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Economic Recovery Task force of which both ben and i are members and im also the policy lead and i have support from dylan on staff and Ben Van Houten as a colead in providing support for the entertainment policy working group within the economic Recovery Task force. I have much more to tell you. So strap in, im sorry, a lot has happened. But weve also been working with the industry and fostered goodwill during the pandemic. So we worked on this dear s. X. Campaign and a lot of you took part in. So thank you for that. And then, finally, we have been exploring legal pathways to safely allow Outdoor Entertainment activities to start again under the health order. So i will keep you apprised of that effort. But were essentially proposing possible entertainment pathways within the shared spaces program. Essentially activating outdoor property potentially suspending certain portions of police code within this emergency to allow for an expansion of what your premises would be considered as to include outdoor. So i just want to kind of shift gears. I have one more kind of major update that i want to cover. And this is around staffing. So as a shelterinplace began, the city quickly realized a need to support and to educate businesses that were deemed essential. In order to ensure the compliance with the order while operating. So very similar work to what we do already as a staff to ensure compliance with entertainment conditions, and so in response and under direction from the city, the city formed a group with our office called community, education and Response Team or cert as we call it. So cert is responsible for responding to 311 complaints about San Francisco businesses that may not be operating in compliance with the shelterinplace order. This is really where no one in the agency is already actively investigating and educating around compliance. So we were informed and we were staffed by the whole team in various ways, and were serving the roles of management, triage coordination and investigation. Kaitlyn has taken on a huge leadership role in managing the daytoday operations of this new group. And dylan provides the most uptodate messaging and collateral. And crystal provides administrative support. Beyond that we have 14 active disaster workers working in the field, including our two indiscernible mike and tony. And we have three triage coordinators who work remotely. So it came from many city departments including d. B. I. , s. F. O. , treasurer and tax collector, and the office of labor standards and enforcement. We even have someone from the library working in triage. I think, you know, i just want to say that i think that it is a great thing that the city recognized that our group would be well suited for this work because of our history and because of that balance that we need to strike between the businesses and neighbors. We really take that strong educational approach with this group as well. And ensuring that these businesses just know, you know, if they arent operating correctly, heres how we can bring them into compliance, as opposed to taking that heavyhanded enforcement, especially when the businesses are already struggling. So, you know, i can give you many more cert statistics on the cert program, but i wont continue to bore you with that. I want to get going with the hearing. So just let me know if you have any questions about everything that i just covered. President bleiman it looks like commissioner perez has a question. Commissioner perez hi, thank you so much for the report. Can you guys hear me . If the Virtual Summit was recorded and available for viewing . Yes, it is. And we have shared that link in the newsletter and dylan will go ahead and reshare it directly with you. Commissioner perez thank you. President bleiman any other questions, commissioners . Not seeing any. So director wylan, we just appreciate all of the work that you have done. We have been communicating fairly regularly since this went down, also with Ben Van Houten, which i have never seen him part his hair in that way. I kind of like it. I would say that you should do that more. So, yes, the amount of effort that you have put in and the team has put in is just staggering. What a crisis that were dealing with here and so i appreciate everything, i speak for all of the commissioners. I think that its a good testament to the good work that we have done here. That the city entrusted, you know, the Entertainment Commission department to to handle compliance for the new kind of the new normal for now. It is a really sticky topic. I mean, you have literally have Business Owners who are asked to shut down by the city. And then they maybe dont behave by the same rules that the city gives them and theres definitely room for tension there. I think that its really important that we handle it in a responsive way and in an emphit itic way and the empathetic way. And the fact that they entrust us with that, and kaitlyn and everybody else, it is really impressive and im kind of proud of us for all of that. So thank you for that. Is there any Public Comment on this agenda item . Clerk so im going to just read again the instructions so members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 408 4189388. And then access code 146 069 9630. And then dial star, 3. Again, its star, 3 to line up to speak. So that will raise your hand so i can allow you in. So lets just wait a moment. See if theres anybody. I do not see any callers in the queue. President bleiman so Public Comment is closed on this agenda item. Gavel down. The next agenda item is number 4, which is an update on nightlife Business Assistance in response to covid19. And this is from Ben Van Houten, the Business Development manager with night the nightlife and entertainment sector with the office of economic and workforce development. Thank you, president bleiman, and good morning goodand good e. Its nice to see you all virtually. I will recap what we have been doing in nightlife Business Assistance since the start of the pandemic and touching on and elaborating on a few of the pieces that director wylan identified in her report and then open to any questions on any of this. You know, really weve been doing just a high really high volume, high and steady volume of oneonone Business Assistance with nightlife businesses since the start of the pandemic. And it continues at that strong and steady pace today. I think that part of that is due to the ever evolving nature of the resources, rules and requirements that are out there. Programs are are being watched and changing over time. Theres federal, state and local activity. So theres a real there continues to be a real robust need to connect with our nightlife businesses and help direct them to resource, answer questions, and to try to support them as best as we can during this challenging time. You know, since the pandemic started, our office, the office of economic and workforce development, has deployed and supported a number of relief programs, including Financial Resources like Small Business grants and loan products. You know, im proud of the work that those resources have been able to provide, but we really do know that theres just such substantial need, especially within the nightlife sector where, you know, we have heard loud and clear that nightlife and the entertainment businesses are very concerned about being among the first to close and the last to reopen. And that is a very real challenge that we are continuing to try to address through policy work and in supporting the businesses really in every which way that we can. Our office has supported implementation of the moratorium and the food delivery camp. And also educated businesses around business tax deferrals and other emergency programs that have been launched during this period. The mayor announced the San Francisco safe reopening plan at the end of may. And, you know, throughout the reopening process director wylan and i and others have really worked to continue to better inform businesses about the reopening timeline and about the reopening guidelines with an eye towards Clear Communication about the rules and also timely information so that the businesses are not surprised at the last minute by new rule changes or new announcements. I think that the feedback from nightlife Business Owners has been really been helpful in informing the guidelines that have been put out to date. Although i think that in some of our oneonone conversations with businesses were still learning, the businesses are having challenging fitting their operations into some of the existing boxes on what is permissible and pwhat is not permissible. A lot of creative businesses do four or five Different Things at figuring out which stages different parts of their operations can be happening right now, you know, is continuing to be one of the challenges that i think were working on. Hoour office has been participating in the shared Services Program since it launched and subsequent to its launch, it was a departmental collaborative effort to really increase the access to outdoor space for businesses, including food and beverage and retail and all sorts of other business activities. Access to sidewalks, curb space, street closures and as director wylan has noted were continuing to explore the role that entertainment plays in shared spaces and im looking forward to continuing that work as well. We are involved in the economic Recovery Task force. And as director wylan mentioned we are working as policy staff alongside Arts Commission staff in the arts culture, hospitality and entertainment policy group. The goal is really over the next few months to drill down on key themes for stakeholders in these sectors and then to identify some really concrete policy proposals to move forward in advance to the whole economic Recovery Task force. We had a meeting of our policy Group Earlier today and the theme that were currently working on i dont think will be a surprise to anybody here in terms of access to outdoor space, access to indoor space, supporting job growth in these sectors. And embedding arts and hospitality within the city policymaking and also supporting tourism. And doing all of this in both a near term but also a look at a longterm sustainability, because we know that nightlife and entertainment is challenging to operate in, and challenging to be in before the pandemic, so we want to not just go back to prepandemic standards, but really to support the growth of these sectors moving forward. Finally, i just want to note that the mayor submitted the save our Small Business initiative on the ballot. If theres more information in the commission discussing that, i suggest inviting someone from the Planning Department to talk about that Ballot Initiative in more detail. And then, finally, just for what its worth, you know, this and director wylan continue to talk weekly even, this is a crisis that is challenging nightlife and entertainment across the country and around the world. And people are looking to San Francisco to see what Creative Ideas we can come up with, how we are supporting nightlife, to use us as models. So we have a lot of work to continue to do moving forward, but looking forward to continuing to do that partnership. Im happy to take any questions. President bleiman thank you, does anybody have any questions . Commissioner lee . Commissioner lee hey, ben, and maggie, i want to say thank you for the zoom meeting or the webx meeting. The one that you had monday recently no, i think that it was thursday or something but anyway, i was working at the same time. But it would be great and im sure that youll have another one coming up. Can you guys give us a few more days notice, because, you know, a lot of the nightclub people that im in connection with, they didnt even know. And i tried to get them on at the last minute and everybody is working. And you guys were in the 2 30 in the afternoon so it was a the le bit but its great information and i just wish more people were online. Thank you, commissioner lee. Thats a absolutely, getting people information in a timely manner so they can participate in those webinars is really important. And director wylan can speak to it as well. As i understand it, that was one of the most engaged webinars to date. And i know that weve had a lot of good feedback from the folks that were there and there were questions from some stakeholders whether theres a recording of that webinar, which i need to follow up on. But, certainly certainly, more advanced notice and more of these webinars, i think, absolutely. Theres so many complicated to the state and local rules and abc and people want to do business the right way. It can be a challenge for all of those layers to be put together so were happy to do that. Be may i just add a comment to that. And i encourage commissioner lee and all commissioners to send all of your contacts our Newsletter Signup and so theres a link in all of the staff signatures to sign up for our newsletter because its the best way to get info. And also following up on facebook or instagram is a good option for that. And oftentimes with those webinars they are planned last minute because the rules are coming out last minute. So we do the best that we can. Commissioner lee thank you. President bleiman commissioner thomas. Commissioner thomas thank you, ben, for that update. Can you obviously, one of the groups that has been deeply affected by this are also the employees of all of the nightlife businesses and venues. Can you say a little bit about what the city and oewd is doing for the individuals working in the industry . Absolutely. And i realized i ended my remarks without a shameless plug for our Web Resources which i have done at the offset and the conclusion. But just click on the covid19 banner right there. Theres a dedicated page for workers and we know that absolutely employees and independent contractors have been deeply affected by this. And, you know, there are workforce support programs to help people to identify Job Opportunities in industries that are hiring right now. Which should industries are. And also access to information about if you have questions about employment or any other assistance programs, you know, truly there are new assistance programs or assistance providers that employees and workers in this industry can access on a regular basis. So i would defer to the website. But im happy to circle back also at a future meeting with you with more detail youre entirely right, its the industry workforce that is, you know, really been verievery sevy impacted here. President bleiman commissioner perez, did you have something . Commissioner perez yes, thank you, ben, for your report as well. And i was wondering a question for you or for director wylan. Another group deeply affected by covid are the nonprofit organizations who organize outdoor events. Do you also have other resources, support, and assistance that you can report to us . Yeah, i mean, i would start with we have a dedicated page for nonprofits on our site as well. I didnt mention that our partners at the Arts Commission deployed the nonprofit arts funding at the start of the pandemic as well. But i would say that in terms of where were thinking from an arts, culture and hospitality, that many worded policy group that director wylan and i working on. Its Nonprofit Arts Organization and forprofit businesses and every facet of the social and hospitality space. So we really are deeply interested in recommendations, feedback, ideas of folks from every facet of this sector. Thank you, ben. Thank you. President bleiman all right. It looks like the commissioners are done with questions. Ben, again, i have to echo what i said with director wylan, but its been a pleasure to work with you. I know how dedicated you are. And what a crazy time it is. So thank you for everything that you have done and thank you for the update. I think that the takeaway is that San Francisco is going to try to do as much as they can to help us but we need to figure out partnerships with the city to make it work. I would also just echo they think that we should you know, i still think that our outdoor aim is really weak. I think that other cities are taking much more drastic action to improve the ability of businesses to utilize outdoor spaces. Shutting down streets and letting traffic just figure it out. And i hope that we can Work Together to kind of make that happen Going Forward and i had a conversation with manny last night and he echoed the same sentiment. But this has nothing to do with your work. Im just putting it out there that im looking forward to working with your office to try to make that happen. And to try to get across to the powers that be how desperate things are. Thank you again. And we appreciate it. Is there any Public Comment on this agenda item . Clerk im checking to see if theres anybody in the queue calling in and there is nobody waiting to speak. President bleiman all right, then well close Public Comment for this agenda item. All right. Okay. The next agenda item is number 5, hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission. And i will ask them to introduce the items on the Consent Agenda. President bleiman, good evening, commissioners. So we only have one permit on tonights Consent Agenda. Its for a permit for 26 nix. This was to be on a hearing back in march but due to things they were unable to make that hearing. So here we are. They have two pool tables. Theyve had the pool tables for quite some time and theyre just coming into compliance with this permit. So they have noticed the public twice now and theres been zero opposition. It is an accessory use permit and im happy to answer any questions if there are any. President bleiman not seeing any questions. So lets move right into Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment on this Consent Agenda with this item . Clerk let me read the instructions again just president bleiman why not. Clerk okay. So the members of the public if you wish to provide Public Comment on this item please call 1 408 4189388. And then the access code, 146 069 9630. And then dial, star, 3, to be added to the queue to speak. So it will prompt you and then it will tell you when youve been unmuted. Lets give it a few seconds in case. President bleiman give it about a minute just in case. Clerk okay. President bleiman not sure that theres any members of the public who wish to chime on this indiscernible . President bleiman give it another 30 seconds. Clerk okay. President bleiman okay, im going to close Public Comment on this. So it is closed. Do we have a motion to approve the Consent Agenda . I move to approve it. Second. President bleiman you can vote. Crystal, youre on mute, just in case. You see me now . Commissioner perez. Aye. President bleiman. Aye. Commissioner falzon. Aye. Commissioner wang. Aye. Vice president caminong. Aye. Commissioner lee. Aye. Commissioner thomas. Aye. I think that is everyone. President bleiman all right, it is so moved. Congratulations 26 mix. And you can continue having indiscernible . All right. Let me move on to the next agenda item. All right, the next item in our regular agenda is under number 6, discussion and possible action to adopt written comments and or recommendations to be submitted by the executive director to the Planning Department and or department of building inspection regarding noise issues for proposed residential and or hotel motel projects per chapter 116 of the administrative code. And i will ask director wylan to introduce what we call r. D. R. Thank you, president bleiman. And just a reminder to everyone to please mute yourself unless you are talking. So the item tonight is for folsom street and it has a couple addresses, 1526 15261540d 135 kissling. This is a project within 300 feet of several of our places of entertainment. If you can envision the space, i think that you may see a photo of it from a project sponsor, but they include oasis and calle 11, and the holy cow and halycon and audio nightclub. And marked out the actual feet between the project and the spaces of entertainment for your reference. And so here to tell you more about the project and the outreach that they did around this are daniel belnath and eric toul. Thank you very much. Can i get the screen, chair control . Yes. Ill do it right now. Excellent. Hello, commissioners, eri eric. indiscernible and a. G. I. S, and i work with [broken audio] and we are a multifamily residential developer in San Francisco. And we appreciate the time made for us to talk about our project. And what we have learned and what were going to indiscernible in the entertainment division. And this is the San Francisco bay area. Its also were the most indiscernible found in the United States. We are having a hard time hearing you. Could you possibly get closer to let me try. Is that better . Still sounds really far away. Daniel, why dont you take over for now. Sure. So we just very, very briefly, we wanted to give you a kind of a snapshot as to who we are and some of the projects that we have been involved in in the city. And so these are just two of our past residential apartment developments in San Francisco that were pretty proud of. This is a 264 units in dog patch and it was named avaca and it was recently acquired by another entity that renameed it to the windsor. But this actually won design awards, and this is a project at 1880 mission, so not too far from the project that were working on today. This is a large project with 222 rental units that we did back in 2013. But our portfolio is not just, you know, residential work. So these are examples of two buildings that we did some valueadd renovations to and actually still hold and operate today. So the Office Building so we dont actually operate the theatre, but, you know, we work in close coordination with them and have a bunch of, you know, three different retail tenants operating on the ground floor, in addition to the Office Tenants in the tower as well as 1301 folsome street that is right in this neighborhood. And some of the stuff that were working on in addition to 1560folsom street. This is a new groundup project at 1270 mission that was titled back in 2017 to put 319 units. And then 950 Market Street which is right in midmarket at sixth and Market Street, is under construction. You can see that were probably going to hopefully top out in the next few days. This is just a shot from the construction camera. And this has real quick, can you hear me better now . A little bit better. Okay, all right, keep going, daniel. So now we can dive into 1560folsom street, which is why were here today. I am sure that everyone on the call is familiar with the site but just to kind of orient everybody to the extent of our project, the site that were working with is an oddshaped one that has three different frontages on folsom street and extends to 11th street and all the way up to kissling street. So this odd geometry was kind of difficult to negotiate, and resolve architecturally. But we worked with a good local architect as well as with the feed back from the Planning Department to have a stepped massing where most of the density of the building is focused on folsom street and then as you go towards kissling street which is, you know, a part of the enclave, presents to the enclave district, it sort of steps down. But we are proposing 244 units, over 265,000squarefeet. Theres going to be ground floor retail facing on to folsom street. And the primary vehicle access for the Main Building comes through bbyrnes place that is ol of those buildings on the interior of the block. And just to give you an overview of our process to date, kind of just staying high level, we have been working with the Planning Department on this since 2018 when we called the p. P. A. We had our Community Meeting towards the end in december 2018, prior to submitting our application. And our Product Description was in june of last year where they just kind of determined that the project meets code and sort of set the target for our Planning Commission hearing date. And then as of february of this year, we were referred to the Entertainment Commission from our from the Planning Department. And we work with maggie and some other staff who weve been working in close accordination with to do outreach to the nightlife establishment that are in the district. So well go into more detail on the outreach. We completed what we learned from those conversations but we actually wound up scheduling our noise environment evaluation which is where our acoustics had a noise study. That was in early march. Which just barely squeezed in before shelterinplace was issued so we got good data, luckily. Because i think a couple weeks later most of the clubs were not operating anymore. In may of this year, our Environmental Review was actually completed. So they published the Community Plan evaluation. And then today is where were talking to the Entertainment Commission. And we were targeting july 2020 for our Planning Commission hearing, though it will depend on, you know, calendar availability and things like that. So here you can see the kind of Overall Program blocks and in context with the various places of entertainment. You can see were kind of right in the thick of it which is really cool. Were very excited to be in this neighborhood. So, maggie mentioned the establishments before, but oasis is right on the corner here, just 30 feet basically just across the street from where our some of our apartments start over here. And you can see calle 11, and holy cow and halycon and audio all clustered around here, right on this corner. So we reached out to the Contact Person provided by the Entertainment Commission of all of the different nightclubs starting in february of this year. And we dont need to go into every call, but some of the kind of big picture items that we learned we were mainly trying to just sort of provide General Information about our project as well as make sure that the dates that we were scheduling the noise study was going to capture kind of a typical or a peak, you know, busy night for them to make sure that we were going to capture the sort of worstcase scenario. But in addition to that, you know, a few of the operators shared experiences, you know, of past noise complaints and how that can be quite a burden and how certain members of the community can be very sensitive. So thats something that were trying to be responsive to. And the other thing was just making sure that any future tenant of this project are aware of the district that theyre moving into. So in addition to the the disclosure forms that are provided to us that will be with the leases for these tenants that was provided by the Entertainment Commission, we also have another lease addendum that were working with the lgbtq, the cultural district, that were also going to be incorporating. So new tenants will be well aware of the, you know, the nature of this district. And as im sure that wont be a surprise, all of the all of the people that we spoke with at these nigh nightclubs basicallyd that any typical weekend, and anything friday and saturday night would capture the peak sound levels. So here you can see our typical residential floor plan. In context with the nightclubs. So the noise study was schedul scheduled i believe that they started it on noon on a thursday. All the way through the following monday so from march 5th to march ninth, they had a continuously operating sound measuring device that is supposed to measure the ambient noise as well as the peak sound levels. And i also actually walked around and i measured with microphones and did some spot measurements around the nightclubs just to just to get some extra data. And what they found was that in order for us to comply with the San Francisco noise ordinance, which basically are standard thermal windows that have a rating of 26, would comply. And the luckily the proposed rating that we have for a typical fixed window, which is actually the kind of lowest performing window that goes in the project was s. F. C. , 28, so the news that our baseline specification was already exceeding the minimum rating to comply with the noise ordinance. But after some conversations with the Entertainment Commission and going back to our acoustic consultant, we decided just in an abundance of caution to make sure that we were meeting the, you know, the combined levels with all of these clubs operating together. We increased the minimum s. F. C. Rating for these certain facade that are highlighted to magenta to s. F. C. 33. Which brings our interior noise levels to what our acoustic engineer feels that would be comfortable when all of the nightclubs are operating. So we have some more information about the design if you want to go through it but i wanted to just pause here to see if anybody has any questions on the information that we have provided so far. I want to quickly add, now that you can lawyer m hear me bi have turned the microphone up. And one of the reasons that we have added to those specific locations and talking to the Entertainment Commission and talking to a sound engineer and a noise engineer, basically its just recommended. Because even though you can meet the code and you deliver s. F. C. To the code, sometimes the noise still penetrates and results in complaints. So by going to a higher s. F. C. We can avoid that in those circumstances. Along those parameters. Project sponsors and commissioners, i just wanted to take a moment during the opening here, i probably should have included it here, however, i do want to call attention to the staff recommendation that i sent to you all in the form of a memo which is in your binder for this your virtual binder for this agenda item tonight. And so it includes the conditions relative to what the project sponsors are speaking about, about s. T. C. Levels so im happy to read those out or to discuss them but i think that president bleiman, thats up to you. President bleiman yeah, so can you guys can i cant see the commissioners because because im looking at their screen right now. So can we just stop screen sharing for a minute here. Sure. President bleiman and then let me just see if theres any questions of the commissioners. Commissioner thomas . Commissioner thomas mostly i just wanted to say thank you for already having reached out to the cultural district. That was going to be my first question. So, thank you. Obviously, its a neighborhood that has a lot of meaning both in terms of entertainment and in terms of the district and so im glad that youre reaching out to them and making sure that people moving into these apartments are interested in living in the south of market neighborhood. So, thank you. President bleiman commissioner caminong. Vicepresident caminong sorry about that. It took a second to unmute myself. I do want to also recognize that you are also located in soma, the Cultural Heritage district of filipinoamericans. Its a very large footprint and i just want to go on record to recognize some of the latinos as well. But i also know that eric toul is a big supporter of it since its inception. So i know that you guys have been doing a lot of amazing work supporting community organizations. I do have to say that since the formation of the r. D. R. , this is the first time that a sponsor has come in front of our commission and has actually spoken to all of our venues. So i really appreciate your presentation, showcasing your project timelines of communication and also recording the sound during the high or high nightlife periods. So i think this is well done. And im glad that you guys were able to get it in prior to shelterinplace. And this is really exciting during shelterinplace and we are in week 16 and it feels really good for us to be able to reopen and to do it in a very safe way. And as we are a model for the nation of how we shutdown the city, i think we will continue to be a model for the nation in how we reopen. So i appreciate the fact that you guys came in front of our commission and honored our process and worked very carefully with our staff around this process, ensuring that neighbors all get along. Thank you. Youre welcome. And we hope that theres going to be a lot of sound that well have to attenuate in the future. Well be checking in. We miss it. President bleiman commissioner wang. Commissioner wang i just wanted to echo my colleagues and to commend you all for the outreach that you have done, particularly with such sensitivity to the cultural communities of note in soma there. And in terms of out of an abundance of caution, deciding to go with s. T. C. 33 already. I had another question just about the design aspect because there is such a high density of nightlife there. Even though youre at s. T. C. 33. Are the bedrooms of those facing facing it further back from the frontage of the street . Is that how theyre designed . So the the bedrooms are pretty much theyre multioriented on the perimeter of the building. And thats mostly due i mean, due to just the kind of the limited size of the units as well as the, you know, the light and air requirements that both planning and building departments, you know, are required to comply with. So most units have a bedroom and a living space, like a living room, that is facing the perimeter of the building. However, the there are some handful of units that do have a nested bedroom. So one of the bedrooms that is towards the interior of the unit plan. And the other thing is that the walls along the Property Line that are, for example, directly facing on to oasis, thats a solid wall. So, you know, the units that are facing the street and the public ways are, you know, glazed in a way that sort of is responsible. I do have a rendering, if youd like to see, i could pull it up. Commissioner wang sure. Lets see. So so this is the view along folsom street. So these are bedrooms that are facing to street. And you can see on our typical floor plan, you know, the bedrooms are, you know, kind of in these corners and then theres the Living Spaces that are within the unit. Commissioner wang got it. Okay, thats really helpful. Thanks. No problem. President bleiman commissioner lee. Commissioner lee so to add to that, so i cant really see the layout, so the bedrooms on one side has a window, and then the living room is next to that that has a window facing folsom street, correct . Yes. You know, i have a typical plan that i could pull up, a unit plan. So that would be helpful. Its pretty Standard Building code requires the bedrooms to have a window. Commissioner lee right. See if i can find one real quick. So if you look here this is our kind of typical most common threebedroom layout, so theres two bedrooms facing along the perimeter wall that are facing on to folsom street and then theres a living space in the middle. And the bathrooms, and the kitchens are mostly in the interior of the courtyard. And heres that nested bedroom that i was talking about which has borrowed light. So this has to be, you know, has a certain percentage to be glazed. Commissioner lee and youre using s. T. D. 33 in all of the fronts . Correct. If you look back to this diagr diagram, everywhere that you see magenta we would have a minimum s. T. D. 33 at every residential unit. So if you look at the rendering, basically everything that, you know, all of these windows that face on the residential units would be a minimum of 33. Commissioner lee are all of these rental units or are they condos . Theyre all rental. All rental. Commissioner lee okay. So no matter how many people move in and out in the course of 10 years, they will be notified on what theyre moving into and what theyre expecting, right . As part of our were working with the district and we have agreed to include as a position of our indiscernible an addendum. That were in the Entertainment District as well as the cultural district. Boaboth of those things. And i believe that theres language that we would be happy to adopt into these addend mums. We require a disclosure to all of your future renters. Yep. What has happened in the past is that, you know, the first set of renters get the notification and the next set of renters dont get a noteification at all. Notification at all. Thats definitely to make all of the effort and process to get a lease signed and to not notify them ahead of time just seems and in dogpatch we were required to notify renters that they were moving in next to the hells angels. Okay. And then my last question just on the lighting. What is your lighting plan on the outside . I mean, its normally dark there right now. And youre talking about if youre talking about 400 units youre literally talking about, what, almost 800 people . Sorry commissioner, its 240 units. 240. So about 400 people in this district, correct . So 5d ad tha add that with the s when at full capacity so we are talking about heavy usage. So i see here to the entry to your garage, is that going to be all lit up behind the oasis . Or is it all i mean, is there a lighting you are talking about this the alley currently byrnes place . I see where the oasis is and then you have a bunch of units there, right, across from the oasis in the back. Is that a driveway . Correct . So here you can see our ground floor plan. So this block on the corner here is oasis. So the primary access to the garage is through byrnes place. And so theres some townhomes that face on to it, which will be, you know, heavily planted. And we will have definitely have Street Lighting there. Were basically redoing this whole portion of the street because theres grating issues and we are meeting accessibility requirements after working with the accessibility coordinator to add a fourfoot sidewalk to the north side of byrnes place. So that whole alleyway will kind of being completely redone. And well lit . Yes. And along folsom street as well . Absolutely. Okay. All right. Thats all i have. President bleiman all right. I dont think that any other commissioners have any comments. Not seeing any. Okay, lets open this up for Public Comment. Im seeing that theres a number of attendees here that are actually Business Owners in the neighborhood. One of them, dylan, how do we do this . So lily has an exclamation point next to her name. Should we start with her . How do we do this . Youre on mute, dylan. Sorry about that. So they have to call that number that we have been repeating and put in the access code and press star, 3, which means that theyll pop up as a raised hand. And then i unmute them. President bleiman got it. So is there one callin number with star, 3 there . Clerk so that is actually our commissioner falzon is doing it. President bleiman so if theres any do you see any callers with raised hands . Clerk there are none. And im happy to read it again if it helps. President bleiman lets read it out. It looks like they did quite bit of outreach. Clerk for those that want to do Public Comment please right now dial 1 408 4189388. And then enter the access code, 146 069 9630. And then press star, 3. And then wait for us to unmute you. President bleiman im going to put this, if i can, lets see. Im sure that its out there somewhere. Dylan, could you potentially type that into the chat for president bleiman copy and paste it . Clerk i will. And its also on fo sfgovtv, ad ill do it now. Its on our agenda as well. Okay. It looks like lily has asked questions in the q. And a. As well. I dont know if you want to read those. President bleiman yeah,ly thlet me find the q ask a. The very bottom right. Hello participants in chat, theres q. And a. Clerk someone else can read it or i can read it if you want. Could. First question, has there been any discussion about how the buildings management will handle any possible noise complaints with the p. O. E. . Second question, Street Parking is already challenging in the neighborhoods. Will there be an additional fee for the residents dedicated parking spaces. And any visitor parking . Well, i can answer that. There will be an additional fee. The parking in San Francisco is required to be unbundled. So anyone wanting it does not come with your unit. You have to pay an extra fee. To tell you the truth it has been a struggle to get the 83 spots. Planning has asked us to reduce the parking even more. And as far as visitor parking, how much accessory park doing we have, daniel . We 83 is the total number of spaces including car share, you know, 88 spaces. So we dont have, you know, a specific allocation of how many of those spots would be for guests versus residents. The first question im sorry, we didnt ask the first question. Something to do with howry we handle complaints, is that it . President bleiman yes. For projects that we normally hire a professional Management Company. So like a manager for the dog patch project and was managing at windsor. So i dont have a specific answer to that other than that we generally hire thirdparty institutional. Most of our investors are Pension Funds like calpers that we did our other project. So we hire institutional property managers. To try to follow whatever the rules and the regulations in place are. President bleiman dylan, do we have anybody that called in . Clerk nobody has called in. Just note that i received a message from gina molano that shes been trying and she cant get it to work. President bleiman did she see the directions in the chat . I believe so, because she said that shes trying again n now. President bleiman you can also type her questions clerk if she wants she can do it through through typing. President bleiman well give her a second. Gina, we want to hear from you. President bleiman i saw another chat question in the interval. This is from brad and he put it through the chat. Will there be anything on the rooftop of the building . Yes. I can again, i can flip back to the screen if you would like to see. But we have ill pull it up. So we have actually two roof decks. So theres one roof deck that is on the north building, the kissling building that faces on kissling street. And then theres another one that is on the lower portion of the folsom building, so its kind of tucked behind this top floor residential units. Can then theres a Community Room with amenities and then a roof deck here where they could maybe catch a glimpse of the roof deck at the oasis and they can wave to each other. Its one floor shorter, so its shielded from the folsom street. The only other outdoor amenities are theres a bunh of private patios so the units on level two have access to private outdoor space. But these are pretty well protected by the mass of the building. President bleiman got it. Gina wrote in that she does feel a line of defense with the Management Company would be helpful. So i ask if she wanted to clarify what that meant just for the record. indiscernible . And then we are getting confirmation that the phone number is operational. So i dont know what is happening. Gina wrote, sorry, every time i type it gets deleted. Shes trying to. Yeah. President bleiman the internet is trying to keep gina from speaking. I dont know. [laughter]. Its possibly too wonky but she can always call my cell and i can put her on speaker phone still. Yeah, i think that we should do that. Give me a call if you want. Ill put you on blast. It is Public Comment, versus q. And a. President bleiman give her a minute here. [phone ringing] president bleiman all right, shes calling you. Were having some connectivity issues maybe . I think that maggie is calling her and shes calling maggie. There is another item that came into the chat. Will there be any operatable windows on the folsom street side . So, yes. There are operatable windows. However, one of the things that was found in the acoustic engineers report is that the in order to meet the s. F. Noise ordinance that it has to be mechanically ventilateed so if youre annoyed with the noise that you can close the windows. So the upper windows dylan, i just heard gina. Is she in here . Yeah, so shes echoing. Can you hear us, gina . She was just somehow on here. Gina, can you hear us . Here, you guys can just look at her indiscernible . This is shawn with sfgovtv. You can upmute her in the attendees list. I did that. So i want to have daniel finish your comment. Sure. So the question was if there are operatable windows and the answer is that there are. You know, typically in, you know, in each bedroom would have a couple fixed windows and then maybe one portion of it that is a window that you can open to get some fresh air. But the the key is that all of the units are mechanically ventilated with ducted and, you know, lugerred systems. So if there is a resident that is annoyed about the noise from the nightclub because you have the windows open, they can close the windows and their space would still be adequately ventilated. So the fresh air is not contingent upon the windows being open. President bleiman so ive got a question then. In your paperwork do you make a notation that windows, you know, not to complain, but the windows are open because a lot of people do thinking that with their windows open theyre not supposed to hear the club across the street. I mean, thats something that were happy to add. I think that you should add it. Its common sense, but i agree with you that a lot of people dont have common sense sometimes. And i dont know how you want to document it, but were happy to add that as a recommendation that noise mitigation, to just close the windows and turn on the ventilated air. Maybe thats in the addendum and maybe in your disclosure notice. Im happy to include it. Or let us know and well happy to include it. I am sure that maggie knows how to say it. Yeah, so you would have to offer that as a potential addition within a motion, just f. Y. I. Its not Standard Commission nor part of our staff recommendations. I do have gina on facetime here. So here you go. Hey, guys, i know that you were desperate to hear from me. What is the timeline for actually being rented . What year are we talking about rentals being processed in the building . Thats the first question. And, secondly, you guys have been great to deal with, honestly, you have reached out and youve been very receptive to our statements. And as Business Owners in the neighborhood, this could be 500 new clubgoers, yay, or 500 complainants too. So as suggested by lily, it would be great if there was some kind of line of defense against club owners that, you know, renters were instructed to reach out to the Management Company if they were having noise, you know, issues with the neighborhood or other issues with the neighborhood the traffic or parking or who knows what else. And then the Management Company would have some sort of dialogue that was, you know, in the Entertainment District, this is all disclosed, so that these people arent immediately calling police or calling Entertainment Commission and creating a lot of, you know, something for us as venue owners to deal with. So i feel that some stops in there where you call the company and maybe its at three complaints and then its escalated just something so we dont have 244 units taking up the citys time and, therefore, like, you know, taking up our time moving into a neighborhood where we are, you know, we were here first and this is where we make our livi living. I have a response to that. As those impacted by the covid19 pandemic, so have the real estate. So were on a timeline but as far as commencing construction, our fingers are crossed and were hopeful that things get back to normal within the next 12 months. So that does happen our earliest commencement of construction would be towards the end of next year and then a twoyear construction period and then a one to threeyear lease up. So the earliest that wed see People Living in the building is probably four years from now. If, again, this means that things get back to normal in a year or so in the apartment markets and in the economy. With respect to i mean, i i wish i had an answer, you know, as we operate and manage a lot of properties and we have the same problems, you know. Theyll call us, something is broken and your neighbors are noisy and they call the property Management Company and let us try to help you its very hard to control every single tenant. But we could collaborate with you guys if maybe the Entertainment Commission could create a clearing house, a First Responder type hotline for noise, we could definitely push its called 311. [laughter]. Yes, you know, adding the fact that we have closed windows, and recommendations to mitigate noise, whatever you guys all of these things we support. We dont need we want i think that dialogue is always better than conflict. So if you guys could help us, well definitely those us into our leases and rules and regulations. President bleiman got it. Dylan, anymore Public Comment . Clerk there is none. President bleiman ill close Public Comment for this. And next id ask director wylan to have staff recommendations and could you go through what the recommendations are. Absolutely. So they are pretty technical. please stand by those are the staff recommendations. Did you want to add anything for discussion. I want to add you know the complainants should have windows closed before they make a complaint. It is like with windows open we get complaints. The rating is based on the windows being closed. It should be on the application. Whatever they need to let them know when you sign on, dont complain with the windows open. What is the jargon to use for their recommendation . Do you have any suggestions. Please repeat that one more time. Very simple. You know how we get complaints when windows are open they are too loud. The inspector goes and the windows are wide open and they are complaining. The only way for you to condition that is to legitimately require the windows on certain facades of the development are inoperable and cannot open, and we have recommended that in the past. It sounded like the project sponsor was amenable to this. You may want to ask them. I want to be clear here. The reason we are in rdr is because of the legislation that president breed passed. That legislation is pretty clear in the disclosures that the ability of our renter and owner to complain or to cause problems if a venue within 300 feet is acting with in compliant is extraordinary limited. I would be contrary within the fact that anyone has the right to complain, submit a complain to 311. It is within our staff to figure out if they signed the disclosure to use within the argument that he may be a nuisance. Maybe it would make sense we could ask in the disclosures of the project sponsor they could provide a framework for how to handle noise. If there is noise, first thing to do is close windows. The other thing i will note around us going out to test whether a place of entertainment is in complains when someone is complaining nearby. This area is very hard to test compliance with because of the sheer fact there are so many poes within one area. Maybe we say can you add your disclosures the process for noise. The first thing is to close windows and turn on central air or whatever it is. I think in the disclosure we would be amenable to conditions that every at building has rules and regulations no dogs over 30 pounds. We could recommend the rules and recommendations would include the elements, economic all al k windows, call 311. We can put that in rules and regulations versus disclosure. Maybe we say add to the rules and regulations prior to making a noise complaint to please close all windows. Yes, second call 311. I am trying to cut back on some of the, you know, extra stuff. Put that in there, that would be great. Commissioner thomas. Just i think 311 is appropriate. I think also what some of the venue owners were asking for was a more direct line of communication. Instead of going to 311 and Entertainment Commission, residents are directed to call management about sound complaints and knowledge andg management main continues the line. If none of the venues were operating that night you have a different issue and it is not a noise complaint. I am hearing in the rules and regulations prior to making noise complaint check windows and the proper way to make the noise complaint is first to contact the property manager in your rules. I would prefer that, too. Happy to do that. Did you have something . It is important to get the language right. This will be written as a condition of our approval. Help me with that. Well, you have got to say it. I think you are close. Eric, if you could give us the language around the rules and regulations that i am not superclear on. Is that something the tenant receives upon signing the lease . All attendees. All participants is fine. All panelists. Noise issues. Check all windows and openings. [ inaudible ] i will go on record and say this is the weirdest hearing we have ever had. You can play with that as you want and add in this order, this priority. Incorporate rules and regulati regulations. It is a standard preference to the document. The next course of action would be one of us to make a move to require this be incorporated into their rules and regulations . Yes, i would potentially if we were to adopt this just staff side, i would flush out these a little further. Advice the tenant check and secure all outside windows and openings. Untwo. Contact Property Management prior to other complaint outlets. At some point can i talk . Can someone let me know when there is a break . Break. Go ahead. I really think we are getting in the weeds. I think this is really problematic when we put structure how the public can make a complaint. They just need to deal with it. What we could do is provid is pe instructions to 311. Ask person are windows open. Our staff could do the same. We are getting kind of weird putting together this structure. We are way in the weeds. We have no teeth when it comes to asking that of tenants. I understand, but i think we are asking a level of detail that frankly people are not going to read this paperwork when they move in. I think if you are moving there you are moving for nightlife. I dont anticipate a problem. If it occurs, i dont think they will pullout a 30 page document and say i need to shut windows. If you want it that is fine. We are spending a lot of time on something that can be hard to articulate and getting evasive. That is my opinion. If only reason why it became an entertainment corridor because of situations like this. This is a big unit. This is 200 units in that little neighborhood, which is the biggest ever coming in. Eleventh street was built on protecting those clubs. I am not disagreeing with you. I am suggesting the solution does not solve the problem. I am questioning this language issue. I dont see it solving the problem. I think part of our industry we have learned there is abuse and complaints. This is not going to solve that. I am convinced that well educated people will move into this building for the exact intent to be in this environment. That is what makes it very attractive. Commissioner thomas. I think you are both right. I think that people probably will leave windows open and complain about the noise. We have to deal with that the same way we always have. What is more important to me is ensuring there is good communication between Building Management and the venues and that is residents have some way to raise concerns that is short of engaging 311 and the Entertainment Commission. If they do that, that is fine. I would like to have a first line of defense and some communication. I feel like that doesnt necessarily need to be part of the conditions as that needs to be something Building Management wants to do. I tend to agree. I dont think we are forcing people to do anything. We are asking the project sponsor to put specific language in their policies to ask that their residents make sure they close windows if they hear noise. They would prefer or would recommend to reach out to the building manager to sort it out. I totally agree with you. It is a slippery slope to tell people what they can and cant do. We are asking the project sponsor to offer a best case solution. I am sorry best practice. I dont think we should get too specific. I dont think we should really like lay out exactly what the project sponsor needs to do. I think in this neighborhood specifically because this is the highest concentration of nightclubs we have anywhere that we should ask them to include in their regulation language saying the preferred method is first make sure windows are closed. Second immediately contact the Building Management to help mitigate the issue. That does not tell them that it is forbidden for them to call 311 or police or anything they want to do. At least the project sponsor is in line and asking them to mitigate that. Does that help address the concerns you had commissioner falzon. Iowan to heai do want to heae language. I think we can look at the project sponsors language that he had. I am not sure where we put it. I have trouble finding it. Something like we would the motion with staff recommendation as well as and then add what the project sponsor said. Eric, i cannot see what you wrote. If somebody could that will be helpful. Applicant shall incorporate into the standard rules and regulations protocol for noise. One, advice check and secure all windows and openings, three contact Property Management and three call 311. Perfect. If that is the motion i will second it. Lets do it. I will put it out there. I will second it. We have three people. Commissioner to thomas has something to say. I will make a motion we accept the staff recommendation with the added language that the applicant shall incorporate into the standard rules and regulations a protocol for noise advice tenant check and secure outside opening, three contact project management and three call 311. Motion is out. Did you want to second that commissioner falzon. I love it. I second it. Public comment is closed we can vote on this. Thank you, commissioner thomas. Commissioner lee. Yes. Commissioner perez. Aye. Vice president ca mean no. Aye. Commissioner thomas. Aye. Commissioner falzon. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. President blieman. Aye. Thank you for coming in. We appreciate it. You did a fantastic job reaching out to the neighborhood. We appreciate that. We do want to say thank you to all club owners. They are accommodating and cooperative. We got it done over one weekend. Thank you so much. All right. This is now the final agenda item 7. Commissioner comments and questions. Anybody have something to say . Commissioner thomas. I couple of things. This is a very strange time but i am acutely aware of the nightlife that we have lost. I am proud to wear my San Francisco tshirt and recognizing the stud and other venues that we have lost. I know it is a hard time for everyone. Also, recognizing the folks who work in the nightlife industry. I have been so happy to see the work of the queer nightlife fundraising money for those working in nightlife. I encourage people to donate to the various go fund mes for bar and venue staff. Recognizing how hard it is out there for folks in the industry. I am really eager to be back in live music venues. I have a feeling it is going to be a long time coming. I really miss it. That is it. Commissioner perez. I wanted to officially say welcome to the commissioner tang, urban planning representative. We are looking forward to working with you. Best wishes to you. Thank you so much. I will close it out here. One thing i did not mention all the hard work that Vice President c a. M. I. Mong put in. Please accept my apologies. She is working on these things. I got flustered. This is my first web exehave done. I want to welcome commissioner tang. You asked for commissioner wang. You asked what it is like. I would say i think the seat you hold is important Going Forward. I think we are going to see massive changes in urban planning in the next two years. I hope we do and it is driven and we can get into the planning side and zoning side to help us and guide us. We are excited to have you. It is a long time coming. Thank you, staff, extra times. What a fun meeting to preside over. This is great. Any Public Comment on our comments or questions . No callers. There is something here. Thanks everyone. Now to try to survive the next four years so we can get these people into clubs as guests. Thanks for the work you have been doing on our behalf. With that we will officially adjourn the meeting at 7 21 p. M. Today. I hope to do this again soon. Thank you. Stay safe. Todays special guest is claudia dume. Hi. Today, my guest is claudia gorham. Shes the deputy managing director of the real estate dri division at the city and county of San Francisco, and shes my special guest. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. I know that your department is the department for managing and renting properties, and also cleaning for the city. How has your department been preparing for the crisis . Well, because our citizens are sheltering in place and our buildings are closed to the general public, a substantial amount of city staff and city departments are still open and operating and doing city businesses. So we still have to do the cleaning and engineering on the portfolio and things that need to be service. And the other thing is all our workers are Disaster Service workers, so we have been providing the Emergency Operations center with various staffing needs such as drivers of trucks and accounting staff to assist them in this crisis. Have you obtained Additional Space for the city to use during this crisis . Yes. The crisis has actually required numerous transactions, and so we help basically the department of Public Health, the department of human services, and the department of homelessness determine where they can put the services that they need. So, for example, if they need a testing site or if they need a building a vacant building to put supplies or if they need to put some trucks, we will help them locate that Office Building or that property based on their factors that they need. We will then contact the landlord or the Property Owner of the space or the Building Owner decides they want, and then, we negotiate the terms that they need, whether its a permit or a lease, well help the City Attorney draft that agreement. Nice. So can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic . Certainly. The city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to Moscone South Convention Center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. We have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this covid19 crisis. All of the department of Public Health and the departments of homelessness and human services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. They need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. So weve been assisting them with places to stay. You mentioned the palace of fine arts. It has over 100,000 square feet of space. It could it we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, were going to use it for different needs. Were going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can use it for this crisis. Were using the bill graham Civic Auditorium and tfor the deployment of ambulances. The Fire Department needed additional supplies, so were using it for that service. Thats great. I also understand you have a staff of custodians, electricians, janitors and other support workers. How are they helping the city . We could not be more thankful for our civic and engineering staff under our Real Estate Division. They have been working 247 since this crisis began, not only doing their daily responsibilities to keep the public buildings open and operating for the city staff continuing to go into the office but also because once the crisis started, several memos came down as to additional cleanings and how to do disinfecting, and we have to do the c. D. C. S recommendation does. So not only do they do recommendations. So not only do they do their regular cleaning, they are also doing deep cleaning and disinfecting in places like the Public Safety building and the haul of justice. But theyre also going in and doing a deep cleaning and disinfecting after we had a suspected case or a confirmed case of a person having the coronavirus. So theyre going in and doing this every night since this started. Our workers are continuing as laborers to make the buildings safe and secure and maintained. And however we help or however we can help the e. O. C. , we do that. Well, thanks for coming on the show, claudia. Id like to thank you and your entire team on behalf of all the residents of San Francisco for all the work you continue to do. Thank you very much. Its been a pleasure. Thats it for this episode. Well be back with another pandemicrelated episode shortly. This is coping with covid19. Im chris mathers. Thanks 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. 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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]