Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

Welcome to the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to 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. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspection, commission in which terms were up. And i want to announce that i have appointed three people to those positions and one of the things i really look for as much as i can and asked many of you as colleagues how to do this is how do we diversify the commission more than it has been. So im proud to say that weve been able to find people that are well qualified that will diversify this position. The three people that i am appointing are john jacoble, who will represent a member of the general public, jason cam, who will be representing the residential landlord, and elizabeth alexander, who will be representing the residential tenant. And i want to invite all of you, if you like, to their swearing in tomorrow in this chamber at 4 30 and it should be a very short and brief and wonderful ceremony. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the november 19th, 2019 meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor m mandleman. And so without objection, those minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Madam clerk, can you please call items one and two together. Referred without recommendation from the land use and Transportation Committee. These are two companion items pertaining to the flower mart. Item one is an ordinance to establish the 2000 street special use district, to create additional key site exceptions for the flower mart site on the southern half of the block between fifth and sixth streets and to affirm the determination under the california quality a act. Item two is for kr flower mart for a 6. 5acre site and to make appropriate findings for both items. Ok, supervisor peskin, and you have permission not to have to rise. Thank you, mr. President. If we could take these items separately, i would respectfully request that item two be delayed until later in the meeting, but would be happy to vote on item one at this time. Your request has been made and granted. So madam clerk, please call the role on item one. On item one, supervisor peskin, aye, preston aye, ronan, aye, safaye, aye, stephanie, aye, walton aye, xi, aye, fuer, aye, haineyaye and mar is aye for 11ayes. Item one has finally passed. Please call item three. An ordinance to amend the Green Building code to establish Energy Performance requirements for certain new Building Construction and to adopt the appropriate findings. Can we talk this item same house, same call . Without objection, this has passed unanimously. Madam clerk, please go to the next item and please call items four and five together. Item four is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by the city and the people of the state of california against the Stevens Institute and 23 of the affiliated Liability Companies and collectively known as the academy that owns properties in San Francisco. It alleges the academy violated the planning codes and competition law and 17200, et cetera, under the settlement, the academy agrees to bring its existing using into compliance to relocate existing uses or change uses in buildings in accordance with applicable laws and those limited instances where the Planning Department has limited that legalization is not appropriate and to compensate the people and the city for alleged past violations by paying approximately 58 million and work cooperatively with the city for future growth in a manner that account for the urban name of the academys campus. Item five is an ordinance to approve a Development Agreement between the committee and Stevens Institute doing th business as affiliated entities which provides for various benefits. Jessie smith and Kristin Jensen who hopefully is watching this on her vacation, i want to thank all of the individuals at the department of city planning who have played a remarkably Important Role in this and the members of the Planning Commission and the folks at the department of building inspection to bring this very tortured chapter to, hopefully, an end in the city and county of San Francisco where one institution behaved unlawfully in a way that impacted lowimpact tenants in districts three and six. I want to acknowledge a number of individuals who repeatedly told this city about this and dogged it for a generation. I would like to salute miss sue hester, doug ingman and other individuals associated with them for constantly holding the citys feet to the fire and i think that this is a just and appropriate settlement and while the government audit and Oversight Committee could not recommend this during the appeal period, i commend this settlement to each and every one of you and hope that it will pass unanimously today. Thank you, Dennis Herrara and to the City Attorneys Office. Colleagues, can we take these two items same house, same call . Then these two items pass unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 6. Item 6 is an ordinance to amends the planning code to enable the use of Development Project sites during the project approval and entitlement process by authorizing the Planning Department to authorize certain interim activities at Development Project sites as temporary uses up to 36 36 monts and make the appropriate findings. Supervisor hainey . Thank you, president. This is a piece of legislation that is sponsored by the mayor and myself and it is intended to help activate properties that are being evaluated for demolition and development to build housing in the near future and therefore might not be able to attract businesses with a longterm lease. The goat is t goal is to activae proper use and have a goal. I want to thank the Land Use Committee, particularly chair peskin and his staff for working closely with the mayor and the Mayors Office and the Planning Department on amendments. There are some further amendments that wed like to put forward that, its my understanding, are substancive is reqre a rereferral to committee. So rather than handling those here, we want to spend a little more time working those out. So i want to ask that this piece of legislation be referred to committee. Ok. A motion has been made and seconded by supervisor peskin. Cap we take this same house, same call . This will be referred to committee. Item number 7, please. Item 7 is an ordinance to amend ordinance number 1061, the sidewalk with regulation, to reduce the official sidewalk with the certain locations along the westerly side of pierce street between ofarrel and to adopt the determination and make the appropriate findings. Same house same call . Without objection, this is passed on first reading. Please call the next item. Item 8 to declare a Public Health crisis on drug use and drug overdoses and to urge the department of pu Public Health o present a comprehensive plan on how to address this crisis. Supervisor hainey. Thank you, president. Last month, we held a rally and a hearing on this Public Health Crisis Resolution which would kedeclare Public Health crisis n our city and this is an issue, which you are all well aware of now, because ive spoken about it many times here at the board, is the most deadly epidemic facing our city at this moment. It is absolutely the issue that i hear the most from, from my constituents. People who are Small Business owners, who are residents, people who work directly with those addicted to drugs and the feeling is that there is an overwhelming sense of crisis and urgency on our streets. And, unfortunately, for many of th people that ive heard from and i would share this sentiment, we have not seen the same level of response from our city that matches the crisis on our streets. Its my hope that by, as a board, us collectively declaring a Public Health crisis, that we will begin to see a commensurate response from the city as you al. As you all are aware, there e more people that die of overdoses in our city than pretty much any other unnatural cause of death. In 2018, there were 259 people who died of drug overdoses. This is over six times as many that died of traffic collisions or homicides. Every single death is a tragedy and should be taken seriously in terms of how we respond and prevent those deaths in the future. During the hearing, the department of Public Health was asked to present a comprehensive emergency plan. One, to improve streetlevel Crisis Response to address people using drugs or in psychosis, increase access to narcan, expand outreach is treatment, report overdose deaths, increase support to frontline Emergency Responders and Public Safety personnel, identify and establish emergency detox and dropin facilities and request Additional Support from state and federal sources. I want to appreciate the department of Public Health for the information that they provided and the plans that they put forward. In many ways, they have been in the past and currently a leader on how we respond in a smart, strategic and passionate way. But i think they recognise, and i hope we can all recognise, that there needs to be so much more done to prevent overdose deaths. We expect that the numbers in 2019 will go up even higher than in 2018 and one of the challenges that we identified in the hearing is that the numbers are not regularly shared as often as they need to be for us to understand the extent of the crisis and be able to respond urgently. Were working from 2018 numbers rather than knowing in the most uptodate way how the residents of our city is impacted by this deadly crisis. I want to thank all of the folks who work to prevent drug overdoses everyday. People from the dope project, from st. Anthonys who are saving life. I think we have a responsibility to respond much more urgently and have an Emergency Response that reflects what is happening on our streets and what is happening in our city. This deadly epidemic is getting worse and i hope by declaring that Public Health emergency, we will begin to see a response that is as big as the crisis that were facing. S. Thank you. Supervisor ronan. Thank you. I could not agree more and us to be adds as a cosponsor. Thank you. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item . Item 9 a resolution to reappoint harlin, jr. , for a fouryear term. Colleagues, same item, same call . This is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call 10. A motion to appoint Charles Peacock for an indefinite term. This motion is approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 11, a motion to appoint jr eppler, er ma lewis for terms 2021. Same house, same call . This is passed unanimously. Madam clerk, please call number 12. 12 is a motion to reappoint William Ortiz to the small commission, january, 26, 2024. This is approved unanimously. Madam clerk, legitimate lete call. Supervisor peskin, youre up to introduce new business. Thank you, madam clerk. Its been a few weeks since we last convened and i have a couple of in memoria. I would like to ajourn in the memory of dina boyer, diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and passed away on christmas each. The Community Rallied to support her and funded her fight with cancer, but she passed away surrounded by a few close friends. Dina was many things ranging from a military veteran, transadvocate and Animal Rights advocate and film director in the independent media and Public Television where we saw her on our own channel 29, sanfranciscos Public Television station, where she was the facilitys coordinator and camera person for the awardwinnin awardwinn. She reported on health and labour issues for transpeople, investigating the suspicious death of doxy arundundo who was found dead in a tenderloin motel in 2006. She was concerned at lack of attention on the high rate of violence, particularly against transwomen. She grew up in baltimore where she knew from the young age of 12 she was different but didnt have the resources or information to fully understand or access her true identity. It was not until in her 30s that she was able to fully start her transition to claim her true identity and she ultimately moved here to the city and county of San Francisco to access the support for her transition and found a community of artists and activists that shared her experiences. She used her struggle with homelessness to elevate trans issues, including a file on cnn. She stowe studied film productid photo journalism at sf state. She is survived by her sister, chantel, her son, jeremy, and her granddaughter, who she was looking forward to meeting one day. I would like to ajourn, also, in the memory of michael leonard, who also recently lost his fight with cancer. Michael was a neighbor, a San Francisco artist, a writer and professor of art history at California College of the arts and diabola valley college, nicknamed Michael Angelo lenardo. He got his masters in arts history in sf state, doctorate at usf and widely published as an art critic and art historian and lived his life very genuinely and spartanly and i know that because when his downstairs neighbour passed away, i brought a chair up to his unit and was amazed by just how spartan has existence was. He was a committed volunteer mentor in the Big Brother Program and i want to extend or deepest condolences to dawn, alex, nick and gabe and the rest i submit. Supervisor pr rbgeston. Colleagues, today i am announcing plans to extend rent control protections to the tenants at midtown park apartments. This 139 unitapartment complex located in the philmore is occupied by residents, particularly longterm africanamerican and immigrant tenants and for years, the tenants at midtown believed they were cover bid th covered t control law and treated as such. In 2013, the city abruptly shifted gears. Many received increases, including some as high as 300 of what they were previously paying. The tenants challenged the rent increases but the rent board ruled that the rent control law does not extend to midtown because the property is owned by the city. There are many issues to be resolved, including working out a longer term plan regarding the ownership and operation of midtown. Thanks to organizing by the midtown Tenants Association and allies, the citys original plan to demolish midtown is off the table. I look forward to working with all stakeholders to arrive at a longterm plan supported prints. Supported by residents. But in the meantime, its unacceptable for any to pay rent increases in publicallyowned housing, higher than they would have faced if they lived across the street from their home and privately owned house. They deserve protection. I engaged the City Attorneys Office and i look forward to moving forward with this. Thank you, supervisor p rbgs preston. Supervisor ronan. Im taking us one step closer to the day we leave pg e behind and welcome a new day with clean, green and public power in San Francisco. Thithis is more than 3 millionn Revenue Bonds for the electrical distribution and Transmission System in San Francisco. If a series of preconditions are met to the satisfaction of the board. Weve been moving in this direction for months. The city delivered a letter of interest to pg e to buy assets for electrical service. By overwhelmly passing prop a in june, the voters authorized bonds to pay for the infrastructure we so desperately need. Were aware of the challenges it faces to restructure in a way that satisfies the states, the course and shareholders. The decision about the aspect of pg es future will be made in several months and we must continue to take the steps necessary to position ourselves to be able to respond quickly as alternatives are considered. Each requires a board vote, including further Financial Analysis and a plan for the initial transition with the roadmap for system repair and upgrades, protection for rate repairs, a binding agreement for pg e and a bond agreement approval by this board. The commissioners will review and vote on bond authorization. I want to be clear that as a part of our work ahead, we must also prepare a plan to keep pg is e workers secure in their benefits and pensions while welcoming them in the city family. As the chronicle reported last week, San Francisco is already benefiting from clean power sf and public power. Saving well over 100 million in the past three years and moving us forward towards our Greenhouse Gas freegoals. Im absolutely sure that when we complete this transition, San Francisco will bring even more cost savings and benefits to our communities, investing in green jobs and infrastructure, modernizing our aging electrical grid and tackling our Climate Crisis in ways that would never be possible tethered to a shareholderowned forprofit utility and i ask you to join me. Supervisor peskin, thank you for your cosponsorship. Thank you, supervisor ronan. Supervisor safaye. Can i be referred. Supervisor selfny. Stephanie. Supervisor walton. Thank you. Today, we have one memorium for a miss williemay fykes. She was born in 1911 and moved from st. Louis, missouri to meet her husband, roosevelt, who worked at the San Francisco ship yard for 46 years. They had one son who married claira edwards and she is the grandmother to two grandsons. She has three grandchildren, eight grandchildren, as well as many more stepgrandkids she raised. She lived at 231 south ridge one at Hunters Point for 25 years before moving to garlington court. She was the oldest known resident of the bayview at 108 years old. She loved living there from 1982 to december 24, 2019, for over 77 years, raising her children. , raising great grandchildren. Were proud to acknowledge her for living over a century. May god bless her family and all of us with the same good fortune. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor, xi. Before we go on with role call, its 2 31 and lets go to our special order for 2 30, a recognition of accommodations. Yes, mr. President. We have one offered by supervisor walton. Can we come back to this item . I believe our honourees are taking pictures with the mayor at this point. No problem. Just let us know. Ill go ahead and submit my stuff here. And so colleagues, today i am introducing a hearing request and a motion to hold this hearing as a committee of the whole. The topic of our citys Police Staffing and an expert analysis of the San Francisco Police Departments current strategies around staffing with recommendations regarding changes for us to consider. The analysis was performed by matrix along with the Police Commission and the San Francisco Police Department and will be presented in detail at this hearing. As many of you know, i have been raising the issue of adequate Police Staffing for several years. In june of 2018, the budget and legislative analysts provided this board with a performance audit of the San Francisco Police Department so we could better understand, number one, how the police are deploying police staff that is funded by the general fund and number two, how uniform staff is allocated to administrative versus patrol duties. The recommendations of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, accompanying the public demand for more officers in the street, the sanfrancisco Police Department should civilianize as many administrative positions as possible. This is the best practise recognized by major Law Enforcement, including the International Association of chiefs of police and adopted by most major Law Enforcement departments in the country. But San Franciscos racial of swoossworn officers to civilianf remains higher than the National Average or peers. This is why i ask the Controllers Office to provide us with an analysis of the effort to date in which we heard a couple months ago at the Public Safety and neighborhood committee. At the same time, i also tasked the department to work with experts in the field such as matrix to provide the board and public with a report about their staffing needs and the manner by which San Francisco Police Department determines its Staffing Levels throughout its different positions. I have asked in this report and these details to be presented individually to each supervisor beforehand to ensure that questions that any of my colleagues have can be addressed in a final report and hearing itself. Every year during budget time, this board is asked to support departmental budgets and we rely on the department to tell us what they need to carry out their assigned responsibilities. This is important when it comes to the nuts and bolts to running the city smoothly. For example, public works doesnt have enough resources, that impacts the level and quality of service that we are providing to our residents, businesses and visitors. At the same time, we have to be vigilant that we are being efficient with our taxpayer dollars and making the very best use of these resources to get the most value possible for our residents, businesses and visitors. With the financial projections that ar our controller publishe, indicating a Slower Economy here, it would be more important to have a reliable and complete information when it comes to our upcoming budget discussions. Sfpd should have a civilization plan in place as a key component to maximize the full manufactury officers providing Public Safety services and give us a basis to determine if we need to adjust the charters mandate of 1,971 fullduty officers. Ultimately, in analysis from matrix should provide us with information that we can then use as policy makers to make the determination, including whether the charter needs to be amended to reflect a more realistic number of police staff necessary for effectively safeguarding the security of our city and all who live, work and visit here. This topic is important and i ask my colleagues support to have this hearing before us as a committee of the whole on january 28th and again, i urge you to sit down and meet with the folks at matrix and the sfpd before that date so that we are able to have a robust discussion at that time. The rest i submit. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor furer. Thank you. Colleagues, today i am introducing several hearings on the city budget process and related issues, including the mayors budget instructions, the joint report update to the fiveyear Financial Plan and state and federal budget updates. [cheers and applause] so colleagues, today i would love to honor the middleschool owls for their citywide championship victory. The Academic Athletic Association was held on decembee pavilion with every middle school slipping pass the trojans 3837. The lead seesawed back and forth and it was tied with 12 seconds left when the owls, paul antoine, jr. , stole inbound pass and subsequently fouled while driving for a layup. He stepped to the line and after missing the first free throw, he calmly nailed the second, giving his squad a onepoint lead. The trojans had one final shot under pressure and defense that was off the mark giving everette the title and their first since 1987 and second overall. Oftentimes we highlight the negatives around our young people. Today we chose to highlight the positive accomplishments of some of our midschool students. And although every middleschool is not located in district 10, its in district 8, we do have a number of students that reside in district 10 and attend the school and i love to highlight the accomplishments of our young people. So today, and i want to read off the members of the team, some of the coaches and school personnel. Team members, darion craney, christopher jackson, paul antoine, raley dozzle, kadere jewels, michael ray, kamari mclaughlin, tyro loez, angel perry, deshawn landry, gicon z gicon zuniga, jaymon ison, and, of course, some of the school personnel, the athletic director, rubin arbina, their coach, known as mr. C. And corey monroe, who is School District personnel, and also my uncle, i must say. Laugh glamp. [ laughter ] congratulations to the young man for your accomplishments and lets make sure our accomplishments on the court are equal in the classroom, as well, and mr. C. , i dont know if you want to say a few words but congratulations to the evert school for your championship win. [cheers and applause] first of all, im very gracious to be here and very thankful. I would like to thank shamot, mr. Monroe. First of all, ive been doing this since 11 years od years oly block. So i finally get recognised for certain things ive been doing in the community. Today is my birthday and it feels good. [cheers and applause] it feels good. [cheers and applause] this is a good group of youngsters and theyve got a good future ahead of them, so you have to stay tuned. Evert will be back here again and we have a lot more positive things well be doing for the community and a lot more positive things ill be doing for these youngsters and i appreciate it. Thank you. [cheers and applause] i wanted to Say Something real quick. Our School Social worker, her son, desmonds birthday is today and hes a young owl himself. Happy birthday, desmond cheer cheer. So what well do is finish up the role call and go back to item number two. So madam clerk, can you call the next one. Supervisor hainey . Thank you. Supervisor mandleman, ok, submit. Supervisor mar. , submit and safaye has to be referred. Thank you, and happy new year, everyone. So i have three items today. Im going to start with a resolution. This resolution is particularly personal to me and calling on the United States congress to vote on the warpower of Donald Trumps military actions in iran and to mandate the notification sent by President Trump to members of congress delineating the legal grounds for drone strikes as required by the wars powers act to be declassified and shared with the american public. As many of you know, the president made a very Strong Military move, talking out one of the highest ranking members in the military regardless of their position since world war ii, since the japanese general was taken out in a plane in world war ii. This act, seen by many as illicit, many have called it an assassination, whatever position you take on it, theres no question that it has fanned the flames in an area of the world that does not need a lot of fanning. It has put american lives at risk. It has put american citizens at risk and it has escalated a situation to a point where were not exactly clear what our president is doing. Then after that move and lets be clear, the person that was taken out was also in many ways a war criminal himself and had blood on his hands. So theres no sympathy for that individual. But the act itself is not something i think many of the people of our country support and particularly the people that are in that region are also feeling very unsafe and scared. After that, the president followed up by saying if theres any retaliation, hes pushed out 52 cultural sites in iran that he would target if retaliated against. That in and of itself is an illegal war act, it is barbaric and ruled the last group of people to deface and destroy cultural monuments where isis. So this president is following in the footsteps of isis by making statements like that. So our speaker of the house has put forward and has talked about announcing, voting on limiting war powers resolution that would put constraints on this president and force him to come to the United States congress before he made any more military actions. So i submit that today and, again, i do that with the hope that we will not escalate that area of the world and drag our military personnel and innocent people into war. And so, anyway, thank you. Secondly, on a more local note, which i think is extremely important, im introducing a resolution today. Ive working on that resolution with frontline nurses and some are here in the audience today. And this resolution is urging the administrative staff of the department of Public Health, particularly at sf general to include a frontline registered nurses and resident physicians in their decisionmaking process to implement to the extent possible an expedited hiring process to 90 days or less. Once an application is received, and to cease supplementing staffing requirements with a contract of registered nurses and putting a ceiling on that, to provide annual violence prevention, training, disaster training and to support bilingual staff. The basis of this is not my idea. We heard those nurses come into this chamber and they asked for help. Theyve been asking for help for quite a long time. And they are at a dangerous staffing level at our most Important Institution in the city and county of San Francisco. I was receiving texts during the holidays of staffing that had fallen far below what they believe was a safe environment. Staffing being asked and frontline nurses are asked to do mandatory overtime. Theyre working 16 and 20hour shifts and this is not what the city and county of San Francisco should be supporting in any way, shape or form. So this resolution is straightforward and i want to think my cosponsor, supervisor walton. I hope all of my colleagues will support this resolution and i know that we had previously a resolution on the resident physicians. This is in partnership with that, but very specific to the Staffing Levels, the hiring, the understaffing, the chronic use of outside registered nurses for contract purposes, but the idea that we would take 200, sometimes 300 days to hire someone in a position that is very much in need. Im sure many of you have visited the emergency room, usually on sad reasons, called in or notified of things that happened in our district. I visited i had the fortune of visiting the emergency room recently and also being given a tour of the facility and so weve gotten a commitment from the leadership of the hospital theyre willing to work with the nurses and thats why to ensure that that actually happens, were putting this resolution forward and were putting it in paper and setting parameters around that. Secondly, and in pup wit pip pa, were calling for a hearing today to learn more about the staffing, to learn more about the safety training, bilingual services, temporary staffing protocols of registered nurses at the department of public help and specifically at sf general, because we want to zero in on this issue. We want to invite the nurses that have been talking about this for some time to be a part of the solution and be a part of the ways in which we can get this hospital back up to the appropriate level and make sure that its safe for many years to come. And after that, the rest, i submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Mr. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. Lets go tbefore we go to tht item, i would like to be added as a cosponsor for the first two resolutions. Thank you. And madam clerk, i know i said i submit, one last sentence, if thats ok. I want to make sure that i call out specifically 1021 and the nurses themselves, but also julie, krista, jason, kirsten, heather, for all of your time and effort over the holidays. As i said, this was not my idea. This was coming directly from the nurses themselves. Thank you, and the rest if i submit. Ok, so i believe were not ready for item number 2 so lets go to public 14, Public Comment. At this time, we would appreciate the Public Comment. If you would line up on the righthand side, youll have up to two minutes to share your comments on the board Meeting Minutes and reference to the committee calendar. Please note that Public Comment is not allowed on those items which have already had the Public Comment requirement satisfied at a committee. Please direct remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members, nor to the audience. If youre utilizing interpretation, youll be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and if you would like to use the projector to display a document, just say outloud to sf gov tv. First speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im krista duran. I am a San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Department nurse and shop steward for sciu 1021. Im actually here at Public Comment after working a 12hour shift last night. And i live in the east bay and i thought it was really important to come today to hear supervisor safaye to announce this resolution. Weve been working in close a lot during the holidays and also with sue ha, his chief legislative staff, i believe, is the correct title. Didni just want to say its a h of fresh air to be listened to. I just want to give a brief synopsis, a little more detail about how our weekend was on friday, the 27th. All of the contract nurses, their contracts ended at the same time and left all permanent staff alone and it was skeleton crew. So on a friday night during flu season, during the holidays, we are supposed to have at minimum per the census of 2016, which you all know has increased by 20 since then, were supposed to have at least 28 nurses and that night we had 16. I walked in to my shift through the front entrances and there were patients lined up in the hallways, getting breathing treatments and iv fluids in the hall, in the waiting room. There were l 45 patients in the waiting room. We were so shortstaffed, were a 58bed er and we closed 29 bed. Were a levelone Trauma Center. So its real. Its scarry and there was a day they had to call in and this is because they were just really, really thank you, next speaker, please. My name is mike him. Hill. Im a nurse in er and i worked last night, as well. Im here in support of my colleagues and thank you so much for listening to us. Sir, please speak directly into the microphone. Im sorry. For listening to us and the resolution that i hope you all uphold. Last night was a typical night. Although, its getting worse every week. We had, again, patients lined up in the hallway. If it werent for the fact that some of the dayshift nurses who had worked 12 hours stayed over 16, i dont know what we would have done. We had, in our recess area, where our sickest patients will arrive, and we have six recess rooms, we had 14 patients. And this has been a daily struggle for us and we havent been listened to, despite multiple attempts to get these needs addressed by the hospital admission. So i think the fact that we are here today and youre listening to us will make a difference for us and thank you very much. Thank you, next speaker. Thank you again for listening to us and being concerned, you should be. This is the map of the emergency room and so you can have an idea. Its massive. The 45 people that krista was talking about were just right here. This is the trauma area that mike was talking about, and these are just little tiny rooms and there are six of them. There are ten to 20 people end up here now. Pes is on condition red, which means they get shut down and they shut documen down to everyg because theyre full and all patients end up right here. All end up in the hallway here and these are severe psychiatric people with suicidal or psychosis issues. This is the other area they end up in. The area that was closed down this weekend and is often closed down due to admissions is here. This whole area, this is pod c, a third of the department. So, basically, what this means is your levelone Trauma Center is, like, full to the brim of backup. And so, when people keep coming in, as they do, because they dont know this is happening, they pile up and thats when they end up in this waiting room sitting forever because we dont have throughput out the other end, basically. Theyve been cited by the state, and just so you know, there are several state agencies coming through the hospital because of safety issues. So there are serious things going on there, but we had to stop some care that was illegal in the waiting room, as well, because theres just no throughput, basically. But im glad that you guys are listening to us. Hopefully thank you for the future and coming into the resolution that the supervisors put forth. Thank you, next speaker. Hello, im maria and im here today because i have a concern about my neighborhood. I live in the southeast corner of bayview Hunters Point and ive been there about 15 years, worked, teach, raised my family there. But its my only perspective on this whole city and so i dont know whats going on in other neighborhoods but when it comes to the homelessness crisis, thats the only thing i spend my extra time on, like, volunteering. And within eight blocks is the United Council of human services, known as mother browns. Theres a lot of word of mouth, so i recently heard that they are theres a fiscal sponsor needing to take over some organizational control and im kind of confused as to why. please stand by these individuals receive support from our agencies as they transition their lives in america in the greater bay area, which is often the place where they only know one other person who actually lives in the country. In the past three years, it has been a small number of of refugees and small visa numbers and individuals who have served with u. S. Forces who actually are resettled within San Francisco city or county, although our agencies have also assisted several hundred others through Immigration Services to obtain citizenship. However, for every single one of those individuals who is allowed to come and join family, this opportunity is lifesaving. We have provided the gamut of new Arrival Services supporting those newcomers and finding housing, enrolling their children in schools, connecting to a medical home, in obtaining employment. As your settlement agencies are deeply committed to the commitment of this city and county in supporting all newcomers, establishing homes here. We think the city and county of San Francisco for your support in this consent to continue settling refugees and we believe that in this process, we strongly affirm with you the commitment to welcoming refugees to our community. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Linda chapman from nob hill. I saw in the paper today the article about the abigail. Probably none of you know the extent to which it was the symbol of saving the Residential Hotels. I got a call back in the day from gordon chen telling me that chinatown and tenderloin and south of market were organizing to save Residential Hotels and they asked if i would join. And of course, we joined. And then i met diana who was a vista organizer here and you had made the abigail the symbol. The supervisors would talk about the elderly ladies who took tea in the lobby and so forth. I have to let you know more about that. I am hoping that, you know, wherever she is she knows this and if you have some kind of celebration that she should be invited, the way i was invited to the Cadillac Hotel along with the people who passed the Residential Hotel ordinance in the first place. I think that would be very fitting. Having Supportive Housing is so much the way to go. It is absolutely important as opposed to having people in shelters forever, totally inappropriate. We emergency soldiers are needed, but Supportive Housing im so glad you are doing this. Its so distressing when i see how Little People know about what has happened in the past. I see them ingratiating claiming that he is helping homeless people. He made them homeless. After i put all that work into saving Residential Hotels, that man eliminated three in nob hill that i know of including one at my corner where ladies, not all asian, many, many more have a place to live. The whole time i lived there from 1969 until somehow he got hold of it along with the one on bush street and the one on thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is joshua and im a thirdyear student at San Francisco State University majoring in Political Science and minoring in urban studies. Im here today to discuss the issue of parking, which turns out to be a major expense with students at San Francisco state. In my position in student government, i have had the unique opportunity to learn more about academic institutions and on our campus, as well as the underlying problems that Students Experience during their times s. F. State. The issue of parking, is especially problematic at s. F. State do to the fact our campus is over 60 commuter and many of our students come from various parts of San Francisco, the east bay, and down the peninsula. Our campus only has 1700 parking spots each semester. Because it is required to be self funding through the system, we have the highest prices in the entire straight with a fiveday parking pass costing 640 a semester plus tax compared to the second highest which is 338 at san marcos. The fact of the matter is, students already pay their fair share of taxes, which is 180 a semester on our campus each semester, which gives universal access to all students through munimobile. With thousands of students studying full time and more than one job, 17 of our students are housing and secure and 48 are food insecure. I hope we have financial we have Financial Issues to deal with. We look forward to working with the board of supervisors thank you. Next speaker, please. San francisco government tv . It gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The word that i speak under you are spirit and life. The lord said unto my lord, sit down my right hand and i make my enemies my footstool. The lord shall send the strength to you and rule in the mist of thine enemies. Thy people should be willing in the day of thy power and the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning. It is the due of our youth. The lord is sworn and will not repent. A priest forever after the order the lord shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathens. He should fill the places with the dead bodies. He shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way. Therefore, shall he lift up the head. These scriptures have to do with the kingdom of kingdom of god and the kingdom of men and i have the official petition here to recall gavin newsom as our governor. I dont think in all of our history we have ever had as audacious of a governor as we have here in california, the nephew of pelosi. He took trumpets name off the ballot and it took our Supreme Court to say no, you have the right to vote even if you are a citizen who was born here and pays taxes. You do have the right to vote. When we consider these words from the Lord Jesus Christ in the gospel according to john, it is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words that i speak under the are spirit and life. We should consider thank you. Next speaker, please. If there is any other speaker after this one, please line up, otherwise you will be the last. Thank you. The overhead, please. What i would like to say is if you know what these letters mean , you are ahead of the game and i believe there are enough people here in this room to know what these letters mean, but the reason i put that on his because i wanted to show the people at home generosity. The clerk of the board here allows me the time to park this wagon and allow myself to reach and place a piece of paper there the clerk of the board also is generous to the margins of topics that Public Comment is allowed here. Im saying this because i missed the december the 1st week of december when we had a celebration of the office of the clerk of the board. There is a gentle repair activity that comes when you are here and you were on this side of the fence and you are at this side of the microphone and our clerk has a lot to do with that. It also affects the workers and her staff. I believe nice is nice and they are lucky to have a nice person there. They are helpful, and they have given me a footstool to put my swollen ankles up while i am sitting here waiting. We are privileged, all of us in the room and in the office, to have this clerk for this time. Years ago, i dont know how long ago, there was a painful discussion of words, condemnation that became torturous, selfrighteousness, a book in hand by a public speaker here. I will always remember that time when we were saved by the bell. In the recognition of commendations, there used to be a bell that would ring, and under this clerk when people are presented a commendation and an award and they have a few minutes to speak with their friends here, their workers here , there is no more bell that signifies your time is up. I hope that is a tradition that continues on under new president s and other clerks. That is about all i would like to say, except that, again, the overhead. There is enough people here to know that certified nursing assistants is what that means. And on november 26th, two days before thanksgiving, i suffered a stroke. I got to meet a bunch of these people and the nurses. We are very thankful. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is owen cooper i am a physician and a member of the Oversight Council for the senior and disability aging commission. I am here to discuss about the decision to defund mother brown s kitchen. No reason has been given yet that i am aware of. That has been a Community Institution for 30 years. Gwendolyn who runs it now knows the people and many of them are elderly and many are disabled. They are comfortable there. It is a community resource. The new group coming in is from los angeles when looking at their board and at their management. We are going to replace, apparently, a longestablished institution in a fairly Close Community in the bayview neighborhood where somebody who has cared for them for years and years is going to lose that. It is going to destabilize a lot of these people. Its hard for older adults to adapt sometimes. They have been going there for years. I really hope that this board will try and find out the basis for proposing it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. On december 11th of last year, the Northern District u. S. Attorney made a Public Appeal for San Francisco Police Officers to rejoin the joint Terrorism Task force. This requires the Police Commission and the board of supervisors to approve the commitment with the police union consensus. Over the past year of the Northern District, they have charged individuals in criminal cases involving 187 firearms violations additionally on the docket are 220 Violent Crime cases and 230 drug offences. Its worth remembering with regards to narcotic cases that unlike retail merchants, the seller does not require proof of age prior to the completion of purchase. A toddler died after being exposed to fentanyl. It is remembered in San Francisco that parents avoid changing the diapers of their babies in public facilities intended for that purpose, owing to their fear of potential risk of surface contamination. A federal initiative for the tenderloin has been established. It is composed of 15 participating agencies, the d. A. , a. T. F. And the u. S. Attorneys office chief among them. All of them whom request that local Law Enforcement available wille selling their services in coordination with federal agencies to develop capacity to engage effective policing. Its suited, tailored and fit to the task. The recent success of this commendation of Law Enforcement agencies is shutting down the market of local stolen items and has deprived drug dealers of unlawful drug steel drug sales. Thank you. Any other speakers . This is the last speaker. Come on up. Mr. President , in about a week, it will be the womens march. I have come up. Before saying that i would need some help with impeachment. I said that a few times. I think the resolution about the war powers act that will be synergistic towards it. We dont know what the president is doing. He himself doesnt know what he is doing. So it has come to pass for me for the past for years that i have become a visitor to several of the Emergency Rooms in the immediate area. That is my lifestyle in the tenderloin. The one the old when a General Hospital and the new one , and the new one at General Hospital really is aspirational and what it attempts to achieve. I see the number of problems that you are addressing today and how far you have to stretch the money. More power to you. Thank you. Public comment is now closed. Madame clerk, lets go back to item number two. The ordinance to approve the developed agreement between the city and the San Francisco flower marked. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Colleagues, this is a banner day between the academy of art and the flower marked. And those two players are inextricably linked because it was about a decade ago that the academy of art actually attempted to buy part of the flower marked. It is appropriate to be rising to item number 1212. I want to start by saying a few things about the flower market. Its the second wholesale flower market in the United States of america. It employees many, many people. It is one of the most Colorful People places in San Francisco and if you have not been there at the crack of dawn, i suggest that you go while it is currently in his second are arguably third funky spot in San Francisco, you can take it back to the fountain. You can take it back to his first place in the south of market, which i think is on Howard Street before they ended up where they have been for over a century at six and brannon at the entrance to highway 280. There are over 50 different vendors there, but it employees people not only up and down the state of california, but to nevada and southern oregon. I want to salute the vendors and the staff who have stuck with that intergenerational he at the flower market. Many of them in their third and even in one case, fourth generations at the flower market we have all, are almost all of us accept for supervisor preston voted for the everchanging south of market legislation that was the central soma plan that originated under supervisor kim and then was inherited by supervisor haney who is the lead sponsor of both items number one , as well as item number two. The world is changing in the south of south of market and the flower market needs to be accommodated into the dawn of the 21st century. I really want to thank the kilroy corporation, john kilroy who i have met with personally a number of times is his counsellors, and his staff, and particularly the office of economic and Workforce Development and can rich for stewarding what is this Development Agreement that is before us today on its second reading. Since we last voted on this before we went dark for the recess, there have been a number of changes to the Development Agreement and i want to thank the parties and their Respective Council for figuring out those changes, which i think i was very clear would be forthcoming. I would like to ask you to speak to those. Colleagues, i want to be clear, pursuant to what is in the ordinance, these changes to the Development Agreement do not materially increase the citys obligations or liabilities, and with that, i will turn it over to her and she will speak to those changes in the Development Agreement. Thank you. I just have a couple of changes that i want to read into the record related to the agreement. In section 3. 8 of the Development Agreement, we are striking language that refers to a judicial challenge. We are striking the language of any vendor of the existing flower market, challenging the permit outside approvals, striking that language from the agreement and extending 3. 8. 1, and again in section 3. 8. 2. Striking the language related to vendors filing a challenge to any future approvals. And then in section 6. 9. To, which 6. 9. 2 which is the legacy Business Fund component of the document, we are adding language that, in its sole discretion and subject all approvals, the city may consider contributing additional funds to the central soma legacy business and p. D. R. Support fund. So those are the changes. I will make sure to get a copy to the clerk this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor peskin, would you like to make any motion . I dont think any motion is required. It is all set forth in the ordinance and staff from oewd has elicited the changes in the Development Agreement. Colleagues, i would commend this to you on second reading. Okay. We will accept those changes onto the agreement. Without objections. Can we take this item, same item, same house, same call . This ordinance is finally passed madame clerk, lets go to our last item, number 15. Fifteen is a resolution to support the resettlement of refugees within the city and concur in the mayors consent to accept refugees in the city under the United States department, department, states reception and rePlacement Program. Colleagues, the item before us today reaffirms San Francisco s support to the resettlement of refugees within San Francisco. I find it ridiculous that we even have to pass such a resolution, but on september 19 th, 2019, the Trump Administration signed an executive order that tried to require state and local government to consent to receive refugees under the reception and Placement Program before the federal government will resettle refugees. San francisco will always be a sanctuary city and one that welcomes refugees. Now more than ever we stand firmly in our belief that anyone fleeing violence, war, and discrimination deserves a right to find a safe, humane heaven. Executive order 13888 likely violates federal law and is contrary to everything our nation should be standing for. This would be a challenge in the courts and in no way does San Francisco concede that executive order places any lawful condition upon us. We are here to stand in our values that refugees will always be welcome and accepted here. Before we take a vote on this, i would love to invite any of my colleagues to be cosponsors of this. Supervisor ronen . I would love supervisors . Everybody . Its unanimous. Can we take this item same house , same call . Okay. Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please read the in memoriam. The meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor walton, for the late willie may ficus, on behalf of supervisor peskin, for the late mr. Michael lenard, esther prichard, and dena boyer. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madame clerk, is there any other further business before us today that concludes our business for today. Thank you very much. We are adjourned. The new friday farmer his market is in the u. N. Plaza. It features the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers market. Shop from marker local vendors. Engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [ ] we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. One of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. It is super sweet. We sell 600 pounds a week. One of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. I get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. San francisco won my heart. One of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. A lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. We make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. I am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really Diverse Community of people in San Francisco. They partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. We are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. We will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. You. [ ] e really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. This is my own pakistani recipe. It goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. We have a lots of variety of foods. [ ] we do lots of different curries. We do three different types of wontons. Spring rolls, too. Thats right. It is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying Different Things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San Francisco Garden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] it did take a village. I was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. The difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didnt have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. And they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. That is what i want to prevent. [ ] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. Opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. It really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in San Francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or workbased learning opportunities. Money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. Theres always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they dont get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. This is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. It is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. This is the pipe on we need to work with. We need to start developing talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [ ] the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers. Young people can work in cohorts or in groups and thats really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. And in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i dont think we are ready to host an intern yearround are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. And then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have longterm employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. Something new, to get new experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it you are getting paid for doing that. It is really cool. I starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. I am grateful for this opportunity. Thank you. Something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. During this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. It is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my College Tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. For myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great. If anybody wants to buy a house, let me know. Whenever. [applause] it is good. I got you. It was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and Different Things that i can explore. Opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all. We were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. We are still getting the final numbers of that. Over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in Investment Banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. There are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in San Francisco. And imagine if we can create an opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young person that lives in public housing, Affordable Housing, low income communities. It is all up to you to make that happen. We have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. We are starting to figure out how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. We want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. Lets be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. For potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. This is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. This is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that San Francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. Just do it. Sign up for it. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m. I. T. , studying urban planning. So this is her hometown. So, we fell in love and moved to her city. [ ] [ ] i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. I was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. So it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. This is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. I mean we are the part of San Francisco. Its the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. Everybody likes to talk about how San Francisco is not familyfriendly, there are not a lot of children and families. We have predominately Single Family homes. As i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [ ] its different because again, we have little small storefronts. We dont have Light Industrial space or space where you can build highrises or large office buildings. So the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. Turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. Thats my usual. Mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. He worked in the drugstore forever. He saved his money and opened up his own spot. Were always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. Its like a Little Community gathering spot. This is the part of the city with a small town feel. A lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. There is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. I think there are some people that would embrace that. I think there are others that would prefer that not to be. I think we moved beyond that conversation. I think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and Small Businesses that we have here. In fact, its more of a mom and pop style business. I think at the end of the day, what were really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. Were the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. A lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. Im very fortunate to have that. Hi, good to see you. Just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how hes doing. Everything okay . Yeah. Good. We spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to Small Businesses. We put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. This is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a Significant Impact as you can see. What an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. For sure. We have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. So i think thats the richness of the mission and it always has been. Its what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i i am moving up the next speaker. He has two minutes. He will give us a word of gratitude. Please welcome David Elliott lewis. [applause] how are you all doing . I just want to share a few thoughts about gratitude. It is the season of gratitude. I hope when i talk about what i am grateful for you will be able to relate to it. First i am grateful for life itself, being able to wake up healthy in a home. I am especially grateful for it. Community housing for giving me a home. I give back by being a board member. I am grateful for the organizations i volunteer with and i found recovery with by helping the organizations central city collaborative who helps people who live in hotels like many of the members like me are formerly homeless. We found homes through giving back to the community. I am great for full for the tender line peoples congress. This wouldnt happen without the tenderloin congress. We are volunteers who come together to Work Together in the neighborhood to produce events for the neighborhood, to produce the plan called the peoples plan vision 2020 that matt haney has been working with us on. I am grateful for it. I am really grateful for mayor london breed and what she has done for our city and helping with Mental Health programs, Mental Health, San Francisco, working with matt haney and Hillary Ronen and 11 out of 11 supervisors passing it. Thank you for coming together. This is my final bit of gratitude. I am so grateful for senator scott weiner who has helped find funding for the organization i work with called Mental Health association of San Francisco. We run the warm line. We were in danger of closing it down and now we can serve the entire state taking people with Mental Health challenges providing text and telephone support for anyone who needs it in the state of california around the clock to talk about any issue they want. If scott didnt help us find finding this wouldnt have happened. Thank you, senator weiner, i am so grateful. With that i will turn the microphone back over to curtis. Thank you, david. I am grateful for you, david. We kept her waiting long enough, right . I am excited she is here. I am going to do a little intro. Mayor breed is a San Francisco native. She was raised right in the western addition. She went to galileo high school. She earned a masters degree at the university of San Francisco. She is a daughter of the city. Prior to historicallylection, which was the moment in 2018 she served on the board of supervisors peboard ofsuperviso. She is committed to creating a more equitable and just San Francisco. As i understand you came from opening up the new Navigation Center on the embarcadero. Thank you. We are congratulations and thank you for doing that. We are so thrilled chirrenned for the Second Annual returned for the second celebration. Give a huge tenderloin welcome to mayor london breed. Mayor breed i am excited to be in the tenderloin. We know that a lot of challenges, not only chest in the tl but all o San Francisco. As someone who grew up here, i was raised by my grandmother in public housing, and i understand what challenge feels like. I live. It 20 years of my life. Nothing is more important to me than making sure the city does a better job of investing in more shelter beds, investing in more housing so people have a safe affordable place to call home. Lets be clear. Yesterday i made it clear to department heads, when it comes to the upcoming budget. If it is not about cleanliness of streets, not about housing, not about shelters, then it will not be priority. Let mere supervisor know the same thing. At the end of the day i want to be clear about where i stand as a daughter of this city, as someone who has seen so many people that i grew up with get booted out of the city because we did not build enough housing fast enough. We got work to do, folks, and i am grateful and honored to be your mayor and celebrate the holidays right here in the th ie tenderloin. When i see the women behind me today, i see my grandmother. When i see so many folks that still live here that grew up in the western edition and live in the tenderloin, i see my community and i understand the importance of the work that we do. We also need to take the time to pause and to celebrate and to feel happiness and joy and this Amazing Community by doing this two years in a row, lighting this beautiful tree, is demonstrating they are not going to let anybody stop their joy. I am happy to be here with senator scott weiner, captain fabbry, Phil Ginsburg to support this community at boeddeker park that is open and available for kids to play and enjoy. I am excited to be your mayor at this time. I know we have work to do. I know together we are going to change the future of this city, and i am committed to doing just that. Thank you all so much. [applause] one more time for our mayor. Come on. We are glad to have you here. She will be here for the count down. Next i would like to introduce another face, senator wiener represents San Francisco in our california state senate. Elected in 2016, he chairs the Senate Housing committee. The california legislative lgbtq caucus which is awesome and amazing. Before that he was on the board of supervisors right here in San Francisco. I found out that you also practiced law for 15 years which i didnt know about. It is interesting you were a deputy City Attorney in San Francisco. He has lived in the Castro District of San Francisco for a long time. In fact, i used to see him riding around the city on muni when he wasnt in sacramento representing us as he is now all of the time. I also know that is why transportation, housing anvil ad civil rights are the focus of his work. Please make our senator feel welcome here. Happy holidays. I am grateful for a few things. I am very, very grateful for the tenderloin community. There are people who dont spend a lot of time in this community that have stereotypes about it. I have spent a lot of time here and i go through this neighborhood a lot. This is a neighborhood full of the most warm and kind and welcoming people. I want to thank you for welcoming me into this Amazing Community. I am grateful for boeddeker park. I remember when we opened this park five years ago, what it was like before and what it is now. This is an amazing resource for the community. I am so grateful for being in the city that prioritizes parks and prioritizes public space for our community. That is what a Healthy Community is about. Finally, i am so deeply grateful for the honor of representing San Francisco in the california state senate. We are working so hard to bring San Francisco values to the state level and nationally. Our values of embracing diversity and immigrants neighbors, values of lifting everyone up and not leaving people behind. We are working hard to expand access to Mental Health service, to legalize Safe Injection Sites in San Francisco, we are working to make it easier to build Navigation Centers and Supportive Housing and to reform our broken criminal justice system. We are doing all of these things because we get it right in San Francisco. We need to make sure our progressive values prevail nationally. We have a lot of work to do next year. Happy holidays everyone, and have a great evening. [applause] thank you, senator. Next we were expecting supervisor matt haney. I know you all love him, but he is still doing his work. He is at work. The board of supervisors is still in session. They are doing their job. He is out there doing what we are paying him to do. I have a very special guest that is going to speak on his behalf. I want to make tons of noise and welcome matt haneys mother. [applause] well, first of all, i want to say how happy i am to be here in matts home. As his mother he lives a couple blocks from here. I got to know many of you over the past year or so, and you lift him up every day. I feel just very blessed and very grateful for this community, for the Community Groups who fight so hard, for the things that i know matt and all of you care deeply about. No matter where matt is and i know he cant stand right here right now, his heart is with you. He would tell me to wish you happy holidays of every kind. I hope we can see the tree soon. Thank you. This big button says matts mom. They just call her matts mom. If we can get senator weiner and mayor breed we will do a count down and light the tree. Are you ready to see the tree . Yes. We are ready to see the tree. Everybody help me. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [applause]. Shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services we help San Francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. My name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if San Francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both National Chains and neighborhoods by the Neighborhood Stores where coming you dont want to one of the great things of San Francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee for today, monday, december 16th, 2019. Our last Land Use Committee meeting of the 2019 calender year. I am aaron peskin, the chair of this committee joined to my left by Committee Member superso matt haney and our clerk is ms. Erika major. We welcome, in her own right for her first trial by fire experience is Land Use Committee deputy City Attorney anne pearson. Do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents that include as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the januarf supervisors agenda less otherwise stated. We are joined momentarily to my right by vicechair of the Committee Supervisor ahsha safai who rightfully comments that it is quite warm in these chambers so, ms. Major, when you have a second after you read item number 1, if you could ask them to cool this place down you can ask them through the chair. Send some heat to my office since i dont have any right now. That would be great. Sure thing transfer the heat from the board chambers to room 256. Clerk item number 1 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to reduce the sidewalk width of certain locations along the westerly side of pierce street in front of the maxime Health Center at 1301 pierce street sidewalks are important which is precisely why these instruments come to the board of exercises. This is a proposal to actually reduce sidewalk widths but, apparently, in the Public Interest, in supervisor haneys district on behalf of the department of public works, which i guess we now call public works, which one of you is here to testify. Please come forward. Good afternoon. Im kevin jensen, Disability Access coordinator with public works. Yes, the for examplio for fri remember you coming back with another one. This is the Health Center across the street from Kimball Playground city clinic. Were proposing a fully compliant Building Code and a. D. A. Compliant passenger loading zone at the front of that facility which includes a street level passenger loading aisle. That street level passenger loading aisle is alongside the passenger side of the vehicle pullup space which is the best way to do accessible passenger loading zones. Which we feel is important this being a clinic and all. As planning also agreed with our position on this, it doesnt effectively reduce the pedestrian through way zone in the sidewalks so its consistent with the better streets plan in as much as the pedestrian capacity of the sidewalk is uneffected. I have slides if that would be helpful. Please proceed. The location of that clinic. Kimball playground is the large patch to the right of the subject site. This is the facade with the building as it stands today. You can see the existing sidewalk has cross which were correcting with this work. Headon shot there. Looking back the other way. Its about a 4 grade down the street. Official legislated sidewalk with its 15 feet. Rendering of the project. Weve done some remodeling including putting in an elevator which is a longstanding need in this clinic. The site plan. You can see the indented passenger loading zone with the curb ramp to the rear of the vehicle space. Its directly opposite t entrance ramp and stair at the primary entrance at the main entrance. This is a drawing of the working drawing of the plan which shows dimensions. You can zoom on that in a little bit here. Im sorry this has slopes. The next exhibit has dimensions. One has slopes. Here is the dimensions here. Here are the exhibits if theres any questions. Thank you mr. Jenson. If there are no comments from Committee Members, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1 . If theres no objection and it will be one heard on the seventh day of january 2020. Without objection that will be the order. Colleagues, id like to skip over item number 2 pending some amendments that deputy City Attorney is working on and madam clerk, call item number 3 out of soareorder clerk to receive public input on the appropriate periods to implement the Hotel Conversion updates. Thank you, i want to thank my colleagues and city staff and the Owner Community and members of the Advocacy Community for sitting through last weeks Long Committee hearing. Given the length of that meeting we continued this meeting after receiving brief presentations from city departments. This is to receive input from stakeholders to implement our 2017h. C. O. Update Hotel Conversion ordinance update in order to ensure that any Property Owners wh owners who ny recoup investments they may have made relying on a tourist versus residential use. The amortization ordinance continues to after that it raises it to 30 days to provide staple residential uses instead of short term tourist uses. The purpose of the citys law has been that residential s. R. O. Units are intended for residents and not for tourists. The definitions have not been as clear as they could have been. Todays discussion is focused on trying to provide an appropriate buffer for those s. R. O. Owners who have been running on a Tourist Hotel model and rendering for short term use. The purpose is to restore s. R. O. S who what they have been and immigrant families and those living on fixed low incomes. A request to contain this meeting can be convened. I still a intend to amend the legislation and get back to the original policy intent that existed since 1981 that all residential rooms are ended for residential uses not seven day tourists and i will ask it in the beginning of the year persuade opursued on a parallel. Well ask questions as well as take Public Comment and then i intend to make a motion if you colleagues will continue to t to the call of the chair. We heard a brief presentation on the background of the h. C. O. But id like to ask Joseph Barber from d. B. I. To come up and lets see if we can get at sometime of the things we cannot have the chance to discuss last week. Thank you. I will not make any comments about where to put your jacket. On ton of the vilers leasing to tourists for nightly stays and operating a hotel they found an additional 13 hotels that were specifically being advertised toe tourists to tour. It is in the northeast corn of the city represented by this supervisor and the supervisor to my left and a hotel that was supposed to be 75 residential and 25 tourist. That listed 100 of all of the units as tourist rentals and another couple of buildings and listed a number of rooms for tourists so the question s. How does the city enforce listings and ensure that residential rooms are not going to tourists . I say that in light of the fact that our short term rental ordinance does not cover s. R. O. S. I mean, just broadly, we generally respond to complaints and Different Hotels suspected of unlawful conversion. There are usual suspects that come up every now and then. We respond to complaints. We go down in the hotels and check records and as of now were enforcing the seven will have dadayminimum and its lime can discover who say tourist or not we stipulate today that you know, if we find theyre not keeping their records correctly, we can find them and we do so a problem we do encounter is it sees theretheres not daily loo us. While were on that subject. I was actually going to raise that, which is mr. Lutins did refer to quote cooking the books in two sets of books. And can you state from your experience what impediments there are to d. B. I. S ability to enforce the h. C. O. Is Record Keeping a problem and have you ever caught an operator or operators not keeping correct books or keeping two sets of books as you said theres a problem with cooking the books to reflect the number of tourist rooms and vacancies. Can you address that . Yeah, i mean, we have caught a few but its sort of anxiety that theres a lot more out there we dont know because its hard to go after additional records. The legislation that you passed including supervis subpoena powd its not showing us the true occupancy of the hotel by giving us the daily logs that they fill out and having a Computer System or something that tells who is in the hotel and who pays for rooms the administrative supervisor power i continue to hear from folks in the community that the practice of keeping units vacant or as its commonly referred to as warehousing, its prevalent, particularly in certain neighborhoods like lower knob hill, the tenderloin. Do you have a sense of how many vacancies are out there and why Property Owners are holding them off the market. Given that the practice of warehousing of precious residential units in the midst of a housing crisis seems to be at odds with the contention that some Property Owners are making that they are trying to make back their frontend investments and hence our am terrization comments i know it does happen. Many units are kept vacant for extended periods and im not sure why that would be if you are trying to make money off of those units. I see it where wore just processing our annual unit usage report inform. We havent completely assembled the data base but its also selfreported and theres some data there as to how many vacancies there are. Its a snapshot when what we have asks for data from one day throughout the year. And weve looked at that before and we can certainly look at it again whats that snapshot tell you overtime if you can produce that out of . In terms of having sa vacancy units are occupied in october 15th of the year. They turned it in on november 1st so they have information from that one day. I can tell you it does happen. Im sorry if this seems obvious but its important, which is the difference between a residential unit and a tourist units. Are there different amenities provided . Are they market seconddegree d . Do some come with bathrooms and some not come with bathrooms . How does that work . Really, it depends. They can be exactly the same. Im been in buildings mix tourist and residential designated rooms and theres no difference between two rooms m will keep their tourist designated room on a different floor and i dont know for what purposes, for cleaning the rooms and after people move out but theres no nessie difference between the rooms. Theres not any enforceable the room has to be this versus that. What are some of the indicators that a room may have been unlawfully convert. Im aware of one s. R. O. Hotel that hired a artist to do to cater to a hipper, class of tourist demo graphics that the boutique industry billed itself around and got rid of a beauty salon to usher in a International Art bar and pride and permit on top of a Liquor License transfer meaning they had to get sign off from the tenants above. Only it turned out there were no tenants left. They were only renting out to tourists. I know of another s. R. O. That actively advertises personal tours of local and regional attractions ranging from monterey, carmel, yo sem tee. Are these amenities in line with a tourist use or residential use . Generally its tourist rather than residential. Are adding these amenities consistent with a Residential Hotel, do you think . Its up to the owner. Due have to. Its not necessary. Can you rent the rooms out for seven days at a time and advertise online. As far as advertising for the rooms, they used some of the same services basically where at least most testify is done online anyways so you are on airbnb getting a temporary unit or craigslist for more prominent listing for the s. R. O. Ousing stock. I would agree with that dough know if s. R. O. Owners make a profit from the operation and maintenance from the s. R. O. S without adding these types of tourist amenities . Sure, i dont see why not. The Housing Market such that it is you can charge quite a bit and per room understood. And is there a component that makes payment options. I know that some low income residents who dont have credit cards or wish to pate their installments were concerned clarifying the definition might mean they would no longer be able to pay on a weekly basis or pay in cash. Is that accurate . No. We thought about that a while back when this was discussed before and i dont think so. As long as it sws me this person has stayed there for a long period of time or they have rent receipt 0 that person paying theres no reason why they shouldnt be able to pay on whatsoever basis they want. They can bay in advance, by week, however they want. Just as long as theyre a resident. Thats what were looking for in terms of this law. So they can rely on the same Business Model theyve take weekly payments from tenants for lodging and make a reasonable return on their investment in that way yes, from our enforcement standpoint, yes. Thank you. Id like to tell the story a i was sitting in this chamber in a hearing that then Supervisor Scott Wiener called back in early 2016, in february, when kelly, who was then with the department of publichealth before we created the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing stated in a span of four years, the city had gone from 360 stabilization rooms to 65 and im hearing its been further reduce today 53. At the time she cited factors from illegal conversions by the academy of art to little tourist conversions and can you tell us what obstacles the city has come up with against with respect to acquiring buildings and master Lease Agreement witcity agreeme . Im not sure i would able to the department of publichealth. I havent been involved in those so thats not its not in your wheel house. The chief housing record wanted me to read a comment in the record. The floor is yours. Of course i moved it. Take your time. I would be remised if i didnt include my boss remarks. Thats important. So, wed like to thank you supervisor peskin for your tireless work in the preservation of Affordable Housing regarding the Hotel Conversion ordinance. We call had the h. C. O. Thank you to sunny, your legislative aid, kristen jenson, andrea reece, in the City Attorneys Office. Were all grateful for the work theyve done. The consensus theyve achieved was solved a problem that effects department for some years and the problem being some hotels would rent the same room to a different person each week regardless of their being a resident or a tourist on holiday. Even if it was a residential room for some 40 years or so and they could claim protection for this use of the exception of seven day exception. Clearly theyre not occupied as residential or a way that most of us under the word residential and to mean it so it became basically a loophole. And you know, many hotel owners follow the spirit and letter of the law but theres some that are available themselves of the loophole and its not fair to them either and its also defleeting our Housing Stock in a time we dont need that. And you are unanimous legislation was seen as closing the loophole in a way that would prevent it from being exploited in the future. Its a tax loop hope if you have a tax loophole that someone a veils themselves of and Congress Passes a law to close that loophole, do we really owe them something Going Forward because we close the loophole that it doesnt exist anymore . What about the people that never got the chance to take advantage of it . What about the other hotel owners who never vile eight the law. So, basically its a consideration is how do we balance the interests of hotel owners through seeking the versus fairness to owners and operators who are actually complying with the spirit o spie law and have Residential Hotels. Thank you for your boss events. Lets it open to Public Comment. I have one speaker card from ryan padder son and if you would like to testify on item number 3, if you are line to my left your right, mr. Patterson. Thank you on behalf of the San Francisco s. R. O. Hotel coalition. I want to thank you for working together with the hotel owners to try to find a resolution to this. Snag we are definitely interested in talking about. And you have asked for the s. R. O. Owners assistance with what we seem to be an unconstitutional taking of their business. Specifically, you are asking for constitutionally protected private financial information. While we want to work with the city, this needs to be done in a way that protects the privilege and confidentiality of that information that you are requested. We reiterate our suggestion for a continuance of this matter until were able to work with the City Attorney to have that discussion in a privileged and confidential sitting. Before doing anything, the city does need to come into compliance with the courts order of september 24th, 2019. Thank you very much. Thank you mr. Patterson. As i indicated at the beginning of this meeting in my opening remarks, we will continue this item to the call of the chair and if you turned your head to the left you will see Christian Jenson who you know and you are welcome to speak and set. We are speaking about the h. C. O. Thank you. I just want to say here comes santa claus, right down santa claus land use lane. I know you are glad he came. Bells are ringing, children singing. Everything is merry and bright. I hope this hotel hits the highest high. Happy holidays. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, im the senior director of Housing Development with tndc. Im thankful to have a second day and i missed the main events that were offered last week. We own several s. R. O. Hotels in the tenderloin. We were founded in 1981 to protect and preserve existing housing serving low income people in the tenderloin recognize pressures on the neighborhood with the extension of union square and the financial district. Ive lived in San Francisco since 2003 but i began working here in 2012 and i was really impressed when i first got here around the strength of the housing conversion law and how effective it was in effectively preserving this Housing Stock to serve to low income people and as weve seen over the last five to 12 years pressures are so strong and the income potential so high its happening. Im very grateful to the supervisor and the other folks throughout the city who have worked to close loopholes, things working in the past that arent working now to protect this Housing Stock so i want to express gratitude and we are ready to think through policy or implementation or anything like that to continue to preserve the stock. Thank you. Thank you mr. Lamont. Are there any other speakers on item number 3 who would like to offer public testimony . Seeing none. Public comment is closed and colleagues, if theres no objection, we will continue this item to. Call of the chair. Amendments to item number two are not approved as to form by deputy city. Clerk the hearing on the implementation of ordinance number 19019 personal Wireless Service facility site permits. Thank you. Every since this board of supervisors passed legislation earlier this year to bring San Francisco in a further compliance with federal and state law regarding wireless cell site regulation, weve all heard from countless individuals in the public about their concerns ranging from Health Concerns, anesthetic concerns, underground conditions and private concerns and i think many of these are quite legitimate expressions to members of this board. Its been a frustrating topic of discussion. Ive had the pleasure and pain of participating in these discussion and appeals over the last two decades. Largely in part because the Telecom Industry has, as i said to ms. Blackstone, fairly and squarely purchased a lot of influence at the federal and state levels to tie local governments hands and our ability to regulate this industry responsibly and commence rat with the desires of our citizens. Beginning when i was twoyearsold, with the federal Telecommunications Act, im sorry, i just missed that by 32 years. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, it was the first overhaul of Telecom Regulations in a half century and extending to changes to our state Public Utilities code and Public Utilities commission which even went further than the federal f. C. C. Our ability here in San Francisco has been con trained as it relates to regulation of publichealth and safety matters. Over the past several months, my office has undertaken a review to understand the difference between what is required of us relative to federal and state law pre emion and where we may have done more as required for us and where we con trained our authority to regulate in this area. Some have contended weve gone above and beyond what is required by federal and state law. Others contend that the city has reaped certain benefits such as the fact that the city charges rent for cell sites and Telecom Companies are obligated to replace utilities polls in exchange for the ability to install on these facilities. I also want to recognize the Public Policy imperative to ensure that all of our citizens and residents have adequate access to the entertainment. Which has become an indistance able commodity in our Society Daily lives but i believe that 5g, the fifth generation of cells in smartphones is more than just cell phone Internet Access is about an explosion of Network Devices that are and continue to be part of every facet of our lives. In as much as the Health Concerns maybe real relative to use of devices these wireless cell sites enable i have concerns about wireless devices in our homes and our public rights of way from selfdriving cars to Wireless Security and wireless household a compliance. Its not just health. They are also about privacy implications and ive noted, for instance, that ring security cameras were the subject of controversy for being to subject to widespread hacking. Even the federal government has banned a chinese 5g infrastructure because of cybersecurity and privacy concerns. I want to acknowledge staff in a number of departments starting with public works and ms. Debra ludsky and john scarpula, the health department, dr. Thomas aragon who have been revisiting a almost 10yearold study that was undertaken by the Planning Department and marcel boudreau, the city administrator office, mr. Bill barnes and of course the City Attorneys Office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. Thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any followup that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from publichealth. While much of this boils down to a very frustrating legal conundrum that is the result of federal and state pre emion i want to turn this over members of the public who wait merchandise time for this hearing and despite my frustration, at having most of our well intentioned ideas rejected based on pre emion, im hoping this hearing might facilitate new creative thinking about how to protect the health and Public Interest including im sorry she couldnt be here shes out of town and thats how peoples schedules work. So colleagues, if you have no comments or objections i would like to open this item for Public Comment for good ideas and public testimony. Please feel free to testify. Good afternoon, thank you so much for having this hearing. A lot of our people are coming at 2 30. We underestimated your speed today. Hopefully you can hear some of the other speakers. Im going to go through some talking points that i hope that you all received supervisors safai and haney. It would be great if you want to take a look at them as im going through them. Multiple small cell installations within the public rightofway will negatively impact property values, pose a threat to the publichealth safety and welfare, create traffic and Pedestrian Safety homicide address, impact tree health and where i where trimmif branches or require removal of roots create visual lights, and potential safety hazards in extreme weather and as San Francisco is what of the destinations in the United States, to live and work and visit we want to make sure the leaders design laws. Everything you have in front of you are fully within the s. E. C. Order and prior regulation. I i want to be very clear on that. Whatever other folks are telling you this is vetted and all the ideas are within the bounds. The very first thing im going to ask you to do is there are different, as we learned, thank you, to bill barnes, actually, this is an easterly year ordinance governing all polls in the city and county of San Francisco and we urge the board of supervisors to write a resolution requiring the Public Utilities commission and the municipal transportation authorities who have another polls to amend their contracts and standards to be consistent with those that were requesting to be made. Thank you. Thank you for your work on this matter. Next speaker, please. Thank you so much. Im going to continue with the talking points. Ironically, on my phone. So option one is do not implement 19019 until marc march 15th. The court of appeal will act between january 1st and march 15th. If the court rules in our favor we dont have to implement this and we should vacate 195019. We respectly request that you wait to consider to implement 19019 until after march 15th. If the court rules the f satisfy guard San Franciscos and the beauty of San Francisco. We need to make sure the ordinance has the possibility of being voided if the court of appeals rules against the fcc. It will be vacated if the federal court rules the local municipalities are not subject to the scc orders of september 2018 or the telecom act of 1996 or middleclass tax relief and Job Opportunities act of 2012. At that time, all personal wireless facilities slash small laws and regulation as prove the date relating to personal wireless facilities and cellular an ten as. If theyre vacated, the Planning Department, the department of environment and the health department, the department of public works shall add to the general plan ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all who live, work and visit San Francisco. They should not be and to maximum towers for safety. They should be no closer than 1. They should be by directional and down the street. The towers are going up all over town and yet the new standards are not in place whom is approving these permits . Will you commit to getting them to stop. Telecom vendors must have Liability Insurance protecting the city. Thank you for some of those very helpful commentses it relates to the litigation in march. Good afternoon. I have a pitch here. Its with graphics here. Do you hear about what i he do you hear what i hear telecom soaring in the night remember dont give up the fight and make this item turnout right turnout right see the light. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Wooding, please ex forward. Good after, supervisors, coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods and why rush to sell off San Francisco. They have significantly over reached their authority and threatening San Francisco sovereignty to keep up with chinas 5g program. More than a dozen u. S. Cities are challenging federal regulators in court over a recent decision that gives Telecom Companies millions in financial and other breaks. As they race to built next Generation Wireless Network powered by 5g mobile data. Officials from los angeles, portland oregon, bell. Interview washington among others, asked the u. S. Court of appeals of the ninth Circuit Court to review and rule change by the federal Communications Decision which restricts citys ability to charge. And this is what i really want to make is that you have a fiduciary responsibility to the city as well as the health. Under the sccs new policy, Telecom Carrier seeking permits to install the Network Equipment on Public Infrastructure must have their request reviewed more quickly by city officials. They are also regard to charge carriers 270 per year and access fees. Before the new policy carriers would expect to say more than 500 annually. Why rush to sell us San Francisco. Thank you, mr. Speaker, please. Thank you, my name is dr. Thomas kouwenber cowen and d and worked in San Francisco for 15 years. I dont know much about politics or ordinances. I dont know a lot about the Health Ramifications of wireless radiation. In 2000, a man named neil cherry analyzed the rate of Childhood Cancer compared to the distance the children lived from sutro towers. The children who live within a mile of the tower have nine times the rates of cu lukemia, 5 times the rate of lymphoma, 31 times the rate of brain cancer, and 18 times the rate of total cancer as children who lived more than a mile from the towers. It will increase the disease rate in the population of San Francisco. This includes heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a host of neurological