Mr. Clerk . Thank you, and can you please read number one. Clerk agenda item number 1 an ordinance amending the city code to authorize the city administrator identifying those departments that would qualify as business entities or associates under hipaa and to require the city administrator to develop and maintain a citywide hipaa policy. Chair ronen great, and i understand there will be a brief presentation . Great. Good morning, chair ronen and committee members. We have emily cohen from the Mayors Office, and i have a very brief presentation for you about our hipaa covered entity designation ordinance. Im also joined by bill barnes from the City Administrators Office who will present on their part of the ordinance. So as im sure as most folks are aware, hipaa is the federal law thats to protect personal information. It allows large cities or municipalities to declare themselves a hybrid covered entity. San francisco has not, and it creates a large compliance burden for multiple city departments, even those that could not create activities. It increases our liability under hipaa, and it leaves gray area when it comes to compliance and data sharing. The ordinance that we have before you declares the city and county of San Francisco a hybrid entity. Ive been working with the Controllers Office and City Administrators Office to determine which are covered entities and which are not. Its been a lengthy process, and weve consulted with a hipaa consultant to make sure were following the process. A hipaa entity is essentially a health plan, a health care clearinghouse, or a Health Care Provider who transmits Health Records electronically for medical purposes. Most city departments do not perform those activities, and so the ordinance would declare us a hybrid, and under the ordinance, the City Administrators Office will be responsible for maintaining a list of those city departments, and they must submit that list via resolution to this board within 30 days of passage and then no less than three years. Should a city departments resolution change, a simple list brought before the board will list the remaining departments. Im going to turn it over to bill to talk a little more. Bill barnes from the City Administrators Office. So as you know, the city administrator oversees the citys priorities through a Charter Amendment that was placed by supervisor peskin. And the city administrator would be responsible for developing and maintaining a hipaa policy. And the legislation is focused on the legal designation as a hybrid entity, but its also focused on improving cross departmental sharing. One of the things that we hear from departmenting is sharing information on patients or clients. Understanding which ones are hipaa and which ones are not will be a key reason why we share hipaa. I want to also acknowledge the City Attorneys Office which has been working with us on this for a while. Going forward, each of the departments that is covered under this ordinance would have their own data policies, and for the members of the public and supervisors, we also oversee a program called data s. F. Which classifies all data sets in the city based on their protected and that sorts of thing, and this fits neatly into the processes and data requirements that the city administrator already performs, and im available for any questions, as is emily. Chair ronen do you have a sense of the departments already that you expect will be covered by the by hipaa . Sure. So we will make recommendations this committee thats been working will make recommendations to the City Administrators Office. We expect the San Francisco police department, the San Francisco health plan, and the San FranciscoFire Department to be the three entities that perform this. Chair ronen im so happy this is finally happening. Sometimes seeking data from departments that are not conforming with hipaa, they use hipaa as an excuse to not share that. If i could be added as a cosponsor, i would appreciate it. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, chair ronen. Im wondered why we havent been a hybrid designation and why now, when other counties in california already . Why hasnt San Francisco . You know, im not sure why we havent gone through this process. City attorney ann pearson may be able to weighin. I was brought into this process, how do we involve data sharing for people involving homelessness. Its a much larger conversation beyond this issue, so im not sure what the delay was in doing it, but its become clear that this is a simple and necessary first simp to ensuring our privacy and accountability for the departments that are covered. So certainly, the time is now. We shouldnt delay further. I would like to speak quickly to your point, chair ronen, that this is absolutely a big deal to help us improve how we share data and how we protect data. This is not the only privacy law that many departments are hopeful to you. There are other state and federal privacy laws that departments need to comply with. If i could just take a moment to supervisor stephanies question, so just for the public and members of the board, we have been complying with San Francisco general, laguna honda. I dont think this was needed when it first came out, but as things have come along, its been clear that you need better rules of the road and better ordinance. I think when we first started, it was like our structure was sufficient to just operate with the city as a whole entity, and now the hybrid allows us more focus on meeting these requirements. Supervisor stefani okay. Thank you. Definitely, this is the thing to be doing. I just have one more questions in terms of what are the benefits that we expect to derive, excuse me, from becoming a hybrid designation . I know departments will be able to share information, but what does that look like in real life . How is that going to help people . Is this going to help people get into recovery programs quicker . What exactly will it allow us to do . This will focus those added layers of cost and responsibility only on those departments that need to make those requirements. And so it will have, i think a benefit across departments. People who arent covered by hipaa wont be bound by the same costs and regulatory requirements. A paramedic picks someone up, they drop them at the hospital. You have a firefighter at the Fire Department, a nurse they hospital, theyre all covered. Thats what were trying to do. As it provides Health Coverage for all residents, it would make those programs more efficient. Thank you. Chair ronen supervisor mar . Supervisor mar supervisor stefani asked the questions that i would have asked. I believe that health care is an evolving issue, so thank you so much for your work on this, and i would like to be added as a cosponsor. Chair ronen thank you. Well open this up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do you want to do the honors . Supervisor mar i would move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. Chair ronen and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. [gavel]. Chair ronen thank you so much. Can you please read item number two. Clerk agenda item number two is a hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending april 10, 2021 to the graffiti Advisory Board. Madam chair, there are three applicants, and there are three seats. Chair ronen thank you. And i believe we have all applicants here. No . Is devin jones here . Yes. Come on up if youd like to share anything with us. Hi, hi. Thank you all for having me sorry. My names devin jones. I work for the San Francisco pretrail diversion project. I wear a number of hats over there but one of my main focuses in pretrial diversion is ive been a member of the Street Services program for five or six years. Are either of you familiar with San Francisco pretrial diversion . Okay. Well, a little background. We act as an alternative to sentencing programs, so thats basically what were most known for, and our main focus is to provide pretrial supervision for those pending legal Court Matters in San Francisco. This ensures people are not just sitting in custody during the pretrial portion of their case, but the program im mostly involved in, sesp, our Street Environmental Services program, my role has been to coordinate efforts to address graffiti in the committee. I supervise clients assigned by the court to deter future involvement by community service. And i supervise them by making them clean the graffiti themselves. We can address the issues facing the city by the ongoing struggles of graffiti vandalism. Im also eager to learn of resources and bettopportunitie better focus those who view graffiti as art. We have discussions at our meetings between street art and graffiti. So while my work is mostly on addressing older teens and younger adults at vandalizing or defacing property, im looking forward to learn more in this seat, seat 12 if i am given this opportunity. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. Thank you for your willingness to serve. Its really important, and your expertise is perfect for this body. Really appreciate it. Any other questions . No . Thank you. Thank you. Chair ronen is darcy brown here . No. And is daniel kling here . Come on up. Good morning. Chair ronen good morning. Hi how are you . Doing well, thanks. My name is daniel kling. Ive served a couple of terms on the graffiti Advisory Board. I work for recology. Im a San Francisco homeowner. I have two children in the San Francisco public schools, and i am a former public educator. I see the graffiti Advisory Board as an opportunity for me to give back to my adopted city. I came from chicago, and one thing that i really feel strongly about is, you know, helping San Francisco be a clean, liveable, and blightfree city. So serving on the board is something that i can do to give back to the city and be a model to my kids. Chair ronen can you just tell us about any accomplishments that you feel that the board has made over the couple of years that youve been on it . Sure. Working with then supervisor now mayor breed on the graffiti penalties. I serve on the Law Enforcement advisory subcommittee, and working with the district Attorneys Office on the one main Graffiti Task force with sfpd, i think weve made good strides at getting graffiti vandals off the streets and hopefully not doing what they did anymore. If you look at the hibernia bank, and the graffiti there. That was thousands upon thousands of dollars, and we helped deal with that situation. I think theres some good value to be had. I think our analyzing databased on the 311 app and analyzing our databases on the 311 app has been extremely helpful in analyzing graffiti in the city. Chair ronen well, thank you so much. Anybody like to speak on this, come on up. My name is sharon rose. Im with San Francisco pretrial diversion. Im devins supervisor. I just wanted to come and speak on his behalf. The past five or six years, hes been on the graffiti abatement program. He takes participants out to clean the streets of San Francisco. Hes a hard worker, dedicated worker, and i think hell be a great asset to the board. So thank you for considering his application today. Chair ronen thank you so much. Appreciate it. And seeing no more Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair ronen are you familiar with miss brown . Supervisor stefani yes, chair ronen. I am very familiar with miss brown. She is one of my constituents, and i am fully confident in her ability to serve on this board. Chair ronen do you want to do the honors . Supervisor stefani sure. And i want to thank daniel and devin for their service. Id like to make a motion to forward with full recommendation to the board to seat devin joans on seat 12, darcie brown in seat 13, and daniel kling in seat 15, and forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. Chair ronen without objection, that motion passes. Thanks so much for your time today, and for coming on behalf. Is there any other items today . Clerk there is no further business. Chair ronen then the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. [gavel] after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the belowmarket rate program. I got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [ ] the current Lottery Program began in 2016. But there have been lot rows that have happened for Affordable Housing in the city for much longer than that. It was there was no standard practice. For nonprofit organizations that were providing Affordable Housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. Private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city weve been monitoring for some time since 1992. We did it with Something Like this. Where people were given circus tickets. We game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. At the same time, we started electronic applications systems. Called dalia. The lottery is completely free. You can apply two ways. You can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. If you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. You can make it easier creating an account. To get to dalia, you log on to housing. Sfgov. Org. I have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. I was born here in the hayes valley. I applied for the San FranciscoAffordable Housing lottery three times. Since 2016, weve had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. If you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. For some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. There is a Digital Divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. So we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. Along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and theres also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a firsttime home buyer workshop and a oneonone counseling session with the housing councilor. Sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldnt be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. They still might get a value for an available, Affordable Housing unit. We have a variety of Lottery Programs. The four that you will most often see are what we call c. O. P. , the certificate of Preference Program, the dthp which is the displaced penance Housing Preference program. The neighborhood resident Housing Program and the live worth preference. I moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. The neighborhood Preference Program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in San Francisco. The next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. You have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. All city sponsored Affordable Housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. Every week theres a listing on dalia. Something that people can apply for. Its a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. Lets say the lottery has happened. Several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. And how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. This particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. In my mind, i was like how am i going to win this . I did and when you get that notice that you won, its like at first, its surreal and you dont believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. Some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. They have key less entry now. They have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. Mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. We will Start Construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. We also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. And life happens to people. People move. So we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. Best thing about working for the Affordable Housing program is that we know that were making a difference and we actually see that difference on a daytoday basis. Being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, its a wonderful experience. Its a long process to get through. Well worth it when you get to the other side. I could not be happier. [ ]. I love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will for the longest, i was applying for b. M. R. Rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. I pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave San Francisco. I found out about the San FranciscoMayors Office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did Home Counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. I told her about the Housing Program, the Mayors Office, and i told her hey, youve got to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. She said no, i want you to go with me. And then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b. M. I. I was like wow, this could potentially work. Housing purchases through the b. M. R. Program with the sf Mayors Office of housing, they are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery. There were three people that applied, and they pulled my number first. I won, despite the luck id had with the program in the last couple years. Things are finally breaking my way. When i first saw the unit, even though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. Its slowly beginning to feel like home. I can definitely you know, once i got it painted and slowly getting my Custom Furniture to fit this unit because its a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. This unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. Its slowly becoming home for me. It is great that San Francisco has this program to address, lets say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay area. It will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Okay