Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

Then the meeting is adjourned. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Take care. Thanks. Ok. Good afternoon, and welcoo the april 7th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] [roll call] mr. President , all members are present. Supervisor yee thank you, madam clerk. Just a reminder, if you are not speaking, please mute your mic. Im hearing a lot of echo. So, at this time please place your right hand over your heart and will 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. Supervisor yee ok. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who will record each of our meetings and make the transcripts to available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Mr. President , i have a communication that ive been providing during this covid19 Health Emergency to the public that the Board Members will participate through Video Conference to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting for the publics reference, item 18 is general Public Comment. That is the opportunity to contribute live comments for up to two minutes by dialing the following telephone number 8882045984. Thats 8882045984. When prompted, enter the following access code 3501008 and press pound. 3501008pound. Press pound again to joining meeting as a participant. When you are connected, you will be able to hear the meeting as a participant. Best practices are please make sure you call from a quiet location, speak clearly, slowly and turn down your television. And when Public Comment is closed, i will provide this information again. And if you would rather submit written comments, you can use email or us postal service. Email is board. Of. Supervisor board of supervisors or room 244 at the number one dr. Carleton. B. San francisco, california, 94102. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. Just to remind also if you are speaking, dont forget to unmute your speaker and your video. On behalf of the board, i would also like to acknowledge the staff that has been working hard to make these meetings possible. Linda, director of the department of technology for green lighting Microsoft Teams and providing us the best Team Possible to work with us. Jack chin and his staff, tom from Media Services who have provided a Program Framework and created answers to all of our questions. From the office of clerk of the board, john c. Who understands this board so well and has been indispensable to us. Lisa samora whos skills have been remarkable. They chase around board policy and structure helped us in thinking through Microsoft Teams could function. And arthur cool and Eileen Mchale from the Clerks Office who are behind the scenes right now to make sure the public is able to engage with us. Of course to our clerk, angela, for being so organized in leading us into this new territory. Im going to take a moment here to break away from our usual agenda. Theres been request from different supervisors, especially supervisor fewer and i agree that it would be a good idea that we can give a brief update of what is going on e. O. C. So that people would understand what were going through. The weekly updates will be given by the last supervisor that was there the week before. So since i was there the week before, i will give some kind of update. I want to provide an opportunity for every Board Meeting for this to happen and the board team that is stationed at the operations center. First, i want to thank the supervisors who have volunteered their staff. Heidily and andy from supervisor stefanis office, percy birch from supervisor waltons office was from the Clerks Office and this week we have supervisor fewer and her entire team, chelsea, angela, yan and jackie are going to be down there along with john carole from the Clerks Office. And this week and this has a direct connection to the center of all the operations revolving around the covid19 Health Emergency. We are all able to help elevate issues and concerns within the team to the department of publichealth, Health Services agency and the department of Emergency Management. I know that there needs to be more coordination around Food Security and housing. We have been in Constant Contact with those designated to see how we can be more responsive and to leverage our Community Resources so we can better serve our residents. Today, the city launched a data tracker for the public so we can better gage how we are doing around cases testing and acquisition of alternative housing sites. This should be available on the Sf Department of publichealth website. The department of Emergency Management will be providing standing briefings with the supervisors so that we can get direct updates moving forward. This is something that we started a while back but we it away with it because of concerns with the brown act but we, have since then answered that question so we can do this. This will start happening throwe times a week starting tomorrow and you should be getting an email from madam clerk to give you the information you need to get on that line. I really urge this to be on there or have it staffed to listen in as this is important work that is changing everything. You want to get the latest. I want to thank all my colleagues for the innovative ways you have been reaching out to Vulnerable People in your own districts. This week, we were able to launch an automated Driver System in district 7 so that volunteers from the homes can check on elderly neighbors through the technology. I want to thank supervisor stefani for helping to create that framework and commit all of you for the way you are trying to ensure no one is alone during the emergency. Next, as i mentioned, supervisor fewer will provide an update from her time at the e. O. C. So thank you. Before we get started, just a friendly reminder to all the supervisors again, to mute your microphone when you are not speaking. So madam clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda. Clerk items 15 are on content. Considered to be routine. If a member projects a item may be removed and considered separately. Supervisor yee ok. What are is it 15 . Yes, 15. Supervisor yee ok. Would anyone like to officer any items from the Consent Agenda . Ok. Seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, please, call the roll. Clerk on items 105. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee the ordinances are passed in the First Reading and finally, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Lets go to the regular agenda. Clerk item 6 is an ordinance to amend the Building Code to extend the time for existing buildings with a place of public accommodations to comply with the requirement to have all primary entries and pads of travel into the building accessible to persons with disabilities or to receive a city determination of equivalent to solicitation technical and feasibility or unreasonable hardship to extend the period for granting extensions from those deadline and to extend the time for the department of Building Inspections report to the board of supervisors. Supervisor yee can you please call roll . Clerk on item 6. Supervisor preston. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ok, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk on item 7, an ordinance to amend the planning code to correct typographical errors, update out rated cross leverages and make non substantive revisions to clarify or simplify code language to amend the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Can you call the roll. Supervisor preston . Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee without objection this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 16 committee reports, mr. President . Clerk item 16 was considered on monday april 6th and was forwarded as a committee report. Its an emergency ordinance to temporarily require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide publicHealth Emergency leave during the publicHealth Emergency related to covid19. And mr. President , pursuant to charter section 2. 170 the vote threshold would be eight votes. Supervisor yee supervisor mar would you like to speak . Yes, thank you, president. San francisco was ahead of the curve in sheltering in place and im grateful for the early leadership of our Health Officer and taking action that is saving lives. To keep flattening the curve, we must continue to shelter in place. So while we take shelter, we must also take care. We as Public Officials need to take care to help reach our security guards on furlough and take care of parents trying to work a fulltime job from home and also being full time care takers. We node to take care of seniors and People Living with diabetes and people that are h. I. V. Positive or immuno compromised and im asking we take action to help people stay physically and economically healthy. If we adopt this leave, over 200 san franciscans will access two more weeks of paid leave to take care of themselves and their families as soon as its signed into law. Hundreds of thousands of people who will have more Economic Security when they most need it. Our current economic crisis is something weve long known. Economic justice and publichealth are we are only as healthy as our neighbor, our Grocery Store clerk, our front line essential workers and if they cant afford to stay home when they need to, were all worse off. Under this law, if you work in San Francisco, for a large private employer, any company who nonprofit with more than 500 employees you are eligible. Even if you are the only employee in San Francisco, even if you started working a month before shelter in place, even if you are a temporary worker or furloughed, with publicHealth Emergency leave if you are sick or cant work or need to take care of your kids, or you are over 60 or have a compromised immune system you can take paid leave. I want to clarify the process. I know this ordinance has moved quickly. Why apologize for that because we cant afford to wait to act and we have worked with dozens of stakeholders from unions to businesses to make this as strong as possible. This ordinance will go into effect if passed today and signed by the mayor. Theres also a duplicated version of this ordinance we will be voting on next week. That will additionally expand paid leave for Healthcare Providers whose employers cannot have the current version of this ordinance. We made that substitute amendment to a duplicated file because we didnt want to wait to slow down this benefit for the 200,000 workers who covered by the ordinance before us today. I would like to thank my co sponsors supervisors haney, ronen and mandelman and our drafting attorney who worked latenight, Early Morning to bring this before us. I want to thank the coalition we worked with in writing this legislation including job a justice with San Francisco and the Labor Council and United Service workers and legal aid at work and San Francisco chamber of commerce. I wants to thank the frontline workers this is all about and every organization that work in support of this legislation including the California Association and San Francisco state, chinese progressive association, coleman advocates for children and youth, daily labor program, days in action bay area, harry milk, lgbtq democratic club, housing rights committee, pte21, job justice of San Francisco, labor and community studies, college city of San Francisco, National Union of healthcare workers, San Francisco rising, senior and disability action, siu101, siuusww, south of Market Community action network, united educators of San Francisco, united food and commercial workers local 5, and united for respect. And thank you. Supervisor supervisor safai. Yes, thank you president yee. I think this is timely and i think its appropriate. I think the speed with which it moved was absolutely necessary. Just want to be added as a cosponsor and appreciate all your hard work along with your co sponsors. Supervisor yee call the roll, please. Clerk supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ok. Without objection this has passed unanimously. Lets go to the next item, roll call. Clerk supervisor preston, you are first up. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today i want to provide an update on our efforts to protect tenants after the current public healing crisis and let you all know about legislation that i planned to introduce. Since the mayors declaration of a state of emergency in february, my office in conjunction with many of my colleagues worked quickly to bring evictions effective low to a halt in San Francisco in that initial effort, weve been successful stopping evictions for nonpayment of rent and most elective evictions having the San Francisco spirit courts suspend eviction proceedings and getting the Sheriffs Office to agree to pause serving writs ex this swift action has put in police a stopgap on displacement during this very uncertain time and i want to thank everyone for coming together on those protections. We all know there remains a palpable anxiety among tenants particularly low income and communities of color. My Office Hosted a virtual roundtable last week on tenant protections with more than 80 attends and one of the most common questions and im sure many of of my colleagues are getting the same questions, were is what happens after the state of emergency. For those that are losing income through no fault of their own, how will they make up a months rent of after a moratorium has end and what is to stop a wave of displacement down the road. This is the question my office has been working on with tenant advocates and the City Attorney office with recent days and weeks and im announcing next weeks Board Meeting will be introducing the strongest protections for tenants to deep folks if their homes, not just during this crisis but beyond and to prevent tenants from being penalized for an ability to pay rent during this time. This will include longterm eviction protection and protections against late fees. I want to thank my colleagues, supervisor haney and ronen for spearheading efforts to call on state to implement rent and mortgage payment moratorium, a resolution i was proud to cosponsor which was passed unanimously by this board last week. I believe it will take a coordinated effort at all levels of government to ensure that no one is left behind. We must do everything within our power to ensure that this publichealth crisis does not add yet another dimension to our housing and displacement crisis. While we work on the rental burdens and obligations i want to acknowledge we are, as is the case in many as respects of this crisis, in our uncharted territory, we want to extend a thank you to monu for his work from the City Attorneys office for his work on this effort and look forward to saying the details of our legislation with you next week. I also wanted to announce that i will be co authoring, along with many of my colleagues, emergency legislation today addressing the issue of acquiring hotel rooms for Homeless Individuals and i believe my colleagues will be speaking in more detail to that during roll call. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen. Yes, colleagues, i want to followup on what supervisor preston just spoke about and together with supervisors haney, peskin, walton and preston, we are introducing emergency ordinance requiring the city to secure 8,250 private hotel rooms by april 26th and anticipated peak of the pandemic to serve as temporary quarantine for people experiencing homelessness, people released from local hospitals with covid19 exposure or infection and frontline workers responding to this publicHealth Emergency. While san franciscans have been ordered to shelter in place its 3,000 people in shelters, 5,000 unsheltered individuals and 19,000 People Living in f. R. O. S are still unable to selfisolate. This is a much greater risk of contracting the virus. We have stood with leaders to urge the mayor and city departments to temporarily place residents of individuals living on the streets and hotel rooms where they could shelter in place safely. There are more than 30,000 vacant hotel rooms in San Francisco right now and Homeless Service providers have told us that theyre ready and willing to staff up these facilities immediately but instead the city had doubled down on its backward policy of waiting for Homeless Individuals to become infected first before placing them in private hotel rooms. Last week, we reached a new level of urgency when the city confirmed the first covid19 positive case in a homeless shelter in my district. Now there are four other confirmed cases within city shelters. With several other shelter residents showing symptoms. When exposed, Homeless People have a much higher mortality risk do you to preexisting Health Commissions and compromised immune systems. As members of the board we have done everything in our power to move unhoused residents out of shelters and off of the streets into private hotel rooms as quickly as possible. Including securing hotel rooms from the city using privately raised funds and offering every resource to us available as supervisors. Every hour we delay in getting people safely sheltered inside puts more Homeless Peoples lives at risk and endangerers our collective publichealth in the city. We have no more time to waste and we will stop at nothing until every person who is able to selfcare is brought into a safe room where they can properly shelter in place. This emergency ordinance requires that the city procure 8200 hotel rooms and provide recovery units for covid19 patients who do not require hospitalization, quarantine units for First Responders and Front Line Health Workers and private units where unhoused can isolate. Its critical in our effort to prevent further transmission of the virus for unhoused san franciscans and our entire community. Right now, in response to both mayor breed and h. S. A. Director reasoning on why theyre not moving people from the streets into safe hotel rooms, weve heard many things but the most recent excuses we have heard is that unsheltered People Living on the street wont want to go in and wont stay and canting forced to stay in hotel rooms and that it wouldnt be fiscally prude ant tprudent to do so. This shelter in place operation for the city and county of San Francisco one could argue is not fiscally prudent. Our entire economy has come to a standstill but we recognize that saving arrives and the publichealth is more important than money in this instance and we should hold that same belief and that same set of standards for people experiencing homelessness. My colleagues and i went out this weekend and this week to talk to Homeless People sleeping on the streets of our district to ask them, would you go and quarantine a hotel room and would you be able to take care of yourself and i wanted to see if i can share their answers with you in this fiveminute video we made. Hopefully you can see it from my home. We are not going to just be able to take over every hotel room in the city and provide staffing for every hotel room in the city and be able to move people into hotel rooms and force them to stay there. Thats just not going to happen and the reality is people who sadly have drug challenge this is Mental Health issues are not going to take a room and stay there. Balancing that need with of course the fiscal prudence we need. Do you believe that you are able to take care of yourself . And sir if you were put in a hotel could you promise me you would not trash this hotel . I swear, ive never done that to any hotel. I always been very. Do you think are given a hotel room you would be able to take care of yourself . Oh, yes, certainly. Youve been sleeping here mostly by yourself although theres another individual that is about 10 feet from you. If you got a hotel room and the city were to put you in a hotel room, you could take care of yourself . That true . Ive done it. They got this new thing and print. If you had a chance to get a hotel room, especially during this coronavirus thing, would you take it . I would take it in a heartbeat. If you were moving inside would you have any difficulties like managing yourself, figure the how to get food or take care of yourself and all that kind of stuff . You are in a warm place and a place where you can lay your head . You can workout the problems that are up on your self . Most of the problems that are upon yourself, they dont get harder they get easier because now, they think. If people are offered a hotel room, would you stay . I would. It would help me immensely. Dealing with my ailment is hard on me. What illness do you have . Di die a bet i di die bet. Would you be able to take care of yourself . Yes, i take care of myself out here but it would be so much better if i could put it in a fridge and keep it fresh. Thank you, supervisor ronen. I think your point is well made. Can you please stop the video. I would ask we watch the whole video. Supervisor yee we get the point, im sorry. Lets move on. inaudible . Please, supervisor ronen. We get it. We get it. I will just say right now that its very rare that we get to hear from Homeless People themselves and what you dont see from the video unless you watch the whole five minutes, is the age, race, marital status and the people are literally dying on the streets with illnesses and we have no policy in place to put them in the 30,000 empty hotel rooms. The least we could do is listen to what they have to say for themselves, thats all im asking you. Theres no time limit on introductions, im playing a fiveminute video and i would ask for that maud modicum of ret supervisor yee you are so passionate, go ahead. Thank you, president yee. We are not going to just be able to that right there is inaudible over the next two days. Would you be able to take care of yourself if you were in a hotel room . Yeah, because i take care of other people. Right. So i mean, the thing s. I want a hotel for basically two reasons. Number one, a bathroom where i can take a shower, and inaudible . How long have you been sleeping on the streets . Five years. About five years . And if you were offered a hotel room would you move into the hotel room . Yes, right away. Right away. And would you stay there to make sure and would you be able to take care of yourselves if you had a hotel room . Yes. How long have you been unhoused . Well, years over 10 years. All in San Francisco . Yes. And would you rather be living here on the streets or right now or in a hotel room . In a hotel . Yes. Would you be able to take care of yourself in a hotel room. Yes. We have a room for you, you would be able to take care of yourself and take shelter in place . Would you rather be here on the streets or would you rather be in a hotel isolated . To stay safe from the virus . Why would you rather be in a hotel than out here on the streets . Its safer . Theres been dangers out here or the Health Issues . Thank you, president yee. We have talked to our residents in every single district on the eastside of the city. And in the pouring rain, while theyre taking their insulin and doing their best to survive on the streets, they all begged for a hotel room. They said they would go immediately, they said they could take care of themselves and not only that they offered to take care of others. Why, why has it taken five weeks to get people inside of 30,000 empty hotel rooms. Its so deeply wrong and we must fix it and we must fix it now. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Mr. President , did you want to speak . Supervisor yee i realized your calling. Supervisor safai. Hello. Thank you. Thank you supervisor ronen for sharing that video with us. That was very moving, i really appreciate that. Colleagues im introducing a resolution urging california governor to use his executive authority to expedite the procurement production and disbursement of p. P. E. Or personal protective equipment and ventilators, which are essential gear and equipment in our on going fight against the coronavirus. Youve seen the president evoking the defense protection act and encourage industries, we have Many Industries here in california and i know some of you might have seen some of the work thats being done to adjust the production of p. P. E. And ventilators, but as someone that is monitoring the daily numbers of i. C. U. Patients at sf general and San Francisco and the number of people on ventilators, were very fortunate at this moment that we have not seen a significant spike but if we were to see a significant spike, we need this additional equipment and additional ventilators. The governor has his authorities in his executive powers to re district industry and we want him to supervisor that and ensure that our frontline healthcare workers, many of them not just nurses but doctors, environmental Service Workers and many of those on the frontlines that in many cases right now, although theyre being asked to follow the c. D. C. Guidelines which allows fort reuse for some of the equipment, on this not necessarily the safest and best practice and so wore putting this forward and im putting this forward with my colleague, supervisor ronen, thank you, and supervisor mar, thank you, along with the support of jennifer and those from local 1021. And more importantly, the front loin nurses in particular at sf general that have been keeping us informed and letting us know about the situation. I think weve did not a good job of being prepared as we can. This would allow San Francisco and other areas to be even that much more prepared if and when theres a spike. So, that is all i have. The last thing i do want to say, supervisor peskin and i have been working over the weekend to try and get many of the private sectors janitors back to the table with some of the companies that are out there that are laying janitors off and their companies in this city that are treating their janitors as and many of their employees as they are their frontline employees and paying them. There are some that are deciding theyre going to use this opportunity at this moment to lay janitors off, were very hopeful this week will bear some fruit and there will be some further conversations. I think well hear from some janitors today during our Public Comment. I just wanted to highlight that. Thank you supervisor peskin for his leadership and work on this issue with me along with local 87 and were really hopeful well be able to keep people there. As all of you know, janitors are essential frontline workers and play a big role in ensuring that our buildings public spaces and private spaces are clean and free of coronavirus. Everything else, the rest i submit. Thank you. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor stefani. Submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor walton. Thank you, madam clerk and first of all, i just want to thank my colleagues for working to be very proactive as we are in this crisis and understanding that there are times where we need to put lives before focusing on money and it is very important that we continue to push to eliminate settings for our unhoused and vulnerable populations that are living on the streets and s. R. O. S and shelters and Navigation Centers and so, im excited about the legislation that was introduced at this meeting. I would also like to be a cosponsor to supervisor mars emergency ordinance that he introduced at roll call today and last, i just want to thank everyone for working to hear direct low from people who are on our streets and having conversations, aside from just having a video to present, it really did provide in sight as we got out and talked to some of our folks who are living outside and who are unhoused just hearing their stories approximate hearing how they are effected by this crisis as a whole and i want to thank all of my colleagues and city leadership for continuing to work to address the issues and concerns that come up minute by minute and hour by hour and day by day basis as we are dealing with this crisis and i have nothing to submit. Thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor yee. Thank you, madam clerk. I apologize to supervisor ronen for interrupting her. What i saw was the video part of the presentation and realized wasnt seeing anything for a variety of reasons. That was my main reason why i thought it would be good to stop it. But the voices were there. So, i just wanted to remind everybody about our census. I want to remind everyone to fill out their census and remind their constituents to do the same. Theres still time to do the 2020 census. Either those census day has passed, the census is still live and will still have a lot of work to do to make sure the city, residents are common. The Response Rate is below the national. Below the state and below the regional averages. Census responses are co confidential and representation in congress. These results also determine how federal funding is distributed to schools, how schools, roads, social services and more. Everyone should do the census online at mine2020census. Gov. Or just call 8443302020 as soon as they can. Vis et the website for support in 14 other languages. It wont take long. I know when i filled mine out, it took less than five minutes. I want to say we all know how much our Small Businesses are struggling while the federal government, Small Business administration wrote out their 349 billiondollar Payroll Protection Program last friday to provide emergency loans to americans Small Businesses devastated by coronavirus. It has been nothing short of chaotic. We are hearing from Small Businesses, Business Owners being rejected by lenders who are refusing to participate in their program. We are hearing from people frustrated by the application process itself. As a city, i commend us for stepping up to provide local grants and loans but this federal program has been necessary and i really hope we can find a swift resolution so were not leaving our Small Businesses hanging. I will urge Small Business administration and our congressional delegation to lift restrictions and to provide additional assistance so that applications can move forward and to provide better provisions to for loans it more businesses. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Next is supervisor fewer. We refer, bless. Thank you. Clerk supervisor haney. Thank you, madam clerk. Today im introducing emergency ordinance for increased employee protections for Grocery Store, drugstore, restaurant and on demand delivery employees. There are so many people who are still required to show up to work to make sure that the rest of us can still put food on our tables and have medications to survive. A cashiers, bakers, deli clerks, pharmacy clerks and on demand food delivery Service Workers put their lives at risk of getting covid19 so that we can safely shelter in place. They help provide fresh meals to our families, replenish gross resident to shelves and deliver food and grow grocery to senior. The emergency legislation and co sponsors mar, walton, ronen, president ton, fewer, peskin, safai and yee addresses the needs of this Critical Group of workers who are not getting the level of employee protection they need to safely do their jobs during this pandemic. This is scary and challenging for all of us and especially our frontline workers making sure we have access to food, medicine and essential goods. Requiring workers to have access to these protections and also not face retaliation for it is essential for all of us to remain safe and healthy during this pandemic. This legislation strengthens Worker Protections that are covered by the Health Officers orders during covid19. It gives workers a level of protection, mechanism to foil a complaint with the office of labor standards of enforcements. The legislation requires one that employers provide workers with personal protective equipment such as gloves, masks, sanitizers, soap and water and it includes on demand Delivery Service employees who would have to be reimbursed for purchasing these items. On demand Delivery Service employees must be paid for time spent cleaning vehicles or driving to handwashing facilities during the shift. Third, on demand delivery platforms have to offer drivers and shoppers the option of executing a no Contact Delivery during the state of emergency and a work schedule for any reason under the citys paid sick leave ordinance and a fifth on demand Delivery Service employers must keep their employees uptodate with the latest social distancing protocols and how to com ploy and lastly and very importantly, no retaliation. Employers cannot just charge or threaten to charge suspend any person in retaliation for supervising their rights under this ordinance. I want to thank my staff, my chiefofstaff, abigale for reminding mesa and City Attorney, jim from uscw local 648 and uscw local 35. Rudy gonzalez and the many advocates with the jobs justice, human rights committee, uesc, Chinese Progress Association and all of their work pulling this together and moving it forward. Secondly, and many of you have spoken about this, about our emergency legislation to require hotel rooms for unhoused neighbors and im just proud of the work that weve all been doing together. I want to thank my colleagues preston ronen, walton and peskin and also supervisor mar of signing on as a cosponsor and to the entire board for supporting unanimously the resolution last week which really this legislation builds on what weve already put forward in the resolution and really strengthens what were asking for and the accountability around it. Weve had support and i want to and all of our staff who have been working so hard on this according for her work. And leadership and at a basic level, we want to underscore we cannot wait until people get sick to move them into private rooms. Just like were doing for everyone else, we have to prevent people from getting sick in the first place by giving them the ability to stay physically and socially distant from others and protect themselves. Our emergency legislation puts forward a preventative and commonsense strategy that wires the city to procure 8,250 hotel rooms which 730 workers of this crisis and 500 for medical quarantine per the advice of the d. P. H. Director and 7,000 for homeless. We know we cannot be reactive. We have a ticking time bomb on our streets and we have a responsibility to protect everyone, including people who are on our streets, shelters and Navigation Centers, we are not doing that right now and this legislation will provide the solution which is giving people a place where they can stay isolated, shelter at home, be safe and healthy, and as you saw from the video, there are so many people right now who dont have that and who are beg put at risk because of it and i very much look forward to continuing to work with all of you. Our Community Partners with the mayor and her administration to implement this legislation. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman. Submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor mar. Thank you, madam clerk. First off, i would like to ask to be added as a care sponsor of the state shelter sponsor to acquire of hotel rooms to not sure people experiencing homelessness have a safe place to shelter in during shelter in place and thank you so much to supervisors ronen, haney, walton and peskin to interes introduces today. Colleagues, today im announcing that i asked the City Attorney to draft legislation to ensure that laid off workers are the first ones offered their jobs back when businesses reopen and return to regular service. In the midst of the growing health pandemic, this urge in layoffs and unemployment in our country, state and cities has been nothing short of staggering. Businesses are hurting and so are the people who work or worked for them and we will get through this together. When businesses are again able to expand service, its imperative that we move as quickly as we can to bring back jobs for those current lo curred off for the health of our economy, businesses and workers. Our right to return to work ordinance will mean a quicker hiring process for the workers and businesses and for many, your healthcare is tied to your job and more certainty in rehiring means more certainty in health coverage. As i have said before, Economic Policy is and it will lead to better publichealth outcomes. I look forward to hearing more as we prepare this ordinance and the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk and inaudible . Im sorry, im having a hard time hearing you, supervisor peskin. You sound very limited. Hold on, let me put in head phones. One moment please. Its best if we all use head phones. It reduces the echo. How is that . Much better, thank you. I started by asking not so much better. Just for a moment it was better. Supervisor peskin. When you move like three inches closer to the screen, we can hear you better. How is that . How is that . That sounds better. We do get to see you. I first asked to be added am i going through ok . Supervisor, peskin, you may want to turn off your video. Lets give that a try. The bandwidth may be weak. How is that . Give it a try. No. We can barely hear you. Supervisor yee supervisor fewer, are you ready . Yes. I was going to actually do introductions after supervisor peskin but im happy to give him a little bit of time to adjust his volume. Supervisor yee lets do that and supervisor peskin, can can someone go off line and see what we can do. We will work with him, mr. President. Supervisor yee thank you, mr. President. Sorry mr. Peskin. Thank you. How is that, guys . Im sorry. Supervisors. Is that better . That is better. Would you like to troy now, supervisor peskin. I am happy to defer to you supervisor fewer as you were first in roll call or happy to proceed. Either way. Supervisor yee you are really clear right now so go ahead. Why dont we take advantage of it. So, first of all, id like to be added to supervisor mars items that we voted on earlier and it was a cosponsor item number 16. And then colleagues, as supervisor fewer alluded to last week, today, together with supervisor preston, all three of us are introducing an emergency ordinance that would freeze all rent increases during this emergency period and this ordinance would freeze what would otherwise be permissable rent increases under chapter 37 the rent stabilization ordinance which would include bank rent increases, normal annual rent increases as well as any past increases and would be effective as of introduction today april 7th, and it would be heard in committee on the 20th if the president is willing to wave the 30day rule and could be heard at the full board of supervisors on april 21st. And i want t to note that supervisor fewer has been really a leader around legislation to curtail certain times of pass throughs to tenants and i was proud to lead the effort last year to create a hardship exemption for tenants unable to afford bond pass throughs which in turn, i think incres support for last novembers 600 milliondollar Affordable Housing bond. And i know that everybody is under a lot of pressure, businesses, some small landlords, but tenants have rarely been under the kind of intense pressure that theyre seeing now and i want to applaud the efforts of the board mayor to provide relief during this precarious time. Secondly, i prepared an ordinance that i was working with supervisor safai which in fact we are not going to introduce today but we will still work on because were both very pleased to learn our mayor will put forward a supplemental declaration of emergency as early as tomorrow and i understand that the fourth coming supplemental order would put a hard cap of 10 on total fees that third party food Service Providers like grub hub, door dash, uber eats and others can charge to restaurants during the emergency. And as my colleagues mandelman safai are well aware this issue pro dates the emergency and weve seen some of these providers charging as much as 30 in fees for taunts that have been operating in margins and under the current emergency these businesses are of course doing quite well and im talking about the apps, not the restaurants and i wants to thank mayor breed for appreciate north in policy and i want to acknowledge supervisor safai and mandelman for their work on this issue as well. And with regard to the urgency ordinance a number of my colleagues have spoken to earlier, i want to thank them and community for the work over the last several days on this collective ordinance to ensure our homeless are brought indoors to safely comply with the shelter in place mandate. The reality on our streets, shared about the reality on our street, its time for us to really debunk the excuse for why Homeless Individuals are incapable of selfcare. The vast majority of our Homeless Population living on our streets that we encounter all the time, are over the age of 60 and or have multiple Underlying Health conditions. There are currently not being admitted no shelters which we know and while we have made incremental progress moving some individuals who have tested positive out of shelters and into quarantine, we are leaving thousands of individuals exposed to viral transmission. Today, a group of doctors released a report entitled a medically plan to stop the spread of covid19 among unhoused people which a firms the widespread publichealth opinion that created more mass shelters does not provide suffice laying fo for sro and qe opposite is true. It endangerers everyones health and well being and threatens to overwhelm our Hospital Systems that we are working to decongest. As the chief Health Officer told us last month i quote, from a disease transmission perspective, having your own room is the best. In addition to mandating sufficient rooms for homeless and shelter residents, our urgency ordinance would require accurate data reporting and tracking of s. R. O. S and homeless and shelter populations. The lack of transparency is concerning given that this information is not confidence shall and its data the public has a right to know and it should be public data and its critical as policymakers to understand. And finally with respect to cost, we know that much of this cost will be reimbursed by federal and state Emergency Response efforts. All of us have been asked to help fundraise private donations into the give to sf fund and we should also all know how much money has been raised and what we spent today and what weve spent it on. This information also should be reported to the board and the public on a regular basis. We all want the same things. We all want to flatten the curve and stop the spread of covid19 so that we can move on and focus on a recovery efforts. But in a crisis where every hour counts, we are really he, and this is been said before, not moving fast enough. So i hope that this ordinance will help us move quick low towards the same goal in time for the surge. And colleagues, i would like to adjourn todays Board Meeting in the memory of jerry adams, a reporter at the San Francisco examiner and later on at the chronicle from the 1970s through his retirement in 2005, mr. Adams covered San Franciscos urban Planning Issues and the implications and had an impact on the city for decades. His work as an Award Winning journalist on the beats of land use, environment, Real Estate Development and architecture was essential essential and help catalyze poll sew changes that shape the city as we know it today. Born in 1928, he was raised in marine and graduated from uc berkeley and served in the army before moving to california. He landed at examiner in the 1950s. With incredible detail and analysis, jerry covered the transformation of downtown after the freeway was torn down he wrote about the radical transformation and he walked and reported on the redevelopment of the rail yards into a bio tech hub and most importantly for me, he was remarkably helpful in covering the neighborhood efforts here to save the building number one columbus avenue from demolition. He loved sailing on the bay with his wife and she survives him along with a sister, susan in new york and two brothers and on behalf of the board of supervisors, i wish them all our condolences and the rest i will submit. Thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor fewer, you asked to be rereferred. Thank you, madam clerk. Access to informed has been a challenge for many residents in San Francisco but it is increasingly urgent with an uptick in residents that are home bound or sheltering in place and those who are economically vulnerable and cannot afford food. Because this need is increasingly urgent, we need immediate action in ensuring no Receipt Department goes hungry. Sfusd has been providing meals for children and families since the week after schools were closed to paint a picture the number of meals increased from 9,000 to 24,000 over the course of one week. Nearly tripling the numbers provided. Still, unable to meet the full need. San francisco is also fortunate to have the San Francisco industry to thank and a network of Community Organizations who run food pantries as well as home delivered gres reece and meals, not to mention meal programs for a no pivoting to deliver those meals to homes with seniors and people with disabilities, we have restaurants who have stepped up the city to provide meals for residents in public housing, sros and more. I and my office are working closely with the Food Access Team at the Emergency Operations center to build a program that leverages our exiting assets, access growing needs, work with restaurants and each of our districts, leverage Public Sector workers and volunteers to build capacity and ultimately get through quickly to people who need it. The Food Access Team is also developing a food locater 311 coming on online soon. So that everyone everywhere and anywhere in the city can be connected to resources that they have to subsidize they need. I am happy to work with anyone who has resources to bring to the table and will share more updates as this program is built up. I am proud to introduce an emergency ordinance with supervisor peskin to freeze rent increases during this covid19 emergency. As supervisor peskin mentioned this emergency ordinance would a ploy to any rent increase that would otherwise be allowed under San Francisco rent stabilization ordinance including anything increases or pass throughs. This policy is compliment tree to the mayors moratorium on evictions and other efforts by my colleagues to keep people inn their homes. We also call shelter in place while we all follow the shelter in place order. I want to thank the mayor and my colleagues on this berdyc boardr stability for renters during this trying time and recognize that on going efforts of tenant and Affordable Housing applicants will push our state and federal governments to do more. While we continue to push for these bigger policy changes, around rent and mortgage payments we must also do everything we can at a local level to prevent renters from being burdened with rent increases at a time when so many are losing their jobs and their income. Thank you supervisor press kin for your leadership and your yor partnership. Im proud of moving this forward today and i look forward to working with you and the rest of my colleagues to do more to protect the most vulnerable. Clerk im looking at the roster and i believe that concludes the introduction of new business. Supervisor yee thank you, colleagues and now i think its passed 3 00 so lets go to our 3 00 special item there. Special order. Ok. Clerk the First Special order is item 8. On february 25th, the board of supervisors approved a motion m20024 to convene a committee of the whole for a public hearing for the board of supervisors to sit as a committee of the whole for a public hearing to receive an educational training for their legal obligations under the federal Securities Laws with respect to any official statement approvals. It was scheduled prior to the health and emergency the San Francisco debt requires the board have training on their legal obligations under federal Securities Law when approving city disclosure information and connection worth the authorization of bonds. We will continue this item to a later date with the understanding that this will be continued when we now understand that were going to continue and well now take a Public Comments on the continuance. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this continuance for item 8. Mr. Coup, are there any members of the public in the cue who would like to speak . Who have pressed the code and addition to 1 and 0 . Hello madam clerk, please allow me a minute to check. Clerk thank you. Clerk ill just provide the telephone number in case there are members that want to speak on this item, its 8882045984. The access code is 3501008. Press pound and pound again and then dial 1 and 0. And mr. President , wore going to be slowing down all of these Public Comment opportunities to give the public an opportunity to get to the phone and to enter in this information. This same information is also on or website. Madam clerk, there are no callers waiting to speak. Clerk ok. Well give it a few seconds more, mr. President , and well move on to we understand that the controller is on the line if there were any need to speak with the controller. Supervisor yee i dont see anybody on the rosterment. Clerk ok. Thank you, mr. Coup. Supervisor yee ok. Seems like theres no one that can be speaking on this item. We will have Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, can we have a motion to continue this item indefinitely . So moved. Seconded by supervisor haney is it . Yes. Ok. Without objection then, can we take this motion and continue this item indefinitely and without objection. Item 8 is continued. Madam clerk, lets go to our next three p. M. Special order items 915. Clerk ok. On february 25th, 2020 the board approved resolution number 8420 to convene a committee of the whole. To hold public hearings to consider legislation to form a special tax district number 20201 known as the mission rock facilities and services. Item 10 is the resolution to propose the formation of the special tax district and a future annexation area. Item 11 is a resolution to determine necessity to incur bonded indebtedness and other debt not to exceed 3. 8 billion and item 12 resolution, to call a special election for the special tax district number 20201. Item 13 is the resolution to declare the results of that special election and item 14 is the resolution to authorize and ratify the issuance of bonded indebtedness and other debt in an principle amount not to exceed 3. 7 billion and item 15 is the ordinance to levee special taxes for the special tax district number 20201. Supervisor yee ok. The items related to the mission rock special tax district will node to be continued to next weeks meeting on tuesday april the 14th, 2020. With the understanding that item number 915 will be continued and we will now take Public Comments. Clerk mr. Coup, are there any callers on the line . Interested in making Public Comment on items 915 . Madam clerk, bless please ae to check the cue. Clerk thank you. There are no callers wishing to speak. Clerk thank you. Mr. President. Supervisor yee ok. Hearing none, Public Comment is now closed. Can we have a motion to continue this item 915 to next tuesday april 14th, 2020 . I move accordingly. Supervisor yee motion made by stefani and seconded by supervisor preston. That is the date of april 14th. Supervisor yee correct. Without objection, items 915 are continued to next tuesday april 14th, 2020. Lets go to our Public Comment right now. Clerk at this time, the public may contribute live comments for up to two minutes by dialing the following telephone number 8882045984 and when you are prompted, enter the access code of 3501008, pound and then press pound again to join the meeting. When you are connected, you will be able to hear the meeting as a participant and when you hear Public Comment, you will be able to when you are ready to provide your Public Comment, you will dial 1 and 0 to be added into the speaker line. And mr. President , i want to just apologize to one speaker last week. He tried to dial in and we ended Public Comment a little too quickly and wanted to apologize to him and we are learning every week what the bugs are in this system. So, i just want to provide the public the telephone number now. Its on our website but its 8882045984 with access code 3501008, press pound and press pound again and when you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be added into the cue. The system will notify you when you are in line and waiting and all callers will remain on mute until their line has been opened please call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television. Mr. President. Supervisor yee ok, well wait a couple of seconds here. You have one question remaining. Clerk hello caller. You have two minutes. Caller if you go online and check wikipedia for my great grandfather his name is fed. He has the distinction of going down as the most corrupt mayor in the history of chicago. With that in mind id like to state something. All right, we got that. We pay to play here. Were the best at this game. Better even than new york. We do it a bit differently than the new yorkers, we do it more sophisticated and we do it without the mafia. So what went down with nick bovis was not sophisticated. What goes down with Ben Rosenfeld is sophisticated. If you are going to look for pay to play, you look at Ben Rosenfeld. I got some thoughts on mohammad because i gotten into the e. R. General and theres nothing going on. Anybody who is, would go healthcare who has seen a bad here nowfluseason knows what. I live across the street and nothing is going on. Theres no health crisis. Weve got a task with 87 falls positive rate and the hand of intelligence in the become ground. What i think is going on was a shot across the co. You are all entrapped to play nice is what is being pulled off. Something else i noticed, tell guard. Shipped off to guam. Its not a mistake. How are you going to enforce stay at home order without the National Guard in the state of california . They shipped the new york National Guard to poland. That doesnt make sense. This whole thing seems to be covered for something else. And you are all playing along well it going along with lies from the public deserves better answers for the complete destruction of their livelihood. I got tipped off about this before this happened. It happened security clearens and go and figure . Do know were getting lied to and its unfair and its unproductive. To be constructive, how do we get out of it. The business one problem. Clerk thank you, sir. You have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Caller this is linda chapman. Do you hear me . Clerk we can hear you, yes. Caller because for the last throw meetingthree meetings i td couldnt be recognized. First i want to say, im very grateful for the recognition of jerry adams because he did so much for all the knob hill battles we fought for for a decade or mor. My concern ive been trying to bring in is getting people off the streets and housed. The myth that trent put forward i thank god i worked in federal service in better times. It was against the law for people to live in the street if they were receiving federal benefits. It couldnt happen. And then the laws changed. Now one thing the laws can be changed back and afbc grants required the state to pay for the housing they didnt hand money to the women and expect them to go out and find housing no matter what it costs. You know. That was what the National Welfare Rights Organization that i organized for fought. That was one thing. When i worked for Social Security, if people received federal benefits from v. A. Or Social Security and this is still, it is still the law, that we have to see that they get representative if theyre not capable of handling the money themselves and those people will find them housing. Not that money goes to non profits to give them 3 a day to stay in the street or whatever. Another thing was the law said that they could not receive federal benefits after the first check unless they came and brought their rent receipt. They lived in s. R. O. S or rented in another persons flat. There was a Court Decision about that that said they could stay out but that was on the assumption that they couldnt find anywhere to live and we saved all these Residential Hotels and now theyre being converted by people like rudy and so fourth and you know, that is where people used to live who are now living in the streets and of course they lived on their own. With representative pay in some case and those people of course need to be in support of housing but most people didnt need subpoena or the tive housing they needed a room they could afford. Clerk thank you for your comments. You have zero questions remaining. So while we wait just a bit mr. President , to determine if there are other callers who are going to call in, i will apologize to mrs. Chapman if she tried to get out and get through to the system. So, to ms. Chapman, were happy to email the information directly or anyone if they need to know ex lo exactly how to gef the website is not readily available for them. Of a few other callers waiting in the cue. Clerk great. Please send them through. To callers on the line, please press 1 and then 0 t 0 to get o the cue. You have four questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Caller yes. Clerk bless provide your Public Comment. Clerk hello caller, wore ready for your Public Comment. Perhaps that caller hung up. If there are other callers on the line, please, press 1 and then 0 to get into the cue. You have five questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Caller thank you. Thank you. Im a resident in the tender loyal neighborhood and chair of the peoples congress. I just want to say the situation in the tenderloin is a disasterment folks on the street are not able to shelter in place. Its simply going to be a Health Disaster in addition to being a humanitarian disaster. Honestly, inaudible its so slow on this its frustrating and ago va rat rate aggravatingy thank you to supervisor ronen, preston and walton for moving forward and peskin for moving forward for this legislation to compel the city to get these folks in hotel rooms and off the streets. It should have been done weeks ago. The fact that the city has had no plan for how to handle this situation for this long is baffling to me. And i hope that we can move this legislation forward. I hope we can get these people housed asap. So all of our lives are not hanging in the balance. If one person out here is not safe, then none of us are. [please stand by] from the stimulus bill. The second item an appeal to all joggers in San Francisco to jog in the streets. We need to get the sweating, breathing joggers off the sidewalks when there are any people. Since there is less traffic, joggers run in the streets. The third item i have is and my husband and i are doing this. Tip generously to every delivery person and to all of the places where we are getting takeout food. These essential workers are risking their lives to provide Delivery Services and food. Please tip them very well. My fourth item is my husband and i are boycotting thence take cart and whole foods until they meet the demand of the workers. Items five. I want to thank all of my fellow citizens for helping to flatten the curve of covid19. We citizens are doing a terrific job and we will continue to flatten the curve. Finally, item 6, i want you supervisors to practice two minutes of roll call. You go on and on. We wait as you ramble on without time limits. I would like for Public Comment for one week to come before your roll call introductions. Thank you very much. Thank you. There is another caller. Welcome, caller. Is there a caller on the line . Hello. Please provide your Public Comment. I am jonathan. I work a deli that cleans the headquarters. We boycotted yesterday that we need wages or work. We are essential to the company and the building. This coronavirus has been a big epidemic that we had nothing to do with. We are leaving all of the disgusting and filthiness in the building still. They are leaving it there for weeks. I feel like we are essential to our company and we are essential to their company, also, and i just feel that we should get wages or get back to work to clean it out. Thank you. Thank you for your comment, sir. Welcome, caller. Yes. I am richard emerson. I would like to address the board of supervisors regarding a request to suspend nonessential discretionary Planning Department permit hearings until the meetings can occur in person, especially the discretionary ones for several reasons. Ineffective notice. We cant see signs on the street because we are shelterinplace. We cannot have neighborhood meetings. Conducting the business through sfgovtv is ineffective. Secondly, our meetings will be ineffective. Videos and dialing are no effective. Nobody to show exhibits or to access information that the Planning Department cant deliver the information to us in time. We cant get together with neighbors and with skype with the premeetings. Third, it is going to be a legal issue. Under both the i have a jd from stanford. I lectured on corporate ethics. I am a former executive committee member. I understand the technology. I went through the brown act and the sunshine act. Under the brown act 54953b3, you cant have these meetings teleconference unless they are accessible to the public, the location itself. That is not enabled. The server rushes to judgment here. In each case we have to ask ourselves the balance to comment versus appeal. I am particularly addressing it because there is a mills of National Landmark 31 here. Your time is up. Your two minutes are concluded. Good afternoon. I am brandon burke. I am calling in regards to the fact that 75 of the muni bus lines have been eliminated. I live in twin peaks. Supervisor mandelmans district. We have been effectively shut in place. The 33, 48, 52 are no longer running so effective tomorrow, we know longer have bus service to get to the hospital or a super market or pharmacy. Our bus line, which is a priority line, the 3 37 is eliminated tomorrow as well. This line needs to be put back in to handle the people who are coming from twin peaks to have now no bus access. Thank you. Thank yo thank you for your , sir. Welcome, caller. You have two questions rema remaining. Welcome, caller. Hello. My name is miranda. I am with local 87. I want to thank you for continuing to take care of not just your district but i want to thank you for ensuring all of the families are taken care of in San Francisco. This is the most important time for all of you to come together to be united as a city and lead it. Yesterday our janitors are working for Service Medallion that clean lift headquarters are considered essential workers. We have been working. Unfortunately lift, who is a billion Dollar Company is refusing to pay janitors, whereas competitors uber are paying and taking care of families. Lyft decided not to pay. We are asking the board of supervisors for your support in demanding that ly ft do the right thing by working families and pay what they are owed. I hope we can have your help. They dont think this is an opportunity to exploit covid19 and thinking this is an opportunity to layoff workers, which is what we are seeing. All we ask right now that is multibillion Dollar Companies should not get away with these actions in the city. The values we have are important. They should all understand working families if we are essential, dont exploit us. Thank you, supervisors. You have one question remaining. Is there a caller on the line . Hello. Your comments are welcome, sir. Amendez. A i work for lyft. Yesterday we boycotted lyft. We are asking them to pay us. They are a billion Dollar Company. We are essential. We have families to take care of and rent to pay. We count on your support. Thank you, sir, for your comments. Welcome, caller. I am francisco. All over the city we need to have testing. Without getting the data we cannot address the situation at hand. Again, all over the city we need to get testing. Once we get the data we can follow the trend and address this virus, covid19 virus. Thank you, mr. De kos costa. There are no other speakers. Hearing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call for agenda items 19 through 29. Items 19 through 29 were introduced without reference to committees. Unanimous vote is required for resolutions today. Alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. Colleagues would anyone like to sever any items . Supervisosupervisor mandelman. Thank you, mr. President. I would like to sever item 22. Supervisor fewer. I would like to sever items 20, 21, 24 and 26. Supervisor peskin. I would like to sever 23 and 29. I could not hear you. 23 and 29, i believe. Correct. Mr. President na leaves 19, 25, 27, and 28. We still have more. Supervisor mar. I was going to request no. 13. Supervisor peskin already did that. Supervisor safai. Item 25. Okay. Madam, clerk, please call the roll on the remaining items. 19, 27, 28. Items 19, 27 and 28. Supervisor preston. Aye. Rose nan. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Stefani aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee psy. Fewer. Aye. Haney psy. Mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 eyes. Without objection the resolutions are adopted and motion is approved unanimously. Madam clerk call item number 20. Item 20. Resolution to urge public works and department of Public Health to increase access to Public Restrooms to meet min standards as set forth by the United Nations high commissioner on refugee and red cross and federal Management Agency to include sanitation for the unhoused and slow the spread of coronavirus. Supervisosupervisor fewer. Please add me as cosponsor. Please call the roll on 20. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. This is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk call item 21. Item 21 a resolution to urge the United States food and Drug Administration to end the federal ban on blood donations by gay eye bisexual men. I want to ensure i was a cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisorvo nan. Can i be added as a cosponsor, please. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Yes, please add me as cosponsor as well. Thank you. Supervisor wall t walton. Please add me as cosponsor, also. Okay. Madam clerk, can you call the roll. Item 21. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Please call item 22. Item 22 a resolution urging the state legislature to immediately spas bill 82 will as proposed 828 as proposed and 939 to prohibit foreclosures and eviction of residential and commercial tenants during the state of emergency related to the covid19 pandemic. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you. I want to thank colleagues who reached out to my office about this item. I am hopeful that we will be able to unanimously support or pass a resolution to support the legislation that itences. Ence that it references. To give us more time to work with those office i am going to move to continue this for one week. Second. Who was that . Do you want to speak on this supervisor peskin . Yes, sir. A motion to continue this item second by supervisor peskin. Can we take this motion without objection . Without objection it passes to continue this item. Madam clerk please call item 23. Item 23 resolution to support the covid19 orders by Civil Authority interrupting and prohibiting access to businesses as necessary due to physical property loss or damage and urging the california insurance commissioner to consider it a material misrepresentation to deny in any public filing that the coronavirus does not have the proposthethe propensity to y loss. I want to thank supervisor marfor this resolution. Okay. Roll call on this item, madam clerk. President yee, i would like to make some brief remarks. Yes, i am sorry. Go ahead. Thank you. I want to make brief remarks because we all have received quite a few communications about this resolution. First of all, i would like to acknowledge all of the business stakeholders working with my office including leadership from the San Francisco chamber of commerce and Restaurant Association and district merchants. As well as dozens of Small Businesses in sunset and throughout the city. I would especially like to recognize above fee mcgrier for bringing this troubling issue to my attention at our initial convening of district four in response to the covid19 pandemic. At that time i was appalled to hear that Insurance Companies were denying claims from Small Businesses who had purchase Business Interruption insurance. Many of these mom and pop storefront businesses and restaurants have been paying to the pockets of Insurance Companies for decades. Accident interruption insurance was meant for times like these. When the businesses are suffering great losses, the Insurance Company hit them with a denial letter. We are demanding accountability from the Insurance Companies. They sold the policies promising to cover damages and losses when the government seems it necessary to interrupt businesses to protect the public interest. They absolutely should payout for covid19 impacts. As regulation of the Insurance Industry is the center of the State Government i am following up with state representatives and insurance commissioner to push for the treatment and payment of Valid Insurance claims. Thank you for your support in adopting this resolution today. Item 23. Supervisor prison. Preston. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney psy. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item number 24. Item 24. Resolution that continued operation of ice detention facilities during the covid19 emergency is inhumane and urge california Governor Newsom to take immediate action to suspend ice detentions in california. Supervisor fewer you asked for this. I want to ensure i am a sponsor. I said i would be a sponsor but i didnt see my name on there. I want to make sure. Okay. Please call the roll on this item, madam clerk. Item 24, supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer yes. Supervisor haney. Aye. Mandelman aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 1 11 11 ayes. This is adopted unanimously. Please call item 25. Item 24 a resolution 25 to encourage the Municipal Transportation Agency to work with the muni operators for additional policies and protections during the covid19 crisis. Supervisor safai. Thank you, president yee. We spoke about this last week. Actually there has been some significant progress. We talked about ensuring and working with the Transit Worker Union local 250a and the leadership of the s. F. M. T. A. , jeff tumlin. We were able to work with them to ensure there would be front door boarding only if someone was disabled or needed the ramp, that there was appropriate spacing on the muni buses themselves and that ensuring that there was a limit to the number of people. All of this being done to first and foremost protect the operators in ensuring their safety. There is a few operators that have contracted covid19 and ensuring the safety of the passengers as well. They have increased the amount of cleaning through out the day which is a positive outcome. Then giving the drivers a bit more discretion in terms of when and how they are operating certain aspects of the bus in terms of insuring safety. The other thing we did last week through executive order, we worked with the mayor to ensure we expanded the amount of sick time to all City Employees on top of federal government sick leave and administrative leave for those that might have coved systems or had contracted code. All of those added up to ensure the safety of all city workers. In particular in this situation the safety of muni operators and transit workers. I want to appreciate the work that has been done to prioritize that safety, the final thing there was the delivering of ppe equipment, not necessarily hospital grade but ensuring gloves and masks were there and operators were safe and felt safe on the job. I appreciate supervisor preston and marand i hope we can all vote on this unanimously today it has the support of transit workers 258 and support of the Labor Council as well. Madam clerk. Can you please call the roll on this item. Item 25. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Interview safai. Aye. Supervisor stephanie. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 1 11 11 ayes. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk item 26. Item 26 is a resolution to urge county Health Officials from the six bay area counties alameda, San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara to evaluate the Public Health threat of panic buying weapons and warn americans of the danger of panic buying weapons. Thank you. I want to be added as cosponsor and thank supervisor stefani in helping us to fight the gun lobbyists. Thank you. I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Please call the roll on this item. Item 26. Supervisor prison. Preston. Aye. Roneaye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item 29. Item 29 a motion to concur in actions taken by the mayor on march 27, 2020 and march 31, 2020 to meet the ongoing local emergency related to the covid1covid19covid19 pandemin february 25, 2020. Supervisor peskin. Thank you. I just want to say in this period looking at all of these very carefully is paramount importance in the role that the board plays as check and balance. I reviewed with my staff the 6 and 7 deck declarations. I had a issue with the clause in the seventh specifically item 9. In discussion with representatives of the Mayors Office they will amend that tomorrow. I have no objections but i want us all to keep our eyes on each and every one of these. I want to thank the mayor and the mayors administration for using these incollaboration with the board. They have incorporated things big and small to address the emergency, and i want to express my thanks to the administration. That concludes my remarks, mr. President. Item 29, mr. President. Thank you. Clarification from either our deputy City Attorney. If that is the case where the mayor is planning to amend tomorrow, do we take no action on action number nine . I think if you choose to concur in action number nine it will be replaced as soon as tomorrow by a new order. Alternately if you wish to make a motion to amend this motion to remove that, you can do that as well. Mr. President. This is supervisor peskin. I am not making that. Merely i wanted it made abundantly clear item nine could be amended by ordinance of the board of supervisors and that language will be included tomorrow. I am not making a motion to strike clause number nine. Okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Item 29. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai e. Aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. This motion is approved unanimously. Thank you, colleagues. Letmadam clerk, please read thm memorials. Todays meeting is adjourned in following of the following individual on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late mr. Jerry adams. Okay. Colleagues that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any other further business before us today . That concludes business for today. Thank you. We are adjourned. Mayor breed thank you. Welcome to chinatown. Thank you, supervisor peskin to allowing us to come and hang out with you today. I am San Francisco mayor london breed here with many members of the board of supervisors, state officials, sf travel, wow, a lot of people here. We all know that one of the Biggest Challenges that we are facing not just here in San Francisco but in this country and throughout the world is the threat of the coronavirus and how it has not only impacted people and Public Health but how it has, unfortunately, impacted our economy. When we first heard of this virus in january we launched the Emergency Operations center. What we noticed during that time and supervisor peskin can attest to this. We didnt get support and people visiting our community in chinatown and other places and as we can see as this develops, this virus is not discriminating based on race. This is impacting people all over the world and has impacted a number of people right here in San Francisco. As of today we are up to 14 cases. I am really proud of the work that has been done with the department of Public Health to be proactive and making sure that we are prepared and making sure that we keep people healthy and safe and looking at the vulnerable communities, seniors and people with illnesses answer challenges and providing resources and support and being aware we have a vulnerable Homeless Population and making sure we have places for people to be quanteened and in case there is a situation that we as the city we are prepared to handle it. I want to be clear we cant live in fear. We have to make sure we are doing everything to keep ourselves, our families, our communities safe but we also have to make sure that we are addressing some of the other challenges that have happened as a result of this issue. That brings us to the economy. We are definitely going to feel impact. We are in china town because we know the businesses in this community have probably felt the impact, the Economic Impact more than any other community in San Francisco. We have been working together, my office and the state and, as i said, a number of the board of supervisors, we have worked together to come up with a number of immediate things to do now. We will be coming back with other things that we can definitely do in the future. We want to provide immediate relief to our Small Businesses. I wanted to make an announcement today about some of those things that we plan to do. Working with our treasurer and other city departments, we have been able to identify a number of ways that the city can provide immediate assistance to Small Business. To begin with, we are allowing Small Businesses to defer the next round of Quarterly Business taxes to next year in february of 2021. I know that is going to provide significant relief for Small Businesses. We will also be delaying a collection of our unified license bill for at least three months. These bills include charges for restaurants, food trucks, bakeries and smal small busines. Our time is to delay those fees. We are actively looking at other ways to delay more fees for our Small Businesses as they deal with this challenge. We also understand that our communitybased organizations or nonprofits wonder what is going to happen to us and our work forces specially those who may stay home to care for a child or sick parent with no sick leave. We will work to make sure all communitybased nonprofits that receive funding from the city continue to receive that funding. We want to make sure that you know that in todays Emergency Declaration that i signed it was a revision to make sure we are able to support our Small Businesses through this situation. We are also establishing a fund to provide immediate relief with 1 million in the fund to provide at least 10,000 grants for Small Businesses and our goal is to, of course, assess the need and provide the support immediately and look at increasing that support as time continues as we are able to determine whether or not more businesses would need that as assistance. Those are just a few things that we are doing here locally to immediately support Small Business community and we know that even though this is a small step forward that there will be more work we need to do to support the Business Community. As you can see with many of the leaders here today we are committed to doing just that. I also want to talk a little bit about our efforts with our state officials, our partners to find relief around employment benefits. In fact, this past monday i was in sacramento meeting with a number of other mayors and the Governor Newsom and state senator scott weiner to talk about expansion of unemployment and disability benefits in a way that will help support people during this issue. We are also working with the private sector in looking to partner with our Financial Partners and identify resources line of credit loans and things for Small Businesses as well and businesses in general. We are asking private sector employers to step up and be as flexible as possible with their employees. Helping the employees take time off if they are sick. In the city and county of San Francisco with all City Employees because we are encouraging people to stay home. If you are sick without enough sick leave we will allow you to advance that sick time. You dont have to wait until you accrue the sick time, we will basically allow you to take the sick time, get paid for the sick time off and you can pay it back after you work for the time you work later on. We in the city are leading by example by making sure if someone is sick and they need time off for whatever reason they are able to do and not worry if they have an income. The office of economic and Resource Development are working over time to develop Innovative Strategies to help the Business Community, employees and employers. There is more to come. This is the first in what will be a number of announcements as they come. At the end of the day we want to make sure that what we promise we will do to support the Business Community and employees and residents of San Francisco, we want to make sure we can deliver on that promise. We know that these are just a few things we can immediately deliver on. That is why we wanted to announce them here today. For resources, you can check the website oewd slave covid19. If you have questions or concerns or want more information call 311. As i said, we are here to Work Together. We know that this has been a challenge for so many people. There is a lot of fear, uncertainty and folks wonder how we will get through this. We will get through this. This is not unfamiliar tear for refor territory for San Francisco. We can think back to the h. I. V. Crisis. We got through that because we have some of the best Public Health officials anyone in the world along with the h1n1 and the sars. We got through it. We got through it by coming together, making good decisions, providing the facts, using data to communicate the message and not living in fear. That is what is going to get us through this. That is how we will be stronger and more resilient. I want to thank all of the folks here today working with us and i want to start by acknowledging some of our elected leaders who are here. Our recorder is here, our treasure is here, and then we have members of the board of supervisors including our president , president norman yee is here along with your supervisor peskin and Catherine Stefani and sandraly fewer and Rafael Mandelman and hillary ronen. That is a quorum. We have been working to deal with these challenges. Along with other leaders from the San Francisco chamber, Chinese Chamber, Business Community, sf travel. We are all here because we are in this together. We are all here because we are working together to make sure that we are providing the city with the resources that it needs in order to make sure we get through this together. I want to start with state senator scott weiner to talk about the work they are doing at the state level to help us address this significant challenge. Senator weiner. [applause] thank you, madam mayor. First and foremost, i want to just say that i have complete confidence i in may or breed and the supervisors and the department of Public Health and the City Government is doing a great job here. We are very focused at the state level on the health of our community. No city or no county is in a vacuum. We are all in this together, and the governor and the leadership of th the legislature are focusd on this every single day. We are going to get through this. We will keep our community as healthy as we can be. There is a lot of pain that this process is causing and it is going to cause with people getting laid off, Small Businesses struggling and potentially shutting down, people losing hours and workers struggling to pay bills. We need to make sure we soften the blow and support the Service Workers, people who cannot tele commute and take time off and Small Businesses who have very, very little margin. We have a number of safety net benefits. Not everyone knows about. I encourage people to look into it to see if you can be helped. We have disability insurance. When people are sick unable to work, particularly for an extended period of time. If someone has to take care of a loved one, they can file for paid family leave. We have some of the most robust paid family leave in california among the 50 states. There is unemployment insurance. In addition for employers and businesses impacted, there is a redoesed work hours benefit where someone whose hours are cut can get partial unemployment you dont have to be completely laid off to get unemployment benefits. Businesses experiencing financial hard ship can apply for 60 day expense for payroll taxes. The state we have made sure to wave all copays to make sure people can get tested for covid19 and they are not charged for Hospital Services as a result. This is the beginning. We will see more work happening at the state level to make sure we are having that robust social safety net for individuals who are at risk for workers struggling and Small Businesses and i will close by saying we need the federal government to step in a big way. The federal government is the only level of government that can spend and go into deficit spending, which we cannot do at the state level to make sure we provide a stimulus and not a bad stimulus like what the president is proposing but a stimulus to support workers and Small Businesses. The federal government is in the best position. We are all doing everything we can at the local and state level. We need the federal government to be a Strong Partner here. Lets pull together as a community to get through it. This is the best city and most resilient city on the planet. I am optimistic what we are able to do. Thank you. Thank you. President of the board of supervisors norman yee. Thank you, mayor breed and state senator scott weiner. I am glad that the state is weighing in on this. We cant do it by ourselves and we cant do it in isolation. Mayor breed, as you named off my colleagues on the board of supervisors. There are eight of us. We have a majority so whatever you want we will give you. This is not a joke. We have two branches of government, executive and legislative. We do battle sometimes. We disagree sometimes and we agree sometimes. This is one commitment all 11 of us on the board of supervisors are agreeing to. This is not about the legislative branch or the executive branch. We have one government. We are going to Work Together. We are totally committed to this. In terms of solving this issue and also to provide some of the relief that we need to give to businesses to workers and to everybody else impacted with this virus. Now one of the things i want to mention is that the board has not had the opportunity to come together to have a discussion. My colleagues urged to have this type of discussion. Thank you supervisor ronen for spearheading the push. Next week at some point we will have a discussion in which we could be part of the solution and the mayors and Department Heads will be there to help with this discussion. Rest assured we have no division when it comes to the virus. It is going to take all of us to battle this. We will defeat it quicker than people will realize. Thank you very much. Thank you for your leadership, president yee. I would like to introduce the supervisor for this community, supervisor aaron peskin. Hello everybody. I am district three supervisor aaron keskin. Kespeskin. Well to to a community that on the business side and residential side has been impacted long before the rest of the city and county of San Francisco, and thank you, mayor breed, and to my seven colleagues for gathering here today because chinatown is indeed suffering. Let me also give you doctor colfaxs advice which is after today none of us should ever stand so close to one another as we are right now. That was bad material, sorry. To ms. Lee and her son here at 150 Waverly Place who are suffering like many businesses throughout the city and county of San Francisco, thank you for making your shop open to all of us. To all of the folks from chinatown, the chinese companies, presiding company, to the Chinese Chamber of commerce represented here today, and to this community, and i have seen it all before. I have been a member of this board during 911, i was a member of this board during sars, and i was not a member of this board during th aids crisis. We will pull through. What the president of the board said is right. We are going to tran send politics and work in the public interest, and we all understand that our number one priority is Public Health. Part of Public Health is economic health. The package that the mayor and the board are announcing today is the first step. There will be many more steps to this. This is going to continue to evolve as the situation evolves. These are extraordinary sometimes. Today the mayor and chief Health Officer took extraordinary actions. This is going to be the new normal until we reduce and then defeat the virus. Wash your hands, wash your hands, 20 seconds, wash your hands. Thank you, madam mayor, and thank you colleagues. Thank you for continuing to be leaders on this issue. I really truly appreciate it. Now, i would like to introduce the president of the San Francisco chamber of commerce rodney fong. Thank you very much. As the mayor alluded to San Francisco has seen many challenges. These walls, this alley has senmany challenges. I want to thank mayor breed for taking fast action, decisive be action to support Small Businesses and working class families in San Francisco. This is the kind of leadership we need. Our Small Businesses and employees are going through a critical time. Small Business Owners in the Tourism Industry understand ho difficult and fragile Small Business is. One bad week or month can take you over the cliff. We know this economic crisis hits the folk the hardest and that is the Small Business and families and front line staff in San Francisco. This will bring immediate relief to Small Businesses and employees suffering from major cash flow for the moment and next several weeks. This will allow Small Businesses to pay rent, continue to pay employees, so important. This is a first critical step towards creating an economic resilient city that may be on the journey but we will succeed. We are proud to work with the electives and mayor to make this a great city to make this a learning lesson for other challenges in San Francisco. We will be strong. Chinatown is very strong. Thank you very much. [applause] we have the Vice President of the Chinese Chamber of commerce. On behalf of china town and Chinese Chamber of commerce. We are so glad that the mayor and supervisor are proactive with action against this virus. To promote the businesses in the community. I hope the Community Around the chinatown and San Francisco we have to do something else. We have to do the business in our part. We come out to shopping, we come out to eat, to support the local business. We are working together, we can overcome this difficult time. Now let me use a chinese word. [speaking chinese] applause now, i would like to ask our recorder to say a few words. I would like to ask our treasure to stand beside me. The leaders today not only the mayor and board of supervisors and state representatives but jose and i have been working around the clock to figure out ways to help to support our community. A lot has been said already about the importance of all of us taking Decisive Action to make sure we are doing all we can to support local businesses. One thing to say is that this is not the last action. What you are seeing a united front to say no matter what it is we believe in terms of political preferences this transcendses all of that we will address it appropriately. When we talk about Small Businesses and the people employed by those Small Businesses, this is not something about people once removed. These are neighbors, friends, people who are in our community who are impacted. As much as we are seeing this relief package hit the local Small Businesses it is about helping neighbors and city and our communities. I applaud all of the efforts here. I know all of us before you are committed to ensuring we continue to monitor the situation, continue to take action to preserve and make sure we are healthy and we are going to continue to support our local communities, friends and neighbors. [applause] i am the San Francisco treasure. I am proud to stand with mayor breed and city leaders to deliver help to support Small Businesses, particularly businesses suffering during this time. The Treasures Office we manage the city banking, investments and tax collection. We work very hard to make sure we can do everything to support our local community and the businesses in it. I want to expand on what the mayor announced. There are two important payments that we are as a city deferring in order to provide some relief to thousands of businesses here inen the city. All of the businesses that pay business taxes, many are required to make quarterly payments during the year, and the Small Businesses that we have selected there will be 8,000 of them that will not be required to make first quarterly payment, which would have been due the end of april. They can make that payment on time and in full by the end of february of next year. A 10 month deferral on the time they can have to make that payment of their taxes. Over 13,000 Small Businesses here that pay license fees would normally have an annual payment due at the end of this month of march, a couple weeks from now. The mayor and leaders in front of you have coming together to give a three month extension on that payment for over 13,000 businesses here in the city, most Small Businesses to wait until the end of june to make that payment. We are doing everything we can to support the Small Businesses here to make sure everyone survives these difficult times. Thank you. Before we end it i want to thank sf travel and the Hotel Council as well as many of the members of the Small Business commission that are joining us here today. We will continue to Work Together to make sure that and i appreciate what supervisor peskin said. We have to protect Public Health and economic health. That is what we are committed to doing. There will be other announcements. Thank you all so much. Please make sure after this press conference you eat at a restaurant in chinatown. Thank you. 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. [ ]s program. I am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. They are beautiful barriers. The presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the Pacific Ocean. We also also have a National Park service. We boarded the Golden Gate National Recreation Area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. But really families enjoying the beach and the Pacific Ocean during the rest of the time of year. [ ] and Golden Gate Park where we have so many of our treasures here. We have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. Not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. This is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. The theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. It has been around for a very long time. Is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. I moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. We would always go here. I love these neighborhood theatres. It is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the Richmond District, but also in San Francisco. Small theatres showing one or two films. A unique they are unique also to the neighborhood and San Francisco. Where we are today is the heart of the Richmond District. With what is unique is that it is also Small Businesses. There is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. And providing for the neighborhood. This is what we love about the streets. The cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see Small Businesses even towards 32nd. At the core of it is right here between here and 20 tenth avenue. When we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the any other part of San Francisco. There is traditional irish music which you dont get hardly anywhere in San Francisco. Some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. And then also, we see Grocery Stores. And also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [ ] we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. That is a really great thing to see. I dont know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. I like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. The market is the place i like to come to once a year. Once i like about the market as it is very affordable. It has Fresh Produce and fresh meat. Also, seafood. But they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. A variety of rice that they have is tremendous. I dont thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. Hi. I am kevin wong. I am the manager. In 1989 we move from chinatown to Richmond District. We have opened for a bit, over 29 years. We carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. We try to keep Everything Fresh daily. So a customer can get the best out a bit. Normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. Because they have really just really fresh crab. This is something my family really likes for me to make. Also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. They cut it to the size they really want. I am probably here once a week. Im very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. We dont speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. I do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. The staff here is very helpful. I speak very little chinese here myself. Thinks that im not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need . Is this what i should be making . And they actually really helped me. They will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. They are very knowledgeable. Very friendly. I think they are here to serve not only the Asian Community but to serve all communities in the Richmond District and in San Francisco. [ ] what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. San francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. This totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of Sea Level Rise over the next 100 years. Thats what the citys guidance is requiring. It is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. So if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. It does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. So that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. The fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. The access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. In that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. Both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utilitys only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. So electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. High boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. Currently were staffed with Seven Members per day, but the Fire Department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. Looking into the future, we have not only at t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. There are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. Were looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but theyre the only good reference point. We look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. It is very unique. I dont know that any other fire station built on the water is in the United States. The fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help and were willing to help the meeting has started, supervisor. Great, good morning, everyone. The meeting will and to order. Welcome to the meeting of the Public Safety and neighborho