Transcripts For SFGTV Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

Ms. Major. Due to to declaration of local emergency related to the Novel Coronavirus disease and the Subsequent Health order, we are asking all attendees of the meeting to maintain at least four feet of physical space between yourself and others. Hash your hands regularly for at least 20 seconds and try to avoid touching highvolume surfaces as much as possible. Madame clerk, could you please read item 2 out of order . Yes. In addition be sure to silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and documents are to be included part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and items acted on today will appear on the march 17 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item 2 is a resolution affirming the citys continued good faith ofs to acquire the pg e assets necessary to provide clean, green and Affordable Electric power delivery and service in San Francisco. Colleagues, this is something that has been a matter of policy attention by this body now for depending on how you count it, 20 years or certainly the last 14 months. This is a joint effort between the chief executive officer mayor london breed, the board of supervisors and the Public Utilities commission as well as the City Attorneys office. Tomorrow there is a joint closed session meeting, the first of its kind in my memory between the puc commission and the board of supervisors in this chamber at 4 00 p. M. This is a resolution as the clerk just said, affirming the citys support for the acquisition of pg e assets in the city and county of San Francisco, contingent on certain conditions. And we have voted on many similar resolutions up until now. But as we go into this joint meeting with the p. U. C. And as the p. U. C. Has on their calendar a very similar, almostite cal, resolution, that they are scheduled almost identical resolution that they are scheduled to vote on tomorrow afternoon, i wanted to bring this to the committee and subject to our deliberations and Public Comment, send this to the full board of supervisors as a committee report. The language should not be new to any of us except for maybe supervisor preston, which recites the history of the provision of Electrical Service to San Francisco since 1913, and to public facilities in the city since 1918. Goes onto elucidate the letter dated 14 months ago by mayor breed asking our p. U. C. To analyze options for ensuring safe and reliable Electrical Services within the city including the possible acquisition of pg e assets for distribution and transmission. The request for a report from the p. U. C. That we have previously discussed subsequent actions by this board and the p. U. C. Including a 2. 5 billion indication of interest to pacific gas and electric and subsequently the additional approval two months ago of resolution 3020, which approved the issuance of over 3 billion of Revenue Bonds for a potential acquisition. The resolution that is cosponsored by supervisor ronen further sets out our priority, a number of them related to financial stability, support for utility workforces community and worker safety, Climate Change prevention and mitigation strategies, affordability and equity, operational excellence, improved service to city departments. And with that, ms. Barbara hail from the p. U. C. Is here if you have any questions. If you do not, then i do not see any of your names on the roster, i would like to open this up to Public Comment. Dont all run down here at once. Ms. Chapman, as to item number 2. Item 1 has not yet been called but will be called shortly. Is there anything you would like to add to what i just said . Okay. Seeing no Public Comment, seeing no comment from p. U. C. Staff, Public Comment is closed. Can we make a motion to send this to the full board with recommendation moved by supervisor safai . Can we take that, supervisor preston, without objection . And i assume your motion is to send it as a committee report. That will be the order. Madame clerk, i am awaiting some amendments to item number 1, which is why we started 15 minutes late. Those amendments are not yet before me. So i would like to take a brief recess as to item number 1, when it is called, actually madame clerk, please call item 1. Item 1 is an ordinance amending the planning code to create the intermediate length occupancy residential use characteristic; amending the administrative code to clarify existing law regarding the enforceability of fixedterm leases in rental units covered by the just cause protections of the residential rent stabilization and arbitration ordinance prohibit the use of rental units for temporary occupancies by nontenants require landlords to disclose in advertisements for such units that the units are subject to the rent ordinance, and authorize enforcement through administrative and or civil penalties; requiring the controller to conduct a study to analyze the impacts of new intermediate length occupancy units in the city; affirming the Planning Departments determination under the California Environmental quality act; and making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority i want to thank City Attorney for preparing those. I apologize for the fact that we are 15 minutes late in convening. If theres no objection, colleagues, i would like to recess this meeting for why dont we say until 2 00 p. M. . Is that enough time . I think eight minutes should be sufficient, i believe. So if we can recess until 2 00 p. M. , without objection, were in we will reconvene the land use land use and Transportation Committee for today, march 9, 2020. I am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin. I would like to thank you, colleagues and members of the public for your indulgence as we needed to recess as to item number 1 that has already been called pending the receipt of some amendments, which subject to our deliberation of Public Comment, i would like to introduce today and continue so there will be plenty of opportunity for the public and interested parties to review them and comment on them at a subsequent meeting. So let me at a high level, go through the amendments that are before you as to what we used to call Corporate Housing legislation, we are now calling intermediatelength occupancy or i. L. O. Legislation. The First Amendment would make it clear, remember the earlier version said that in building typologies of nine or less units, 25 of them would be eligible for an i. L. O. Unit, which i think colleagues on this committee and members of the public were seeking clarification on as it relates to dwelling units of fewer than four, ie, ones twos and threes and the amendment that im offering today would clarify that so that administrator and the board of appeals would not need to wrestle with it, and that clearly states that under four i. L. O. S would not be permitted. It reorganized some of the requirements into information required for any application. Some of these criteria are with regard to identifying which unit within a building would be an i. L. O. , include proof of no building or housing code violations, and sets forth different obligations for buildings depending on the number of dwelling units. It includes most importantly conditional use criteria and there continues to be a place holder for the cap and colleagues, in our earlier conversations, and i just want to let you know where i intend to continue moving this legislation, there has been some interest in grandfathering historic practices in larger buildings that can be proven. So the amendments ill be working on in the intervening week if you should continue this, would dill diehl with that. And the city would deal with that. And the City Attorney, as i said, whether these amendments are substantive in nature or not in so far as they are being continued for a week, there will be plenty opportunity for you and the public to comment. With that, i would like to open this up per Public Comment. And can make a copy of the amendments available to any member of the public. And with that, supervisor safai. So one of the things that i heard last, and i appreciate all the hard work, supervisor, i would like to talk more about the grandfathering. I think thats an important conversation. But the one i want to start with is under four units. I think one of the things we heard is some of the people that had invested and spent time and worked with converting a particular space in their building, in a small unitsized building to operate under this, not sure if they are really the focus of your legislation. I think that in terms of what i heard you say, a lot of what you were trying to account for are bad actors in large Apartment Buildings and rentcontrolled buildings. So these are the small operators. And i had gotten intention or hearing that we were going in a direction of potentially exempting them or giving them a pathway to continue to operate. And i think that that is still worthy conversation to have. Thank you, supervisor safai, for those Public Policy comments and observations. I think the question that we as policy makers have to wrestle with is to the extent that once this industry is betterregulate betterregulated, where will i. L. O. S be pushed to . And i think part of the reason im making this amendment is because you i dont think we want them actually pushed into smaller building typologies, which are part of the fabric of our neighborhoods and lead to a quality of life and a measure of neighborhoods staying intact. And that is actually the policy concern and consideration that i have in making this amendment, which by the way, is actually a clarification, because that same policy concern is what led to the notion of 25 of buildings less than 10 units. So i was concerned, and mr. Sanchez, we have not heard from yet, and thank you for spending your afternoon with us, actually brought to my attention that we might want to clarify that, so just doing simple math, 25 of four is 1, and 25 of 3 or less does not produce you one unit. So i wanted to clarify that. But im also concerned about to the extent that we ultimately regulate this in larger building typologies, that it ends up pushing people out where a lot of speculation and gent if i ration has happened in smaller gentrification has happened in smaller building typologies. Im open to more policy dialogue about it. Can i talk about it . Because my district, my part of town has 2s and 1s. And a lot of the people that would partake in this type of event are people that are visiting nurses, people that are in the film industry. They might not necessarily part of the people that are going to take advantage of the or have the ability or income to afford the more corporate high end. I understand your concern if you are taking away one, you might engender a growth in another area, and i think thats why as policy makers, it helps us to work with the Planning Department and get an idea of what the overall number is in a particular market. I wouldnt want to make it not operable altogether. I think we should come up with something, and then if it ends up becoming something a problem that needs to be regulated, we can continue to revisit. But to take away that optional together for a small time, you know, one of the people that came was a mother and hay had gone through the process of investing in their house so they can have shortterm rentals, and she said these are people that are nurses, academia, all these other things, they dont have the desire to have longterm or even short term. And supervisor, as im carefully and publicly honing and crafting with you and various interested parties and members of the public, this legislation, do you you just made an argument for Single Family homes, you made an argument for twounit buildings. Are you making an argument for threes . Im not necessarily. I think two or less is probably that is extremely helpful. Supervisor preston, anything you want to weigh in on . Just to the extend that were talking about smaller buildings, whether they are twos or threes, where the units, and these are older buildings, a lot of those are already subject to the rent control exemption. So i dont know if theres newer Housing Stock that may not be subject to those but are smaller buildings where the distinction may be more relevant. You could go through the process of adding an a. D. U. , for example, and maybe you are using it that way initially. That could be an example where youve added an addition. Although my policy objective is as much as we can to add more permanent housing, right . And i think we are having that debate on the shortterm rental side. A threeunit building, i think its harder to make that argument because its a threeunit building and you are taking a complete unit off the market. If you have a threeunit and you add that additional unit, then you fall under the category, and i see that happen a lot. Someone take the grand floor, go through the process, and then if they want to fall into this category they have a pathway to do it. Im not as concerned about the threes. Im concerned more of the twos and the ones, and i think that youre probably going to have a situation where theres people that have already done it and have been doing it, and those are the ones im concerned about rather than engendering or encouraging to do more. So if we think about the right way to approach that, you know, that would be my preference. And i know this is a small piece of your overall legislation, which by the way, kudos for putting in the time and effort and energy. I think that some of these newer buildings that might not necessarily pencil under this market where people have come up with the idea we are going to go 100 corporate rental, i think that is not what anyone of us want in San Francisco, whether its market rate or not, we dont want an entire Apartment Building to turn into corporate rentals, so taking that off the table, i think thats the right policy approach. Having us look at four to nine unit buildings which certain percentage, i think thats the right approach. Looking at an overall number, i think thats a good approach. I know a number of those will probably be operating outside of the parameters under which so that number will come down. And then maybe with grandfathering, we hit the sweet spot. Very helpful comments from both of my colleagues. Mr. Sanchez, anything you want to add that you have not said before as we continue to evolve this piece of legislation . Why dont we open this up for Public Comment . Ms. Chapman. And thank you again for your patience. Public comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 1 . Ms. Chapman, you expressed an interest earlier when we were speaking about the other item. The floor is yores. The floor is yores. Linda chapman. Im speaking for knob hill neighbors. We were fighting the cannibalization of rentcontrolled housing for shortterm rentals and so on. I know you have a separate bill on that. I dont know what the contents are. I want to find out and make sure that it didnt make things worse than the piece of legislation we actually passed and it wasnt even thrown out by court. It was undone by ellis barclay, because in the City Attorneys office, and she could do it. And i was too damn stupid, as i was saying to tom the other day, sometimes my stupidity amazes me, that i didnt go to harry brit and carol silver and said you passed it, the mayor signed it, what is this . Lets get them back. More than ive opinion able to get about the s. R. O. Legislation which i still hope to. And i dont know who we hope to consult. The people who used to be on harrys advisory committee, for example, i dont know if you have something similar. Its really a good idea that you are looking at this middle bucket, which is something we werent looking at before. I have some concern, it might just be if i were able to ask like i did back in the day, we would say what about this, have you thought about that and so on. We could clarify. I would want to know, for example, would people be evicted if they were, these were not rentcontrolled buildings, are they protected by the state law from being evicted if people go turn them into this and also if people have written agreements that are not with the tenant but written agreements all right. And other things. Thank you, ms. Chapman. Are there any other members of the public or the interested affected community that would like to comment . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Colleagues, if we can adopt the aforementioned amendments that are before you and continue this item one week, i would greatly appreciate that. Make a motion to continue. Excuse me, to accept the amendments as proposed for this item and continue the item for one week. Supervisor safai has made a motion to accept the amendments and continue this item one week as amended. We will do that without objection, and there is no more business before this committee, and we are adjourned. [please stand by] good morning, everyone. Welcome to the march 12, 2020, regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Im supervisor mandelman. Our clerk is john carroll, and i want to thank s. F. Gov. Tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Your completed speaker cards and documents as part of the file will be submitted today as to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 21st, 2020, board of supervisors agenda, unless other stated. And related to the coronavirus disease, we are asking all attend decees of this meeting to maintain at least four feet between themselves and others, regularly wash your hands for 20 seconds at a time, and try to avoid touching highvolume services as much as possible. Thank you for that, mr. Clerk. For reasons related to the Current Public Health crisis, we are likely to continue items 3 and 4. So if anyone is here for those, you should be aware of that. So mr. Clerk, can you please call the first item. Item 1is a hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 57 special onsale beer and wine Liquor License to the owners association, doing business as the four seasons private residences, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county. Thank you. Good morning members of the board. You have before you p. C. M. For 607 mission, Residence Owner association. They have applied for a type 57 license, and if approved, it should allow them to sell special onsale general. There are zero protests, zero items of support. Theyre located on plot 212, consider a highcrime area, and a high saturation area. The southern station has no opposition, and a. L. U. Recommendation is to approve the license without recommending any new conditions. Chairman great, thank you. Is the applicant here, or a representative . Yes. Good morning. Im beth hopalofia, representing the applicant. We understand that the Supervisors Office has requested a continuance of this item and would like to meet with the project sponsor. So were making plans to do that prior to the next meeting date. Chairman fantastic. Thank you. If there are no comments or questions, well open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. As the applicants representative said, supervisor haney has requested with continue this item to allow additional time for his office and the applicant to meet. We can continue this item to the march 26th regular meeting and still not go past our 90day period during which were trying to make action. I will move we continue this to the march 26th regular meeting. We can take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item . Item 2 is the hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 onsale Liquor License to buzz works incorporated, at 365 11th street will serve the convenience and necessity of the city and county. You have before you p. C. M. For buzz works. If approved, this would allow them to operate an onsale. There are zero letters of protest. I understand there are letters of support. They are located on plot 242, considered a high crime area. On census track 1082, considered a high saturation. And a. L. U. Recommendation is to approve this license without any new conditions. Chairman great. Thank you. Is the applicant here . Members of the board, distinguished chair, im ladd coupe, and im the owner and operator of buzz works. Ive been in San Francisco and owning a variety of nightclubs and restaurants during the last 30 years. I own butter, a legacy venue, that has been there for quite a while. I opened up buzz works about four years ago. And weve had seamless integration and carefree operations. Weve been operating as a type 42, which is 21 and up, craft beer sports bar. The only thing that this new application will allow us to do is add a line of craft spirits, in addition to our craft beer offerings, which are the widest variety in the city of San Francisco. We look to complement our existing operations, which wont change because well still be a 21 and up drinking place. There is really no operational changes needed, other than having an additional line of product. Otherwise, you know, we appreciate your support. And we have a lot of support from our neighborhood, from all of the residents. And people who have been patronizing and supporting our operations and our venue for quite some time. And we look forward to moving forward and having a great relationship with San Francisco and the a. L. U. , and the Police Department and fire department, as we always have. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, my understanding is that supervisor haney is supportive of this application. And i dont see any reason not to make a motion or not to therefore direct our clerk to prepare a resolution, finding that this transfer will meet public convenience and necessity, and i will move to forward that resolution to the full board with positive recommendation, and we can take that without objection. Great. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item. Item 3is an ordinance amending the health code to require the director of health to adopt minimum and healthy standards in adult sex venues, but prohibiting them from adopting or regulate doors or mandate unlocked doors in areas where Sexual Activity may occur. Chairman colleagues, as i indicated earlier, although i am eager to have this item acted on by the full board, as part of the citys response to covid19, president yee has requested that Board Members postpone hearings that have large turnouts. So im going to be moving to continue this item to a future meeting, on a date to be determined, by the call of the chair. We do need to take Public Comment on this. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. And so i will move that we continue this call of the chair. We can take that without objection. Thank you, colleagues. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item. Agenda item 4 is a hearing to discuss the affects of ondemand delivery and Delivery Companies on Small Businesses. Chairman similarly, this is an extremely important topic, but in light of the current crisis, and president yees direction to postpone nonessential legislation are hearings with large public turnout, im going to, after taking Public Comment, move to continue this to the call of the chair. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . So ill just rules in Public Comment are we allow you two minutes. Please state your first and last name. If you have prepared written statements, youre encouraged to leave a copy with the clerk. No applause ar or booing is allowed. I will ad lib a small part of Public Comment that i feel it is a wonderful topic for you guys to bring up as a member of Small Business, and seeing the impact of the Delivery Services have had on myself and neighboring businesses and throughout the city. I think it is time that the city does take some sort of steps to regulate the viral spread of this and its impact. I mean, its really killing small restaurants and bars and stuff. And its hurting our bottom lines. Theyve got no overhead the way we do, and most of them use tactics to take advantage of the businesses that they serve. And it really needs to be really addressed. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Are there any other members if there are members of the public that would like to speak on this item, if folks could line up on the far side of the chamber. Hi. I heard what you said about the reasons for postponing it, and i thought that might happen today, but i rearranged my whole week to be here today, and i called city hall to find out if this meeting was happening specifically for this item. Im trying to figure out how in the future to make sure i have to get coverage for people at home, so how do i know if an item and the agenda is actually going to be heard, or if it is not, before i come to city hall. Is there a way for me to check that before i get here . Chairman i answer that or try to attempt to answer that after Public Comment is over. Thank you very much. Chairman are there any other members of the public . You wanted to say the same thing . Im victor eskovito, and we own two restaurants and a food truck. Really, this is really affecting us, where location Means Nothing anymore. And so there is its a real problem. And it could work. We could make it work, and i think it should be something that we should really address because it is going to put people out of business, and it is really going to change. If you want to attract good chefs to San Francisco, they have to start out with a Small Business and then maybe get hired with bigger restaurants. The whole dynamic of the San Francisco culinary culture is going to suffer if this is not really just regulated, and it has to happen. So it would be great to have it really taken seriously. Chairman thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before i close Public Comment. Public comment is now closed. So this is an extraordinary circumstance that were in. I would say one way to check on whether a hearing is happening is to call the office of the principle sponsor. In the case of ondemand delivery, perhaps supervisor safai or peskin ts office wouldnt necessarily have known these were going to be continued. Mr. Chair, if we do know, we can pass on this information or we can provide more direct Contact Information of someone who works in the office of the sponsoring supervisor to provide the information. My phone number is also on the front of our agenda. 4155544445, and interested constituents can contact me directly from that phone number. Chairman thank you, mr. Clerk. And the other thing i would say is i would, now for the duration of however long this lasts, i think it is worth, particularly if the agenda item looks like it might be nonessential or something that could be deferred until later, its worth checking before coming down here because we are trying to significantly limit members of the public congregating in any of these rooms and potentially spreading covid19. And, yes, chair ste stephanie . Thank you, chair manhandlmandelman. If you cant come to the next hearing, you can email us and the clerk and let us know your story and it can be added to the file. I want you to know your voice will be heard no matter what, if you cant make the next hearing date. There are other ways to communicate. I feel this is such an important topic. I would like to be added as a cosponsor to the hearing, and just know your voice can still be heard if you cant make the next hearing. Thank you. And i would just like to apologize to the folks who did come down and your voice has been heard, but i hope youll be able to come to this when it does eventually happen, when we are on the other side of the curve. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us today . Youve made a motion to call the chair chairman i have made a motion. Well take that without objection. Thank you. There is no further business. Chairman there is no further business, so were adjourned. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am the director of health. Thank you for coming today and late in the afternoon to learn more about the citys aggressive recommendations to reduce the spread of coronavirus and to protect the Public Health. We are proposing major changes for systems and individuals. I am greatly appreciative of the mayors leadership, partnership with the department of Emergency Management, with Mary Ellen Carol and the support of city agencies who work, clients and staff will be impacted by todays recommendations. After we learned yesterday of two coronavirus cases among San Francisco residents, we had proof that the virus is spreading in our community. We are taking swift action today. We are making strong recommendations for social distancing that are intended to reduce the spread of the virus and protect individual and community health. Here is the point. In order to decrease the impact of coronavirus on our community, we must reduce the times and places where people come together. We need to protect the people who are most vulnerable to getting sick or dying if they get coronavirus. In Public Health, we fight inif hifhefighfightdiseases all of t. Human viruses need people to carry them. They thrive in normal social circumstances. If we wait to take stronger action until we have multiple confirmed cases and deaths, the window of opportunity we have now will have closed. Looking at other places where there have been more cases and deaths, there are actions that we need to take before that happens. These actions are disruptive. It is meant to disrupt the spread of the virus. It is inconvenience. There will be hard ships and sacrifices for our residents and businesses. It is the best thing for Public Health to protect us from the worsens outbreak spreading across the country and our region. We are in good company. San mateo and santa clara counties have announced similar measures along with king county in washington including seattle. If this works in San Francisco, it may seem like over reaction because the virus spread will be reduced and fewer people will get sick. This is a lot to absorb. Let me review the key elements of the recommendations that the mayor announced earlier. We expect these measures to be in place for an initial period of two weeks, and we will continuously assess their impact to determine if they need to be adjusted. Now, i will go through the recommendations. Number one. Vulnerable populations. Limit outings. Vulnerable populations include people who are 60 years and older and people with Certain Health conditions such at heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, Kidney Disease and weekended immune systems. For these vulnerable populations dont go to gatherings of about 50 people or more unless it is essential. If you can tele commute, you should. Avoid being around people who are sick. Another recommendation number two. Workplace and businesses. Minimize exposure. Suspend nonessential employee travel. Minimize number of employees working with an arms length of one another including minimizing or canceling large in person meetings and conferences. Urge employees to stay home when sick and maximize flexibility and conferences. Do not require doctors note. Consider use of tele commuting options. Some people need to be at work to provide essential services of great benefit to the community. They can take steps in the workplace to minimize risk. Number three. Large gatherings. Cancel nonessential events. Remember postponing large gatherings such as concerts, sporting, events, conventions or Large Community events. Do not attend any events or gatherings if sick. For events that arent cancelled, we recommend having hand washing capabilities, hand sanitizers and tissues. Frequently cleaning hightouched areas like countertops and handrails. Find ways to create physical space t minimize close contact. Number four. Schools. Safety first. If there is a confirmed case of covid19 at the school, dph will work with the school and district to determine the best measures including potential school closure. Do not go to school if sick. If you have a child with Chronic Health conditions, consult with your Healthcare Provider about school attendance. Equip all schools and classrooms with sanitizers and tissues. Explore remote teaching and Online Options to continue learning. Schools should develop a plan for Countywide School closures and families should prepare for potential closures. Number five. Transit. Cleaning and projection. Increase cleaning of vehicles and high touched surface areas. Provide hand washing andtish anothers in station tissues in stations and in vehicles. Number 6. Avoid as possible to protect most vulnerable. Long Term Care Facilities must have acorhave a the coronavirus. Longterm care must screen staff and visitors and turn away those with illness. General public should afvote going to hospitals, Nursing Homes and longTerm Care Facilities. If you are ill call your Healthcare Provider ahead of time and you may be able to be served by phone. Do not visit the emergency room unless it is essential. Number 7. Everyone do your part. The best way for all those in San Francisco to get sick as always with seasonal colds or flu. Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds, cover your cough or sneeze. Stay home if sick. Avoid touching your face. Try alternatives to shaking hands like an elbow bump or wave. If you have recently returned from a country, state or region with ongoing Coronavirus Infections monitor your health and follow the instructions of Public Health officials. There is no recommendation to wear a mask to prevent yourself from getting circumstance. Getting sick. Keep uptodate. Today is a new service to make that easier for those in San Francisco. Sign up for official updates by texting covid19 sf to 888777. That is 888777. You can also visit the Health Departments website at sf sfdph. Org. Thank you. I think we have time for a few questions. We will answer your questions about the cruise ship situation. Thank you. The status for us really hasnt changed since yesterday. The state is working with the cdc and the feds to continue to determine the most appropriate berth for the ship. Now we do not know what the time determination is. We assume San Francisco could potentially still be that location. We also are waiting information. We know about what you do. [ inaudible ] no, they are not. The people on the mexican cruise. How many are there . We have that information, and they have been contacted by the Health Department. How many . Over 100. I cant give you a number more specific than that. 100 people from San Francisco were on that cruise . Yes. Were they San Francisco residents . Okay. Can you tell us if they are showing symptoms . Or are they being tested . They are told to contact their Healthcare Provider and will follow the guidelines for testing. Are they in the hospital currently . I am not aware of any at this time. What about the situation has the student been tested. I can not speculate on individual testing at this time. What about the two from yesterday. There is no update on the condition of the patients. We wish them well. No one has tested positive since yesterday. As of this afternoon we know additional positive tests. What is your message . Are they to cancel concerts . I hope they will follow recommendations because that is for Public Health at this time. Our recommendation is to cancel large events. Music concerts . Our recommendation is to cancel large events. Is the city canceling large events . The city will certainly follow the guidelines for all city events. Will that include the st. Patricks day parade . The st. Patricks day would fall under these recommendations. Any update on the woman that has been to the campus . I am not going to speculate on individual cases for privacy reasons. I dont have information to share. Any other questions on the recommendations announced social distancing . We have time for two more questions. Are city workers told not to come to city hall . These recommendations will apply to city workers, and the city will add here to these recommendations. We will follow the recommendations as announced today. What about Public Transit . Is someone going to clean buses or trains . We are recommending increased cleaning in touch with our muni leadership to be sure this can be carried out. You mentioned the hardship this might create temporarily for San Francisco businesses. Can you go into that more . I understand this is a disruptive situation. There is a lot of people looking into the Economic Impact of this. Very concerned about it. Looking for potential sources of support with regard to the impact. Our focus is on the Public Health. We need to disrupt social engagement as much as we can to avoid transmission of coronavirus. These are based on the best Global Health information that we have at this time. They are informed by cdc guidelines and consistent with neighboring counties recommendations. Dont go out to dinner, stay out to eat for everybody . I would ask that these were detailed. We are making these available to everyone. Our recommendation is to follow these specific guidelines at this time. Have you compelled private businesses to not have concerts . These are recommendations. You cant force them . These are recommendations. Thank you. I dont think we have any more information about the ship than provided. The Vice President said it would go to a noncommercial port. We on wonder what that means . We only know what we have heard from the Vice President and the media. Thank you all so much for coming. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with the closed session. Before we do, id like to rerecu recuse myself for the closed session. Id like to ask that director hirsch, as i did so last time, take control of the closed session. So ill be back in the board room and hopefully come back out today. Good luck in closed session. All right. Thank you, vice chair gee. As he noted, we are going into closed session. This is an opportunity clerk all right. The tjpa board of directors meeting is back in session. And in item 8, closed session, there is nothing to report. Go ahead and move into next item . Please. All right. Item 9 is communications, and director do directors, im not aware of any. Item 10, new business. All right. Well go into item 11, the executive directors report. Good morning, directors. We have a busy morning, but before we get started, id like to update you with some items. First, id like to update you on the Community Response to the Novel Coronavirus. We have taken several measures to enhance the health and safety of all Salesforce Transit Center services, including coordinating with federal, state, and local Health Officials and other transit agencies. They include the San Francisco Mayors Office, our officers at a. C. Transit and muni, and the department of Emergency Services and transit and joint information center. We have also expanded our cleaning measure including the frequency of cleaning of the touch points such as door handles and sink handles. We have Updates Information on our Digital Screens and were posting the posters from the department of health San Francisco department of health all over the building. Information can be found in common areas throughout the Transit Center, public rest rooms, and staff areas, and we and as we all know, the situation is changing rapidly, so well continue to monitor and respond appropriately. Next, id like to update you on our way finding project. As you know, after opening the Transit Center, it was determined to anecdotal feedback that the current wait signage needs improvements. We have been working with the San Francisco Transportation Commission and our operators to conduct a way finding gap analysis and these efforts are underway. The way finding Consultant Team has completed a general assessment through a deep dive into the existing systems, survey research, Public Public passengers interviews, pedestrian journey tracking, volunteer test journeys, and a series of interviews with everything, including our janitorial staff as well as the cap riders. The analysis is expected to be completed by the end of this month or early next month and once this is done, ill present the findings to the boards. Im happy to announce that phils has opened two locations. They have already added to the neighborhood, adding more vibrancy options. At this time, id like to ask rich payette from lincoln property, our asset manager, to provide you with a brief operations update. Rich . Thanks, mark. Thanks. As mark talked about, we are addressing the covid19, so we have a very good Janitorial Company thats working with us. Theyre a vendor, and theyre cleaning everything that people touch. Doorknobs, touch screens, elevator railings, and we do have signage up educating people. The third floor bus deck continued to operate at normal capacity with a. C. Transit, greyhound, and they continue to operate at the corner of mission and fremont. Onsite was our first tenant that opened, and they opened in november. Our anchor tenant, fitness s. F. , opened in december, and we have two fill coffees that are open today. A quarter after that, well have spring fertility and happy lemon, and later, well have charlies philly steaks, kaiser, and others. This slide just shows some of the activity of our construction. Fully built out s. F. Fitness, fitness s. F. , and things in progress, and Stores Coming opening soon. 69,000 of that square feet is already executed and board approved, so thats 81 . Another way of looking at it, 35 retail spaces, and 25 of those spaces have been executed and or board approved at 71 , and our committed rent is 98 of of what we projected. We have l. O. I. Promising l. O. I. S on seven of those spaces, but we have interest in all 11 spaces. The next few will just be kind of, like, site plans or floor plans of each floor. That might be a little hard to read, but this is the first floor. Anything in purple is already committed, and everything in green is still in negotiation. Heres the same thing for the second floor. Kaiser, fitness s. F. , springtime fertility, and they will have that lease signed this coming week. That will leave just one space, space 232, that were still working on. We have strong interest in that space, and we expect to have the second floor fully leased shortly. And then heres our third park level, same thing. The restaurant, fully committed, and then, were still negotiating on the pad. Now were at the point if anybody has any questions. Any questions from the board . Thank you for your report. Thank you. Directors, just to resume my report, we have a financial report. If you have any questions, aaron can answer them, and my last item, i wanted to update you on the m. O. U. With the metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco Transportation Authority, San Francisco transbay joint powers board to enhance the facility of the downtown extension. This is to implement a new organizational structure do i have it . To support the tjpa projects in the most efficient manner in collaboration with the Partner Agencies in the bay area. The goal is to is to be to take the d. T. X. To shovel ready status in the next two to three years. As way of background, in july of 2018, we received an allocation of approximately 10,000 million from sfcta tot resume work on the preliminary engineering on the downtown extension. That was suspended in december 2018 after a discovery of the fiss fissures detected in the tunnel under the street. After that, the sfcta initiated a peer review of that effort, and at the same time, the board asked me to initiate a peer review with the American Transportation association. The peer review was concluded in may 2019. That concluded in recommending that the tjpa have less reliance on consultants and have more depth on tjpa staff to have more institutional knowledge. But they also recommended that the tjpa consider retaining an independent engineer to assess and monitor the program and report directly to the board. The report that was done by afta was done by Public Sector leaders with proven experience in managing delivery of large complex projects. They included the assistant manager with the denver regional transportation district, including the receive Program Manager for l. A. Metro, including the Vice President and senior priVice President w lewis and berger. After some discussions, the sfcta review was adjusted to recommend a new organizational structure for a new tjpx under the sfcta. So so moving forward, the new organizational structure thats being discussed right now contemplates the formation of a new structure. The expectation is the Steering Committee will be driven by managers and executive managers of these agencies. And then, the first order of work of the executive Steering Committee would be to approve or recommend to the tjpa boards a work program that analyzes the roles and responsibilities of each entity, and give us a clearer road map how to get from where were at right now to shovel ready for the downtown extension. The the the under discussions right now with the e. F. C. Roll will be to made recommendations to the tjpa board, but the tjpa will remain having final authority over the downtown project, and they can accept or reject the report of the executive Steering Committee. The executive Steering Committee will meet on a monthly basis and can report to the tjpa on a monthly basis when theyre ready. So thwe welcome that, but itsp to them to do that. It would be composed of the same agencies and led by the tjpa project director. And the work plan will include items to be delivered, and whos going to be delivering these items, and whos going to be reporting about these items . On this is a draft organizational chart thats contemplated as part of the discussions that were having on the m. O. U. On the righthand side, youll see that this is a normal operations of the Transit Center. Tjpa, right now, we have the executive director reporting to the board, and the executive director is supported by the chief of counsel, facility director, chief security officers, and the c. F. O. On the righthand side, we will have, at the very bottom, the tjpa managers working on the on the downtown extension project. Theyll be managed by the project director, which is a tjpa employee, but he or she will be part of the integrated management team, theyll report directly to the executive Steering Committee, and the executive Steering Committee will report to the board. The formation of the o. S. C. Would provide another tool in the tool box and have leaders of various agencies, tjpa, high speed rails, and others, to really give the project a shot in the arm and the tjpa a shot in the arm in regionalizing the project and making sure were doing this in full collaboration. And itll also better position us in securing funding, especially at the states and the federal level and also helps us with resolving any any discrepancies or conflicts in the development of the project, especially when it comes to operations and other issues, so well have all the parties in one room, discussing in a formalized manner. Some of the challenges that this structure introduces, as there is no Single Person thats really responsible for the downtown extension, youve got a committee composed of six individuals representing six agencies reporting to the board, so when the board receives this recommendation, there is no one particular person that could be held accountable. The chair and the vice chair of the Steering Committee are not permanent members. They could come and leave, so two or three years later, the board will not be able to hold anybody accountable for these particular decisions. However, its also going to heavily involve the engagement of the executives, so theyll really have to free their time up and be involved in the project. And also, the success of this structure predicates on everybodys engagement. I want the board to know theres some costs involved here. That concludes my report as directors report and m. O. U. Again, i hope to finalize the m. O. U. And bring it to you for your consideration at the april board meeting. I do recognize, and im sure you do, that given that this changes the way that tjpa does business, we need time to finalize this m. O. U. Any questions from the board . Director chang . Through the chair, thank you, vice chair gee, and thank you for that. I wasnt aware that we were going to be discussing this, the potential for the m. O. U. , the hope that it comes out. On behalf of our prior work on the Transportation Committee, just want to highlight the goals for this effort particularly for some of the members and members of the public who may not have been following it over the past year. Its to regionalize the project further, but to further promote participation amongst the regional state, regional, and other partners who are already on this board and involved. Also, to boost capacity of the effort, and there are different way to see do that, of course, but this way, i think brings the benefit of the coordination that is sort of inherent about having all these folks around the table with the resources and to move this project forward, and to frankly try to accelerate it and make it receive more state and other funding. So those were sort of the intent behind it, and i think some of the issues that you raised behind accountability, we have seen partnership approaches to development. Its a fair concern, and i think something that we should be, you know, better able to address once weve finalized the m. O. U. , but i think there are better ways to address it, and the wa and address it in the ways that weve seen these partnerships work both nationally and internationally. Thats all ill say right now. Thank you. Sorry. My intent was not to highlight the m. O. U. In a negative fashion. It was just to highlight theres some complexity in the reporting structure, and i wanted the board to be aware of that. Thank you for this. We need the entire board aware of all of the hard work going on to create this m. O. U. As well as the public. As cited, the two previous reports in the peer review, and one of the greater reasons is transparency, so transparency to the board and to the public. Clerk and well move into item 12, the construction closeout update. Good morning, directors. Ron alameda, director of design and construction for the tjpa, specifically phase one. Also, the acting city architect for the city and county of San Francisco. We have were at that stage of the project where theres a lot of background activity and somewhat Modest Movement but steady movement. Most of you are familiar with this pie chart as we start trying to gray out the pie chart and achieve closeout on all of the 49 subcontractors which will clear the path for us to close out with webcor on phase one. As we sit today, weve got four trade groups that have moved into the final pathway towards four and final change order closeout. We remain with 13 that are in dispute resolution. Out of the 13, i anticipate six to seven will probably take the longer path of either litigation or mediation. Were aiming for may, but i think the trend is towards june to have a closed session legal briefing for the board as we move a little bit closer to that stage of the closeout. And that leaves out of the 42, weve got 39 that are closed out. I believe that was a movement from january of 29 total, to a total of 32. So as i said, lots of activity in fact background in the background, modest but positive movement achieved in that. As we look at the construction contingency, we look at the actions that were taken on closeout, probably the most thing to note of it since the last report, weve got 2. 3 million drawdown on construction contingency, and weve actually had a replenishment of 2. 4. Although weve been very successful with the d. R. A. , the resident path issue, which was originally earmarked as a cmgc contingency, the d. R. A. Recommendations are a result move that responsibility to construction contingency, so thats what youre seeing there on that slide. In summary, weve got a remaining balance of construction contingency of 1. 6 million. Getting a little thin, and probably an indicator of some movement of some reserve in the future, but thats to be shook out. Cmgc contingency sits at 5. 9, with an Overall Program reserve of 31. 8, totaling an availability of 39. 3 million to work with as we navigate through the remainder of the closeout activities, we takes us to the budget slide. Again, the total Phase One Program of 2. 21594 million stays steady. A little bit of movement internal, with an estimated at completion of construction sitting at 1. 454 1. 45482 billi or million and for phase one, a total of 2. 174 billion, and below that line is reflective of the unanticipated drawdowns on the overall phase one improvement, and that would be the tenant improvement and the 301 mission. So that was, in total, about 62. 6 million drawdown on the overall budget. But again, were Holding Steady to stay within our the confines of our overall budget despite all the ups and downs with t. I. Legal, cracked beams, and the such, so were bringing this thing home. And that concludes my summary right now. Thank you, mr. Alameda. Questions from the board . Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk all right. Go ahead and move into your next item . Next. Item 13 is the Citizens Advisory Committee, and i did see derek holt, the tjpacac chair. Good morning, directors. Good morning. Im derek holt, and this past evening, we the c. A. C. Appreciated the updates from the tjpa staff, including christine, erin rosema, direct director zabaneh, and others. Several members have reached their term limits, and well miss their comments, their plans, and their analysis. Several applications have been placed for strong candidates. Our c. A. C. Utilized the Transit Center resources as well as the rooftop park, and we have stronger appreciation for the covid19 Safety Measures that have been put in place and the use of the website and other means of communication. We really appreciated the comments, and were excited by the Transit Center tenants that are opening in the next few months as well as later on this year. We do recognize that the temporary closures delayed some of the momentum that was building last summer, and we still believe that contributing guilty parties should still be held accountable. Our thanks to the High Speed Rail Team that presented to us thursday evening. Their 2020 high speed rail Business Plan looks strong, and they particularly focused on northern california, the central valley, san jose, San Francisco, and the role of the d. T. X. Ii project. I can tell you i cant wait for the option of taking a 45minute commuter train to fresno instead of the threehour drive that i had to make this last month. I think that the d. T. X. Will help with that from what i understand. Weve been helping you out. Thank you, thank you. I didnt hear the date. Noteworthy was the finance presentation focused on the 2020 tax allocation bonds by the tjpa chief financial officer. It was detailed, focused, and very clear that these strategic steps will save significant money, especially freeing up 35 million that can be used for the d. T. X. Project. It sounds like a very wise move to take advantage of declining federal treasury rates over the last six months or so. There was strong analytical discussion of the use of the money that could be saved. The csca took a vote, and it was unanimous. The c. A. C. Has gone on record to, one, request that the Financial Strategy be employed, and if second, if there were 35 million freed up, that could be dedicated to the phase two project. The c. A. C. Recognizes that the d. T. X. Plays a role in the San Francisco safety project that was presented at our meeting this past january. The c. A. C. Recognizes that the d. T. X. Has been voted on and approved on by regional voters, we recognize that the d. T. X. Is a significant piece of the Transit Center and the overall expansion of region. We, the c. A. C. Strongly encourage the tjpa to support the proposed d. T. X. Project. There was rigorous discussion by the 15 members of the c. A. C. Tuesday evening, and we acknowledge that the introduction of additional regional players could lead to preventing or resolving conflicts, keep the tjpa involved in daytoday politics, and theres recognition of the tjpa as a megatransportation in the region and the state, california, so we, the c. A. C. Are requesting the board to support the funding and strategy actions and do what you can to raise the influence of more regional influencers to champion the d. T. X. Project. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions from the board . And mr. Holt, please extend our thanks to the members that are opting out because of their service. Clerk okay. Next item. This is the time for Public Comment. I this is the time to address members of the public i see mr. Patrick. Id like to address the members of the board. This came out of the Transportation Authority of San Francisco and has effectively delayed this project two years. Out of this delay, weve studied the project, and weve said were going to put a new Management Structure between this board and the operations. That matters been structured who we composed of substantially the same people who sit on this board, or maybe one level down. This is a quid pro quo. The quid is we have to change the Management Structure. The quo is well then give you the money. I dont know about you, but i find that objectionable. Weve essentially delayed the project two years. Now as i look at this next thing, what will flow out of that, in my opinion, is a tremendous amount of money for transportation improvements as we need to gin up the economy and get it going again. We will be sitting with our shoe in our back pocket, not ready. I think this whole thing has been terrible, and its a boondoggle. Thank you. Clerk okay. That concludes members of the public that wanted to address you on that item. Move onto the consent calendar . Yes [agenda item read]. Clerk at this time, weve not received any notification that anybody wishes to have any items severed. Your items are 15. 1, approving the minutes of the february 3, 2020 meeting, 15. 2, approving the meeting of the february 20, 2020 meeting, item 15. 3, 15. 4, and 15. 5. Thank you, miss gonzales. Any questions or comments . Ill move approval. Is there a second . Second. All right. Theres a motion and a second. Clerk great. With a moved and a second [roll call] clerk thats seven ayes, and the consent calendar is approved. Thank you. Please continue. Clerk all right. We are ready to move into your regular scecalendar, and with concurrence of the board, well go ahead and all items 16, 17, and 18. Item 16, approving the issuance of not to exceed 315 million, and finance additional costs associated with the construction and design of the transbay terminal project. Item 17 is approving changes to item 17, Debt Management policy, and item 18 is amendment 1 and amendment 2 to the 2020 operating budget. Directors, this will be presented by our chief financial officer, erin roseman. Im not trying to influence your vote, but id like to thank her for her work on this program. So were here presenting to you the 2020 tjpa bond sale. This will be our inaugural bond sale, the tax allocation bonds. We have three main goals in doing this bond sale, and this is to refinance our tifia loan, to refinance any balance, and to execute our loans. We expected a loan in 2010 at an Interest Rate of 5. 7. It currently has an Outstanding Balance of 179 million with a final maturity in february 2051. We anticipate in this market that we would be able to refinance the full amount, the 179 million, still secured by net tax increment. Our good faith estimate as of february 20 had a has a saving or an Interest Rate of approximately 3. 5 . The market is continually moving in the last few days, its been rather volatile, but still moving in a direction favorable for us. We would anticipate level annual savings and a net present value savings of at least 10 or about 20 million based on that good faith estimate. This slide is actually stale now that weve gotten to this point. You have to get all your documents together, but as of march 6, the 30year m. M. D. Was 1. 52. It is dependent on the day of this week. It has gone down and up, and down and up, and today, its essentially been suspended, but the rates are still lower than our good faith estimate and kind of moving in our favor. Were hoping to be able to capitalize on this good market by the time we get to a june closing. The city financing is another debt that wed like to refinance. Out of the risk analysis the m. T. C. Did in 2015, we were able to increase our Program Reserves by 260 million for contingency. Part of this 260 million was city financing. There was 100 million from bota, and then, 160 million from the city and county of San Francisco. Weve only drawn 103 million out of the citys portion of this contingency. That 103 million had been secured by net tax increment, and it was on parity with our tifia loan. The Interest Rate on city financing is a variable rate interest. As a requirement of our tifia loan, since weve added the city financing, we had to get Interest Rate caps to the hedge the variation in the Interest Rate. We had taken on three different Interest Rate caps over the lifetime of this. The Interest Rates did what they were supposed to and kept our payments within reason. The city financing expires in 2020, so we had drawn 103, and weve repaid some to our Outstanding Balance, but theres no ability to draw anymore on this facility. We anticipate the city financing to be refinanced, one, through the citys own efforts to issue c. F. D. Bonds, or Community Facility district, at a fixed rate. We would expect their bond sale to proceed around the may time frame, and our bond sale to close around june. If there was any amount that the city wasnt able to capture in their financing, then our tax allocation bonds would take up the difference. Our third goal in this financing is to generate new money proceeds. Wed anticipate 115 million new money proceeds that would go towards tenant reserves, replacements, and then any other reserves, fully fund a debt reserve and the cost of issuance which would be final to the buyers, trustees, etc. The capital replacement reserve is an account that was required by tifia, and with the refinancing of tifia, we would like to continue with that practice and formalize it into our practices of tjpa and not just the requirement of a loan. So were attempting to fully or not fully fund, but fund a portion of capital replacement that we identified with tifia. There was a schedule that we provided to the tifia loan that programs are informed how much we should have over the life of the facility, and so we feel like 29 million is a good starting point. We should fund it to or weve committed to funding it to 193 million with the tifia loan, so 103 million is a starting point. 29 million is a starting point. If the rate will allow, wed like to go up to 40 million if the fund is available. So the total source for the bond sale, we anticipate generating 318 million from the proceeds of our bond sale, and another 176 million from the citys bond sail, for a total of 394 million, as a repayment to tifia, funding the phase one Program Reserve, funding the program cost of issuance, and slowly funding the debt service reserve. The structure of the bonds would be we in our documents, were asking permission to issue a par amount of not to exceed 315 million. We would expect the bonds to be primarily tax exempt. The only bonds that wouldnt be taxable would be the capital replacement reserve. All the bonds would be reserved with net tax increment. A term of 30 years, we would expect the bonds to be all fixed rate. Weve gotten indications that we would be green bond certified by the climate bonds initiative. Our building is silver lead certified, or were in the process of being silver lead certified, so it was an easy process in that record. The net revenues would be held by a trustee, and payments would be made by a trustee. Our good faith estimate assumes we would be able to achieve 3. 86 with the market refinancing, and if the downfall continues, that could belower. In order to achieve this, weve done our fee to secure underwriting syndicate. We went through an extensive to come to the selection of steve full and dean witter stanley. We felt like as theyre leaders in their industry, they would be best positioned to help us. Additionally, weve chosen morgan stanley. They have a great Distribution Network that can help distribute our bond. The finance calendar has this coming to you for your consideration, and then, wed move to the city and county of San Franciscos board of supervisors so that they could consider finding a resolution of significant public ben any time in this term of refinancing would be a net present value savings that provides a benefit to the public. So reducing the amount of debt, generating the 10 net present value, should be considered a significant value in regards of public financing. In addition, in april, we would finalize the Credit Ratings in discussions with our insurers and do the offering of documents in may and have a bond closing in june. Since the city is doing their bond sale in conjunction with us, there is a bit of a pause between april and may to have their bond sales matriculate from theirs to ours, so we know the exact amount that we need to finance of our bonds. In order to if we were successful with this bond sale, and in order to affect all the new proceeds and all the different changes, there would be a budgetary impact with all these this financing. The budgetary impact would require an amendment to the operations budget, an amendment to the Capital Budget, establishing and increasing a separate Debt Service Budget, establishing a tenant improvement budget. We would bring money in to phase one and take an equal amount of phase one so theres a netzero to the Phase One Program budget. It would also generate additional funds for or Funding Availability for phase two in the amount of 35 million, so it would be a shift of funds that now have an available use for phase two. We would create the capital replacement reserve and fund that. The next few slides are tables of just the changes, so theres more lines to the operations budget, the Capital Budget. But for brevity of the presentation, im only showing the lines that have differences. The totals on the columns agree to the amounts that were approved before in the original adoption or amendments, but were just showing the modifications. So the operating budget would decrease by 11 million, going from 37 million to essentially 26 million. The biggest difference would be taking out the debt service as a line out of the operational budget and then creating its own separate budget. And then, theres a series of revenue and expense adjustments downward by 5 million to recognize a delay in construction and a delay in revenue in the operational budget due to the overly optimistic occupation of the Transit Center. Theres an adjustment due to the reduction of residents. This shows or explains how the rearrangements happen. Theres proceeds brought into phase one for tenant improvement, and then, the tenant improvement expense moved over to its own tenant improvement budget. Theres money brought into the fiscal reserve thats created to to go into phase two, and then, additional bond proceeds brought in to support the tenant improvement Capital Budget with a contingency of the tenant improvements going into fiscal reserve. So a lot to follow, but im willing to help anyone understand what all were doing. In the Debt Service Budget, we initially contemplated just Interest Payments to tifia and city financing, and now as were doing these refinancing, this is a request expenditure approve to make the payment, so were adjusting the Debt Service Budget by bringing in the proceeds and expanding in t bringing in this in to expand the budget out. The next budget movement is the expression of the tenant improvement, so taking tenant improvement out of the budget and phase one, bringing in the bond proceeds, showing that the 35. 5 million that we had always anticipated is still the expense. Were also transferring a small amount of salary and benefits and marketing and leasing commissions and then putting 15 million into fiscal reserve for contingency Second Generation tenant improvements. Finally, this is a summary of all the movements to show the reserves, and so our total capital reserves would be 141 million im sorry. Skipped over one, the capital replacement reserve. Adding 21 million for capital replacement reserve for a total of 141 million. On the operational side, were requesting the operational reserve. Were asking for temporary use of the o. N. M. Reserve until were able to achieve the reimbursements from m. T. C. In order to all these budgetary movements, theres a couple of policy additions or changes as we have wanted to fund the c capital replacement reserve, its not listed in the policy, so were asking to modify the reserve policy to modify the capital reserve and fund it between 29 and 40 million and also add funding into the fiscal reserve through the budgetary movement. And ill take any questions if you have them. Thank you for your patience in walking us through that. Director forbes . Yes. The t. I. Budget, would those improvements come back to the board for review and authorization for actual projects of tenant improvements or is there further review . So with each of the leases that weve executed, there is a negotiation for each tenant on how much the tjpa is contributing to the tenant improvement for that specific space. So with the approval of all the leases, theres been this approve of the amount for all the tenant improvements. I see, so its cash were not performing the tenant improvement. Its an allocation to the tenant . So a portion of it is allocation to the tenant, and then, theres a base building modification to the tenants work, so it might be the floor, some of the utility relocation or bringing the utilities into the space. Director sesay or yeah, go ahead. Oh, similarly thank you, vice chair gee. Subsequently, there would be a budget action or any other actions to apply these funds, is that right . This is a tax allocation proposal, but whatever use would be reflected in the Agency Budgets or project budgets of the board. This is not a project afpprova, this is a tax allocation, that is correct . Theres three separate actions. One is the approval of the sale of the bonds, so yes, we could proceed with the bond sale. Then, theres the budgetary action. Oh, theres a budgetary action . Yes, theres an amendment to the Capital Budget creating and establishing a separate debt budget and establishing a tenant improvement budget. Those are the budgetary actions. Right. And its not necessarily a projectlevel budget. Im understanding it to be an agency action, correct . Correct. Oh, thank you. The Program Budget does not change, so the face one project of 2. 221 billion does not change. Theres money that goes in, money that goes out, but the thank you. Thank you. Director sesay . So i want to comment, the capital reserve, theres a footnote that you noted in your presentation that goes up to 40 million. So have we reflected that cushion in the authorized not to exceed amount . cause i know that youve made assumptions, so were assuming the tax allocation bonds does not payoff the city financing, but it funds these three different buckets, including repayment of t. C. F. And if the city does not generate enough funds im trying to think how that balances out . Do we have enough in terms of authority, nottoexceed amount for you not to continue on . Should there be an allocation be made to the result of the citys finance. Yes. Theres an amount that were asking for that could cover that difference. That cushion also includes a market contingency. If it moves outside of our good faith estimate, we would make sure that if the market moved so significantly that it wasnt advantageous for us to do this, wed come back before we closing. The city board approval process is so lengthy, you have to get it right the first time. In terms of the reserves that youve identified here, my understanding is are they, like, on board reserve so in the event that we want to withdraw from those, it couwou come back to the board to approve . For example, the capital reserve yes yes. So im just wondering whats not needed for phase one that goes into a Program Reserve, where does it get applied and what authority does the tjpa have over those dollars. For the Phase One Program budget, any withdrawals from the Program Reserve any withdrawal above 1 million requires board action. For the fiscal reserve, any withdrawal, regardless of the amount, requires board action. Contributions to the fiscal reserve in excess of 15 require board action. For a capital replacement reserve, the revisions that weve identified allow for the e. D. Or the c. F. O. To make moves in line with the Capital Asset replacement plan. And so the 193 million that we identified as tied to the life cycle replacement of the component of the building. Our guidance would be if its time for the kiosk to be replaced, and whatever that replacement amount is, that would be the recommendation, but then, we would also include it into the annual budgeting process so that theres always board approval for that. It wouldnt just be a unilateral sort of move. And then in terms of the disclosures that were identified here earlier, what most specifically, were talking about the capital replacement reserves that could potentially be on hand for longer than your typical spend down rule. So does that mean that would be a taxable leg so that youd have flexibility to bank that for longer than the threeyear spend down rule . Yes. Everything that would be identified for the capital replacement reserve would be taxable so were not subject to the i. R. S. Spend down rule. It looks like most of it will be respent, Program Reserves and so on. And then, in terms of the action that were taking today, the bond document identified, can you give an idea of what those are, just because thisll be the first time the board will be issuing the issuance of a bond and there are some Disclosure Requirements expected that we should be aware of. You called all the items together, and one of the items is the debt policy revision. So because we hadnt had a public sale before, our debt policy didnt necessarily address public bond sales, so weve gone through and added the things that are necessary for a public sale. So the first sort of action should be approving the debt policy so that it informs the bond documents or the sail of the bonds. In terms of the bond documents that you have that are included in the packet, theres the resolution going through the specific items, so not to exceed 315 million with a good faith estimate attached, so what we could expect by terms of Interest Rate and what were agreeing the terms that were agreeing to for this 315 not to exceed 315 million par. Then, theres a preliminary official statement thats attached, so that would be your offering document to your investors, but since we havent gotten fully through the structuring phase, there arent fill ins in the full amounts, but there are some good faith efforts of what those would be, and they wouldnt exceed 315 million. But you would refer to the actual statements, which is our investor documents. Additionally attached to it is the bond indenture, the disclosure certificate, and the continuing disclosure certificate. Continuing disclosure are the rules that we, tjpa, have to disclose to the investor community. Our financials, if theres any sort of material events in term of our credit changes, increases, decreases, so were committing to disclose to any investor our changes in our financial situation. The purchase contract is a contract between the initial underwriter and tjpa about the terms of the bond sale. And then, the bond indenture is kind of the full out terms of the description of the bonds and how the bonds will act. They wont be completed until we get through the rating agency, insurer conversations, and before we go to pricing, all the documents would become final and disclosed publicly. Thank you. Thats so helpful. And im going to go back to the numbers. So what were approving today in terms of the sources and uses, the 50 billion for t. I. 6, thats whats going to go back in the bucket. The Program Reserve of 35. 5 is the number. Yes. The 29 million is what we will adjustment. That is correct. And if theres moneys to be refunded to the city financing, that would be a separate line item . Yeah. Just im just making sure that what were finalized except for the nuance on the capital reserve and the city financing refunding. Correct. Okay. Thank you. I do want to also acknowledge my communications and actions on this is simply as a board member. As you know, im ocii, office of Community Investment and infrastructure. Im not obligating or committing the agency at this point because there are references to our role in the transaction, more specifically as how increment is facilitatds to the controller. Im just wearing my tjpa hat as an ombudsman. We will have comments on the o. S. And the preliminary shifting. Thank you. Director hursh. Thank you. With that, im happy to move items 16, 17, and 18. Thank you, director hursh. Theres a motion to approve. Is there a second . Second. Motion and second. Clerk great. With a motion first and a second on items 16, 17, and 18 [roll call] clerk thats seven ayes, and items 16, 17, and 18 are approved. Thank you. Congratulations on all the hard work. Now we want to know your ratings. Clerk go ahead and call your next item . Please. Clerk item 19 is approving the applicants to the tjpa Citizens Advisory Committee. Kristina falvo is going to present the item. We dont need a presentation. Do you need a presentation . I dont need a presentation. Ill move. Ill second. Its been moved and seconded to item 19. Clerk no members of the public wishing to comment on that. On item 19 [roll call] clerk thats seven ayes, and item 19 is approved. Chair hull, please pass along our congratulations to the new c. A. C. Members. Clerk all right. Go ahead and all your next item . Yes, please. Clerk item 20 is the election of chair and vice chair pursuant to the tjpa joint power agreement. Looking for a nomination. Looking for discussion pursuant to the nomination of the chair of this board. I would like to make a recommendation. I would like to nominate director sesay to be chair. As many of you know, director sesay has a long history of building the center and the downtown rail extension, and shes also one of the lead architects of the entire Financial Strategy for developing the transbay district which was a central element of the funding strategy for getting built what we have now, and laying the groundwork for the downtown rail extension. She is one of San Franciscos great leaders in Creative Capital financial tied to economic development, and her leadership is not only here but at the california level. She serves on the california debt and advisory commission. I cant think of a better person to lead this project forward than director sesay. I second that motion. Any other nominations . Seeing none, by acclimation, all of those in favor say aye. Ill pass this over to you. So i guess ill open this up for vice chair. Im also happy to nominate, particularly the role that san mateo and caltrain have played in ensuring that the Transbay Center is indeed a regional effort, its in San Francisco, but as weve seen from the way the Citizens Advisory Committee has formed, this project is completely dependent upon the cannoted leader upon the continued leadership of our commission with jeff gee, who has shown strong leadership in this project and for projects throughout the region. May i second that, as well. Okay. All in favor . [inaudible] i look forward to working with you. Thank you. And board in this new capacity as chair. Thank you. Wed shake your hands no. Clerk all right. So director, just to clarify, we have chair sesay taking on and director gee continuing on as vice chair. That does conclude your agenda for today. Okay. We are adjourned. Clerk thank you. Mayor breed thank you. Welcome to chinatown. Thank you, supervisor peskin to allowing us to come and hang out with you today. I am San Francisco mayor london breed here with many members of the board of supervisors, state officials, sf travel, wow, a lot of people here. We all know that one of the Biggest Challenges that we are facing not just here in San Francisco but in this country and throughout the world is the threat of the coronavirus and how it has not only impacted people and Public Health but how it has, unfortunately, impacted our economy. When we first heard of this virus in january we launched the Emergency Operations center. What we noticed during that time and supervisor peskin can attest to this. We didnt get support and people visiting our community in chinatown and other places and as we can see as this develops, this virus is not discriminating based on race. This is impacting people all over the world and has impacted a number of people right here in San Francisco. As of today we are up to 14 cases. I am really proud of the work that has been done with the department of Public Health to be proactive and making sure that we are prepared and making sure that we keep people healthy and safe and looking at the vulnerable communities, seniors and people with illnesses answer challenges and providing resources and support and being aware we have a vulnerable Homeless Population and making sure we have places for people to be quanteened and in case there is a situation that we as the city we are prepared to handle it. I want to be clear we cant live in fear. We have to make sure we are doing everything to keep ourselves, our families, our communities safe but we also have to make sure that we are addressing some of the other challenges that have happened as a result of this issue. That brings us to the economy. We are definitely going to feel impact. We are in china town because we know the businesses in this community have probably felt the impact, the Economic Impact more than any other community in San Francisco. We have been working together, my office and the state and, as i said, a number of the board of supervisors, we have worked together to come up with a number of immediate things to do now. We will be coming back with other things that we can definitely do in the future. We want to provide immediate relief to our Small Businesses. I wanted to make an announcement today about some of those things that we plan to do. Working with our treasurer and other city departments, we have been able to identify a number of ways that the city can provide immediate assistance to Small Business. To begin with, we are allowing Small Businesses to defer the next round of Quarterly Business taxes to next year in february of 2021. I know that is going to provide significant relief for Small Businesses. We will also be delaying a collection of our unified license bill for at least three months. These bills include charges for restaurants, food trucks, bakeries and smal small busines. Our time is to delay those fees. We are actively looking at other ways to delay more fees for our Small Businesses as they deal with this challenge. We also understand that our communitybased organizations or nonprofits wonder what is going to happen to us and our work forces specially those who may stay home to care for a child or sick parent with no sick leave. We will work to make sure all communitybased nonprofits that receive funding from the city continue to receive that funding. We want to make sure that you know that in todays Emergency Declaration that i signed it was a revision to make sure we are able to support our Small Businesses through this situation. We are also establishing a fund to provide immediate relief with 1 million in the fund to provide at least 10,000 grants for Small Businesses and our goal is to, of course, assess the need and provide the support immediately and look at increasing that support as time continues as we are able to determine whether or not more businesses would need that as assistance. Those are just a few things that we are doing here locally to immediately support Small Business community and we know that even though this is a small step forward that there will be more work we need to do to support the Business Community. As you can see with many of the leaders here today we are committed to doing just that. I also want to talk a little bit about our efforts with our state officials, our partners to find relief around employment benefits. In fact, this past monday i was in sacramento meeting with a number of other mayors and the Governor Newsom and state senator scott weiner to talk about expansion of unemployment and disability benefits in a way that will help support people during this issue. We are also working with the private sector in looking to partner with our Financial Partners and identify resources line of credit loans and things for Small Businesses as well and businesses in general. We are asking private sector employers to step up and be as flexible as possible with their employees. Helping the employees take time off if they are sick. In the city and county of San Francisco with all City Employees because we are encouraging people to stay home. If you are sick without enough sick leave we will allow you to advance that sick time. You dont have to wait until you accrue the sick time, we will basically allow you to take the sick time, get paid for the sick time off and you can pay it back after you work for the time you work later on. We in the city are leading by example by making sure if someone is sick and they need time off for whatever reason they are able to do and not worry if they have an income. The office of economic and Resource Development are working over time to develop Innovative Strategies to help the Business Community, employees and employers. There is more to come. This is the first in what will be a number of announcements as they come. At the end of the day we want to make sure that what we promise we will do to support the Business Community and employees and residents of San Francisco, we want to make sure we can deliver on that promise. We know that these are just a few things we can immediately deliver on. That is why we wanted to announce them here today. For resources, you can check the website oewd slave covid19. If you have questions or concerns or want more information call 311. As i said, we are here to Work Together. We know that this has been a challenge for so many people. There is a lot of fear, uncertainty and folks wonder how we will get through this. We will get through this. This is not unfamiliar tear for refor territory for San Francisco. We can think back to the h. I. V. Crisis. We got through that because we have some of the best Public Health officials anyone in the world along with the h1n1 and the sars. We got through it. We got through it by coming together, making good decisions, providing the facts, using data to communicate the message and not living in fear. That is what is going to get us through this. That is how we will be stronger and more resilient. I want to thank all of the folks here today working with us and i want to start by acknowledging some of our elected leaders who are here. Our recorder is here, our treasure is here, and then we have members of the board of supervisors including our president , president norman yee is here along with your supervisor peskin and Catherine Stefani and sandraly fewer and Rafael Mandelman and hillary ronen. That is a quorum. We have been working to deal with these challenges. Along with other leaders from the San Francisco chamber, Chinese Chamber, Business Community, sf travel. We are all here because we are in this together. We are all here because we are working together to make sure that we are providing the city with the resources that it needs in order to make sure we get through this together. I want to start with state senator scott weiner to talk about the work they are doing at the state level to help us address this significant challenge. Senator weiner. [applause] thank you, madam mayor. First and foremost, i want to just say that i have complete confidence i in may or breed and the supervisors and the department of Public Health and the City Government is doing a great job here. We are very focused at the state level on the health of our community. No city or no county is in a vacuum. We are all in this together, and the governor and the leadership of th the legislature are focusd on this every single day. We are going to get through this. We will keep our community as healthy as we can be. There is a lot of pain that this process is causing and it is going to cause with people getting laid off, Small Businesses struggling and potentially shutting down, people losing hours and workers struggling to pay bills. We need to make sure we soften the blow and support the service workers, people who cannot tele commute and take time off and Small Businesses who have very, very little margin. We have a number of safety net benefits. Not everyone knows about. I encourage people to look into it to see if you can be helped. We have disability insurance. When people are sick unable to work, particularly for an extended period of time. If someone has to take care of a loved one, they can file for paid family leave. We have some of the most robust paid family leave in california among the 50 states. There is unemployment insurance. In addition for employers and businesses impacted, there is a redoesed work hours benefit where someone whose hours are cut can get partial unemployment you dont have to be completely laid off to get unemployment benefits. Businesses experiencing financial hard ship can apply for 60 day expense for payroll taxes. The state we have made sure to wave all copays to make sure people can get tested for covid19 and they are not charged for Hospital Services as a result. This is the beginning. We will see more work happening at the state level to make sure we are having that robust social safety net for individuals who are at risk for workers struggling and Small Businesses and i will close by saying we need the federal government to step in a big way. The federal government is the only level of government that can spend and go into deficit spending, which we cannot do at the state level to make sure we provide a stimulus and not a bad stimulus like what the president is proposing but a stimulus to support workers and Small Businesses. The federal government is in the best position. We are all doing everything we can at the local and state level. We need the federal government to be a Strong Partner here. Lets pull together as a community to get through it. This is the best city and most resilient city on the planet. I am optimistic what we are able to do. Thank you. Thank you. President of the board of supervisors norman yee. Thank you, mayor breed and state senator scott weiner. I am glad that the state is weighing in on this. We cant do it by ourselves and we cant do it in isolation. Mayor breed, as you named off my colleagues on the board of supervisors. There are eight of us. We have a majority so whatever you want we will give you. This is not a joke. We have two branches of government, executive and legislative. We do battle sometimes. We disagree sometimes and we agree sometimes. This is one commitment all 11 of us on the board of supervisors are agreeing to. This is not about the legislative branch or the executive branch. We have one government. We are going to Work Together. We are totally committed to this. In terms of solving this issue and also to provide some of the relief that we need to give to businesses to workers and to everybody else impacted with this virus. Now one of the things i want to mention is that the board has not had the opportunity to come together to have a discussion. My colleagues urged to have this type of discussion. Thank you supervisor ronen for spearheading the push. Next week at some point we will have a discussion in which we could be part of the solution and the mayors and Department Heads will be there to help with this discussion. Rest assured we have no division when it comes to the virus. It is going to take all of us to battle this. We will defeat it quicker than people will realize. Thank you very much. Thank you for your leadership, president yee. I would like to introduce the supervisor for this community, supervisor aaron peskin. Hello everybody. I am district three supervisor aaron keskin. Kespeskin. Well to to a community that on the business side and residential side has been impacted long before the rest of the city and county of San Francisco, and thank you, mayor breed, and to my seven colleagues for gathering here today because chinatown is indeed suffering. Let me also give you doctor colfaxs advice which is after today none of us should ever stand so close to one another as we are right now. That was bad material, sorry. To ms. Lee and her son here at 150 Waverly Place who are suffering like many businesses throughout the city and county of San Francisco, thank you for making your shop open to all of us. To all of the folks from chinatown, the chinese companies, presiding company, to the Chinese Chamber of commerce represented here today, and to this community, and i have seen it all before. I have been a member of this board during 911, i was a member of this board during sars, and i was not a member of this board during th aids crisis. We will pull through. What the president of the board said is right. We are going to tran send politics and work in the public interest, and we all understand that our number one priority is Public Health. Part of Public Health is economic health. The package that the mayor and the board are announcing today is the first step. There will be many more steps to this. This is going to continue to evolve as the situation evolves. These are extraordinary sometimes. Today the mayor and chief Health Officer took extraordinary actions. This is going to be the new normal until we reduce and then defeat the virus. Wash your hands, wash your hands, 20 seconds, wash your hands. Thank you, madam mayor, and thank you colleagues. Thank you for continuing to be leaders on this issue. I really truly appreciate it. Now, i would like to introduce the president of the San Francisco chamber of commerce rodney fong. Thank you very much. As the mayor alluded to San Francisco has seen many challenges. These walls, this alley has senmany challenges. I want to thank mayor breed for taking fast action, decisive be action to support Small Businesses and working class families in San Francisco. This is the kind of leadership we need. Our Small Businesses and employees are going through a critical time. Small Business Owners in the Tourism Industry understand ho difficult and fragile Small Business is. One bad week or month can take you over the cliff. We know this economic crisis hits the folk the hardest and that is the Small Business and families and front line staff in San Francisco. This will bring immediate relief to Small Businesses and employees suffering from major cash flow for the moment and next several weeks. This will allow Small Businesses to pay rent, continue to pay employees, so important. This is a first critical step towards creating an economic resilient city that may be on the journey but we will succeed. We are proud to work with the electives and mayor to make this a great city to make this a learning lesson for other challenges in San Francisco. We will be strong. Chinatown is very strong. Thank you very much. [applause] we have the Vice President of the Chinese Chamber of commerce. On behalf of china town and Chinese Chamber of commerce. We are so glad that the mayor and supervisor are proactive with action against this virus. To promote the businesses in the community. I hope the Community Around the chinatown and San Francisco we have to do something else. We have to do the business in our part. We come out to shopping, we come out to eat, to support the local business. We are working together, we can overcome this difficult time. Now let me use a chinese word. [speaking chinese] applause now, i would like to ask our recorder to say a few words. I would like to ask our treasure to stand beside me. The leaders today not only the mayor and board of supervisors and state representatives but jose and i have been working around the clock to figure out ways to help to support our community. A lot has been said already about the importance of all of us taking Decisive Action to make sure we are doing all we can to support local businesses. One thing to say is that this is not the last action. What you are seeing a united front to say no matter what it is we believe in terms of political preferences this transcendses all of that we will address it appropriately. When we talk about Small Businesses and the people employed by those Small Businesses, this is not something about people once removed. These are neighbors, friends, people who are in our community who are impacted. As much as we are seeing this relief package hit the local Small Businesses it is about helping neighbors and city and our communities. I applaud all of the efforts here. I know all of us before you are committed to ensuring we continue to monitor the situation, continue to take action to preserve and make sure we are healthy and we are going to continue to support our local communities, friends and neighbors. [applause] i am the San Francisco treasure. I am proud to stand with mayor breed and city leaders to deliver help to support Small Businesses, particularly businesses suffering during this time. The Treasures Office we manage the city banking, investments and tax collection. We work very hard to make sure we can do everything to support our local community and the businesses in it. I want to expand on what the mayor announced. There are two important payments that we are as a city deferring in order to provide some relief to thousands of businesses here inen the city. All of the businesses that pay business taxes, many are required to make quarterly payments during the year, and the Small Businesses that we have selected there will be 8,000 of them that will not be required to make first quarterly payment, which would have been due the end of april. They can make that payment on time and in full by the end of february of next year. A 10 month deferral on the time they can have to make that payment of their taxes. Over 13,000 Small Businesses here that pay license fees would normally have an annual payment due at the end of this month of march, a couple weeks from now. The mayor and leaders in front of you have coming together to give a three month extension on that payment for over 13,000 businesses here in the city, most Small Businesses to wait until the end of june to make that payment. We are doing everything we can to support the Small Businesses here to make sure everyone survives these difficult times. Thank you. Before we end it i want to thank sf travel and the Hotel Council as well as many of the members of the Small Business commission that are joining us here today. We will continue to Work Together to make sure that and i appreciate what supervisor peskin said. We have to protect Public Health and economic health. That is what we are committed to doing. There will be other announcements. Thank you all so much. Please make sure after this press conference you eat at a restaurant in chinatown. Thank you. [applause] chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. I am chair hillary ronen. Seated to my right is rules Committee Member Catherine Stefani, and seated to my left is Committee Member gordon mar. Id like to thank sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you. Can you please read item number 1. Clerk item 1 is a motion appointing Megan Wallace to the Treasury Committee for a term ending june 30, 2021. Chair ronen thank you. Megan, if you want to come up . Thank you. My name is Megan Wallace. I just want to share a little bit about my qualifications. First, ive been a Public Servant in the areas of budget, finance, and Public Service for approximately 15 years. In 2008, my family moved to San Francisco, and i began my service with the city and county of San Francisco in the Mayors Office of housing and community development, first under mayor gavin newsom and then under temporary mayor edwin lee before moving to the Port Committee and working with that budget. Part of my work was overseeing the Bond Committee and most recently delving into ifde and issuances. Prior to transitioning sorry. As c. F. E. Of sfusd, i now oversee the School Facilities bond program, and we are preparing to go out for a bond sale this coming spring. Additionally, i just want to share that i am a resident of San Francisco. Ive lived in the city just over ten years, first in the neighborhood of Bernal Heights and then in the neighborhood of m mira loma park. All told, im a dedicated member of our local community, and ive been a Public Servant for over 13 years. And with my experience of budget and finance, i feel im a good qualified fit for this role. So thank you. Happy to answer any questions. Chair ronen thank you. Is there any questions . Thank you so much. Were so glad youre willing to serve in that capacity, as well. Thank you for that. Now lets bring this item up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public that wishes to speak, please come forward. No . Seeing none, eric meinke isnt here . Page shaw, eric meinke is working at this time. If you have any questions for the treasurer and tax collector, im happy to answer them. Chair ronen i just had notes that he was coming. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Would you like to do the honors . Supervisor stefani yes. Im very pleased to support Megan Wallace for this position. Weve worked together in many different capacities, and im glad to see you nominated to this board. Id like to move to approve the appointment of Megan Wallace to the Treasury Committee and move this forward with a positive recommendation. Chair ronen and we can take this item without objection. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please item 2. Item 2 is appointing one person, term ending june 30, 2022, to the aging and adult advisory counsel. Chair ronen and is janet petty here . Thank you. Im honored to be here to be considered to be on the aging and adult advisory committee. I earned my doctorate degree in organizational learning at the university of San Francisco where ive been a professor for 20 years. Human services have been the cornerstone of much of my work. Ive worked with organizations like glide, city college of San Francisco, united way the bay area, and the red cross, where ive been tasked with providing services to the adult and aging population. [inaudible] and many of them, as you know, are seniors. I interacted with many, and i manage a team of 12 who raised the money to support the programs, and it was at that point that i became seriously committed to working with seniors in San Francisco. My i was the foreperson of the San Francisco civil grand jury in 2015, and it was during that time that year that i learned about advocate programs for independent aging populations in the city, and i now look forward to reengaging in these efforts to ensure Quality Services and attention to our growing aging population. We all know that we currently face a Public Health crisis challenge due to the spread of covid19. Its been noted that the elderly are at particular risk, heightened by the growing number of cases in california, attributed to community spread, and if a member of the commission on aging advisory council, i will support the work of the commission to provide services to the aging population of San Francisco through this crisis and beyond. So thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve. Chair ronen thank you for your willingness to serve. Any questions . No . No. Thank you so much. Thank you. Chair ronen any member of the public wish to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Supervisor mar yeah, id be happy to. I recommend that we make a motion to accept janet petty nominated to the aging and advisory council. Chair ronen thank you. We can take that without objection. Thank you so much. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item three. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you. Hi. I am ian fregosi, legislative aide to supervisor fewer, which she apologizes she cannot be here today. The purpose of the Reentry Council is to coordinate local efforts to support adults exiting San Francisco county jail, San Francisco juvenile Justice System out of home placements, the California Department of corrections and rehabilitation facilities, and the United States federal bureau of prison facilities. So currently excuse me. So there are Seven Members of the Reentry Council who are formerly incarcerated persons, but none of them are allowed to serve as an officer of the council who can chair the meetings. Currently, all of the officers who are responsible for chairing the reentry meetings are criminal justice Department Heads and members of the Mayors Office. So this would allow one of the formerly incarcerated members to chair the meeting. Jose bernal, a formerly incarcerated member, and the other six members, proposed that one of the members be allowed to chair the meetings, and it was supported by the other members. The council decided since they were seeking an amendment to the officer clause, that they should also focus on cleaning up the other language in the ordinance. This is in line with supervisor fewers resolution to adopt personfirst language, which was adopted unanimously by the board of supervisors this year. So if its okay with you, chair ronen, im going to turn it over to joffrey, who can speak a little more about this ordinance and can answer your questions. So thank you for your time, and we hope to have your support. Chair ronen thank you so much. Hello, supervisors. I also wanted to give you one more clause that was added is, like, a conflict of interest clause. So one of the beautiful things is that our seven formerly incarcerated individuals got a job with a Law Enforcement agency, and so it appears to be, like, two votes because she now works for a Law Enforcement agency, and one of those clauses is if you are hired by any of the city departments that sit on the board, within 90 days, were the according to the update, were asking you to resign. But that 90 days gives the person a chance to resign. We dont want to discourage people from taking city employment while theyre on the council. Ian did not speak to that, but i wanted to know that. Because she works for adult probation, and it look like adult probation may have two votes. Shes a very hard advocate. She doesnt care who she works for, but we dont want a conflict of interest. While we opening it up, we might as well clean it up. So that is the reason for that. So if you have any other questions . Supervisor stefani i just have one quick one. In terms of the conflict of interest, can you just expand on that a little bit more . Like, what would be the conflict of interest if someone was taking their experience being formerly incarcerated and now working for the city in any capacity . I understand that its adult probation, but i just dont understand where the conflict is . Like, where is the division that would arise . So you can work for the city, just not one of the departments that sits on the council, so if one is a member who came if she got a job at the library, it wouldnt be a conflict. But when they vote, our vote, especially when in april, when we look at criminal Justice Reform bills, it could look like adult probation, they could vote in line with Law Enforcement. Members were questioning that. Supervisor stefani okay. So like any board, the port, the p. U. C. Is not on our board. Its 13 boards, like criminal justice, department of health, all that stuff. People want it to be nonbiased. Supervisor stefani okay. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I think this makes a lot of sense and would love to be added as a cosponsor, and with that, i will make a motion to send this item forward with a positive recommendation, and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. [gavel]. Chair ronen thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item 4. Clerk item 4 is an ordinance amending the police code to make an existing exemption to the paid parental leave ordinance to employers with fully paid family leave policies consistent with recent changes to state law. Chair ronen thank you so much. Supervisor stefani, do you want to make any opening remarks . Supervisor stefani yes, thank you. Colleagues, before you is a small technical change to our citys paid family leave program. In 2016, San Francisco became the first city in the country to ensure that employees receive 100 of their salary when they took paid parental leave. So San Franciscos Program Works like this. Under california law, in 2016, workers could take up to six weeks of partial paid parental leave. In San Francisco, employers are then required to pay the difference of these employees salaries so they are making 100 of their salary up to a certain limit. And last year, i think we all know that Governor Newsom extended the partial paid leave by two weeks to extend to eight weeks of partial paid program. Our citys current policy has an exemption for employers that provide more generous leave than required by city law. If an employer zoo giving fully paid leave to an employee for a number of weeks equal to or more than what is required by San Franciscos current law, they are exempted from the law because they are doing more than we require. When the time was extended from six weeks to eight weeks, a loophole was offered. The change in front of you would strike the word six weeks and replace with as required by the city and the state of california. This item was heard by the Small Business commission on january 27. The Commission Voted unanimously to recommend that the board of supervisors approve the legislation, and as a mother and, i know, supervisor ronen feels this way, too, this is a very important issue. I had the benefit of strong paid leave laws when i had my daughter, and it made all the difference. All of our workers deserve this leave, when it is particularly hard for lowincome paid workers to get by. I ask you to close this loophole and make sure that all San Francisco workers have full leave. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. Any questions . Did you want to make any statements mr. Mulligan . Okay. Thank you. That was very clear and thorough. Thank you so much. I really want to thank you for this legislation. I it it feels, as a new mother, almost impossible to take your child to child care before theyre a couple months old, so even that is too short of a time, so i appreciate the governor expanding that period of time, and this legislation makes all the sense in the world to me, and id like to cosponsor it, as well. And do you want to do the honors . Sure. Chair ronen and thank you for cosponsoring. Supervisor stefani id like to move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. Chair ronen and that item passes unanimously. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, are there any other items on the agenda . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. Chair ronen thank you very much. The meeting is adjourned. Good afternoon, and thank you everyone for joining us here today. I am london breed. I am the mayor of San Francisco. I am joined by the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee along with other members of the board of supervisors. The director of the department of Public Health, our police chief, bill scott, and the department of Emergency Management director mary ellen care ron. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. As you know. The city has been working to prepare for what we know would be a significant Public Health challenge here in the city, and we are seeing it play it out all over the bay area and all over the world. As the city prepared its response, we explained to the public we would be year every step of the way what the challenges are and the steps we need to take to protect Public Health. Some of the challenges we have, of course, faced from an economic standpoint as well. Every step of the way i want be to thank not only members of puckly for your understanding. I want to take this opportunity to thank so many Public Health staff as well as the Public Safety people who rose to the occasion to help us through what we know is an evolvingation and a challenging one. I want to say that San Francisco has, as we know, experienced challenges in the past. Because of those challenges, we have become more of a resilient city. That is why we took the step before any other cities to declare a state of emergency so that when this happened in our city we were prepared. We are prepared. But we also know that there are some very, very significant things that need to be done, some significant steps. Even more so than what was announced by the governor to ensure Public Safety. Today we are announcing those steps and what we need to do, and part of what we are also seeing definitely a change in behavior, a change in what people do in our every day lives, many are calling this is new normal. It is term por temporarily to pt Public Health. We appreciate your cooperation and those folks on the front line to combat what is continuing to be an evolvation. The new Public Health order that we are announcing will require those in San Francisco to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. These measures will be disruptive to daytoday life, but there is no need to panic. Essential government services, like our police, fire, transit and sanitation will continue. Your garbage will be picked up. Police officers will be out there on the front line. Fire and safety firms and others. Also Grocery Stores and pharmacies and banks and gas stations will remain open. Restaurants will be open for theout only. Nonessential stores like bars and gyms will close effective midnight tonight. My fellow San Francisco, we ask you to remain at home for all but the most essential outings for your safety and the safety of those around you. Doctor colfax will provide more details, but i want to also be clear, this is not a time to panic. We are not closing Grocery Stores. When you need to go pick up prescriptions, please practice social distancing. Maintain at least 6 feet of distance from others. Continue washings your hands and cleaning high touched surfaces. We know that this will have an even larger impact on what we have already put into place, and we will continue in this city to do everything that we can at the local level to support those who will continue to be impacted. I also want to express that this directive is coming from our county health experts. This is not just happening in San Francisco county. It is happening as we speak in Alameda County and in Santa Clara County and marin county. The bay area is coming together, understanding the significance of the impacts of the coronavirus for the purposes of making sure we keep people safe because we know in San Francisco we cant do it alone. We have to Work Together, and our Public Health experts are some of the best in the world. Our advising us to take these additional steps to ensure Public Health. We will continue as we have done in addition to protecting Public Health, taking into consideration the impact of decisions on our economy. We will do everything we can to protect residents and workers and businesses through challenging times. This morning we announced the 10 million paid sick leave package for workers impacted by the coronavirus who are not City Employees. We provide advanced paid city sick leave for City Employees as well. We are deferring business taxes and licensing fees, launching a relief fund for impacts businesses. Supporting nonprofits so workers dont lose their income. Working with partners and advocating for state and federal funds. Moratorium on residential evictions. We know that there will be more that we need to do, and we all clearly along with many of the Department Heads with me, a number of city leaders, elected officials are coming together to put forth the kinds of initiatives to help us get through this very difficult time. I want to encourage employers and employees who are impacted to visit www. Oewd. Org covid19 for more information and available support. If you have any questions or concerns and need access to information, you can also call 311. Again, let me reiterate that the time now is not to panic. It is for us to come together. It is for us to follow the directives. It is for us to do everything we can in our respective capacities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus so that we can get over this very challenging time. Ultimately we will, so we are talking about a what is considered long time but a short term inconvenience for the possibility of having a more Significant Impact as it relates to the Public Health system. We are grateful for your support and ask your cooperation. This will go into effect through april 7th and could be amended to either be short error longer depending on the advice from Public Health experts. At this time to provide more details around what this means and how we will be impacted county wide in San Francisco as well as the entire region throughout the bay area, i want to introduce doctor grant colfax. Thank you, mayor. Good afternoon. I am doctor grant colfax, director of health for the city and county. As the coronavirus continues to change rapidly in the city and region, i want to make sure all those in San Francisco understand we are entering a new phasein our response. Our response has always been grounded in data, science and facts. That continues to be the case today. As we look at the patterns in our country, state and region, we are seeing rapidly escalating cases and serious illnesses due to coronavirus. This requires an escalating response. The evidence tells us that now is the time to implement this step. Today we are ordering that everyone in San Francisco who can remain at home until april 7th. This is a critical intervention that we know can reduce harm and save lives. The coronavirus is spreading in our community, and we need to slow it down. Over the weekend, the Health Officers from six counties conferred and agreed this step is needed immediately. Based on what we can predict, now is the time to do everything we can to prevent the situation from getting much worse in a matter of days or weeks. Every hour counts. With everyone cooperating with these orders, both locally and regionally, we will be able to adjust to the new rules over the next few weeks. We know that there will be a lot of questions and concerns at the beginning of this. We are committed to providing the most clear uptodate information you and everyone needs. We will have frequently asked questions on the sfgovtv and department of Public Health web site, bus shelters and radio ads and update the public through the media. And, please, do not rush to urgent care or Emergency Rooms for covid19 testing or nonemergency needs. Do not overwhelm the Health System or the Emergency Response systems at this time. We need these services to care for those who are seriously ill. If you are sick or concerned you may have coronavirus, please contact your Healthcare Provider. In fact, i urge us not to rush anywhere. With this order in place, you will still be able to get food, care for relatives, runness errands and conduct the essential parts of your lives. You will still be able to walk your dog or go on a hike alone or with someone you live with or even with another person as long as you keep six feet between you. Grocery stores, gas stations, banks, laweddr laundromats and l services will continue to remain open. Restaurants will continue to do takeout or delivery. Please be patient and kind to one another. Stay informed with the facts and dont propagate rumors or miss truths. Together we will get through this and our families and Communities Health will be better protected. During these next weeks, the Health Department, department of Emergency Management and all city agencies will continue to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. This work is essential and must go on. For the Health Department and partner we will focus attention on the top three priorities to fight the spread of the virus. To decrease harm and save lives. The First Priority is to reduce community spread. The virus is here in San Francisco. We must practice social distancing to slow it down. This order escalates that response. Another priority is doing everything we all can to protect vulnerable populations. That means people who are 60 or older or who have certain Underlying Health conditions. These are the people most at risk forgetting seriously ill and dying if they get coronavirus. The condition covid19 caused by the coronavirus. Third, we must protect healthcare workers. Across the city, Health Care Workers and First Responders are on the front lines keeping our Community Healthy and safe. We must provide them with the support, protection and supplies they need to respond to coronavirus. This is the work of Public Health. Nothing is more important for our community today. We greatly appreciate the way the city is coming together during this emergency. Under the leader hip of mayor breed, city agencies, businesses schools, Healthcare System and individuals are stepping up to do their part. All those in San Francisco please do your part. Abide by the new health order. If you do have to go out, practice social distancing. Stay six feet apart from others and wash your hands frequently. Check in on your neighbors. Do not leave children who are out of school with elderly relatives if at all possible. Do not go to Emergency Rooms unless you have a true emergency. Take care of yourself and loved ones and make a plan to manage the changes upon us. I know this is a lot to take in. I and the department are committed to providing all those in San Francisco with as much information and guidance as we can to help you do your part. Todays decision was reached collectively and the entire region is acting as one. We will be developing more detailed information as soon as it is available. Again, please stay uptodate by visiting the departments website or sfgov. Today if you havent already sign up for the text alert service. Text covid19 sf to 888777. That is covid1 covid19 sf to. I know todays order is a radical step. It has to be. We need to act now, all of us, to protect the Public Health. Thank you. Mayor breed thank you, doctor colfax. Before we open it up to the questions i will introduce the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee. Supervisor yee thank you, mayor breed. I thank you for your leadership and the leadership of all six counties coming together to fight this as a joint effort. It cant be isolated. I acknowledge my colleagues. Supervisor walton, mandelman, stefani, supervisor peskin, mar, ronen and preston. We are here standing together with the mayor, and i want to thank all of them working in unity with the Mayors Office to respond to this. I want to thank the mayor to be aggressive about this effort. This is not a game at all. I want our seniors, in particular, those most vulnerable to take this seriously. We can give orders if you dont follow it, it is use less. We all must do our part. That is what we need to do. Now, the mayor has rolled out many initiatives to the press, public. These are some of the things we are doing as a city to help the Small Businesses, to help people that are residents in San Francisco. Those are great ideas, great ideas generated by all of us standing behind me, and i want to say two other things. Those ideas are not the only ideas. We will continue to find policies to help our population in San Francisco while we are all sitting and being impacted by this one way or another, economic or emotional. On tuesday, we are going to continue that discussion to see what else we can do. What other ideas we can come up with, and i am happy that we will take that initiative to Work Together. The other thing i want to say is that during this emergency it is so important that the board of supervisors membership, my colleagues are well informed. As you know many of the residents come to our offices for information. We need to communicate back both ways to the department of Emergency Management or eoc to make sure this strong communication that goes on between us. We are going to work on that, also. I want to thank, once again, mayor breed, for your leadership in this. Thank you. Mayor breed thank you, president yee and to all members of the board of supervisors for joining us here today. As i said, from the very begin, the priority in making these decisions is Public Health. I know this has been very difficult for so many people. We will continue to do everything we can with a number of initiatives to mitigate the impact on our vulnerable community, not just the vulnerable communities of people we know are at risk of contracting the coronavirus but the people we know might be suffering financially. We have a lot of work to do and we will continue to do that every day to provide initiatives we know we can deliver for the people of San Francisco. I thank you all for being here, thank you for your patience and cooperation. This order will go into effect at midnight tonight. Do not panic. The Grocery Stores and gas stations will remain open. The bankings will remain open. The pharmacies will be open. There is no need to rush out to do things at these particular locations because they will be available to you. At this time we will open it up to questions. Again, our goal is to try to mitigate the impacts as we have said time and time again, provide essential services to the public to the fullest extent possible, provide mitigation around the Economic Impacts on what we know impact peoples lives on a regular basis, especially those who sadly have already been laid off because of the lack of business for various restaurants and other places. We know there is more to do. I will say that i am really proud of the leadership here in San Francisco because we are ahead of the curve in comparison to so many other cities throughout the state, throughout this country. They are not even close to doing many of the things we have already put in place from San Francisco. There will be more to come. I thank you for your cooperation and thank you to the Public Health officials and others who have stepped up and provided the most meaningful support during a very difficult time. I am happy to open it up for questions. I am going to let the chief scott answer some questions around enforcement. Thank you, mayor breed. I want to thank mayor breed for her leadership. Enforcement. We will take a compassionate common sense approach. Number one, education. The mayor is clear to the Leadership Team we need the information out to the public what this is all about. Dont panic. We have frequently asked questions published to the public. We are looking for voluntary compliance. We are asking the public to voluntarily comply. This order by law is enforceable as a misdemeanor or fail year to comply with it. That is a last resort. I want to be clear. This is not about criminal justice approach to a Public Health issue. This is about educating the public, this is about social distancing and practicing safe protocols. We are part of that. If we get called we will educate the public to point out why we are doing this. We are asking for voluntary compliance. Yes, by Law Enforcement is an option. That is not our desire, not what we intend to do. We intend to add here to the spirit what this is about to keep people safe and keeping this virus from spreading. We will do our part. Thank you. [ inaudible ] we are not putting a ban on food delivery. We are still working with the Governors Office to not only make sure that we have places for people who are homeless to selfquarantining but we also know in this challenging time that the homeless along with other vulnerable populations fit into a vulnerable population. Our goal is to provide some Additional Resources that we are working on now. We do have locations just in case there is someone who is diagnosed and may not need Hospital Service but may need to selfquarantine. It is something we are continuously working on, and we will provide more information when we have all of the details. What about travel . Under this order all but essential travel will be restricted. Your first question was about media role. It is essential to communicate effective information, Accurate Information and push back against rumors. This is a radical step. Essential services will continue. Ensure that people understand that they will be able to support themselves and their families to get the vital resources that they need during this time and that this is an evidencebased intervention to make sure that people stay at home as much as possible to prevent the spread of the virus. This is an evidencebiased, science based intervention. Thank you. At this time in compliance with the order, people who leave the county during this time would not be except for essential travel would be out of compliance coming back between now and april 7. People out of the county currently would be able to return at this time. Going forward to april 7th essential travel is only allowed under the order. Thank you