toxic hotseat, brought to light across toxic effects of cancercausing, flame retardant chemicals as well as increased cancer ratings on the firefighting profession. For her work on toxic hotseat, she was honored with the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation white helmet award. To define the highest level of achievement in the firefighting profession, and a civilian award to those who have made a profound difference to the health and welfare of firefighters in their battle against cancer. The film elevated awareness of the toxic exposures firefighters face on a daily basis, and the importance of personal protective equipment. It was the impetus for the change in the culture of firefighting, and instrumental in changing California Law to protect consumers from carcinogens used by furniture makers, and flame retardant fabrics. Kirby also served on the board of directors at the Natural Resources defense council, where she is now an honorary board member, as well as the board of directors of the marin country day school. Kirby was the happiest, in nature, and she loved lake tahoe where she spent summers and winters, as a child, later enjoyed with her own children. While kirby found tremendous success in her career as a filmmaker, the family came first. Whether taking her husband, and sons on an adventure to expedition to rising river, or simply preparing a family dinner at home, spending time with her family brought her right pride and joy. She was widely known for spontaneous laughter, kindness, love her life that she shared with everyone from her dearest friends to hospital nurses. Kirby was a bright light in our world and she will be missed terribly by her husband, father and stepmother, as well as the many many others who left her so dearly. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you, i submit. Supervisor yee, mr. President. Colleagues, for much of last year when i passed the ordinance limiting on Automated Delivery Services on our sidewalks, i was told by some, i was a little crazy and was creating legislation that was addressing something that was not a problem. Before that legislation passed, 300pound security robots were seen on public sidewalks, telling Homeless People to move along. A few weeks later, hundreds of scooters would drop on our streets, and suddenly everyone understood the city and residents demanded action in order to control what was taking place on our streets. Launch is really not good governance. It is not practical, nor sustainable, for a legislator, or for the Emergent Technology companies to create a single object, single subject legislation, i support renovation, and technology, but our residents are not guinea pigs for venture, capitalists to experiment on and are Public Infrastructure not a freeforall, unregulated space. With the support of supervisor ronan, if you and peskin, the Guiding Principles and the Emergent Technology working group was created in order to make recommendations for regulatory, and permitting process for those emerging technologies. I want to thank the City Administrators Office for overseeing this whole process, and evidence of the scope of interest, at the time, for this working group. We had 477 people rsvp to attend , 112 pages of session notes taken, and an additional 175 written comments were submitted by online surveys. And in 19 departments actually participated alone