Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

Over your heart and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that sfgtv record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , issue have one. Due to the covid19 and to protect City Employees, Board Members and members of the public, the board legislative chamber is closed for the march 24th, 2020 Board Meeting upon action made bit board of supervisors to conduct their meetings Via Video Conference call remotely. This precaution is taken on the authority conferred b by the governors order. The members will attend meetings through the Video Conference or by telephone if the video fails. We have an alternative and to participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were presenproceeding. We have arranged the remote involvement from either watching the meeting on channel 26, seeing it livestreamed and by phone remotely. By channel 26 and sfgovtv will be streaming this across the top of the television. To be dialed in, ill give you the number now. Its 888 2045984 and thats 888 2045984 with and access code of 3501008 and that information is also posted on the boards website. When youre prompted by at t, that stock language will indicate to join the question and answer period. Its not exactly a question and answer period. It just puts you into the queue where you will dial one and zero to be added to the queue and we will repeat this information during general Public Comment. And finally, we ask the public to bear with us. All City Employees are striving to provide the public the best access to City Services under the confines of the new Health Emergency. So we expect to use and gain confidence in this system, in this Video Conferencing system once the capacity and we can understand we can grow it over time and we understand there will be more meetings that should be scheduled and well begin to ask the president when hes ready to begin to schedule those meetings. So stay tuned to our website, please. Its sfbos. Org. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to express on behalf of the entire board, i want to express our sincere appreciation to the hard work of the boards itt is the clerk staff and sfgov tv for making this remote meeting possible and i ask the public to be patient with us as we are adapting to this new system. We thank you all for shelter in place and taking the Health Orders seriously. I also want to thank all of the Health Workers out there doing the best they can during this emergency and the members of the City Departments, Staff Members supporting the Emergency Operation centre, especially the board of supervisors staff who are voluntarying to keep communication flowing between everybody and i want to point out the three board Staff Members that have been down there since last wednesday. I want to think andy mullen from district 11. And just a friendly reminder to all supervisors to mute your microphones. Items one and two areroutine and a member objects this can be considered separately. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items for the Consent Agenda . Seeing none on the roster, member please call the role on item one and two. role call . There are 11ayes and these items are passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to the regular agenda. Item 3 is a motion to concur any actions taken by the mayor on mar 11 of 20 and march 13, 2020 to meet the ongoing local emergency related to the nobel coronavirus covid19 pandemic declared on february 25th, 2020. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . There are 11 ayes. This motion is approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 4 is an ordinance to repeal ordinance numbers 3817 and 219 and reenact certain provisions by the administrative code to update the Hotel Conversion ordinance in the sequa determination. Madam clerk, please call the role. On item 4 role call . There are 11 ayes. This item passes unanimously. Madam clerk, please call items 5 and 6 together. 5 and 6 are two resolutions to approve agreements retroactive to this past january. Item 5 is the department of Public Health with Mckessen Corporation with an agreement for pharmaceuticals, a total amount not to exceed 500 million through 2024 and item 6 with the plasma and bio logics for the purchase of pharmaceutical products for 300 million through january 31st, 2024. Madam clerk, please call the role. On ims 5 and 6 role call . There are 11 ay session. Without objection, these items are approved. Call item 7. A resolution in accordance with the revenue code section 147, subsection f and the execution by the California Municipal Finance Authority in the amount not to exceed 23 million. The procedures of which authority to be loaned to a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation and organization. Other things original refinanced construction improvement, eequipping and facilities at 755 ashbury street and 1201 ortega street. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . There are 11 ay session. Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 8 is a resolution to determine that the transfer of a type 48 on sale general prep premises Liquor License will certainly the convenience of the city. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . There are 11 ay session. Yes. Lets do a role call. Up next is supervisor mar. Im introducing a resolution along with supervisors hany and walton excuse me, supervisor mar, youre not on live video. And i dont know if that was your intention or not. Ill turn it on. Thank you. So first im introducing a resolution along with hany, ronan and walton to establish rapid enforcement to address midclassification of the San Francisco employees and ensure local compliance with bill 5 and to proactively communicate there are obligations under local laws to provide benefits such as paid sick leave to employees. This resolution call calls on te city of attorney, California Attorney general and state labor secretary to help workers access benefits theyre entitled to, such as paid sick live, Unemployment Insurance and more. Additionally, the resolution urges the department of Public Health to pay minimum health and safety guidelines for transportation is food delivery drivers who continue to operate this pandemic which includes demanding the companies provide sanitary supplies and workers rights under Workers Compensation should they come in contact with a worker infectedded. I woulinfected. I would like to o havparticipated and other groups supported in this. Unemployment insurance and family medical leave arent just nice to have. Theyre the difference between workers being able to feed their families or not and during this pandemic, theyre essential for Public Health. They denied workers their rights and this is immoral, irresponsible and we will not stand for it. Now more than ever, uber, lyft is doordash must do the right thing and more importantly follow the law and classify their drivers and other workers as employees rather than independent contractors instepped of spendinincityof sp. Im introducing an emergency ordinance to create a new category of paid leave in San Francisco, Public Health emergency leave. Congress took action to expand paid leave for workers but left out a huge chunkful our workforce by exempting youve corporations. Ti and taking action to ensure were working for the people in sanfrancisco. Employees will be able to access additional weeks of paid leave, closing the major loophole in the federal legislation and making sure that in health emergencies, workers are able to take time off if they need for themselves and their families. When sick people have to choose between their livelihoods, we are all worse off and when parents have to choose between paycheck or staying home with their kids when schools are closed, we are all worse off. This is a gap we need to close is we will close. But this is only one step of many that must be taken to ensure that people are not only healthy focuscally but economically and im proud of all of the work this body is doing right now to address this. I want to thank supervisor matt hany for sponsoring this measure and for the coalition that came together to make this happen at an unprecedented pace, the San Francisco Labor Council and jobs adjusted. We drafted this emergency measure ourselves to have it ready for today because as our Health Officer said, hours matter and when thousands of those in San Francisco are wondering if they can put food on the table, we cant afford to wait to act. Thank you. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor safaye, we see your note for a cosponsor. Supervisor peskin . I have nothing for role call. Other than to wish this man a happy birthday. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisosubmit. Supervisor ronin. Today with my colleagues supervisor hany and dean preston, i am introducing a resolution urging the governor, our federal legislators and the Trump Administration to impose an immediate moratorium on rent and mortgage payments. For mortgages this means the principal debt must remain unpaid and mortgage payments would resume after the emergency is lifted. For rents, it would mean the rents would be forgiven and for both, there would be no negative impact on credit scores. I know that everyone of my colleagues, the mayor, every City Department head and every employee is working a peak ungency to save lives and to minimize the demonstrating impact of the emergency. We are examining every logistical and programmatic route to bolster our healthcare capacity and keep people safe and housed. Right now as businesses are shuddered to follow state and local home orders, workers throughout San Francisco workers are reeling from loss of income. 80 or more of workers will lose their job, along with travel, entertainment and sales workers. Some will be eligible for Unemployment Insurance but only at a fraction of what they would otherwise earn, with a maximum of 450 per week. And many workers are not eligible for any Unemployment Benefits at all. Youve probably seen the reports well before coronavirus hit. That 40 of americans did not have cash on hand to cover an unexpected expense of 400 and 78 of American Workers said that they are living paycheck to paycheck. These are many of the constituents and they are isolated in their apartments right now, running out of money for food and prescriptions and knowing that on april 1st, they wont be able to pay rent. The moratorium was an essential step. It took no time at all for the Federal Reserve to find 1. 5 trillion to save banks and the stock market, but were not seeing anything substantial from homeowners and renters. Fha and fannie mac are putting a hold on many and most remain to banks to decide how and if to implement. We cannot wait for this to happen. What we are calling for is a simultaneous halt now on both mortgages and rents. If the banks are required to suspend mortgage payments, landlords will be able to weather a moratorium on rent exposrentsand renters will see t at the end of the tunnel. They are all facing potential, crushing debt. We cannot abandon. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor ronin. Supervisor sayaye. Thank you. I have two things to discuss and the first is just to highlight to everyone weve been in conversation with the minioperators as it pe pertaino working conditions and i spoke with their leader there, the union roger moranco and theres a lot of concern about collection and how people are boarding and exiting the train and weve been in conversations with the head of the sfmts and i think those conversations are going well. People are putting together good ideas on how to protect our operators. While at the same time practise social distancing an ensuring we not hurting themuni. Operations. Theres been a conversation of how to limit the number of people on the buses and to protect the passengers at the same time and so the union and muni are continuing the conversations and feel close in coming up with a solution if all parties can abide by that. The second thing is the City Attorney today and ive been in conversations with them to draft a language and legislation that talks about a presumptive injury as it relates to covid19. We worked on a presumptive injury clause as it pertained to our first responder, police and fire last year as it pertained to Heart Disease and we believe under these emergency situations that presumptive injury should be expanded for frontline front responders and were asking that language to be drawn and were expanding that conversation and the most important thing is that this would then no longer be a burden on the employee to prove that they contracted covid19 in the workplace while on the front lines, but it would be presumptive injury that happened in the workplace to protect those workers. The City Attorney will work with us and Human Resources to protect our frontline workers and they shouldnt have to fill out forms and ensure that theyre proving that theyre contracting this virus in a time of need. And the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor safaye. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, madam clerk, submit. Thank you for submitting and supervisor walton. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, i do have one item for today and im requesting the City Attorney to draft legislation to create a Family Income relief fund for San Francisco residents with children and dependents under 8 who dont qualify for stimulus. This will provide a monthly income relief relief 500 for cn or dependents at the schools during the covid19 pandemic. Residents will include residency card holders undocumented immigrants and independent contract workers, including Online Platform workers, contract firm workers, oncall workers and temporary workers. These are all populations that are not covered under federal and other stimulus plans and do not receive other benefits. Covid19 has created a threat to the economic stability of San Francisco residents and San Francisco families, especially those in our immigrant population requiring immediate Economic Relief to survive the short and longtime effects of the outbreak. The city has an obligation to create a safety net providing direct Economic Relief for families who experience a loss of income during this time of crisis of the covid19 pandemic. Direct Economic Relief will provide immediate assistance for food, rent, childcare and any emergency expenses accrued during this tough time. The legislation sets up a process to develop rules, regulations, guideline guidanced procedures for the income relief fund. I am in communities with the City Controllers Office on identifying resources and funds for this legislation. We will continue to work hard responding in the midst of a crisis to protect all populations in San Francisco and we should not forget to protect our immigrant families and families who are independent contract workers. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor yee. I just wore a masks, but in this society, weve seen this for medica medical professions , unfortunately, the general population, mainly in the u. S. Have not taken to those precautions. So colleagues, i introduce a resolution along with supervisors fewer and mar to condemn the racist language weve been hearing from the white house regarding the covid19 and attacks against our Asian Community members. I believe all of you today are signed on as cosponsor and i thank you. We must stand united against what we are witnessing unfolding before us. As our nation grapples with the Public Health emergency, we have a president and an administration that is scapegoals and citing violence against Asian Community members. We are calling on the city to take a stance to condemn the usage of racist terms like chinese flu, wuhan virus is we are calling to condemn the physical attacks across the nation. I want to condemn Community Activists and leaders who have been elevating this issue, particularly chinese for affirmative action and the legal team at peskin co inc. And the organizations who have sent letters of support over the past 48 hours and the allied organizations that we have also taken a bold stand to support the Asian American community they teamed up with Asian Pacific policy and Planning Council to start a stop stop ai hate. We received 23 cases from San Francisco and a third of the incidents involve physical attacks. Its happening right here in our own city and cannot be tolerated. As of yesterday, we have received over 450 reports of zeno phobic attacks. In 1877, the Health Officer in San Francisco blamed the chinese in San Francisco that was the disease of an outbreak. I realize were in fearful times, but there is no ethnic or cultural biased for the disease. The centre for Disease Control and World Health Organization recommends against naming any disease based on location because it is not proper way it is not a proper way to identify and to stigmatize an ethnicity and locality. As such, we condemn any xenophobia. We must continue to uphold San Franciscos values and be inclusive and safe for everyone if you believe you have experienced a hate crime, please call 911. Now more than ever, we must be vigilant and protect our community when they need us most. And supervisor walton, i would like to sign on to your legislation. I am calling for a special planning next week at 2 00 p. M. However, given that we have many items that are in motion, i want to conduct our regular business as much as we can. As such, this motion will be on next weeks agenda for a vote. It is important for this board to take action within a reasonable time frame so that the emergency orders are able to be ratified and worked out, if necessary. The rest i submit. Thank you,. , mr. President. Supervisor fire. Fewer. I would like to join my colleagues in recognising and thanking the city workers on the frontlines, the dm crew, public Health Workers, shelter works, deputy sheriffs office, firefighters, nurses, doctors, medical staff, the mayor and her staff is so many, many more. I want to thank the unsung heros, bus drivers, grocery people and so many folks comingg together to help us through this crisis. I want to thank the people of San Francisco who have been abiding by the shelter in place mandate, keeping others and herself safe. These are extraordinary times and we are blessed to have an Extraordinary Community here in San Francisco. Today im announcing legislation that will require the city to close jail number four within six months and a deadline for reduction of the jail population within five months in order to say they close a jail while preventing transfers out of county to facilities like santa rita jail. Formans, ive been in discussions with stakeholders to understand the complexities of the jail system and push forward on plans to close county jail number four as soon as possible. City leaders are all in agreement this Facility Needs to be closed with expedience. For both incarcerated people, as well as the staff who work at the jail at 850 bryant. But the health and safety concerns that have long existed at jail number four are more compoundd with thcompounded wit9 pandemic and social distancing is, basically, impossible. Just today, a director of jail health, lisa pratt, advocated for any and all steps that can be taken to reduce the jail population in the face of this Health Crisis to ensure safety for all parties. In 2018, the city of San Francisco received a grant from the mcarthur initiative to commit to a reduction of a jail population in a working Group Includes the District Attorneys office, the adult probation department. They set a goal of reducing the jail population to more than 1,044, 90 of the capacity of the jail system without county jail number four. Our legislation echos this goal. San franciscos jail population has consistently been declining for months, reaching the low of 1,065 as of friday, march 13t 13th, prior to the citys jail term place order that was released three days later. Since the sheltinplace order which released the covid19 crisis, the jail population has further and dramatically declined a. As this morning, the jail count is 925. It is clear that under these current conditions, releases are being expedited for those who are eligible and this is absolutely the right thing. I also support the measures put into place so that there are Housing Options for those released so that people are not back on the streets and to prioritize Public Health. The urgency for this legislation now is to ensure that the measures being put into place at this moment can be tracked, evaluated and institutionalized as we move closer to reduce the population across the system and move closer to a deadline for the closure of county jail number four. I cannot accept the idea that San Francisco would rather have people out of county facilities like santa rita thatyou have bey years. Anta rita thatyou have bey we are lucky to have you as our hostess. Am i allowed to use this in my conversations with the board of supervisors . Okay. Speaking of the supervisor from the sunset district gordon mar is here today. From the marina, catherine stefani. Thank you both for being here. This is always dangerous. I have been told that i will be in trouble if i dont introduce the commissioner. Angus mccarthy from Building Inspections commission is here. Somewhere in this crowd is from the immigrant rights commission. I dont see her, but i know she is here. Our sheriff could not be here. Under sheriff free man is here somewhere. Our fire chief is here, jeanine nicholson. Golden gate bridge long time member john mow land is here. Former grand marshall of the st. Patricks day parade. Good to have you here, john. The first person i get to bring up is our mayor. We will tell you she is having a difficult time today because she is now no longer grand marshall. Her term as grand marshall has ended. There have been moments when we had a number of long boring meetings in the office. She gets frustrated and tells us stop telling me mayor, i want to be called grand marshall. She pulls out the sash. Here she is for paps th perhe last time. Grand marshall london breed. Mayor breed my merchandising is once a grand marshall always a grand marshall, right, director . That is why i pulled it out today for this special occasion. I want to take this opportunity to also acknowledge the president of the university of San Francisco, paul fitzgerald. Thank you so much for being with us today. Also, just to say charlotte, that is an amazing outfit. Thank you so much for continuing to coordinate all of these incredible events to bring so many communities together. Many of you have known shawn for a long time. I work with him every day. I never hardly see him leave his office. I am glad you convinced him to be the mc today to welcome you all here. The fact you serve whiskey has something to do with it. Today we are celebrating what is just an amazing friendship that continues to exist between the Irish Community and San Francisco. In fact, we know that the legacy of this city has everything to do with our incredible Irish Community, many who i am grated here to San Francisco often running from discrimination in the east coast, and many settled here and started their businesses here, raised families here and created what we are so very proud of. Who has the best water anywhere . San francisco. It is because the dam and the water and power system created here many, many decades ago that we enjoy what is some of the best water anywhere in the world. We also know that many irish men served as mayors of this city. It is time for an irishwoman to step up for a change. We know that the rich history and legacy is why in 1984 then mayor Dianne Feinstein established the sister city relationship between San Francisco and cork, ireland. Thank you for continuing your leadership as one of the cochairs for that sister city relationship. So much history and so many incredible people, and, yes, i have the privilege of serving as the grand marshall. When i committed to being the grand marshall of the parade last year, i committed to showing up to every event, mr. Lions, now that you are the grand marshall, if i as mayor can show up to all of the events and do all of the vo volunteer k required to wear the sash, i want to be sure you are filling my footsteps with pride. Congratulations. We know that you immigrated here to San Francisco, met your wife on geary street, raised four Incredible Church and have a rich history and legacy in San Francisco. Thank you so much for being with us today. Congratulations. We are going to see you at the parade for sure. With that i just want to take this opportunity to recognize our treasurer jose who is here as well. And finally to commemorate this moment, yes, the parade is amazing and all of the dance performances, all of the volunteer activities. This is a time of pride, celebration, a time of coming together, and part of that includes the friendship that continues between San Francisco and ireland, and in particular our sister city committee. I want to ask the Council General of ireland to come forward. Robert has been with us many years. He is incredible. On behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, i would like you to accept the certificate to honor our relationship and friendship for generations to come. Thank you. [applause] lets celebrate in San Francisco. Thank you. I would say happy st. Patricks day. That is the 17th. Happy early st. Patricks day. Thank you, mayor breed. To continue we will begin with a performance led by the amazing principal of saint phillips, marry mckee. We have both the adults and youth choir. Come on up. On your seats some of you may have the lyrics to a song that i would assume none of you need the lyrics to. You will all know this song. Welcome celtic voices. When irish eyes are smiling when irish eyes are smiling, they can steal your heart away when irish eyes are smiling, it is like a morn in spring it is the tilt of irish laughter you can hear the angels sing when irish hearts are happy, all the world seems bright and gay when irish eyes are smiling, they will steal your heart away applause thank you, celtic voices. I cant help myself. The beautiful young woman with the red hair is my goddaughter. Go job. Since they just arrived, San Francisco has a great history of a number of Department Heads of Irish American descent. I would like to recognize mickey callahan, department of Human Resources, and bill scott from the San Francisco police department, and his assistant chief mike redman over there. Thank you for being here, gentlemen. It is now my privilege to recognize the Council General of ireland Robert O Driscoll who has a tremendous connection to San Francisco because his son was born in San Francisco. No matthe matter where his cares him, San Francisco will always be his sons home. Thank you very much. I think he is here today. This is his first st. Patricks day event. I am excited. If you see a green ball, that is mine. Distinguished guests, mayor breed, and supervisors and Department Heads and everybody, very happy t to be here today. Looking back for this event wondering what to say. It is 169 years since the first st. Patricks day parade. 170 years since the first mayor got appointed. How in the fliers year of a mayor was there not a st. Patricks day parade . The first mayor was appointed in may 1850. In january it would have been a parade that year, too. I have been reflected on my thoughts about the parade and first parade, and what were they doing . They were celebrating irish heritage. These are people who left under huge duress, typically in famine times and reached the east coast and no overly welcome home. California offered the promise of prosperity and good life for them and their family. They were celebrating they would never go back to ireland but never forget ireland. There is a grave yard from 1854. All of those had the names of people there and names from ireland but what county in ireland is listed. I thought that was in the last days when they were thinking how to be remembered. It wasnt enough to be from ireland. They had to be from cork and dublin. That connection to home was still as strong at the end of life as it was when they left. I am proud of that. I think the other thing they were doing that day, they were looking forward to what they would achieve because they had achieved a lot to get that far but they had a lot of work to do. The theme of this parade this year serving our communities, i think probably reflects the greatest achiev achievement of t community. That is what we do. That is the irish story in the city. The police in the city administration, politics, in the Fire Department, in the schools. Marry mckeever is here, principal of saint phillips, or all of the people who take leading roles. Our community serve. We should celebrate that for the next week over the course of the parade. Particularly they are so reflective of that. They are all some part of the story of service. As grand marshall you reflect the sense of community, that ethos. Look at the story. It is not just service to the community but the irish American Community through youth gaa. When we look back at your legacy, and i said this at the grand marshalls dinner in your honor. What a legacy for our culture to be passed to the next generation. It is very special. You have had a huge role in that. Everyone in the community here wants to celebrate on your special day. Please give him a huge round of applause. I want to thank shawn. I am scared of shawn with asia e shillelagh. Happy st. Patricks day. Thank you, Council General. I dont know if you saw what happened over there while he was speaking. The president of the Residential Builders was yelling that i hadnt introduced him. Shawn over there. Welcome. Glad you are here, shawn. I cant help. We also vointroduce supervisor matt haney. He has a great connection he studied at the university of galway, and he is the supervision or mar is the landlord of the center. He is the landlord of the krb. Supervisor haney on the mission street. We cant have a flag raising without dancing. It is a privilege to introduce the dancers from murphy school. Welcome. [applause]. I just want to introduce one of the dancers. This is mary who just this week received her irish citizenship. Congratulations. Welldone, murphy dancers. Thank you. All events celebrating st. Patricks day we could not do without the United Irish Society. They are doing all of the work. The president is not here today, but i would like to bring up john lynch, the Vice President to address everyone. Come on up, john. I hope i am half as exciting as the last performance. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the 169th st. Patricks day season serving our communities. I am the Vice President of the United Irish Society of San Francisco and member of carpenters 22. Thank you to the mayor for hosting us today for hosting us. Welcome to the general of ireland and vice council. Thank you for coming today. I would like to thank the San Francisco irish pipers, murphies school of dance and the Dance Academy and the beautiful sounds of the voices. Thank you for your continued effort working with the mayor in coordinating this event. Thank you to the supervisors for hosting the post reception event, i think. A tremendous amount of work goes into the st. Patricks day season. Thank you to the United Irish Society board and volunteers and sponsors that make this all happen. Thank you. Also, thank you to the city agencies supporting the many events. The San Francisco parks and recreation, San Francisco Fire Department and paramedics, San Francisco police department, San Francisco sheriffs department, the San Francisco public works, and the San Francisco m. T. A. A round of applause for those agencies. Thank you. I would like to thank and congratulate our 2020 st. Patricks day grand marshall, mr. Con lions. Thank you, con. Also, the families of our honorrary grand marshalls. applause it is a tremendous honor to be selected as the grand marshall, as well as a lot of work. Based on his track record he is up to the task at hand. Thank you, con. The st. Patricks day season consists of visits to friends throughout San Francisco as well as civic events commemorating the contributions of father peter york and kate kennedy. In conclusion, we are not new york, boston, chicago, or atlanta. We are San Francisco, and we put on one heck of a st. Patricks day celebration. Embrace this and go out aptry ty to have some fun. Thank you. At this time i would like to present the certificate of honor to con lions, our grand marshall 2020. [applause] our honorary grand Marshall William bill. Certificate of honor to john cassserly. She said it was a great honor. It absolutely is. Thank you. Certificate of honor to joseph teenrjosephine. Certificate of honor to the family of agnes monaghan. Thank you. It is good to see the valley represented up here. Thank you, john. I see spying over the side of my left corner the former District Attorney susie loftus standing over there. The mayor said she wanted to see a woman irish mayor of San Francisco. We dont have that yet. We do have a woman chair of the Irish Sister City Committee with cork, noreen, thank you for being here. You know charlotte has not been as successful without being diplomatic. You cannot have just the murphy dancers performing without having the wee land dancers. I would like to invite them up to do a little dance for us. [applause] applause thank you very much. One last announcement if you get a chance to drive by city hall tonight, the mayor instructed the building be lit up in green. That is tonight and i believe the mayor is saying green, white and orange. Okay, mayor, whatever you say. Also on st. Patricks day as well. Thank you, mayor breed. I would like to ask the dancers to come up to receive their certificates of honor for coming today to perform for us. Make sure you coun count to fivr 10 minutes. Go over to the office to continue the celebration. Thank you everyone for coming. Everything is done inhouse. I think it is done. I have always been passionate about gelato. Every single slaver has its own recipe. We have our own we move on from there. So you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. Union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. The people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. [ ] i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldnt just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [ ] i would say i am a multidimensional artist. I came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. I always have an interest in public art. I really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. You shouldnt just be something in museums. I love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. Public art is art with a job to do. It is a place where the architecture meets the public. Where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. We commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. It is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. Those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and Recreation Centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. Colette test on a number of those projects for its. One of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. Mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. You need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. I glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [ ] we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. So we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [ ] my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. And also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. So one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [ ] there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. During the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. There was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. It is a little bird. The relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [ ] 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. Cut. We are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. A place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and its beautiful and its been completely redone and been a Gathering Place for this community. I have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. That is not a joke. I live in an Apartment Building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. Let me tell you handout you how to build a community garden. You start with a really good idea and add Community Support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. This is great. Its about environment and stewardship. Its also for the we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. That is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. I dont know how they do it. There is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through Golden Community garden. We have it right in the middle of we have private and Public Gardens throughout the garden tour. All of the gardens are volunteers. The only requirement is youre willing to show your garden for a day. So we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. Its a variety all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. I have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. In the early 1800s the portola was farmland. The regions flowers were grown in this neighborhood. If you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. In the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. One of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of San Francisco so they can share that history. When i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. We started doing this as a fundraiser. Since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. The Scholarship Programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a winwinwin situation all around. The Scholarship Program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. I was not sure how i would stay in San Francisco. It is so expensive here. I prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in San Francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i dont know where else i would have gone to finish. The scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [ ] [ ] you come into someones home and its theyre private and personal space. Its all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their Outdoor Living room. Why are you here at this garden core . Its amazing and i volunteer here every year. This is fantastic. Its a beautiful day. You walk around and look at gardens. You meet people that love gardens. Its fantastic. The portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. Mark your calendars every year. You can see us on the website francisco. My name is fwlend hope i would say on at largescale what all passionate about is peace in the world. It never outdoor 0 me that note everyone will think that is a good i know to be a paefrt. One man said ill upsetting the order of universe i want to do since a good idea not the order of universe but his offered of the universe but the ministry sgan in the room chairing sha harry and grew to be 5 we wanted to preach and teach and act gods love 40 years later i retired having been in the tenderloin most of that 7, 8, 9 some have god drew us into the someplace we became the Network Ministries for homeless women escaping prostitution if the months period before i performed Memorial Services store produced women that were murdered on the streets of San Francisco so i went back to the board and said we say to do something the number one be a safe place for them to live while he worked on changing 4 months later we were given the building in january of 1998 we opened it as a safe house for women escaping prostitution ive seen those counselors women find their strength and their beauty and their wisdom and come to be able to affirmative as the daughters of god and they accepted me and made me, be a part of the their lives. Special things to the women that offered me a chance safe house will forever be a part of the who ive become and you made that possible life didnt get any better than that. Whove would know this look of this girl grown up in atlanta will be working with produced women in San Francisco part of the system that has abused and expedited and obtain identified and degraded women for century around the world and still do at the embody the spirits of women that just know they deserve respect and intend to get it. I dont want to just so women younger women become a part of the the Current System we need to change the system we dont need to go up the ladder we need to change the corporations we need more women like that and theyre out there. We get have to get to help them. role call mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. I guess this is unusual, but ill say it. Please place your right hand over your heart and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that sfgtv record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , issue have one. Due to the covid19 and to protect City Employees, Board Members and members of the public, the board legislative chamber is closed for the march 24th, 2020 Board Meeting upon action made bit board of supervisors to conduct their meetings Via Video Conference call remotely. This precaution is taken on the authority conferred b by the governors order. The members will attend meetings through the Video Conference or by telephone if the video fails. We have an alternative and to participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were presenproceeding. We have arranged the remote involvement from either watching the meeting on channel 26, seeing it livestreamed and by phone remotely. By channel 26 and sfgovtv will be streaming this across the top of the television. To be dialed in, ill give you the number now. Its 888 2045984 and thats 888 2045984 with and access code of 3501008 and that information is also posted on the boards website. When youre prompted by at t, that stock language will indicate to join the question and answer period. Its not exactly a question and answer period. It just puts you into the queue where you will dial one and zero to be added to the queue and we will repeat this information during general Public Comment. And finally, we ask the public to bear with us. All City Employees are striving to provide the public the best access to City Services under the confines of the new Health Emergency. So we expect to use and gain confidence in this system, in this Video Conferencing system once the capacity and we can understand we can grow it over time and we understand there will be more meetings that should be scheduled and well begin to ask the president when hes ready to begin to schedule those meetings. So stay tuned to our website, please. Its sfbos. Org. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to express on behalf of the entire board, i want to express our sincere appreciation to the hard work of the boards itt is the clerk staff and sfgov tv for making this remote meeting possible and i ask the public to be patient with us as we are adapting to this new system. We thank you all for shelter in place and taking the Health Orders seriously. I also want to thank all of the Health Workers out there doing the best they can during this emergency and the members of the City Departments, Staff Members supporting the Emergency Operation centre, especially the board of supervisors staff who are voluntarying to keep communication flowing between everybody and i want to point out the three board Staff Members that have been down there since last wednesday. I want to think andy mullen from district 11. And just a friendly reminder to all supervisors to mute your microphones. Items one and two areroutine and a member objects this can be considered separately. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items for the Consent Agenda . Seeing none on the roster, member please call the role on item one and two. role call . There are 11ayes and these items are passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to the regular agenda. Item 3 is a motion to concur any actions taken by the mayor on mar 11 of 20 and march 13, 2020 to meet the ongoing local emergency related to the nobel coronavirus covid19 pandemic declared on february 25th, 2020. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . There are 11 ayes. This motion is approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 4 is an ordinance to repeal ordinance numbers 3817 and 219 and reenact certain provisions by the administrative code to update the Hotel Conversion ordinance in the sequa determination. Madam clerk, please call the role. On item 4 role call . There are 11 ayes. This item passes unanimously. Madam clerk, please call items 5 and 6 together. 5 and 6 are two resolutions to approve agreements retroactive to this past january. Item 5 is the department of Public Health with Mckessen Corporation with an agreement for pharmaceuticals, a total amount not to exceed 500 million through 2024 and item 6 with the plasma and bio logics for the purchase of pharmaceutical products for 300 million through january 31st, 2024. Madam clerk, please call the role. On ims 5 and 6 role call . There are 11 ay session. Without objection, these items are approved. Call item 7. A resolution in accordance with the revenue code section 147, subsection f and the execution by the California Municipal Finance Authority in the amount not to exceed 23 million. The procedures of which authority to be loaned to a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation and organization. Other things original refinanced construction improvement, eequipping and facilities at 755 ashbury street and 1201 ortega street. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . There are 11 ay session. Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 8 is a resolution to determine that the transfer of a type 48 on sale general prep premises Liquor License will certainly the convenience of the city. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . There are 11 ay session. Yes. Lets do a role call. Up next is supervisor mar. Im introducing a resolution along with supervisors hany and walton excuse me, supervisor mar, youre not on live video. And i dont know if that was your intention or not. Ill turn it on. Thank you. So first im introducing a resolution along with hany, ronan and walton to establish rapid enforcement to address midclassification of the San Francisco employees and ensure local compliance with bill 5 and to proactively communicate there are obligations under local laws to provide benefits such as paid sick leave to employees. This resolution call calls on te city of attorney, California Attorney general and state labor secretary to help workers access benefits theyre entitled to, such as paid sick live, Unemployment Insurance and more. Additionally, the resolution urges the department of Public Health to pay minimum health and safety guidelines for transportation is food delivery drivers who continue to operate this pandemic which includes demanding the companies provide sanitary supplies and workers rights under Workers Compensation should they come in contact with a worker infectedded. I woulinfected. I would like to o havparticipated and other groups supported in this. Unemployment insurance and family medical leave arent just nice to have. Theyre the difference between workers being able to feed their families or not and during this pandemic, theyre essential for Public Health. They denied workers their rights and this is immoral, irresponsible and we will not stand for it. Now more than ever, uber, lyft is doordash must do the right thing and more importantly follow the law and classify their drivers and other workers as employees rather than independent contractors instepped of spendinincityof sp. Im introducing an emergency ordinance to create a new category of paid leave in San Francisco, Public Health emergency leave. Congress took action to expand paid leave for workers but left out a huge chunkful our workforce by exempting youve corporations. Ti and taking action to ensure were working for the people in sanfrancisco. Employees will be able to access additional weeks of paid leave, closing the major loophole in the federal legislation and making sure that in health emergencies, workers are able to take time off if they need for themselves and their families. When sick people have to choose between their livelihoods, we are all worse off and when parents have to choose between paycheck or staying home with their kids when schools are closed, we are all worse off. This is a gap we need to close is we will close. But this is only one step of many that must be taken to ensure that people are not only healthy focuscally but economically and im proud of all of the work this body is doing right now to address this. I want to thank supervisor matt hany for sponsoring this measure and for the coalition that came together to make this happen at an unprecedented pace, the San Francisco Labor Council and jobs adjusted. We drafted this emergency measure ourselves to have it ready for today because as our Health Officer said, hours matter and when thousands of those in San Francisco are wondering if they can put food on the table, we cant afford to wait to act. Thank you. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor safaye, we see your note for a cosponsor. Supervisor peskin . I have nothing for role call. Other than to wish this man a happy birthday. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisosubmit. Supervisor ronin. Today with my colleagues supervisor hany and dean preston, i am introducing a resolution urging the governor, our federal legislators and the Trump Administration to impose an immediate moratorium on rent and mortgage payments. For mortgages this means the principal debt must remain unpaid and mortgage payments would resume after the emergency is lifted. For rents, it would mean the rents would be forgiven and for both, there would be no negative impact on credit scores. I know that everyone of my colleagues, the mayor, every City Department head and every employee is working a peak ungency to save lives and to minimize the demonstrating impact of the emergency. We are examining every logistical and programmatic route to bolster our healthcare capacity and keep people safe and housed. Right now as businesses are shuddered to follow state and local home orders, workers throughout San Francisco workers are reeling from loss of income. 80 or more of workers will lose their job, along with travel, entertainment and sales workers. Some will be eligible for Unemployment Insurance but only at a fraction of what they would otherwise earn, with a maximum of 450 per week. And many workers are not eligible for any Unemployment Benefits at all. Youve probably seen the reports well before coronavirus hit. That 40 of americans did not have cash on hand to cover an unexpected expense of 400 and 78 of American Workers said that they are living paycheck to paycheck. These are many of the constituents and they are isolated in their apartments right now, running out of money for food and prescriptions and knowing that on april 1st, they wont be able to pay rent. The moratorium was an essential step. It took no time at all for the Federal Reserve to find 1. 5 trillion to save banks and the stock market, but were not seeing anything substantial from homeowners and renters. Fha and fannie mac are putting a hold on many and most remain to banks to decide how and if to implement. We cannot wait for this to happen. What we are calling for is a simultaneous halt now on both mortgages and rents. If the banks are required to suspend mortgage payments, landlords will be able to weather a moratorium on rent exposrentsand renters will see t at the end of the tunnel. They are all facing potential, crushing debt. We cannot abandon. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor ronin. Supervisor sayaye. Thank you. I have two things to discuss and the first is just to highlight to everyone weve been in conversation with the minioperators as it pe pertaino working conditions and i spoke with their leader there, the union roger moranco and theres a lot of concern about collection and how people are boarding and exiting the train and weve been in conversations with the head of the sfmts and i think those conversations are going well. People are putting together good ideas on how to protect our operators. While at the same time practise social distancing an ensuring we not hurting themuni. Operations. Theres been a conversation of how to limit the number of people on the buses and to protect the passengers at the same time and so the union and muni are continuing the conversations and feel close in coming up with a solution if all parties can abide by that. The second thing is the City Attorney today and ive been in conversations with them to draft a language and legislation that talks about a presumptive injury as it relates to covid19. We worked on a presumptive injury clause as it pertained to our first responder, police and fire last year as it pertained to Heart Disease and we believe under these emergency situations that presumptive injury should be expanded for frontline front responders and were asking that language to be drawn and were expanding that conversation and the most important thing is that this would then no longer be a burden on the employee to prove that they contracted covid19 in the workplace while on the front lines, but it would be presumptive injury that happened in the workplace to protect those workers. The City Attorney will work with us and Human Resources to protect our frontline workers and they shouldnt have to fill out forms and ensure that theyre proving that theyre contracting this virus in a time of need. And the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor safaye. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, madam clerk, submit. Thank you for submitting and supervisor walton. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, i do have one item for today and im requesting the City Attorney to draft legislation to create a Family Income relief fund for San Francisco residents with children and dependents under 8 who dont qualify for stimulus. This will provide a monthly income relief relief 500 for cn or dependents at the schools during the covid19 pandemic. Residents will include residency card holders undocumented immigrants and independent contract workers, including Online Platform workers, contract firm workers, oncall workers and temporary workers. These are all populations that are not covered under federal and other stimulus plans and do not receive other benefits. Covid19 has created a threat to the economic stability of San Francisco residents and San Francisco families, especially those in our immigrant population requiring immediate Economic Relief to survive the short and longtime effects of the outbreak. The city has an obligation to create a safety net providing direct Economic Relief for families who experience a loss of income during this time of crisis of the covid19 pandemic. Direct Economic Relief will provide immediate assistance for food, rent, childcare and any emergency expenses accrued during this tough time. The legislation sets up a process to develop rules, regulations, guideline guidanced procedures for the income relief fund. I am in communities with the City Controllers Office on identifying resources and funds for this legislation. We will continue to work hard responding in the midst of a crisis to protect all populations in San Francisco and we should not forget to protect our immigrant families and families who are independent contract workers. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor yee. I just wore a masks, but in this society, weve seen this for medica medical professions , unfortunately, the general population, mainly in the u. S. Have not taken to those precautions. So colleagues, i introduce a resolution along with supervisors fewer and mar to condemn the racist language weve been hearing from the white house regarding the covid19 and attacks against our Asian Community members. I believe all of you today are signed on as cosponsor and i thank you. We must stand united against what we are witnessing unfolding before us. As our nation grapples with the Public Health emergency, we have a president and an administration that is scapegoals and citing violence against Asian Community members. We are calling on the city to take a stance to condemn the usage of racist terms like chinese flu, wuhan virus is we are calling to condemn the physical attacks across the nation. I want to condemn Community Activists and leaders who have been elevating this issue, particularly chinese for affirmative action and the legal team at peskin co inc. And the organizations who have sent letters of support over the past 48 hours and the allied organizations that we have also taken a bold stand to support the Asian American community they teamed up with Asian Pacific policy and Planning Council to start a stop stop ai hate. We received 23 cases from San Francisco and a third of the incidents involve physical attacks. Its happening right here in our own city and cannot be tolerated. As of yesterday, we have received over 450 reports of zeno phobic attacks. In 1877, the Health Officer in San Francisco blamed the chinese in San Francisco that was the disease of an outbreak. I realize were in fearful times, but there is no ethnic or cultural biased for the disease. The centre for Disease Control and World Health Organization recommends against naming any disease based on location because it is not proper way it is not a proper way to identify and to stigmatize an ethnicity and locality. As such, we condemn any xenophobia. We must continue to uphold San Franciscos values and be inclusive and safe for everyone if you believe you have experienced a hate crime, please call 911. Now more than ever, we must be vigilant and protect our community when they need us most. And supervisor walton, i would like to sign on to your legislation. I am calling for a special planning next week at 2 00 p. M. However, given that we have many items that are in motion, i want to conduct our regular business as much as we can. As such, this motion will be on next weeks agenda for a vote. It is important for this board to take action within a reasonable time frame so that the emergency orders are able to be ratified and worked out, if necessary. The rest i submit. Thank you,. , mr. President. Supervisor fire. Fewer. I would like to join my colleagues in recognising and thanking the city workers on the frontlines, the dm crew, public Health Workers, shelter works, deputy sheriffs office, firefighters, nurses, doctors, medical staff, the mayor and her staff is so many, many more. I want to thank the unsung heros, bus drivers, grocery people and so many folks comingg together to help us through this crisis. I want to thank the people of San Francisco who have been abiding by the shelter in place mandate, keeping others and herself safe. These are extraordinary times and we are blessed to have an Extraordinary Community here in San Francisco. Today im announcing legislation that will require the city to close jail number four within six months and a deadline for reduction of the jail population within five months in order to say they close a jail while preventing transfers out of county to facilities like santa rita jail. Formans, ive been in discussions with stakeholders to understand the complexities of the jail system and push forward on plans to close county jail number four as soon as possible. City leaders are all in agreement this Facility Needs to be closed with expedience. For both incarcerated people, as well as the staff who work at the jail at 850 bryant. But the health and safety concerns that have long existed at jail number four are more compoundd with thcompounded wit9 pandemic and social distancing is, basically, impossible. Just today, a director of jail health, lisa pratt, advocated for any and all steps that can be taken to reduce the jail population in the face of this Health Crisis to ensure safety for all parties. In 2018, the city of San Francisco received a grant from the mcarthur initiative to commit to a reduction of a jail population in a working Group Includes the District Attorneys office, the adult probation department. They set a goal of reducing the jail population to more than 1,044, 90 of the capacity of the jail system without county jail number four. Our legislation echos this goal. San franciscos jail population has consistently been declining for months, reaching the low of 1,065 as of friday, march 13t 13th, prior to the citys jail term place order that was released three days later. Since the sheltinplace order which released the covid19 crisis, the jail population has further and dramatically declined a. As this morning, the jail count is 925. It is clear that under these current conditions, releases are being expedited for those who are eligible and this is absolutely the right thing. I also support the measures put into place so that there are Housing Options for those released so that people are not back on the streets and to prioritize Public Health. The urgency for this legislation now is to ensure that the measures being put into place at this moment can be tracked, evaluated and institutionalized as we move closer to reduce the population across the system and move closer to a deadline for the closure of county jail number four. I cannot accept the idea that San Francisco would rather have people out of county facilities like santa rita that not only present challenges but are a risk to the health and safety to those detained. I cannot accept that when we have people sitting in jail because of bureauic delays or because beds are not available, that we can absolutely accomplish this goal with all of the justice partners at the table, investing in strategies collaboratively. I am working with the City Attorneys office to finalize this legislation and will continue to be in discussions with our justice partiener parte coming days. I want to thank supervisors hany, walton and ronin. I urge the president to use the full powers of the defense production act to compel private manufacturers to produce covid19 tests, face masks, ventventilators and provide ventilators and to provide free healthcare. They fail to recognise the seriousness of this situation. We are now all suffering the consequences of this refusal when he turned down checks offered by the World Health Organization a month ago. Even now that the economy is headed into a recession and numbed confirmed cases, the government is saying there is no need to use this act. As a number a confirmed cases continues to climb, we are in the shadow of italy where almost 7,000 people have died as of today. With frontline medical staff forced to reuse masks and other personnel projecting equipment, doctors coming down with coronavirus and state officials directing policies, it is abundantly clear that our Public Health infrastructure is not built to support and operate of this fail. As unemployment rises, so will the number of People Living in the United States and that means tens of millions of people without access to healthcare during this Public Health emergency. With the stroke of a pen, the president could compel all private Insurance Companies and Healthcare Providers to provide free healthcare for the duration of the national emergency. Every hour and everyday counts. We cannot afford to give people medical care. It is an acute medical failure that the wealthiest nation is allowing tens of millions of people to go without healthcare during a onceina Century Global pandemic to prohibitive costs. While i do not have faith in the president s willingness or capacity to respond to the situation, let alone this resolution, it is still our role as at a city to continue to push the federal government to provide Critical Resources and terrifying as it will sound, the person with the most power to minimize life is donald trump. I am proud add as a fourth generatiofourthgeneration hee the leadership our countries needs now. These attacks on the Asian Community must stop now. Thank you and the rest i submit. inaudible . Thank you for all of the work you are doing at this time. I have a few resolutions to submit, some of which i have spoken about so ill be brief on those. Im introducing a resolution, im urging the mayor to require employers in large Retail Grocery stores and Food Delivery Services to offer an expanded workers right package that includes hazard pay, extended sick leave and access to personal protective equipment based on the impacts of covid19 and the Public Health officers shelterinplace order. This industry has been overlooked in many cases as frontline workers and people who are still required to show up to work, to make sure the rest of us can still put food on our tables and have our medication to survive. These Unsung Heroes are the cashiers, deli clerks, pharmacy clerks and food delivery workers who put their lives at risk of potentially getting sick themselves so we dont have to. They help to provide fresh meals to families, replenish grocery shelves with supplies and deliver food and growserie groco our seniors. Many are getting paid minimum wage or slightly above that and it is time to require the employers to compensate them fairly during this crisis. This resolution is calling for the mayor to exercise her authority under the city charter Emergency Powers clause, to develop an emergency order requiring large Retail Grocery and drugstores and Food Industry to provide their workers with additional hazard pay and encouraging them to maintain employment, as well as other protective equipment so that they can ensure that when they are at work, that theyre safe and many of them, ive heard from, including relatives that people who work in my own office, that theyre afraid to go to work and theyre note getting gloves and things that protect their health at this time. We can take action to make sure that the large Retail Grocery drugstore and Food Delivery Services are providing and also that they support their workers. This is something thats been done in minnesota and vermont where the governors of the state have announced just last week that these workers should be identified as emergency frontline personnel and have access to childcare and other benefits. I want to thank the leadership of us leadership w5 and local 648 for the advocacy and partnership on this issue, as well as the San Francisco labour council. I also am joining a resolution with supervisor mar on urging enforcement action in injunctive relief for the misclassification of workers who are being forced to go into work without access to the benefits and paid sick leave, disability, family leave and Unemployment Insurance and many of them just like with the grocery workers are doing work that right now is essential. Theyre delivering food and theyre taking people in the absence of other transit options. But they are not being treated under the law as they should. We are calling on the state to take action as well as our own office of labor standards enforcement to enforce ab5 and for the companies themselves to do better by their workers and provide the benefits and support that they need right now, including making sure theyre able to keep their vehicles clean, that they themselves are able to have the protection so theyre not exposed to the virus. We are introducing a resolution related to homelessness which supervisor ronin spoke about and its clear that it cannot be a solution to leave the people on the streets. Many i see on streets of district 6, its unsafe for them and unhealthy for them and they should have access to the same Health Protections as all of us do who are housed. Its also unsafe to simply put people into congregate shelters who we know are not able to have the same level of social distancing and protection that all of us deserve and people who are unhoused deserve just like anyone else. Were introducing again with supervisor ronin a resolution demanding state and federal government demand a moratorium on residential rents and this is one of the issues i hear about, as im sure you all do as much as anything, where people are terrified of the virus and terrified what will happen on the first of the month when their bills become due, their mortgages come due. There is a statewide coalition with organizations with more signing on that submitted a letter to the government with a demand to the suspension of rent and mortgage payments and these are unprecedented times and these are also a time when we have to step up and let all of our residents know that we have our backs. Lastly, im putting forward a resolution today in partnership with supervisor peskin for bar to remain operational. There are significant stimulus packages that are under consideration and debate at the federal and state level and its critical that our state and federal leaders know that we need to include funding for this so they can continue to provide essential Public Transit service and even restore Transit Service for those essential workers with much access and jobs providing Public Safety and health and social services for the people of San Francisco and the region. I want to thank sfmta and bart for working with us, as well as supervisor peskin and his staff. Thank you, supervisor hany. Supervisor mandelman. Submit. Thank you, supervisor, for submitting. If i dont see names on the roster, mr. President , i believe that concludes the introduction of new business. Ok, thank you. Madam clerk, lets go to general Public Comment right now. At this time, the public may address the entire board for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board and including items on the adoption without calendar items. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling and ill give you the number, 888 2045984. Thats 888 2045984. The access code is 350158008. The at t stock language will prompt you to get into the question and answer period, but there is just your opportunity to get into the cu cue and dial0 to be added to the queue. This is how youll virtually line up. The system as youre dialing in will put you in the order that you put yourself into the queue. A couple of best practises, you call in from a quiet location is speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, if you wanted to submit Public Comment in writing, were happy take that and make sure the 11 members of the board receive it, as well as to place it into the agenda file for today. You can either submit something in writing to board. Gov. Supervisors sfgov. Org. I also have staff standing by if you need assistance with any of these modes of communicating with the board call 415 5545183. Thank you, mr. President. So madam clerk, is there anybody thats called in . Yes, mr. President. I believe we have callers on the line and so, i will ask my staff to send the first caller over, please. Your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, press 1 and then 0. Is there a caller on the line . You have six questions remaining. My name is michael petrilis and ill hit the timer on my phone for two minutes. Hi, im a public advocate. I would like to thank the clerk of the board and all supervisors for establishing remote published comments and for committing to soon making Public Comment available via video teleconferencing. You must decide on a fixed time for Public Comment. I recommend you take Public Comment at the beginning of every meeting and give us, the taxpayers, time, when you will take Public Comment. It must be note ed thi noted thc has been asked around for hours in your Public Meetings and that has to change. The other thing is i am calling on the four members of the board who are still on th the dccc to immediately resign. There is no information that the four supervisors who are moonlighting as dccc members have resigned. You have one job, supervisors. That is serving on the board to protect us as this pandemic rages on. I am also calling for the board of supervisors to implement a twominute time limit on your role call introductions. You guys ramble on for as long you like and keep us waiting. You guys need to also practise speaking in only twominute increments when you make your role call introductions. Thank you very much. You have six questions remaining. Thank you, another speaker, please. Yes. Hello, this is matt sutter and im message 775 him. 775 hill. It is time to issue a bo bond wn it is readily available to bail us out. You have the capability of doing that. Out of 330 purchased medallions and 280 of those have gone nonoperative. We currently are getting about 2500 calls a day comparing to 12,000 calls. So our numbers have rapidly decreased. What weve been asking for all along is that you guys step in and take control of the situation here. And now, weve got to a point where we cant even pay medallion loans. These companies are still asking us to pay the color schemes that are unreasonable and we ask for you guys to talk to the bank about giving us a threemonth, nopay period. I dont know what it will take for you guys to finally do something for the cab drivers. Ive also requested and i sent emails to all of you guys about getting us masks. If you think that we want to pick up these people out of these hospitals and catch the virus, we are in the public eye. Were dealing with handicap, ederly and then we go and pick up other passengers and we will be spreading this even more rapidly. You cant tell me that you cant give us masks and gloves and provide us with safety. This has gone on too long and it is time to get a bond and issue it and just get us out of this situation. Thank you. Thank you. Is there another speaker, please. You have seven questions remaining. Next caller, please. Hello, can you hear me . Yes. Hi, this is david pilpell calling. First of all, i wanted to thank you for making this Service Available given this difficult time for everyone and second, i wanted to appreciate the members of the board for their perseverance and efforts at this time and particularly the clerk of the board and her staff for working nearly 24 7 to make things happen at the board of supervisors. Thank you to all. I wanted to just make a brief comment about the city website. In particular, the page sfgov information cityservices which is open during this outbreak on the main page. Its a list of what services and functions are being provided and to some extent whats not being provided by the various departments. However, it is incomplete and i dont know who at the doc or the jic can fix that, but i would ask that you arrange for each City Department to post on that particular page so that the public has a consolidated location where they can find what each department is doing that theyve deemed essential, what theyre not doing that they have deemed nonessential and what changes theyre making to the services they are providing so that people can know how to intersect with the Government Services that do exist right now. In addition, each department or agency should post on the front page of its website. That summary of what theyre doing and the link to this main page so that theres consistent and comprehensive information about what exists now. please stand by . There is so much frustration and depression. We cannot sustain ourselves and we are lifting on. So, my request is please do it as soon as possible. Do not delay. Do something and pay our medallion loans, bail us out give us our money back. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Is there another speaker on the line . Yes. You have five questions remaining. Hello, speaker. Hello. Hello. Go ahead. Ok. My name is patrick conners. My husband and i have been living in the city for over 20 years now, 25 years. Were both over 50yearsold. I am on a fixed income as a disabled person. He is the same age as i am. Were both unemployed rit now. I had a job working in the castro in retail and the cas cat row has been struggling and its about to be a dead zone after this. What are we going to do . What are you going to do . I can probably come up with rent for april. Were not going to get money from the feds or from the state until the middle of the month. How am i going to pay may . People are concerned about april. This isnt going to end. I can either pay my rent for april or not pay it. And save that money in case i need it. Now, of course, i live in a rentcontrolled unit. The mayors moratorium on eviction wont cover me if i am taken from this apartment. Which could happen if i to dont pay my rent. How could she do that . How can you allow her to do that . Is that how eviction is that how well be protected from being evicted. I have to decide between rent control unit or living in the street. This is untenable. Help us. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. You have four questions remaining. Another caller on the line, please. Next caller, please. Hi, my name is Brent Johnson, can you hear me . Yes, go ahead. Thank you, my name is Brent Johnson and i am the medallion holder and operator of the medallion 1557 in San Francisco. Ive been driving cab for 26 years in the city. Of course, i, like others, have never seen anything lick this before. Its completely unprecedented what were seeing right now. Ive had one fare in my cab in the last 30 hours of driving. I went to the airport the other day and talked to the guy who was first in line to go up pick up a passenger and he was there for 10 hours. I understand that the airport has been working on a virtual cue to avoid people sitting in the airport for 10 hours or for one hour. So they can be notified through their phone, the technology is already there for this, and be able to come to the airport from where they are nearby instead of waiting in a lot for 10 hours smelling jet fuel and doing nothing. Maybe some of them can play cards but most of them are just fretting and becoming very depressed. I left, of course, i it not wait 10 hours myself my point is theres not any fares on the street or go to the airport wait for rides. Something needs to be done for the taxis on the streets. Theres only a few out driving around trying to service the public and those are savvy guys. Im seeing the guys that ive seen for 25 years that ive always believed in and i want to tip my hat to those out there. Thank you to everybody whos listening right now. Thank you to everybody who is there in the cue and for the comments that have been made by people. I appreciate the format. Also i wanted to recognize that im still seeing lyft and uber drivers coming when i ask them, yesterday and the day before from madera and san diego, so people are coming from all from the state to our city to take rides from what used to be the taxi drivers of our city. Thank you for listening. You have three questions remaining. Next caller. Hi there, brad edwards district 11. I know coronavirus has taken all the oxygen out of the room but i wanted to note as to be back on workers who need to be valued today and and i want to thank the mayor and second, i wanted to check in and reiterate, over the last year or so, that these are still jobs that should be union and perhaps that they might find themselves in a different situation today. I thank you for the time and listening it my mends my commen. You have two questions remaining. My name is aj can you hear me . Yes, about go ahead. I am a taxi driver for almost 29 years and a medallion holder and we have been struggling for more than five years and almost three years keep coming back and fourth to the city hall and for help and begging and requesting please buy back these medallions and theres no other solution. Sfmta is a fully corrupt and theyre favoring gap companies and you name it. Theyre being given incentives with so many different ways. Not taking care of the medallion and the coronavirus virus started coming into the fact. We are desperately needing how are we going to pay to the bank. How are we going to pay these grab companies . Do we have to go back to or native countries that we are born. We are american citizens so we have to go back to our native countries and bring the money and pay these Cab Companies to the bank. Everybody up there taxicab have been healthy and chicago they have been helped and san diego they have been helped. Why not in San Francisco . San francisco used to be a role model. Why not now when we are in need . Remember, these are sitting today. These chairs are not going to remain under you forever. It was also a mayor of San Francisco and its time. One day its going to pull on it. You have one question remaining. Hello, this is thomas. I am a student of history and whats going on in the world today remines me of a book. It talks about the twilight of the soviets when everyone looked around knowing something but not saying something. In that context, im noticing a lot of strange parallelisms in the news that probably are not to be discussed. The one thing that can be discussed is the on going racketerring involving the s. R. O. Held by the pa tells in the city. I observed in van documents theres a burner company in an inverse daisy chain. Complex financial frauds can go on for years undetected because they have learned how to evade the normal oversight processes and this is being orchestrated between the patels and ben rosenfeld. I saw the documents. I saw the master spread sheet. I saw how the kickback works. It solves supervisors in this meeting. And it is disgusting. Anticompetitive pricing is using cash funds to jack up and price fix the market rate of s. R. O. Rentals in San Francisco above the amount of general assistance grants. Thats the reason why. The city is paying for thousands of rooms every single night to remain vacant to price fix and inflate the market rate rentals. I saw the documents. I reported it. Two days after i reported it, i got a red flag notice on me and a restraining objected are order. Thatorder. Its called retaliat. Im a forensic accountant and thats disgusting. There are no further callers. You have zero questions remaining. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Maam am clerk, can we go to our 2 30 accommodations . Madam clerk, your sound is not on. Thank you. Until further notice the 2 30 accommodations celebrations have been suspended upon request by the president of the board. Supervisor yee lets go to our special order. 3 00 p. M. Item 9. Item 9 is a hearing of the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole today march 24th at 3 00 p. M. For the members to hear and receive a report entitled cannabis in San Francisco a review following adult use legalization on specific findings and recommendations regarding cannabis and requesting the Controllers Office to report. Supervisor yee understanding this item will be continued, well now take Public Comment on this item. To my operations team, are there any callers on the line . Regarding item number 9. Supervisor yee hearing none, Public Comment is now closed on this item. Colleagues, do we have a motion. So moved. Second. Supervisor yee moved by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor fewer. Theres a motion to continue these matters to the future date to be determined. After the Health Emergency has ended, made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor fewer, without objection. Item 9 is continued. Madam clerk, lets call the next 3 00 p. M. Special order items 1013. Items 1013, item 10 is the hearing of persons interested in the certification of conditional use authorization for proposed project at 95nordoff street and items 1113 are the motions associated with that appeal. This hearing has been continued through february 11th and march 10 the 2020 and due to the local Health Emergency, the president will entertain a motion to continue this hearing and the motions to the near term until the emergency is concluded. Future scheduling will have proper notice to all parties associated with this. Supervisor yee ok, with the understanding that items 1013 will be continued, we will now take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this continuance . All speakers will be allowed two minutes each. Hearing none. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues, questions or a motion . So moved. Supervisor yee motion made by supervisor peskin. Is there a second . Second. Supervisor yee seconded by supervisor preston and then without objection, items 1013 are continued. Madam clerk, lets go to our next 3 00 p. M. Special order. Items 1417. Items 14 is the public hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act issued as a categorical exemption for the proposed project at 743 vermont street and items 1517 are associated with that appeal and its our understanding that if these items are continued to a future date we will make sure that there will be proper noticing made to all parties. We cant hear the supervisor. Supervisor yee thank you. With the understanding that items 1417 will be conditioned. We will now take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the continuance. All speakers will be allowed two minutes each. Mr. President , i will ask my operations staff to see if there are any public speakers son the line. Operations staff, is there anyone waiting . Yes. Your conference is in question and answer maud. To summit each question press one and then zero. Is there a speaker on the line. Public comment is now closed. One second. There was a haller whatever you said is not clear. I believe he is indicating there may be a speaker. Yes, i have one speaker. Supervisor yee let me reopen Public Comment for this item. Go ahead, speaker. You have one question remaining. I believe able to give a Public Comment earlier but i am an organizer and an artist and also a millennials and people in my generation and working class, people are living paycheck to paycheck. I didnt hear enough people comment on the resolution to what was that . Its general Public Comment. Ill tell you what i just wanted to really emphasize that you will carefully if you do not vote in favor of this resolution for a rent freeze on the rent and mortgage payment you will have communicated to the community what side you are not, not of the people but corp races and banks, thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments . No comments. Ok. Hearing none, Public Comment is closed for this item. We will continue items 1417 to a future date. So moved. Say your name, please. Supervisor peskin made a motion to continue. Seconded by supervisor walton. Thank you, very much. Without objection items 1417 are continued. Madam clerk, lets call the next 3 00 p. M. Special order. Item 183721. Item 18 is a hearing of persons interested in the have the indication of conditional use authorization for proposed project at 1420 carabell street and items 1921 are the motions associated with that appeal. We understand a motion may be made to continue these items and will just for the public we will make sure that whether that hearing is scheduled theres proper notice made to all of the parties. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this continuance . All speakers will be allowed two minutes each. Madam clerk, your speaker is off. Thank you, mr. President. To my operations team, are there any callers on the line. No, no callers on the line. No callers yet, mr. President. Ok. Ok. Then, no speakers then and Public Comment is now closed. I move we continue these items. Supervisor yee is there is a second. Seconded by supervisor preston. This is a motion and a second to continue their item with no objection then the motion passes. Madam clerk, i believe were going to items 2430. Without committee reference. Items 2430 were introduced for adoption without leverage to committee a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first street, alternatively any member of the board may request an items to be severed and considered separately. Would any of my colleagues look to discover any items. Yes, from the item 28. Ok. Madam, any others . Madam clerk, please call the roll on the balance of the items. Ok. On items 2430 minus item 28. Supervisor mar. Aye. Mar aye. Peskin. Aye. Peskin aye. Preston. Aye. Preston aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Safai. Aye. Safai aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Walton. Aye. Walton aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Aye, fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Haney aye. Supervise oer mandelman. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Without object sex these resolutions are adopted unanimously. Lets go to item 28. Clerk a resolution to urge the governor for a moratorium on evictions including evictions urging the jude i believe council of the San Francisco superior court to stay eviction cases and to urge the San Francisco mayor london breed to ban no faulty convictions during the state of emergency related to the covid19 19 coronavirus. Supervisor. Thank you president yee and madam clerk. I had some developments since this item was introduced that i would like to go over as well as make amendments here since the rental issuance introduced the court, the San Francisco superior court specifically has moved forward pursuant to our demand and has stayed for 90 days. Any evictions cases other than those necessary for health and safety. Secondly, yesterday, last evening, mayor london breed issued her fifth supplemental with orders regarding evictions and specifically regarding nofaulty convictions. We work closely with the Mayors Office and were very pleased we were able to come to an agreement and get that taken care of. At this point, with the exception of no faulty convictions are effectively bannedded in San Francisco. So he with want to amend the resolution accordingly and specifically the following amendments and had he hit a circulate of these to all supervisors and i will run through them quickly now. Page 1 line 1. Page 1 lines 46 removing the title urging action at the superior court and my the mayor. Imagine 91 adding whereas clause noting the mayors fifth supplemental. Page 3 lines 310 related to the spirit of court and page 3 lines 21 to 24 removed claws resoutherly serving the action and lines 4 reinvolved claws urging mayoral action and page 4 lines 56 removing mayor, superior court and California Judicial Council from the transmittal lift. What remains are all of the things urging action from the governor on more to be yum for eviction as well as outside evictions. With the amendments i listed eye like to make a motion to amend the resolution as described. Supervisor preston has made a move to amend the resolution. Do we have a second. Second. Seconded by supervisor mar. The amendments are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call the role of the resolution. On the amended resolution for item 28, supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Aye. Walton. Heir. Walton aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Ok, this resolution is adopted. As amended unanimously. Madam clerk, theres been a request to reopen Public Comment, general Public Comment if theres no objection. I will reopen the Public Comment. Thank you, supervisor. So, let me contacts my operations team. They should be checking the lines to make sure that the individual who is calling in will be able to get through. It may take but a moment. Yes, give me a second to get this cued up, please. Thank you, mr. Coop. Are there any callers . No. There are no speakers waiting to speak. How many . There are no speakers. No speakers, correct. Supervisor yee ok, if theres no speakers than Public Comment is closed. Madam clerk, i think we covered everything, right. So weve covered the items on the agenda, mr. President. Please read the memoriams. I have none to report today. Supervisor yee colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. I want to thank everybody for being part of this system. I know its a little strange but this is the best we can do right now in terms of making sure that theres public asset access to our