Transcripts For SFGTV SF Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

De mio. Madam clerk, please call the roll. role call . Mr. President , you have quorum. Thank you, madam clerk. 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. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to public online. And madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President. During the Ongoing Health emergency, members are participating in the Board Meeting through Video Conference to the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting and members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely in the following ways. If you do not have the internet, the u. S. 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Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board and although were nearing election time, there is no electioneering at these meetings and youll be placed on paused and redirected. If that continues, you may be cut off. Please address the board as a whole, not individual members. Dial the telephone number stated earlier, 888 2045984 and enter the access code 3501008 and again press pound, pound again to join the meeting. Nowe will ask you at the time if youre interested in getting into the line to speak, dial 10 and that will move you into the speakers line. Office of civic engagement, the director there has assigned three interpreters who are standing by to assist speakers in various languages and i would appreciate it if the individuals would introduce themselves. Can we start with arturo conse h nza. Arturo consenzo. speaking spanish . speaking Foreign Language . Thank you, thats all for me. And agnes lee. To. Yes, im agnes lee. speaking Foreign Language . Thank you, miss lee. Ok, mr. President , i believe that concluding my portion of communications. Thank you, madam clerk. So before we get started, just a friendly are reminder to all of the supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. Ok, next we will have supervisor mar to share an update from the Emergency Operations center and i want to thank supervisor mar for being here last week and not only last week, but he volunteered to stay there again this week. Didnand i want to extend my ths to supervisor fewer who has been down there as a mainstay at this point for about a month now and i really appreciate your leadership for the board down at the eoc. Supervisor mar. President yee. Yes, im pleased to offer this quick update as the current board liaison to the Emergency Operation center and this past week, al. Allen wong and i had the opportunity to pair up with staff and this has been a truly unique and valuable experiences. I would like to start with a key point on data. From monday, april 27th to friday may 3rd, the number of confirmed covid cases increased sitly from 1,517 to 1,728, an increase of 217 cases. And the number of covid19related deaths increased slightly from 27 to 31. And the covid19 hospitalization count declined slightly from 89 patients at the beginning of the week to 86 at the end of the week. And finally, the covid19 patients in hospitals of the covid19 patients in hospitals, the number in intensive care units declined from 28 to 26. These key data points from last week reflect our continuing success at preventing a surge in hospitalizations and in kentuck9 deaths in our cities. Over the past week, it can be attributed to the continued expansion to of testing in our city. The biggest event of last week was obviously the extension of our shelterinplace health order until the end of may, along with slight loosening on Outdoor Recreational activities. This along with govern newsoms announcement yesterday, into the transition of phase two of the statewide fourstage reopening plan has meant were starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and greater attention is focused on how to gradually loosen restrictions being guided by public and Safety Health precautions. The eoc continues to focus on the priorities to build a capability for effective, safe, efficient and equitable testing shelter and feeding operations to mitigate, prepare, respond to and recover from covid19. On a high level, i would like to share that the eoc is supporting dphs testing expansion by leading the efforts to add two new potential testing sites that will be operated by the state. And developing a Multilingual Outreach Campaign for all essential workers regardless of symptoms or exposure. The eoc is supporting feeding efforts delivering upward of 2,000 meals per day to those in need, including those isolating or quarantining at home with no one to care for them and those who are food insecure and unshelted home responsibilities. Wresidents. We are transporting o hotel sites, delivering ppe to Disaster Service workers and guests and linking congregate housing sites to cleaning sites and completing assessments tor alternative care and medical sites to plan for feature medical surge and providing resources to stand up near housing sites. We are also continuing to procure face coverings and are partnering with the human Rights Commission, hsh, the police fire and Sheriffs Office and cbos to deliver them to the most vulnerable members of our city. The eoc also lead a block by block assessment of the tenderloin with Community Groups to help form lat few formulate n plan for all of those who work is live there. The eoc launched a publicfacing covid19 alternative housing tracker. I would like to thank Mary Ellen Carol and the Service Workers who have stepped up in this time of need to response to the health and economic emergency in our city. Their professionalism, outstanding work ethic has been truly impressive and inspiring and finally this week as president yee noted, my office voted to keep serving for a second week. However, we need volunteers for next week and beyond. So please reach ou reach out tod leliaison if you can provide ths role. Thank you for allowing me to provide this update to the board. Youre on multimute, mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you, supervisor mar, for the update. Ok, colleagues, today we have approving the minutes from the march 17th, 2020 meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Hold on a second. Im going to make sure i have chat on. I see on the roster. So then, can i have a motion to approve the minutes made by fewer and seconded by preston. And madam clerk, will you please call the role. On the minutes, supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor hainey. Aye. Supervisor mandelman. Of aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safaye. Aye. And supervisor stephanie. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Madam clerk, please call items one through three. Items one through three pertain to the mission rock facilities and services items. Item one is the resolution to declare the results of the special election and to direct segregatiothe special tax distr. Item two is the resolution to authorize and ratify the issuance and sale of bonded indebtedness and other debt in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed 3. 7 million and item 3 is the ordinance to levy special taxes within the city and county of San Francisco for the special tax district number 20201. I believe supervisor peskin is on the roster. No, madam clerk, i was trying to second the Board Meeting minutes, sow can remove my name from the roster. Thank you. Mr. President , do you need to be unmuted . Role call . Silence is golden. Could i have role call on 13 . Supervisor walton on 13. Aye. Supervisor ye. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor hainey. Aye. Supervisor mendleman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safaye. Aye. And supervisor stephanie. Aye. There are 11 ay session. Es. Ok, withou without objectione resolutions are adopted and the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, the next item, number 4. An ordinance to authorize the settlement of lawsuits filed against the city and associated, related and consolidated litigation, pertaining to the milineum tou tower for seismic upgrade, including Court Approval of a Class Action Settlement and this adopts the appropriate environmental findings. Ok, madam clerk, can you please call role. On item 4, supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor hainey. Aye. Supervisor mendlemn. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safaye. Aye. Supervisor stephanie. Aye. There are 11 ayes. The ordinance has passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item. Item 5 is a resolution to approve the levy on the secured role of ad velorum and special taxes otaxes. There are subareas i1i13 of City Infrastructure at the port of San Francisco, special district number 20192, pier 70, leased properties and special tax district number 20201, the mission rock facilities and services and to make the appropriate finding. On item 5, supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. There are 11 ac 11ayes. Without objection, this is unanimously. Polisly. Item 6, this is march 1, 2020, board of directors. inaudible . Supervisor walton. Move to continue to the next Board Meeting. Is there a second . Second, supervisor preston. And so question to supervisor walton, can you explain why were continuing this item . Yes. Thank you, supervisor yee. As you know, we are in the middle of a pandemic and a lot of issues that have hit my district and have hit the city which have allowed us to prioritize and i have not had the time to meet with the candidates that have been up for appointment. I believe you have to unmute yourself, madam president. Thank you, supervisor walton for the explanation. Madam clerk, can you call the role on the continuance. Selfny no. There are ten ayes, one no with supervisor stephanie in the dissent. 101 and the motion to continue passes. Sorry, somebod madeitem 7. A resolution to approve a fifth amendment to the agreement between the Sheriffs Office and the San Francisco trial diversion inc to extend this through june 30th, 2021 and to increase the amount by 5. 9 million for a new total not to exceed 15. 86. 15. 86 million. Ok, supervisor stephanie . Thank you, president yee. And i joined the budget and finance Committee Meeting because i have some questions about how the questions of pretrial conversion project for four years has been operating. Ive been supportive of pretrial in the past and worked to secure funds for pretrial and i think its an extremely Important Service partnership wanted t. I wanted to know how many are under monitoring and i ask this because the Sheriffs Office is involved when monitoring. I want to understand if they were duplicating efforts. I asked about the recidivism rate for the clients over their entire tenure and if client participation was interrupted and after the hearing, i want back and did further research on the performance metrics and it does not appear that the preversion follows the standards by the Pretrial Service agencies or the National Institute of corrections, which state that appearance rates and safety rates should be calculated based on a clients entire time, not in 90day increments. I have supported the pretrial diversion projects executive believe they shouland theirmissg they need obligations and that remains true today. This is 6 million for one year and pretrial will get a large number of new clients as the jail population is reduced. The budget legislative Analyst Report income indicates the clil face serious charges. For me, i feel i need a thorough understanding when these individuals are placed in this program, measured according to National Standards and measured according to standards that make sense to me and i dont have the level of confidence i need. I received anticipation answersy questions ten minutes before the meeting and based on the recidivism rates, i will not be able to support this item today, even though i remain supportive of retrial but because i dont have an understanding of the questions i put forward, i cannot support it. Thank you, supervisor stephanie. So madam clerk i believe supervisor safaye is on the roster. I dont see him on the roster. I see supervisor walton. Thank you, president yee, and through the chair. Supervisor stephanie, are you saying that you want more information or are you saying this was not a contract youre going to support any time soon . Supervisor stephanie . Based on what youve received so far, this is a contract i wont support. Thank you. Supervisor stephanie, can you repeat yourself because i lost it for a second there . Yes. So through the president , i have questions about an item that came before another committee and i did my Due Diligence and i looked into whether or not those questions had been thoroughly answered so i could feel comfortable voting on this item before us today. And i did not get the information i needed to feel comfortable voting based on way studied, which are recidivism rates and National Standards and therefore, although i remain supportive of Pretrial Services, the fact the contract is decreasing by 6 million, the performance metrics where i feel comfortable, i will not be able to vote yes today. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you. Was there supervisor safaye and i still dont see him on the roster. No, i took my name of. Oh, i see, thank you. Madam clerk, can you call the role on this item. On item 7 role call . Selfny no, there are ten ayes and one no with supervisor selfny in the dissent. This is adopted with a 101 vote. Madam clerk, the next item. Item 8 is a resolution to authorize retroactive the department of emergency management, to accept an increase of 603,000 to the 2019 urban Area Security Initiative Funds for a new total of 27. 4 million from the u. S. Department of Homeland Security through the California Office of emergency services, september 4, 2019, through may 21, 2022. Ok, then, madam clerk, please call the role. On item 8 role call . There are 11 ayes. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 9, to authorize the department of hubble pelt to accept and expand an 88,000 grant from the california state Water Resources control board, a division of Water Quality Beach Safety Program for the public beach safety grant program, july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2022. Madam clerk, please call the role. On item 9 role call . There are 11 ayes. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, the next item. Item 10, item 10 was referred without recommendation from the budget and finance committee and the resolution to urge city departments to authorize Additional Funds and support to their contracted nonprofit Homeless Service providers including free testing and incentive pay through increased contract amounts and flexible contract spending. I see nobody on the roster. Go ahead and call role. On item 10, supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor hainy. Aye. Supervisor mandleman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Soup storsupervisor ronen. Aaye. There are 11 ayes. The item is adopted unanimously. Item 11, to create the intermediate length occupancy, residential use characteristic and to amend the administrative code to clarify the law regarding the enforceability of six termed leases covered by the cause protections of the residential rent stabilization and arbitration ordinance and prohibit the rental units for temporary occupancies by nontenants, to require landlords to disclose to rent ordinance and to require the controller to conduct a study to analyze the impacts of new intermediatelike occupancy units in the city and to affirm the California Environmental quality determination, thats the seqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, president yee. I would like to thank the cosponsors of this piece of legislation. Preston, fewer, yourself, mr. President and supervisor stephanie, for your cosponsorship and i would like to thank my chief of staff for her work on this. This legislation was originally introduced in october of last year and it has been the subject of eight Committee Hearings and five amendments. What is before you is legislative draft number 5 and this is an issue the city and county of San Francisco has wrestled with through supervisors mable tang and many others and i think that what were now calling intermediate length occupancies formally known as corporate rentals is going to be fundamentally regulated by this piece of legislation. It makes abundantly clear what has been in the law for many years but has been rather vaguely worded which is that we will not have corporate rentals in rentcontrolled housing ie housing built prior to 1979 and corporate rentals will be appropriately regulated in post 1979 housing and that they are only for natural persons, not corporate persons. This issue was getting ready to be brought to the board right before covid19. A couple of weeks ago, the board had a robust discussion over the lucky penny and that actually brought this back so thank you supervisor stephanie, for your support and cosponsorship and i look forward to, hopefully, passing this unanimously. Thank you, colleagues. Ok, madam clerk, can you please call the role. Mr. President , sorry. I put my name up at the last minute. I just wanted to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor safaye. I guess the sponsor and i hadnt closed the loop and i would also like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you, supervisor safaye. Anybody else before i call the role . Ok, it looks like we can call the role not yet, supervisor ronen . I dont think so. I just wanted to be adds as a cosponsor, thank you. On item 11 role call . There are 11 ayes. Without objection, the ordinance is passed. Madam clerk, please call items 12 and 13. The motion appointing the following members to the Soma Community stabilization fund, Advisory Committee and christian martin, residency requirement waived and jenetta johnson, carolyn calledwell, gina rosalis and terms ending december 21, 2023 and for 13, term ending august 20, 2020 and jane philips, term ending to the south of markets Community Planning Advisory Committee. Ok. Give me a second here. I have some technical difficulty here. Let me get back on chat to make sure theres nobody on the roster ok, madam clerk, please call the role on these items. On items 12 and 13 role call . Are 11 ayes. Without objection, approved unanimously. Committee report, madam clerk. It was approved at a special meeting on friday, may 1st and recommended as a Committee Report and an emergency ordinance to limit the spread of covid19 by requiring the city through Service Agreements with third parties to provide staff and maintain Restroom Facilities at a ratio of one restroom per 50 up sheltered persons of the affected date of this ordinance and to suspend charter section 9. 118 and thats the Service Agreements to forego the board of supervisors approval and to perform the seqa determination and this requires twothirds or eight votes, a passage on one meeting. Ok, i believe i heard that supervisor hainey wanted to make some amendments. Do you want to do that, supervisor . I dont see your name on the roster. I would like to make some comments, too. Thank you, president yee. And thank you to my cosponsors and legislation as supervisors preston and mar and i want to thank chair fewer for having an emergency meeting of the budget committee. I have spoken at our Board Meetings many times about the need for more bathroom access and handwashing stations and its urgent everyday, but especially during a pandemic. Our board passed unanimously a resolution in march which calls for adding additional pitstop bathrooms and 24hour restrooms and handwashing station expose wstations and weintroduced thiso require it. We have begun to see some additional toilets go out and im grateful for the work that the mayor and the department of public works has done to abide by parts of this legislation previously. But its critical we put this into law and that we set a standard that is one that reflects what the United Nations and the centers for Disease Control and prevention have. And this legislation would set that standard. It would provide much more accessible access to both handwashing stations and bathrooms, not only for People Living on the streets but also for people who are made to rely on bathrooms because theyre out working or delivery workers or taxi drivers and this will help to protect our city, help to keep folks healthy and also make sure that people get access to the human rights of bathrooms is protected. After discussions with the budget at finance Committee Last week and deferring with public works, there were two amendments by the City Attorney to further clarify and assure this ordinance serves a purpose of providing access to individuals that need it the most and the amendments require that these emergency bathrooms shall be concentrated in areas with the greatest need and located within a thousand feet of any encantment and shall be opened 24 hours a day except for certain specified locations. The emergency bathroom locations from the 24hour requirement are either located in a thermos area or having a pit stop in a reasonable distance and i believe this is something based on press release 30 minutes ago that the mayor is committed to implementing and would bring up once this legislation passes the number of 24hour restrooms in our city to 49. Im note that about a month ago, we had three 24hour bathrooms and with this we will have 49 and any in the future will be 24. This is reimbursable through fema and the ordinance with a recollection from the budget and finance committee and i hope we can support this and support basic human right and stop the spread of covid19 among some of our most vulnerable populations and i would like to move those two amendments. A motion to amend and a second . Seconded by supervisor walton. Madam clerk, please call the role on the ams. Amendments. On the amendments role call . There are 11 ayes. Madam clerk, call the role on the amended ordinance. On item 14, as amended, supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor hainey. Aye. Supervisor mandleman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Amounaye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor stephanie. Aye. There are 11 ayes. The motion is passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 15. Item 15 was considered by the government audit and Oversight Committee at a special meeting on thursday, april 30 and recommended as amended with the same title as the Committee Report. Item 15 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the city to close county jail number 4, located on the seventh floor of the hall of justice by november 1st, 20. 2020, to establish a safety and justice challenge subcommittee, to plan for the reduction of the citys daily jail population and closure of county jail number four and affirm the seqa determinations. Supervisor fewer. Yes. Colleagues, i am proud to acts for youaskfor your supports legislation to close county jail number four. I have worked for months with every justice partner and key stakeholder to craft the piece of legislation that increased the urgency to close this dilapidated facility but is also taking into consideration some of the concerns raised by sheriff miamoto. Thank you to the sheriff, District Attorney bodine, public defender and all engaged with that office. Thank you to supervisor hainey for beginning to work on this legislation in october of last year and thank you to all of our other cosponsor, supervisors, walton, ronen, preston, mar, peskin, safaye and mandleman. This does three things. First, it requires the closure of county jail number four in six months by november 1st of 2020. And second, that in order to close the jail, we must reduce the playing to no mor population 90 of the facility, a goal that is stated by the safety and justice challengeworking group, an interagency collaboration that was born when the city received a grant along with than 50 other localities to work for a fairer justice. It formally recognises the missing working group as a subcommittee, and that existing structure and requires that the subcommittee consider to meet the objective of reducing the population so we can safely close county jail number four. The subcommittee will be required to submit two reports to the board of supervisors with progress made, data points and policy recommendations. This legislation is simply creating a mandate to close the facility that everyone agrees needs to be closed. Only on a more aggressive timeline and it has been 24 years since the jail was deemed to be unsafe and slated for demolition and the conditions have only gotten worse. This is long overdue. Our city administrators wanted to close by the end of 2019 and the former sheriff called this facility decrepit. Lets do what needs to be done is close county jail number four. I have two items that are nonsubstantive that would have been shared with all of you and your staff. On page 9, lines 2325, at the request of the sheriff, we are including a language and allowance for the continued use of the jail and laundry facilities at county jail number four in case that the kitchen rehabilitation at county jail number two is not complete compy the november 1st deadline. We want to ensure were not leaving the downtown jail with no facility inaudible . We are discussing key departments with the labor unions representing impacted worker stations at county jail number four. And i want to give out a special thanks, of course, to my legislative aid, kelly burlar and office staff who have worked with chelsea on this. Chelsea worked tirelessly ensuring that we address all of the concerns with the sheriff and, also, that it was responsible legislation to all of San Francisco. This would be to the office of Racial Equity that we passed last year and because of the timeline inaudible . Moving forward, well work with the office and the clerk to ensure a clear process for this racial analysis to be completed prior to legislation being voted on and i would like to call to present a memo from the office of Racial Equity. Thank you, supervisor. Go ahead. Thank you, supervisor fewer. Thank you president yee, thank you, madam clerk and honorable supervisors. Im proud to serve as the inaugural director for the service of Racial Equity, the San Francisco Rights Commission with Cheryl Evans Davis and today, i will present tow our tr Racial Equity assessment for this piece of legislation. Just give me one moment. I will share my slides with you all. My office is in the process of developing tools to make sure that were ensuring that legislation and policies being passed through the board of supervisors does have a Racial Equity lense. This shall report on employment, Public Health, Public Safety and that may have an impact on Racial Equity and racial despairties. So fulfill this requirement, im providing the following brief assessment. And, of course, this is on file 200 372 for the number four closure. So in order to produce this assessment, my office generally asks about five questions and want to make sure that any piece of legislation can meet any one of the following criteria and the criteria is as follows. That the legislation explicitly address racial despairties and passage result in the reduction or elimination of racial inequities and number two, will the legislature protest against racial violence, profiling and explicit biased and discrimination. Number three, will the policy help to eliminate barriers to access resources, social services, Public Benefits and institutions . Four, does the legislation advance full inclusion belonging engagement for everyone in San Francisco and lastly, does the legislation meaningfully approve communities of color or strengthen the ability of people in San Francisco to their potential. This is what we use to assess legislation and i will be given my recommendation moving forward. And so, in looking at our contract Justice System, we know that there ar are very, very dep racial despairties and people of color are funneled into this system and that racial despaireries ardespairties are t system. California is not doing a great job. When we say Racial Equity, i want everybody to be grounded as we define this as the justice for inclusion in society so that all people can reach their full potential, no matter race, ethnicity or background. But, unfortunately, within our criminal Justice System, thats not the case for so many africanamerican, black, latin x, native american, indigenous and Asian American Pacific Island communities. In our racial impact assessment, which you all will be receiving very soon in your inboxes with a fuller review, we have confirmed that this policy will reduce harm and racial despairties in the criminal Justice System for the most critically latin x and native american communities. So the reason why weve come up with that is because the closure of four in the jail population will significantly mitigate racial despairties in San Francisco by reducing unnecessary use of the detention and encouraging use of alternatives, such as pretrial diversion programs. And passage of this legislation will help to look towards longterm Solutions Like the establishment of safety and justice subcommittees which will promote longer lasting and Public Health and Safety Measures for justice involved and individuals, deputy sheriffs, employees and, also, our Greater Community at large. And i want to take a quick moment to stress why we have found this assessment. So im going to stop sharing my screen for just a moment. And im going to add a couple of comments into the public record. We know that black and brown neighborhoods experience destabilization with residents cycling in is out of prison and a lack of resources for reentry into society, such as housing, employment and educational opportunities. Additionally, families of color with loved ones in detention suffer from increased financial stress, trauma, Mental Health distress and dissolution. And further, our criminal Justice System breeds greater wealth inequality from a target system of lowlevel offenders to employment prospects and reduction of wage earnings upon returning home. And we also came to this because legislation addresses several Public Health issues and so the closure of county jail number four is deemed unsafe, plumbing, sewage, kitchen and laundry facilities, falling into deep disrepair and this has been the case for years and these conditions pose ongoing physical threats to the safety of justice involved in individuals, employees and visitors. And we also know that because we are in the covid pandemic and this is a Public Health emergency, that our pandemic has illuminated and worsened racism and health despairties. The population ha underlying heh conditions and due to the correctional facilities, the risk of disease transmission is quite high. A safe reduction of jail population and the closure of county jail number four will help to mitigate the risk of covid19 in our jails. Racial despairties in our jail system can be repaired and disruptived by the introduction of appropriate policy and supervisor fewers legislation does just that. Further, in closing county jail number four, we need to eliminate outofcounty transfers or expansion of jailing through electronic monitoring and eliminating jailbed construction. This must be prioritized. We need to uplift proven and preventative measures to address poverty and redirect resources directly to communities of color, including fair housing, better healthcare, access to Healthy Foods and culturally Competent Services such as Mental Health reform and access to Soldier Health and Substance Abuse treatment. In San Francisco, we need to disrupt root causes of systemic racism with our criminal Justice System and we need to do this through broad population level change. And i hope that through the passage of this legislation, we can do so to restore justice and dignity to those fairly affected by the system. Thank you so much. Thank you. Th. The Sheriffs Office, i bel, would like to speak. Are you on there . I am and thank you everybody over the board for the work on this and the opportunity to speak on its behalf. I just wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that our office has been committed to closing county jail four, as well as our staff. Its seismically unsafe and dilapidated. I appreciate all efforts setting a timeline for this process. I want to just take to moment to make sure everyone is aware that it is prudent to take into consideration our current covid19 pandemic. The pandemic itself reveals just how radically our lives can change in ways we could not have predicted. Although our efforts to reduce the jail population coincide with the Public Health efforts to minimize any exposures in the jails, we dont know yet how this will change over time. And i do want to say, i am extremely grateful to supervisor fewer and her office on the many changes that we have worked on in order to make sure that our office has the flexibility to accommodate any future fluctuations in the jail population. As elected, its our responsibility to be able to listen to everyone and make thoughtful measured decisions and plans. And i do appreciate the collaboration and opportunities that our office has shared, all of our perspectives and concerns. Ultimately, we all share the same of ensuring there are prudent and responsible options in response to the challenge we face with covid19. Covid19 that do not include the use of county jail 4 again and thank you. Thank you. Supervisor fewer, are you done . Yes. I would like to thank everyone for their comments and i have a motion on the table for the amendments that i have just proposed. Ok. Before we take is there a second for that motion . Second. Who was that . Supervisor walton. Thank you, supervisor walton. President yee, im so sorry, i think i see supervisor ronen on the cue. Ill recognise her as soon as i make any statement. My statement. Supervisor fewer, thank you for bringing this discussion today. I will be supporting the legislation to close county jail number four, located at 850 bryant street in the hall of justice. There is widespread agreement from our city leadership that this facility is unsafe and people have been saying that ever since ive been on the board of supervisors. The mayor, assistant District Attorney, public defender, sheriff, county administrator have all agreed that the hall of justice must be closed. The building is seismically unsafe. The Poor Condition of the plumbing, sewage, kitchen and laundry facilities pause Additional Health and safety concerns as was pointed out. Supervisor fewer has worked closely with sheriff miamoto, as we just heard, and justice partners to ensure that the county jail four can be closed safely by november 1st, 2020. The plan laid out in this legislation ensures that the safety of incarcerated people and staff at the facility will not compromise Public Safety. The legislation itself requires a reduction in the jail population to no more than 1,044, which is 90 of the capacity of the remaining jail facilities. And this is for county jails two and five and lets be clear on what this means. We have already meeting this requirement. Over the past year, the city jail population has steadily declined. A few days before the covid19 health crisis, the jail population was 1,063. In this wathis was only 19 above jail county four. As of this week, the jail population was 695, which is 348 below what is required by this legislation. The legislation tests the safety and justice challenge with developing a plan in coordination to an increase of the jail population above 1,444. The subcommittee will not consider the transfer of incarcerated people to out of county facilities in this plan. And that alone was very important that we dont do that, that we wouldnt be sending my inmates out of the county. Sending incarcerated people out county should not be an option at all and never should be considered. Transferring incarcerated people to, but we want to when you send them out of county, it creates difficulties for the families and certainly, we dont need to hide attention and the situation for these families. So i want to emphasize that it is dangerous and irresponsible for anyone to spread this information and rumors that this legislation would somehow make us less safe. We are not closing the jail in an irresponsible way, as far as i could see from the legislation. We are not releasing individuals who would be a threat to themselves or the public. When i supposed to to sheriff miamoto, he stated that this was the case. We are upholding Public Safety by ensuring we do not allow for this unsafe facility to continue operating. Again, thank you to my my colleagues for bringing this forward and working closely with the sheriff and to ensure we have a plan to safely close this facility. We have all known that county jail four needs to be closed and this legislation allows us to do so with the urgency of the situation requires. I would like to adds as a cosponsor. Supervisor ronen. Thank you, president ye. E. Ie. I wanted to express my gratitude and pride that we are finally closing this jail that has been a danger to the human beings that were forced to stay there. It wasnt fit for human habitation. Every time i went there, i couldnt believe that this great city would subject people, individuals to those conditions. And i just want to applaud this effort and the work with sheriff miamoto to get it done. And i just wanted to give a special thanks to my former chief of staff, carolyn gu seconsen,who worked closely with supervisor fewers office and her incredible chief of staff, chelsea boyard. Carolyn is now working for the Public Defenders Office and i wanted to thank her for that. Supervisor stephanie, i believe, is next. I struggled how to vote on this with the Public Safety issues facing this city and i do hear what president yee just said. Before i make a few points, i want to recognise supervisor fewer, for the way she brought this legislation forward is worked closely with our criminal justice departments, including our sheriff, before putting this to a vote and i know that she and her staff wanted to be successful and its going to be. So through the chair, i just want to thank supervisor fewer for shepherding this to completion in such a thoughtful way and for taking time out over the weekend to listen to me and to hear my thoughts and concerns and, you know, i also want to say that i absolutely agree with her didnt all of you about the need to close this building. This building at 850 bryant street has been in deplorable condition and should never have been allowed to deteriorate to this point. Ive been here a long time and the jails closure from neglect and disrepair is not some kind of unavoidable or foregone conclusion and it was a result, i think, from this inability, really, and this refusable to compromise to so many different people and im thinking if supervisor fewer were around back then, we might be in a different position because she has shown herself to listen to so many different sides as we saw last year during the budget season. You know bee, i look back on ths and in 2015, the board rejected that grant to build a new jail and there was widespread recognition that we needed a new facility. That was presupervisor fewer. And then in 2016, former supervisor jane held a hearing on the Behavioral Health center in tandem with Law Enforcement. We knew there was an overwhelming need with the justiceinvolved population and that was just two of the interventions on this facility all along and all the while, we knew something needed to be done. More should have been done to prevent this from happening in the first place. While we want to move away didnt should movaway andshouldn uncomfortable. Im very appreciative of how supervisor fewer went about this and i want everybody out of that building. San francisco recently celebrated the decline in Violent Crime and historic low homicide rates and i want to recognise all of the Public Safety for making that happen. And for me and i know i have a lense that other people dont have. And i know i have an experience that other people dont have and i try to check my biased opinion but for me, when it comes to crime, lower crime is not none and its not good enough for me. And i just dont feel comfortable with it. We know a lot of crime goes un n reported. And additionally, i cant ignore the fact that we still continue to have the highest property crime rate in california and that the highest rate of property crime among the largest cities in the United States. In fact, we are one of the few coins icoincounties. In the United Statesthat saw a. When you think it doesnt matter to the life of the victim, it does matter a great deal and being victimized and costly and traumatic and our own studies show that we need we havent been able to have a hearing on it we need 200 to 300 more Police Officers to meet the daily calls for service. And like all of you, i want desperately for crime to decrease to such a level we can decrease the jail population further. And i know there are varying degrees of what that looks like for all of us. But closing the jail at this time requires a level of risk im not prepared to take. With that, i want to thank roma guy, because i loveler. Anlove her and iwant to thank hl with my aid and talked about this cautionary risk and how i add hire her anadmire her and jt my lense doesnt allow me to see things the way others are seeing things here. I know this legislation doesnt mandate specifically who is released. Again, im grateful to supervisor fewer for including that level of care. But when i look at the individuals head in county jail four, i know that those individuals have been accused of very serious offenses, because in San Francisco, we dont hold people for lowlevel offences and we should be proud of that. We have done more than more counties in this nation and i think we should be proud of that. Im against mass incarceration and im thankful that San Francisco has done much to remedy this issue and its why we have few people in our jails, because like i said who have committed lowlevel offenses. Prior to thi covid epidemic, San Francisco was the lowest in the state. And now with the advent of this pandemic, both playings are further reduced. And between our low levels of arrest and low levels of detention, i believe San Francisco in a way and maybe ana place to commit certain types of offences and the people who work here experience that everyday. Its something i hear from my constituents time and time again. I think about those who suffer abuse at the hands of others. With regard to Pretrial Services, i really think our Pretrial Services are extremely important and i was very uncomfortable with some of the answers i got. And thats what giving me pause. I just want to be very open and honest and transparent how im feeling on this. I also have to share important questions about the charges facing those slated for release and so much respect for the sheriff and im so happy that he and supervisor fewer were able to work on these amendments. But we havent yet received anticipations to those questions that made me feel comfortable to vote yes. While i do agree with need to close this jail, i dont believe we can do that until i demonstrate to my constituents that we arent putting victims of crime, especially Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault victims at risk and i personally feel i cant yet do that. However, i know that many reasonable people see things differently. And thats why i have so much respect for the people who put this legislation forward because i understand it. Again, i want to thank supervisor fewer for how she worked hard with our sheriff and the legislation to where its gotten and i think its incredible that she was able to pull so many people together and make the amendments that she did. Today, however, based on my comments, i wont be able to support the ordinance at this time. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor safaye. Thank you, president yee. And let me just say thank you to supervisor fewer for all of her amazing hard work on this. I know usually when it gets down to the finish line is when a lot of the final details are put on this project and in terms of i say its a project, even though its an ordinance and its a piece of legislation. But the idea of prisoners and those that are incarcerated being held in unsanitary, unsafe and unsound conditions and everyone agreeing that needed to be dealt with in terms of a priority and then there being a fight about whether we build a new jail or not a new jail, this is what you call, in my opinion, a true balancing act. It was approached in the right way. It started with the point of departure in looking at the reality and looking at the statistics and numbers of how the population has gone down and then reaching out to our sheriff and the sheriff said it best, this is was something too compromised but at the end of the day, we are going to close that and we are going to prioritize the safety of those incarcerated and it does have room to deal with ensuring were not sending people out of county. So i want to thank the sheriff for his willingness and ability to compromise and i want to thank supervisor fewer for her leadership and im proud to be a sponsor and a supporter of this finally moving forward. Thank you. Sheriff, are you still there, by any chance . When were talking talking clog county jail 4, the inmates that there are now, were not releasing the inmates in jail county number four. No, that is correct. Were moving them to the other county jails to have capacity to accommodate for them. Is that correct . Yes. For clarification, what we plan on doing is moving the population currently on the seventh floor and integrating that population into what we have at county jail two and county jail five and thats where right now sou supervisor safaye referenced we have an opportunity to do so president d by the legislation and that is also why i expressed concerns of making sure we have flexibility because in the case our population increases, well only have the two to work with. Thank you very much. Youre confirming what i thought i understood to be so. I just didnt want the public to come out of this discussion thinking that were going to release everybody into the public from the jail, county jail number four. And so we have a motion on the floor to amend and second it . Madam clerk, can you call the role on the amendment. On the amend to item 15 role call . Call . role call . There are 11 ay session ones. Without objection, they are passed. On item 15, supervisor walton. Yes. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor hainey. Aye. Supervisor mendleman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Ayee. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safaye. Aye. Supervisor stephanie. No. There are 10 ayes and one know with supervisor stephanie in the dissents. Dissents. A 101 vote, ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, that will take us to role call. Role call for introduction with supervisor walton to introduce new business. Thank you so much, madam clerk. I appreciate one second. Im sorry. I just have to pull up something really quick. This is supported by all colleagues on the board of supervisors and this is something that we should have been able to do here in San Francisco years ago didnt so i want to start off just by commenting all of my colleagues for stepping up and fighting for our population to have the voice they deserve. As we know in San Francisco, weve always worked hard to ensure that community is not left behind and its for this reason that im honored to be a part of this historical Charter Amendment asking voters to allow all of our San Francisco residents the opportunity to serve on important advisory groups and commissions. All voices should be allowed at the table and this is one step towards achieving equitable voice. And im confident that all of San Francisco will vote this into law. Currently, the advisories created by the charter or through legislation can carve out exceptions to age, residency and citizenship requirements. And this Charter Amendment will remove the citizenship requirement, allowing all qualified individuals to apply on committee. I want to thank all of those who work to make this a reality and i want to recognise that supervisor yee from president yees office for their original push in making sure that this was an issue that was bough broo the forefront and i want to thank my team and the District Team office, specifically tracy brown and natalie g. For all of their work to make this Charter Amendment possible is to continue to push on behalf of community. And i also want to thank advocates for making this a reality and i would finally just like to exalt the work of sarah susa, who stands for and represents all of whom with this ordinance is meant to represent. She has been someone who has been fighting to serve and make sure that communities are represented and this is reflective of her work and the work of many people who have been a fabric of San Francisco and who deserve the opportunity to participate on policy boards, committees and advisory groups. And so i just urge everyone to join me, as well as this entire board of supervisors in proving that we are 100 fighting for democracy here in San Francisco and going to make sure that all voices matter. And what a better day than to introduce this Charter Amendment than Cinco De Mayo. Thank you for your continued support. We still have our work cut out for us to make sure the voters support this important Charter Amendment, but equal voice, equitable voice is something i know we all believe in and this will help us to get closer to achieving that. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor ye. E. I wanted to thank supervisor walton for bringing this chart chartered amendment forward and we strongly support it, also. Its something we should all embrace. please stand by . Supervisor fewer this legislation which ultimately aims to slow the spread of covid19 will also require the department to create a written report of potential properties where safe sleeping sites could be suitable. By setting up spaces where people can spread their tents 12 feet by 12 feet apart while also accessing drinking water, food, and other 247 services, this can help slow the spread. As supervisor mandelman noted in his resolution last week, other cities like phoenix, seattle, and eugene are containing the spread of covid19 through homelessness. This legislation does not call on any specific site to be open nor does it allow people to camp freely throughout parks. Im going to say that again. It does not allow people to camp freely throughout parks. It simply gives the city the option to use rec and parkland where suitable. In this emergency, we need to protect Public Health, and that includes identifying all Public Information where the city can provide centralized health services, bathrooms, hand washing stations, and other necessities for homeless san franciscans to slow the spread of covid19. Our ability to lift the shelter in place mandate depends on our ability to protect our most Vulnerable People and offer safe sites for people that sleep on our sidewalks and get them into safe shelter sites with enough room for physical distancing is just one part of the solution. The next solution is to get people into vacant hotel rooms, but in the meantime, we need other options for people who are living in our sidewalks. With 3,400 acres of rec and park in San Francisco, surely we can set aside a couple of acres for people to be able to shelter in place. I am also introducing a resolution today in support of Assembly Bill 2058, authored by Assembly Member jessie gabriel. It would create an Affordable Housing preservation tax credit to create preservation of Affordable Rental Properties and mobile home parks. Last year, i was honored to create the opportunity for acts with every supervisor signing on as a cosponsor. Between 1997 and 2018, california last 15,044 Affordable Homes as rental restrictions expired. Another 34,000 homes are at risk from converting to market rate rentals. By keeping them from converting, we can keep up our Affordable Housing stock. With covid19 pandemic causing record unemployment and people being able to pay their mortgages, we know that housing corporations will be looking to purchase large portfolios of housing just like they did during the 2008 recession. It makes sense to support this bill and all weve been doing in San Francisco to protect Affordable Housing. The rest i submit. Thank you. Clerk thank you, supervisor fewer. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk and colleagues. I have one resolution im introducing today in support of national Mental Health Awareness Month. This resolution recognizes the Amazing Services of Mental Health Service Providers in dealing with this Global Pandemic and their ability to successfully implement low barrier Mental Health services to overcome the negative impacts of covid19. This pandemic has had a profound effect on the lives of every resident. People have been separated from their jobs, their families, ability to go outside, all of which have impacted the people they love. The result is that many more people are struggling with depression, anxiety, and often in silence. These essential resources are adequate, available, and effective and our neighbors need to know how to access them. For people who struggle with mental illness, this service is critically important. We know this is happening because the numbers are clear and Research Studies have linked social isolation and loneliness to poor Mental Health. 47 of people sheltering in place reported negative Mental Health effects related to worry or stress from the coronavirus. Negative effects due to social isolation may be particularly more pronounced in older adults or households. Just last month in april 2020, Kaiser Family foundation revealed that parents with children under the age of 18, nearly three out of five say that impact from coronavirus had negatively affected their health. The Peer Reviewed warm line, which is now averaging 5,800 calls and chat sessions per month in march and april of this year. In light of these numbers, we need to step up and catch our neighbors from falling. We cannot let them suffer in silence. This resolution urges the board, the health board, and the Mayors Office to offer si widespread Health Resolutions for all. Second, continued prioritized diagnostic testing, and third, confirm our commitment to Mental Health parity by removing the stigma around Mental Health treatment. Tomorrow, im going to be hosting a virtual information session around covid19. We have the Kaiser Family foundation and the Stanford Center for health and wellness to address these topics. All are welcome to join, and i hope that we can make sure that people who are vulnerable, who are struggling often silently and quietly with Mental Health challenges during this crisis from the support and protection thats accessible and needed for them. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, have a few items today. First as we grapple with the ongoing covid19 crisis, there is another crisis growing at a record rate. Unemployment is now a state of emergency, too, for laid off workers. The pace of our Unemployment Crisis is greater than any since the Great Depression. Nearly 10 of the entire population of San Francisco has lost their job during this crisis, representing tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives with the loss of their livelihood. As we move into the next phase of restrictions this week and plan for an economic recovery, we have to make sure that our recovery puts people first. Without action, unemployment will be an enduring crisis. In a country where access to health care is often tied to employment benefits, our Unemployment Crisis is also a health crisis. So today, im proud to propose the back to work ordinance with my cosponsors safai, haney, walton, and fewer. This makes sure that those offered jobs first in the process if and when their employers reopen and start to rehire. If their job isnt available, but another job is that theyre qualified for, theyll be offered that instead. And while theyre laid off, theyll be notified of city resources that with help them weather the storm. Workers deserve economic certainty, and its a winwinwin scenario. When Public Health allows, businesses will be able to open faster by bringing back staff thats already trained and ready to go, benefiting their staff, customers, and the entire city. Id like to thank my cosponsors and others who have endorsed the proposal. Second, im introducing a resolution introducing the collection and reporting of Additional Data for populations, especially vulnerable to covid19 transmission. This board already adopted a resolution sponsored by supervisor peskin regarding s. R. O. S and shelters, but s. R. O. S and shelters arent the only vulnerable living situations. We need better data on how covid19 is impacting our nursing homes, Senior Living facilities, Skilled Nursing facilities, and jails. And while the city is reporting some gender identity information in our data tracker, it falls short of data standards for sogi, or Sexual Orientation and gender inequity. We know lgbtq communities have disparate outcomes where data is reported, but no one is tracking sogi transition. Our lgbtq communities deserve to know how theyre being impacted by the covid19 crisis. Finally, im proud to cosponsor supervisor fewers emergency ordinance to allow rec and park facilities and land to be potentially used for Emergency Needs as part of our comprehensive covid19 response, including safe sleeping sites. Rec and parkland represents 11 of all land in the city. This ordinance simply assures that all options are adequately considered in our Public Health emergency strategy. While we must keep the focus on bringing as many Homeless People as possible indoors to shelter safely, we understand this faces many challenges, and that we need additional temporary solutions for people left outside. This will be especially true as growing unemployment drives individuals into poverty and homelessness. A secured, staffed, and contained safe sleeping site will be safer than the tents lining our residential and neighborhood corridor commercial streets and will save lives for housed and unhoused families. I look forward to working with my colleagues on the board, rec and park staff, and the staff on the e. O. C. To make sure that our decisions are driven by the needs of the Public Health community. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. First, id like to thank the council of district merchants and the petition that they have been circulating that we are all in receipt of this afternoon, urging a responsible relaxation in the chief Health Officers emergency order as it relates to curb side pickup for various businesses, including, but not limited to book stores. Quite frankly, i know that all of us have been wrestling with the issues of an increasingly frustrated society under covid19, and i think we all have the same questions that our constituents have as to why theres been relaxation in certain areas, including construction where in some instances, construction workers cannot socially distance or why one of the earlier orders allowed essential construction that was defined as projects that had 10 Affordable Housing as compared to projects that had in lieu fees to go forward. So im looking for a modicum of consistency and want to start a dialogue with our chief Public Health officer verbally and am calling on the president to see if dr. Aragon can appear before this body at next weeks meeting to answer some of these questions as it relates to consistency in the chief Health Officers orders and supplemental orders so that we can make sense of that and see whether or not we might be able to have safe curb side pick up as requested by the council of district merchants. I would like to adjourn todays Board Meeting in the memory of the late, great, unbelievable david lupo, as well as my constituent, alice young, and the rest i will submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, im announcing a ballot measure for the november 2020 election that seeks to prove predatory wall street selection and impose housing facility. It aims to double the housing tax at projects that are 10 million or higher and direct those funds to a housing availability fund which would fund a covid19 rent and mortgage relief, as well as the creation of permanently Affordable Housing. The city and county would be exempt from the tax increase. As we reel from the worst depression in u. S. History, we need revenue generated by this tax to make sure that san franciscans can get back on their feet without worrying about the roof over their heads. We know what happens in the face of a recession when private actors are allowed to dictate the terms of recovery. The aftermath of the 2008 recession is instructive, absent a comprehensive approach to those with the greatest need. In california, we witnessed hundreds of thousands of foreclosures. This time, we cannot let the wave of covid19 fear fuel displacement of hundreds of thousands of san franciscan tenants and Small Business owners. Already, corporations are gearing up to buy properties as the prices drop as has been reported in bloomberg and other media outlet. Make no mistake, wall street is preparing for a bonanza of buying opportunities. We need to tell owners to steer clear of these buyers, and we need to make sure that the ultrawealthy are paying their fair share and use it to invest in longterm stable housing to those measures. A portion of the revenue would be allocated to a rent resolution fund. These funds would be made available to landlords who have, by december 31, 2020, voluntarily waved rent for their tenants that was due during the covid19 pandemic. This will incentivize landlords to cancel rent for tenants and Property Owners who access the funds. The remaining would be dedicated to a social housing fund. These would finance the properties for permanently affordable social housing. This would include land banking, Community Land trust, and other social housing efforts where the city maintains an interest in the property or land while providing Affordable Housing opportunities onsite. Todays announcement is the start of a conversation on how we can protect our residents from wall streets Real Estate Investors that are circling our city while ensuring stable housing for our residents. In the upcoming weeks, i look afford to working with Community Stakeholders and my colleagues on board. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes, colleagues. Yesterday, the results of the Mission District confirmed something that testing confirmed something that we have long suffered, that the Latin Community has suffered greatly and disproportionately from the ongoing covid19 emergency. 62 individuals tested positive. Among those positive cases, the racial and class disparities were stark. 95 were latinx. 85 earn less than 50,000 a year, and 90 reported that they cannot work from home because they are still either working outside of their homes, are furloughed, or are unemployed. These results strongly suggest that they cannot shelter in place. Many people who live in the mission are the essential employees who have kept our city running during this dangerous time, often at the expense of their own health. Mission is the backbone of many local industries, including restaurants, construction, grocery stores, janitorial and cleaning services. Many workers who find themselves sick cannot afford to take time off work. Low wage workers, like anyone else, deserve the opportunity to shelter in place and quarantine if theyre ill without fear of losing interest. It is in our best interest to make sure that financial vulnerabilities do not stand in the place of any worker whos sick from being able to rest and recover, quarantine, and keep themselves and their families and the public safe. Today, i was going to direct the City Attorney to draft emergency legislation to guarantee any San Francisco resident who tested positive for covid19 replacement wages for 14 days if the individual has no alternative access to income replacement income through state, federal, or employment benefits, but i have some really great news. I, along with supervisor stefani are the boards representative on the Oversight Committee for give to s. F. I propose we fund it through that apparatus, and the Oversight Committee voted unanimously to do so. So i dont believe that i need to introduce legislation, which is fantastic because we dont want to delay this. Not only is giving individuals replacement income if they dont already have it a just and equitable thing to do, if we are going to advise low wage workers to selfisolate and get tested if they are going to end up positive. So i want to thank ucsf for conducting the study that began with results, the discussion with the covid19 task force of latino residents. Together, we came up with this idea of how we can make sure of how people feel especially in latino communities that are vulnerable feel safe getting tested and feel supported if they test positive. And i also want to thank the give to s. F. Oversight committee for jumping on board and unanimously supporting this effort. On that same note, i wanted to let everyone know that we are finally going to launch our Campaign Next week to get more donations to the give to s. F. Program. We have currently received about 11 million in donations. Next week, the board of supervisors, well be asking for all of you for your help and support, we will be starting a campaign where were sending out information and ads to the community about the give to s. F. Program. It will feature both donors and recipients of this effort. Not a single dollar goes into the hands of the city. It all passes through the city and goes straight to residents of San Francisco that desperately need help right now. In addition, the mayor will be launching a campaign to give to our efforts to do so. We hope that we will not be talking about tens of thousands of dollars, but hundreds of thousands of dollars which need to get into the hands of those that are suffering like never before. I want to give a huge thank you to jennifer lee of my office, who instead of going to the e. O. C. This week has been spent all making dozens and dozens of these ads, with her expert design skills, locating people that have received help from give to s. F. Jennifer, youre amazing. Thank you so much for your work. Secondly, ive got a resolution that ive drafted calling on congress to bring resolution to those affected by the covid19 pandemic. Its authored by Rashida Tlaib and pramila jayamil, ensuring people receiving 2,000 a month during the pandemic. Governor newsom announced yesterday that california is going to borrow money from the federal government to continue to apply for unemployment assistance. Nationally, more than 30,000 people applied for unemployment across the bay area. Local low in San Francisco, the gold locally in San Francisco, as many as half of all San Francisco restaurants may shut their doors for goods, and 85 of entertainment employees may lose their jobs. We havent seen anything like this in 90 years, and economists have warned that it is likely to get worse and will extend into a second Great Depression if we dont take steps like this now. So far, what we are seeing for individuals from the federal government through the c. A. R. E. S. Act has been some extended unemployment and one stimulus checks, and yes, there is now assistance for people who are selfemployed or independent contractors. And yes, the onetime 1200 checks are welcome, but these are nearly not enough money and not long enough to cover the likely duration and loss of income, and they are completely inaccessible to many people who desperately need help. The a. B. C. Would provide a payment to every person in american including nonresidents and people without banking relationships. The plan would include to add 1,000 a month until the end of the crisis to help people get back on their feet. It would be funded directly from the treasury without adding to Additional Fund by minting two 1 trillion coins. It would rescue people facing debt and provide an injection into the economy. Recent polling by data for progress and the justice collaboration found partisan support. Our own nancy pelosi may be bending, as well, saying a guaranteed income to help people struggling because of the coronavirus is worth a look. My proposal recognizes representatives tlaib and jayapal for their authorship. Id like to thank my cosponsors, shamann walton, dean preston, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you. Appreciate it, madam clerk. Thank you for all your hard work during this time. I know its not easy to juggle all of this technology in our meetings and the distance, but i just want to start off by commending you and your team. I know that supervisor peskin, when we have the land use committee, starts off by thanking staff. I see how some of the other places around the bay area have done Video Conferencing and so on, and making this supremely accessible to the public, so i just want to start off by commending you and your team. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor safai second thing, but i think its a big thing. The reality of the budget, the reality of where we are fiscally in San Francisco, the reality of the very Big Decisions are already beginning to trickle out in many ways. Speaking to roger marenko and local 258 are people on the frontlines, the essential workers, those that are doing back breaking work and are often confronting representatirepetitive injury, were already informed that the transit division, theyre already back to work, which is dedicated to minimizing and decreasing workplace injuries is being eliminated. Its always in the context of the tough choices that we have to make. I think obviously protecting peoples employment can and should be a guiding principle in moving forward, particularly for those that have truly risked their lives during this process. But, you know, at the same time, this cut could be a longterm cost. I spoke to the director of m. T. A. Today, jeff tumlin. I think their goal was to bring it back as quickly as possible, so thats a positive result. But when youre eliminating programming that reduces workplace injury, particularly for those doing that type of work, it will increase the number of people that cant come to work. I have to say that the types of repetitive stress injuries were significant. I just want to say that its an important thing for us to be considering in the midst of all the tough choices that we have to make, but certainly, with preserving our workers and essential workers in this environment should be a goal in our conversations. The other thing that i wanted to bring to light today also is that as we begin to open up the economy in the next few months, our frontline child care providers are dying on the vine. Our Family Child Care providers are often women run, immigrant run Small Businesses, and they are struggling. Theyre not accessing the loans that we have, theyre not working. Theyre not able to, in many ways, have the Financial Resources to sustain themselves, and so i just wanted to say i had a real positive conversation with our mayor today. Shes also deeply concerned with this, and she is committed to working with me and my team to come up with a solution so that we can help our child care operators survive in the city and continue on. And sorry, one more thing. Weve spoken to our county Health Officer, weve spoken to our City Attorney. Were doing everything we can, and its reprehensible that these foreclosures are able to continue in this time. Hopefully within the next few days well have a resolution from our county Health Officer to shutdown that process. I want to thank our sheriff for working consistently with shutting down that action on the backside of city hall, and were going to continue to do that to ensure that folks who dont have the money to fight foreclosures in this environment will have a fair fight in this process. Thank you, madam clerk, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. And supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, from the onset of this pandemic, one of my foremost concerns is the impact this crisis would have in the Mental Health community. Over the last week, i have spoken with the Domestic Violence consortium and the San Francisco Domestic Violence prevention, and the reports are troubling. Incidents are increasing across the industry. San francisco Suicide Prevention reports that they have seen a significant increase in the acuity of callers that require immediate emergency intervention. Normally, these kinds of cases occur two to three times per month, and they are now occurring two to three times per week. They also report seeing a 22 increase in firsttime callers since the shelter in place went into effect, and overall, they have serious concerns that even a larger spike may just be over the horizon as people have to spend time rebuilding their lives after the orders are lifted. Im calling for a hearing so that Domestic Violence consortium are seeing on the ground so we can make legislation as quickly as possible, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. Mr. President , i dont see any names on the roster. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk. Lets go to Public Comment, item number 17. Clerk item number 17. Its now time to host your remote Public Comment. Ive got up to two minutes for each speaker. I provided the telephone number earlier, and if you dialled in, youre welcome to press one and zero. If you havent dialled in, the telephone number, i believe, is being displayed on the screen. Its 18882045984. When prompted, enter the access code 3501008. Press pound, press pound again to join the meeting. To be added to the queue to speak, press one and then zero. The system will prompt you when its your turn. While the system is queueing up, ill provide the best practices. Please mute your television our radio. Your location should be quiet. Speak slowly and clearly so we can understand your comments. Each speaker will have two minutes to deliver the comments. If youre using an interpreter, the interpreter will be timed for two minutes. Remember to keep your comments in the subject matter of the board. Remember, there is no electioneering in this meeting. Do not address individual members. Once your two minutes is concluded, youll be moved out of the speak and into observing mode. We have three interpreters standing by to interpret chinese, spanish, and filipino. We are able to host multiple language speakers. The interpreters are going to introduce themselves today, and then well begin with Public Comment. [speaking spanish language] clerk thank you. [speaking tagalog language] interpreter thank you. Thats all for me. Clerk thank you. And miss lee . [speaking chinese language] operator youve been muted. To unmute yourself, press star. Clerk okay. Mr. President , i believe that we had 22 callers on the line. Were going to ask for your patience. I understand the bridge line connecting the callers has been dropped for a moment, and i will wait to hear from them as soon as the bridge line is back on board. If i call for the first speaker, are they able to speak without that bridge line . Okay. I dont believe so, mr. President , so were just going to hold a moment. We apologize for this dropping of the bridge line. But to the individuals who are trying to get in line to speak, if you look at the television, youll see the phone number there. We apologize that were not starting Public Comment yet, but we will shortly. President yee okay. Why dont we just take a brief pause, and madam clerk, when were ready, just let us know. Clerk i will. Thank you, mr. President. So if there are individuals trying to get onto Public Comment, its 8882045984. The access code is posted there. I believe its on channel 26, as well yes, it is in addition to the life stream. 3501008. Press pound, and then press pound again. Once youre prompted, you will be asked if youre interested in speaking. Youll dial one and then zero to be entered into the callers line. And right now, operations are trying to reestablish connection to Public Comment and will let me know when were ready to go. And mr. President , we cannot go to the next items, items 18 through 29 because those items require Public Comment on those items before we can actually call those items. So we are in a little bit of a standstill. President yee thats correct. Right, thats why i said just pause. Clerk we are having a little bit of a problem. Can the interpreters please make the translations . Great, thank you. Thank you for muting that. Can the interpreters please provide the information in languages due to technical difficulty. [speaking spanish language]. Clerk thank you. [speaking tagalog language] interpreter thank you. Thats all for me. Clerk thank you. And miss lee . [speaking chinese language] clerk all right. Thank you very much to the interpreters for that. I believe operations are still working on this problem, mr. President. I might ask that we just take a fiveminute recess or just a fewminute recess so i can speak with staff, come up with the best plan forward. I think this is a different type of an interruption, and well return and let you know what were going to do next. President yee okay. All right. Clerk okay. Thank you. Apologies, everyone. President yee so were i believe the team has fixed the problem. Maybe we can resume. A major disadvantage is that smooth connection is not always guaranteed. A Technical Team to get us back up and running but two things, unfortunately, were not able to take the callers as they originally lined up and the callers will have to rely on the system. So it will be the callers lined up with me requesting the next speaker and please accept or apologies for these difficulties and other inconveniences to you as you experience this pick Public Comment. So operations team, were ready to didnt for the first speaker. My name is buckener and im a tenderloin resident for ten years executive wan. Your agenda meeting im calling about something that continues to be ignored. About the drug dealing. The drug dealers, the street level corner drug dealers. They have been empowered by the actions of clothing or reducing our population and refusing any new incarceration. So what am i saying here . The police have been ineffective with their only tool being to yell at the people through a loud speaker to go home. Thats the strongest tool they have and occasionally they say it in spanish. That is all. I had somebody throw a whole glass of vodka on me so i could get into my gate. Theres nothing coming from the San Francisco Police Department at all and calling the nonemergency line, on redial constantly making it worse. They will call out the 909 for somebody to come and entir and a system. People that come to buy drugs you have 17 questions remaining. Welcome. Hello, this is magic altman, can you hear me . Supervisors, we need to have a commissions meeting for oversight. Interesting that ththe police co oversee the police actions, such as the poa to denigrate black lives matter by giving them blue life safe masks in violation of the mall. I saw four officers take down a Woman Holding a teddy bear. We aspire to only reopening when theres a remedy for the growing failures of our system. And therwe need the sunshine tae to oversee this new form of meeting and they made the technology to do so. No one is answering the phones and paul, assistant to the mayor, told me directly you cant transfer phones to private numbers and informed me he found a way to do just that. All of you that are answered by humans now and also the human Rights Commission to take actions to close the camps by urging the governor to use his Emergency Powers to prevent these detention camps from becoming death camps. That the governor legally has this power. We cannot use this power to cover over business as usual. This is our chance to lead the nation as a great city that we are, but we need to able to talk tow. We neeto you and get in touch wh you. We need to be heard at the commission. Thank you. You have 18 questions remaining. Hi supervisors. Im the president of the veteran affairs commission. Im here to ask to please do everything to expedite the employment on the interim county veteran officer until a proper search can be completed and the search is filled. I want to thank supervisor stephanie and thank supervisor safaye and ronen for providing efforts. I need to provide context to the reasons im here today. There are over 27,000 veterans in San Francisco and the va is doing a horrific job of tracking covid19 data. We know that approximately 10 of covid19related deaths in San Francisco have been veteranses and that most reside within districts 3, 6, 9 and 10 with a dense, dense congregation and we have to idea how many veterans are recovering or living in the streets when there are so many vouchers available in the city that come with wraparound services. The city needs a dedicated liaison for the Emergency Operation center and the state and federal agencies, local nonprofits, veteran organizations, staff, volunteers and not to mention sponsors for housing. The cdso would be the perfect position to do this work, specifically in a pandemic and not just the position for intake and referral. Article 11 amount of the administrative code, shall provide outreach to Homeless Veterans as its main priority and the position has been vacant for over a year and while there is a decision being worked on, we know how long it takes to hire someone in the city and the veteran affairs has been trying to get this done until february. The staff is not meeting demands for services and San Francisco veterans are one of the most vulnerable groups with healthy issues and higher rate for substance dependency issues and we can no longer afford to not no whats going on during this pandemic. Im asking you to please do everything you can to expedite this. Thank you. You have 18 questions remaining. Welcome, next caller. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im with the Domestic Violence consortium. Thank you to supervisor stephanie and all supervisors working hard to support survivors of Domestic Violence and their families. Im calling to remind us that today is may 5 recollec 5th, whs murdered and missing indigenous day across the United States, canada and around the world. Indigenous women disappear and are murdered at ten times the rate of nonIndigenous Women and the Domestic Violence consortium and Community Stand with our sisters and brothers in the community to make sure that we do not forget that today, even in the covid era is may 5th, missing and murdered Indigenous Women day. San francisco lost two women last year from the native community that we know of and there are probably more. Veronica shelease was an onlooker into a domestic case on the street and tried to film it and was killed. Jessica alda died after very mysterious circumstances and continued to call for a full investigation into whatever caused the end of her life and we do not believe she made that decision on her own. In closing, thank you in advance for everything that you can do to support survivors who are trapped and will be looking for services once the restrictions are released. We are going to need your support. We thank you and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we thank you to supervisor stephanie for arranging a hearing. Murdered and missing indigenous awareness day. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operator you have 17 questions remaining. Welcome. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im the director of San Francisco rising, which is a multiracial electoral alliance, looking at the needs of low income, communities of color in San Francisco and im just calling in today to urge you all to support and to thank you for your support of the resolution sponsored and lead by board president norman ye, whicee, whi believe all others have cosponsored, so thank you to the governor gavin newsom and adopt an election reform for the november election which will be for every registered voter, in addition to providing alternatives to cast is ballot inperson safely. And we expect the governor to be issuing his executive order any day now and we know that vote by mail will be something that the entire state will be moving towards, what is level is whether every voter will have an inperson vote to cast. What we saw from some of the recent primaries that happened, especially in wisconsin, is that when people did not have the option to do vote both by mail but cast a ballot, we saw extremely long lines where 180 polling stations were reduced to five polling stations in milwaukee and that has affected many voters of color and lowincome voters that had no of course. We hope that sanfrancisco will be showing the rest of the state, one of our best foot forward and making sure elections are available for everybody and we know that many people in our communities rely on voting in person as an alternative in addition to voting by mail. So thank you so much for your support. Operator you have 16 questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Good afternoon. My name is jord saxton and im with the Sister City Committee and im speaking on behalf of supporting the resolution recognising didnrecognising ang American Heritage month in the city of San Francisco. Recently, the committee celebrated its 25t 25th anniversary and due to the pandemic, we were unable to celebrate as we had thought we would and invite not only the vietnamese community, but also the greater San Francisco Bay Area Community to recognise the work that we have completed over the last 25 years. Im looking forward to taking some of the supervisors to vietnam as i may not have said im a vietnam era veteran and many of us are very supportive of this program. Again, i would like to say that i want to fully support and the Committee Supports the resolution, item number 28, on the agenda. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Operator you have 15 questions remaining. Welcome speaker. Caller, are you there . Hello . Hi, good afternoon. This is sarah wan, the director of cic and im calling to ask for your support and thank you for your support to pass a resolution recognising and celebrating every may as Asian American heritage month in the city and county of San Francisco. We are proud to be a part of this years celebration of our communitys rich history, traditions and also cultures. We were founded in 1970 and then today, we operating in three offices in the tenderloin, bay cobayview, as well as Community College and we impact the diverse population of over 8,000 youth coming from primary lowincome and a community from Asian Pacific american, africanamerican community. We also are celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. Through the apa heritage month, we will have a special opportunity to recognise the many contributions and sacrifice Asian Americans have made in the areas of science, technology, transportation and much more. So thank you for your support for making it possible for generations to turn our dreams into realities and thank you for your support. Thank you for your comment president. Operator you have 15 questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Good afternoon. This is april mcgill and im the director, the executive director for the Cultural Center here in San Francisco and im also the director of community partnerships. Thank you, everyone, for supporting the American Indian community. We do appreciate that. Thank you beverly for acknowledging that today is nmiw awareness day for missing and murdered Indigenous Women and please, you guys, always recognise Cinco De Mayo and for recognising the missing and murdered women of this nation. We are number five in the nation with the most missing and murdered Indigenous Women and weve had several women go missing and murdered here in San Francisco. So please bring attention to that. I would also like to ask you to support the American Indian cultural district today. We were informed that due to covid19, the cultural district is on hold from the mayor assigning that and as an ally, we ask that you support us in asking for that to please get passed. Those funds have been designated for the cultural district. Its important that the American Indian community be served during covid19. Many have going jobless and many native people are suffering with hc, hic, have major health despairties is becoming homeless and taking care of one another. The native american Health Center has been providing popup food banks for the community and people are losing their jobs and they cant support themselves, taking care of their families with childcare and we ask that you support them. The Latino Community has reached out to us and they have been important to us. But its unfortunate that the mayor has been picking and choosing who she wants to help during this time of covid skids. We are in this touch and help us. Operator you have 15 questions remaining. Welcome, cardiovascular. Caller. This is Randall Slone and i was appointed by your body in 2019 to serve as an sro representative on the San Francisco department of building inspections, sro task force. Unfortunately, when we need a voice the most, that sro task force has been hiatus for approximately six months. I would like to call attention to the press release dated aprie mayor to comply with the new law to secure 8,000 new hotel rooms. There were several miles presented at the end of this press release and specifically on pages 10 and 11. And i would like you to consider providing a smart phone and unlimited data plans for 30 days for any sro tenant that is provided in isolation and Quarantine Hotel rooms and the reason for my wish to provide these folks with smart phone and data plan for 30 days is that they can suffer from isolation while they literally are in isolation. And they lack the ability to connect with medical, psychiatric, legal and Addiction Recovery professional support. Operator you have 14 questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Hi, this is the district 6 resident in soma. My home is one block from smc south. The city has forced everyone to live on the streets and we have a very unsanitary condition on fifth street between bryant and brannon. You cant walk on the street you cant walk on the sidewalk. You have to walk on the street. The important thing is, what can we do to ensure safety for all residents . We shouldnt be picking winners and losers and prioritizing certain neighborhoods but where there is the largest risk for infection and right now the folks on fifth street are extremely high risk. The board doesnt have any plans to hadnt made any plans to address this. We dont have any place for these people to go to the bathroom, to wash their hands and clean up. It literally happens in the street and its simply not sanitary and its not safe for the unhoused. Its not safe for the people who live and work in the area. Thank you. Thank you. Operator you have 13 questions remaining. Welcome, speaker. Good afternoon. Im one of the board of directors for apa Heritage Organization and i want to say thank you for the board of soup supervisor for recognising may as apa heritage month. And to share and recognise positive contribution, along with positive exposure to the understanding of the unique culture of Asian Pacific american communities. Hope it will continue to engage our communities throughout the area and thank you for your support. Operator you have 12 questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Linda chapman. I attended the update on the 8,000 hotel rooms and i dont think anybody doubted that the citys response and the administration and the administrations response is a dismal failure. You all deserve to be honored for your legislation and you need to see that it happens. And you need to use the city is the controller and whatever other resources you have. To walk back the ludicrous agreements that were made. The officials are paying millions of dollars for rooms which they could get at a low rate, such as one pays in a chain motel, for example, in good times. And these are below that and actually place people in them. There was a per person talking t how difficult its managing with five different organizations when employees who will be unemployed who could do the cooking and cleaning in a room occupied by one person who cant go in and out, you know. And then you would have maybe a mentor and a monitor or something in there or a couple of them. You can employ city workers, but no, you dont want them doing anything outside of their work for two weeks. Theyre carefully combing through all of these people to see who might be worthy of who is being housed. Theres a whole population out there. Trust me, supervisors, when i work for Social Security in that same neighborhood with the same population of people let out of mental institutions and jails and people with tb and all, they were all housed. There was not one on the street. Thank you. You have 12 questions remaining. Welcome, speaker. Good afternoon. I serve oven th on the Library Commission for San Francisco. Thank you for the resolutions support apa heritage month. It is so vital we continue to support this community that has given so, so much to San Francisco and beyond. Given the ongoing circumstances, sfpl staff has done an incredible job shifting their program into online formats. They are hosting book clubs and all Virtual Library and curated books and films in partnership with the center for Asian American media. These are all available on the sfpl website. To me, this resolution is not just a celebration of Apa Community but of our Library Staff and they are the heart of the library and continue to serve the public even today. Since the shelterinplace order, they have stepped up to serve as staff and even now, our own librarian, michael lambert, is employed tonight in his own assignment. Among other assignments, staff are working hard at food banks with the world around them shifts by the minute. Thank you for your support that celebratessass ap heritage mont. Thank you. Operator you have ten questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Hello. Im a resident of d6, serving on the San Francisco Veterans Affairs commission and i want to bring to your attention the urgent need to fill the vacant county Service Officer position which has been unfiled for over a year. The cbso is a tiny office serving over 20,000 veterans throughout San Francisco, focused primarily on helping veterans with disability and compensation claims. During the pandemic and economic disruption, veterans need a fully functioning cvso. These are the life line for veterans facing poverty in addition to their military, mental and medical health conditions. The cvso should serve as a nexus for the city and state that serve veterans. We observe only half of veterans in San Francisco are enrolled in va healthcare by approximately 10 being covid. We need to get veterans into va care, particularly those that have lost health coverage. Healthcare and homelessness needs to be a primary focus of the cvso. The incomthey need to help the s of veterans in the city. In order to do this, the c involvvsoneeds to be filled with nonprofit accomplishment. They should understand this is a small office with a very tiny budget relative to the veteran population in the city. Please keep in mind this represents cash assistance to veterans in this difficult type and wtime. We cannot afford a sle to vacancies. Filling this position and expanding the scope in housing voucher advocacy is not just the right thing to do. It can potentially save the city millions of dollars and thats because veterans enrolled in va healthcare and other federal programs are less likely to use resources at the city level because they draw resources to the city. Thank you, caller. Operator you have nine questions remaining. The San Francisco county veteran Service Office needs to be filled and there are currently 27,000 San Francisco veterans. I would like to stress, also, within my post, vfw 4608 formed by the world war ii veterans and currently the membership and leadership of the vfw4608 is compromised of the war veterans and the vietnam war ended 45 years ago. These aging veterans, they need to have nea their needs met and theyre meeting long waits, while seeking assistance at the county veterans Service Office and they are frequently have to have their medical va upgraded. The agent orange veteran thats affecting the veterans, theyre developing ailments. So we would like to have the staffing updates with a county veteran Service Office that could meet the needs of the agent veterans in San Francisco. Thank you, board of superviso s, for considering this. You have eight questions remaining. Welcome, caller. I wanted to thank you all, first of all, for your considerate meeting here today. I enjoyed listening to all of the plans and efforts to help everybody. So i want to say, first of all, i support the comment of a woman earlier who sai de were would se to get through to people. The mayor five me a call and we had a long chat and it would be nice to speak to people when we call in. And so, i was listening to the meeting today and decided to make a comment because i heard about an agenda item wer of plag people in camp sites in golden gate park. In addition, Awareness Month is around the world because infected ticks are biting people all over the world is some of these ticks are infected. My concern about placing people in the park, i would like to ask you only to do this on asphalted parking lot spaces because the ticks could be in the vegetation and we have ten reported infections from a meeting in San Francisco and one of them is at 19th didnt mlk in the hillside behind the childrens park. She got lymes disease and three infections. Its random and no one ever knows if it will happen. Not safe to have people placed in the vegetation and i dont think we have sprays to take care of vegetation at this point. I think that the organizations that you could check about with the lymesdisease. Org and the california dph because theyve been following the infected tick situation in california. If youre going further with this idea, i think you need to place people where theyll be safe. And theyll be a lot safer on asphalt than they would be on vegetation so i thank you for your attention. Operator you have seven questions remaining. Welcome, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening, sou supervisord happy Asian Heritage month of may. Im a district 7 resident and veterans commissioner. S 1 im here todaim here to urn county officer. Badly we need one. I could tell thank you my experience. Theyre wonderful, great people, but, you know, i have to wait, like, three to four hours to just get service. And if i dont make a complaint, id probably be waiting forever. But, you know, i highly urge you guys to appoint one. We got over 27,000 veterans in San Francisco, 900 homeless and so, you know, please, i highly urge the board of supervisors to support and appoint a county veteran Service Officer. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operator you have six questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Yes. My name is pete and im in the same building as an earlier caller, turk and hyde executive jus. We need to enforce the rulem 10 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. On the tenderloin, close it, and that will have a number o an impact e number of drug transactions. Living here its easy to see. For many of us to walk this the street to go anywhere because the sidewalks are crowded with people and fought with extra vehicle traffic and next, if you can work with Law Enforcement and the d. A. s office to reduce the number of dealers on the streets in general, just something. Its a problem thats been ignored for almost 20 years now and its ridiculous. These are the strongest drugs the world has seen and responsible for a huge uptick from overdose and deaths and things related to addiction and death by exposure by way of living on street, homeless, lost, forgotten because of this addiction and its time we do something about that. We can just keep ignoring that. Its gone on for so long. The pandemic has brought it to light, and this is out of control fast. Operator you have five questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Will the next caller press 10 to speak . Operator you have five questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Good afternoon, supervisors. To is peter warfield, director of Library Users association and i would like you to provide much more service to those who do not have access to the internet. The library has almost completely abandoned over 100,000 people in San Francisco with a heavy emphasis on the minorities, poorer people who do not have access and it has almost completely abandoned service to those folks. There is a reduced Reference Service by phone and thats about it. Other libraries are providing books and materials at curbside. Other libraries are providing mail service. The library has improved over the years, but for those that dont have access, they are out in the cold. The library boasts about libraries delivering democracy as a slogan, where are the people that dont have the access. They are lost use of photocopiers. We ask you to urge the library not to abandon those who are access to the internet. Speaking as an individual on city college, they are violating government concept and basic rights of the public to know whats going on and participate in the meetings. We ask you to look into that. Operator you have six questions remaining. Let me turn on my timer. Hello. Im Michael Petrellis and im here to speak about three items. The first item is Public Comment time. I find it very ironic today you had so much trouble starting Public Comment time. Myself and others have been urging the board for years to set a fixed time for Public Comment and are pleased for that to happen. Now that you have meetings virtually, we wait until you all have finished your role call introductions before Public Comment starts. I think it is very disrespectful that Public Comment does not come before your role call introductions. I hope you will look into making Public Comment earlier in the meeting at a fixed time before role call. And the second item i want to discuss is the Police Commission. The Police Commission last met on february 19th. We are now in the month of may. The Police Commission has given no reason on their website why they are not holding any virtual meetings. It is vital that we have oversight of the Police Commission and that they start meeting virtually. My final item today is i am again calling on the board of supervisors to pass a resolution calling on our member of congress, nancy pelosi to reconvene th the house. We need mrs. Pelosi to finally get on board for virtual meetings, virtual oversight hearings and to also allow remote voting. It is crucial that the supervisors tell mrs. Pelosi to reconvene congress. Thank you very much. Operator you have five questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Hi, im the lead producer of the forthcoming documentary little fellow. I wanted to say thank you and voice support introduced by supervisor stephanie, recognising may 6th as the 150year anniversary of ape jeninie. She helped to build out not only agriculture relal systems with g support to the San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and both world wars and i just wanted to thank supervisor stephanie for the resolution and thank you all for your work. Operator you have four questions remaining. Welcome, speaker. This is julie from the San Francisco general Emergency Department and thank you all for everything that youre doing. I wanted to highlight two things. Supervisor hainey was discussing bringing up a Mental Health disaster thats happening and thats one of my issues and the second is the failure of management to provide the regulations for the staff and sfgh and ultimately, the San Francisco Emergency Department, i wanted to talk to the staff about the management standing behind you, talking to our patients would be great, too. And the ps and Emergency Department bouncing around is cruel and often causes me nausea. This is, i think, from the moral injury that i see. Enormous amounts of resources are wasted, and ultimately dumping them on the street, some same or worse condition and people are transported via 1,000 ambulance ride and they still remain homeless. They cant continue to hammer these funds is resources, especially with a likely depression on the horizon and multiple ways and other plans. People are desperate. I wanted to highlight the citations that are submitted for safety failures of our management to provide multiple things that today, i know that theres persons not fitted for ppe and other people have been fully trained. I wish more oversight of the management could happen. Thank you. Operator you have four questions remaining. Welcome, speaker. Thank you. Im Christopher Mcdonald and i would like to comment on the need for the vso. In talking with john gallagher, who is one of the vsos over there, theyre in the process of working on that. And it has been a long time and we do need to get those staffed, but we need to get them staffed with qualified people. The other problem that seems to be happening is that you have veteran Single Parents out there that need help in getting in housing, that need sponsors. And those Single Parents with children living in cars and theyre not on drugs and theyre not on alcohol. And those something needs to be done to help those veterans get up and running faster so they can take care of their children in the process. Thank you. Operator you have four questions remaining. Welcome, speaker. Good job. This is francisco decosta. And some of our advocates have been saying again and again, we need to have this Public Comment in the beginning. Ive been hearing very intently that many people are speaking on quality of life issues and we have released thousands of hotel hotelrooms and you heard what has been said about it. Half of the hotel rooms are vacant at 80 a day, somebody is making money and that money is taxpayers money. And im sure we can see that on the tv. You know, this is Public Comment time and so, they know that we cant see them and so theyre gallivanting and the board of supervisors are having sidebar talks, again disrespecting Public Comment and the citizens and people in San Francisco who care about those who need help most. Our people, the poor people, are dying on the streets of San Francisco. San francisco named after st. Francis. This cannot go on. Wake up, San Francisco you have lost your soul. Thank you for your comment. Operator you have four questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Prin pai inaudible . We wont refuse the offer to live in a safe environment. Do something about the safety of the regular folks that just want to live and we live in fear for our lives and for our safety. This is a situation directly created by the inaction of the board of supervisors, Law Enforcement and the politicians of San Francisco. Theres reactionary and responsible in legislation and we seem to be only doing reactionary. Please, help us, thank you. Thank you. Operator you have three questions remaining. Welcome, speaker. You have two minutes. Hello, can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Hello, supervisors. Im the executive director of the Asian Art Museum and i am here to express my support for the resolution number 28 in honor of the apa heritage month. The museum is closed to the public right now, like many other organizations, but have turned or museum into a virtual museum. Particularly future Asian American lives and our Asian American artists. So i would encourage everyone to take advantage of our online offerings and asian museum has traditionally played a big role in apa heritage celebration and in 2016, we were honor asked hod delighted to receive the ward of the consistent work that asian museum is a staff, board is volunteer have pulled together to serve our public and to honor the tradition and ongoing contribution of Asian American Pacific Islands or community. So i would like to encourage all of you and to support the resolution, particularly in this moment of crisis, where, on one hand, art is so essential to bring people together and to make sure each individual life and Community Life is well taken care of, but also in fighting the rising entire asian racism and thathat is doing on. Going on. I want to thank you all for your great work and thank you for taking leadership in this very Important Institution and ongoing activities, honoring the Pacific Island communities. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comment. Operator you have three questions remaining. Welcome, caller, you have two minutes. Hi. Thank you. Im the founder of the apa Heritage Foundation and thank you all today for considering to adopt a resolution for the apa heritage month and also the contributions of this diverse community. This is especially important this year, not because Asian Pacific americans are not only facing the challenges of the pandemic, but also the rising antiasian prejudice and hate. We thank each and every one of you for joining the 90 some Community Organizations to accept our invitation to be celebration partners and to help promote awareness of Awareness Month and your newsletter and social media. Also, we call it the 30 second videos to share your thoughts with the community. You can use that opportunity to highlight Exceptional Individuals and organizations in this district. We do not have the special commendation this month, so we appreciate your support, participation and in closing, thank you to all of the 100 members strong volunteer groups and organizations for your support of promoting our apa heritage month. Thank you. Hello. Im calling to, first of all, thank you supervisor stephanie for honoring the 150 birthday, founder of america and on tomorrow may 6th, i just want to add to the comments that he was an incredible innovators in the Banking Industry by expanding the branching system and making branches and their hours accessible to many and by democrati zing izing and he finl the construction of the golden gate bridge. When i think about the spirit of San Francisco in the bay area and the type of people who are attracted to be here, to build, to innovate, i think of the legacy of ap geninie im grateful for San Francisco to recognise this occasion. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Caller, welcome. You have two minutes. This is the director of little fellow movie, the movie about ap geninie. This is very important for this community and especially in in time where we are touched by this pandemic. It was a symbol of unity between population and different people from the Different Countries and we need a vote and so i want to support these resolutions to remember to celebrate these big men, this guy who help the less fortunate. Thank you. Operator you have zero questions remaining. So we know that there are 19 individuals who are listening to this phone conversation still. There are zero in the cue. If from there are members listening who would like to speak, this is your opportunity to press 10 to enter the cue to speak. Well just give it a second, just to determine if anyone is in the cue. Dial 10. Ok, mr. President. Operator you have two questions remaining. Welcome, caller. You have two minutes. This is loraine petty calling. Im a philmore voter. I urge the adoption of number 20, House Resolution 5515. We know that when the emergency orders are lifted, renters will face overwhelming debt, that they will not be able to pay. So a tsunami of evictions could follow and our rent control stock will be severely threatened. Renters need fast and workable relief and i believe this federal bill would provide muchneeded national help. Also, one other thing i very much welcome the proposal by supervisor preston to put out a housing stability act on the november ballot, especially if it would provide a permanent city source of rental assistance. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Welcome, caller. Im gabrielle madina. I the board treasurei am the wih center. I want to thank supervisor walton and president yee and the board for their unanimous support. I have to mention tracy brown and their stellar staff who worked on this for a long time. This amendment is long overdue but has so many benefits and waives the citizenship require to serve on commissions and with limitations on where and how. And even though she was just as much a Public Servant as my father, this updates inclusion of all genders and Sexual Orientations and giving the possibility, also, for 16yearolds to serve a commission. I also want to acknowledge apa month and the missing and murdered Indigenous Women. But Cinco De Mayo is a time for celebration. And despite overwhelming odds, were still fighting colonialism and on th the streets, today, we now at 37 , two and half times our population with covid19. Adopte inaudible . Our commissions are incomplete with our immigrants. We are all people in San Francisco and thank you for introducing commissions for all. Operator you zero questions remaining. It seems there are no other speakers in the cue. Ok, then, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call for the adoption of committee reference, agenda items 1829. Items 1829 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee and unanimous vote is required for resolutions on the First Reading today. And a member of the board may request an item to be sent to committee. Ok. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items . Just for your information, i will be severing 25, 26, 27, 28 and so, lets see supervisor stephanie . Thank you, president yee. Item 22. Madam clerk, please call the role on the remainder of the items. Items 18, 19, 23, 24 and 21, 23, 24 and 29. President yee, im sorry, on item 19, i had previously spoken with supervisor p ereskin and i wanted to make sure its ok with him to continue that. Somebody has to sever that item. Severing be item 19 and 22. Im totally listening. Its just a resolution urging, but if inaudible . I would not in any way be offended, but it is just a resolution urging so if we get supervisor in district two does not want to sever that item, it would cause me no phones. Offense. So supervisor stephanie, do you want to sever item number 19 . Yes or no . Youre muted. Yes, please. So madam, clerk. Please go ahead. 18, 21, 24, 29, superviso role call . There are 11 ayes. These resolutions are passed unanimously for what was called. And madam clerk, item 19. Is a resolution inaudible . Number 2261 authored by edwin chow what free up the prohibition on government acquisition and youth official Recognition Technology and imperil the health and safety of San Francisco visitors. I would like to continue this item. So this item is continued to next weeks Board Meeting. And i dont think we have to take role in that, right . Yes, you do, mr. President. You need a majority vote to continue the matter and that would be may 12th. Is there a second . Mr. President , this is supervisor peskin. I am happy to second this. I do want to say in the face of the covid19 crisis and supervisor stephanie executive had and i had acandid conversats earlier today as it relates to Contact Tracing and what is going on in south korea and nonetheless, the notion of this Assembly Bill is still anathama to this supervisor and i am happy to have a oneweek continuance to vote our minds and i second supervisor stephanies motion. Role call on continuance of the motion. role call . There are 11 ayes. I believe youre muted, mr. President. So the motion to continue to may 12th passes. Madam clerk, to item number 22. Item number 22, resolution to recognise ap giannii for his substantial contributions to San Francisco history, Italian American culture and declaring this a great day in the city and county of San Francisco. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, president yee. We are voting on a resolution recognising the 150th birthday and declaring this ap giannii day. I want to thank you for bringing this item to our attention and observing his legacy. Very few know the full extent of his contribution to the San Francisco history and many people may know he found the the bank of italy which would grow to become the bank of america but most people, myself included, did not know the deptdepthof his support for womn francisco. He started the bank of San Francisco in 1904 and welcomed people systematically not included. As i said last week and i think worth repeating again, shortly after women won the right to vote, he started the womens Banking Department directed and staffed entirely by women and provided lending and checking accounts without the involvement of their husbands. Such a Service Never existed before in the United States. This anniversary is special. Not only is it his 150t 150th birthday and just two years after founding the bank of italy, the great earthquake destroyed most of the city. He put a wooden plank across two barrels as a makeshift bank branch so customers so make deposits and withdrawals. Without his tenacity and foresite, the San Francisco we all know and love may not exist. This is when our city has been paralyzed by another disaster and we all struggle to rise to the occasion that we most need to consider his legacy. inaudible . City hall will be lit up in the colors of the italian flag to celebrate this incredible day and i hope you will help me to celebrate. Thank you to all for your do sponsorship. Thank you. I am honored to represent the district where ap giannii did two things that in the face of this pandemic are remarkable lessons to the people of the city and county of San Francisco. As supervisor stephanie said, he prprocured lumber from the stats of oregon and washington from the early rebuilding post 1906 for what is the north beach, the historic north beach that we know today. And in addition to that, he gave incentives to crafts people to rebuild quickly which should be a lesson and model to all of us. I think what he did not only 150 years ago, but right after the 1906 earthquake should be lessons for all of us during this pandemic and his headquarters at the bank of italy still stands, at the base of columbus and washington, of Jackson Square and chinatown and where north beach begin, he really, in many ways is the founder of San Francisco as we know it today and while we have fights about nimbis, we should all try to recreate ourself in the legacy of ap and thank you to supervisor stephanie. Madam clerk, please call the role. On item 22 role call . There are 11 ayes. So this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 24. Item 24, mr. President. Im sorry, im number 25. Im 25 is a resolution to reopen city hall in person, property tax payment location of the office of the treasurer and Tax Collector for regular Business Hourses on may 15th, 2020. Ok, thank you, colleagues and we have this resolution today to reopen the treasurer and Tax Collector office of the public and taxes were due on apri april 10th, but due to the shelterinplace and due to closure of city hall, we closed the treasurer Tax Collectors office, and the last due date was announced was may 4th, which was yesterday when the original shelterinplace order was supposed to be lifted. The city administrator will be allowing members of the public to access city hall for specific purposes, including business or treasurer and Tax Collector and thertherefore, it will be set to reopen upon friday, may, 15th, 2020, with regular Business Hours so that taxpayers who have not paid yet may do so online. Or by mail or inperson. May 15th will be the new deadline. If a new taxpayer has any challenges due to covid19, they may request a waiver for late payments after may 15th, and we are working with treasure trs cisneros receive assistance. I am going to have the treasurer speak about the process and how they are going to work with taxpayers in making this new deadline and answer any questions. Treasurer, are you still on . Yes, president yee, im here. The floor is yours for now. Thank you very much and thank you supervisors. When i was here last time, as president yee just stated, your resolution closed our office and deferred the property tax deadline past the april 10t april 10th deadline. I want to clarify that San Francisco was one of only two california counties out of all 58 california counties, they there were two that extended the april 10th property tax deadline and we were one of them. With this action, we will be the county that has deferred the deadline the farthest and by extending it to may 15th. I want to report that as of yesterday, the amounts of money still outstanding and owed in property tax was over 160 million from 17,000 property tax owers. We are interested in Closing Opening the office and setting the deadline on may 15th for a number of reasons. But first and foremost, its to makmake sure that the city has e opportunity to get the property tax it needs. And actually, the largest portion of unpaid property tax bills are from many of our prompt tax owners in the downtown area with an average property tax unpaid amount of around 50,000. We want to make sure that the city has an opportunity to collect taxes from all of the taxpayers who have an ability to pay, even at this time. And i do want to reinforce what president ye, you just said, if any property taxpayers are facing impacts from this covid19 crisis, they will have the ability to file a penalty waiver with our office which will enable us to erase any penalties for payments made after may 15th. We are working very closely with the administratthe administratoo protect taxpayers as well as city staff. And so, we still urge all taxpayers to possible pay online or by mail. But if anybody needs to pay inperson, we will be allowing them to come to our offices on may 15th and for a couple of days prior to may 15th, opened for limited hours. Were doing everything we can to keep everybody safe and collect all of the money that is payable and due, as well as afford opportunities for anybody impacted by covid19 to declare that with us and file the penalty waiver form and to allow toss waive any penalties. With that, ill ask for the boards support. Will individuals be able to come through the front entrance on the aka poke street side of the building . I think its very important that we establish that. That is the traditional entrance and the handful of people who go into city hall now go through the growth street side. We would be happy to take your comments back to those folks and look at that. We were already planning out to use the court nearest to our office to be able to mark out social distancing markers on the carpet and set up ropes to people will be protected and we will require that everybody wear a face mask should they want to come into city hall and make a payment in our office. Were also going to be opening up an exterior window that will allow folks with checks to drop off their check and receive a receipt for their payment without having to enter the building. Were doing everything we can to accommodate inperson payments that we would normally do under regular times and i will definitely take your comments back to the city hall staff and look into using the one entrance. So to the treasurer, two things. Obviously, theres a model for dropoffs that has over many, many years set forth by the department of elections on the carlton b. Goodlet spoke street side of the building and that can be emulated by your department and to the extent as a matter of Public Health safety, we dont want to reopen the traditional side, i want to make sure that any individual who goes to that door is appropriately redirected to the south and then to the west and, you know, they can go into the light court, but if people go to that traditional entrance and are denied access, then im going to have trouble voting for this resolution. And i can pull the resolution up, but i want to make sure because the exercise that were going through is the notion of symbolically opening the Treasurers Office so that these taxes can be collected. I personally have paid mine. But many people are not Property Owners and i happen to have that luxury. I want to make sure that anybody who walks to that door is appropriately either let in or redirected to the correct location. So as we continue this, im going to look up the exact words. But i really want that to be abundantly clear. Supervisor peskin, im happy to hear that language. What i would like to commit to you right now is that we are going to bring in Treasurers Office staff who will not only be working inside the building, but actually be deployed outside of the building to make sure that the taxpayers are clear and clearly understand where to go and how to pay their taxes inperson. So i would like to admi commit u right now that if the carlton b. Entrance is not open, we will put a live staffer to inperson direct people to the right entrance of city hall so they dont waste time and can access our office. Thank you. Anything else, supervisor peskin. Thank you, president yee. So through the president to not treasurer, but to deputy City Attorney pearson, i am now looking at the resolve provisions of this item and i know that the deputy City Attorney does not like things to be done on the fly, but i think that there are a handful of words that we put in the resolve provisions at the bottom of page two and the top of page three that actually reflect the verbal representations that the treasurer just made. Deputy City Attorney pearson. Im john givener, stepping in momentarily with my colleague. Do you have proposed language to stick in to the top of page three there. Through the president to deputy City Attorney givener, i am formulating that language in my head as we speak. And you can help me do that. I think it is a subject two provision in the first resolve, starting at line 21 on page 2, which is the board of supervisors action of the city administrators didnt the Tax Collector to reopen, bla, bla, bla, on 15, may. Didnand i think we need a provd however that staff will be let through city hall or set hours until 4 00 p. M. How is that for a nonlawyer on the fly . [ laughter ] that sounds good to me and the provided would be, basically, subject to the city administrators determination. So the board wouldnt be requiring the front door to be open, but you would be conditioning the reopening of the treasurer Tax Collectors office on the city administrator allowing assets through the front door. What i said was either that theyre allowed access or that its there to redirect individuals to the growth street entrance. I dont want anybody to come to the front door didn and nobodyl be there and then theyll end up in some unfortunate situation. Thats what im trying to solve for here. Ive got it. I think thats provided that language or provided however language. That accomplishes that. Im not an attorney, but i think ive expressed my policy considerations. We will commit to having if the door is not open, we will have staff out there in orange, bright vests, easily identify, on adebtoalert to let everybodye to go and that would be great. Deputy City Attorney, did you capture the wording . Roughly, and i will work it out on paper and send it to the clerk after the meeting ends. Ok, so the intention is there and youll just i cant think of that wording, but we can vote on it. Yes. So i like to make my motion which quite clearly says that either individuals can go through the front door or that the city will be there to staff them and send them through the growth street entrance. So second. Second. Supervisor safaye. Motion made seconded and on the amendment itself, madam clerk, can we have a role call . On the amendment to number 2 can we repeat what the amendment is . Through the president to supervisor walton, this is soup store peskin, my amendment was that any member of the public who is attempting to pay their property taxes on 15, may, before 4 00 p. M. , most people who paid them in person go to the poke street carlton b. Goodlet entrance and that either they are let into the building or if they are not let into the building as the treasurer indicated, there will be individuals to redirect them into the grove street entrance, whereby they can go into the light court and subsequently pay their property taxes. So either the city administrator opens up the front door or there are humans to rerefer those people into the grove street entrance and that is the sum and substance of my amendment. If i may, mr. President , just to clarify the this is john givener again. The resolution authorizes the treasurer Tax Collectors office to remain open at 4 00 p. M. Presumably until 5 00 p. M. On the 15th. It can only be open to 4 00 on the days preceding and i dont believe supervisor peskins amendment changes that. Right, that through the president is correct, mr. Givener. Madam clerk, continue. On item number 25. role call . There are 11 ayes. The motion carries to amend. Mr. President , i had my name on the roster and i have a question to ask for the treasurer, if thats ok. Yes, supervisor safaye. So im sorry, i was waiting for supervisor peskin to finish his amendments. But i have one clarifying question and mr. Givener pointed out this office will be open until 4 00 p. M. Prior to may 15th, but it doesnt say what days its open and im wondering how the public is going to know what days its open prior to may 15th and if it makes sense to just call out what day actually the treasurer, Tax Collector intends to reopen its office. Thank you, supervisor. We are planning to be open on both the 13th and the 14t 14th from 9 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. On both of those days and then on the 15th, friday, the deadline day from 9 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. For regular hours. So i would just want to be clear and i appreciate you letting me announce that here so people will know that they will actually have three days to come to city hall and make their property tax payments. My question, through the chair, would it make sense, then, to actually put that in, since were making the amendment about clarity in terms of the front door, to not just put into the resolution that its open on those days. Would you like to make a motion to add that language it would be open for business for those two days . As stated by the treasurer, that we would add in the office shall be open may 13th and 14th from 1 00 a. M 9 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. So is there a second . Second, sandra fewer. Didnt madam clerk, please call the role on the amendment. role call perfor. There are 11 ayes. So the motion passes. Madam clerk, lets go and take role on the resolution as amended. On item 25, supervisor role call . There are 11 ayes. So the resolution as amended is adopted. Lets go to item number 26. Item number 26, resolution to support a family constitutional amendment number 5, introduced by family members from the november 3, 2020 general election to reinstate affirmative action in Public Contact hiring and Public Education. Ok, colleagues, i just want to thank everyone for cosponsoring this item. And i just heard today that the aca5 got out of the Assembly Committee and will be going to the next step in the process. We had a process conference on this issue today, sponsored by the chinese affirmative action and i want to thank them for their work in pushing this issue ahead. We hope to get this on the ballot for november so that we can finally get rid of prop 209. Madam clerk supervisor peskin. Yes. Madam clerk. Im happy to talk about aca5. [ laughter ] ok, madam clerk, please call the role. role call . Item 26 there are 11 ayes. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, 27. Item 27, resolution to urge govern gavin newsom and secretary of state to adopt and implement election reforms for the president ial election including votebymail ballots for every registered voter to provid paivoter. inaudible . Thank you for cosponsoring this that Governor Newsom will be making an executive order about election for novembers president ial election, specifically to expand vote by mail. However, i am concerned there may not be a universal guidance on inperson voting options for the state. While pro cautionary measures need to be taken to ensure Public Health safety during the election, we cannot allow democracy to be undermined by county discretion. More mass Public Education on how to vote and ensuring that equity is center in any of these models that we implement so that the ederly people with disabilities, young voterrers and nonenglish speakers have fair and equal access. I really hope that we can continue advocating so that there are some limited, safe options in november statewide and i want to recognize San Francisco rising and the Chinese Association of justice and just cause, asian law caucus and acl ultimatufor ongoing advocacy. Madam clerk, a role call. Item 27 role call . I didnt hear with the rumbling. Item number 27. role call . There are 11 ayes. Thank you. So this resolution is adopted unanimously. So madam clerk, item number 28. Item 28 is the resolution to recognise and celebrate may as Asian Pacific American Heritage month in the city and county of San Francisco and honor the countless contributions of the Asian Pacific american community. Thank you, madam clerk and thank you colleagues for your patience in the last few items. I want to thank you for all of you, for your cosponsorship of this item to celebrate the Asian Pacific American Heritage month. As you all know, traditions and policies to hold special accommodations for Asian Pacific American Heritage month on the first tuesday of may. Because due to the shelterinplace orders, that was suspended. I hope we can do that again, but for now, the celebration will continue in spirit and online virtually. May is a very significant month for the Apa Community because of two historical events. One is the arrival of the first japanese immigrants to the United States on may 7, 1843 and the other is may 10, 1869, Chinese Railroad workers day. Now more than ever, we need to rise with the Asian Pacific americans in unity, given the rise in racism and genophobia during this pandemic and we will not be doing special commendations and this will promote events and activities taking place this month and in to honor an apa individual or organization in your district through social media. I want to thank claudine chang and all for moving their events online and coordinating a very interactive program. I want to include the center for Asian American media, the 50th h center of San Francisco, cyc on the occasion of their 50t 50th anniversary and Japanese Community youth center, jcyc on the occasion of their 50t 50th anniversary and the San Francisco Sister City Committee on their occasion of their 25th anniversary. I hope we can come together to continue to elevate the voices and experiences of those in our community that have made countsless contributions. So i believe that everybody should have gotten a copy of the amendments that i would like to introduce. Is there a second t for these amendment his. Second. Seconded by supervisor peskin. Could i have a role call, please. I would like to shot out to norman reverend fong at the China Community center for empowering young people for taking care of old people and for parts, for housing, for keeping it fun and as reverend fong says, youre beautiful. I will second that. I will second your statement. Madam clerk, please call the role on the amendment. On number 28 role call . There are 11 ayes. Madam clerk, please call role on resolution as amended. Item 28 as amended. role call . There are 11 ay session. Yes. Its adopted unanimously. Okay, so basically, madam clerk any in memorium. This will be ajourned on behalf of supervisor peskin, alison wong and on behalf of supervisor peskin, is dave lupell. Ok, colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, any other business before us today . Just to thank our strong, Technical Team today who produced our meeting and thank you, guys, john, brent and to apologize to the public for the inconveniences. If you for staying with us and colleagues, thank you for indulging me in the last half an hour. Meeting is adjourned. Neighborhood in San Francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them were in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the San Francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district Fishermans Wharf exhibit no. North beach Telegraph Hill and part of union square. 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It is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbucks exists and it created a really welcoming pot. It is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the Jefferson Starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet Lawrence William getty and jack herb man go hung out. They work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it theres a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you i want to thank all of you for joining us here today. We know that this is a very challenging time during this pandemic, especially for many people who have not only lost their income, but have had their hours reduced at their various employment sites and also lost their jobs completely. As of today weve had over 83,000 people in San Francisco apply for unemployment. What that says is that even though we locally are doing everything that we can to provide resources to the public, we know that theres so much more that needs to be done. We cant wait for a federal stimulus check in many cases, people who are living paycheck to paycheck and need money to pay their bills. And we know, especially our hairdressers and our nail