Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

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. Community advocacy groups, consultants, representing each of the tech firms, and academics basically we did a lot, and did research, and actually conducted some research over the 20 cities that have any indication, or interests. The recommendations through the thorough and collaborative process resulted in a legislation that would be introducing, that would create an office of emerging technology. This is imperative as emerging Tech Department is forcing departments to move away from working, and collaborate. The office of emerging technology will facilitate this process. I hope all of us agree with the recommendations creating a streamline process that will support innovation. The office of emerging technology will be the front door, because this is our responsibility, as a city to evaluate the benefits, costs and risks to our residents safety, privacy, impact to merchants, seniors, children. To launch Public Infrastructure. The city of the office of emerging technology will evaluate what departments need to be engaged prior to obtaining approval, and will forecast the variations that may be coming down the road. As you all know, San Francisco welcomes and encourages emerging technology. As a city we must ensure that technologies provide net common good, measure in identifiable ways, and that they are safe and appropriate. So, we have learned, on more than one occasion, that many businesses and in some cases, entire industries have launched and ground with little regulation oversight. This is due to the absence of a process that could facilitate envisioning the future of emerging technologies. Today the most salient example of emerging technologies are mobility, focus and impacting our streets and sidewalks. The guidelines in the prince was of the office will be inclusive of technologies beyond mobilitys. To include startup and technologies that will potentially impact of critical resources, whether it is water, air, and our environment. The office of emerging technology will speak to industries beyond mobility and transportation including health services, public, private partnerships, later sharing agreements, and anywhere there is a nexus between emerging technology and the public realm. The emerging Technology Diversity must be accommodating the most vulnerable persons, including seniors, children, and those with mobility and other limitations, not the other way around. Not retrospectively or as an afterthought. The privacy of our residents must not be compromised with data collection, and of an emerging technology. The creation of emerging technology will allow the departments to maintain their respective objectives, while working collectively toward this goal of supporting emergency technology, and limiting Public Resources to serve the welfare of san franciscans. I look forward to working with all of you, the public, private and tech sectors as this legislation is established. Resident setting Guiding Principles, and for the office of emerging technology. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor brown. Thank you, madame clerk can you add me as a cosponsor to supervisor peskins displacement legislation . Thank you. Colleagues, id like, many of you, have heard from dozens of massage and bodywork practitioners in this past week, due to over 200 letters from the department of Public Health. These letters were sent out, for a whistleblower complaint. Filed with the department. This is actually scary, and alarming, for many practitioners who are struggling to make a living in the city and keep their doors open. Although, this industry is designed to relieve our stress, and our aches, we know that our practitioners have felt the pain of overreaching regulations, extremely restrictive zoning. All of us at one time or another have spoken about the importance and making it easier for Small Businesses to do business in San Francisco. This is one industry where the citys current regulations are doing just the opposite. They do not reflect the importance of integration of massage to the delivery of the healthcare, and stifling its growth. I have three actions that i am asking today. One, i am calling for the City Attorney to drop comprehensive legislation that will improve Economic Vitality of legitimate massage businesses. It is clear to me that we need an ordinance that will potentially amend our planning code, our health code, and make administrative reforms. For the past several months, my office and i have been working with the office of Small Business to get policy direction , and i would like to thank regina, and her staff, for your support. I also appreciate supervisor mandleman and ronen for joining me on this work, given how this impacts their districts, too. We met with the massage council to hear the concerns and understand the challenges of this industry. I am committed to commonsense regulatory amendments that would not only serve legitimate massage business owners, but also would retain the integrity of controls put into place in order to prevent illicit sex work, and Human Trafficking. Two, i am calling for the department of Public Health to ease up on enforcement of our massage practitioners while we undergo this legislative process. This overall would take thoughtful work. And we need time to do this. We need to bring more people to the table, and work with the massage and bodywork industry, anti Human Trafficking advocates, and our sex worker advocates to determine the next steps. Lastly, i am asking for the office of Small Business to meet with them massage practitioners, on friday september 13 to get additional policy direction from the industry. We cannot develop solutions in a vacuum, we need to hear from this community. San francisco has also been a leader in delivering highquality healthcare, and we have been a leader in developing integrative healthcare. We can do the same for massage and bodywork. This is not just about the delivery of healthcare, it is an two important equity issue for women and Small Business owners. This issue impacts directly our frontline communities; women, immigrants, people of color and our queer communities. The American Massage Therapy Association estimates that nationally, massage therapists are mostly 80 , likely to be so practitioners, enter massage Massage Therapy profession as a second career, and the medium age of a massage therapist is 44 years old. The federal bureau of labor estimates there is 1900 female massage therapist employed in the bay area earning a yearly Median Income of 42,890. We need to protect this lifeline , for our women, on the margins. Colleagues, i also realize that there are illicit sex, and human traffic operators that fronted their operations under disguise a massage. I also believe that we can create regulations of that it can growth for massage as part of healthcare, and not allow illicit operators to open. I applied my colleagues were taking additional solutions, we need systematic change. I am also asking, my fellow supervisors, to please work with me on this. I need your input and guidance. I look forward to working with the City Attorney, supervisors mandleman,. Seven and the rest of our colleagues to make this happen. The rest i submit. Supervisor viewer. Thank you. Colleagues, across the city we are seeing the alltoofamiliar longrunning construction projects, that have real impact, not only to our streetscape but also on a Small Business courtyard. We hear from our Small Businesses about concerns regarding Pedestrian Access, parking impact challenges with loading and unloading, and other Significant Impacts the bottom line of viability of Small Businesses as well as the economic neighborhood. Small businesses are the backbone of our neighborhood. It is time that we intentionally and proactively care about resources with mitigation strategies for large projects as a way of protecting our Small Businesses due to construction. With a supervisor brown, i am requesting that the City Attorneys Office Dropped an ordinance that would mandate, incorporate a Small Business Construction Mitigation Fund as part of large construction projects. Where threshold of a Significant Impact to Small Businesses can be estimated. There should be a very intentional consideration of the potential Small Business impact. I would like to see projects have a line item that accounts for percentage that will be set aside a for the purposes of a Small Business construction mitigation. It is critical we have the resources in place to develop programs and processes to best support Small Businesses for construction. The unique Small Business needs vary along project neighborhoods, one thing is similar, Small Business merchants can use the relief. Thank you supervisor brown for your support, as we develop this ordinance for the Small Business Construction Mitigation Fund. The rest i submit. Supervisor haney. Thank you, madame clerk. I wanted to say brief word about the resolution that supervisor mark, and i, and president. Yee added his name, i did have the opportunity to visit brandon, his family, in the philippines, a hospital, and he is definitely improving, he is able to breathe on his own. He is able to be responsive, conscious. He is still very much in critical condition, and to make things even worse, hes even in a situation where his security is still very much at risk. There are people that come into his room, and around the hospital, saying they may be affiliated with police who attempted to assassinate him. This is a very urgent situation that we want to continue to bring attention, and publicity to, so that the u. S. Embassy, the philippian government responds and ensures his security, and health. We also have been looking into opportunities for potentially bringing brandon back home with the support of our department of Public Health, his mom who is there with him, is a 30 plus year employee of the department of Public Health. His brother is a nurse area i just wanted to thank you, and your staff for your advocacy for brandon, and we want to continue to do everything we can to support him. Calling on hearing for the decision to take away 75 of permanent residential treatment beds from seriously mental l people. This is a responsible and illogical. We need to get to the bottom of this the residents of the Behavioral Health centers adult residential facility are extremely vulnerable and they need the help of our Healthcare Professionals to assist them with their activities. They require the help of nurses to assist with her laundry, management and handle their finances. While we drafted the legislation, we worked closely with a core group of experts who passionately advocate for the rights of the same clients to reside where theyre at. What i heard from them, time and time again was that we have a broken Mental Health system that fails to address the serious needs of mental ill clients braided the system does not adequately serve all of our essential needs because of the severe shortage of permanent housing solutions. Reducing the number of beds available was such a Vulnerable Group at this alarming rate is sending a clear message that we are willing to turn our backs on them. Their needs are far less important, when we are prioritizing temporary shelter beds in terms of longterm housing solutions. Instead of focusing on the needs of both populations, we have pitted them against each other. When we make these decisions it is critical that we take our advice from the Mental Health professionals who are on the front lines, and who are the experts. If it wasnt for the leadership of the frontline workers and members of local 21, this problem would have been swept under the rug i would have caused dire consequences for the health and wellbeing for the residents of the area as well as the workers they consider to be family. We do need low Barrier Navigation Centers to treat clients suffering with Mental Health and Substance Abuse issues. However that cannot happen at the expense of shutting down 75 of these beds. We absolutely need to hold a hearing on this decision and schedule it, by the end of this month. The future and wellbeing of the residents are depending on it, and we owe it to all of them to advocate for their health and safety. The rest i submit. Thank you. No other names on the roster. Why dont we just go ahead and called the first 3 00 p. M. Special order. Items 912, comprise the 3 00 p. M. Special order for public hearing of persons interested in a Community Plan evaluation by the planning department, under the California Environmental quality act, issued on june 11, 2019 for the proposed project at 655 fourth street. The next three items comprise the motions that are associated with the public hearing. We are in receipt of a communication from david lamb, withdrawing his appeal, this withdrawal was dated august 29, 2019. Okay. Then, if they are withdrawing the appeal, we dont need to have this hearing. Correct . I believe the appellants are in the audience, mr. President and can come to the podium and make a statement. With the appellant like to do that . And a Public Comment, mr. President. I dont see anybody coming up , so why dont we have Public Comment on this item . Seeing no Public Comment. Public comment for this is closed. Thank you, mr. President. I wanted to thank the appellant in the project sponsor, we held a number of meetings, and my office convened to work out some of these issues, and we were able to do so, which led to the withdrawal of this appeal. I am very happy that both parties have been able to reach an agreement. I would like to make a motion to adopt item ten, affirmed the travertine determination and table items 11 and 12. Do we have a second . Okay. Without objection, item ten is approved unanimously, and items 11 and 12 madame clerk, please call the next one. Items 13 and 14 comprise the board of supervisors to convene in a committee of the whole pursuant to a resolution approved on july 26, 2019 for public hearing to consider the proposed ordinance which is contained in item 14, ordering the street vacation of the entirety of seawall lot 337 and portions, along with Public Service easements with the mission rock project to reserve temporary rights in favor of the city and pg e, subject to conditions specified in the ordinance and adopted a sequel determination and make the appropriate findings. We will now be convening as a committee of the whole, and im open to hearing the streets and Public Service easement vacation order, at mission rock project. Does the district six supervisor wish to make any remarks . Yes, i think most of you are very familiar with this project, i am a cosponsor of this legislation with mayor breen. This is a port of San Francisco project in partnership with, to inspire mission rock is a mixeduse development in the planning process for over ten years. During that decade, the project has engaged in Extensive Community input, received over 74 approval of San Francisco voters, earning unanimous support at every board and commission including the board of supervisors last year. I am excited to help realize this project, because it brings important unneeded Public Benefits, not only to district six but to the broader waterfront of the city. 8 acres of open parks and open space including a signature waterfront park, significant affordable housing, neighborhood retail space and Community Space , construction and permanent jobs of the street vacation legislation before you is administrative in nature, providing additional insurance for the City Development partners against future rightofway claims. I think the staff report is here if there any questions. Do any of the Department Staff wish to make any comments . Seeing none. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on these items . Come on up. You have two minutes. I would like to speak about it. You talk about affordable housing. I showed you documentation, i believe it was for ten pertaining to redevelopment rules and regulations 415 of all new brandnew apartment buildings, including building at mission rock, is supposed to be 15 for very low and low income bracket people. 15 of 1500 means that 225 of those apartments, and the overall 1500 units for mission rock is supposed to be for very low, and low i demonstrated in front of you, the rest of this board, and president yee how you are not following your own rules and regulations. How come youre not speaking up for that . Then have the nerve to talk about 100 of horrible housing. That is not true. By the same response, you use a female, and her daughter, who is living in a boardinghouse to be your pitch person to advertise commercials, not only on regular tv, but cable tv pertaining to proposition d, which is about affordable housing, for the mission rock complex. Pertaining to the instructions on mission rock says 15 of those apartments are supposed to be for very low and low income bracket people, the people you claim you want to help, and the people that is out of the streets that is homeless. Your pitch person, spanish latino, mexican female who you had on tv throughout the system, for the voters to think that they can afford to live out that mission rock, where you know god damn well that that lady, and her daughter, and then the compound that you are not dealing in good faith, and never had any intentions on reaching a legal agreement on this matter, because you had a schoolteacher say she would love to be a tenant at mission rock, too, she can even afford to live there in her god damn self. How come youre not speaking up for that . Im really upset with you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Okay. Next speaker. I am the treasurer of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco, this proposal last thursday i attended a very disturbing hearing at the department of toxic substance control, regarding the deed covenants, preventing any residential use for the construction of parkland, or facilities involving minors on the site. This covenant has been in place since the year 2,001. What is baffling to me, how you can go through an entire ceqa review, not once mentioned that the mission rock facility is a superfund site and the site of a former toxic waste dump there are dioxins at the site,, with 17 times of the amount allowable by law. There is led, there is hydrocarbons, there is benzene, this site is San Franciscos love canal, if you allow this project to go forward. I was absolutely shocked that the department of toxic substance control, when the department did not go and reevaluate the site for the first time in a quarter of a century. Basically willie brown took some soil testing results, from believe it or not, tetra tech in 1996, shove them in a drawer, and said we are going to use that, 25 years from now, to develop the site go. What have you seen . You have seen mission bay develop right up to the border of the superfund site, and now you have to let it go, you engaged in a lease with pitchman fire. Go google them, they are mafia connected. That is what a racket is brady are taking a brownfield and selling it off as luxury housing, and the taxpayers on the port will be holding the bag when the birth defects and the cancer start to emerge. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Supervisors, i have come here after some time, there usually a lot all over the place. This mission rock, as the gentleman just stated is very contaminated. Before that, not once do you supervisors admit that all of the lead, the 7. 5 miles that San Francisco Port Authority has is public trust land. Some of yall havent even read the public trust act. While it is supposed to be for maritime uses, and good uses, as has been suggested by the previous speaker, a superfund site is the worst, of the worst site, because of its contaminants. To call a superfund site of brownfield, it is not right. So the San Francisco Port Authority was created in the 60s, after the state handed over to the city who in turn created the San Francisco Port Authority which is an enterprise department. Which will try to make money one way or the other, as it has with at t park, and some others. You are the legislative body, yall have to understand, and be educated on issues, what is happening again and again in the city is that we are allowing developers to build housing on very contaminated soil. We have the precautionary principle, which i am sure none of yall have read, and very few of you are dont understand. Thank you. Next speaker, please. It is time to make this item solid as a rock. Single it is hot, hot, hot. Any other speakers . Seeing none, public, disclose for this item. Supervisor haney, do you have any other remarks . This hearing has been heard, supervisor viewer. Have some questions about the street vacation. Ed has come across this legislative body while i have been in office. I am wondering if there is an opportunity to actually have a powerpoint, on this communication and where it would be, and also the length of time, i think some of this is rather vague. I understand we will also, on our agenda, but in particular since we are talking around mission rock, in an area that is quite frankly only going to get more congested. I am wondering if we can take a moment, colleagues, so sorry to take a moment, to maybe get a brief presentation on what this particular street vacation would entail . I have a copy of the hope at best proposed street vacation, and it actually has a map on it, and it has the scope of the project, public benefit. For this mission rock project i dont have any of that. Im wondering is not available to the board as we review this to vote on this today, or should this be continued for another time . My name is Phil Williamson, i am a senior project manager with the port of San Francisco. Supervisor viewer we do have a presentation we can present to you right now, if you are ready . It is in the board packet. Would that be okay to have a brief presentation . Yes, you asked for it, so go ahead. Are my slides on your screens, or . Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to present. My name is Phil Williamson and i am with support staff. As mentioned by the supervisor, weve been working on this project for many years. This matter before you today is procedural, we have not found any evidence of publicly accepted street on this property. Our experians shown, over the years, if you do not do a street vacation as a matter of principle, you may be surprised by claims that you did not know about. This is really just a belt and suspenders effort to clear any title issues from the site before he goes to develop it later this year. Quickly, this is only a 45 slide presentation. Definitely have something for you to look at, first of all a pretty picture of the site today , you see the surface parking lot and pier 48 to the left, and then a build out 710 years, depending on market conditions, of course. The site should look like this, or some variation of this new neighborhood called mission rock. These are the items and points of the street vacation we presented at committee. They are in your package as well. I can go to these if you like. Again, just administrative in nature. This lists some of the projects list lists some of the projects and main Public Benefits as far as open space and housing, things we are looking forward to delivering for the whole city in the region. Again, just want to stress the administrative nature of the street vacation request. Regarding a map, the next page shows a map of the site, and again just to be clear, we are asking to vacate the entire site, because we do not show any evidence of public rightofway on the site. The best approach we can take was to assume the whole site should be vacated, from any potential future claims, not having any record. This next slide shows a project schedule. Today is an important step, again clearing title and avoiding any future title issues as we prepare final maps and prepare permits, and get ready to go to construction later this year. That is the short presentation. But if you have any questions i would be glad to answer them. Anybody have any questions. Thank you. I just have one question. Maybe you have provided this, my apologies. How long is the street vacation for . Ever. It is forever . It clears title to the site forever until title changes in the future. Again, the risk to the project, by not doing this is if there was some claim from some prior land owner, or prior user that we were not aware of, or due diligence, this measure would put on record the fact that we had taken the necessary steps to clear any potential street right away claim in the future. Affected parties typically are city municipalities, and also Public Utility Companies like pg e, or the phone company. When this vacation was made public, entities such as pg e came forth and notified us that they had to make women on site. We had to accommodate that equipment to move it around. We are kind of quieting our own title. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Seeing no other speakers. This hearing has been heard, and filed. We are now reconvening as the board of supervisors, do we have a motion on item 14 . Supervisor peskin made a motion to approve item 14, seconded by supervisor, can we take the same house same call without objection . This ordinance passes unanimously on first reading. Madame clerk, please call the next at three special order item. Items 15 and 16 comprise the board of supervisors to convene pursuant to a resolution approved on august 1st, 2019. Fifteen as a public hearing to proposed ordinance subject matter of item 16, ordering vacation street in the sf project phase two and to affirm the ceqa i make the appropriate findings. Colleagues, we are convening as a committee as a whole and open the hearing on this order for arbor trail hope sf project, page two. Does the district supervisor, yes, supervisor walton. Thank you so much. Colleagues, once again, if you recall, hope sf project is the biggest revitalization project we have had here in San Francisco, and it is making sure that we provide adequate rehabilitated, updated, new housing for Public Housing residents in the southeast sector of San Francisco. We have seen some of the new developments, as well as we are working very hard. This is very important. I am cosponsoring this action with mayor breed. This will allow vital Public Housing revitalization to move forward with construction as well as new streets and utilities. This ordinance, was adopted will support the construction of the maximum number of phase two replacement Public Housing units. 157 units in phase two, 619 units in total sitewide, and an uns onsite childcare facility, small open space area and allow for replacement infrastructure. Another thing i want to add that will also provide access from one area to another, Pedestrian Access which is much needed, particularly in this community as people try to maneuver and move around. With that said, i am hoping that we will support this street vacation, and looking forward to action this afternoon. Do any of the Department Staff wish to make any comments . My apologies, we do have a developer here, from bridge housing, as well as representatives, if there any questions, or additional needed information. Any questions . Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on these items . All speakers will be allowed to minutes. I want to know what is the ami. When i dealt with you, walton, you told me that you got 100 affordable housing. I asked you pointblank, what is the ami of the projects you have been working on . You told me 15 of the ami. Ami of the income scale that has produced the amount of money that a tenant has to play pay to rent a building, is on or about 49,500, whatever it is that means that the whos got incomes below 50 of the ami, cannot even be a tenant in the building, and cannot even put an application, because their income is not a 50 . That is not affordable housing. I got a problem with that. They view your district, used to be 42 black people. Now its down to about 23 , because of the pricefixing and gouging that is taking place now, you being brainwashed talking about its affordable housing. That is called ethnic cleansing, you use the word, gentrification, and as disgrace of people whos the same damn skin color as yourself ragged is that clear . That is what happened in the field more area, we used to be about when Justin Herman pulled that bull shipped with the redevelop may come talking everybody can move into the film center, he sent the rates higher than the income of the black people that occupy that land. As that clear . Im really upset with you, man. I want you to understand that. You are being brainwashed, about this 600 milliondollar housing bond that you have are senior citizens, when i came up with that idea and pointed out how you never produce housing bond for the most normal people, and by the same response, gordon was the one that responded. Hes the only one. Then you turn around, and president yi is sitting up there trying to hes been on the board for several god damn years and hes never did nothing. Thank you, next speaker, please. Supervisors, you guys need to be educated, all of the property that we are talking about, whether it is hunters view, the novices who come on board, say they are going to represent, they know will. Bs stands for bowl. [chanting] all of those homes are built by the department of defense, they fall 100 times over. Whoever those guys are, the males who made a deal with, bridge developers, the jon stewart company, mercy housing, and so on and so forth, what they want to do, and what they do with intent, his foster gentrification. So, we have this representative, they say they are representing us. They are not representing us. They are wheeling and dealing and they are full of dark money. All of that will come to be, when we shed light. Right now we have Empirical Data we are working with law enforcement, on every angle, and hopefully the city, the different people in the city whose heart is in the right place, will support us, and being about an audit. Once an audit is done, all of these rascals, these roaches, they will shed light on the roaches, and we will reveal the truth. Next speaker, please. [singing] single we like hope, sunshine. And we it along. Single foes we need hope and sunshine, pres being at a long and now you are back from being gone. Single i know, i know, i know, i know single make it shine all along. Any other speakers . Public comment is now closed. Any other remarks . One thing i just want to be clear, this is actually not affordable housing, Public Housing. The ami is much closer lower than typical affordable housing, just for clarity. Seeing no other speakers, this hearing has been heard. We are now reconvening as the board of supervisors. Do we have a motion on item 16 . Seconded by supervisor haney. Colleagues, can we approve item 16, same house, same call. This ordinance passes unanimously in first reading. Madame clerk, i think we did. [roll call] already. Lets go to item 18, Public Comment. Item 18 is Public Comment. The public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes, for items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the approval of the minutes, to approve items 2023 on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. I want to specifically. Out item 23, whether or not the board should enter into closed session today to receive advice from the City Attorney regarding the city litigation with pg e. That is the item you will be hearing about in a moment. Public comment is not allowed when an item has been previously subject to Public Comment. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole, not into individual members. Speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. If you would like to display a document on the overhead projector, please clearly state such. When you would like the screen to return to live coverage, just return the document. Shalom to you. I am a resident, i am truly thankful to be here once again, after the murder of my son. The reason that i am here, is i have been doing Community Work care in San Francisco, with activism and social justice issues for almost 30 years. Ive had the privilege to run for the board of supervisors, with supervisor walton. We did a great job. I knew that it was meant for me to run. The issue is, the community has been coming to me constantly asking for my assistance. Someone had a vision, and the vision was that they saw me here , in this building, city hall with an office. I have been meditating on it, and i knew that it was meant. Someone had a vision that i had ran, and i won. Im not a political person, everyone knows that. I have the courage to speak the truth, concerning the injustices that are happening here in San Francisco, and the United States of america. I spoke with the mayor, in regards to requesting that a stipend trust fund be set aside in memory of the africanamerican arts and cultural district that is also called bayview hunters point. I am asking for you to provide that stipend trust fund so we are able to represent the culture that we need to deal with in bayview hunters point. I am requesting that we have an office here in the name of cultural affairs, and being able to just once again talk about the curriculum that we need to deal with the quality act that you made into existence. This is just the beginning, and i wanted to introduce myself to you so we can begin this dialogue in the name of the africanamerican art and cultural district. I am the reason why the polls are done, working with former supervisor coleman. I have here with me, two beautiful activists that have been fighting for many years who would want to be a part of that trust fund, and they would like to speak. Thank you. My name is olivia boudreau, i am here to speak on homelessness which i am a candidate at this time currently. I have been working with my elective supervisor, who referred me to several places, and im not able to get legal representation, at this time. We have a local funded service in the bayview, which is opendoor legal,