Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 20240712

Rent, why dont they forego their salaries and house the tenants, instead of making some landlord, old people like me, suffer the burden . Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. We have 83 listeners and nine in queue. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Hello, caller . Next speaker, please . Hello . Clerk oh, hi. Hello. You have two minutes to speak. Hello, caller . Hello . Clerk you have two minutes to speak for Public Comment, maam. Next speaker, please. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . Clerk yes. Im the owner of a rental in San Francisco. I am the first generation who squirrelled away funds for a down payment. I made sure i upheld all of my objections, and i make sure that im up to date on all the rentals and maintain the building in the standard that i would live in, which is a high standard, by the way. When the moratorium on evictions passed, i made sure that i didnt put anyone in a bad way, on account of a tenant not paying their rent. This deferral, by the way, did not require any auditable proof or documentation to verify the tenant actually had a need. The tenant was not required to claim their need under penalty of perjury. For these people, this is a freebie, a no brainer. Its an openended delay or forgiveness of rent. As long as im paying all the bills and personally putting in all the efforts to maintain and carry the building, i should have a say in whether i forgive or delay rent payments. Let me work it out with the tenant if they should need more time to pay their back rent, as i have done in the past. This ordinance is beyond an overreach. I cant imagine how this ordinance has any legal basis to pass, but at a minimum, you should put in that they are required to put in a reasonable for deferred rent under penalty of perjury and make it a definable time limit. I respectfully ask that you vote know as 200375, and for the commenter who called landlords grubby owners, we provide a service. Should Small Business owners who provide another service also be called grubby owners, as well . Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. You have two minutes. Hi. Im a tenant in San Francisco. My landlord is essentially licking their chops because double rent will come due if this ordinance is not passed. I thank supervisors preston and peskin for authoring this, and i support this 100 . As everyone has mentioned, it does not at all say that rent never comes due. It is just a way so that we dont get a slew of evictions that would cause the city much greater harm in terms of financial costs in the courts and the cost in the pandemic. Personally, i lost both of my jobs due to covid19, one in tourism, and one at ucsf, and i dont know when they will return. So i strongly urge the board of supervisors to pass this actually wholeheartedly. I just wish i had a landlord like some of these folks that have spoken up that are willing to work things out with people. Thank you very much for your time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Again, the Public Comment is 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Press pound, and pound again. Press starthree to be added to the queue. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is michelle, and im the owner of Property Management systems, which is a boutique property Residential Management company here in San Francisco. As a property manager for over 20 years here in San Francisco, i have often found myself as mediator between landlord and resident during challenging time. No landlord that i work with ever wants to evict a resident, and no resident wants to be evicted for nonpayment of rent especially during times of a pandemic that was not caused by the owner or tenant. This legislation is not the answer. My personal experience over the past ten weeks, we have received a handful of requests from tenants who were unable to pay the rent, and in every situation, a compromise between the parties was made where a portion or all of the rent was waived. I am opposed to this legislation for a number of reasons, but at the core, we can all work together. I have a question for supervisor preston. If this passes, and there are no more evictions, will you be defunding all of the evictions Defense Group from our tax dollars that they receive to assist residents in an eviction actions . If there wont be any evictions, why dont you divert those funds to help owners and residents pay their rent . Good evening. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have two minutes. Hi. My name is ren. Im a renter in district 3, and im calling to voice my strong support of these protections. I want to thank supervisor dean preston for his compassion and leadership on this issue and this measured proposal, and i want to urge the rest of the board to recognize what many other callers have stressed, that what could stave off a huge wave of evictions and that will protect lowincome and communities of color. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Hello. My name is scott shane. Can you hear me . Hello . Clerk yes. You have two minutes to speak. Can you hear me . Yes. Im a small apartment owner. I own a duplex in mission district, and ive owned it for a few years, and my wife lost her job, i lost my job, and and then, i just found out this weekend one of the renters cannot pay their rent. So Everyone Needs to pay 50 of the rent, which is very low, and im really having a difficult time paying my mortgage, my property taxes, and my expenses to run that building, and pay my electrical bills and my other bills in my personal life. Im scared now that im over 65 years old, and i am scared that i will lose my building because i cannot pay , i wil not be able to pay my mortgage and my taxes, and ive worked a long time, saved my money for many, many years to acquire that building, and i think its unfa unfair. That im opposed to this bill, and i think it should not pass because its unjust to the landlords. We dont want anybody to be evicted, but we dont want the landlords to have to pay for all of this, and theres no end in sight. It could go on forever, and there would be a bigger problem down the road. Any way, i oppose this bill, and i think you should think seriously on it. Thank you, and i hope you have a wonderful day. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Hello, supervisors. My name is camille. Im a sixyear s. F. Renter and bay area native currently living in district 9. Thank you, supervisor preston for the offer of this covid19 tenant protection ordinance. Im speaking today in enthusiastic support of this legislation. I jeecho all the other comment of this bill. This is the difference between life and death for all of our most vulnerable. The he dictieviction pipeline issue that affects us all. It is about saving lives today. I ask you to put tenants over profits, and i urge you to pass this issue. I understand that the greater u. S. Financial system has failed landlords, as well, however, they have relief with the c. A. R. E. S. Act and further relief. To my understanding, most homeowners affected by the coronavirus pandemic are able to ask for relief, as well. Meanwhile, for renters, there are no rent discount programs. There is no interest only equivalent between national banks, state chartered banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders. There are over 400 banks and mortgage lenders who are already providing assistance to landlords. Im hard pressed to believe that there is no one willing to work with these landlords with the financial difficulty that theyre experiencing today. Many landlords and associations already, you never evict, youre a rare breed. We must acknowledge that most landlords will provide no such empathy clerk your times expired. Thank you for your time. Again, the Public Comment is 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Press pound, and then pound again to be again. To be added to the queue, press starthree. Youll be added to the queue, and when its your turn to speak, youll be unmuted and prompted. Hello, caller. Hi, everybody. This is mitchell from the Affordable Housing alliance. Im assuming you can hear me. I think this might be a good time to stop and take a deep breath and step back a little more and try to view this proposal from a Public Health policy and a Public Health perspective. This choice was already made when the city decided to have a moratorium on evictions or nonpayment of rent during the pandemic. The die was already cast. The legislation provides a soft landing after the moratorium, and the board of supervisors already passed virtually identical legislation for s. R. O. Units. That provides a soft landing also after the moratorium, but renters would be in nearly the same position as they were at the start, and it would have been mostly pointless. If we thought it was a good idea for them to be evicted, we wouldnt have needed a mo moratorium in the first place. Tenants will still owe the back rent but wouldnt face eviction for that. The landlords ability to collect the rent as opposed to evicting is not significantly changed by this proposal. The chances of getting that back rent is really became. This right handing legislation is not really transformative, i would say, its just a common sense method to step down from the moratorium on evictions and providing a soft landing on that policy in a way that would help prevent mass evictions with minimal impact on landlords, so we would urge you to support this measure. Thank you for your comment. Clerk we have 75 listeners and six in queue to speak. Dear supervisors, my name is michael. Im a longtime resident of San Francisco, a property manager, and a small businesproperty ow. Im calling to oppose the ordinance because, again, you are taking a very simplistic approach to this and using logic that all tenants are good and poor, and all landlords are rich and ugly, and its just the wrong approach. I think that most people that own property are compassionate and live here and want the city to progress. If you are proposing a Citywide Program where everybody paid into it and had a means test and made sure that the tenants who ask for help really need it, that would be something that i think citywide everybody could support, instead of dividing with this overreaching proposal. Thank you for giving me the opportunity. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Again, youll have two minutes to speak. Youll be prompted that your line is unmuted. Hi. Can you hear me, please . Clerk yes, thank you. Hello . Can you hear me . Clerk yes, you may speak. Hi, thank you so much. My name is nancy levins, and im in district 7, and im a small Property Owner. I listened to this about 45 minutes. You poor people have been listening to it all day, but i think one of the things thats been very clear is this is a nuanced situation. Im a small Property Owner, and i fall into that category of people that are penalized if i dont get my rent. So how about this how about going back and rethinking this . How about carving out some provisions for small Property Owners, say people who own six or less units because were the bread and butter owners of property here in San Francisco. Its true that there are o outofstate people that own properties that may allow their tenants not to pay rent, but that brings up that whole other issue. Youve got to step back and make this not available to all tenants. I agree with means testing or some proof that people actually are in a situation where they cannot pay their rent. So these are my comments. Im just asking you all to step back and rethink this. We are not all evil, we want our tenants in place, we like them, and we want to work with them. Thank you very much for listening to me. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Hi. First of all, i wanted to translate for the speaker who spoke in spanish. She was saying that, you know, while people lost their jobs and are worried about homelessness, she expressed her support for the ordinance. I speak spanish, so there it is. I want to thank all the sfusd teachers, and all the teachers have done an amazing job during the pandemic. We all agree that housing is a crisis. We all want people to stay in their homes. What people really need is rental assistance. It is clear from every single call that people are feeling fear, insecurity, and stress. As a preschoolteacher, i know that in order to reduce conflict, we need to reduce stress. Many people have mentioned how stressful this city is. There is a lot of hostility on this call. People need help, and this is not the way to help and will not reduce stress because debt will be building on both sides. This ordinance not only is not the only way we can prevent evictions, there are many other possibilities like San Francisco paying rent or offering tax relief. I heard the gentleman hours ago that is working with housing and rent assistance and says they are in dire need for the government help. Having Consumer Debt is not reducing stress. Going to Small Claims Court is not reducing stress for all the tenants that have not been able to work. People need their rents paid. Tenants will never get out of debt. As mentioned, this will likely end up in court, and instead, we should be paying rental fees instead of paying for legal fees. Give direct payment to tenants. Tenants should not lose their homes and they should not have to build up debt. I want to read a statement about community. When we talk about helping community to the breakdown of community, something changes. Holding onto the view that community is a set of problems to be solved holds itself in the grip of retribution. At every level of community, we live at a level of retribution. Clerk thank you for your comments. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Hi. Can you hear me . Clerk yes. Hello . Hello . Can you hear me . Clerk yes, you may begin. Hello. My name is simon. Im a small Property Management company representing small mom and pop owners, none of whom own more than one to four small buildings in San Francisco in different districts. In representing over 1500 units in San Francisco, we strongly oppose this bill. None of the owners that i spoke to want to evict their tenants. The ability of a landlord to never recover rent, this is not a good or make sense policy right now. Theres a simbiotic relationship between tenants and landlords. Operating expenses are already outpacing the cost of living and rent increases. Mind you, assistance are already available to tenants, Small Business owners, and those out of work, but no help is available to Property Owners. This legislation is basically punishing landlords and basically putting them out of work. If all tenants refuse to pay rent, and there is no recourse and recourse is protected, how does that help anyone . I think we should reexamine common sense and come up with a situation that helps all. A simple compromise should this ordinance be passed and not work ad planns planned is to s any loss by the landlords is somehow recoverable from the city. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Hello, caller . You have two minutes. Hi. My name is garrett, and id just like to say that the landlord has never evicted anyone, and i dont intend to evict anyone. First of all, if we were to evict someone, we would have to pay 500, 600 an hour for attorneys fees while the tenant gets free attorneys fees. Thats one reason why, but i also like all my tenants, and i work with all my tenants, and i think most landlords do. No one likes to evict, and it seems like most landlords are working with tenants right now, whether its a forebearance or forgiving rent or partial payment. This is odd this is what most landlords do, and there are good landlords and bad landlords, and theres good tenants and theres bad tenants. But this ordinance would allow all bad tenants to abuse landlords, many of whom are mom and pop. We are not rich. We have to pay tremendous taxes. We have to conform with retrofits, get a loan to pay a retrofits. We have to pay for alarm services, tremendous taxes. Theres a lot of cost in becoming a landlord. [inaudible] many of my tenants, they own property, too, but they stay in the units because its rent controlled. One of my tenants has seven properties. Another tenant, he kept their apartment for 30 years. She owns several properties. I understand that, but this law is terrible. Its just it just theres no common sense in this law. You cant just say hey, no evictions at all. No one likes to evict, but this will just allow tenants to abuse the system. I understand that more renters are hoarders, and i understand thats why the politicians are just doing that. Were just constantly banging the landlords, trashing them. I urge you to vote no on this ordinance. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two minutes. Again, your line will be unmuted, and youll be notified. Hello, caller . Next speaker, please. Hello . Clerk hi, you have two minutes. Hi. My name is lola. I live in district 10, and ive been here all my life, over 60 years. I am a small Property Owner, which sounds like a terrible thing to be these days. I actually own one singlefamily home that i rent out, and im not in a situation where my tenant is in pain, but there is a huge disparity here among the small Property Owners, really small, especially singlefamily homeowners that live in the bayview, black and brown, that are not being recognized, and this ordinance needs to be a twopart ordinance for smaller rental owners for four or less units or singlefamily homes and not for the huge conglomerate units that were talking about in prestons district. Were just not talking about the city as a whole. This is absolutely a terrible, horrible disparity to the brown and black people in the bayview. As a matter of fact, were so unrepresented im not in the situation. Im getting on this line for the poor seniors that i know that live in this district that are not being represented, that know nothing of this meeting, have no way to get on this call, do not have email. It is so unfair, and the division that is being created amongst tenants and landlords is so intentional and so horrible for our government. I think its terrible what youre doing. Were so unrepresented in this neighborhood, as usual. Im going to go around and put papers in peoples mailboxes because they have no idea what youre doing to our seniors that are on fixed income and have no money, just like the tenants, as they claim, to take care of tenants. I yield my time. [please stand by] the one everybody has a point and i think that i do like the idea that there is something for the landlords because my best friend is a landlord lady in oakland and she is shes not going to be able to get rent because of the legislation there for the next few months. And shes not happy about it. But she feels that its the right thing and she has a small amount of savings that shes kept it in for this short amount of time. So i thank you for this thoughtful legislation. Good evening. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. We have 80 listeners and 60 in queue. Im sorry, six in queue. Caller hello. Clerk hi, you have two minutes. Caller is it my turn . Clerk yes, sir. You have two minutes to speak. Caller hello, my name is jim hurley and im a fourth generation san franciscan and a Property Owner and theres been many good speakers on both sides. Im not a great speaker but i would like to weigh in on the side of owners and argue that we need a more balanced solution to the problem that considers owners as well as renters. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak and youll be prompted that your line is unmuted and you may begin. Caller hello. Thank you for staying so late and being so thoughtful in listening to our comments. My name is evie commandteer and a volunteer counselor at the Housing Advocacy committee and im here to just to add my support and gratitude to supervisor preston and to all three of you for hearing us. I am like a deer in the headlights, caught in the headlights. I keep thinking of this situation and i was in this situation and i was a kid, i would have been out on the street. High father would have lost his business and we would have lost our rent controlled apartments, the end. Now if the Apartment Association has found that nearly 97 of residential tenants paid their represent in may, so were just talking about a tiny thing, but, still, because i know that having grown up with Small Business that im there too and everybody hurts. Im feeling all of this pain. I was on hold a whole bunch of time but thank you again so very much. Thats all. Clerk thank you. Thank you for holding. We appreciate your patience. Next speaker, please. You have two minutes. Caller hello, hi. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, maam, yes, two minutes. Caller hi. I strongly oppose this ordinance. And so many people that i know, they want to call in to oppose this ordinance but they couldnt because they couldnt be, you know, understood very well. And so we will have a chinese translator and they could call, and where people call in chinese they could call in to kind of protest, please. And another thing that you said is that your system of indiscernible , and again you are kind of not drop the lie. So i say that you drop the lie indiscernible and you say pound 3 and Something Else and then people wouldnt miss up, right . So, here, my frustration for the meeting because many people are unrepresented and theyre very angry. Yeah, and that another thing is that so indiscernible they are really bad. They will firstly its very difficult to get. Second, is that is that second is that you hurt indiscernible and especially when you get a job, and not many people out there have jobs. indiscernible many people couldnt go back to their indiscernible and get another job. Its really bad. So they shouldnt do that. Thats what i wanted to say. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Thank you for your comments. And, yes, if you have already pressed star, 3, you only need to press it once and you will be on hold. If you press star, 3, youll be taken out of queue. So thank you for bringing that to our attention. So if you have already pressed star, 3, you dont need to press it again. Youre already on hold. So next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes and youll be prompted that your line has been unmuted. Caller hello, i am speaking. Hello . Clerk yes, you have two minutes. Caller okay, im sharman king and been in San Francisco for 40 years. Im a mentor of the better housing policy. Okay, im opposing i cannot support the measure or the ordinance at this time. Because it is really indiscernible and you cannot evict tenants. You can say you can raise the rent, and that means that they dont pay the rent and you have no way to go after this. indiscernible so i cannot support the ordinance at this portion. If you put a time limit on it like one year or two years, i think that as an owner we would support it. Because i need the rent to support my family. I dont have anything else. I dont have indiscernible but most tenants, if they lose their job they can apply for eidl and the government support. And as an owner we only collect rent and we cannot qualify for those government aid. So we need to have a solution and we need to also protect the tenant and the owners too. So the indiscernible with the permanent eviction is not right. So we need to modify it to a time limit. So currently i encourage all of you supervisors to vote no on this ordinance. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. We have 77 listening and eight in the queue. Caller so this is amy. Im a small landlord. I dont think that anyone wants to go through the eviction process. Its the only enforceable tool that a landlord would have to collect and pay rent. And the things happened and the effect of the ordinance will be a lot of Housing Providers will not be able to collect rent that is owed. Tenants paying what they can without the ordinance, that is not clear it is not a lot of evictions. You should have the authority to to, you know, to enforce, you know, to under the governance order permanently to restrict the landlords ability to cover rent. So you should not it would not prohibit Housing Providers, well have financially been hurt by covid19 and from using california state law to enforce our right. No, no on this ordinance. Clerk thank you, thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes and youll be notified when your line is unmuted. Caller hi. My name is kate tager and im a resident. And i work as an engineering major and im fortunate enough to be fully employed during this time. On the other hand, at a previous time in my life i have experienced homelessness myself and i have a firsthand understanding of the impact that housing instability can have on secure employment for ones self. And i support supervisor prestons ordinance. We have a crisis of people unable to pay their rent because of a crisis of unemployment. And housing and employ cent is linked. Theres barriers for people without housing when they seek employment. If we evict people who have lost employment due to the pandemic its harder to regain employment once the economy begins to recover. This would not own put hardship on our san franciscans but put down the recovery of all, landlords included. Landlords, yes. Even the smaller owners are asking to continue to forcibly pull water from a well that has already gone dry. San francisco, like all cities, is experiencing unprecedented unemployment levels. I put this question to the landlord whose want to evict their tenants. Where do you think that youll find People Better able to pay rent than your current tenants anyway . I feel for the smaller landlords that are personally impacted by this and i hope that we as a city can find a way to help them as well. But i do not think that it should be a blocker for the clear legislation that is a clearly needed next step among the many steps that we need to take. We need to increase stability for housing and employment stability as you cant have one without the other. The ability of Unemployed People to regain employment affects everyone and its a critical ingredient in that recovery. Thank you, i yield my time. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Youll be prompted that your line is unmuted. We have 79 listeners with nine now in queue. Caller hi, i am aaron dean. Im a resident of San Francisco. And im calling to weigh in with support for supervisor preston and supervisor haneys ordinance. I think that were in dire times. And unprecedented times to say the least, and that requires unprecedented measures. I very much agree with the previous caller, you know, housing instability definitely weighs in on peoples minds and what have you, and ill cut it short. And i encourage all supervisors to weigh in, to vote yes on this ordinance. I yield my time. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Youll be notified that your line is unmuted. Caller hello . Clerk hi, caller, you have two minutes. Caller my name is noni richmond, im the president of the small Property Owners and an owner of five small rental units here in San Francisco in the western edition. I vigorously oppose the legislation, but i want to agree with something that one of the previous callers said. She said why would we want to evict good tenants . We dont want to evict good tenants. We want a chance to make arrangements with our tenants to repay the rent. Not to have them permanently not have to pay the rent. We want a chance to be good owners and Good Business people and this totally prevents it. In addition, the city doesnt have the Legal Authority to make this kind of restriction. Its violates the governments orders the governors order, and its illegal. Why are you doing this . We polled our members and we did not get one letter that said that we dont we want to evict our tenants. Some have worked with tenants and some have forgiven rent and lowered rent. We want to keep our good tenants but we want a chance to lift out some kind of a rental payment agreement because we have expenses too. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak and you will be prompted that your line is unmuted. Caller hello. Clerk hello, two minutes. Caller yes. My name is francis and im from San Francisco and i have a rental unit for elderly family members. We would like to have strict opposition to this proposal. It is a wrong assumption that the landlords must be financially more viable while tenants must be poor. Due to the pandemic the federal and the State Government are helping. A typical tenant owes over 4,000 for unemploy blunt and in a twofamily family its 9,000. If any tenant can prove that they cannot receive a subsidy, should the city should verify their financial needs and to provide assistance on a casebycase basis. Providing housing is a Serious Business and a profession. And forcing landlords to pay for the housing costs while tenants can live there for free is discrimination. If you dont want someone to live at your house for free, lets not indiscernible and everyone, landlords and tenants the city should make housing possible, not just the landlords. So please vote no to the proposal. We cannot afford to let anyone to stay at your house for free. The tenants should pay. This proposal is not helping the economy. It does not provide stable housing to anyone. So Housing Providers would not owe housing if no represent. They pay property taxes and if they have no income and no salary, indiscernible and the landlords are doing the same thing. Thank you so much for your time. Clerk we have 78 listeners and five in queue. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes and youll be notified that your line is unmuted and you may begin Public Comment. Caller hello. Clerk hello. You pay begin Public Comment. Caller i think so. Im Courtney Clarks hello, this is Courtney Clarkson. And i own a small fiveunit building in north beach which i have owned for about 25 years. I have great tenants, its not a fancy building. So far everybody is paying the rent. And i have do have a major problem with this proposed legislation and havinglinned to a number of listened to the number of callers over the last few hours its that all of the landlords are being pointed out as the bad guys. I have owned my building 25 years. All ive done is pour money into the building. I should be making so much money, but thats not the case between seismic and upgrades and things that the city says to do. If i had a problem with my tenants unable to pay the rent, i would work something out with them because i have great tenants and i get along with them very well. My problems are not with the people that i have rented to over the decades. My problems are with the city. It just never, ever stops. And i think that what you supervisors have to realize is that the way things are going, those of us who are very involved in our small buildings, were getting tired of all of this all of the hassles with the legislation and the city. And pretty soon youre going to have a city thats going to be these Huge Companies that own huge numbers of units. And could care less. So i really think that you need to reconsider how you are going about this. Not every tenant really should have a test, just like we have one for rent control. Not every person clerk the speakers time is expired. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes to speak. Youll be prompted that you have been unmuted. Caller hello. My name is peter rice and im the executive director of small Property Owners. No i also own rental property in the city. No landlord wants to go through the eviction process and landlords, particularly small Property Owners that live in the same building with their tenants, work out arrangements so that the tenant can pay half rent or whatever, and they can repay later on what they cant pay now. This with this measure, it makes it nearly impossible for small Property Owners to recoup unpaid rent because youre talking about living rent free in some cases if you want to game the system from march 2020 to potentially through september and beyond. And once youre four or five months behind on rent payment youll never make that up. So what youre really doing is youre setting up a system where people will default on rent payments and at some point there will be massive evictions. So might be able to sustain a 50 loss for one or two months and forfeit that rent but if you havent had rent paid for four months and the tenant said that the amount that i owe is so big, that i cant make that up, what youll do is evict. So, please, think about what youre doing here and remember that small Property Owners are working with their tenants, they live in the same building. They know their tenants, they want to keep them. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller hello. Clerk hello. You have two minutes. Caller hi. My name is carey and im a small Property Owner in district 3. I would like to voice my opposition to the legislation. I am empathetic to my renters and i have been working with the ones who have had trouble paying. But in a broader sense, if the tenants stop paying rent for an extended period of time i will e to pay mortgage and property taxes and maintenance and my family has been saving and sacrificing for many years. I understand covid and unemployment causes an inability to pay rent i for some but why this this be supported by landlords . Were covid affected too. And housing should be a human right and we should help renters to stay in their homes and it should be society as a whole who support those in need and its spread broadly and not just a small number of owners. Please, oppose this legislation. Clerk thank you, next speaker, please. You have two minutes and youll be prompted that your line is unmuted and you may begin. Caller hi, this is indiscernible in district 5. I would like to express extreme frustration with this system as i have been in and out of queue due to incomprehensible communications. I would like to have support for the ordinance. 100,000 San Francisco people are out of work. Thats incredible. We cant afford to lose all of the neighbors and the people that work in the places that we enjoy. And our friends and neighbors. The only reason that this legislation is at the board of supervisors is because the buck stops here. There are failures at the federal lest, and failures at the state level. San francisco has to take steps to protect our renters. Now this legislation only stops evictions and it does leave open the legislation that i know that they want to do which is to have some assistance for the small Property Owners. The big landlords and many of the small landlords have an option to get at least mortgage deferment. Hey, this is an international emergency. Its not a crime for landlords who want to make money, but it is a crime if you dont have any sensibility about everybody is going through this. And legislation works slowly, but lets say that the federal government and the state had failed and San Francisco doing its best right now with a series of legislations. Please support this legislation. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes. Caller hi, thank you for letting me comment on this. My name is benjamin laird, a resident of district 5. A fourth generation san franciscan. I care deeply about this issue. As a family who does own a number of rental properties here in the city, i want to recognize that we do have some access to mortgage forbearance and deferment and being in a position of being a Property Owner and we also do have we do have some access to some national scaled programs that are there to support homeowners. Maybe not necessarily enough because we are all struggling this time. Im currently unemployed myself. I do not rely on rental income to live. But i want to say that i support this legislation and i think that this is also something that is going to significantly benefit longterm san franciscans and i agree with the previous callers who recognize that this disproportionately affects longterm residents of color in San Francisco. I think that its very, very important to support our residents of color here in San Francisco, given the disproportionate effect of displacement that they have experienced. Also i want to recognize too a lot of the small Property Owners speaking up against this and saying they dont want to evict their tenants. So i think that in this case there should be widespread support for this for the passage of this legislation too, because we do not want to evict people and we do want these protections in place against the larger landowners. The larger landlords that might make use of these tactics in the future to turn over clerk your time is over. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. We have 77 listeners and five now in queue. Next speaker, please. Caller my name is carlos kwan. Im a former executive director for the homeownership program. And im also the former chairman of the Chinese Real Estate Association and also have been living in San Francisco for 45 years. And i just want to point out really clearly that this legislation is extremely unfair to small Property Owners. We i have a unit in chinatown that i leased out to the Chinese Community indiscernible center and it helped out a family for the past three years. And you guys here are trying to take away our Property Rights and put the burden of all of this housing crisis on private Property Owners which is extremely unfair. And ill point out one thing and ill keep it clear and direct and short i strongly oppose this legislation. And i urge the board of supervisors to not approve it. Im done. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll be notified that your land is unmuted and you may begin. You have two minutes to speak. Caller my name is andrew zachs and im an attorney here in San Francisco. I represent a number of Property Owner groups and individual Property Owners that have concerns about this legislation. In 1976, when California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of rent control, it drew a very careful distinction between local ordinances that regulate substantively and those in the area of procedure. The ordinance that is before the committee today is a procedural device designed to block access to the unlawful detainer statutes for Property Owners who are not receiving rent. It is procedural. Therefore, the board of supervisors does not have authority to enact the ordinance which will deprive Property Owners the ability to access the unlawful detainer statutes and the court system. To the extent that the ordinance relies on the Emergency Services act and the emergency that we are all facing here in the world and in particularly in california, that authority is derived from the Emergency Services act and the governors order. The governors order provides authority to the board of supervisors and to the city to suspend the payment of rent during the period of emergency. It does not allow the city to pass an ordinance which deprives the Property Owners of rent and deprives the Property Owners of the procedure of the unlawful detainer statute. If it is enacted it will promptly be declared invalid and the city will paying the attorney fees. They should not enact this law and this community should make a negative recommendation to the board. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker. Caller hi. My name is michelle chan. I am a member indiscernible and we vote no to this bill. That is unfair to the landlord. We also have it really difficult to pay for the house loan. Subsidy pay, indiscernible house repairs, you know, the house repair is not cheap. So we need help also. So please vote no for this. Thank you. Clerk thank you, thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Youll have two minutes and you will be prompted that your line has been unmuted and you pay begin. Caller hello, my name is chuck hadamer and im the coowner of a Property Management company in San Francisco. I want to thank everyone on both sides for their comments and for the board of supervisors to stay to hear the comments. I have been a residence of bay area and we manage 1,500 Properties Across the bay area and including 200 in San Francisco. Our owners have one or two properties and many are firsttime landlords. This legislation is really just addressing a symptom and not the root cause of the issue. Its true that these are indeed dire times and 100,000 people are out of work in San Francisco. But through the pandemic we have maintained at least a 90 rent collection rate. For those residents financially impacted with covid we have went to rent dedeferment programs and many have reached out how to help. Theres zero evictions pending. People are working together and the resounding thing that we hear from our owners and those that have spoken today is how can we help our tenants so they stay in their home. Because they need that income. In june we had 85 of tenants renew their leases in a time of year that usually only sees 30 renewals. Smalltime owners represent the majority of the landlords in San Francisco and this legislation adds further stress on the landlord tenant relationship and it creates barriers for smalltime owners to own and operate properties in San Francisco. So i call upon the board of supervisors to at least consider small Property Owners in the legislation. These owners are a critical part of our community and the economy. Theyre not monsters. They are our neighbors, our community. 70 of our owners live within 10 miles of their properties and theyre an essential piece of the economic machine and Many Community services, residents, providers, rely on the income downstream. And, you know, i think that this is really just not addressing the root cause of the issue. And the legislation should be targeted more towards employment and helping people to get back on their feet. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operator, do we have any other callers in the queue . Chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. And Public Comment is now closed. Thank you to all of the members of the public who have been with us since 1 30 this afternoon commenting on this first four items. In item number one. And i believe that supervisor safai indicated that he had some questions for mr. Collins prior to the opening of Public Comment. Supervisor safai, the floor is yours. Supervisor safai thank you, mr. Chair. Actually i didnt really have any questions for mr. Collins. I just said that id hold my comments until after Public Comment. So, please im going to just jump in and give my comments if thats okay. Supervisor peskin please. Supervisor safai i want to say that i appreciate all of the people that came out today. I know that this was an unusually long hearing but i think theres a lot of passion on both sides of the aisle. On both sides of the debate. And on both sides of the conversation. This is not an easy conversation to have right now. I think theres a lot of anxiety from both tenants and from landlords, particularly small Property Owners. And i think that theres a lot of confusion too. The emails that ive gotten from people had a lot of misinformation. And some of that misinformation included that people would just be living for free and just choosing not to pay rent. I had some really good conversations with mr. Zachs and i know that he represents the Apartment Association. I had good conversations with those representing tenants. And i think that the burden of proof in a situation of claiming a hardship will still be on the tenant. Someone is not going to just be able to walk in and say, thats it, i dont feel like paying rent. Lets be really clear if they did that, theyre jeopardizing their credit. Theyre jeopardizing being taken to court for breach of contract. So lets also be clear that the governor and the mayor of our city have been very clear about the requirement to not evict anyone during this pandemic. This is a real pandemic. I would never vilify a landlord, particularly a small Property Owner. My colleague on the board here, chair peskin, is a small Property Owner. He is a landlord. He has multiple tenants. We have other people on this body that have multiple tenants. I am currently a tenant. And i but i have also owned property. And thats okay to have those honest conversations. I think that whats going to happen in most situations is what ive heard from most responsible people is that payment plans will get worked out. And in the cases where someone has really lost their job and really able to produce documents, they will do that. And for anyone that tries to take advantage of the situation and mr. Zachs admitted this when i had a conversation with him, they will be taken to court. And they will be taken to court for breach of contract. And they will jep die jeopardizg their credit ruined if by some chance theyre not able to produce. And they were someone that was trying to take advantage. I also understand people that have called and said that they put their entire life savings into these properties and theyre worried that they may not have the ability to keep their mortgage going. And so thats a real concern. Thats why as supervisors stated that we talked months ago about the need to create a fund that would support both landlords that need it and tenants that might need some assistance. Los angeles put 100 million of their recovery money into this. We have put the majority of our recovery money into dealing with this pandemic and this homeless crisis that we have in our city. There will be another round of money coming from the federal government. And i am committed, i support the amendment that was made here, but i am committed to ensuring and working with our mayor and working with the leadership on this board that there is a robust fund to ensure that landlords can tap into this money, particularly small Property Owners. And tenants that need it. But lets be clear also that the governor extended the noneviction until the end of july. The courts have stated that they will not process any evictions for an additional 90 days until after the end of the emergency order. So what were talking about is theres going to be an extended period of time when no evictions will be happening, with or without this legislation. This legislation is coming forward to say when the emergency order is over and our crisis is over and we move back to a more stable economy and the emergency order is removed, that people cant be evicted for the nonpayment of rent during the time that this emergency order was in place. As stated by supervisor preston. And that time i believe that most landlords most tenants will work out payment plans and will have the ability or a pa payment will be adjusted during this time. I think that is an appropriate solution thats going to happen. So we also have our give to s. F. Fund. I know that funds have been given to that for housing security. I have made it clear to the administration and i made it clear to colleagues on the board that we need to prioritize ensuring that people can pay their rent and that landlords can get access to money during this time. Theres a small amount in there, 3 million or 4 million, but we have the ability to raise more and put more money in there. And we have ability in the next round of stimulus money to have this fund. And so i appreciate the robust debate today. I really appreciate all of the people that called in. And so i think that its time that we move this forward and i know that this is a hard conversation to have. But i thank everyone for their input today. Thank you, chair. Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisor safai. I actually had a number of things that i want to say, i wanted to say, but in the interest of time i will associate myself with the comments that supervisor safai just made. Which i thought that were pretty right on relative to what remedies still exist for landlords like myself, big or small. And with that, ill turn it over to supervisor preston. We have the amendments that are before this committee that the committee needs to adopt. So with that, supervisor preston. Supervisor preston thank you, chair peskin. And i want to thank everyone, everyone who called in on both sides of this issue and also to the chair and to supervisor safai for for this hearing and for listening to folks, to everyone. And i want to also recognize for the clerk and our staff who make all of this possible, i appreciate the extended period of time here. And i also appreciate chair peskin that she didnt shorten Public Comment and when we have to have a lengthy comment that is sometimes appropriate. But i think that its important for people to be heard on this. I think that as we can tell from some of 9 calls that the potential of, viblghtio evictioe issue for everyone. The potential revenue issues. And the situation facing small Property Owners. I think that folks needed to be heard and i appreciate you allowing us the time for that. I wont add much or comment much beyond but i did want to recognize that as one caller pointed out that right now the overwhelming majority close to 97 of tenants are paying their rent. And so this will there are certainly people who are not, who are in that 3 or by other estimates, you know, it can be 4 or 5 . But the reality right now is that even with an Eviction Moratorium that is temporary, that most tenants are continuing to pay their rent. They are working with landlords. And so, you know, theres nothing about this ordinance i just wanted to emphasize again that theres nothing about this ordinance that interferes with or prevents the payment plans from being worked out, that forgives the debt. What it does is take evictions off the table which is absolutely essential right now for those who are unable to pay rent. So with that, i would like to make a motion, chair peskin, to refer the item as amended to the full board as a Committee Report with recommendation for consideration tomorrow. Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisor peskin and we have to vote on the amendments themselves. Before we do that, let me also to add the following thing. That the words in this legislation are almost verbatim the words that were in a previous piece of legislation that i actually authored that went to the same committee and went to the full board and passed unanimously on two readings. And it is now law. As it relates to evictions and the use of unlawful detainers in single residence occupancy hotels. So it would be really impossible for this supervisor to vote against legislation that is virtually identical to the exact legislation that i brought to this committee a few weeks ago. With that on the motion to adopt the amendments earlier offered by supervisor preston, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to amend the legislation as stated by supervisor peskin, supervisor preston . Aye. Preston, aye. Supervisor safai . Aye. Safai, aye. Supervisor peskin . Peskin, aye. You have three ayes. Supervisor peskin and now we take up the second motion to send the item as amended with recommendation as a Committee Report to the full board of supervisors for hearing tomorrow, june 9, 2020. On that motion a roll call please, madam clerk. Clerk on the motion as stated, supervisor preston . Aye. Preston, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. Supervisor peskin the item is approved. Subjecsent with recommendation a Committee Report. Next item, please. Clerk item 2 a resolution to approve the First Amendment to the freeway Maintenance Agreement between the city and county of california and the department of transportation to include the citys maintenance of bicycle lanes and paths and cycle tracks along alemany blfl at the freeway interchange at state routes 101 and 280. Members who wish to provide comment should call 14156550001, the access code is 415, 483, 6716 and press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, press star, 3, to line up to speak. If youre on hold, please do not press star 3, and continue to hold. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Any Public Comment on this item number 2 . Clerk mr. Chair, operations are checking to see if theres callers in queue. Clerk you have callers in the queue. Caller my name is paula and i have owned two buildings im sorry, maam. This is about a caltrans, this is a freeway Maintenance Agreement and this is not item number 1. This is about the freeway Maintenance Agreement with caltrans. Caller thats too bad because i have been waiting for five hours and 48 minutes. Thats really a shame. I would like to speak. I am very sorry. I am very sorry. We waited for the last Public Comment. I apologize. Next speaker, please. Caller i have been sitting on this call since clerk hello, caller, you have two minutes to speak. This is item number 2 about the freeway Maintenance Agreement. Caller i meant to call for the first item. And i am against the ordinance. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller indiscernible . Clerk hello, caller. You have two minutes to speak. Next speaker, please. This is the freeway Maintenance Agreement with caltrans at alemany boulevard. Clerk next caller, please. Thank you, chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor peskin seeing no other members of the public for comment on item 2, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisors preston and safai, do you have any questions or comments about this quite straightforward freeway Maintenance Agreement . If so ill call on mr. Spitz or mr. Laske. If not, one of you can make a motion to send this item with recommendation as a Committee Report to the full board of supervisors. Supervisor, i have one small amendment. Supervisor peskin okay. And that would be who is that . Jeremy spitz, public works. Supervisor peskin mr. Spitz, this is the first that i have heard about it. But tell us what the amendment is. Im sorry, supervisor, i emailed it last week. Supervisor peskin no, we have probably in the last 48 hours, each of us received i would say colleagues challenge me if i say at least 2,000 emails each. So problem. Page 1 and its to remove a blank for the caltrains encroachment supervisor peskin okay. So to say under state encroachment permit number and remove the blank . Under a state encroachment permit. Supervisor peskin so insert a umhmm. Supervisor peskin and then delete permit number and the blank and keep the semicolon and the and. Correct. And the clerk has a calm o copye amendment as well. Supervisor peskin okay, when will you make that future state encroachment permit that is not named or numbered a part of the file . I think that we and matt can jump in if were wrong, we should get it within a week or two. Supervisor peskin madam deputy City Attorney jepson, should we say which shall be incorporated subsequently. Miss jenson . Yes. Im sorry, my camera doesnt want to turn on. Supervisor peskin dont worry. But my microphone will. Supervisor peskin all we need is your brain and your voice. Well, you have both of those. Supervisor peskin do you think that that is worthwhile language . Yes, i think that works perfectly. Supervisor peskin okay. All right, well, then i will make that motion to include to strike the permit number blank and insert the word a under a state encroachment permit. And then add the language that i just mentioned which was which permit shall be made a part of the file by you can write it between now and tomorrow, kristen, when it goes to the full board. Yes, thats fine. Supervisor peskin i mean madam City Attorney jenson. So i make that motion and a roll call please, madam clerk. Clerk on the motion to amend as stated supervisor preston. Aye. Preston, aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Safai, aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. We have three ayes. Supervisor peskin and on the motion as amended we will send it as a Committee Report to the full board of supervisors with recommendation on that item. A roll call please. Clerk for the motion, supervisor peskin . Aye. Clerk preston, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai, aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Peskin aye. You have three ayes. Supervisor peskin next item please. Clerk item 3 is a resolution to adopt the hazards and Climate Resilience plan as the San Franciscos update to the 2014 local hazard mittgation plan. The members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. And the code is 1454836716. And press pound and pound again. If you would like to be added to the queue to speak press star, 3, if you have already pressed star, 3, continue to hold and we will get to your Public Comment. Thank you. Supervisor peskin any Public Comment on item number 3 . Well open up the public comme comment. Clerk operations, are there any callers in the queue . Mr. Chair, there are no callers to wish to speak. Supervisor peskin Public Comment is now closed. And given the late hour let me commend to you colleagues and to members of the public this really incredible piece of work by the City Administrators Office. And the department of Emergency Management in collaboration with a number of departments. Let me thank our chief resiliency officer brian strong. This is nothing short of a horror story that ranges from earthquakes to tsunamis to Hazardous Materials to, yes, even pandemics, droughts, wildfires, urban fires and climate change, air quality, heat waves and im only naming a few, but more importantly it talks about our capacity and our strategies and it really is a brilliant piece of work. Mr. Strong, if you would like to or miss Mary Ellen Carol or miss kelly, if you would like to add to that in a handful of words, please do so. Yes, thank you very much, supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin or miss johnston there too. I see miss johnston there. Her camera was pointed to the ceiling for the entire meeting for the last five hours. Go ahead, mr. Strong. Im happy to defer to miss johnston who is going to kick us off, but i think that we will be very judicious given the day that you guys have had so far. Supervisor peskin ive got 36 minutes to get to the store for dinner because they shut everything down at 8 00. So go ahead. I will make this quick, thank you chair peskin and safai and preston. Theres not much that i can add to that remark from chair peskin. I apologize, i am trying to conquer my indiscernible tendencies, but with respect to the plan itself, i would request on behalf of the city administrator kelly and the director Mary Ellen Carol and the resilience officer brian strong approval or recommendation on a recommendation to approve the hazard and Climate Resilience plan which is comprehensive update for 2014 local hazard miltgation plan. I think that supervisor peskin i did actually did read it. I actually did read it and i really like that picture of those people on the side of telegraph hill. But, go ahead. I want to highlight that this is impartial with some of our local state and federal requirements. And it really is focused on it demonstrates our support of creating a support of resilience and for our infrastructure and our communities and the face of increasing hazards and climate dangers. This is as you know much more comprehensive than the last plan and in that equity was a key principle and guiding principle in the development plan. Which also meant that we involved more stakeholders with the department of public hit and the Community Organizations and representatives of our most vulnerable populations. With that ill keep it short because i know that its a late evening and you have 36 minutes now so ill go ahead and defer to brian strong and director carol for responses. Director carol, did you want to say a couple words because you were instrumental in this effort . Yeah, thank you. And thank you, supervisors. I will be brief. So that the supervisor can get his dinner. But i do want to thank brian and team and the City Administrators Office for their leadership in taking this over. This is the first time that weve done these two documents together. And so, you know, we in addition it carries forward a lot of work that is already ongoing and the seismic safety plan, the Hazard Mitigation plan from 2014. The sea rise level plan and other efforts. And it really gives us a kind of a bunch of strategies to move forward. And i will say that we need this so that we can get federal reimbursements in the case that we experience an emergency. It just so happens that were in one right now and we spend a lot of money that we hope to recoup. So it is the reason that we all waited patiently for almost six hours for the opportunity to present this to you today. It is very important that we move it forward in a timely manner. And i could say that if we werent in the disaster that were in and if it wasnt so late i would talk a lot more about Climate Adaptation which is part of this. Before the current pandemic situation that we are in really the last two years that i have been in my position its been Climate Adaptation management that we have been dealing with nonstop. And i fully expect that will be another layer to our ongoing response over the summer and into the fall on top of all of the other things that were dealing with. So put your seatbelts on for that. Finally, i do want to, you know, my final comment is just about the equity component and also the focus on vulnerable populations. If weve learned nothing else over the last three months, we have learned that our assumptions were correct and our focus is righteous on the most vulnerable and on equity. Because that is where we see the most impacts on these of these disasters and, certainly, what we have been experiencing under the situation of this pandemic. So i just want to thank all of the effort that went into it. Well continue to do our work. We still have really there was a lot of work that went into this. But this is a workbook. This is sort of setting us forward about strategies that we need to pursue. Because even though it feels like we cant take much more, we could have an earthquake at any time. Theres many other things that can happen and Climate Adaptation management is going to continue to be a challenge for us moving forward no matter what else is going on. So i want to just thank everyone and i appreciate your support of the work moving forward. Welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at city hall. City officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. We thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. Since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. How has the Program Changed over the years . How has the program what can the public has an artist engage with . For the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. Over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. Conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. That has really expanded the program out. It is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. Why would an artist when to come here . Mainly, access to the materials. We also give them a lot of support. When they start, it is an empty studio. They go out to the public area and we call it the big store. They go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. It is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. When you are talking about recology, do you have the only Sculpture Garden at the top . It is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. It is the only kind of structured, artist program. Weit is beautiful. A lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. The pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. We talk about recycling and conservation. They can meet the artists. Fantastic. Lets go meet some of your current artists. Here we are with lauren. Can you tell us how long have been here so far and what youre working on . We started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. I am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand embroidered objects from our daytoday life. Can you describe some of the things you have been making here . This is amazing. I think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. I have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. It is also very windy down here. There is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. There is a pamphlet about hearing dea nearing death. This is a dead rabbit. This is what i am working on now. This is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. It is for a very special friend. While we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. I am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. When he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. It is probably one of the least thought of compositions. People are getting rid of this stuff. It holds no real value to them, because theyre disposing of it. Were here in another recology studio with abel. What attracted you to apply for this special program . Who would not want to come to the dump . But is the first question. For me, being in a situation that youre not comfortable in has always been the best. What materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here . There are a lot of books. That is one of the thing that hits me the most. Books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. Also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. Of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. Job mr. Some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. Taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. The first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. It was actually a poster. It was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. In terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. So being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. How do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the threedimensional . Maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of Something Else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets Something Else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know . We have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. Everybody is welcome to come out. We have food. Sometimes we have gains and bands. It is great time. From june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. We encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. We want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. How many artists to do your host here . 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. Very competitive. But everyone should be encouraged to apply. Thank you again for hosting us. Thank you for including us in culturewire. Meeting will come to order. Welcome to the june 8th, 2021 meeting of the rules committee. Im so sorry that we started late this morning. We were having difficulty with Public Comment. And i just want to advise any member of the public who is listening in, if you want to be included in the queue to be a speaker in Public Comment please press star three. Its a little different than other meetings. This time you press star three. Ill remind you when we get to Public Comment each time. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is supervisor catherine. Supervisor stefani and were joined this morning by supervisor Shamann Walton perform our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Before we get started, id like to ask that anybody thats not a member of the committee to temporarily turn off your camera, so your picture is not displayed while were speaking on other items. Todays announcements. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room and legislate i have to turn my camera on. My apologies. [laughter] the board of Supervisors Committee room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taking pursuant to statewide stayathome order and all local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference, and participate in the meeting through the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. 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Is a Charter Amendment to amend chart to require that members of the board, commissions and advisory bodies be residents of the city and of legal voting age, replacing the requirement that members of boards, commissions and advisory antibodies be United States citizens and registered voters, at an election to be held on november 3rd, 2020. I would like to note that we have made arrangements for Interpretation Services, if they would like to make a quick comment. It would be appreciated at this time. Hi. Good morning. Im sarah sousa. And ill be providing spanish translation. Thank you. Can you say that in spanish, sarah . [speaking spanish] supervisor ronen thank you so much. I am so excited about this item. And i want to turn over the first comments to the lead sponsor supervisor Shamann Walton. Thank you very much, chair ronen. Thank you very much to m colleagues on the rules committee. Im excited that were hearing this overdue Charter Amendment for making sure that our undocumented immigrants have opportunities to serve on special committees and on commissions. And i am also even more proud to announce that we have unanimous cosponsorship from the entire board of supervisors. I want to start off by thanking all of my colleagues, president norman yee, gordon mar, sandra fewer, hillary ronen, aaron peskin, matt haney, rafael mandelman, dean preston and catherine stefani. This is imperative that we announce that we are all unanimously in support of this, because this is something that is going to push San Francisco to be more equitable, which has always been a part of our core values in the city. Currently advisory bodies, that were created by the charter, can carve out exceptions to age, residency and citizenship requirements. This Charter Amendment will remove the citizen requirement, allowing qualified individuals to apply and serve on committees and commissions. In San Francisco, we often worked hard to ensure that no community is left behind. And this is why this ordinary is so historical is should have been in place a long time. All voices should be allowed at the table. And this is just one step forward towards achieving that equitable voice. And im very confident that san franciscans will vote this Charter Amendment into law. I want to thank all of those who have worked to make this ordinance a reality, particularly supervisor president norman yee who worked closely with our efforts on this. One of his aides in his office, as well as tracy garza in our office. Their collective work, working closely with sarah sousa and members of the immigrant community, has led to this point where we actually have a Charter Amendment in writing and going to the ballot in november. Thank you all so much for your continued, tireless support of our immigrant community. And just the last thing, i want to say as we look at all of the unrest, all of the inequitablable thats been happening in our country for years, particularly at this time where were continuing to see Law Enforcement killed, unarmed it black people, unarmed people of color, it is very imperative that our equity fight continues to spread across all areas and populations of people who have been unjustly and inequitably isolated. So this Charter Amendment is in the spirit of that. And in line with that. I just want to thank everyone for being supportive of allowing this equitable immigrant voice at the table, for communities who continue to pay taxes, contribute to our economy, work closely with our families. It is very important that they have a voice on policy bodies, on bodies that govern the celebration and laws that we pass here in San Francisco. And with that said, i just want to the appreciate everyone. Thank you so much, chair ronen, for the time. Lets get this Charter Amendment approved through the rules committee today, so that we can get it approved at the full board and get the voters onboard. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Do any of my other colleagues have any comments before we turn it over to presenters . Chair ronen, yeah. I just want well, thank you, chair ronen. I just wanted to thank supervisor walton for bringing this item forward. And also thanks to sarah sousa, gabriel and the many from the Community Leaders who proposed and have advocated for it. Along with all of my colleagues. Very proud to cosponsor this crucial and long overdue. It is not only needless and cruel, it actually harms the entire city. Some of our most qualified, potential Commission Nominees are not United States citizens. And the entire city is harmed by this arbitrary barrier to their Public Service. I know that firsthand i tried to nominate a person who was highly qualified to serve as our district 4 sfmta citizens advisory representative, but unable to move the nomination forward, simply because of the restriction to appointment of u. S. Citizens, which cant be waived, no matter how qualified the individual is. This is an affront to our values, our immigrant communities and its pastime we affirm the right of all san franciscans to lead. They already are in so many ways. Thank you. Ronen thank you. Supervisor stefani, did you want to say anything . I want to echo supervisor mars comments and thank supervisor walton for bringing this forward and bringing this forward today. Thank you to community advocates, too, who also worked so hard on this, especially sarah sousa, who reached out to our office. So impressed with this and be happy to be of support. I really want to add my voice to this measure, for obviously reasons, for the reasons that supervisor walton stated in the reasons supervisor mar stated as well. I think its a voice thats missing. A voice that needs to be heard. And im happy that all of us could be in unanimous support for this. I look forward to working together to make sure this passes at the ballot. Thank you again, supervisor walton, for your leadership on this. Im happy to be a part of it. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. And i dont want to be super repetitive. I couldnt agree more with my colleagues. Thank you, supervisor walton, gabriel, sarah sousa for bringing this way overdue item to the voters, so that we can make this essential change. Supervisor walton, did you want to run the hearing on this . Im assuming you have several presenters . Thank you so much, supervisor ronen. What i will do, id like to just kind of run the hearing for this point of time. Theres a time im going to have to split off to a district 10 conference. Then come back. While also taking with my car with a flat tire to wheel works. Thats a story we dont need it hear about. First off, id like to introduce someone who has really just been a true fighter. Shes reflective and representative of why this Charter Amendment is so important and really demonstrating and proving that one person can really fight for change and get everyone motivated to make the right decision and right changes. I do at this time want to introduce sarah sousa, who has been a main leader, making sure that we do everything we can to provide this opportunity for our immigrant community. Thank you. Sarah. Thank you, supervisor Shamann Walton. Im beyond honored to have this opportunity to share, you know, my story and the story of so many immigrant families and san franciscans. Im a proud san franciscan myself. Went to mission high school. And im so excited to be here. First, i want to thank the chair. Chair hillary ronen, for your kindness and support. And again honor to be here with all of you. Thank you, supervisor stefani. You have been so supportive and it has been an honor to work with you, along with also supervisor gordon mar. I think together were going to win in november. And i just cant wait to have the Biggest Party in town. [laughter] so gabriel and i will be presenting a power point. So gabriel, can you share your screen . I can. Gabriel medina is the campaign cochair. Gabriel, do you want to share a few words . Sure. Well, just logistics. Thank you all, of course. Thank you chair ronen and sponsor walton and unanimous supervisors for this measure. Were going to start this off. Im going to jump in the middle. And then sarah sousa is going to finish it. With that, sarah, would you like to start off . Yes. Are you sharing the screen . Im sharing. Can you see . Yes. Im sorry. Real quick before you start, sarah, i do also want to take the time to acknowledge Gabriel Medina for his hard work on this initiative and Charter Amendment as well. Hes been a leader for a long time in our community. I just believe and take the time to acknowledge him as well. And make sure that everyone knows that during this Charter Amendment. Thank you. Thank you. Im happy to speak second all the time for sarah. [laughter] can everyone see the power point . Not yet. No. So i am sharing. Let me see. If i share okay. Here it is. Here we go. All right. All right. Now were on . Yes. All right. Sarah, take it away. All right. So today im her here to presene Charter Amendment. The goal of this presentation is to inform you on the specifics of the Charter Amendment and its impact and how were moving forward for justice and liberation of our community in San Francisco. So as we know, were all san franciscans. And we all deserve a seat at the table. Currently so next slide, gabriel. So currently the existing law prohibits aspiring citizens from serving on appointed boards and commissions. This is an equity issue. When you have immigrant Rights Commission and you dont allow immigrants to serve on those commissions, youre not able to formulate equitable policy outcomes. This is one component of the bill of the charter, which again is allowing all san franciscans to serve on commissioners, advisory bodies and boards, regardless of immigration status. And the second component of the Charter Amendment, which im really excited about, is actually expanding the language on metrics to on diversity of commissions. Basically gender, Sexual Orientation and other demographic components, variables to ensure that we have a more inclusive evaluation. This report is conducted by the status of women, a commission of status of women. And so this is a great second component that we would like to highlight. And so, next, can you go to the next slide, gabriel. Im on yes. Can you take on this next slide, gabriel. Yes. I sure can, sarah. Thank you so much. So, you know, big benefit of this is how many additional folks can enter Public Service and contribute. You know, we see the data on the screen. 7 of the population, but 3 of appointees. Latin men are 7 of the population, but 5 of appointos. Asian women did we lose gabriel . I cant hear him. Supervisor ronen it looks like we might have lost him. Let me ask. Clerk it looks like his computer may have stopped responding. Supervisor ronen yes. While we figure this out, do we want to open this item up for Public Comment and well continue the presentation after Public Comment . I can continue the presentation. Supervisor ronen okay. Sorry. Im not going to be able to share my screen at the moment. Clerk supervisor ronen, would you like the clerk to share the slide on his end . Victor, you can take over and share your slide, please. Thank you so much. I apologize for the technical issues. Supervisor ronen no problem. Weve been having them all morning. Okay. So we were on slide number 3, right, is that correct . Slide 4. Supervisor ronen oh, slide 4. Okay. If the clerk could put up slide 4. What gabriel was alluding to, is the representation component and who is left out. As people of color are underrepresented, and there is definitely a disparity issue among immigrants, meaning aspiring citizens, documented and undocumented. And then so this is about not only a place to hear immigrant voices. Next slide. Not only uplifting the voices, but also engaging young people. San francisco residents that are 660 16 and 17 years old would also be eligible to serve on boards and commissions, if we pass 16 in november. So this is a dual action to ensure that, you know, f16 passes, young people are, regardless of immigration status, are able to serve on commissions. And we also had a huge history in 2016 when we passed proposition n and f. So allowing parents to serve on school board im, to actually vote on school board elections, which was a big victory for us. And then second, you know, this is a widespread empowerment. Were saying that, you know, as we take cue, belong that immigrants belong, that all communities belong. When we remove systemic barriers that prohibits them from serving, from having a seat at the table. Next slide, please. Is gabriel back . Okay. So moving backward not forward, right. When we think about the percentage of appointees, we look at the demographic and we cdbg a disparity we see a disparity. People of color are less likely to have seats on commissions that make key decisions. With the shorter amendment, were sending a message that we prioritize the voices of women, immigrants, people of color, people that have been left out of the seats for a long time. Both women of color and immigrants are underrepresented. And so again this Charter Amendment will ensure that we are amending that inequity in the system. So were moving to slide 8. So in order to improve service delivery, we must ensure that we have people that represents the community, to fight and advocate for resources for covid19. As we know, the Latinx Community and people of color have been disproportionately impacted by covid19, due to systemic barriers. So its crucial for them to have a seat at the table, to ensure that they share their perspective on what resources should be allocated to the community, what are the needs, and whats the most impactful what are the most Impactful Solutions that will help the crisis in their community, along with addressing the violence, with the death of, you know, george floyd and amill car and luis. We saw the lack of accountability. We need members of the community representing those commissions, to ensure that we hold accountable. That we are addressing this issue of violence to people of color. It goes back to representation, and the importance of s. F. Commissions for all. And moving to slide 9, a person, regardless of immigration stat status, should be eligible to hold civil office. And we are the largest and most diverse. We come from different countries. We are beautiful and bring our cultural and lives and traditions. And also resources to the communities. So again its important that San Francisco leads by example. Next year the governor is sig signing into law sb225 with allows citizens shall actually serve on state commissions. So now its time for San Francisco to follow the governors action on uplifting all californians and ensuring that they have a seat at the table. Were also fighting for sb288, which would amend the election code, to allow actually noncitizens to run for local seats. So this is not only part of the Charter Amendment, this is for liberation and justice. So i want to move to the slide 10. I just want to say for all of the endorsements, thank you supervisor hillary ronen, to your staff, supervisor Shamann Walton, president norman yee, assembly phip king and i want to thank harvey, San Francisco latino democratic club. Educators of San Francisco. The Community Resource center, african advocacy network, violent connect. And other organizations that have supported, as well as chinese for informative action, who also have shown leadership. And along with all of the Domestic Workers that have fought for a long time for immigrant justice and for all of the Community Members that are supporting, thank you. Thank you. Were not able to do this without you. So i would like to close by saying thank you. Gracias. I will say in other languages. S. F. Commission for all. Its crucial. Im so grateful and honored. And thanks again to the rules Committee Chair supervisor and chair and supervisor hillary ronen, supervisor stefani and supervisor gordon mar. And again i apologize for any technical issues. And thank you for your time. And im honored to work with you and make history in San Francisco. Thank you so much no your liquor, sarah and thank you so much thank you so much for your leadership, sarah and thank you so much, gabriel. Well make sure this Charter Amendment is heard at this committee. Supervisor ronen, if you dont mind, id like to pass this back to you. I believe were moving forward to Public Comment at this time . Supervisor ronen sure. Sounds great. Sarah, thank you so much. What a beautiful presentation. So professional and compelling that you had me tearing up, because this is historically important in our city. This is well past the time that we right this wrong. This is great to be together with supervisor walton. This historic ballot measure. So thank you so much. And unless my colleagues have any questions, i will go ahead and open this up to Public Comment. And if you would like to be added to the queue to speak on this item, please press star 3 now. Clerk all right. A quick announcement. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 415 6550001. Access code 145 700 6200. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, please press star 3 for line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Just as another reminder, we do have Interpretation Services for Public Comment in spanish on this item. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you. [speaking spanish] if we can hear from the first speaker. Mr. Clerk. Clerk yes. We are working on bringing that forward at the moment. Caller, go ahead. Hi. My name is kate fry. I teach citizenship at city college of San Francisco. I also teach english as a second language. I work with immigrants every day. And i see all of the people in San Francisco. We have over a third of our population comes from other countries. I see an amazing diversity of knowledge, of life experience. I see a lot of passion among my students and desire to get involved. And i know that everyone should have a voice, especially in decisions that are going to impact them. And i dont know how many of you participated in the marches or actions in this past week, but i was at the one from mission high school, as many other. It was led by youth of color. This is the future. This is the leadership that we need. And as a citizenship teacher, i know that the citizenship test is challenging. A lot of people who were born in this country could not pass that test. So it should not be a barrier from people participate. I think we know that now more than ever. Everyone needs to have a voice, especially in things that impact them. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Caller good morning, madam chair, and everyone. I represent affirmative action. I wanted to thank the elected leaders and also the cochairs of the campaign for your work and your leadership in sponsoring pushing forward the Charter Amendment. We continue to endorse and support this Charter Amendment, because it allows for our political systems to open the door to marginalized voices. And so that communities that have been excluded from the political process, can have an equal stake in the physic process. It will facilitate fair representation in our governmental processes, that reflect the needs of our diverse constituency. And Civil Rights Organization that is, you know, committed to multiracial democracy. We stand in solidarity with the black community. Responsive spoils to divest incarceration and detention, we have to make sure our political processes are able to create and reflect the needs from our communities and that our government is for the people, by the people. Now is the time for San Francisco to lead boldly and we believe that this Charter Amendment is one step in the right direction. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Caller hi. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Please proceed. Caller okay. Okay. My name is maria. Im the organizer of voices in San Francisco. And in 1998 i was appointed to the advisory committee. Then later as cochair of the committee. I became a San Francisco Health Authority commissioner, representing health plan consumers. I was reappointed and still currently an active San Francisco authority commissioner. My service to the commission was much needed, even before i became a citizen. And i know many parents are very well qualified to serve on this commission, regardless of their immigration status or age. The factors should not be barriers. The city has a Health Care Safety net that covers everyone regardless of their immigration status. It is important to hear the voices of everyone, so that their Health Care Access and needs are better met. I also serve on the childcare planning advisory council, a body that creates a childcare needs assessments and priorities for the city and the state. I started sit on that committee when supervisor yee was chairing it. And before i became a citizen. I was considered undocumented at the time, because i was my political asylum was still pending. We need parents on the planning council. They struggle with childcare needs, they need to have a seat at the table also. They need to qualify for childcare, and may have parents who are not citizens. And concerning the childcare in california is under the department of education, the Supreme Court has declared that all children have the right to public education, regardless of their status. But often their voices are not heard. So their parents must be allowed to represent them. And even the children themselves, when theyre 18, i mean, 16. We are proud of our diversity in San Francisco, of being progressive and being a sanctuary city and being a trailblazer in the country. We have to put our money where our mouth is. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker, please. Caller hi. Im an immigrant Rights Commissioner here in the city and county of San Francisco. I have worked with sarah to drop the resolution in support of the aspiring citizens Charter Amendment, that the commission will vote on today at 5 30. And heres my personal statement. A fundamental tenet of our democracy is representation in government. Today in San Francisco we have neighbors, friends, Community Leaders who call the city home. But who do not have a voice on our San Francisco commissions, boards and advisory committees. These government bodies have tremendous influence on our lives, whether its police, accountability on the police commission, building Affordable Housing or advocating for immigrant and human rights on the immigrant rights and human Rights Commissions, among the many others. The Charter Amendment to allow San Francisco residents to serve on San Francisco commissions, boards and advisory committees regardless of immigration status, is long overdue. And critically important during a time of pandemic, economic volatility, and violence that disproportionately affects our Brown Brothers and sisters. Thank you for supporting this. And i will do everything in my power to get this across the finish line in november. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker, please. Caller hi. My name is ezra. I am i had the to get to work and know sarah sousa. I work at u. C. F. And a volunteer at a clinic, sole purpose to help the undocumented community provide free fair to the uninsured. As you know, covid19 has disproportionately affected among our communities. It is imperative and long overdue for Political Representation to be on the table. So i implore and everyone to vote on this Charter Amendment. And communities that have long been oppressed and silenced need to be heard. And also to stand in solidarity with our Black Brothers and sisters. Thank you. Thank you. Can we hear from the next speaker, please. Hi, everyone. My name is the the Vice President of sound connect. I want to thank you for your leadership on this issue and excited to continue to work with her and push this Charter Amendment forward. This is a personal issue to me. As a gay immigrant, who immigranted from malaysia, a country that threatens gay men, i came to San Francisco in search of safety and community. San francisco has been a safe sanctuary that embraces immigrants of different backgrounds and identities. We pay taxes like everyone else, many of us as essential workers but do not enjoy the same level of access to basic resources, that would help our immigrant families who are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, put food understand table and keep our families safe. We have been under attack by the administration, yet we do not have a platform to advocate for our needs, or have the power of policy changes that directly impact our everyday lives. Representation matters. And this is why im supporting the Charter Amendment as an immigrant, who wants to publicly help my did city. I look forward to seeing the day when all immigrants have a seat at the table. Thank you. Thank you. Just a reminder, members of the public who are already on the phone lines, and wish to speak, should now dial star 3 if you have not already done so to be added to the speaker line. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker, please. Hi. Good afternoon. Good morning. My name is maria. I am an advocate in the community. And i work closely with a lot of immigrants, im an immigrant myself. And i am here because i think its important that we immigrants be part of the issues that are being on the table. Because i really consider that we need to change the narrative about immigrants. And we need to value so we can bring what we bring to the economy and how we can be also help to be making decisions that affect us. I also would like to address that me as an immigrant, i notice how much representation is lacking. So i would like to all of you supervisors to consider this proposal. And also continue fighting for the city and for all of us to continue changing that narrative about immigrants. And what we do in the economy. Thank you so much. Thank you. Can we have next speaker, please. Hello. Hi. Please proceed with your comment. Oh, hi. My name is and im with the african advocacy network. So im joining you here speaking about thanking all of the leaders, local leaders and all city leaders. And also, you know, our comrades and friends from the community on this initiative. And ive been thinking to myself, what a missed opportunity for so long. Its been quite a while immigrants are in the city. And even those would be qualified to serve on commissions, they did not do so. Maybe sometimes because of lack of education, because of lack of maybe maybe because of lack of information or just because of language weakness. And now, you know, today were talking about the amendment. And what im saying everybody, ill not just talking about undocumented immigrants. Even those who are documented. But also feel out of knowledge. They sit on the side. And everybody is invited to join in. And again, you know, its a time to remind all in the community that were not alone. We have Election Officials who are there and thinking about us and caring for us. So its time for us to take the opportunity and at the same time im asking everybody this is an opportunity for education. How to exercise democracy and getting the kids to learn and be a voice for the communities that they represent. Thank you. Thank you for this effort. And then the African Network is looking forward to working with everybody for the success of this. Thank you. Thank you. Can he we have the next speaker, please. Hello. Can you hear me . Yes. We can. Please proceed. Good morning, madam chair and supervisors. My name is rachel. I am the arts and culture administrator. And im calling in today to show our support for the aspiring citizens Charter Amendment. We commend the board of supervisors on the unanimous support for this item. And the individuals and organizations involved in pushing this forward. The diversity of our city is whats made San Francisco a unique place to home and visitors to experience an array of cultures. This Charter Amendment will be a step forwards equitablable Decision Making for the city breaking the cycle of allowing those with privilege to represent communities they may not have direct ties to. Furthermore, the added language, including more diversity on appointed seats, including gender, Sexual Orientation and youth, for example, will further ensure that those who are at the table will reflect the demographics of the population, that will be impacted by this by the decisions that are made. In these challenging times, where systemic racism is no longer an option, having the voices of individuals that can put these systems in check will be a pathway towards abolishing racist practices. We stand in solidarity with the black community and indigenous and people of color communities that are heavily impacted by the current Public Health crisis and the continued police brutality, that has gone unchecked by the federal government. Thank you for your support in making sure undocumented voices and diverse is represented on San Francisco boards, commissions and advisory bodies. Thank you. Can we have next speaker, please. Hello. Yes. My name is okay. Thank you. My name is lou. Im a mother of two children. Im bilingual, multicultural teacher. Im trying to raise the students to understand all of the multiethnicity of our city. So im very happy that youre opening this space for young people to participate. This is so important for them to feel empowered and also experience leadership. Now is the time to open that door. And give them the opportunity to exercise their rights. So we are living through these turbulent times. I really want to thank you, because this space is going to empower children so much and i see that gap. Im also volunteering in spaces to connect families that speak other languages or have other cultural backgrounds. Translating from the spanish to english, also empowering youth to participate in board rooms for the latino community, we can see a lot of connection. An the systemic barriers we have to beg through the system. They have an opportunity to connect. Thank you very much again. You have our 100 support in this issue. And im also part of the voices. So we are so backing up this issue to give a space to the youth and empower them. Thank you again. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. [speaking spanish] im cochair, secretary of progressive democrats of america. An officer in San Franciscos democrats, a member of the rose park democratic club. And the democratic socialists of america. I live in district 8. I want to thank sarah sosa, Gabriel Medina for organizing and leading this important issue for immigrant communities. As a former undocumented korean, economic refugee from a postwar country, where 5 million koreans died, i support the aspiring citizens Charter Amendment. Indigenous, black, brown, and Pacific Islanders has consistently been denied civil rights, safety, justice and equality. This is never been more apparent than now in the shadow of the george floyd killing. The aspiring citizens Charter Amendment will allow people regardless of citizenship status to be able to participate in local governance. This is the time when people like george floyd are dying by the hands of police, and in i. C. E. Detention facilities. Please remember the name of jung moon, a 74yearold soldieren i. C. E. Detainees, who took his life in despair. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next speaker, please. Hello. Good morning. My name is elia fernandez. Im with voices in San Francisco. And im a mother of three daughters and a grandmother of six grandkids, which are bilingual. Thats a great thing that they have. And their parents are undocumented. And i believe they should participate in the Community Charter program, because theyre hardworking and they do stuff other people dont do. Especially right now the people are not working, they helped during the pandemic time and theyre helping others. And theyre very essential workers. And they do great stuff for the community. So they should be included and participate in all of the programs that you guys offer. And thats it for today for me. Thank you. Thank you. Just to make one more announcement. Members of the public who are already on the line and wish to speak, should now press star 3 if you have not done so already to be added to the queue to speak. We have one more caller on the line. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good morning, everyone. My name is lily marquez. Im a member of parent voices in San Francisco. Im a fulltime mom. And im extremely grateful for this participation and opportunity to speak. My dad and my mom were immigrants. And they crossed the border illegally to provide us for a better future. Once they got here, they worked endlessly, despite their language and citizenship barriers that they encountered while they were here. My mom thankfully was able to obtain her citizenship. And my dad unfortunately passed away before he could do that. But they always reminded me of working hard and trying to be a good no matter what. San francisco is sanctuary city and immigrants come to the United States always for a better life, to contribute to the economy and to get involved. So they deserve the opportunity to participate in any kind of civic engagement, if they are willing to participate in one and want to do so. California has always been the largest and most diverse state in the nation, representing different countries. And since times now are changing, we need to change, too. We need to be diverse, equal, just, inclusive, transparent and endorse accountability, regardless of peoples income, race, age, ethnicity, immigration status or religion. Which is why i support the inspiring Citizens Commission and Charter Amendment. I thank you for your time. And for your opportunity. Thank you. Clerk that completes the queue. Supervisor ronen thank you. That completes the queue. Supervisor ronen okay. Thank you so much. Unless there is any closing comments from the offer or my colleagues, i am do we need a motion on this or just holding the hearing and closing the file . Sorry. Clerk we do need a motion to recommend this to the full board. Supervisor ronen got it. I am happy to make a motion to recommend this item to the full board, with positive recommendation. Can we take a roll call. Clerk yes. On that motion, supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar aye. Clerk chair ronen . Supervisor ronen aye. Clerk the matter is recommended to the full board. Supervisor ronen yay, congratulations. Thanks again, sarah for your incredible presentation and gabriel. Thank you so much. Supervisor ronen take care. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 2. Clerk yes. Item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending february 1st, 2023 to the eighth commission id like to state members of the public, who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 415 6550001. Access code is 145 700 6200. Then press and again. If you have not done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak, a system prompt will indicate you have raised your happened. Please wait until the systems a unmuted you. Mr. Bush, i see that youre on the line. Please unmute your line. Im unmuted. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen good morning, mr. Bush. How are you doing . Hello, chair ronen. Supervisor ronen absolutely. Do you have any opening comments before we ask you questions . I just wanted to know that the synchronousty of the topic we just had on charter allowing noncitizens to participate. Its very much in line with the same issue of expanding inclusivity in our government and public participation. This particular seat on ethics is designed to public outrage and public participation. Other seats are designed for audits and law and so forth. And so im very pleased that this seat that im being considered for. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. And i know that you have tremendous history and experience with the Ethics Commission, as well as City Government in general. And although january feels like a lifetime ago, its been a little more than four months since the initial bust by the fbi, whats been revealed to them an extensive web of corruption, bribery and in City Government. Im thankful the illegal maneuvers are being uncovered. Obviously we should not rely on the fbi to keep San Francisco clean and honest. And so, you know, just an overall question for you, how will you approach getting in place the changes we need, so badly in the city and concentrate on sort of a larger issues of corruption in San Francisco, as opposed to sometimes what the commission focuses on these little technical violations that are obviously unintentional. If you could talk a little bit that, mr. Bush. Surely. A large part of the commissions record has been on the regulated community. Rewriting the rules for lobbyists, rewriting the rules on Campaign Finance and rewriting disclosures. Its not been very much open to what its doing for the public. So, for example, on the question of mr. Larue and the money that was going, some of that was going through the detainments. They would ask someone to give money to a nonprofit group. And our system, the way it is right now, is that that information is filed, but as a p. D. F. So its not searchable. So you couldnt go through and say, i want to search contributions that are coming from city contractors. Well people who have permit requests or something of that nature. And i think that thats a fairly easy fix to be done right away. The second thing is if you have a whistleblower complaint that comes in or any other kind of complaint, its suppose to go to the board to the City Attorney and to the district attorney. But when that does when they are sent over there, theres no record that they were sent there. And theres no record that they came back. So its really a question of if you want to do something thats going to happen within a month, those are dots that could be connected to make people feel like theyre being listened to and empowered. Larger than that, i mean, there are other issues about how the commission is established. I was involved in the to begin with. There are issues in how its funded. [audio cutting out] the mayor approves and board approves. But when that budget is presented to you, it doesnt tell you whats not being done. It will say, well be able to hire so many people on the do so much. Well not tell you that we cannot do the annual report of what the Ethics Commission has been doing, which they havent done for five years. They will not tell you that we cannot do the audit thats required, with at least one lobbyist every year. And havent done that in five years. So i would suggest that when they present a budget, this coming year, they tell you whats not going to be done that was part of their mandate, so that you have a decision whether or not thats what you think the priorities ought to be. Supervisor ronen thats a great idea. Thats an absolutely great idea. Sorry, i didnt mean to interrupt you. I just really liked that idea. Were you finished . I am. I could run on all day. Supervisor ronen okay. Okay. Supervisor mar, did you have any questions . Supervisor mar chair ronen, not really questions. I just wanted to thank mr. Bush for his willingness to step in to this really, really Important Role right now. On the Ethics Commission so much attention has been focused on the need to really address and root out casual corruption in our City Government. And then, you know, mr. Bush, thank you also for your decades of just civic leadership here in San Francisco and so many issues. But especially relating to the Ethics Commission. I know you played a key role in the creation, advocating for and the creation of the Ethics Commission years ago. And also a leader in terms of ethics, one of the most important of them is civic organizations, thats been focused on these issues. So i think youre immensely qualified and i just thank you for your willingness to step in to the Ethics Commission at this really important moment in our city. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you so much, supervisor mar. Supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani i dont have any questions. Thank you for your willingness to serve, mr. Bush. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you. Well, with that then ill turn it over to Public Comment. If any member of the public wishes to speak, youll have two minutes each. Mr. Clerk. Clerk chair, there are no speakers no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor ronen okay. Thank you. Then Public Comment is closed. And i just wanted to echo my colleagues, mr. Bush, so grateful for your willingness to step forward and serve during this time. I do want to remark that you had put an application last time around to fulfill this role and when mr. Gray stepped forward, you decided to step aside to allow people that had not had as much experience in this realm, a chance to have the leadership opportunity. And i was just so impressed by that. And your willingness to bring new people with different experiences from your own into this realm and get involved in ethics. Of course, now hes stepped down to take a position with the district attorneys office. So i am so glad that youre now stepping forward again. But i just have to remark, its so rare that people step aside for others to gain leadership and your willingness to do that last time around, just really, really impressed me, as you always have in my career. Thats very nice of you to say. Supervisor ronen yeah. I gist had to for those who didnt know. Let them know that, yes, there are peopling to step aside for others. I just wanted to express my gratitude. And with that, any of my colleagues like to do the honors of making a motion . Supervisor mar id be happy to. So id like to move that we recommend appointment of larry bush to seat 1 on the Ethics Commission, to the full board, with recommendation. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Can we have a roll call vote. Clerk yes. On that motion. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar aye. Clerk chair ronen . Supervisor ronen aye. Clerk the motion passes. Supervisor ronen congratulations, mr. Bush. And again thank you for your willingness to serve. Thank you very much. I look forward to working with you all. Supervisor ronen likewise. Take care. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 3. Clerk yes. Item number 3 is an emergency ordinary to temporarily require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide Public Health emergency leave during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. Supervisor ronen thank you very much. And supervisor mar, this is your item. Would you like to make any comments . Supervisor mar thank you so much, chair ronen. Thank you for us to hear this item today. Thank you to the clerk of the board angela for helping us to move this through the administrative process. This is an emergency ordinary to reenact emergency public leave. The crucial new benefit allows an estimated 200,000 san franciscans, employed by large companies, to access two additional weeks of a new type of paid leave, in response to the Public Health emergency. Workers can use it if theyre sick, taking care of a loved one, if they cant work due to shelterinplace, or if theyre a member of a vulnerable population. And Health Care Workers can use it to help limit their risk of spreading covid19, if they show symptoms. Public Health Emergency leave only applies to large employers with 500 or more employees, who have the ability to provide this crucial Additional Support to their employees. And it closes a loophole in the federal Families First relief act, that requires small to midsized employers to provide expanded sick and family leave to their employees. Public Health Emergency leave was unanimously passed by the board on april 14th. And signed by mayor breed on april 17. So this item before us today makes no changes to the policy, but simply reenacts it for an additional 60 days. To avoid gaps in coverage for the leave, the reenactment needs to move out of the committee today and pass the full board tomorrow. So i urge area support. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. And any comments from supervisor stefani . Okay, great. Can we please open up this item for Public Comment. Clerk oh, yes. I just wanted to make a statement before we move forward. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 415 6550001. Access code is 145 700 6200. Then press and again. If you havent done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and may begin your comment. Any members of the public online . There are no callers wishing to speak. Clerk yes. We do have six listeners. I just want to give them an opportunity to press star 3. If they wish to speak at this time. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Then Public Comment is closed. And again thank you, supervisor mar, for bringing this forward. Did you want to make the motion . Supervisor mar sure. So id like to move that we send this item to the full board, with positive recommendation, as a Committee Report. Supervisor ronen can you take a roll call vote. Clerk yes. On that motion, supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar aye. Clerk chair ronen . Supervisor ronen aye. Clerk the motion passes. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items today . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. Supervisor ronen the meeting is adjourned. Thanks so much, everyone. Have a great day. Chair peskin good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation meeting for june 8, 2020. I am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by vice chair ahsha safai and dean preston. Our clerk is miss