Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240713

Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference or by telephone and participate in the meeting as if they were present. Public comment will be available for this agenda via the number scrolling across the screen. Best recommendation is you call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn out the t. V. Or radio. If you would like to submit your Public Comment via email, please submit it to me linda, linda, wong, wong, sf. Gov. Chair fewer thank you, madam clerk. Can you please call item 1. Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have john lau from the office of economic and workforce development. Yes, supervisors. I have a presentation, which i am opening now. Can you share your screen . I just did press share. I do not see it. Ill try to open it again. John, if you hd like, i ca pull it up quickly. Let me try again now. Chair fewer, you have someone on your roster. Chair fewer okay. Supervisor walton chair fewer, if i could say a few words . Chair fewer yes, sir. Im sorry. Supervisor walton id like to say a few words. This agreement would lease 1. 6 acres of port shoreline property to the developer for 66 years. In exchange, the developer will be responsible for constructing and maintaining the area as a Shoreline Park at no cost to the port or tworth tens of mils of dollars. With the inclusion of this port lease area, the project will have a dramatic effect on opening up the citys waterfront. Port front access is very limited at this point, and this increases the access. So this comes to us with a positive recommendation to the port commission, and our district 10 office deep district 10 office is in full support. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Lau . Thank you, supervisors. Im having trouble sharing the file. Im here wi im david, ill take you up on that offer. Thank you very much. So oewd has led the negotiations for the Development Agreement on this project, working with multiple city partners. One of those partners has been the port of San Francisco. One of those items is before you, the Lease Agreement of the potrero hill project. I do have a few slides both for the Lease Agreements part of the project and then the project as a whole in context of the city. Ill go briefly through those. I know, supervisors, you have a number of items to get through today while dealing with this new format, but both david and i are available for questions, of course. So this project is what we refer to as the southern bay front strategy. Its kind of our organizing plan for planning for and organizing the suite of projects that the city has processed in the southeast part of the city in the past 15 years or so. So obviously, in combination, they represent a significant amount of Public Benefits of parks and open spaces, obviously, jobs and affordable housing, as well. So this has been the framework that we use to ensure that the Development Agreements that we negotiate on these individual projects serve overall the city and county ultimately. Next slide. So here, you see the project in context of the needed waterfront and its neighbor to the north, pier 70, will really have a dramatic impact on connecting the neighborhoods of the central waterfront, particularly the dogpatch, and its a part of shoreline thats never been publicly accessible and will be with this project. Next slide, please. Here, you see the project in particular, and youll see the 2. 8 acres of port property have been included in the project as analyzed under the California Environmental quality act analysis project and certified by the commission at the end of january. That decision has not been appealed. Next slide. So of that port property, 1. 8 acres next slide. Thanks, david. Is a portion of the remainor of 23rd street, which the developer will improve and dedicate to the city as part of this project. So the 1. 6 acres there you see on the shoreline area will be park project and publicly accessible land, and well get into a little more renderings of those in a minute. Just briefly, on the overall project, its been the subject of a robust 2. 5year Community Planning process with dozens and dozens of onsite meetings and meetings in the community with groups like the dogpatch association, potrero boosters, and other groups of the southeast really have made some significant changes to this project over the past 2. 5 years in response to that engagement and input. Next slide, please. You see the project here in total as a land use figure. 2600 units of total build out, in the total project thats okay, david. We can go to the next one. You see 1. 5 million square feet of office and life science. You see it organized here as a massing study. Next slide. And a little rendering about the shoreline itself, which is the topic of this Lease Agreement, and really a site and program thats geared towards drawing people to the waterfront and creating and engaging in dynamic experience once folks are there. Again, part of the shoreline, which has never really been publicly accessible in the history of the city. Next slide, please. There, you see a little bit about what the port property is today. And the next slide, how it would look after the project. Ill note that the bay trail, which is proposed to go through this area, its actually on what is currently private property, and they will be an easement over that area, including east of that, a total of 1. 6 acres. A 66year lease, and in return, the developer will be spending tens of millions of dollars to improve and then maintain that area within the next slide. Just a few slides, again, on the broader project because it is such a significant development. Ill go quickly through these. Overall, the project has achieved a 30 b. M. R. Level without public subsidy on a totally private project is quite significant. With the total project at buildout, it represents almost 800 units. The housing creates a menu of options for the developer to meet their b. M. R. , which includes fees, inclusion throughout the project, at 40 development. The fee projects, if they fee out to that maximum, would all be dedicated to Housing Projects in district 10. Well go next slide. And transportation of robust both t. D. M. Program and 65 million in t. S. F. Fees will go to a long list of projects that weve worked on with our colleagues at m. T. A. And the community. This includes potentially a Pilot Program for water transit run in San Francisco. Well go to the next slide. Workforce development. Again, weve negotiated a 1 million package from the sponsor which will directly fund getting san franciscans in the pipeline both on the construction and the users side in projects geared towards the type of users on the site that we anticipate, including science and biotech. And here, you see the subject port property in context of the open space, framework, really, a system of spaces throughout the project incurred by this new environment shoreline made possible by this Lease Agreement before you today. Well go to the next slide. And then briefly, a suite of community spaces. Theyre included in this deal, including a 25,000 square foot recreation center, that the developer is required to provide the conversations with the ymca thoroughly advanced conversations, i should say, and the potential of a new Public Library in the neighborhood. Next slide, please. Historic preservation, three notable resources onsite, all of which the developer is intending on reusing, which theyre required to do so by the planning documents. One being the brick walls of the former brick fortress of station a, and the staff, which people recognize from allaround the city. Next slide, please. Im wrapping up here. And then, sea level rise, which is important. Were achieving two measures on this front. One being the intermentions in the project as it is built interventions in the project as it is built, and then, second, a Community Facilities district that we are establishing as part of this project will be out years, which the city will receive revenue from, which the city will be able to spend on intervention of sea level rise. So from the ports perspective, and they can comment on this if there are any questions, we are receiving important Shoreline Park resources, access to those areas that have never been enjoyed. The city is receiving those at no cost to the port in terms of this, maintenance, and liability. Were also including additional areas through easement in the public trust which benefits the area in a number of ways, and i think thats it. Thank you. Chair fewer okay. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none, okay, lets hear from the b. L. A. , please. Good morning, chair fewer and members of the committee. This is Severin Campbell from the budget and legislative analysts office. The board of supervisors is being asked to approve a 66 year ground lease between the city and California Bell Company with the purpose of developing a project on the port property. The proposed Development Agreement thats pending before the board sets out the development of the public park. The proposes resolution before you also would have the board approve the port commissions findings that the lease rate of 1 a year supports the public trust and the ceqa findings. Youll find in our report in exhibit 1 on page 6, we estimate the cost to the developer of the development, which we estimate about 69. 6 million over the 66year term. The actual cost of the development has not been laid out. There is a process laid out in the Development Agreement for that process. However, because we do estimate a net value to the port for this lease, we are recommending approval of the proposed resolution. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on this item, item number 1 . Please remember to please 10. Madam clerk, are you seeing any Public Comment on the roster . Clerk madam chair, you have no persons wishing to speak. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Madam clerk, id like to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Lets do a roll call vote. Clerk yes. Chair fewer madam clerk, can you hear me . Clerk yes. There is a motion to move the item to the full board with a positive recommendation. [roll call] clerk your ayes are three ayes. The motion passes. Chair fewer thank you very much. [gavel] chair fewer madam clerk, can you please call item 2 . Clerk yes. Item 2 is resolution authorizing the g. E. Of the Public Utilities commission to execute an agreement with g. E. I. For planning, design, and possibly engineering support with an agreement amount not to exceed 11 million with a term not to exceed 11 years, for the period of april 2020 through april 2031. [gavel] chair fewer thank you very much. We have april from sfpuc today. Yes. Hello, good morning. Ill send it off to calvin. Okay. Good morning. Good morning, chair fewer and supervisors walton and mandelman. We have a presentation at this time. Just want to make sure that everyone can see that. My name is calvin hui, and im here to ask for [inaudible] sfpuc manages a multifaceted Water Management range, features a complex series of dams, reservoirs, tunnels, and complex treatment systems. In 2017, the oroville dam incident occurred, and from 2017 to 2018, the California Division of safety of dams, that is csod, issued an updated requirement for dams and reservoir orders. Sfpuc had to comply with the new dsod requirements, submitting Emergency Action plans, and performing condition assessments. Sfpuc is practically analyzing our dams and reservoirs and has developed a Capital Improvement program. Sfpuc is accepting contracts for professional engineering forms to perform improvements to our various dsod facilities. And to address this, the p. U. C. Has issued request for proposals that is the r. F. P. In september 2019. Three agreements will be present today the highestranked proposers. Each agreement will be for 11 years, with an amount of 11 million each. They were scored by a Community Evaluation panel. These agreements are consistent of the acom technical engineer services, h. D. R. Engineering, and g. E. I. Consultants. On january 14, sfpuc Commission Approved contracts with the acom and h. D. R. And in january, g. E. I. Was approved. Sfpuc is asking the board of supervisors to approve contract with g. E. I. Consultants, incorporated for a duration of 11 years, with a total amount of 11 million. With that, i hope the b. L. A. Will propose to support the agreement. And with that, ill turn it over for any questions. Chair fewer thank you, supervisor hui, can we have a b. L. A. Report, please. Yes. Thank you. Members of the committee, youre asking to approve a contract between the p. U. C. And g. E. I. Consultants. This is the third of three contracts awarded by p. U. C. The purpose of the contract is to comply with california state dam safety requirement. So the 11 million is allocated to several projects shown in table 2 on page 10 of our report over 11 years, and we recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments, any questions or comments . If not, lets open this up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public that would like to comment on item number 2 . Madam clerk, is there anyone lined up for Public Comment . Clerk madam clerk, there are no members of the public wishing to speak. Chair fewer okay. Well close Public Comment on item 2. Id make a motion to move this item to the full board with a positive recommendation. Roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to move this item to the full board with a positive recommendation [roll call] chair fewer thank you. [gavel] chair fewer madam clerk, can you please call item 3. Clerk item 3 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Sheriffs Department of the city and county of San Francisco to accept and expent365,700 from the board of state and Community Corrections to assist local agencies for recruitment and training of corrections and probations personnel adherence to standards established from july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020. Chair fewer and we have someone here from the Sheriffs Department to present. Yes. Supervisors, this is a fairly straightforward grant. We receive it every year, and let me know if you have any questions. Chair fewer mr. Holland, would you like to give a brief update on where the recruitment is with the Sheriffs Department now . Well, we are still actively recruiting. We have been facing different struggles with the department, but we anticipate hiring 50 to 60 deputies, and this is about the rate as which we would like to be doing it on a regular basis so we stay on a regular curve and we dont get into the dip that we experienced prior to sheriff hennesey coming in. We are on track to meet our but budget goals for the current fiscal year. Chair fewer okay. Any comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public wishing to comment on item 3 . Clerk just like to remind members of the public to press 10. Chair fewer yes, please press 10. Is there anyone in the queue wishing to speak . Clerk madam chair, theres no one wishing to speak. Chair fewer okay. Id like to make a motion to refer this to the full board with a positive recommendation. And can we take that without objection . Madam clerk, i think that suffices, or would you like to do a roll call vote. Clerk madam chair, i think it would be better if we did a roll call vote. Madam chair, you would need to do a roll call vote. Chair fewer hearing from our City Attorney, we will do a roll call vote. Clerk on the motion to move to the full board with a positive recommendation [roll call] [gavel] chair fewer thank you. Madam clerk, will you please read the next item. Clerk item 4 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the District Attorney to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 451,544 from the california Governors Office of Emergency Services for the county Victim Services program for the grant period of january 1, 2020, through december 31, 2020. Chair fewer thank you. I believe we have gina from the District Attorneys office. Thank you, chair fewer. Last year, our office served 8,551 victims of Violent Crime. We only work with victims of violence crime. It does not have to be a charged case. Anyone whos been a victim of a Violent Crime can apply for resources through our office. We paid out 1. 5 million in compensation. Our office in San Francisco accepts those applications, processes them, and finds if people are eligible or not and then pays out the resources to San Franciscos from that pot of money also. In addition, we had san franciscans from that pot of money also. In addition, we had 1,877 volunteer hours. We had a very robust volunteer program, where students from the bay area apply for an internship with our offices, where they learn to provide services to citizens of San Francisco. And that Program Helps us provide our inkind match on grants from the state. This originally helped us organize our response to mass casualties. So we have one of the best programs of responding to mass casualties in california. So much so that we were deployed to las vegas after the mass shooting to assist officials and advocates. Our model has been used in other areas in california, and assisted the state in creating a pot of money, 5. 8 million, to give 100,000 to each county to develop a program like ours. Now that we have the system in place for mass casualty, which fortunately has been beneficial in this crisis, we have more than half of our staff working remotely and still providing services to victims in San Francisco. Last week, we served 120 victims of crime all remotely. This week, were on target to serve about 200 victims of Violent Crime, and thats everything from charged and uncharged cases to assisting them with finding resources during this Health Crisis, and also keeping them updated on cases that are being held over or continued while the courts are sorting out whats going to happen through the shelter in place. So im here to ask that you please approve this grant so that we can continue to work, and were working hard for the citizens of San Francisco. Chair fewer thank you very much. Theres no b. L. A. Report on this. Lets move to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item . Remember to press 10. Are there any speakers in the queue . Clerk no, chair, there are none. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer id like to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a roll call, madam clerk. Clerk yes, on item 4, with a motion to move to the full board with a positive recommendation [roll call] clerk there are three ayes. The motion passes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 5. Clerk item number 5 is a resolution authorizing certain amounts to the indenture of trust and the Loan Agreement relating to the citys variable rate multifamily housing revenue bonds, currently outstanding in an aggregate Principal Amount of 211 million issued in 2016 for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition, development, and construction of a 350unit multifamily rental Housing Project located at 450 folsom street. Chair fewer thank you. At the request of the developer, theyre wishing to this have item tabled. Lets move to Public Comment. Are there any speakers in the queue . Clerk madam clerk, there are none. [gavel] chair fewer thank you. I make a motion to table this item. Roll call vote, please. Clerk thank you. On the motion [roll call] clerk there are three ayes, the motion passes. Chair fewer thank you. Madam clerk, can you please call item 6. Clerk yes. Item 6, resolution approving the first amend to the contract between the city and county of San Francisco and the tides center to provide Supportive Housing Property Management services at six city leased sites by the delivering innovation in Supportive Housing program to help formerly homeless tenants maintain housing and stablity, to extend the Contract Term by four years, for a total period of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2024, and to increase the contract amount by 23 million for a total contract amount not to exceed 29 million. Chair fewer thank you. Pardon me, chair fewer, while i bring this. These six buildings include four units of permanent Supportive Housing for formerly homeless extremely vulnerable adults . And the current contract is coming to an end, and wed like to extend it for an additional four years. Again, this is simply for Property Management services that d. I. S. H. Is currently providing, although theres some state and federal dollars, as well, included in the funding source. As the clerk has mentioned, the current budget is about 5. 5 milli 5. 5 million annually, and this will be increasing over the course of the project. This amount is to extend the Contract Term by four years, to june 2024, and increase the contract, including a 10 contingency. As you can see, the cost of the project continues to be about 5. 5 million annually, with a total not to exceed amount of the grant of 25 million, and im happy 29 million, and im happy to take any questions that you may have. Chair fewer thank you. Do i have any questions or comments . B. L. A. Report, please. Yes, chair fewer, the b. L. A. Is asking to approve a contract between the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the tide center. Tide center is related to d. I. S. H. Tide center was the only respondent to the r. F. P. For these six sites. They have been providing Property Management to these sites since about 2006. So the r. F. P. Provided for a tenyear contract. The department entered into a oneyear contract for 1. 58 million that expired this fiscal year. Theyre asking to increase the contract amount from 23 to 29 million, and extending the contract through 2024. On page 16 of our report, the contract is for the amount of public funding. There is some tenant and other funding to the contract that meets the total expenditure budget. This is a difference between the budget over 26. 6 million and the not to exceed amount of 29 million, however, that is to provide a contingency for expenditures, and we recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments from my colleagues . Thank you. Lets move to Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Remember to press 10. Are there any speakers in the queue . Clerk madam chair, there are none. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer id like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion by supervisor fewer to recommend item number 6 to the full board with a positive recommendation [roll call] clerk there are three ayes. The motion passes. Chair fewer thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, can you please call item 7. Clerk item 7, resolution approving for purposes of Internal Revenue code, section 147, the issuance and sale of revenue obligations by the California Enterprise Development Authority in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 19 million to finance or refinance the acquisition, construction, renovation, rakes, improvement and orequipping of educational and related facilities to be owned and operated by San Francisco University High school, a california nonprofit Public Benefit corporation. Chair fewer thank you. I see we have several people joining us today. Yes, thats correct. Good morning, chair fewer and members of the budget and finance committee. Thank you for your time this morning. This is julia eels, im the head of San Francisco University High school. Im joined by the chair of our budget and finance committee, our chief finance officer, and a graduate of University High. We are here asking you for approval of funds in an amount not to exceed 19 million. This will allow us to make upgrades and improvements to our campus and to continue with master planning. I want to provide you with a brief overview of University High school so you can understand us a little bit better, and i will be happy to answer questions, as well as others in our group, that you may have. San Francisco University high school opened in 1975, located at 3065 jackson street. Enrollment for the 20192020 school year is 410 students. We are accredited by the western association of schools and colleges, and we are members of the National Association of independent schools, the California Association of independent schools, the college board, and the secondary schools admissions testing board. We currently employ 110 fulltime employees, along with 20 to 40 coaches and contract workers that live in the San Francisco bay area. Is the school has a diverse student body with a variety of racial, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. 52 students identify as students of color. Our students come from 54 different zip codes, most in San Francisco and marin county. At u. H. S. , we believe the highest learning comes from people that embody a variety of experiences and perspectives. The School Awards over 3. 4 million in Financial Aid per year to 24 of the student body, making the average cost to attend for Financial Aid recipients approximately 15,791. Most recipients of Financial Aid are students of color. 28 are San Francisco University High School Families fall below the San Francisco poverty line. We commit to seeking and enrolling students from a diverse socioeconomic and cultural economic background, and we meet their need to ensure that they can fully engage in the u. H. S. Experience. University high school does not provide special education to any of its students as it does not align to the mission of the school. However, the school does accommodate learning differences. This allows University High school to build and sustain an excellent and diverse learning community. Additionally, San Francisco University High school runs a tuition free after school and Summer Program called Summer Bridge. Summer bridge was founded in 1978 at University High school and was the original site for a program now called break through collaborative, which runs 24 sites across the country. Summer bridge is a member of that break through collaborative, and Summer Bridge has transformed the lives of over 1200 middle schools students and nearly 650 college age and teachers to be. Since weve opened the program, this program prepares ambitious middle School Students to enter and thrive in well matched high schools for the purpose of securing admission to, succeeding in, and graduating from college. We support, through endowment and philanthropy the yearly budget and provide services for this program at no charge. Current enrollment for the purpose is 72 students, with 41 of those students falling below the San Francisco poverty line. The average income for families in this program is 85,390. We are also proud of the 11 Million Development of the paul good field project in the presidio, which has made available for Community Athletic organizations, such as San Francisco little league, as well as all San Francisco residents to enjoy. We would be happy to answer questions that you and your committee may have at this time. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions for miss ells . I have one question. So your school doesnt offer any special education services, meaning none of your students have i. E. P. S, correct . Actually, our students do have i. E. P. S, but they are in a range that our program can manage. But we certainly are responding to Students Learning differences, and they do have individualized programs. Chair fewer and the racial breakdown of your student body . We are 52 students of color and give me a minute. I just lost that screen. Sorry, im managing a lot of things. Chair fewer sure. And of that 52 students of color, what is the breakdown of that . Sure. The breakdown is that 20 of our students are asian Asian American, 6 of our students are african american, 19 9 of our students are latinohispanic, 4 middle eastern, 2 Pacific Islander, and 1 native american. Chair fewer thank you. There is no b. L. A. Report on this. Any questions or comments from my colleagues . Is there any Public Comment . So well take Public Comment on this item now, item number 7. And if youd like to offer Public Comment, remember to press 10. Clerk madam chair, there are no speakers. Chair fewer thank you very much. Id like to make a recommendation to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Roll call vote, please, madam clerk. Clerk yes. On the motion by supervisor fewer to move the item to the full board with a positive recommendation [roll call] clerk there are three ayes. The motion passes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call items 8 and 9 together. Clerk ye clerk yes. Item 8, resolution approving amendment number 1 to the agreement between richmond area multiservices and the department of Public Health for Behavioral Health services for adults, older adults, and transitionate age youth, to increase the agreement amount by 13 million for an amount not to exceed 23 million and to extend the term by three years, for a total agreement of july 1, 2018 through june 30, 2023. And item 9 is a resolution approving the amendment number 1 to the agreement between richmond area multiservices and the department of Public Health for Behavioral Health services for children, adolescents, and their families, to increase the agreement amount by 16 million for an amount not to exceed 26 million, and to extend the term by three years, for a total agreement of july 1, 2018 through june 20, 2023. Chair fewer thank you. And allison, i believe, is here, from the department. Yes. Allison is not here, so my name is jennifer, and i am here to present. Each contract is currently two years, and today, were proposing to extend each contract by three years, to end on june 30, 2023. Each are authorized by several different solicitations, as noted in the report. R. A. M. S adult and older adult programs serves all adults age 18 and over in need of Behavioral Health services. Its designed with a special focus serving the asian and Pacific Islander and russian speaking communities, both immigrants and u. S. Born, a group that are traditionally underserved. And the department agrees with the budget analysts recommendation to recommend the contract. Chair fewer thank you very much. And thank you for your consideration. Chair fewer thank you. So is there any comments or questions from my colleagues . If not, lets hear from the b. L. A. , please. Yes, supervisor fewer, members of the committee. So there are two contracts here that are being reflected for approval. 5200164, item 8, is a contract between d. P. H. And richmond area multiservices, or r. A. M. S. , for behavioral adult services. File 210065, is between r. A. M. S. And d. P. H. For area families. Following a competitive solicitation, the department entered into contracts of less than 10 million, so they didnt have to come to the board. The department is now asking for an increase in item 8, for a total amount of 13. 9 million. Item 9 is asking for an increase of 16. 4 million, not exceeding 29 million, and extending the term to 2023. The Funding Sources and expenditures are summarized for item number 8 in table 5 on page 25, and for item number 9, in table number 6 on page 26. You will note in our report that for the file 200164, the contract with r. A. M. S. For adult services, that there are actually some services included in the contract that exceed the r. F. P. Limit, so were recommending amending file 200164 by 412,633, so we do see the total not to exceed amount of 23. 5 million, and we recommend approval of file 200165. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public wishing to speak on items 8 or 9, please remember to press 10. Excuse me, supervisors. This is allison, and im here to answer any questions regarding children, youth, and families, contract 200165. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Clerk, are there any speakers on the queue . Clerk madam chair, there are none. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer id like to make a motion to move and to approve the amendment brought forth by the b. L. A. Could we have a roll call vote on that, please. Clerk yes. On the motion brought forth by supervisor fewer to amend item number 8, that is file 200164 [roll call] clerk the motion passes. Chair fewer thank you very much. And now, id like to make a motion to approve items 8 and 9 as amended, and move it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Could we have a roll call vote on that, please. Clerk yes. On that motion [roll call] chair fewer thank you very much. So madam clerk, can you please call items number 10 and 11 together. Clerk yes. Item number 10, ordinance authorizing the treasurer to secure a shortterm line of credit in an amount not to exceed 20 million, or in the alternative, partner with one or more Financial Institutions for the purpose of providing shortterm emergency unsecured loans to Small Businesses with a physical location in San Francisco that are unable to meet rent, mortgage, or other fixed operating costs as a result of the economic downturn caused by sarscov2. Item 11 is an ordinance appropriating 20 million of shortterm loan proceeds and 600,000 of the general reserve to the office of the treasurers and Tax Collector to administer individual loans for Small Businesses impacted by sarscov2, appropriating 20 million for loan default, and authorizing the controller to reduce the loan default appropriation to the amount defaulted by june 30, 2021. Chair fewer and we have supervisor ronen joining us today to present this to us. Supervisor ronen thank yo,. Chair fewer. Id like to thank president yee for bringing this to the committee so quickly. Tens of thousands of Small Businesses and hundreds of thousands of workers are at risk. The shelter in place order, while absolutely essential for Public Health, has businesses scrambling to figure out how to stay afloat, and some businesses wont survive without us. I dont need to tell you because im sure youre hearing it as much as i am, but Small Businesses need our help, and they need it now. They need lots of different options to figure out the best way to withstand and survive this crisis. The moratorium on commercial evictions provides some immediate relief to shop owners as is the rent and mortgage moratorium that supervisors haney, preston, and i are calling from from our state and federal officials. But until then, renters are still on the hook for the rent and fixed operating costs. I worked with the Supervisors Office to put together quickly a 20 million rent stabilization loan program. Item 10 on your agenda is an ordinance to secure a line of credit, and to issue loans, and item 11 is the accompany ordinance authorizing those loans. Through this, the city will provide no interest loans up to 15,000 to Small Businesses to cover the rent and fixed operating costs with no interest for 12 months. This will pair well with federal and state help that we hope is on the way. The controllers appropriation also includes a generous allowance of 600,000 to cover total costs for the program for staffing and interest on the loan. Were not sure that this 600,000 is needed, but we wanted to make sure that the Treasurers Office had enough to completely administer this program. In response to feedback from colleagues, oewd, and the Small Business community, i am introducing two amendments today, which you will see on page 3. They are, beginning online 2, the treasurer shall implement such policies and procedures as required to administer the program, including, but not limited to, adding criteria for Small Businesses to be eligible for the loan so that the program is able to serve businesses at high risk of permanent closure. We want to ensure that theres enough flexibility built into this for the treasurer to implement it quickly and effectively. On page 3, line 19, we changed the definition of Small Business to include businesses with gross receipts up to 2,500,000. This captures more of the brick and mortar Small Businesses, retails, bars, restaurants, and nail salons. The federal Small Business administration has declared a disaster in the bay area, which opens the doors for businesses to apply for Economic Injury disaster loans. From what i have heard and learned about the s. B. A. Loans and i did take a webinar provided by the San Francisco s. B. A. Office, it will take some time to get this program up and running, and it will be hard for many of our smaller businesses to access this program. It is likely to be many months before those funds begin to flow. Under the best circumstances, businesses could use the s. B. A. Or other federal sources, which have fairly longterms, to repay the city funding. I know that oewd and the Small Business community is pushing hard for s. B. A. Loans to lower their rates, simplify their application process and lower barriers. But until they do, San Francisco must have a project in place. I want to explain some of the differences between the s. B. A. Loan and the loan we are proposing here. The s. B. A. Loan has an Interest Rate of 3. 75 with a maximum of 2 million and is up to 30 years, but any loan thats over 25,000 must be secured, meaning, the business must have some sort of equity to back that loan in the business itself or personally. We know that many of our Small Businesses in San Francisco are on a shoe string budget. They live month to month, and they dont have a lot of equity invested in some of their businesses. In order to apply for these loans, the barriers are extremely high. You must have an acceptable credit history, you must have a Proven Ability to repay the loan, you must submit profit and loss statements from many months back, you must have all your federal tax returns submitted. The applications are long, theyre tough, theyre high barriers. You cannot be on parole or probation to apply for these loans, and you have to be able to undergrow a very, very complicated application process in english. We know many of our Small Businesses owned by members of the i am this loan quickly, bu we need a low barrier option for these businesses that the city is offering so that we, at the end of this crisis, can continue to be a city of diversity of Small Businesses from all backgrounds. I dont want to end up, and i know that none of you want to end up a city of big box chain stores. In fact our small commercial corridors are known for our unique often immigrant owned Small Businesses, and we want to keep of character of this. Several businesses have closed already because they dont see an end. They dont want to rack up the debts that theyre incurring every single month because theyre not paying their rent or their mortgage. So again, this is one option. Its a relatively low risk option for the city to provide because its a loan. And yes, we will cover the interest payments, but its not going to be the full cost of the 20 million that were borrowing, and i would ask that you approve this today so we can get this program up and running and out the door and hopefully save some of the Small Businesses that are considering shutting down for good right now. Weve already lost the slims bar. The oldest gay bar in the history of San Francisco that is permanently closing. We cant let them do this. Weve got to do everything in our power to help them, so i ask you to support this today, and thank you so much for your consideration. Supervisor fewer, i cant hear you. Is your mute button on . Chair fewer okay. Lets hear from the b. L. A. For items 10 and 11. Yes. Supervisor fewer, members of the committee, item 10 would allow us to secure a line of credit, up to 20 million, or to find other options from other Financial Institutions to make shortterm loans to Small Businesses. Then item number 11 is an appropriation from the general reserve of 20. 6 million, 20 million to be a reserve in case of default on the loan, and 600,000 to cover the treasurers cost of administering the program and borrowing costs. We do note that the as of june 30, 2019, the general reserve fund balance is 130. 9 million. Under the admin code, the general reserve is to be equal to 2. 5 of general fund revenues. This code does provide, in the case of a declaration of an emergency due to a natural disaster, to drawdown below the required general reserve limit. We consider approval of these two ordinances to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. Chair fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions at all . Yes, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thanks, chair fewer, and thanks, supervisor ronen, for bringing this forward. I have also heard from many Small Businesses that are beside themselves with what they are confronting. I do have some questions about the structure of this question and also about the larger sort of city budget information, and i was sort of hoping that Ben Rosenfeld might be around. I know he was bouncing around from call to call. Any way, if he does show up, ive got some questions for Ben Rosenfeld. So this does come with a 20 million supplemental appropriation. And i understand that were not going to be spending all of that 20 million some, and we h hope money of these loans will be repaid. But there will be defaults, and those will come out of our reserves. Im wondering if theres any way to anticipate what the default rate might be and how much of the reserve this might cut into . Thank y. Supervisor ronen let me know if im supposed to put my name on the chat box to respond. Thats a great question, supervisor mandelman, and i do wish that ben was here to answer it. Clerk hes here. Supervisor ronen oh, control ben rosenthal, do you have an answer, because you would be better to answer it than me. Thank you, supervisors. Controller ben rosenthal. I think its a piece of information that we do not have complete information on, given the situation were in. I think the program that supervisor ronen has suggested that we the Treasurers Office put forward during the federal shutdown about a year ago, which in that case, the program was fundamentally physically a payday loan, where there was complete certainty that there would be a federal paycheck for a furloughed federal employee on the other side of the loan program, and we therefore expected to have a very low default rate. I think, given the situation were in, what the Economic Loss will be for businesses is unknown, for what duration, and what number of them will simply not exist at the end of the program and will therefore be unable to repay the loan. So its really information that we do not know at this point. The appropriation that you have in front of you has a full 20 million general fund reserve back stop, such that if you had complete daughtefault rate on businesses, from all businesses, we would be able to repay the loan from the general reserve. I wouldnt expect that to be the case, but i would expect the daughtefault rate to be hi. Chair fewer thank you. I see supervisor ronen, and supervisor mandelman. Would you like to respond . Supervisor ronen yes. Just to note, in the probation itself, it does give the treasurer the full ability to correct the debt, so anything that they would use normally. But i guess i have i share supervisor mandelmans concern and question about this, and im wondering, you know, whether a 20 million hold on the reserve is too extreme because we know were not i know, we can be pretty sure were not going to have full default, right, especially given that these other programs are on their way, and some people would be able to use these programs and then payback this loan. Just have that question for you, ben. Certainly. I agree that i think a full a full default rate or a default rate of 100 is likely to occur. What were guarding against, though, is ensuring that we have a board approval to repay our own loan here such that we dont default on the loan. And absent that appropriation, we run that risk. So this stopgap would be an appropriate method. The proposal that supervisor ronen put forward does allow us to monitor dwaefault rates wit the treasurer in the coming year, and we would report that back to the board as we go r s through through the experience. Chair fewer thank you. Supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman i would love to hear from ben, since he is on the call, kind of where we are financially right now as a city, if were anticipating were going to have to make any other additional supplemental appropriations for any of the costs that were incurring around hotels and services and d. P. H. Activity around covideo, and thcovideo, covid, and what were anticipating next year. Chair fewer chair walton . Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. Supervisor ronen and mandelman are touching on the pressure points that i wanted to bring up. But the one thing i wanted to remind everyone is this is something thats unprecedented, and something that weve never come across before, but i think we should be looking at what does it mean to coming back to municipalities to address the need for Small Businesses or being able to address some of the debt that we may incur providing a loan fund like this. But this is something we absolutely must do and need to do. And then, the last thing im going to say is even with all of the other relief packages and things that we are planning that are going to take a hit on our budget, theyre not going to all be coming from the same pot, and so i just want to be very mindful of that. Were going to have to be very creative how we address this Economic Uncertainty and how we do everything we can to make businesses and individuals whole because i dont even know if were at the worst point of this crisis, but this is very important. Chair fewer thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman actually, then, i would like to hear from Ben Rosenfield about our current fiscal predicament, how this will play out in the current fiscal year, next fiscal year, and the year following. Chair fewer i will tell the colleagues that i have asked for the controller to do a presentation on this next week, but mr. Rosenfield, if you would like to do some highlights, that would be great. Clerk madam chair, you have supervisor ronen on the roster, but after mr. Rosenfield answers the question. Chair fewer i believe that supervisor ronen directed a question to mr. Rosenfield, so giving ben an opportunity to answer that question before i go to supervisor ronen. As the chair mentioned, we are presenting next wednesday to the fivemember Committee Regarding estimates and sort of thinking about our next fiscal year. We hope to have published our estimates of current year revenue losses by next monday, so we are furiously working on that as we speak. They will be extreme losses, even since i reported to you two weeks ago in across almost all of our major sources. Tech Revenue Sources now are worsening. I would expect the current estimate to be well over 100 million and rising. We will likely, because of the level of uncertainty, will be expressing that as a range, kind of as a better or less worse case, and a worse worse case next week, but we will have that for you on monday, and it will be significant. The outlook for next year continues to worsen, as well. And id expect the budget either changes our projections for the next couple of fiscal years beyond this one will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars in worsening. Its increasingly certain that the u. S. Is in a recession at this point, and the only question now is, is the shape of that recession will it be whats called a short, vshaped recession or will recession, with a quick snap back, or will it be a longer one . Chair fewer supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes. I have a question for mr. Rosenfield, and then, a comment. I skipped over the 2 trillion package from the feds. Do you have a sense of what that means to municipalities . I can let you know what i know as of this morning, and obviously, the Mayors Office is tracking the senate bill as we speak, and it has not yet been reconciled with the bill at the house. Its something that we will know in the next couple of days as they come together. We are seeing significant relief from what were talking about here. We do know that in the senate bill, for example, theres 150 billion for state and local government relief to offset the cost of Health Care Response and other expenses that both the state and local governments are going to face in this emergency. We also know that theres very significant new allocations in the Small Business loans, in the grants in the bill,. 367 billion has been allocated in the bill. Again, i think the details in the bill and how that will be administered, weve not seen that yet, but will expect to in the coming days. Supervisor ronen thank you. And im wondering if you can ask a question to the City Attorney, madam chair. Is ann pearson available . Yes. Ann pearson here. Can you hear me . Supervisor ronen yes, i can. I was wondering if we could add into the legislation a provision that requires at least partial repayment of the loan or maybe full repayment if the business is allowed to access assistance from the federal level . I think you would be able to make that amendment. I think it would be substantive, and it would require a continuance, but our office would be happy to work with you on that. Supervisor ronen okay. Thats great. Thank you. So what i would just say after hearing all of these answers is i realize that theres a ton of information that we dont know. We dont know how many of these businesses might not be able to repay these loans. We dont know what the full extent of the economic damage is going to be to our city and county budget. We dont know how much of the house the 2 trillion in help from the feds will fill many of those gaps. Its just not filling the gaps to Small Businesses, but many of the gaps in our budget are going to be filled by the feds in other ways. I just came from r. T. C. , for example, where many of the gaps of the m. T. A. Will hopefully be filled by this 2 million package. I understand that we just dont have the full picture yet. What i would say is that i know, because ive been on the phone with with with tons of Small Businesses, that every day we wait, were going to lose more Small Businesses in our city permanently. And so what i would ask is that we act today. Its a small way that we can make a difference, and it will save some Small Businesses after this crisis is over. Weve built into this a ton of flexibility, so have the Treasurers Office to shape this. And they can alter the criteria in order to make it most effective. It is an investment. It is an investment in funds, but aside from the 1 million fund that the mayor put in there, and the delay of business taxes, we dont have any other concrete fund out there that will make the difference between the business continuing or folding. And what ive heard directly from those businesses, and we have the support from sharkey laguana, the chairman of the Small Business commission, a letter of support from the golden gate restaurant association, if theres not something, something thats fast and low barrier, then say goodbye to some of our favorite businesses. And i know representing both the portola and the mission district, that so many of the businesses in the mission and in portola are immigrant run. These are not businesses that are ever going to have the capital, the assets, or the capability of applying for these high burdened s. B. A. Loans. So what i would ask of our community is knowing every detail. This is going to be a constantly changing situation, and by acting today, were saying, you know, were willing to take this risk to support our Small Business community in a time where were never going to have the full information. And with that, i turn it over to you. Chair fewer okay. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that wish to comment on items 10 or 11, and if you would like to comment, please remember to president 10. Can you please let us know when there are speakers in the queue. Clerk madam chair, theres no members of the public wishing to speak. Clerk chair fewer, supervisor mandelman is on the roster. Chair fewer oh, yes, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. I have concerns about this, significant concerns. I know we probably cant anticipate what the default rate is going to be, but i think its safe to assume it could be 50 . It could be bad, it could be more than that, and if thats a 10to15 million hit to our reserves, not to say we shouldnt do it, but i think we need to have a little bit more information before we potentially subject ourselves to that kind of risk. I think, you know, our First Priority in this city has to be Public Health, and its going to be continuing the response to our Public Health needs, meeting the needs of unsheltered people who have high levels of vulnerability, and i think if were going to be able to do that going forward, we need to be careful about our resources. I also think we need to better understand whats coming in this federal aid for Small Business, and what private philanthropy would be tapped in the shortterm. Im wondering whether a smaller amount of grants would be more helpful to Small Businesses who dont know what the endpoint is, and well have anxiety about taking on additional loans. Maybe thats not a direction anyone is interested in going, but it is a thought. I i i at this point, i would like to give this a little bit more time and get more information from the controller about where we are next week and then move forward on this. Chair fewer thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. I certainly understand supervisor mandelmans concerns, but we are in a time of uncertainty. Certainly, the questions that supervisor mandelman wants answered are valid. I think if we look at the federal stimulus package, we can see that our top priority is keeping everyone healthy and keeping everyone safe. I think the idea is were going to have billions of dollars from the federal government to address the Health Care Needs here across the country, which i think is important to note. And we also have to look at the fact that we have businesses that are literally dying today, dying today as we speak in all of our districts if you look at the third street corridor, which happens to be high vacancy rates in terms of businesses in general, our businesses are bleeding. Most of them are not open. They dont have a way to participate and keep their doors open in terms of delivery. Its not just happening in district 10, but its happening across the city. And we have to do something with Crisis Response and emergency response. And this gives us the opportunity. I do not believe in any way, shape, form, or fashion, that we would exhaust the funding in this legislation, but we would be able to save some of our businesses, and the Controllers Office would be able to reassess how much of those proceeds we have used up until a certain point. Even though i understand your concerns, and they are very valid, this is the only opportunity we have to act and move today for some of our fall businesses to save them. Otherwise, we wont even have Small Businesses continue when we come up out of this crisis. So i would like to move items 10 and 11 forward to the full board with a positive recommendatio recommendati recommendation, understanding all the concerns that exist. Chair fewer supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you, supervisor mandelman. This is a constantly shifting situation. Were never going to have all the information. We have to act boldly and take a leap of faith at times to say we see you, we understand what youre experiencing. We understand youre deciding today whether or not to close or stay open, and here is another option for you to help you make that decision and hopefully allow you to stay open for three more months while all these other programs are put into place. The idea is to act fast, and it is to act without high barriers, so that all businesses, even those run by immigrants, have a chance. Chair fewer thank you. So i want to say that i dont even know the full picture. I know theres been efforts from the city to help with the funds. I dont know where that is, but i also want to say that i just got off the phone this week with merchants in my neighborhood, and yes, Small Businesses are suffering, and they will continue to suffer throughout this whole pandemic, which we dont know where the end is. I think the questions for me is what are the criteria that were asking to secure a loan without the possibility of paying them back. Also, in this loan, theres nothing about geographic balance, and i dont want to see these loans going to one pick neighborhood, when we know that every business in every part of San Francisco is suffering. Another concern is language access. From speaking to commissioners on the Small Business commission, i think theyre having an issue on getting information out in an equitable way through language access. Again, how will this be implemented . I also think that id want to know if there are other loans that we have in place that the Treasurers Office might be looking at a possible default, and that this isnt the only loan out that might be defaults. I also want to say that yeah, i am completely down with what this is trying to do. And id just say if i wasnt on the budget committee, and i wasnt the budget chair, i wouldnt know what is going on in the city and county of San Francisco, and id want to know. And so when we are looking to see folks, when we are looking for all these support systems, i would feel much more comfortable if i had the whole picture. And i say that also for the most Vulnerable People that are living in San Francisco, that theyre going to need unique financial help individually themselves. And so our Small Businesses, as i know, are the backbone of our community, and i want to help them, too. I just want to get a bigger picture, and absolutely, i said my job as budget chair is to get the bigger picture. And so we have a motion on the table today that supervisor walton has brought forth to continue this item i mean, to vote for this item, to pass it to the full board, and i would like to propose a motion that we continue this item for another week as we first hear from, as i said, scheduled next week is a full report from the controller about projections, and theyll have much more information then. I am also requesting information on the 1 million that the mayor has set aside, has that fund grown, what is the criteria for that, and how are these two differently different, or is it a meshing of these two . So i do have some other questions, actually, from the Treasurers Office, but i can submit those during the week if the motion passes. So first, id like to have an opportunity to vote on supervisor waltons clerk chair fewer, one of the clarifications, at the beginning of the meeting, supervisor ronen did submit amendments to item 10 for your consideration. Would you like to consider those amendments . Chair fewer i think we can vote on the amendments, quite frankly. So lets have a vote first on the amendments to supervisor ronens legislation. So could we have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. On the motion by supervisor fewer to amend item number 10 as stated earlier by supervisor ronen [roll call] chair fewer and then, we have a motion on the table from supervisor walton to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Could we have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. On the motion by supervisor walton to move the items to the full board with a positive recommendation [roll call] clerk there is one aye and two noes with supervisors mandelman and fewer in the dissent. The motion fails. Chair fewer thank you. Id like to make a motion to move this items 10 and 11 as amended to be continued to the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. Could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk yes. On that motion [roll call] clerk there are two ayes and one no, with supervisor walton in the dissent. The motion passes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do we have any other business before us today . Clerk theres no further business. 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My whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. I think ive finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. I think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. We have a place where children can be children, but its very confusing. I always out myself as an adult with autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love growing up here. I love what San Francisco represents. The idea of leaving has never occurred to me. But its a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. What ive done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that were still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a Resource Center, and this Resource Center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. I would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. So many things that i would love to do that are all about changing peoples minds about certain chunts, like the Transgender Community or the autistic community. I would like my daughter to know theres no wrong way to go through life. Everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San Francisco Garden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] 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 who is 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 readings. So, colleagues, madam clerk, is there any other further business before us today . That concludes our business for today. Ok, thank you, everyone and please continue to check our website. Www. Sfbos. Org for details. Until then, is this meeting adjourned. My background is in engineering. I am a Civil Engineer by training. My career has really been around government service. When the opportunity came up to serve the city of San Francisco, that was just an opportunity i really needed to explore. [ ] [ ] i think it was in junior high and really started to do well in math but i faced some really interesting challenges. Many young ladies were not in math and i was the only one in some of these classes. It was tough, it was difficult to succeed when a teacher didnt have confidence in you, but i was determined and i realized that engineering really is what i was interested in. As i moved into college and took engineering, preengineering classes, once again i hit some of those same stereotypes that women are not in this field. That just challenged me more. Because i was enjoying it, i was determined to be successful. Now i took that drive that i have and a couple it with public service. Often we are the Unsung Heroes of technology in the city whether it is delivering Network Services internally, or for our Broadband Services to low income housing. Free wifi for all of the residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. We are putting the plant in the ground to make all of the City Services available to our residents. It is difficult work, but it is also very exciting and rewarding our team is exceptional. They are very talented engineers and analysts who work to deliver the data and the services and the Technology Every day. I love working with linda because she is fun. You can tell her anything under the sun and she will listen and give you solutions or advice. She is very generous and thoughtful and remembers all the special days that you are celebrating. I have seen recent employee safety and cyber security. It is always a top priority. I am always feeling proud working with her. What is interesting about my work and my family is my experience is not unique, but it is different. I am a single parent. So having a career that is demanding and also having a child to raise has been a challenge. I think for parents that are working and trying to balance a career that takes a lot of time, we may have some interruptions. If there is an emergency or that sort of thing then you have to be able to still take care of your family and then also do your service to your job. That is probably my take away and a lot of lessons learned. A lot of parents have the concern of how to do the balance i like to think i did a good job for me, watching my son go through school and now enter the job market, and he is in the medical field and starting his career, he was always an intern. One of the things that we try to do here and one of my takeaways from raising him is how important internships are. And here in the department of technology, we pride ourselves on our interns. We have 20 to 25 each year. They do a terrific job contributing to our outside plant five or work or our Network Engineering or our finance team. This last time they took to programming our reception robot, pepper, and they added videos to it and all of these sort of things. It was fun to see their creativity and their innovation come out. Amazing. Intriguing. The way i unwind is with my photography and taking pictures around the city. When i drive around california, i enjoy taking a lot of landscapes. The weather here changes very often, so you get a beautiful sunset or you get a big bunch of clouds. Especially along the waterfront. It is spectacular. I just took some photos of big server and had a wonderful time, not only with the water photos, but also the rocks and the bushes and the landscapes. They are phenomenal. [ ] my advice to young ladies and women who would like to move into stem fields is to really look at why you are there. If you are if you are a problem solver, if you like to analyse information, if you like to discover new things, if you like to come up with alternatives and invent new practice, it is such a fabulous opportunity. Whether it is Computer Science or engineering or biology or medicine, oh, my goodness, there are so many opportunities. If you have that kind of mindset i have enjoyed working in San Francisco so much because of the diversity. The diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the talent that is here in the city. It is stimulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else but in san people of San Francisco. I am proud to introduce the honorable mayor of San Francisco, london breed. Mayor breed all right. First of all, thank you all for coming out here. As you know, thousands of people take caltrain in and out of San Francisco every day. Since 2009 we have seen ridership increase by 76 . We know that this is the location where we have at least eight municipalny lines that frequent this neighborhood. As people move around this an effort to get to their train, their bus, hospital on the bike, walk around, move around, we have to continue to develop safe Transportation Networks so people are able to move around safely in San Francisco. The improvements here today we are excited about do just that. It allows for people to get around safely, which is clearly what we care about the most. As our city grows, as more people are working in San Francisco who are coming from all parts of the bay area, we know that we are going to have more crowded city. Making sure that people could use different modes of transportation to get around safely is critical, whether by bicycle, jogging, scooter, or vehicle or what have you. Our ultimate goal is safety. That is why we are committed to moving forward the changes to our infrastructure that will ultimately lead to what the goals are about, no fatalities on our streets. We know in 2019 we had about 29 people who died on the San Francisco streets. In fact, this year we have already had two deaths. That is two deaths too many this year. We have to do more. Last year i set a goal of doing 20 miles of bike lanes throughout the city. So far we are at 7. 5 miles of those dedicated bike lanes. We are on the way to meeting that goal. This is not about pleasing one group over another. This is about Public Safety. It is about making sure no matter how you are trying to move around San Francisco you know you can do it safely. San francisco is changing. We want to make sure that people are moving around in a way that provides an opportunity for us to feel safe and secure. I am excited about this project. It looks great down here. The streets are clean and smooth and paved. Your bus ride wont we bumpy in this section of townsend. I want to thank s. F. M. T. A. , San Francisco public works for the work they have done to move this project forward quickly along with other projects in San Francisco that we have seen improvements on. I want to thank walk sf and the Bicycle Coalition and the folks who advocated for improvements that are going to lead to a better experience for all of us here in San Francisco, and also ultimately saving countless lives. That you also much for being here today. [applause] i would like to introduce the acting director of the San Francisco department of public works. Thank you, jeff. Thank you, mayor breed. It is great to be here this morning. It is a beautiful day. As i stand here, this is an amazing project. It shows we as a city can do. This is a city that has traveled with folks off buses, bicycles and skateboards. It takes it all to come together to make this happen. It was public works and urban foresty that constructed this island we are on right now. They built the bus pad and loading zones. Overall, and the workers and 1300tons of asphalt on this project along with 750 cubic yards of concrete. Keep in mind, this was a project not done by just public works. It was a collaboration with m. T. A. , San Francisco Bike Coalition along with walk sf. Again, i want to say thank you all. After being here today, public works is happy to be part of this celebration. Thank you all. [applause] next is the partner at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Good morning. I am claia. I am the organizer for the Bicycle Coalition. For the last five years i worked on advocacy in district six. You grew up in the tenderloin and live in the south of market. Traffic is superimportant to me. I know what it is like to bike, skateboards and bike on streets without the proper infrastructure. It is not safe. Town send is one of the important streets in soma for biking, walking and transit with bus lines connecting. Town send is a critical connection to get through soma and beyond. When this project was under threat of a years long delay we made sure the city didnt drop the ball. We are thrilled today we get to celebrate these improvements we won together. Before the changes people were walking in the streets because there was no physical sidewalk in place. People biking had to compete with buses, uber and lyfts. Now there are dedicated, safe and welcoming spaces for people to bike and block. A block long boarding island separates the chaos. This is smart design to make the street so much more inviting and will encourage more people to walk, bike and take transit in one of the busiest neighborhoods in San Francisco. When we set the bar high for City Planners they can rise to the challenge and deliver. We want to thank the hardworking staff at the s. F. M. T. A. And matt haney to see this through to construction. Setting a high bar we want to thank mayor london breed for pushing the s. F. M. T. A. To deliver 20 miles of new bike lanes within the next two years. We will work with you all and the City Departments and our membership to make streets safer for pedestrians and people on bikes. I would like to introduce jody, executive director for walk San Francisco. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you, mayor breed, berrum m director and our partners of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. I am the walk San Francisco executive director. This is one of the places in San Francisco where there are huge numbers of people walking every single day. For so long it is dangerous for pedestrians. No sidewalks, mixing with cars and unable to get to the Caltrain Service where we heard of the buses and trains and people moving about the bay area. Today town send is making a step towards safety for thousands of people every day. I want to give the s. F. M. T. A. A big thank you for doing this very quick league. We encourage them to keep it up. How can we do this more often . There is no time to waste in ending fatal traffic clashes. We have a goal to end all fatalities and serious injuries in the next five years. There are so many more areas where thousands are walking every day need to be made safe asap. We need to create streets that put people and safety first. This is reality for San Francisco. Thank you to the staff at the s. F. M. T. A. , department of public works, mayors on the Supervisors Office who are part of the important project to keep us all safer. Thank you so much. [applause] i am jeffrey tumlin, director of transportation for the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. I am so proud of my entire agency and the San Francisco department of public works who collaborated together. The planners, engineers, work crews representing a dozen different trades, concrete, asphalt, signs, striping. They all worked to advance the quick build project which for the first time is designed to accommodate every mode of transportation. I am very proud of the spring design decisions they have made. For example right here, the curb work to allow us to save 5 million and two years of delay required to move the utility polls. This is quick build. We moved quickly. Everyone worked and we delivered this is a city family to serve thousands in San Francisco in a part of the Transportation Network where every mode comes together. Caltrain, public and private buses, light rail, pedestrians, bikes, scooters and the entrance to the central subway observing a year and a half from now. This is amazing work. I hope this is considered the pilot for another five years worth of intensive quick build work that we owe deep gratitudes to the staff of both agencies but the leadership of the board of supervisorboardof supervisor. I would like you to join us to cut this ribbon. Mayor, would you like to lead us. Five, four, three, two, one. There we go. [applause] the Bicycle Coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. I was happy to receive one of them. The Community Bike build program is the San Francisco coalitions way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not have access to affordable transportation. The city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the San Francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. The partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent. We ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. We make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. Bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. It is not only a form of recreation. It is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. I really appreciate it. I am very thankful. We teach a class. They have to attend a one hour class. Things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. After that class, then we would give everyone a test chance chance to test ride. We are giving them as a way to get around the city. Just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. I guess enjoyable is a word i could use. That doesnt describe the kind of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they havent ridden a bike in years. These folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. Take my picture on my bike. That was a great experience. There were smiles all around. The recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous occasion. At the end we normally do a group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. If someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike. Org volunteer you can sign up for both events. We have given away 855 bicycles, 376 last year. We are growing each and every year. I hope to top that 376 this year. We frequently do events in bayview. The spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. For me this is a fun way to get outside and be active. Most of the time the kids will be in the house. This is a fun way to do something. You get fresh air and you dont just stay in the house all day. Iit is a good way to exercise. The Bicycle Coalition has a Bicycle Program for every community in San Francisco. It is connecting the young, older community. It is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. It has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. I have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program