Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Government Audits And Oversight Committee 20240713

Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, april 16th meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. I am the chair of the committee joined by aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to the clerk, john carroll. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating in this meeting remotely as if they were physically present. Comments will be available for each item on the agenda cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number on the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 888 2045984. Use the access code. That is 3501008. After you have entered the access code you will press the pound symbol and the pound symbol a second time. When you are connected, and then zero to be added to the order in which you dial. While you are waiting the system will be silent. The call in system will notify you when you are in line waiting. All callers will be in mute until open for comment. You must allow for time delays between live coverage and streaming. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and turn down the television or radio or streaming device. You may submit your Public Comment in either of the following way also. Email john carroll, clerk of the government audit and Oversight Committee john. Carroll at sfgovtv. Org. If you submit Public Comment by email, it will be included in the file and brought to the attention of the members of the board of supervisors. Written comments bab may be seno city hall at room 244 in San Francisco. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of april 28 unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Please call items one and two together. 1. Resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of special tax bonds for the Community Facilities district 20141 related to the Transbay Transit Center in the amount not to exceed 90 million. Approving related documents including the statement and the supplement. Bond Purchase Agreement and continuing disclosure and determining other matters in connection there with. Agenda item two is resolution approving the issuance of Transbay Joint Powers Authority not to exceed 315 million in Principal Amount of tax allocation bonds to finance costs relating to the transbay terminal project as defined within the resolution. Members of the public to comment on these items call the Public Comment number 888 2045984 and Center Access code 3501008. Press pound twice and press 1 and 0 to speak. Mr. Chair. Thank you. I would like to welcome the director of the office of Public Finance and the chief Financial Officer of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority here to present on these items this morning. Thank you. I am anna from the Controllers Office of Public Finance. I am here today to talk about the two related transbay bond resolutions. The Transbay Transit Center Community Facilities district special tax bond and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority tax allocation bond. Due to technical constraints, i will present on both items. The cfo is available to address any questions you may have. Also, my colleague bridgett and mark from the City Attorneys Office are on the line. Before i get into detail on the financing, i will provide background on the project. Tjpa was established in 2001 to fund the Transbay Program. Current members of the jpa include the city, ag transit. Cal tran and california highspeed rail authority. Tjpa manages the Transbay Program which includes construction of the Transit Center and extension of the caltrain rail tracks to the center to accommodate california highspeed rail and caltrain. The project over the past two decades includes in 2005 the redevelopment project area was formed. In 2009tjpa secured the loan to fund the project. In 2015, the city approved the formation of Community Facilities district and the levee of special taxes to support 1. 4 billion of debt. In 2016 after they identified the funding gap, the city provided bridge financing to close the gap which included the general fund. The takeout for the financing wasnt visioned to be the tax allocation bond proceeds which i will talk about in a minute. Funding for the project was provided by a variety of federal state and local sources including special taxes on the tax bond. Tax increment generated Redevelopment Area which paid debt service on the city bridge loan. Again, the two bond resolutions before you today would authorize the issuance of up to 90 million of Transit Center special tax bonds and related financing documents including disclosure on the city which we have been updating to include the Current Crisis. The second resolution would authorize the issuance up to 315 million worth of tax allocation bonds. Proceeds from the financing would be used to payoff the full Outstanding Balance of the city bridge loan which is 76 million. Refinance the loan for debt service savings, fund project costs including costs for design, construction and related obligations as well as tenant improvements and Program Capital reserves. Here we have provided more detail on the anticipated use of proceeds. The cfd proceedings and jtpa proceeds will be used to pay off the city bridge loan financing. The tjpa proceeds will be used to refinance the federal loan to achieve approximately 20 million in debt service savings. It will Fund Capital Improvement program reserves and capital replacement reserve. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds of both financings will be used to fund bond issuance costs in debt service funds. These final slides show the estimated financing costs for each transaction. For the bonds we estimate 158 million over the 30 year term of the bond. This includes interest of 4. 4 . The bonds will be structured as taxable debt which carry a higher interest cost but offsetting the higher interest cost is the strong expected rating of aaa plus for the bonds which is due to the cfd participation in the citys tr plan. The debt service 587 million for the jtpa tax allocation bonds assumes interest cost of 3. 86 . The lower cost is anticipated because they will be structured primarily as taxexempt debt. This last slide outlines the anticipated financing schedule. I would note that given recent volatility in the Municipal Market we are allowing more time for marketing and sale of the bonds before the closing in may and june. With that, i would be happy to answer any questions as would my colleagues. That you for the presentation. Before we go to Public Comment, colleagues do you have questions or comments . I do, mr. Chairman. There is aaron peskin. Maybe this is a question for the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, but in item 2 why does the city and county of San Francisco need to authorize . Why cant the tj pa do its own financing . I would be happy to answer that question. This is chief Financial Officer at jtpa. The resolution is in front of you because we are joint Powers Authority and all financings have to go in front of the board in which we are doing the construction, the physical construction within or the financing will take place. It is part of state statute for jpa law. We are required to come to the San Francisco board of supervisors so the board can find Public Benefit to the financing. That would be defined as demonstrated savings or economic benefit in terms of job growth. There is another faceto that. That would be so you can find Public Benefit to the financing for jtpa. Thank you for that answer. With regard to the 115 million portion of the tax allocation bonds, that references payments of judgment or settlement obligations. Is that sufficient funds for any and all outstanding payments of judgments or settlement obligations . Yes, it is. So that would be in part what this committee will be discussing later as well as other outstanding claims presumably the web core litigation . Any web core litigation, any litigation between any of our main contractors and subcontractors would be encompassed in any sort of litigation proceeds. The 115 rate is sufficient funds to settle any and all outstanding judgments and claims . Yes, correct. Thank you. Supervisor peskin, if we can move to Public Comment. Mr. Clerk are there any callers on the line . We will check. Are there any callers . I have one caller waiting in the queue. I will call him up. Good morning. You have two minutes. Good morning. My Public Comment was for item 4. I will wait. That sounds good we will ask you enter into the queue for item 4 when we call item 4. Do you have comments for agenda items 1 and 2 . No. Thank you. Are there any other callers . There are no other callers in the queue. Thank you. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is now closed. I would like to move that we send these items to the full board with positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk please call the roll. On the motion to send the items one and two to full board with positive recommendation. Vice chair peskin. Aye. Member haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Please call item number 3. Agenda item 3. Resolution approving the levy on the secured roll of add valour rum and special taxes on subproject areas g2 through g4 and subproject areas i1 through i13 for city and county of San Francisco infrastructure district 2. 20192 for pier 70 leased property and city and county San Francisco special tax district 20201 for mission rock facilities and services and making findings in connection there with. Members who wish to comment on this item agenda item 3 should call the Public Comment number 888 2045984. Enter the access code 3501008. Enter the pound symbol twice. Then press one and zero to be entered to speak when Public Comment is called for this item. Mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk. We have the finance team to present on this item. We have rebecca, the port water director available for questions as needed. The floor is yours. Thank you. I am Wyatt Donnelly on behalf of director forbes who is a Disaster Service worker in response to covid19 emergency. I will present on this item. I will pull up the presenttation. Can you see that okay . Yes. Excellent. I will get started. Again, this item number 3 is to levy the taxes. I would like to thank the Assessors Office for work on this item. We have been working closely with them and they are in full support of this item. I will give background on the project. This affects both projects. I will go through the financing structure and why this is a key component and i will talk about the action taken today and impacts on the financing for the project and talk about the requested action and some next steps. The two sites it impacts are mission rock and the pier 70 only. You can see chase center is the reference. Mission rock is the giant parking lot. Pier 70 is a shipping district that has been vacant for several decades. They will be mixed use neighborhoods. We are here because the board of supervisors has the ability under the state revenue and taxation code to direct the assessor to levy taxes on the secured and unsecured role. I will talk about those. Project background. Mission rock is a 28acre site serving as the giants parking lot. At completion over four phases of construction it will create 1200 units of housing, 1 million square feet of office space and 8acres of parks and open space. Housing includes 40 on site affordable. There is a local component. Transportation management program, rehabilitation and historic pier 48 which is on the map to the right, one of the historic piers. We are looking at potential options for that. Ongoing revenue stream for Sea Level Rise protection, planning for the year 2100 and on site child care. Pier 70 is a 35acre site. It will include 1600 to 3,000 units of residential. 1. 1 and 1. 7 million square feet of commercial and 9acres of open space. The range for both projects is flex parcels residential or commercial, depending on what ends up being constructed. Public benefit for the pier 70 project. 30 of the housing on site affordable. It has local labor, prevailing wages, transportation, historic rehabilitation of the entire site including buildings 12 and 21. Similar Sea Level Rise protection facilities. Looking at the year 2100 and ongoing revenue stream for Sea Level Rise protection. 90,000 square foot facility and on site child care. The structure is very similar for both projects. Initial funds is through developer import equity, which is repaid with a return through the land value at the site, and the two tax sources, special taxes or cfd Community Facilities district and i. F. D. Infrastructure financing. Those are the ultimately repayment. The item today is all about maximizing our bond proceeds which will reduce the use of developer capital which is more expensive for the project and preserves the portland value to allow the port to fund other projects on the waterfront. Just four terms to talk about a lot. Possessory interest tax is property tax on the value of the lease use or other private possession of publiclyowned property. Because the port is publicly owned it is taxexempt. When the port leases to private entities for private use, it is taxed by the assessor under the possessory interest. The ad valorem. That is on the assessd value of the property. The property tax is a common form. That is one of the two taxes as sessioned on the secured role. The other is a special Community Facilities district tax which is currently in the process of being formed for mission rock and was formed in january for pier 70. The secured role is more secure including taxes on land and structures. Unsecured role has an insufficient security for the assessor to deem that there is a secure payment of taxes, and the difference between these two roles has bond implications. That is why we are requesting both taxes be assessed on the secured role. What happens is the possessory interests are typically assessed on the unsecured role. However, the board of supervisors can direct the assessor to levee these all on the secured role. This would place the i. F. D. Property taxes and the cfd special taxes on the secured role. The key thing is it has a priority lien which inproofs the bond holders view and will receive better Interest Rates. Pier 70 and mission rock where we issue hundreds of millions of dollars of debt this can mean 10s of millions of dollars over the life of the project. As i mentioned before more bonds will increase the project funding and the portland value and reduce the need for developer capital. Once this is approved, the assessor will place all of these taxes on the secured role for next fiscal year and we will be able to issue bonds with that additional security and receive better Interest Rates in the coming year and we will be coming back with those bond issuance at a later time with more details and a better understanding of the market. That is pretty much everything. I would request positive recommendation for the resolution at hand. I am available and my colleague rebecca, the Waterfront Development director as well as the City Attorney and Public Finance attorney are available for any questions. Thank you so much for the presentation. Before we go to Public Comment, are there any further comments or questions from my colleagues . Mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line for Public Comment . Thank you, mr. Chair. We will check to see if there are any callers in the queue. I have one caller in the queue. Allow me to call him up. I am francisco lacosta. What i want to say is that the presenter talks about this property in a very general way. It comes on the public trust land. Every californian has a right to express their opinion. This land that we are talking about pier 70 and mission rock is contaminated land. On pier 70 i had brought it to your attention before. There is a Million Pounds of coal tar that has to be mitigated. You didnt talk about that. There are two huge areas of a field. You dont want to talk about that. This matter came before another committee and a gentleman, i was not allowed to get in because of this mickey mouse operation that you have with this communication. Another gentleman got in and explained in detail how contaminated the mission rock area was. How can you agree to pass a bond measure on contaminated land and adversely impact the lives of innocent people . This is happening on other areas. The supervisors please represent the people. Thank you. Do we have any more speakers on the line . No other callers in the queue. Thank you. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is now closed. I would like to move that we send this item to the board with positive recommendations. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. On the motion to recommend agenda item 3 to the full board of supervisors made by supervisor mar. Vice chair peskin. Aye. Member haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. There are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Please calm item 4. Emergency ordinance to temporary require grocery store, drugstore and restaurant and on demand Delivery Service employers to provide health, scheduling and hours protections to employees during the public Health Emergency related to covid19. I have received request to schedule this as Committee Report. Members of the public should call 888 2045984 and enter access code 3501008. Press the pound symbol twice. Then press one and zero to enter the queue to speak for agenda item 4. Mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Supervisor haney thank you for sponsoring this and your work on this important ordinance. The floor is yours, supervisor haney. Thank you, chair mar, for your partnership and all you have been doing to make sure essential workers have access to sick leave and other protections during this time. It has been a pleasure to partner with you on this. Colleagues for your consideration is an emergency ordinance for increased employee protections for grocery store, drug store, restaurant and on demand delivery employees of the emergency legislation we are introducing. Hearing it is cosponsors by supervisors and addresses the needs of this Critical Group of workers who are not yet receiving the level of employee protection to safely do their jobs during this pandemic. I want to thank City Attorney lisa powell, jim from the usc w local 5, usc w648. Rudy and kim at the San Francisco labor council, with jobs with justice and also to the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and office of Small Business for reaching out to my office and for making sure that we take into act the needs of Small Businesses and grocers. This is a chair scary time fs and they make sure we have access to food, medicine and essential goods. They need protected so they do not get sick or get anyone else sick. They should never face retaliation. Requiring personal protective equipment, no Contact Delivery, paid time for following health and safety protocols and no retaliation during the covid19 pricesis is essential for us to get through this pandemic. They are out there interacting with others and putting themselves at risk and dont have the option of staying home. We have to make sure these workers and customers are protected. The legislation strengthens the protections covered by the Health Officers order and gives additional protection and mechanism to file a complaint with the office of labor standards. The legislation does five thinks. One requires employers to provide workers with gloves, masks, hand sanitizer, soap and water in the workplace. Additionally on demand Delivery Service employers must be reimbursed for purchasing the item. On demand Delivery Service employees must be paid for time spent cleaning vehicles or driving to hand washing facilities during their shift. On demand delivery platforms must offer drivers and shoppers the no Contact Delivery of anytime. Four Service Employers must keep employees uptodate with latest social distancing protocols and inform them how to comply. Employers cannot discharge any person for exercising rights under this emergency ordinance. We need emergency legislation because we cannot wait knowing the personal safety of the worker l put then dire Public Health of the community at risk. We have three amendments for the legislation to consider as well. The first appears on page 4 of starting at line 17. This amendment makes it more explicit what on demand Delivery Service means. We are saying a thirdparty online or mobile application or other Internet Service offering or arranging for same day or scheduled delivery of Food Products or goods from Grocery Stores and drugstores. Second appears on page 6. Parttime employees we have stricken this out entirely. We have addressed the concerns voiced by the office of Small Business and please note in striking section 6, the office of Small Business regina said we are no longer need to change covered employer to apply only to businesses with 350 employees and also alleviates request to change work hours from two hours to eight hours which she requested in a letter that was send. Final amendment on page 8 section 8. Implementation and enforcement. We added language to say a individual may report a potential violation of this emergency ordinance by calling 311. The agency may investigate potential violations. This reflects the way that people are able to immediately and easily report Health Violations and labor violations during this crisis. We also have executive director regina who is from the office of Small Business who is available to make comment about the changes we made. I want to thank everyone who worked with us on this legislation. It puts in place critical protection to protect workers and their customers. I want to say thank you, supervisor haney, for this important measure to make sure the front line essential workers have adequate protections they need to continue to fulfill the Important Role during the shelterinplace ordinance. I appreciate your work. Your staffs work in addressing the concerns raised by our Small Businesses in how this might impact them. I know in my district i have heard from many Small Businesses. It is a small market and the restaurants that they absolutely want to protect employees and they have been asking for help in accessing personal protective equipment. I appreciate your work in addressing their concerns and the challenges they faced in accessing p performe ppe to proe employee. From the Small Business office were you going to offer some comments . Yes. This is regina, director of the office of Small Business. I want to thank supervisor haney and all of the supervisors that are supporting the legislation. Understanding the concerns of our Small Businesses and making that amendment. One thing i did not highlight in my letter to you which supports the effort under 4a is that in my conversation with the local grocers, many have put in placetic protocols for on demand delivery shoppers to require protective gear. They have been having not always but many times have to provide that gear for them to allow them to shop. This is important because our Small Businesses should not be subsidizing the paid protective gear for these workers. Thank you. Thank you. Colleagues, are there questions or comments before we move to Public Comment . I am pleased to be a co cosponsor. Chair mar, i know there were a lot of Small Businesses who had raised concerns and some may be calling in for Public Comment, which is great. I did just want to underscore that i believe we were able to address most if not all of those concerns with these amendments. I do appreciate the partnership every gina to make that happen. Also to my chief of staff who worked hard on these amendments to address these concerns. As she underlined, regina underlined, there is also a lot of this will help Small Businesses and protect Small Businesses requiring the Delivery Companies themselves to provide that equipment. When people are coming in and out of the stores or restaurants they will be protected. I really see this as a measure that is intended to support and protect Small Businesses as well. Thank you, supervisor haney. Why dont we move to Public Comment. Any callers on the line . Thank you, mr. Chair. Mr. Coo will check to see if we have callers in the queue. First caller. You have two minutes. I would like to thank you, supervisors, and staff for your hard work. Speaking in support of this legislation, the health and safety of the workers are at stake. They are providing essential services which means their health is essential to us. Not only for the value of the work they perform to serve the public at this critical time but just on principal. Workers should be protected not only for the value of the work. These are parents, partners, siblings and loved ones and they deserve to go to work and return at the end of the day healthy and safe to their families. Thank you for that. Next caller, please. Good morning. I am here on behalf of the states council. We represent 160,000 members in california, 120,000 work in the Grocery Retail industry. I would like to thank you for taking bold action to protect the thousands of front line workers who stepped up in the crisis. They show up every day to ensure we can feed families and strong protections to ensure they are safe during the peak of this crisis and the months after when we open up our communities. Before you today is the first in the nation emergency ordinance to provide protection to the deliveries. We would like to thank supervisor haney and cosponsors and urge all members to adopt this ordinance in whole. Thank you. Hello, supervisors. I am adam woods, City Resident and San Francisco firefighter for almost 25 years. As a fire fighter, i want to say these front line food workers are putting health ablives on the line to a far greater extent than i am. I would like to explain what i mean by that. When we go out to respond to toa covid19 call we are given full personal protective equipment and training on how to safely interact with an infected patient. If anything goes wrong and there is a suspected exposure we are given administrative leave to quarantine. If we develop symptoms we are moved to the front of line for testing. That is firefighters. Front line food workers have a far greater number of person to person interactions than we are. They have no idea about the Health Status of the customers. They dont have the same level of personal protective equipment that we do, and if they do become infected, many of them are basically left on their own to deal with the consequences. Especially those workers working directly for the on demand delivery App Companies whose owner ignore California Law andyny protections they deserve as employees. Speaking as a fire fighter, these workers are feeding us, keeping us alive, heroes of this crisis andy serve the protections contained in this ordinance. I urge you to support it. Thank you for your comments. Is there another caller . This is jessie money from sciu101, deputy executive director we stand along with the i aff and every union in strong support of this legislation. As you know, 101 that organized thousands of uber and lift drivers that moved to delivery for lack of work. We stand with the fastfood workers in the fight for 15 which we are happy to stand in solidarity with for many years. It is wonderful the fastfood workers are also included in this legislation. We appreciate that this addresses significant issues of equity, health and safety for a group of workers on the front lines without any protection, no ppe or even broad labor union protections regarding health and safety and sick leave and the other items in our contracts. We stand in strong solidarity. Thanks, supervisor haney and the cosponsors. We will do what you need to do to make sure this is supported and executed. Thank you very much. Is there another caller . I am representing ufcw local 5. I want to thank supervisor haney and the cosponsors of the legislation. We have deemed front line food workers as essential to our lively hood and the business is essential to our society. I believe that we should treat their health and welfare and their employment as essential as well. I think this legislation does a lot to ensure that these workers not only are able to do their job in a safe and timely manner but also able to go home and secure knowing that they are not bringing the virus to friends and family because of the nature of their employment. I want to thank everyone in support of this bill. Thank you for your comments. Operations is there another caller on the line . I am chris wright executive director on the committee on jobs and represent the largest private sector employers in the city. During this extraordinary time we are adapting to the health and landscape and at the same time there is a rise in demand for Home Delivery of groceries and medications. Businesses and delivery workers are playing a vital role to ensure the goods are delivered and their health and safety is important. I have heard them say many members are offering no contact deliveries, protective equipment and Financial Assistance to support delivery workers. Our concern is some parts may cause unintended harm to the process and ask you consider the detailed letter we sent your office this week. Section 4 a allows businesses to provide reimbursement for sanitizers and protective equipment. This would require extensive it and training changes during this relatively short time of the emergency order. We request you allow businesses to proactively offer workers a stipend to cover the cost of products. Sections 5 and 6. As you know many on demand Delivery Companies allow workers to set when and where they use their platform. These do not apply to on demand Delivery Services. We understand and applaud your efforts to address concerns. We are committed to achieve them. That is why we want to make sure it is done right and to everyones benefit. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your comments. Operations is there another caller . Welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Can you hear us . I will will bring in the next caller. Welcome, your two minutes begins now. Hello. Good morning. I am mark. I am here. I want to thank everybody that is here today enforcing these rights for myself and my colleagues. I am here today. I have been a registered driver for five years. I switched up recently to food delivery and i am pretty alarmed how we dont have any safety in place. There is no where to wash your hands, there is no mask, no wipe. They said they were going to provide us with all of these safety things, and as of now they havent provided anything. We are still waiting. Something has to be done. We are not First Responders or nurses but we are definitely on the front lines in the community daybyday. We are exposing myself and my family as well and my community when i come back home. Definitely they passed 85, but it seems like nobody is enforcing it. This is being ignored which is unfortunate. They are leaving us pretty much out there to fend for ourselves. I plea for myself and my colleagues that something comes to play and has to be done immediately for us to continue operating safely and providing our services. That is pretty much it for me. I want to thank everybody once again for coming together and trying to make a change for my colleagues and myself. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller . Welcome caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you. There is michael lion. My wife and i are 80 years old and trapped at home. We depend on these services andy pend on the people who bravely bring us food and medicine. Our son is an rn at the emergency at kaiser. We are well aware of the issues of protective equipment. Workers are being pressed to return to work by trump. Even if the governors resist, it is the line when people have to return to work. It is being pushed nationally. Considering this National Pressure to get people back to work, the city needs to protect workers. That is why we are in favor of this. I personally look forward to the day when workers control society and this will happen automatically rather than having to go through the legislature. Given the conditions now, i really appreciate this. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Do we have another caller . Your two minutes begins now. I would like to read into the record a statement by a person who was not able to get off work. Hello, i work in mcdonalds at 1100 fillmore street in San Francisco. I am organizing with the fight for 15. I strongly support the emergency ordinance to protect the health of workers and public. I have three kids daughter 7 and son 3 and baby girl 11 months. I am afraid to get sick and bring it to my family. My husband works at mcdonalds. It would be good to feel protected. We have run out of hand sanitizer. There is not a plan to keep social distance with customers or between us. I understand there is not enough space in the kitchen. They have never provided masks for us only be to the managers. They allow more than 10 customers in the lobby. Workers went on strike to demand the company protect the workers and public. I am proud to be an essential worker but we deserve protection. Please help us get mcdonalds to do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Do we have another caller on the line . [please stand by] regardless if theyre in a brick and mortar store or if theyre working in a mobile app Delivery Service. Its an incredible tragedy to see that so many people are affected by this virus. I also want to appreciate that Small Business brick and Mortar Companies are already at a disadvantage. They should not be subsidizing these massive corporations, but they should be applauded for already taking measures in their stores. I think the actions theyve already taken are prudent, and we look forward to moving this legislation forward urgently. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operator you have three questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. I want to thank supervisor haneys office for working on this with us, and ufcw. This legislation is so critical. The only reason why were so here and able to social distance is from frontline to delivery workers, they make this work, and they deserve these minimal protections. They deserve to be protected against this evil virus, and i really believe they need this. The fact that corporations would put health aprofits abov health and safety of their workers is absurd. They deserve this. They deserve gloves, they deserve masks, they deserve time to wash their hands. The fact that anyone would speak against it is who are identifying. A horrifying. I want to thank all of them every day for what they do, for making this shelter in place work, so thank you for all you do, and thank you to the supervisors. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller . Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. You have two minutes. My name is connie ford, and i am a Vice President of the San Francisco labor counsel and an executive member of jobs with justice. I also am a part of that vulnerable age group that is worried constantly about the health and safety of my family, of me, of my husband who just had a recent stroke. I just cant tell you how the workers, providing the protections and services that they do are whats keeping our communities in San Francisco alive and doing well. We were out there with supervisor haney on the first day, when we were banging the pots in support of frontline workers, and today, to be in favor of this legislation with the meaningful amendments that have been added, is crucial for our survivor of residents of San Francisco and as residents of this country. So please protect continue to protect the workers, continue to provide these benefits, and keep enforcing them through the office of labor standards so that we can all rise above this horrible pandemic and move forward for the next steps. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you for your comments, miss ford. Operations, is there another caller . Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk caller, your two minutes begins now. Hi. My name is edan alba. Ive been a lyft supervisor for two years now, and im a member with workers rising. Drivers like me are exposed are the most vulnerable, the most exposed during these times. It can be that we are the least protected because Companies Like instacart, uber, lyft, have not offered protections that workers usually get, and functionalities, we are exposed during our work more than most others. When i started or when the Current Crisis started, i tried to get from lyft protection measures. They said they would try to provide them, but then, they shutdown all their field offices, so there was no one to talk to. So people like me, on a daily basis, are forced to choose between not working, which takes away our livelihood, and we dont have any savings because of how little we make during this crisis, and providing a risk to the public and to ourselves during this crisis. I strongly encourage this measure. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Mr. Qu, are there any other callers on the line . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Clerk there are no other callers. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Public comment is now closed. I want to thank everyone who spoke in Public Comments, but especially the frontline workers, the grocery workers, the frontline clerks, the fastfood and restaurant workers who spoke out here this morning just for all of the important work that youre providing and service youre providing for our communities right now in these really challenging times through your labor, so thank you so much. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. I did want to say just one more thing, which is we recognize that there is active litigation and disagreements about the definition of employees. We as the board of supervisors have been very clear about where we stand on that and have passed numerous resolutions that have clarified our stance as a city, as the board of supervisors, in support of 85 and other efforts. And so i do want to say that for the companies who read this and believe that it does not ally to them, i would, in the strongest terms, request that you comply with this. This iscy this is critical for our health and safety as a city during this time, and for folks who we believe that you employ, but you are referring to with another term, please make sure that they have access to this protection. Ive heard some folks say this is great, or some companies are saying they dont have to comply with this, and i believe that would be a terrible and dangerous mistake not to ensure the health of their drivers, of their shoppers, of their employees, and of their customers. Supervisor mar thank you, supervisor haney, for that important point, and thanks for all of your work on this important ordinance to protect our frontline essential workers right now. I believe you or you moved to amend the ordinance, which i will second. Mr. Clerk, can you please call the roll on the motion to amend . Clerk on the motion to amend the ordinance [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes on the motion to amend. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. I would now like to move that we send this as amended with positive recommendation as a Committee Report to the april 21 meeting of the board of supervisors. Mr. Clerk, please call call the roll. Clerk on the motion that the ordinance be recommended as a Committee Report to the april 21 board of supervisors meeting [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mar thank you. As we move into the next items, i did want to state that, colleagues, you know, we have a closed session scheduled to consider these next two items, which are litigation matters. At this time, i dont believe its necessary for us to convene in closed session for us to consider either ordinance, so instead of asking for a motion to convene in closed session, i will ask our clerk to call these items in both sessions. Mr. Clerk, please call the two items. Clerk items 5 and 6 are ordinances authorizing the settlement of lawsuits filed by individuals against the city and county of San Francisco. Members of the public, if you wish to speak, dial 18882045984, and then enter the access code 3501008, then pound, then pound to queue up, then onezero to speak. Supervisor mar its hard for me to imagine a more misguided effort than this building sinking into the ground. Well likely have a retrofit for this, and we have reached this agreement for developers and millionaire condo owners before we provide shelter for homeless san franciscans to shelter in place. I hope we acknowledge the absurd disparities in wealth, privilege, and access that got us here, but i will be voting in support of these items today. Before we go to Public Comment, are there any further comments from my colleagues . Chair peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, chair mar. I concur with your statement with regards to item 6, which in a normal circumstance, i wish we could actually discuss in closed session, but i understand that time is of the essence, and i know that all three of us have been individually briefed by the City Attorney, and i do want to acknowledge that the City Attorneys Office has really done the best they can in settling this ongoing litigation. And i was going to actually ask some questions, but i was able to do that in the previous items 1 and 2 with regard to pointing out that there are other unsettled claims and litigation that t. J. The Transbay Joint Powers Authority are doing, but they are not a party in this particular action, and that has been set forth in the answers that the tjpa gave earlier in todays meeting. With regard to item number 5, i do not think time is of the essence. Speaking only for myself, i would like to have a closed session on that, which we dont yet have the technology, apparently, to do, so i would respectfully ask that that item be continued until we can have a closed session. Supervisor mar thank you, supervisor peskin. Actually, i will support that motion your your motion to continue the item number 5. Mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line for Public Comment . Clerk mr. Chair, mr. Qu will check to see if we have any callers in the queue. Operator mr. Chair, there is one caller in the queue. Please allow me a moment to queue them up. You have one question remaining. Clerk well come, caller. Your two minutes begins now. I appreciate the statements that you have made. Truly, when we were suffering during this pandemic, we see all these discrepancies and disparities with some of our supervisors commenting, but they dont want to really address the situation. Here we are, trying to give a lot of money in some settlement, because, you know, if you have the attorneys, you can get the money. But whos going to repair the poor . Whos going to represent when decisions are made to put the homeless, the indigent, in harms way . So i admire at least you are making a statement, telling everybody in this city and county of San Francisco, the hard working taxpayers that there is a disparity, where if you have lawyers or the machine on your side, you can get paid. But if you are poor or you dont have representation, you are left to die, slowly left to die. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller . Operator there are no other callers in the queue. Clerk thank you, operations, a operations. Supervisor mar thank you again, mr. Clerk. Hearing no further comments, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor peskin made a motion to continue item number 5. I just want to check with deputy City Attorney ann pearson to see if theres any time sensitivity to decide that we should be aware of before we consider the motion to continue that way. Are you able to see and hear me . Oh, there i am. I trust our litigators would say that there is some time sensitivity to this, but there is no hardandfast deadline that im aware of that i could bring to your attention to influence your decision to move this forward as quickly as possible. Supervisor mar okay. Thank you for that, deputy City Attorney pearson. So supervisor peskin has moved that we continue item number 5. I will second that. Clerk would you like to specify the supervisor mar why dont we continue it to the supervisor peskin id like to continue to the call of the chair, and the moment that we can actually have a closed session, then i would ask that it be scheduled. Supervisor mar thank you, and i would second that. Mr. Clerk, can you please call roll . Clerk on the motion to continue agenda item number 5 to the call of the chair [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. And then, i move that we would send item number 6 to the full board with a positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on the motion from chair mar to recommend item number 6 to the full board of supervisors [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. There any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Supervisor mar thank you. We are adjourned. Everything is done inhouse. I think it is done. I have always been passionate about gelato. Every single slaver has its own recipe. We have our own we move on from there. So you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. Union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. The people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. Roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. [ ] city of San Francisco. 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. [ ] after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the belowmarket rate program. I got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [ ] the current Lottery Program began in 2016. But there have been lot rows that have happened for Affordable Housing in the city for much longer than that. It was there was no standard practice. For nonprofit organizations that were providing Affordable Housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. Private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city weve been monitoring for some time since 1992. We did it with Something Like this. Where people were given circus tickets. We game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. At the same time, we started electronic applications systems. Called dalia. The lottery is completely free. You can apply two ways. You can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. If you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. You can make it easier creating an account. To get to dalia, you log on to housing. Sfgov. Org. I have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. I was born here in the hayes valley. I applied for the San Francisco Affordable Housing lottery three times. Since 2016, weve had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. If you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. For some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. There is a Digital Divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. So we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. Along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and theres also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a firsttime home buyer workshop and a oneonone counseling session with the housing councilor. Sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldnt be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. They still might get a value for an available, Affordable Housing unit. We have a variety of Lottery Programs. The four that you will most often see are what we call c. O. P. , the certificate of Preference Program, the dthp which is the displaced penance Housing Preference program. The neighborhood resident Housing Program and the live worth preference. I moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. The neighborhood Preference Program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in San Francisco. The next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. You have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. All city sponsored Affordable Housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. Every week theres a listing on dalia. Something that people can apply for. Its a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. Lets say the lottery has happened. Several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. And how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. This particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. In my mind, i was like how am i going to win this . I did and when you get that notice that you won, its like at first, its surreal and you dont believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. Some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. They have key less entry now. They have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. Mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. We will Start Construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. We also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. And life happens to people. People move. So we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. Best thing about working for the Affordable Housing program is that we know that were making a difference and we actually see that difference on a daytoday basis. Being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, its a wonderful experience. Its a long process to get through. Well worth it when you get to the other side. I could not be happier. [ ] clerk, i would like to call to order todays meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is april 14, 2020. Madam secretary, roll call, please. [roll call] clerk madam president , we have a quorum. Thank you. Before we begin today, i would like to make an announcement