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Major earthquake fires caused by natural gas rupture and to lives and property at unnecessary danger. And meaning all electricity facility in the face of emergency. This is in addition to the ongoing healths reings and natural gases in our buildings and the risks of Carbon Monoxide exposure. And we are aware of the uncertainty and challenges that goes by covid19. And one hard lesson we are learning from this pan dem sick when a crisis strike, it is the actions and took or failed to take and determine the success of the response. And the Climate Crisis not going away and resilience in the face of Climate Change and future emergencies. This is a time that calls for bold leadership and that is what San Francisco does. I want to recognize the leadership of director of the department of the environment and her staff for their excellence work developing the proposal based on the guidance of the building Emissions Task force. And i want to thank the t. B. I. Director and james, john, and for the collaboration expertise and planting and public works and others for their review and support and the deputy City Attorney. And i want to thank the environmental advocates and organizations that led the call to action and push to make todays introduction and spent many, many hours of the legislation and will be spending many, many more. Thank you and we look forward to working with all of you with this advancement. [muted] to ask and to adjourn todays memory in memory of father who passed away at the age of 1986 and born in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, father kirk attended st. Johns university and served in the army and was ordained at the francis can and father kirk took a leave of absence. To be go into st. Edwards parish and retired and to kefsh as administrator from the parish and different times and the project to provide essentially items like high general kits and unhoused san franciscans a safe place in the church. He was considered family to all who knew him and the loss was felt by many. Rest in peace, father kirk. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor moore. Supervisor submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. And supervisor peskin. Supervisor okay. Madam clerk, i will submit my legislation, but i wanted to say a few words about an individual who has served city and county in number of capacities over a quarter of a century and that is tom carter who is retiring today and he is supporting the love Deputy Director for maintenance and grew up in maine and you can hear it in his accent. He moved to the city in 1986 and has been in court for the last 15 years and with the city for a total of 26 years and he has been a lifesaver for the director and to be the superintendent of public works and urban forrestry and began with parking and enforcement as a painter in 1994 back when we had a department of parking and traffic. He has been an incredible leader with the Port Organization and the driving force behind the transformation of the ports mainte. If you need any assistance at all, please contact my office at 4155545184. The telephone number is displayed on the website and crawling on channel 26. It is 4084189388 and when prompted, enter the immediating i. D. Number 1461235541 and press pound twice to join the meeting. To be added to the queue to speak, you will dial star 3 and the system will prompt you when it is your turn. If you joined as a listener earlier, press star 3 and once in the queue, stand by and the system will prompt you when it is your turn. Each speaker will have up to two minutes to provide Public Comment. Make sure the location is quiet and each speaker there is no electioneering at the meetings and address the board as a whole and not individual members. The last two points is there are three interpreters assigned to the meeting during the local emergency who are standing by who would love to assist you in language with your Public Comment. We will have each interpreter introduce themselves and will begin with ag ms. Lai. We appreciate if you could use mandarin and canton ease and lets do that now. Lets begin. Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you, all. Beautiful voices. To submit your written correspondence and watch the meeting live streamed and watch channel 26 and note it is cable cast which results in a 20second broadcasting delay. So if you have broadcasting issues and lets get started. We have 18 listening and 14 in the queue. Welcome, caller. You will have up to two minutes. Thank you, madam clerk. To that i can mem work and with the residential hoe toll rooms and the homeless and dormitories and that is how to care and i dont think you would know with the tenant protection in the city. Every piece of legislation happened in that committee and leadership and to come in from the constituents with the most brilliant thing because everybody who knew anything was able to put together that with the board and i remember everything that they experimented. The question was raised do you think we need to have eviction control . And somebody had to say, yes, i think you have to. And otherwise at that time and we had timeshares, and thank you for your comments. Thank you for your comments, caller. Next speaker please. Welcome, caller. Caller i have requested before i share about this to speak english and should have a Public Comment in the beginning. And it is hard to listen to this and the discussion from 2 00 and now its 5 50 and that is a long, different type of explanation about translation and to be fair, people speak russian in the city and county of San Francisco and speak other languages, too. So you have the translator, but as you can see for all the time that they have been standing by, they havent been used too much. Having said that, we are in a pandemic. And we listen and advocates listen to the board of supervisors to see what you are doing about the people who are suffering. What we are seeing and witnessing is the changes to the chapter. And changes made to reform in the wrong way. And for over 30 to 35 years who havent been consulted. And i think during the pandemic is major changes shouldnt be made. As said the corruption and have been founding the call for the last 20 years. And from the investigation with multiple calls and a lot of beans being spilled. And we will do this or do that about the corruption. To do nothing about the corruption. Thank you. This is the executive director to of Library Users association. Library users 2004 yahoo. Com is how we can be reached. Libraries deliver democracy has been a hoisted on banners outside Library Locations all over town. We are thinking that was a burden or exaggeration, but Public Libraries play a vital role and provide independently cur rated books and materials and newspaper, magazines and so on. And with presumably only the patrons with pleasure in mind. They are not intentionally spying on the public or selling stuff or attempting to increase eyeballs by stoking outrage. But what happened when coronavirus came . Our library cut and run is what they did. And slammed the door shut at all locations and almost completely ceased to exist as a real world location with one exception the greatly reduced reference half the type as previously and never on evenings or weekends as the public has repeatedly said they want. To have the materials and programs and beefing up of those facilities, but they havent provided anything additional for the public that wants and needs the real world. 100,000 plus san franciscans do not have access to the internet according to the city study. We ask you to insist that the library open as soon as possible and in the meantime provide service like curbside service, mail service, home Service Increases including phone story times and the like. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Welcome, caller. You will have up to two minutes. Calle caller hello. I am carla and thankful that the congressmens coming at this time and while i was listening to everyone and thankful for the comments at this time and i was inspired more to speak today. Your lovely tributes to harry britt remind me why i protest and why i raise my voice for the rights of all animals, both human and nonhuman. I believe that not so long from now we will be talking about this in the same way we speak about racism and sexism and the atrocity and injustices we have fought to get rid of and continue to fight against even today. As you spoke about the importance of how our actions now have a major impact on our future and how we can help fight against Climate Change, i felt a great heaviness in my heart that Animal Agriculture and the impact on the climate were not mentioned at all. If you are serious about making meaningful change, we must address the connection between the exploitation of animals and pandemics. The health of all people and the plan set intertwined with this relationship. So i ask that the board digress from spending city funds on animal product and support the good Food Purchasing program. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Please joins u. You will have up to two minutes. Caller hello and good afternoon, supervisors. I am a resident of San Francisco and to chaos plantbased goods for the benefit of the program. And the government needs to lead by example for a kinder, safer San Francisco. And if we dont lead the way in this situation, no one will transition to a better food system. It is clear in order to prevent future pandemics and to scale the perspective lives of others, we need to slow down animal consumption as much as possible. And one way to start doing the change today and you have the power to do that is by using the city funds to purchase plantbased protein instead of animal products for hospitals and jails. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Please join us. Youll have up to 2 minutes. Caller hi. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Welcome. Caller i am Allison Bernard and i am calling in regard to revising the bill Good Foods Purchasing Program to increase the commitment to a prant mrantbased food system. Scientists have determined that confining animals in small spaces as on factory farms is a primary cause of diseases such as covid19. If we dont act unt generally, this will not be the last pandemic disease. Only 20 of the antibiotics are prescribed by doctors. The f. D. A. Says the other 80 of the antibiotics are dished out to factory farm animals allegedly to prevent them from getting sick in the horrible conditions but the antibiotics are also used to accelerate growth and enters have warned that we are moving from a small cut of antibiotics that wont be able to treat the infection. One such superbug mrsa already plagues our nations hospital. Over 100,000 americans die each year from what are called hospitalacquired illnesses. The researcher says human disease and confinement of animals led o to the most pandemic conditions. Before 10,000 years ago no one can track because we hadnt domesticated cows. And pigs brought us whooping cough. Chickens brought typhoid. And ducks with influenza and the common cold from horses. In conclusion, the percentage reduction of animal products in the current bill falls short of acknowledging the urgency of the patients. And for the sake of the future, we need 100 reduction and start by replacing 60 with plantbased al teternatives, no near 15 as the bill suggests. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. There are 17 listeners and 10 speakers in the queue. Caller hello. Clerk welcome. Caller hello . Hello, board of supervisors. I want to speak about transit and the lack thereof during this pandemic. I dont understand why the subway is not running. I dont understand why the ep line is not run. It is time to open the line and restore muni service to the full length of muni service instead of the mismanagement of muni during the pandemic. And were stuck in our homes and cant go anywhere. We are stuck going nowhere. You want us to go to restaurants and Retail Shopping where you do photo ops and get chauffeured around by s. U. V. S by the mayor and the supervisors have Police Escorts to take photo ops all over the city, but yet the Common People and the poor people that rely on muni dont have that because it is going nowhere. It is trying to open up muni and get things back. Way it is supposed to and stop the management of muni. Where the the uptake to the public . No updates whatsoever and none in the press. The public is and it is trying to can come forward and tell the people what you are going to do about muni. Time is up. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please welcome, caller. You have up to two minutes. Caller hello. This is [inaudible] i live in San Francisco and about the gifts of purchased and grateful that things are incorporating action and they must do everything just as a Climate Emergency and Public Hospitals in particular. It would help them get there and each product each week and declare bankruptcy and Dairy Farmers of america. Which ranks in the top five largest meat and dairy corporations of the world. And these top five combined than shell or b. B. And talking about dairy and american and as kids dairy pushed on me so many times even though i knew it would make me sick. 2 3 of laguna hospitals longterm patients come from asian, hispanic or africanamerican comment communities which have high rate of lactose intolerance. The hospitals can use this opportunity to cut dairy and set stronger goals and to break climate and free policy. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. You will have up to two minutes. Welcome, caller. Caller hello. My name is raifa and i am also an Animal Rights volunteer. And we are here because we want to help animals as much as we can and we realize that farm animals and agriculture facilities suffer tretly. I believe most of us want to help them and we here are n particular are to comment and do everything we can to help the animals and our vision is to eventually have humans only help animals all over the world and not harm animals. We are starting to work with the city of San Francisco to pass the Good Foods Purchasing Program that is now in the rules committee. So were requesting that you support helping animals in the current proposal as well and specifically also and to reduce the amount of animal products instead of the 15 that it appears tentatively committed to doing and completely stop purchasing products and match the target that the Sheriffs Department has agreed to which is to put animal products and the Sheriffs Department cut by 50 and eventually eliminate animal purchases all together. The current body of Scientific Research demonstrates that a balanced and properly supplemented bant based diet and look at information at nutrition facts. Org with dr. Michael gregor mentioned earlier today. The website is nutrition facts. Org. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. All right. Welcome, caller. You will have up to two minutes. Is this working . Yes, it is. Welcome. Caller hell lo . Thank you. So my name is raven dearbrook and i am a bay resident who investigates animal agricultural facilities. I am asked for your leadership on a rules agenda that is with a change known as the good Food Purchasing program and overwhelmingly opposes animal cruelty and strong leadership with Climate Change and now with covid19 everyone can see the immediate threat that diseases pose. By vesting San Francisco Public Institutions from Animal Agriculture is not only critical to shaping our future but is vital to insuring we have a future at all. Today june 30 reports have emerged on a mutation of the 2009 swine flu which researcher have named g4 h1n1 and like stars, cov2, and this virus emerged to grow and multilie in the cells that line Human Airways with the riskover becoming a pandemic. As we speak, it is incubating on factory farms while the world is focus and reacting to covid19. And more sustainable foodbased system and create a future guarded by science and a change of 15 is not enough. San francisco must create a proactive plan to divest from animalbased products in the Public Institutions entirely. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker. You will have up to two minutes. Thanks for joining us. Welcome. Caller can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Caller and i am also with direct action everywhere. I am also calling about Good Foods Purchasing Program and i think its well documented by various sources and the connection between Animal Agriculture and Climate Change and enormous amount of Greenhouse Gas emissions. Along with that, Current Situation with covid also and been reported from various agencies and the strong connection between animals and infectious diseases. So while i support the new proposition that is coming up on the vote on july 13, i think the 15 for hospitals is kind of ironic and a lot of people will be in there for covid and is kind of insulting and with the bare minimum and work our way to full animal products for hospitals. Clerk thank you, caller. All right. Operations, next caller please. Caller good evening, supervisors and clerk of the board. I am bobby lopez of board a faster, affordable california and asking for unanimous support for item 31 to explore new revenue options insuring and you may have heard the honking around city hall as we joined a larger statewide commission to call on the state leaders to consider progress revenue. The resolution before you is the requester of the state body and governor to explore revenue options during the time of emergency. While the budget was declined yesterday and is in part predicated and providing additional funds to likely see 11. 1 billion in patients and and this will require more times and asking the wealthiest californians and to the most vulnerable. And 76 voteers support millionaires tax and 2 increase in taxes for those who gross over a million yearly. This is one of many revenue options under consideration. We are lucky that the bay area delegation with many members of support and including Assembly Members who voice support in the measures including david chiu and rob bant supervisors ronen, walton, haney, and peskin for your support and ask yor your kind consideration. Thanks very much. We have 15 listeners and about six member in the queue. If you are wanting to speak, just remember to press star 3. And that will add you to the speakers queue. Okay, operations. Who is next . Please join us, caller. Caller can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Welcome. Caller good afternoon. My name is jordan davis, a district six resident and a member of the direct action everywhere. I want to thank supervisor fewer for the leadership on food purchase and reducing the number of animal products as much as legally possible. We live in troubled times. We have a Climate Crisis on our hand and with covid19 pandemic ant all businesses clearly exacerbate by Animal Agriculture and while covid19 was traced back and commonly while bats are not eaten in the United States, all pandemics have been traced to food and chicken farming could wipe out half of humanity if they got a pandemic. And a story about emerging pandemic with a bunch of main stream publications and the majority of people in the u. S. Eat chicken and beef and if thaz breed pandemic to make covid19 seem like a walk in the park. People talk about doing their part but what are we going to stop the next pandemic . This is a real problem with real consequence and the least the city can do is block being abuseers of animal abuse and be a leader for others to follow. This covid19 is a troubling thing and i dont want to have to deal with the measures ever again. Once we find a vaccine, we need to block the animal product and stop purchasing animal products and i encourage more of the member of board of supervisors to go vegan. Will any of you step up . Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Welcome, caller. Hi. I am a district two resident and i would like to echo another one of the callers concerns about Public Transportation in San Francisco. While i understand it may not be feasible to have all the muni lines running, i find it troubling that theres really no indication of what lines are and arent running. And that i am also very upset that trip planner was retired a number of years ago and i have found the alternatives are unreliable. And now if i am trying to get somewhere on public transit, i have to guess if the buss are running. That is very frustrating. Another one of the callers expressed frustration with response to the pandemic situation and look listening to todays Board Meeting, i am also frustrated because there is shoved out of somebodys retirement plans and memorial for someone who died, and none of this feels very relevant to citizens who are here and trying to get through this Current Situation. So i am sure that its very nice that a longtime employee is retiring, but i am sure there are better times and places for stuff like that could be commemorated. And a bunch of people are calling in on this vegan bill and as somebody who has raised in a vegetarian family, i have gone vegan a couple of times and i think vegan is good and stuff, but that as far as hospitals do, that is a decision people have to be left up to and politicians should stay out of this. Thank you for your comments. Madam clerk, you are muted. Clerk thank you. Thank you to the caller and if members of the public are interested in what the board and city is doing regarding covid19, go to sfbos. Org website and city and board response and an entire listing of legislation that the board is moving and the mayor and board are working on cooperatively and the department of Public Health. Okay. Operations, this will be the last call. I believe there are three member of the public in the queue. If you are one of the 15 members of the public listening, you will now now is the time to press star 3 to be entered into the queue. Otherwise we will take this all the way to the end. Operations, next caller please. Welcome, caller. Caller hello, board of supervisors. My name is rocky from direct action everywhere and i am a San Francisco residents from district six. I am calling about the good Food Purchasing program for San Francisco Public Institutions and calling far complete shift away from purchasing animals, quote, unquote products and into fully plantbased products. A majored of people agree they deserve to live free of abuse and cruelty and countless more animals and are for farmed and live in unacceptable conditions and they are not aligned with and the stated values and as a native San Francisco and. And hell on earth and talking overgrown animals due to us. And earlier and and unable to walk properly and stuck living in the own feces and animals left in deceased animals left in facilities for god knows how long. And i officially thought their heads were incapacitated by instead it was their heads that was trampled to the point where we cant even recognize the faces as they were trampled and trampled in if feces dirt floor. And this is what San Francisco and paying for cruelty and 15 is not enough for hospitals and as a native san franciscan i urge the board of supervisors to stop all city funds on violent animalbased products from San Francisco Public Institutions. We need to take a bold stance against the system of oppression towards nonhuman animals and make a good Food Purchasing program. We need to say enough is enough. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next speaker please. Welcome, caller. Caller hi there. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Caller hi there. I am javier and calling to urge our state assembly and governor to explore new Revenue Sources during these times of covid19. And as a proud resident of d9, and i understand the fluctuations of outcome in relation to the city expenditure on the most vulnerable populations which are most affected by covid19 and are also in many respects the backbone of the steady economy. And that being said, cutting the programs is not a solution for Revenue Generation and other alternatives should be entertained. With that being said, i stand in support of the boards resolution of item 31. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comment, sir. Operations, next caller please. Caller hi there. I am with direct action and honored here to be today and super excited with the good Food Purchasing program and the idea to cut 50 of the animal products from the budget for the jails is great. 15 for the hospitals is much less exciting to me and i see it as some progress, but honestly, a bit of a slap in the face frankly to the common understandings that we have about Animal Agriculture affects marginalized communities, Public Health, what the animals go through. I investigate farms and been on farms that San Francisco has supplied from and that you might think looking at the logo or website they have pretty humane practices but in reality they are pretty bad. I would love to see 100 elimination and that is not realistic right now, but 6 o across both would be in line with San Franciscos history of being ahead of the curve on a lot of things and pandemics threat from factory farming is serious and we are not willing to slap consumers in the face by continuing to purchase from the factory farms and affect their Public Health disproportionately. And i am not vegan. I do have a plantbased diet, but i support this very much. Please dont do 15 with hospitals. Do 5050 across the board and let San Francisco set an awesome example. Thank you so much for your time. Clerk thank you for you comment. I believe there is one last caller in the queue. Operations. Welcome to the caller and thank you for joining us. You will have up to two minutes. Caller good evening. My name is diana and i want to urge you to stop spending city fund on animal products. It is not sustainable for the planet and is cruel to animals and humans and breeds diseases that could become another global pandemic. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, i believe that was the last caller. Yes, madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk thank you. Mr. President , that completes our queue for Public Comment. Supervisor yee all right. Public comment is now closed. So madam clerk, why dont we continue with the agenda and go to call for the adoption without Committee Reference and items 31 through 37. Yes. Items 31 through 37 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. And unanimous vote is required for resolutions on First Reading today and alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. Okay. So colleagues, are there anyanyone who wants to sever any items at all . I see one person. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor yes, president yee. I would like to sever item number 31, 32, and 31, 32, and 34. Thank you. Okay. For the remainder of the item, item 33, 35, 36, and 37, can you call the roll please. [roll call] you are muted. Supervisor presa canario, aye. Supervisor ronen, aye. Supervisor safai, aye. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton, aye. Supervisor yee, aye. Supervisor fewer, aye. Supervisor haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar, aye. Supervisor peskin, aye. There are 11. And without objection, the resolutions are adopted and motions are approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item number 31. Clerk item 31 is a resolution to urge members of the state assembly and governor to explore new Revenue Generating options including a millionaire tax to ensure safety net programs are not cut at the state level due to an unanticipated 54. 3 billion deficit as a result of the covid19 pandemic. Supervisor few sner thank you, president yee. Colleagues, i just want clarification o this about this particular item. And i wanted to know how this is a different ordinance as proposed local c. E. O. Tax. Supervisor yee is there an answer . I think supervisor preston, you are the author of this and supervisor ronen, i wanted to know how the local c. E. O. Tax that we are contemplating. President yee, i am happy to address at least the state part which is the real focus of this resolution as there is a discussi discussion happening right now with advocates and lawmakers in sacramento about the potential for a statewide millionaires tax which would be independent of any efforts and i would defer to supervisor haney to address the local efforts that he has been leading around the c. E. O. Tax. But these would be two distinct things although i think that with the resolution is certainly to be targeted with high income earners for greater taxation. Supervisor haney. Supervisor preston, what is the what are the thresholds . Do you know, i mean, a millionaire doesnt take much to be a millionaire now days. So do you know that the particular advocates are talking about . Is it i know that supervisor haney and proposal and has something to do with if you make a certain amount over your employees and that that and do you know the specifics of this particular revenue measure . And so based on the same sort of calculation . What are the levels . When does it kick in . And can you give me some and i was talking to supervisor haney about this and i just wanted to know how this is different than something else. Again, i will lever to my colleague supervisor haney and not purport to speak on the local effort, but on the state effort which prompted this resolution and so i think it does take a lot to be in this income tax bracket. This is incomes over a million. I think there is a very serious conversation for us to be having sort of beyond the scope of this resolution around taxation of wealth. And better ways to get at that, right . But this measure targets about an effort right now that is understoodway to create an effort that is underway to create a 2 increase on taxable income. So this is folks whoever an annual income of 1 million or more. I want to be clear there is not a current bill proposing this so those details can change. There is a conversation about attack of nature at the state level and income tax that we are not free to levy straight up and in that way and on the state income tax and that is happening and moving forward and in support of that type of tax targeting and i am happy you are muted. And supervisor haney, i think your c. E. O. Tax is what is sometimes referred to as a millionaires tax but this is really about c. E. O. S and make so many and over 1,000 times more than the employees. Is that correct . And so that the overpaid and is on companies who have a ratio that is a tax on the with the individuals and ours is not an income tax at all and they dont. Supervisor safai, aye. Supervisor stefani, aye. Supervisor walton, aye. Supervisor yee, aye. Supervisor fewer, aye. Supervisor haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman, aye. Mandelman, yay. Supervisor mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. There are 11 ayes. So without objection this, resolution is adopted unanimously. And madam clerk, do we have anything further on this item . No, sir, we do not today. Okay. That is sort of, madam clerk, please read the in memoriams. I would like to make a motion to rescind item 7 and 8. Mr. President , these are the interim budget item. That is correct. So at the vote earlier this afternoon i made a comment that if the board before the board voted on the two items that my staff because of the urgent nature of controller indicated that the city was under that my staff would be preparing those two items to place my signature on those items and sent to provide them to the mayors desk. And that was something we dont ever do until the closure of the Board Meeting. But because this was such an urgent need to have the budget signed, we have already prepared the item and they are no longer in the hands of the board. In fact, i believe they have been signed by the mayor at this point, madam legislative deputy, and we may have them back by now. That item cannot be rescinded i am sorry to say. Madam clerk, that is correct. Both of the items have been enacted and sent back already. Supervisor and there is no legal way that we can rescind those votes . Before i say no, and i dont believe there is, i will just allow our deputy City Attorney ann pearson to chime in on that. But i dont believe so. I would defer you, madam clerk, and you made that announcement at the outset toed a vise people of the time frame in which they would have to rescind this vote given the time pressures on getting this enacted before tomorrow. Im sorry so sorry, madam clerk, that i actually dont recall that statement. I apologize. I have some questions and i am wondering then if my colleagues would entertain a conversation even though that item has been voted on. I would like to rescind my vote on that item. I have some questions before i act. I am reconsidering that vote. I know the seriousness of that vote. If we do not pass a budget and nobody gets paid in the city and county of San Francisco. That includes your legislative aid and that includes all the city workers and we are talking about police and fire and i understand. But at this point, i think, that i would like to question the legality of whether or not i may rescind that vote. However, i am open to now having a conversation with mohcd immediately if they would like for me to rescind my request to rescind the vote. Through the president to supervisor fewer, because the interim bucket is no longer before the board, it does not mean that you cannot engage in conversations perhaps at a later meeting about this very issue, but the budget itself to ask to rescind your vote, i am afraid is not possible tonight, but it doesnt mean you cant have the conversation. And we can notice for another day and you can have that conversation. Supervisor okay. President yee, i think i am okay. Thank you very much. Supervisor yee of course youre okay. Supervisor thank you for that consideration and for that explanation of the vote. I just think i received an answer. Thank you. My apologies, colleague. Supervisor yee please read the in memoriams right now. And one final community on that issue, we never allow any other the items that are before the board to leave our possession until adjournment of the meeting for this very reason that you might want to rescind the vote on a matter, and you can see whey that is so important, so we never fast track items outside of adjournment. For todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor ronen, for the late Sophia Montez and the late father kirk allery and supervisor mandelman and supervisor preston, peskin, yee, and that the entire board adjourn in memory on behalf of former president of the board and Assembly Member harry britt. Supervisor yee colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business for us today . Supervisor yee that concludes our business for today. Thank you. We are adjourned. We are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally everybody is cop us right now. The people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. I didnt think we would have a location at the airport. Weve set the bar higher with the customer commerce. Telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. So first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sitdown we go to the neighborhoods in San Francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. We have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. They are planning on extending. We that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and its all good. How long for a vendor to move through the process. I would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. I dont know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. And, you know, even taking out the track simple things theres a learning curve with once were here they are helpful. Its an awardwinning program. Were prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address Beverage Program and. Like the oscars laughter . The professional world. Tell me about the future food. All the sb national leases are xooirz and were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what your passengers want. Well, i look forward to the future laughter air are we look forwrwrwrwrwrwrw announcer youre watching coping with covid19. Hi. Im chris manus and youre watching coping with covid19. Today my guest is anastasia klaste and were going talk about how the pandemic has affected our school community. Welcome to the show. Hi thank you. I understand that our students and teachers have adopted Video Conference as Distance Learning tools to be able to continue studying remotely and this is clearly new for everyone. Do you have some suggestions to students and perhaps their parents that could help them manage this new approach . I think the best advice i can give students and parents is to really be gentle on yourselves during this time. The thing we dont really want to do is increase stress and anxiety amongst our students because they know it is a scary, uncertain time aside from the work. So, we are engaging in Distance Learning and providing work for students to engage in. The Mental Health of students and their wellbeing and safety is really at the forefront of our minds and so were asking parents to keep an eye on their kids and also asking kids to speak up and let us know if theyre having trouble f they need to talk to someone, if they need to take a break or they need more time to do work. Because that is really whats most important for us. Right. And what would you say to teachers having a hard time adjusting as well . I think our faculty is really lucky in that we were already utilizing google classroom in all of our classes. So the switch from inperson to online is not as extreme as it may have been to some other faculties in other schools. That said, most of us had never engaged in Video Conferencing or done any sort of daily online lesson planning. So, i think the same thing i say to parents and students i say to teachers is to just be gentle and give yourself space and know its ok to make mistakes and its ok if youre not perfect and were all sort of learning and doing at the same time. So, that can also be anxiety provoking and that can be hard for taoefers that are used to being really good at what they do and knowing what exactly to say and how to do it every day are grappling with new technology and theyre finding that students [inaudible] what they do in person. Are there concerns about College Admissions for High School Seniors and juniors . I think at first there was a lot of sort of confusion and anxiety for juniors and seniors about colleges. And now that the system has come out with some guidance and we understand that, you know, the s. A. T. And a. C. T. Tests wont be required for the next year, we know that universities have only agreed to accept credit or no credit or passno pass grades and looking at students across the country knowing that were in unprecedented situation now that weve got guidance of clarity around that. Students are feeling a lot more comfort. Comfortable. For our current seniors, most of them got their College Acceptances in february and march so those things shouldnt be changing that much. For juniors, you know, now that they know that they have to step it up for the next year because the grades that theyre getting this semester may not be letter grades, it might be a passno pass, creditno credit. But it seems from everything that i read or hear, theyre working really closely with School Districts to make sure that no student is, you know, adversely affected by the pandemic because of this sort of universal experience for all students. Indeed. I heard that some kids are worried that they may have to make up the work or retake the whole year . How likely are those scenarios and how will grades be assigned for this semester . Well, San Francisco unified has made a decision through the board of ed that there will be a signing. Creditno credit for 6 through 12th graders and that means that basically they will either full credit for the glass or wont receive credit for class, based on the work that they do and that goes into a gaap of neutral so it shouldnt raise or lower any specific students g. P. A. , but just give them credit toward graduation. From what i can tell, california has been pretty clear that no student will have to retake this year. As educators, we do acknowledge that thereby a little bit of catchup happening in the fall. Right. Have your students had a variety of different experiences during this pandemic . Yes. I would say definitely. Our school serves a big atrisk group of kids. We have students from every zip code and city, basically. And students from all sorts of backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses so on one hand they have their high speed wifi and its no problem for them to hop on a zoom call or get their google docs turned in and then we have a lot of situations where they may not have wifi so theyre delivering hotspots or they have a device but it is shared among several siblings or the parents are using it during the day and the kids have only a certain amount of time that they can engage. So, you know, something that the teachers have talked about being mindful of and im definitely being mindful, as a principal, is that our students are in various situations and we cant assume anything about their access in their ability to [inaudible] right now. For some of them, theyre caring for siblings or grandma, living at home. Many of them have family members affected by covid and so theyre in a space where theyre really just trying to take care of those around them. And academics are sort of on the backburner and for right now thats ok. You know, we sort of support them in whatever way they need. I understand. Have you been able to provide any Technical Assistance to your students or faculty . Yes. The School District had hotspots so i personally delivered about 50 chrome books to students and now were getting hotspots, which are wifi devices that utilize cell phone coverage in an area so homes that dont have wifi or homes that have spotty wifi can use these hotspots and the kids are saying that they work really well and now the district just got a bunch of them so were able to list them. So any family that needs them right now, which is really great. Now all of our faculties have access to high speed wifi and technology at home. We are providing them with the technology that they need to be engaged in this. I see. And finally s there any news about Summer School . There is. Sort of. Its happening. In some way, shape or form. But we dont really know how or where. Im assuming it will be online and, as usual, seniors or kids about to graduate will be prioritized so therell definitely be some Summer School, im just not sure where or what at this point. But theyre going to share information about that pretty soon. Unfortunately all the fun summer programs and jobs, the arts programs and language programs, the acceleration programs are probably not happening. But there will be some sort of Credit Recovery option for kids who need it. Right. Well, thank you for coming ton show. I really appreciate the time youve given us today. Yeah. Great talking with you. Thank you so much for having me. That is it for this episode. Well be back with more covid19 related information shortly. Youve been watching coping with covid19. Im chris manus. Thank you for watching. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the june 30, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. Before we move into the meeting, i would ask that all participants please turnoff your camera. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during the pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the board meeti meeting through online conference as though present inperson in the chambers. We will receive your written correspondence and make it part of the file if you send it by u. S. Mail. Our address is San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall room 244. San francisco, california, 94102. If youre sending by email, send to board. Of. Supervisors sfgov. Org. If youre able to watch online, youll go to www. Sfgov. Com. You can watch on your t. V. On channel 26. Were working hard not to leave anyone out of these proceedings. Were happy to host a virtual workshop with you or a group. You can join our Virtual Office hours mondays through fridays. You can use your telephone if you want to both listen to the proceedings or provide Public Comment if you dial 14084189388, and when prompted, enter the meeting i. D. 1461235541. Press pound twice. Youll have joined to listen to the meeting in progress. Ill make a note that regarding the specific order or items eligible for Public Comment, items 1 through 23 are not eligible, as they have each had Public Comment previously satisfied at individual hearings at a committee and are not eligible for additional Public Comment today, but items 24 through 27, the special item at 3 00 p. M. Is a public hearing on the appeal of conditional use authorization at 1420 taraval street. It will have its own Public Comment both on the project and the merits of the project. Shortly thereafter, general public will be agendized. The matters will receive Public Comment on items not on the agenda, and you can speak on items 31 through 37, the adoption for reference without committee calendar. We have two interpreters standing by to assist listeners in Public Comment. Interpreters, please join in now, starting with miss amelia lau, and then mr. Lorenzo cosenza. [speaking chinese language] interpreter thank you. Clerk okay. [speaking spanish language] interpreter thank you, madam clerk. [speaking spanish language] interpreter thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you to all three interpreters. Mr. President , pursuant to title 2, the americans with disabilities act which provides americans with disabilities with an equal opportunity to participate in the program, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone. We would like to provide the accommodation as requested, and the caller is prepared to make those comments now. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk. So before he does this, id like to give everybody a friendly reminder to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. So madam clerk, please invite the speaker. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Operations, please send the speaker through. Speaker, you know youll have two minutes. Welcome. Hi. My name is zach. Im disabled, and im a disability advocate and a Community Organizer and a voter of district 9. I want to thank Angela Calvillo for his effo her effort to enlarge participation in these meetings. Its really sad to see the citys response has been to shutdown the Mayors Office on all disability meetings for the past four months. Deputy director Deborah Kaplan has been ignoring my emails for months, when theyre supposed to file complaints for a. D. A. Access issues. This department is not functioning like its supposed to, and i would like to know if the board of supervisors can do anything about this. The ten digit access code, the very short time for the input of the access code, the lack of an ability to auditorily enter the access code, the fast scrolling of the access code on the screen on the sfgov website, and the lack of information on the board of supervisors website and many other websites for the meetings. They dont say the many great stuff that was just said a few minutes ago. If would be great if departments could have that information, postit clearly on their websites. A lot of websites say come down to city hall to this room, and of course, thats not available. We need to have special accommodations for our disabilities. I urge the mayboard of supervis to work with the Mayors Office of disabilities to figure out why they refused to release information on the [inaudible] for people with disabilities and also look into why theres repeated sexual abuse of disability people at laguna honda. Clerk thank you for your call, sir. Thank you, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam clerk and caller for arranging this accommodation. And lets go to our approval of our meeting minutes. Clerk thats the may 19, 2020 regular Board Meeting minutes. President yee all right. Do i have the minutes from the may 19, 2020 regular Board Meeting. Do i hear any changes to the minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve . Supervisor ronen ronen so moved. Supervisor mandelman so moved. President yee ronen, so moved, and seconded by supervisor mandelman. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk on the minutes [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the minutes will be approved after Public Comments as presented. Madam clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda. Please call items 1 through 5. Clerk items 1 through 5 are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects, the item can be removed and considered separately. President yee okay. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, then, madam clerk, please call the roll on items 1 through 5. Clerk on items 1 through 5 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The Consent Agenda is passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our regular agenda, item 6. Clerk item 6 is authorization to allow the department of Public Health to accept and expend 105,000 from the epic charitiable fund to help lowincome and atrisk populations or the period of february 28, 2020 through february 27, 2021. President yee all right. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. This was on our agenda last week and required a new title because president yee youre muted again. Supervisor peskin okay. Hows that . Thank you, colleagues. This item was on our agenda last week and was continued one week because the title and the uses of the charitiable gift changed. I just wanted to express my slight discomfort with this item. I mean no disrespect to epic or the department of Public Health, and i understand that the representation from the department of Public Health is that this donation was not solicited, but this is a company that was doing a very that is doing a very extensive project for the city and county of San Francisco. Im reticent to accept a grant like this. It seems to me if a charitiable donor wants to make a donation to the city and county of San Francisco, the best way they can do that is by reducing the price of their services, and we, in turn, can then spend the unspent general fund dollars on what we choose to appropriate it to. And i realize this budget is only 105,000, but im uncomfortable with it. I mean no disrespect to d. P. H. Or epic. Given everything thats going on, i wanted to express my discomfort with it and the fact that im not going to be able to vote for it, and im sorry, mr. President , for my problem with the mute button. President yee okay. I see no one else who wants to speak, so madam clerk, can you call the roll. Clerk on item 6 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes and one no with supervisor peskin voting no. Supervisor safai that sounded like an aye to me. Supervisor peskin no. President yee okay. With a vote of 101, item 6 is finally passed. Madam clerk, please call items 7 and 8 together. Clerk item 7 and 8 comprise the proposed interim budget and appropriation ordinan ordinance and budget for 2020 and 2021 and 2022, continuing, creating, or establishing these positions. President yee thank you, madam clerk. So there was some discussion on these two items last week and not so much on the items themselves, but in terms of what we can and cannot do in terms of the vote, and i believe theres some clarification that as we vote on this, one can vote no on this, and if the majority of the vote is in favor of passing these items, then it will pass, even though its a no vote. Deputy City Attorney pearson, is that correct . Yes, president yee, that is correct. Okay. Thank you ve. President yee thank you very much. Supervisor preston, did you want to speak . Supervisor preston you know, i wanted to speak on the standards, but you clarified that, and also, thank you to the controller for walking me through some of my concerns. I continue to be concerned with a budget that contains police funding, but i thank the controller for taking the time to discuss the budget with me this past week. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. I just wanted to thank my colleague, supervisor preston, for finding this conundrum that were in, for pointing it out in this budget process. I am on the budget committee, and i am ashamed to say that i did not notice this increase spread when we were in committee, but it really does bother me. Either were going to be serious about reenvisioning Police Reform in our city and diverting that money into other areas and into the black community, into better ways of dealing with homelessness and Mental Illness or were not. I see no reason to be increasing the Police Budget by close to 50 million and then decreasing it in a month. You know, it again, like, we should be consistent, we should be sending a clear message, and we should be serious about that. So im also going to be joining my colleague, supervisor preston, in voting no on this interim budget. Im serious about Police Reform. Im thrilled that the mayor and supervisor walton are taking the lead on diverting funds from the Police Department into the black community, and i see no reason to increase the budget now, only to be decreasing it later. I think that sends mixed messages. Thank you. President yee okay. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, president yee, and i am going to briefly state, like i said in last weeks Board Meeting, i cannot in good conscience support a budget that has increases for the Police Department when we have made it clear the board of supervisors, that we have made it clear as a city that we will be redirecting money from the Police Department to invest in the city. I will not be supporting this budget as it is today. President yee okay. Thank you, and thank you for comments, colleagues. It is kind of strange that this is supposed to be an interim budget thats basically looking backwards and projecting forward. Even during a rebalancing activities, that you would think that the budget for the Police Department would go down and not up. It is strange. I also know that this is an interim budget thats pretty much not used it will not be used for necessarily for next years budget, so im comfortable that the impact on this year, it sends the wrong message is pretty nil. I will vote in support of it for the rest of the budget. Okay. Roll call, please. Clerk thank you, mr. President. And i will say that should item 7 and 8 be approved, my staff will do something a little different. They will be preparing the interim budget to move to the mayors desk sooner rather than later as the controller has mentioned the time sensitivity on the budget. On items 7 and 8 [roll call] clerk there are 6 ayes and 5 noes, with supervisors preston, ronen, safai, and haney in the dissent. President yee thank you, colleagues, for the vote. The vote is final, with a 65 vote, and it passes. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 9. Clerk item 9 is a Charter Amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of San Francisco to authorize youths aged 16 and 17 to vote in municipal elections at an election to be held on november 3, 2020. President yee colleagues, today, i am proud to join supervisors fewer, walton, haney, supervisor, preston, safai, and mandelman to extend Voting Rights in municipal elections to 16 and 17 year olds. I would like to thank the San Francisco Youth Commission and youth advocates who have been working to make San Francisco the first city to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in municipal elections. I want to thank you for your tireless effort. It is so important at this time in our city and country we take steps to secure our democracy and take steps to ensure we have a government that works for everyone. It is essential that young people develop a habit of voting as young as possible and continue to participate in our democracy throughout our lives. Voting in the United States is far lower than other established democracies, and turnout is lowest among voters from 18 to 29. So when you look at that subgroup, only 30 of those voters actually vote, which is really low, and so theres also evidence that other cities and countries, they have set the minimum voting age at 16 show that lowering the voting age increases the voting turnout among young voters and even encourages parents to vote at higher rates. In San Francisco, voting turnout is lowest in the two neighborhoods with the highest number of youth and children. Thats bayview and visitacion valley. We know that on issues we vote on as a city dont just impact everyone anyone thats just 18 and over, they impact our young people also. 16 and 17yearolds dont have a say in the decisions that we make about their education system. 16 and 17 year olds can be tried as adults, but they dont have a say in our criminal justice system. And 16 and 17 year olds can get a job and pay taxes, but they dont have a say in our voting results. They can have a say in education, transportation, housing, policing, and Economic Development, and they deserve to have a say. Over many decades, they have had the opportunity to live and work in San Francisco, and weve seen that they can and want to navigate complex issues. They are at the forefront of local national and global movements, movements to end gun violence, reform our communal justice systems, and confront the challenges of Climate Change are being led by our youth. Earlier this month, 10,000 people joined a youthled protest at Mission High School to demand justice for george floyd and end the systemic oppression, racism, and other problems that communities of color continue to endure. Young people are capable of changing the world for the better, and we will stand alongside them and let their voices be heard. The struggle of equal Voting Rights extends back to the earlier days of our nations history where our right to vote belonged solely to white adult males. We have come a long ways but still have to ensure that everyone who has been afforded a right to vote in this country is able to cast their ballot on election day, and we have a long way to go to ensure that groups who have not yet been afforded the opportunity to vote but so greatly deserve to do so by extending their rights. That is what this fight is about. This is about moving us forward as a city and sending a message to our country at a time when we are confronted with division, gridlock, and so many seemingly intractable problems. It is about recognizing that our youth have always, always pushed our city and country forward, and it is about recognizing that our democracy is stronger when everyone is informed, engaged, and able to participate in decision making. And i just realized recently that even the state is almost following suit by allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote in state elections. Colleagues, please join me in putting this item on the november 2020 ballot. Thank you so much. Madam clerk, can you take the roll, please. Clerk on item 9 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the item is submitted to the november 2020 ballot unanimously. Madam clerk, can you please go ahead and go to new business and call the next item. Clerk item 10 is an ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code to permit the City Attorney, with the consent of the county recorder, to allow or settle Real Property transfer tax claims for refund and lawsuits in excess of 35,000 for any amount up to the amount of transfer tax, penalties, and interest paid that extends the amount of transfer tax and interest that would have been due on the transaction if the amount due had been calculated using the value of the Real Property as finally determined by the assessment appeals board. President yee okay. I see no name on the roster, so madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 10 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on the First Reading. Madam clerk, call the next item. Clerk item 11 is an ordinance approving an easement deed and agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and Millennium Tower association for certain surface and subsurface rights in a portion of the sidewalk on the Southern Side of Mission Street at the intersection of mission and fremont streets and on the eastern side of fremont street at the same intersection, for 0 to allow a structural upgrade of the 301 Mission Street highrise building, known as the Millennium Tower, contingent on a number of events, including Court Approval of a Class Action Settlement of the Millennium Tower litigation, waiving requirements of adtrition code, authorizing the director of property to execute real estate documents, make certain modifications, and take actions in furtherance of this ordinance, as defined here in, adopting environmental findings, and adopting findings that the easement is consistent with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code. President yee madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 11 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item. Clerk item 12 is an emergency ordinance to delegate board of supervisors Approval Authority under charter section 9. 118 and administrative code section 23. 30 to the Mayors Office of housing and community development, mohcd, and to the Real Estate Division to amend certain existing leases regarding residual rent payments by providers of 100 Affordable Housing projects, in response to the Public Health emergency related to covid19, and to authorize the director of mohcd to amend certain existing loan agreements and policies without review by the citywide Affordable Housing Loan Committee under administrative code chapter 120. And mr. President , pursuant to charter section 2. 107, this matter requires the affirmative vote of two thirds of the board of supervisors, eight votes, with one read. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. As my colleagues know, ive had trouble with this measure actually in an earlier incarnation that was actually permanent legislation and not an emergency ordinance lasting for 60 days primarily as a matter of overarching checks and balances, and i think our decision not to delegate authority under charter section 9. 118 come before the board for our and public scrutiny. There was a long period of time where, due to no mal intent, these instruments or many of these instruments, particularly loan instruments, were not brought before the board of supervisors, and i understand there is an appropriate desire to clean those up, but i think theres a much better way of doing this that is much more transparent that does not devolve the board of supervisors oversight role. To that end, i had a conversation last night with the mayors director of the office of housing, eric shaw, and indicated my willingness to work with him to figure out a better way of doing this. This is actually a concept that has been kicking around since before mr. Shaw got his current position. I also visited with the chair of the budget committee, supervisor fewer, to indicate my desire to send this back to committee, and particularly at a moment in time where yesterday the controller released his report relative to the allegations at the department of public works where the board, the supervisors voted unanimously. Although i expressed public concerns, i was amongst those votes to stream line that process around the creation of navigation centers. It appears that because we got rid of that oversight and the appropriate checks and balances and the appropriate public process, mr. Nuru allegedly not allegedly gave a number of contracts to friends and associates, including mr. Walter wang, who was arrested by the federal bureau of investigation and is being investigated by the United States attorney. I dont think this is the time to get rid of the boards oversight, if there was ever really a time. And quite frankly, disguising this as a covid19 emergency is offputting. I have actually communicated with some nonprofit Housing Developers that have a stake in this legislation, and while they do have cash flow needs, they are not imminent. I think theres plenty of time to recraft this legislation in a way to keep the board of supervisors oversight and accomplishes the policy goals here but without getting rid of the checks and balances that are near and dear to government. So i would like to make a motion to send this back to the budget and finance committee of the board of supervisors. President yee motion made by peskin. Is there a second . Supervisor walton second. President yee second who said it . Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton yes. President yee okay. I will be voting in support of this motion. We just had a hearing on mohcd at the budget committee, and the questions we had during the hearing in terms of transparency lends a lot of support to what supervisor peskin is saying, so i would fully support this motion. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, thank you, president yee. I just wanted to say that while i appreciate supervisor peskins concerns, i did have a long conversation with mohcd before this came to committee, and they i asked them specifically about supervisor peskin and his concerns, and i just wanted to note that i did add an amendment that supervisor peskin requested. And colleagues, i would say if i had actually been alerted about this before the committee, which actually supervisors had an opportunity to reach out to my office, it would have been much more appreciated. But i understand supervisor peskins concerns, and we had a discussion about it. I also want to add that it was a period of about six months. I understand about giving up our authority as a board, but i just want to say if this was brought to my attention before the committee actually heard it and had discussion on it, we could have continued it before at the committee, and so that would be much appreciated. Thank you very much, colleagues. President yee okay. Madam clerk, roll call on the motion to continue not continue. Clerk to refer to committee . President yee yeah. Clerk on the motion to refer item 12 to committee [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee so the motion to send it back to Committee Passes unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 13. Clerk item 13 is a resolution to designate the San Francisco print media company, doing business as the San Francisco examiner to be the official newspaper of the city and county of San Francisco for all official advertising for fiscal year 2020 through 2021. President yee okay. Any comments on this . Seeing none, madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 13 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 14. Clerk item 14 is a resolution to authorize the office of cannabis to accept and expend a grant from the Governors Office of business and Economic Development local equity Grant Funding program in the amount of 5 million for the period of july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2021, authorizing the office of the city administrator to execute the agreement with the Governors Office, and any extensions, amendments or contracts subsequent thereto on behalf of the city and county, and indemnifying the Governors Office of business and Economic Development for liability arising out of the performance of this contract. President yee all right. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 14 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk item 15 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the office of the city administrator to accept and expend 300,000 in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds from the federal Emergency Management agency through the California Office of Emergency Services to support evaluation of cityowned older concrete buildings from february 5, 2020 through june 7, 2021. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and please call the roll. Clerk on item 15 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 16. Clerk item 16 is a resolution to approving a building lease and sublease agreement each by and between the city and 833 bryant, l. P. , as the developer and Housing Provider to provide permanent Supportive Housing units for certain chronically homeless households in San Francisco through the lease and concurrent sublease of a Building Space located at 833 bryant street, for a 30year term, with an extension of up to 10 years for 2 million and to adopt the appropriate findings. President yee okay. Madam clerk, lets call the roll on this item. Clerk on item 16 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee so without objection, resolution is ado s adopts adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, call 17 through 20 together. Clerk items 17 through 20 are resolutions that apply for, accept, and expend grant from the United States department of housing and urban development. Item 17 is a grand of 11 million. Item 18 is 5. 5 million. Item 1u9 is in the amount of 160,000, and item 20 is for the approximate amount of 1 million for the period of july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2023. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on these items. Clerk on items 17 through 20 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to 21. Clerk item 21 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the department of Public Health to accept and expend a 2 million grant from the California Department of Public Health for a program entitled funding for international abrequire immunedeficiency drom socie immunedeficiency Syndrome Society for the 23rd biennial international abrequired immunodeficiency syndrome conference for the period of july 1, 2019 to june 30, 2022. Hello. This is tracey hepner. President yee im sorry. What do you on the items, do you need me to present . President yee no lets see. I dont think we need you to present on this item. Okay. Im here in case you need me. President yee thank you very much. Madam clerk, please call roll on this item. Clerk on item 21 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item. Clerk item 22 is a resolution urging the department of Public Health to work with the office of the chief medical examiner to conduct epidemio logical postmortem covid19 testing and Contact Tracing of deceased San Francisco residents skpurand u the office of the chief medical examiner to conduct surveillance swabbing of all decedents to properly identify and certify deaths from the covid19 virus and monitor community spread. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisors. This is there is a Public Health order that obviates the need for this resolution, and i president yee youre muted again. Supervisor peskin sorry. I didnt touch anything. How much of that did you hear, mr. President . President yee just the last sentence, we lost you. Supervisor peskin so i want to thank my focolleague, forme supervisor katy tang, to facilitate those conversations. I want to thank my cosponsors this morning, including supervisor preston, and make a motion to table this item. President yee okay. So is there a second . Supervisor ronen ronen second. President yee okay. Seconded by ronen. Madam clerk, please take the roll on the motion to table item. Clerk on the motion to table item 22 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to table this item passes unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item 23. Clerk item 23 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to include as a mandatory element in the definition of the term responsible substantiation of a record of safe performance on Construction Projects and to expressly require construction contract awards for all specific projectdelivery methods to be made only to responsible construction contractors. President yee so colleagues, i want to take this chance to thank the Public Works Office to put this together. I dont know if you were he l were here, but we had the tragic accident on october 17, 2018 that claimed the life of a contractor in the twin peaks tunnel. [please stand by] i want to thank you all. I want to step thank staff and partners for taking me seriously. Madame clerk can take the roll call please. [roll call] there are 11 eye. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please go to our first 3 00 p. M. Special order. Please read items 24 through 47. Twentyfour through 27 continued from march 24th and june 23rd, 2020 comprise a public hearings of persons and certification of conditional use authorization issued by the Planning Commission to demolish a threestory singlefamily residence and construct a fourstory mix used building with three dwelling units at approximately 1,731 square feet of ground floor commercial within the neighborhood. Item 25 is the motion to approve the decision and approve the conditional use authorization for the project. Item 26 is the motion to conditionally disapprove the departments decision subject to the adoption of written findings by the board in support of the determination. Item 27 is a motion to direct the preparation of findings and support of the board treaty does approval of the conditional use for the terra bill district. [indiscernible] and district four. This appeal is related to the Planning Departments conditional use authorization for the project. After the hearing, the fort the board will vote on the conditional use authorization, which is requiring eight to overturn the certification or impose additional conditions. Without objection, we will proceed as follows. After 10 minutes for a presentation by the appellant or their representative. Two minutes per speaker in support of the appeal. Up to 10 minutes for presentation from city departments. Up to 10 minutes from the project sponsor or their representatives. Two minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal and in support of the project. And finally, up to three minutes for a rebuttal why the appellant for there were or their representative. Are there any objections before proceeding this way . Seeing no objections, the public hearing is now opening open. Supervisor mar, are there any opening remarks you would like to share . Yes. Thank you, president yee and colleagues for this opportunity to consider the du. It is in a growing number of mixeduse developments in district four. As the sunset and Park District has experienced significant changes to the physical and cultural environments just like the rest of the city. It is important to carefully consider important issues such as Housing Affordability and neighborhood character and how they interact together. Its also important we allow for meaningful neighborhood input into landuse decisions. This can help to shape projects and ensure that they are enhancing the quality of life in our neighborhood. I want to thank you for the oneweek continuance which allow me time to facilitate additional dialogue between the project sponsor and the appellant. While this dialogue unfortunately did not result in a compromise agreeable to all parties, i want to thank everyone for their willingness to engage in constructive discussion about the project and i will hold off on further comments until after the presentation. Thank you. Seeing no more names on the roster, my colleagues i will now like to ask the appellant to come forward and present the case. You have up to 10 minutes. [indiscernible] i and the president of. I am speaking of the appellant of [indiscernible] we are a charter member of the coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods. The appellant is once again the appellant would like to would like to thank you for the tremendous work you have done to make this happen. The appellant believes the house is [indiscernible] even though the house was built in 1907 and mobile service did not begin until 1919. Second, the house is on a commercial corridor, even the businesses are clustered around 19th avenue and the lower great highway. There is no code requirement for commercial and there are already three commercial vacancies on this block alone. Third, this house is on the west side. There is a perception that the city doesnt give equal weight to Historic Resources on the west side despite how few of them there are. I will launch now into the powerpoint presentation. That should bring it up. Is that up . Okay. Lets start. I see them coming here. Okay. I think it is there. Okay. Thank you. Okay. The negative impact on the project. It eliminates Affordable Housing the replacement project or placement project is market rate it negatively impacts neighborhood character and destroys a rear Historic Resource the process for the peel started with board of supervisors petition and then it moved onto a signature of the neighbors. That is why its here. Its a petition by the neighbors and what are the issues of the project. There are issues with the planning code and other issues. This is the house. They are very narrow. They are vertical windows and they are therefore, light and air. The next thing, is okay. I was at the meeting. These concerns were about the tenants. There are three and they are all aware they need to move. The architect advised that a consultant had concluded that the house was a nonHistoric Resource. Bin lee was also there. These concerns with the side facing windows on taraval in apartments one and three. The concern was whether these windows would be blocked by the proposed project. They are narrow and vertical. It should be noted also that all of the tenants the meeting report was then submitted. Okay now, what the report said, and it states general discussion of the plan rather than specifics. Okay. The next one these are issues that we believe are inconsistent with the planning code about cultural and Economic Diversity of the neighborhood, about the discouraged demolition of existing housing, unless the demolition results in a net increase of Affordable Housing. The next one is about preserved mental units, especially rentcontrolled units. [indiscernible] this goes into the naturally occurring Affordable Housing in the definition of that and the next one is that the appellants believe that 1420 taraval is not affordable based on the issues here about the property tax, the assessed value, what each tenant is paying the Square Footage they have and also the amenities and the displaced tenants. Even though the proposed project would cover them up, the 1420 design is code compliant for that reason. This is the row of the housing houses. The far house is the only surviving one. This is the builder here, who also built the grateful dead house. The Planning Department team gave it a number of positives in terms of historic presentation preservation. The staff, however disagreed with the consulting report that was done by them, that the house was not a Historic Resource. One minute left. Okay they have supported new construction of a preservation and we are supporting so many other things. Theyre concerned about the layering graffiti if the project is not built right away. This will not stay vacant. It took 13 years to finalize the project and there are other sites available in the subset. Thank you. Thank you. I guess, madame clerk, we will take Public Comment. That is correct, mr. President. Operations, do we have any public callers in the queue . I will provide the telephone number, it is 14084189388. When you are prompted, enter the meeting identifier numbers 146 1235541. Press pound twice to join the meeting and start three to line up to speak. We currently have seven callers in the queue. I will transfer the calls. Great. Thank you. Welcome, color. You have up to two minutes. Hi. Thank you. My name is meghan smith and i am a member of the Victorian Alliance of preservation. I called in last week and i spoke with all of you on the board of supervisors for this. I am just asking, please dont demolish the other old house. There arent many in that particular neighborhood. I know heritage heritage was supporting not demolishing it and that is an amazing organization. I think we should listen to them also, it seems wrong to dip displaced tenants who are living there in a perfectly sound house that is all i have to say. Thank you very much for listening. I hope you vote not to demolish it. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. [indiscernible] we can hear you. Hello. I am the owner of nextdoor. The company is 1420 taraval street which was the second on the third floor set setback around 10 feet from the side yard. Power tenants enjoy the beautiful natural sunlight. They feel safe. On april 12, 2018, i was out of the country. My son is attended a pre application meeting to address our concerns and the application that there is a new project to cover up our windows. It will decrease the value of our property. We have to ask they have completely broken our windows. There is 3 feet of space outside our windows. Our tenants tony lee was there instead. This is a very [indiscernible] this report included neither of our concerns. We were misled. [indiscernible] they need to protect our tenant s interest to make a fair decision. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I will just indicate, too, if there are members of the public would like assistance with an interpreter, we do have interpreters standing by you can assist you with language. Can the interpreters very quickly say hello to the speakers if they are interested in utilizing an interpreter . [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking foreign language] thank you. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] thank you. Thank you to all three of you operations, next speaker, please welcome. You will have up to two minutes. Thank you, supervisors for hearing this appeal. My name is woody and i am the Vice President of advocacy for San Francisco heritage. Im also the coauthor of the citys parkside district Historic Context statement. Heritage supports this appeal to deny the project at 1420 taraval street. It would destroy an excellent example of one of the districts in the few surviving early houses. We agree the planning staff, would recognize the significant guidelines were saved for Historical Resources and called it an early and rare example of an early 20th century new neighborhood. But, we strongly disagree with the subsequent categorical exemption from ceqa and the determination that it lacks the integrity to be considered a Historic Resource. The alteration to the building are minor and reversible. Consisting of replace windows and porch fillers. The integrity of property in a historically workingclass neighborhood needs to be considered contextually with simple changes such as the replacement of windows that becomes a threshold for determining loss of integrity, it just reinforces the perception that the only civic structure and residences of the wealthy elite are worthy of recognition and protection. Heritage is committed to the preservation of the unique architectural and cultural identity and every corner of the city. Neighborhoods such as the bayview, the excelsior and the parkside are woefully underrepresented on the official inventory of historic property. Two Additional Market rate units would not move the needle on Housing Affordability, but this proposed project would destroy one of the last best Early Buildings on the parkside districts main street. Please uphold this appeal and deny this project. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Yes, ladies and johns men of the board, i am here to speak in support of the proposed project. I am understanding that others had very valid concerns. At the end of the day, we are dealing with a very old and outdated home, which the Planning Commission had conducted a detailed hearing and has made a determination the project is moving forward as the investigation has completed. Its extremely important to note i did write a letter of support, ladies and gentlemen, that the number of units is suboptimal. We need to start somewhere. I understand the comment that three condos may not make a difference in terms of moving the needle, but we have to start somewhere. We continue to make the argument that it wont move the needle then no project will continue to be built. It is an excellent project. Three quality condos which will be available to members of the public, as well as additional commercial storefronts to support revitalization of the area. I believe the Planning Commission has done a very Detailed Analysis and there is no reason why this project should not move forward as it has been determined it should. Thank you. Before you send the next caller, i want to say this is Public Comment in support of the appellant. We will be taking Public Comment in opposition to the appeal in a moment as soon as we hear from the department and the project sponsor. This is for Public Comment on behalf of the appellant. Thank you, operations. Send the next speaker through. Hi. I am a neighbor of 1420 taraval. We are here today to ask the board of supervisors to use your oversight powers and grant our Community Appeal and go against the permit for it 1420 taraval for the following reasons. They approved this conditional use permit. This conditional use permit was rushed through with planning with flawed and incomplete plans that block the window and the rentcontrolled tenants to building the store at 1414 taraval. These tenants will have their light and air blocked by market rate tenants. It is naturally Affordable Housing. It is already built. San francisco has the highest cost of construction in the nation. We dont have a housing crisis. We have an Affordable Housing crisis. Trading naturally Affordable Housing for market rate housing makes no sense. Gives us diversity and housing in housing types. Separate households are working collaboratively with them. [indiscernible] it appears this conditional use permit was painted fraudulently. Please help root out the corruption by voting against the conditional use permit. Uphold the Community Appeal. Lets not forget our environment tearing down 1420 taraval is bad for the environment and that for Climate Change. Please join our community and the tenants. Vote against the conditional use and for our Community Appeal. Thank you for your comments. All right. We are currently taking Public Comment on the 1420 taraval Public Comment in support of the appellant. You will have two minutes. Welcome. Yes, hello. I am a private citizen. I am also a member of the Victorian Alliance. I believe that s. F. Heritage, as well as other facts that have been offered in this case have shown that not only is the house of historical value, but it is naturally Affordable Housing. Im asking the board of supervisors, and i thank you, for hearing my comments. I could also eat i did also email you all. Im asking you to not knock down this house. We dont need any more market rate condos with commercial below. There is so much vacant commercial space in the city. People cant afford to do business that way. To take it one of the last remaining vestiges of the architecture that was first there when our city was being formed just doesnt make sense. As i said two speakers and the facts that have been prevent presented support that. Thank you for this time. Please do not knock down this house. Dont do it. Thank you. Thank you for your Public Comment. Operations, are there other colors in the queue . Are the other colors are the other colors are there other phone callers in the queue can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Im in opposition of the project and in support of the appellant because, first of all, this is a petty issue over a house. The public has stated that everyone who lives there wants it to stay. The only people that wanted to be torn down and have any place built there, you know, its just a reminder of all the wealthy people who are taking over San Francisco. The only people who want that are the wealthy people themselves. Someone is getting paid off if this gets approved. I am very opposed to it. I personally think that it would be a disgrace. Its beautiful. Its a home that is surrounded by more modern buildings. Its a little gem on taraval street. It would be a disgrace to see it torn down. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Hello. Welcome. Hello. My name is ben lee. I wanted to confirm and reiterate issues mentioned earlier. I did attend the preapplication meeting for this project for the purpose of raising some serious concerns about the impact of blocking the windows nextdoor at 1414 taraval. I did attend the meeting, but my name was not listed on the pre application meeting sign in sheet. My dad was not in attendance, yet his name was listed among the attendees inaccurately. [please stand by] moments. Thank you for your comment. Were taking Public Comment for the support of the appellant. You will have two minutes each. And well have comment in the opposition to the appeal or to the party and interest in a few moments. I understand that there are about three people in the queue. Okay. Operations . Next caller, please. Welcome. Callerall right, hello,calle. Press star, 3, to be added to the speaker line and listen for the prompts. Hello. Caller this is becking harrington and im a 30 plus resident of San Francisco. And my three children have been born and were raised in forest hill which is terrible, we know the neighborhood well. We love the neighborhood. And weve been very impressed with the updating that has taken place on taraval with the safeway and many others. Having said that we feel that for years every time that weve driven by its been an eyesore. And im actually a little surprised that some of the comments on its historic significance. I would wholeheartedly and would have for years supported replacing the house. And i think that the concept of condos and commercial fits very well with the modernization that has taken place on taraval for the last 10 years. So were very supportive of this project. We think that the group that is developing that have very high character. And a longstanding multigenerational san franciscans with three kids that theyve raised here. They have nothing but the best interest of the city at heart. I have three kids. Im sorry, three more condos could help. They cant even afford the rent here. So anything that has to do with multifamily dwellings and supports the stay. And i think that the design and the concept of what the Developers Want to do at 1420 taraval really fits in well with whats happened on the street in the last 10 years. Clerk thank you inquiry your comments. Caller i have also sent a letter in support. Clerk okay, thank you for your comments. President yee the last speaker so if we could maybe restate clerk we are taking Public Comment on behalf of the appellant, so the members in the Public Comment line if youre waiting, i think that theres one or two in the Public Comment line, this is your opportunity to support the appellant, not the project. That opportunity will occur in a few minutes time. Okay, operations. Next caller, please. Caller hello, im speaking in support to say that the community has formally expressed their view with the form signed by the members of the community, which was within the guidelines. And their message is pretty clear do not tear down this building. And i feel that the board is not listening to the community. This house is not only historic, but its also naturally Affordable Housing. And the result of careful planning by San Francisco City Planners some time back. And given how expensive San Francisco has become, its really very important to kind of save as much Affordable Housing stock that we can. San francisco, as we all know, is probably some of the most expensive housing cost in the world. So destroying this house will remove desperately needed Affordable Housing stock in San Francisco and replace it with marketprice housing and housing that only the wealthy can afford. You know, there are thousands of apartments right now that are available, more than 3,000. And almost all of them are market price. So definitely more expensive than this home that is being proposed to be torn down. And the commission is asking not only to remove the rental property but not replace it with rental property but instead condos that will likely be affordable to only a few people that will be wealthy enough to be able to afford them. This is also an historic house, one of the few Historic Houses left in this part of the city. It needs to be saved. And theres no guarantee that if its torn down that we wont be left with a hole if the ground because maybe the economy turns in a different direction and all of the best wishes for putting up Something Different may not necessarily materialize if the economy doesnt stay moving along the way that it is. And its hard to tell if its going to continue moving along given how the economy has been impacted by the coronavirus right now. Thank you for taking my call and listening. And i hope that the board of supervisors will give a little more credence to hearing the thoughts of the community. Thank you. Clerk okay, thank you for your comments. We understand that theres one speaker in the queue. Hello to the Public Commenter in the queue. If you are in support of the appellant, now is your opportunity to speak. Youll have two minutes. Caller hi, can you clerk yes. Caller my name is tom hampston and im a Small Business owner and i lived in the sunset for about 20 years and i still have my office here in the sunset. Im actually calling in favor of the Development Plan clerk okay, sir, ill pause you right there. Sir, sir, im pausing you right there. Your opportunity to speak on behalf of the developer has not yet arrived. This is Public Comment on behalf of the appellant. So without further adieu, if thats still true for you, we will ask operations if theres any other callers in the queue. Madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk great, thank you. Mr. President. President yee thank you. Thank you for the comments from the public. And since there are no more Public Comment in support of the appellant, the Public Comment is now closed. Now we will have up to 10 minutes for representatives of the Planning Department to present. Is there somebody here . Yes, i see. So hi, good afternoon, supervisors. Im the manager of the legislative affairs and a liaison. Ill present this case for the Planning Department. And im accompanied by linda, the planner for this project, and alex vanderslice who worked on the determination for the subject property. The decision before you is whether to uphold or overturn the Planning Commissions approval of the conditional use authorization for the demolition of the existing 2,170squarefoot Single Family home and construction of a new fourstory mixsuse building with three dwelling units and ground floor commercial. It has a mix of three, approximately 1,600squarefoot, three bedroom, two bath units. The building was proposed at 25 feet in height and a 65foot height district. The 20 feet below the 65foot high district. However, the Commission Approval reduced the overall height by 22 feet for a total of 42. 5 feet. Proposed project is on a major transit corridor, and it is also located in the neighborhood without a uniform architectural expression. The appellant raises four issues under the Planning Department purview in their written appeal. The first is that the proposed project is not consistent with the objectives two and three of the housing element. The poord Planning Section 101. 1. And the second issue is that the proposed project decreases the naturally Affordable Housing in the parkside district. And the project destroys a rare Historic Resource and negatively impacts the look, feel and character of the parkside district. And, finally, the project will block Property Line windows. In response to the first issue, on balance the Planning Commission found that the proposed project was consistent with the general plan. In granting the c. U. Approval they acknowledged the loss of rental housing, likely subject to rental control. And however, found the project to be consistent with numerous other octives and policies of the housing element, recreation and open space element, the transportation element and the urban design element. And when making planning general planning consistency findings, the Planning Commission must balance the competing policies and come to a decision as to whether or not the proposed project is on balance consistent with the general plan. In this case the commission did come to that conclusion. In addition to finding consistency with other policies in the general plan, the Commission Also found the resulting project would have an increase of two new dwelling units and a net addition of season bedrooms, furthering the goal to increase the supply of housing, in particular the lowrise smaller apartment buildings with three to four units. And in response to the second issue, the proposed project decreases naturally Affordable Housing. The Planning Commission found that the project benefits outweighs the negative impacts with the loss of the existing housing. And the project removes the older dwelling unit which is considered more affordable in new construction and the project will add two familysized dwelling units to the citys housing stock. This results in three, threebedroom units of 1,500 to 1,600squarefeet each. And its more affordable in design because of the proposed Square Footage. In this instance, the Planning Commission found that the proposed budget benefits outweigh the negative with the existing houses. And in response to the third issue that it destroys a rare historical resource, it does not have integrity. Further appeals of the historic determination are adjudicated through the ceqa appeals process. That said, the subject project was found to be significant under criterion one as part of the early Residential Development of parkside. And the latter evolution to accommodate the commercial uses. And its also found to be significant under criterion three as a rare example of early 21st century architecture in the parkside. However, the subject property does not maintain integrity with significant alterations, including from the vacant commercial space. Further, the subject building is not eligible for listing in the california registry as part of the historic district. The contrast, the project at 1409 taraval is significant as well. However, at 1409 taraval is more of an examine of Single Family residential architecture from the Early Development in parkside. Finally in response to blocking Property Side windows, most of San Francisco is zone lot zero. And they will consider the Property Line windows if they are the only windows to a bedroom and the removal prohibits them from being used as a bedroom. The windows on the adjacent property do not meet this criterion. In coon collusion, the Planning Department recommending to uphold the planning boards decision to adopting the motion, approving the conditional use authorization for this project. I conclude my presentation and i as well as the other planners are here for your questions. Thank you. President yee thank you. Are there any questions . President yee, i have some questions but i was going to wait until all of the presentations are done and also the Public Comment. President yee yeah, were more than happy to do that. Okay. President yee lets see, okay then, if theres no questions for our Planning Department, then i would like to invite the project manager, i guess, or the project sponsors or the representative to speak for up to 10 minutes. Good afternoon, president yee and supervisors. Justin zucker, on behalf of peter mandel, the Property Owner of 1420 taraval street. First we want to thank supervisor mar and his legislative aide daisy kwan for their tireless efforts to address concerns raised in this appeal. With the conditional use the Planning Commission found the project to be necessary and desirable. And the appeal is meritless, should be denied, and the Planning Commissionary decision upheld. On balance the mixeduse projects, the affordable bydesign units were found to outweigh the loss of the existing twobedroom Single Family home. While we appreciate the appellants recent engagen enga, that doesnt work. It would likely want allow for the construction of one familysized three bedroom unit and results in the loss of a new ground floor commercial space and a neighborhood commercial district. Being along the corridor, the property is an excellent opportunity site for this development. And it is anticipated that the commercial space will be highly attractive. The appellants arguments regarding the historic status of the property are inaccurate. The property has been determined by the Planning Department to not be an Historic Resource. The property has lost its integrity due to numerous alterations and modifications over the years. It has a category that has no ceqa classification. This is not the proper forum to discuss the status of the property as mentioned by planning staff. Not withstanding their attack on the resource classification, appellants have no credible evidence that counters the substantial evidence relied upon by the Planning Department in determining the property is not an Historic Resource. The Planning Commission analyzed whether the project is necessary and desirable, and compatible with the taraval street and they found that it is. In making the required conditionaluse finding, the Planning Commission found the project to be consistent with the general plan. Appellant appear to argue and oppose the project on behalf of the existing tenants of the singlefamily home. But as indicated in their letter submitted to the board, the tenants are supportive of the project, recognizing it tripled the number of dwelling units at the property while also providing a ground floor commercial space. Theyre not being evicted. While this is a small project this moves us incrementally in the right direction towards addressing the citys housing crisis. As for the concerns raised regarding the neighbors windows, subsequent to the preapplication meeting, peter has met with the neighbors sheriff times to address their concerns. Most recently with supervisor mar. The window will be lost in two rooms and the two impacted rooms have large bay windows for light and air. And though declined, the mitigation offers have been made in a goodfaith effort. Including assisting in installing a sky light and interior lighting and other nonproject related repairs to their building. We respectfully request you to deny the appeal and allow this to proceed. Now ill turn it over to peter to give history on this project. Peter, you might be on mute. Is that better . Yep. Okay, peter mandel here. I have known the existing building since 2004. Before that my father owned it for several decades. I have lived in the house for about 28 years. First with my two high school roommates. And then with my wife and kids from 1980 to 2008. I did move out in 2008 as the house was very small in the interior and into a more suitable house for my wife and three kids. I am a native san franciscan who grew up in the sunset district and now live near westportal. Im not a developer but i own my own Remediation Company and have been busy for the last 16 year. My objective is to increase the housing availability in the neighborhood which is in my opinion one of the most important things at this time, along with maybe creating a few jobs during these difficult times. During some of the Planning Commission hearings and many of the appeal documents, i have read i have heard from those opposing the project, many references to the porch being authentic. But this is invalid. If you look at the photos closely, that porch is complet completely an addition to the original. And i know that for firsthand because i had to rebuild that porch, okay, with some its all made out of pine and back then they didnt use pine, they used redwood. So that is an addition. Also i have heard from those opposing that the current tenants that are in the building will be displaced and evicted but those same tenants approved this project with a written statement to supervisor mar. And so they are for this project, the tenants are. Likewise, a host of individuals recently have just sent in letters of support. A p petition is created by the merchants two blocks up and two blocks down, and everyone that knows about this project are in support of the project. You know, i regrettably have heard about statements such as fraudulent, corrupt, about the work that both bill and i, my architect, have done. And, you know, we presented everything in a concise and truthful manner. The leads themselves went to a meeting between bill and i at bills office and we presented everything on the drawings. And an hour later, you know, we did present what maybe will help to close up the windows and the skylight that opens for fresh air. And we shook hands and then they left. And two months after the Planning Commissions second meeting, which everything was approved, i got a call in saying that, you know, the rents might go down and thats when this all started about the windows. So, you know, i do look at all of the motor homes there on winton boulevard, and i am saying to myself this city needs something done. So it needs more Affordable Housing. The office space down below more than likely i will my business will be moving into that. And i do respect the opponents right to appeal. But, again, this project is exactly what this transportation corridor needs. So on some, you know, this house has no historical to it. I mean, they mentioned the grateful dead, but, you know, i dont think thats really valid here. So i i want to approve this project and i thank you for your consideration and time. Thank you. President yee thank you. Anyone have any questions for the project sponsor . Seeing none at the moment. Then i would like to invite the members of the public who wish to speak in opposition of the appeal in support of the project to please press 3, star, 3, to be added to the queue to speak. You will be given two minutes two minutes. Madam clerk, please call the first speaker. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Okay, operations, please send the first speaker through. Welcome, caller. Okay. Welcome, caller. Operations, can you give okay, great, welcome, caller. I think we can hear you. Operations, can you give us an update . Is there anyone in the queue . Madam clerk, i do see that there are two individuals in the queue. I am assuming that operations may be having some trouble. Could you give us a moment. And, mr. Mandel, could you turn off your microphone and camera unless youre called upon to speak. Thank you. Is there a speaker on the line . Madam clerk, we are having some technical issues right now. If the members could hold on. Clerk okay, thank you. President yee i am sure that we will get it fixed in a brief moment. Clerk thank you, thank you, mr. President. I might just say if there is a caller on the line, if you can hear me and you have already dialed star, 3. You are welcome to just start speaking. Caller hello . Clerk yes. indiscernible . Clerk maam, we can hear you. Hello. Are you here to provide Public Comment on 1420 . We can hear you. Welcome. Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes, maam, we can hear you. Are you here to provide Public Comment on 1420 taraval on behalf of the project sponsor . Caller okay. Hello. Can i say something. Okay. The owner of the next door 1420 taraval street, it is under rental control, four unit apartments. Okay. The other thing they wanted to talk about, he says that indiscernible . Clerk maam, ill ask you to turn down your television. Turn down your television, ma maam. I can hear myself on your television. Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes. Caller okay, so now you can hear me. Clerk yes, welcome. Caller can i start now . Clerk ill set the timer for two minutes. Caller okay, the owner of the next door 1420 taraval street is in rental control, four unit apartments. Peter, the owner of 1420 the owner peter indiscernible he opened sky light, but we never agreed to that. Because the skylight is not equal to the natural window, when you have the original window, thats not equal. And thats caused a lot of problems and is maybe the issue of the our tenants cannot enjoy it. Our tenants enjoy the sunlight and the fresh air. And also indiscernible so this is not equal. We are not accepting that. Okay. And now i wanted to say that things in the document from him, the omission of the information and indiscernible and need to be stopped. Because how come they indiscernible the meeting. We are complaining of that. And the rentals, i have to protect the life of my tenants. So i feel they provide us with a skylight or natural light, we have not agreed. We didnt ask them to give us free space outside of our window. indiscernible thats a small thing. So i asked the supervisor to have conditional use of the 1420 taraval street. Because every time we talk to them clerk that you can, maam. Thank you for your call. And i appreciate you working with me to get you into the Public Comment queue. If there are future speakers who would like some assistance in language, we do have some Language Interpreter providers here and i ask that the interpreters jump in in language if at the beginning you can assist someone with their Public Comments. Okay. Next speaker, please. Welcome,caller. Caller hello . Clerk hello, we can hear you. Caller hi. Im calling in support of this project at 1420 taraval street. Its along the taraval corridor and the merchants in that corridor need to have more in the area in order for them to survive the current climate with the pandemic and all and the businesses closing down left and right. And we just need to have an influx of people to come into the parkside area to be able to, you know, to keep our community going. So im totally in favor. I think that the more its my understanding that it has gone through the planning approval and its not been deemed as historical. And i think that its a great project and we need San Francisco reinvesting in these neighborhoods. I think that its perfect. And i want to just go on record that i approve the project. And i thank you for taking this call. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, is there one more