Transcripts For SFGTV Ethics Commission 20240712

To that. There is an item that is on for later on the agenda, related to missiontomission bay project and it really speaks to a lot of what you are raising supervisor fewer and i share those concerns. Well do a Racial Equity analysis and kickoff a Community Realm planning process that will be completed over the next year to two years and its really looking into a lot of things that you are raising and obviously the original plan here was done long before i was supervisor and this is a more minor weak to it but its something that we share those concerns and want to make sure were looking very closely at them and i appreciate you raising them. Supervisor yee i dont see anybody else on the roster. Madam clerk, are there any lets open up for Public Comment. Thank you mr. President. The board of supervisors will now hear public testimony remotely and regarding the redevelopment plan amendment for Mission Bay South blocks 2932. If you call in earlier, and you can now press star 3 and you will be put into the cue and if you havent dialed in and you are interested in the telephone numbers, its crawling across the television and the internet and it is 4515550001 and the meeting identifier is 461532792. Press pound twice and you will listen to the proceedings and just press star three when you like to get in line. So, operations, do you have the first caller, please . Yes i currently have 12 callers in the cue. I will unmute the first caller. Thank you. Welcome, caller. You will have two minutes to provide your testimony. Hello caller, welcome. Welcome, caller. Caller hello supervisors, my name is josephine im a research annalist. I am here to speak in support of warriors hotel. Local 2 is in support of the mixed use project which will started the warriors alena in mission bay. We signed with a project sponsor regarding the job at this hotel. A gun tee for a fair and neutral process for the Event Hospitality workers if they wish to be represented by a union. Agreements such as these create a path for the hardworking people and the hospitality people to fight for respect on the job, affordable Healthcare Benefits and a living wage. We urge you to support this project approval, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Welcome, caller. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im inaudible . I am chair of the cac and ive been president of the inaudible . And, the proposed hotel seems like a real benefit to our neighborhoods to the waterfront and to the city as a whole. All operate businesses in the southeast part of this city. The it will help invigorate a section of the city that is adverse reeffected by the coronavirus. It will provide construction jobs and then long lasting Employment Opportunities for me by residents. I expect the warriors will out out of their way to pass their businesses and as theyve done in a manner in the arena and were hopeful that hotel guests will be patronize our businesses to the south along third street. The Hotel Designs waterfront and fit the neighborhood. If its anything like the chase arena it will be spectacular. I feel proud of our city and i walk along warriors way and it will be great to show off our wonderful mission bay waterfront through our town hotel. Thank you for the hope you will support this project. Thank you for your comments. Next caller, space. Caller good afternoon. Good afternoon supervisors, corey smith on behalf of the San Francisco Housing Action coalition. We are in support. New homes are needed in the city and a high inclusionary rate that will help fund subsidized Affordable Housing on top of the workforce commitments we think this is a welcome addition to the neighborhood and ask that you support. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller welcome, caller. Good afternoon, my name is mark dwight and im a resident and i am here to express my support for the Golden State Warriors proposed hotel mixed use project on blocks 2932 in mission bay. I believe the project are welcome addition to our neighborhood where hotel and amenities are lacking, and this project will also compliment the existing activities that chase center and help to create additional public activation and retail opportunities that will benefit our neighborhoods. Since the opening of chase center in september, notwithstanding the Current Crisis ive been impressioned with the on going operations and the warrior collaboration and communications with residents and businesses. I am thank you, very much. Thank you for your comments. Operations next speaker, please. Welcome, caller. Hello, my name is greg kitchen and im the owner of a tap room in dog patch. I wanted to say i support the Warrior Hotel project and the ergization has been really amazing at reaching out to Small Businesses in the neighborhood and working with them and weve been include in the taste Maker Program which is i encourage you to also support this. Thank you so much. Operations, next caller, please. Caller welcome, caller. Good afternoon president yee and members of the board of supervisors. My name is bruce, for identification purposes only, im the 11year resident of mission bay and a board member of the south beach neighborhood association. Im speaking in support of the warriors pro he ised hotel mixed use project and this project is proposed use is all and will continue to be much needed in our part of the city. Where home homes are hotels are. In addition to the Economic Development and revenue this project will bring to the city, as we emerge from the publichealth crisis its so important to move projects like this forward as it will create hundreds of construction jobs and many more jobs on a Going Forward basis. Regarding the warriors in the chase center as neighbors, during the planning of the arena, we were engage on a regular basis brought into learn about specific aspects of the project, ouch reap to neighborhood sake holders and over all next steps. During construction, contractors were sensitive and took immediate action to resolve any complaints or concerns identified by the community. I have confidence this would be replicated and any efforts Going Forward. In addition, as a member of the mission Bay Transportation advisory committee, ive had the opportunity to engage in detailed conversations regarding operations with the warriors team. What has pleased me is their executing what is required by the Development Agreement to go above and beyond to engage in the community, incorporate feedback, and be proactive managing all aspects and as they talk about the wonderful opportunity and associated with this center and not about the impacts on the neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller welcome caller, you have to two minutes. Thank you for taking my call. My name is mike. I have lived in the neighborhood in mission bay since 2012 and since we moved in the neighborhood has blossomed nicely and the best part of it is what the warriors have been done. Theyve been an excellent neighbor. They set expectations and if anyone coming up they address it. We know what were getting when we deal with the warriors and as far as people close to me in my community, i spoke to over 30 people, at least, over the last two or three months, about this project and every Single Person ive spoken to supports the project and no one is opposed. As for our moment, yeah, we need a hotel in the neighborhood and its going to be nice with this new hotel even better. Its a perfect fit. I hope you approve it and i look forward to a completion. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Welcome, caller. Caller thank you, good afternoon supervisors. My name is janette and i am also a resident here in mission bay 11 years and i agree with all the comments that have been made previously in support of the warriors project theyve been nothing but conscientious and Good Neighbors and i think theyve met our expectations so i hope you support this project. Thank you, very much. Thank you, caller. There are six members in the few and. Welcome, caller. Hello. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is peggy and i live at the 333 mission bay boulevard north about two weeks from chase center. I have lived here for 11 years. Im a board member of the south beach rincon neighborhood association. I support this project for the following reasons. The warriors have been excellent neighbors reaching out to the community from the very beginning. It works with the community and they convey their plans and listen to neighborhood concerns. They have brought at least until covid19, noticeable energy and vitality to the neighborhood. While traffic increases on event nights, it was very well managed. They have missed them in the last few months. The area and its plans have given us neighborhood a Gathering Place as well as an entertainment center. The hotel will add to the character of the center. The Hotel Development with well paying construction jobs that we need in the current environment. Its a well designed project and were compliment the pay front park. Thank you for community me the opportunity to support this project. Thank you for your comments. The board of supervisors is sitting at the committee of the whole to take public testimony on the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South blocks 2932 Row Development project and we are taking public testimony on that project. Operations, next caller, please. Welcome, caller. Hi, my name is adam and im a Receipt Department of district 6 for identification i think the exiting plans comes great for the members of mission bay but it does not include any consideration of the traffic impacts on soma between bryant and king street. The existing traffic is already worse than the original projections especially after the reduction and lanes on Fourth Street about the central subway project. Fourth street is the main artery from downtown into mission bay and any increase in traffic both in mission bay makes life worse for the residents in this section of home a. On event night would get worse. Unless this plan can address the traffic impact that someone will offer from it seems like its fatally flawed and its going to benefit developers over residents who live in this section of soma section of San Francisco. The area between bryant and king is small but it is heavily trafficked and we dont get outreach we dont get considered. Changes that made to plans like this and we are often overlooked. Its something we would love to support but we dont want to do it at the expense 6 traffic sitting in front of our front doors and we would like a livable street and street just as much as the residents of mission bay. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Welcome, caller. Welcome, caller. Operations, we have a caller on the line, right . Theyre not answering to ill skip to the next caller. Welcome caller, well circle back to you in case you want to give it another try in just a moment. Welcome, caller. Caller hello supervisors, my name is alex and im research and advocacy director with the San Francisco Electrical Construction industry calling in support of the redevelopment plan amendment, the warriors have been a pleasure to work with throughout the the planning and the Development Process from the arena on forward and we want to support them as they look at diversifying and trying to find ways to keep people coming to the area and in light of the new reality were living in. The project will provide a number of jobs for inaudible helping new bring in new upandcoming contractors and were looking forward to see them. Please support this and thank you very much. Bye. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, id like to address the hearing on the Mission Bay South with blocks 2932, i guess thats them. I live in south beach. Im a 21year resident of south beach and much like supervisor fewer was saying im very, very concerned with the health of the neighborhood. Ive driven my bike through the area as if an influx of people who have i would like to see the office of Racial Equity and well see anything that is going up in that area and there are amenities and welcoming sense to everybody that lives in the area. So thank you very much for considering this and do make it an inclusive area, please dont gentrify all of San Francisco. Thank you. There are 37 members of the public listening and three in the queue ready to speak. This will be the last call in you are interested in speaking, please press star 3 otherwise well take this lineup to the end. Next caller, please. Caller supervisors, i hope you are paying attention to what one of the supervisors stated which is what people want in the area. We do not want genra indication and its better to have a Childcare Center to the flash fall building a Childcare Center somewhere else. Mission bay should show that its ready to have a diverse population. And when it talks for direct force and mentions were inaudible the Community Development and mission hiring its the same old story and more organizations need to be audited. By the federal bureau of investigations. Stop the b. S. Ing, he need a Childcare Center and all the amenities for our children, youth, in that area. Caller since the warriors have come to mission bay, nothing good. We want to have something for the buffalo soldiers, the inaudible and if we could pay the ticket, need for us to do a presentation. Tell them to go to hell. 49ers have very Poor Community relationships. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. I live in the district six having a hotel in the area would be beneficial to the traffic because theres a lot of folks who are coming to town just for events in that area or even for the hospitals close by. Having more places to stay over there can actually prevent some of the back and fourth downtown traffic that we see a lot of right in front of me and im close to the embarcadero so i think that project has done a lot of good outreach and i felt well involved in the i urge you to support the project. Its good for our whole area. Thank you for your comments. Mr. President , the floor is yours. Seeing theres no more Public Comments, Public Comments now closed. Are there yes, supervisor haney. Thank you. I just wanted to quickly thank ocii and everyone who worked on this projector sorry this amendment to the plan and i do think the Community Benefits that are included do justify supporting it and the neighborhood is in need of sustainable and on going support for open space and neighborhoods serving amenities and i think the commitment and support around jobs and close pip of our folks in labor and local 2 call in support is very important and there needs to be further work to take more input from the neighborhood and do additional analysis around the Community Plan specifically until all speak more to that later and you heard from sophia from the Mayors Office and were working very closely on that but i do want to thank the sponsor and everyone who harmed in this and i do think it should be approved by the board today. I will then consider this hearing had been heard and now filed. Madam clerk, before you call roll call i want to reiterate. I think the project, as a whole, is a go ahead project and i and i might have misunderstood things in regards to the handshake commitment that they looked into building a Childcare Center down there and you know they decided not to and there was never any explanation as to why is because of that i cannot support this. Its just it doesnt feel good when people tell you things to get their projects passed. Please call roll on item number 32. Superviso[ roll call vote ] clerk there are 10 ayes and one no with president yee in the dissent. Supervisor yee we have a 101 vote and this ordinance is passed on First Reading. Lets go to our next 3 00 p. M. Special order. Please call item 3336. Item 3336 comprise the public hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the determination of exemption from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act and issued at a categorical exemption by the Planning Department on january 9th, 2020 for the proposed project at 743 vermont street to demolish the rear portion and existing cable roof for a extending to the rear footprint five feet to the east and and rellizing a dwelling unit at one family residents within the rh2 residential house to family Zoning District and the 40 height and bulk district. Item 34 is the motion to affirm the Planning Department termination this is exempt from review and item 35 is the motion to conditionally reverse the determination and item 36 is the motion to direct the preparation of finding. Colleagues, we have a project at seven 43 and this is related to the Planning Departments exemption and determination for this project. After the hearing, the board will vote on the category alex emion determination and two minutes per speaker and up to 10 minutes for a presentation from city departments and up to 10 minutes for the project sponsor or the ren sen tive and two minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal and in support of the project and up inform three minutes for a rebuttal by the appellant or their representative. Colleagues, are there any objects to these proceedings . Seeing none. The public hearing is now open. Supervisor walton, do you have any opening remarks that you would like to share . Thank you so much president yee. I will wait until we are done with the entire process. Thank you supervisor walton. And then, we will go ahead and go to the appellants, i believe Ryan Patterson did and free man and patterson. On behalf of Mark Mcknight to make the presentation. Are you going to make a presentation . Thank you, very much, president yee and supervisors. Can you hear me all right . Yes. All right, great. Thank you. Im Ryan Patterson and im joined by my client, meg mcknight. This is a large rear expansion to the house at 743 vermont street and five feet at the second floor and 14 feet at the third floor. Its not adding new rooms its enlarging a bedroom suite. Ceqa requires an accurate, stable project. The project description sin accurate and its constantly changed. Rendering the Environmental Review he can tive. Additionally, the project would illegally remove protected dwelling unit where udu on the groundfloor without conditional use authorization. The project sponsor has failed to disclose this. The appellant is open to a compromise but the project sponsor hasnt been willing to make any reasonable modifications. First the law of ceqa. The court held the project description must be quote, accurate, stable and finite. If theres no stable project description or if a project sponsor fails to disclose the full extent of a project its impossible for the environmental impacts to be assessed and ill go ahead and share my screen now with a slide show. Hopefully you can see that. Project sponsor and the Planning Department have used multiple shifting projects descriptions that are inconsistent and contradictory. The first public 311 notice said nothing about the udu and it was rescinded and the second cat action referred to legalization of existing storage rooms. The revised public 311 notice, however, said nothing about legalization. Planning Commission Hearing reports stated the project sponge or is seeking to legalize the udu. Planning staff wrote the new cat ex includes quote, legalization of an unauthorized dwelling. Planning staff announced the project to the Planning Commission and to the public as legalizing quote unauthorized dwelling. And the Commission Decision at the hearing as stated in the discretionary review says they would wrote legalize the unauthorized dwelling. The ceqa cad ak is before you today actually says nothing of the sport and they say theres nothing well leggized. These descriptions are contradictory and theres a no consistent description of this project as required by ceqa. Since its not stabling consistent, it is flawed and must be revoked. They require it to be accurate. After being caught with unpermitted construction on the School Ground other floor where dwelling unit is, they revised the project description and claimed it would legalize a bathroom and storage rooms this is inaccurate. Substantial evidence shows theres an unauthorized dwelling unit there. If you deny todays appeal that unit will be illegally removed by the project without conditional use authorization. How do we know its a unit . Planning code section 317 defines an unauthorized dwelling unit as a room or rooms that have been used as a separate space on the same property. Independent means you can get to the unit without going through another unit and theres no open visual connection. The ground flor space say grouns this. It has a closet, decorative molding and a full bathroom with a bath tube. The window facing the street which is omitted from the floor plan y would you have an unpermitted room with a closet and bathroom and bathtub and storage area. Because its not a storage area, of course, its an unauthorized dwelling unit. In deed, its been described in mls listings as a bedroom on the quote lower level and as a bonus room and bath. We know it was actually used as a separate dwelling unit. Because this space is an unauthorized dwelling unit it can only be removed with conditional use authorization. Project sponsor has not applied for a c. U. But acted if the udu does not exist. When this came to light, dbi issues a notice of violation for the downstairs room being unpermitted and the Planning Department rescinded the first exemption for the project and before you today, the project sponsor is now claiming the groundfloor space as just a bathroom and storage area and this is contradicted by the citys own ceqa documents and there are inconsistent and inaccurate project description zoos it fails to satisfy the rei remembermentidescriptions. Illegg unit . Preserving Affordable Housing to the utmost importance. If this permit is issued based on the fiction that the groundfloor space is storage and not in an you might ask why they care about ceqa. The answer is, she cares about the law it would not extent no the rear yard as its proposed. In deed when she renovated her own she scaled it back so it would not extend beyond the project sponsors rear wall it would be reduced by three feet on the second floor and 511 with a sloped roof to preserve a little bit of life to her home and we remain willing to participate in mediation and if the project and and i will turn this over to my client now to continue. Im meg mcknight i live next door to 740 vermont street. We filed the appeal because the project was removed unauthorized dwelling unit and it was brought live in ear to our primary living, working, eating space which is really important today and the unauthorized dwelling unit as a full bath, bedroom with a closet, a window at the front of the property and adjacent room with hook ups foray pliances and its not connected to the above home. It has historically been used as a unit to neighbors in our immediate area who have been there decades and they talk about it. I also met a woman who lived in the unit. Soon after i moved into my home, the project sponsor introduced me to someone staying there in front of the home. The project sponsor had disclosed in the filings that this unit exists, full and accurate projectory view by the public and the city would have been done. Its never been our intent to stop project we only thought to minimize it and the sponsors have risk use to meet with me and i personally, even once over two years, they would not entertain any reasonable compromise through intermediary. It allowed to proceed the unit would be eliminated and incorporated into the permits space of the Single Family home. Tuesday doesnt matter theyre currently not renting the space. Every existing accessory dwelling unit across our city can help someone who needs and wants to be in San Francisco. The unit will be gone forever. We secretary board to grant the ceqa appeal and require the udu to be the fully permitted or complete the required process eliminating unit. Were open to a short continuance to allow us to work it out at your encouragement or to the compromise mr. Patterson conveyed. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, so now well have Public Comments right now. People that are supporting the appeal. Ok. The board of supervisors is now taking public testimony on behalf of the appellant for those of you who want to dial in the area code is 415 6550001. The meeting identifier is 146 1461532792. That information is crawling across channel 26 and the internet and when you hear a press find and police an pound. Welcome, caller. I i am a member of the Lgbtq Community i feel at home here. Even as a young professional, he was not very easy to find a place to live. I used to volunteer in the foundation in the tenderloin where they have to get it can be the difference between life and death. Were going through a crisis, however, is the house public of San Francisco have to be taken with extreme care because more than ever before, the loss of affordable units and communities has dire consequences, your responsibility is to oversee the insurance to building and planning codes and in good times regulations and processes in place and during a crisis, thats the time and to prevent and already large Single Family for only two people and the consideration for the impact in our community. You recognize and regulate the unit that already exceeds in this home. Hi, im calling in support of the appeals specifically regarding the unauthorized dwelling unit and i take no opinion on the remodeling of the home itself but the unauthorized unit is an importance rent controlled unit because its here in San Francisco. The fact it exist and the fact that is removed from the planning document and its a big deal. If the homeowners wish to remove in a uvu the way should go through the official process to have it removed in sales. If they chose to buy a house that had a udu in it, its been used as a udu with history, you will set a precedent for all other private homeowners. We have a housing crisis and we shouldnt be eliminating units because someone wants to make the bigger home. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations deals me there are four more individuals in the queue. Were taking public testimony on behalf of the appellant. Send the next caller through, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is george kenny. Im a longtime resident of San Francisco. Ive lived in San Francisco for over 17 years. Ive known ms. Mcknight for 16 years as i friend and colleague and today im here to support ms. Mcknights appeal of the current proposed project at 743 vermont street. My husband and i own a townhome in San Francisco and there we have conducted renovations and improvement on that unit twice over the years. Weve been through the permitting process and we know it can be difficult and painstaking. However, we understand the importance of getting the process correct. Not only for the benefit of the Property Owner but also for the benefit of the city of San Francisco and the neighborhood. As a record here identifies, there are still issues with the staff us of the unauthorized dwelling unit. Because the sponsor have refused to meet with miss mcknight a support the current project appeal. Its not stopping progress but rather it seeks to bring the stakeholders together to engage in a productive dialogue to ensure the projects that are approved do truly benefit the Property Owners. My name is cory warren and my husband and i live on Church Street in district 8 with our teenage son. Weve lived in San Francisco for almost 25 years. Weve done a renovation project here in the city and played by the rules working directly with all those effected and we remain throughout those process on good terms with everyone involved. And theres a shortage of Affordable Housing in San Francisco, for those who make the city run, teachers, First Responders and essential workers and Public Employees and others and many of the people who support our basic Cities Services drive everyday to get to work for hours because there are no Affordable Housing options for them and their families. Every existing unit and homes across our see the can help someone who needs and wants to live in San Francisco. Every project including this one at 743 vermont street matters. This project prose poss to significantly expand and already o. J. Simpson home without adding livable rooms and without extra space and as long as our codes ask Design Guidelines are follow, such as Expansion Projects are permissable. Would this particular project its my understanding that this hasnt been done and in the spirit of planning process guidelines and being a good San Francisco neighbor and citizen each of us should Work Together cooperatively to minimize impact to adjacent properties regardless of which side of a project we are on. We did this exhaust and im with her small project and with the property and as requested by those Property Owners and now, the project sponsors in this case. Even after requests every many months the project sponsors and to directly discuss the project impact and potential mitigatio mitigations. Thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Hi, my name is michael and im current resident inaudible . We rent a threeunit building one of the and and we that the will do a very large extension because and the rental units have no way that someone would purchase it for the protected units and im aware of these rent control and Affordable Housing union its on the hill and especially others more and more projects and its a real reduction in the availability of inaudible can afford. Weve been looking on the hilary sently and find that many of the homes that were reasonable had permitting approved that would allow for a grand extension but now the owners are trying to sell for an unimproved home for 2 million instead of the one three or one four that is should be based on what is currently emphasized and only because theyve gone through this process so if you are not only do we have an issue with the unit, but this growth expansion of homes on the hill makes it very challenging to stay put in a neighborhood where we have community and in addition, they really changes the character and the so i would be i would be in support of maintaining that housing unit, not being able to thank you, maam. There are 24 members of the public listening. If you are interested in raising your hand and getting in line, please press star 3 now otherwise theres one caller in the queue and well take this to the end. This is the last call. Operations, next caller, please. Im going to suggest you turn down your television. We did, sorry we were listening. My name is kathleen and i am one door down but its north and im north and directly effected with a building of the remodel and i totally agree with my neighbors being able to fix up their house and the way that they need to or want to and i feel like everybody got what they wanted and i would be directly effected by light and all that and i feel that they should be able to have what they want. I am a long time resident of the my daughter with with me five generations on this hill and ive seen a lot of people get what they want on this street and just because they dont have a view now or they dont the light they want now its something that they feel is being effected. I dont see it as an issue that they would be severely affected other than they lost their view, however, im directly affected by this and i grow that the couple nix door should be able to have this. That unit down stairs was there in the 50s. From the family that was the original owners. And that is not their fault for it being there. They cant control what that was. By the way, one last thing, if you look in our city with covid going on, we have it was a renting crisis and theres probably going to be a surplus because the uhauls are moving out. If theres anything that anyone wants to hear from me, i am here. Thank you, maam. Thats it. Thank you for your time, i appreciate it. So mr. President , she may have been speaking about the project, my apologies by the time i realized that but well mark her in the next section for Public Comment. Operations, are there any other callers in the queue. Madam clerk, that completes the queue. Ok. Got it. Thank you for your comments and seeing theres no other public speakers, then this part of the Public Comment is now closed. We will have a 10minute for the representatives of the Planning Department to give presentations if they have any. Good afternoon, are you able to hear me . Yes. Good afternoon, president yee and members of the board. Rachel Planning Department staff. The item before you is an appeal of the categoric alex semmion for the proposed project at 743 vermont street. On september 5th, 2019, the project was categorically and under the quality act class one which applies to small changes to minor additions to existing structures in urban areas where Public Service and facilities are available. As described, the 331 square foot addition to 2,366 square foot house, clearly falls into a class one categoric a exemption and the appellant argues that quote, the project should not have received a categorical exemption because the its incomplete and inaccurate. This argument is centered on how Department Staff has characterized the legalization of four existing rooms on the groundfloor of the residents. Which are throw storage rooms and one full bathroom. Theres been some inconsistency in how the legalization of these rooms has been charter sized and this not germane to the Environmental Review for the project. Under ceqa were concerned about physical changes to the environment. The environment impacts that resolve. No physical changes to the groundfloor rooms have been proposed. I would like to acknowledge the appellant had appeal brief and it did not raise issues among those already a addressed in the appeal response on march 16th. No issues have been raised today. The decision before the board whether to uphold the departments decision to issue a exemption and deny the appeal or return the project to the department for additional Environmental Review. The Department Position is that the project clearly meets the class 1 exemption criteria and it was local and state requirements. Further, while the confusion about the legalization of the characterization of the legalization of the groundfloor room is regrettable it has no barring on the validity of the exemption because no physical changes are being proposed to those rooms. We ask that you uphold the categoricel exemption and deny the appeal. With me today are joy, lisa and michael and carlie. We welcome any questions the board may have with regard to the ceqa analysis for the project and staff can expand on other topics if you would like other information. Thank you. Are you muted, mr. President. Supervisor yee yes, you probably didnt want to hear what i said. Im just kitting. Well move only to the sponsor speak at this point. You have 10 minutes. Good afternoon, can you hear me ok . Yes. Caller my name is jeff and i represent the project sponsors we also have the architect available as well as the project sponsor available if you have questions. The issue raised has been raised not once not twice but three times now. Its been raised at the first discretionary view hearing on february 14th, 2019 and it was raised again in january 9th of 2020. And it was clearly determined that even if the there is a udu that is existing in the space, the plans to not recall for removing it and therefore, is the conditional use permit is not required. I think its very telling they stated the project blocks significant light. This is a ceqa appeal that they filed and the blocking of light to her property is not a proper issue to be determined today. Thank you. Im sorry. Any questions for the sponsors . Seeing none, well go ahead and move to Public Comments for those that are in support of the project. The board of supervisors will now take public testimony in support of the projector in opposition to the appeal. Telephone number is across the television and computer its 415 6550001. Meeting identifier 146 1532792. Press pound twice. When you are ready to speak, press star three. Operations lets have the first caller, please. There are no callers in the cue. Public comment is closed. Supervisor, brian batter son for the appellant. This has been trial quite an interesting presentation by that member of the public who calls from the house to the north and site and while she was supporting the project sponsors right to get what they want, she confirmed the existence of the unauthorized dwelling unit on the floor first. She stated that she said since the 50s. And that is very important, new information confirming the information and arguments in the record and with the ceqa production description. That is, with all due respect, a planning staff, its not correct to say sure, they admit the project description was wrong but it doesnt matter because it wont cause physical impacts and its not how ceqa works. Ceqa requires a stable, accurate project description and we can look to the county and the board of director, airport and there are a lot of cases that make that explicitly clear that is a requirement of ceqa and that requirement has not been met here. You have evidence from neighbors as well and we are correct the project description is wrong and the Planning Department staff has to their credit, admitted that problem. The result of that error is not no harm no foul. We dont know it there are environmental impacts because the environmental impacts of the project have not yet been evaluated. They evaluated a different inaccurate proteasome jet and it discrimination must be revoked now and that the planning tempt can review the inaudible that is being proposed. Even if they say well we lost out the unauthorized dwelling unit from the description, it wont be part of the project. Thats not right either. At a number of times they also said that it is in the project and legalization of the unit is in the project so they still have that problem with the stable accurate description of the project not being met. And it matters. Because if this project is approved, the last weve heard from them is Planning Commission is its legal icing it as storage and were using it as a nationally affordable unit. This is not views and and yes, we have raised these arguments multiple timemultiple times ande succeed. It was rescinded by the Planning Department because the project sponsor misrepresent sented thee of the project. So, again, i want to come back to the proposal as a compromise and we hope that you will preserve this unit and the compromise is, two feet at the second flor and one foot shy of the third. The three foot reduction on the second floor and 511 on the third floor. Thank you very much for your consideration. Supervisor walton. Thank you so much president and and i want to thank the appellant and the sponsors of the project. On september 20th, 2018, the Planning Department issued a ceqa cad gore i ca categorical n determination identified the approval action for the project as either one, the issuance of a Building Permit or two, the discretionary review hearing before the Planning Commission if it was requested and the review was requested by the appellant. On february 14th, 2019, the Planning Commission held this discretionary hearing and approved the project at and to move it forward as proposed. On september 5th, 2019, the Planning Department then reissued a ceqa categorical exemption for the proposed project. The approval action for the project was either one, a planning Commission Hearing, two, a discretionary review hearing, if the d. R. Is requested before the schedule planning Commission Hearing. A discretionary review because requested by the appellant and on january 9th, 2020 the Planning Commission held the second reviewing. The Planning Department has now whether this ceqa exemption is valid. They have meetings with the representatives of the project sponsor, the appellant and with the Planning Department throughout this process. The project sponsor and appellant have had multiple disagreements through this process which have failed to be resolved. The one thing i do want to note is that the units that have been mentioned is not involved in this proposed goals. I would always hope that this would be solved at the neighborhood level amongst neighbors and this is not possible in this case. I take the concerns of all of my constituents to try to come up with a resolution to make everyone 457 and i apologize that at this time, that is not something that we are going to be able to do. Our role as a board of supervisors today, however, is only surrounding ceqa. And after conversations with all parties, it is my position that while there may still be disagreements, between the sponsor and the appellant. There is no ceqa and additionally after two discretionary, to move the project forward. I encourage my colleagues to support item 34 and affirm the thank you. Thank you supervisor walton. I dont see supervisor preston . Thank you president yee, i just tried to great some clarification to make sure i understand here. For the Planning Department, will this project eliminate i dwelling unit or not. Someone from the Planning Department and. Id like to respond through the chair and id like to call my colleague. Good even members of the board, planning staff and mr. We cannot find any verifiable evidence of that criteria in our udu screening and it does involve thats not provided by realtors or the Property Owner we count find evidence to verify that. So at 24 point, the project will not remove an unauthorized unit. Is it premised on there not being approximate it was yes theres a dwelling union exit this would remove it, would that render as the a pe appellant contends, would that render the categorical exemption window that make that based on a false characterization. We would not have accurately described the project description but since theres no change being proposed, we added some language and this is the source of the confusion. We sadded some language about legalization of those four rooms which was miss con truced and mischaracterized as a removal of a unit. The legalization is in response to a complaint that was called into the department of Building Inspections and who in checking their records, and visiting the site, identified that the permits were not pulled for the construction of the room. The only legalization happening is getting the permit retroactively and getting it inspects and the way they would have initially. Does that make sense . Supervisor preston, ill add too that if the proposal did remove an unauthorized unit, he is correct the proper procedure possible a conditional use authorization and is not something that we can do administratively. So, in this case, the determination its not an unauthorized unit, you know, doesnt change this procedure but if it was an unauthorized unit the removal would trigger completely different process. Right, why is that unclear and maybe this is a question for the project sponsor. Is there access from the main unit to this area that is claimed to be an independently accessible dwelling unit . This is a garage space and there are two storage rooms and a bathroom constructed in this home many years ago. During the prior to the discretionary hearing someone called building inspection to say theres an illegal unit in there and theyre trying to remove it and this is when removing udu was raised. What is in that space, its unpermitted bathroom so what we are doing now is legalizing that bathroom and were not doing anything physically to it. We added it we modified the plan per Planning Guidance to include the bathroom that had been to get a permit for it. Its a violation satisfies issueissued for anunpermitted be space. What were doing now is were getting it permitted. Physically not touching it or doing anything to that space. Were not removing it or doing anything to it. It will stay the same. This is in your presentation t. You said whether it was or wasnt used as a dwelling unit and i guess im asking directly what was this used as a dwelling unit previously. Project sponsor. So, terry, are you on the line. Turn down your tv. Hi, board of supervisors. Im hearing the delay of what we are already talking about. Its my computer. I have a mac book. Sorry about that. The question is, was it ever used as a dwelling unit, is that correct . Thats correct. Yes, and that was over 15 years ago . In the past . I had two roommates and it wasnt an independent dwelling unit it was used as a room as part of the home. One of my rom mates lived there there was no access to the streets. inaudible . We shared the living room area within my home and we also shared all of the utilities. And, so we lived together when i first moved there 18 years ago. That was a long time ago. Since then shes been moved out and its used for tour storage. We have had no intention of touching that at all. The plans were just to improve the other two units. Because of the notice of vile race filed from a complaint from a neighbor, we had to bring that area of code and we agreed to do so along with what the Planning Department recommended. Theres no plan inaudible for any of those rooms. We want to keep it as is and just get the permit and get it according to planning says we have to get it. Thank you. One more question back to mrt of secondary information or hear say, do you have concrete he have about use of this alleged unit as a separate gel unit including either rental of that unit or testimony or declaration from a tenant or anything of that nair to refute what ms. Pickering just said . Thank you, supervisor, miss pickering has just admitted in effect that the or is an unauthorized dwelling unit. I can show new the plan the building plan actually redevelops its more than just a bathroom at issue its a separate dwelling unit with no access and ill try to share this screen now. So, hopefully you can see this on the left side this is the groundfloor. This is in the front behind the bay window is a bedroom with a closet. Theres nothing showing. This is where the illegal kitchen and most importantly, theres no connection between this downstairs unit and the main floor lawful dwelling unit. Thats the criteria in planning code 317 that matters. Even if this person sometimes went upstairs, there is no connection between the unauthorized dwelling unit and the main unit. There are also is a window so you have exposure here and you had a third party neighbor confirm this was an unauthorized dwelling unit. I dont see anybody else on the roster. What ill do is im just going to consider this public hearing held and now is filed. As previously discussed, we will take up a consideration with the categorical exemption and determination and which involves whether the determination from further vinyl review was appropriate. To conditionally reverse plannings decision, six votes of the board are required. So, supervisor walton, do you have anymore comments to make thank you so much president yee. Just as stated my orange originl statement, i affirm the categoric alex tension determination. So, you would like to make a motion to approve item 34 and table 35 and 36 . Correct. Ok. Do i need a second on that one . Yes, you do, mr. President. Supervisor yee can i have a second . Second, mr. Safai. Clerk on the motion to approval items 35 and 36 [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee without objection item 34 is approved and items 35 and 36 are tabled. That concludes the 3 00 p. M. Special orders. So, madam clerk, id like to, i believe, were going back to item number 10. Oh, ok. Item number 10. Clerk item number 10 was the sanitation and streets Commission Public Works Commission item. I believe it has already been proposed of. Item 11. A Charter Amendment third draft to amend the charter of the city to create the Sheriff Department Oversight Board and to advise and report findings and recommendations to the sheriff and to the board of supervisors regarding Sheriff Department operations to create Sheriffs Department office of Inspector General and under the direction appointed by the Oversight Board to investigate complaints of non criminal misconduct by employees and contractors of the Sheriff Department and in custody deaths to the ser i have and Oversight Board to be held on november 3rd, 2020. Supervisor walton. Thank you, first i want to start off by thanking all of my close sponsor for this Charter Amendment. Supervisor haney, ronen, preston, yee, safai and mark. I want to thank the rules committee for affordabling this Charter Amendment to the full board with a positive recommendation. The late public defender and i committed to the oversight and many will report misconduct at hands of the Sheriffs Department. The time they took to be sure that my office was continuing to work on this important issue is definitely appreciated. I want to thank these particular individuals who were in custody and they have the courage to call my Office Weekly to continue to push for justice and share their story with those who don have a voice. With the recent up riseing and calls for justice reform, Law Enforcement attack ton black people and people of color, this Charter Amendment this is the type of investment we node to make. I believe it is important to Work Together to build systems and trust transparency, and accountable are ensured. During our work on this topic, we reached out to experts in the field of justice reform, had a great team of volunteers who work endless hours on this and particularly i want to thank current District Attorney and i also want to thank public defender and his staff for the hours that they have contribute today make sure that this oversight will continue long after all of us. Here say brief overview of what is being proposed for this charter. The Charter Amendment will establish a Sheriff Department Oversight Board of several members who show training and orientation on custody stowed yall Law Enforcement and constitutional and policing and procedures. This body will appoint and expect the general and the Sheriff Department to evaluate the work of the Sheriff Department and compile and recommend Law Enforcement, custodial and hear public input regarding the Sheriff Department operations and jail conditions. This body will receive, review and investigate complaints against Sheriff Department employees of assaults and any debt. This body will investigate the deaths of all individuals and custody of the San Francisco Sheriff Department. The body will also develop and recommend to the sheriff the use of force policy and comprehensive internal review process for all use of force and critical incidents. Quarterly reports will be submitted to the sheriff and the Sheriff Department Oversight Board, reports will include a anybody and types of complaints filed, training analysis and the outcome of each complaints. Lets get this important oversight of the Sheriff Department on the ballot as the Charter Amendment in november and i just again want to thank all of you for your support and your work on this and this is a culmination of over a year of folks woking together to come up with the best policy for independent is over sight and investigations of Sheriff Departments misconduct. Thank you. Supervisor yee thank you. Supervisor peskin. Please, let the record indicate that i attempted to be a cosponsor and like to cosponsor effective immediately. Thank you so much. Clerk well make a note of it, supervisor peskin. Supervisor yee madam clerk, call the roll. Clerk on item 11 [ roll call vote ] supervisor yee this pass unanimously. Go ahead and call item number 12. Is a Charter Amendment second draft to amend the charter of the city of county of San Francisco to remove the minimum Police Staffing requirement and to require the Police Department to submit a report recommendation regarding Police Staffing levels to the Police Commission every two years to consider the report when approving the departments proposed judge et at an election to be held on november 3rd, 2020. Supervisor yee colleagues, im proud to joined exercises ronen, peskin, fewer, walton, mar and preston in sponsoring the charter mendment before us today. Which could it would establish a datadriven process to base Police Staffing levels on work loads, services objectives and the needs of the city. And remove the requirement the city maintain a minimum of 1,971 dutysworn officers and before i make more statements, id like to thank the committee for sum particular out with a positive recommendation. They reached out to support this effort and work hard to bling us to this point. I would also like to thank chief scott for his engagement communities are calling on us to change our course. And we must be unwavering in our commitment to ensure accountability and transparency and this would require the Police Department to submit the thorough assessment of a staffing and workload to the Police Commission. The commission make recommendations based on the findings of the report to the mayor and the board of supervisors. Second, it would remove a requirement that sets the minimum Police Staffing and it gives the city freedom to make policy decision to reimagine and improve Public Safety services. Its important to spend a moment reviewing the history of minimum staffing level so that so that we are all clear about where the number comes from and 25 years ago, voters approved what we at the time opposition d and instead of minimum staffing requirements of 1,971 of dutysworn Police Officers. This number we continue to rely on today was never at any point, based on the department workload. The number actually first appeared as part of the Settlement Agreement for a discrimination classaction lawsuit in the department of justice required that city increase warn staffing to 1,971 and maintain that level of staffing for three years. To allow for more affordable promotional opportunities within the department for women, black, latin x and apa staff. This staffing level reflected the total number of authorized positions in the department at the time of 1979. That staffing i also want to be clear that when we talk about Police Staffing levels, we all talk about just a number, that is far from the sole focus of or purpose of the regular low assessing staffing and the department. For example, staffing decisions impact which neighborhoods have more officers than others and how quickly police are able to respond to emergency calls and in different neighborhoods. Staffing decisions impact how well Police Officers no and staffing impacts how accessibility Police Services are to immigrant communities. And Community Members with limited english proficiency. To create a thoughtful process for determining Police Staffing levels, that can actually prioritize the needs of our communities, we need to remove the handcuffs that the mandatory minimum staffing requirement has placed on san franciscans and also on our budgets. So colleague, please join me in voting today in placing this on the november 3th, 2020 ballot. So, madam clerk, i dont see anybody on the roster. Why dont we go ahead and take roll on this item. Chair, i do see the chief of police. Supervisor yee ok. Chief scott, im sorry, i didnt see you on the roster. Go ahead, chief scott. Thank you, president yee and thank you supervisor peskin for acknowledging my presence. First of all, i want to thank president yee for his work on this and a lot of work and thought went into this and i appreciate that you gave the department an opportunity to give feedback on this. The department is, as you know, based on your leadership and your staffing analysis has done a lot of work on creating metrics to understand staffing needs of the San Francisco Police Department and 2020 so because of that work, were in a good place and as you know, theres some issues and some things that we wanted to get in there in terms of the staffing models but i appreciate you listening to us and i appreciate you working with us and definitely department and oppose of this legislation. Thank you, chief scott. It was a real public to work witpleasure to workwith you andt and discussion that you were open to my suggestions. While we doing this work over the last two years, so, i appreciate that. Madam clerk, go ahead and take roll. President yee, i would like to commend you for moving this forward. This was truly an arbitrary number and to go back in the history and how that number came about. Its a matter. Of agreement and it made no sense whatsoever. I really want to applaud you for moving this Charter Amendment forward and im delighted to be a cosponsor and seek. Supervisor yee thank you. Supervisor haney, did you want to make a comment. I wanted to thank you, president yee and ask if i can have my name added as a cross cosponsor as well. Supervisor yee absolutely. In no one else, we can take the roll on this. Supervisor mandelman, wants to cosponsor. Clerk thank you, well make a note of it. Supervisor yee supervisor, safai, do you want to Say Something . I was going to wait until you call my name you but i appreciate the hard work and add me as a cosponsor and i want to chief scott, thank you for being a little more relaxed today. [laughter] and yes, thank you for all your hard work on this and add me as a cosponsor. Supervisor yee thank you. I think we can call roll now. Clerk ok. On item 12 [ roll call vote ] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee this item is passed unanimous low. Thank you very much, everybody. Lets move on to our new business. Madam clerk. Clerk item 13 is an to accept the expend a 2 milliondollar grant from the United States department of Homeland Security for the securing the City Grant Program march 4th, 2020 to provide for an additional four full time employees and for and Emergency Services coordinator. Supervisor yee madam clerk, call the roll. [ roll call vote ] clerk there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee this passes on First Reading. Item 14 is a resolution to amend the citys 10year Capital Expenditure plan for fiscal years 2020 through 2029. To amend the proposed government Obligation Bond program. Supervisor yee go ahead, medicine am clerkmadam clerk ann this item. Clerk on item 14 [ roll call vote ] there shall 11 ayes. Without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to items 1517 together. Items 1517 call together pertain to three resolutions to approve Airport Professional Services agreements and item 15 a proves modifications number one and general airport and contract with Covenant Aviation Security llc to increase the contract amount by 6. 3 million for a not to exceed amount of 11. 8 to extend june 30th, 2022 and item 16, a proves the second modifications to an airport contract with Vanderland Industries inc to increase the contract amount by 3 million for a new not to exceed contract amount of 12. 7 million and operate, maintain and repair Airport Passenger boarding bridges and baggage handling systems to supervisor the final one year option to extend the term from october first, 2020 to september 1st, 2021 and item 17 is is a retroactive approval of the third modification to the professional Services Agreement with Hallmark Aviation Services for airport information and guest assistant services to extend the term through june 30th, 2020 to include the amount by 13. 8 million for a new total contract not to exceed amount of 41. 1 million. Ok. Supervisor fewer. I would like to sever item number 15, please. All right. Did someone Say Something . Did you hear me, pres presidt yee . Supervisor yee yes i heard you. Madam clerk, take roll on 16 and 17. Clerk on items 16 and 17 supervisor stefani. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor haney. Aye. Haney aye. Supervisor mandelman. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor pose. Peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. There are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee these items are passed or these go without objection and the resolution is unanimous for 16 and 17. Madam clerk, lets go back to item 15. Supervisor fewer . Yes, thank you, very much president yee. I cant turn my camera on, otherwise i cant talk. So, this is a Contract Negotiation to renew a contract and its under the prop j provision so id like to add an amendment where we discuss that we discuss budget. Id like to introduce an amendment to add a clause to this resolution beginning on page 1 line 24 stating, whereas, prior to supervising the second twoyear option to extend the term of this contract, the airport will evaluate whether the Services Performed under the contract could be performed by Permanent Civil Service employees to mitigate possible layoffs. I want to thank the City Attorney for drafting this amendment after a discussion at committee. Supervisor yee this amendment offered. Is there a second . Supervisor peskin here through the budget care. Can you please explain why you are doing this . I am doing this because this is these are contracted out services and under the prop j provision the airport and this is actual lo actually that happs annually. The airport can contract out the services that the city, in an emergency, and also where the city could get it to be less expensive to contract out. I raise the issue that we may be facing massive layoffs at the airport and that before they renew this second year option, second twoyear option that they would evaluate whether or not any of the services we contract out for could be performed by Civil Service employees to mitigate the possible layoff at the airport. Respectfully, through the president to the budget chair, why dont we just require that they cant supervisor their next option and reject this unless it terminates . Because they have an [please stand by] two, two year options to extend. Were only asking for one twoyear option to extend. And before we exercise the final twoyear option to extend, we would evaluate if there were Civil Service employees who i believe chair fewer were concerned would be laid off or have been laid off if they could do the services in step . I totally get that. What im saying is that rather than the airport having the ability to have the second twoyear option at its sole and absolute discretion and suggesting and with all respect to my budget chair, that this only be one twoyear extension rather than the unenforceable language that is being suggested by the budget chair. What is before you is one option to extend. Before we exercise the second option to extend, we would come back to the wards for approval and presumably to present what we have reviewed in terms of if there were other Civil Service positions that could perform these jobs. So are you coming back to the board because pursuant to section 9. 118, subsection b, of the charter that you have to do that . Yes. Thank you for your explanation. I appreciate it. President yee i still need a second. Seconded by supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you. President yee i see that theres so we will call the amendment. Clerk on the amendment, supervisor stefani. Supervisor yee. Yee, aye. Supervisor fewer. Fewer aye. And supervisor haney. Aye. Haney aye. Supervisor mandelman. Mandelman, aye. Supervisor mar. Mar, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin aye. Supervisor preston. Preston aye. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, aye. Supervisor safai. Safai aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Take the roll on this item as amended. Clerk on item 15 as amended. [roll call] [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection, the resolution as amended is adopted. Madam clerk, the next 18. Clerk to lease Real Property at 333 valencia street for 15 years anticipated to commence on february 16th, 2021, from 333 valencia owner l. L. C. , at a base rent of approximately 2. 2 million per year with a 3 annual increase and to make the appropriate findings. President yee okay. Supervisor fewer, yeah. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer sorry, thank you, president yee. On behalf of the department of Real Estate Today im introducing a technical amendment to this item which will correct the t total amountn page 4, line 12 to 6. 5 million. The total value is listed correctly in multiple other places in the resolution and this will confirm that amount. And the director is available in case of questions today. President yee any questions . Seeing none, could we have a second on the amendment. Motion to amend. Supervisor Stefani Stefani second. President yee madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on the motion to amend. Clerk on the motion to amend. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection the amendment is accepted. Please call the roll on the resolution as amended. Clerk on item 18 as amended. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection the resolution as amended is adopted. Madam clerk, can we go to item 19. I have a request. I need to do something sorry and i cant just walk away. So theres usually a break somewhere but i havent seen it for a while. Supervisor peskin will you just take over the facilitation of one or two items. Supervisor peskin i would be happy to come up to the chairs podium, mr. President. President yee okay. So were on item number 19. Supervisor peskin i understand that. Madam clerk on number 19, the contract to amend number 6, are there any members that would like to comment on this . Seeing none, madam clerk, could you please call the roll. Clerk on item 19. [roll call] there are 10 ayes. Supervisor peskin thank you,. Supervisor mandelman . Madam clerk. Could you please read the next item. Its been adopted unanimously. Please read the next item. Clerk the way that the president has this listed he wanted items 20 through 22 to be called together. And here are three resolutions that declare the intent of the city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness to authorize the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage revenue one. For item 20 for an amount not to exceed 30 million for the acquisition and rehabilitation of the san christina hotel. For item 21, not to exceed 40 million for 777 broadway. And 15251529 grant avenue, otherwise know as the throughline apartments. And for item 22 supervisor peskin my apologies, go ahead, madam clerk. Clerk and for item 22, the issueance and of sale of Revenue Bonds by the city in a Principal Amount not to exceed 75 million to finance the development of a 137unit Affordable Rental Housing Development located in the city at 4840 Mission Street and to ratify and approve actions her heretofore taken wih all three projects and any application as defined. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, on items 20, 21 or 22, are there any comments . Mr. Chair . Supervisor peskin supervisor safai. Supervisor safai sorry. I wanted to say some quick words about item number 22. Unlike many parts of San Francisco, our district does not have or has not had any family Affordable Housing built in the history of this district. We have one small tiny housing authority, a 10unit building. But this would be the first family Affordable Housing built in the history of district 11 in the heart of the excelsior. There is an old funeral home at least 75 million, a result of the issuance of these bonds, a result of the hard work that we put in with the community. Bridge housing, the neighbors. And many, many people involved in this project over the last id say five years, but the 3 1 2 years that i have been in office. I want to particularly thank mayor breed for coming in last year during the budget process and chair sandy fewer for supporting that effort and colleagues for supporting that effort, for putting 30 million of our citys money into this general fund money which was then switched out, originally going to be one pool of eraf and it was switched to a bond, Affordable Housing bond money this last november. But that particular gap allowed us then to move aggressively and save a couple years on this projects development. We have a few projects in the pipeline. One private development of 50 affordable that many of you supported that will actually be the first. But this would be the first 100 family Affordable Housing. So i just wanted to call it out at 4840. To thank the mayor for her strong commitment to district 11 and thank you to all of the colleagues that supported that allocation last year. And that is what allows us to do what were doing today and move so aggressively where we will begin this fall in prepping this site for a groundbreaking and moving forward with the development of this site. So thank you, colleagues and thank you for your support. Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisor safai. I see that president yee is back, but while i still have the chair for just a hot second, i would just like the Mayors Office of housing to ed few us on the Revenue Bonds as they relate to 12044 mason and 777 broadway and 15251529 grant avenue in the Northeast Corner of the city that i happen to represent. And with that i hand the gavel back to president yee. President yee miss chan, are you there . Yes, yes, supervisor peskin could you elaborate, you want me to address the effect of this project . Supervisor peskin so, miss chan, as you know, and as the new head of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development knows, i want to use these opportunities for this unit of government to explain to this board, but more importantly, the people of San Francisco who watch this what these instruments are, how they work, what the indebtedness means, what these projects mean. Like, for instance, 777 broadway has been an Affordable Housing project for most of my adult life. So if you could actually explain this. I mean, we wrote these up every time they come to us, but we never used this as an Educational Opportunity to explain not only to those of us who voted on them, but to members of the public precisely what these instruments are and why we do this. Sure. So these are three and for items 20 to 22, these are existing Affordable Housing projects, including the three sites that you named in that item. And theyre applying to the state California Debt Limit Allocation Committee for an award of tax exempt bonds which are used to finance the construction of these sites. San francisco is the issuer of the bonds. Were not within these items were not asking for the board to approve any city dollars for the funding of these sites. But we are asking the board to approve of the projects being able to apply to the state for this tax exempt bond financing that is required in the federal requirements of the bond the bonds program. So the board and the Budget Committee have seen many proje projects see disapproval because most Affordable Housing projects are financed with tax credits and tax exempt bonds. And the 4 tax program and the tax exempt Bond Financing Program is the primary means by which we fund the projects. Largely because they have been for the most part noncompetitive, but we are seeing with such a high demand for Affordable Housing across the state, we are seeing that the bonds are have started to become competitive this year. So just in summary, again, this is one financing tool for funding Affordable Housing, but it is a very critical one and its just as part of the requirement for accessing, we do need the board to provide approval for the project to seek the awards from the committee. I hope that answers your question. Supervisor peskin see just so were clear through the president to miss chan, this is not the creation of any new housing . This is in essence a refinancing . That is correct. Which would allow the project to do rehabilitation work. The project to do rehabilitation work. Supervisor peskin and relative to item 21, whats that rehabilitation work consist of at 7777 broadway, 15251529 grant, 1204 mason . So as you will see in the file that there is a project description which describes the rehabilitation work which includes those exterior work building lights and improvements, including life safety improvements, as well as common area improvements and unit specific specific unit improvements. There is a long list of improve improvements that is included in the description. Supervisor peskin thank you miss chan. Thank you. President yee good questions supervisor peskin. Im always learning more on what this means. Lets see, so i think we have three items, is that correct . So go ahead and take the roll for items 22 20 through 22. Clerk numbers 20 through 22. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. And thank you, supervisor peskin, for taking over for a few moments there. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item, number 24. Clerk item 23 clerk a resolution to authorize the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to execute a grant application, as the California Department of housing and Community Developments Permanent Local Housing Allocation Program for funding in the amount of 52 million. President yee please call the roll. Clerk [calling roll] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Member, lets go to the next item. Clerk item 24 is a resolution to retroactively to approve a 89 million agreement between tenderloin housing clinic for master lease and support Services Permanent housing to 1,566 home are formerly homeless adults units to july 1, 2020. President yee okay. Please call the roll. Clerk [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, lets go to item 25. Clerk item 25, is a resolution to authorize the San Francisco Unified School District to issue and sell on its own behalf its general Obligation Bonds. From the 2016 election series b, in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 280 million without further action by the city. President yee okay, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 25, [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, and its adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, to next item, 26. Clerk item 26 is an ordinance to approve the Health Service system plans and contribution rates for calendar year 2021. Pursuant to charter section a8. 422, this matter shall receive a vote of threefourths of all members of the board to approve passage on First Reading of this ordinance. This is a nine vote threshold. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk i would like the special vote items. On item 26, supervisor stefan stefani. [roll call] supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin members, when two of our members refuse to vote and one of them had to be taken out of the bathroom by indiscernible . indiscernible . Clerk was that an aye, supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin that wa was. Clerk [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, to our next item. Clerk item 27 is an ordinance to amend the public works code to authorize the imposition of administrative penalties and fines for Illegal Dumping to provide for additional enforcement remedies to kept to electronic waste in the definition of Illegal Dumping to clarify that each act of Illegal Dumping constitutes a separate violation subject to abatement or enforcement actions, and further to amend the police code to provide procedures for assessment and collection of administrative. S for Illegal Dumping and to affirm the ceqa determination. President yee supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much, president yee. Colleagues, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to next weeks 7 time28 meeting and we are working with the City Attorney to revise certain definition so that theres uniformity. And i would propose these changes next week once we hear back from the City Attorney. President yee seconded by supervisor peskin. Madam clerk, on the motion to continue. Clerk on the motion to continue to july 28. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, the motion to continue to july 28th passes. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 28. Clerk item 28 is an ordinance to amend the health code to require the director of health to adopt minimum health and Safety Standards governing the operation of commercial adult sex venues and prohibiting the adoption of any standard that requires monitoring of patrons sexual activities or that regulate doors or mandate unlocked doors in areas where Sexual Activity may occur. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call roll. Clerk on item 28. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 29. Clerk item 29, resolution to condemn the increase of racial profiling and discrimination harassment from private businesses and individuals, who profile people of color for suspicion of crime or denial of Service Based on the individuals race, age, ethnicity, language, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, and national origin. President yee okay. Go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item number 29. [roll call] supervisor safai pleas add s a cosponsor on this item too. Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the ordinance is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to the committee reports, i believe . Number 37. 737 am i correct . Clerk you. President yee item number 37. Clerk item 37 was considered by the budget and finance committee at a special meeting on tuesday, july 21st and was forwarded as a committee report. Item 37 is a Charter Amendment and initiative ordinance, business and tax regulations code, adjustment of baseline funding and business tax changes pursuant to the rules 22. 7 this item shall be continued for one week to allow six days to intervene between the first appearance today and any board order of submission to an electorate beginning with next week. President yee okay, colleagues, i want to thank supervisors fewer and haney who worked tirelessly for trying to enforce this piece of legislation to get to the ballot in november to really fix the indiscernible and we have to continue the item well have it in committee. So i want to thank the mayor, mayor breed, for her support in unifying and getting behind this version of the gross receipt tax measure. And i also want to thank a couple cosponsors that just joined in, supervisor safai and supervisor mandelman, that indicated that they wanted to be cosponsors earlier. And we will not be voting on this today as it needs to sit for a week. But i wanted to make sure to acknowledge the labor also and Community Partners as well as other Small Businesses for their input into this process. So supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin mr. President , i am not one for compliments, but i would like to reiterate what i have said in committee. This was remarkably complicated. It had a lot of moving pieces. There are many, many people to thanks, many of them are staff members. And im not known for being nice to anybody, but, president yee, you conducted this entire thing incredibly well for which i am profoundly grateful. You took a lot of it and consistently and calmly brought them together in a way that i think that was ultimately profoundly fair. You got the mayor on board. You got the lefter and more left parts of our board, the supervisors on board. This offers profound relief to the Small Business sector of the tax paying community. But i really want to thank you, norman, for how you conducted this entire episode. indiscernible . President yee i appreciate it. But it wasnt hard with the three of you working on it. What could i say. It could be much more difficult, but i felt that it was just indiscernible . So, madam clerk, what do i have to do now . I have to make a motion to continue this item . Is there a second . Second. President yee seconded by supervisor stefani fewer . Okay, all right. Okay, then go ahead. So theres been a motion made and seconded. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll on this continuance . Clerk to continue item 37 to july 28th. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection then the Charter Amendment is t continued to the meeting of july 28, 2020. Madam clerk, go to the next item, 38. Clerk mr. President , i have to make a correction, i failed you. We did not call item 30 yet and i want to do so before we move any further. President yee okay. Clerk determining that the issue of a type42 onsale beer and wine public premises Liquor License to the nobody inn l. L. C. , doing business as the nobody inn, located at 620 post street, district 3, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco, and requesting that the California Department of alcoholic Beverage Control impose conditions on the issuance of the license. President yee madam clerk, call the roll on this item. Clerk on item 30 [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, then without objection this item passes unanimously. Now i think were back to 38. Clerk yes, that is truly correct. Item 38 was considered by the government audit and Oversight Committee at a special meeting on friday, july 17th and was forwarded as the committee report. Its a resolution to approve for purposes of the International Revenue code, section 147 [f] the issuance and sale of revenue obligations by the California Enterprise Development Authority in an aggregate Principal Amount to not exceed 25 million to finance or refinance the acquisition, construction, renovation, rehabilitation, improve mint and or equipping of educational and related facilities to be owned and operated by the San Francisco Waldorf School association, a california nonprofit Public Benefit corporation. President yee madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 38. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, good. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item number please call items 39 through 41 together. Clerk okay. First i will say that items 3942 were considered by the landuse and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on monday, july 20th. Items 39 through 41 were forwarded as committee reports. Item 39 is an ordinance to amend the general plan to amend the market and octavia area plan, making conforming amendments to the arts element and the housing element, and to make the appropriate findings. Item 40 ordinance to amend the various sections of the planning code to amend the van ness and Market Downtown residential special use district to encourage additional housing and uses that support neighborhood residents and businesses and to give effect to amendments to the market and octavia area plan to add a new planning code section 425 to create the van ness and Market Community facilities fee and fund. And item 41 is an ordinance to amend the zoning map of the planning code to amend the boundaries of the van ness and market residential special use district and make other amendments to the height and bulk district maps and zoning use district maps and to make the appropriate findings. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Im on the roster, president yee. President yee oh, okay, sorry. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin no problem. Thank you. Colleagues, so items 39 to 41 as set forth compromise a package of legislation that seeks to rezone the area around Market Street and van ness at that intersection known as the hub. My office, along with supervisors haney and ronen, have worked closely with the central citys coalition to bring to the board the amended legislation thats before us today. And the legislation limits the zoning changes for the hub to three sites that have gone through an Extensive Community process. Mainly, the project sites at 30 van ness, 10 south van ness and 98 franklin. The result of which has been a considerable package of Public Benefits. With full support from the community, we if we pass this, it would essentially be fast tracking the necessary changes for these three sites in phase one, something that is also strongly urged and supported by our labor allies. At the same time wed also be taking the time we need before moving forward with the rezoning of the rest of the area. We are pausing the remainder for really a specific purpose, which is as discussed extensively in committee, is to allow a thorough race and Equity Analysis on what the effects will be, particularly on communities of color of the complete hub plan. The process to scope this analysis is already underway and it is our intention to allow no more than six months for the completion of this process. Its important for stakeholders on all sides and that nothing in the full plan has been rejected at this point. Rather, by duplicating the relevant files as we did at committee, we have effectively kept the broader discussion in committee while moving forward with the projects that are in the process of entitlement and have offered to the Community Significant Public Benefits that i will not detail here today, but are extensive. I do want to note one thing that is widely covered in the media that i think that is really very significant. And that is that as part of the Community Benefits package, the developer of the 10 south van ness has agreed to allocate their Affordable Housing obligation to a land dedication for the purpose of creating 100 permanently Affordable Housing. And among the sites being considered is 1979 Mission Street. Known as the monster in the mission. And we are really excited by the possibility that the monster in the mission may yet become what activists have called the marvel in the mission. What supervisor ronens office has worked so hard to ensure, along with so Many Community activists. So i want to be clear that the city approvals dont require the developer to acquire and develop that specific site, but, nrms, nonetheless, we know that todays approval is a crucial step in the efforts to secure a 100 affordable site. And if this were to come to fruition at 1979 mission it would really be an incredible win and a testament to the power of organizing for the Mission District and for the housing Justice Movement at large. And in particular for a neighborhood that has suffered the displacement of more than 8,000 latinos over the past decade. To lay the groundwork for 100 Affordable Housing project envisioned and articulated at the marvel in the mission would really be a milestone to this city. So i think overall the package before us today represents a sensible balance, one that effectively green lights some 1,644 units of new housing, a significant apportion of which is affordable, and much of that deeply affordable. While really listening to the demands of the community to elevate and to Center Important considerations of race and equity before moving forward with the remaining parcels. I want to note as my colleague, supervisor peskin, said in committee yesterday that really the significance of of what we see as a paradigm shift here in how we as a city pursue and approve major developments. We need to bring in Community Groups in the process and make sure that as benefits are conferred to building this city, that we do that with the support of Community Members. In particular, communities of color. And i just want to recognize how throughout this process that the community has led this package that we see before us today. I want to thank the central citys coalition, in particular john and angelica and la i. R. S. , and david woo, and tess wellborn and astasia, and many others who worked so hard on this as part of the coalition and helped our office to move forward with this balanced approach at this time. And i also want to recognize and thank the district nine office, abbey of the district 6 office, my colleague supervisors haney and supervisor ronen and kyle smeeley of my office for all of their work to bring this package forward. So, colleagues, i urge your supports for items 39 to 41 today. Thank you. President yee thank you, supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you so much and thank you, supervisor peskin, for all of your words. And to supervisor haney, for all of your work on this as well as your staff and the amazing amy in my office who has been working very hard on this. I want to add my voice of support for what my colleagues have already expressed or what supervisor preston already expressed today. This amended package of legislation is a win for San Francisco and truly signals a change in how we plan the development in our city. So with our vote today were taking the practical step of green lighting three Major Projects that are ready to proceed following the intensive Community Input and with the Community Benefits. At the same time, we are passing a framework for the remainder of the hub with approvals of future projects to be phased in following an Equity Analysis already underway. We cannot continue to plan for the future of San Francisco without an honest assessment of the reallife impacts of communities of color and lowincome and lowwage workers and Small Businesses. Once we have that information, we cannot put that report on a shelf and the impacts cannot be mitigated or theres overriding mitigations that force us to overlook the damage. In june, there was a powerful resolution acknowledging the harms to the communities of color due to historical and presentday planning and zoning policies and committed to a bold and forwardthinking strategies to advance racial and social equity in San Francisco. We must once and for all not only study but absorb and integrate and utilize the information so that development enhances economic opportunities, protects and expands Affordable Housing and preserves cultural districts. This hub will be our first test. Thank you so much, colleagues, and i hope that you will all support today. President yee sprrv supervir haney. Supervisor haney there we go. You know, i just wanted to echo the comments of my colleagues, supervisors preston and ronen. The hub, of course, kind of sets at the intersection of the three of our districts. Much of it falling into my district, including i think two of these projects. And i just really want to appreciate the collaborative approach that weve taken with our three offices and our respective staffs, abbey in my office and kyle and amy and their hard work and all of the Community Advocates and residents and the project sponsors. Its really important that we are able to move forward these three Key Development sites immediately and they will add many hundreds of units of housing, including many units of Affordable Housing. And also as supervisor preston said, theres incredible urgency around one of them that we hope that will lead to the development of a 1979 mission as 100 Affordable Housing, which would be a huge victory for not only the mission but for our entire city. So i want to thank again my colleagues and the staff from planning and all of the Community Members and the central city coalition. We had a lot more work to do. And i think that once we receive the results of the race and social equity study we will be able to ensure that the next steps of this provide most Equitable Development plan possible for this growing part of our city that, this hub area plan will really determine the future of. And so thanks again, supervisor preston, for this for your leadership and supervisor and chair peskin as well that contributed extensively in committee and supervisor safai. Thank you. President yee supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer thank you, president yee. Theres a lack of Public Schools in that area and im wondering if that has been on your radar because that Large Development area, as you know, is not residential before. So i think that supervisor haney knows full well that there is really a lack of Elementary Schools, middle and high schools in that area. So i would hope that you are working very closely with planning. I have mentioned it many, many times to planning when they are briefing me on this plan that theres a lack of educational public Educational Opportunities there. So i just wanted to make sure that as we are building a whole new community there that we are not forgetting the importance of Public Education and the accessibility to schools in that area. Thank you. President yee thank you for your comments, supervisor fewer. And one of the things that i am hoping that well have some elements into and encouraging around familyfriendly elements that we could have so we can move forward soon. Madam clerk, go ahead and call roll call on this. Clerk on item 39 through 41. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance are passed on First Reading. Maddamadam clerk, lets go to rl call. Clerk supervisor stefani, youre up first to introduce new business. Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today im introducing the nogovernment rackets or fraudulent or transaction act known as the no grasp act which will close several loophole necessary the citys contracting process and increase oversight over how contracting is conducted. Ongoing local and federal investigations have made clear that we need more accountability from city departments. The no grab act will be a step forward to safeguard taxpayer dollars. This proposal will amend the administrative code and close the loopholes that former direct workers used to have contracts to recipients without solicitation, documentation, evaluation or oversight. It creates a new strict set of rules governing the use of prequalified contracting pools, and as needed professional Services Contracts which give Department Heads broad discretion to direct certain kinds of contracts to specific individuals. And which has been ripe for abuse. According to a recent report from the city auditor, the former director of public works used these contracting tools to issue over 150 contracts totaling over 250 million over the last three years. This represents over 90 of the contracts public works issued, 90 . The no grab act will set forth minimum standards for all city departments that seek to use these types of contracting tools. It will require departments to solicit bids publicly, evaluate these bids using fair and objective criteria, retain all related documentation, and provide copies to the office of Contract Administration and the controller for oversight and review. By making these necessary changes, the no grab act will bring our contracting procedures in line with nationally recognized best practices and it will eliminate opportunities for abuse. San franciscans should not have to wonder whether their taxes are being used for corrupt purposes. And as elected officials, our primary responsibility is to be careful stewards of our resources and, of course, the public trust. The no graft act will move us closer to restoring that trust. I would like to thank the city auditor mark delrosa and the attorneys for their help drafting this legislation. And i look forward to seeing it pass in the future. And i also want to thank for the cosponsorship. I look forward to your support as this moves through the process. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much. Thank you so much, madam chair. Colleagues, today i do have a resolution to introduce as well as two memoriams. First, along with supervisors peskin and haney, i wish to introduce a resolution in support of sb797. This resolution would allow for a dedicated funding stream for caltrain. In its prime precovid19, it carried 60,000 people a day for weekday commutes, up and down San Francisco, the peninsula and the silicon valley. Every year San Francisco county and mateo county and Santa Clara County has millions to fund the rail system with no dedicated Funding Source across the country. This resolution allows a tax on the ballot for november to commit to changes in the governance structure so theres shared accountability and sharedditioshareddecisionmakingd to ensure 100 million a year for caltrain operations. You may have seen media reports and social media discussions highlighting the fact that there are concerns from San Francisco and Santa Clara County about the fact that the sanmateo Transit Agency has been the main for caltrain for years. And that the c. E. O. Is also the c. E. O. Of caltrain by default. We, supervisors peskin, haney, and i, have been working hard to keep San Francisco and caltrains best interest at the forefront. We are excited to introduce this resolution that would provide for a dedicated Funding Source and make sure that the voters and residents of San Francisco have a voice in the management of resources and leadership for the railroad. After all, San Francisco and Santa Clara County will provide close to 80 of the revenue generated for caltrain from this proposed tax. I want to thank our colleagues and leaders and Santa Clara County, especially supervisors cindy chavez, and san jose mayor locardo, and mr. Fernandez, and Assembly Members and the City Council Member deb davis. Also Assembly Members david chu and senator scott wiener, our very own mayor london breed, and c. T. A. Director chang, who has been working tirelessly on this in the past few days. President norman yee, supervisor haney, and, of course, supervisor peskin, who have been the joe montana to my jerry rice during this entire process. I also want to thank our amazing legislative aide, particularly sunny angula from supervisor peskins office, and our office and jim lowe, from president youres office. Im also calling for the imht of committee of the whole for this to be heard in next weeks supervisor meeting to have a conversation so we can vote on this. Lets do lets work to do what is best for our constituents, for San Francisco, and for caltrain. And i believe that supervisor peskin does have some words at this time. Clerk okay, supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk, thank you, mr. President , for acknowledging me out of order. I am not sure whether i was jerry rice or joe montana, but i do want to say to commissioner walton, our joint powers board representative from San Francisco, a ninemember agency that for the last year and a half, supervisor walton and myself have attempted to build bridges with our colleagues in santa clara and san mateo counties over an issue that has existed for decades. I am ashamed that the caltrain staff are actually spending our funds from the taxpayers of San Francisco and funds from the taxpayers of santa clara, running a Political Campaign rather than coming to the table and having a discussion that we all want to have about shared governance and the future of a promising railroad that has and can continue to decongest the highway 101 corridor and be environmentally sound. Im sorry . Clerk supervisor ronen, please mute your microphone. Supervisor ronen im so sorry. Supervisor peskin no worries whatsoever. I do not believe in the 20 years that i have been an off again on again member of supervisors, that i have ever experienced a regional disagreement that has risen to this magnitude. I want to say to our counterparts in San Mateo County that we really want to work with them. This is not a power play by the city and county of San Francisco or Santa Clara County. This is really about having real representation as we go to our voters relative to taxation. But i really want to salute supervisor and commissioner walton for staying the course, for really trying to, pun intended, to get this railroad back on the track. We are not we are not out of the woods, but i think that we are moving forward and supervisor chavez and mayor locardo are moving forward with something that hopefully our counterparts in San Mateo County will embrace. And let me be clear the notion that this railroad is about to be bankrupt is a manufactured notion. And even if that were true, and it is not true, let us be clear 80 of the tax base that we are being asked to bring to our voters comes from Santa Clara County and San Francisco county. Precovid precovid, this railroad actually delivered less people than the jay in our city. Lets be clear, this railroad ran 92 runs a day. Today it runs 70. It used to deliver approximately 63,000 people. Today it delivers about 3,500 people. And our sfmta have made command decisions to eliminate temporarily maybe for many years maybe forever 40 bus lines. The demands that are being brought to us by caltrain are not equitable as a matter of race, as a matter of income, or as a matter of geography. Lets get this right. To our friends in San Mateo County, this is an opportunity. Please understand that we want to work with you. To supervisor walton, thank you for your leadership. Clerk thank you, supervisor pe peskin. Supervisor walton thank you, supervisor peskin. I appreciate all of your work with our office on this. As you know we have been working very hard, day in and day out, including nights and weekends, as a unit. And what we have here i think is something that will obviously be beneficial to our voters here in San Francisco as well as to caltrain. And a dedicated Revenue Source is important, but we also have to make sure that our voters have the opportunity to be able to be responsible for the decisionmaking and that is something that is important. They have to have a voice at the table. With that said, i have my first in memoriam. And today im proud to honor the memory of Christopher Alexander wyatt. Chris was born in lufkin, texas, in 1981 and moved with his family to San Francisco when he was 10 years old. A big part of the district 10 community, chris graduated from George Washington high school and took his first job as a laborer and a proud member of the labor union, local 261. Later in life, he became a member of the teamsters and worked as a truck driver until his illness made it challenging for him to continue to drive. Chris was a devoted father and husband, who loved spending time with his family, especially outdoors under the sun, and the day and the stars at night. He was very adventerrous an advd liked fast cars. Meeting and seeing new things and people gave him so much joy. His quiet demeanor and generous spirit was one of a kind. He was courageous, determined, supportive, loving, and dependable. And he will always be remembered by those who hold him dear. Chris is survived by his wife, hattie, and his three sons, and his daughter heavenly. Our prayers are with chris family and we lost a precious soul all too early. The second in memoriam and this is on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, via president yee, and i want to thank president yee for honoring congressman john lewis at the beginning of our meeting. I stand in honor of one of our countrys most influential leaders and one of my own personal heroes. Congressman john lewis. So many of the rights and freedoms that black people across the country experience today are because of john lewis work and passion. And for this unquestionably john lewis will forever be remembered as an icon, a visionary, and a legend in the fight for Racial Justice. His story starts with his Humble Beginnings in troy, alabama, where he was one of 10 children born to sharecroppers. From a very young age by virtue of his skin color, he was forced to face and confront the deepseeded issues of racism and inequality in america. He studied at segregated Public Schools in alabama. He saw how racism continued to play out in his Community Despite legislation change. And whenever he fought back to challenge these oppressive systems, he was met with resistance, violence, and pure bar barritbarbarity at times. Despite this, he kept standing and inspired by Martin Luther king jr. And nonviolent demonstrations from a young age, he fought hard for the principles of Racial Justice and equality, while passionately advocating for nonviolence. In nashville, tennessee, he led sitin demonstrations at segregated lunch counters. He participated in freedom rides across the south, sitting in seats that were meant to be for white customers. He organized drives for Voter Registration and with each of these struggles as his influence grew, so did his recognition. Between 1963 and 1966, he served as chairman of the student nonviolent coordinated committee, known as snvk. And he led a number of student events. Soon after the entire country recognized him as the powerful and influential icon that he truly was. In 1963, he was dubbed as one of the big six leaders of the civil rights movement. Joining a number of other powerful leaders such as martinn luther king jr. , and james farmer, a. Philip randolph, boyd wilkins and whitney young. He was the youngest speaker at the 1963 march on washington. Which he also coorganized. He led the historic march in selma, alabama, in 1965 with Jose Williams on the edmund petis bridge, fighting for voting rights. He was associate director of the Field Foundation and the director of the Voter Education project. President jimmy carter appointed him to direct 150,000 volunteers with action. He was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1981, which was followed by his election to congress in 1986. And, finally, his position as u. S. Representative of georgias fifth congressional district. He was awarded the medal of freedom, the lincoln medal, the golden plate award, among many others for his commitment to Public Service and for fighting for different communities. However, more than having undeniable charisma and passion, congressman lewis instilled hope and inspiration to millions of people around this country. His spirit continues to live on in the institutions that he was a part of, the communities that he touched, and the people that he served. One of my greatest moments is when the members of the community brought congressman lewis to San Francisco, and i had a moment to personally meet him and thank him for all of his work and his fight in allowing me to be in a position where i can do something similar. I would like to close by reading one of his most remarkable sayings. You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end. And though john lewis did not live to see the end, we must ensure that generations that come do have that opportunity. We must ensure that his image of a just and free america is fulfilled. As a city committed to serving our communities, San Francisco promises to continue to honor his legacy. Seeing the world with his optimism and hope and moving through the world with his passion and grit. Fighting in the world for his vision for a just and completely free and equitable america. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. President yee thank you, supervisor walton. So john lewis, the memoriam for john lewis, id like to submit it on behalf of the board. Clerk okay, thank you. So moved. President yee thank you. Clerk mr. President , the floor is still yours. President yee well, i will go ahead and relinquish it. I will submit. Clerk okay, thank you. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer thank you. I am proud to introduce a resolution urging support of Assembly Bill 310, authored by Assembly Members. Which would restructure the infrastructure and Economic Development bank as a publicly owned state depository bank. This restructure has moving funds from the pulled money investment account to the i bank fund and to allow increased lending and credit offers to credit unions, local governments and Small Businesses harmed by the economic recession. I have been working on the issue of public banking for over three years now. And though as a result of the resession we may not be able to make such progress as i hope before leaving office, but i have not given up hope. This moment requires us more than ever to rethink outside of the box, outside of the box in terms of financial models that serve us and serve the public. This moment is forcing us to look at the transformation system and to make sure that the public good is a priority and make sure that our most vulnerable residents get their needs met. Large banks are not meeting that threshold so its imperative to move this work forward to a supportive system of public banking. Im appreciative of our state representatives for leading at the state level, and i hope, colleagues, that you can all support this resolution. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. I have a few items. First, today along with supervisor walton and hillary ronen, we are introducing the right to safely protest act. This was the announced intent around this for a few weeks ago, and it took a few weeks to figure out details with the City Attorney. This legislation is long overdue and necessary, especially in light of what we have seen happening in the streets in response to massive and widespread use of dangerous impact weapons, chemical sprays and military equipment to disburse peaceful protests. Law enforcement officers across the United States have deployed military equipment and crowd control weapons such as chemical agents, rubber bullets and extended impact weapons and energy projectiles. While these weapons are referred to as nonlethal or less than lethal alternatives to the use a firearm, research and investigations have shown that crowd control weapons often cause severe injury and in some cases death. A recent aclu study entitled lethal in disguise showed that there were incidents between 1990 and 2015, 1,025 people injured from impact projectiles. 53 individuals died and 294 suffered permanent disabilities. Of the injuries, 70 were considered severe. The aclu study relies on medical literature that indicates that kinetic impact projectiles cause injury and disability and death. The Police Departmenta use of force is governed by the general order 5. 01, and the use of force policy, which was overhauled in 2016. And generally allows the use of certain weapons. In july 2020, the Police Commission amended the portions of the use of force policy but they did not address the use of many of the weapons that we will address here. But the general order 8. 03 and 8. 10 specifically addressed the Police Officers conduct and investigations during lawful assemblies but they do not regulate the use of weapons or militarygrade equipment during lawful assemblies. Currently the city law does not specifically address the Police Departments use of certain weapons and militarygrade equipment during lawful assemblies and in other circumstances. So the right to protest safely and to protect re residents from inhumane tactics, to prohibit the Police Departments from using deploying and lawning or firing the weapons and the kinetic impact projectiles and chemical agents and disorientation devices during a Lawful Assembly protected by the First Amendment or in response to a violation of a curfew or a verbal threat direct ad an officer or noncompliance with a directive. We saw in our city and we than we will continue to see our residents step out to demonstrate and to assert their First Amendment rights. They need to be able to do so peacefully and they need to be sure that they are not going to be injured or worse when they are doing nothing more than asserting their own rights and speaking out. Military weapons, chemical sprays, rubber bullets and pepper balls and flexible baton rounds have no place in our citys demonstrations. We know that even across the bay in oakland that many residents, including some san franciscans, were injured by tear gas and other types of projectile weapons. Even though San Francisco has been a leader in many ways around how we have put forward limitations on use of force in department general orders, they do not go far enough and they are not clear enough when it comes to banning the use of these sorts of weapons for crowd control. This legislation is absolutely necessary. And it will protect our residents. Thank you again to supervisors ronen and walton for cosponsoring. Im also introducing a hearing on vacancies in the citys Supportive Housing stock. For six months, beginning last september through february, i cochaired monthly meet iings wh over 25 Homeless Service and Housing Providers with the mayor and the department of homelessness to identify some of the most egregious gaps in the homelessness response system. The issue that came up nearly every month was vacancy in Supportive Housing and how we are effectively helping people to move through the system and into housing. Commitments were made to have a vacancy rate of less than 3 and improving the referral process and timeline, including get ployment of a new tracking system for vacancies and creating one central housing application. However, throughout the meetings and in the many months since, the department has still not produced a total number of units that continue to sit vacant and the changes to the process have not been transparent. Moving people into Supportive Housing is critical and while i know that the department of homelessness recognize this is priority and has been working to address it, its critical that we bring this issue to public light. And that we get updates and how we can support and help. I was very happy to also to see the announcement today from the mayor and the department of homelessness around the 6,000 housing placements. And what we want to make sure is that to the extent that th exten make vacant Units Available quickly and get them inside, we should take advantage of that, especially during this pandemic. The last thing they want to share is just, again, to appreciate the work of supervisor walton and supervisor peskin and your partnership on bringing forward this resolution today on the caltrain measure. You know, its absolutely critical and essential that we fund caltrain, that we secure a dedicated Revenue Source. Residents of my district rely very heavily on caltrain to get to and from work. They absolutely want to see this measure on the ballot, as do i. And i think that its a time that we dont retreat from regional rail, but we double down. All over the world were seeing the growth of rail. Were seeing support for trains. And i think that its crucial that this body stands up and offers the opportunity for our residents to support caltrain and regional rail. We are seeing an opportunity for huge expansion. I have in my district a Sales Force Transit Center which is right now the worlds most expensive bus station. And we want to bring trains to the transit center. We want to have the downtown extension. We have a huge amount that weve already invested into this system. And as we invest, we should also do it in a smart way that ensures adequate and inclusive accountable governance and so i believe that the comp myself that we have in comp myself that we have in front of us is the right one and, again, i think sfsta and our delegation and especially supervisors walton and peskin. I believe that this proposal is one that the other counties and the other bodies that need to vote on this should should vote on this identical version. And we should all move Forward Together and get caltrain funded and supported and put this in front of voters. It is needed. And the governance changes are critical and the funding is absolutely essential and im blaglad that well have a commie of the whole and discuss it further and discuss it with the public next week. Rest i submit. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, madam clerk. I would do the drafting request first. It is a joint effort of supervisor walton and myself. We are introducing this request for legislation to raise minimum Health Care Standards for more than 9,000 workers that are servicing San Francisco international airport. The healthy airport ordinance will guarantee the assurance to families who are unable to afford individual or family plans offered by their employers. The healthy airport ordinance will amend the 2001 Health Care Accountability ordinance to require that San Francisco airport employers provide Service Employees and their Families Health insurance that meets minimum standards under the Affordable Care act. At no cost to the employee. And regardless if the employee lives in San Francisco or works onsite at the airport or pays into a reimbursement account for employees. Now politicians often talk about how we do this method, but this pandemic has made that connection very, very real and very, very clear. When one of us gets sick, all of us are at risk. This is especially true at San Francisco airport where workers are on the front lines every day, risking their health to allow the Airport Passengers to travel in and out of the bay area safely. Yet thousands of airport workers are uninsured or underinsured, depriving workers of access to the health care they need to protect themselves, their families, and all of us from contracting covid19. For far too many airport workers, employer provides the Health Insurance is so expensive that even basic coverage is out of reach. Those covered by employer provided plans, the high price of copays and deductibles mean that workers forego the necessary or Urgent Medical needs because they cannot afford to take on thousands of medical debt. And far too many cannot afford family coverage and leaving spouses and kids and other family members without insurance. This state of affairs is shameful. It is also dangerous for workers and passengers alike. We know that the pandemic is hitting communities of color with particular brutality here in San Francisco in the broader bay area and across the country. S. F. O. Workers overwhelmingly are people of color, do essential jobs that put them into close contact with travelers and residents that are required to work in enclosed space where is it can be difficult to maintain social distancing and other safety protocols. They work with security checkpoints, attend to guests in wheelchairs, prepare inflight food and beverage, clean the terminal and airplane cabins and more. The pandemic puts these workers and the guests they serve at significant risk. As of july 20th, at least 76 workers at s. F. O. Have tested positive for covid19, more than two dozen were forced to selfquarantine without pay after their workers became infected. As we rebuild our economy and welcome visitors back to San Francisco and the bay area for the health of our workforce and our economy and all san franciscans, we need every airport worker to access to quality Health Insurance and we cannot afford to wait. I thank supervisor walton and the thousands of underinsured s. F. O. Workers who put their lives on the line every day to their job. Including the cabin cleaners, luggage handlers and janitors and Security Officers and wheelchair attendants. And the rental car staff, teamsters 2785, Truck Drivers and the local catering workers. Colleagues, i hope that we will have your support as we bring this legislation forward in the coming weeks and i believe that supervisor walton also has remarks to share. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much, supervisor mandelman. And, one, i want to just thank you for being my partner in this work, along with all of labor. It is just very important that our essential workers are protected and have Adequate Health care. These are the folks that have been going to work every single day during this covid19 pandemic. And it is definitely unjust, unfair, and inequitable that they do not have Affordable Health care for themselves as individuals who continuously are on the frontlines, but also for their families. And so this healthy airport ordinance is going to make sure that, one, that they have the access to Affordable Health care for not only themselves but also for their families. And i just want to again to say that my heart goes out to all of our essential and frontline workers that are out there every day continuously going to work and continuing to be exposed, continuing to have to earn a living while their families and communities are also exposed. And so the least we can do is to make sure that they have the health care that they need as theyre on the frontlines being exposed on a daytoday basis. So im happy and proud to support this ordinance and cosponsor this ordinance with supervisor mandelman and looking forward to providing this health care through the ordinance and working with everyone to get this done here at the board of supervisors. Thank you, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you. The resolution that im introducing urges the United States congress to pass the real economic supports that acknowledges the unique restaurant assistance needed to survive act. That is known as the restaurants act, yes, it is an acronym, someone should maybe get a prize for that. Across the country, independent restaurants employ 11 million workers and San Francisco restaurants employ 60,000 people. Thousands of restaurants in San Francisco have been forced to close or operate at limited capacity due to our Public Health orders and the Golden Gate Restaurant Association estimates without federal relief that 50 to 60 of San Francisco restaurants may not be able to survive financially beyond november. The restaurants act establish a 120 billion revitalization fund for nonpublicly traded independent restaurants with 20 or fewer locations. And provides grants, not loans, for the losses of the same period from last year, to operating expenses not covered by p. P. E. , and prioritize the minority and womenowned businesses for help. Its introduced in both the house of representatives and the senate with bipartisan support and restaurants across country need passage to have a fighting chance at weathering the impacts of the covid19 pandemic. I want to thank the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and my office for bringing this resolution forward. And i want to thank you supervisor stefani for your cosponsorship and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mar. Supervisor mar submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin today together with supervisor mandelman, i am introducing legislation to waive fees for occupation of the public rightofway. I have long held that people who use the publics domain should pay for that. please stand by supervisor peskin the district that i represent has a very large number of immigrant families, including nearly half of the chinese community, almost 10 of the latino community, and it is critical that everybody be counted. I want to thank sarah sousa for working on this in my office and making a push to make sure that everybody is counted. Finally, i would like to adjourn todays meeting in memory of a board aide who i knew many years ago. My chief of staff, sunny angulo, was a dear friend of him, and i remember him as a bright and independent thinker, a gentleman named rob eschleman who worked with my colleague in district 11 elections. And i think matt met rob through different Political Organization efforts. That was dotcom 1. 0. He was a radical thinker and a rare breed who, like sunny angulo could actually speak on their boss behalf. He spent two years in Matt Gonzalez office before trying to get his first room candidate elected that would be the same Matt Gonzalez and later joined efforts to spread that message across the nation. Later, he followed his love of journalism to Columbia University and ended up as a professor and writer and married his intellectual soul mate, nana. He celebrated this past wednesday with a picnic with friends in brooklyn, and he was later found dead of natural causes. Our condolences go out to his mother and wife. I was personally lucky to have known him and worked with him. May i rest in peace, and the rest i will submit. Clerk natural causes. He survived being a journalist in iraq. He was our colleague, and we will miss him truly. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor peskin supervisor preston . Supervisor preston submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you. My computer froze. So supervisor preston submitted . Clerk yes. Supervisor ronen okay. Let me know if i need to turnoff my camera. Colleagues, im very sad to ask that we close todays meeting in honor of maria martinez, who died last week in Bernal Heights surrounded by her daughter, paloma and family members. Maria was born and raised in indianapolis. She described her move west as her journey to truly find and connect with her mexican self. She said when she arrived here, she was finally home. Maria was on department of public staff for more than 20 years. She was most well known for her conceptualship of the whole person care model. Her work has been used by dr. Nigusse bland and many others. Her long time friend, ol olga talamante, described meeting maria in 2004. Her organization had just received a grant for young latinas, particularly around sex education. Maria was working in d. P. H. And said i can help you with that. They met weekly, mostly getting together for early bird breakfast and. President yee you might want to turnoff your video. [inaudible] supervisor ronen can you hear me . President yee not too well, so turnoff your lineal. Supervisor ronen okay. Is that better . President yee so far. Supervisor ronen okay. In addition to her work at the chicana latina foundation, maria previously served on the board as director of the Mission Cultural center and was instrumental in making cultural equity an integral part and criteria for the San Francisco arts commission, funding, and resources. In 2018, she learned that teachers at Mission Education center, a transitional Elementary School for newcomer Spanish Speaking immigrants were spending their own money for christmas presents. Maria kicked off a regalitos, a fund raising drive, making sure that each children received a pair of shoes, a gift card for their parents, and a gift list especially for them. She wanted to be sure that children knew that there were people fighting for them, that they were not alone. Maria was a fierce and giving friend, a mentor and a guide, always serving for a purpose, always a voice for those most underrepresented. She insisted that those being served had to be centered in the development of solutions. She was so raidian, so full of laughter radiant, so full of laughter and joy. She will be sorely missed. Maria, may you rest in peace. Before i talk about my second introduction, id like to pass the mic to supervisor shamann walton, who also had some words on behalf of maria. Clerk supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, supervisor ronen, and thank you, supervisor yee, for allowing me this brief moment. I just wanted to add my sentiments to the course and echo everything that supervisor ronen said and just say that as a person who is dedicated to service, maria who is someone who left a mark on the community that she served. I had an opportunity to participate this past year at her regalitos program at Mission Education center, and just to see the look on the childrens faces as we, number one, was able to pass out gifts but also myself and tracey Brown Gallardo from my office. We also had an opportunity to help the young people and the children and the students put batteries in some of their toys. We actually helped them build some of their toys, and this was all something that miss mart necessary made possible for these young people and for the families, and she did it year in and year out, raising thousands of dollars to support m. E. C. As well as other facilities and communities, so i just want to say she will definitely be missed, and she was a staple in community. Rest in perfect power. Thank you. President yee supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen oh, yes. Thank you. Colleagues, im also going to introduce a hearing request regarding how the city can support San Francisco Unified School District and parents and teachers and students to have a much more successful Distance Learning in the fall. Despite plans for Distance Learning in the fall, parents, children, and educators in San Francisco have been given little guidance on what the fall semester will look like. Many family who have the financial means are independently arranging learning pods for their children. These pods are taking various shapes and formats but have no structure our guidance from the School District to make these pods successful. Many families are dealing with the constant stress and anticipation of being forced to leave their children at home if they must work without any adult supervision over their learning or their safety. Most people in San Francisco regardless of their employment or [inaudible] supervisor ronen many families do not have reliable Internet Connection or technological devices to have access to consistent learning opportunities. I am calling a hearing on how the city can it is the School District and teachers, parents, and children to start the school year successfully while engaging in Distance Learning. I am ininviting the School District, the director of children, youth, and families, the he heducators, and the uni educators of San Francisco to attend, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai sorry. My thing froze for a moment. Submit. Clerk okay. Lets see. Any names on the roster . Mr. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. President yee thank you very much. Lets go straight into Public Comment. Clerk okay. At this time, the board of supervisors will host remote Public Comment avia this teleconference. The board believes its important that members of the public are able to participate remotely in this meeting, so if you need any assistance at all, please contact me office at 4155545184, i have a clerk standing by to help you with your access issues. The number is crawling across the screen and on channel 21. 4156550001. When prompted, press meeting i. D. 1461532792, and pound twice. If you want to enter Public Comment, please starthree, and wait until it is your turn. Its best if your location is very quiet. You have to listen very carefully or you may miss your prompt. If so, press starthree and itll move you back into the line or itll move you back into the queue to speak. Regarding Public Comment, items 1 through 30 and 37 through 42 have each had their public hearing fulfilled. We have interpreters standing by. Miss faa lakanilian and mr. Arturo cosenza, can you let everyone know that youre available for the community . [speaking tagalog language] interpreter thank you, madam clerk. [speaking spanish language]. Clerk thank you both very much. There are 35 folks in the queue listening, and there are 19 ready to speak, so mr. Qao, can you please send the first speaker through. Linda chapman. Linda chapman. I mention that supervisor waltons ordinance calls to mind penalties for abusers of the disoriented men who are victimizing my neighbors just because theyre passing along Market Street, and i want to report that there was already a good impact on saturday, when i came upon an incident again with my neighbors lawyer threatening a young man in this case, a young man who was black but hes an equal opportunity oppressor, this guy, and he was saying to him, are you going to call the police . Now, what was he doing . He was a nice looking young man, very polite, and well dressed, even, but confused mentally, and he was about to enter this device that was left by a contractor somebody elses contractor that had big signs on all side that said honey bucket. So he thought he was going to use it for the intended purpose. Down comes my neighbor from the fourth floor, shouting thats private property, and im going to lock it, etc. I came along just in time for the question, and i said hes not going to call the police because hes already done that twice, making a false Police Report, and a false Police Report is a crime. I asked my neighbor if he was aware of the curin ordinance. I read a report that more than half of these People Killed by police could probably be people with mental disabilities. You already know that our jails house more people like that than our treatment facilities. Clerk thank you, miss chapman. You know, i cannot express okay. Clerk thank you, and next caller, please. Welcome, caller, you have up to two minutes. Hello. This is Michael Petrellis calling. I have two subjects to address. The District Attorney, chesa boudin, has not held a single town hall meeting for we the people to question him. Chesa boudin hasnt held a single town hall meeting where we, the people, can directly question him. I am calling on chesa boudin to Start Holding weekly Virtual Meetings so that we can question him about things like hes entered into a collaboration with the scam artist shawn king. Shawn king is a scam artist who is setting up a truth and Reconciliation Commission here in San Francisco, and hes using the name of the District Attorneys office to raise 1 million. Shawn king is asking for 1 million to go to him that he will then pass along to the District Attorney to run the Reconciliation Commission, yet chesa boudin has not held an opportunity for us to get details about his collaboration with this scam artist. I think that is really wrong for chesa boudin to not use his Public Information officers to organize town hall meetings. Finally, my second point is i would like for you supervisors to put Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting for at least 15 minutes. You make us wait for hours to give Public Comments and that needs to change. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Welcome, caller. I have a comment on item number 47. Good afternoon. Im a retired scientist, nasa projects. I live in the San Francisco bay area. I am director of the American Institute of islamic history and culture, which has more than 3 Million Students and scholars around the globe. I stand before you as a former member of the Legislative Assembly in kanataka, india, and i strongly support resolution 200771. 70 years later, we said never again to the holocaust in germany, and now, we face the same situation in india. The government has the intent, the means, and the processes in place to declare millions of its own people stateless and incarcerate them in Detention Camps which are being built all over the country at a feverish pace. A refugee crisis of biblical proportion is in the making, and it will have an impact on the population here in San Francisco. The neighbor of myanmar is at stake. This resolution is not antiindian, it is for human rights. We want india to succeed and prosper as an inclusive, democratic society. We do not want to go the way of nazi germany, i urge you to vote in support of resolution 200771. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Welcome, caller. You have up to two minutes. Hello. Hello, madam clerk, can you hear me . Clerk yes, mr. Chrisfall, we can. Yes. This is jim chrisfall. Im in district 8. Hello, madam clerk, president yee. Im calling to talk about transit issues. Another week, another month, no Transit Services in my neighborhood. This is despicable. How long will this go on . We need muni to operate like a transit system, not mismanagement and full corruption. We need not another penny to caltrain, not another penny to muni. With these service cuts, its unbelievable. Muni says its on life support and is in crisis. How does muni plan on getting itself out of a black hole . Its not like youre going to get it from the voters of San Francisco because theyre not going to support an agency that does not take care of its own, so not another penny for muni, not another penny for caltrain, not another penny for b. A. R. T. , not another penny for any of these agencies that have cut services during the pandemic. This is outrageous. While the mayor goes around in her s. U. V. And supervisors get Police Escorts by the sfpd to go to restaurant openings and retail shops, the every day person needs to go to the grocery store, to the doctors office, to the pharmacy. You have left seniors and disabled kicked to the curb because muni doesnt go anywhere. Let me repeat that. Muni goes nowhere. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Welcome, caller. So supervisors, Public Comment should be held at the beginning. Its now 8 00, or close to 8 00, and we have to wait to hear all the drab deliberation. 90 of it is drab, and then comes our Public Comment for a measly two minutes. Let me remind you, the United Nations was formed here in San Francisco. You dont even follow the center of Disease Control and prevention norms the homeless, they dont even follow the center for Disease Control and prevention norms, keeping them 6 feet apart. Your first duty is to serve the citizens of San Francisco, and there shouldnt be one Single Person sleeping in a tent, and we have thousands all over the city, and you dont give a damn, and we have to listen to all these deliberations about the s. F. O. And some other garbage that you cant do anything about, not even housing. You cant do anything about. These people lying in the tents at one time had housing, and now, theyre on the streets, and the whole world knows about San Francisco. And what do you all do . You talk about this, that, and the other things. It has no meaning. Crimes against humanity, thats what you are doing. Crime against humanity. Innocent people, more are elders. Mentally challenged, dying slowly on the streets of San Francisco. Clerk thank you, mr. Dacosta, for your comments. Next speaker, please. Maam, do you have your television on . Hello . Clerk okay. Can you begin, and ill set your time. Yes. My name is belinda, and ive lived in the bay area for nearly 25 years. I urge the board to pass the resolution 200771. When someone shows me the picture of the entrance to an indian Detention Camp and nazi germany, it gives me chills. Now that im married to a man from india, i feel the dread that it could happen again, and the early stages genocide have been happening over a number of years, including erasing indian history, burning muslims arrive just on the rumor that they ate beef, destroying Christian Churches and even shops selling valentines day. Its happening to the muslims from western china and the population of myanmar. The same atrocities that happen there could happen in india. 200 million muslim lives destroyed, and then, the other groups will have the same fate unless we speak up now. India [inaudible] this resolution helped reminded me that it has to get back on track as a democracy where many different people has interacted through the centuries. India has to hear from San Francisco, a beacon of hope. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Before the next speaker is sent through, i will announce that there are 36 individuals on the phone and 29 individuals in the queue. Next speaker, please. Hi. This is diana block. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Yes . Thank you. Okay. My name is diana block. Im a resident of potrero hill, district number 10. I was a Research Analyst for ucsf for 23 years. Im very excited to be the first person to speak in support of the resolution to promote medical and Scientific Collaboration between San Francisco and cuba, number 200773. There are many of us who have been waiting to be able to speak. I hope many of us will be able to share why we think this is such an important resolution for you to pass unanimously. Last july, i visited cubas center for bioengineering in havana, and we learned then from the director of the center about cubas impressive Biotechnology Program beginning in the 1980s. We heard about many of the unique medications and treatments that the center has developed, including medications which prevents diabetic amputations and the many antiviral medications. We also learned about the rigorous classes used for enrolling people in Clinical Trials in cuba. Little did we imagine that eight months later, one of those medications, the interferon alpha 2b would become a frontline drug in the fight against covid19, used successfully in china and requested by countries around the world. This country, the u. S. Blockade against cuba, prevents this medication from being imported and others, affecting communities hardest hid by the virus. This would send a strong message that medical and Scientific Collaboration with cuba clerk thank you, maam. Thank you for your comments. Thank you. Next speaker, please. President yee, members of the board of supervisors. My name is bruce agman, and for identification services, im a resident of mission bay, and i have served on a variety of transportation advocacy advisory working groups or committees. Im speaking in support of the resolution placing the eight cents sales tax on the November Ballot to provide a stable Funding Source for caltrain and agree with representatives of santa clara and San Francisco counties that conditions addressing government and oversight must be incorporated. Although there is a joint powers board providing oversight to caltrain, it has a unique structure. Im sure at time of conception, this was considered an optimal framework. However, over time, participating members have identified oversite and best practices that will provide more effective oversight. There are tough times ahead. Prior to the pandemic, the funds were stretched to the limit. With focus on oversight and guest best practices now, they will hold the agency now that optimally meets the need of the contributing counties. This resolution addressed the core needs of caltrains operating in the immediate future and to substantially expand service as needed. I urge san mateo to embrace the measure, pass the measure, and get it on the 2020 ballot. Our of our counties should Work Together to make sure that the resolution on the ballot is sound, and by voting yes, is beneficial to all constituents, whether someone likes caltrain or not. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Welcome, caller. Yes. This is peter warfield, director of the library users. First, i want to comment on the minutes. The minutes, i think, inadequately expressed the concerns we had. It said we expressed concerns regarding essential services and not now being provided by the public library. It sounded like there was concern about what was provided. We were concerned with whats not provided, and we went onto say that we believe there is a need for and no plans for full restoration of not just services, library services. And id appreciate if you would add those few words to make the summary of our comment more accurate and more representative. For your information, the library has a 160 million budget and doesnt even have Curbside Service yet. It has no plans for full restoration of the library, and we also commented last time on the fact that, for example, there are no specific plans at all for noncirculating materials, such as newspapers and magazines, which i think are essential for public citizenship and understanding of whats going on, particularly these days. We also commented about very unhappy librarians expressing their concerns with regards to their dangerous assignments as disaster workers. We also talked about problems of city college, closure of fort mason, the new elimination of the older adult program, which we think is age discrimination. A lot of people do, and the questionable deals going on with the balboa reservoir. Those things should be added to the minutes, and theyre still relevant. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you, mr. Warfield. Next caller, please. Hi there. My name is charmin, and im calling in support of the resolution that affirm welcoming community to indian muslims. I really hear what it means to be bringing on genocide across indias most vulnerable communities. The government is bent on created islamophobic policies thats going to create the largest Homeless Population in the world. Legislation is going to bring on an Important Convention thats going to be international condemnation, and San Francisco will not support the indian governments persecution of muslims. The u. N. Has already said that the c. A. A. Is fundamentally discriminatory, and the u. S. Commission on interreligious freedom, it is recommending that the u. S. Government should consider sanctions. This resolution will be an assurance to the entire bay area south Asian Community that you all will continue to welcome the most vulnerable. There are so many survivors of genocide who live in the bay area. This is vital to know that San Francisco is a sanctuary see for all city for all south asian americans. The reality is that no one wants to be on the side promoting a genocide, especially given that trump and m m modis relationship is only getting stronger, so i really urge the commissioners to vote yes and stand in solidarity clerk thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors. I would like to start by thanking you for your service at this late hour. I live in south san jose. [inaudible] i would like to start by thanking supervisors walton and peskin for their collaboration on a resolution that would bring caltrain leadership to the 21st century. I also appreciate supervisor haneys position because the taxpayers of Santa Clara County want a high speed rail as soon as possible. In closing, i encourage you to reach out to muni and the v. T. A. And providing rear transportation